Insufficient balance

  Late afternoon, Imperial Capital Orphanage.

  "Where have you taken Zheng Feng to cause trouble again, Ah Tou? Don't you know that the Beast Soul Power test is almost here? This year is the last and most important one, it will decide your future. If you don't cultivate properly, you'll just be running around with that little brat all day."

  Ya Tou and Zheng Feng had just stepped into the orphanage when they heard Director Xiao's unchanged lecture that had been going on for years. They exchanged a glance, smiled wryly at each other.

  Zheng Feng was well aware that Ya Tou Jie Jie had the highest Beast Soul talent in the Imperial Capital Orphanage, far surpassing the requirements for a beginner Beast Master. This year's assessment was just a formality, but if she maintained her extraordinary growth rate as before, she would undoubtedly be valued by the Tian Long Empire and receive the best training.

  After all, there are many people who have reached the entry level of beast control, but for most of their lives, they will only stay at the beast messenger. Those who work hard may have a chance to be promoted to beast master, and only a few can be promoted to spiritual beast messenger or spiritual beast master or higher levels. Talent is often an important factor in entering the spiritual beast messenger gate.

  As long as her sister maintains excellent grades and gains recognition from the Empire, Director Xiao's face will naturally gain more prestige.

  Zheng Feng often heard the director say to his sister, "Work harder!" In recent years, other major cities' orphanages have produced one or two talented children. As the director of Tianlong City Orphanage in the Imperial Capital, he couldn't let himself be outdone, so he was particularly strict with his sister, hoping she could help him regain some face.

  Although Zheng Feng doesn't know what face is now, he heard from his sister Ya Tou that this thing called face is very important to the dean.

  Zheng Feng couldn't help but think of noodles, I don't know about face, but noodles are a good thing. In Zheng Feng's opinion, anything that tastes good is a good thing, it can be said that his judgment standard is completely without dignity.

  "Who... who is this?"

  Xiao Xiu wanted to continue lecturing, but when he walked up to Ya Tou, he saw the "disfigured" face leaning on Ya Tou's shoulder and didn't recognize Zheng Feng at first, so he couldn't help but ask out loud. Apparently, Xiao Xiu was also scared by Zheng Feng's "pig head" face.

  "Hehe...... Haha."

  Only saw the girl laughing all the time and didn't answer Xiao Xiu's question.

  "Director, it's me, I'm Zheng Feng! Ahh... ouch..."

  Zheng Feng saw that the dean didn't recognize him, and he immediately became anxious and shouted loudly, but forgot that his whole body was injured. As a result, he suffered again, and the wound sent another wave of pain.

  Zheng Feng?

  Xiao Xiu thought for a moment and nodded in agreement, who else could be on that girl's back besides Zheng Feng.

  "What's going on? Why have you turned into this pig-headed appearance?" Xiao Xiu was also curious about how a child's face could become so "fashionable".

  "Director, it's like this..."

  The girl finally stopped her laughter and told Xiao Xiu about the whole thing.

  "Haha... I'm dead, I knew you little devil was greedy, but I didn't expect you to become so 'brave' for honey that you'd dare to smash the beehive... Haha... No way, this is too funny!" Xiao Xiu couldn't help but burst out laughing after hearing this.

  The girl looked at the principal and couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  "Alright, Director, stop smiling. Think of a way to help Xiaofeng relieve his pain quickly."

  "Don't worry, I'll help him apply some medicine later, and then you can send him back to his room. He'll be fine after a few days of rest."

  In the hall, Xiao Xiu helped Zheng Feng apply the medicine and then turned around to clean up the ointment. At the same time, he said to Ya Tou: "Ya Tou, after sending this little ghost back to his room, come to the principal's office. There are some things I need to tell you." His voice was heavy with emotion.

  "Hmm." The girl responded with a sentence. She seemed to understand what the principal was going to say to her.

  One room in the Tianlong City Orphanage has four sets of bunk beds, which means eight beds, with two children sharing one bed. In total, 16 children live in one room. The children's ages and genders are not the same, but most of them share beds by gender, boys with boys and girls with girls.

