Chapter Summaries

Ye Bai exposed a threat to the Young Qilin Cup’s Strange Beasts, prompting the organizers to replace compromised Wind Eagles and prepare for a second round featuring Explosive Dragon Turtles. Tiger Pillar sought Ji Shui Bao’s help to contain the turtles’ explosions, but Ji Shui Bao warned that the fog might provoke them and that some could be stronger than Fourth Order.

• Ye Lin cleared Ye Bai of cheating after the footage showed no evidence of misconduct, and she explained that his Eidetic Memory let him choose materials quickly.
• Ye Bai found four Mirror Fragments in the fountain statue, then sent Tiger Pillar a warning about the Wind Eagles; President Ye and Tiger Pillar discovered compromised Beast Cards and prepared backup Strange Beasts overnight.
• Ye Bai realized the second round would involve Explosive Dragon Turtles and emailed Tiger Pillar, but Tiger Pillar saw the warning too late to replace them.
• Tiger Pillar asked Ji Shui Bao whether his Sky Water Leopard could cover Phoenix Nest in fog to contain the turtles’ explosions.
• Ji Shui Bao warned Tiger Pillar that the fog could enrage the Explosive Dragon Turtles and that they were not all Fourth Order, leaving their containment plan uncertain.

Tiger Pillar and Ye Lin changed the Young Qilin Cup’s second-round assessment after Explosive Dragon Turtles threatened to make the original event dangerously unsafe. The contestants began a three-day emergency treatment assessment, while the masked schemer’s plan to manipulate fate was disrupted by Ye Lin’s announcement and the signal jammer.

• Ji Shui Bao warned Tiger Pillar that Explosive Dragon Turtles could cause devastating chain explosions, and Ye Lin rejected postponing the competition because it would endanger students’ college entrance plans.
• Tiger Pillar learned that a fire at a breeding farm had left many Pet Beasts injured, and Ye Lin agreed to use their treatment as the assessment.
• Ye Lin activated a signal jammer to keep the assessment changes from leaking, then summoned contestants to the venue and announced the revised rules.
• A triangular-masked schemer realized his plan had been thwarted and blamed the signal jammer for preventing his informant from warning him.
• Ye Lin began the three-day assessment, and Ye Bai drew a Test Report for a Gale Lion.

Ye Bai treated a badly injured Gale Lion during the Young Qilin Cup, earning its trust before beginning surgery. As he removed its necrotic scorpion tail, Ye Lin recognized Ye Bai as Zhang Lingxue’s disciple and wondered whether he might surpass her record.

• Ye Lin transformed the competition floor into disinfected glass operating rooms and explained the treatment rules to the contestants.
• Ye Bai examined the Gale Lion, explained its injuries and treatment plan, and ordered the needed medicinal ingredients.
• The needle-phobic Gale Lion fainted when Ye Bai showed it a syringe, so he distracted it with a Bean Pigeon and administered the anesthetic.
• Ye Bai carefully separated and removed the Gale Lion’s necrotic scorpion tail, then stopped the bleeding.
• Ye Lin praised Ye Bai’s surgical skill, and Ji Shui Bao identified him as Zhang Lingxue’s disciple.

Ye Bai treated the Gale Lion’s severe injuries and fire poison, then finished first in the Second Round Assessment after healing more than thirty Pet Beasts. A resentful contestant decided Ye Bai had to die, while Ye Bai learned he would choose a Phoenix Fledgling Cup partner first in the upcoming third round.

• Ye Bai removed the Gale Lion’s burned tissue, repaired its shattered foreleg bones, and prepared a Frost Potion that expelled the fire poison from its lungs.
• Ye Lin and Tiger Pillar confirmed the Gale Lion’s recovery, gave Ye Bai a perfect score, and assigned him the Tier 4 Ironclad Mad Bull to treat next.
• A seemingly harmless contestant blamed Ye Bai for disrupting his plans and vowed to kill him in the Phoenix Fledgling Cup Secret Realm.
• Ye Bai spent three days treating more than thirty Pet Beasts and claimed first place in the Second Round Assessment.
• The organizers announced that contestants would choose partners from the Phoenix Fledgling Cup contestants, with Ye Bai choosing first because he had placed first.

