Qin Nian held a Snow Joy Cat and saw Bai Luxin staring blankly into an empty corner.
“What are you thinking about?”
Qin Nian patted the cat in her arms and let it go to Bai Luxin.
Caught the pouncing cat, Bai Luxin returned it to Qin Nian with a worried expression.
“No…”
“Sister Qin, did I cause the deaths of many people?”
While Nuobai was training hard, she had learned in detail about the Mirror Hidden Sky Destruction Incident.
At that time, the city lord immediately organized a rescue, but the secret realm still suffered heavy casualties, and the number of missing people was countless.
All of this was because she used a teleportation item, tearing open a rift in the already unstable secret realm.
Causing an irreversible disaster.
Qin Nian looked seriously into her eyes, frowned, anxiously twisted her index finger, and angrily shouted.
“In a secret realm expedition, life and death are your own responsibility.”
“Bai Luxin, don’t be so naive you become foolish, and end up getting Nuobai killed!”
The Snow Joy Cat was startled and escaped from Qin Nian’s arms. The atmosphere in the room froze terrifyingly.
“Sorry, I spoke out of turn.”
Qin Nian showed an apologetic smile, a hint of bitterness at the corner of her mouth. She had just seen her former self in Bai Luxin.
“Sister Qin, are you okay?”
Taking the water she handed, Qin Nian took a sip.
“Little Bai, the world of Beast Tamers is inherently full of accidents and brutal struggles.”
“Even though within the human domain there are various rules, initiatives, and suggestions for healthy competition,”
“But do you know what the first lesson of Beast Taming Studies is? Always put protecting yourself first.”
“What do other people’s lives have to do with you?”
“Only after you have the ability to protect yourself can you afford to wallow in sorrow.”
As she spoke, Qin Nian’s emotions became a bit agitated again.
“If you can’t accept such a cruel reality, stay here. I will protect you two.”
Bai Luxin didn’t know how to answer her words. Seeing this, Qin Nian turned and left, leaving the space for her to think slowly.
Outside the room, Qin Nian leaned against the wall, exuding an indescribable sadness.
“Moon Dream, do you think she’ll figure it out?”
“I guess probably not. Without truly experiencing it, one will never understand.”
Moon Dream revealed herself and comforted her.
“That wasn’t your fault.”
“But I lost my daughter… I shouldn’t have taught her to be so kind.”
“Beast Master Qin Xinyan always took pride in you.”
Moon Dream extended a wisp of mist and seeped it into Qin Nian’s forehead.
“Stop, Moon Dream, I beg you… I’ve already forgotten too much…”
Moon Dream lifted the unconscious Qin Nian. Qin Xinyan’s final order to her was to keep Qin Nian from grieving.
Moon Dream could only make her constantly forget, to prevent her old illness from flaring up due to excessive grief.
Meanwhile, Bai Luxin thought for a long time but couldn’t accept Qin Nian’s words. Since childhood, she had been taught to be kind to others.
Now she was being told that the world of Beast Tamers was a dog-eat-dog world. How could she accept that?
She went to where Nuobai was training. Now, only by seeing her could Bai Luxin feel a little better inside.
Noticing Bai Luxin approaching, Nuobai greeted her from afar and continued sensing the skills inside her body.
Through Qin Nian’s connections, Nuobai had filled in the missing parts of the puzzle.
Now all primary skills were lit up, and four patterns glowed inside her body, replacing the complicated passive effects.
After the patterns lit up and transformed, four gates were opened, symbolizing life [Endless Reflux].
Strength [Extreme Journey].
Agility [Silent Surge].
Perception [Chaos of Spiritual Birth].
Originally, the accumulation of these skills would at most give Nuobai the possibility to fight a fourth-tier beast when she was at second-tier, which was already outrageous.
But now Nuobai felt she could crush a fourth-tier beast. An ordinary fourth-tier beast pet was definitely no match for her.
And these four gates—she had just pushed them open. Where these gates led and how far she could go were unknown.
The future held infinite possibilities.
After this surge in power, Nuobai was restless. She wanted to challenge Moon Dream.
It was time to shatter the haze that had been hanging over her. From now on, Sister Moon would have to call her Brother Bai.
“You want to challenge Moon Dream?”
Qin Nian looked at the smug-faced Nuobai with a strange expression. There were no outsiders present. Nuobai, in her loli cat-girl form, was stepping on the table.
