126: Chapter 126: Heaven’s Fortune and Dark Disaster

Afterward, following the appearance of the name Tianlu...

Lines of information flashed in his mind one after another like a waterfall.

[Pet Beast]: Tianlu

[Level]: Larval Stage (Unranked)

[Potential]: Transcendent High-Grade

[Attributes]: Fire, Light/Dark, Space

[Talent]:

(Nine-Radiance Spiritual Wisdom) First Tier · Turning Malice into Auspiciousness: Converts negative statuses into buffs and unlocks innate spiritual wisdom, granting the ability to sense fortune and misfortune.

(Heavenly Fortune Transforming Wealth): The ability to communicate with an alternate dimension once a week to obtain a portion of wealth and prosperity.

(Nether Prison Criminal Abyss) — Currently unavailable.

[Skills]:

Heavenly Chant (Detection Skill): Emits a silent chant to detect hidden life and energy fluctuations in the surroundings.

Lumeng (Control Skill): Influences the target with cloud qi runes, causing energy chaos or stagnation.

Void Walk (Movement Skill): Provides the ability to blink short distances while running or sprinting.

Streaming Light Arrow (Attack Skill): A dual-attribute light and fire long-range energy arrow attack that fuses the light energy of the antlers with its own fire energy.

Blood Devouring Tear: Unknown (Currently unavailable)

Withered Claw Succession: Unknown (Currently unavailable)

Seal of Calamity: Unknown (Currently unavailable)

Prison Sky Swallow: Unknown (Currently unavailable)

[Status]: Currently in Tianlu form, Turning Malice into Auspiciousness. At this time, it possesses three major buff effects—Spirit Wisdom, Spirit Gathering, and Luck.

[Weakness]: An innate desire for gold and silver; other issues are unknown in the current state.

[Evolution Opportunity]: Items related to karma, fortune, and misfortune can enhance other abilities of the Nine-Radiance Spiritual Wisdom. Absorbing wealth and fortune can also increase Tianlu's strength.

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Qin Ce stared at that line of information, speechless for a long time.

Transcendent High-Grade.

This fierce beast egg, refined using the corpses of two Starlight-rank fierce beasts, had a final potential of Transcendent High-Grade.

It was two major realms higher than the Qingluan's Scorching Sun Low-Grade.

But that wasn't even what shocked him the most.

What shocked him the most were Tianlu's talent and skills.

Nine-Radiance Spiritual Wisdom, as expected, was like the Nine-fold Azure Sky—a god-grade talent produced by the system divided into nine tiers.

Currently, only the first tier—Turning Malice into Auspiciousness—had been unlocked.

But this single tier directly resolved all the negative effects of Minghuo.

The biggest problem with Minghuo was that if it didn't devour fierce beasts, it would continuously consume its own vitality, eventually dying of self-exhaustion.

But Tianlu was different.

A god-grade talent directly reversed everything.

As a result, Tianlu was instead absorbing energy from alternate dimensions at all times, converting that energy into cloud qi and fortune.

The cloud qi could provide a slight healing effect and assist in cultivation.

Fortune would continuously accumulate, and once enough was gathered, it would be used for Heavenly Fortune Transforming Wealth.

This gave Tianlu the ability to communicate with an alternate dimension once a week to obtain an item.

In other words, this monster that once needed to constantly devour flesh and blood to survive had now become an Auspicious Beast that was supplemented by the outside world at all times, producing buffs instead.

Furthermore, because of this conversion ability, Tianlu had an innate ability to sense fortune and misfortune.

Just as a magnet senses a magnetic field, it could sense the surrounding luck and calamity.

This was the core of the first tier of Nine-Radiance Spiritual Wisdom—Turning Malice into Auspiciousness.

Turning ominous and negative things into auspicious and positive things.

But Qin Ce's gaze fell upon that 'Nether Prison Criminal Abyss' which was 'currently unavailable'.

The name of this talent sounded...

Unlike something Tianlu should have.

Nether Prison.

Criminal Abyss.

Both of these terms carried an ominous, baleful aura.