Ye Bai discovered that Yun Luo, the Phoenix Fledgling Cup contestant ranked one hundredth, possessed the powerful Words Manifest talent, and chose her as his partner for the final assessment. Yun Luo reluctantly accepted, while Ye Bai hoped their pairing would keep him from becoming a target.

• Two masked contestants agreed to recruit allies and work together to stop Ye Bai in the Young Qilin Cup's third round.
• Ye Bai restored half of a strange mirror with his Mirror Fragments, then read intelligence revealing Yun Luo's Crow's Mouth talent and clues about the Secret Realm.
• Ye Bai decided that partnering with a low-ranked Phoenix Fledgling Cup contestant could help him avoid attracting opponents' attention.
• Ye Bai approached Yun Luo and asked her to be his partner, despite her warnings that she was unlucky, weak, and ate a great deal.
• Yun Luo agreed to partner with Ye Bai, and Ye Bai informed Ye Lin of his choice.

Ye Bai partnered with Yun Luo for the Phoenix Fledgling Cup’s joint third round and prepared to survive the Secret Realm by stockpiling clean water and laying down rules about her bad luck. Before the contestants left, he arranged to hide his other pet beasts and borrowed treasures to thwart divination.

• After the contestants chose partners, Liu Yang explained that the joint third round would involve exploring a Minor World, gathering resources and Strange Beast intelligence, and carrying only three days’ supplies and contracted pet beasts.
• Ye Bai partnered with Yun Luo, then filled the Sunflower Emperor with clean water after learning that the Space Pelican could not enter the Secret Realm.
• Ye Bai explained why he distrusted the Secret Realm’s water, and Yun Luo admitted that she was a support specialist whose companions tended to suffer bad luck.
• When Yun Luo’s bad luck caused Ye Bai to fall and get soaked, he used the Myriad Changes Silkworm to seal her mouth and set three rules for their partnership.
• Ye Bai summoned the Paper Figure Kui, sent Da Hui and the Space Pelican to Anbaotang, and borrowed their treasures to conceal their auras and block divination.

Ye Bai and Yun Luo introduced their Pet Beasts before boarding the Organizing Committee’s airship and entering the Secret Realm. They arrived in a forest together, where Ye Bai identified edible mushrooms just as a grasshopper landed on Yun Luo’s face.

• Paper Figure Kui offered to protect Ye Bai with a Doppelganger, but Ye Bai declined and asked her to look after Da Hui and the Space Pelican.
• Ye Bai and Yun Luo introduced their Pet Beasts to each other, including Yun Luo’s Fate Crow, Lion Shield, and Money Leopard.
• Ye Bai and Yun Luo boarded the Floating Airship, passed repeated inspections, and received Space Talismans before entering the Secret Realm.
• The pair lost consciousness during their passage through the gate and woke together in a forest, surrounded by their Pet Beasts.
• Ye Bai warned Yun Luo away from poisonous mushrooms and identified Golden Enoki Mushrooms and Earth Matsutake as edible before a grasshopper landed on her face.

Ye Bai and Yun Luo spent the night in the Secret Realm, where he urged her to learn to control her powerful Words Manifest talent. After Yun Luo spoke a fatal phrase to a duck and her words came true, she began to see that her talent could be more than the misfortune she had feared.

• Ye Bai chose a safe campsite, and the Sunflower Emperor prepared a wild duck while the pets gathered wood and lit a fire.
• The Sunflower Emperor collected matsutake and Soy Sauce Locust sauce, then cooked dinner for Ye Bai and Yun Luo.
• Ye Bai urged Yun Luo to control her talent, prompting her to reveal how her bad luck and her master's death had made her hate it.
• The Sunflower Emperor comforted Yun Luo with a flower, and the group shared a meal that left her full for the first time.
• Ye Bai explained that Yun Luo's Crow's Mouth was only a small part of her talent and began teaching her to practice speaking deliberately.
• Yun Luo told a duck, "You're finished," and a falling tree branch killed it, confirming that her words could cause events to come true.

Ye Bai tested Yun Luo’s Super S-Rank Talent and confirmed that it exchanged her luck for power, then supplied her with Crystal Cores and helped her settle in for the night. After Yun Luo dreamed of her master and resolved to live well, Ye Bai studied intelligence about the Secret Realm’s treasures and dangers.

