Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xing left his booth to explore the Magic City Evolution Assembly and encountered research achievements that inspired him, especially the Sweet Sugar Research Institute’s many Choco-Chicken evolutions and the Fusion Research Institute’s Giant Magnet Monster. He decided the Giant Magnet Monster would make an ideal assistant for his own research institute.

• Jiang Xing entrusted Li Lingyin with the Rainbow Dragon Cub and their booth, then disguised himself and joined the exhibition visitors.
• Jiang Xing sampled a chocolate egg and watched the Sweet Sugar Research Institute present ten evolutionary paths for Choco-Chickens.
• Jiang Xing explored the exhibition’s other Pet Beast achievements and recorded research ideas inspired by the scholars’ work.
• The Fusion Research Institute demonstrated how Little Magnet Beads could evolve into a single, mentally synchronized Giant Magnet Monster with a Mental Attribute.
• Jiang Xing admired the Giant Magnet Monster’s exceptional thinking speed and decided to raise one as an assistant for his research institute.

Jiang Xing presented his research on the Rainbow Dragon Cub at the Evolution Assembly, revealing that he planned to use its evolution method to prove Dr. Al's Personality Conjecture. His announcement stunned the audience and left Dr. Al anticipating the evidence.

• Jiang Xing skipped the crowded Giant Magnet Monster booth, then reunited with Li Lingyin after the first half of the assembly and promised she could attend the academic presentations.
• Jiang Xing spoke with fellow scholars during lunch and learned from Zheng Cheng about the psychic field needed for the Little Magnet Monster's evolution.
• Dr. Al joined the judges for the presentation segment as researchers hoped to impress him, while he waited for the surprise Old Xu had promised.
• Jiang Xing took the stage and gave a broad introduction to Pet Beast research without mentioning the Golden-Veined Koi.
• Jiang Xing announced that he would use the Rainbow Dragon Cub's evolution method to prove Dr. Al's Personality Conjecture, shocking the hall and catching Dr. Al's breath.

Jiang Xing presented rigorous experiments proving that a Brave personality was necessary for Golden-Veined Koi to evolve into dragons, validating Dr. Al's Personality Conjecture. He ended by raising new questions about emotion and further evolution, and the Evolution Assembly concluded with his achievement recognized as the clear Best Achievement Award winner.

• Jiang Xing presented his Golden-Veined Koi data and explained how he expanded his experiments to account for different personalities.
• Jiang Xing demonstrated that only Golden-Veined Koi with a Brave personality could transform into dragons, proving the Personality Conjecture.
• Li Lingyin felt proud of her role as Jiang Xing's research assistant, while Dr. Al was gratified that his long-shelved conjecture had been confirmed.
• Jiang Xing raised questions about emotion as an evolutionary condition and whether Quasi-God and Mythical Species could undergo Super Evolution.
• Dr. Al began applauding, the scholars joined him, and the Evolution Assembly ended with Jiang Xing's achievement the clear Best Achievement Award winner.

After winning the Magic City Evolution Assembly’s Best Achievement Award, Jiang Xing accepted Dr. Al’s offer of a reward and requested a Mental Field Generator for his research institute. He then remembered the system’s conference reward and obtained a legendary Eternal Thunder Stone.

• Jiang Xing won the Best Achievement Award and received an evolution trophy and one hundred million in tax-free prize money.
• Scholars crowded around Jiang Xing and Dr. Al with questions, and Jiang Xing exchanged contact details with them for future discussions.
• Dr. Al thanked Jiang Xing for proving the Personality Conjecture and offered to fulfill one request as an academic reward.
• Jiang Xing requested a Mental Field Generator to support his Giant Magnet Monster cultivation and other research, and Dr. Al agreed to send one to his institute.
• Jiang Xing remembered his system reward for the conference and opened a legendary Evolution Item Blind Box.
• The system awarded Jiang Xing an Eternal Thunder Stone, which could be used indefinitely to evolve certain Pokémon.

