Chapter Summaries

Chen Yuan's Cola fought Bibo Cloud Dragon in a fierce, evenly matched battle and defeated it with Wind Vortex Strangler and Vortex Assault. As the crowd reacted to Cola's victory, its aura suddenly surged, signaling a breakthrough.

• Chen Yuan sent Cola to challenge Bibo Cloud Dragon while the gathered spectators watched.
• Cola and Bibo Cloud Dragon traded wind and water attacks, with neither gaining a clear advantage.
• Bibo Cloud Dragon unleashed Deep Pool Breath, and Cola countered with Wind Vortex Strangler.
• Cola intensified its vortex, tore through Deep Pool Breath, and struck Bibo Cloud Dragon with Vortex Assault to win.
• The crowd reacted in stunned silence before Cola roared and its aura surged beyond its previous level.

After defeating Bibo Cloud Dragon, Cola broke through to Tier 4 and challenged Spark, but Chen Yuan postponed their fight until Cola had stabilized. Chen Yuan treated Bibo Cloud Dragon, which then carried him, EggEgg, and Sprite into the sky, leaving Cola behind searching for them.

• Cola broke through to Tier 4 after defeating Bibo Cloud Dragon, and his aura frightened Dire Winter Dog while drawing excited reactions from the onlookers.
• Cola challenged Spark, but Chen Yuan told him to consolidate his strength before fighting her; Chen Yuan also allowed Shang Qianqian to upload the battle footage.
• Chen Yuan treated Bibo Cloud Dragon with healing spray and a healing petal from Duskbloom Flower Fairy, while noticing the dragon's interest in EggEgg.
• After recovering, Bibo Cloud Dragon bowed to Chen Yuan and invited him aboard; Chen Yuan, EggEgg, and Sprite rode the dragon into the clouds.
• Zhuang Jianbai left with Dire Winter Dog, resolved to keep improving, while Cola realized Chen Yuan and the others had vanished and anxiously called for them.

Chen Yuan discovered that EggEgg was a high-quality dragon-type Contracted Beast after Bibo Cloud Dragon welcomed it into its cold-pool home. Before leaving, Chen Yuan had Duskbloom Flower Fairy spar with Bibo Cloud Dragon, and the tiny flower fairy overwhelmed the dragon with its status effects and poison.

• Bibo Cloud Dragon brought Chen Yuan and his Contracted Beasts to its secluded cold pool, where Sprite, EggEgg, and Cola absorbed the pool's energy as the dragon healed its injuries.
• Bibo Cloud Dragon explained that EggEgg carried an aura purer and nobler than its own, confirming Chen Yuan's suspicion that EggEgg was a dragon-type Contracted Beast of even higher quality.
• Chen Yuan asked Bibo Cloud Dragon to spar with Duskbloom Flower Fairy, which the dragon underestimated and allowed to attack first.
• Duskbloom Flower Fairy used Sweet Aroma, poisonous spores, and Eclipse Beam to disable Bibo Cloud Dragon, forcing Chen Yuan to stop the match.
• Chen Yuan and his Contracted Beasts left for Xuanhe Town aboard Spark, while Bibo Cloud Dragon watched them go and returned to the cold pool.

Li Ming watched Shang Qianqian’s Qinling Dragon Hunt video, which showed Chen Yuan’s Cola defeating the Bibo Cloud Dragon and breaking through to Tier 4, setting off excitement about the Donghuang Assembly. Chen Yuan returned to the farm with his pet beasts, where Cola proudly showed off its breakthrough before settling in for the night.

• Li Ming watched Shang Qianqian’s new video and saw her meet Chen Yuan, whom she initially mistook for a weak Beast Tamer.
• Shang Qianqian filmed Zhuang Jianbai’s Dire Winter Dog battling the Bibo Cloud Dragon before Chen Yuan’s Wind Tamer Hound, Cola, defeated the dragon and reached Tier 4.
• The video went viral, making Shang Qianqian famous and fueling online discussion about Chen Yuan’s chances at the Donghuang Assembly.
• Chen Yuan returned to the farm after seven days of special training, with Spark resting on his shoulder and Cola eagerly leading the way.
• Cola teased Ironhead Kid about its Tier 4 breakthrough, then proudly announced the news to the other pet beasts.
• Chen Yuan praised the team’s training gains and told Cola to rest before they discussed anything else.

