Beast Taming Begins with Inheriting a Legacy.

The next morning.

As usual, Gu Ling and Huang Weiwei gathered together in front of the playground.

Before the physical training even started, Gu Ling approached Zhou Mengran and said, "Teacher Zhou, I've already thought of a reward skill."

Zhou Mengran raised an eyebrow slightly: "So soon? Aren't you going to reconsider?"

Gu Ling nodded: "Yes, I want to choose the Reflection Wall and Hypnosis."

"I thought you would choose the reflective wall and the light wall."

Zhou Mengran smiled faintly: "Hypnosis is not bad either, but it is more difficult to learn than the Light Wall. Are you sure you can learn it within a month? If you can't, you will have wasted your opportunity."

"Give it a try, I have faith in Xianjiu." Gu Ling turned to look at Xianjiu sitting on her shoulder.

Xian Jiu was yawning and feeling a little sleepy.

Last night, that mischievous kid was too enthusiastic. He kept pulling Xianjiu to learn how to type until four in the morning.

Gu Ling woke up to use the restroom and noticed the two little guys' antics, so she sent them both back to sleep.

"Alright." Zhou Mengran nodded: "For the next month, Xianjiu will be learning new skills, so its daily training will be put on hold for now."

Gu Ling then voiced another plan: "Teacher, I have a request."

"I plan to focus on meditation training for the next month and make room for physical training."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Mengran glanced at the mischievous creature floating above Gu Ling's head: "Are you trying to quickly contract a second pet?"

Gu Ling explained, "I consumed the Strange Spirit Fruit the day before yesterday."

Gu Ling had already made plans before going to bed last night.

There are 24 hours in a day. After deducting 4 hours for classes and 8 hours for sleep, there are 12 hours left.

If we subtract the time spent on commuting to school and eating, which is about 2 hours, then she still has 10 hours left for meditation training.

As time goes by, the fruit's energy will gradually weaken, so Gu Ling must race against time.

Because every second wasted is a waste of money.

Wasting time is shameful, wasting money is even more shameful!

If it weren't for the fact that the theoretical courses in the second year of high school had just begun and Gu Ling hadn't fully grasped them yet, she would have wanted to cancel the theoretical courses as well and devote all her time to meditation training.

Upon hearing this reason, Zhou Mengran immediately understood: "Since you have consumed the Strange Spirit Fruit, you should indeed make the most of every second to meditate."

"I can approve that, as long as you have a plan."

"Thank you, Teacher Zhou."

Having received permission, Gu Ling naturally no longer needed to participate in the upcoming physical training.

Gu Ling left Xian Jiu behind, while she took the mischievous boy back to the classroom for meditation training.

"..."

For two days in a row, everyone in the class noticed that Gu Ling did not participate in physical training.

After learning the reason, they were all filled with admiration.

How does Gu Ling manage to sit still for 10 hours a day while meditating?

Aren't you afraid of getting hemorrhoids? ε=ε=(~￣▽￣)~

Soon, Gu Ling was bombarded with links on WeChat from her enthusiastic classmates, including links to seat cushions, hemorrhoid cream, and little-known facts about preventing hemorrhoids…

Gu Ling was speechless.

No need!

She's too young to have hemorrhoids!

……

Two days passed in a flash. The top ten students in the placement exam had all chosen the skills they wanted to learn. Then, the school invited the best training institution in Hailan City to come to the school to train all the students' pets.

Without their pets, Lu Jiuwen and the others followed Gu Ling's example and practiced meditation, or searched online for videos of past friendly matches to watch and learn from.

During a break from training, a student asked Zhou Mengran, "Teacher Zhou, has the school found out anything about the other schools' situations in the friendly match two months from now?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Mengran smiled slightly: "I've already been investigating, and I have indeed gathered some information."

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately perked up and looked at Zhou Mengran expectantly, hoping she could reveal some information.

Gu Ling, who had just finished meditating and was clutching her stomach as she went to the cafeteria to buy bread to eat, happened to hear this and immediately crept over.

Seeing that everyone was interested, Zhou Mengran simply revealed some information: "Over the years, the favorites to win the Hailan City Friendship Tournament have been none other than Hailan No.1 Middle School, Hailan Experimental Middle School, Hailan Beast Taming Vocational Middle School, and Qingchuan No.1 Middle School. Among these four schools, Hailan Vocational Middle School has won the most championships in previous years."