After discovering an immensely valuable Eternal Thunder Stone, Jiang Xing hid it and rested with the Rainbow Dragon Cub and Lucky Cloud Qilin. The Rainbow Dragon Cub’s debut sparked controversy and new competition limits, while the chapter left readers speculating about Jiang Xing’s next research project.

• Jiang Xing recognized the Eternal Thunder Stone as a reusable evolution treasure, stored it secretly, and returned to his hotel room to sleep with the Rainbow Dragon Cub and Lucky Cloud Qilin.
• News of Jiang Xing’s Personality Conjecture and the Rainbow Dragon Cub spread, and the Cub’s Talents led to a surge in Golden-Veined Koi prices and debate over competitive balance.
• The Xia Kingdom authorities and Beast Taming Association limited Rainbow Dragon Cubs in low-level competitions to one revival and one Cub per Beast Tamer.
• The Rainbow Dragon Cub’s impact on competition rules made Jiang Xing even more famous, and netizens began speculating that his next project would investigate Pet Beast Emotion.
• Pet Beast Scholars dismissed Emotion and other speculative evolution conditions, expecting Jiang Xing to focus instead on researching more Golden-Veined Koi evolution routes.

Jiang Xing toured Magic City, said goodbye to Li Lingyin as she returned to school, and encouraged her to pursue her path as a Beast Tamer. When he returned to the research institute, he found it in chaos.

• Jiang Xing visited Magic City's attractions with his Pet Beasts before returning to Yuzhong City for his waiting projects and Li Lingyin's school term.
• Jiang Xing asked Master Jian to teach him craftsman knowledge, but learned he could not tame a Craftsman Dog without entering the Treasure Casting Valley Secret Realm and gaining craftsman abilities.
• Jiang Xing gave Jian Guoguo Water Dragon Cubes, and Li Lingyin promised to challenge her again in Magic City competitions once school began.
• At Shuntian Breeding Farm, Jiang Xing refused Li Lingyin's request to remain his assistant, told her she was destined to become a legendary Beast Tamer, and sent her off laughing.
• Jiang Xing returned to the research institute with Little Qilin and Little Dragon, where they found Hairless Ugly Chickens fleeing from attacking Pet Beasts as Clay Puppets struggled to control the chaos.

After the Ugly Water Chickens were driven from the lake by the Golden-Veined Koi and other Pet Beasts, Jiang Xing learned why they had gathered at the research institute and encouraged them to believe in their potential to evolve. One Ugly Water Chicken accepted his contract, and Jiang Xing successfully tamed Feebas.

• Jiang Xing learned that the Golden-Veined Koi, Rainbow Dragon group, and other Pet Beasts had attacked the Ugly Water Chickens because their [Ugliness] Talent provoked instinctive disgust.
• Jiang Xing fed the Pet Beasts that had guarded the institute and explained that the Ugly Water Chickens were new members, calming the attackers.
• Jiang Xing gathered more than three hundred Ugly Water Chickens and used a Calming Pendant and the Little Qilin’s help to face them.
• Jiang Xing told the Ugly Water Chickens that he believed they had hidden evolutionary potential and could become dazzling beings.
• The Rainbow Dragon Cub encouraged the Ugly Water Chickens, and Jiang Xing offered to form a contract with one of them.
• One Ugly Water Chicken stepped forward and accepted Jiang Xing’s contract, successfully becoming Feebas.

Jiang Xing designed an Intimacy Evolution research plan for the Ugly Water Chickens and submitted funding plans for two other research subjects. Before the applications received a decision, Champion Rank Beast Tamer Chang Feng called to ask about Jiang Xing’s ability to revive Pet Beasts.

• After contracting with the Ugly Water Chickens, Jiang Xing moved them into pools at the research institute and began designing their evolution paths.
• Jiang Xing planned experiments to test how training and Intimacy affected the Ugly Water Chickens’ Training Power, adding the Lucky Cloud Qilin to examine Intimacy between Pet Beasts.
• Jiang Xing decided to fund the Intimacy research himself and prepared funding applications for the Rainbow Dragon Cub’s subsequent evolution forms and the Death Regional Form of Howl Dog.
• Dr. Xu reviewed Jiang Xing’s applications and increased their requested funding from two hundred million to five hundred million.
• Chang Feng called Jiang Xing and asked whether he possessed a special Secret Realm that could revive Pet Beasts.

