Scorpion-tailed lion

  Scorpion-tailed lion

  With Chu Xiao's current reputation and fame, whether it is the strength and talent shown in alchemy or talisman crafting, he originally didn't need to take an exam to enter Ziyun Academy. As long as he was willing, the principal of Ziyun Academy would personally deliver his admission letter.

  However, Chu Xiao still decided to follow the procedure and take the entrance exam to enter Ziyun Academy. This way, he wouldn't attract too much attention. After all, going to Ziyun Academy was just a formality for him, so it was best to keep a low profile.

  Chu Xiao chose the professional subject of Spiritual Beast Breeding for his exam, so after leaving Fengling Bamboo Forest, he went straight to the Spiritual Beast Breeding Grounds at Ziyun Academy.

  There are not many students who apply for the Spirit Beast Breeding course, only a few hundred, and compared to other professions, it can be said that it is a "cold" profession.

  The spiritual beast breeding ground was extremely large, and from a distance, one could see a huge stone monument emitting intense light, forming a massive light shield that enveloped the entire breeding ground.

  Under the display of the Xiu Zhen system, Chu Xiao obtained the information about this stone tablet.

  The Beast-Taming Spirit Tablet is the most important magical instrument in the Beast-Taming Spiritual Farm, capable of restraining all spiritual beasts within the farm, regardless of whether they are flying or walking creatures, and none can escape the range of its spirit-light cage.

  At this moment, hundreds of students have gathered outside the 'gate' of the Spiritual Beast Breeding Grounds, waiting for the exam to begin.

  In the crowd, Chu Xiao saw Chen Bing's figure again.

  "Hey, buddy, our fate is really something special. You're also choosing to raise spiritual beasts? The difficulty of this exam task isn't ordinary..."

  Chen Bing immediately recognized Chu Xiao and ran over, chattering non-stop once again.

  From Chen Bing's words, Chu Xiao learned that his parents were both spiritual beast breeders. Influenced by them, Chen Bing was also quite interested in spiritual beast breeding.

  In fact, candidates who choose to breed spiritual beasts on the spot are either very interested in spiritual beast breeding or have family members or relatives and friends who are spiritual beast breeders and have some grasp of the examination tasks.

  If it's someone who has never been in contact with spiritual beast breeding before, they will definitely not choose it, after all, it's too disadvantageous in the exam.

  Moreover, the scores of vocational subjects account for a large proportion in the entrance examination, so when choosing vocational subjects, they are very cautious.

  Around eight o'clock, the large 'gate' of the Spiritual Beast Breeding Grounds slowly opened, and several people wearing Spiritual Beast Breeder robes walked out. The leader was a middle-aged man who loudly said: "All examinees follow me inside."

  Chu Xiao took a look at the information of this middle-aged man, whose name was Zhang Yu, and he was an eighth-grade spiritual beast breeder.

  Hundreds of candidates followed behind Zhang Yu and other spiritual beast breeders, entering the spiritual beast breeding grounds in an orderly manner.

  Inside the vast spiritual beast farm, the geography is quite complex, with mountains and water, numerous spiritual beasts and birds live within it. As far as Chu Xiao can see, there are no less than hundreds of species of spiritual beasts and birds, and most of them are not ordinary spiritual beasts and birds, but real spiritual beasts and birds.

  However, under the restraint of the Town Beast Spirit Monument, these spirit beasts will not harm humans. Of course, wanting to make these spirit beasts friendly to humans is also quite difficult, unless one is a professional spirit beast breeder who can communicate with the spirit beasts and gain their recognition.

  The breeding of spiritual beasts and birds is mainly for food, of course, generally referring to ordinary spiritual beasts. High-level spiritual beasts are extremely precious, and ordinary people can't afford to eat them at all.

  The spiritual beasts raised in the Spiritual Beast Ranch of Ziyun Academy are not ordinary goods, and there are even ferocious spiritual beasts with strong attacking abilities.

  Many spiritual beasts were moving around, and from time to time, a figure would flash across the sky, bringing with it a sharp whistling sound that made the examinees on the scene feel like their hearts were skipping a beat, fearing that these obviously ferocious spiritual beasts would suddenly go wild.

  "This time's exam task is very simple, within two hours, bring a spiritual beast here, remember, it must be willing, of course, if you can bring more spiritual beasts over, that counts as your skill, alright, let's begin"

  The examiner Zhang Yu directly gave out this time's examination task.

  Hundreds of candidates heard this and suddenly felt like a pot had been opened, all showing embarrassed expressions.

  This exam task looks simple, but don't mention these spiritual beasts' 'nature' taming, they basically have no idea how to communicate with spiritual beasts, so the difficulty of this exam task is extremely high.

  In fact, the examination tasks of any professional discipline are relatively difficult.

  Who can stand out in professional subjects will have a higher chance of passing the entrance examination.

  "Alas, it's another exam task like this, last year was the same, looks like the hope of passing is slim this time."

  Chen Bing said with a worried face.

  "Is this difficult?"

  Chu Xiao said with a strange expression.

  "Of course, looking at you, I reckon it's also your first time in contact with spiritual beast breeding. Let me tell you, the spiritual beasts here aren't ordinary goods, they have very violent tempers. If you carelessly approach them, who knows, you might suffer a great loss. In any case, be careful."

  Chen Bing rolled her eyes and reminded him immediately.

