The Hundred Questions Tower.
Wang Ba, sitting cross-legged on a meditation cushion, froze when he heard the question.
Because this question actually touched on a blind spot in his Beast Taming knowledge-Third Tier.
That was right.
Thanks to the many neglected miscellaneous books in the Ten Thousand Beasts Office, as well as books he had collected himself, Wang Ba could indeed be called widely read, blessed with a remarkable memory, and learned enough to fill five cartloads in the field of Spirit Beasts.
Moreover, he had large numbers of Spirit Chickens, Spirit Turtles, and other Spirit Beasts to experiment on and verify his conjectures, accumulating abundant practical experience.
In addition, his profession as a Spirit Chef had indirectly given him an intimate understanding of Spirit Beasts' bodily structures and characteristics.
With all three combined, his attainments in Beast Taming, even without the Lifespan Panel, could be called distinctive among Foundation Establishment cultivators and even Gold Core cultivators.
Thus, even when discussing Spirit Beasts with a cultivator like Tang Ji, whose extraordinary standing was evident at a glance, he showed no timidity whatsoever. Indeed, many of his views and insights earned Tang Ji's admiration.
The sole shortcoming was that the Ten Thousand Beasts Office's collection, limited by the cultivation levels of successive Office Heads, essentially covered only First-Tier and Second-Tier Spirit Beasts.
Books concerning Third Tier were scarce to begin with, and even when there were any, the Department Elders had long since treasured them away. How could they leave them in the collection?
As a result, while Wang Ba understood the habits, appearances, Ascension principles, and other aspects of numerous First-Tier and Second-Tier Spirit Beasts as clearly as the lines on his palm, his knowledge of Third-Tier Spirit Beasts was little different from that of an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator.