How is this possible? Seeing the changes on the pendant, Lu Ran’s mind was filled with confusion. My family heirloom? I didn’t even notice it after I came here... Was it brought here as well? However, the changes were astonishing. Originally, because of the appearance of superpowers and black cards, Lu Ran felt that this world was strange, that there must be something unknown. Now that he discovered that even his family heirloom had an extraordinary origin, Lu Ran was even more surprised. He looked puzzled. He looked inward at the black contract card floating in his spiritual sea. His mind was still a complete mess. So these supernatural powers didn’t just come into existence in modern times! Instead, it has existed since ancient times for who knows how many years ago! His family heirloom was related to this series of supernatural powers. “There are too many things I don’t understand.” “Or maybe one of my ancestors was chosen by the black card and became a beast tamer? This deer antler is what they took from the secret realm.”
“But if the black card has existed since ancient times, why hasn’t there been any information about it until now…”
“If not for that post, if not for the black card itself appearing in my hands…”
“Anyway, how many people have been chosen by this horrible place to become beast tamers?”
“Roar, roar!” While Lu Ran was lost in thought, Ha Zong, who had been staring blankly at the pendant, suddenly regained his senses, felt the pain from his wound, and began to howl.
Pain, pain, pain…
Ha Zong’s cries snapped Lu Ran out of his thoughts and he quickly replied: “I’ll use this to treat you.”
The healing power of the sacred deer antler, which was of epic rarity, should be stronger than the ordinary hemostatic mushroom found everywhere, right?
This pendant should have been in a dormant state before, losing its original powers. That’s why it wasn’t detected at first.
But now, since it absorbed a certain amount of “supernatural energy” after coming here, it has recovered. That should be it.
“Healing Power.”
Lu Ran, holding the hemostatic mushroom, looked at Ha Zong and pulled down the pendant.
At that moment, the familiar feeling of holding the contract card returned.
Lu Ran took a deep breath.
Lu Ran focused his thoughts on his wish to heal Ha Zong.
The next moment, the sacred deer pendant emitted a crystalline golden light!
Immediately after that, the golden light wrapped around Ha Zong’s wound, and an incredible scene unfolded before Lu Ran’s eyes.
The originally bloody wounds on Ha Zong’s body... were quickly healing at that moment.
In just a few seconds, the initially bloody injuries instantly reverted to their original unharmed state, leaving no scars.
Except for a few bald spots where the fur had fallen out, it was an almost perfect recovery!
Ha Zong even felt warm all over, as if he had been nourished by the forest.
“Woof!” In an instant, Ha Zong was stunned once again, not understanding what had happened.
As for Lu Ran, his expression was also joyful.
He quickly examined Ha Zong’s wound and said, “You’ve gone bald, but you’ve also become stronger, and your skin and flesh have become much tougher!”
“Woof!” Ha Zong was stunned for a moment, then looked down at his body with a pained expression. But the next moment, he looked at the deer antlers in Lu Ran’s hand with excitement.
“I don’t know what’s going on, but we seem to be invincible now.” Mo Ran smiled.
Oh well, they could think carefully about the issue of his family heirloom after they returned.
“Woof, woof!” Ha Zong’s eyes flashed like a flashlight as he nodded frantically. He felt that with this thing, forget about five cats, he would dare to fight fifty of them!
This thing is just too powerful. If you don’t die instantly, what injury can’t be healed with this?
“Don’t be too rash,” Lu Ran said. “We can’t completely rely on the protection of our ancestors, but with this unexpected development... the plan has to change again.”
He tightened his grip on the pendant and took a deep breath, remembering his mother’s appearance in his mind.
Although he didn’t know what the Sacred Deer Pendant was about, Lu Ran understood that it was their greatest support at the moment. The safety of their trial in this secret realm... the feasibility of their leveling plan had once again greatly increased.
……
After receiving an epic item, Lu Ran felt that he was not living up to his ancestors’ family heirloom by being too passive.
By killing two demon cats, Ha Zong was able to advance from level 1 to level 2. What about from level 2 to level 3?
Lu Ran wanted Ha Zong to level up as much as possible here so that he could gain stronger fighting power.
Slow and steady wins the race. This principle applies everywhere. As long as conditions allow, Lu Ran does not want to miss any opportunity to harvest resources.
If there were a real crisis in the future, he would have enough strength to better protect himself and his loved ones.
Why couldn’t he be the one on top?
Someone always has to be on top of the world.
He can be the king of bug fighting, why can’t he be the king of beast taming?
“If I keep getting stronger like this, even if this dream comes true, I should be able to stop those monsters from destroying the city.”
Lu Ran thought about the dream again and became more motivated.
Four hours later.
Deep in the forest.
“Idiot, didn’t I tell you that even though we have a tool that can heal injuries, we should still try not to get hurt!”
After Lu Ran and Ha Zong recovered, they began to actively hunt for prey because they had greater ambitions.
During this time, they encountered some new superior creatures.
Most of them were levels 1-3.
Their species level was mostly low-level superior.
For example, the Toothed Ear Rabbit, a type of rabbit, was extremely aggressive and always looking for death!
Like the Giant Rat Beast, it looks bigger than a duck, and the little thing is quite delicate.
Unfortunately, there were no tools and they were phantoms. Otherwise, Lu Ran would have dissected these creatures he hadn’t seen before to study them.
Without exception, these creatures didn’t stand a chance against Ha Zong, even if they were 1-2 levels higher.