Jiang Xing agreed to let Champion Chang Feng inspect the Death Secret Realm, where Chang Feng explained that he hoped its revival research could bring back Ah Huang and other Howl Dogs lost by frontline officers. Jiang Xing was left with Chang Feng’s appeal to investigate the Secret Realm and return fallen partners to their masters.

• Chang Feng called Jiang Xing about his revival research, and Jiang Xing said only one Secret Realm-native Howl Dog had revived and estimated a fifty percent chance for Howl Dogs under sufficient conditions.
• Chang Feng arrived at Jiang Xing’s institute on his Low-Level Overlord Fire God Eagle and revealed that his Golden Armor Monkey had died protecting him.
• Jiang Xing led Chang Feng into the Death Secret Realm, where Chang Feng confirmed its death-filled environment and saw the Spirit-Guarding Dog.
• Chang Feng told Jiang Xing how Ah Huang had protected its young owner, Meng Yuan, from poachers before dying from exhaustion.
• Chang Feng explained that Meng Yuan had become a Champion Rank Beast Tamer and asked Jiang Xing to revive Ah Huang and other Howl Dogs lost by frontline officers.

Jiang Xing tried to revive two Howl Dogs who had died protecting their police partners, but his initial methods failed. He realized the dogs needed an emotional bond to awaken, and the officers’ desperate calls triggered a burst of white light.

• Jiang Xing received five hundred million in research resources and held a feast for the Pet Beasts at his institute.
• Jiang Xing built bonds with the Ugly Water Chickens, studied craftsman skills, and investigated the Death Secret Realm despite his exhaustion.
• Two police officers brought the bodies of their deceased Howl Dogs to Jiang Xing, hoping he could revive them.
• Jiang Xing’s attempts to revive the Howl Dogs with death energy and other environmental conditions failed.
• Jiang Xing concluded that the dogs needed their partners’ longing to awaken, so the officers used their broken contracts to call to them.
• A burst of white light appeared as the officers conveyed their longing to the Howl Dogs.

Jiang Xing discovered that the bonds between Beast Tamers and their departed partners could awaken Howl Dogs as Spirit-Guarding Dogs in the Death Secret Realm. After confirming the dogs’ new powers and restoring the realm’s Death Energy, he gained the support of the Xia Kingdom Police Force to continue revivals and research.

• The two officers’ spiritual bonds awakened their departed Howl Dogs, which returned as Blue Star Spirit-Guarding Dogs with bodies and Ghost Fire scarves.
• Jiang Xing examined the dogs and recorded their new abilities, including growing stronger as they were wounded and nearing death.
• Jiang Xing found that the Spirit-Guarding Dogs’ revival had depleted the Death Energy, then restored it with Necromancy Type Energy Cubes.
• Chang Feng arranged for more officers to visit the Jiang Xing Research Institute and announced that the government would fund the research.
• The authorities granted Jiang Xing the Xia Kingdom Police Force’s friendship and the right to have one research project approved each year.

Jiang Xing documented the conditions for Howl Dogs to revive as Spirit-Guarding Dogs and learned that their contracts could not be restored. In the Death Secret Realm, Meng Yuan’s two-day call brought his dead Howl Dog Ah Huang back as a new, powerful evolutionary form.

• Jiang Xing recorded that Spirit-Guarding Dogs required the Death Secret Realm, a Howl Dog’s protective heart, and a former Beast Taming Contract and Spiritual Resonance to awaken.
• Jiang Xing confirmed that revival left Beast Tamers with incurable spiritual trauma and permanently reduced contract slots, while revived Spirit-Guarding Dogs could not be contracted again.
• Meng Yuan brought Ah Huang’s remains to the Death Secret Realm and called to his partner for two days, convinced their shared spirit had endured.
• Ah Huang revived in a white light as a Ghost Fire Werewolf, an apparent new evolutionary form of a Spirit-Guarding Dog.
• Meng Yuan called Ah Huang by name and embraced it, and Ah Huang recognized him and wagged its tail.