After breaking through, Cola set out to impress the town and took charge when children asked the Woof Woof Squad to catch a food thief. He detected a mysterious, concealing presence and followed its scent into the forest, but the elusive figure escaped, leaving Cola without an answer.

• Cola woke early, showed off his new strength around town, and joined the Woof Woof Squad after Little Peach and Little Zhao reported food thefts.
• Cola investigated the missing fruit at Xiao Zhao's stall but found no clear scent, then calmed an argument between two Beast Tamers with his Mental Shock.
• After the town mayor described other strange incidents, Cola used Heart Domain Wind Net to sense a prankster's emotional trace near a bakery.
• Cola followed the unusual scent to the mountain forest, where it vanished, and returned to town with the Woof Woof Squad empty-handed.
• A petite, purple-antennaed figure emerged briefly in the forest, sniffed itself in confusion, and vanished again.

Chen Yuan unlocked Ironhead Kid’s advancement requirements and arranged to obtain the resources while the Adventure Squad went after a mysterious invisible thief in Xuanhe Town. The squad exposed the thief as an Ice Crystal Phantom Cat, but after it escaped, Spark revealed it from above and left it cornered beneath his light.

• Chen Yuan encouraged Ironhead Kid to grow stronger, unlocked its advancement requirements, and asked Zhou Xu to find a Place of Metal Convergence and buy the required resources.
• Cola returned from its outing looking dejected, then rallied the Adventure Squad to catch a thief who had been stealing around Xuanhe Town.
• The squad used fragrant food, including Moistening Duck’s treasured kibble, to lure out the thief, and Cola and Sparkling Flying Cat exposed it as an Ice Crystal Phantom Cat.
• The Ice Crystal Phantom Cat feigned helplessness, turned invisible, and fled through the forest, but Spark used his radiance to reveal it from the sky.

Chen Yuan learned that Youmi had found a cave containing shiny metal resources guarded by a Steel Armored Rhino, which might meet Ironhead Kid’s advancement requirements. He led an expedition to investigate while Cola stayed behind to guard the farm, leaving Ironhead Kid to face the outside world for the first time in a long while.

• Chen Yuan made Youmi choose between compensating for its thefts and working to repay them, then learned it could guide him to a cave filled with shiny stones.
• Youmi described a towering, armored, horned guardian, and Chen Yuan and Song Guohao identified it as a Steel Armored Rhino whose habitat might hold rich Steel-type resources.
• Chen Yuan decided to inspect the cave immediately, brought Youmi back to the farm, and explained that farm workers could earn shares of its Spiritual Plants.
• Chen Yuan assigned Cola to protect the farm and persuaded Ironhead Kid to join the expedition, while Spark, the Duskbloom Flower Fairy, and Youmi also set out.
• Cola proudly began patrolling the farm as Chen Yuan’s team headed toward the cave, and Scarred Mouse predicted Ironhead Kid would stir up trouble in the mountains.

Huo Hong, Amei, and Shi Tou entered a cave to retrieve Silver Cloud Stone, but discovered two powerful Steel Armored Rhinos guarding the ore. As the group fled, Shi Tou drew one rhino away so Amei could escape, leaving her searching the cave for Huo Hong.

• Huo Hong led Amei and Shi Tou into the cave to retrieve Silver Cloud Stone, while their pet beasts scouted the tunnels.
• The group found a sleeping Steel Armored Rhino beside the ore, and Huo Hong sent his Azure Mist Hunting Hound to lure it away while Amei and Shi Tou prepared to mine.
• A second Steel Armored Rhino appeared and charged Amei and Shi Tou, forcing them to flee as their pet beasts tried to slow it down.
• At a fork in the cave, Shi Tou sent Amei down the left passage and ran right with the Silver Armor Mantis to draw the rhino after him.
• Amei continued alone through the darkness, worried about Shi Tou and calling for Huo Hong.

Chen Yuan, Youmi, and Ironhead Kid explored a cave, where Ironhead Kid’s precise blade strikes impressed Youmi and defeated the wild beasts they encountered. When Shi Tou fled into their path with a Steel Armored Rhino in pursuit, Ironhead Kid struck the Tier 3 beast down with one slash, leaving Shi Tou and the Silver Armor Mantis stunned.

