Beastmaster of the Ages

palm, her eyes shining as she rubbed its head.

“Pretty girl, don’t do that.
I’m neither a pet nor someone easy!”

“Oops, sorry!” The girl returned the little chick to Li Tianming, then looked expectantly at him.
“Big brother, could you give it to me?”

“No problem.
Remember to add some mushrooms when you stew it.
Satisfaction guaranteed!” Li Tianming happily captured the little chick, cursing it internally, “Let’s see if you’ll dare pick up girls again!”

The girl chuckled in amusement.
Li Tianming really liked the simple pure smile she had.
Once upon a time, there had been a girl like that too.
However, after she had joined the Flameyellow Scions Institute, competition had gradually changed her.

“Big brother, you really are rather funny.
I was just joking, I know it’s your lifebound beast.
I’m Jiang Feiling.
What’s your name?”

“Ahhh well his name is honestly kinda, really, very dumb.
He’s called Li Tianming, the ‘Tianming’ that means fate.” The little chick cut in.

“Big brother Tianming.” The girl smiled again, clearly amused by the temperament a cute little chick had.

“Lil’ sis Ling’er, you’re quite pretty.” The shameless little chick continued.

“Thank you, big brother… Ying Huo.”

“Little sister Ling’er, where’s your lifebound beast?” Considering how shameless the little chick was being, Li Tianming had no choice but to follow up

“I don’t have one.
I never was born with one.” Her voice was casual, like she didn’t care.

Li Tianming realised she seemed to be like an ordinary person, without any beast ki at all.
If you didn’t have a lifebound beast, you couldn’t cultivate.

“You don’t? Then just now…”

“Although I don’t have a lifebound beast, I have some special abilities.
These are secrets, but there’s this strange sense of familiarity I feel, like we’ve known each other for years, that makes me trust you.” She looked at Li Tianming guilelessly.

“You have that feeling too?” Li Tianming’s heart trembled.
Why? The more he talked with her, the more he breathed in her scent, the stronger the sense of comfortableness and familiarity grew.

He felt like they had known each other forever, but he could have sworn they had never met before.

“I find it strange too.
My ‘Spiritual Attachment’ reached complete synchronisation for the first time in my life just now.
The best synergy I’ve ever had is Qing’er, who was born on the same year, same month, same day as me.
Even then, it’s a grade six attachment.”

“What is Spiritual Attachment?” Li Tianming asked curiously.

“It’s the process that lets me transform my physical body into a spiritual body.
It’s an innate gift of mine that can comprehensively increase the combat power of whoever I attach myself to.
A perfect attachment would likely raise it by a full stage.”

“That is rather miraculous.” A girl, born without a lifebound beast, was able to attach her spirit to others to boost their combat strength?

The trust she had for him and that sense of familiarity didn’t seem so far-fetched with a complete synchronisation.

“Take a look at my fingernails.” She raised her hand, revealing ten slender and snow-white fingers to Li Tianming.
He grabbed them on reflex, luxuriating in the soft warmness he felt.

“Big brother…” The girl hurriedly pulled her hand back, her face reddening with a cute shyness.

“Oops,” Li Tianming hurriedly said.
He had acted before thinking just now.

“Just look at my fingernail.” Her face was still flushed as she raised her hands.

Strange symbols resembling heavenly patterns covered eight of them.
They were complicated and abstruse, and simply gazing at them was already giving him a minor headache.

Only two didn’t have such markings.
They shone like jewels, with strange power seemingly circulating within them.

”They say I have ten special abilities, except they’ve been sealed since birth.
I’ve unlocked two of them, one of which is Spiritual Attachment,” she indicated her right pinky, “And this finger grants me the ability of Temporal Field.
It lets me create a region of space where I can control the flow of time.” She said, slightly proudly.

Although she wasn’t a beastmaster, these two special abilities did make her seem to be Vermilion Bird’s most unique existence.
Furthermore, there were eight other fingernails left which would unlock at some unknown point.

“Ling’er, why not marry Li Tianming? It’ll be ridiculously overpowered if those two abilities of yours support Li Tianming!” The little chick suddenly said.

“That wouldn’t be a good idea, right? We just met…” The girl replied, flustered.

“Ignore it.
It hasn’t had a proper diet since young, so its brain has certain… ah, deficiencies.
Putting it bluntly, it’s mildly retarded.” Unable to endure it any further, Li Tianming tossed the chick back into the lifebound space, preventing it from babbling anymore nonsense.

“Li Tianming, you traittooooorr…” The little chick vanished before completing its curse, and peace returned once more.

Li Tianming was just about to take advantage of the situation and ask about her identity to create further opportunities to meet.
when someone suddenly shot out from the right.
Pushing Li Tianming away, the newcomer stood between the two, cutting his words short.
“Who are you, scoundrel! How dare you disrespect Ling’er!”

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