Recaps

Chen Changan confronted Blood Butcher Great Emperor Leng Tu and defeated him with a single palm strike, while the disappearance of Left Protector revealed that Blood Butcher Hall had been manipulated. The chapter ended with Chen Changan’s companions praising his noble character, despite their obvious doubts.

• Fan Yi fled to Chen Changan’s side and warned him that Blood Butcher Hall’s Left Protector had behaved suspiciously.
• Chen Changan waited for Blood Butcher Hall to arrive as Da Huang tried to rally the people of Dan Emperor City.
• Chen Changan released his aura, stopping Leng Tu and the Blood Butcher Army from advancing, while Left Protector vanished.
• Leng Tu realized someone might have manipulated him, but he attacked Chen Changan anyway.
• Chen Changan struck Leng Tu with a palm and crushed him into a gigantic crater.
• Kuang Zhongtang and the others recalled Chen Changan’s past sparring matches, while Gu Fengyao and Gu Xian'er insisted he was noble and honorable.

Chen Changan explained why he intended to kill Leng Tu and Blood Butcher Hall, using them to expose the hidden mastermind while preventing Leng Tu from becoming a future threat. Leng Tu then unleashed a powerful Blood Explosion technique of his own, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Chen Changan told Leng Tu that he would have killed him even if he had tried to retreat, because his death could help reveal the mastermind's plan.
• Fan Yi explained that Chen Changan also knew Leng Tu would remain a danger if spared, and Da Huang mocked Kuang Zhongtang for failing to understand.
• Leng Tu unleashed a Blood Explosion-like technique he had created, breaking free from his kneeling position and greatly increasing his strength.
• Leng Tu claimed his Blood Explosion was far more powerful than the Chaos Zone's version, and the Blood Butcher Army resumed moving and cheered for him.
• Da Huang accused Blood Butcher Hall of copying his cheers, while Fan Yi explained that Leng Tu had ordered them to do it.

Chen Changan annihilated Leng Tu and the Blood Butcher Hall army, then discovered their souls had vanished and found Yun Xiao’s corpse nearby. The Dragon Emperor Palace’s motives remained unclear as Chen Changan and the others prepared to leave.

• Chen Changan let Leng Tu’s attack pass through him, killed Leng Tu, and wiped out the thirty thousand Blood Butcher Hall soldiers with one sword strike.
• Chen Changan found that the soldiers’ souls had disappeared and suspected the Dragon Emperor Palace was behind their collection.
• Chen Changan told the group Yun Xiao was dead and showed them Yun Xiao’s corpse, which he had found about a hundred miles away.
• Chen Changan left the reasons behind Yun Xiao’s death and the missing souls unresolved, expecting the people responsible to come to him.
• Chen Changan teased Fan Yi for mourning Blood Butcher Hall and reminded Da Huang to shout praise before they left.

Chen Changan celebrated Dan Emperor City’s survival while revealing that Long Wuqi may have been watching through a possessed old man. The old man’s actions left Blood Butcher Hall under the Left Protector, and Chen Changan warned Yao Niming to strengthen the city and stay alert.

• Da Huang made the wounded Fan Yi shout with him as they celebrated Chen Changan’s victory through Dan Emperor City.
• An old man left Dan Emperor City and met the Left Protector of Blood Butcher Hall, declaring that he had taken control and warning him not to provoke Chen Changan.
• The old man collapsed after speaking with the Left Protector, who struck him down.
• Chen Changan told Yao Niming and the others that Long Wuqi may have watched them through a soul possessing the old man, and suggested Long Wuqi might operate through multiple identities.
• Chen Changan reassured the group that Long Wuqi likely had limits, then warned them to remain cautious because he could not stay in Dan Emperor City.
• Chen Changan urged Yao Niming to make the Undying Dan Emperor title meaningful by strengthening Dan Emperor City after Blood Butcher Hall’s defeat.