• Chen Yuan sent Ironhead Kid ahead and had Youmi guide them into the cave, where a swarm of Shadow Bats attacked and Ironhead Kid drove them off with its Steel Blade.
• As they ventured deeper, Ironhead Kid swiftly defeated several wild pet beasts, earning Youmi’s admiration while remaining focused on its own weaknesses.
• Chen Yuan’s group heard heavy tremors, and Shi Tou and the Silver Armor Mantis emerged around a bend while fleeing a Steel Armored Rhino.
• Shi Tou warned Chen Yuan to run, but Ironhead Kid stepped between the group and the charging Tier 3 beast.
• Ironhead Kid slashed the Steel Armored Rhino across its armored chest, knocking it down and leaving Shi Tou and the Silver Armor Mantis in awe.

Chen Yuan rescued Shi Tou and agreed to help him reach Huo Hong and Amei, whose group was fighting a second Steel Armored Rhino deeper in the cave. After Huo Hong and Amei defeated the beast, Chen Yuan arrived with Shi Tou, and Huo Hong greeted him in surprise.

• Chen Yuan confirmed his identity to Shi Tou and explained that Ironhead Kid worked at his farm guarding the gate.
• Shi Tou told Chen Yuan that another Steel Armored Rhino was pursuing Huo Hong and Amei, so Chen Yuan followed him deeper into the cave.
• Youmi tried to sell the Silver Armor Mantis a promise of strength in exchange for Contracted Beast Kibble, and Chen Yuan collected Youmi for Origin Points.
• Chen Yuan refused Shi Tou's unspoken request to battle Ironhead Kid and continued toward the sounds of fighting.
• Huo Hong and Amei defeated the second Steel Armored Rhino with the Azure Mist Hunting Hound's Green Vine Bind and Natural Burst.
• Shi Tou reunited with Huo Hong and Amei alongside Chen Yuan, and Huo Hong greeted Chen Yuan with delight.

Chen Yuan and Huo Hong reunited in the cave after Chen Yuan saved Shi Tou from two Steel Armored Rhinos, then Chen Yuan healed one and used Ironhead Kid’s display of Steel Blade to calm them. After the group found a Place of Metal Convergence, Chen Yuan chose it as the site for Ironhead Kid’s advancement.

• Huo Hong thanked Chen Yuan for rescuing Shi Tou, and Shi Tou excitedly described Ironhead Kid defeating a Steel Armored Rhino with one strike.
• Huo Hong introduced Shi Tou as his new disciple, and Chen Yuan praised Shi Tou’s Silver Armor Mantis.
• Chen Yuan healed an injured Steel Armored Rhino and explained that he wanted to ease the beasts’ hostility before Ironhead Kid’s advancement.
• When the two Steel Armored Rhinos threatened the group, Ironhead Kid demonstrated precise Steel Blade control by slicing a deep, smooth ravine into the rock wall, frightening them into submission.
• The Steel Armored Rhinos led Chen Yuan and the others to a cavern rich in steel-type energy, where Huo Hong collected Silver Cloud Stones for his bounty mission.
• Chen Yuan confirmed that the cavern was suitable and chose it as the location for Ironhead Kid’s advancement.

Chen Yuan brought Huo Hong’s group back to the farm to prepare for Ironhead Kid’s evolution the next day, where Shi Tou’s challenges revealed just how overwhelming the farm’s Beast Tamers were. The chapter ended with Chen Weiyi’s tiny Cold Ridge Cattle instantly freezing Shi Tou’s Silver Armor Mantis, leaving Huo Hong convinced the kindly old man was a hidden master.

• Chen Yuan agreed to let Huo Hong, Amei, and Shi Tou observe Ironhead Kid’s evolution after the resources arrived, and left two Steel Armored Rhinos guarding the cave.
• Youmi refused Chen Yuan’s offer of farm work and disappeared, but secretly followed the group back to the farm.
• Ironhead Kid inspected the farm and returned to its post, while Cola scrutinized Huo Hong’s Azure Mist Hunting Hound.
• Shi Tou challenged Chen Yuan’s farm, and Sprite quickly defeated his Silver Armor Mantis with Cold Breath and Ice Claw.
• Chen Yuan invited Huo Hong’s group to dinner, where Shi Tou challenged Chen Weiyi’s tiny Cold Ridge Cattle and it froze the Silver Armor Mantis instantly.
• Huo Hong watched Chen Weiyi calmly command the astonishing Cold Ridge Cattle and suspected the old man was a reclusive master.

