Chapter 5: Chapter 5: Heart of the Spirit Tree and Reincarnation
Clap, clap, clap, applause broke out.
The applause did not come from the students in the class, but from outside the class.
Chris looked in the direction of the source of the sound, as did the other students and Mr. Stevens, who was standing at the podium.
One after the other, two young men walked into the classroom.
Seeing how the two were dressed, all the students in the class couldn't help but hold their breath, and Chris was no exception.
Sarah, the top student who was called upon by Mr. Stevens to answer a question just now, said that the Star Federation has three sects, five families, eight universities, and other major forces, but she did not mention or, like many others, she subconsciously forgot that there is a real behemoth that stands above all the beast taming forces, and that is the Star Federation Government!
The Star Federal Government is the real master of this country!
The reason why ordinary people rarely feel it is because the influence of the Star Federal Government does not need to be promoted. It has been silently integrated into every aspect and corner of the lives of the people of the Federation.
School textbooks, people's daily food and medicine, props and materials for breeding spiritual beasts, all of these are controlled and regulated by the federal government.
The Star Federation has many institutions and departments under it, which are responsible for maintaining the stable operation of this country. These institutions and departments include but are not limited to law, people's livelihood, economy, scientific research, etc.
Among these institutions and departments, the one that is closest to ordinary people and also attracts the most attention from the world is the Beastmaster Association!
The Beastmaster Association, as the name suggests, is an organization responsible for coordinating and managing matters related to beastmasters and spirit beasts.
The association provides all kinds of support and assistance to beastmasters, including but not limited to material trading, skill teaching, grade certification, etc.
At the same time, the Beastmaster Association also issues various tasks to Beastmasters, and coordinates and deploys the power of Beastmasters to where it is truly needed and suitable.
Furthermore, the Beastmaster Association is responsible for organizing a variety of large-scale public welfare activities. For example, the awakening ceremony during the graduation season each year is assisted by branches of the Beastmaster Association across the Federation.
The coat with black and white as the base color, auspicious cloud patterns on the sleeves, bow tie, and other edges, and shiny black Martin boots are the standard attire for the staff of the Beastmaster Association!
Those with white as the main background and black as the secondary background are the civilian staff of the Beast Tamer Association. Conversely, those with black as the main background and white as the secondary background are the professional Beast Tamers of the association!
At this moment, two people entered the class.
The latter, whose coat is mainly white, is a civilian assistant, while the former, whose coat is mainly black, is a professional beastmaster!
In today's era, as long as you are not a criminal who has committed crimes and has been deprived of the right to taming beasts, other normal and law-abiding citizens, everyone has the opportunity to awaken the talent of taming beasts through the awakening ceremony and then contract a spirit beast to become a beastmaster.
However, simply awakening talents and contracting a spirit pet is far from enough.
To put it nicely, such a beastmaster is called an apprentice beastmaster, or to put it bluntly, an amateur beastmaster.
Only those Beast Tamers who can cultivate their spirit pets to become excellent and powerful, stand out from the competition with countless other peers, prove their ability and qualifications to embark on the path of beast taming, and finally pass the secret realm assessment arranged by the Beast Tamer Association will be awarded professional certificates and become professional Beast Tamers.
Only by becoming a professional Beast Tamer can one truly embark on the path of Beast Taming. Only then will the Beast Tamer Association open up permissions to allow the purchase or exchange of high-level Beast Taming knowledge and precious Beast Taming props and materials.
Professional Beast Tamers usually do not need to work. They only need to concentrate on breeding spirit beasts to make them stronger. If they wish, they can even give up completely and do nothing and stop breeding spirit beasts. They only need to accept the call of the Beast Tamer Association when necessary, and the federal government will give them monthly money to guarantee their living expenses.
Even their family members and friends don't have to worry about their lives. The Star Federal Government also has corresponding support documents and will give priority to helping arrange suitable jobs for the family members and friends of professional beastmasters.
Becoming a professional beastmaster is like having a stable job! Moreover, when one person succeeds, everyone around him will benefit.
This road can be said to be the easiest way for ordinary people to cross the class and improve their social status.
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"My name is John Smith. There's no need for further self-introduction. After today, I may not meet most of you again."
The professional Beast Tamer from the Beast Tamer Association spoke. There was something strange in the tone of his voice, which made people feel uncomfortable. However, no one cared. As a professional Beast Tamer, it was normal to be a little arrogant, or it was still good.
