Chapter 12: Gotta Pay More!

Chapter 12: Gotta Pay More!

‘This Three-Six-Nine Steel simulates the strength of a normal Green Caterpillar with ten years of Soul Power Cultivation.’

Wang Che was slightly stunned, but immediately understood.

Mechanical-type Soul Pets were very special and extremely rare.

In the Ancient Era, there were no such Soul Beasts.

The transformation simulation of the Three-Six-Nine Steel did not copy all the data of the opponent.

Its transformation was actually based on artificial data stored in its brain.

For example, how much strength did an average normal Green Caterpillar with ten years of cultivation have? How fast was its speed? What was its physique like?

Based on this data, it then transformed into the corresponding form and simulated the corresponding cultivation period.

All other attributes were those of a normal Green Caterpillar.

‘This Soul Pet is interesting.’

Wang Che thought to himself.

The defense test was the most interesting one among these four tests.

The white Green Caterpillar simulated by the Three-Six-Nine Steel, after failing to land a hit, continued to attack the Green Caterpillar.

But it still had no effect.

The damage was almost negligible.

The Green Caterpillar even arrogantly lay on the ground, not even taking a basic defensive stance.

‘A normal Green Caterpillar with ten years of cultivation is actually this weak…’

Originally, after these tests, Wang Che was not very satisfied with this kid’s various stats.

But he never expected that a normal Green Caterpillar with ten years of cultivation couldn’t even break this kid’s defense.

The standard for the defense test was the number of attacks it could withstand from a full-power strike at that cultivation level.

The more hits it could take, the higher its defense, and the more durable it was.

‘If this keeps up, it might take hundreds of attacks to make this kid lose its fighting ability…’

Wang Che thought helplessly.

In a normal test, you would probably only let it attack a few times.

That would be enough to get an idea of your Soul Pet’s physical defense.

But this…

‘It seems that compared to a normal Green Caterpillar, this kid is indeed much, much stronger.’

Wang Che thought for a moment and decided to change the settings.

The attack test of the Three-Six-Nine Steel could be adjusted.

You could manually set other Soul Pets or modify the cultivation period, allowing the Three-Six-Nine Steel to increase its attack power to test your Soul Pet’s defense.

If the settings exceeded the data records of the Three-Six-Nine Steel or went beyond the simulated Soul Power cultivation limit, it could not transform.

Wang Che thought for a moment and immediately entered the name of another Soul Pet into the control computer nearby.

‘Let’s try that Kuka Beast first.’

Wang Che entered: Kuka Beast, twenty-five years of Soul Power Cultivation.

Soon, the Three-Six-Nine Steel transformed into the form of a Kuka Beast.

Its Soul Power Cultivation was around twenty-five years.

This Three-Six-Nine Steel was only in its basic three-steel form, possessing only the Kuka Beast’s Soul Power Cultivation and normal physical strength.

It did not have any Soul Skills, and its attacks were just simple full-power strikes.

It could not represent the full strength of a Kuka Beast.

After all, this kind of test was only a basic physical strength test.

‘The Kuka Beast is a Rare Soul Pet skilled in speed. Strength isn’t its strong point, but it’s not weak either. At the very least, it should be much stronger than a Green Caterpillar.’

Wang Che watched carefully.

The white ‘Kuka Beast’ charged toward the Green Caterpillar, which was still lying on the ground.

Its speed was very fast, at least twice as fast as the Green Caterpillar!

It threw a punch directly at the Green Caterpillar’s body.

Smack!

The powerful force hit the Green Caterpillar’s body, sending the kid flying through the air like a basketball.

It flew three or four meters in the air before landing on the ground.

Thud.

Green Caterpillar: “???”

The kid clearly hadn’t reacted.

How did it change all of a sudden?

Its body shot upright, and it stared angrily at the Kuka Beast.

“Sii wuu! Sii wuu!!”

The Green Caterpillar let out angry cries, as if saying, “You actually ambushed me?”

Of course, it didn’t know that Wang Che had changed the settings…

‘A normal Kuka Beast is very fast, much faster than a Green Caterpillar, but its strength doesn’t seem high… With twenty-five years of Soul Power Cultivation, it’s only slightly stronger than this kid… However, as a Soul Pet, a properly raised Kuka Beast should be considerably stronger.’

Wang Che pondered.

This kind of attack had an effect on the Green Caterpillar’s current physical strength.

But it couldn’t cause serious harm.

After that, it attacked more than ten times in a row.

