Beast Taming: Starting from Transmigration and Starting with a Cheat Code

Qin Ming was stunned. He subconsciously wanted to deny it, but his memory hadn't deteriorated to that extent.

Huo Lin added, "You disappeared for a moment again just now. Although it was extremely brief, I'm sure I didn't misperceive the feeling of your presence being completely withdrawn and then instantly restored!"

In fact, Qin Ming wasn't foolish enough to put on a show in front of Huo Lin, but unfortunately, beings at Huo Lin's level have an unparalleled sensitivity to subtle fluctuations in the surrounding spacetime.

Just like Qi Lin, who came uninvited and intervened directly back then... Qin Ming silently complained in his heart, should he be grateful that Huo Lin didn't "participate" without explanation like his brother?

Looking at the seemingly organized but actually culprit causing the inexplicable rise in indoor air temperature, Qin Ming no longer hid and frankly said, "It's one of my special talents. Next time you have the chance, I'll let you experience it for yourself, and you'll understand once you try it."

As soon as he finished speaking, the temperature in the room, which had been quietly rising, immediately dropped and quickly returned to a pleasant warmth.

Huo Lin maintained a calm demeanor, as if to say, "What grand scenes haven't I seen? I'm just a little curious." He nodded slightly, accepting the explanation.

If Qin Ming's perception of the surrounding temperature failed, it would be even more believable—Qin Ming silently reached out and covered the sluggish indoor temperature control display, whose temperature readings had not yet fully returned to normal.

If he had answered a beat slower, this thing might have screamed and called the police.

"Oh, right," Qin Ming remembered an important question, "your physical strength is up to standard, right? Like, the kind that can withstand your body traversing spatial turbulence."

In fact, the fact that he was able to take Huo Lin to the Void Realm meant that his physical strength was sufficient, but just to be on the safe side, he still asked one more question, following Qi Lin's advice.

"With your talent... you can even travel to other dimensions?" Huo Lin instantly grasped the key point, his golden pupils slightly contracting, this time he was genuinely interested.

—The preceding lines mostly expressed his slight displeasure that Qin Ming's small group all knew the secret, but he was the only one excluded.

"Cough, yes." Qin Ming touched his nose, finding it a little strange to see Huo Lin's eyes so bright.

The last time Huo Lin showed a similar expression was when he discovered that Little Fatty's Sumeru Cave Heaven could raise an enhanced version of the Glazed Spirit Carp.

"Then what are we waiting for! Let's go now!" Upon hearing this, Huo Lin excitedly leaped up and landed lightly on Qin Ming's shoulder.

Qin Ming felt a weight on his shoulders and explained helplessly, "We can't go now. This talent needs time to cool down and recover."

"I see..." Fire Kirin's ears and tail drooped down, and the whole beast looked listless.

Partly changing the subject, and partly satisfying his own curiosity, Qin Ming asked, "Is the range of energy you can sense now extremely wide?"

"That's all there is to it," Huo Lin flicked his tail. "Like us auspicious beasts, once our strength reaches a certain level, we have an innate and keen sense of high-level energy fluctuations or certain special energy disturbances around us."

Qin Ming nodded thoughtfully.

"Oh, right, Qin Ming," Huo Lin seemed to suddenly remember something, "your academy has recently received some interesting spirit beasts."

A spirit beast that can catch the eye of Huo Lin is naturally no ordinary beast. Qin Ming raised his eyes and listened attentively.

Huo Lin continued, "That spirit beast mainly cultivates the wood element, and its strength is just at the eighth rank. Of course, based on that alone, I wouldn't normally be interested in it. But strangely, this guy has a kind of... well, it's like he's blessed by heaven and earth, carrying a sense of natural blessing..."

He tilted his head, a hint of confusion in his eyes: "But it's clearly not a naturally born, blessed auspicious beast. I can tell you that's strange, can't you?"

Qin Ming frowned. This description... why does it seem so familiar? Could it be such a coincidence?

"What exactly is the form of that spirit beast?" Qin Ming needed to confirm.

"If you had asked me this a couple of days ago, I honestly wouldn't have known. But I had nothing better to do today, so I actually went over and took a look."

Huo Lin gestured with his paw, "It's a deer... It looks quite majestic, but it's definitely not a stray illegitimate child of any of our auspicious beast lineage! I can be sure of that!"

"Cough! Cough!" Qin Ming choked on the term "illegitimate child," but he roughly understood what was going on.

He hesitated for a moment, then gathered a faint trace of energy at his fingertips, containing a special Daoist charm—the power of the golden bead.

In order not to cause too much of a commotion, he only made his fingertips light up briefly, and very economically recovered 80% of the energy in an instant.

"Wow!" Huo Lin suddenly leaned closer, his nose almost touching Qin Ming's fingers, his golden pupils filled with surprise. "So it's your 'child'?!"

"No, no... slip of the tongue! It was you who did this... uh, it was you who gave me this opportunity! No wonder, no wonder!"

He said "No wonder" but his face showed a look of astonishment, as if he had just seen something new.

Qin Ming's face darkened. What "baby" nonsense! He had originally wanted to take the opportunity to ask Huo Lin for more information about this special energy, but under Huo Lin's fiery and gossipy gaze, he suddenly didn't want to speak.

Huo Lin then explained to himself, "Generally, this kind of blessing, imbued with the essence of heaven and earth, is a mark specially bestowed upon us auspicious beasts by the heavens. It serves as an identity verification and a slight boost to our fortune. The offspring of auspicious beasts will naturally inherit some of it. This is the conventional way."

"I see..." Qin Ming barely understood Huo Lin's peculiar train of thought, "But what about the blessing Qi Lin gave Keda back then?"

"That's different!" Fire Scale waved its paws. "What Keda received was an 'individual blessing' bestowed by Qilin with its own origin and authority, which can be considered a gift from an elder."

And what you, or that deer, bear is a more generalized "mark of favor" that originates directly from the rules of heaven and earth themselves.

Qin Ming understood this time: "That sounds really impressive?"

"It's useful, but not that useful."

Huo Lin wrinkled his nose. "Heaven has no favorites... so you might just have a bit more luck and things will go smoothly for you."

But to be honest, most beings who possess this favor, or are qualified to receive it, are already at a level where their strength doesn't really care about this extra bit of luck.

Turning her head, she met Qin Ming's cold gaze. "Oh, I forgot, with your current level of strength, you actually need it!"

"Thank you so much!" Qin Ming rolled his eyes speechlessly.

The atmosphere became a little awkward for a moment.

Huo Lin's eyes darted around, and he returned to the original topic, urging her with a hint of impatience.

"When are we finally going to set off? Has your talent fully recovered? We've been talking for so long, it feels like ages have passed!"

Qin Ming: "...Hehe."