“This is the 17th one...”

Mingxi silently recited in her heart while quickly flipping through the waterproof notebook on her lap.

The notebook was densely filled with quick sketches of various pet beast egg patterns, with tiny annotations next to them:

“White-based egg, diamond grid pattern with crimson flame pattern, incomplete flame, triggers Burning Curse upon touch, causes continuous low fever, accelerated stamina loss, lasts 10 minutes, no other side effects. Triggered by Bright Crystal.”

Merit Points -1

“Red-based egg, ice-crack pattern with frost-blue snowflake pattern, distorted ice-crack, triggers Slowing Aura, movement speed reduced by about 30%, lasts half an hour, no other side effects. Triggered by Golden Yuanbao.”

Merit Points -1

“Red-based egg, dark green thorny entanglement pattern, complete, triggers Vitality Siphon, damage resistance increased by about 20%, lasts half an hour, suspected slight stamina loss, triggered by Lan Yue.”

“White-based egg, gold-lined cloud pattern, triggers Energetic, accelerated mental power recovery, lasts two hours, suspected mood becomes irritable, triggered by Little Silver Flower.”

A large exclamation mark followed this entry.

This was the most cruel yet most alluring law of the Silent Mystery Realm.

“As expected, everything has a price tag!”

Even if these pet beast egg blind boxes yielded a positive outcome, a certain price had to be paid, though they were mostly minor, harmless issues.

Because they weren't obvious, they hadn't been discovered, or perhaps someone had discovered them but didn't consider them a big problem.

“It seems Little Silver Flower truly is a god favored by destiny.”

As the team's recognized “lucky star,” Little Silver Flower had mostly triggered beneficial effects before, even opening a super blind box from an orange egg that directly increased total energy by 5%.

Don't underestimate that 5%!

She was a Saint-level pet beast!

Under normal cultivation, an ordinary pet beast would have to work tirelessly for at least five or six years to achieve that.

But Little Silver Flower achieved it by simply hugging an egg.

However, Mingxi still didn't agree to let her open a purple-based egg.

Luck couldn't be eaten, especially in a place where lives were constantly at stake.

“This egg,” Mingxi looked at an orange-based egg with a spiral silver pattern.

“The energy fluctuation is medium to high, the pattern structure...” She lightly tapped her pen tip on another similar spiral pattern in her notebook, “is opposite to the core spiral's rotation direction of the egg that previously triggered ‘Spatial Dislocation Dizziness,’ which made the unlucky Golden Yuanbao spin in place for ten minutes.

And there are the accompanying patterns here...”

Black Pearl poked her head out, watching the words Mingxi was writing, her dark pupils shimmering, seemingly trying hard to understand her owner's complex analysis.

Then circles appeared in her eyes.

Human words were really hard to understand.

(⸝⸝⸝ᵒ̴̶̷̥́ ⌑ ᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀⸝⸝⸝)

Mingxi didn't know her fish prince was dizzy from the words; she continued writing:

“...The reverse spiral might represent ‘stability’ ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) or ‘anchoring’ of spatial effects, rather than ‘disorder.’

The accompanying starlight pattern indicates a positive outcome probability of over 65%...”

Mingxi quickly calculated, compared, and simulated in her mind, “...Target effect prediction: spatial enhancement, such as reduced short-range blink cooldown, increased spatial resistance, or mental stability.

Lethal risk probability is less than 5%.”

She looked up at Golden Yuanbao, who was currently as silent as a small mountain due to continuously triggering debuffs, drawing circles with his feet in a melancholy prince state.

“Golden Yuanbao, you try this one.”

Mingxi gestured and wrote.

Golden Yuanbao's luck was a bit bad, but his defense and vitality were the strongest, so opening an orange-based egg still posed no life-threatening danger.

Cough.

In fact, Golden Yuanbao, with his sky-high bad luck, was the best “touchstone” for triggering unknown effects.

Much more authentic than Little Silver Flower, the favored one.

Mingxi then gestured to Emerald Green.

“Ah Feifei, please be on alert, especially watch for any signs of ‘Misfortune Chain.’ If there are, quickly get me far away.”

The so-called Misfortune Chain was a negative effect that could affect teammates.

Golden Yuanbao had triggered it once before, and it was quite troublesome.

Mingxi and Bright Crystal were dragged into the Misfortune Chain, and the two pets and one person all farted for a full two hours. The rhythm, put together, was a complete “Good Luck Comes”!

Mingxi was scared.

Truly scared.

No matter how thick-skinned she was, she couldn't stand such a drain on her merit.

Emerald Green's emerald eyes glowed with a faint green light in the darkness, and she nodded silently.

Golden Yuanbao no longer hesitated, his paw touching the spiral silver-patterned eggshell with an almost reverent caution.

“Buzz—!”

An invisible wave instantly spread!

It wasn't a sound, but a “ripple” that directly acted upon the soul.

Mingxi and Little Silver Flower all felt a slight tremor in their spirits.

The eggshell glowed with a brilliant silver light!

The complex spiral patterns seemed to come alive, rapidly spinning and reorganizing, finally coalescing above the eggshell into a phantom, star-composed anchor symbol!

The symbol floated away from the pet beast egg and quickly merged into Golden Yuanbao's body.

And the original orange-based star-patterned pet beast egg immediately turned into a normal pet beast egg.

“Wow, it's actually a Kiru Riya!! It's a gold! My treasure!”

Mingxi was excited.

“And the effect is indeed Spatial Anchoring!”

Spatial Anchoring was a beneficial effect.

It significantly increased the beneficiary's ability to resist spatial displacement effects, including forced teleportation, spatial tearing, and gravitational anomalies, for the next six hours.

It was simply the bane of all spatial skills.

“It worked!”

Mingxi's eyes sparkled not only with the gleam of gold coins but also with the excitement of a successful experiment.

Her analysis was correct!

The reverse spiral plus the starlight accompanying pattern, with the patterns semi-stable and semi-distorted, indicated a probability of spatial stability-type enhancement as high as 96%.

“Golden Yuanbao, I told you your luck isn't bad at all.”

Mingxi immediately gave her Golden Yuanbao a big heart gesture.

Although Golden Yuanbao couldn't hear, their bond was deep enough that he basically understood instantly.

“Profound Power.”

Golden Yuanbao was indeed very happy; who wanted to be unlucky all the time?

He certainly didn't.

This ‘unboxing’ was quite successful, not only boosting her ‘little pitiful’s’ confidence but also strongly validating her ‘Egg Pattern Cryptography’ theory!

Although this theory still seemed to have many loopholes at present.

Mingxi's notebook gained a new entry: “Reverse spiral silver pattern plus starlight accompanying pattern... Spatial Anchoring (enhancement)...”

“Finally, there are three purple-based eggs left.”

Mingxi's gaze sharply swept over the last three remaining purple-based pet beast eggs.

Especially the one in the middle that was purplish-black.

It was different from the other pet beast eggs.

It was only fist-sized, and although its eggshell was black-purple, an indescribable chaotic color could be vaguely seen inside.

There were no specific patterns on the purple-based shell, only countless twisted, flowing, chaotic vortex patterns that seemed to contain the birth and death of the universe and the intertwining of destiny.

Undoubtedly, this egg was the most special and also the most dangerous among this batch of pet beast eggs.