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

Upon hearing this, Patriarch Zhou was very pleased: "Heng'er, you are truly our lucky star."

This statement is absolutely true, because without Zhou Heng, even if the Zhou family patriarch and matriarch benefited from the family's resources, they would at most have only managed to cultivate their beast tamers to the level of a superior overlord.

Since the family already has Zhou Heng, the fourth uncle, as a potential ruler, it is impossible to expend too many resources on their two S-level talents.

However, since they are Zhou Heng's grandparents, the situation immediately changes. With Zhou Heng's resource support and the family's intentional or unintentional resource allocation, their chances of advancing to the eighth-tier Monarch Beastmaster are very high.

Madam Zhou exclaimed with emotion, "I never expected that Heng'er would become our greatest support so quickly."

Zhou Heng stepped forward and grasped the hands of the Zhou family patriarch and his wife: "Grandpa and Grandma, we're all family, so let's not stand on ceremony. When you both advance to the eighth-tier Monarch Beast Tamer, it will also benefit me."

The Zhou family patriarch and matriarch beamed with joy, grasped Zhou Heng's hand in return, and patted the back of his hand, creating a heartwarming scene of paternal love and filial piety.

Zhou Heng was a very sentimental person, and he immediately added, "To be fair, allocating resources to talented clansmen can indeed maximize the chances of having strong individuals in each generation, and the family's approach is objectively correct. But you are my grandparents, and naturally I hope that you can become stronger, so that after you advance to the eighth-tier Monarch Beastmaster, you can live to be six hundred years old and spend more time with me."

The Zhou family patriarch and matriarch were deeply moved: "The luckiest thing in our lives is having such an excellent, sensible, and filial grandson like you."

Zhou Heng continued, "Grandpa and Grandma, besides you, Dad and Mom's beasts should also evolve. Although they have already contracted with overlord beasts, they are only lower-level overlords. According to the rules summarized by our predecessors, as beast tamers with A-level talent, if they want to advance to the seventh-level feudal lord beast tamer in the future, they will need to cultivate their beasts to at least the quality of upper-level overlords."

The old patriarch Zhou said gently, "The two ancestors had already decided to help Yuan Ting and Yue Wan upgrade their beast taming to a higher quality, and all the spiritual items needed for the evolution have been prepared."

Generally speaking, Zhou family direct descendants with A-level talent are usually assigned a high-level diamond-quality beast as soon as their talent awakens. If they want to evolve the beast to the overlord quality, the family will provide some assistance, but will not invest fully.

Because the family will invest in S-level talents, or even higher talents.

However, Zhou Heng's parents were not ordinary direct descendants of the clan.

Because they gave birth to Zhou Heng, which was a great contribution, and Zhou Heng had a deep affection for them. Although they only had A-level talent, their lifespans could not be too short, otherwise it might affect Zhou Heng's sense of belonging to the family.

Therefore, Ancestor Wanbao and Ancestor Linglong valued Zhou's father and mother very much. They had already equipped them with beasts of lower-level overlord quality, and they also intended to evolve their beasts to higher quality later.

Zhou Heng asked, "Dad and Mom have contracted with a total of eight beasts. Which two does the family plan to evolve for them first?"

Patriarch Zhou had clearly given this considerable thought: "The family plans to first evolve the high-level diamond-quality Radiant Peacock and Treasure-Gathering Merman for them. The Cloud Thunder Iron-Eating Beast, Frost Flame Dragon-Slaying Beast, Jade-Eyed Nine-Tailed Fox, and Bright Golden Crow haven't yet advanced to the fourth tier. As lower-level overlord-quality beasts, they must advance to the fourth tier before the evolution ritual can begin. Furthermore, the Cloud Thunder Iron-Eating Beast and Jade-Eyed Nine-Tailed Fox currently lack further evolution paths, making evolution difficult even if their levels are met. The remaining Frost Blue Crane King and Hundred Flower Deer King, while also high-level diamond-quality and capable of undergoing evolution rituals, only have the potential to become mid-level overlords, requiring two consecutive evolutions to reach that level. The Radiant Peacock and Treasure-Gathering Merman are different; their potential is that of high-level overlords, and after the evolution ritual begins, a successful evolution will allow them to skip the lower-level overlord stage and directly evolve into mid-level overlord-quality beasts in one go."

Zhou Heng nodded repeatedly: "The Treasure-Gathering Merman and the Radiant Night Peacock have both reached the fifth rank, third level. Evolving them is indeed stronger than evolving the other beasts, since the level of a beast tamer is based on the strongest beast."

Madam Zhou smiled kindly: "That's what we think too."

Zhou Heng then asked, "Grandpa and Grandma, when are you planning to start the evolution ritual for Dad and Mom's Night Peacock and Treasure Merman?"

Madam Zhou revealed the family's long-planned strategy: "The New Year is almost here, and your son is about to be born. After the New Year, once your son is born, we will take some time to begin the evolution ritual for Yao Ye Peacock and Yun Bao Merman."

"Grandpa and Grandma, you've thought this through very well."

Zhou Heng wholeheartedly agreed and subconsciously reminded them, "The Yaoye Peacock and the Yunbao Merman haven't shown any signs of autonomous evolution. It's unlikely they'll evolve successfully in one or two tries. We must prepare plenty of resources needed for their evolution."

Patriarch Zhou smiled broadly: "Don't worry about that. The evolution ritual at the overlord level doesn't consume many resources. It's fine to activate it a hundred times."

After discussing everything, Zhou Heng went to the Yan Yang Plane again and met with the Li family patriarch and his wife.

The beasts tamed by the Li family patriarch and his wife are similar to those tamed by the Zhou family patriarch and his wife. They have now reached the quality of a superior overlord, but their potential is only to reach the level of a lower mythical being.

Furthermore, due to the lack of significant improvements, the success rate of the evolution ritual is relatively low.

Zhou Heng left them a large amount of resources and instructed them to start the evolution ritual as soon as possible.

As long as resources are sufficient, you can always succeed by performing the evolution ritual multiple times.

As someone who has lived two lives, Zhou Heng both values ​​resources and doesn't value them that much.

In his eyes, resources, like Alliance Coins, are meant to be used and spent.

If you can't use them, can't spend them, and can't transform them into your own and your loved ones' strength, then no matter how much resources you have, they're just decorations.

Later, he also went to Hanyue University and, through selection and breeding, cultivated a large number of juvenile finned gold carp, butterfly tail gold carp, knife fin gold carp, flying wing gold carp, blue beard gold carp, dragon beard gold carp, and dragon scale gold carp.

Then he took a batch of the selected beast cubs and gave them to his family so that they could breed them on a large scale. Later, when the number was large enough, they could be distributed to family members for contracts.

Although the highest quality of these young beast tamers is only lower-grade gold, most members of the Zhou family of the Divine Dragon Clan are actually not very talented, with F-grade, E-grade, and D-grade being very common. They can only contract beasts of bronze, silver, and gold quality.

At the same time, he did not forget to help his six tamed beasts level up.

With the relentless investment of various resources, Zhou Heng's six tamed beasts grew rapidly, and the strength of each beast improved. Although none of them broke through to a higher level, they were close.