Jiang Xing helped Meng Yuan examine the revived Crimson Flame Spirit Dog, then agreed to present medals at a public ceremony for the returned Spirit-Guarding Dogs. After recovering from his exhausting work, he completed his research into the Ugly Water Chickens’ skill and identified it as [Return], whose power depended on Intimacy.

• Jiang Xing recorded Ah Huang’s evolution as a Crimson Flame Spirit Dog, and Meng Yuan took it away to show it the world twenty years later.
• Meng Yuan promised to help Jiang Xing and invited him to present medals to the Spirit-Guarding Dogs at the police force’s Conferment Ceremony.
• Jiang Xing proposed making the ceremony public to introduce the revived dogs, explain how they were born, and help other Beast Tamers find their lost companions.
• After Meng Yuan left, Jiang Xing rested while officers took over teaching Spirit Call and the Death Secret Realm recovered.
• Jiang Xing compared the Ugly Water Chickens’ training and skill data and concluded that their supposedly named [Training Power] was actually [Return], powered by Intimacy.

Jiang Xing used his research on the Return move to write a paper proposing and proving the existence of intimacy, a foundation for studying affection-based evolution. After Dr. Xu read the paper, he asked Jiang Xing when he planned to become a doctor.

• Jiang Xing reflected on how new and error-prone modern pet beast studies were, and why intimacy had to be established as a measurable theory before affection evolution could be accepted.
• Jiang Xing considered how charm-related moves and the Berry Blender might help quantify beauty, but kept his focus on intimacy research.
• Jiang Xing completed his data collection and spent a day writing a paper titled [Conjecture and Proof of Intimacy].
• Jiang Xing brought the paper to Dr. Xu for corrections, and Dr. Xu read it carefully before asking when he planned to become a doctor.

Jiang Xing discussed his Intimacy research with Dr. Xu, who recognized it as the start of a potentially vast new field and granted him access to the Xu Hai Research Institute’s Library Area. Jiang Xing submitted his paper on Intimacy and hinted at further research into Beauty and Charm, then posted the paper online.

• Dr. Xu praised Jiang Xing for discovering Intimacy and predicted that his research could open a new field in Pet Beast Studies.
• Jiang Xing told Dr. Xu that his next research topic was Intimacy Evolution, and Dr. Xu advised him to focus on proving emotional energy was necessary for evolution.
• Dr. Xu gave Jiang Xing permission to consult the Xu Hai Research Institute’s Library Area, where Jiang Xing borrowed two books about water-type pet beasts and evolution.
• Jiang Xing reflected that he was also pursuing Beauty Theory, Beauty Evolution, and Charm Theory, and wanted other scholars to help develop the field.
• Jiang Xing uploaded his Intimacy paper to the Academic Library of the Beast Taming Association and shared its link on social media after it passed review.

Jiang Xing’s paper on intimacy and the move “return” initially confused fans who expected him to research the rainbow dragon cub’s next evolution. Scholars soon recognized intimacy as a new measurable pet beast stat, and leading doctors praised the discovery, leaving critics stunned.

• Jiang Xing posted his paper, Conjecture and Proof of Intimacy, prompting fans to wonder why he had studied emotions instead of the rainbow dragon cub’s evolution.
• Fans criticized his focus on training power and the ugly water chicken, and urged him to return to research on popular pet beasts.
• Scholars read the paper and realized intimacy was a measurable pet beast stat that opened a new field of research.
• Zephyros, Al, Xu Hai, Amru, and Su Muli praised Jiang Xing’s work on social media, with Amru requesting a discussion.
• The doctors’ endorsements silenced the critics, who were left astonished by the importance of “return” and intimacy.

