Chapter Summaries

Su Hao traveled with the Morning Glow Family to Saint Master City for the World Summoner All-Star Tournament, where he planned to compete and study. After arguing that the family’s search for cheaper lodging was wasting his time, he persuaded Big Sister Bai to choose a hotel and accept his priorities.

• Big Sister Bai announced that Bai Jingzhong had become a Senior Summoner and would enter the tournament, then organized the family's trip to Saint Master City.
• Big Sister Bai outfitted the family in matching red clothes and hats, and they took photos with a series of tournament banners.
• The family traveled by coach, and most of the children became carsick before they arrived in Saint Master City on the evening of the third day.
• Big Sister Bai searched for an affordable hotel for hours, but Su Hao offered to pay and urged her to stop wasting time.
• Su Hao explained that he valued time for his studies and tournament preparations more than saving on lodging, and Big Sister Bai agreed to take everyone to a hotel.

Su Hao registered for the Summoner Tournament and watched the first match of the Preliminary Competition begin at the Group 13 venue. The opening battle was underway as one contestant’s strategy split his opponent’s Summoned Beasts and launched a coordinated attack.

• Big Sister Bai accompanied Su Hao to register in person, and he was assigned number 13661 in Group 13.
• The Summoner Tournament began the next day, with the first round requiring contestants to win consecutive matches and preserve their Summoned Beasts.
• At the Group 13 venue, contestants 13257 and 13076 entered the first match and summoned their teams.
• Contestant 13257 used a War Elephant’s Earthquake Wave to disrupt his opponent’s team, then split it into four sections with a three-column charge.
• Contestant 13257 coordinated an assault with all thirteen Summoned Beasts, and a cheetah used Surprise Throat Lock to launch a sneak attack.

Su Hao won his first tournament match with a swift, overwhelming attack, shocking the audience and drawing worldwide attention. After the battle, the Morning Glow Family's friends reacted to the strength Bai Jingzhong had displayed.

• A woman surrendered after losing four Summoned Beasts to her opponent's coordinated opening attacks.
• Su Hao entered the arena with ten Summoned Beasts to face a bearded opponent who brought twelve.
• Su Hao's Golden-Silk Long-Haired Monkey severed the charging beasts' limbs, and his other Summoned Beasts quickly overwhelmed the rest.
• The bearded man surrendered, and Su Hao withdrew with all ten of his Summoned Beasts intact.
• The audience and worldwide viewers reacted in shock as the broadcast replayed Su Hao's brief victory.
• Xiao Tian, Big Sister Bai, and Ashan discussed Bai Jingzhong's strength after the match.

After Su Hao’s battle made his rare Summoned Beasts a sensation, powerful groups took an interest in recruiting him. When a manager from the Summoned Beast Custody Center asked to take custody of his beasts, Su Hao demanded technology in return.

• Footage of Su Hao’s battle spread online, and specialists concluded his ten Summoned Beasts were likely bioengineered.
• Pan Fengxuan reviewed Su Hao’s record and ordered an approach after the next day’s match, confident the Summoner Association could recruit him before the Custody Bureau.
• That night, Chen Qingsheng from the Summoned Beast Custody Center sent Su Hao a calling card, and Su Hao went to meet him.
• Chen Qingsheng offered to waive custody fees for Su Hao’s Summoned Beasts, but Su Hao asked what he would gain and demanded technology.

Su Hao secured a technology exchange with the Custody Bureau, won his second tournament match, and rejected the Summoner Association’s attempt to recruit him. Back at the hotel, he urged Ashan to bet on his victories and discovered that Ashan had been learning to steal social media accounts.

• Su Hao traded one of his Summoned Beasts for a piece of technology from the Custody Bureau and received a member badge from Chen Qinghua.
• Su Hao overwhelmed his tournament opponent in seconds, then selected technologies from the Custody Bureau’s catalog and emailed Chen Qinghua.
• Su Hao rejected Pan Hua’s recruitment pitch, showed her his Custody Bureau badge, and left the meeting.
• Ashan told Su Hao that their bets on his victories had earned them nine million, and Su Hao told him to bet all their money on future matches.
• Ashan asked Su Hao about buying a powerful server and revealed that he had been practicing stealing social media accounts.

After winning his third match, Su Hao began preparing three insect-type Summoned Beasts for evolution into an Origin Monarch, hoping to use one to infiltrate scientific talent and obtain spatial technology. Meanwhile, Pan Hua tried to recruit Bai Jingzhong again, but Su Hao rejected her, and Ashan accidentally kicked her down when she confronted him.