"The teaching system of Hailan Beast Taming Vocational School is quite special. It is the only school in Hailan City that combines primary, junior high and high school education. Starting from primary school, all courses are centered around beast taming. In primary school, students mainly master the theoretical knowledge of beast taming that is taught in the nine years of compulsory education in ordinary schools. In junior high school, students begin to cultivate and train pets and engage in pet battles."

Some students didn't know much about Hailan Beast Taming Vocational School, and they were quite envious when they heard that they could have pet beasts while in junior high school.

"You can become a beast tamer with only a junior high school education? And contract beasts?"

"Are all the students at the Beast Taming Vocational High School already two-star Beast Tamers?"

"What's the point of a friendly match then? We've only been training for a few months, and we're going to compete against people who've been training for years?"

Gu Ling, who was 'eavesdropping' in the corner, also had a somewhat serious expression.

If students at the Beast Taming Vocational School started training their pets in junior high school, it's been three or four years now, and it's hard to guarantee that some of their pets might have already advanced to the level of a warrior general.

Even when facing a general-level pet beast, Gu Ling couldn't be sure if Xian Jiu could win in his current state.

Seeing that the students were all looking dejected, Zhou Mengran sighed softly: "The best age to awaken your pet space is between 14 and 18 years old. Developing your pet space too early is a great burden on your body."

The teaching system of the Beast Taming Vocational School is completely designed to train batches of new Beast Tamers by keeping the minimum age of 14.

Zhou Mengran did not quite agree with this system.

"Students at the Beast Taming Vocational School generally do not undergo the awakening ceremony in their first and second years of junior high school. Instead, they use the pet beasts kept by the school for combat training. The awakening ceremony is not held until their third year of junior high school."

"After we got to high school, the school often organized people to take students to the wild to find wild animals for combat training."

Someone asked, puzzled:

"Teacher Zhou, although the percentage of students who awaken their pet beast space each year is stable at 70%, and even reaches over 80% in some economically developed areas, no one can guarantee 100% that they will definitely be able to awaken it, right?"

"Aren't the people at the Beast Taming Vocational School afraid that after all these years of hard work in beast taming courses, they won't even be able to awaken their pet space?"

Zhou Mengran glanced around, then asked in a calm and unhurried tone, "In your opinion, which type of person is more likely to awaken their pet space and become a beast tamer?"

The students answered in turn:

"The awakening of the pet space is closely related to mental strength; people with strong mental strength are more likely to awaken their pet space."

"If both parents are beast tamers, their offspring will have a much higher chance of awakening their pet beast space compared to children born to ordinary people."

Throughout the thousands of years of history of the Dragon Profound Kingdom, beast tamers and ordinary people have naturally formed two classes. In order for the next generation to continue to awaken the pet beast space and become beast tamers, beast tamers usually only choose a beast tamer as their partner.

Ordinary people might have to wait for generations, until their ancestors' graves are blessed with good fortune, before they can give birth to a genius capable of awakening the pet beast space.

It wasn't until after the founding of the Longxuan Kingdom that, over several hundred years, countless researchers improved the Black Xuan Magnet used in the Awakening Ceremony, enabling more and more ordinary people to awaken their Pet Space and become Beast Tamers.

Nowadays, it is no longer an unattainable dream for children from ordinary families to become beast tamers. Within two or three generations, a suitable candidate for beast tamer can usually be found.

"That's right." Zhou Mengran nodded slightly: "Generally speaking, a person's mental strength is relatively stable and doesn't fluctuate much."

"But everything changed after we found secret resources in the realm that were suitable for humans to consume and that helped enhance mental strength."

"Although the effects of using secret realm resources on ordinary people will be greatly reduced, over the years, it is difficult not to improve the strength of one's mental power."

If you throw millions or tens of millions of dollars at it, even a fool would probably be able to awaken the pet space.

Zhou Mengran continued, "The students who are able to enter the Beast Taming Vocational School all come from wealthy and powerful families, and they don't lack the hundreds of millions to buy resources from the secret realm."

"The percentage of students who awaken their pet space at the Beast Taming Vocational High School has remained stable at over 95% every year. The remaining less than 5% of students, despite investing so many resources, still cannot awaken their pet space and can only accept their bad luck."

"hiss……"

Most people gasped in shock.

95%?

The number of students admitted to the Beast Taming Class at Nanping No. 1 Middle School each year is roughly 50% to 60% of the total number of students in the grade.

