Beast Taming Begins with the Inner Circle of Pets

Chapter 22 Finding Free Training Partners

By the time all the students at Lin Manman's school had woken up, it was already evening. The school had booked a hotel nearby in advance for the students to stay overnight, and they would head back early the next morning.

That night at the hotel, some were happy while others were sad.

Lin Manman was probably the happiest, because she opened the upgrade reward given by the system: the Soul Nourishing Technique!

There are also many cultivation methods in this world. Warriors and elemental mages can increase their internal energy by consuming energy-rich plants and spirit beast meat, but human physical strength is ultimately inferior to that of spirit beasts, and the energy they can absorb is very limited.

Therefore, humanity has explored various cultivation methods, forming numerous secret cultivation techniques. These techniques are also graded. Professional schools teach simple, basic cultivation methods, but to master more advanced techniques, one must either become an apprentice or join a powerful organization. Some techniques can also be purchased on the market, but their quality varies greatly, and they are usually quite expensive.

Those young masters and ladies from wealthy families start cultivating better secret techniques from level 1, naturally leveling up much faster. Children from ordinary families, even if they awaken as professionals and have the ability to join a faction to obtain better cultivation methods, don't reach level 4 until later. Even a genius like Lin Manman's brother, who awakened his profession at ten and possessed innate talent, only learned the most basic cultivation methods taught in school. Therefore, the saying "It's difficult for a poor family to produce a prodigy" is now popular.

And now Lin Manman has received the Soul Nourishing Technique, a reward from the system...

【养魂诀：根据其内方法修炼，1级每天可提升1点灵魂值，2级每天可提升3点灵魂值，3级每天可提升5点灵魂值，4级每天可提升10点灵魂值，5级每天可提升15点灵魂值，6级每天可提升20点灵魂值，7级每天可提升30点灵魂值，8级每天可提升50点灵魂值。】

Lin Manman took a deep breath, trying to calm the turmoil in her heart.

It's important to understand that in this world, regardless of the cultivation method or talent, everyone will encounter so-called bottlenecks. Many people get stuck at a certain stage, unable to make any progress, and never manage to cross over to the next level in their entire lives.

The cultivation method provided by the system means that as long as Lin Manman persists in cultivating every day, the soul energy in her body will continue to accumulate without any bottlenecks or difficulties in breaking through.

This means that given time, she will definitely become a level nine powerhouse!

According to the system's numerical classification of human professionals, if Lin Manman starts cultivating today, she will reach level 3 in 160 days and level 4 in another 200 days.

In other words, she can reach the level of a fourth-level beast tamer in less than a year!

No wonder systems are a must-have in wish-fulfillment novels; the feeling of being cheated by a system is just too awesome! Lin Manman excitedly rolled around on the hotel bed.

After calming down, she quickly took out another reward: a random pet skill book.

[Random Pet Skill Book: Allows a pet to randomly learn one skill based on its aptitude.]

Randomness... Compared to the incredible power of the Soul Nourishing Technique, this random pet skill book is really lacking. As for who should learn it... Lin Manman considered her several spirit pets in her mind, but couldn't decide which one would be best suited to learn it. She'd better wait until they've trained for a while and then choose one based on their specific abilities.

At night, after all the female classmates in the room had fallen asleep, Lin Manman closed her eyes and silently practiced the Soul Nourishing Technique.

Presumably because Lin Manman hadn't completed her daily tasks for a long time, the system stopped refreshing them five years ago. Fortunately, this upgrade rewarded her with this cultivation method; otherwise, she would probably have had to spend a lot of money searching for suitable cultivation techniques on the market.

The next day, when they gathered, Lin Manman felt her mind was clear and alert, despite having cultivated all night. The other students, however, were quite different; they all had dark circles under their eyes and looked wilted. Even the teachers in charge seemed listless.

It was already afternoon when they returned to school. After completing the unified career registration at the school, the students who were about to take the big exam were given a half-day off. However, this was none of Lin Manman's business, as she had already asked for leave. It was just poor Fang Yaqi who went home on Aunt Fang's landmobile with tears in her eyes.

Lin Manman didn't go straight back to the hospital. Instead, she sent a text message to her mother telling her to go to the training hall before heading there. Since consuming the level-two water-attribute spirit beast core, the system showed that Hongyu hadn't reached level two. As for Adai, needless to say, he still needed to continue training hard.

It seems that because humans and spirit pets cultivate in different ways, a spirit pet's level cannot be judged simply by the values ​​on the system panel, but rather by whether the spirit pet's own energy has reached the corresponding level.

Upon arriving at the training hall, Lin Manman released the three little kids, and Hongyu immediately clung to her neck, while Adai seemed to prefer the evolved honey badger's head.

"Look at Honey Badger, he was already the strongest among you, and now he's even stronger. His talent is even greater than Ah-Dai's. Hongyu, Ah-Dai, you two need to work harder."

"Roar." Of course, that's only right, since I'm the eldest brother.

Honey Badger patted his chest.

Hongyu looked up at the honey badger, her pale pink eyes flashing with envy.

"Chirp." But I can fly! Hmph, I'll get stronger soon too.

"Very good, it seems everyone's enthusiasm is quite good." Lin Manman smiled a very kind smile.

After letting the three children train individually as usual, Lin Manman fell into deep thought.

While training your spirit pets' skills this way can improve their strength, they still lack practical combat experience if they don't engage in battles. Where can they find people to practice with?

Her gaze swept across the training hall, and suddenly her eyes lit up. The training hall wasn't cheap; unless a novice professional came from a wealthy family, they rarely spent money there. But she had an annual pass!

Hehe, Lin Manman quickly opened her bracelet and posted a message on the largest local forum, offering to bring people into the training hall for free, but requiring them to accept sparring and be a level 2 professional.

Shortly after it was posted, the thread started to fill up with comments.

1L: Has the world evolved so fast that it's forgotten me? Is this even possible?

2L: This training center is quite professional, so the fees are never cheap. You must be a young master or lady from some wealthy family to be able to buy an annual membership.

3L: Which young master or young lady needs a sparring partner?

4L: The original poster is obviously a scammer, just playing with people's feelings.

5L: ...

Although there were many replies, they all questioned whether she was a scammer. Lin Manman sighed and uploaded another picture of the annual pass.

18L: Holy crap, it's true...

19L: Me, me, me, I'm willing to sign up. I heard the receptionists at that training center are all very pretty, hehe.

20L: If you say that, I'm not sleepy anymore.

21L: Is a level 2 shield warrior okay? Contact information: *************

Seeing that someone was so helpful as to leave their profession and contact information, Lin Manman didn't hesitate and left a message on the other person's phone number, asking when they could come over.

It took about five minutes for the other party to reply, briefly stating that they could come immediately.

Lin Manman's eyes lit up, and she immediately sent Fang Yaqi a message, telling her to come over right away if she wanted to form a team to participate in the competition, and also sent her the address of the training hall.

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(End of this chapter)