• Su Hao defeated his third opponent in under a minute with the Mad Demon Little White Rabbit and the Destruction King Snow Wolf, then left the venue.
• Su Hao summoned a giant moth, a Flying Mantis, and a Black-Tailed Bee, intending to evolve one into an Origin Monarch and use the resulting ability to gain access to scientific talent.
• Pan Hua reported to Pan Fengxuan that Bai Jingzhong had refused to join them, and Pan Fengxuan ordered her to try recruiting him again.
• Su Hao told Ashan to throw away Pan Hua's visiting card and drive her away if she came back.
• Ashan told Pan Hua to leave, but when she reached for his ear, he kicked her calf and knocked her to the ground.

Su Hao won his fourth Summoner match by using the Rock-Spined Tail Lizard’s venom to incapacitate an armored team, then evolved three more Summoned Beasts into Mimics. When Pan Hua ambushed him and Ashan in the street, they defeated her hired men, and Su Hao recorded her consciousness and locked it in the Dark Room.

• Ashan returned to his work after beating Pan Hua, while Su Hao entered his fourth Summoner match against an opponent whose Summoned Beasts wore refined steel armor.
• Su Hao’s Rock-Spined Tail Lizard filled the arena with venom, incapacitating the opposing Summoner and his grounded beasts until he surrendered.
• After the match, Su Hao injected Gene Modification Fluid into the Big Moth and two other Summoned Beasts, and all three evolved into Mimics.
• Su Hao and Ashan bought phones, but Pan Hua and seven suited men surrounded them and threatened to take Su Hao away.
• Su Hao and Ashan defeated the men, and Ashan beat Pan Hua while Su Hao recorded her Consciousness Information and locked her in the Dark Room.

After Su Hao and Ashan’s street fight went viral, Pan Fengxuan secretly ordered action against Bai Jingzhong, while Su Hao planned to deal with the people behind Pan Hua. Su Hao advanced in the tournament, but a sniper attacked him as he left the hotel.

• The viral video led Big Sister Bai to realize that Jingzhong and Jingyi had been the Night-Walking Bludgeoners behind an old Yongxin City case.
• Pan Hua told Pan Fengxuan what had happened, and he ordered his suited subordinate to handle Bai Jingzhong without attracting attention.
• Su Hao learned of Pan Fengxuan through Pan Hua’s recorded Consciousness Information and decided to wait until he could uncover the forces behind her before acting.
• Mo Yansheng introduced himself as Bai Jingzhong’s opponent, then immediately forfeited, and Su Hao advanced to the Promotion Competition after five days of rest.
• As Su Hao left the hotel, a distant sniper shot struck his forehead and flung him backward.

After surviving a sniper attack, Su Hao tracked down the assassins and infiltrated the Summoner Saint Building to reach Pan Fengxuan. The chapter ended with Su Hao entering Pan Fengxuan’s office and shooting him at close range.

• A sniper shot Su Hao in the forehead, but his defenses and regeneration let him recover, and he pursued the two attackers underground.
• Su Hao reflected on how his restraint toward Morning Glow Orphanage had cost him the initiative and decided to leave after the competition.
• Su Hao captured the two snipers underground, then made his way toward Pan Fengxuan’s office in the heavily guarded Summoner Saint Building.
• Su Hao entered the building through a steel plate and climbed inside a load-bearing column, while the thick-browed man in the suit was killed and pulled into the structure.
• Su Hao entered Pan Fengxuan’s office, pressed the suit man’s pistol to his head, and fired.

Su Hao killed Councilor Pan Fengxuan and avoided suspicion while continuing to trade Summoned Beasts for technologies. As the world investigated the assassination and the Custody Bureau studied his beasts, Su Hao planned to use their value to draw the organization’s attention.

• Su Hao shot Pan Fengxuan, vanished, and resumed shopping while security found the councilor dead and the suspected gunman missing.
• Su Hao traded four Summoned Beasts to the Custody Bureau for technologies, then studied the files he received.
• Chen Qingsheng warned Su Hao that turmoil might follow at the Summoner Association, while the other councilors hid and investigators questioned Su Hao.
• Pan Hua became unconscious and was diagnosed with brain death, while Su Hao learned that Custody Bureau researchers were testing his Summoned Beasts.
• Su Hao noted that the Custody Bureau’s main research concerned spatial properties and the Sub-Star, and planned to reveal valuable information about his beasts to attract the organization’s interest.

Su Hao entered the second-round Promotion Competition and defeated an opponent who used fire, acid, and flying Summoned Beasts to target his lineup. The victory advanced his tournament run and left him more alert to opponents who might discover his weaknesses.

