God of Pets

The evil nurtured in holiness, is the purest and most terrifying evil.

Chen Guan watched the white deer and suddenly recalled someone saying these words.

When he first heard this sentence, it did not resonate with him, and when others gave examples, he could not relate.

Today, upon seeing this white deer, he suddenly seemed to understand it.

Compared to the white deer, the evil of the Evil Adorable Rabbit seemed shallow.

The white deer strolled leisurely between the trees, occasionally dipping its head to munch on some grass leaves. It ate very slowly and moved gracefully, and despite being just a deer, it exuded an air of gentility.

The three of them held their breath, not daring to make a sound.

Finally, they had the chance to see the Holy Horned White Deer, and as long as it left the Cuiyun Mountain area, wouldn't it be easy to hunt down a lone pet?

Either the Ghost-Eyed Python or Rouge could easily take down the Holy Horned White Deer.

Perhaps in response to their silent pleas, the Holy Horned White Deer began to amble down the mountain. Though it seemed sluggish as it moved along, its overall direction was continuously toward the foot of the mountain.

As the Holy Horned White Deer was about to leave the Cuiyun Mountain area and exit beyond the Boundary Monument, Chen Guan was already prepared to summon the Evil Adorable Rabbit.

Yet, the Holy Horned White Deer suddenly stopped at the Boundary Monument, its gaze seemingly drawn to something, as it turned to look beside the monument.

Chen Guan and his companions were very puzzled, wanting to know what the Holy Horned White Deer was looking at.

Their eyes followed the deer's gaze, discovering in the crevice of a rock beside the Boundary Monument, a low, short plant with thorns and withered branches.

On the plant grew more than a dozen pea-sized red fruits, resembling wild goji berries.

Previously, Chen Guan and the others had not noticed this plant, as the Secret Realm is rife with rare and odd plants, most of which are not directly edible, often harmful rather than beneficial.

Such an inconspicuous plant amidst the myriad of exotic flora of Cuiyun Mountain can indeed be easily overlooked.

However, due to the Holy Horned White Deer's gaze, Chen Guan and his team focused on this plant, carefully observing the red fruits on it.

As they looked, their expressions gradually became somewhat peculiar, even slightly excited.

"Could those fruits be the Red Blood Vermilion Fruit?" Chen Guan recalled a type of Heavenly and Earthly Treasure taught by the professor during the Secret Realm botany class at the academy.

The growing conditions for the Red Blood Vermilion Fruit are extremely stringent; first, the seeds of the Red Blood Vermilion Fruit must fall on a place, then the blood of a Secret Spirit falls there too for the seeds to possibly sprout.

Such coincidental occurrences are rare, making the Red Blood Vermilion Fruit an exceedingly scarce Heavenly and Earthly Treasure.

But everything in the world has its inevitability for existence, so if there are Red Blood Vermilion Fruits, naturally there is a reason for their presence.

There is an unparalleled Secret Spirit named Red Refining Demon that particularly favors consuming Red Blood Vermilion Fruits.

Thus, there's a kind of Secret Spirit that deliberately spreads the seeds of the Red Blood Vermilion Fruit in places frequented by the Red Refining Demon, then kills the Secret Spirit and waters the seeds with its blood, waiting for the fruits to grow and use them to lure out the Red Refining Demon for hunting.

This Secret Spirit called "Spirit Devouring God" also has a nickname "Secret Realm Gardener."

Most continuations of the Red Blood Vermilion Fruit rely on the Spirit Devouring God's predatory behavior.

However, the Spirit Devouring God is called "Secret Realm Gardener" because it uses this method to hunt many types of Secret Spirits, and the Heavenly and Earthly Treasures it cultivates aren't limited to just the Red Blood Vermilion Fruit.

The Red Refining Demon is simply a preferred dish on the Spirit Devouring God's menu, not the only one.

Back then, the professor taught us how to distinguish truly wild Red Blood Vermilion Fruits from those grown by the Spirit Devouring God.

The simplest method is to check if there are any Red Refining Demons nearby. If there are Red Refining Demons and Red Blood Vermilion Fruits, there must be a Spirit Devouring God close by, and you should quickly distance yourself from the fruits.

If there's no sign of Red Refining Demons nearby, it doesn't prove that the Red Blood Vermilion Fruit is wild, as the Spirit Devouring God might have eaten the demon and abandoned the fruits.

The Spirit Devouring God only consumes Secret Spirits; it is uninterested in fruits or any vegetarian fare, which are not part of its diet.

Encountering this scenario, close observation of the fruits is necessary; Red Blood Vermilion Fruit is visually similar to goji berries in many ways.

But true Red Blood Vermilion Fruits appear a rich red throughout, yet in truth, their outer skin color is white, with the red color emanating from within.

Without careful inspection, it's difficult to notice this detail, leading to Red Blood Vermilion Fruits being mistaken for common goji berries. Only through meticulous scrutiny can one perceive the signs.

Moreover, true wild Red Blood Vermilion Fruit's internal hue isn't purely red but a shade of orange-red.

The professor laughed back then, saying, "If you find an orange-red Red Blood Vermilion Fruit, congratulations, you might be on the verge of a windfall."

Generally, for a Red Blood Vermilion Fruit to grow orange-red, it must undergo thousands upon thousands of years of underground nurturing until it breaks out upon contact with blood, sprouting fruits within days.

During those thousands of years, the seeds buried underground do not perish; instead, they absorb Earth Elemental Energy. Once they break out, the Primordial Energy and Secret Spirit Blood contained within catalyze into a remarkably unique element.

Consuming such wild Red Blood Vermilion Fruits can increase one's Primordial Energy limit by one or two points.

However, if the Red Blood Vermilion Fruit is planted by the Spirit Devouring God, it may not possess this effect, and two circumstances must be considered.

Because the seeds planted by the Spirit Devouring God lack the sedimentation of time, having not absorbed Earth Elemental Energy over millennia, even with watering by Secret Spirit Blood, they will not increase the Primordial Energy limit. They may only swiftly replenish energy, and such fruits naturally do not compare to the value of wild ones.

Yet there is an exception where certain Spirit Devouring Gods utilize the blood of world-defying Secret Spirits they've slain or the blood of Red Refining Demons spilled on the fruits, resulting in mutated Red Blood Vermilion Fruits.

The efficacy of mutated Red Blood Vermilion Fruits is highly variable; it may merely speed up energy recovery or increase the energy limit, with the increase varying greatly—sometimes adding just 0.1, other times several points, possibly even ten or more.

This depends on the Secret Spirit Blood used by the Spirit Devouring God for watering the fruits and whether the Red Refining Demon's blood was absorbed.

Mutated Red Blood Vermilion Fruits are also easily identifiable; similar in hue to common cultivated ones, they are a strong red inside, yet on the outer skin form spots resembling blood stains, appearing more like ordinary goji berries, thus harder to distinguish. Careful examination reveals the differences.

Right now, what Chen Guan is seeing is definitively a mutated Red Blood Vermilion Fruit.

Men's team and An Zhiqi did well in their studies and clearly realized it's a mutated Red Blood Vermilion Fruit, feeling both shocked and ecstatic.

The existence of mutated Red Blood Vermilion Fruits means two things: the Red Refining Demon is gone, and the Spirit Devouring God that eats Red Refining Demons ought to have left too, leaving this mutated fruit unclaimed.