Eternal Beast Taming Family

Over the course of nearly half an hour, apart from He Ci and Qing Qing who had been brought up earlier, all the other young men and women arrived at the mountaintop.

As Chu Jingyu had mentioned before, the heads of various departments, including the tailor shop and the blacksmith shop, had also arrived at the mountaintop.

"Let's select people in the following order: research institute, animal training ground, tailor shop, blacksmith shop, farmland."

The person in charge of the research institute was Shen Tinghuan, the head of the Shen family. He glanced at the other people in charge, cupped his hands in greeting to Chu Jingyu, and asked:

"Master, is the selection of personnel being completed all at once, one-fifth at a time?"

No sooner had he finished speaking than the other officials became dissatisfied, especially Granny Liu, who had already accumulated some prestige. However, she remained calm and slowly said:

"Master, I don't know what Dean Shen's selection criteria are, but looking at various places, our tailoring academy needs most of the girls. I beg Dean Shen to be lenient when making the selection."

Shen Tinghuan saw Liu Mama secretly glare at her and realized that what she had just said had offended others.

However, since the others were not as skilled as him, they wouldn't show it as obviously as Granny Liu, so he quickly tried to salvage the situation by saying:

"I didn't think this through. How about we form groups of five and take turns selecting?"

Granny Liu nodded slightly, and the others also agreed with Shen Tinghuan's statement.

Shen Tinghuan glanced at the boys and girls standing in the square, then flicked his hand, sending several shimmering white jade pendants across the square like streaks of light, hovering in front of several of them.

The servants around the square immediately stepped forward and led the chosen person out to stand on one side of the square.

Shen Tinghuan's choice of four men and one woman was clever, probably to prevent Granny Liu from saying anything more dissatisfying, since the old woman had previously specifically requested most of the girls.

Next was Lin Zixu, who was in charge of the animal training grounds. He was the youngest among the five people in charge. He didn't carefully select the participants; he simply waved his hand and distributed several jade tokens to the closest teenagers.

Then it was Granny Liu's turn. She didn't choose carefully either, but she gave all the purple tokens in her hand to the girls who were close to the outer edge. Her purpose was quite obvious.

The man in charge of the blacksmith shop carefully selected the dark gold metal tokens he gave to the very strong young men.

The last person in charge of the farmland was also an old acquaintance, the former village chief of Fuhe Village. He looked at the young men and women with a smile, without saying much, and chose those who seemed to have a calm and reliable personality.

After this process of selection, it took about half an hour to finally distribute the five hundred people.

"Now that the personnel have been selected, you shouldn't be short of manpower for a while. Whoever takes someone back, you should train them well and make sure they feel a sense of belonging here."

The people in charge bowed in unison, saying, "We will obey the patriarch's orders."

Chu Jingyu nodded and turned to walk into the Chu family's residence, while the remaining officials looked at each other in bewilderment.

Granny Liu glanced at the tired young men and women, and softly asked Lin Zixu:

"Zixu, these little guys just came up the mountain and are exhausted. Now they need to come down with you. Do you need us to help you carry them down?"

Lin Zixu smiled and shook his head slightly. "Thank you for your kindness, Granny Liu, but it's not necessary. I was already prepared."

As he spoke, he blew a sharp whistle, and a whooshing sound rang out. Instantly, a large flock of white cranes with fluttering white wings flew from the mountains and forests and landed on the square.

These white cranes are all huge, with wingspans of nearly three meters and broad backs. They could easily carry two of these young boys at once.

Granny Liu smiled and said, "It's only been a few days, and little Xu has already developed such a skill. It seems that your decision to go to the animal training ground was the right one."

"You flatter me, Granny Liu. I was just doing my job."

"Look at him, what a humble child he is, unlike some old fellows who are eager to show off in front of the head of the family as soon as they have achieved a little bit of success."

While looking at Lin Zixu with admiration, Granny Liu secretly mocked him.

Shen Tinghuan naturally knew that this Granny Liu was mocking her. Wasn't it just because she took away the source artifact that the patriarch had just placed in their tailor shop under the guise of research to study for a while? As for looking at her like that every day, she was being disrespectful.

Besides, that source artifact originally belonged to the Shen family, so he had nowhere to confide his grievances.

"Granny Liu, you don't need to be so sarcastic. I said the research on the source artifact will take half a year, and that's exactly what I said. No matter how much you dislike me, the timeframe won't be shortened."

Granny Liu wasn't intimidated by him at all. "As expected of someone from a prestigious family, you speak with confidence. I hope you can really come up with something in the next six months."

Moreover, its value is equivalent to the value that item generated in our tailor shop over six months.

Shen Tinghuan stroked his beard. "It's hard to say whether researching this kind of thing will yield any results, and whether it has any value is ultimately up to the head of the family to decide."

Granny Liu flicked her handkerchief and said, "I'll probably have to visit Dean Shen more often in the future to see if you can come up with any new technologies that our tailor shop can use."

After saying that, he ignored Shen Tinghuan's reaction and walked towards the boys and girls he had chosen.

Shen Tinghuan glared at her. "Really... a woman's nonsense."

Lin Zixu grinned, somewhat unaccustomed to this scene. In contrast, the other two leaders seemed completely oblivious to the argument between the two.

He could only force a smile and cup his hands in greeting, saying, "Gentlemen, I still need to take them down the mountain to make arrangements, so I'll take my leave first."

After exchanging clasped hands in greeting, he walked up to the group of young men and women holding cyan tokens, cleared his throat, and spoke loudly.

"From now on, you will be part of my animal training ground. See those white cranes over there? You will ride on their backs and come down the mountain with me. Our animal training ground is at the foot of the mountain."

Today, I won't go into too many rules. Let's start learning after you've settled in. Now, each of you, choose a white crane and come down the mountain with me.

Many of the youths' gazes fell on the white cranes that looked somewhat divine, their eyes filled with fear. For them, mere mortals, to ride on the backs of demon gods was a grave offense of disrespect within the tribe.

So for a long time after Lin Zixu finished speaking, the boys and girls only dared to twitch on the outside, not daring to actually get close to the white cranes.