After helping secure Dan Emperor City, Chen Changan set out with his companions for Beast God State, hoping the journey might reveal clues to the Fetal Pearl. As they neared the state, the Human Ranking began its second update, leaving Gu Xian'er and Gu Fengyao waiting to see their new ranks.

• Chen Changan persuaded Lie Zhankuang and Fan Yi to stay in Dan Emperor City and support Yao Niming.
• Chen Changan chose Beast God State as their next destination after Gu Fengyao suggested visiting it, and Da Huang became interested in the rumored tenth-rank Beast God.
• Chen Changan and his companions left Dan Emperor City the next day and traveled toward Beast God State for three months.
• Gu Xian'er and Gu Fengyao reached the first level of the Void Glimpse Realm, and Gu Fengyao predicted she would rank in the Human Ranking's top five.
• Golden light spread across the Great Profound Realm as the Human Ranking began updating again.

The Human Ranking revealed that Chen Yunxuan, Ye Zhi Qiu, Gu Xian'er, and Gu Fengyao had reached the Void Glimpse Realm, leaving Nie Haotian and Ye Beiming far behind. As Chen Changan's group headed toward Beast God State, they spotted a Beast Tamer riding a powerful flame-stepping tiger.

• The Human Ranking updated, placing Chen Yunxuan first at the second level of the Void Glimpse Realm and Ye Zhi Qiu, Gu Xian'er, and Gu Fengyao among the top four at the first level.
• Nie Haotian and Ye Beiming despaired at the gap, while their families' ancestors considered whether the Heavenly Dao's gifts or the prodigies' own strength had driven such rapid progress.
• Chen Changan found Wu Mingdao in eighth place and Li Qiye on the ranking at the third level of the Divine Ability Realm.
• Gu Fengyao warned that the Nie and Ye Families might target the mysterious top-ranked prodigies, and Chen Changan decided the group should head to Beast God State.
• The group saw a Beast Tamer riding a sixth-tier flame-stepping tiger, and Da Huang suggested asking him why he was there.

Chen Changan and his companions reached Beast God State and crossed the forbidden Beast God Mountain Range despite warnings that a Great Emperor had vanished there. After entering, they headed toward a village, where the villagers ran away when they saw Chen Changan.

• Chen Changan asked a Beast Tamer about Beast God State and claimed he wanted to become a Beast Tamer with Da Huang.
• Chen Changan, Da Huang, Gu Fengyao, and Gu Xian'er traveled for seven days to the entrance of Beast God State.
• Gu Fengyao told the group a story about a Great Emperor who had disappeared after crossing the Beast God Mountain Range.
• Chen Changan and Da Huang decided to cross the mountain range, and their group entered Beast God State without incident.
• Chen Changan's group approached a village, but the villagers ran away when they saw him.

Chen Changan and his companions were confronted by villagers who could see a mark indicating they had crossed the Beast God Mountain Range. After convincing the wary village chief to talk, Chen Changan began questioning him about the mark and the Beast God State.

• The villagers returned with weapons and accused Chen Changan and his companions of offending the Beast God.
• Chen Changan claimed he was a Beast Tamer and pointed to Da Huang as his beast, but the village chief insisted they bore a mark visible to the people of Beast God State.
• Chen Changan accused the villagers of inventing the charge to rob them, then demonstrated his strength by cutting down dozens of trees with Sword Qi.
• The village chief and villagers declared their devotion to the Beast God, and the chief eventually agreed to speak with Chen Changan.
• Chen Changan fired off questions about the mark, its consequences, and the Beast God State, prompting the village chief to ask him to take them one at a time.

The village chief explained Beast God State’s origins and how its Beast Tamers were chosen, while Chen Changan tried to convince the villagers that he and his companions had a right to enter the Beast God Mountain Range. The villagers sympathized with his invented hardships, but the village chief remained concerned about Gu Xian'er and Gu Fengyao.

