"Dear students, let me repeat myself, when awakening the Beastmaster talent, you must concentrate your mind on the patterns in the 'Complete Guide to Beast Taming'."

Blue Star, Huaxia Country.

The atmosphere is tense at Tianchuan City's Number One Middle School.

Principal Cheng Haoran continued to tell earnestly, "The more lifelike and intricate the pattern you visualize, the higher the level of talent awakening could be!"

He paused, then continued: "As for how important the Beastmaster talent is, I think you all understand, so I won't elaborate further. Good luck to you all, and go for it!"

With that, Principal Cheng stepped aside to give the students space.

Standing before the awakening array, the students from Class 6, Senior Year 3 were all excited and a bit uneasy.

The excitement was that, after awakening the Beastmaster talent, they would be able to join the ranks of Beastmasters and pledge their own pet beasts.

What made them anxious was that nobody knew what level of talent they would awaken.

In this era of universal Beastmastery, the level of Beastmaster talent was like a double-edged sword to some extent, directly influencing their future.

"Ning, have you decided on the pattern to visualize?"

Gong Cheng looked worryingly at the handsome young man beside him.

Lei Ning hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly: "Um... I’m pretty sure I have made a choice."

"What do you mean by 'pretty sure'?"

Gong Cheng's eyes widened, looking somewhat frustrated, "Ning, did you not listen to what the principal just said? This isn’t something you fool around with!"

"Don't worry, brother. I've got it all figured out."

Lei Ning gave Gong Cheng a light pat on the shoulder, smiling with ease on the surface, but inside, nerves rang like alarm bells.

What he was about to do could only be described as "courting disaster."

Lei Ning, after all, was a transmigrator.

Before transmigration, he had just received his acceptance letter from Tsinghua University, eagerly anticipating his future.

Who would have thought that when he woke up, he would have crossed into this bizarre world where everyone played with magical beasts.

In this world, once you turned eighteen and passed the Beast Mastery Theory examination, you qualified to participate in what was called the Awakening Ceremony.

Once you awakened the Beast Mastery Talent, you then had a chance to become a Beastmaster.

And if you were staggeringly lucky and awakened a high-level Beast Mastery Talent, you were essentially the chosen one, coveted by all and sundry, with an unfathomably bright future.

As for the target of visualization that Gong Cheng mentioned...

In this world, every senior high student would receive a Beastmastery Complete Compendium distributed by the school.

It contained portraits of 108 known Super Beasts.

During the awakening of the talent, one must pick one to visualize in order to increase the chances of awakening a high-level talent.

The reason Lei Ning was troubled was because he thought the beasts in the Beastmastery Compendium were indeed... not up to scratch.

Not that he was saying these beasts weren't strong enough.

The mystical beasts capable of being included in "The Complete Beast Taming Guide," any one of them could effortlessly bring about the destruction of an entire city- they were essentially walking disasters.

However, as Lei Ning looked upon these so-called formidable beasts, he couldn't help but quietly scoff to himself. Compared to the legendary beasts passed down by our esteemed ancestors, these creatures are nothing more than minor witches in the face of a high sorcerer.

An idea suddenly popped into his mind. What if, during the awakening, he envisioned the divine beasts of earth?

Lei Ning's mind was already made up— the Dragon!

The descendants of Yan and Huang, the dragon's progeny, isn't this tailored just for us?

However, such a decision isn't without its risks.

This wretched place hadn't even spotted the shadow of a dragon, not to mention any legends of it.

If he envisioned a creature that did not even exist in "The Complete Beast Taming Guide," who knows what sort of monkey wrench it would throw in the works?

If he fails in his awakening, that would purely mean losing one's wife and soldiers

So, this matter of what Lei Ning would envision during the awakening remains undecided even up to this point.

But now with the awakening ceremony about to begin, he had no choice but to take the gamble. He had to play the last card, hoping for the best.

"Xu Tai, F-grade talent," the Dean announced with an expressionless face, staring at the red light on the magic circle.

"Ah..." Xu Tai dejectedly descended from the altar with a downcast head.

Beast taming talent is classified into nine grades: F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS.

F-grade is the weakest, yet also the most common talent.

The awakening of a level F talent was only barely enough for him to gain the qualification to become a beast tamer.

"Next, Lei Ning!"

Hearing his name being called, Lei Ning immediately perked up, taking a few quick steps to the center of the magic array.

"Remember, concentrate completely, don't be distracted even a bit," the director of instruction once again admonished, full of seriousness in his voice.

Lei Ning nodded lightly. Taking a deep breath, he slowly closed his eyes.