  Chu Xiao smiled and nodded, with his innate wild nature, completing this exam task should not be difficult.

  Two men walked towards a hillside, where several lion-tailed macaques were lazily lying down. Their golden fur looked extremely dazzling, making these lion-tailed macaques look very majestic.

  This scorpion-tailed lion is a mid-grade earth-level spiritual beast, equivalent to a divine communication stage cultivator, with innate divine communication abilities, and is one of the highest-level spiritual beasts in this breeding ground. Most spiritual beasts are between human-grade upper and top grades, while earth-grade spiritual beasts are extremely rare.

  A spirit beast of this level was naturally not Chen Bing's goal; his target was a seven-colored deer eating spiritual grass in the distance.

  The seven-colored deer is a top-grade spirit beast, with an extremely gentle temperament. It should be said that it is the easiest to communicate with among all the spirit beasts in this breeding ground.

  Gentle seven-colored deer and ferocious scorpion-tailed lions live together in harmony, which is absolutely a big wonder. However, this is the spiritual beast breeding ground, where it's an extremely normal thing.

  "Heh, Chu Xiao, I'll choose this seven-colored deer. There's also a swift sheep over there, you can try it out. Whatever you do, don't get close to those scorpion-tailed lions, or they won't hesitate to use their tails on you. Last year, a candidate thought he was tough and got wrapped up by a group of scorpion-tailed lions, playing with him like a toy. He was so scared that... well, let's just say he lost control of his bladder. If the examiner hadn't saved him, who knows what would have happened to him?"

  Chen Bing reminded Chu Xiao, then slowly approached the seven-colored deer.

  Chu Xiao smiled slightly, but he really intended to choose those scorpion-tailed lions as his target.

  The entrance exam for spiritual beast breeding, he just completed it in his spiritual journey, and this is still the first time in reality.

  Although these scorpion-like lions look very ferocious and intimidating, he finds them more challenging instead.

  Chu Xiao had just walked past, and this group of lion-tailed macaques did not get up, still extremely lazy, seemingly indifferent to Chu Xiao as a human being. However, the cold and fierce light flashing in their eyes showed that they were not vegetarians.

  Thirty meters, twenty-nine meters, twenty-eight meters...

  As he approached the Scorpio constellation, Chu Xiao also gradually entered a state of mind, his 'essence' spiritual perception seemed to capture several strange 'essence' spiritual fluctuations, these 'essence' spiritual fluctuations seemed to convey a warning message to him, do not approach, do not approach...

  He knew this was the innate talent of his wild and carefree nature being put into play.

  Through the wild 'nature' of heart, it can easily communicate with the wild 'nature' consciousness of spiritual beasts.

  At this moment, Chen Bing, who was not far away, found that Chu Xiao was walking towards the scorpion-tailed lion group. Her face changed and she hurriedly shouted: "Chu Xiao, don't get close! Are you trying to be abused by the scorpion-tailed lions?"

  But at this moment, Chu Xiao had already entered a strange state of mind, and all the movements and sounds around him seemed to have disappeared from his ears. Only the heart voice of the scorpion-tailed lion group filled his consciousness, so he couldn't hear Chen Bing's shouting voice at all, and he walked firmly towards the scorpion-tailed lion group with his feet.

  Chen Bing shook his head helplessly and sighed: "Chu Xiao, bravery is one thing, but don't end up making a fool of yourself."

  In his view, Chu Xiao would definitely be bullied by the group of leopards.

  His shout just now also startled many candidates nearby, seeing Chu Xiao walk towards the scorpion lion group, they all showed a look of astonishment, and then they all showed disdain, in their opinion, Chu Xiao's behavior was too reckless.

  But now is the exam time, so they also don't have much time to watch, all start to fight for the selected goal.

  Zhang Yu and several other spiritual beast breeders stood on a high platform, taking in all the movements of every examinee within their field of vision.

  "Hmm, look at that examinee, he actually chose a Qihoubao, which is only a mid-grade earth-level beast. I don't know if he'll succeed."

  "He has already entered within twenty meters of the Qihoubao, which is within its warning range. It seems that his wild 'nature' communication talent is not bad, and he can already soothe the Qihoubao's wild 'nature' consciousness."

  "In previous exams, those who could communicate with a mid-tier spirit beast were rarely seen, at least they needed to have the 'Wild' innate talent of five segments or above."

  "Look, that candidate chose a group of scorpion-tailed lions. Tsk, tsk, this candidate really has some guts. Scorpion-tailed lions are pack-dwelling spirits, and communicating with them is much more difficult than with solitary spirits like the Qihubao. Last year, a candidate with a very good 'Wild Heart' talent was overly confident and chose this group of scorpion-tailed lions, but ended up failing to communicate and getting thoroughly thrashed."

  "Yes, the candidate who chose Qihoo Beast still has a glimmer of hope. As for choosing Scorpion Lion Group, I'm afraid there's no hope at all. In the history of our Purple Cloud Academy, successfully communicating with Scorpion Lion Group is extremely rare, and the most recent one was six years ago during the exam."

  "It's that Li Feng, he has already been taken as a personal disciple by our Purple Cloud City's Spiritual Beast Breeding Grandmaster Chang Lao, it is said that now he has reached the 9th rank of Spiritual Beast Breeder and possesses the potential to advance to Master level."

  Several Spirit Beast Breeders nodded in agreement.

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