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

Patriarch Li immediately said, "Ancestor, Heng'er is just like that; he has been exceptionally polite since he was a child."

Linglong Ancestor looked at Zhou Heng with admiration in her eyes: "A gentleman, gentle and refined, every move he makes is like a spring breeze, he is indeed a good child."

Zhou Heng stood tall and straight, like a bamboo or pine tree: "Ancestor, you flatter me. You are awe-inspiring and extraordinary. I have the utmost respect for you."

Upon hearing this, the more Linglong Ancestor looked at Zhou Heng, the more satisfied she became: "What an interesting little fellow."

He suddenly changed the subject: "I heard from Zhaowen that you want to evolve the Phoenix Azure Luan into the Colorful Winged Azure Phoenix when you reach the fourth tier?"

Li Zhaowen was Zhou Heng's maternal grandfather's name.

Zhou Heng nodded: "To be honest, Ancestor, I do have this intention."

"For the Phoenix Azure Luan to evolve into the Colorful Winged Azure Phoenix, the evolution ceremony requires five seventh-order spiritual flames of the five elements as a catalyst."

Linglong Ancestor waved her hand and took out a budding blue lotus flower: "I previously obtained a wood-attribute spirit fire, but it has never been of much use. Since you made me happy today, I will give you this spirit fire."

Zhou Heng beamed with joy and extended both hands to accept the blue lotus flower: "Thank you, Ancestor!"

The old ancestor Linglong's smile widened: "No need to be so polite, I'll be waiting for the day you shine!"

"Yu Heng will never let the Ancestor down!"

Zhou Heng, brimming with confidence, then asked, "Ancestor, what kind of spiritual fire is this?"

Linglong Ancestor replied, "Azure Flame of the Azure Heaven."

Zhou Heng had never heard of this kind of spiritual fire before, and found it strange: "Ancestor, why is the Azure Flame of the Azure Heaven shaped like a lotus flower?"

The Elder Linglong smiled and explained, "What you're holding is a container for the Azure Flame of the Azure Heaven, a sixth-tier Soul-Refining Lotus. The Azure Flame of the Azure Heaven is hidden within the lotus's heart. Remember, don't open the Soul-Refining Lotus casually. Wait until you need it before watering it with spiritual liquid, and the Soul-Refining Lotus will naturally bloom. Otherwise, the Azure Flame of the Azure Heaven will spill out, and it won't be easy for you juniors to collect it again."

Zhou Heng put the Soul-Tempering Azure Lotus containing the Azure Flame into his storage watch, and nodded, saying, "Thank you for your guidance, Ancestor. I've remembered it."

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After meeting the Li family's venerable ancestor, Zhou Heng stayed in the Yan Yang Plane for two more days before bidding farewell to his maternal grandparents.

Because the extra two weeks of leave that Zhou's father had given him were almost used up.

Before he left, his grandparents gave him a bunch of gifts, including all sorts of treasures that could be used to save his life, and he accepted them all.

Then, Zhou's parents took him back to the Zhou family's Canglan plane.

Zhou Heng looked reluctant: "Grandpa and Grandma, I have to go back to school."

The Zhou family patriarch and Madam Li were equally reluctant to part: "My dear grandson, come back and play again next time you have a holiday."

Zhou Heng quickly assured him, "Grandpa and Grandma, don't worry, I'll be back during winter break!"

The Zhou family patriarch and Madam Li smiled and said, "We're waiting for you."

Then, the old patriarch Zhou raised his hand and took out a blue jade seal about half the size of a palm, a white jade sword about a foot long, a red jade flute more than nine inches long, a black jade book four inches long and three inches wide, and a yellow jade cauldron the size of a large bowl.

He never forgot the task Zhou Heng had entrusted to him: "We have collected a lot of the five virtues of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness that the Phoenix and Azure Phoenix need during their growth. They are all stored in these five spiritual jade artifacts. You can use your spiritual power to draw upon them to nurture the Phoenix and Azure Phoenix."

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness were the requirements for gentlemen in ancient times.

People often say that a gentleman is like jade, so the five virtues acquired after birth are best preserved by using spiritual objects such as jade.

Zhou Heng's eyes lit up. He took the five jade pieces and put them into his storage watch: "Great! Thank you, Grandpa and Grandma!"

The Zhou family patriarch and his wife smiled happily.

The old patriarch Zhou waved his hand again.

Two elderly men dressed in black robes appeared before Zhou Heng and knelt on one knee: "Greetings, young master!"

Zhou Heng wasn't surprised: "These are assassins trained by the family?"

Patriarch Zhou nodded: "That's right! One of them is named Feng Zhong, and the other is named Feng Yong. They are both Heaven-level assassins."

In the Canglan plane, there are hundreds of millions of people from other surnames who serve the Zhou family. These vassals from other surnames, if they do not have the talent to tame beasts, can only be low-level servants for life, serving those Zhou family members who also lack talent.

Those with beast-taming talent would be gathered together from a young age for appropriate education, ensuring their eternal loyalty to the family.

After they are tested for talent at the age of eighteen, if their talent is good, such as reaching level A or above, the Zhou family will take them in as guest elders and arrange for them to marry clansmen with average talent to ensure that their offspring will have Zhou family blood.

If they are fortunate enough to become sixth-tier commander beast tamers, they will gain the status of retainer, changing from guest to retainer elder.

As for seventh-tier feudal lord beast tamers, these guest elders find it very difficult to reach that level, even if some of them occasionally possess S-level talent.

Because unless they can make unimaginable contributions, the Zhou family will never give them cubs of the Overlord quality, and it is also very difficult for them to evolve their beasts to the Overlord quality.

Beasts below the Overlord quality, even those of the Upper Diamond quality, usually have a maximum rank of six and it is almost impossible for them to break through to the seventh rank.

As a result, no matter how talented these guest retainers are, it will be difficult for them to advance to the seventh-tier feudal lord beast tamer.

That's exactly what the Zhou family wants.

Because once someone from another family becomes a seventh-tier feudal lord beast tamer, they gain the ability to establish their own household, which is unacceptable to the Zhou family.

If their talent is average, only B-level, C-level, or D-level, they will be trained to become guards and assassins.

In order to better control them, the family would use a combination of kindness and severity, help them get married and have children, and give them a status that surpasses that of ordinary people with different surnames.

In critical moments, they are needed to risk their lives for their families.

Among them, the status of the assassins was even higher than that of the guards.

Many assassins had the opportunity to marry members of collateral branches of the Zhou family.

After all, you have to make people work hard, so you have to give them enough benefits.

Among the assassins, there are four levels: Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow. The lowest Yellow-level assassin must be at least a fourth-tier Grandmaster Beast Tamer. Profound-level assassins are among the most powerful fourth-tier Grandmaster Beast Tamers.

Earth-level and Heaven-level Death Warriors are both fifth-tier Beastmasters, and their ranks differ depending on their merits.

If your talent is very poor, such as E-level or F-level talent, you can only choose to become a menial worker.

Their status was only slightly higher than that of low-ranking servants without talent. They had to do dirty and tiring work that ordinary people couldn't do and that the Zhou family's beast tamers were unwilling to do, while also serving the talented members of the Zhou family.

Since these people from other surnames live in the Zhou family's independent dimension and belong to the Zhou family's private property, the ASEAN government will not include them in the ASEAN population statistics.

They only count members of the Zhou family.