Super God Pet Shop

Chapter 69 Return

"It seems to be an unknown mineral. It may be very useful, or it may just be worth the value of ordinary metals," Ye Chenshan said with some regret after seeing the information scanned on the instrument.

Fan Ganglie smiled wryly. In these unknown star rifts, one often encounters these unknown metallic substances or strange plants. If these things are found to be extremely valuable after being studied by the Federation, then it would be a huge profit, and their names might even be included in textbooks in ordinary schools, making them famous for generations. But if they are useless, then it's just a waste of time.

"Perhaps it's something useful; we can collect some and take it back to see," Luo Guxue suggested.

Everyone nodded. Usually, when encountering unknown substances, they would collect some specimens to take back. If they were useful, they could come back to transport them.

"Everyone..." Su Ping spoke up. If they took this thing back and handed it over to the Federation, his 100 energy appraisal fee would be wasted, and the Nether Stone would not fall into his hands. Although there would be merit compensation, most of the compensation, except for demolition, would not be equivalent.

Seeing that Su Ping had something to say, everyone looked at him.

Su Ping remained calm and asked, "Can I have this?"

The group was surprised. Ye Chenshan and Fan Ganglie's eyes flashed. If no one wants something, no one will care. But if someone needs it, it must have value.

Su Ping noticed the strange look in their eyes and knew that once he spoke, they would all notice this thing. However, there was nothing he could do about it. Fortunately, they didn't know what it was, and neither did the Federation, otherwise the instrument would have been able to scan it.

If even the Federation doesn't know about it, then naturally, an ordinary person wouldn't know its value either.

"You want it?" Fan Ganglie looked at Su Ping with suspicion. "Do you know what this is?"

Su Ping shook his head slightly. "I don't know, but my pet beast sensed the fluctuations of necromantic energy from it. This stone contains necromantic energy, which is just right for my pet beast to cultivate. If you are willing, you might as well stay here with me for a few days and let my pet beast absorb all the energy in this stone before going back."

His words were a mix of truth and falsehood. Even if those present later found the same item and handed it over to the Federation, and the Federation identified it, his words would not have any flaws. At that time, they could only admit their own ignorance and would not blame him.

Upon hearing Su Ping's words, the others suddenly realized that Su Ping was the only one present with a necromancer pet, which explained why he was able to sense the anomaly.

However, the thought of staying here for several days made everyone hesitate.

This is the deepest part of the Starry Sky Rift. They just encountered an eighth-tier monster like the Demon Bone Beast. If they stay here any longer, who knows what else they might encounter?

After Su Ping finished speaking, he had the little skeleton reach out and press its hand against the stone to absorb the necromantic energy inside. The reason for doing this was not that he really intended to absorb all the necromantic stone here, but to dispel the suspicions of those who were suspicious. If no one was suspicious, then doing this would not cause any problems.

Seeing the little skeleton extract the dark energy from the stone, the last trace of doubt in Ye Chenshan and Lin Mokong's eyes disappeared. They had previously sensed that something was off about Su Ping's words. Although there was no flaw in his words, Su Ping's statement that he would stay for a few days made them suspicious.

Doesn't Su Ping know what staying here for a few days means?

Therefore, they felt that Su Ping said this on purpose, hoping that they would suggest going back early so that Su Ping could take this item back and absorb it slowly. In this way, the item would fall into Su Ping's hands. Su Ping's efforts to obtain this item naturally indicated that it was not a simple stone containing necromantic energy, but a treasure of great value.

Although the possibility is extremely low—after all, the Federation's instruments couldn't detect it, and it's almost impossible for Su Ping to know—there's always a chance. Besides, Su Ping has always acted mysteriously, with no discernible background, so perhaps he knows some secrets they don't.

However, after witnessing the little skeleton extract necromantic energy from the stone, their doubts vanished completely. They realized they had been overthinking it; the object was simply a gem containing necromantic energy.

Although this gem is extremely valuable to undead creatures, they can only use it to exchange for merit points.

In other star rifts, they also encountered stones containing different concentrations of elements such as fire energy and ice energy. The merit points they exchanged for varied greatly, ranging from as much as the merit points from hunting a seventh-tier monster to only the value of a third- or fourth-tier monster.

The majority are inferior, and besides, Su Ping has been a great help this time and is very strong, so they are naturally not foolish enough to compete with Su Ping for such a small amount of merit.

