Subduing the Winter Bear

The potential of this winter bear cub in front of him was so great that Ji An, who was usually stoic, almost couldn't control his expression.

First of all, the winter bear cub's evolution potential was far superior compared to Peiling's wind chime princess, a pet with advanced Nirvana-level evolution potential.

The Disaster level was a race level above the Nirvana level.

Transcendent creatures at this level possessed enough power to largely change the natural environment and cause natural disasters. It was easy for them to destroy human cities.

They were mobile natural disasters, hence the name.

Back then, the terrifying fierce beast that destroyed Encircle Town and left all the beastmasters there helpless was a Disaster-level fierce beast.

That had been a wind-attribute Disaster-level fierce beast who had cast tornadoes that instantly destroyed the high walls and buildings of Encircle Town.

The power of natural disasters was simply not something Encircle Town could resist.

To think this seemingly harmless winter bear cub before him had the potential to evolve and become a Disaster level beast.

This undoubtedly showed that as long as it grew steadily, it would, sooner or later, evolve into a terrifying existence with the power to destroy Encircle Town.

It was only a matter of time.

With the help of a beastmaster, the time needed for this process would be greatly reduced.

This was definitely the Little Bear King's legendary familiar.

After all, one breeding base couldn't possibly have two winter bears with such terrifying talent.

Ji An only knew that a legendary familiar had great potential, but he didn't expect it to be this powerful!

His original guess was that the winter bear's potential might be able to reach the advanced Nirvana level like the wind chime princess.

All this shock was only over the winter bear cub's evolution potential.

As for the winter bear cub's other potential, its skill potential, it was already beyond Ji An's comprehension.

The skill mastery value of 1 to 599 corresponded to the six skill mastery levels from Beginner to the Peak of Perfection.

However, with his Eye of Insight, the potential of the winter bear cub's Hibernation skill far exceeded the peak limit of 599.

In fact, not just Hibernation, but of the five skills that the winter bear cub had yet to master, four of them had exceeded this limit.

Only the advanced skill, Avalanche Impact, was still within the range of 600 points which represented the Peak of Perfection realm.

According to the corresponding relationship between the skill mastery value and the realms, other than Avalanche Impact, the skills of the winter bear cub would definitely exceed the Peak of Perfection realm.

Ji An had never even heard of the realm above the Peak of Perfection realm.

He shook his head and threw these thoughts to the back of his mind. Then, he turned to Li Ya, who was looking at him with puzzlement, and said, "I'll choose this winter bear."

"What?" Upon hearing this, Li Ya's beautiful face was filled with disbelief, and her beautiful eyes were also full of surprise.

Such a lazy and sleepy little guy was chosen by someone?

Didn't combat beastmasters all like hardworking, ambitious, and battle-hungry familiars?

"That's right, I'll choose this bear cub," Ji An said firmly.

"I think it's fated with me. I'm a person who believes in such things," He added a rather lame excuse.

Even though this reason wasn't very convincing, Li Ya couldn't think of any other reason other than believing Ji An's explanation.

After all, when the new beastmasters back then came to choose their initial familiars, none of them even had the thought to take a look at the little fellow went they heard that it was so lazy, let alone consider taming the bear cub which gave her a headache.

"Perhaps you two are really fated," Li Ya nodded her head heavily, inexplicably believing Ji An's words.

"I'll wake him up now. According to the rules, you have to sign a soul contract with it in the base," after Li Ya said that, she walked forward and shook the winter bear cub.

However, the winter bear cub did not budge at all. it was still sleeping soundly and even faintly snoring.

Li Ya increased her strength and grabbed the soft meat on the bear cub's shoulders with both hands. She lifted it with great strength and shook it a few times.

The winter bear cub's chubby face was distorted from the shaking, but it was still the same. Rather, its snores got even louder.

Li Ya knew that conventional methods would not be able to wake up the slumbering winter bear cub.

She had to use another method.

A fiery red light lit up under Li Ya's feet like a flame.

This was the light that would shine when one summoned one's familiar in the soul domain.

After taming a familiar, a soul domain would be opened up in the body for the familiar to rest.

The soul domain could only contain familiars that had been contracted by a beastmaster.

Not only could the recovery of the familiar's physical strength and injuries be sped up In the soul domain, but their growth would also be sped up.