In his mind, the gigantic figure of a mighty dragon began to emerge…

There were many myths and stories about dragons on Earth, like the Ying Dragon, Qiu Dragon, Chi Dragon, Azure Dragon, and so on.

At this moment, what Lei Ning was concentrating his thoughts on was the progenitor of the dragon race as recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" — the Candle Dragon!

Also known as the Candle Nine Yin, with a human face and snake body. Its body was a flaming red color, appearing as if it was on fire, its size spanning thousands of miles.

One eye opened, and it was day. One eye closed, and it became night. One breath in, and winter arrived. One breath out, and it was summer. It could control the weather without eating, drinking, or resting...

Legend has it that the Candle Dragon was born bearing the will of Pangu, becoming the most potent deity in the universe after Pangu's passing.

Upon its awakening, it found the universe in silent desolation with no signs of life, instantly understanding that the river of time was still frozen in nothingness.

With its supreme divine power, the Candle Dragon bifurcated the chaos of time, enabling the river of time to surge incessantly from then on. Consequently, rocks started to have rings like tree trunks, trees began to show signs of the passage of time, and all beings started to go through the endless cycle of life and death...

According to legend, when Gong Gong struck Buzhou Mountain in a fit of fury, although the Goddess Nuwa cut off the leg of a divine turtle to support the four poles and personally mended the sky, this catastrophe still couldn't be completely avoided.

After all, even with the robust legs of the giant turtle deity, it couldn't fully replace the function of the Heavenly Pillar.

As the sky was crumbling and the earth splitting, living beings were wiped out, all creatures were wailing, and the world seemed to be returning to the chaos of the beginning.

But in this critical moment, the primordial deity Candle Dragon appeared.

With its inconceivably gigantic body, it coiled around the entire Mount Bu Zhou, looping again and again around the pillar that held the heavens and the earth, like a vast red cord.

With its incomparable divine strength, the Candle Dragon forcefully bundled up and stabilised the broken and unstable Sky-Holding Pillar.

Thus, the catastrophe that almost destroyed the world was completely appeased, and all the creatures in the world were spared from this calamity.

Afterwards, the Candle Dragon didn't forget to show its tender side.

It breathed out a gentle divine breath, instantly resuscitating the goddess Nuwa.

Not just that, the Candle Dragon also established a 'Heaven Beyond Heaven' above the Ninth Heaven, providing a new habitat for the gods...

The series of operations simply showcased the immense power of the Candle Dragon to the fullest!

As these pieces of information kept flashing in Lei Ning's mind, the form of the dragon gradually became clear.

It was a crimson dragon so huge that words couldn't describe it.

However, more shocking than its extraordinary size was the aura it exuded.

The overwhelming and dominant aura seemed capable of crushing thousands of troops with ease. The magnificent aura coming off of the Candle Dragon filled the entire heaven and earth, which naturally invoked awe and submission in others.

Just then...

Lei Ning stood in the center of the magic circle, his body suddenly emanating a faint red light.

The moment that light appeared, it visibly intensified at an increasing speed.

Seeing this, the eyes of the Dean of Instruction practically popped out of his head.

He knew that different levels of innate talent emitted lights in various colors.

From low to high, they were red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, silver, and gold.

The red light on Lei Ning was growing brighter and brighter, hinting at the possibility of a color change.

In other words, he might awaken an innate talent beyond the F rank.

"Could it be E rank or maybe D rank?"

The Dean of Instruction's heart was pounding with anticipation.

Of course, he hoped that Lei Ning could awaken an even greater talent.

However, this hope seemed faint.

At Tianchuan No.1 Middle School, a D rank was already very impressive.

For a C Rank, among more than three thousand students in a year, only one or two would make it.

As for the B rank, it had been many years since he'd seen one.

Although, there once was a student with a B rank talent at Tianchuan No.1 Middle School.

The next day, he was taken away by people from the provincial city. Now, he is a big official in the provincial city.

Just when the Dean of Discipline was full of expectations...

The red light on Leining disappeared in a blink of an eye, and the awakening ceremony came to an end.

The Dean of Discipline sighed, "Oh, what a pity! Such a dazzling red light, why couldn't it push a little further?"

He had to announce the reality, "Leining, an F-level talent!"

"Dean, I am actually not..."

Leining's words choked off halfway.

He originally wanted to explain to the Dean that he did not awaken an F-level talent. It was only due to some hitches in the awakening process that caused the red light to appear on his body.

But as the words came to his lips, he did not know how to speak.

Because he himself could not clearly explain what had just happened to him.

Moreover, even if he did speak, he doubted anyone would believe him. After all, it was too extraordinary.