"It really is an elemental stone..." Luo Guxue's eyes showed a hint of relief as she saw the dark energy absorbed by the little skeleton. She said to Su Ping, "This elemental stone is so huge and its surface is so rough, it must be an elemental ore, right?"

Fan Ganglie patted the stone and nodded, saying, "I guess so. Most elemental stones are small and pretty, not this rough. Elemental ores, on the other hand, are like this."

"Since it's Boss Su who needs it, I'm willing," Fan Yujing was the first to express her opinion.

Fan Ganglie nodded slightly, "Boss Su was a great help. He's the one who found this thing, so I have no objection to giving it to him."

Li Ying said, "Me too."

Ye Chenshan smiled slightly and said, "It seems everyone has no objections. We were saved by Brother Su Ping, so we naturally have no right to interfere. However, absorbing knowledge here for a few days would be too much of a waste of time. Now that Brother Su has that puppet mount, why not let it carry it back?"

"That's right, it's too dangerous to stay here for a few days." Fan Ganglie immediately agreed, as he had also wanted to make the same suggestion.

Su Ping glanced around at everyone and, seeing that they all shared the same opinion, nodded and said, "Alright then."

Seeing that Su Ping agreed, Fan Ganglie breathed a sigh of relief and immediately had Li Ying use the earthworm to widen the passage. Then, everyone worked together to slowly move the Nether Stone ore out of the ground and tie it to the back of the Demon Beast with ropes.

After everything was settled, Fan Ganglie had Blood Fox accompany him and officially began his return journey.

On the way back, Li Ying scouted ahead, while Ye Chenshan also summoned a scouting pet for double detection.

Along the way, they avoided powerful star pets and monsters, and killed the weaker ones directly. They were all quite dangerous. The most dangerous time was when they encountered a low-level eighth-tier insect beast on the way down the mountain, but with the cooperation of Little Skeleton, Demon Beast, and Holy Flame Bird, they quickly killed it.

Several hours later, Su Ping and his group appeared in the outer edge of the star rift. Most of the star pets they encountered in this area were fifth or sixth rank, and even seventh rank was rare. Of course, there were also some places where star pets with eighth rank strength were hidden, so they could not be careless.

When they saw the star rift floating in front of them, everyone relaxed a little and unconsciously quickened their pace.

Near the Star Rift, other pioneering teams were gathering. When the ground shook and they saw the approaching demonic beast, many teams were so frightened that they avoided it. If they hadn't seen that the demonic beast was carrying people on its back, they would have been ready to run away immediately.

After the demonic beast jumped into the rift in the starry sky and left, the many teams finally realized what had happened and immediately erupted in excitement.

"Am I seeing things? This is an eighth-tier demonic beast?"

"My god, riding a demonic beast? Who's on that?"

"There's someone inside, it looks like Ye Chenshan."

"Ye Chenshan? That Ye Chenshan from the Beichen team? Could this mount belong to their captain?"

……

Emerging from the rift in the starry sky and landing in a temporary encampment in the wasteland, Su Ping had just opened his eyes when he heard a chorus of exclamations around him. There were even more pioneers gathered here, all of whom were terrified by the demonic beast beneath Su Ping's buttocks.

Fan Ganglie and the others smiled wryly. Mounts of the level of the Demon Beast were indeed far superior to the Rock Lizards that they, as pioneers, usually used.

Upon seeing the human figure atop the demonic beast, the surrounding army and guards breathed a slight sigh of relief, realizing it wasn't a monster that had burst forth from the rift in the starry sky.

"Let's go." Su Ping didn't linger and urged the demonic beast to leave.

The pioneers in front of the demonic beast quickly made way, looking up at the people on the demonic beast with eyes full of awe.

Some people recognized Fan Ganglie, while others recognized Ye Chenshan, and a flurry of surprised discussions arose.

The demonic beast's body shook the ground as it quickly ran out of the temporary encampment.

Upon arriving in the wilderness, the group became vigilant once again. Although this was not inside the Star Rift, it was still a B-level wasteland, where they could encounter high-level star pet monsters at any time.

The route they chose was the shortest route from the temporary encampment to the base, and it was also the route taken by other pioneers. As more people took it, a road was naturally formed. The number of Star Pets encountered near this road was significantly less than in other places. After all, Star Pets are also sentient beings and will stay away when they sense the presence of humans, except for some ferocious ones.

After slaying several fourth- or fifth-tier star pet monsters along the way, the group saw the lights of the pioneering base and knew that they had returned safely.

(End of this chapter)