Holy crap-a cat carrying a sword in its mouth!
Lu Ran and the others could not help feeling a little bewildered.
At that moment, the swordsmanship apprentice who had come out for some fresh air also spotted them.
When he noticed Lu Ran, he rubbed his eyes carefully and exclaimed in delight, "Are you Senior Brother Lu Ran?"
"Meow? (The culprit?)" The sword-carrying cat also looked up at Lu Ran.
"And you are?" Lu Ran asked instinctively.
"My name's Ning Fan. I'm an apprentice at the Rainbow Sky Dojo. We've met before!" Junior Brother Ning spoke excitedly, as though he had met his idol.
"Oh, right." Lu Ran did not quite remember him, but when he had stayed at the Rainbow Sky Dojo, apprentices had indeed greeted him often.
After all, Lu Ran had been the only Beast Tamer at the Rainbow Sky Dojo then.
With the Beast Taming Era just beginning, those young swordsmanship students had all been particularly interested in becoming Beast Tamers.
They had almost abandoned swordsmanship to learn beast taming from Lu Ran instead.
Fortunately, Lu Ran had come and gone without a trace, or those junior brothers and sisters really would have latched onto him.
"Senior Brother, I finally get to see you! I never imagined you were the one on the Divine Pet Rankings."
"Hm?" Had Master Jiang Dou told him his identity?
As far as the dojo was concerned, only Master Jiang Dou and Senior Brother He Dali should have known that he was John Doe.
"What's the deal with your cat...?" Rather than answer right away, Lu Ran asked a question of his own.
"Well, three apprentices at the dojo, including me, became Beast Tamers recently. In Infinite City, we learned about your exploits, Senior Brother-a husky fighting with a sword in