Chen Guan remained motionless, allowing those red and white particles to penetrate his body. Instead of fear, his face showed a look of delight.
When such a situation occurs after a Secret Spirit dies, there is only one possibility, and that is Pet Transformation of the Secret Spirit.
It's like how guard dogs turn into Secret Spirit Pets after they die; some Secret Spirits transform into pets after death, with their bodies turning into particles and merging with the cultivator's body to become the cultivator's pet.
Not all Secret Spirits undergo Pet Transformation after death, only a small portion do, the probability is unknown and depends entirely on fate.
After Pet Transformation, the Secret Spirit is exactly the same as it was in life, but it must rely on the cultivator to survive because it has lost its own vitality and needs to share the host's vitality.
The Secret Spirit will only choose the cultivator who killed it to complete Pet Transformation. This stems from the Secret Spirit's belief in survival of the fittest; whoever can kill it must naturally be stronger and thus recognized as powerful.
If a Secret Spirit is killed by a Secret Spirit Pet, then the transformed Secret Spirit will choose to rely on the body of the Secret Spirit Pet's owner to complete Pet Transformation.
When the last red and white particle penetrated Chen Guan's body, the corpse of the Evil Adorable Rabbit, along with the pig-killing saber, vanished completely, and the blood sprayed on the ground disappeared without a trace, while some information appeared in Chen Guan's mind.
Bloody Evil Adorable Rabbit (Unique): Level 1 Spirit Pet.
Primordial Energy: 1.
Growth Rate: 1.91.
Lifebound Talent: Bloody Resurgence (Unique).
Secret Technique: Level 1 Blood-sucking Technique (Unique).
Secret Skill: Level 1 Blood-sucking Saber Technique (Unique).
Secret Treasure: Level 1 Bloodsucking Saber (Unique).
"No wonder this Evil Adorable Rabbit was so terrifying; it's of unique quality. I've never heard of such high-quality Evil Adorable Rabbits," Chen Guan thought with some surprise. He originally thought this Evil Adorable Rabbit was just of higher level, but didn't expect it to be only level one, with its high quality making it appear so formidable.
Moreover, the Evil Adorable Rabbit's Lifebound Talent, Secret Technique, Secret Skill, and Secret Treasure are all of unique quality, which is even rarer.
It doesn't mean that if a Secret Spirit itself is of unique quality, all its talents and abilities will also be unique. In reality, most Secret Spirits have talents and abilities usually lower in quality than themselves, though a few exceptional ones could have talents and abilities of equal or higher quality, but the chance of this is lower than winning the lottery.
In fact, many pets have no talents, Secret Techniques, Secret Skills, or Secret Treasures; among these, Secret Treasures are the rarest, possessed by only a small portion of Secret Spirits.
Ordinary Evil Adorable Rabbits don't even have Secret Skills, not to mention Secret Treasures. Some may have talents or Secret Techniques, but they differ from the one here and cannot compare in quality.
The meaning of unique quality is roughly that there may be only one example of such a thing, and the Bloody Evil Adorable Rabbit should be one of a kind.
Quality represents talent, and Growth Rate indicates growth potential. The higher the Growth Rate, the faster the pet levels up, and the better the enhancement effects from leveling up.
The Evil Adorable Rabbit's Growth Rate is 1.91, which is already very high. Generally, a Spirit Pet with a Growth Rate over 1.5 is already quite good.
Take the Five Red Dog Warring States, for example, which only has a Growth Rate of 1.14 and neither Secret Treasure nor Secret Skill. Its Secret Technique is an ordinary quality one, the Longevity Skill learned from following Chen Guan, and its only talent is a non-combat useful one, loyalty, making it one of the weakest classes of Spirit Pets.
When the Evil Adorable Rabbit levels up once, the Primordial Energy limit can increase by 1.91 points, while the Warring States can only increase by 1.14. The improvements in power, speed, constitution, intelligence, and other hidden attributes also have differences. However, these cannot be expressed in data form as they are filled with uncertainties and cannot be calculated accurately. The Spirit of the Cheerleaders enhances these hidden attributes, which are potentials.