The Green Caterpillar began to pant heavily and gradually grew tired.

It stared at the Kuka Beast with slightly red eyes.

It wanted to fight back and felt that it was strong enough to defeat the opponent with one tail swipe.

But because it was a test, it couldn’t retaliate.

After being hit more than ten times by a Kuka Beast, it naturally felt extremely unhappy.

Seeing this, Wang Che immediately ended the test.

“Come back.”

Wang Che looked at the very tired Green Caterpillar and put it back into his pocket.

From this test, Wang Che had fully understood the Green Caterpillar’s specific condition.

Wang Che walked over to the computer nearby.

It displayed the detailed data from the Green Caterpillar’s test.

But there were two options.

One was to delete.

The second option was to keep the data.

If he chose to keep it, most of the testing fee would be waived.

Wang Che secretly shook his head.

In reality, it was best not to retain such test data.

He knew that if there were competitions or battles in the future, and the opponent learned the detailed data of his Soul Pet, they could make all sorts of arrangements in advance.

Basic physical data like this was somewhat acceptable.

It didn’t need to be deleted with such strict secrecy.

But for the later stages of testing, like Soul Skill tests and Soul Power tests, the data would be too detailed.

If others knew about it, it would be very disadvantageous in matches.

Wang Che definitely did not plan to let the child’s detailed data be kept.

The changes brought by the Beast Origin Art were too significant.

Keeping the data would surely alert the people inside this club.

Wang Che had lived for tens of thousands of years in his previous life, reaching the Ascension Realm, and had experienced countless dangers.

He couldn’t guarantee that everyone in this world was good.

Especially now, when he didn’t have strong power yet.

Most of the children who came to this club for testing were just teenagers who had recently become adults. They couldn’t help but like to show off and act cool…

Wang Che thought about the live-streamed test data of the Rock Steel Monster he had just seen.

It wasn’t that he didn’t like showing off. As a great cultivator of the Ascension Realm, he had shown off plenty in his past life.

But showing off came with risks. In his previous life, he had immense power and dominated the entire Cultivation World, so he had the strength to show off.

The only time he failed was probably during the Heavenly Tribulation…

Now, without that strength, he had to be more careful.

The data was real-time. Once deleted, there would be no backups.

If the club secretly kept backups, it would violate Federation laws, and the consequences would be severe.

After deleting the data, Wang Che calmly walked out of the testing room.

“Wang Che! You’re out?”

Yuan Xiaole, who was waiting in line for testing, immediately smiled and said, “How were the test results?”

“Just average,” Wang Che glanced at him and replied casually.

“Hey, no worries,” Yuan Xiaole waved his hand. “By the way, school starts in just over a week. After that, we’ll start learning about simple Soul Pet Battles.”

“Would you be interested in working as a sparring partner at my family’s battle club? Five thousand a month, plus ten free Moon Birch Milk Fir Leaves every day. It would really help your Green Caterpillar and definitely help your Martial Soul awaken steadily!”

Wang Che looked at him with some surprise.

He didn’t expect this kid’s family to be well-off, running a battle club.

And the offer was quite generous.

Moon Birch Milk Fir Leaves were even more valuable and expensive than White Birch Milk Fir Leaves.

Five thousand a month was almost as much as his parents made.

But…

“I have a Green Caterpillar. It doesn’t have much fighting power,” Wang Che said with a smile. “How could it work as a sparring partner? I think you just want me to attract more students to join your club, right?”

“You’re really scheming, aren’t you?”

Wang Che laughed.

“Damn!” Yuan Xiaole stared at Wang Che in shock. “You’re way too sharp! You figured it out just like that?”

A Soul Pet like the Green Caterpillar definitely couldn’t work as a sparring partner in a battle club.

But after school started, all the senior high school students in Tianxin City would gradually get into Soul Pet Battles.

So, battle clubs would inevitably want to attract a lot of students to join.

There were many battle clubs in Tianxin City.

And although Wang Che’s Soul Pet was a Green Caterpillar, he was incredibly handsome…

Not only handsome, but also quite well-known.

Just with that face, if he joined any club, plenty of girls would probably follow.

It would be a win no matter what.

Yuan Xiaole just didn’t expect the other to catch on so quickly.

He had just made the offer, and Wang Che immediately saw through his plan.

“So… are you turning it down?” Yuan Xiaole asked with a bitter smile.

Wang Che pointed to his own face and said seriously, “What I mean is, with a face this handsome…”

“You gotta pay more!”

“…”