  However, there were exceptions, such as Zheng Feng and Ya Tou, who shared the same bed. The reason was Ya Tou's request, and Xiao Xiu also thought that Ya Tou was still young, and the other one was even younger, so they shouldn't understand anything yet, and agreed without any issues.

  Xiao Xiu didn't know that nowadays kids are very precocious!

  Zheng Feng and their room have some special rules, only 15 people are allowed in.

  One of them disappeared for some reason.

  The room was very quiet, with some children younger than Xiaotou already covered in blankets and fast asleep, while others sat cross-legged with their eyes closed, meditating to cultivate their beast soul power.

  When Yatou and Zheng Feng returned to the room, others just gave them a faint glance and didn't pay much attention, continuing with their own things.

  Sleeping children, most of them have undergone the test of beast soul power, their beast soul power is negligible or far from enough, although beast soul power can be improved through later practice.

  But even if you want to cultivate, you must first feel the beast soul power. They are the kind of people who can't feel the beast soul power at all. How can they cultivate? Simply put, they have no hope of becoming a Beast Master in this lifetime.

  However, they can strengthen their physical bodies to take another path - the Martial Way. In this continent, there are at least two paths to achieve success and fame. One is the Beast Path, and the other is the Martial Way.

  Those who know they have no hope of entering the Beast Path, they will constantly stimulate their bodies through physical training to produce a power that can counter the beast soul force - Qi.

  The power of the beast soul is different from that of the air, and it has been passed down since ancient times as a gift from the highest god to ordinary people. Although there are differences in strength, every person is born with it.

  And Qi is necessarily acquired through postnatal cultivation.

  It has been found that the stronger a person is, the greater their potential for Qi, and after producing Qi, there are various corresponding methods to cultivate it.

  These kids are so exhausted that they fall asleep early because they have been through high-intensity physical training during the day, both physically and mentally. If they don't get a good rest to face tomorrow's training, that would be strange.

  And with their eyes closed and legs crossed on the bed meditating, the children's test results for their beast souls were uneven. Some may have also reached the entry requirements of a beast tamer, but not everyone was like Xiaotou, born with beast soul power that exceeded standards.

  They can only increase their beast soul power through constant meditation if they want to go further. Some people have not yet reached the requirements of a Beastmaster, but are very close to that standard. They hope to reach the requirements of a Beastmaster in the ten-year-old beast soul test. Otherwise, their fate will be sent to undergo physical strengthening like those Refiners, but it will definitely be more miserable than them.

  Because those kids were originally in the orphanage for physical training, and they had never received that kind of training before. At the age of ten, they would be transferred from the orphanage to a training camp for more intense training. How could they survive if they had never tried physical training before? So it was those who did not meet the standards who were the most desperate group of people.

  While Zheng Feng and I were about the same age as kids, we were influenced by our surroundings and most of us were relatively quiet. We didn't need to be trained, but it was almost the same.

  Just like Zheng Feng is now five years old and can still run to stir up a beehive without worry, but at six he will have to start learning the most basic knowledge of martial arts and beast taming, and at seven undergo his first Beast Soul Power test.

  According to the classification of soul power, if it is classified as martial arts, congratulations, you don't need to take tests anymore. Just accept physical training until the age of 10 and then go to a training camp.

  If assigned to the Beast Tamer path, from now on, one will continue to practice meditation and cultivation, but every year, a test of beast soul power intensity must be taken. If the standard is passed in the last beast soul power test at the age of 10, the entrance examination for Beast Tamers will be conducted. Only those who pass can officially become a low-level Beast Tamer. Failed? Sorry, please go to the Body Cultivator training camp instead.

  Children who have reached the standard of Beastmaster before the age of ten will be valued by the Empire. However, the Empire will not start cultivating immediately, and they will let you stay in the orphanage until you are ten years old.

  Why? The reason is too simple. The entire continent operates under the law of the jungle, and the orphanage is no exception. Especially in a place that calls itself an orphanage but is actually a military training camp for the Tianlong Empire. There are far too many children with talent who die before they turn ten. The empire has never managed the conflicts between children under the age of ten. In fact, some even encourage it, because only children who emerge from such an environment will become truly exceptional.

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