Chapter 6

Under Instructor Chen's guidance, Su Yang absorbed the newly born Storm Eagle into his body; when he pulled open his collar, he could see the Storm Eagle's tattoo on his chest.

His chest felt warm, his body growing hot; after becoming a Beast Tamer and bonding with his first pet beast, Su Yang's body began to slowly strengthen under the pet beast's influence, a process that would last about ten days.

A Beast Tamer's pet beast can be stored in two places.

One is forming a tattoo, directly attaching the pet beast to the Beast Tamer's body.

The Beast Tamer gains the pet beast's abilities for combat, compensating for their own weak fighting capacity, especially in the wild, where sudden emergencies can greatly enhance their survival.

But each Beast Tamer can only channel the power of one pet beast at a time.

A Beast Tamer's body can bear only one tattoo, so they store their remaining pet beasts in the Beast Space!

Su Yang and the others had just become Beast Tamers and could not yet open a Beast Space.

After bringing them to Qixing City No. 1 Middle School, Instructor Chen left; the school staff arranged their lodging and food, letting Su Yang and the others rest well through the night.

The next day, after registering their identity information, Su Yang and the others finally had some free time.

The awakening ceremony in Qixing City had not yet ended, and there were still seven days until Qixing No. 1 Middle School opened; during these seven days, Su Yang and the others could arrange their time freely.

Su Yang and Zhou Dahai left Qixing City together, bought a Earthworm Subway ticket, and returned to White Ant Town.

After exiting the Earthworm Subway and climbing the stairs upward, before they even saw the surface, Su Yang spotted a crisscrossing net of steel cables overhead.

Those steel cables were meant to guard against threats from the air.

The ferocious beasts near White Ant Town had been mostly cleared out, but intruding beasts still occasionally appeared, especially those coming from the air!

Su Yang and Zhou Dahai followed the muddy road for over a hundred meters, finally arriving at a slanted tin-roofed shack—this was Su Yang's home!

After parting ways, Su Yang knocked on the tin door.

"Is that you, brother?"

"Xiaoxiao, open the door quick!"

"Brother, brother!!!"

Su Yang heard a flurry of quick footsteps, then the tin door swung open; a small, pretty girl with a slightly yellowish complexion rushed into his arms.

"Brother, the people who came back from Qixing City yesterday said you successfully awakened? Is it true?"

"It's true!"

Su Yang patted Su Xiaoxiao's small head.

"That's wonderful! So wonderful!"

Su Xiaoxiao bounced right up in Su Yang's arms; luckily he reacted in time, or she might have hit her head against his chin!

"Brother, can we leave White Ant Town? I want to live in the city!" Su Xiaoxiao whispered in his ear. "I don't want to be like Chen Chen Xiaole—I want to live in the city!"

Su Yang said seriously: "We will move into the city. I promise."

Chen Chen Xiaole, Su Xiaoxiao's closest friend before, was taken two years ago by a demonized sparrow while helping her parents transplant rice seedlings outside town; Su Yang's entire family was present at the time, and the incident left deep trauma in Su Xiaoxiao's heart.

"Mm, I believe you, brother!"

"Where's Mom?"

"She's probably in the fields!" Su Xiaoxiao added, "I wanted to go with her, but she told me to wait here for you… I'll go call her back!"