Cultivation Pet Shop

As he scanned the people who were in the room, Lin Fan's eyes stopped on a spot that was by the counter where two people caught his attention.

It was the two that he had met this morning, the other vice president Bai Chen and Fei Jun.

But of course, he wasn't surprised since he expected the two of them to be here. After all, Fei Jun was also taking this exam, so it would have been strange if he wasn't here.

When Lin Fan's eyes swept over the two of them, Fei Jun coincidentally also looked over in his direction.

When their eyes met, Fei Jun revealed a look that seemed like he wanted to kill Lin Fan, but that only lasted a second before he turned away.

Lin Fan saw this and couldn't help finding it funny because compared to everyone else that wanted to kill him, this Fei Jun almost seemed like a joke. For now, there was no need for him to pay any attention to him.

Lin Fan's group had arrived just a few minutes before the exam was set to start, so as soon as he had signed in, they started opening the gates for the exam hall.

Seeing this, Huang Gan and Qiao Yi Fei didn't follow Lin Fan as they headed off in another direction. As they were leaving Huang Gan didn't forget to say, "We'll be heading off to the stands now. I would say good luck, but you probably won't need it." After saying this, he revealed a smile.

Lin Fan also revealed a smile without saying anything.

But before they left, Huang Gan also came in close and whispered, "If you can, teach that kid a lesson. I hate seeing that smug look on Old Bai's face."

Lin Fan couldn't help finding this funny.

Huang Gan was already this old and he was still acting like a child.

Still even though he had said these aggressive words, Lin Fan could tell that there was no real hostility behind them. It was nothing more than competing for power, but in the end, this Tamers Guild seemed more united than it did on the surface.

Could it be that they were pretending to play weak to fool others?

Even if they were, that wouldn't mean anything to him right now.

What he needed now was more people that could support him in his eventual fight against the True Spirit Sect and if the Tamers Guild was more powerful than it seemed, that would actually benefit him more.

So the first thing he had to do was pass this exam and he had to pass it in such a dazzling manner that it caught the attention of the leaders of the Tamers Guild.

When the door to the exam hall was opened, everyone started moving in a calm and orderly fashion because everyone knew that there was no point in rushing. At the same, they also started looking over each other to scope out their competition.

While there was no technical limit to the number of people that could pass the exam, there was an unspoken rule that limited how many people could pass. After all, it wasn't good for the reputation of the Tamers Guild if too many people were able to pass the exam.

If something became a thing that many people owned, it wouldn't be considered rare anymore.

Though in all honesty, there wouldn't really be much competition since it was unlikely that many of them would even reach the threshold to pass the exam in the first place.

After they went into the hall, they saw that there were many stations set aside for them to take the exam, but it seemed like there wasn't enough for all of them to take the exam at once.

In total, there were only around fifty stations, so it seemed like they would be split in half to take the exam.

There was a drawing that was held to determine the order they would take the exam in and Lin Fan was placed in the second group. As for Fei Jun, he was placed in the first group.

When the first group went up onto the stage, Fei Jun didn't forget to glare in Lin Fan's direction before revealing a different expression. The look on his face was clearly one of arrogance, as if he was saying to Lin Fan, "See the level that you'll never be able to reach in your entire life!"

Lin Fan revealed a faint smile in response to this because the way Fei Jun acted reminded him of the arrogant young masters that were rivals of the main character from the novels he read, both from here and on earth. In the novels from both worlds, there was never a good ending for these young masters.

Once the first fifty examinees were on the stage, there was an old man who appeared on the main stage in front of them. With a booming voice that didn't match the old appearance that he had, he said, "Your first exam will be to tame the beast that you will be assigned. When you drew your tickets, there was a special mark that was on your ticket that corresponds with the beast that you will be assigned."

When the examinees heard this, all of them took out their tickets to find that mark that the old man was talking about.

Lin Fan also took out his ticket and at the bottom of it, there was indeed a mark, but he couldn't make out what it stood for at all. It looked just like scribbles to him and whether he squinted his eyes or opened them wide, he couldn't make heads or tails of it.

Judging by the murmurs that came from around him, it seemed like he wasn't the only one having trouble reading the mark.

Of course, while they had time, the ones that were already taking the exam didn't have time as the spirit beasts that they were to tame had already been brought over for them.

There were cages of various sizes, but these cages were complete metal boxes that didn't have any gaps in them, so no one was able to see what kind of beast they had been assigned until they were let out.

When the cages were in place, they were all opened at the same time and beasts of different varieties came out. There were wolves, dogs, cats, tigers, and there was even a large lizard that almost seemed like a dragon.

Lin Fan couldn't help feeling pity for the one person who had been assigned that lizard since that person was clearly at a loss as to what to do.

Still, there was no worry about their safety because there were staff members from the Tamers Guild who were standing around the various stations. Based on the aura that came from them, not a single one of them was below the Child Soul Realm.

Since all of the beasts that were being used for the exam were only in the Embryo Soul Realm, there was no worry that any of them would be able to do a thing to the examinee on stage.

But as for how they would tame them…that was up to them.

Once the beasts were released and placed in front of them, the ones that were more confident didn't waste any time as they released their life energy.

There were two ways to tame pets, one that could be done by anyone and one that required one to be a Monster Trainer to use.

The method that anyone could use was to either bond with the beast and form the contract or to beat the beast into submission before forming the contract. This was considered a crude method and very hard to put into practice most of the time.

The method that Monster Trainers used was to use a special taming technique that they learned to force a deeper bond with the beasts, allowing them to form mutual contracts rather than the one way contract that usually came from the first method.

Of course, if a Monster Trainer didn't have enough practice or their life energy was lacking, they would be forced to make a one way contract in the end as well.

As the Monster Trainers released their life energy to surround the beasts with, there were many beasts that directly broke through the life energy screen that had been created around them. The Monster Trainers that saw this started to panic and moved back as they released their pets to stop the beasts from approaching. At the same time, they started gathering life energy in their hands again to try and tame the beasts again.

However, it was clear that most of these people would fail since they had their abilities shattered too quickly.

There were some that had their life energy screens around the beasts still and were in the process of taming them. These ones were the ones that would most likely pass the exam since they seemed proficient with the taming technique.

Among them was naturally Fei Jun who didn't look like he was putting in any effort at all.

After around ten minutes, instead of shattering like the others who had failed, Fei Jun's life energy screen dissipated into wisps of energy as he took out a scroll which he crushed before throwing the energy that came out at the tiger in front of him.

After another flash of light, the tiger came to Fei Jun's side and started licking his face.