Beast Taming: Invincible Breeder-Chapter 333 - 308: Flame Emperor Jiang

Li Cunxu couldn’t help but flash a trace of envy in his eyes.

This talent is extraordinary. If Li Cunxu had this talent as well, he could basically lay back for the rest of his life. Even if the Four Gods eventually win and the Alliance fails, even if they control the world, Li Cunxu could still live freely and comfortably.

Dual Fortune is a Beast Master talent, which can be shared with contracted beasts.

After contracting a beast, Jiang Lingyun’s team would have two Dual Fortunes, doubling her luck and prosperity.

By contracting two beasts, her luck and prosperity would triple.

By contracting three beasts, her luck and prosperity would quadruple.

...

The more contracted beasts there are, the more luck and prosperity she’ll have.

As for Jiang Lingyun awakening with zero contract slots, and unable to contract many beasts?

This is actually not a problem for Jiang Lingyun.

All that is needed is to find someone to sponsor her a few extenders, allowing Jiang Lingyun to contract more beasts, then in the future, Jiang Lingyun wouldn’t have to worry about the number of contract slots being insufficient, because her fortune would itself arrange for extenders for her.

Just like now, Dual Fortune arranged for Jiang Lingyun to have a Desert Sea Buckthorn Fruit.

Why did Li Cunxu conclude that the Desert Sea Buckthorn Fruit was arranged by Dual Fortune and not an accidental find?

Because Little White Spider observed the fortune guidance of the Dual Fortune talent.

Since Little White Spider comprehended the Destiny Domain, it gained the ability to observe the direction of the power of fate around it. This ability is very practical, as Little White Spider uses it to detect in advance whether Li Cunxu will encounter danger in the future.

In the future, when Jiang Lingyun has contracted more beasts, sharing Dual Fortune many times over, it’s possible that as Jiang Lingyun walks around, extenders might fall from the sky and hit her on the head.

...

Jiang Lingyun was still a bit incredulous when Li Cunxu gave her such a precious extender.

You should know, in her previous world, there was a human city where the city lord and vice city lord were close brothers. As a result of one extender, the two brothers turned against each other and fought fiercely, never speaking again till death, dividing the city, with the elder brother leaving half of the population in place, and the younger brother taking half to build a new city elsewhere.

Jiang Lingyun cautiously asked, "Is this really for me? You won’t be teasing me, will you? Like when I’m about to take a bite, you snatch it back, letting me bite at nothing, and then laugh at me?"

Li Cunxu was both amused and exasperated, "Your imagination is quite rich. I assure you, I won’t, I’m not that fond of cruel jokes."

Jiang Lingyun lowered her head, staring in deep thought. After pondering, and suppressing her strong desire and reluctance in her heart, she handed the Desert Sea Buckthorn Fruit back to Li Cunxu with both hands.

"You saved my life, if not for you pulling me out of the sand, I might have suffocated in there..."

She wouldn’t suffocate; it’s very hard to kill someone with the Dual Fortune talent.

If Li Cunxu had not saved her then, other factors would have rescued Jiang Lingyun, be it the battling aftermath of two giant scorpions tossing Jiang Lingyun out, or a desert storm blowing her out...

"...In this dangerous world, I am still under your protection now, and I am not qualified nor can I take your extender."

"This isn’t my extender; it’s a treasure of the Sandman Race, and it was you who triggered the mechanism to find this secret chamber. Otherwise, I might have missed out on the Desert Sea Buckthorn Fruit. You deserve a large part of the credit for finding the Desert Sea Buckthorn Fruit, and it’s fitting for you to have a share."

Jiang Lingyun clearly wanted to become a Beast Master in her heart, but her hands resolutely wanted to return the Desert Sea Buckthorn Fruit to Li Cunxu.

No matter how Li Cunxu persuaded, Jiang Lingyun stubbornly refused to eat it and insisted on returning it to Li Cunxu.

Li Cunxu could see that Jiang Lingyun really didn’t believe that finding the Desert Sea Buckthorn Fruit was due to her Dual Fortune talent.

Li Cunxu explained the capability of Dual Fortune to Jiang Lingyun.

Jiang Lingyun didn’t believe it.

"If Dual Fortune really brought good luck, my mom wouldn’t have left me."

"Your mother passed away?"

Li Cunxu asked with a furrowed brow. With parents of someone with the Dual Fortune talent, as long as they’re not malicious, they would benefit from a bit of the talent’s fortune. They shouldn’t pass away so early?

"No, my mom was taken away by a mirror. The person on the other side of the mirror seemed to be from the outside world. By the way, you’re from the outside, do you know of any mirror in the outside world that can take people from the Thousand-Layered Small World away?"

Li Cunxu thought for a moment, and indeed remembered a mirror that could break through the Divine Concealment Forbidden Land and pull people out of the Thousand-Layered Small World.

"Does your surname follow that of your father’s or your mother’s?"

"I follow my mother’s surname."

Li Cunxu looked at Jiang Lingyun with a peculiar expression, he roughly guessed which mirror and people took her mother away.

There’s a reclusive family in Shendu, called the Flame Emperor Jiang Family, and they share the same ’Jiang’ character as Jiang Lingyun. This Jiang Family holds a mirror called the Ten Thousand Spirits Mirror, a ninth-level artifact, one third of the Emperor’s Tool: Celestial Observation Mirror. This mirror can forcibly drag those it reflects away.

This can also explain why Jiang Lingyun is not a Beast Master, and yet fell from such a high pyramid without dying.

The Flame Emperor’s bloodline of the Jiang Family can bestow people with formidable vitality and physique.

But Li Cunxu was puzzled. Jiang Lingyun bears the Flame Emperor bloodline, so why did the Jiang Family take her mother away but not her?

Could it be because Jiang Lingyun hadn’t awakened a single contract slot, and they regarded her as a useless person?

Li Cunxu thought it unlikely. The ancient Flame Emperor Jiang Family is extremely profound, not short on treasures like extenders. Not awakening a single contract slot may be catastrophic in the eyes of ordinary people, but it isn’t considered a problem to the Jiang Family.

Li Cunxu asked Jiang Lingyun why the person with the mirror didn’t take her along, and Jiang Lingyun said she didn’t know.

Li Cunxu didn’t tell Jiang Lingyun his guess about the Jiang Family taking her mother away; conjectures are only conjectures without substantial evidence to support them, and even if he told Jiang Lingyun, facing such a colossal entity like the Flame Emperor Jiang Family, she would have no way to deal with it, only adding worries for nothing.

"Don’t you want to find your mother? Then you should eat the Desert Sea Buckthorn Fruit all the more, to become a Beast Master."

"I can’t accept rewards without effort, I can’t take such a precious extender from you."

"I said it’s not mine, it’s a gift from the Sandman Race, take it quickly." Li Cunxu forcefully handed it to Jiang Lingyun.

"My mom taught me to have principles; I can’t take what doesn’t belong to me."

Li Cunxu was a bit annoyed yet somewhat appreciated her stance, then suddenly, an idea flashed by, and he thought of a way to persuade Jiang Lingyun to consume the Desert Sea Buckthorn Fruit.

"How about this, the Desert Sea Buckthorn Fruit will be as your salary, and you work for me for five years." 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"Work? I know nothing, only how to pick mushrooms and herbs."

"The job I’m giving you doesn’t require you to do anything, just follow me and let me benefit from the good fortune your talent brings."

Jiang Lingyun considered for quite a while.

"Alright, but five years is too short, change it to ten years, no, twenty years."