Beast Taming: the More the Better

So, Su Anyong made a preemptive strike:

"Then tell me. As long as you haven't started disliking women and aren't planning to get back at your old man by leaving the Su Family without descendants, I'll agree to anything."

"????"

Listening to Su Anyong's age-worn voice on the phone, Su Ping almost had a cascade of question marks appear over his head, just like Paperman Qian Yi.

What the hell is all this? Can this old geezer's thought process be any more abnormal?

Su Ping was speechless but still shared his idea:

"I want to change the name of our family's cultivation base!"

"Hm? What do you want to change it to? But that makes sense; 'Heart of Woods' doesn't fully encompass everything now."

Su Anyong wasn't particularly stirred. He knew that even if his own father, Su Zhongguang, were to climb out of his grave and learn of his grandson's skills and abilities, he wouldn't have any complaints. In fact, he'd likely give a thumbs-up in praise and agreement: Change it! If our grandson wants to change it, then it must be changed!

"Let's name the entire base 'Heart of Myriad Spirits.' However, the original site of 'Heart of Woods' will be preserved. It will remain the core location of our family and also the area where I'll conduct research and experiments. It's still part of Grandfather's legacy, just with a new overarching name," Su Ping said after some thought.

This idea had come up a couple of days ago when he was chatting with Sang Sheng and Qin Erlong.

Qin Erlong certainly hadn't been reserved about his vision for the future development of Linzhou City.

The East Suburb here is to be the core focus of future development.

The Linzhou Advanced Academy drives this direction and trend.

Of course, 'Heart of Woods' was still some distance from the East Suburb slated for development.

Moreover, Qin Erlong's intention was to leave enough surrounding space for 'Heart of Woods'.

This was tantamount to supporting Su Ping in building a Pet Beast kingdom here.

To create a paradise for cultivating Pet Beasts.

Given this development direction, the name 'Heart of Woods'—representing only the Wood Attribute of the Five Elements Core—clearly no longer encompassed what the Heart of Woods base had become.

A name change would also symbolize a brand new beginning for 'Heart of Woods' in the upcoming new year.

On the other end of the phone, Su Anyong pondered for a moment then said,

"You decide on this yourself. Just don't forget to burn some paper money at the crossroads for your grandpa before New Year's Eve."

"Hm?"

Su Ping's eyebrows rose. "What do you mean? Aren't you coming back this year?"

Other matters might be negotiable, but for years, whenever it was time to burn paper money for Grandpa and for Su Ping's mother—whom his father rarely mentioned—the old man had always gone with him.

If Su Ping had to go alone this time, there could only be one reason.

"Not necessarily. We'll see. Alright, I've got things to do. Let's talk some other time."

The call ended, and Su Ping's brows slowly furrowed again.

What exactly is the old man's status? What is he up to in Beiyuan?

However, before he could reflect further, another phone call interrupted his thoughts. The caller's identity made his eyes light up.

It was none other than Chief Lin, with whom he hadn't been in contact for what seemed like a long time.

Some time ago, Su Ping had mentioned to Uncle Guan his plan to hire an additional group of people—genuine, professional Beast Tamers with top-tier expertise.

This was not only to add challenges and increase the difficulty for the Pet Beasts' sparring partners at Heart of Cloud, but also to enable them to handle unexpected situations that might arise within the base.

And he wasn't very confident in the Beast Tamers available on the open market.

In comparison, retired soldiers and sergeants from the Beast Tamer Legion undoubtedly made Su Ping feel more at ease.

However, apart from these reasons, there was another primary one that Su Ping hadn't shared with Uncle Guan.

The cultivation of the wolf pack needed to begin officially.

He had never forgotten his original goal.

By now, he had thoroughly researched the Forest Wolf species.

He understood their numerous Evolutionary Bodies and cultivation methods.

Unlike Paperman Qian Yi's unique 'one-man army' characteristic, Forest Wolves were different.

Moreover, the Forest Wolves were what Su Ping envisioned as the main component of his planned Forest Torrent Legion.

However, he didn't need to personally intervene in this cultivation process.

Frankly, investing his energy in cultivating these dozens of Forest Wolves would be somewhat a waste of his time.

Therefore, while he could control the overall direction of the Forest Wolves' evolution and their Evolutionary Bodies,

and he could select the composition and arrangement of these Evolutionary Bodies,

the actual evolutionary cultivation could be left to Guan Lili and Li Shu.

And the training of the Forest Wolves would naturally fall to these retired soldiers, and even non-commissioned officers, from Beast Tamer corps within the military.

This was one of the main reasons Su Ping wanted to hire military-trained Beast Tamers.

He answered the call, and Chief Lin's hearty voice came through:

"Su Ping, about that matter you mentioned last time, I've made some inquiries for you. The situation is a bit complicated right now..."

Su Ping's eyebrow rose. "Complicated? How so?"

Hearing Su Ping's question, Chief Lin's eyelid twitched. Complicated? You even have to ask?

Zhang Lie had just left his office moments before.

The main thing he had inquired about was precisely what Su Ping wanted: to recruit some retired Beast Tamer soldiers from their War Wolf Division.