Chapter 382: Chapter 382

Cultivation required pills, and the greater the family, the greater their demand for pills. Generally, they would have their own alchemists. Alchemists were still very popular on this land.

Another was about raising monster beasts. You didn't necessarily need to be familiar with all monster beast habits, but at minimum you needed experience raising monster beasts. This was also a good position. Xiaoyao happened to want to train a few monster beasts that could carry messages, so this would be a good opportunity to learn using these resources.

Which of these two should he choose? Xiaoyao had a bit of a headache—both were good choices...

What about the third one?

Xiaoyao directly ruled this out, because the third one actually required skills in needlework—it was needed by the Xuanwu Family's internal clothing workshop. Although Xiaoyao knew how to do this, he wouldn't choose it.

Although he could interact with women who had the most information resources, Xiaoyao didn't want to attract attention, as this would be somewhat peculiar! Of course, this project was also aimed at women and hadn't considered that men might choose it.

Now it came down to considering the choice between the first two. Xiaoyao made his decision very quickly—he used the simplest method to choose: he flipped a copper coin...

"You've raised monster beasts?" The tester for the monster beast project asked in surprise. He hadn't expected anyone would choose this, since it was such an unpopular profession. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ novᴇlfire.net

Monster beasts weren't something ordinary people could raise. At the same time, raising monster beasts was also a very dangerous profession. Therefore, naturally very few people knew how to do this, and among the people who came here, not a single person could do it.

Xiaoyao nodded. Not only had he raised monster beasts, he had raised one that was the most gluttonous of all!!

"Interesting, then answer some questions for me..." The man said, then asked several of the most basic questions about raising monster beasts. Although they were basic, not many people could answer them.

For Xiaoyao, these questions were naturally very easy to answer—as simple as daily routine. Not to mention that Xiaoyao had read books about raising monster beasts during this period, even back on the Divine Martial Continent, he had understood some of these things.

Seeing Xiaoyao answer so easily, the man continued questioning, making the questions deeper and more difficult. As a result, Xiaoyao still answered fluently.

The man nodded with great satisfaction and briefly tested some of Xiaoyao's practical abilities. Actually, even if Xiaoyao couldn't pass, he was prepared to recruit him anyway. Practical abilities could be slowly developed—as long as you understood the theory, it would be easy.

Xiaoyao's practical abilities didn't disappoint him either. As a result, he immediately recruited Xiaoyao and then led him away. Finding one person was already enough—he didn't need anyone else.

Seeing Xiaoyao recruited into the Xuanwu Family, those who had come with him were all somewhat envious. However, they didn't harbor any resentment, because what Xiaoyao had chosen was too unpopular—even if they were given the chance, they couldn't have succeeded.

Therefore, Xiaoyao hadn't stolen their position. This left them with no resentment toward him, only envy.

"From today on, you are a lower-rank servant of the Xuanwu Family, responsible for raising our family's monster beasts. These are all very precious, so you must be careful in everything."

After helping Xiaoyao complete the employment procedures, the man brought him to the beast pens—of course, the special monster beast pens. These monster beast pens were very large, containing many precious monster beasts inside. The ordinary ones had all been thrown into the wild beast pens.

Among these monster beasts were quite a few that Xiaoyao had never seen or even heard of. From this, one could see how powerful the foundation of this Xuanwu Family was.

As for why these monster beasts weren't kept in outdoor pastures but here instead, the reason was actually simple: most of these monster beasts had owners, and their owners generally didn't have time to care for them but didn't want them too far away, so they specially built these monster beast pens.

Actually, many families did this—it wasn't unique to the Xuanwu Family. It was just that the Xuanwu Family's monster beast pens were a bit larger, with more monster beasts and better quality ones.

Who were their owners? Naturally the young ladies, young masters, masters, and madams of the Xuanwu Family—in short, the masters of the Xuanwu Family.

Among these monster beasts, some were very precious ones being prepared for cultivation as innate spirit beasts. These were the most attention-worthy of all!

On this land, innate spirit beasts weren't as rare as they were on the Divine Martial Continent. Many people possessed innate spirit beasts, and they already had them before reaching Emperor Level.

These were either people who felt their breakthrough prospects were hopeless, or people who needed innate spirit beasts for combat power. Such people were also called beast tamers, slightly different from pure martial artists.

On this land, although innate spirit beasts would drag down cultivation progress, it wasn't by much. Innate spirit beasts would also absorb the elemental energy between heaven and earth to cultivate on their own, because there was enough elemental energy here.

