Chapter 1: This Beast Taming World Is A Bit Strange

The oldest and most intense of human emotions is fear, and the oldest and most intense of fears is the unknown.

Deep sea…

In the dead silent deep sea, slowly sinking!

No strength…

The only thing I could do was feel the nearly suffocating pain, gazing up at the shimmering surface of the water, at the sun that was distorted by the refraction of light, split into nine, and stacked together.

The pale light scattered down, illuminating the writhing shadow in the abyss of the deep sea, as if the Dark Mother God was opening her arms in an embrace…

"Don't!"

The pained roar startled the birds on the peach blossom tree that were just about to engage in some intimate contact, and they flew away, cursing and grumbling.

Lu Yu, who was wearing sunglasses and napping against a tree, awoke with a start, gasping for great lungfuls of air as if he had just escaped from drowning, trying to alleviate the suffocating feeling of his palpitating heart.

A pink mist drifted, as if a painter had depicted a landscape of spring mountains and rivers.

Thank goodness, still at the Pet Beast Nurturing Base in Great Abyss City!

As he came to his senses, he saw a white-skirted girl standing before him, holding an envelope with a heart pattern in both hands.

She was pure and lovely, with a delicate figure and notable assets, her eyes timid like a startled rabbit's.

Lu Yu knew he had scared her.

He quickly composed himself, forced a smile, and said:

"Classmate, can I help you with something?"

The startled girl stammered:

"Um… I wanted to give you… a letter…"

Recalling his earlier cry of "Don't!", the girl grew flustered, unsure whether she should hand over the confession letter in her hands.

And from her higher vantage point, she inadvertently glimpsed Lu Yu's bloodshot eyes beneath his sunglasses.

Like a wounded beast…

Madness!

Thinking of the previous rumors, fear surged through the girl's heart like a tide. She subconsciously took a few steps back, then realized her reaction was inappropriate.

Caught in a dilemma, she dejectedly chose to leave.

She went to a large rock in the distance, where another round-faced girl in a tracksuit was sitting astride a Pale Snow Wolf.

She reached out, pulled the white-skirted girl up, and said irritably:

"I told you not to get close to that weirdo. He suddenly started screaming during the Beast Taming Awakening ceremony, saying there was a nine suns aberration in the sky.

Isn't that crazy? Then he even volunteered to go raise pigs, wasting his bright future…"

"Those are Peach Pigs, Extraordinary lifeforms with Silver Spirituality…" the white-skirted girl said weakly.

"See, you're still defending him.

No matter what kind of Extraordinary lifeform it is, raising pigs is still raising pigs. My dad said that cultivating pet beasts is the only true path.

Don't get too close to someone who's willing to debase himself like that. Being handsome can't be eaten as food.

You're so cute, plenty of guys will chase you in the future. And if not, I'll be with you!"

Hearing this, the white-skirted girl didn't know what to say and lowered her head, blushing.

"Pale Snow Wolf, let's go!"

The round-faced girl glanced at Lu Yu, who was staring blankly under the tree. A strange emotion flickered across her face: anger at his lack of ambition and… the pleasure of seeing someone once untouchable become sullied and fall to the mortal realm.

But now, Lu Yu was just a roadside weed. Birds and fish do not share the same path.

The two of them rode the snow wolf and left the Peach Blossom Forest.

Lu Yu paid no mind to their conversation.

He leaned his head back against the tree trunk, looking at the beautiful peach blossoms that bloomed like clouds. He pinched the bridge of his nose to relieve the throbbing pain in his eyes and murmured:

"It's only been three months since I came to this world, and I'm already losing count of how many nightmares I've had…"

Lu Yu was a transmigrator.

In his past life, he came from an orphanage, but through his own efforts and the cynical tactics honed by society, he successfully made a fortune selling children's clothing before he turned thirty.

As a result of overwork, he transmigrated in the blink of an eye, entering the body of an alternate-world counterpart with the exact same appearance and name, and fused with his memories.

Although the transmigration was a bit sudden, Lu Yu was very calm.

