Chapter 569 — The Owl's Past and Present Lives

He had guessed right—he really did seem to have transmigrated.

Not only because of these memories, but even more because only good looks never lied to him.

As everyone knew, the ugly had no right to transmigrate, nor any right to be transmigrated into—this had already become an iron law.

He was this handsome, so it had to be transmigration, no doubt about it...

After dying in an accident, he had transmigrated into an otherworld where beast taming was the mainstream.

Though this room looked like a modern single dormitory, he was no longer on Earth—he had come to a place called Blue Star.

This world was utterly peculiar, its culture completely different from Earth's.

Since ancient times, transcendent power had existed here.

This transcendent power was not the battle aura, magic, or cultivation Shi Jin had seen in films and television...

Rather, it was that every living being possessed the potential for transcendent evolution.

Through continual evolution, most animals and plants could awaken higher intelligence and mighty paranormal abilities.

Even more, it was not limited to animals and plants—mountains and rivers, wind and snow, all could evolve into living entities.

These transcendent beings all wielded formidable power—lightning, flame, hurricane—no different from the divine beasts of Earth's myths.

Against this backdrop, in this world's ancient times, the weak humans could only cling to powerful beings as guardian deities, scraping by in tribal form.

Later, however, through long ages of development, humanity gradually developed transcendent power of its own—namely, the ability to tame beasts.

Some people, through meditation, could open an other-space within their minds, and through this prison-like other-space capture transcendent beings.

At first, humans merely forcibly captured weak transcendent beings, using them as servants to work and fight; against powerful transcendent beings, humans still could not resist.

But later, someone discovered that within the beast-taming space, transcendent beings grew at nearly several times the rate of the outside world, and more easily broke through racial limits to evolve.

This discovery showed humanity the hope of rising, and people began to delve into the beast-taming space.

Then, around capture, training, breeding, and taming, as humanity's beast-taming ability was continuously developed and the beast-taming system gradually perfected, a great variety of powerful battle pets were bred by people, and the profession known as Beast Tamer stepped onto the world stage.

And with the rise of Beast Tamers, many transcendent beings began to willingly sign contracts with humans, hoping to use humanity's transcendent power to grow quickly and attempt to break through racial limits.

By now, several thousand years later, humanity had built a splendid beast-taming civilization, controlling the most resource-rich regions of this planet.

In this era of beast taming, beast tamers had naturally become symbols of status and class.

Every trade and profession was inseparably bound to beast tamers; only by becoming one could a person rise to the elite of any field.

The appearance fee for a single match involving a famous beast tamer broke through the heavens.

With a powerful beast tamer stationed in a city, the city's economic level could rise straight to the top.

In the vast majority of industries, beast tamers held the core posts, and the highest seats of power were likewise controlled by beast tamers...

And yet... though humanity had risen, great numbers of fierce beasts still roamed the lands, untamable, and often brought disaster down upon human cities.

This was also why every city hoped to draw powerful beast tamers to take up residence and hold the fort.

And in his memory... the previous owner of this body had lost his family to a beast tide.

"The world of beast taming... I think I roughly understand it now."

"But why, even after transmigrating, do I have it this rough?"

Shi Jin drew a deep breath. Transmigration was transmigration, fine, but in a perilous otherworld like this, it would clearly be more comfortable to have been reborn as a second-generation beast tamer.

Best of all would be to have a dragon maiden watching over him since childhood and spirits for company; only that would make the crossing worthwhile.

Unfortunately, transmigration, it seemed, was like reincarnation: a matter of skill.

He was still called Shi Jin, but his identity was no longer that of Shi Jin the mythologist on Earth. He was now an utterly unremarkable trainee beast keeper at the Icefield City Beast Breeding Base.

Not a beast tamer... more like a hired hand doing odd jobs for beast tamers.

This was a place devoted to raising beasts... At present he was here learning the experience of beast keeping.

Every day his tasks were to feed the beast cubs, shovel their dung, and clean up the filth.

A laborer at the very bottom of society, and then some.

But this way, Shi Jin could finally understand the contents of those few books. So it turned out he'd been studying...

The reason the previous owner of this body had worked so hard was that he hoped to succeed in becoming a beast tamer. But reality... an orphan who could barely feed himself—what was he talking about raising beasts?

With Shi Ying's family circumstances, becoming a beast tamer was far too difficult.

But Shi Cen was fortunate: a dash of talent plus a dash of effort had at least tied his present profession to beast tamers, and it was not as though the future held no chance of his becoming one.

He had even made a great many preparations, resolved to take out a loan if need be in order to buy high-quality beast cubs and become a beast tamer.

At such a young age, he had already resolved to shoulder a beast loan.

Shi Jin's defenses crumbled. It really was rough.

He, who owned a hefty mortgage and car loan, actually felt a billionth of a shred of empathy—who would have thought that after transmigrating he'd still be carrying a loan.

He was getting too far ahead of himself. As things stood, Shi Yu was nothing but a lowly hireling.

And in a little while, tasks would be waiting for him. A six-six-six work schedule—Shi Yun was strict.

Honestly, apart from his high school years, it had been a long time since he'd gotten up at six in the morning...

Shi Jin rubbed his head with a pained expression, then walked over to a wall plastered with a work schedule.

It was the weekly task list that had just been issued yesterday. As an intern at the breeding base, his daily tasks were all prearranged.

Today's tasks were... Shi Qi looked toward the column beneath Monday.

Morning: feed the snow wolf pack (solo task)... move feed (group task)...

Afternoon: record growth data for the green cotton worms (group task)...

Mm...

If his memory wasn't mistaken... snow wolves were pack-dwelling, exceedingly fierce and savage carnivorous beasts, weren't they?

A task that looked so dangerous... and it was solo? Were they serious?

Shi Jin sank into thought.

He'd been bitten by a dog as a child and had a natural cowardice toward canids. This task was a little toxic for him.

"But it shouldn't be a big problem..."

It suddenly occurred to Shi Jin that he possessed the "telepathy" talent, which let him communicate normally with any living thing. It probably wouldn't be a problem after all...

The reason he'd been able to come here for his internship was, besides his excellent grades in the school's theory courses, that he possessed a special beast-taming talent called "telepathy."

When a human successfully opened a beast-taming space through meditation, an awakening of a beast-taming talent would accompany it.

Apart from not yet having contracted an initial beast, Shi Jin had already successfully opened his beast-taming space and smoothly awakened his talent.