Chapter 3: Switching Houses
"Mom, why did you smack the back of my head?"
Ye Xiangting gritted her teeth, "If you've awakened successfully, then that's that. Why come out here and sigh?"
"The nurse said my brain activity was erratic and that I needed to rest well, but with the midterms just 20 days away, isn't this hindering my studies?" Qiao Sang said with an innocent face.
Ye Xiangting: "..."
"What are you doing, Mom!"
"What are you doing!"
"Mom!"
So much for being a strong woman!
Where she had stood, only the wind sifting through the Qiaokeli fruit that had come out with Qiao Sang remained.
"Qiaokeli!"
The Beast Taming Center prohibits chasing and making noise!
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Upon returning home, Qiao Sang locked herself in her room and turned on her computer.
Originally, according to her mother, they were supposed to go to the Hangkang Pet Beast Base to select a pet beast that afternoon, but Qiao Sang had refused.
As a Beast Tamer, mainstream in this world, it is crucial what kind of pet beast one selects since it is very possible that a person can only contract with one pet beast in a lifetime.
The levels of a Beast Tamer start at F and go up to SSS.
The entry-level F-rank Beast Tamer is the simplest; one just needs to awaken the Beast Taming Codex by the age of 15 and contract with a pet beast, then go to the Beast Taming Center for certification.
But to become an E-rank Beast Tamer, you first need to develop your brain domain to the extent of 10%, so that the Beast Taming Codex can contract a second pet beast.
Then you also need to cultivate two pet beasts that have gone through one-stage evolution, which are intermediate-level pet beasts.
After that, you must fight a 1V1 battle certified by the Beast Taming Alliance.
Win, and your information can be updated to E-rank Beast Tamer.
Some people, to cultivate intermediate-level pet beasts earlier, choose bug-type extraordinary creatures with shorter evolutionary cycles as their contract partners.
However, bug-type pet beasts that have only gone through one stage of evolution are quite weak. Apart from beast tamers with exceptionally strong combat direction, others simply can't win using them.
The original host, being a poor student, did not have enough knowledge stored up, and could only remember those extraordinary creatures that just looked good.
What use is looking good, can they win a fight?
If they can't win, how can she become a higher-level Beast Tamer?
Of course, when selecting pet beasts, one should choose those with high potential and strong combat capabilities.
If she went to the Hangkang Pet Beast Base this afternoon, she wouldn't even recognize all the names and attributes of those pet beasts, let alone what they looked like after one or two stages of evolution. How could she choose?
Qiao Sang felt that this matter could not be rushed; homework had to be done first.
She opened the forum and logged into her account "Genius Wooden Again and Again."
This ID fully proves that every underachiever has a dream of turning their life around.
Qiao Sang didn't choose to start a new thread. The view of Beast Taming in this world had already matured, and every year there are thousands of new beast tamers who have just awakened.
A casual browse through the forum would reveal all sorts of threads by them.
Qiao Sang was browsing the forum, with every glance coming across content related to pet beasts.
[I've been poisoned by a Xiaoduoxi!]
[Am I the only one who thinks the new form of the Cotton Caterpillar is ugly?]
[A B-rank Beast Tamer online teaching you how to get into Nansheng Beast Taming University.]
[Newbie Beast Tamer here, wondering if contracting with a small Jiulong as my first pet beast is okay?]
Her eyes lingered on the last thread.
Unbelievable.
Your first pet beast and you're already thinking about contracting with a dragon-type and even asking others if it's okay?
The strength of dragon-type pet beasts is universally acknowledged.
Apart from a few extremely rare pet beasts, just in terms of attributes, dragon-type pet beasts are definitely the most expensive among all pet beasts.
If your family doesn't own a mine, you absolutely can't afford one.
Even if someone grits their teeth and buys one, they would never be able to support it; dragon-type pet beasts have long evolutionary cycles, and you might pamper and feed it for years without any guarantee of it evolving into an intermediate-level pet beast even once.
If Qiao Sang had to answer, that would definitely be a no.
Absolutely not!
But if there were a dragon-type pet beast in front of Qiao Sang, waiting for her to contract...
Then it wouldn't be so absolute...
Qiao Sang continued scrolling down, no longer paying attention to that disheartening thread.
[New Beast Tamer highly recommends the Sabole Mouse!]
The comment section had a variety of voices.
"The thread starter probably hasn't let the Sabole Mouse sleep at night; friendly reminder, it grinds its teeth!"
"Why doesn't the person above also remind the thread starter what it uses to grind its teeth on?"
"My White Sand Fox does not agree."
"Deepfur Turtle requests to enter the battle."
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The development of Beast Taming civilization to this point actually means that the suitable pet beasts for new tamers have been summarized long ago.
Chubby Pigeon, White Sand Fox, Short-tail Snake, Sabole Mouse, Deepfur Turtle.
These five pet beasts are moderately priced, affordable to most families, and moreover, they have mild temperaments.
If cultivated properly, there's no doubt they can reach the General-level with three-stage evolutions.
Most of the pet beasts that Qiao Sang saw new Beast Tamers post threads about were these five types.