Arrive like a storm, depart like a speck of dust.

This was his attitude toward life.

From his memories, he learned that this was a Beast Taming World, countless times vaster than Earth.

In this world, all things possessed Spirituality!

Whether beasts or birds, lakes, storms, lightning, or even the brilliance of the sun and moon, even machines could give birth to Spirituality and become Extraordinary Lifeforms.

Lifeforms containing the power of Spirituality could continuously evolve toward the Extraordinary, obtaining abilities like fire, lightning, light, and darkness, achieving a leap in their level of existence, and even gaining the god-like power to move mountains, fill seas, and summon wind and rain.

As for humans, legends said that in ancient times, they too could freely manipulate Spirituality, but that history was too distant. The only evidence was some fragmented archaeological data, which most people simply dismissed as the fantasies of their ancestors.

The reason for this belief was that if humans directly consumed too much spiritual power, it would trigger a bizarre Aberration, turning them into monstrous creatures that were neither human nor ghost.

In ancient times, the weak yet Spirituality-filled humans naturally became the favorite food for many Demonic Beasts.

Thus, tribes were often attacked by Demonic Beasts, their bones littering the fields.

For a very long period, humans could only eke out a meager existence by offering sacrifices to powerful beings in exchange for protection.

Until an ancient sage discovered humanity's special talent: by contracting with Extraordinary Lifeforms, they could open a Beast Taming Space to accelerate the growth of their pet beast, and use the Beast Taming Space and pet beast as a filter to perfectly absorb spiritual power.

From then on, the tables were turned!

Countless human geniuses rose, drove out the Demonic Beasts, established human cities, and have since given birth to a brilliant civilization.

The profession of Beast Tamer, as a key factor in humanity's rise, has, after long years of refinement and development, branched into professions such as combat, nurturing, healing, Magic Potion crafting, Divination, and so on, subdividing the power of pet beasts and integrating it into human civilization.

Powerful Beast Tamers could protect an entire city, shielding ordinary people from the attacks of Extraordinary Lifeforms, and even further develop the wilderness to obtain vast resources and wealth.

All professions are lowly, only Beast Taming is supreme!

And the first step to becoming a Beast Tamer is to awaken one's Spirituality. Although it's just the starting point, it already surpasses the vast majority of ordinary people!

The Awakening is divided into nine ranks, The first three ranks are Red Copper Spirituality, corresponding to Servant Rank pet beasts.

The middle three ranks are Silver Spirituality, corresponding to Elite Rank pet beasts.

The top three ranks are Gold Spirituality, corresponding to Commander Rank pet beasts.

After that is the Morning Star Rank, corresponding to Overlord Rank pet beasts. As for anything higher, it was too distant for Lu Yu.

A person with Gold Spirituality was a core talent, eligible for numerous settlement policies and benefits in any city.

And in this life, he was unexpectedly not an orphan.

He had parents: his father had Gold Spirituality, and his mother was at the peak of Silver Spirituality. They were away on a mission for the Alliance.

A proper, picture-perfect start for a Second-generation Beast Tamer.

And the day he transmigrated was also his eighteenth birthday, and he was in line to awaken his Beast Taming Talent.

All Beast Tamers awaken their own unique talent, which allows them to plan their future path of beast taming.

For Lu Yu, whether it was an elemental enhancement type, a possession type, a sub-profession talent for crafting Magic Potions or gathering materials, or even the ability to listen to history…

He didn't need to worry; his parents would have helped him find a suitable and outstanding pet beast cub.

However, just as it was his turn, tragic news arrived: his parents had been ambushed by an Evil God Cult during their mission and were both killed in action.

Lu Yu, having awakened his talent, became the madman the girls had spoken of, the one who shouted about nine suns.

Later, he even volunteered for the school's Peach Pig rearing project, becoming a cautionary tale in everyone's eyes of someone who couldn't recover from a blow.

However, only Lu Yu knew that he wasn't crazy!

Because the talent he had awakened was called 【Eye of Truth】, which allowed him to see the talents and information of pet beasts at the cost of his own spiritual power.