• The village chief told Chen Changan and the others that the Beast God had guided Beast God State’s development and that Beast Tamers were raised among demon beast cubs.
• Chen Changan learned that the villagers could see golden marks on trespassers, and discovered that Da Huang had no mark.
• Chen Changan claimed he wanted to become a Beast Tamer to protect Da Huang, and the villagers believed his fabricated story of hardship.
• Chen Changan argued that he was already a Beast Tamer and that Beast God State’s rules did not forbid outsiders from entering the Beast God Mountain Range.
• The village chief pointed out that Gu Xian'er and Gu Fengyao were not Beast Tamers, so Chen Changan claimed they were and said their demon beast partners had been killed.
• The village chief and villagers grew angry and pitied the women, with some asking that they not be made to suffer further.

Chen Changan and his companions learned about Beast Taming Academies after the Beast God removed their marks, then decided to seek information in Beast God City. They left the villagers behind and headed toward the city’s famed Beast God Academy.

• Chen Changan pretended that Gu Fengyao and Gu Xian'er were heartbroken over dead partner beasts, prompting the villagers to offer comfort and food.
• The village chief noticed that the marks on Chen Changan, Gu Fengyao, and Gu Xian'er had vanished, and the villagers believed the Beast God had removed them out of mercy.
• The village chief explained that people could become Beast Tamers by studying at an academy and earning an opportunity to search for a partner beast in the Beast God Mountain Range.
• Chen Changan asked how to meet the Beast God, but the villagers said he had not appeared in more than ten thousand years.
• Chen Changan and his companions shared dinner with the villagers, then left early the next morning without giving them gifts.
• Chen Changan decided to seek answers in Beast God City, home of the first Beast Taming Academy, which the Beast God had personally ordered established.

Chen Changan and his companions explored Beast God City, where Beast Tamers filled the streets, and decided to buy a house while preparing to join Beast God Academy. He bought a home near the academy from a desperate seller, leaving Gu Xian'er and Gu Fengyao with a place to cultivate.

• Chen Changan let the little girl Qiqi pet Da Huang, and she invited them to visit before her grandfather called her home.
• Chen Changan decided to buy a house rather than stay at an inn, while Gu Xian'er and Gu Fengyao stayed behind to focus on cultivation.
• Chen Changan asked a homeowner about Beast God Academy while viewing his house near the school.
• The homeowner confessed that he had invested his savings in houses for academy applicants and begged Chen Changan to buy one.
• Chen Changan negotiated a twenty-percent discount and bought the house, making the seller burst into tears of relief.

Chen Changan brought Da Huang to Beast God Academy’s entrance test, hoping to join so he could get closer to the Beast God. After passing the second round simply by declaring Da Huang his beast companion, he learned that one more test stood between him and admission.

• Chen Changan decided that he and Da Huang needed to join Beast God Academy to pursue their search for the Beast God, and he joked about destroying the academy.
• Three days later, Chen Changan brought Da Huang to the outsider entrance test and gave the registrar his name and a made-up age of thirty-five.
• The registrar let Chen Changan skip the first round because he had brought a beast companion, while other applicants protested.
• A Beast Tamer explained that Chen Changan passed the second round because he committed to keeping Da Huang as his companion.
• Chen Changan learned that applicants who passed the third round could join Beast God Academy, and he asked what the test involved.

Chen Changan passed Beast God Academy’s third test and learned that becoming its dean could give him a chance to meet the Beast God. After joining as a junior student, he asked the old man who showed him around whether an outsider could become dean.

• Chen Changan told the third-test examiner he wanted to become a Beast Tamer to look cool, show off, and meet the Beast God, so the examiner admitted him.
• Chen Changan paid the examiner for information and learned that the academy dean could compete to become Alliance Leader and might then meet the Beast God.
• Chen Changan learned that challenging the dean required defeating both the dean and his beast, as well as meeting other qualifications.
• Chen Changan discovered that the old man who had met him in Beast God City was little Qiqi’s grandfather, and the old man showed him the junior section.
• Chen Changan asked whether an outsider could become dean, and the old man said it would not be easy because he would need to win everyone’s acceptance.