• The second-round Promotion Competition began with 256 Summoners competing for sixteen places in the next round.
• Su Hao watched the competitors demonstrate their refined control of multiple Summoned Beasts before taking the stage against a black-rimmed young man.
• Su Hao's opponent used acid, venom, gasoline, and flames to divide the arena and restrict most of Su Hao's Summoned Beasts.
• Su Hao's giant Snow Wolf and Big White Rabbit leaped over the flames, while his other Summoned Beasts overwhelmed the opponent's forces.
• The black-rimmed young man surrendered after losing several Summoned Beasts, and the audience cheered Su Hao's victory.
• Su Hao considered how his opponent had targeted his lineup and resolved to stay vigilant while trusting his remaining trump cards.

Su Hao advanced to the Round of 16, where he learned he would face Mo Zongliang, and Ashan revealed he had already beaten Mo Zongliang during a visit to Moli Hua’s home. Meanwhile, Custody Bureau representatives agreed to invest resources in cooperation with Bai Jingzhong and research into New-Type Summoned Beasts.

• Su Hao’s Summoned Beasts proved impossible to kill across three matches, and Su Hao advanced to the Round of 16.
• Ashan argued online about championship rankings, then called Bai Jingyi’s information teacher to ask how to write a program for trading insults.
• Su Hao learned that his Round of 16 opponent was Mo Zongliang and heard that Ashan had beaten Mo Zongliang and his Summoned Beast after Mo Zongliang mistreated Bai Jingzhong’s companions.
• Custody Bureau representatives watched footage of Ashan fighting humans and Summoned Beasts, then concluded Bai Jingzhong and Bai Jingyi might possess advanced biological technology.
• The Custody Bureau representatives voted unanimously to allocate 10% of their reserve resources to cooperation with Bai Jingzhong and research into New-Type Summoned Beasts.

Su Hao accepted the Custody Bureau’s technical materials, advanced to the top four of the World Summoner All-Star Tournament, and learned that finalists could be killed without consequences during the eight-day break. Chen Qingsheng warned him that the finals were a contest between the forces backing each Summoner, but Su Hao resolved to rely on himself.

• Su Hao rejected the Custody Bureau’s gifts but accepted its technical materials, which revealed new ways to improve biological research and exposed weaknesses in his Dark Room.
• Su Hao defeated Mo Zongliang’s Summoned Beasts to advance to the top eight, then his next opponent conceded after failing to find a counterstrategy.
• Su Hao entered the top four, and Morning Glow Orphanage received donations as Big Sister Bai agreed to cooperate on opening another orphanage for abandoned infants.
• Chen Qingsheng asked Su Hao to let the Custody Bureau manage two more of his Summoned Beasts, and Su Hao agreed.
• Chen Qingsheng warned Su Hao that finalists could be killed during the break without the World Federation holding anyone accountable, and identified Hua Shaosun as a Custody Bureau member.
• After Chen Qingsheng left, Su Hao concluded that he could face the threat with his own backing.

Su Hao survived an armed attack at his hotel and retaliated against the teams sent after him. After destroying a rocket squad, he identified Tang Haiyi and Han Renjie as the people behind the attacks and continued his hunt.

• Su Hao and Ashan transformed into Steel Armor Kings and killed five assassins who stormed Su Hao’s hotel room.
• Su Hao sent Ashan, Sister Bai, and the others to hide at Moli Hua’s place while he went after the remaining threats.
• A rocket squad attacked Su Hao’s taxi, but he sliced the rocket in half and flew away on the Sky King Red-Gilled Messenger Bird.
• Su Hao used a Level 2—Hundred-Blast cannon to destroy the building where the Fire Snake Squad was hiding.
• Su Hao left the scene and blamed Tang Haiyi and Han Renjie for the attacks.

After an assassination attempt, Su Hao abandoned his plan to follow the law and attacked Tang Haiyi, one of the tournament finalists. He destroyed Tang Haiyi’s villa, but Tang survived and confronted Su Hao in the air with ten powerful flying Summoned Beasts as Su Hao charged with a steel blade.

• Su Hao concluded that the world’s powerful were ruthless and decided to act by his own rules, choosing Tang Haiyi and Han Renjie as his targets.
• Tang Haiyi learned that an attack on Bai Jingzhong had failed and ordered his forces to prepare an aerial ambush, then became alarmed when Bai Jingzhong’s Summoned Beast repeatedly flew near his villa.
• Su Hao loaded a powerful shell into a cannon and fired it at Tang Haiyi’s villa, reducing the building to a crater and a column of smoke.
• A dying War Elephant emerged from the crater and spat out the slime-covered Tang Haiyi, who summoned ten powerful flying beasts and challenged Su Hao in the air.
• Su Hao drew a three-meter steel blade and flew toward Tang Haiyi.

