Beast Taming: Starting From Zero

After confirming that Crowned Meow was only under hypnosis, the transaction of exchanging the pet for money went smoothly.

Qiao Sang’s spirits lifted as she looked at the payment confirmation, making her more talkative.

“Why doesn’t your Crowned Meow want to practice... farting?”

This question had puzzled Qiao Sang for a long time. If it practiced farting, it could potentially learn teleportation, a foolproof skill. She couldn’t understand why any pet would refuse such a beneficial technique.

Wang Yiding, holding Crowned Meow, paused.

“How do you know about that?”

“Remember, you called me this morning?” Qiao Sang said.

“Crowned Meow went to the Hongying Beast Battle Club yesterday as my sparring partner.”

“It was you!” Wang Yiding exclaimed.

Qiao Sang smiled but said nothing.

“By the way, why did you hang up before I finished speaking this morning?” Wang Yiding asked.

Qiao Sang paused, then replied, “Bad signal.”

Wang Yiding: ...

That excuse sounded oddly familiar…

“You still haven’t told me why Crowned Meow doesn’t want to practice farting.” To avoid further questioning, Qiao Sang smoothly shifted the topic back.

After all, he’d just handed her a million yuan. If he found out she might’ve been the reason Crowned Meow ran away, he’d probably want his money back...

Wang Yiding started to feel embarrassed. If she had been a guy or a faceless internet friend, he would’ve expressed his frustration about the whole farting practice thing.

But in front of a girl, one who looked his age and was quite attractive, discussing farting just seemed too crude...

“Maybe Crowned Meow thinks that practicing bowel movement exercises to learn teleportation is too ridiculous. I was too quick to believe online advice.” Wang Yiding explained.

Ridiculous... Yabao, who had just learned teleportation through this method, froze.

Qiao Sang, trying to reason with him, said, “But you’ve never had it practice. How can you be sure it won’t work?”

Wang Yiding shook his head.

“Honestly, even if it could learn, it still wouldn’t practice. When it ran away, I realized it would never do something so... undignified.”

Undignified... Yabao stiffened even more.

Noticing Yabao’s discomfort, Qiao Sang remembered he was also quite image-conscious, though sometimes a bit airheaded and didn’t connect everything to his image.

Better change the subject…

“What’s this pet called? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before.” Qiao Sang glanced at a nearby dark blue, medium-sized bird pet and shifted the topic.

Wang Yiding hesitated briefly before answering, “It’s a pet from the Linko region called Sight Bird. It has a visual-sharing ability.”

Visual sharing?

Qiao Sang blinked and looked closely at the bird’s eyes.

Little Treasure floated over, invisible, curiously leaning in to examine it.

Sight Bird’s body stiffened; it felt an odd gaze, leaving it too scared to move.

Qiao Sang soon noticed that the bird’s pupils emitted a faint blue glow, so weak that without a close look, it seemed like the natural color of its eyes.

At the same time, 100 meters above Qiao Sang’s head in the sky…

A man and a woman sat on a flying pet, each wearing listening devices. Their eyes glowed the same color as the Sight Bird’s pupils.

The man in casual attire closed his eyes, pinched his temples, and sighed, “Look at the genius son you raised. Answering whatever’s asked, and even what isn’t. How could he be so dense?”

All she’d asked was the pet’s name, yet he’d revealed the visual-sharing ability too.

The woman with her hair in a bun, unimpressed, retorted, “Oh, so he’s only my son now? When he got into Shengshui High School, were you as accomplished back in the day? If he’s dense, what does that make you?”

The man replied unhappily, “Why bring up the past? I had to self-study back then with no resources. He, on the other hand, has 24/7 tutors and barely made it into Shengshui High School. And now, even with a contract with Crowned Meow, he didn’t make the school team. Apparently, he didn’t inherit any of my talent.”

The woman rolled her eyes.

“I already asked. The team’s selections are mainly from special admissions and top-recommend students.”

“In the official tryouts later, if he wins against a team member, he’ll get in.”

The man sighed.

“If he’s gullible enough to believe that online nonsense about farting to learn teleportation, he doesn’t stand a chance against the team.”

The woman quipped, “He’s like you. Remember when you believed that online girlfriend who said she had cancer, gave her all your savings, only to find out she was married... and a guy?”

The man coughed, embarrassed.

“Why keep bringing up the past? That was innocence. His case is stupidity.”

The woman shot back coldly, “Wang Weiye, after all you’ve said, you think he’s stupid, right? Fine. He’s my son. You can leave.”

The man: ...

Qiao Sang, unaware her casual question almost sparked a family feud.

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That night, Qiao Sang lay in bed, too excited to sleep.

She couldn’t believe she’d earned a million and that Little Treasure had learned Shadow Control, all just by going out to buy a freshining potion.

She’d never dared to dream of this, at most just making it to the Instellar Cup...

Qiao Sang turned, feeling satisfied as she watched Little Treasure, who was still wearing a virtual helmet and diligently learning skills late into the night.

Though Shadow Control was mastered, there were still more skill disks to explore.

Now, Little Treasure could learn whatever he wanted, and she had no intention of interfering.

If anyone ever claimed virtual helmets were just for escapism, she’d be the first to argue.

Escapism? No, this was learning!

Fortunately, Little Treasure was unaware of Qiao Sang’s thoughts; otherwise, he would likely spend the entire night glued to the virtual helmet.

Qiao Sang watched Little Treasure for a while, then opened her phone and searched for more information on Sight Bird.

She soon found what she wanted.

> Sight Bird: Brown-eyed with a blue glow when using its visual-sharing ability. It can transmit its visual field to a desired recipient. The higher the level of this ability, the more people it can share visuals with simultaneously.

Brown eyes, glowing blue when active… Qiao Sang felt a sense of validation.

No wonder she found the Sight Bird’s eyes unsettling. It seemed someone had been monitoring the million-alliance coins transaction scene through its ability.

This didn’t bother Qiao Sang, though. In fact, she thought contracting a Sight Bird might be quite useful.

This kind of support ability might not be particularly valuable in battles, but it could greatly enhance survival in a secret realm…