Qin Ce looked again at those skills that were also 'currently unavailable'.

Blood Devouring Tear, Withered Claw Succession, Seal of Calamity, Prison Sky Swallow.

Every single name exuded that overbearing, wicked, and all-devouring flavor of Minghuo.

Their unavailable status...

It seemed as if they were sealed.

Or rather, they were simply unavailable in the Tianlu form.

A thought flashed through Qin Ce's mind like lightning—

Was Tianlu's auspicious transformation not irreversible?

'Currently in Tianlu form'.

Did this sentence imply that there might be other forms?

For example...

A Minghuo form.

If that were the case, then all those domineering attack abilities Minghuo previously had were also retained.

When baleful power was needed, it could switch to Minghuo form and go on a killing spree.

When auspiciousness was needed, it could switch back to Tianlu form for buffs and support.

If it was like that...

Then it would be absolutely perfect.

Qin Ce took a deep breath and carefully went through all the information from Nine-Star Insight again.

However, he just couldn't find any information regarding form transformation.

No method, no key conditions, not even a single hint.

This made Qin Ce doubt slightly whether his judgment was correct.

Or perhaps those talents and skills didn't belong to a Minghuo form, but required certain combat conditions to be met before they could be used?

That wasn't impossible either.

For instance, 'Seal of Calamity'—the name sounded like some kind of curse-type skill that might require the target to have 'bad luck' to trigger.

For instance, 'Prison Sky Swallow'—an execution skill that might require the target to be in a specific state to use.

The activation conditions for these skills might have nothing to do with form transformation, but rather with specific situations in battle.

Qin Ce pondered for a long time and eventually shook his head.

Forget it.

It was still too early to think about these things.

Tianlu had only just been born and hadn't even passed its Larval Stage. Even if those skills could be used, it wouldn't have the energy to support them.

When it grew up and became stronger, the answers would naturally surface.

Just then, Tianlu had already waddled over to Qin Ce's feet on its short little legs.

It rubbed its head against Qin Ce's calf, letting out a coquettish 'mew' sound.

Qin Ce bent down and picked it up.

Tianlu curled up in his arms, letting out a comfortable purr.

That faint cloud qi drifted from its body, enveloping Qin Ce.

Qin Ce could clearly feel it—

Wherever the cloud qi passed, his skin felt slightly warm; it was a nourishing effect.

With every breath, his lungs felt clear and unobstructed; it was a recovery effect.

His muscles relaxed and his spirit was soothed; it was a health-preserving effect.

Even the energy in the surrounding air was slowly converging here; it was a spirit-gathering effect.

Though it was still very weak, it definitely existed.

Moreover, when Tianlu rubbed its head in Qin Ce's arms, Qin Ce could clearly feel his mind becoming significantly clearer.

That was the Spirit Wisdom effect of the Nine-Radiance Spiritual Wisdom, transmitted to him through Tianlu.

These were all beneficial effects.

It was the complete opposite of Minghuo's wicked nature of crazily devouring everything.

Qin Ce stroked Tianlu's head, the smile on his lips deepening.

Regardless of whether there was a Minghuo form, the current Tianlu already made him sufficiently satisfied with this second Pet Beast.

Transcendent High-Grade potential.

Three attributes.

mythic-grade talent.

It could heal, support, detect, control, attack, and move.

It could even get an item for free from an alternate dimension every week.

It also had fortune sensing to seek luck and avoid calamity.

This was simply—

The perfect Pet Beast.

Just as Qin Ce was about to continue studying Tianlu's panel, the Tianlu in his arms suddenly stopped moving.

It pricked up its ears, poked its head out of Qin Ce's arms, and looked up at the void ahead.

Then, it opened its mouth.

And let out a long howl toward the sky.

However, no sound came out.

Afterward, Qin Ce could clearly see a ripple-like layer of energy spreading out from its mouth in all directions.

That energy was silent and stealthy, yet it carried a strange frequency, sweeping through every inch of the surrounding space like sonar.

Was this Heavenly Chant?

That detection skill???

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