Breaking Through to Two-Star Dou Master, Beast Tamer Legacy?

Xiao Zhan strode to the front and took his granddaughter from the midwife's arms.

The baby girl didn't cry or fuss. She opened her big, round eyes and gazed around.

"What a beautiful baby." Ya Fei looked at her with adoration and affection, one hand unconsciously touching her belly.

It wouldn't be long before the baby in her belly was born, too. She wondered whether it would be a boy or a girl.

"Indeed. Her eyes are exactly like Yu'er's when he was born." Xiao Zhan looked up at his son.

Ya Fei held out her arms. "Father, let me hold her."

But as soon as she finished speaking, she felt a kick in her belly and couldn't help letting out a yelp.

Xiao Yu gently patted her belly and laughed. "Well, would you look at that! You haven't even been born yet, and you're already jealous!"

"Stop stirring things up." Ya Fei pushed Xiao Yu's hand away and glared at him.

Xiao Zhan burst out laughing.

He'd thought it would be many years before he saw a scene of children and grandchildren filling the house.

Who could have imagined that in just a year or two, he'd already be wondering how he could hold them all in his arms?

That day, the Xiao Clan held a celebration banquet.

All the important people in Wutan City came to the Xiao Clan to offer their congratulations.

Xiao Yu barely showed his face; Xiao Zhan handled everything.

He and Ya Fei spent some time with Li Qian in her room. During their visit, Li Qian shared her experience of childbirth with Ya Fei.

The three of them chatted for a while, until Ya Fei began to tire. Xiao Yu took her back to her room to rest, then returned to keep Li Qian company.

With two children born to him one after another, Xiao Yu would hardly forget his old love just because he'd found a new one.

Since Li Qian was giving birth for the second time, she had experience and was in much better shape than last time.

Of course, that was also because Xiao Yu had regularly given her all kinds of nutritional tonics and supplements.

Yao Chen hadn't awakened before, so Xiao Yu hadn't understood medicine and had been afraid to try anything. Now, things were different.

After soothing Li Qian and the baby to sleep, Xiao Yu quietly left the room and went to sit in the pavilion. Then he checked his rewards.

[Congratulations, you have gained an offspring!]

[Reward: One year of cultivation! It has been issued. Please claim it from your inventory.]

[Congratulations, you received a Beast Tamer legacy and three Beast Taming Experience Cards in the random reward draw! They have been issued. Please claim them from your inventory.]

"A Beast Tamer legacy?"

Xiao Yu was taken aback when he saw the random reward, then chose to claim it.

A flood of information poured into his mind, making him feel as if his head were about to split open.

After a brief moment, Xiao Yu had gained a general understanding of Beast Tamers. Realization dawned on his face, and a glimmer of excitement flashed through his eyes.

The meaning of Beast Tamer was simple enough.

To command and control Magical Beasts!

The legacy covered everything from how to become a Beast Tamer to how to make Beast Taming Talisman Cards.

Once he had absorbed all the knowledge in the legacy, he would completely master the ability to be a Beast Tamer.

It was a lost secondary profession on the Dou Qi Continent, much like an alchemist.

A powerful Beast Tamer could command Tier 8 or even Tier 9 Magical Beasts and fight alongside them.

Beast Taming wasn't without its limits. To control high-level Magical Beasts, one's own strength had to increase as well.

After making a rough estimate, Xiao Yu realized that with his current strength as a Nine-Star Dou Zhe, if he made a Beast Taming Talisman Card, the strongest Magical Beast he could control was a Fourth-Order Magical Beast, equivalent to a human at the Dou Ling level.

However, the success rate was low—one in a thousand.

If that had been all, Xiao Yu might have been happy, but he wouldn't have been excited.

What truly excited him was the other reward!

Beast Taming Experience Card: Magical Beasts below Tier 7 have a one-hundred-percent chance of being successfully controlled.

The description was simple, but it contained a wealth of information!

On the Dou Qi Continent, Magical Beasts were ranked by strength, from Tier 1 to Tier 2 and so on, with each tier corresponding to the strength of a human Dou Zhe or Dou Master.

A Tier 6 Magical Beast had the strength of a human Dou Emperor.

What did that mean?

At present, there were only a handful of people in the Jia Ma Empire with the strength of a Dou Emperor. The most renowned was undoubtedly Elder Jia of the Gama Imperial Family, Jia Xingtian.

Apart from him, there was Yun Yun of the Misty Cloud Sect and Medusa of the Snake-Person Tribe.

"Three experience cards. Doesn't that mean I can control three Tier 6 Magical Beasts? It seems the Gama Imperial Family only has one Dou Emperor and one Tier 6 Magical Beast. Does that mean the Xiao Clan is stronger than the Imperial Family?"

After a moment's thought, Xiao Yu's breathing quickened. "Tomorrow, I'll tell Father I'm going to the Magical Beast Mountain Range!"

In the Battle Through the Heavens World, if you were to name the Tier 6 Magical Beasts that left the strongest impression, the Amethyst Winged Lion King of the Magical Beast Mountain Range was undoubtedly one of them.

Xiao Yu took a deep breath to calm himself, then continued claiming his rewards.

