Blue Star, Jianghe City.
Located in the ancient Eastern Wasteland, adjacent to the Jianghe River, facing the sea, where spring warmth brings forth blooming flowers.
In the vast and boundless ocean, the seawater was azure, reflecting and sparkling under the warm early spring sun.
A ship, sounding a long whistle, set sail. Under the blue sky, Swordfish Gulls and Gray-backed Gulls cut through the white clouds, their joyful cries echoing.
In the deep, dark blue sea, sailfish swam freely, and near the surface, Gyarados leaped out of the water, splashing water everywhere.
The temperate monsoon climate meant that westerly winds prevailed throughout the year, and with warm currents passing along the coast, rainfall was abundant, making winters warm and summers cool.
It was February.
The immortal poet once said: "Spring summons me with misty scenery, and nature bestows upon me its literary grace."
Nature fully displayed its magnificent scenery, and Jianghe City, with its superior geographical environment and world-leading Pet Beast combat, cultivation, medical, and educational institutions, along with its impeccable Beast Taming competitions, attracted a large number of tourists and Trainers every year.
This was a city yearned for by Beast Masters.
Particularly noteworthy was the [Four Seasons Secret Realm] controlled by the "Secret Realm Management Bureau" of the local "Beastmaster Association."
This Secret Realm was divided into four areas: "Misty Scenery," "Locust Order," "Falling Leaves," and "Profound Ice." Of course, Trainers and Beast Masters preferred to call them the "Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter" Secret Realms.
Every year, a large number of people awakened their Beast Taming Talent.
Acquiring a Pet Beast of one's own was the mark of becoming a Beast Master.
One method was to directly purchase pre-captured Beast Taming Balls from a legitimate store.
Wealthy individuals could also choose to hatch expensive Pet Beast eggs, while others preferred to capture wild Pet Beasts themselves and forge a bond from scratch.
Although there were many wild Pet Beasts in the city, the [Four Seasons Secret Realm], nourished by otherworldly spiritual power, had a greater variety of Pet Beasts and higher potential.
The "Spring" and "Summer" Secret Realms were open to Newbie Trainers, charging only a small entrance fee, making them the best choice for Newbie Trainers to capture and train Pet Beasts.
At this moment, within the [Summer Secret Realm]...
True to its name, it was summer all year round.
Towering giant trees grew straight, obscuring the sky and sun, their dense canopy shielding the rising sun.
The stream tinkled.
Naturally growing vines hung down, and faint yellow light filtered through the gaps in the leaves, illuminating the large expanse of mist in the primeval forest, reflecting dazzling colors under the scattering of the Tyndall effect.
In the Summer Secret Realm, it was early morning.
A Chipmunk, holding an acorn in its claws, leaped among the high branches, then suddenly stopped.
Its nose twitched, detecting a smell that didn't belong to the forest.
Pungent oil, choking burnt wire smell, and a strong chemical agent odor.
Standing upright, it peered down curiously through the branches and leaves.
Its gaze was blank, and the acorn in its hand dropped.
A giant mechanical shell, 3x3x3 meters high, was charred, leaving a terrible drag mark on the ground, lying in a large pit.
Around it were bloodstains of some unknown creature, suggesting a tragic scene had occurred here.
The safety door was clearly deformed, Gene Serum was scattered on the ground, and unidentified USB drives lay strewn about.
The display screen on the front of the machine had a lot of static, seemingly trying to piece something together, and electric sparks flickered.
A beastmaster bracelet lay quietly on the ground.
Within a five-meter radius around the giant machine, no grass grew; all plants had withered.
Plants beyond five meters seemed to have mutated due to some radiation, growing extremely vigorously and twistedly.
The Chipmunk only peeked once and felt dizzy, seeing little acorns everywhere, and quickly moved away.
No Pet Beast voluntarily approached this area.
Except for a small white furball in front of the machine.
"Woof..."
The small white furball stirred.
The soft sunlight urged consciousness to return.
Xue Runian slowly opened his ice-blue eyes, surveying the mess around him, slightly dazed.
Am I... transmigrated?
Xue Runian, calm down.
He slowly took two breaths, calming his trembling emotions.
The most pressing matter was to figure out the current situation and ensure his own safety.
His round pupils closed, and memories not his own flooded in.
My current location is in the Summer Secret Realm of "Jianghe City."
This seems to be a parallel world where the Blue Star timeline has undergone a change.
These remaining memory fragments provided Xue Runian with valuable information.
This was a world about "Beast Taming."
In this world, besides humans, countless magical creatures lived; they were called "Pet Beasts."
Pet Beasts possessed extraordinary power, including but not limited to animals, plants, inanimate objects (such as Little Stone Monsters, Green Hair Brush), ghosts, machines...
Pet Beasts could provide powerful convenience to the Beast Master who contracted them, and Beast Masters could provide Pet Beasts with housing, evolution materials, and even provide amplification with their Beast Taming Talent.
Powerful Pet Beasts could even part waters, move mountains and fill seas, teleport... helping Beast Masters reach the pinnacle, bringing endless status, wealth, and fame.
"Pet Beasts" were the core of the world; all industries operated on the foundation of Pet Beasts.
This led to the evolution of many Beast Taming-related professions, such as the Monster Control Unit, Trainer, Mechanist, Coordinator, Breeder, and so on.
Each profession was further subdivided into numerous fields.
But...
Xue Runian looked at his snow-white fur, and wagged his tail in confusion.
What does this have to do with me, a Little Wolf Cub?
The Little Wolf Cub blankly opened its mouth, but no sound came out.
A little messy, a little cute.
Hey, no, if you're going to make me transmigrate, at least let me transmigrate into a human, right?
