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

Zhou Heng first brought six shrunken-sized beasts to his parents' residence and played with his infant son, Zhou Hongzheng.

Afterwards, he went to the breeding base, gave instructions to Feng Zhong, Feng Yong, and three juniors who were handling miscellaneous tasks, and then left the floating fortress. He found his fourth senior brother, Rong Tu Wang, and told him that he was going to return to the Canglan plane to evolve his beast taming.

Fourth Senior Brother Rongtu Wang was slightly surprised: "So quickly, all three of your overlord beasts have advanced to the fifth rank, and all have shown signs of autonomous evolution?"

Zhou Heng truthfully replied, "Only Fei Hong hasn't shown any signs of autonomous evolution yet, but it'll be soon. Once Jiu Xiao and Tyrant have evolved, it will be time to evolve Fei Hong as well."

Fourth Senior Brother Rongtu patted Zhou Heng's arm: "Congratulations, Junior Brother. This time, your beasts have completed their evolution, and your strength will increase significantly again."

Zhou Heng smiled and nodded: "Senior brother, you should also work hard, after all, Master has high hopes for you too."

Fourth Senior Brother Rongtu Wang nodded and said, "Of course. Although I am not as good as you, I will also find a way to reach a higher level before my lifespan runs out."

After chatting with his fourth senior brother Rong Tuwang for a few minutes, Zhou Heng went to his cousin Yu Ming's laboratory, exchanged a few words with Yu Ming, and happened to run into Li Lang.

Zhou Heng said directly, "I probably won't return to Hanyue University until my sophomore year."

Li Lang immediately guessed the reason: "Are you going to officially evolve your beast?"

Zhou Heng glanced at the colorful-winged phoenix on his shoulder, his gaze softening: "That's right, Jiu Xiao not only reached the fifth rank, first level, but also showed signs of autonomous evolution yesterday."

After the initial envy and surprise, Li Lang felt a pang of melancholy: "This is a good thing, but it's a pity I can't celebrate your birthday with you."

Zhou Heng's birthday is May 22nd.

He smiled and said, "Starting from the fourth-tier Grandmaster Beastmaster, people usually only celebrate their birthday once every five to ten years. As a fifth-tier Battle General Beastmaster, there's no reason for me to celebrate my birthday every year."

Li Lang didn't dwell on the issue: "That's true. A fifth-tier warrior beast tamer can live to be 180 years old, so it's really not suitable for them to celebrate their birthday every year."

Zhou Heng encouraged him, "I hope that by the time I return, the Frost Bear King will have already advanced to the eighth level of the third rank."

Li Lang looked confident and certain: "That's for sure."

Zhou Heng then instructed, "If anything happens at school during my temporary absence and your cousin Yu Ming can't help you, go to Elder Li or my senior brother."

Li Lang said nonchalantly, "Don't worry about that. What could possibly happen to me? I stay here with your cousin every day, and I don't go out unless there's something wrong."

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The next day, Zhou Heng returned to the Canglan Plane with his six tamed beasts, his parents, and others.

He first met with Ancestor Wanbao, and then met with Patriarch Zhou and Madam Zhou.

The patriarch of the Zhou family greeted him: "Heng'er, you're back. The Rainbow-Winged Azure Phoenix, the Overturning Sea Silver Dragon, and the Eternal Night Demon Dragon have all advanced to the fifth rank and shown signs of autonomous evolution?"

Zhou Heng got straight to the point: "The three of them have indeed advanced to the fifth rank, but Fei Hong has not yet shown any signs of autonomous evolution. I came back this time to initiate the evolution ritual for Jiu Xiao and Tyrant first."

"The family has been prepared for a long time." With a wave of his hand, the old patriarch Zhou Heng saw more than 1,900 seventh-order spiritual objects and more than 50 eighth-order spiritual objects appear before him.