• Ye Bai gave Yun Luo a Third Order Crystal Core and tested his theory about her talent against a Second Order Dark Rabbit.
• Yun Luo’s talent caused the Dark Rabbit to stumble, miss its attack, and be crushed by a falling shadow, consuming the Crystal Core’s energy.
• The Sunflower Emperor butchered the Dark Rabbit, prepared food and supplies, and made a Doppelganger to stay near Yun Luo.
• Ye Bai gave Yun Luo Crystal Cores as experimental expenses, and the Sunflower Emperor prepared comfortable tents for them to sleep in.
• Yun Luo dreamed that her master reassured her and resolved to become an outstanding Pet Beast Master and pass on his legacy.
• Ye Bai reviewed a map and intelligence listing treasures and creatures in the Secret Realm, planning to avoid other Pet Beast Masters while secretly collecting what he could.

Yun Luo ate breakfast prepared from the Strange Beasts the Sunflower Emperor had killed, while Lan Fa fled a Treant Hunter and learned how ruthless the Secret Realm assessment had become. Deeper in the forest, Ye Bai and Yun Luo defeated a pack of Wind Fang Wolves and encountered a Storm Fang Wolf that Ye Bai considered capturing.

• Yun Luo saw the Sunflower Emperor and the other Pet Beasts serving roasted Strange Beasts for breakfast.
• Lan Fa reasoned that the assessment favored alliances, discovered his Space Talisman showed 29, and fled the pursuing Treant Hunter on his wounded Ironclad Mad Bull.
• Xiao Li reported to her group that she had hunted three targets and that their Space Talismans teleported them away when she revealed killing intent.
• Ye Bai and Yun Luo encountered a pack of Third Order Wind Fang Wolves, and Little Charcoal Dog and Myriad Changes Silkworm defeated them.
• A Fourth Order Storm Fang Wolf appeared, and Ye Bai identified it as a rare Strange Beast worth capturing.

Ye Bai fought the Fifth Order Storm Fang Wolf with his Pet Beasts and forced it toward submission while teaching Yun Luo about teamwork. Meanwhile, the Blood Saint Son secretly infiltrated the Secret Realm in a borrowed body and set out to kill Ye Bai.

• Ye Bai sent Little Charcoal Dog to attack the Storm Fang Wolf, while the Myriad Changes Silkworm blocked its Wind Blades and Little Charcoal Dog’s flames drove off the wolf pack.
• Little Charcoal Dog used shadow threads to force the Storm Fang Wolf into the flames, but collapsed from exhaustion and freed it.
• The Storm Fang Wolf attacked, but the Sunflower Emperor trapped it in trees, and Ye Bai explained teamwork to Yun Luo before ordering the wolf to submit.
• The Sunflower Emperor began crushing the Storm Fang Wolf until it relented, while Yun Luo realized Ye Bai’s Pet Beasts could fight above their order.
• In Swamp Lake, the Blood Saint Son took control of a person’s body and revealed he had infiltrated the Young Qilin Cup to enter the Secret Realm and kill Ye Bai.

Ye Bai had Yun Luo begin bonding with the terror-stricken Storm Fang Wolf while the Myriad Changes Silkworm scouted the forest. The scout found a wounded Ironclad Mad Bull and a blue-haired youth, defeated a Treant Hunter, and dragged them back as the Storm Fang Wolf tried to escape.

• Ye Bai warned the Storm Fang Wolf that the Sunflower Emperor had planted an explosive seed in its body and told it to follow Yun Luo.
• Yun Luo offered the Storm Fang Wolf jerky, and Ye Bai revealed that it was made from Wind Fang Wolf meat.
• Ye Bai sent the Myriad Changes Silkworm into the forest, where it found a badly wounded Ironclad Mad Bull and an unconscious-looking blue-haired youth.
• A Treant Hunter attacked the Myriad Changes Silkworm, which dragged it down, crushed its head, and took its Crystal Core.
• The Myriad Changes Silkworm hauled the Ironclad Mad Bull and the blue-haired youth back toward Ye Bai as the Storm Fang Wolf tried to sneak away and nearly got struck by a falling green arrow.

Ye Bai rescued Lan Fa and learned that teams were hunting lone contestants and had agreed to eliminate him. After Lan Fa joined Ye Bai’s group, new intelligence revealed several threats and treasures in the Secret Realm, along with future events beyond it.

