Chapter 1: This Beast-Taming World is Somewhat Bizarre

Humanity’s oldest and most intense emotion is fear, while the oldest and most intense kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

I am currently sinking!

With no strength left, the only thing I can do is endure the near suffocating pain as I gaze towards the shimmering surface above, where the sun refracted and distorted by the light split into nine being stacked upon one another.

The pale radiance shines down, illuminating the shadows in the abyss of the deep sea as if the goddess of darkness opened her embrace…

“Don’t!”

A pained roar startles the birds that were about to make close contact on the peach tree, and they fly off cursing and swearing.

Wearing sunglasses and napping against a tree, Lu Yu suddenly awakens as if he has just escaped drowning, gasping for air to relieve that suffocating sensation in his heart.

Looking around, tall peach trees grow with branches stretching out, their blossoms like rouge clouds, pink mist swirling about as if painted by an artist’s brush to create a springtime landscape.

‘Thank goodness, I am still at the beast-taming foundation in Dayuan City!’

Regaining his composure, he notices a girl in a white dress standing in front of him, holding an envelope with a heart pattern on it. She was innocent-looking and delicate with her demeanor timid like a frightened rabbit.

Lu Yu, realizing he had frightened her, quickly adjusts his mood and forces a smile:

“Classmate, is there something you need from me?”

The startled girl stammers:

“That… I want to give you… a letter…”

Thinking of the roar she just heard, the girl’s emotions are in turmoil, unsure whether to hand over the love letter she holds.

From her higher vantage point, she inadvertently catches a glimpse of Lu Yu’s bloodshot eyes behind his sunglasses.

Like a wounded beast…

Madness!

Remembering the rumors she had heard, terror floods her heart like a tide, and she instinctively steps back, realizing she is wrong to do so, and ultimately, disheartened, she decides to leave.

She arrives at a large rock in the distance where another girl, with a round face dressed in sportswear, rides atop a white snow wolf, reaches out her hand and pulls the girl in the white dress up, saying gruffly:

“I told you not to go near that weirdo. He started screaming during the beast awakening ceremony about nine suns in the sky, which is just crazy. Then he even asked to go raise pigs, wasting a great future…”

“That’s a silver-spirited extraordinary creature, the peach pig…” the girl in the white dress replied timidly.

“See, you’re still making excuses for him. Regardless of what extraordinary creature it is, raising pigs is still raising pigs. My dad said cultivating beasts is the right path; don’t get too close to someone who’s self-deprecating. Being handsome isn’t everything. You’re so cute; there will be plenty of people chasing after you. If not, I’ll be with you!”

The girl in the white dress didn’t know what to say, her face turning red with embarrassment.

“Snow Wolf, let’s go!”

The round-faced girl glances at Lu Yu beneath the tree, with a flicker of inexplicable emotion on her face—resentment for his lack of fight and… pleasure that someone once unattainable has been tainted by filth.

But for her, Lu Yu is now just a weed by the roadside, a bird and a fish who never meet.

Eventually, they leave the peach forest on the back of the Snow Wolf.

Lu Yu was indifferent to their conversation. Resting his head against the tree trunk as he admires the beautiful peach blossoms that bloom like clouds. Pinching his brow to relieve the pain in his eyes he murmurs:

“It’s only been three months since I arrived in this world, and I can hardly remember how many nightmares this has been…”

Lu Yu is a transmigrated individual, an orphan in his previous life, but through his own efforts and the thick-skinned lessons learned from society, he made a fortune in children’s clothing before the age of thirty.

Fatigued from overwork, he suddenly found himself in an alternative world, possessing the body of an identical-looking counterpart, merging with the other’s memories.

Though the transition was hasty, Lu Yu remained calm.

“Arrive like the rain, vanish like dust.”

This was his life’s philosophy.

Through the memories, he discovers that this is a beast-taming world far more vast than Earth.

In this world, all things possess spirit!

Be they beasts, birds, or elements like lakes, storms, lightning—even in the light of the sun and moon, machines can gain spirits and become extraordinary beings.

Beings infused with the power of spirits continuously evolve toward transcendence, gaining extraordinary abilities like flame, thunder, light and darkness and achieving leaps in the hierarchy of life—even to the point of birth, akin to gods and demons, capable of moving mountains and commanding wind and rain.

Humans, in ancient times, were said to freely wield spirit — but such history is so distant, the only evidence lies in fragmented archaeological data, which most people consider to be mere fabrications of ancient imagination.

This belief stems from the fact that humans afflicted by an excess of spirit suffer bizarre mutations, becoming monstrous creatures neither human nor ghost.

In those ancient times, humans, frail yet full of spirit, naturally became the favorite prey of many demons, leading to frequent attacks on tribes and a wilderness of bones.

For a lengthy period, humans survived only by worshipping powerful beings for protection, barely clinging to life.

It was not until a sage discovered mankind’s unique talent, capable of binding extraordinary beings through contracts, creating beast-taming spaces to hasten the growth of these beasts and absorb their spirit in a filtered manner.

From then on, the roles of hunting and defense were reversed!

Legions of human prodigies arose, driving back the demons and establishing human strongholds, giving rise to a brilliant civilization.

The profession of beast tamers, key to humanity’s rise, has evolved over the long years into specialties such as combat, cultivation, healing, potion crafting, fortune-telling, et cetera, integrating beasts’ power into various facets of human civilization.

Mighty beast tamers protect entire cities, sheltering ordinary people from extraordinary creatures or even expanding into the wilderness for vast resources and riches.

