Beastmaster

The next morning, the sky was hazy and the sun gradually rose.

Jing Cangming leaned against the door and watched the slowly rising sun. Longying went out on patrol on her hawk, while Fang Tiankuo was still sleeping soundly.

Zhan Yongyi woke up at this time, but because he had many broken bones and they had just been connected, he could not move and still lay quietly on the bed.

"Cangming" a faint voice came into Jing Cangming's ears.

"Yongyi, you're awake." Seeing that it was Zhan Yongyi who was calling him, Jing Cangming smiled and strode over, "How are you? Do you feel better?"

"It's okay, I won't die."

Jing Cangming laughed and cursed, "Die, die, die, why are you dying? I'm not dead yet, so you can't die." As he said that, he punched Zhan Yongyi, causing him to grimace in pain.

"I'm not well yet, just kill me," Zhan Yongyi responded with a grin.

Fang Tiankuo sat up and yawned. "You guys woke up so early. Yongyi, are you okay? Where's Sister Longying?"

"It's okay, I won't die."

“Pfft, pfft, what nonsense are you talking about?” Fang Tiankuo, who majored in earth element, came over and punched him. The strength in his hands was bigger than others. Zhan Yongyi not only grimaced this time, but also cursed with a smile, “If you punch me again, I will die immediately!”

"Why do I find that you've become more silent since you got hurt? Hahahaha, by the way, you haven't told me yet, where's Sister Longying?"

"Longying and Cangying went out on patrol, hey? Tiankuo, why are you so concerned about Longying?" Jing Cangming looked at Fang Tiankuo with a sly smile on his face, put his big hand on Fang Tiankuo's shoulder and looked at him with a smile.

"Go away, stop talking nonsense. I'm just showing concern for each other as friends. I do the same to you." After saying that, he quickly turned away. He didn't even realize that his face was as red as a monkey's butt at this moment.

“Hahaha, stop making trouble. Tiankuo, you stay here to take care of Yongyi and keep an eye on the Yishen Lielangshi.” After saying that, he turned around and walked out.

"Hey, hey, hey, where are you going?"

"I...I will go find the cub of the deadwood dog." Jing Cangming lowered his head. He still could not accept the fact that the village chief sacrificed himself to save everyone.

Upon hearing this, Fang Tiankuo said nothing more, but tears filled his eyes again, while Zhan Yongyi closed his eyes tightly.

Jing Cangming walked out of the house and asked a villager. He learned that the cub of the Deadwood Dog was in the altar. He looked up at the sky, tried hard to wipe away his tears, and walked towards the altar with determination.

Inside the altar, a green puppy that looked like it was just one month old was being prayed on on a straw mat, making whimpering sounds from time to time. Suddenly, a beam of light shone on the puppy. Jing Cangming pushed open the door of the altar and saw the baby at a glance. The baby also noticed someone coming and quickly curled up into a ball.

Seeing this, Jing Cangming hurriedly mobilized the power of the plants in his body. This power made the little guy feel much more at ease. He let down his guard and gradually fell asleep. Jing Cangming walked over, gently held it in his arms, then stood up and left.

When Jing Cangming returned to the house, Longying had also returned from patrol. When she saw the little beast, she quickly hugged it and was very affectionate.

"Is this the cub of the Deadwood Dog?"

"Well, this is it," everyone looked at the little beast with leaf stripes flowing on its green body.

Everyone knew that this was the inheritance of the Dead Wood Dog and also the inheritance of the ancestor of the Jing family. They couldn't help but show sadness in their eyes.

"Cangming, now the Withered Wood Dog and the Chess God Fierce Wave Lion have both lost their parents, so why don't you contract them both?" Longying looked at the two little animals and then at Jing Cangming.

"Sister Longying is right, Cangming, you should sign the contract soon."

Jing Cangming thought for a while, then stood up and put the Withered Wood Dog and the Chess God Fierce Wave Lion together, "Since you have no one to rely on, then rely on me from now on."

After saying that, his left hand turned into grass green to release the power of grass and trees, and his right hand turned into black and red to release the power of magma.

Jing Cangming turned around and looked at Zhan Yongyi, "Yongyi, can you release your attributes? If you can, help me cut my fingers."

Zhan Yongyi gently raised his left hand, which turned ice blue, and slashed it towards Jing Cangming in the air. The condensed ice power formed an ice knife, which cut through the index fingers of Jing Cangming's left and right hands in a swish.

Two drops of blood slid from Jing Cangming's fingers and dripped onto the foreheads of the Dead Wood Dog and the Chess God Fierce Wave Lion respectively. In an instant, grass-green and black-red magic circles lit up under the two cubs at the same time.