A Secret Technique is a method of absorbing Primordial Energy to level up. For instance, Longevity Skill involves movements and breathing to drive the body to absorb Primordial Energy, but the absorption speed is relatively slow, so leveling up is slow as well. At higher levels, more Primordial Energy is needed to level up, making the effect of Longevity Skill weaker and making it difficult to continue leveling up since it is just an ordinary quality Secret Technique.
The Evil Adorable Rabbit's Blood-sucking Technique can directly extract Primordial Energy from blood, and the higher level the Secret Spirit, the more Primordial Energy its blood contains, much faster than absorbing the ambient Primordial Energy from the world, with higher potential.
Longevity Skill might become ineffective in raising the cultivator's level later on, but the Blood-sucking Technique has almost no limits as long as high-level Secret Spirit blood is available.
Fortunately, a Secret Technique is just a method, allowing human cultivators to cultivate various different Secret Techniques, unlike Secret Spirits, which find it very difficult to change their innate Secret Technique.
However, Secret Techniques have a greater impact on humans, influencing the increase in Primordial Energy limit and enhancement effect after leveling, akin to the Growth Rate of a Secret Spirit.
The higher the quality of the Secret Technique cultivated, the greater the increase in Primordial Energy limit after leveling, so Chen Guan now needs a high-quality Secret Technique. Otherwise, continuing with Longevity Skill, it would be hard to achieve great accomplishments.
The way to obtain a Secret Technique is straightforward: kill a Secret Spirit, and there is a chance to gain the Secret Spirit's Secret Technique inheritance. All human Secret Techniques originate from Secret Spirits.
What Chen Guan needs to do now is stay alive and then hunt Secret Spirits for a high-quality Secret Technique.
Previously, Chen Guan's goal was to acquire a rare quality Secret Technique, level up first, and then hunt for a higher quality Secret Technique.
Although there would be some initial losses, it would be relatively safe, as the chances of low-level Secret Spirits having high-quality Secret Techniques are too low, and hunting high-level Secret Spirits without enough level would be unsafe.
But now with the Evil Adorable Rabbit and the Spirit of the Cheerleaders, everything is different.
Under the enhancement of the Spirit of the Cheerleaders, the Warring States could even contend with the unique Evil Adorable Rabbit. If the Evil Adorable Rabbit received the same enhancement, it would be even more formidable.
First, increase the Evil Adorable Rabbit's level, and then obtaining a high-quality Secret Technique wouldn't be difficult.
Chen Guan feels that his future is bright. Now he just needs to acquire an Unparalleled Secret Technique, but such a thing is hard to come by, only possessed by very few Secret Spirits of unparalleled quality, and finding such Secret Spirits is not easy. Even if they are found, whether a Secret Technique would drop is still uncertain.
He summoned back the injured Warring States to recover within his body, and then summoned the newly transformed pet, the Bloody Evil Adorable Rabbit.
The Evil Adorable Rabbit, with the physique of a polar bear yet resembling the adorable pets from manga, stood upright before Chen Guan. Holding the pig-killing saber-like Bloodsucking Saber in its left paw, it was a lefty, looking both strange and cute.
"This appearance is just too conspicuous; it will surely attract attention if seen by others. It would be better if the Bloodsucking Saber could be hidden," Chen Guan muttered, observing the Evil Adorable Rabbit.
It seemed that the Evil Adorable Rabbit understood him; with a flick of its paw, the Bloodsucking Saber spun a few times above its paw and disappeared, unseen anywhere on it.
"It even has a function to hide the Secret Treasure. What a great pet," Chen Guan exclaimed with joy. Now the Evil Adorable Rabbit looked much like the rare-quality Evil Adorable Rabbit, just bigger, not as exaggeratedly eye-catching as before.