Chapter 1

August 31, 2021, Summer.

The scorching sun hung high in the sky, baking the earth and turning the world into a steaming cauldron, making it hard to breathe.

However, Chen Wen felt a bit cold.

The air conditioner in the room was set to 24 degrees, and he had kicked off the blanket. At this moment, Chen Wen not only felt a bit cold but also had a slight headache.

"Ugh—"

After fumbling around and failing to find the blanket, Chen Wen opened his eyes and then leaned back on the bed, rubbing his head.

"I need to tell Daxiong that we can't stay up so late anymore; it's too hard on the body..."

Due to the latest anti-addiction law, the anti-addiction system of "Yun Ding Zizouqi" was adjusted at midnight on August 31.

After the adjustment, "Yun Ding Zizouqi" would only provide one hour of game service to minors from 8 PM to 9 PM on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays.

He Xiong and Chen Wen, who had just finished their first year of high school, were naturally minors, so they had played for two days and two nights before the new anti-addiction system went live.

After the new system went live at midnight last night, they both put down their sweat-soaked mice and went to sleep.

They slept until the afternoon.

Rubbing his still dry and sore eyes, Chen Wen grabbed his phone from the bedside table.

"What time is it?"

"Ah, it's already two o'clock. I slept for half a day, no wonder my head hurts!"

Just as Chen Wen was about to put the phone down, he noticed a large number of unread messages.

His slight OCD made him involuntarily swipe the screen and tap on a message from a brown bear avatar.

Daxiong: Are you awake?

Daxiong: We're going to the Beast Taming House tomorrow. I've already prepared honey to lure the Violent Bear. What beast are you going to contract?

Daxiong: Although the beast contract depends on fate, being prepared can increase the chances of success.

Daxiong: Still not awake? You're so weak, can't even handle two days?

Daxiong: Remember to reply when you wake up!

...

Holding the phone, Chen Wen's eyes became confused again.

Beast Tamer Association?

Beast Tamer Apprentice?

Violent Bear?

Contract?

What's going on in this world?

"I must not be fully awake yet."

Shaking his head, Chen Wen went to the bathroom, washed his face, and looked at the mirror.

The mirror still showed the same handsome young man, and Chen Wen felt a sense of relief.

After getting dressed and adjusting the air conditioner, Chen Wen sat up straight and took out his phone.

Swiping the screen, he saw a phone interface almost identical to what he was familiar with, and he felt relieved again.

However, when he opened "Penguin News," his eyes immediately showed confusion.

[Five Elite Beast Tamers Explore the Snow Desert Secret Realm, Encounter Elite-Level Snow Wolves, Only One Survives!]

Suppressing his discomfort, Chen Wen frowned and quickly skimmed through the article, then flipped to the comments.

Ten Thousand Men Guarding the Pass, One Man Finds a Way: Just an elite Beast Tamer team dares to explore a Gold-Level Secret Realm? That's not how you seek death!

Backhand: Encountering a Snow Wolf pack and still having survivors? Oh, they had flying beasts... No problem then!

Talk Later: Envious of Beast Tamers, they have such big birds!

Big Buttocks Released: I suspect the above is making a joke, already took a screenshot, this is the evidence!

...

Closing the news, Chen Wen quickly browsed other headlines on the Penguin News homepage.

[Genius Beast Tamer Liu Yu from Kyoto University Tames a Red-Eyed Wyvern, Likely to Win in the Global University Beast Tamer Competition]

[A Silver-Level Secret Realm Appears Near Dashizhen, Causing Residents to Flee to Nearby Cities, Housing Prices in Surrounding Cities Soar!]

[Redwood Valley Secret Realm Finally Conquered, Domestic Low-Level Spirit Herbs Will Have a Stable Cultivation Base, Basic Nutrient Solution Expected to Enter Ordinary Households Within Two Years!]

...

"What the hell is this!"

Resisting the urge to throw his phone, Chen Wen turned off "Today's Headlines" and opened a browser to search for the information he wanted.

Beast Tamer Association... Secret Realm... Beast Tamer...

One by one, the keywords were entered, and a flood of new and strange information filled Chen Wen's mind.

After a long time, feeling that his brain was about to explode, Chen Wen went to the living room for a drink of water and began to organize the information.

First, he roughly understood that he had likely come to a place similar to a parallel universe.

He quickly accepted this, as a paying reader of Dianxia, he was already prepared for the possibility of traveling through time and space.

After all, anyone who reads novels on Dianxia knows that the probability of readers from Qidian traveling is very high, and the more handsome they are, the higher the probability, especially for paying handsome readers.

Many things in this world were similar, but many were also very different.

The main reason for this was a natural disaster a hundred years ago.

At that time, the entire world experienced a severe earthquake, and countless special spaces called "Secret Realms" suddenly appeared around the world.

After exploration by teams from various countries, each Secret Realm was found to be a new world independent of Earth, some as small as a hill, others as vast as a new world.

These Secret Realms had unique rules and were home to all sorts of strange creatures that possessed mysterious powers different from technology.

Years later, the first Secret Realm began to merge with Earth, and the magical beasts that emerged from it possessed special energies.

Surprisingly, these magical beasts were weak and were easily killed by humans with thermal weapons.

When people entered the Secret Realms with great joy, they suddenly discovered that electromagnetic and gunpowder-based weapons were ineffective inside, and the weak magical beasts inside actually had the ability to control water, fire, wind, and lightning.

The information asymmetry led to heavy casualties for the initial exploration teams.

As more and more Secret Realms merged with Earth, the magical beasts launched wars against humans, and humans began to explore the Secret Realms.

During this period, humans discovered that the magical beasts entering Earth could control increasingly powerful abilities, but human thermal weapons remained ineffective in the Secret Realms.

At the same time, humans discovered that as more Secret Realms merged with Earth, a special energy appeared on Earth, and humans began to mutate.

In addition to becoming physically stronger, some people could open a special space in their minds through meditation and capture magical beasts in this cage-like space.

This special ability to deal with magical beasts quickly gained the attention of countries around the world.

Through research, this special ability was fully developed, and a complete system of Beast Tamer professions, including capturing, training, and commanding, gradually took shape.

A wide variety of powerful battle beasts were cultivated, and the profession of Beast Tamer took the world stage.

From then on, humans had a means to resist magical beasts besides thermal weapons and a way to counterattack the Secret Realms to obtain new resources and land.

Due to the significant role of Beast Tamers, countries around the world, including the ancient Huaguo, began to study this power.

Thus, to comprehensively strengthen and improve the education of the new era, ensuring the all-around development of students, Huaguo reformed all higher education institutions.

Therefore, in this world, schools not only teach cultural knowledge but also teach beast taming methods.

Of course, the latter can only be learned by those with a certain talent.

Originally, people with such talent were extremely rare, not one in ten thousand.

However, with the increasing number of merging Secret Realms, more and more people have gained the talent for beast taming, and now about one in a hundred people have this talent.

"One in a hundred? So, He Xiong and I are geniuses!"

"But this is also normal. With a one in six billion chance of traveling, I managed to encounter it, so a little beast taming talent should be easy to come by, right?"

Although it's fun to read about underdogs rising and slapping faces, it's not so pleasant when it happens to you.

If I traveled to a beast taming world and didn't even have the talent for it, I might as well bash my head in.