With a height of 1.8 meters, a square face, and a pair of eagle-like sharp eyes, he gives people a very strong and oppressive feeling just by standing there.
John Smith looked around the class, his eyes fell on Mr. Stevens, and he nodded slightly.
Mr. Stevens stepped aside very tactfully. John Smith took two steps forward and stood at the center of the podium. After a brief pause, he spoke in a deep voice.
"I've taken a tour of your school and looked at all ten graduating classes. Your class gives me the best impression."
"It's not because of you, but because of your teacher. You have a good teacher!"
John Smith glanced at Mr. Stevens as he said that.
Mr. Stevens's slightly chubby face suddenly turned red with excitement. Being recognized as a good teacher by a professional beastmaster was more rewarding to him than any praise or bonus from other principals or leaders. Well, it would be even better if he could be given a banner, Mr. Stevens thought.
With a light chuckle, John Smith withdrew his gaze from Mr. Stevens, looked at the students in the class again, and continued.
"Your teacher is right. If you keep working hard and don't give up, you will be rewarded one day."
"However, I have to remind you that the path of a beastmaster is not as beautiful as you think. It is a very difficult road full of thorns, and countless people will fall along the way. I hope that when you encounter difficulties, you can remember what your teacher said today."
"Then, let me give you my personal advice. It's up to you whether to listen to it or not."
"Persistence does not mean being stubborn. If you want to become a qualified beastmaster, you must persist when you should persist, and be flexible when you should be flexible. Sometimes you should do things within your ability and stop when you are satisfied. Learning to give up is also a kind of courage."
"Okay, I won't say any more."
"Well, I guess you can't wait, Alex."
John Smith turned his gaze to the civilian assistant who followed him.
The young man called Alex wore a pair of round-frame glasses and looked delicate and thin.
After nodding in response, Alex walked down from the podium and distributed small cards of unknown material, similar to playing cards, to every student in the class.
"This is a spiritual guidance card. Those who know the situation don't need me to explain it, and those who don't understand don't need to know it either.
Just follow me." After seeing that the cards had been distributed, John Smith spoke and began to demonstrate.
"Put the card in the palm of your hand, or place it close to your body in any way you like, such as tuck it under your armpit. In short, find a way that makes you most comfortable."
No one asked for special treatment. All the students present followed John Smith's example and placed the card between the palms of their hands, then put their hands together to completely cover the card.
"Close your eyes, take a deep breath, empty your mind, and then use your spirit to sense and touch the card. It will lead you into the awakening ceremony."
John Smith continued to instruct.
All students followed the instructions, closed their eyes, focused their attention, and used their minds to feel and touch the cards.
Everyone can awaken the beast taming talent through the awakening ceremony, but there will always be people who are in poor condition for various reasons and cannot concentrate, thus unable to establish a connection with the card, resulting in being unable to enter the awakening ceremony. The reason why the school previously gave students a week-long holiday to let them rest at home and adjust their physical and mental state was for this purpose.
Chris adjusted his condition this week very well, even perfectly, and was full of energy and vitality.
Therefore, Chris was also the first student in Class 7 of Grade 3 to establish a spiritual connection with the card and successfully enter the awakening ceremony. This made the three people on the podium, John Smith, Alex, and Mr. Stevens, all look at him more.
Light gradually overflowed from the gaps between Chris's closed palms.
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The awakening ceremony, since it is called a ceremony, it must look like a ceremony.
You need to choose the right time and the right place, build an altar, place some offerings, and finally invite people to perform rituals.
Well, the specific operation is definitely not that exaggerated, but the process is basically the same.
In short, the ceremony will be very complicated and consume a huge amount of resources. It is naturally impossible to set up an altar and hold a ceremony in every city and every school.
The awakening ceremony is hosted by the official Star Federation. It is held regularly every year. The Beastmaster Association headquarters coordinates with other departments and even beastmaster organizations such as the three sects, five families, and eight academies to carry out specific operations related to the ceremony. The ceremony is held in a specially opened-up secret small world, and then through the spirit traction card, the spiritual consciousness of the person holding the card is drawn into the ritual awakening, and the beastmaster talent is awakened.
Chris was shaken, not physically, but mentally and spiritually.
Then, Chris felt that everything around him became nothing. He opened his eyes and there was nothing around him. The classroom was gone, as were his classmates and the teacher on the podium. Everything was gone.
