Taming beasts is not as good as taming yourself

"boom!"

A deafening roar jolted Wu Xiao out of his daze, and what came into view was an endless sea of ​​scorching lava, and in this sea of ​​scorching lava stood a majestic giant.

It was a lava giant made of magma, with a surging, scorching sea of ​​magma crashing against its thighs like a gentle breeze across a mountain.

Wu Xiao's gaze involuntarily drifted to the towering lava giant, which resembled a mountain. The lava flowing over the giant's body gave him an incredibly mysterious feeling, as if it were explaining what fire was. Just as Wu Xiao was about to examine it closely, a burning pain struck him. Wu Xiao felt his body and soul being ignited and completely incinerated in that instant.

"Huff...huff..."

Wu Xiao gasped for breath, the feeling of his body and soul being instantly incinerated was truly terrifying.

"It seems this is the reason for the original owner's death." Wu Xiao wiped the sweat from his forehead. The scene just now was what Wu Xiao saw when he merged with the memories of the body's owner.

Yes, the Wu Xiao at this moment is not the original body, but a person who traveled from Earth in the interstellar era and entered the body of this boy with the same name as him.

"As expected, things of unknown origin should not be used casually." Wu Xiao couldn't help but sigh as he sorted through the memories in his mind.

Because he was pursuing the ultimate martial arts and wanted to obtain the legendary internal energy and true qi, he used an unknown object found in space, and then inexplicably arrived here.

In order to break through and become a formal Beast Tamer, the original owner went to the black market to buy a potion of unknown origin. After taking it, he died inexplicably. The lava giant that Wu Xiao just saw was most likely caused by that potion of unknown origin.

"The world of beast taming... It seems that the people here don't practice martial arts, but instead raise various pet beasts to fight for them." Wu Xiao lay on the bed, flipping through the information in his mind, feeling a little regretful.

Having just transmigrated, Wu Xiao was momentarily bewildered, but also somewhat delighted. If he had arrived in a world where martial arts flourished, wouldn't he be able to explore the pinnacle of martial arts?

Unfortunately, this was not a world of martial arts, but a world of beast taming. After a slight disappointment, Wu Xiao quickly rallied his spirits.

Although this world is not a world where martial arts flourish, it is a world with extraordinary power. This can be seen from the powerful beasts in my memory that can fly, burrow underground, breathe fire, and spew water. Moreover, the people in this world also possess extraordinary power.

Wu Xiao's consciousness sank into his sea of ​​consciousness, where a semi-transparent substance was condensing. According to the original owner's memories, this was spiritual power.

It is also the most important power to become a beast tamer. Beast tamers mainly cultivate and concentrate their spiritual power, and use their spiritual power to draw contract runes in order to form a contract with their pet beasts.

Although it wasn't the true qi or internal force that Wu Xiao wanted, this spiritual power was clearly a kind of extraordinary power. However, Wu Xiao had no clue how to use this extraordinary power, which he had never encountered before, to help him break through the upper limit of martial arts.

Having learned his lesson from his past life's reckless use of things, Wu Xiao dared not easily use powers he was unfamiliar with. If he were to die again, he might not have another chance.

"Thank goodness I have a cheat code!"

Wu Xiao took a deep breath, and the next moment a slightly illusory person appeared in his sea of ​​consciousness. On that illusory person, meridians and acupoints were clearly engraved, and the person's appearance was no different from Wu Xiao's.

This virtual diagram of human meridians and acupoints represents the pinnacle of combining Earth's martial arts with biotechnology and AI models.

At that time, Earth's technology was already capable of interstellar travel. However, the harsh environment of space made people eager to improve themselves, and thus martial arts, which could improve people's physical fitness, ushered in a prosperous era.

With the help of technology, people have a clearer understanding of themselves. In addition, the martial arts traditions passed down from the old era allowed people to draw complete diagrams of the human body's meridians and acupoints.

Subsequently, the most powerful AI model at the time was used, with its enormous computing power, to simulate all these meridians and acupoints.

With these meridian and acupoint diagrams, coupled with the simulation of large AI models, people began to confidently search for the legendary internal energy and true qi. Improving physical fitness through training was clearly not the idea people had at the time.

The goal that people passionately embrace in martial arts is to gain extraordinary power through martial arts.

Unfortunately, dreams are beautiful, but reality is cruel. After generations of searching, nothing similar to internal energy has been found. It's as if extraordinary power simply doesn't exist in this world.

With advancements in gene technology, enhancing the body through genes has become mainstream. After all, the ability to quickly boost strength with just one injection is incredibly convenient. The only downside is the cost, but that's only a disadvantage for the poor.

The emergence of gene technology led to the rapid decline of martial arts until it disappeared. Wu Xiao found the AI ​​model machine containing the human body's meridians and acupoints while searching for treasures in a recycling station, and thus embarked on the path of martial arts.

Following his predecessors, Wu Xiao, after reaching his limit, embarked on a journey to find the legendary internal energy and break through the limits of martial arts.

Wu Xiao tried many things to achieve this, until he found an unknown mysterious substance on an undiscovered planet. After using the unknown substance, Wu Xiao felt a special power emerge in his body. However, before Wu Xiao could even feel his joy, he inexplicably transmigrated to this world.

Accompanying him was this simulator. However, the simulator was now rooted in Wu Xiao's sea of ​​consciousness, but the simulation effect still existed and had become even stronger.

The more powerful simulator made it possible for Wu Xiao to simulate extraordinary powers like mental energy.

As for the use of the simulator, Wu Xiao had already explored it before. It was very simple: one could simply enter the virtual body with one's consciousness and then use the virtual body as a real body.

Because it was a virtual body that completely simulated his own, after his consciousness entered, Wu Xiao did not feel any discomfort except that he would see his somewhat illusory body when he looked down.

After moving his virtual body around, a semi-transparent substance appeared between Wu Xiao's eyebrows—the mental energy simulated by the simulator. The simulator could replicate and use anything Wu Xiao touched.

Wu Xiao controlled the ball of spiritual energy, circulating it along the meridians of his virtual body. It was clear that Wu Xiao intended to circulate this spiritual energy as if it were internal energy.

"Hmm? It's not working?"

As his mental energy circulated, Wu Xiao felt nothing except for a clearer 'seeing' of himself; clearly, this mental energy could not be considered internal force.

After trying several other methods with the same result, Wu Xiao finally concluded that this spiritual power was not a form of material energy and could not provide his body with powerful supernatural strength.

The simulation experiment did not achieve the expected results, which left Wu Xiao somewhat disappointed. However, during the experiment, Wu Xiao also discovered another effect of mental power, which could also elevate his martial arts realm.