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

Qianrenhou kept praising Zhou Heng, his tone extremely exaggerated: "Junior Uncle, it's no wonder we're so surprised. The miracle you created is just too amazing! You are definitely the youngest diamond nurturer in history. Anyone who sees a diamond nurturer as young as you would find it unbelievable."

Zhou Heng remained unmoved: "Essentially, they are all diamond nurturers, even the youngest one. To put it bluntly, it's just an empty title."

Tianyin Hou's thoughts wandered, and he steered the conversation to someone else: "Qiongqi Mengjia Kunling King, as a mythology nurturer, seems to have been less powerful than you when he was young."

Zhou Heng said firmly, "I never consider others as my opponents; my only opponent is myself."

Marquis Tianyin's flattery skills became increasingly refined: "What you said is so well said! No wonder you've achieved so much at such a young age! You're both a late-stage fifth-tier warrior beast tamer and a lower-tier diamond-level breeder. Your words have truly enlightened us!"

Zhou Heng chuckled, "Alright, you two have gotten a bit sly after being around me for so long. Honestly, stop with the empty talk, I'm not buying it."

Marquis Tianyin said with a sincere expression, "We mean it all. At first, we did think you were too young. Although you are very talented, we still looked down on you and treated you like a child. But as we spent more and more time by your side, we no longer dared to look down on you. On the contrary, we admired you to the point of prostration."

Qianrenhou's expression was very sincere: "You are not only talented, but also possess unimaginable wisdom. You can inadvertently enlighten us with a casual remark, from which we have benefited greatly."

Zhou Heng knew perfectly well that all the talk about wisdom was just polite talk.

Although he lived two lives, his intelligence was not very high, because even if one awakens innate wisdom, one's intelligence will not increase out of thin air.

The reason why Tianyin Marquis and Qianren Marquis respected him so much was mainly because he had exceptional talent as both a beast tamer and a breeder.

Everything else is illusory.

Wisdom, in reality, often relies on the imagination of those below.

The same words, spoken by the strong, become a wise saying, worth a thousand pieces of gold. Spoken by the weak, they become mere smooth talk and glib tongue.

Moreover, although Marquis Tianyin and Marquis Qianren praised Zhou Heng, they might not actually think he was very wise. It was probably just because of his high status that these two junior disciples wanted to curry favor with him, so they said those things.

Therefore, Zhou Heng always just smiled and let it go, never taking it to heart, when his two junior disciples flattered him.

Marquis Tianyin and Marquis Qianren then flattered Zhou Heng, which alerted Zhou Heng's other three junior clansmen who were staying in the floating fortress.

They also learned that Zhou Heng had been promoted to Diamond Breeder, and they all came forward to congratulate him, their admiration for Zhou Heng far exceeding that of Marquis Tianyin and Marquis Qianren.

Soon, Zhou's parents also learned of this joyous news and praised Zhou Heng highly.

In the days that followed, Zhou Heng further improved the ritual for the Top Pearl Dragon Carp to evolve into the Golden Scale Fish Dragon, which greatly increased the success rate.

He then used the dragon crystal core, along with the scales, blood, and saliva of a real dragon, to have the Three-Headed Azure Phoenix use the Five Virtues Divine Light to refine a fake dragon pearl of the fifth-tier treasure level for him.

This fake dragon ball closely resembles a dragon ball in appearance and can simulate the rhythm emitted by a dragon ball. It can also store a large amount of primordial dragon energy, which can be automatically released once activated.

Zhou Heng had the Guixu Divine Dragon infuse a lot of primordial dragon energy into this fake dragon pearl, and then used this fake dragon pearl instead of the real dragon pearl during the evolution ceremony of the Top Pearl Dragon Carp.

After several trials, it was found that as long as pure primordial dragon energy was injected into it in advance, this fake dragon ball would have no difference in the effect of emitting primordial dragon energy from the real dragon ball.

The only problem is that this fake dragon ball cannot generate its own primordial dragon energy; it needs to be replenished with dragon energy by the Guixu Divine Dragon every so often.

Of course, it doesn't necessarily have to be the Guixu Divine Dragon. Any pure-blooded true dragon can be replenished with its original dragon energy, which can help the Top Pearl Dragon Carp evolve into the Golden Scale Fish Dragon.

Subsequently, Zhou Heng also had the Guixu Divine Dragon use its powerful skill, Grace to the Eight Desolations, to condense blue healing elixir. He then gave some of the healing elixir to the top pearl dragon carp that had previously failed to evolve, healing their injuries. He then initiated several evolution rituals for them.

Although there are still failures, the failure rate is not as high anymore.

In the end, Zhou Heng harvested more than ten golden-scaled fish-dragons.

He kept most of these golden-scaled fish-dragons in the floating fortress, and stored the other half in the Ring of All Rivers and Lakes.

Because Grandpa Zhou Heng's 100th birthday is approaching, he needs to return to the Canglan Plane. He will definitely leave the evolution ritual of the Golden Scaled Fish Dragon to his family.

These successfully evolved golden-scaled ichthyosaurs can be used for breeding to obtain golden-scaled ichthyosaur offspring.

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The Zhou family patriarch's birthday is on the fifteenth of March. He will be exactly one hundred years old this year. According to the custom of high-level beast tamers, such occasions that are round numbers are always celebrated in a grand manner.

Zhou Heng returned to the Canglan Plane three days ahead of schedule with his parents and son.

On the day of the birthday banquet, many people came to the Canglan Plane to celebrate the birthday of Elder Zhou.

However, unlike Zhou Hongzheng's first birthday celebration, no powerful figures above the eighth-tier Monarch Beastmaster level came in person.

Those who came in person were all powerful individuals below the eighth-tier King Beast Tamer level.

However, the eighth-tier monarch beast tamers and ninth-tier emperor beast tamers from the Eastern Alliance, as well as Zhou Heng's master, all sent their juniors to deliver gifts.

Because birthday banquets are different from other banquets, according to ancient customs, people who are much older or of a much higher generation than the birthday celebrant are not suitable to appear directly at the formal birthday banquet, so as not to overshadow the birthday celebrant.

Ordinary families might not care about this, but prominent families do.

It's best if everyone at the birthday banquet is of the same or younger generation, so that the birthday person is the only protagonist on the day of the banquet.

However, since the old patriarch of the Zhou family was Zhou Heng's biological grandfather and had an extraordinary status, those beast tamers who were much older and more senior than the old patriarch of the Zhou family, although they did not come in person, still sent their regards.

This way, the rules are not broken, and it shows respect for the old patriarch of the Zhou family, thus extending goodwill to Zhou Heng.

Without Zhou Heng, it's hard to say what would happen to those below the eighth-tier Monarch Beast Tamer, but above the eighth-tier Monarch Beast Tamer, apart from a very few powerful families with good relations with the Zhou family of the Divine Dragon, very few people would send gifts.

Because, setting aside Zhou Heng's grandfather's identity, in the eyes of those more powerful beings, the old Zhou family head was just an ordinary seventh-tier feudal lord beast tamer.