After marrying Ya Fei, Xiao Yu had received a year of cultivation, which had taken him from Three-Star to Seven-Star Dou Zhe.

After that, Xiao Yu had cultivated with Ya Fei using the Supreme Dual Cultivation Technique. In a month, he'd nearly broken through to Eight-Star Dou Zhe.

One star in a month?

If word got out about this rate of cultivation, the entire Jia Ma Empire would be shaken once again.

Even Xiao Yan, the genius youth renowned throughout the Jia Ma Empire, hadn't cultivated this quickly.

After a month of Xiao Yu's hard work, Ya Fei had become pregnant, just as expected.

Although she could no longer help him bring out the full power of the Supreme Dual Cultivation Technique, Xiao Yu didn't regret it. When his wife gave birth, he would receive not only a year of cultivation but also a random reward.

What's more, after Ya Fei became pregnant, she had proactively offered her maid Xue Li to him. Xiao Yu could still cultivate with the Supreme Dual Cultivation Technique.

It was just that his cultivation hadn't advanced as astonishingly fast as it had with Ya Fei.

During this time, Xiao Yu had broken through to Eight-Star Dou Zhe and successfully reached the peak of Nine-Star Dou Zhe.

Since Xue Li didn't meet the system's requirements, Xiao Yu hadn't gotten her pregnant. Of course, none of that essence had gone to waste...

"Claim the cultivation reward."

Xiao Yu gathered his thoughts. After some time absorbing the reward, his strength broke through to Two-Star Dou Master.

Feeling the changes in his Dou Qi, he furrowed his brow. "What a pity. If Li Qian had given birth after I broke through to Dou Master, the reward should have been enough to advance me to Three-Star or even Four-Star."

Then he shook his head.

How could anyone control when a child was born? If he was short by that much, he could just take a few more wives and have a few more children to make up for it.

Was it even human to make his wives hold back from giving birth?

Xiao Yu saw the sky beginning to brighten. He got up, dusted himself off, and went to wash up, with no thought of catching up on sleep.

"I'll tell Father later, then set off for the Magical Beast Mountain Range."

Early morning.

The Xiao Clan, main hall.

Xiao Zhan sat alone at the table, eating breakfast. A stack of papers sat to his left, filled with all kinds of information about the Xiao Clan.

After the other two major families in Wutan City had been wiped out, the Xiao Clan had established itself firmly. With another kind of Foundation-Building Spirit Liquid provided by Xiao Yu, its business had expanded and was no longer limited to Wutan City.

The Xiao Clan's shops could now be found in the surrounding cities and towns.

But a wider business footprint also meant more trouble.

If there was a Mittal Auction House in a city, problems with the Xiao Clan's shops were easy enough to resolve. The two sides were business partners, and the Mittal Auction House wouldn't stand by and do nothing.

The real trouble lay in the towns.

At present, apart from Xiao Zhan, the clan leader, the three elders were constantly traveling to resolve problems with the Xiao Clan's shops.

"Green Mountain Town, Myriad Medicine Pavilion." Xiao Zhan paused in the middle of chewing as he read the words on one of the papers.

It was a small town some distance from Wutan City, very close to the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and most of its residents were mercenaries.

Since there were so many mercenaries and they often traveled in and out of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, they brought out plenty of medicinal herbs.

The Xiao Clan's main business was medicine, and Blood-Coagulation Powder was highly effective for treating injuries, so naturally, it wouldn't pass up Green Mountain Town.

After all, it was full of mercenaries and close to the Magical Beast Mountain Range. There was bound to be a strong market for wound medicine.

However, Green Mountain Town already had a medicine shop called the Myriad Medicine Pavilion.

For years, the Myriad Medicine Pavilion had been the town's largest shop for buying medicinal herbs and selling medicine.

What's more, its owner, Yao Da, had good relations with the leaders of Green Mountain Town's three mercenary groups.

The Myriad Medicine Pavilion had long held a monopoly in Green Mountain Town, but the Xiao Clan's shop had shaken its position.

That was because the Myriad Medicine Pavilion had no alchemist backing it.

Xiao Zhan believed in making money through harmony and had never intended to replace the Myriad Medicine Pavilion. He only hoped to buy some medicinal herbs and sell a little Blood-Coagulation Powder.

But the Myriad Medicine Pavilion didn't see it that way. To drive the Xiao Clan's shop out, it had people keep watch at the entrance.

Any mercenary who dared to sell medicinal herbs to the Xiao Clan's shop or buy Blood-Coagulation Powder from it would face retaliation.

As a result, business at the Xiao Clan's shop had dwindled to almost nothing.

Some towns nearby had even begun copying the Myriad Medicine Pavilion's tactics.

This was undoubtedly hurting the Xiao Clan's business.

The Xiao Clan couldn't possibly withdraw now. That would be tantamount to admitting defeat.

"If the three elders can't spare the time, I'll make the trip myself!" Xiao Zhan read the report and couldn't help losing his temper.

A few Dou Masters thought they could gang up on the Xiao Clan and bully it? Did they really think the Xiao Clan was easy to push around?

"Father, where are you going?"

Xiao Yu had just entered the hall and happened to hear Xiao Zhan's words.