All is beneath them, save for beast taming!

The first step for a beast tamer is to awaken their spirit. Although it’s just the beginning, this already surpasses most common people!

Awakening is categorized into nine tiers:

The first three tiers embody the red copper spirit, paired with servant-level beasts.

The middle three tiers hold the silver spirit, matched with elite-level beasts.

The top three tiers involve the golden spirit, aligned with commander-level beasts.

Beyond that are Morning Star tier beasts, corresponding to lord-level creatures; anything higher is too far from Lu Yu’s reach.

Golden spirits represent the backbone of society; possessing one qualifies him for numerous settlement policies and benefits in any city.

In this life, he isn’t an orphan. He has parents; his father a golden spirit, his mother at the pinnacle of silver spirit. Both were out on a mission for the alliance.

He started as the textbook definition of a well-connected second-generation beast tamer.

The day he transmigrated was his eighteenth birthday. It was his turn to queue up to awaken his beast-taming talent.

Every beast tamer awakens their own innate talent, which then informs their future path in beast taming.

To Lu Yu, whether it was a talent for enhancing elements, possession, crafting potions, gathering materials, or even the ability to listen to history…

None of it mattered; his parents would take care of finding appropriate, exceptional beast offspring for him.

But as soon as it was his turn, tragic news arrived: his parents had been ambushed during their mission by the cult of an evil god and were both killed in action.

After awakening his talent, Lu Yu became the lunatic who shouted about nine suns, as mentioned by the girls earlier.

He then even volunteered for the school project to raise peach pigs, seen by everyone as an example of someone who’d lost his way after suffering a blow.

Only Lu Yu knew he wasn’t crazy!

Because his awakened talent is known as the “Eye of Truth”, which allows him to consume his own spirit energy to see the talent and information of beasts.

Unable to control the “Eye of Truth” perfectly upon awakening, a torrent of information flooded in, causing unbearable pain in his head, making him look up to avoid the crowd inadvertently, which led to witnessing a scene he would never forget.

The eternal sun split from one to nine, their illusory forms constantly breaking apart and stacking, growing grotesquely like swollen flesh balls, filling the sky.

Words couldn’t capture the essence of this sight, no language could detail the weird and mysterious nature—as if it defied all rules and order, grand yet chaotic.

Amid that grandeur, numerous figures seemed to writhe.

Each one immeasurably enormous, like chaotic, dark tendrils stretching out, with an aura powerful enough to shatter stars.

They encircled in formation, wrapped in countless deep red chains, vaguely appearing to gnaw on something, emitting an eerie noise that bathed the entire sky in blood.

Then…

Lu Yu thought he was witnessing a world anomaly and cried out to warn others. However, after only a few steps, he fainted from drained spirit and was urgently taken to the hospital.

The final diagnosis was minor corneal damage from staring directly at the sun, with burns in the macular region of the retina.

In this world with beast tamers, such injuries are quickly healed by just one healing light from a medical beast, but Lu Yu needed to wear sunglasses for a while afterwards to prevent further exposure to intense light.

After he woke up, no matter what Lu Yu claimed, nobody believed him, brushing it off as hallucinations from mental trauma.

Even Lu Yu began to doubt himself.

Because when he risked another glance.

Above the sky, cloudless and brilliant, the sun shone irritatingly bright, holy and dazzling, causing Lu Yu to squint involuntarily with tears rolling down the corner of his eyes.

It seemed like it was all just his illusion.

But afterward, the “Eye of Truth” could only inspect beasts’ information. Even if he hid in the hospital room pretending to be an animal, it didn’t work; noticed by the nurses, it further confirmed his unstable mental condition.

Lu Yu also wanted to forget all this, but that nightmare of the sun’s anomaly kept haunting him, and as time passed, it gnawed at his sanity with increasing frequency.

“The one who is sick is not me; it’s the world!” Lu Yu whispered softly with a resolute gaze.

Having seen the horror contained within the world, even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer appeared poisonous to him.

Driven by this intense sense of insecurity, Lu Yu thirsted for power even more.

And the quickest way is to become a genuine beast tamer!

Just as the thought crossed his mind, he suddenly heard a cryptic whisper in his ear, overlapping as if composed of ancient and mysterious chants.

Though he had never heard such a language, Lu Yu understood its meaning:

“The Gate of Truth, successfully bound…”

His world was suddenly engulfed by an endless maelstrom of chaos, and in the blink of an eye, he entered a dark and void space.

In the chaos, Lu Yu seemed to transform into an indescribable grand being, dwelling upon the unfathomable muddy expanse of chaos, intangible with endless darkness and murkiness.

Billions of arms gently moved, vibrating the chaotic realm.

Chaos shattered, evolving boundless earth, fire, wind, and water, giving birth to worlds and lives, which were then swallowed up by muddy chaos, returning to nothingness.

“This is not a beast-taming space. This is…”

Shocked, Lu Yu instinctively wanted to see himself, but an inexplicable sense of danger stopped him.

If he saw clearly, it might invite an unknown horror.

With this thought, he subconsciously lowers his gaze, only to see countless bubbles wrapping around one of his arms, with millions of lights converging.

Each bubble emits a rainbow-like aura with enigmatic whispers as if uttering the highest truths.

They gather together to form a semblance of a broken portal, as if encompassing all truths of the universe—past, present, future, eternal and singular.

As Lu Yu’s eyes settle on them, many bubbles begin to disperse, revealing something that causes him to widen his eyes in surprise:

“This is…”