• Storm Fang Wolf fled back to the group after a warning shot, while Xiao Li learned that Treant Hunter had been killed and Hong Haotian ordered his team to hunt lone contestants.
• Blood Saint Son created blood-red butterflies and sent them to find and kill Ye Bai and any other humans they encountered.
• Myriad Changes Silkworm brought the badly injured Ironclad Mad Bull and unconscious Lan Fa to Ye Bai, whose Sunflower Emperor treated them.
• Lan Fa explained that teams were forcing lone contestants out and that the Space Talisman could not reliably rescue someone before thirty days had passed.
• Ye Bai moved his group to a safer campsite, where Lan Fa awoke, ate with them, and warned that the teams had agreed to eliminate Ye Bai.
• New intelligence identified Blood Saint Son’s possession of Li Liang, a Tree of Life branch and future volcano eruption in the Secret Realm, and later developments involving Zhang Dashan and Andos.

Ye Bai recruited Lan Fa as a temporary teammate and used his Virtual-Real Transformation to scout the Secret Realm while searching for rare treasures and the Blood Saint Son. Lan Fa’s simulated birds located the Mysterious Yin Fruit’s dark forest, while the Blood Saint Son remained hidden and studied a blood-red map.

• Ye Bai agreed to team up with Lan Fa after Lan Fa revealed his Virtual-Real Transformation and explained how his teacher had concealed his talent.
• Ye Bai gave Lan Fa a box of Tier 3 Crystal Cores so he could create simulated scouts and recording devices.
• Lan Fa created Breeze Sparrow robots and Notebooks, sending the birds to map the Secret Realm and monitor the teams.
• Ye Bai spotted the dark forest containing the Mysterious Yin Fruit but still could not locate the Blood Saint Son.
• The Blood Saint Son complained that his Ghost Blood Butterflies had failed to find Ye Bai, then produced a Parchment Scroll bearing a blood-red map.

The Blood Saint Son began a ritual to awaken the Crimson Legion, while Wen Wen chose to protect Ye Bai and Ye Bai explained why Breeders were crucial in the Secret Realm. The ritual opened a crack in space above the Altar, releasing an ancient, powerful aura.

• The Blood Saint Son gathered blood with Ghost Blood Butterflies and prepared to summon the Crimson Legion at night.
• Wen Wen rejected the plan to eliminate Ye Bai and ordered the Frost Rose group to protect him and focus on gathering resources.
• Ye Bai told Lan Fa that Breeders were the key to success in the third round because their knowledge helped them find and study treasures.
• The Blood Saint Son began the ritual at a blood-red Altar, using his blood and the Ghost Blood Butterflies’ collected Blood Essence.
• A crack opened in space above the Altar, and an ancient, powerful aura surged out.

Blood Saint Son unleashed part of his Crimson Legion into the Secret Realm while Ye Bai’s team studied rare Sword Spirit Bugs and gathered materials for breeding research. Meanwhile, Fang Ri Tu and Zhang Jian discovered a Barrier in ruined Tianhe City and headed toward its survivors.

• Blood Saint Son summoned a force of Fourth Order Crimson Skeletons led by a Fifth Order commander and ordered them to slaughter every living creature in the Secret Realm.
• Ye Bai identified Lan Fa and Yun Luo’s pale worms as rare Sword Butterfly larvae and proposed breeding them to increase the Sword Butterfly population.
• Ye Bai asked Lan Fa to duplicate Beast Cards for carrying the Sword Spirit Bugs, then had Sunflower Emperor dig for ores beneath Ironwood Trees for breeding experiments.
• Ye Bai’s team marked the mineral site and left the area, with Lan Fa riding Ironclad Mad Bull, Yun Luo on Storm Fang Wolf, and Ye Bai on Little Charcoal Dog.
• In Tianhe City, Zhang Jian questioned who had concealed the city’s crisis as undead surged around him and Fang Ri Tu.
• Fang Ri Tu spotted the Pet Beast Guild’s large-scale Barrier and urged Zhang Jian to find its survivors and learn what had happened.

Ye Bai and his companions fought the Venomous Scorpions guarding the Dark Forest while other Phoenix Fledgling Cup teams battled Crimson Skeletons. By nightfall, Little Charcoal Dog had entered a cocoon after consuming Mysterious Yin Fruits, and Ye Bai’s group prepared to eat the slain scorpion leader.

