Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xing learned that the Little Magnet Beads came from the lightning of the Legendary Pet Beast Mjolnir and had to choose a Beast Tamer through battle. The Crimson Flame Spirit Dog fought them on Jiang Xing’s behalf, and footage of its surprising abilities left viewers baffled.

• Meng Yuan explained that the Little Magnet Beads came from Mjolnir’s lightning and would choose their Beast Tamer through battle.
• Jiang Xing decided to have the Crimson Flame Spirit Dog fight for him and asked Meng Yuan to record the battle for a promotional video.
• The six Little Magnet Beads combined and attacked Jiang Xing with synchronized Commander-level lightning.
• The Crimson Flame Spirit Dog shielded Jiang Xing, grew stronger after taking lightning strikes, interrupted the beads’ next attack with a roar, and blasted them apart with a Ghost Fire punch.
• Three hours later, viewers questioned how the Crimson Flame Spirit Dog could absorb attacks and turn them into its own power.

Li Lingyin and the viewers watched the Conferment Ceremony livestream, which first showed Jiang Xing commanding a mysterious Crimson Flame Werewolf in battle and then revealed Purple-Black Puppies resembling Howl Dogs. The footage left viewers suspecting that the unfamiliar Pet Beasts were connected to the sacrificed Howl Dogs being honored.

• After defeating Steel-Winged Moth and advancing to the semifinals, Li Lingyin hurried to watch the Conferment Ceremony livestream, and the other contestants joined her.
• The livestream opened with Jiang Xing commanding a Crimson Flame Werewolf against six combined Little Magnet Beads, surprising viewers who had expected a cemetery ceremony.
• The Crimson Flame Werewolf grew stronger as it took injuries and ultimately defeated the Little Magnet Beads, prompting viewers to suspect it was a newly discovered Pet Beast.
• The livestream switched to police officers battling Purple-Black Puppies, and viewers noticed that the puppies looked almost identical to Howl Dogs.
• Viewers realized the puppies might be connected to the sacrificed Howl Dogs being honored at the ceremony.

At the Conferment Ceremony, Jiang Xing revealed that emotional bonds and Intimacy could summon Howl Dogs back as Spirit-Guarding Dogs, preserving their memories and granting them powerful abilities. He also explained that Ah Huang, dead for twenty years, had returned through emotional resonance and evolved into a Crimson Flame Spirit Dog.

• Dr. Amru watched the Conferment Ceremony livestream, recognizing that Jiang Xing had brought the dead Howl Dogs back as heroic spirits.
• Jiang Xing introduced the Spirit-Guarding Dogs and explained that Intimacy and a Beast Tamer’s emotions could revive a Howl Dog through a Broken Contract.
• Jiang Xing displayed the Spirit-Guarding Dog’s Compendium, prompting Beast Tamers to recognize its potential as a powerful Pet Beast.
• Jiang Xing described how Ah Huang returned after twenty years and gained new strength through his emotional bond with his Beast Tamer.
• Jiang Xing revealed that Ah Huang had undergone an evolution belonging to Intimacy and become a Crimson Flame Spirit Dog.

Jiang Xing explained the limits and costs of Spirit-Guarding Dogs and Crimson Flame Spirit Dogs, then presented medals to the heroic dogs at a solemn ceremony. The ceremony helped Dr. Amru rethink the divide between life and death, and he thanked Jiang Xing for resolving a long-standing confusion.

• Jiang Xing proposed that the Crimson Flame Spirit Dog might be an Intimacy Evolution Form, inspiring some scholars to pursue Affection Evolution research.
• Jiang Xing explained that revived Spirit Dogs retained Broken Contracts, could not be contracted again, and left their Beast Tamers with Mental Trauma.
• Jiang Xing presented medals to the Spirit-Guarding Dogs and Crimson Flame Spirit Dogs, recounting how each had died protecting people.
• The ceremony helped viewers accept the cost of the dogs' return as a bond that had already crossed death.
• Dr. Amru reconsidered his belief that life and death were entirely separate and messaged Jiang Xing to thank him.

After the Conferment Ceremony, Jiang Xing’s Intimacy Theory sparked widespread public interest and inspired researchers to investigate Affection Evolution. He shared materials about the Return move with Su Muli, who planned to study whether Storm Sea Lizards had new forms, while Jiang Xing continued focusing on the Ugly Water Chicken.

• The Howl Dog’s reputation soared after the ceremony, and the idea of Intimacy spread through popular culture and Beast Taming battles.
• Jiang Xing announced that his next research topic was Affection Evolution, prompting Pet Beast Scholars to pursue Intimacy Moves and new evolutionary forms.
• Jiang Xing reasoned that other researchers could help uncover Affection Evolutions while he concentrated on the Ugly Water Chicken project.
• Su Muli called Jiang Xing to ask about studying Storm Sea Lizard forms and requested his insights on the Return move.
• Jiang Xing agreed to send Su Muli his research materials and celebrated the spread of Intimacy research.

Jiang Xing welcomed six Little Magnet Beads as research assistants after they recognized his trustworthiness, and gave them the Eternal Thunder Stone to absorb. He left the Public Security Bureau for the Nanny-Type Pet Beast School, planning to explore their evolution before contracting them.