Right after awakening, he couldn't perfectly control the 【Eye of Truth】, causing a massive influx of information that made his head throb with pain. He subconsciously looked up to avoid the crowd, and as a result, he saw a scene he would never forget for the rest of his life.

The eternal sun turned from one into nine. Their phantoms constantly shattered and stacked, like bloated balls of flesh, continuously growing in a deformed manner, occupying the sky.

Words could not describe its essence; no language could capture that bizarre and mysterious form, as if it were a product that defied all rules and order, great and yet chaotic.

Within that great radiance, numerous figures seemed to be squirming.

Each one was immensely huge, its bizarre and chaotic shadow spreading outwards like the roots of a tree, its aura vast enough to shatter stars.

They formed a circle, their bodies entwined with countless crimson chains, faintly seeming to be gnawing on something, emitting bizarre sounds that dyed the entire sky blood-red.

And then…

He thought the world was undergoing a cataclysm and shouted to warn everyone, but after just a few steps, he collapsed from spiritual power exhaustion and was rushed to the hospital.

The final diagnosis was minor corneal damage and macular burns on his retina caused by looking directly at the sun.

Although in this Beast Taming World, such an injury could be mostly healed by a single healing ray from a medical-type pet beast, he still had to wear sunglasses to recuperate for a period afterward, and avoid exposure to strong light.

After waking up, no matter what Lu Yu said, no one believed him.

It was just treated as a hallucination brought on by mental trauma.

Even Lu Yu himself began to doubt.

Because when he risked it again, peeking with the corner of his eye.

In the sky above, the heavens were bright and clear.

The sun emitted a dazzling brilliance, sacred and shining, so piercing that Lu Yu couldn't help but squint, tears rolling from the corners of his eyes.

It was as if everything had been just a hallucination.

But afterward, his Eye of Truth could only view pet beast information. Even when he hid in his hospital room and imitated animals, it had no effect.

Instead, being seen by a nurse only further proved that his mental state was unstable.

Lu Yu wanted to forget it all, but the nightmare about the sun's bizarre transformation constantly haunted him.

As time passed, it began to eat away at his sanity with increasing frequency.

"It's not me who's sick, it's this world!" Lu Yu whispered softly, his gaze firm.

Having witnessed the terror the world contained, afterward, even the spring sky and summer flowers were poison in his eyes.

And because of this intense sense of insecurity, Lu Yu craved power even more.

And the fastest way was to become a true Beast Tamer!

The moment this thought appeared in his mind, he suddenly heard obscure whispers in his ear, overlapping one another like an ancient, mystical symphony.

Although he had never heard this language before, Lu Yu understood its meaning:

"Gate of Truth, binding successful…"

As the voice faded, the world before him was suddenly engulfed by an endless flow of chaotic energy, and in the blink of an eye, he entered a dark void.

Within the chaos, Lu Yu seemed to transform into an indescribable, great being, residing upon endless chaotic sludge, ineffable, boundlessly black, boundlessly dark.

Billions of arms danced gently, shaking the chaotic world.

The chaos shattered, evolving into endless earth, fire, wind, and water, giving birth to worlds and life, but was then immediately swallowed by the chaotic sludge and returned to nothingness.

"This isn't a Beast Taming Space, this is…"

Lu Yu was shocked to his core.

He subconsciously wanted to see his current form clearly, but a strange sense of crisis stopped him.

Once he saw it clearly, he would likely attract an unknown terror.

Thinking of this, Lu Yu subconsciously lowered his head and saw, upon one of his arms, countless bubbles entwined, where billions of brilliant lights converged.

Each one emanated an iridescent halo, accompanied by mysterious whispers, as if expounding the supreme truth.

They gathered together, forming the shape of a fragmented gateway, as if it contained all the truths of the world—past, present, and future, eternally singular.

As Lu Yu's gaze fell upon it, a large number of bubbles began to dissipate, and what appeared within made his pupils shrink in astonishment as he exclaimed:

"This is…"