Su Hao killed Tang Haiyi and his flying Summoned Beasts, then launched a diversionary attack near Han Renjie's villa while infiltrating underground to strike his target. Han Renjie vanished into the ground after Su Hao's lightning attack, leaving his attendant unable to find him.

• Tang Haiyi's aerial attacks failed to stop Su Hao, who cut down several of his Summoned Beasts and pursued him on the Sky King Red-Gilled Messenger Bird.
• Tang Haiyi begged for his life, but Su Hao killed him and the Long-Tailed Swift Wyvern, then finished off the remaining Summoned Beasts.
• Su Hao flew toward the city, leaving an ambush team waiting without orders, and prepared to attack Han Renjie near his villa.
• Su Hao sent his Summoned Beasts into a conspicuous attack while he transformed into the Steel Armor King and infiltrated beneath Han Renjie.
• Su Hao struck Han Renjie with Level 2—Lightning, but Han Renjie sank into the ground and disappeared before his attendant could find him.

After Su Hao killed the young master during the attack, news spread that two All-Star Tournament semifinalists were dead or missing. Chen Qingsheng offered Su Hao a villa and Custody Bureau protection, but Su Hao declined the protection and settled in alone.

• Su Hao buried the man he had killed, then withdrew his Summoned Beasts as the villa's security searched for their missing young master.
• News spread that one All-Star Tournament semifinalist had died and another had gone missing, while Bai Jingzhong remained alive despite becoming a target.
• Su Hao considered where to stay but found that hotels would not accommodate him because of the danger surrounding semifinalists.
• Chen Qingsheng gave Su Hao keys to a vacant villa and offered guards, but Su Hao declined the protection and asked him to look after Big Sister Bai.
• Su Hao went to the villa, found it stocked and cleaned, set up alerts, and fell asleep on its bed.

Su Hao spent several days recovering and studying before the All-Star Tournament final, where he discovered that Hua Shaosun had been equipped with five unfamiliar Super Summoned Beasts. The match began with both competitors summoning their forces, leaving Su Hao facing a formidable and unexpected challenge.

• Su Hao slept until noon, checked his three Mimic Summoned Beasts, and began designing Level 2 Shapeshifter genes while studying technologies Chen Qingsheng had sent him.
• Su Hao injected Gene Modification Fluid into the three Mimic Summoned Beasts, evolving them into Level 2 Shapeshifters, then continued studying as five uneventful days passed.
• Chen Chufeng proposed equipping Hua Shaosun with at least five Super Summoned Beasts to test Bai Jingzhong's strength, and the Ten Great Families approved the proposal by a six-to-four vote.
• At Sage Arena, Su Hao and Hua Shaosun entered the final and summoned their beasts; Hua Shaosun used a thermal-imaging monocle and revealed five Super Summoned Beasts Su Hao had never seen.

Su Hao struggled against Hua Shaosun’s larger force of Summoned Beasts, which countered and disabled most of his team. With the match seemingly lost, Su Hao called on Ashan to enter the field and wipe out the opposition.

• Hua Shaosun’s team opened with a coordinated flame attack that injured Su Hao’s Shadow King and Abnormal King.
• Su Hao’s Ring-Horned Antelope failed to assassinate the fire-spitting beast, and Hua Shaosun’s team used its numbers and specialized counters to pin down Su Hao’s strongest beasts.
• Su Hao sent two Sky Kings underground to attack the fire-spitting beast, but Hua Shaosun carried it away and used tremors to slow them.
• Su Hao’s mimicking Abnormal King and Ring-Horned Antelope killed two more enemy beasts before poison gas and flames disabled both of them.
• When Su Hao asked how much Ashan had bet on his victory, Ashan admitted he had wagered all their luggage money, so Su Hao ordered him to switch forms and enter the match.

Su Hao revealed Ashan as the Super Thunder-Fire Steel Beast, stunning the arena with its strange appearance and powers. Ashan’s metal and lightning attacks captured Hua Shaosun’s ground-based Summoned Beasts, leaving only five airborne beasts in the fight.

• Su Hao announced that he would reveal his ultimate Summoned Beast and summoned Ashan in a metallic ripple.
• Ashan emerged as an armored, ape-like beast with a dog’s head, surprising spectators and observers Chen Chufeng and the middle-aged man.
• Ashan formed steel blades and transformed the arena floor into Conversion Steel Armor.
• Hua Shaosun’s ground-based Summoned Beasts tried to evade the steel, but Ashan’s lightning paralyzed them.
• Ashan trapped all of Hua Shaosun’s walking Summoned Beasts in metal steles, leaving five airborne beasts untouched.