2: Chapter 2: Drinking Blood, Unexpectedly Signing a Blood Pact with the Reborn Empress?

In a room decorated with soft pink hues.

Gu Yuexi had already drawn a Blood Pact Formation on the floor.

At the center of the formation, a large snake, emerald green and one meter long, lay coiled.

A Spirit Green Snake, a high-level bloodline; once it reaches adulthood, it will be a Rank Five demonic beast!

This was the first contracted beast Gu Yuexi had carefully selected for herself after her rebirth!

For a Beast Tamer, the first contracted beast is crucial. It not only determines their growth speed but can even dictate their upper limit!

After all, before becoming a Rank Five Beast Tamer, one cannot contract a second demonic beast...

In her previous life, Gu Yuexi's first contracted beast was just a low-level bloodline 'Big-Eared Rabbit'—a weak demonic beast that was almost impossible to grow to Rank Three.

For most people, contracting such a beast essentially meant their path as a Beast Tamer was completely ruined!

But Gu Yuexi, relying solely on her heaven-defying beast-taming talent, spent three years making the Big-Eared Rabbit evolve three times! She forced it to grow into a Rank Five demonic beast!

Only then did she become a Rank Five Beast Tamer and gain the ability to contract a second demonic beast...

"A full three years, investing a massive amount of wealth and energy into a Big-Eared Rabbit... it was such a waste."

"Furthermore, after that Big-Eared Rabbit reached Rank Five, it completely hit its limit and couldn't advance another step. Once I became a Rank Six Beast Tamer, it became a total burden with no combat power left!"

"That meant I always had one less contracted beast than other Beast Tamers of the same level! The impact on combat power was too great!"

"In the end, during the Heavenly Tribulation, if I had just one more Rank Eight contracted beast, I wouldn't have failed to withstand the final bolt of heavenly lightning..."

Gu Yuexi thought silently, her cold and stunning face devoid of expression, though her gaze toward the Spirit Green Snake carried a hint of fervor.

A demonic beast with a high-level bloodline...

Peerless beast-taming talent + a high-level bloodline for the first contracted beast + starting the path of beast taming at eighteen!

Gu Yuexi didn't dare to imagine how strong she could become in this life!

With the corners of her mouth curling up slightly, she stopped overthinking. With a single thought, she directly activated the Blood Pact Formation!

Instantly, a brilliant white light erupted from the formation, enveloping both Gu Yuexi and the Spirit Green Snake.

Gu Yuexi squinted slightly, reached out, and bit her fingertip, forcing out a drop of blood.

At this moment, she only needed to drip the blood onto the Spirit Green Snake, and the human and beast would successfully sign the Blood Pact!

Once a Blood Pact is formed, it can never be undone!

"Come, my first contracted beast..." Gu Yuexi murmured, watching the drop of blood slowly fall from her fingertip.

Bzzz bzzz bzzz~~

The faint sound of a mosquito buzzed.

Concentrating on signing the Blood Pact, Gu Yuexi didn't notice it.

At that moment, Chu Sheng had already landed on a snowy-white, slender leg. Dizzy and disoriented, he was unable to think.

Almost by instinct, he controlled his mouthparts to become thick and hard, then thrust them fiercely into Gu Yuexi's thigh!

Slurp slurp slurp!!

A frantic feeding!

Fresh red blood poured through his mouthparts into Chu Sheng's body, causing his flat abdomen to gradually grow large and red...

[Vitality +0.03]

[Vitality +0.05]

[Vitality +0.03...]

System notification sounds rang out continuously.

At the same time, Chu Sheng could feel his 'stamina' rapidly recovering after ingesting the blood. The dizziness and the sensation of being near death quickly vanished!

Chu Sheng finally let out a heavy sigh of relief. Damn, he almost died!

Fortunately, there was a blood-sucking creature within a hundred meters!

Hmm... it seems to be a girl with a pretty good figure?

Not bad. At least it's not some sweaty, stinky uncle; there's no psychological burden in sucking this!

Chu Sheng was very satisfied. He took two more gulps, and after feeling too full to take any more, he reluctantly pulled out his mouthparts.

[Ding! Host has absorbed 0.15 Vitality! Current total Vitality is 0.16!]

[Prompt: Once Vitality reaches 1, the first evolution can be performed!]

He could evolve once he reached 1?

Chu Sheng was somewhat surprised. From the looks of it, evolution wasn't that hard; wouldn't it be done after sucking five or six more times?

Good, good. He could consider staying in this girl's house and sucking her a few more times...

"Huh?! The Blood Pact failed?"

Just as Chu Sheng was lost in thought, a startled female voice actually rang out in his mind.

Chu Sheng: "???"

What the hell is that noise?

That's not the system's voice!

"Impossible! How could the Blood Pact fail? Isn't it a 100% success rate?"

The female voice continued, filled with disbelief and shock: "No... wait! The Blood Pact didn't fail! I... I seem to have already signed a Blood Pact with something..."

"Such weak spiritual power..."

"A mosquito?"

"No, no, no! I must have perceived it wrong! How could I possibly contract a mosquito?!"

"Calm down, sense it carefully..."

"..."

"Holy shit!!!"

Chu Sheng heard those last two words not just in his mind, but with his auditory organs as well...

It seemed... to be the voice of the girl he had just sucked from?

The bewildered Chu Sheng became even more bewildered.

What's going on?

Why can I hear this girl's inner thoughts?

And what is a Blood Pact?

"A mosquito... how is that possible..."

Gu Yuexi's eyes were vacant. No one knew the collapse and despair in her heart at this moment!

After a brief moment of shock, she gradually understood what had happened...

Just now, the moment before she was about to sign the Blood Pact with the Spirit Green Snake, a mosquito happened to land on her leg and sucked a mouthful of her blood!

Before her blood could touch the Spirit Green Snake, it had touched this mosquito first!

And so...

The Blood Pact Formation directly determined that she had signed a contract with this mosquito!!

A mosquito!

A mosquito at the very bottom of the food chain!

The great Beast Empress, whose first contracted beast after rebirth was actually a mosquito?

Gu Yuexi's face was pale, and for a moment her spirit was in a daze. In both her past and present lives, she had never been as desperate and lost as she was at this moment.

Was the heavens intentionally playing with her?

Even if it were a low-level bloodline demonic beast, or even just an ordinary animal.

Gu Yuexi would have the confidence to change her fate against the heavens and train an ordinary animal into a Rank Five demonic beast!

But...

A mosquito is just the lowest of the low among insects!

To evolve it into a Rank One demonic beast would already be considered changing fate against the heavens!

Rank Five?

Training a mosquito to Rank Five?

Even Gu Yuexi felt only despair at the thought!

It was absolutely impossible to achieve!

"Am I... finished?"

Chu Sheng: "..."

He more or less understood.

No wonder he could suddenly hear this girl's inner thoughts...

It turned out he had signed a Blood Pact with her by coincidence?

So...

This is a world with Beast Tamers?

This girl is a reincarnator? A Beast Empress in her past life?

And now... I've become her contracted beast??

Chu Sheng's thoughts were in disarray.

What on earth is going on?!