Super God Pet Shop

Chapter 98 Purgatory Candle Dragon Beast

After successfully upgrading the Spirit Pool, Su Ping was eager to try it out and conceive one right now. Maybe he would get lucky on his first try?

Moreover, it's currently the newbie protection month, as the system calls it, so the cost of gestation is only one-tenth. If he gestates now, each time it only costs 1,000 energy. After the newbie month, it will cost 10,000!

Thinking of gestation, Su Ping thought of the egg that had been gestating in the Level 2 Spirit Pool last time. He had sent the egg to a fostering position and nurtured it with spiritual energy, but it still hadn't hatched. He didn't know what level of bloodline the pet beast was.

"One thousand per time. Today I earned one million from the professional cultivation fee, which is ten thousand energy points. I used it to upgrade the spirit pool. Now I have more than seven thousand left, enough for seven more cultivations."

Su Ping was calculating in his mind. Of course, he couldn't spend all the money. After all, it was money from customer orders. He still needed to use the money to do tasks and complete their training. In particular, the professional training task was the most difficult. It might take several thousand energy points to complete the training task.

"If the conception fails, a thousand energy points will be gone." Su Ping thought of the lesson he learned last time and felt a little nervous. His palms were sweating. This time, a failed conception would cost not just a hundred energy points, but a full thousand, which is 100,000 yuan!

This is almost equivalent to Su Lingyue's tuition for a year!

For ordinary workers, it would take two or three years to earn that much.

He stood before the sacred pool, hands clasped together, chanting incantations: "Male witches cheat on their husbands in Europe and America, may the Bodhisattva protect me... Amen!"

After praying to all the gods he could, Su Ping took a deep breath and resolutely chose to begin the process of conception.

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1000!

As the energy dissipated, the Spirit Pool shone brightly. This time, the intense light it emitted was much stronger than that of the previous Level 2 Spirit Pool. Su Ping could feel that the surrounding star power was more than ten times stronger than before.

The next moment, the light dissipated, and in the dark, dry well-like spirit pool, crouched a fifth-tier bloodline cub rock lion, its amber-colored orange-yellow eyes curiously looking at Su Ping in front of it, tilting its head to examine him.

Su Ping was disappointed when he saw that it was a small rock lion. Although the gestation had not failed, a fifth-tier bloodline pet beast would only sell for around 100,000 yuan outside, which was a huge loss for him.

Su Ping took the little rock lion out of the spirit pool. The little guy seemed very affectionate towards him, rubbing his soft little head against his arm happily.

Seeing its innocent eyes, Su Ping's disappointment vanished. He gently rubbed its still-hardened little head and took it to its fostering spot in the pet room. Then he returned to the Spirit Pool to continue nurturing it.

Another thousand energy points are lost.

Then, a rich energy surged out from the nurturing pool, continuously condensing. Strands of energy surrounded the central core, as if it were coalescing. After the white energy light gradually subsided, Su Ping hurriedly looked over. The first thing he saw was an extremely slender crimson tail. He thought it was a snake, but when he saw the outstretched wings, he realized it wasn't. When the appearance of this pet beast was fully revealed, Su Ping was astonished to discover that it was a dragon beast!

The most popular dragon-type pets!

"This is... a ninth-tier Purgatory Candle Dragon Beast?" Su Ping exclaimed in astonishment.

Aside from a handful of King Beasts, Tier 9 pets are the pinnacle of pets on Earth. Among Tier 9 pets, there are varying degrees of strength. The most powerful ones are extremely famous, known even to ordinary people who don't follow pets. After all, you can often see titled pet masters on TV riding their Tier 9 pets to film various commercials, such as Tier 9 Silverwing Dragons endorsing badminton, sports shoes, and so on. Huge posters of these Tier 9 pets can also be seen everywhere on the roadside.

This powerful ninth-tier pet is truly a star-level pet.

Some commercial films even use extremely famous ninth-tier pets to film battles as a publicity stunt, attracting attention and boosting box office revenue.

The Purgatory Candle Dragon Beast in front of Su Ping is a top-tier ninth-order dragon beast!

It was far more ferocious than the Silverwing Dragon Beast and the Silver Serpent Thunder Dragon Beast, both ninth-tier bloodline dragon beasts that Su Ping had seen at the academy's exhibition match!