Now, Li Ya was summoning her familiar from the mysterious soul domain.

An elegant and mysterious familiar leaped out of the fiery door.

"Firetail cat, please help me wake this child up," Li Ya patted her elegant and mysterious familiar's head and instructed.

"Meow!" The red-furred firetail cat with black streaks in its fur and a tail like a burning whip slowly approached the winter bear cub.

Ji An could see the firetail cat's information as well.

[Evolution Potential]: Intermediate Extraordinary / Lower Sovereign

"It's quite talented," Ji An observed the firetail cat's actions as he evaluated it in his heart.

Out of all the familiars that he had observed, this firetail cat's evolution potential was second only to that of the wind chime princess and the winter bear cub.

The firetail cat slowly approached the winter bear cub.

Its body gradually glowed with red flames, and heat waves that could be seen with the naked eye radiated in the surroundings.

As an ice-type familiar, the winter bear cub naturally liked cold environments. Even though it was sleeping soundly, it still felt uncomfortable.

When the firetail cat got closer to the winter bear cub, the snow covering the latter's body melted, and dense sweat began to appear under its thick fur.

Its body twisted slightly in discomfort.

Seeing that the time was right, Li Ya stepped forward and took a deep breath. She lifted the winter bear cub that weighed at least ten pounds with one slender arm and suddenly swung the furry ball of meat into a spinning windmill.

With this, under the attack of heat and rapid rotation, the winter bear cub finally woke up.

After the drowsy winter bear cub opened its eyes, it let out a baby cry, "Roar?"

Why was it so hot?

Li Ya picked up the bear cub and placed it in front of Ji An, "Winter bear cub, stop sleeping and pull yourself together. This is Ji An, your beastmaster. You have to get along well with him from now on. Stop being so fond of sleeping. "

"Roar?" The winter bear cub's eyes widened. A beastmaster? For a moment, it was quite suspicious that someone was willing to become its beastmaster.

After all, it knew that it had been rejected more than once.

Seeing the bear cub's confused look, Li Ya couldn't help but laugh. She placed the bear cub on the ground and said to Ji An, "Mr. Ji, start casting the soul contract. The familiars in our base are all tamed, so they won't resist contracts with human beastmasters. "

Ji An looked at the charmingly naïve little guy in front of him and took a deep breath.

He had spent the entire night practicing the hand seals and techniques of the soul contract.

By the time the sky brightened, the success rate of his soul contracts was already very high.

However, Ji An was still a little nervous as he faced his first familiar.

"Little guy, I'm going to start," Ji An said to the bear cub with a serious expression.

"Roar!" The winter bear cub stood up like a human and opened its two short chubby arms. Come on!

Ji An nodded, then slowly formed a hand seal with both hands. The hand seals in his hands changed continuously.

For new beastmasters, hand seals were a necessary medium and method to display soul power techniques.

Only after becoming more experienced would beastmasters be able to easily use soul techniques without relying on hand seals.

Even though Ji An's hand seals were very slow, every single one of his movements could be said to be accurate.

Even if he didn't become a beastmaster in his previous life, he had thoroughly practiced the hand seals as preparations for contracting familiars in the future.

He hadn't been able to use them in his previous life, but he did in this life.

If he had not trained hard, it would have taken him some time to get familiar with the hand seals.

As Ji An's hands continuously glowed with white light, his hand seals also transformed into light seals that floated in the air.

A huge light seal slowly appeared beneath Ji An and the bear cub's feet.

A band of light slowly emerged from the light seal and connected to Ji An's forehead.

The other end of the light band was connected to the winter bear cub's forehead.

This was an extremely important process in the process of signing a soul contract. It was to connect the hearts of the two with a soul bond to establish a stable soul connection.

At this moment, the winter bear cub only needed a resisting thought to break away from the soul link that was extended to it.

However, it did not resist at all.

After the soul link had completely connected Ji An and the winter bear cub, the light seals under their feet began to shrink rapidly.

Then, they slowly disintegrated into dancing ribbons of light and fused into the space between Ji An and the winter bear cub's brows.

In the end, the winter bear cub also transformed into a ball of white light and entered Ji An's body along with the light band that connected the two.

It entered the soul domain that Ji An had just established.

With this, he had successfully contracted the winter bear cub!