The Death Whisper Butterfly and the Horned Demon's Secret Realm

Zhong Yi made a new discovery just now at the Beast Tamer Association.

Zhong Yi discovered that by using the Soul Flower to grant her the skill "All Things Detection," she could explore her surroundings.

They were able to clearly detect Zhong Ling's talent as a beast tamer.

Zhong Ling's Beast Tamer talent is called Mother Cocoon.

[Mother Cocoon]: Anchors a life of the same species as the user's natal beast and designates it as a cocoon with a shared soul. The cocoon can be used to form one-way contracts with other similar beings. Such contracts will not consume the soul within the talent's soul base.

A beast tamer's talent has always been their trump card, but once other beast tamers awaken their soul foundation talent, they will have nowhere to hide from Zhong Yi.

Zhong Yi could only describe Zhong Ling's talent as a beast tamer with one word.

That is strength!

A beast tamer will not contract many beasts in their lifetime, because contracting beasts requires the use of soul energy in their soul base.

Beastmasters need to consume soul power to control their beasts in battle, and a decrease in the energy in their soul base will greatly shorten the time it takes for them to control their beasts in battle.

It will also reduce the rate at which the beast's energy recovers in its soul base.

However, by using her innate cocoon, Zhong Ling can anchor herself to a butterfly creature with a powerful soul, and then use this butterfly creature to form contracts with a large number of other butterfly beasts.

Moreover, this contract is a one-way contract. As long as Zhong Ling is willing, she can command the butterfly creatures that are treated as cocoons to break their contracts with other butterfly beasts at any time.

This allows Zhong Ling to customize the skills and unique traits of butterfly-type beasts under the one-way contract of the cocoon in the future.

Normally, beast tamers start by training ordinary beasts through contracted beasts. If the skills and unique traits go astray during the training process, they can only make do because of the contract.

However, Zhong Ling can freely change the contracted butterfly beasts by relying on the one-way contract between the cocoon and other butterfly beasts.

If we compare the butterfly creatures anchored in their cocoons to guns, then the butterfly tamers who have one-way contracts and can choose skills and exclusive traits are like bullets in those guns.

It's a weapon that Zhong Ling can freely replace!

Although the butterfly-type beasts used as weapons also need to be trained from ordinary beast-level contracts, replacing them requires a lot of resources.

However, the consumption of such resources is negligible compared to the increase in Zhong Ling's combat power.

Moreover, Zhongyi can afford to consume such resources.

Before heading to the secret realm, Zhong Yi planned to help Zhong Ling choose the most suitable butterfly-type beast to serve as her cocoon.

While Zhong Yi was deep in thought, Zhong Ling couldn't wait to tell him about her innate beast taming ability and her talent as a beast tamer.

When talking about his destined beast, he even summoned his destined beast, the Death Whisper Butterfly.

A dark black butterfly, no bigger than the palm of a hand, was summoned as Zhong Ling activated her soul base.

The body of this ink-black butterfly faintly flows with a light even darker than its wings; this is a unique characteristic of the Nether Butterfly genus of beast tamers.

The butterfly's dark wings have four large, purplish-black spots at the ends, like eyes peering into and guiding the dead in the pitch-black night.

After being summoned, the dark butterfly obediently landed on Zhong Ling's finger, allowing Zhong Ling's other hand to gently stroke its wings.

Zhong Yi has already discovered the data of Zhong Ling's natal beast.

[Beast Name]: Death Whisper Butterfly

[Beast Species]: Nymphalidae / Necrophora

[Beast Taming Level]: Mortal Beast (1/10)

[Beast Taming Class]: Undead Class

[Beast Taming Quality]: None

skill:

[Deathrattle]: Emits a deathrattle through the vibration of the tentacles. The deathrattle can activate the lingering soul within the corpse, guiding the corpse to fight for you for a short period of time.

The Deathwhisper Butterfly is a pure undead-type beast, currently ranked at level 1 of the Mortal Beast class with no rank, and only has the Deathwhisper skill.

Deathrattle is a skill that activates the soul within a corpse, allowing the corpse to fight for you.

Although it is not common among undead-type beast tamers and is considered a relatively rare skill, it is very much in line with the general public's understanding of undead-type beast tamers.

This Deathwhisper is like a blank sheet of paper at this moment, and the choice of its future development direction is very important for it.

"Little Bell, this place isn't far from the Rare Insect Merchant Guild. Before heading to the secret realm, I'm going to have you use the Talent Mother Cocoon to anchor a Beast Tamer."

"I think that among all the beast taming beasts, the soul-type butterfly beast taming beasts are the most suitable to become your anchor cocoon."

Zhong Ling was previously just Zhong Yi's servant. Although she was literate and knew etiquette, she had never studied any courses related to beast taming.

Now that she has just awakened her Soul Foundation and gained her innate Beast Taming and Beast Tamer talents, Zhong Ling doesn't have many ideas about her future development direction yet.

Upon hearing Zhong Yi's words, Zhong Ling's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

"If Young Master chooses to anchor a soul-type butterfly beast as his cocoon, wouldn't I be able to command many butterfly beasts in battle using the cocoon?"

Zhong Ling was very clever. After hearing Zhong Yi mention anchoring the soul-type butterfly beast, she immediately understood Zhong Yi's idea.

Zhong Yi said with a smile.

"That's natural. The butterfly beast taming contract you form with the cocoon is a one-way contract that can be changed at any time. It's just in time to equip you with these butterfly beast taming beasts before you enter the secret realm."

"As for your destined beast, the Deathwhisper, it has multiple evolution paths, and the choice of different paths will affect the Deathwhisper's subsequent development."

Upon hearing Zhong Yi's words, Zhong Ling's expression immediately became conflicted.

Just now in the Awakening Room, Su Ya had already explained to Zhong Ling the possible development paths for the Death Whisper Butterfly.

Right now, Zhong Ling doesn't know what to choose, but when faced with a problem, she subconsciously relies on Zhong Yi.

"Young master, why don't you help me choose the development path for the Death Whisper Butterfly?"

Zhong Yi spoke to Zhong Ling in a rare serious tone.

"Little Bell, as a beast tamer, you need to independently and firmly choose the path you want to take in the future."

"You don't need to worry too much. Anyway, your Deathwhisper will be upgraded after you come out of the dungeon. I'm sure you'll know your choice by then."

Zhongyi had actually decided long ago which level-one secret realm she was about to explore.

Zhong Yi's main purpose in entering the Level 1 Secret Realm was to help the Soul Flower obtain flesh and soul energy to provide materials for Hong Ji.

Improving the level of your beast tamer is just a side effect.

Of all the open level-one secret realms within the Star City area, the Horned Demon Secret Realm, located in the northern suburbs, is undoubtedly the most suitable choice.

The Horned Demon Realm has only reached 65% exploration so far, and it is said that many beast tamers have perished in the Horned Demon Realm.

Furthermore, news has spread of a beast tamer squad being wiped out in the Horned Demon Secret Realm.

This led to the Horned Demon Realm once making it onto Starlight City's list of the ten most dangerous level-one realms.