On the ninth-tier pet ranking list compiled by some authoritative experts on Earth, the Purgatory Candle Dragon Beast has consistently occupied a place in the top ten, and it ranks among the top three in the ninth-tier dragon beast category. As for the Silver Winged Dragon Beast and the Silver Serpent Thunder Dragon Beast, they only occasionally squeeze into the top ten, with a huge gap between them.

"I've hit the jackpot!" Su Ping exclaimed in delight. This was a top-tier pet beast that was priceless and extremely rare, with prices calculated in the hundreds of millions. It was hard to buy even on the black market and rarely appeared.

At this moment, the Purgatory Candle Dragon Beast lay in the spirit pool, watching Su Ping warily. Its dragon eyes were crimson jewel-like, like burning flames. Its appearance was extremely beautiful, with a body covered in glass-like red scales. There were slightly raised bumps on its head, which were dragon horns. The dragon wings on its back were very short, like two featherless chicken wings, obviously not yet able to fly with these wings.

Su Ping looked at it from left to right, and the more he looked at it, the more he loved it. Although he hoped to win the grand prize and give birth to a king beast, the probability of giving birth to a king beast in a level three spirit pool is low. There is a higher probability of a king beast appearing when it is upgraded to level four. He only needs to give birth twice to give birth to a top-level dragon beast, which is already very cost-effective and surprising.

The Purgatory Candle Dragon opened its mouth and let out a dragon's roar, but its throat was not yet fully developed, and it sounded like a kitten's meow. It seemed to be warning Su Ping, full of vigilance.

Su Ping was very satisfied with its appearance. Pets also have personalities. The little rock lion he had previously conceived was docile, while this Purgatory Candle Dragon was cautious and not easy to get close to. Pets with this kind of personality are usually more difficult to tame, but they also have more potential. They are more intelligent than their peers and are more likely to learn pet skills.

Su Ping signed a contract with it directly.

As the blood-red patterns of the spirit beast contract entered the forehead of the Purgatory Candle Dragon Beast, Su Ping immediately felt another tiny consciousness appear in his mind, a consciousness filled with vigilance, tension, and unease.

Upon arriving in the world, it harbored hostility towards everything unfamiliar.

However, due to the spirit beast contract, the Purgatory Candle Dragon Beast no longer harbored any wariness or hostility towards Su Ping, but it also didn't become too close to him.

Su Ping gently picked it up from the spirit pool, stroking its soft, warm scales. He was very fond of it. After rubbing it for a while, he placed it in the fostering space. The spiritual energy in the fostering space was a great tonic for newborn pets, allowing them to grow faster and become combat-ready as soon as possible.

Su Ping returned to the Spiritual Pool and chose to nurture again. Perhaps this time it would be a King Beast?

However, despite his high hopes, his luck seemed to have run out all at once, and the third attempt to conceive failed!

A thousand energy points were gone just like that, without even managing to breed a mid-level pet.

Su Ping was filled with regret and anger. If this Spiritual Pool were a person, he would want to grab it by the neck and shake it to make it spit out the energy. He also questioned the system in his heart. This was simply a money-grabbing scheme. This was not fair!

The system said, "As mentioned before, there is a low probability of accidents when chaotic spiritual energy is used to create life forms. The lower the level of the chaotic spiritual pool, the higher the probability of accidents. The higher the level of the spiritual pool, the less likely accidents will occur. Once it reaches the maximum level, there will be no more accidents."

"Last time, we failed to conceive two kittens once, and this time we failed to conceive three kittens once. The probability of this happening is too high!" Su Ping said angrily.

The system replied, "There's nothing I can do."

Su Ping was both angry and furious, and then came up with an idea: "How about you return half of the energy to me?"

System: "Ge Wu En".

Holy crap, they're copying me!

Su Ping had finally seen through this shameless system. This Chaos Spirit Pool was just a place to burn through money; no matter how much energy you had, it would all be gone.

He had over four thousand energy left, so he stopped nurturing. Although it was the protection month and nurturing was very worthwhile, he still needed to save the four thousand energy for missions. Once the missions were completed, he would feel more at ease, and then he could slowly try his luck with any extra energy.

(End of this chapter)