Bai Luxin slapped her on the butt. “Speak properly. No stepping on the table.”
“If you want to get beaten, I won’t stop you.”
“Aunt Qin, I’m not the same Nuobai as before. I’m different now!”
“You got shorter.”
“?”
On the training ground, to make Nuobai face reality, Moon Dream had a match with her following the competition procedure.
Nuobai transformed into her most combat-proficient cat form and assumed a hunting stance. Moon Dream waited quietly for the match to start.
“Do you think Nuobai can win?”
“Nuobai is very strong. Sister Qin doesn’t believe in her?”
Qin Nian shook her head decisively. “I only know that Nuobai will be crying soon.”
The moment the match started, Nuobai spread [Wind Wings] to disperse the surrounding thin mist, and under the boost of [Silent Surge], she rushed in front of Moon Dream.
Moon Dream sensed an unusual aura from Nuobai and decisively fully expanded her domain.
The mist concealed Moon Dream’s form. Nuobai’s attack missed.
In her perception, Moon Dream seemed to have completely vanished.
‘[Chaos of Spiritual Birth] is useless?’
Behind Nuobai, several mist tentacles silently approached her. Just as they were about to entangle her, Nuobai turned around and sliced them apart.
Moon Dream observed her within the domain, probing Nuobai’s various abilities bit by bit.
Eerie silent speed, extremely destructive attacks, and tenacious recovery that grew stronger with battle.
Finally, she could still maintain a certain level of perception within her domain.
How interesting. These strange powers on little Nuobai seem to be of a high level.
With a rough idea in mind, Moon Dream no longer held back.
Just as she was dodging attacks, Nuobai suddenly froze, unable to remember what she was supposed to do next. The next moment, a mist spear impaled her.
Just as she was about to activate [Endless Reflux] to heal, Nuobai froze again, frowning, unable to remember what skill she was supposed to use.
After that, Nuobai frequently forgot to attack, dodge, and when she wanted to use a skill, she couldn’t remember how to activate it.
When she wanted to surrender, she couldn’t remember how to speak.
Her eyes were covered by a layer of white mist. Like a puppet, she forgot everything around her.
Moon Dream hung her by her hind leg and completely ended the match.
Releasing her control over Nuobai, Nuobai felt as if her memory had been cut into pieces, with many blanks.
As if seeing a ghost, she broke free from Moon Dream’s hold, grabbed Bai Luxin’s hair, and looked around warily.
“S-Sister Moon… that white mist of yours is a bit sinister…”
Moon Dream smiled at her and concealed herself.
“Nuobai, not bad. Moon Dream just praised you, saying you have the posture of a Beast King.”
Nuobai lay on Bai Luxin’s shoulder, completely uninterested in Qin Nian’s praise. “Still, I can’t beat Sister Moon.”
“Moon Dream is a Mist Hidden Lord. For you to receive her praise is already quite good.”
Qin Nian casually explained: “Fifth-tier is called Lord. This realm is divided into two types. The first type learns others’ domain skills and breaks through to Lord.”
“The second type comprehends their own domain and breaks through to Lord.”
“The latter has power that completely crushes the former, hence they have a more honorable title: ‘Sovereign.'”
“A beast pet that has been granted the title of Sovereign represents the ceiling of the human domain.”
Nuobai asked in confusion, “Isn’t there also the Beast King?”
“Above fifth-tier, they are not allowed to appear in the human domain.”
“Impossible.”
Nuobai completely disbelieved and argued, “I saw in the Beast King Chronicles that there were many Beast Kings in history.”
Qin Nian was silent for a moment, lost in thought.
“The Beast King Chronicles from the storage room?”
“Yes!”
“You’re taking a novel as a history book?”
Seeing that Qin Nian didn’t seem to be lying, Nuobai asked stubbornly, “What about Beast King transformation?”
“Why would a beast pet want to become human? Unless it’s a story created by humans.”
“Only the original form can maximize combat power. Aren’t you used to fighting in beast form too?”
“Besides, there is a special transformation ritual for those who wish to transform. There’s no need to reach sixth-tier Beast King.”
Nuobai felt her mind was in a mess, no less than when she had just transmigrated and turned into a cat.
She had found the Beast King Chronicles at that time and thought she had discovered a peerless secret scripture, treating it as a golden rule.
Unwilling to accept reality, Nuobai bit her little paw and hid in Bai Luxin’s hair. She didn’t want to see this world right now.
‘Let it be destroyed…’