Chen Changan learned that Beast God Academy was facing a challenge from the eight great Beast Taming Academies, giving him a chance to make a major contribution. Qiqi explained the crisis, and Chen Changan realized the challengers might be the sucker he had been waiting for.

• Chen Changan asked an old man how to earn the right to become Dean and learned that he needed to gain trust through major contributions.
• Chen Changan and Da Huang discussed ways to help Beast God Academy, but rejected a plan to stage an attack because it would cost lives.
• Qiqi reunited with Chen Changan and Da Huang and warned him that Beast God Academy was unsettled.
• Qiqi told Chen Changan that the eight great Beast Taming Academies planned to overthrow Beast God Academy and its Dean over its admission of outsiders.
• Chen Changan recognized the challenge as the opportunity he had hoped for.

Chen Changan learned that eight Beast Taming Academies planned to challenge Beast God Academy in seven days and replace it if they won. As the academies approached Beast God City, he decided to wait for a crisis before intervening, then tried to prove to Little Qiqi that he was a Beast Tamer by ordering Da Huang to perform tricks.

• Little Qiqi told Chen Changan that the eight Beast Taming Academies would challenge Beast God Academy, whose Dean was reportedly at the Great Emperor Realm and owned a peak ninth-rank tamed beast.
• Chen Changan and Da Huang decided to keep a low profile and wait to act until Beast God Academy faced a crisis.
• Three days later, Little Qiqi told Chen Changan that the eight academies were on their way to Beast God City and worried that he would be in danger.
• Chen Changan claimed he was a Beast Tamer and ordered Da Huang to stand at attention and do a handstand.
• Da Huang angrily refused Chen Changan's command to eat shit, and Little Qiqi was amazed to learn that the dog could talk.

Chen Changan suspected the Eight Beast Taming Academies' challenge was a diversion for a plot against the Beast God, and he confronted Beast God Academy's Dean about it. The Dean rejected the accusation, leaving Chen Changan to wait for his suspicions to be confirmed or disproved.

• The Eight Beast Taming Academies arrived in Beast God City to challenge Beast God Academy, stirring public debate over its admission of outsiders.
• Chen Changan suspected the academies were being manipulated and sent Da Huang to scan Beast God State for clues.
• Chen Changan visited Qiqi's grandfather and identified him as Beast God Academy's Dean, then asked about the academy's other duties and the Beast God.
• The Dean said the Beast God would not see Chen Changan and revealed that only three people had served as Dean, with the first two gone.
• Chen Changan accused someone of using the academies' challenge to distract Beast God Academy while plotting against the Beast God, but the Dean refused to believe the academies had betrayed him.

Da Huang discovered that hundreds of powerful outsiders had entered the Beast God Mountain Range, apparently to hunt the Beast God, and the Dean exposed the eight Beast Taming Academies for conspiring with them. After revealing Qiqi as a ninth-tier peak Sky Swallowing Rabbit, the Dean led her against the eight deans and left them dead.

• Da Huang reported that about five hundred Supreme Realm, over a hundred Undying Realm, and more than a dozen Great Emperor Realm outsiders had entered the Beast God Mountain Range.
• The Dean thanked Chen Changan for the warning, revealed Qiqi's true form as the ninth-tier peak Sky Swallowing Rabbit, and announced that the eight academies had betrayed the Beast God.
• Beast Tamers in Beast God City condemned the eight deans, while the deans defended their plan by arguing that the Beast God had disappeared and the people of Beast God State deserved a future beyond the mountains.
• The Dean flew to confront the eight deans with Qiqi, who moved with lightning speed and killed all eight.

