Eternal Beast Taming Family

Chu Shenghan gently raised her hand, and the white mask that served as an ornament on her shoulder slowly floated between the father and daughter.

"This mask was deliberately brought out from the Hundred Faces Wasteland. Someone in this city wants to use people to support the mask and imprison it in that desolate village in order to uncover the true secrets of the Hundred Faces Wasteland."

However, Chu Shenghan completely understood the secret of the Hundred-Faced Wasteland the moment he saw the mask.

As they spoke, illusions slowly spread around the father and daughter, with various smiling faces of children appearing in the cabin.

This time, it was Chu Shenghan who controlled and executed it, and the scene seemed to have a certain narrative quality.

Among the group of children, one child voluntarily broke away from the group of children playing and walked away from them. He seemed to have walked a long distance before bending down and picking up a mask.

It shone its light towards the sky, then gently pressed it against its face. After that, it seemed to have traveled a long distance before returning to the group of children.

After he returned, the smiles on the children's faces, which were originally somewhat different, gradually turned into a uniform one, as if foreshadowing that they had been infected with some kind of contagion.

Finally, another group of people appeared beside the group of laughing children. Their faces were ethereal. As soon as they appeared, the laughing children lay down on the ground one by one, seemingly dying.

The mask's true form, seemingly without a controllable puppet, could no longer leave this desolate village, but the group of faceless people also seemed to have failed to discover any trace of the mask.

They lingered there for a long time before finally leaving. From then on, no one or any creature appeared in this deserted village. No one could become the puppet of this mask and take it away from here, until finally, Chu Shenghan appeared.

Although all the characters appear as children due to the nature of the mask, it is still possible to make out the course and ending of the story.

Although the faceless man eventually succeeded in trapping "Smiling Child" in the deserted village, he had no way to find the true location of "Smiling Child," and this situation continued for a hundred years.

Chu Qinhui frowned. He found the idea of ​​using the lives of an entire village to lure a source beast and then trapping it in a deserted village for a hundred years utterly despicable.

The phantom images of children around him gradually dissipated, and the white mask slowly returned to Chu Shenghan's shoulder.

"Alright, it's enough to know these things now. The most important thing now is your trial. It seems that this so-called trial only requires you to form contracts with these mask-type source beasts one by one."

With your talent as a contract master, I wonder how many more contract slots you'll have after your next breakthrough. But in any case, you need to advance your cultivation level quickly.

Chu Shenghan nodded slightly. "I can sense that the next time I need to contract a new type of mask-type source beast will be in six months."

I currently have one contract slot remaining. Conservatively speaking, I have a year or more to attempt to break through to the Domain Rank.

"One year..." Chu Qinhui frowned. "Time is too tight. When I get back, I'll have the caravans set off for various cities to seek out spiritual items that can increase the number of contract slots, as well as some spiritual items that can increase mental power."

"We'll try to get you to contract more source beasts at the Spirit Rank, giving you more time to prepare."

Chu Shenghan nodded slightly. This was just a matter of spending more of the family's money. For the Chu family, which was now sparsely populated, no one would feel dissatisfied with the expenditure of source spirit stones.

Just as the father and daughter were discussing, a loud voice came from outside the giant ship.

"Distinguished guests from Muyang City, why didn't you stay a little longer in my Caiye City? Are you setting off at night because you think my Caiye City's hospitality is inadequate?"

The moment Chu Qinhui heard the voice, he recognized that its owner was Fang Zhuoxu, the city lord of Caiye City.

Under the deep night sky, the giant ship slowly came to a stop in the air. This was not the ship's own wish, but rather because the entire ship had been trapped in a unique realm and was forced to stop.

This area was bathed in a faint blue light, and it seemed that the movement of all objects was trapped in a viscous state. Without the special permission of the domain's master, the speed was greatly slowed down, and this effect was more pronounced for larger targets.

Fang Zhuoxu, the city lord of Caiye City, stood in front of the giant ship, his gaze fixed on the direction of the cabin, seemingly lost in thought.

Soon, Chu Qinhui emerged from the cabin and onto the spacious deck. He bowed slightly to Fang Zhuoxu outside the giant ship.

"Lord Fang, may I ask what brings you to our stop here? It is our fault for not bidding you farewell in time."

"My father is really urging me, saying that my two children, who are at the Domain Rank, will soon be returning home to visit their families, and I need to go back to prepare for the construction of his mansion."

Of course, going home to visit relatives was a pretext; the real purpose was to remind Fang Zhuoxu that his two sons were both Domain Rank experts. If something happened to his giant ship in Caiye City, he should first ask the three Domain Rank experts of the Chu family if they would agree.

There are only two Domain-level Contract Masters in the entire Caiye City. If three Domain-level Contract Masters from the Chu family were to cause trouble, the entire Caiye City would suffer heavy losses.

Chu Qinhui said this to warn Fang Zhuoxu because Fang Zhuoxu's use of his domain to block the way clearly indicated malicious intent.

Moreover, the person behind that trip to the deserted village is very likely Fang Zhuoxu himself. Now that he knows his daughter has come out of the deserted village, it's hard to guarantee that he won't kill her or imprison her for research.

As expected, upon hearing Chu Qinhui's words, a complex look flashed in Fang Zhuoxu's deep eyes. Before the two cities established relations, he had indeed inquired about the origins of Muyang City.

They did indeed have some understanding of the Chu family's situation, which was why Caiye City did not object to interacting with Muyang City.

But who knew that the first people to arrive in Muyang City would discover a secret he had kept hidden for a hundred years?

He originally intended to take action directly, keeping the girl from the deserted village mentioned by the guard for research, but the other Domain-level Contract Masters of the Chu family were ultimately a big problem.

His eyes flickered with emotion before settling into calm. "Mr. Chu is too kind. I am here to visit you again because I remembered there are some things I haven't explained yet."

Seeing Fang Zhuoxu's softened attitude, Chu Qinhui felt a little relieved. Fortunately, this city lord could see the situation clearly and was not the kind of person who was completely crazy.

Chu Qinhui gently raised his hand, and a portal opened in the protective shield of the giant airship in front of him. Immediately afterwards, a table appeared on the wide deck, arranged in a manner befitting hospitality, and he said:

"Please invite Lord Fang in for a chat."