After a bruising defeat, Shi Tou took comfort from Huo Hong’s story about Zhuang Jianbai and Consultant Chen. Youmi was welcomed at Chen Yuan’s farm, then joined Chen Yuan and Huo Hong’s group as Ironhead Kid began its advancement ritual in the mine.

• Cola detected Youmi hiding in the Clear Mind Fruit Tree while Huo Hong encouraged Shi Tou after his defeat by telling him how Zhuang Jianbai had learned to accept the gap between himself and Consultant Chen.
• Youmi sneaked toward the grilled fish at the bonfire, but Cola exposed it; Chen Yuan invited it to eat, and the Contracted Beasts shared their food with it.
• After spending the night at the farm, Youmi openly followed Chen Yuan, Ironhead Kid, and Huo Hong’s group to the mine the next morning.
• Chen Yuan gave Ironhead Kid the Hundred Refinements Steel Heart and Earth Core Marrow Crystal, and the two energies merged as the painful advancement ritual began.

Zhuang Jianbai arrived at Chen Yuan’s farm hoping to challenge him, while Chen Yuan and his group returned from the mountains after Ironhead Kid successfully advanced into a Steel Slash Earth Lord. Chen Yuan agreed to Zhuang Jianbai’s challenge and chose the newly advanced Steel Slash Earth Lord to fight.

• Zhuang Jianbai and his companions returned to a prosperous Xuanhe Town, and Zhuang Jianbai resolved to challenge Consultant Chen before the Donghuang Assembly.
• Zhuang Jianbai reached the farm while Chen Yuan was away, and his group sparred with the eager Cola as they waited.
• Ironhead Kid completed its advancement into a Steel Slash Earth Lord, revealing its new form, skills, and Morning Star Quality.
• Chen Yuan brought the Steel Slash Earth Lord and the others back to the farm, where Zhuang Jianbai was waiting to challenge him.
• Chen Yuan accepted the battle and selected the Steel Slash Earth Lord as Zhuang Jianbai’s opponent, surprising Cola.

Chen Yuan's newly evolved Steel Slash Earth Lord defeated Zhuang Jianbai's Dire Winter Dog in a battle at the farm. The Dire Winter Dog was knocked unconscious, and the Steel Slash Earth Lord returned to the farm gate, intent on resuming its training.

• Zhuang Jianbai saw Chen Yuan's Steel Slash Earth Lord and prepared to fight it with his Morning Star Dire Winter Dog.
• The Dire Winter Dog's Cold Breath filled the arena with a blizzard, but the Steel Slash Earth Lord cut through it with Steel Blade and struck the dog hard.
• The Dire Winter Dog unleashed Rime Winter Domain, but the Steel Slash Earth Lord resisted the freezing effect and shattered the ice underfoot with Earthquake.
• The Steel Slash Earth Lord exploited the Dire Winter Dog's loss of balance, broke its Ice Claw defense with another Steel Blade, and knocked it unconscious.
• Wang Yuan told Jiang Yuntao that Zhuang Jianbai had lost to Chen Yuan's uncontracted Steel Slash Earth Lord.
• The Steel Slash Earth Lord returned to Chen Yuan's side, then walked toward the farm gate to resume training.

After Ironhead Kid defeated Zhuang Jianbai’s Dire Winter Dog, Zhuang discovered the pet training through the night and began to understand the discipline behind Chen Yuan’s strength. Chen Yuan tested Ironhead Kid’s new Heart of Sharpness and learned it blocked negative status effects while strengthening its blades and steel-type skills.

• At dinner, Wang Yuan explained the Donghuang Assembly’s format and named several championship favorites, including Chen Yuan, while Huo Hong confirmed he would compete.
• Unable to sleep, Zhuang Jianbai walked with the Dire Winter Dog to Chen Yuan’s farm and saw Ironhead Kid training its blade techniques in the snow.
• Zhuang realized Ironhead Kid’s relentless training helped explain the gap between Chen Yuan and himself, then returned to the guest room with firmer resolve.
• The next morning, Chen Yuan tested Ironhead Kid with ice, fire, poison, and sleep skills and found it was immune to their negative status effects.
• Chen Yuan identified Heart of Sharpness as the source of Ironhead Kid’s immunities and increased offensive power, while Ironhead Kid resolved to keep guarding the gate until it became invincible.

