My beast can't be a demon.

Chapter 1 Are you serious?

After school at noon, hundreds of students walked out of the gate of Xin'an Beast Taming Academy and flocked to the surrounding restaurants.

Their faces still have the childishness of high school students, and the damn aura of youth is about to overflow.

Zhou Lu was lying on the balcony of the dormitory, holding a pot of green plants, watching the young girls coming and going.

I have to say that young people nowadays dress really boldly.

These freshmen who have just enrolled are lucky. A new secret realm for spirit beasts has just been discovered, which means that they have more possibilities in choosing spirit beasts. They do not have to be bound by spirit beast breeding companies and forced to accept the expensive breeding formulas and evolution materials for spirit beasts.

Of course, a brand new spirit beast also means that its evolution is unknown, which will greatly increase the burden on the beastmaster.

But all this has nothing to do with Zhou Lu.

He was just there to look at the legs.

As a time traveler, Zhou Lu was not surprised at all that his previous life was an orphan. The only regret he had was that his professor father sold all his property and invested it all in research, and finally died suddenly in the laboratory. Although they were from a wealthy family, they left him no property.

Fortunately, the Beast Taming Academy is quite nice, and my dad's students take good care of me. Otherwise, with my previous incarnation's taciturn personality, I might starve to death alone in my room one day and no one would know.

Thinking of this, Zhou Lu set his sights on the school gate not far away. This was a rare way for him to relieve the depression in his heart when facing a completely unfamiliar world after traveling through time.

After all, no matter in the past life or this life, at least the breasts are still the same breasts, and the legs are still the same legs.

Now that things have come to this, why not take a look at the black stockings.

The green plant in his arms seemed to sense his owner's fluctuating emotions. Its emerald green leaves swayed gently, and the tender buds on the top of the branches raised up like heads towards Zhou Lu.

Zhou Lu felt the movement of the green plant in his arms and looked down.

The green plant that looked like roadside weeds shook its stems, and then the soil beneath it moved, and a snow-white root broke out of the soil.

After doing all this, the grass patted its leaves, as if inviting Zhou Lu to look at its legs.

Well, even though he had accepted the fact that he had traveled through time, he still couldn't accept the fact that a blade of grass was acting cute with him and showing its legs to him.

The grass's reaction to its owner was very strange.

The master obviously likes to look at legs so much, why doesn’t he look at his own?

So it used a lot of strength and finally extended another thick root out of the soil.

Then, it raised its head and looked at Zhou Lu proudly: I am whiter than theirs!

"No... um... I mean no, Hanabi." Although Zhou Lu didn't know what the little grass named Hanabi wanted to express, he always felt that it was what he understood. "Although I like to look at legs, they are usually girls'... At least they are human legs. My XP is not that weird yet."

Fireworks swayed, confused by Zhou Lu's words, but it could hear the rejection in its master's words, and it drooped its leaves a little disappointedly.

As a world of beast taming, it is understandable that a blade of grass is so spiritual.

But the protagonists of other beast-taming stories initially tamed beasts such as pandas, tigers, lions, or at the very least, cats and dogs. How come it just turned into a blade of grass in my case?
Let me think about who was the last protagonist who used grass as a weapon... Well, this makes me feel even worse.

Damn it, I don’t know what’s wrong with my dad. He insisted on making me contract a grass, taking up my only Beast Taming slot for nothing.

Plant-type spirit beasts simply cannot stay away from the soil for long before they evolve to the second stage and complete their metamorphosis. Although there are now many beast-taming technology products trying to solve this problem, they are ultimately not as good as other types of spirit beasts.

In fact, he could be ruthless and just pull out the fireworks. Most plant-based spirit beasts were unable to walk before they evolved to the second stage, and were even so weak that they couldn't even beat humans. But looking at the smart green little guy in his arms, Zhou Lu couldn't bear it.

Never mind. Anyway, I don’t have the talent to be a beastmaster, and I don’t pursue to be the strongest. I might as well just keep it.

In this world where existing resources have been used up, even if you are a time traveler, without a plug-in, you probably can't make a name for yourself in this world where the system is mature and the promotion path is fixed, right? Zhou Lu was thinking this when his cell phone suddenly rang. He glanced at the note, hesitated for a moment, and answered the call: "Hello, Sister Xiaoqing."

"Do you have time now? Come to my lab for a quick meal?" A pleasant woman's voice came from the other end of the phone.

Wu Xiaoqing, one of the students of the original body's father, was also one of the several graduate students in the laboratory at that time.

After the death of his predecessor's father, he took good care of his predecessor.

That’s...Sister Xiaoqing, are you sure you can cook?

Zhou Lu recalled the horrific experience he had not long ago.

However, just as Zhou Lu was about to refuse politely, a voice suddenly sounded in his mind.

[Ding! Detected eligible candidates, started the testing process. ]

Zhou Lu thought he was hallucinating at first, but he soon realized:

Could it be... that my time traveler benefits have arrived?
【Ding! The attachment process begins. 】

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining the salvation system. ]

Here it comes! Here it comes! My golden finger is here!

[Ten years later, Zhou Lu, the strongest, most evil, and most terrifying demon king in history, will destroy the entire world. Everyone's consciousness will sleep forever under his rose of death, and their bodies will be enslaved by him forever.]

[The spirit beast he cultivated will become a demon that destroys the world, and all living things in the world will wail under its vines.]

[In order to prevent this tragedy from happening, please do everything you can to stop the Demon King from growing and awakening.]

[The system will guide the host through tasks. ]

[Current optional task 1: Kill Wu Xiaoqing.]

[Mission Introduction: Wu Xiaoqing, a graduate student at the Xin'an Beast Taming Academy Breeding Research Institute, is one of Zhou Lu's guides on the road to becoming a beast tamer. She has repeatedly saved Zhou Lu's life at the most critical moments. She is a great enemy on the host's mission path. If there is a chance, the host can eliminate this obstacle.]

[Task Reward: Spirit Beast Random Permanent Skill Card (Grade A)*1]

[Current optional task 2: Be the first to obtain information related to the special evolution of the End Rose]

"..."

Zhou Lu...it seems like I am Zhou Lu, right?

What's wrong with this system? How did I become the devil who destroys the world?

"Hello? Xiao Lu, are you listening?" Wu Xiaoqing's voice on the other end of the phone was slightly anxious.

"Ah, I'm listening, listening." Zhou Lu finally came back to his senses and said to the phone, "No problem, I will be here on time."

"That's good." Wu Xiaoqing breathed a sigh of relief. "By the way, bring me some salt when you come over."

"...Should I bring you some chili peppers?"

"No need for that. The senior brother next door majored in Solanaceae spiritual beasts. There must be plants of the genus Capsicum over there. Maybe we can even pick peppers from pepper plants that have awakened and become spiritual beasts."

(End of this chapter)