The green magic circle slowly floated upward from under the dead wood dog, gradually forming the shape of the dead wood dog's head, and flew towards Jing Cangming's forehead. Soon, the mark of the beast head was imprinted on Jing Cangming's forehead, appearing and disappearing on his forehead after a while. The contract with the dead wood dog had been successful.

On the other hand, it was not so easy for the Chess God Lielang Lion. Its blood seemed to be resisting something. Jing Cangming didn't quite understand it, so he overlapped his hands and floated above the Chess God Lielang Lion. In an instant, it seemed as if something was pulling Jing Cangming, and suddenly Jing Cangming's eyes went dark and he fainted on the ground.

When Jing Cangming opened his eyes again, his consciousness had entered a piece of magma, and he was lying on a huge rock in the center of the magma. "Where is this place?" Jing Cangming sat up cross-legged, scratched his head and looked around.

Instantly, a majestic voice reached Jing Cangming's ears, "Are you the one who wants to make a contract with my son?"

Jing Cangming looked in the direction of the sound and saw the shadow of a giant beast that was a hundred meters tall. He couldn't help but feel awe in his heart.

Did it just say my son? Could it be the cub's father? But why would the cub's father's consciousness appear here? Jing Cangming asked respectfully with confusion, "Hello, Chess God Lielangshi, are you the father of this cub?"

"Hahaha, boy, you are quite calm. Yes, the cub you saw was my newborn baby. Now it's your turn to answer my question."

Jing Cangming thought, I never thought that this chess god Lielangshi would be so easy to talk to. "Yes, I originally wanted to return it to you, but I learned from the enemy that you and its mother are no longer here, so I chose to sign a contract with the cub."

Upon hearing this, the giant beast emitted a strong black and red light all over its body. As the light gradually disappeared, the figure of the giant beast also dissipated. Instead, a handsome man in a black and red robe and with long hair tied up was seen standing with his hands folded. This was the human form of the chess god Lielangshi.

Jing Cangming was not too surprised. The village chief said that many high-level war beasts can transform into human form.

"What? You are willing to return my son to us?" The man's words revealed surprise and doubt.

Jing Cangming stood up and replied calmly, "Yes, if you and its mother were still alive, I would definitely return your child to you."

The chess god Lielangshi touched his chin and said, "Boy, you are really surprising. You humans are eager to make a contract with rare war beasts like us, so as to use us to fight for them, but this is the first time I have seen you give us a contract."

"In fact, their ideas are not wrong. Who in this world doesn't want to be the most powerful?"

"Don't you want to become powerful?" The chess god Lielangshi questioned.

"Yes, of course I do, but I would rather let the humans and war beasts in this world coexist peacefully, rather than what you call a relationship of exploitation." Jing Cangming looked calmly at the chess god Lielangshi and said seriously.

"Since ancient times, you humans have forced us to sign so-called contracts in order to control us, but we shed blood and died for you!

As for us, we have gradually become what you call rare in the midst of your constant contracts and hunting. Those who are willing to submit to you have become your fighting tools, and those who are unwilling to submit have become a handful of dirt!"

Jing Cangming could clearly feel the resentment in the heart of the chess god Lielangshi.

Jing Cangming retorted, "In fact, we humans are not all like what you say. I admit that in our journey to becoming stronger, we have to oppress and hunt the war beasts, but you can't say that all contracts are against the will of the war beasts. Moreover, there are many people among us who treat war beasts as partners and relatives, not as fighting tools as you say."

Upon hearing this, the chess god Lielangshi emitted a strong heat and stared at Jing Cangming in anger, "Friends? Relatives? Are you going to wipe out its original relatives for the sake of so-called relatives?!"

"At least I won't!" Jing Cangming put his hands on his chest, releasing the magma attributes to offset the high temperature coming from the chess god Lielang Lion, and said firmly.

"Hahaha, kid, remember what you said. I will trust you humans once more and entrust my son to you. I will enter your conscious world in the form of consciousness until my son reaches level 100. At that time, I will disappear between heaven and earth. During this period, I will keep an eye on you!"

"I will definitely make you change your view of humans!"

"Okay! I hope you won't go back on what you said today. Now I'm going to enter your conscious world. If you want to see me in the future, just call me in your mind."

"it is good!"

After saying this, the chess god Lielangshi slowly walked towards Jing Cangming, and in an instant he turned into a beam of black and red light and penetrated into Jing Cangming's forehead.

After the chess god Lielangshi entered Jing Cangming's world of consciousness, everything in front of him instantly turned into smoke, and Jing Cangming's consciousness returned to his body.