Chen Yuan waited as EggEgg began hatching, and a strange downpour covered only the farm. EggEgg emerged as a small blue Eastern dragon, and it proudly demanded that everyone bow.

• Chen Yuan learned that the Donghuang Assembly would open on February 5 and that Ye Sheng had become Donghuang’s first officially certified Morning Star Tier Beast Tamer.
• Youmi rushed to the farm to tell Chen Yuan that EggEgg was glowing, and Chen Yuan waited with the farm’s Beast Tamers as EggEgg’s life signs grew stronger.
• As EggEgg’s shell cracked, dark clouds gathered and a sudden torrential rain fell only over the farm and its surroundings.
• EggEgg hatched as a crystalline blue dragon, ate the broken eggshell, and stopped the rain with its arrival.
• EggEgg faced Chen Yuan and the others, proclaimed itself a true dragon, and demanded that they bow.

Chen Yuan’s newly hatched dragon-type beast pet, EggEgg, declared the farm its territory and tried to claim Chen Yuan’s bedroom, but Cola and the Duskbloom Flower Fairy quickly humbled it. After agreeing to work on the farm to grow stronger, EggEgg was identified as a Bright Moon Quality Cambing Spirit Lord, leaving Chen Yuan eager to contract with it.

• EggEgg hatched as a dragon-type beast pet, flew around the farm, and proclaimed itself the boss and the farm its territory.
• Cola’s intimidation knocked EggEgg into the snow, and the Duskbloom Flower Fairy defeated it with poison spores when it tried to challenge her.
• Chen Yuan treated EggEgg’s poisoning and persuaded it to stay and work on the farm in exchange for help growing stronger.
• Chen Yuan collected EggEgg and discovered that it was a Bright Moon Quality Cambing Spirit Lord with Water and Mental attributes and several skills.
• Chen Yuan recognized the Cambing Spirit Lord as an ideal Water-type contracted beast and considered forming a contract with it.

Chen Yuan watched EggEgg demonstrate its Water-type skills and discovered that Cloud Hanging Sea Standing could enhance Water-type energy and suppress Fire-type energy, though EggEgg could only summon a tiny drizzle. After training, EggEgg and Youmi secretly agreed to cooperate, while Youmi planned to use the proud young dragon to draw attention away from itself.

• Chen Yuan asked EggEgg to demonstrate its skills, and EggEgg knocked down sections of fence with Water Surge and Water Bomb before creating an unstable Mirror Flower, Water Moon clone.
• EggEgg attempted Cloud Hanging Sea Standing and summoned only a tiny cloud that drizzled over a small patch, prompting the farm's Contracted Beasts to laugh until Chen Yuan defended and encouraged it.
• Chen Yuan trained EggEgg and learned that its rain cloud slightly strengthened Water-type energy and recovery while faintly suppressing Fire-type energy.
• Youmi approached EggEgg during lunch and persuaded it that the two newcomers should join forces and keep a low profile.
• EggEgg accepted Youmi as its first underling and agreed to their secret cooperation, while Youmi privately celebrated its plan to let EggEgg attract attention and avoid farm work.

Chen Yuan tried to accelerate his training before the Donghuang Assembly, while Seventh Squad discovered insects that animated dead Contracted Beasts in the Qinling Mountains. Nie Li led her squad toward Xuanhe Town to ask Consultant Chen for help, as Chen Yuan lounged peacefully on his farm.

• Chen Yuan meditated to strengthen his spiritual power and considered increasing his and his Contracted Beasts’ training before the Donghuang Assembly.
• Nie Li’s Seventh Squad encountered a crazed Fire Patterned Snake and learned it had been dead for at least twelve hours.
• A dark-purple insect emerged from the snake’s corpse, and the squad captured another such bug after it left a crazed Cold Cold Pig.
• Nie Li concluded the insects might be spreading through the Qinling Mountains and ordered the squad to bring a specimen to Xuanhe Town to consult Chen Yuan.
• Chen Yuan relaxed in the courtyard, unaware that Nie Li’s squad was heading toward him.