Come On, First Deduction

[Beast]: Mutated Green-Red Tiger

[Attribute]: Metal

[Current Age]: 35 years

[Racial Potential]: Millennium

[Racial Skill]: Metal Spirit Power (Locked)

[Evolution Path]: None

[Currently Recorded Soul Beasts]: 1 (Viewable)

The moment he saw these, Xu Bai instinctively understood some of the handbook's functions.

There were two functions in total; the first was recording soul beasts.

He could record any soul beast he saw and touched into the handbook, which would then display the basic information of the recorded beast.

At the same time, for every soul beast recorded, Xu Bai would receive a reward of increased spiritual power.

The second was deduction. Xu Bai could consume spiritual power to deduce the evolution paths for his contracted soul beasts and recorded soul beasts, as well as methods to increase their cultivation speed.

It was an incredibly heaven-defying ability.

With this ability, coupled with the uniqueness of his Beast Taming Space martial soul, his path to godhood in the future would likely be a billion times simpler than that of a normal person.

So the second beast taming talent really is my golden finger, Xu Bai thought to himself.

As a native who wasn't quite a native of the Douluo Continent, he hadn't received the protagonist treatment of awakening twin martial souls.

However, he had received the protagonist treatment of the Beast Taming World; when he awakened his Beast Taming Space martial soul, he had awakened two beast taming talents.

The first was "Telepathy," a talent that allowed him to communicate normally with any living creature.

The second was this handbook floating in his sea of consciousness, which was essentially an alternative version of a system.

According to the established rules of soul beasts on the Douluo Continent, without the handbook, if he wanted to become stronger, he would have to contract soul beasts that were already fully developed and combat-ready as his pets, and he would have to hire people to help him capture them at every stage.

Otherwise, if he waited for these soul beasts to grow slowly, even if his Beast Taming Space martial soul could slightly accelerate their cultivation speed, he feared he would die before ever seeing a soul beast reach a millennium of age.

Now, however, the handbook could not only deduce evolution paths but also deduce ways to accelerate a soul beast's cultivation.

Even if he were unlucky and hadn't encountered this "first come, first served" tiger, and had instead chosen those low-intelligence, slow-growing plant-type soul beasts as his pets, he would still be able to grow.

It would simply take more time and be more troublesome than it was now.

"Time to go, time to go. If I delay any longer, it'll be dark."

Collecting his thoughts, Xu Bai looked at the sky and saw the dim, yellow sunset hanging on the horizon.

He hurriedly turned around, followed the path he had come by, and carefully snuck his way out.

Half an hour later, Xu Bai finally made it out of the Hengduan Mountain Range and saw traces of human life.

After transmigrating, he realized that the Star Dou Great Forest, Sunset Forest, and the Far North were not the only places where wild soul beasts gathered on the Douluo Continent.

There were many medium or small-sized wild soul beast habitats scattered all over the continent.

The Hengduan Mountain Range he had come to was just one such medium-sized habitat.

It was fortunate that these habitats existed; otherwise, if he wanted to contract his first pet, he would have either had to settle for a Blue Silver Grass or risk going to the Star Dou Great Forest.

But that would have been far too risky.

In small and medium-sized habitats like this, the soul beasts on the periphery were at most a hundred years old.

However, in large habitats like the Star Dou Great Forest, it wasn't impossible to encounter ten-thousand-year soul beasts on the periphery, and thousand-year soul beasts were everywhere. If he were unlucky enough to run into a beast tide, he would be finished.

Given Xu Bai's life-cherishing personality, if it weren't for his good second uncle, he would have already started considering whether to defect to the Spirit Hall first.

Traveling quickly, Xu Bai finally arrived home.

Fortunately, on the day he escaped, the old butler had prepared quite a few valuable items in advance.

After pawning these things, the young Xu Bai had nearly a thousand gold soul coins.

He had bought this small courtyard, and after two years of living expenses, he estimated he had about six or seven hundred left.

But this was still a significant sum; the subsidy for a Great Soul Master for five or six years was only about that much.

However, for a profession like a Beast Tamer, which sounded like it burned through money, these gold soul coins seemed like a drop in the bucket.

Money matters can wait; the current priority is to raise the little guy's strength.

Xu Bai thought to himself and used his will to open the panel.

Then, he tapped on the "Viewable" option next to "Currently Recorded Soul Beasts."

The handbook display changed:

[Currently Recorded Soul Beasts]: 5

Mutated Green-Red Tiger (Expand)

Blue Silver Grass (Expand)

Green Vine (Expand)

The four extra ones were naturally those Xu Bai had recorded when he emerged from the Hengduan Mountain Range.

The rewards were incredibly generous; just by recording these five soul beasts, Xu Bai felt his mental power increase by twenty to thirty percent.

It was a pity that the prerequisite for recording a soul beast included the necessity of physical contact; otherwise, there was no way he would have only recorded five soul beasts on the journey back.

He shook his head slightly and, with a touch of his consciousness, expanded the introduction for the Mutated Green-Red Tiger.

[Name]: Mutated Green-Red Tiger

[Attribute]: Metal

[Race Potential]: Millennium

[Evolution Route]: None

[Introduction]: Suspected ancestral bloodline reversion; lost its original wood attribute and gained a metal attribute with a more lethal aura.

Note: Consume a large amount of mental power to deduce evolution routes and methods? (Yes/No).

Consume a small amount of mental power to deduce cultivation methods? (Yes/No).

Seeing this, Xu Bai didn't even hesitate, using his consciousness to tap "Yes" next to the cultivation method deduction.

The next moment, the screen shifted:

[Note]: Start the first stage of cultivation method deduction? (Yes/No)

Xu Bai continued to tap Yes.

The screen changed again, but this time it displayed something similar to a webpage loading screen, with a line of small text underneath.

Cultivation method deducing...

As time passed, Xu Bai felt his mental power being drained away. He, who had been full of vigor due to his earlier increase in mental power, gradually began to wilt.

He didn't know how long it had been, but Xu Bai only felt his eyelids growing heavier and heavier, and his brain was hit by waves of tearing pain from time to time, when the cultivation method finally finished loading.

[Stage One]: Unlock racial skill, Metal Spirit Power.

[Method]: There appears to be a trace of metallic energy within magnets. Grinding them into powder and applying it to the soul beast can effectively increase the probability of the soul beast awakening its racial skill. Apply once in the morning and once in the evening; one hour each time is most effective.

Xu Bai: ????

Xu Bai: !!!!

Wait, I consumed so much mental power, and you only deduced this one sentence for me?

If this was what the manual called a "small amount" of mental power, yet it drained nearly half of his reserves, then what about the evolution route deduction marked as consuming a "large amount"?

Wouldn't that just drain him dry instantly!

Xu Bai's mouth twitched, and he had the urge to curse.

But in the end, he didn't let those "refined and gentle" words out, because he realized he was being a bit ungrateful.

Thinking about it carefully, if he had to figure out this one sentence on his own, he would likely need at least ten days to half a month if he were fast, and if he were slow, he might never have thought of it in his entire life.

A leaf before the eyes, indeed.

Take artemisinin, for example; who could have imagined that malaria, which could cause the deaths of tens of thousands of people once it broke out, would actually be cured by artemisinin extracted from sweet wormwood?

And yet, discovering and developing artemisinin took a full five years.