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

Li Lang leaned close to Zhou Heng and said, "Do you know that after the long weekend, you missed two weeks of class, and Liu Yao was really smug in class? Now that you're back, someone can finally teach him a lesson."

Zhou Heng smiled faintly, "Do you think he would dare bully you while I'm not around?"

Li Lang curled his lip: "He didn't bully me, but I just can't stand his smug look. In the end, it's just that when the tiger is away, the monkey is king! You are the real number one in the grade."

Zhou Heng didn't care about these trivial matters, but instead asked, "A month has passed, what level is your Frost Giant Bear now?"

Li Lang exclaimed excitedly, "My Little Ice has evolved! It has evolved from a high-quality gold-level Ice Giant Bear into a low-quality diamond-level Ice Bear King!"

Zhou Heng raised an eyebrow: "It evolved so quickly?"

Li Lang was in high spirits: "This is the characteristic of the Frost Giant Bear. It can evolve to diamond quality at the second stage. But I was lucky. I only used it once and successfully evolved the Frost Giant Bear into the Frost Bear King. I heard that some people may not be able to evolve their beasts successfully even after seven or eight attempts."

Zhou Heng was also happy for Li Lang: "How many resources did it consume?"

The smug look on Li Lang's face gradually faded, replaced by a look of relief: "Quite a lot. In order to evolve the Frost Giant Bear into the Frost Bear King, my dad acquired a large number of fifth-tier ice-type spiritual items and a few sixth-tier ice-type spiritual items for me, spending more than 16 billion. If we had failed once or twice, it would have been equivalent to the price of buying a new diamond-quality beast cub."

Zhou Heng sighed, "You're lucky. The success rate of evolving an Ice Giant Bear into an Ice Bear King is extremely high, so the cost is relatively low. Normally, evolving a beast is more expensive than buying a beast of the same quality, because you have to raise the beast cubs you buy again, but you don't have to when you evolve them."

Li Lang said happily, "That's true. Otherwise, my parents wouldn't have made me contract with the Ice Bear King's lower-level individual, the Ice Giant Bear."

Zhou Heng had specifically researched Li Lang's beast evolution path: "I remember that the upper-level gold-tier Frost Giant Bear evolves once into the lower-level diamond-tier Frost Bear King, then evolves again into the mid-level diamond-tier Extreme Ice Giant Bear, then into the upper-level diamond-tier Extreme Ice Bear King, and finally can evolve into the lower-level overlord-tier Heavenly Gang Giant Bear. This path is very reliable and simpler than other evolution paths of the same level, and the combat power is also quite good. Uncle Li is very good to you and considers things very carefully for you."

Li Lang shook his head: "I still can't compare to you. Uncle Ting only has you as his child, so he will naturally do his best to raise you. Moreover, as a beast of overlord quality, I only know the name of the Heavenly Giant Bear, but I don't know the specific evolution ritual."

Zhou Heng asked, puzzled, "Didn't Uncle Li help you buy back the detailed evolution ritual from the Alliance official website?"

"Only sixth-tier commander-level beast tamers are qualified to access the cultivation path involving overlord quality. My father is only a fifth-tier warrior-level beast tamer, so he cannot directly purchase it from within the alliance. He has to purchase it from another sixth-tier commander-level beast tamer and then resell it."

Li Lang voiced his concerns: "And as you know, a single overlord beast can only have a maximum of three contractors at the same time. The evolution process of the Heavenly Giant Bear route is relatively easy and has a high success rate, so many people take this route. I suspect that all three contract positions for the Heavenly Giant Bear have already been taken."

Zhou Heng frowned: "This is indeed a troublesome problem."

Li Lang looked conflicted: "I'm actually still hesitating about whether to take this route. If I get choked in the future, it will be terrible! So my dad isn't planning to buy me the evolution ritual for the Heavenly Giant Bear for the time being, so as not to waste money and end up owing someone a favor."

Zhou Heng thought it over carefully and gave a standard suggestion: "Don't rush this. If you want to evolve the Frost Bear King into the Celestial Giant Bear, you still have a long way to go. It will take at least several decades. Even if the contract slots for the lower-level overlord-quality Celestial Giant Bears are full, your Frost Bear King will still evolve into the upper-level diamond-quality Extreme Ice Bear King in the future. You can train a few more beasts then."

Li Lang nodded: "Aheng, thank you for your suggestion."

Zhou Heng smiled and said, "We're all good friends, no need to be so polite."

"Actually, when I think about it carefully, the worry about not having enough contract slots for Overlord Beastmasters is a bit of an overreaction for me. Even if the contract slots for the Arctic Bear King aren't all taken, the resources required to evolve a beastmaster to Overlord quality are unimaginable, and my family simply can't afford it."

Li Lang may seem carefree at times, but he is actually very clear-headed: "Unless I can become a sixth-tier commander beast tamer in the future, join the alliance and hold a high position, and then spend a lot of time to collect all the resources needed to evolve my beasts to the overlord quality, it's all just wishful thinking. With my aptitude, I don't know how many difficulties I would have to overcome to become a sixth-tier commander beast tamer, so I don't need to worry about things that are so far away."

Zhou Heng didn't know how to respond to that.

He could only change the subject: "You still haven't told me, what level is the Ice Bear King?"

Li Lang proudly said, "When the short holiday just ended, Xiao Bing reached level twelve. Last Friday, the evolution ritual was started, and during the evolution, it broke through two more levels. Now it is level fourteen."

Zhou Heng leaned back on the sofa: "Actually, you should have let Xiao Bing evolve into the Frost Bear King when it reaches level 20. That way, it can directly break through the bottleneck from the peak of the second tier to the early stage of the third tier."

Li Lang was very optimistic: "It's okay, the sooner you evolve, the sooner you can enjoy it. With the same talent and resources, the higher the quality of the beast, the faster it will improve. Lower-level diamonds may not seem much higher than upper-level golds, but the two are ultimately different."

Zhou Heng agreed, saying, "You're right, that's indeed the point."

Li Lang then asked, "And you? What level is your Phoenix Feather Azure Phoenix?"

Zhou Heng smiled calmly: "I'm already at level twenty-four."

Li Lang's eyes widened instantly: "How can your advancement speed be so fast! A month ago, Fengyi Qingluan was only level 21, and now she's already level 24! How did you cultivate her? Did you feed Fengyi Qingluan countless rare and precious herbs when you returned to the family this time?"

Zhou Heng did not hide anything: "I did feed Fengyi Qingluan a lot of good things, but it is also due to Fengyi Qingluan itself. It has shown signs of autonomous evolution. Now its quality has surpassed that of ordinary high-level diamonds, at least between diamonds and overlords, and even comparable to low-level overlord beasts."