I dreamed of returning to ancient times, and I became a beast tamer

"Is the Netherworld in the south a place where evil spirits breed? Tell me how much you know about that place."

Lu Yuan took the old man out and chatted on the stone pier outside the house.

Seeing that the old man was very nervous, he kept looking at the Nian beast Dabai.

Dabai stared with innocent red eyes and listened obediently.

But the weight rings on its four legs reflected the moonlight, giving Jiang Bo a sense of invincible power. He thought that they were weapons, which added pressure to him invisibly.

Lu Yuan turned to Dabai and said, "Run around the village ten times with the weight on your back and come back."

“Ah!”

Dabai expressed his objection. He was also very curious and wanted to hear what Uncle Jiang had to say about things outside the village.

"I'll tell you when you come back."

"Ugh——"

Unable to oppose its master's orders, it grumbled, wagged its drooping tail, and slowly walked away.

The old man listened to the heavy footsteps gradually fading away, his heart pounding. The Nian beast with the leg ring was indeed extraordinary. Its leg strength was several times stronger than without it.

Master Lu’s Nian beast is not simple. It is equipped with special weapons for the pet. If the Nian beast becomes powerful, few people can stop it.

"Okay, now that the Nian has left, we can talk."

"Of course." The old man wiped the sweat from his forehead.

He couldn't understand why they had to talk about such a horrifying topic in the middle of the night. The underworld was an evil place, forbidden to living people. Ordinary people didn't dare to talk about that place for fear of attracting evil spirits.

But since the master had spoken, he dared not disobey and could only bite the bullet and introduce the matters of the Netherworld.

"I don't know much about this matter. I heard it from my ancestors. I just said that. Please listen to it."

Seeing that Lu Yuan was listening attentively and showed no sign of disgust, Jiang Bo continued:

“A hundred years ago, the south was not called the Netherworld. It was just an ordinary graveyard where dozens of generations of people from the neighboring Xuxi Village were buried.

“Think about it, who are the people who can be buried on the grave mountain? They are all mediocre people who cannot enter the ancestral temple.

"These days, people who are a bit normal are basically cremated and buried in the ancestral temple to become ancestors."

“I don’t know what happened in that village, but a beastmaster named Wang was not buried in the ancestral temple after his death, but was buried on the grave mountain.

"No one expected that the ghost pets that the master had contracted during his lifetime would come to the door and find out about this. They cried at the graves every day on the mountain and cursed the neighboring village.

“We in Liuhe Village were so far away, but we also heard the cries of those pets.

“Every time they cried, the sky darkened into black, and even the sunlight from the two suns could not shine through.

"After crying for a few days, the crying stopped. My grandfather was washing clothes by the river and saw that the entire river was red. The whole village was so scared that they didn't dare to use river water for a whole year, nor did they dare to go to the south to confirm the situation..."

At this point, Jiang Bo's soul trembled. He felt that he couldn't go on any further, and his throat felt a little tight.

"Then what?" Lu Yuan asked.

"I don't know what happened afterwards. I was told since I was a child that I should not go to the land in the south. At that time, it was already called the Netherworld." Uncle Jiang shook his head.

"Who came up with the word 'Netherworld'?" Lu Yuan asked.

"It was a name given by an expert in Qianshan City. We only found out about it when we went there to buy things."

"Where is Qianshan City?"

"Take the path to the right from the north. After about five or six days of walking, you will see Qianshan City. It is a mountain city."

Uncle Jiang didn't dare to hide it. He had used Qianshan City to deceive Lu Yuan before. Now that he mentioned the real address of Qianshan City, he couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.

Lu Yuan was thoughtful after hearing this.

The local name is Liuhe Village, and Liu is a common surname in the village.

The extinct village next door is called Xuxi Village, and the Xu surname is the largest.

Wang is the smallest surname in the neighboring Xuxi Village, with a small population.

The master surnamed Wang became a master in his later years. His rise to fame was short-lived and he left no descendants.

His relatives are a hopeless bunch, and all the family's wealth and glory are concentrated on him.

After his death, the Xu family pressed on and used their power to force him to be buried on the grave hill.

If that man were buried in the ancestral temple, the ancestors of the Xu family would be severely suppressed.

Unexpectedly, his pet came to mourn and found that his master was not buried in the ancestral temple. He was so angry that he sacrificed the whole village alive, uprooted the ancestral temple, and wiped out Xuxi Village.

In modern times, it is almost unthinkable to think about such a thing.

But in ancient times, it feels quite normal.

Another point is that after the beastmaster dies, the contract with the pet will disappear.

The natal spirit beast that is connected to the life of the beastmaster will be affected, and its lifespan will be quickly drained in a short period of time, but it will not die immediately.

If it is not your natal spirit beast, you can regain your freedom after the contract disappears and go wherever you want.

The ancients’ beast taming techniques were mostly overbearing and straightforward. They liked to use force to injure their pets. After beating them half-crippled, they would use beast taming techniques to suppress the pets, force them to form contracts, and subdue them.

Bad relationship?

There is an old saying: A good cat is born under the stick.

The ancients believed in education through corporal punishment. They not only taught their sons to use corporal punishment, but also taught their pets to use corporal punishment in this way. It was simple, crude and practical.

So in general, after an ancient beastmaster died, the pets that they had contracted with during their lifetime would run away and would never even look at the beastmaster's corpse.

Some pets hold a grudge for life, endure for a lifetime, and outlast their masters. After the contract is terminated, they will eat their master's corpse alive. It is very rare to see a loyal pet come to pay tribute like the one in Xuxi Village.

From this we can see that Master Wang is a caring animal tamer who knows how to communicate and how to maintain the affection of his pets.

"He is a true master, but it's a pity that I can't meet him." Lu Yuan shook his head, feeling a little regretful.

Carrying modern knowledge into his dreams of ancient times, Lu Yuan subconsciously felt that he was superior to others. He thought that the ancients were ignorant people who only knew how to act recklessly and did not understand the hearts of pet animals.

Now after hearing this story, Lu Yuan's contemptuous attitude was slightly corrected.

The reason why it is "slightly" is because there are still too few ancient people whose brain waves match those of modern people.

Most of the ancients were empiricists in animal control. They knew the results but not the reasons.

I think there will be no problem in taming beasts this way.

Our ancestors tamed beasts in this way. If you listen to them, you will be fine.

And so on.

After discussing the origin of the underworld in the south, the Nian beast Dabai came back panting.

Lu Yuan had a thought. The Nian Beast Dabai had returned from exercise, and it was time for him to go back to his room to practice and rest his eyes.

"It's getting late, let's go back to bed."

"Yes, it's getting late. You should go to bed early."

Jiang Bo flattered on the surface, but in his heart he was sweating and worried:

"You know it's getting late, why are you talking about such horrible things so late at night?"

'I wonder if what we talk about tonight will attract the attention of the old guy in the Netherworld.'

Jiang Bo was very worried. He heard that there were some indescribable powerful evil spirits in this world, and they could hear people talking about their names thousands of miles away.

Even if the names are not mentioned, just mentioning the relevant events may attract their secret attention.

In recent years, more and more people have died in the underworld. For the past ten years, no one has known what is going on there, and no one knows how many evil things have bred there.