Chapter 3: Raising Non-Native Creatures
[System file data is being decompressed...]
【Decompression successful! 】
Feng Qing'an had been busy with his family all day, eating a lot of meat and fish, with his mouth full of oil and his stomach bulging. He had just digested some of the food and was lying on his bed. In a daze, he heard a mechanical voice and suddenly opened his eyes.
"Successful?"
[The Immortal Cultivation Guidance System... The name is wrong, the system is being renamed...]
[The Beast Tamer Training System is being prepared...]
Feng Qing'an regained consciousness. He sat up from the bed, his expression changing constantly. He slowly exhaled and calmed himself, but he still couldn't hide the doubts and urge to complain in his heart.
"How did my good immortal cultivation system become a beastmaster system?"
Cultivating immortals, moving mountains and filling the sea, and living forever, who wouldn't envy? Who wouldn't yearn for it? But now, it has inexplicably become a beastmaster training system, which seems a bit out of place, and the style of the painting is a bit wrong.
There are people who practice cultivation in this world. Feng Qing'an has been in this world for ten years. Although he has only been to the county town at most, he can confirm this.
Because, when he was three years old, which was when most children just began to remember things, the lake near the village was haunted by an extremely vicious water ghost that harmed people. He still remembered how terrified the people in the village were at that time.
But not long after, the village paid for a Taoist priest to perform a ritual. Feng Qing'an was taken by his parents to watch the ritual. He didn't see anything, but since the ritual, the lake has become calm, and there have been no more deaths every now and then.
Since then, people's hearts have been at peace. Although one or two people can still be heard drowning in the lake every year, it is still within the acceptable range for ordinary people.
This is an incident that cannot prove anything, but Feng Qing'an witnessed it. He clearly remembered that it was an ordinary morning and he watched a person flying in the sky full of morning glow.
But what was surprising was that when he asked others, almost everyone thought it was just his little kid's imagination. Only when he asked his brother did he get confirmation that his brother had also seen it.
During that period, Feng Qing'an was itching to practice. He even dreamed at night about how he could practice. It was not until half a year later that the urge gradually faded away.
After all, he was just an ordinary farmer's child. Let alone seeking immortality, even traveling far away was a big problem. Even if he had wisdom from his previous life, it would not be of much use.
But now, this system that had suddenly successfully decompressed the system had once again aroused Feng Qing'an's long-suppressed desire to practice, so that he was now extremely excited and no longer had any sense of sleep.
The only problem is how a good immortal cultivation system turned into a beast taming system. The style is a little mismatched. However, he is just an ordinary person and has no room for choice. He should just be happy to have a system and not complain about it.
"Speaking of which, it was because of this system problem that I failed to decompress it nine times. How come it succeeded now? Am I lucky?"
[Matching the laws of heaven...]
[Secret world hidden places are being recorded...]
[All living things are being recorded...]
[Heavenly materials and earthly treasures are being collected...]
[The Beast Tamer Training System has been successfully launched! Looking forward to your first use! ]
The successive reminder sounds suppressed all the distracting thoughts in Feng Qingan's mind. He couldn't wait to silently recite:
"system!"
[Welcome to your first use, the host information is being detected, please wait...]
“…”
[It is detected that the host is not a beastmaster yet, the system task is started and is being released for you! ]
[Main Quest: Become a Leveled Beast Tamer]
[Requirements: Condense the first soul contract and successfully contract a beast pet. ]
[Reward: "Spirit Parasitism"]
“…”
Listening to the neutral mechanical sound in his mind, Feng Qingan looked a little confused. Who could tell him how to become a beastmaster? What is the so-called soul contract? How to condense it?
But fortunately, the system detected that he had nothing, which was very considerate.
[It is detected that the host currently has no soul skills to practice, the side quest is being started and is being released for you]
[Side Quest: Farsightedness]
[Explanation: An excellent beastmaster needs to have a far-sighted vision and prepare a beast pet for himself in advance]
[Requirement: Raise a creature that is not of your own species]
[Reward: "Spiritual Attraction and Soul Condensation Technique"]
At this moment, Feng Qing'an's breathing became heavy. Although the method of cultivation seemed to be a little bit wrong, the path to transcendence was already in front of him. Compared with the previous practice where there was nowhere to find it, what he had to do now was to step on it.
"Raising creatures that are not of our species? That means anything other than humans is allowed!"
Feng Qing'an ran out of bed, pushed open the window of the room, and his eyes naturally looked at the noisy poultry, chickens, ducks, and two big white geese in the yard.
Originally, with their family's financial situation, even if they only accepted gifts from others, they had jumped from a poor peasant family to a middle-class family. They could eat meat every now and then, so there was no need to raise these.
But his mother liked to raise chickens. When the family was poor, Yin raised a few old hens, hoping that the eggs they laid would provide nourishment for him and his elder brother.
After his eldest brother killed people indiscriminately in the imperial examination hall and their family became rich, his father bought two cows and his mother built chicken coops and duck cages, making the yard stink. Feng Qing'an complained several times but it was all in vain. How could a farmer's family despise these things?
And today, the news came back that his elder brother Feng Qingping had won the top spot in the imperial examination, and their family held a banquet. Most of the poultry raised by his mother Yin were slaughtered, but the remaining chickens, ducks, and geese, totaled more than a dozen.
"Raise!"
Feng Qing'an's gaze naturally swept from the chicken coop and duck cages to the two big white geese in the yard that were particularly conspicuous in the moonlight.
The brain of a goose is much larger than that of a chicken or duck. The external manifestation of this is that it can recognize people, so it can be used to guard the house and replace domestic dogs.
“…”
Feng Qing'an's gaze wandered over the two geese for a long time, and finally he closed the window.
The side quests released by the system were obviously to serve the main quest, and the requirement for the main quest was to contract a pet beast. He couldn't possibly contract a goose at that time, that wouldn't make sense.
Is he going to take a goose out for a walk? Wouldn't that make people laugh to death?
If it's a white crane, it's not impossible, you can consider it, but if it's a big goose, forget it, and change your target.
But he was just a mortal now, and he didn't have many choices. He could only choose from the poultry and livestock he could see in the village. He would like to raise jackals, wolves, tigers and leopards, but how could a little peasant like him touch such things?
"Hmm? Wolf!"
Feng Qing'an returned to bed and thought about it. His eyes lit up and he came up with an idea. He lay down on the bed and tossed and turned, hoping to fall asleep as soon as possible so that it would be dawn when he opened his eyes.
But it was not so easy to fall asleep now. He kept thinking about the system that had just been activated. He thought of something else and said silently in his mind,
"panel!"
[Insufficient authority, please become a beastmaster as soon as possible]
The voice was stiff and rigid, without any emotion at all.
But Feng Qing'an did not give up. He kept on tossing and turning, and did not fall asleep until the moon was at its highest point in the sky.
However, all the efforts for so long were not in vain. He figured out one thing: this Beast Tamer System had no intelligence at all. It only responded to certain keywords. There was no way of communicating with it, let alone making adjustments.
