Beast Taming Begins with the Global College Entrance Exam

Zhou Wanli wakes up one day and discovers she has been reborn, once again a proud senior in high school.

She thinks she’s simply been reborn in an ordinary transmigration story, but then she discovers that Blue Star, in another dimension, has evolved in a completely outrageous way???

A spiritual mindscape that can be cultivated and strengthened.

And extraordinary creatures capable of destroying heaven and earth with a casual gesture, their power comparable to that of large-scale weapons of mass destruction. You’re telling me they can be contracted???

Zhou Wanli: “...Am I really just reborn, or am I going crazy?”

Faced with an invasion by alien creatures, the battered world of extraordinary beasts is forced to fight for survival and merge with the human world.

Blue Star is transformed by extraordinary energy. The human brain is developed and evolves, and under the threat of death, humans and extraordinary creatures become each other’s closest partners.

This is a new world where beast taming is the mainstream!

It is also a real world of opposing forces, struggling to maintain civilization amid devastation and find peace!

In this world, not long after being reborn, a human girl faces a major trial she must pass before she can become a beast tamer

the Global Unified Dangerous Examination for Trainee Beast Tamers.

In short, the Beast-Taming College Entrance Exam.

...You only get one life. Are you ready? :)

Reader’s Guide:

1. The story starts slowly, so please be patient.

2. The heroine is lively and funny, but absolutely dependable. This is a strong female lead story about her gradual growth.

A related upcoming novel, "Beast Taming the Mountains and Seas: Worship Me as Your Master", is open for favorites~ Blurb:

Jiao Wenshu, a half-mermaid who doesn’t know her father and whose mother’s identity is unknown, has been scraping by in the human world. One day, she wakes up to find the whole world has changed.

The human world used to be peaceful and pleasant, but the new world seems like a Classic of Mountains and Seas written into the modern age??

All she did was walk down the street, but a strange old man saw through her disguise and packed her off to a beast-taming academy that very night.

With her impure mermaid bloodline, she should have been scorned and despised. Instead, the academy tests reveal that she has the highest level of beast-taming talent!

The good news is that after becoming a Mountains and Seas beast tamer, she can walk openly in the human world!

The bad news is that the boundary between the Mountains and Seas realm and the human world is on the verge of collapse, and she has to contract with the divine beast that’s about to bring down the small world!

Jiao Wenshu’s eyes go wide. Who’s supposed to contract Taotie? Me?!!

You people don’t know how dangerous Taotie is, but I’m a half-mermaid! Of course I know! You’re trying to get me killed!!

The inner realm of the Mountains and Seas.

Facing an empty ocean, the mermaid girl, who hasn’t eaten in three days, bursts into tears.

Glittering tears pour from her eyes, then turn into lustrous white pearls that scatter across the seabed.

Just then, a massive beast’s paw, so huge it blocks out the sky, reaches up from beneath the water, catches all the pearls, and shoves them into its mouth.

Beside the mermaid girl, the head of a colossal beast covered in blue fur, as large as an island, suddenly emerges. Taotie lazily says, “Roar.” Tasty.

Jiao Wenshu: “...Tasty? Aaaah!”

This new world is so interesting. People can not only cultivate, but also use contracts to help regulate the chaotic energy inside the beasts of the Mountains and Seas, promoting their evolution.

As scenes from myth and legend become reality, the profession of beast taming grows popular.

Ordinary beasts become commonplace, while the fierce beasts of the Classic of Mountains and Seas are sought after by countless people.

To select the most talented beast tamers and beasts, the World Alliance holds one thrilling competition after another.

The 32nd National University Beast-Taming League, the Huazhou Cup Youth Beast-Tamer Championship, the Blue Star Alliance Mountains and Seas World Cup...

After studying for six months and skipping three grades, Jiao Wenshu has only contracted with a glutton and a miser. The strange old man drags her off to compete.

The match begins.

The opposing beast tamer waves his hand and summons a divine bird covered in fiery red feathers. The boy sneers arrogantly. “My beast has the bloodline of a Bifang.”

