Genius Beast Taming: Starting from Awakening an S-Rank Talent

Let's not talk about this anymore.

With a smile, Madam Zhou took Zhou Heng and Li Lang's hands: "Heng'er, I've already asked the kitchen to prepare your favorite dish, braised pork ribs with bamboo shoots. Xiao Lang, come and have some too. If it's not to your liking, the kitchen has prepared many other dishes as well."

Li Lang smiled somewhat awkwardly: "Thank you, Grandma Ling."

The group arrived at an antique courtyard, where servants had already laid out a table full of fragrant dishes in the main hall.

After the meal, everyone sat together and chatted.

Zhou Heng leaned against the old patriarch of the Zhou family: "Grandpa, my parents and I have discussed it, and we want to take our ancestral planet as our destination this winter vacation, and do some sightseeing along the way. What do you think we should do?"

The old patriarch Zhou readily agreed: "That's easy, leave it to me, but you must remember to come back before the New Year."

Zhou Heng nodded repeatedly: "Grandpa, don't worry, we definitely will."

He then added, "By the way, Grandpa, Li Lang didn't participate in the Green Maple Secret Realm trial arranged by Xuanxiao Third Beast Taming High School because he was with me earlier. Doesn't our family have a private secret realm? Could we let Li Lang go in?"

Patriarch Zhou casually said, "This is just a small matter. There are countless small secret realms attached to the Canglan Plane. Except for a few very special ones, they can all be opened to Xiao Lang."

Li Lang's eyes widened in surprise: "Thank you, Grandpa Zhou!"

The old patriarch Zhou didn't care at all: "What are you thanking me for? It's just a small matter."

Father Zhou said specifically, "Xiao Lang, our Zhou family's own secret realms are for our own children to train in. Any one of them is hundreds of times stronger than the Green Maple Secret Realm. You'll see once you go in."

Li Lang was overjoyed: "Uncle Ting, thank you so much!"

Zhou's mother smiled, her eyes crinkling: "You child, you're being too polite."

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The next morning, Zhou Heng and Li Lang rode on a phoenix-shaped azure phoenix to an island 500 kilometers away from Bixi Island.

This island is called Qingming Island, and there is a man-made secret realm on the island called Qingming Secret Realm.

Accompanying him were three young members of the Zhou family: Zhou Heng's cousin Zhou Honglie, his cousin Zhou Hongyu, and his grandson Zhou Yongchuan.

Zhou Honglie is the son of Zhou Heng's cousin, and Zhou Hongyu is the daughter of another of Zhou Heng's cousins.

Zhou Yongchuan and Zhou Heng are not related by blood; Zhou Yongchuan is the grandson of one of Zhou Heng's cousins.

This cousin was not Zhou Heng's grandfather's grandson, but he was a descendant of Wanbao Laozu.

They are now the same age as Zhou Heng and Li Lang, all around eighteen or nineteen years old, and are also first-year high school students.

Moreover, all three possess A-level talent, second only to Zhou Heng's S-level talent, making them among the most talented young prodigies in the Zhou family last year, second only to Zhou Heng.

They all attend the top-tier Beast Taming High School in Yuandu.

Within the league, Beast Taming High Schools are strictly categorized into top-tier, first-class, second-class, and third-class.

Below that are the regular high schools attended by ordinary people without the talent to tame beasts.

According to the alliance's rules, only the four core planets can have top-tier high schools.

A level 1 planet can only produce a first-class beast-taming high school at most, a level 2 planet can only produce a second-class beast-taming high school at most, and a level 3 planet can only produce a third-class beast-taming high school at most.

In addition to differences in teaching staff, different levels of Beast Taming High Schools also receive different amounts of resources from the Alliance.

However, this does not affect Zhou Heng.

Whether Zhou Heng attends a top-tier or first-rate beast-taming high school, his family background will ensure he receives the most abundant resources.

Zhou Honglie, the cousin, asked curiously, "Uncle, what is Xuanxiao Star like?"

Zhou Heng answered truthfully: "I spend most of my time in Xuanxiao City and haven't explored Xuanxiao Star in detail, so I can't really say. However, all habitable planets are basically the same, with no major differences."

Her cousin, Zhou Hongyu, then asked, "Uncle, what is Xuanxiao City like? Is it very different from our Yuandu?"

Zhou Heng thought for a moment and said ambiguously, "Xuanxiao City is only a first-level city, so it can't compare to Yuandu. However, it has everything it should have, so it's not bad."

Grandson Zhou Yongchuan praised, "Grand Uncle, we heard that you have cultivated your Beast Taming to the third tier, seventh level, and all three of them have reached the third tier, seventh level. You are really amazing, we are so envious of you."

Zhou Heng said calmly, "You don't need to envy me. Your talents are not bad either, and the quality of the beasts you contracted is also very high, all of them are high-grade diamond quality. Your future achievements will not be low."

Cousin Zhou Hongyu sighed, "Uncle, please don't try to comfort us. We know we can't compare to you no matter what."

Zhou Heng said seriously, "We are all family, why compare ourselves? No matter who is capable and successful in the future, as members of the Zhou family, everyone will benefit."

His cousin Zhou Honglie immediately chimed in with a smile, "Uncle's talent is unparalleled, and his vision is so broad; he is truly admirable."

Zhou Yongchuan, a descendant of the same clan, turned his gaze to the person next to him: "Li Lang, are you in the same class as your great-uncle?"

Li Lang grinned: "That's right, we are all students in the rocket class of Xuanxiao Third Beast Taming High School."

Cousin Zhou Hongyu pouted: "If we had known, we shouldn't have gone to the top-tier Beast Taming High School. A first-class Beast Taming High School would have been enough."

Zhou Heng asked, puzzled, "Why?"

Zhou Honglie, the cousin, chimed in: "Uncle, you don't know, the Alliance produces about two hundred S-level talent students every year. More than one hundred of them are scattered across thirty-six level-one planets, and more than twenty are scattered across more than six hundred level-two planets. Even if a student with S-level talent occasionally gets lucky and appears on one of the more than ten thousand level-three planets, they will be immediately sent to a level-two or level-one planet. The remaining seventy or eighty S-level talent students all come from the four core planets."

Zhou Heng listened quietly.

Zhou Honglie, the cousin, paused for a moment, then continued, "For example, in our Yuandu, there are a total of seventeen or eighteen students with S-level talent this year. Most of them are gathered in Yuandu's only top-tier Beast Taming High School, which is the Yuandu Key Beast Taming High School that a few of us attend. These people formed a rocket class. Due to the limited number of students in the rocket class, we students with A-level talent can only stay in the intensive class with students with B-level talent."

Li Lang looked puzzled: "Why are most of these S-level talent students concentrated at Yuandu Key Beast Taming High School? Isn't the awakening of talent level random? Does Yuandu Key Beast Taming High School recruit most of Yuandu's students every year? Or is there no other Beast Taming High School in Yuandu?"