Eternal Beast Taming Family

Chu Shenghan's somewhat unfocused gaze suddenly hardened with determination. "Father, let me go and take a look at that village?"

Chu Qinhui was completely bewildered by his daughter's sudden words. "Village? What village?"

"It is the village in this City of Rainbow that is related to the curse of the Hundred-Faced Wasteland, which is the most recently recorded one."

Chu Qinhui's tone became somewhat unsteady, "Xiaohan, did you sense something?"

Chu Shenghan gritted her teeth before truthfully saying, "There's something in that village, something like the Hundred-Faced Wasteland, calling to me. That voice keeps swirling in my ears."

I thought, since this is ultimately beyond the Hundred-Faced Wasteland, I should first go and see what kind of being is calling me, so that I can be prepared for the future.

Hearing this, Chu Qinhui's hand clenched tightly, but his tone gradually became steady. "Xiaohan, could we not rush things and wait until your grandfather arrives?"

Chu Shenghan slowly shook her head. "I can't wait any longer. Ultimately, I have to face these things myself."

As she spoke, she stood up, her figure becoming both real and illusory, and then, in the next second, she completely vanished from Chu Qinhui's sight.

"Xiao Han, Xiao Han."

Chu Qinhui's voice was somewhat flustered, but the next second, he forced himself to calm down, "The village, that village."

As he spoke, he returned to his study, reread the information he had looked at earlier, and found the village's exact address.

Yongquan Village is located 35 li north of Caiye City.

After summoning a few spirit-rank guards, Chu Qinhui handed over temporary command of the giant aerial ship to a high-ranking spirit-rank captain, and then hurriedly set off.

In a very dilapidated village, Chu Shenghan's voice, dreamlike and ethereal, gradually became more real.

Chu Shenghan casually glanced around at her surroundings, her voice soft as she asked, "Is this the village?"

She was currently in what should be the very center of the village, because next to her was a small square of about a hundred square meters, even though the ground and the square were uneven and had many collapsed areas.

However, judging from the remaining blue bricks and broken walls, this village must have been a very good village before it fell into ruin.

There might also be a not-so-small but powerful family in charge.

But now it has become a completely deserted village. Chu Shenghan looked around but did not see anyone.

A cute-looking rabbit appeared in Chu Shenghan's arms, and a bird with broad blue wings hovered peacefully above her head.

A puppet made of porcelain appeared behind her, and a winged fish swam slowly beside her shoulder.

The appearance of all four source beasts gave Chu Shenghan a greater sense of security in this unfamiliar territory.

She gently closed her eyes, trying to find the source of the voice calling her, and where it was in this deserted village.

However, the call completely disappeared after she arrived at the deserted village. It seemed that the owner of the voice avoided her when she got close.

This inevitably makes people feel uncomfortable.

Chu Shenghan had no choice but to take the initiative and try to find the source of that attraction in the village.

Just then, a soft laugh, like that of a child, drifted through the entire village.

It was a pure, joyful sound, unadulterated and cheerful.

Chu Shenghan was slightly taken aback, as if the sound reminded her of the carefree time she spent in Qixia Mountain during her childhood.

Although the Chu family was not yet a prominent family at that time, they held a superior position in the village and had no worries about food and clothing. The family members stayed together peacefully, and it was a pure and joyful time.

Thinking this, Chu Shenghan couldn't help but smile.

Immediately afterwards, from all over the village, from who knows where, many children came out to play, chasing and frolicking happily.

Chu Shenghan's gaze wandered among the light and shadow. She couldn't quite tell whether what she was seeing was an illusion created by a source beast or a silhouette that had occurred in this village outside of time and space.

Suddenly, Chu Shenghan seemed to sense something. He turned around and saw a white mask in the shape of a child slowly rising in the square, with a pure smile engraved on its face.

Sensing that the energy level emanating from the mask wasn't high, hovering around the mid-level of the Spirit Rank, Chu Shenghan secretly breathed a sigh of relief. With four against one, the advantage was hers.

Source Beast: Smiling Face (Child)

Rank: Mid-level Spirit Rank

Qualification: Extraordinary

Status: Disintegration, Observation

Attribute Tendencies: Spirit, Illusion, Mask, Emotion

Skill: 1. Hundred Faces - Childlike Smile: Releases a pure childlike smile, causing emotional fluctuations in surrounding targets, thereby marking the target's mind. After a certain degree of erosion, this emotion can be anchored on the target's face, making the target a puppet under one's control.

2. Deprive of laughter: Erode the target's mental fortitude and deprive the target of the emotional capacity to laugh.

3. Infectious Laughter: Layer upon layer of laughter erodes the target's mind, causing the target to unconsciously laugh. This laughter comes at the cost of depleting the target's spiritual power, flesh and blood, and even lifespan.

4. Laughing Servant: The soul of a person or source beast who dies at the hands of the Laughing Child has a chance to become a servant controlled by the Laughing Child, reverting to its childlike form and retaining some of its abilities from when it was alive.

Source: Hundred Faces Wasteland. The myriad faces seem to be fragments formed from the disintegration of a powerful source beast. Contracting with any one of them will officially begin the trial, which will continue until all the myriad faces are contracted and the original source beast is finally returned to its source. Only then will the trial end.

However, over millions of years, no one with a strong enough spirit has been able to contract more than ten Hundred-Faced Origin Beasts. They have all been driven mad by the spirit of the Hundred-Faced Wasteland Beasts. Therefore, over millions of years, it has slowly become a forbidden land.

Seeing the information noted in the source, Chu Shenghan seemed to understand why the Hundred-Faced Wasteland had become a forbidden place, and why it had chosen her as its target.

The entire "Hundred-Faced Wasteland" was actually transformed from a powerful source beast, but it shattered into different masks, and now each mask is equivalent to a source beast.

The so-called trial is nothing more than requiring a contract master to form contracts with all the source beasts that have been divided into different parts in the Hundred-Faced Wasteland, and finally, relying on the contract master's special abilities, to reassemble them.

However, each of the shattered Source Beasts is an independent Source Beast, and no Contract Master can contract so many Source Beasts. Therefore, over thousands of years, this place has gradually become a forbidden land.

Furthermore, because the masked source beasts in the Hundred Faces Wasteland have a certain degree of initiative, they will actively seek out those who enter to form contracts. However, the number of contracts they can form is limited, and in the end, they will only be dragged to their deaths.

While Chu Shenghan was still examining the information of the source beast in front of her, the other side was also quietly watching her, seemingly without any intention of launching an attack.

Even after a while, "Smiling Child" took the initiative to offer a light-colored strand of spiritual energy, wanting to form a spiritual contract with Chu Shenghan.