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

"Haha! I've gotten stronger again!" The Netherworld Demon Dragon, who had just advanced to the fourth level of the fifth rank, transformed into a purple streak of light, rampaging through the air and frolicking with joy.

Zhou Heng waved his hand: "Alright, Tyrant, I know you're happy, but you'd better come back soon! I need to continue improving Wuji and the others' strength."

Upon hearing this, the Netherworld Dragon stopped its mischievous antics and obediently shrunk back to a palm-sized miniature form, appearing before Zhou Heng.

Although the Netherworld Dragon is usually quite rebellious, it still knows what's important and what's urgent.

Zhou Heng reached out and held the miniature Youyuan Demon Dragon in his palm, then gently tapped its nose with his other hand.

The Netherworld Dragon snorted and arrogantly jumped onto Zhou Heng's right shoulder.

It and the three Azure Phoenixes, one on the left and one on the right, occupied Zhou Heng's two shoulders respectively.

This is an unspoken understanding between the two, which has never been broken.

Zhou Heng, in his divine Kun form, emerged from behind him as the Star-Devouring Kunpeng.

It transformed into a golden phantom and soared into the sky, then instantly restored its size to 680 kilometers, stretching across the interior of the floating fortress, blocking the view of all living beings and revealing boundless power.

The interior space of this floating fortress was expanded by the main beast of the fourth senior brother, Rongtu King, the Void Realm Heavenly Serpent. It is comparable in size to an ordinary blessed land, with an area of ​​more than ten million square kilometers.

But for the Star-Devouring Kunpeng at this moment, this area of ​​more than ten million square kilometers is just like a fish tank.

Zhou Heng knew that as the size of the Star-Devouring Kunpeng continued to grow, the floating fortress might not be able to contain it when it advanced to the sixth rank.

However, this will have to wait another year or two.

With this in mind, Zhou Heng stopped thinking about the future.

He manipulated the Spirit Source Pearl to transform the five Spirit Source Points into silver-level energy points, which he then sent into the body of the Star Devouring Kunpeng.

The Star-Devouring Kunpeng flicked its tail, causing the extremely solid floating fortress, which was of the seventh-grade best quality, to tremble for a moment.

However, the level of the Star-Devouring Kunpeng remained at the fifth rank, eighth level, without any breakthrough.

Once the Star-Devouring Kunpeng shrunk in size and returned to Zhou Heng's side, the Titan Lord restored his size to normal and stepped forward.

At first glance, the Titan Lord's 8,800-meter-tall blue crystal body seemed to have the sky above its head and the earth beneath its feet, like the legendary god Pangu descending to earth.

With the injection of five silver level energy points, the Titan Lord's level remained at the fifth tier, second level.

It had anticipated this result, after all, it had only recently advanced to the second level of the fifth rank, and even with the support of spirit source points, it was unlikely that it would break through again so quickly.

The last one is the Lucky Qilin King.

It has been at the first level of the fifth rank for some time now, and it is not far from the second level of the fifth rank, so it is looking forward to Zhou Heng's enhancement of its strength this time.

The 480-meter-tall body of the Fortune Qilin King was ablaze with blazing golden-red flames of fortune.

Two round, golden-red eyes, each the size of a small house, were extremely endearing.

As five silver energy points flew into the body of the Lucky Qilin King, the King's aura increased, and it began to break through from the first level of the fifth rank to the second level of the fifth rank.

Ultimately, perhaps due to the inherent good fortune of the Lucky Qilin King, it managed to advance to the second level of the fifth rank before the energy generated by the silver level energy points was exhausted.

It let out a deep, long roar, its body ablaze with golden-red flames of fortune, appearing extremely excited.

The size of the Lucky Qilin King also increased, growing directly from 480 meters to 520 meters.

It immediately shrunk to about three meters in size and quickly returned to Zhou Heng's side, hopping and skipping, very agile and cute: "Dad! I actually successfully advanced to the second level of the fifth rank! I originally thought I would have to wait a few more days! Dad's spiritual source power is really amazing."

Zhou Heng smiled broadly: "Congratulations! You have now caught up with the Emperor God. Both of you are now at the fifth level, second stage. Keep up the good work and strive to catch up with Jiu Xiao and the others."

The Lucky Qilin King was overjoyed: "Thank you for your encouragement, Father. I will definitely succeed."

Marquis Tianyin and Marquis Qianren came to Zhou Heng's side. Looking at the six beasts whose auras had all increased, they all began to flatter Zhou Heng.

Marquis Tianyin exclaimed in admiration, "Junior Uncle's strongest beast-taming level has reached the eighth level of the fifth rank, and his weakest level has reached the second level of the fifth rank. His second year of university isn't even over yet, and Junior Uncle has already achieved such accomplishments—he completely crushes everyone else!"

Qianrenhou's tone was full of admiration: "Yes! Even if you pick out the weakest beast tamer of Junior Uncle, no college student in the same year can compare with Junior Uncle."

Tianyin Hou looked at Zhou Heng with undisguised flattery: "Let alone those in the same year, even among the most outstanding students who are about to graduate with doctorates, their main beast taming is only hovering in the late stage of the fourth rank, and not a single one has advanced to the peak of the fourth rank."

Zhou Heng was already used to the flattery from Marquis Tianyin and Marquis Qianren. He casually asked, "Since Brother Du graduated, among the top ten Beast Taming Universities, is the best talent besides me only S-rank?"

Marquis Tianyin nodded: "That's right. Although SS-level talent can't compare to SSS-level talent, it only appears once every twenty years on average across the entire universe. Since Dr. Du Si'an graduated, there are no more students with SS-level talent in any of the Beast Taming Universities."

Qianrenhou added, "The next SS-level student might not even appear until you graduate with your doctorate."

"The difference between different levels of talent becomes greater as the game progresses."

Marquis Tianyin continued, "With your SSS-level talent, regardless of your background, you can often advance to a sixth-tier commander beast tamer before even graduating with your doctorate. As for SS-level talent, if you come from a great family, you can probably train your main beast tamer to the mid-fifth tier by the time you graduate with your doctorate. If you come from a less prestigious family, you can only train your beast tamer to the early fifth tier. And for S-level talent beast tamers, even if they come from a great family, they can only barely train their beast tamers to the late fourth tier by the time they graduate with their doctorate. If you come from an ordinary family, you often can't even contract a hegemon beast. Relying on high-level diamond-quality beast tamers, you can't even get a doctorate; at most, you can only become a master's student."

As for those with S-level talent or below, they have to leave school as soon as they graduate in their senior year and can't even become graduate students.

Zhou Heng did not become complacent because of this; on the contrary, he became even more humble: "I am talented, which is indeed my advantage, but precisely because I am talented, I must work harder so as not to waste my talent."