Before Chris could react, he suddenly felt as if he had lost his footing and fell into the water.
It was a feeling of sinking into the vast ocean.
Sinking, sinking, and sinking again, the pressure around me continued to grow stronger.
Chris had an uncomfortable feeling that was indescribable. He struggled hard, but to no avail.
Gradually, Chris stopped moving and resisting, allowing his body to continue sinking and allowing the pressure around him to continue to grow stronger.
Gradually, he forgot the discomfort in his body, and then, suddenly waking up, Chris found that his consciousness and spirit became extremely clear at this moment! He could even remember things before he was three years old. The scene of riding his mother Susan's pet dog, the Little Moon Dog, and running wildly around the farm appeared clearly in his mind. Even the fragments of memories of his past life that he had awakened before, those originally hazy and unknown scenes of his past life became clear. He saw that planet, that country, the Great Wall, the Yellow River, the scene of himself working overtime in his past life, and many other things.
Chris was immersed in the memories of his past life, browsing everything in another world, his past life, from a God's perspective.
Suddenly, a light suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, pulling his thoughts, spirit, and consciousness back from the fragments of memories of his previous life.
It was a spot of light, a light blue spot of light.
After the first light spot appeared, the second light spot soon appeared, which was golden yellow, and then the third and fourth light spots of various colors continued to appear. There were more and more light spots, and they appeared faster and faster.
Finally, a sea of countless colored light spots appeared before Chris's eyes, like a colorful starry galaxy, extremely mysterious and infinitely beautiful.
Suddenly, Chris found that he was also glowing.
Looking down, Chris discovered that the position of his heart was emitting a bright green light, a green light full of vitality. Fortunately, it was the heart that was emitting the green light, not the top of the head. Chris couldn't help but have such thoughts in his mind.
Focusing his attention on the green light of his heart, Chris suddenly had an epiphany.
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Heart of the Spiritual Wood (Level 2): Improves the efficiency of cultivating pets with wood and fantasy attributes, making it easier for wood and fantasy attributes to break through bottlenecks, and slightly increases the power of spiritual beasts when using wood and fantasy attribute skills.
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So, this is his naturally awakened talent for taming beasts?
The heart of the second-level spiritual tree.
Yes, the Heart of the Spirit Wood is a relatively rare and powerful beast taming talent, let alone a second-level one, which at least surpasses 99% of his peers.
With this talent for taming beasts, he has already won at the starting line.
As long as he doesn't give up and waste his talent, and just follows the procedures and takes one step at a time, he will surely become a professional Beast Tamer!
Wrong!
Chris reacted suddenly.
Although the Heart of the Spirit Tree is a rare talent, it should not have been awakened naturally by him. Otherwise, the sign of his awakening should have been a vision of an endless foggy forest, rather than the awakening of past life memories.
So, he has awakened his second beast taming talent!?
Indeed, under the premise of having awakened naturally, there is a chance of awakening the second beast taming talent through the awakening ceremony, and the probability is not small, about 20%.
What a lucky guy! Chris sighed in his heart.
However, at this moment, Chris was more curious about where his naturally awakened talent had gone. It won't be swallowed, right? I'm in a hurry about this!
Looking up and down, Chris did not find any other parts of the body glowing green except the heart.
Wait!
There was a place that he could not see with his eyes.
Having realized that he was now in a spiritual state rather than a physical body, Chris closed his eyes and used his spiritual consciousness to check.
Immediately, Chris found that there was light emitting from the position of his brain. Fortunately, it was not green light, and it was not a single-color light. It was a two-color light group entangled with black and white. The little guy was really unique, different from others and special. However, it should be special, because it was what natural awakening should look like.
Chris moved his spiritual consciousness closer to the black and white light ball and perceived it. The next moment, enlightenment emerged in his mind again.
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Reincarnation (First Order)
Inheritance of Reincarnation: Allows contracted spirit beasts to inherit the abilities of other spirit beasts through the remains of other spirit beasts and other materials, including but not limited to skills, attributes, and combat experience.
Reincarnation of the Wheel of Reincarnation: It allows the contracted beast to be reincarnated and return to its newborn form. There is a high probability that the beast will break through the upper limit of its bloodline after reincarnation. At the same time, special materials can be used during reincarnation to mutate the beast's race.