Some students, although they awakened their pet space, could not afford to buy pets because their families were poor, and they could not afford the subsequent expenses of raising them. So they had to give up becoming pet tamers.

Comparing the two, it really is true that comparisons are odious.

"Alright, you've rested for so long, it's time to start training." With the break over, Zhou Mengran didn't say anything more, otherwise she was afraid of dampening the students' enthusiasm.

Just then, someone spotted Gu Ling preparing to leave, and their gaze fell upon the mischievous creature beside her. A quick thought struck them, and they asked, "Gu Ling, what level is your ghost-type pet now?"

Gu Ling paused, her eyes darting around slightly: "Right now... I'm at the extraordinary level."

Gu Ling wasn't lying; the mischievous creature wearing the pet suppressor could indeed only unleash extraordinary strength at the moment.

"Then let's have a match!" The man immediately became excited.

After so many days, not only him, but also many others were curious about the mischievous kid's abilities.

But Gu Ling never lets the naughty kids join the training; they just eat and drink all day long.

"How's it going? Your newly tamed pet probably hasn't battled yet, right? How about a match to get it used to you?"

Gu Ling was just wondering how to trick someone into fighting her when this opportunity came knocking on her door.

"Okay."

As soon as Gu Ling nodded, the others couldn't sit still any longer.

"I'll go first!"

"No, don't you understand the concept of first come, first served?"

"..."

Xia Zihan, watching the group scrambling to fight Gu Ling, helplessly spoke up to remind them, "This is a Ghost-type pet. Do your pets have skills that can counter Ghost-type pets?"

The next second, the entire venue fell into dead silence.

These words struck everyone like a bolt from the blue.

wipe!

In my excitement, I completely forgot about that!

Several people who had been eager to fight Gu Ling suddenly looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Um...why don't you go?"

"No, no, I arrived later, so I won't compete with you."

"My pet has diarrhea today, so it's not convenient for him to battle."

"..."

Finally, as if they had reached some kind of tacit understanding, everyone dispersed in a flurry.

Gu Ling blinked, then finally sighed helplessly.

Fine……

Her wish was dashed again.

Gu Ling had no choice but to take the mischievous boy back to the classroom.

Xian Jiu is currently learning new skills with the staff of the training institution, so there's no need to worry about her training for the time being.

However, we need to start thinking about how to train the mischievous kid.

Although the mischievous boy is still replenishing his nutrition and cannot engage in high-intensity training for the time being, it would be a waste not to use the free time in between to do something.

As Gu Ling munched on her bread, she pondered, "Besides normal skill training, what other methods can be used to train Ghost-type pets?"

Gu Ling turned to the mischievous boy and asked, "Mischievous boy, what do you most want to learn?"

The mischievous ghost was floating above Gu Ling's head, taking out a small cake from its belly and eating it bite by bite.

Upon hearing Gu Ling's words, the mischievous boy immediately made a big funny face with his chubby little hands: "Hehehe~"

"You want to learn... how to scare people?"

Gu Ling was somewhat surprised, but also felt a sense of it being perfectly natural.

The mischievous boy nodded quickly.

"Is that scary...?"

How can I scare people more easily and efficiently?

Could it be done in an unexpected way?

It can also create a scary atmosphere?

Suspenseful horror novels and movies, as well as folk ghost stories from rural areas, are all excellent sources of inspiration.

Gu Ling's thoughts gradually began to flow.

Not only these, but also real-life cases of psychopathic killers, the top ten murder cases, and any case with horror elements are worth studying for mischievous kids.

However, Gu Ling had a new worry: "...Won't this set a bad example for the mischievous kids?"

What if she trains a terrorist?

Oh, I almost forgot, we can also find some cases of terrorists to show the mischievous kids how terrorists "scare" people.

"Psychology could also be included."

Let the mischievous child learn some professional psychological knowledge, so that when looking at cases of those psychopathic killers, it will be easier to analyze the psychology of the psychopath.

"We need to add one more thing: make the naughty boy recite the twenty-four-character mantra once a day to purify his soul."

But if that happens, Gu Ling only has one phone and one tablet. If Xian Jiu and the mischievous boy take them to study, what will she use on her own?

"...Let's buy them all their own tablets."

Gu Ling silently comforted her wallet.

These are all just investments!

We'll break even eventually! (End of Chapter)