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

Li Lang was incredibly envious: "You're so lucky! You even managed to encounter a beast that evolves on its own, and of such high quality! Low-quality beasts that evolve on their own are rare, but you can encounter them occasionally. But a diamond-quality beast that can evolve on its own is extremely rare."

Zhou Heng rested his head on his hand, looking relaxed: "Perhaps it's divine intervention!"

Li Lang then asked, "Didn't you say you wanted to contract a second beast? You should have received your second beast from your family this time you returned, right?"

Zhou Heng nodded: "I not only contracted a second beast, I even contracted a third beast."

Li Lang leaned closer: "What quality are they? Could they all be of lower-level overlord quality? You're amazing! Two overlord-level beasts."

Zhou Heng shook his head: "No."

Li Lang wondered, "Could it be a lower-level overlord and a higher-level diamond?"

Zhou Heng shook his head again: "No."

Li Lang misunderstood Zhou Heng's meaning: "How could that be? Your Zhou family is an ancient and large aristocratic family with a profound foundation. Surely one of you should possess the qualities of a lower-level overlord?"

Zhou Heng's lips curled up: "Both of them are of mid-tier overlord quality."

Li Lang was immediately dumbfounded: "What?! Two mid-level overlords?!"

Zhou Heng nodded: "That's right."

After his initial shock, Li Lang was genuinely happy for Zhou Heng: "My God! A mid-level overlord beast tamer! With your talent, you're guaranteed to become a seventh-tier feudal lord beast tamer! And with two of them! Maybe I'll see your name on the list of marquises in a few decades."

The List of Conferred Titles is a special list that records all seventh-tier noble beast tamers in the Eastern Alliance and the Beast Tamer Guild, and publishes their identity information.

This list serves two purposes: to showcase the alliance's strength and to ensure that the beast tamers below are aware of these powerful individuals, so as to avoid provoking them and bringing about their annihilation.

It can also prevent some powerful individuals from disguising themselves as weaklings to deceive others and cause various disputes.

Zhou Heng's gaze was incredibly profound: "My goals go far beyond this."

Li Lang's face showed a hint of emotion: "Do you intend to pursue the realm of an eighth-tier King-level Beast Tamer?"

Zhou Heng countered, "Don't you want to?"

Li Lang said self-deprecatingly, "My father is just a collateral member of the Li family, and he's been living away from home for a long time, never returning to the family. My talent is also inferior to yours. Let alone an eighth-tier monarch beast tamer, that's an ancestor-level existence of a large aristocratic family! I don't even dare to dream of becoming a seventh-tier lord beast tamer! In this life, if I can just become a sixth-tier commander beast tamer, like Commander Xu, and become a war preparation commander of a first-tier planet, I'll already be burning incense with gratitude. Most likely, I can only become a fifth-tier warrior beast tamer at most."

Zhou Heng comforted him, saying, "Don't underestimate yourself. Who can predict the future?"

After composing himself, Li Lang said, "Let's not talk about these things anymore; they're too far removed from our lives."

Then, he told Zhou Heng some news: "Did you know? Xu Yaya has dropped out of school."

Zhou Heng pictured a thin, dark-skinned girl with freckles all over her face and asked in confusion, "What's going on?"

Li Lang said, "Xu Yaya's tamed beast, the Unicorn Carp, has died. Because she only contracted one tamed beast, she suffered a severe backlash and will be unable to contract a new tamed beast in the short term, which may affect her taming college entrance examination."

Zhou Heng remained calm, showing little emotion, and simply said, "The Rocket Class has lost another person."

Li Lang nodded: "That's how it is for now. Perhaps next semester, or perhaps in the second year of high school, Xu Yaya will be able to come back to school."

Zhou Heng estimated the pace of high school: "Then it will probably be difficult for her to get into university."

Li Lang shrugged: "There's nothing we can do. Things have come to this point, and Xu Yaya can only fall behind."

Zhou Heng asked curiously, "How could her tamed beast suddenly die?"

Li Lang looked speechless: "Her parents are registered with the Hunters' Association. Both of them are third-tier elite beast tamers, so they formed a hunting team. They usually go out into the wild to hunt extraordinary creatures to make money. I don't know what her parents were thinking. During the long weekend, they said they wanted to use the battles in the wild to help Xu Yaya's beast taming break through the bottleneck quickly, from level ten to level eleven, and become a second-tier beast tamer."

Zhou Heng was utterly puzzled: "This is completely unnecessary. Xu Yaya has A-level talent, and the Unicorn Carp is a low-grade gold-quality beast. The bottleneck between the first and second tiers will be overcome in a week or two at most. Why take this risk?"

Li Lang spread his hands: "I had the same idea, but Xu Yaya's parents took Xu Yaya and the entire hunting team to the wild. As a result, they encountered a fourth-level extraordinary creature. Most of the team died. Although Xu Yaya's parents escaped with Xu Yaya, Xu Yaya's unicorn carp was too unlucky and was swallowed by that fourth-level extraordinary creature."

Zhou Heng sighed, "What a pitiful beast!"

"Actually, this is not the fault of Xu Yaya's parents. The place her parents took her to was within a thousand kilometers of Xuanxiao City. Because the city guards and garrison troops often cleared it, the area around Xuanxiao City was mostly filled with ordinary wild beasts and first-order extraordinary creatures, with only a small number of second-order extraordinary creatures and almost no third-order extraordinary creatures."

Li Lang then provided more information: "Xu Yaya's parents are both third-tier elite beast tamers, and the weakest member of the team is a second-tier senior beast tamer. Originally, it would have been very safe to bring Xu Yaya, a first-tier apprentice peak beast tamer who was about to break through to the second tier."

Zhou Heng frowned: "If that's the case, then where did this fourth-tier extraordinary creature come from?"

Li Lang described it in detail: "They ran out of the Xuanxiao Mountains and were chased all the way to the vicinity of Xuanxiao City by a hunting team with a fourth-level Grandmaster Beast Tamer. Unexpectedly, they encountered the hunting team led by Xu Yaya's parents, resulting in serious casualties. It can only be said that Xu Yaya's misfortune this time was an undeserved one."

Zhou Heng understood: "In that case, the responsibility should lie with the hunting team that has a fourth-level Grandmaster Beast Tamer."

"That's right. The fourth-level Grandmaster Beast Tamer who was in charge of the team didn't want to take responsibility at first. It was only thanks to our principal and teacher Zhang Peng that he obediently paid compensation. But no amount of compensation could undo the casualties of the hunting team, let alone save Xu Yaya's unicorn carp."

Li Lang's tone was slightly solemn: "Last week, the teacher organized us to visit Xu Yaya in the hospital. Xu Yaya's condition was very bad. The death of the beast not only caused a backlash on her soul, but also left her with psychological trauma. Her future will be difficult."

Zhou Heng didn't take it to heart: "This has nothing to do with us. She's just a classmate, not a friend. It's just a matter of fate."

Li Lang nodded: "I was just expressing my feelings. She used to be close to Yu Li, but unexpectedly, Yu Li became a spy for the Baiyang Society, and she became half a cripple. It's really a cruel twist of fate."