Compared to them, those demon cats were even harder to deal with. After all, it was called the Demon Cat Forest. These creatures should just be food for demon cats.
Therefore, Lu Ran felt that dealing with these creatures was the kind of difficulty that beginners in the secret realms should have.
However, there were also some difficult creatures to deal with, such as the mid-level superior level 3 green snake that Ha Zong had just dealt with.
Needless to say, Ha Zong had suffered some serious injuries as well.
Perhaps the healing power of the Sacred Deer Pendant gradually gave Ha Zong a sense of security. His fighting style became more and more violent. To win, he had already begun to use the brutal method of exchanging injury for injury.
In nature, this was an extremely risky way to fight. After all, most fights in nature were for survival and food. Getting hurt meant getting closer to death. But Ha Zong didn’t care and he quickly learned a new fighting style that even Lu Ran was convinced of the dog’s talent.
But this was too reckless and could easily lead to accidents!
For example, that snake was venomous! Fortunately, they picked some detoxifying grass along the way.
“Woof.” Ha Zong pressed the big snake down and showed an innocent expression.
At this time, it has already reached level 3.
This made Lu Ran and Ha Zong extremely excited.
If they could continue to level up at this rate, in just 24 hours, they should have no problem fighting in high spirits the whole time. After all, it felt great to become stronger.
Although leveling up was fun, they stopped for the moment.
Lu Ran found signs of human activity.
It was a dilapidated tent.
The reason they fought with that big snake just now was because it was guarding the tent.
After carefully approaching the tent, there were no further incidents.
Inside the tent, there was nothing but a yellowed journal.
Lu Ran picked up the journal and flipped through it excitedly. He couldn’t understand the words on it, but maybe because of the Data Eye, he could unexpectedly understand what they meant.
【This was the first stop of my journey, the once secluded deep, and dense forest, now called the Demon Cat Forest.
I came here full of confidence to investigate the true cause of the forest’s mutation back then, but I was wrong.
Father was right. I shouldn’t have come here...】
The travel journal ended abruptly.
“Is that it?” Lu Ran was surprised.
“Get lost, you damn riddler, get the hell out of this secret realm!” Seeing the scant information recorded in the journal, Lu Ran grew angry.
He thought he could unlock some hidden missions in addition to the trial missions.
Even without this journal, he knows that “forest mutation” is the keyword to this secret realm.
“Woof.” The nearby Ha Zong told Boss Lu to calm down.
Let’s go level up.
“Right, it’s only one day.” Lu Ran sighed. First of all, there was too little information about the Demon Cat Forest. And with their insufficient strength, even if there were other secrets in this secret realm, it’d probably be too difficult to explore.
But after carefully analyzing this journal, Lu Ran found that it contained some information...
Investigating the true cause of the mutation... Perhaps it meant that the well-known black rain that caused biological mutations was only the cause on the surface.
The father of the owner of the journal did not allow him to come to this place, which may indicate that this person’s father had some inside information, and the person who left the journal should have a high status.
Lu Ran took note of this and decided to level up first. Remembering these things was temporarily useless anyway.
Gradually, Lu Ran and Ha Zong became addicted to leveling up, going back and forth in the Demon Cat Forest.
Along the way, there were no enemies that were too difficult, and the most difficult situation they encountered was facing a group of demon cats at the same time.
In that case, it was inevitable that they would get hurt. For an average beast-tamer pair, even if they won, the severe injuries on their bodies would probably prevent them from continuing.
But here, where Lu Ran and his team have the antlers of the sacred deer, the injuries are the easiest to deal with.
“Level 4!”
“This is too difficult.”
The time passed slowly. Lu Ran, who could see the mission countdown, kept staring at the “One Day Time Limit”.
At this moment, they had been running around for almost 24 hours. When they were not searching for monsters, they were fighting. If it weren’t for the fruit restoring their strength, he and Ha Zong would have been exhausted by now.
Even sled dogs couldn’t stand this kind of torture.
In the first three levels, Ha Zong’s promotion was still relatively fast, but from level 3 to 4, it took Lu Ran and Ha Zong almost a day.
There was no experience bar for the growth level, so Lu Ran’s group could only fight as much as they could. After all, that was the only way they knew how to increase their level.
Fortunately, hard work pays off. With only one minute left in the mission countdown, the last demon cat killed by Ha Zong finally allowed its growth level to increase to level 4.
And right after that, something even more exciting happened to Lu Ran!
【Congratulations on completing the novice trial.】
【Rating: S!】
【Tip: The trial rating level is divided into nine levels: SSS, SS, S, A, B, C, D, E, and F.】
【Congratulations on obtaining an identity card.】
【Congratulations on obtaining 10,000 crystal coins.】
【Congratulations on obtaining the high-level resource, Meteoric Iron Ore.】
【Congratulations on obtaining the high-level resource, Attribute Awakening Fruit (Grass).】
【Congratulations on obtaining the beast-taming skill: Super Beast Mimicry.】
【Congratulations on obtaining the Date Eye (Beginner).】
【Please select your return point. 1: Initial teleportation point, 2: Infinite City!】
【Tip: Infinite City is a large safe area where beast tamers who have passed the novice trial are active, and it has various special facilities that cater to beast tamers.】
“It’s over...:” As a series of prompts appeared, Lu Ran felt relieved. After that, he inadvertently looked at the return prompt.
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