What's the meaning of transmigrating into a Pet Beast?
Xue Runian looked through the memory fragments.
The owner of the memories was named "He Fan," who sounded like a character destined to receive a Boxed Lunch.
He Fan was not from Jianghe City, but a small leader of an organization called the "Flame Team," a Senior Beastmaster.
The "Flame Team" widely roamed the gray areas of various cities.
Some had completely legitimate industry chains, while others always did things that pushed the boundaries but were harmless.
This made the local law enforcement agencies frustrated but helpless.
Logically, given He Fan's rank, he could have openly secured an official position.
However, he was mindful of his leader's kindness in recognizing his talent and constantly wished for an opportunity to make a contribution to the "Flame Team" before leaving.
Finally, he got this opportunity.
According to reliable information, a group of people from a distant alliance region had smuggled themselves across the sea.
They carried a large amount of Pet Beast data, Gene Serum, and Skill Machines, and a new type of beastmaster bracelet reportedly under development, and had already contacted a buyer to sell the goods on the black market.
The value of Skill Machines was self-evident, the level of those Pet Beast data was even "top secret," and [Gene Serum] was a [Forbidden] item globally prohibited from research.
Even the "Flame Team" dared not easily get involved; if this thing went wrong, it could easily backfire, and it shouldn't be developed lightly.
But.
If he could seize these things and offer them to the leader...
He Fan's heart stirred.
The smugglers used powerful Pet Beasts to distort space, sending the goods into the Summer Secret Realm to smuggle them into Jianghe City.
Space travel consumed immense energy, and only a few high-level individuals were transporting the goods.
Logically, the strength of a high-level Beast Master was enough to walk sideways in a "Newbie Secret Realm," but unfortunately, they ran straight into He Fan, who had set an ambush early.
The group was defeated by He Fan's Pet Beast.
However, an unforeseen event occurred: the machine containing the goods was impacted during the battle, and with a rumbling sound, it slid down the valley.
The leader, who seemed like a scholar, lay on the ground clutching his wound, shouting something with a tense expression.
He Fan had no time to worry about anything else and quickly gave chase, summoning a heavy-duty Pet Beast at the bottom of a river valley to block it.
But the powerful impact finally broke through the machine's last layer of defense. In the cabinet storing dozens of tubes of Gene Serum, the topmost black Gene Serum bore the brunt, shattering on the ground.
As the serum volatilized, He Fan instantly felt dizzy and disoriented, his vision swirling with colorful halos as if he had eaten poisonous mushrooms, his body losing strength and spasming uncontrollably...
Everything around him began to smoke, corroding into large pits and dissipating into nothingness.
In his dying moments, his limited foreign language knowledge recalled that the scholar had shouted something like, "Gene Pollution"...
...
Xue Runian wanted to rub his forehead, but lifted his paw and came to his senses, then used his paw to wipe his face instead.
"Woof ~"
So, He Fan got his Boxed Lunch, indirectly leading to my transmigration?
Logically, I should have transmigrated into He Fan, but He Fan's genes were polluted.
So I transmigrated into a nearby Pet Beast?
No, why wasn't it gene-polluted?
Xue Runian stood up on all fours, only a dozen centimeters tall, feeling that everything around him was enormous.
He carefully avoided the depressions and suspicious dried marks on the ground and walked to the beastmaster bracelet.
This wristband looked ordinary on the outside, no different from the wristbands on the market, and even had the "Liwen Company" logo on the wrist strap.
Liwen Company was the leading company in the world's Pet Beast industry.
The "beastmaster bracelet" it developed had powerful functions such as communication, Pet Beast identification, resource sniffing, and real-time information display.
The Little Wolf Cub laboriously fiddled with the wristband with its two paws, finally activating it, entering identity information, and passing authentication.
Now, he could be considered a "person" with a legal identity.
[Activation complete.]
[Welcome, Provisional Beast Master Xue Runian.]
Because Xue Runian had not yet contracted a Pet Beast, the interface displayed "Provisional Beast Master."
Xue Runian placed the wristband steadily, facing himself, stood obediently, and poked the "Scan" function with his soft paw pad.
[Name: Little Earth Wolf (different colored) (Cub)]
[Attributes: Earth, Ice]
[Growth Level: Awakening Level 2]
[Species Level: Intermediate Extraordinary]
[Skill: Claw Strike]
[Abnormal Status – Meme Contamination: Using Gene Serum within 1 hour has no negative effects (Remaining 37 minutes 14 seconds)]
The Little Wolf Cub's ice-blue eyes widened, looking at the content on the light screen in disbelief.
This abnormal status...
Is this an abnormal status?!
He swallowed with a "gulp."
Xue Runian looked at the collapsed Gene Serum cabinet beside him and the faintly glowing Gene Serum inside.
His gaze gradually changed.
It was as if the serum cabinet reached out to him, laughing heartily: "Hi hi hi, Gene Serum is here!"
"Why aren't you drinking?"
His ice-blue eyes blinked.
Xue Runian looked at the dozens of Gene Serum tubes, then at his own body, which was less than one and a half palm-sized.
He rubbed his creamy little belly.
The Little Wolf Cub gritted its teeth and stomped its paw.
Drink! Why wouldn't he drink it, the scoundrel!
...
"Gulp gulp..."
[Little Earth Wolf's potential has increased!]
[Little Earth Wolf's Skill judgment success rate has increased!]
[...]
"Gulp gulp gulp..."
[Little Earth Wolf's hidden stats have increased!]
[Little Earth Wolf has leveled up!]
[...]
"Burp ~"
[Little Earth Wolf has learned a new Skill!]
[Special move: Transformation (Unlocks after 10 victories)]