2: Chapter 2 The Mysterious Realm of Faint Light

"Warmly celebrate President Ma of Penguin Group for completing the evolution of the Beast Taming Extreme Krypton Emperor Penguin, successfully promoting to a Grandmaster-tier Beastmaster!"

"A new spatial rift has appeared three hundred kilometers northwest of Linjiang City, and the Demon Suppression Bureau inspectors have headed to the spatial rift to assess the danger level."

"Young Beastmaster students, please look towards Jinyun Beastmaster University. There are first-class beast taming mentors and top-tier training grounds here, making it the ultimate choice for you to enhance your strength and nurture your beast!"

"In the early hours of this morning, the Qingyi Bureau shattered a premeditated assassination plan by the extremist organization Heavenly Demon Society in Linjiang City, killing seven powerful members of the Heavenly Demon Society on the spot, while two other Heavenly Demon Society members were heavily injured and fled. Citizens of Linjiang City are advised to strengthen precautions in the future and immediately call the police upon encountering suspicious personnel."

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Chu Xiu walked out of the teaching building and saw news scrolling continuously on the large screen outside.

"The Heavenly Demon Society—just hearing that name sounds like a cult. This world is far more dangerous than Earth."

"If you want to live comfortably in this world, you must have strength so formidable that no one dares to provoke you!"

Looking at the news broadcasted on the big screen, Chu Xiu's heart stirred, and he couldn't help quickening his pace as he headed towards the Weimang Secret Realm within the campus of Linjiang No. 1 High School.

Secret realms are independent spaces that do not belong to Blue Star, connected to Blue Star through spatial rifts.

Ever since Blue Star entered the Beast Taming Era, spatial rifts have appeared from time to time, and behind every spatial rift lies a secret realm.

Powerful beings of Blue Star classify them based on the size of the secret realm and the strength of the fierce beasts inside.

From weakest to strongest, they are divided into four levels: Weimang Secret Realm, small secret realms, medium secret realms, and large secret realms.

The fierce beasts within the Weimang Secret Realm generally possess the strength of Ash-White Grade and Black Iron Tier, posing the lowest threat.

The secret realm of Linjiang No. 1 High School is of the Weimang level.

Furthermore, ever since this secret realm appeared in Linjiang No. 1 High School, it was cleared out once by the principal and all the teachers of Linjiang No. 1 High School.

Almost all the fierce beasts inside with strengths reaching the Black Iron Tier were captured and killed.

In addition, the school's teachers regularly clean up fierce beasts exceeding the Ash-White Grade in strength inside every month.

As for the remaining fierce beasts inside, the school provides them for students to form contracts with.

The value of any beast is extremely high; on the market, even an Ash-White Grade beast starts at a price of fifty thousand.

Yet at Linjiang No. 1 High School, every student has the opportunity to enter the secret realm once and form a contract with a beast for free.

This causes a huge number of junior high school graduates every year to break their heads trying to enter Linjiang No. 1 High School.

Because in Linjiang City, besides Linjiang No. 1 High School, other schools do not have this kind of treatment.

"Here!"

Before long, Chu Xiu arrived outside the school's Weimang Secret Realm.

At the entrance of the Weimang Secret Realm was a spatial rift about five meters wide and ten meters high.

The surface of the spatial rift looked like a water curtain, emitting a light blue halo and forming the gateway to enter the secret realm.

The entrance of the secret realm was guarded by a Silver Grade teacher. The strongest Beastmaster in Linjiang City was only Gold-tier, and being able to have a Silver-Rank Beastmaster guard this place amply demonstrated how much importance Linjiang No. 1 High School attached to the Weimang Secret Realm.

"Teacher, I'm here to contract a beast."

Chu Xiu stepped forward, walked up to the teacher guarding the secret realm, and handed over his student ID card.

"You understand the rules, right?"

The guarding teacher took the student ID card, verified the information, handed the card back to Chu Xiu, and then looked at him and said.

Hearing this, Chu Xiu nodded gently.

"Since that's the case, then choose your temporary beast."

Seeing this, the teacher guarding the secret realm waved his hand, and dozens of cards with white borders appeared before him.

On the cards were lifelike patterns of different fierce beasts.

Below the fierce beast patterns, different numbers of stars were engraved.

These cards were created by a special beast under the principal of Linjiang No. 1 High School known as the 'Replica Card'.

It could replicate any fierce beast it had ever seen, and likewise replicate their abilities, additionally forming these cards.

These cards could be activated with magic power to obtain the fierce beasts on the cards as temporary beasts to assist in combat.

However, these temporary beasts summoned through the cards could only last for a maximum of one day.

But these temporary beasts were quite enough for Linjiang No. 1 High School students to contract beasts in the Weimang Secret Realm.

"Teacher, I choose this one!"

After glancing at the dozens of cards in front of him, Chu Xiu finally let his gaze fall on one of the cards with 7 stars.

"This card replicates the Ash-White 7-Star Flame-Armored Lizard. To activate this card, you need at least Ash-White 6-Star magic power."

"Unless your strength reaches Ash-White 6-Star, otherwise even if you take this card into the secret realm, you won't have enough magic power to activate the Flame-Armored Lizard for battle."

"Are you sure you want this one?"

Looking at the card chosen by Chu Xiu, the expression of the teacher guarding the secret realm changed, and he asked Chu Xiu with a hint of shock and doubt.

He had guarded the secret realm for so many years and had seen tens of thousands of Linjiang No. 1 High School students head to the secret realm to contract beasts.

But the strength of these people was basically around Ash-White 3-Star, and Ash-White 4-Star was extremely rare.

Almost everyone couldn't wait to contract a beast right after condensing their Beast Taming Seed, and very few people would continue to wait.

Because after contracting a beast and becoming a true Beastmaster, both the Beastmaster and the beast could significantly increase their cultivation speed.

Someone like Chu Xiu who dragged it out until Ash-White 6-Star before coming to contract a beast was simply one in ten thousand.

"I'm sure."

Facing the question, Chu Xiu nodded firmly.

He was now an Ash-White 7-Star Beastmaster, so summoning the Flame-Armored Lizard was a breeze.

"Fine, then take this card and enter the secret realm."

"This is a beast bracelet. After you contract your own beast, it can allow your beast to temporarily lodge inside the beast bracelet."

Seeing Chu Xiu's serious expression, the teacher guarding the secret realm had no choice but to pull out the card depicting the Flame-Armored Lizard, hand it to Chu Xiu, and at the same time take out a beast bracelet and give it to him.

"Thank you, Teacher!"

Chu Xiu took the beast bracelet and the Flame-Armored Lizard card, thanked the teacher in front of him, and then quickly walked towards the entrance of the secret realm.

In the blink of an eye, his figure disappeared at the entrance.

"To actually be able to endure until Ash-White 6-Star before coming to contract a beast, what an interesting little fellow. I hope you can contract a high-quality beast in the secret realm."

Watching Chu Xiu's figure disappear into the secret realm entrance, the teacher guarding the secret realm muttered softly, the corners of his mouth turning up slightly, and then unconcernedly put away all the cards, returning to his post.

As for Chu Xiu's safety, he was not worried.

Aside from himself, a Silver-Rank Beastmaster guarding outside, the school's Weimang Secret Realm also had teachers stationed inside. Every student entering the secret realm would receive secret protection from these teachers.

Students entering the secret realm to contract beasts might get injured, but they would definitely not be in mortal danger.

Ever since this Weimang Secret Realm appeared at Linjiang No. 1 High School, there had never been an instance of a student dying inside the secret realm.