1: Global Beast Taming

Great Xia Nation, Beishan City First Middle School.

Inside Grade 12 Class 7...

"Have you all heard?"

"Our class's school beauty, Xu Yao, has contracted an Azure Phoenix Butterfly with a Golden Bloodline!"

"Golden Bloodline?!"

"It's truly infuriating to compare yourself to others. My dad spent hundreds of thousands of Xia coins to hire Monster Hunters, and they only managed to catch a Bronze Bloodline monster for me."

"With an Azure Phoenix Butterfly as her reliance, Xu Yao will definitely have no problem getting into a Beast Tamer University. I'm so envious..."

"Exactly. Unlike us, if we can't get into a Beast Taming University, we'll have to settle for those trashy universities like Qingbei."

...

Beast Tamer?

Azure Phoenix Butterfly?

"What are they even talking about?"

"Is it some new anime?"

"And Qingbei University is a trashy university? These guys haven't been driven crazy by the pressure of senior year, have they?"

Su Ze opened his eyes groggily, realizing he had fallen asleep on his school desk at some point.

As soon as he woke up, he heard his familiar classmates talking about things he didn't understand.

"Students, quiet down!"

"In half a month, it will be the day of the Beast Taming College Entrance Examination."

"You must seize this final opportunity to contract a beast and become a Beast Tamer."

"Only then will you be qualified to apply for a Beast Taming University; otherwise, you'll have to take the entrance exams for ordinary universities."

"As your teacher, this is all I can teach you. Finally, I hope everyone can submit a satisfying answer sheet in the College Entrance Examination!"

"Class dismissed!"

On the podium, Old Xiao, the Grade 12 homeroom teacher, was speaking with great passion.

However, his gaze frequently drifted toward the corner of the classroom, in Su Ze's direction.

The reason was simple: as the best student in academic subjects in the class and even the entire grade...

Su Ze was still unable to contract a monster and become a Beast Tamer, which was truly a pity.

Su Ze, whose skin crawled under the teacher's gaze, was completely bewildered.

"Beast Taming University? Beast Taming College Entrance Examination?"

"What is all this? Why is even the teacher talking about these things?"

"Shouldn't the exam subjects be Language, English, Math, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology? I just took a nap, and the world has changed?"

Then, he discovered with some despair that the "Five Years of College Entrance Exams and Three Years of Simulation" on his desk had somehow turned into "Five Years of Breeding and Three Years of Beast Taming."

There was also "Basic Theory of Beast Tamers,"

"How to Train Monsters,"

and "Monster Breeding and Postpartum Care"...

Even the manga hidden in his drawer had become "A Guide to Appraising Beast-Eared Girls."

After curiously flipping through a couple of pages, Su Ze decisively tucked it away as a treasure with a flushed face.

"Exciting, way too exciting..."

Realizing that something was truly wrong with this world, Su Ze tugged at his deskmate, Wang Zi—nicknamed Fatty Wang—who was leisurely cracking melon seeds in class.

Although he was fat, he wasn't ugly; he gave off a rather cute and lovable vibe.

"Fatty, Fatty, what's wrong with Old Xiao? Doesn't this seem a bit off?"

The carefree Wang Zi turned his head and replied, "How many times have I told you? Call me Prince, don't call me Fatty!"

"Calling me Fatty all day, you're ruining my rich second-generation aura."

Then he looked at Old Xiao, the homeroom teacher whose gaze kept drifting toward Su Ze, and continued, "Isn't this normal?"

"In our elite beast-taming class, everyone except you has already become a Beast Tamer and is qualified to apply for a Beast Taming University. Can Old Xiao help but look at you a few more times?"

"I don't know what sins you committed in your past life, but not a single monster has taken a liking to you."

Su Ze immediately became indignant upon hearing this: "Damn, if monsters don't like me, they'd like you?"

Wang Zi patted his chest, which would make even girls feel inferior, and said proudly, "I'm sorry, but this humble one successfully contracted a monster last night and became an honorable Beast Tamer."

Su Ze was instantly rattled.

You thick-browed, big-eyed Fatty, who spends every day watching action movies to learn various 'fancy moves,' can actually become a Beast Tamer?

Wait, what exactly is a Beast Tamer anyway?

Seeing Su Ze's genuine look of confusion, Wang Zi found it strange but still patiently explained it to him.

As Wang Zi spoke, another set of memories that didn't belong to Su Ze began to resurface and merge with his original ones.

He had indeed transmigrated.

The place Su Ze was currently in was not Earth, but Blue Star in a parallel world.

And here, it was a world of global beast taming!

Blue Star wasn't much different from the Earth he knew, with the only difference being the existence of monsters, a race of transcendent intelligent beings.

And corresponding to them were the Beast Tamers who contracted monsters to fight.

The original Su Ze had Spiritual Power far exceeding that of ordinary people in his talent test. Logically, he should have been an excellent Beast Tamer.

But for some reason, his compatibility with monsters was zero.

A contract could only be completed without suffering a backlash when the compatibility with a certain monster reached fifty.

Su Ze had tried countless times, but his compatibility with almost all monsters was zero.

No monster was willing to be close to him, so a contract was naturally out of the question.

Soon, it would be the day of the Great Xia Nation Beast Taming College Entrance Examination, and its importance was no less than that of the Gaokao in China on Earth.

Because resources were limited, only Beast Tamers who entered a Beast Taming University would receive key cultivation from the state.

If Su Ze still couldn't complete a contract and become a Beast Tamer before then, he wouldn't even have the qualification to apply for a Beast Taming University.

He would only be able to apply for ordinary universities like Qingbei, which were considered trashy universities in the eyes of the people in this world.

But he had a reason why he must enter a Beast Taming University!

Wang Zi, seeing Su Ze fall into a sudden silence while processing his memories, thought he was discouraged.

He comforted him, "Don't worry. At worst, just spend some more money to get Monster Hunters to catch a few monsters for you."

"Spending a bit of money on this kind of thing isn't shameful. If you try a few more times, you'll succeed eventually."

Hearing this, Su Ze looked at him suspiciously: "Why are you so experienced? Could it be..."

The Fatty was quite straightforward and admitted it generously: "That's right. To make me a Beast Tamer, my dad spent quite a bit of money on Monster Hunters."

"They caught dozens of monsters before I finally found a compatible Silver Bloodline monster. The compatibility was as high as 95!"

"With it, passing the Beast Taming College Entrance Examination will definitely not be a problem for me."

The monsters in this world are classified by their innate bloodline: black iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and diamond rank!"

The higher the bloodline, the stronger the combat power at the same level, and the higher the level cap.

The cap for a black iron monster is only level ten, not much stronger than a wild beast.

For every bloodline tier a monster increases, the level cap rises by twenty levels.

Above level ninety is the exclusive domain of diamond rank bloodline monsters, with a maximum of level one hundred.

Human Beast Tamers must also have a corresponding level of Spiritual Power to fully bring out the strength of their beasts.

Currently, there are no more than ten level-100 Beast Tamers globally, and even a power as strong as Great Xia Nation only has two.

Even for capturing the lowest-level black iron bloodline monster, Monster Hunters would charge tens of thousands of Xia coins.

This kind of price was simply not something Su Ze, who lived alone, could afford.

"Evil capitalists!" Su Ze could only grit his teeth and curse.

Seeing this, Fatty smiled mischievously: "Little Ze, remember this well: what's evil isn't capital, but having no capital."

Just as Su Ze was about to continue cursing the capitalists, a pleasant mechanical electronic female voice abruptly sounded in his mind.

"Absorption of the foreign soul energy within the host's body is complete. System activated!"