Jing Cangming slowly opened his eyes, only to see Fang Tiankuo and Longying looking at him anxiously and calling his name constantly.

"The sky is vast and hazy."

"You're awake! You scared us to death. You suddenly fainted just now and no matter how we called you, it was no use. We thought you were dead." Fang Tiankuo said anxiously.

"Pah, pah, pah, you are the one who died." Jing Cangming sat up and touched the back of his head, "Damn~ Why is there such a big bump?"

"You seemed to be frozen just now, and you just lay down, it's just a bump." Longying said helplessly.

"Then you won't catch me either," Jing Cangming looked at the two of them unhappily.

"What are you going to use to catch it? By the time we came to our senses, you were already lying down." Fang Tiankuo pouted and looked at Jing Cangming with a wronged look.

"Forget it, I'm going to go out for a while. You guys help me take care of these two little guys." After saying that, Jing Cangming stood up and walked out.

"Cang Ming, where are you going?" Zhan Yongyi's weak voice came.

Jing Cangming turned around and smiled at everyone, "It's okay, I'm just going out for a walk and will be back soon."

After hearing this, no one said anything else. It was already noon. Jing Cangming was walking alone in the ruins of Kurumu Village. Unknowingly, he came to the place where the village chief died. He sat cross-legged on the ground and looked at the grave that several people had built for the village chief.

"Uncle Village Chief, I have told the villagers everything you told me to do. I have also made a contract with the cub of the Deadwood Dog. Tian Kuo will stay here to protect everyone in the coming days. When we come back, we will take everyone back to Deadwood Village. Don't worry, I will protect this land for you, you can go with peace of mind."

Jing Cangming wiped his tears while reporting to the village chief. He became more and more choked up as he spoke, and finally burst into tears.

Yes, no matter how powerful Jing Cangming is, he is just a ten-year-old child now.

Jing Cangming knelt in front of the grave with his hands on the ground and said, "Village chief, thank you...thank you for saving us!" After that, Jing Cangming kowtowed three times and turned to leave.

Jing Cangming did not return to the house, but found a towering tree over 20 meters high, climbed to the top of the tree and sat on it, looking at Huangjiang Village in the east. Although he had only been out for a day, what he experienced that day was deeply engraved in Jing Cangming's heart.

Jing Cangming closed his eyes and called out to the chess god Lielangshi in his mind.

"What's wrong, kid? You called me out right after we parted. What trouble did you encounter?" The chess god Lielangshi asked puzzledly.

"Since you are the father of the cub, I will call you uncle from now on."

"Haha, of course. Tell me, what's wrong?" said the chess god Lielangshi with a smile.

"Uncle, you must have known something about me in my consciousness space, right?"

There are human memories in the consciousness space. After the chess god Lielangshi entered Jing Cangming's consciousness space, Jing Cangming's memories became open to it.

After Jing Cangming finished speaking, he did not receive a reply from the chess god Lielangshi.

"Uncle?" Jing Cangming thought that the chess god Lielangshi had gone back, so he called out again.

This time, Jing Cangming received a reply of eight words, "You are simply a monster!"

Jing Cangming didn't say anything, but just looked quietly in the direction of home.

The chess god Lie Langshi continued, "You are born with the eight attributes as your companion, and you are born at level thirteen! Damn! Thirteen! In just four years of training, you have reached level twenty-three! You are a monster!"

Jing Cangming still didn't speak.

After a while, Jing Cangming said, "Uncle, why can't I protect the people I want to protect even though I am so powerful?" Jing Cangming said calmly, but he was not calm at all in his heart.

"Boy, I know that the chief of Deadwood Village protected you. Without him, my son would have died a long time ago. So from the bottom of my heart, when you saw him sacrifice himself to save everyone, I couldn't calm down for a long time."

"Uncle, can you teach me how to protect the people I want to protect?"

The chess god Lie Langshi smiled bitterly and said, "With your talent, no one can teach you. If I teach you, it would be misleading."

Jing Cangming also smiled bitterly, "Is there no one in the world who can teach me? Then what should I do in the future?"

"Boy, although I can't teach you, I can give you some advice."

Hearing this, Jing Cangming hurriedly asked, "What suggestions do you have? Tell me now, uncle!"

The chess god Lielangshi laughed and said, "Don't worry, listen to me slowly. The female beast general yesterday was born with four attributes, right?"

Jing Cangming nodded and said "I remember".

"Her talent is not as good as yours. She can't even compare with you. Do you know why you lost to her?"

"Because I'm not as good as her."

“That’s just one side of it. There’s another side to it.”

"on the other hand?"

"Yes, that is the main and auxiliary attributes."