“It cries out on its own, and wherever it appears, the town will be struck by strange fires... Ah, my bird!”

Before he can finish speaking, Taotie suddenly appears and eagerly swallows the firebird in one bite.

“!!!”

The crowd is dumbfounded.

The boy goes wild.

The referee is at a loss.

Jiao Wenshu spreads her hands and sighs. “You insisted I compete, and now you’re upset that I actually did.”

The crowd: “???”

“Hey, classmate??? This is a competition, not a feeding session!”

Amid the commotion, Taotie cracks open its sleepy eyes and lazily says, “Little Fish, I’m still hungry...”

Jiao Wenshu: “...Then you’ll have to wait.”

Taotie obediently replies, “All right.”

Reader’s Guide:

1. An emotionally mercurial, incredibly strong mermaid girl and a gentle Taotie who is always hungry. One-on-one romance. Taotie won’t be her only contracted beast; there will be lots of creatures from the Mountains and Seas.

2. The heroine is very strong, extremely strong, and loves acting tough and crying.

3. There will be many kinds of beast-taming competitions, as well as adventures capturing beasts in the Mountains and Seas realm.

Blurb for "The Apocalypse Arrives, and I Become the Source of Pollution":

As a forensic pathologist who’s spent years working with corpses, Shen Qianran sometimes thinks in ways that aren’t like ordinary people, but she’s always believed she’s no different from anyone else. That is, until the day, something changed on Blue Star.

The apocalypse arrives, the sun turns black, and a sudden invasion of evil pulls everyone into a dream, engulfing the entire world in an instant.

During the “dream invasion,” the slightest slip can expose people to a source of pollution, infecting and transforming them into mutants.

Ordinary people: fragile, timid, and helpless.

Shen Qianran: “How fascinating! I even want to give it a try ^-^”

The “dreams” everyone else desperately avoids awaken a strange longing and anticipation in her.

When the dream ends, Shen Qianran opens her eyes, and a voice sounds in her ear.

[Congratulations, player! Your pollution level is 1000%! You have successfully become a pollution progenitor!]

Shen Qianran: ?

From then on, everything starts to get strange.

The first “child” infected by the progenitor

When the city becomes a nest for pollutants,

a bloodthirsty Thousand-Handed Vine sprouts in the city center, blossoms, and spreads until it covers the entire steel-walled city.

Whenever a human appears, the Thousand-Handed Vine parts its roots, as if smiling. “Humans... are food, fertilizer. Not one of you... will escape!!”

Until it sees Shen Qianran.

At first glance, the Thousand-Handed Vine is thrilled: Food! Delicious food!

At second glance, the Thousand-Handed Vine turns cool: No, she’s one of us.

At third glance, the Thousand-Handed Vine bursts into tears: No, she’s Mama! Mama, you’ve finally come to get me!

Shen Qianran: “...Is something wrong with its head?”

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The second “child”

In a foul-smelling heap of rotting garbage, covered in poisonous sores, it is a one-eyed beast that people hate and fear.

I thought there was nothing left in this world worth loving, until I saw her.

After the apocalypse began, Shen Qianran noticed that she had somehow acquired a “little shadow” following her around.

It wasn’t a mutant, but a source of pollution like her!

Mutants can be infected and subdued, but sources of pollution can only covet, fight, and devour one another.

The “little shadow” thinks it’s hidden itself well, watching her every move from the corners.

Even more ridiculous is how it approaches her: in this terrifying apocalypse, it possesses cute, harmless, clean animals, hoping she’ll take it in!

Shen Qianran hates and distrusts it, and even mercilessly kills the animals it possesses.

But when it keeps coming back, offering her everything it has, and acting like a loyal stray dog that won’t be driven away even when it’s covered in wounds, Shen Qianran finally grows curious and confused, and stops chasing it off.

She wants to see what it’s really after...

Reader’s Guide: 1. A lighthearted story about a strong female lead’s growth.

2. The male lead isn’t human. Literally.

Theme: People and nature living together in harmony.