Jiang Xing received the system rewards for proving Intimacy Theory and tested the Friendship Checker on his Pet Beasts. After planning to recruit assistants from a Nanny-Type Pet Beast School, he discovered that the checker could measure his bond with the Rainbow Dragon Cub, and they happily reaffirmed their affection.

• Doctors and Pet Beast Scholars praised Jiang Xing's research, while commenters argued that his discoveries came from research instinct rather than luck.
• Jiang Xing received Move Tutor (Return) and the Friendship Checker as rewards for completing the Intimacy task.
• The Friendship Checker showed maximum Intimacy with the Rainbow Dragon Cub and Ugly Water Chicken, and a near-maximum value with the Lucky Cloud Qilin.
• Jiang Xing tested the checker on wild Pet Beasts, then planned to delegate mechanical research to the Giant Magnet Monster and seek assistants from a Nanny-Type Pet Beast School.
• Jiang Xing used the checker to confirm that his Intimacy with the Rainbow Dragon Cub was at the maximum, and they happily celebrated their bond.

After the Intimacy test, Jiang Xing received a mission to hold an assembly showcasing Affection Evolution Pokemon and discussed with Necromancy Type Doctor Amru whether Intimacy survived a pet beast’s death. Jiang Xing said Emotion transcended death and promised Amru an answer at the next day’s Conferment Ceremony.

• Jiang Xing concluded that the Rainbow Dragon Cub’s Intimacy was maxed out, while the Ugly Water Chicken’s was still lower, and kept the difference from it.
• The system gave Jiang Xing a mission to hold an Intimacy Evolution Assembly displaying at least one Affection Evolution Pokemon, and he considered inviting researchers to showcase their discoveries.
• Jiang Xing accepted Necromancy Type Doctor Amru’s friend request and discussed Intimacy and Necro pet beasts with him.
• Amru asked whether a dead pet beast’s Intimacy remained in its bones and could help create a new Necro pet beast.
• Amru said he studied Necromancy out of sympathy for those who had lost loved ones during war, and Jiang Xing replied that Emotion transcended death.
• Jiang Xing told Amru to await his answer at the next day’s Conferment Ceremony, leaving Amru confused.

Jiang Xing tried to persuade A-Ji, the Ugly Water Chicken, to visit the city, but its fear of being judged kept it at home. He gave A-Ji a [Seduce] move manual to help it build confidence and left for Yuzhong City with the Rainbow Dragon Cub and Little Qilin.

• Jiang Xing explained that A-Ji needed to overcome its fear and build confidence to fulfill its potential, but A-Ji refused to go outside because it feared the stares of other Pet Beasts and people.
• Jiang Xing accepted that A-Ji was not ready for the city and told it to work on overcoming its fear and stop hating itself and its own kind.
• Jiang Xing gave A-Ji a [Seduce] move manual and asked it to study the move with the other Ugly Water Chickens so they could practice on nearby Pet Beasts later.
• A-Ji reluctantly agreed to learn [Seduce] after watching demonstrations of the move.
• Jiang Xing left the research institute for Yuzhong City on Little Qilin with the Rainbow Dragon Cub.

Jiang Xing visited the Public Security Bureau before the Conferment Ceremony, where officers and their revived Spirit-Guarding Dogs welcomed him and resumed their tournament. Meng Yuan then revealed the Little Magnet Beads Jiang Xing had requested, but said Jiang Xing would have to defeat them himself before taming them.

• Meng Yuan greeted Jiang Xing at the Public Security Bureau and led him inside, where officers and Spirit-Guarding Dogs crowded around him.
• Jiang Xing learned that officers from different cities had organized a tournament after recovering their Spirit-Guarding Dogs, and he offered Spirit Dog Exclusive Cubes as the championship prize.
• The officers returned to battling for Jiang Xing's prize, while Meng Yuan explained that police tournaments helped Beast Tamers and Pet Beasts build coordination and combat experience.
• Meng Yuan told Jiang Xing that he had found Little Magnet Beads and brought him to a room where a group of them floated.
• Meng Yuan warned Jiang Xing that he would have to defeat the Little Magnet Beads personally before he could tame them.