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

Ancestor Wanbao shook his head, looking somewhat helpless: "That's not how it works. Although Lei Huang is currently at the eighth rank, tenth level, seemingly only one step away from the ninth rank, first level, in reality, it must evolve to the quality of a superior mythical being to cross that threshold."

Zhou Heng was very optimistic: "The Purple Cloud Divine Dragon is already a mid-level mythical quality, and it is only one step away from the high-level mythical quality. It will definitely be able to evolve successfully in the future."

Patriarch Wanbao patiently explained to Zhou Heng, "It's not that simple! It's incredibly difficult for a mid-level mythical-quality beast to evolve into a high-level mythical-quality beast. For example, Lei Huang needs a thousand ninth-tier spiritual items and ten tenth-tier spiritual items to evolve from a mid-level mythical-quality Purple Cloud Divine Dragon into a high-level mythical-quality Soaring Cloud Emperor Dragon. Even for a large family with such deep foundations as ours, it's extremely difficult to gather so many high-level spiritual items."

Zhou Heng frowned deeply: "Does evolving a beast into a high-level mythical quality always require a tenth-tier spiritual item?"

Ancestor Wanbao nodded: "That's right. Lei Huang is considered relatively good. It only requires ten kinds of tenth-tier spiritual objects. Some evolutionary paths of superior mythical quality even require hundreds of kinds of tenth-tier spiritual objects."

The tenth rank is already the pinnacle of existence in this universe, and there is not a single tenth-rank supreme beast tamer in the Eastern Alliance today.

The last tenth-tier supreme beast tamer was the Wonderful Beast Master, who passed away seven hundred years ago. No new tenth-tier supreme beast tamer has appeared yet.

Tenth-tier spiritual items are naturally extremely rare.

After some thought, Zhou Heng came to a startling conclusion: "For a beast tamer to advance to the ninth rank, it must evolve to the superior mythical quality. To evolve to the superior mythical quality, it must use ninth-rank and tenth-rank spiritual items. For an eighth-rank monarch beast tamer to gather so many high-rank spiritual items, unless there is a stronger being to help, it is simply impossible."

A complex expression appeared on Ancestor Wanbao's face: "If it weren't for that, the entire Eastern Alliance wouldn't only have six ninth-tier Emperor Beast Tamers now."

The old patriarch Zhou continued, "Ninth-tier Emperor Beast Tamers can live for thousands of years, and in that span of thousands of years, only six such beings have appeared. On average, only one eighth-tier Monarch Beast Tamer advances to the ninth-tier Emperor Beast Tamer every 166 years. This shows how valuable this realm is."

Ancestor Wanbao sighed, "Let alone high-level mythical-quality beasts, there aren't many even mid-level mythical-quality beasts in the entire Eastern Alliance. While evolving a beast to mid-level mythical quality doesn't require tenth-tier spiritual artifacts, it usually still consumes thousands of eighth-tier and hundreds of ninth-tier spiritual artifacts. Among the thirty-three eighth-tier monarch-level beast tamers in the Eastern Alliance, only a few possess mid-level mythical-quality beasts; more than half have only low-level mythical-quality beasts as their strongest beasts, and a few even advanced to eighth-tier monarch-level beast tamers by relying on high-level overlord-quality beasts."

Zhou Heng was quite surprised: "If you calculate it this way, let alone high-level and mid-level mythical beasts, I'm afraid even a beast taming would require a considerable amount of spiritual resources to evolve to low-level mythical quality, right?"

The old patriarch of the Zhou family answered Zhou Heng's question: "Generally speaking, for a beast to evolve to the quality of a lower-level mythical beast, it needs hundreds of eighth-tier spiritual objects and dozens of ninth-tier spiritual objects."

Zhou Heng suddenly realized: "No wonder there are so few eighth-tier monarch beast tamers and ninth-tier emperor beast tamers. It turns out that the resources required for evolving beast tamers are too many."

Ancestor Wanbao intended to take this opportunity to teach Zhou Heng a lesson: "Not only that, the higher the quality of the beast, the lower the probability of successful evolution. To succeed in one or two tries is pure fantasy. And no one can say for sure how many tries it will take. Even for ancient families like ours that have been passed down for thousands of years, obtaining a mythical-quality beast requires a great deal of effort."

Patriarch Zhou added, "Actually, if evolving a beast could be successful in one or two tries, large families like ours, as long as we knew the detailed evolution ritual, could accumulate enough ninth and tenth-tier spiritual items through generations of accumulation. However, because the probability of successful evolution is too low, all the spiritual items accumulated over a long period of time are wasted after a failed evolution, and we have to start accumulating again. This is why mythical-quality beasts are so rare."

Ancestor Wanbao continued, "When Lei Huang evolved from the lower-level mythical-quality Jie'e Tianlong to the mid-level mythical-quality Zixiao Shenlong, he failed seven times. He only succeeded on the eighth attempt by initiating the evolution ritual, consuming a massive amount of resources. Even for a family as wealthy as our Shenlong Zhou family, it was a painful experience."

The old patriarch Zhou showed a look of relief: "Fortunately, Ancestor Lei Huang finally succeeded in evolving, otherwise it would have been a real pain."

The old ancestor Wanbao's eyes were filled with vicissitudes: "To put it bluntly, sometimes evolving and controlling beasts requires a bit of luck. If you're unlucky, even if you have enough resources, you can easily get stuck."

Zhou Heng pondered for a moment, then couldn't help but ask, "If this is the situation for us large aristocratic families, what about the smaller families and the beast tamers from ordinary backgrounds?"

Ancestor Wanbao casually comforted Zhou Heng: "Heng'er is truly kind-hearted. In fact, they also have a way out. As long as generation after generation accumulates, they will eventually have hope of leaping over the dragon gate."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Heng didn't hesitate for long: "Ancestor's words make sense."

Ancestor Wanbao rose from his crimson coral throne and said to Patriarch Zhou, "Alright, Chen Kai, take Heng'er back first! I need to go to the Yan Yang Plane."

The old patriarch Zhou bowed and accepted the order: "Yes!"

Zhou Heng pressed further, "Are you going to see Ancestor Linglong?"

Ancestor Wanbao nodded and said directly, "That's right. Some time ago, we learned that the Demon Slayer Emperor of the Qiongqi Meng family had a Yitian Crystal Jade. So the two of us had already agreed to go and see the Demon Slayer Emperor together and exchange the Yitian Crystal Jade for our treasures."

The Qiongqi Meng family is a very prosperous and top-tier family, because this generation of the Qiongqi Meng family has produced two ninth-level Emperor Beast Tamers.

One is the Demon Slayer Emperor, who serves as the leader of the alliance.

The other is Emperor Minghui, who serves as the Supreme Elder of the Alliance.

Zhou Heng couldn't help but worry: "What if the Demon Slayer Emperor takes this opportunity to demand an exorbitant price?"

Ancestor Wanbao was confident of victory: "He won't. Although the Yitian Crystal Jade is known as the most precious eighth-tier spiritual item, even surpassing many ninth-tier spiritual items in rarity, Emperor Luxie is already a ninth-tier Emperor Beast Tamer. The Yitian Crystal Jade is useless to him. Moreover, Linglong and I are the Alliance's Grand Elder and Second Elder, respectively. Among the thirty-three eighth-tier Monarch Beast Tamers in the Eastern Alliance, our strength ranks among the top. He has no reason to offend us for a mere Yitian Crystal Jade."