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

Zhou Heng immediately handed the formulas for the three potions to his mother: "Congratulations, Mom, on advancing to the fifth-level alchemist! Could you also help me concoct a few bottles of these potions?"

Zhou's mother smiled and said, "No problem, I'll help Jiuxiao with the workload so he doesn't get too tired."

The colorful-winged phoenix kept flapping its wings, using its skills to make potions while saying, "I'm not tired from making potions for Daddy."

Zhou's father, standing to the side, couldn't help but chuckle, saying, "This child is truly sincere."

With a wave of her hand, Zhou's mother took out a bunch of equipment needed to prepare the medicine and began preparing the medicine on the spot.

With her fingers flying across the page, and aided by her mental energy, she concocted bottle after bottle of perfect-quality fourth-tier potions, her speed almost as fast as that of the Rainbow-Winged Azure Phoenix.

Before long, thanks to the efforts of Caiyi Qingfeng and Zhou's mother, all one thousand potion materials were used up, and not a single one was wasted; even the worst ones were of excellent quality.

Zhou Heng didn't care about the quality of the medicine, since he wasn't going to drink it anyway, as long as it was effective.

He waved his hand and put a thousand bottles of potion into his storage watch, then went to the large pond in the breeding base where dragon-scaled golden carp were kept.

Feng Zhong and Feng Yong's main beast tamers, the high-grade diamond-quality Corrupted Soul Python and the Mysterious Shadow Sable, have been guarding this place to prevent any mishaps.

Upon seeing Zhou Heng's arrival, the two peak fifth-tier beast tamers immediately bowed their heads in respect.

With a wave of his hand, Zhou Heng took out a hundred bottles of potion that could help seedlings grow faster and poured them into the large pool. The water surface was instantly dyed light red, and fifteen dragon-scaled golden carp immediately began to roll around in the pool.

After glancing at it twice and finding no problem, Zhou Heng turned and left.

In the days that followed, Zhou Heng poured a hundred bottles of medicine into the pool every day.

Although the foundations of these fifteen dragon-scaled golden carp were damaged, their growth rate became even faster.

Anyway, these dragon-scaled golden carp were not contracted by beast tamers; they were just extraordinary creatures, so it's not a big deal if their foundation is damaged.

Zhou Heng has mastered the evolutionary path from ordinary fish to dragon-scale golden carp. Given enough time, he can mass-produce dragon-scale golden carp.

Moreover, when a beast tamer contracts a beast, they must contract a newborn cub. These first batches of extraordinary creatures cannot be contracted; if a contract is to be made, it must be for their offspring.

It's all worth it if we can experiment with them to find the next evolutionary path.

……

Soon, December arrived. With the help of the potion formula given to him by Emperor Xuanchen, Zhou Heng used various methods to accelerate the growth of the fifteen lower-level golden dragon-scale carp. In addition, the Titan Lord used the "Words Come True" method to accelerate their growth. Finally, the fifteen lower-level golden dragon-scale carp advanced to the third tier and could start the evolution ritual again.

Zhou Heng devised several evolution rituals, but all of them failed after experimentation. The low-grade gold-quality Dragon Scale Golden Carp was not evolved into the low-grade diamond-quality.

Fortunately, the Dragon Scale Golden Carp reached the third tier. After its evolution failed, it did not die directly, but was only seriously injured.

The Azure Phoenix with Colorful Wings used the light of benevolence to save the world, and a streak of azure light swept across, causing the dragon-scaled golden carp to become lively and energetic again.

Zhou Heng knew that he had encountered the first small bottleneck on his path to becoming a trainer.

He was neither in a hurry nor anxious, maintaining a calm and composed mindset, and began to take the opportunity to reflect on himself.

……

That day, Zhou Heng had just taken his six tamed beasts for a walk outside and returned to the floating fortress. He was about to go to the breeding base when Feng Zhong came to report: "Young Master, Ji Chao requests an audience."

The shrunken Eternal Night Dragon perched on Zhou Heng's shoulder and couldn't help but complain, "This guy actually managed to find his way to Cold Moon University."

Zhou Heng wasn't surprised at all; on the contrary, he had expected it: "He applied to Tianxing University, which is in the second tier and is also in Yuandu. It's not far from Hanyue Cave Heaven, so it's normal that he was able to find us. That was probably his original intention when he applied to Tianxing University."

Caiyi Qingfeng objectively commented, "Jichao is a good dog. He clings to his father's leg and doesn't want to let go. He's quite loyal to his father."

Zhou Heng understood the root of the problem perfectly: "Ji Chao is not loyal to me, but to my identity. If I were not an unparalleled genius and not born into a large aristocratic family, it would be good enough if Ji Chao, who is so shrewd and good at hiding his true intentions, didn't turn around and bite me."

Fu Hai Yinlong asked with some confusion, "Didn't Father say that actions matter, not intentions?"

Zhou Heng's lips curled into a knowing smile: "That's why I've kept him around. As long as I'm always stronger than him, he'll definitely be a loyal dog."

Feng Zhong tentatively asked, "Young Master, would you like to see Ji Chao? If you don't want to see him, this old servant will send him away."

Zhou Heng said directly, "Let him come over."

Soon, Ji Chao arrived before Zhou Heng, bowed deeply, and prostrated himself on the ground: "Greetings, Your Majesty!"

Zhou Heng didn't tell Ji Chao to get up, but said expressionlessly, "Why are you here? Aren't you in class?"

Ji Chao knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhou Heng again: "Reporting to my lord, it has been a long time since I have seen you and paid my respects. I am truly filled with unease. I originally intended to request an audience with you during the Alliance Anniversary Festival, but you unexpectedly returned to the Canglan Plane, so I was unable to see you. This time, I specially requested a few days off to come and pay my respects to you."

Zhou Heng scoffed, "This isn't ancient times, why bother with formal greetings?"

Ji Chao said earnestly, "No matter how the world changes, whether in ancient or modern times, you will always be my lord."

He then took out a storage bracelet, crawled a few steps on his knees, and presented it to Zhou Heng with both hands: "In addition to paying my respects, I also have offerings for the next ten years. Please accept them, my lord."

Zhou Heng took the storage bracelet, scanned it with his mental power, and casually stored its contents into his eighth-tier storage watch: "Why did you suddenly produce offerings for the next ten years? Wasn't it usually an annual offering?"

Ji Chao explained, "The annual offering is too small, like a mosquito's leg to you. Even if the Ji family offers up the offerings for the next ten years, it's still just a slightly thicker mosquito's leg in your eyes, but at least it looks better."

The Ji family emptied most of their family's inventory in order to pledge allegiance to Zhou Heng, and this time they handed over ten years' worth of resources ahead of schedule, which is quite sensible.

Zhou Heng's expression softened considerably: "Has your Crystal Elephant successfully evolved?"

Ji Chao shook his head: "Not yet. The evolution ritual failed immediately after it was initiated. I plan to restart the evolution ritual during the winter break. At that time, I should be able to evolve the Crystal Elephant to the lower-grade diamond quality."

Zhou Heng raised an eyebrow: "You're in college now, it's time to form a contract with your second beast. Haven't you bought a diamond-quality beast cub yet?"