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

A diamond-quality beast is born at level 10 in its cub stage.

Level 11 marks the beginning of the growth stage, Level 21 marks the beginning of the sub-adult stage, Level 31 marks the beginning of the mature stage, Level 51 marks the beginning of the ultimate stage, and Level 61 marks the beginning of the transcendental stage.

Gold-quality beasts, except for the cubs which are initially only level seven, have the same levels as diamond-quality beasts in their growth, sub-adult, and mature stages.

However, differentiation began starting from the Ultimate level.

A gold-quality beast is at its ultimate form at level 41 and at level 51 it is at the transcendent stage, which means that the upper limits of the two are different.

The upper limit for silver-quality beasts lies between that of bronze-quality and gold-quality beasts.

Zhou Heng wasn't entirely clear on the quality of beasts above diamond, but he was certain that their lower and upper limits would differ from those of beasts of diamond, gold, silver, and bronze quality.

In conclusion, talent and resources are essential for accelerating the growth of a beast tamer.

But people like Zhou Heng, who rise through the ranks so rapidly, are actually very rare.

Zhou Heng's ability to cultivate the Phoenix Azure Phoenix to the sub-adult stage in such a short time is not only due to his talent and the resource support from his parents, but also inseparable from the subtle assistance of the Spirit Source Pearl.

The moment Fengyi Qingluan broke through to the third level, a power flowed from the Beast Taming Contract into Zhou Heng's body.

This is the feedback power of the beast tamer.

With the help of this power, Zhou Heng also became a third-tier elite beast tamer at the same time.

After becoming a third-tier elite beast tamer, Zhou Heng's bond with Feng Yi Qingluan deepened.

He no longer needs to speak when commanding the Phoenix and Azure Phoenix in battle; he can command them through telepathy.

He can also share the skills of the Phoenix and Azure Phoenix.

Bang!

With a casual wave of his hand, a meter-long, intersecting cross-shaped wind blade slammed heavily against the wall of the training room, producing a resounding thud.

He then tested several other skills of the Phoenix and Azure Phoenix, and he used them all as if they were his own arms, as if he had practiced them many times.

Although his skills are far less powerful than those of other beast tamers of the same level, this also means that he has completely transcended the realm of ordinary people.

He could kill any ordinary wild beast, even a lion or a tiger, with a single move.

He could now confront weaker first-tier transcendent beings head-on.

In addition, once a Beast Tamer reaches the third tier, they will gain many more amazing abilities.

For example, it can change its body size to a certain extent, survive in a vacuum, and its intelligence will also be significantly enhanced.

"唳~"

Fengyi Qingluan opened her eyes and saw Zhou Heng guarding her side. She immediately stretched her neck and put her head in front of Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng wrapped his arms around the neck of the Phoenix Azure Phoenix and smoothed the feathers on its neck.

"唳~~唳~~"

The phoenix and the blue luan let out even more joyful cries.

Zhou Heng beamed with joy: "Jiuxiao, you're amazing!"

"唳~~"

Even after her breakthrough, Fengyi Qingluan remains very clingy.

However, it grew bigger and bigger, and after a while, Zhou Heng couldn't wrap his arms around its neck anymore.

Just then, Mr. and Mrs. Zhou walked in together.

They were all fifth-tier warrior beast tamers with extremely keen senses, and they all sensed the aura of Feng Yi Qing Luan's breakthrough.

Zhou Heng exclaimed excitedly, "Mom and Dad, Jiu Xiao has broken through!"

Zhou's mother smiled gently: "My good son, you're amazing!"

Zhou Heng said sincerely, "It's all thanks to my parents' full support and protection that I was able to raise Jiu Xiao without any distractions."

"For talented beast tamers, the hurdle between a second-tier senior beast tamer and a third-tier elite beast tamer is not difficult to overcome, but to become a third-tier elite beast tamer at your age is extremely rare."

Zhou's father looked on with anticipation: "You are only in your first year of high school now. You have almost three years to train your Beast Taming to a higher level. It seems that you will definitely be able to train Jiuxiao to the fourth level before the college entrance examination. At that time, you will be a fourth-level Grandmaster Beast Tamer. Even if you don't become the top scorer in the entire East Association, you can still rank in the top ten of the college entrance examination."

Zhou Heng specifically confirmed, "Can a fourth-tier Grandmaster Beast Tamer really get into the top ten in the college entrance exam? It doesn't seem too difficult."

"Do you think that 21-year-old fourth-level grandmaster beast tamers are as common as cabbages? There are usually only about ten people in each generation who can reach the fourth-level grandmaster beast tamer at that age."

Father Zhou's tone unconsciously became solemn: "All the core planets, first-level planets, second-level planets, and third-level planets in our East Alliance combined, each year there are less than two hundred students with S-level talent. According to past practice, more than half of the S-level talent students will only reach level 30 in beast taming before the college entrance examination, which is the peak of the third-tier elite beast tamer. They will not be able to break through to level 31 and become a fourth-tier grandmaster beast tamer, let alone those with less than S-level talent."

Zhou Heng listened carefully, then asked, "How many students from ASEAN University passed the university entrance exam last year?"

Zhou's mother replied, "Less than fifty thousand."

There are over one trillion people in ASEAN, with about 10 billion newborns every year.

Based on an average probability of one beast tamer for every hundred people, more than one hundred million of the ten billion newborns possess beast taming aptitude.

Therefore, the number of college entrance examination candidates each year is around 100 million.

In the end, only 50,000 people were able to cross the threshold of university, which means the probability of getting into university is one in two thousand.

In other words, out of more than two thousand students with beast-taming talent, only one person can get into university.

If we include ordinary people, then out of 200,000 people, only one person can get into university.

Zhou Heng then asked, "Of these 50,000 people, how many are from Xuanxiao City each year?"

Zhou's father knew these figures like the back of his hand: "Every year, about seven or eight hundred people from Xuanxiao City are admitted to university. Each of the ten top-tier beast-taming high schools in Xuanxiao City has forty or fifty students admitted. Each of the twenty-eight second-tier beast-taming high schools has about ten students admitted. Most of the time, none of the hundreds of third-tier beast-taming high schools have even one student admitted to university."

Zhou Heng was utterly bewildered: "How could a third-rate beast-taming high school with such a large student body be in such dire straits?"

Mr. Zhou shrugged: "Because the garrison has a rule that, in order to concentrate teaching resources, any student from a third-rate Beast Taming High School who awakens a talent of B grade or above must be transferred directly to a second-rate or first-rate Beast Taming High School. In the end, the students who remain in the third-rate Beast Taming High School have very poor talents and naturally cannot go to university."

Zhou Heng subconsciously asked, "If that's the case, why not just shut down those third-rate beast-taming high schools?"