I'm Just a Beast Tamer

Chapter 116: Chapter 114: The Solution, Advanced Beast Tamer

Jiang Zuo waited for Number One to land. Just like last time, he ran a series of tests on it.

After one round of Scattering and Reincarnation, Number One’s improvement was obvious.

Compared to before its Reincarnation, Number One’s attack power, defense, and True Qi Amount had all increased by about twenty percent.

However, this was the effect of its first Reincarnation. Jiang Zuo wasn’t sure if it would see such an improvement again on subsequent attempts.

He sent Number One away and began to reflect on the process of its promotion to the Innate realm this time.

The entire process was almost identical to the last one.

The only difference was that Number One did not receive the baptism of the Power of Heaven and Earth.

Jiang Zuo was fairly certain that the Heaven and Earth of this world had a set of identification rules for granting the baptism of its Power to a Martial Artist Promoting to Innate.

These rules prevented Martial Artists like Number One, who used Scattering and Reincarnation, from repeatedly receiving the baptism.

For now, the process for this set of identification rules seemed simple.

When a Martial Artist Promotes to Innate, they are sensed by Heaven and Earth. The Power of Heaven and Earth then descends to baptize the Martial Artist’s physical body.

While baptizing the Martial Artist, the Power of Heaven and Earth places a mark on their body, indicating that the baptism has already occurred.

When the Martial Artist undergoes Scattering and Reincarnation and Promotes to Innate again, the Power of Heaven and Earth will still descend. However, upon contact, it will detect the mark on the Martial Artist’s body and then retract its power.

To put it simply, when Number One Promoted to Innate again, it wasn’t that it received no baptism from the Power of Heaven and Earth at all. It just received the tiniest touch.

This could be confirmed by the inexplicable Innate aura emanating from Number One’s body.

Looking back at Number One’s two promotions to the Innate realm, before it received the baptism of the Power of Heaven and Earth, it lacked that distinct, inexplicable aura of an Innate Martial Artist, no matter how powerful its presence became.

This was especially true for the second time, after its Reincarnation.

Even though its presence during the promotion process was even stronger than during its first time becoming Innate, it still didn’t generate that Innate aura.

Not until the rain-like blue light fell from the sky. The moment it touched Number One, the blue light vanished, and simultaneously, the Innate aura on its body reappeared.

’If I’m not mistaken, the Innate aura *is* the mark left by Heaven and Earth. Under normal circumstances, this world uses it to directly identify whether a Martial Artist is Innate.’

’However, when Number One dissipated its skill for Reincarnation, this Innate aura also dispersed. This world then had no way to directly identify it and could only confirm its status when it Promoted to Innate again and the baptism of the Power of Heaven and Earth descended.’

’After confirming, it withholds the baptism of the Power of Heaven and Earth but reapplies the mark.’

Jiang Zuo mused.

For a world to place a mark on a living being within it, the mark would have to be on either the soul or the body.

If it were on the soul, Jiang Zuo believed the Power of Heaven and Earth wouldn’t have appeared at all, not even for that brief moment.

Jiang Zuo felt there was a very high probability that this speculation was correct.

However, Jiang Zuo had no way to test and confirm it.

Under normal circumstances, this was an unavoidable and unbreakable rule. After all, Martial Artists cultivate the physical body. Since the body cannot be abandoned, there is no way around this rule of Heaven and Earth.

But that was only for normal people.

Jiang Zuo felt that if these were the rules, he might have a way to break them!

He possessed the means to reduce his age—a method of reverse aging!

Based on the last time he reduced his age, Jiang Zuo’s body would undergo earth-shattering changes, transforming him from a burly, muscular man back into an ordinary young man.

The changes to both his bones and muscles could not be explained by common sense.

This was especially true the last time when he went from old to young; his strength had decreased instead of increasing.

All of this indicated that his body underwent unimaginable changes when he reduced his age.

’It’s like carving a mark on a tree. As long as the tree can’t erase the mark, it will remain with it no matter how it grows and develops.’

’But what if someone reversed time or induced reverse growth on the marked spot?’

