The Mysterious Jade Pendant

"Am I going to transmigrate?"

The sweet voice by his ear forcibly pulled Chen Yuan from his thoughts. He looked around, only to find himself still in his bedroom, with pitch-black darkness beyond the window.

No, he had not transmigrated.

As Chen Yuan pondered this, he discovered that the speck in his mind was right before him, its entire surface blooming with brilliant fluorescent light.

At the same time, the voice from before rang out again:

"Huh? I didn't transmigrate?"

Chen Yuan could clearly hear the disappointment in her tone.

He stared blankly into space, studying the speck in his mind for a moment. Then, as if realizing something, he tentatively said, "Hello?"

At that moment, the fluorescent light blooming from the speck trembled wildly, as though startled. An excited, exhilarated voice then came through:

"Eh, hello, hello!"

"Are you from Donghuang too?"

"Where are you? Why can't I see you?"

"My name is Jiang Wenning. What's yours?"

Hearing the string of questions, Chen Yuan's expression stiffened. He hurriedly cut her off. "Easy, easy. You have too many questions."

As soon as he said that, both of them fell silent.

Chen Yuan rubbed his brow and asked, "Can you see me?"

Jiang Wenning answered especially quickly. "No. I can only see a hazy gray space and a glowing speck."

Chen Yuan's eyes flickered as he mused, "That's the same as what I see."

Many thoughts arose in his mind. After considering them for a moment, he continued, "Can you tell me how you entered this state?"

This time, perhaps realizing how strange the scene before her was, Jiang Wenning hesitated for a while before answering, "I was meditating."

"Meditating?" Chen Yuan was startled.

He had been meditating just moments ago as well.

"Yes. While I was meditating, I noticed my Jade Pendant glowing. I looked down at it, and before I knew it..." Jiang Wenning trailed off.

"Jade Pendant!" Chen Yuan's pupils constricted as he blurted out in astonishment.

"What is it? Don't tell me you have a Jade Pendant too?" Jiang Wenning asked in confusion.

Chen Yuan did not hide anything from Jiang Wenning. After he described the shape and appearance of his family's ancestral Jade Pendant, an excited voice rang by his ear:

"Yes, yes, yes! Mine looks like that too!"

"My dad said this Jade Pendant was left behind by our ancestors and has been passed down for several hundred years."

"Could we have been relatives five hundred years ago?"

Chen Yuan's expression froze, and he muttered, "That really is possible."

Leaving aside the Jade Pendant's history for now, it seemed quite miraculous. During meditation, it could connect its owners to one another and allow them to speak across vast distances.

Hearing Chen Yuan's speculation, Jiang Wenning's eyes lit up. She eagerly asked, "I'm in Magic City. Where are you?"

"Um..."

Chen Yuan hesitated for a moment before saying in a low voice, "Baokun City."

"Sure enough, we're over a thousand kilometers apart!!! But my dad never mentioned that the Jade Pendant could do this."

Chen Yuan guessed, "Maybe it's because of the changes in the world."

"That makes sense." Jiang Wenning nodded slightly. The excitement gradually faded from her face as she muttered softly, "But in our era, we have phones. We achieved long-distance communication ages ago. This Jade Pendant seems pretty useless..."

Chen Yuan fell silent for a moment, but he agreed with Jiang Wenning's view.

Weren't phones far more convenient than Jade Pendants for communication?

But then he suddenly remembered something. His expression turned serious as he asked, "You mentioned meditation earlier. Are you already a Beast Tamer?"

A smile appeared on Jiang Wenning's face, and her voice was cheerful. "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm! I successfully awakened on my very first meditation!"

"That's impressive." Chen Yuan sincerely praised her.

She was actually on the same level as him. As expected of another Jade Pendant owner.

"What about you? Are you a Beast Tamer too?"

"Yes."

"Have you contracted a pet beast?"

"I contracted a falcon."

"I contracted Nuomi."

"Nuomi?" Chen Yuan paused.

"Nuomi is the Ragdoll Cat I raised. She stole and ate a Spiritual Plant my dad kept at home, then evolved into a pet beast," Jiang Wenning replied.

Chen Yuan's gaze flickered, and he asked without hesitation, "What is a Spiritual Plant?"

"You're already a Beast Tamer, yet you don't know what Spiritual Plants are?" Jiang Wenning exclaimed in surprise before explaining, "Spiritual Plant is short for Spiritual Plant life. They usually contain wondrous natural energy that can help pet beasts grow and evolve."

Chen Yuan nodded in understanding.

Jiang Wenning's voice continued, "My dad also said that the Spiritual Tide during the rainstorm wasn't very strong, so only a very small number of animals could evolve directly through spiritual energy."

"Most evolved by consuming Spiritual Plants."

"But as the Spiritual Tide progresses, more and more ordinary animals will be able to evolve directly into Extraordinary Creatures."

Chen Yuan praised her at the right moment. "That's amazing. You know so much."

A bright smile spread across Jiang Wenning's face, and her voice was light and cheerful. "Hehe, if there's anything you don't understand in the future, just ask me."

At this point, Jiang Wenning paused briefly, choosing her words before continuing, "Oh, there's another extremely important piece of information."

"Go on." Chen Yuan gathered his thoughts.

"Extraordinary Creatures are divided into different ranks based on their potential and combat power. The higher the rank, the greater an Extraordinary Creature's potential for development and the stronger it is."

"So, the rank of the pet beast you contract should be as high as possible."

"But it seems an Extraordinary Creature's rank isn't fixed. It can be raised through certain methods."

Hearing this, Chen Yuan could not help thinking of the advancement paths on his data panel, and his heart trembled.

"Ahem, I don't really know much about these things yet, either." Jiang Wenning coughed softly before continuing, "Once I report to the Beast Taming Academy tomorrow and learn more, I'll tell you."

"The Beast Taming Academy?"

"That's right. Since I successfully awakened during my first meditation, I was invited to join the Beast Taming Academy and study Beast Taming Knowledge in depth."

As she spoke, Jiang Wenning lowered her head to glance at her watch. Upon realizing it was nearly midnight, she hurriedly said, "Enough talking. I need to get to sleep. I have to get up early tomorrow to catch a flight."

"Oh, right, you still haven't told me your name!!!"

Chen Yuan's mouth twitched. He had not expected Jiang Wenning to still remember that.

He had originally been unwilling to casually reveal his real name, but on second thought, the girl calling herself Jiang Wenning had spoken sincerely and had unhesitatingly shared Beast Taming Knowledge with him.

"My name is Chen Yuan. Yuan as in 'water gathering into an abyss,'" he said.

"Alright, Chen Yuan. Good night."

Her voice remained sweet and cheerful, but in the next moment, Jiang Wenning's face was filled with confusion. "Oh, right. Do you know how to leave?"

Chen Yuan guessed, "Since we entered this state while meditating, stop meditating and don't focus your mental power here."

As soon as he said that, the speck before him gradually dimmed until it disappeared.

That hazy gray space also slowly vanished, as though it had never existed.

Chen Yuan lay on his bed, staring at the ceiling as he touched the cold Jade Pendant on his chest and gradually fell asleep.

The night grew deeper.