• Ye Bai and his companions reached the Dark Forest and were confronted by swarms of Venomous Scorpions and their powerful leader.
• At the Golden Sun camp, Ming Kong warned Zhang Dongliang not to provoke Ye Bai, then led his team against a surrounding army of Crimson Skeletons.
• Ming Kong and Wang Yan used holy light to weaken the skeletons as the other teams fought off their own invasions.
• Ye Bai’s group slaughtered the Venomous Scorpions until their enormous leader emerged to challenge them.
• The Sunflower Emperor harvested the Mysterious Yin Fruits, and Little Charcoal Dog fell unconscious inside a black cocoon as his bloodline began to strengthen.
• Ye Bai’s companions killed the Venomous Scorpion leader and roasted its meat while Lan Fa reached for a piece.

Ye Bai used the Sunflower Emperor Clones to destroy the Blood Saint Son’s Crimson Skeleton Soldiers while continuing his research and planning to hunt the Blood Saint Son. As Ye Bai’s group headed toward the lake, Hong Haotian appeared and introduced himself as the leader of the Red-Haired Rampage Bull Group.

• Lan Fa woke after being poisoned by undercooked scorpion meat and recalled ignoring Ye Bai’s warning.
• Ye Bai read intelligence about the Blood Saint Son’s Crimson Legion, Tianhe City’s undead calamity, and the discovery of Sword Butterfly reproduction technology.
• Ye Bai’s Sunflower Emperor Clones used Holy Light Illumination to destroy squads of Crimson Skeleton Soldiers and collect their Crystal Cores.
• The Blood Saint Son, alarmed by the Crimson Legion’s losses, ordered the Blood-colored Butterfly to locate Ye Bai so he could attack him.
• Ye Bai planned to find the Life Branch and the Axe of the Thunder God, then use himself as bait to eliminate the Blood Saint Son.
• The Fate Crow warned of danger near the lake, and Hong Haotian appeared on a fire dragon and introduced himself to Ye Bai.

Ye Bai and his companions were surrounded by Hong Haotian’s Red-Haired Rampage Bull Group, but Ye Bai’s pet beasts quickly turned the ambush against them. The group fled after Xiao Li vanished and Hong Haotian lost control of the fight.

• Hong Haotian demanded that Ye Bai hand over everything in his Pet Beast Space, but Ye Bai refused and warned that his pet beasts could fight back.
• Xiao Li summoned Treant Hunters and Treant Warriors from the surrounding trees, and Ye Bai revealed that she had been the one who attacked Lan Fa earlier.
• Silk Threads pulled Xiao Li from her tree, and a flaming arrow struck Hong Haotian’s Winged Fire Dragon as it prepared to attack, causing an explosion that left it badly injured and killed a Treant Warrior.
• Hong Haotian sent out his Flame Sparrow, but Little Charcoal Dog endured its attack in lava armor and countered with a black fireball that struck the Flame Sparrow.
• A Storm Fang Wolf attacked Xiao Li, but a flash of silver light made her disappear; Hong Haotian ordered his group to retreat as the uncontrolled Tree Spirits threatened them.

Ye Bai let the Red Violent Bull Group retreat, then led Lan Fa and Yun Luo to explore the lake while the Sunflower Emperor searched for the Life Branch. The Sunflower Emperor found it inside a Mirage Dragon’s shell, resisted the creature’s illusion, and attacked it.

• Ye Bai drove off Hong Haotian’s group after forcing Xiao Li to leave, and the news spread to the other teams.
• The Fool dismissed plans to hunt Ye Bai for now, but secretly sent Golden Cicada to search for him.
• Ye Bai sent the Sunflower Emperor into the lake to find the Life Branch as Lan Fa and Yun Luo fought the lake’s Water Element Strange Beasts.
• The Sunflower Emperor reached the lake’s center and found a jade-white branch inside a giant shell beside a brilliant pearl.
• The Mirage Dragon trapped the Sunflower Emperor in an illusion that twisted its memories of Ye Bai, but the Sunflower Emperor recognized the falsehood and broke free.
• The Sunflower Emperor stabbed the Mirage Dragon with its blades, piercing its shell and wounding it badly.