’If that were possible, it’s obvious that even if the mark couldn’t be completely removed, it would be distorted beyond recognition.’

The principle behind Jiang Zuo’s age reduction was similar.

’Reducing my age to remove the mark and then undergo Reincarnation... it’s highly likely to work.’

’As long as I can find a reliable method to awaken a Spirit Root, I’ll be able to awaken one after just a few rounds of Reincarnation.’

’I could even consider undergoing Reincarnation multiple times, receiving the baptism of Heaven and Earth to awaken a Spirit Root of a higher quality!’

Jiang Zuo thought, a little excited.

After the initial excitement, Jiang Zuo quickly calmed down.

He knew this was all just speculation, not a certainty.

That being the case, he still had to try his best to awaken a Spirit Root on his first promotion to the Innate realm.

Afterward, he could consider Reincarnation to improve the Spirit Root’s quality.

After all, a person without a Spirit Root, even if they managed to awaken one, would most likely end up with one of the lowest quality.

This was especially true for those who grew up in the Mortal Territory. Having been deeply influenced by the Heaven and Earth Sealing Spirit Array from a young age, the difficulty of birthing a Spirit Root was likely the greatest of all.

Reaching such a conclusion, although different from what he expected, meant that Jiang Zuo’s objective was still accomplished.

Besides that, Number One’s Reincarnation this time wasn’t entirely without reward.

After Dissipating its Skill, Number One had actually lost seventy years of its lifespan. But upon Promoting to Innate again, it regained one hundred years.

In other words, undergoing Reincarnation once via Innate Dissipating Skill could increase one’s lifespan by thirty years.

This might not seem like much to Jiang Zuo, but it was extremely attractive to ordinary mortals.

This time, Number One had also Promoted to Innate inside an advanced Beast Cage. There was no bonus of an additional advanced Beast Cage this time, but it still gave Jiang Zuo one hundred points of Beast Taming Experience.

Beast Tamer Experience: 4956/5000!

With these one hundred experience points, Jiang Zuo would be able to advance to an Advanced Beast Tamer within a year!

「One year later.」

『You have become an ’Advanced Beast Tamer’!』

『Cultivation Beast Cage limit +1!』

『Advanced Beast Cage limit +1!』

『Pet Beast Spirit Garden Pet Beast limit +5!』

『Acquired Beast Taming Talent ’Comprehension’!』

--Advanced Beast Tamer (0/100,000): After cultivating a large number of Pet Beasts, your understanding of the Beast Tamer profession has reached a whole new level.

You now have a deep understanding that to raise outstanding Pet Beasts, you must start from the womb. You have comprehended the Beast Taming Skill "Breeding"!

After communicating with a large number of Pet Beasts, you have become more adept at commanding them. You have mastered the Beast Taming Skill "Leadership"!

By modifying human Cultivation Techniques for Pet Beasts, guiding their Cultivation, and nurturing various powerful Pet Beasts—even those at the Innate Martial Artist level—you have mastered the Beast Taming Skill "Famous Teacher"!

--Comprehension LV1 (0/100): Universal Talent. When equipped by a Pet Beast, it increases the Pet Beast’s Comprehension and its Cultivation speed. Current bonus: +10% Cultivation speed.

--Breeding LV2 (0/500): You now know how to breed more outstanding Pet Beast offspring, but your methods are still primitive and your techniques are not yet skillful.

--Leadership LV1 (0/100): After communicating with your Pet Beasts, you can establish Pet Beast teams to command and lead them more effectively.

You can currently establish one Pet Beast team. Each team can have one captain and five members. You only need to command the captain, who will then clearly relay your intentions to the team members.

Pet Beast members within a team can establish more effective communication channels with one another.

When a Pet Beast team is not too far from you, all its members will receive a bonus from your leadership ability, gaining a stat boost equivalent to 10% of your own stats.

--Famous Teacher LV1 (0/100): You have gained a deeper understanding of Pet Beast anatomy and can adapt Cultivation Techniques suitable for different Pet Beasts. After receiving your guidance, a Pet Beast’s Cultivation speed will increase by 10% for a period of time.

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