Chapter 1765: Xiao Chutong! The Time Dragon! A Time-Type Beast Appears!

Every year, talented individuals from the Central Region leave to join powerful nations on the Beast Tide frontline, seeking the slim chance of becoming a God-Rank Beast Tamer.

Su Yang felt this could just as well be seen as a giant empire's gravitational pull on talent.

There are two ways to enter the giant empire.

One is to cross the border directly and arrive at the Da Jin Empire.

The other is through a recommendation from Babaozhai.

Babaozhai is a peripheral organization of the Da Jin Empire.

Every five years, it sends a batch of talented youths to join the Da Jin Empire.

The treatment difference between those who enter via these two routes is enormous.

Among the many powerful forces on the Beast Tide frontline, the strongest are undoubtedly the major empires.

Beast Tamers who enter the Da Jin Empire directly have no background or patronage and must start from the bottom.

If they don't join any organization, they'll be bullied everywhere!

If they join an organization that isn't powerful enough, the benefits won't be great, and they might just become hired thugs!

Some organizations and clans are inherently exclusionary.

They place greater trust in blood relatives!

After weighing all options, joining the empire directly is clearly the most promising path.

As the most powerful force, the empire possesses the richest resources and a relatively transparent military merit system.

With sufficient strength, one has far more opportunities to rise above others compared to other factions!

Without Babaozhai's recommendation, Beast Tamers from the Central Region with "unknown identities" can only start from the bottom upon joining the Da Jin Empire.

But once they receive Babaozhai's vetted recommendation, they are immediately taken seriously upon joining the Da Jin Empire.

Their starting point is much higher than that of lone Beast Tamers!

Additionally, the top-ranked candidate of each Babaozhai recommendation batch receives a God-Rank beast egg as a reward from the Da Jin Empire!

Occasionally, the Da Jin Empire also awards a God-Rank beast egg to the second- or even third-ranked candidates recommended by Babaozhai—though rare, it has happened before.

The Da Jin Empire is willing to give these Central Region prodigies more opportunities.

These are real, tangible benefits!

So every five years, when Babaozhai issues invitation letters, young talents aspiring to join the Da Jin Empire and become God-Rank Beast Tamers flock to it eagerly!

When Su Yang, Xia Na, and Yun Shuying arrived at the venue, most people had already come.

There were three senior elders from Babaozhai and a hundred prodigies from Babaozhai's sphere of influence in the Central Region.

Elder Long did not appear—he must be occupied with other matters!

The conference was hosted by Elder Jian, seated at the head of the venue.

Elder Jian spotted Su Yang and smiled, greeting him and pointing to the empty seat on his left.

"Elder Chen Feng, sit beside Elder Jian!" Yun Shuying reminded him. "Nana, sit beside your Master—I'll sit with you!"

"Got it!"

As soon as Su Yang sat beside Elder Jian, someone immediately brought him tea and snacks.

Su Yang looked down at the hundred prodigies below and slightly sensed their strength.

Most were Sovereign-Rank Top-Grade Beast Tamers, a few Sovereign-Rank High-Grade, and only a handful were Sovereign-Rank Mid-Grade.

Yet gathered together, these hundred Sovereign-Rank Beast Tamers were already extremely powerful!

They could easily crush any nation without a God-Rank Beast Tamer.

If they encountered a weaker God-Rank Beast Tamer, they might have a chance to hold their own—and with heavy casualties, possibly even win.

Of course, this was a low-probability event.

A single God-Rank Low-Grade beast could handle over a hundred Sovereign-Rank Top-Grade beasts!

Elder Jian smiled and asked, "How are these prodigies?"

"They're all pretty good!"

Su Yang nodded in approval.

It was the plain truth.

Although Su Yang was a God-Rank Beast Tamer who had killed two God-Rank Mid-Grade experts!

He remained quite humble.

Su Yang, who rose through external advantages, could never grow arrogant.

"How do they compare to your Liu Na?"

"They can't match Nana—at least they're all older than Liu Na!"

Elder Jian narrowed his eyes, glanced at Xia Na, and wore a benevolent expression.

Since Su Yang said that, he figured it was quite fine that the Demon Flame Black Dragon had ended up with Liu Na!

Prodigies deserve the best resources!

"Time's almost up!"

Elder Jian reminded them.

Yun Shuying nodded with a smile, stood up, and announced loudly: "All prodigies from the Central Region, today marks Babaozhai's once-every-five-years Central Region Talent Selection Conference…"

Su Yang sipped his tea, listening calmly as Yun Shuying hosted the conference.

After three minutes, seeing Yun Shuying still speaking, Su Yang gradually felt—this was familiar!

Didn't school administrators always talk like this back in school?

But better still, the Sovereign-Rank Beast Tamers below had plenty of stamina.

And he was seated up on the stage…

Twenty minutes later, Yun Shuying reached the conclusion of her speech and began introducing the elders from Baozhai who were present on stage.

Su Yang was scheduled second-to-last.

"This elder from Baozhai, Chen Feng, once entered the Great Jin Empire alone, fought on the frontlines for over two thousand years, and recently returned to the Central Region, where he personally killed two God-Rank Mid-Grade elders of the Shenlongshang Alliance in a short time—his combat power is extraordinary…"

Su Yang stood up from his seat and nodded to the crowd below.

"I hope that after you join the Great Jin Empire, you will also aspire to be like Elder Chen Feng…"

Seeing the countless burning gazes below, Su Yang never expected he had become a role model!

"Is that Elder Chen Feng?"

"My father told me that Elder Chen Feng is extremely powerful—he's only a God-Rank Low-Grade Beast Tamer, yet he killed Baozhai's Black Wing Elder and Spirit Elder; he will surely become a God-Rank Mid-Grade Beast Tamer!"

"My dream is to become a God-Rank Beast Tamer!"

"Are the Beast Tamers of the Great Jin Empire really that strong?"

"…"

Finally, Yun Shuying introduced Elder Jian.

Elder Jian was a founding elder of Baozhai; Yun Shuying spoke with passionate fervor, forcing herself to recount ten full minutes of Elder Jian's glorious deeds…

Su Yang had to admit he was impressed.

Elder Jian asked: "Elder Chen Feng, would you like to say a few words?"

Su Yang waved his hand and declined: "No need!"

He had no interest in this!

After Elder Jian spoke for half an hour, the final semifinal match finally began!

The first semifinal match was Chen Yiyang from Heixing Nation versus Xu Chenghai from Wuyun Nation.

Heixing Nation is known as an empire.

But when Chen Yiyang introduced himself, he directly claimed to be from Heixing Nation!

He probably didn't even dare call it an empire!

Several elders from Baozhai sitting in the stands rose and floated into midair, finding better vantage points to watch the battle.

Su Yang and Xia Na gathered together, with Yun Shuying standing beside them, not far from the other elders.

"Your Wuyun Nation's prodigies aren't bad!" Su Yang said to Xu Chenghai. "Elder Yun, is Xu Chenghai related to you?"

Yun Shuying smiled: "There's some kinship with our Yun family—the Xu family is among the top clans in Wuyun Nation and frequently marries into our Yun family. If we go by generational rank, he should call me Great-Grandmother…"