Name: Mingxi

Gender: Female

Age: 14

Physical Fitness: F+

Brain Development: 8%

The Dr. blinked.

Then she blinked again.

The information on the digital board remained unchanged.

The Dr.: ... ...

“Period.” Period Vine extended a tendril and touched her, looking at her Beast Tamers, whose emotions were fluctuating wildly, with concern, asking her what was wrong.

The Dr. came to her senses as if from a dream, shaking her head reassuringly at her Pet: “I’m fine.”

She looked at Mingxi in the space capsule again and sighed, “Is this what they mean by ‘never judge a book by its cover’?”

But this was too much of a mismatch.

Three minutes later, Mingxi successfully completed her identity registration with her physical examination report.

Although she wasn't yet an official Beast Tamers, she inexplicably felt as if the world had taken on a new look.

Next, she could go test the quality of her Soul Key.

She paid again and took a number.

Soon, she entered the Key testing room.

“The Pet Space is in your sea of consciousness; try to sense its presence first.”

The Staff Member was very friendly after learning that Mingxi was a natural awakening.

Mingxi nodded, closed her eyes to sense, and the next second, her soul seemed to be drawn into a very mysterious state.

In her consciousness, a bright pyramid-shaped space rotated at a slow, regular frequency.

Four equilateral triangular walls formed a space of about 20 cubic meters.

The material of the walls was very special, looking like crystal but also having a metallic texture.

However, only one wall was bright white, while the remaining three were dull white, like unlit light bulbs.

And at the center of the space, a key shimmering with Colorful light was Floating.

“Do you see that key? If you do, use your mind to take it out.” 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

The Staff Member’s gentle voice sounded in her ear, and Mingxi did as she was told, and a hard object immediately appeared in her right hand.

“Very good, you succeeded.”

Mingxi quickly opened her eyes and looked down at her right palm, where a key about 25 centimeters long lay quietly.

It was sword-shaped overall, somewhat resembling an ancient hairpin sword from her previous life, like an artwork meticulously carved by a deity, with every line on it exuding mystery and nobility.

“Oh?”

The two Staff Member in the testing room exclaimed in surprise simultaneously.

One of them added, “It’s actually a Phantom Color Key.”

Mingxi was stunned.

She searched the original owner's memories again.

Although the original owner was a poor student, it didn't mean she was a fool; a large part of the reason for her poor academic performance was due to the influence of her family's work.

Even if she was truly stupid, she still had a good grasp of common knowledge.

The Phantom Color Key, the most special existence among the Soul Key.

Here, a point of knowledge must be added.

That is the Spirit Pact Chamber.

The Spirit Pact Chamber is a product of Heaven's evolution, not man-made, and to date, no external objects /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ can damage it, but it can be moved manually.

All currently discovered Spirit Pact Chamber are centrally managed by the Alliance Beast Center, and distributed to various regions by the Yushou Center based on local population and other data.

No country, organization, family, or private individual is allowed to hoard them; once discovered, they will be subject to extremely severe punishment.

Once a Beast Tamers selects the Pet they wish to contract, they can use the Soul Key to open the Spirit Pact Chamber and complete the contract with the Pet on the Spiritual Contract Platform inside.

In other words, to contract a Pet, both the Soul Key and the Spirit Pact Chamber are indispensable, in addition to the Pet itself.

As a mutated existence among the Soul Key, the Phantom Color Key is undoubtedly very rare.

Its chances of appearing are only 0.003%, even rarer than natural awakening.

Doesn't that sound particularly grand and impressive? Do you think this is some kind of golden finger that only a protagonist would have?

If you think so, it proves you've read too many wish-fulfillment novels.

The difference between the Phantom Color Key and an ordinary Soul Key lies in an additional new option: it doesn't require a Pet to be prepared in advance.

Instead, it allows for random summoning and contracting through the Spiritual Contract Platform, where Heaven itself assigns their contracted Pet.

This is like opening a blind box; even the manufacturer might not know what will come out.

Doesn't that sound fun? Exciting?

However, the blood and tears of history have consistently told naive Beast Tamers that opening blind boxes is not only highly unreliable, but more terrifyingly, it comes with immense risks.

According to Alliance statistics, 95% of the Transcendent creature randomly summoned by the Phantom Color Key have extremely poor talent and aptitude.

How poor, you ask?

Beast Tamers who contract them will never be able to cultivate them to the level of an Advanced Level Pet in their entire lives.

Is that poor enough for you?

As for the remaining 5%, while their talent and aptitude are indeed good, there's a high probability that the Pet will backlash against the Beast Tamers, forcibly dissolving the contract and directly causing brain damage to the Beast Tamers.

The lucky few who manage to escape the curse are extremely rare; saying they are as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns would be an exaggeration.

What a trap.

A massive trap.

Therefore, as Beast Tamer civilization has developed, very few Beast Tamers now use the Phantom Color Key's random summoning function.

Even if 'opening a blind box' could save a large sum of star coins on buying a Pet.

Without some protagonist's halo and rebellious spirit, who would dare to jump into a foreseeable pit with their future?

After all, this no longer involves the realm of metaphysics, but the realm of martial arts.

Only grandmasters who have perfected their Iron Head skill would have the courage to try.

Mingxi, after pulling up the relevant memories: “...”

What to do?

She kind of wanted to try it.

It wasn't that she was a direct descendant of the Iron Head skill sect and was confident she could break this curse.

It was because...

She was incredibly poor.

With total assets of less than 5000 star coins on her personal terminal, a seriously ill grandmother to support and care for, and owing over 200,000 star coins in debt, did she have the right to be picky and choose her ideal Pet?

What kind of daydream was that?

She had already done a quick investigation on her way from school to the Yushou Center.

The cheapest Pet eggs at the nearby Pet breeding center cost 80,000 star coins.

She did want to find the original owner's mother.

In her opinion, that woman inherently had the responsibility to raise her.

The main reason the original owner lived such a miserable life was her birth mother.

Because her birth mother was alive, the national welfare mechanism automatically excluded the original owner from civil assistance, meaning the original owner could neither receive orphan subsidies nor obtain child support from her mother.

Some people are better off dead.

So the original owner's resentment towards her birth mother was deeper than the ocean, wider than the sky, and more boundless than the starry sea.

She had secretly sworn that she would never bow to that woman.

But Mingxi was not the original owner after all; she understood the original owner but couldn't empathize with her.

After all, in the face of reality and future prospects, dignity wasn't such a valuable thing.

But as soon as she thought this, a piercing pain shot through her internal organs and limbs, feeling as if her soul was under attack.