Beast Taming Begins with the Inner Circle of Pets

Chapter 155 The Ferocious Beast Qiongqi

"Brother Yao, hurry up and go over there. You know how difficult the Wang family is to deal with. If something happens to the manager, you'll lose your job."

The salesman urged the man surnamed Yao, "At this critical juncture, which is more important, making money or keeping your job?"

The man surnamed Yao apologized to Lin Manman apologetically, then quickly ran towards the exit. The salesman who followed him closely behind.

"The Wang family they just mentioned, is it the Wang family from the Ten Families?" Lin Manman asked Wu Jingyu curiously.

"I think so." Wu Jingyu nodded.

"Are all the ten families like this... even a young master from a collateral branch can instill such fear in people?" Lin Manman ultimately didn't utter the word "arrogant," as she was new to the area and wanted to avoid saying anything that might cause trouble.

Wu Jingyu sighed as he thought of the situation of the Wang family's young ladies. "Actually, the main disciples of the ten families are all quite low-key, but when a family gets big, it's inevitable that some clueless juniors will appear."

"As for the Wang family... it's because their main family values ​​inheritance, and this generation of their main family happens to be all girls, which gives these collateral descendants hope, and they all think that they can take over the Wang family in the future."

"These collateral descendants are not as well-educated and have fewer cultivation resources as the main family members from a young age. Now they dream of rising to the top in one step, so it's inevitable that they'll become a bit arrogant."

"However, they don't dare to make a big fuss, they just rely on the Wang family's power to do some small things outside."

"It seems that their main family is also embroiled in a dispute over the succession, so for the time being, no one is really taking care of them."

Lin Manman was full of questions. She thought her grandmother's patriarchal ideas were old-fashioned enough, so why would such a large family still have the idea that only male heirs are considered heirs?

Wu Jingyu noticed Lin Manman's confusion and indifference, and quickly explained.

"The Wang family is just an exception. There are quite a few female heads or leaders in the ten surname families. If you really want to trace the lineage of the Wang family, you can go back to more than a thousand years ago."

Lin Manman nodded in realization; it really was an old relic.

It has only been a little over two hundred years since the emergence of professionals in the world, so it is truly amazing that this family has been able to survive for over a thousand years.

More than two hundred years ago, people discovered that the awakening of professional abilities is independent of gender.

Female professionals are no less capable than their male counterparts, and often have an advantage in the training of mage and priest professions due to their more stable mental strength.

Therefore, from the moment professionals emerged in the world, some of the unequal treatment of men and women in the old society disappeared.

However, with such a vast world and so many people, there will always be some individuals with rather peculiar ways of thinking.

"Let's go and see what the excitement is like, and see what kind of person the future heir of the Wang family will be?" Lin Manman said with a smile, her words laced with sarcasm.

Wu Jingyu felt somewhat helpless. Given her personality, she would try to stay as far away as possible from such conflict situations.

But since it was Lin Manman's first time out, she was curious about everything, so she could only bite the bullet and keep up with her.

The two soldiers who had been silently following behind exchanged a glance, both seeing helplessness in each other's eyes.

"Haven't I made myself clear enough? Not only will you refund the money we paid for the spirit beast, but you'll also be responsible for the injuries our young master sustained!"

As soon as Lin Manman and her three companions arrived at the market's reception hall, they saw a short, fat man arrogantly shouting insults.

"When you bought it, you clearly stated that it was for beast fighting. I warned you to be careful when signing contracts with spirit beasts captured in these secret realms..."

The salesperson, surnamed Yao, argued with the man despite the pressure.

He was only a level three mage, while the two people opposite him were a level five warrior and a taller, thinner man who was also a level five mage. Neither of them were people he could afford to offend.

But in order to keep his job, he had no choice but to argue his case.

"You said that it's not advisable to form a contract if your strength is not higher than the spirit beast's. This two-winged saber-toothed tiger is a level four spirit beast, and our young master is already a level five beast tamer, but something still happened during the contracting process. How do you explain that?"

The other, taller, thinner man spoke much more calmly and methodically than the first man.

The salesman surnamed Yao looked bitter. How could he explain that?

Of course, your young master artificially boosted his level to five by using external objects. Since his soul power didn't improve normally, he naturally got injured when he encountered a powerful spirit beast that refused to be contracted.

If he dared to say those words, these two would surely make him bleed on the spot.

"Please calm down, both of you. There is inherent risk in signing a contract between a beast tamer and a spirit beast. We have also issued a risk disclosure statement."

"Of course, I'm not saying this to shirk responsibility or anything. We're willing to cover Young Master Wang's medical expenses, but saying that our spirit beast has a problem would damage our market reputation..."

The person speaking at this moment was a woman in her forties or fifties. Judging from her uniform, she should be the manager that the two salespeople had mentioned earlier.

"You're worried about damaging your market's reputation? Fine, then quickly pay us the money for this two-winged saber-toothed tiger, plus compensation for our young master's medical expenses, emotional distress, nutritional expenses, and so on—a total of 10 billion Chinese yuan. Otherwise, I will make sure you can't continue doing business today!"

The short, stout warrior spoke with a cold laugh.

Lin Manman, who was secretly watching the commotion, gasped. "Ten small goals? In the capital, is a small goal not worth much?"

She then peered at the two-winged saber-toothed tiger, which was confined in a huge cage.

My attention was so focused on their bickering that I didn't even notice the spirit beast protagonist.

I don’t know, I’m scared.

Lying in the cage was a giant reddish-brown tiger, which should be over four meters long. However, there were few good parts of the tiger's body left, and its reddish-brown fur was so stained with blood that its original color was almost unrecognizable.

Its enormous, dark gray wings were now only half intact on one side. Its two sharp fangs were also broken. The tiger lay there, its fate unknown.

Lin Manman then looked at its attributes.

Species: Two-winged saber-toothed tiger

Rank: Mid-Legend

Level: 4

Status: Growing adult (1 year and 2 months)

Bloodline: High-level Mythical Qiongqi (Extremely High)

Talent: Mind Reading: Can read the thoughts of any being whose soul power is no more than twice that of the user.

Skill: 1. Claws: Attacks using sharp claws. (Upgradeable)

2. Bite: Attacks using sharp teeth. (Upgradeable)

3. Gale: The speed of flying is greatly increased when flying in the wind.

4. Wind Blade: The wings create wind blades to attack the target. (Upgradeable)

5. Flame Whirlwind: A whirlwind formed by the combined power of wind and fire. (Upgradeable)

6. Wind Howl Assault: Spreads a howling sound using wind-attribute power, containing both wind and mental attacks. (Upgradeable)

7. Heavenly Fire Meteor: Condenses a large amount of fire elemental energy into a massive fireball, attacking a target area within a certain range. (Advanced skill of the intermediate-level skill, Fire Meteor)

8. Fury: In a state of extreme rage, one loses reason, and all attributes and attacks are doubled.

Basic attributes:

Qi and blood: 7287

Spirit: 3860

Soul: 4699

Lin Manman, who had just gasped at the thought of the "ten small goals," gasped again.

Good heavens, the bloodline of Qiongqi, the legendary leader of the Four Fiends? And the talent to read minds? Wind and fire elements, and mental attacks too?

That's inhuman! Absolutely inhuman!!

Lin Manman wiped the drool from the corner of her mouth, trying to suppress her wildly excited heart, and turned to continue watching the two sides who were still arguing.

We absolutely must find a way to get our hands on such a top-quality item!!

(End of this chapter)