Creatures like spirit monsters were extremely rare in the Cultivation World.
For Human Race cultivators, taking such creatures as Spirit Pets could make them a fortune in certain areas.
For example, Wood Sprites possessed a talent for finding spirit medicines and another for accelerating the maturation of plants.
Since the Snow Sprite had previously been able to refine a magic treasure with Ten Thousand Year Profound Jade and locate that Mysterious Nether Water Eye, it clearly had a special talent for finding Ice attribute ores and spiritual items.
If the Snow Crystal Worm that Zhou Chun had searched for in the Yang Kingdom back then had been sought by the Snow Sprite, it probably would have been found with ease.
And that was only how cultivators below the Nascent Soul Realm could make use of such spirit monsters.
For Nascent Soul stage cultivators, there was another, even more useful way to use spirit monsters: refining them into their own incarnations.
Before reaching the Fifth Rank, spirit monsters had no fleshly bodies and grew purely by absorbing the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth. Their demonic nuclei were extremely pure, condensed entirely from spiritual power of a single attribute.
Unlike the Demonic Cores of demonic beasts, they contained no bloodline power in addition to spiritual power.
Such a pure spiritual-power demonic nucleus was extremely convenient for a Nascent Soul stage cultivator to split off a divided soul and refine it as an energy source, thereby usurping the magpie's nest and refining an incarnation with special talents!
An incarnation with an independent energy source that could replenish its own energy might not be able to provide much help to a Nascent Soul stage cultivator in spell combat, but it could take over many tasks in daily life.
For example, if Zhou Chun