On the Divine Martial Continent, innate spirit beasts could only absorb their contractor's cultivation power to train, precisely because the Divine Martial Continent didn't have enough elemental energy between heaven and earth. This was the difference.

Therefore, many more people here accepted innate spirit beasts, even forming a special combat profession that was also very powerful.

However, those who were single-mindedly devoted to the martial path generally still wouldn't want innate spirit beasts, because what they pursued was the peak of martial arts, and innate spirit beasts were just a burden.

History had also proven that those who only pursued the peak of martial arts were often the strongest when they reached the summit, much more powerful than beast tamers!

However, if one's martial talent wasn't sufficient, one could still use innate spirit beasts to make up for deficiencies in strength. This was also experience drawn from history.

Within the Xuanwu Family, there were geniuses, but naturally there were also relatively ordinary people. Knowing their martial talent wasn't sufficient, they would naturally choose innate spirit beasts to compensate. Of course, they still had to continue walking the martial path and couldn't relax.

How powerful a beast tamer was basically depended on their own martial cultivation—this was an unchangeable fact!

However, as the saying goes, all roads lead to Rome. The beast tamer path also had some amazing geniuses who had once made the entire world change color. This pattern wasn't unchanging either.

Moreover, in the early stages, beast tamers were relatively powerful due to the help of their innate spirit beasts, especially those with powerful innate spirit beasts, far surpassing martial artists of the same level.

What Xiaoyao was now raising generally weren't innate spirit beasts yet, but monster beasts that would become innate spirit beasts in the future. If they were innate spirit beasts, they would generally be kept with their owners and wouldn't be raised in monster beast pens, unless they were sick or injured.

"Alright, I've introduced all these monster beasts to you. Pay attention to that injured Xuangui Beast inside—that's Miss Lingqi's innate spirit beast. Don't go care for it now; your qualifications aren't sufficient." The man said, "By the way, I'm the steward here. You can just call me Steward Li."

"Yes, Steward Li! What is my work then?" Xiaoyao asked.

"Your current work is to first familiarize yourself with the environment here, watch how we do things, and care for some monster beasts in the beginner beast pens. You shouldn't have any problems with those. Also, we have a monster beast reference room here. When you have time, go look at the books inside." Steward Li said, "It's right in your courtyard."

The Xuanwu Family had a good regulation: each profession's courtyard would have a dedicated reference room containing books for that profession. Everything the Xuanwu Family could collect would be included inside. This was to facilitate the improvement of abilities in each profession.

Some of these books were just copies, because the Xuanwu Family also had a more comprehensive reference room, which could also be called a library. Several buildings in the entire courtyard were filled with books, encompassing all areas of knowledge in the world.

This was also very normal. Since even each servant's profession had a dedicated reference room, naturally there would be such a general reference library!

This habit of the Xuanwu Family was also learned by other great families, because they discovered it indeed had great benefits. Although collecting books had some cost, this was nothing compared to the benefits gained.

Since all families and forces did this, through long-term exchanges, they would also borrow from each other what they lacked, then copy it down to include in their own collections. Of course, they also had to give the other party what they lacked, or some other compensation.

Basically, the three super families all had equally rich book collections. It was just that some treasured items were unique to each family. These were generally various skills, including martial techniques, mechanical arts, medicine, etc. Especially martial techniques and cultivation methods—each had even more unique ones.

For Xiaoyao, what he needed was just ordinary knowledge. Those unique ones, he didn't really need!

At the same time, Xiaoyao now should first do his main job well and study these monster beast materials first. The Xuanwu Family's collection was also very comprehensive. Learning all the knowledge inside would basically make him a top-tier monster beast keeper.

Steward Li brought Xiaoyao to a courtyard. This would be Xiaoyao's future residence, living together with other servants responsible for raising monster beasts. Steward Li, as a high-level personnel, also lived inside, but their houses were much better.

However, where Xiaoyao lived wasn't bad either—better than ordinary families. This was also a manifestation of the Xuanwu Family's great wealth and extensive business.

"By the way, I forgot to tell you one more thing. Within the Xuanwu Family, the inner courtyard is somewhere we can't enter. That place is only for the main family members of the Xuanwu Family and the servants who serve there. Anyway, people like us generally can't enter, unless someone summons us. But I believe you probably won't have that opportunity." Steward Li finally said. This wasn't him looking down on Xiaoyao, but a fact.

Most people working for the Xuanwu Family had never entered the inner courtyard in their entire lives. This was a very common phenomenon.