The old Dean mobilized Beast Tamers to defend the Beast God Mountain Range, where foreign attackers were slaughtering demonic beasts to draw out the Beast God. As the old Dean and Qiqi fought the intruders, Chen Changan and Da Huang watched and wondered why the Beast God had not appeared.

• The old Dean forgave the deceived Beast Tamers and sent them to spread the alarm and defend the Beast God.
• Chen Changan warned the old Dean that gathering Beast Tamers would not stop the invaders, then followed him into the mountain range with Da Huang.
• The attackers slaughtered demonic beasts to force the Beast God to reveal himself, while the old Dean and Qiqi discovered their strength had been suppressed.
• Qiqi transformed into a colossal Sky Swallowing Rabbit and used her suction to pull in the attackers as the old Dean charged at their Great Emperor powerhouses.
• Chen Changan asked Da Huang why the Beast God had not appeared and told him it might be time to show his true form.

Da Huang revealed his true form as a Divine Beast Qilin and crushed the attackers threatening the Beast God Mountain Range, while Chen Changan restrained the remaining enemies. Chen Changan asked the old Dean to arrange a meeting with the Beast God, and Da Huang left the enemy leader for him to question.

• Chen Changan encouraged Da Huang to reveal his true form, and Da Huang transformed into a Qilin whose aura made the beasts bow.
• Da Huang killed one Great Emperor with a single strike and swallowed his soul.
• Chen Changan blocked the other attackers from escaping and trapped them all with Soul Cage.
• Chen Changan told the old Dean that he could end the crisis permanently if he could meet the Beast God.
• Da Huang returned to Chen Changan with the enemy leader, and Chen Changan threatened to search the leader's soul until he agreed to talk.

Chen Changan exposed the old Dean as the Beast God after the Myriad Beast Alliance's attackers revealed they had come to capture it. The old Dean admitted the truth and said he would send the Beast Tamers away before explaining how he had become fully human.

• A Great Emperor Realm attacker told Chen Changan that the Myriad Beast Alliance had sent them to capture the Beast God, and Chen Changan killed him.
• The old Dean revealed that the Myriad Beast Alliance's leader had once betrayed the Beast God in Beast God State.
• Chen Changan argued that the old Dean was the Beast God, pointing to the Dean's connection to little Qiqi, his ability to ignore the mountain range's restriction, and the Academy's three Dean identities.
• The old Dean confirmed Chen Changan's deduction and explained that he had taken three identities as Dean to maintain the Beast God's presence.
• The old Dean said he would send the Beast Tamers heading for the Beast God Mountain Range away, then take Chen Changan and Da Huang somewhere to explain the truth.

The old Dean confirmed that the Beast God had appeared and protected the Beast God State, then brought Chen Changan and Da Huang into the deepest part of the Beast God Mountain Range. As the old Dean prepared to explain how he became a tenth-rank demonic beast, he revealed that the story began fifty thousand years ago.

• The old Dean confirmed that the Beast God had destroyed the invading enemies, reassuring the Beast Tamers that the Beast God truly existed.
• The old Dean led Chen Changan and Da Huang past a barrier into the secluded heart of the Beast God Mountain Range.
• Da Huang asked for Shapeshifting Grass, but the old Dean explained that using it had prevented Little Qiqi from ever reaching the tenth rank.
• Da Huang asked how the old Dean had become a tenth-rank demonic beast, and the old Dean said the story began fifty thousand years ago.
• Chen Changan and Da Huang settled into recliners with fruit and urged the old Dean to begin his tale.

The old Dean explained how he became the Beast God, founded the Beast God State, and fell out with his disciple Mu Ye, who later created the Myriad Beast Alliance. Chen Changan and Da Huang suspected Mu Ye had one of the pearls they were seeking, while the alliance’s strength raised questions about Long Wuqi.