He specifically said, "These spiritual items have all been prepared in advance, specifically to help the Rainbow-Winged Azure Phoenix evolve into a Three-Headed Azure Phoenix, and even the dosage is precisely accurate to the millimeter, so there is absolutely no chance of failure."

Zhou Heng nodded: "Thank you, Grandpa."

Patriarch Zhou then added, "Besides the ones for evolving the Rainbow-Winged Azure Phoenix, we've also prepared the spiritual items for evolving the Eternal Night Demon Dragon and the Overturning Sea Silver Dragon. Would you like me to give them to you now?"

"I'll help Jiuxiao evolve successfully first." Zhou Heng took out the red crystal ball-shaped treasure that the old patriarch of the Zhou family had given him before, and put all the more than two thousand high-level spiritual items into it.

Madam Zhou said from the side, "When the Rainbow-Winged Azure Phoenix evolves into the Three-Headed Azure Phoenix, it needs to find a grove of parasol trees. The grove of parasol trees we used last time is still there, so we can use it directly."

Zhou Heng asked, "We still need to find a thousand beasts with phoenix bloodlines, preferably phoenix species with a high concentration of phoenix blood. The beast tamers of these thousand beasts must be alive. Have you found any beast tamers and beasts that meet the requirements?"

Madam Zhou smiled and said, "We found them a long time ago. Some of them are members of our Zhou family and the Jinwu Li family, some are members of the Huofeng Yan family, and others are members of several smaller aristocratic families. In total, there are a thousand beast tamers, and the beasts they have contracted all have remarkable phoenix bloodlines."

Zhou Heng smiled and said, "Thank you so much, Grandma, for your help."

The number of beast tamers with the Phoenix bloodline is relatively small, and the tamers must be alive, which makes the restrictions even greater. A thousand beast tamers who have contracted Phoenix-type beasts may not seem like a large number, but they are not insignificant either.

Furthermore, it is necessary to ensure that these people do not cause trouble in secret and disrupt the evolution ritual, which requires strong background support.

If it weren't for Zhou Heng's status, it would have been quite difficult for the Rainbow-Winged Azure Phoenix to continue evolving.

No wonder that although the evolution path of the Rainbow-Winged Azure Phoenix has high potential and is known to many people, almost no one chooses this evolution path.

The reason for seeking a thousand Phoenix-type Beast Tamers who are still alive is that when the evolution ritual begins, these thousand Phoenix-type Beast Tamers need to dance and sing around the Rainbow-Winged Azure Phoenix, performing a special dance to please the will of the universe and help the Rainbow-Winged Azure Phoenix transform better.

After the song and dance were performed three times, all the phoenix-type beasts had to shed a tail feather to build a phoenix nest. The nest was then lit with a special spiritual fire, and Zhou Heng fed various spiritual items to the Rainbow-Winged Azure Phoenix.

Ultimately, the Rainbow-Winged Azure Phoenix will complete its evolution within the Phoenix Nest, which is ablaze with various powerful flames.

Listening from the side, Zhou's father interjected, "Of the thousand phoenix-type tamed beasts participating in the evolution ceremony, five hundred must be male and five hundred female. In addition, two pure-blooded phoenixes must be selected to lead the procession. These two pure-blooded phoenixes must be of overlord quality and at least level seven. However, they don't necessarily have to be tamed by the beast tamer. A level seven pure-blooded phoenix of overlord quality left behind by the deceased beast tamer is also acceptable. Our family has so many powerful tamed beasts left behind by our ancestors; we should be able to gather a pair of leading pure-blooded phoenixes, right?"

The old patriarch of the Zhou family led Zhou Heng and the others into the hall and sat down: "Of course, we have families, but this time the Ice Sparrow Lu family volunteered to let the two Azure Feather Ice Phoenixes left behind by their ancestors serve us."

Zhou Heng's heart skipped a beat: "This Ice Sparrow Lu family sounds familiar. Is it the small aristocratic family that Jiu Xiao's parents belong to?"