• The old Dean recounted how a native rescued him, leading him to resolve to end the demonic beasts’ fighting and improve the natives’ lives.
• The old Dean said a crystal-like object flew from a lake into his mouth, triggering his breakthrough to the tenth rank; he chose to become human and build the Beast God State.
• The old Dean explained that his strength and restrictions had gradually weakened, prompting the Beast God Academy to accept outsiders as Beast Tamers.
• The old Dean revealed that Mu Ye, his gifted first disciple and devoted follower, left after the old Dean took over as Dean and later founded the Myriad Beast Alliance.
• The old Dean said Mu Ye returned with a miraculous pearl to offer the Beast God, then left after suspecting the Beast God was a sham and threatened the demonic beasts.
• Chen Changan and Da Huang suspected Mu Ye might possess a pearl, and Da Huang wondered whether Long Wuqi was connected to the Myriad Beast Alliance’s strength.

Chen Changan learned that Mu Ye and Long Wuqi had both belonged to the Immortal Sealing Sacred Land before it fell apart, and he decided to visit the Myriad Beast Alliance for answers. Da Huang ate spirit herbs at Beast God Mountain Range while the old Dean agreed to protect two people in Beast God City until Chen Changan returned.

• The old Dean told Chen Changan that Mu Ye had joined the Immortal Sealing Sacred Land alongside Long Wuqi, then returned to Beast God State after its Holy Lord ascended and the organization collapsed.
• Chen Changan asked about the Myriad Beast Alliance and decided to visit Mu Ye, promising to tell him the truth if he could.
• Da Huang complained that the lake had not produced a breakthrough crystal for him and chose to eat spirit herbs instead of taking the Shapeshifting Grass.
• Chen Changan asked the old Dean to protect two people in Beast God City until he returned from the Myriad Beast Alliance, and the old Dean agreed.
• Da Huang ate spirit herbs, then cried out that one had given him heartburn.

Chen Changan and Da Huang searched Yunxiang State for the hidden Myriad Beast Alliance and encountered Huang Duoyu, who revealed he had infiltrated the alliance for the Carefree Sect. Chen Changan explained that he had come to find Mu Ye and had killed more than ten of the alliance’s Great Emperor Realm experts, leaving Huang Duoyu stunned.

• Chen Changan and Da Huang searched Yunxiang State for the Myriad Beast Alliance but found that its existence was virtually unknown.
• Chen Changan recognized Huang Duoyu, took him outside Yunxiang State, and questioned him about why he was hiding his identity.
• Huang Duoyu revealed that he had spent nearly a thousand years undercover in the Myriad Beast Alliance on a mission from the Carefree Sect.
• Huang Duoyu said the alliance was full of powerful experts and that he had been unable to uncover its secrets.
• Chen Changan told Huang Duoyu that he had killed more than ten Great Emperor Realm experts from the Myriad Beast Alliance and had come for Mu Ye’s possession, shocking Huang Duoyu.

Chen Changan questioned Huang Duoyu about the secretive Myriad Beast Alliance and learned it operated across Yunxiang State through trading houses. After sending Huang back to the Carefree Sect, Chen Changan set out to target the Alliance’s branches and investigate a pearl he hoped was a Fetal Pearl.

• Huang Duoyu explained that the Myriad Beast Alliance had vanished from public view about five thousand years earlier and now operated as a trading house, whose members advanced unusually quickly.
• Chen Changan connected the Alliance’s history and cultivation methods to the Dragon Emperor Palace and the Immortal Sealing Sacred Land.
• Chen Changan decided to attack the Alliance’s trading houses to draw out its leader, despite Huang Duoyu warning that the Alliance had many powerful experts.
• Huang Duoyu gave Chen Changan the locations of several trading houses, then left to return to the Carefree Sect.
• Chen Changan asked Da Huang whether more people were reaching the Great Emperor Realm through ordinary cultivation, then said they should handle their business and check whether Mu Ye’s pearl was a Fetal Pearl.