• Jiang Xing told the six Little Magnet Beads they could return to the Thunder Domain Secret Realm if they preferred battling over research.
• The Little Magnet Beads chose to become Jiang Xing’s assistants because they trusted him after seeing how he and the Crimson Flame Spirit Dog worked together.
• Jiang Xing gave the Little Magnet Beads the Eternal Thunder Stone, and they eagerly absorbed its powerful energy.
• Jiang Xing decided to wait until the six Little Magnet Beads evolved into a Giant Magnet Monster before using a contract slot on them.
• Jiang Xing declined Meng Yuan’s company and left the Public Security Bureau for the Nanny-Type Pet Beast School.

Jiang Xing visited the Nanny-Type Pet Beast School to recruit assistants for his research institute and discussed the work he needed them to do with Principal Liu. He then asked whether one of the school’s Pet Beast teachers could become his housekeeper, prompting Principal Liu to object.

• Principal Liu showed Jiang Xing the school, where young Pet Beasts and children played together and Sweet Attendants cared for them.
• Principal Liu explained how the school trained kind Pet Beasts and humans in childcare, nursing, and breeding.
• Jiang Xing told Principal Liu that he needed assistants to care for and record data on about a thousand Water Type and Dragon Attribute Pet Beasts.
• Jiang Xing also requested assistants with healing abilities, cleaning skills, and ideally cooking skills.
• Jiang Xing asked Principal Liu if a Pet Beast teacher could work as his institute’s housekeeper and help breed suitable Pet Beasts, and Principal Liu immediately refused.

Jiang Xing declined to recruit human assistants, and Principal Liu offered him Xiao Xian, an aging Sweet Attendant with rare teaching talent, in the hope that he could help her evolve and extend her life. Jiang Xing suspected that Sweet Attendants might have a Beauty Evolution and agreed to try.

• Jiang Xing asked whether he could recruit Pet Beast teachers, and Principal Liu explained how rare they were and suggested hiring Breeders instead.
• Jiang Xing rejected recruiting human assistants because he wanted Pet Beast helpers he could trust completely.
• Principal Liu told Jiang Xing about Xiao Xian, a Sweet Attendant who had taught many graduates but had less than two years left to live.
• Principal Liu offered Xiao Xian to Jiang Xing without conditions, hoping he could uncover her potential and help her evolve.
• Jiang Xing considered whether Sweet Attendants could undergo Beauty Evolution and confidently agreed to help Xiao Xian.

Jiang Xing recruited the elderly Sweet Attendant Xiao Xian as his research institute’s housekeeper and promised to help it evolve. He returned with fifty Pet Beasts, and Xiao Xian quickly organized the institute, leaving Jiang Xing ready to focus on research.

• Principal Liu took Jiang Xing to meet Xiao Xian, an aging Sweet Attendant who refused to leave the school and its young Pet Beasts.
• Principal Liu urged Xiao Xian to join Jiang Xing and said he could help it evolve, while Jiang Xing offered a contract and promised another transformation.
• Xiao Xian accepted Jiang Xing’s contract, hoping to live longer and continue watching over other lives.
• Principal Chen introduced Jiang Xing to the school’s Pet Beasts, and he returned to his research institute with fifty, including five White Medical Immortals, fifteen Clam Maidens, and thirty Sweet Attendants.
• The contract restored Xiao Xian’s youthful vitality, and it assigned tasks around the institute while Jiang Xing prepared to devote himself to research.

Jiang Xing planned evolution research for Sweet Attendant and the Ugly Water Chickens, developing a heart-refining approach that used psychological transformation alongside evolution requirements. He left their future evolutions dependent on their confidence, inner beauty, and willingness to overcome the Ugliness Talent.

• Jiang Xing prioritized Sweet Attendant's Beauty Evolution because her life force was declining, and planned to raise her Beauty Condition with Beauty Cubes.
• He reasoned that a pet beast's belief and will were crucial to evolution, and planned to use healing, counseling, and an illusion of danger to strengthen Sweet Attendant's desire to evolve.
• Jiang Xing recognized that using psychic power to transform a pet beast's will could form a new Heart-Refining Style of evolution theory.
• He planned to cultivate the Ugly Water Chickens' Beauty Condition by helping them overcome the Ugliness Talent's influence and build genuine confidence.
• Jiang Xing planned to raise the Ugly Water Chickens to their racial level limit and hold an Evolution Assembly, where those who passed the test would undergo Beauty Evolution and the others Affection Evolution.
• He also planned to inspire the Ugly Water Chickens with a tale of transformation into Phoenixes and support them with Phoenix Attribute resources and moves.

Jiang Xing secured funding and land for his project to evolve Ugly Water Chickens into Phoenix Attribute Pet Beasts, then worked to overcome their psychological barriers to learning Seduce. A-Ji found confidence in its bond with Jiang Xing and tried the move, but ended the chapter fleeing from Dandelion Squirrels.

• Jiang Xing's Ugly Water Chicken evolution project was approved, and the institute received Phoenix Attribute resources worth more than 632 million along with expanded territory.
• Jiang Xing obtained the Phoenix Demeanor manual but decided to focus first on teaching the Ugly Water Chickens Seduce.
• After learning why the Ugly Water Chickens abandoned their chicks, Jiang Xing resolved to nurture their desire to change and help them build confidence.
• A-Ji drew strength from its bond with Jiang Xing and vowed to evolve to prove his trust was justified.
• A-Ji attempted Seduce by dancing, but several Dandelion Squirrels chased it as it ran away in fear.

A-Ji mastered Seduce and used the Beauty Cube’s effects to overcome the Ugly Water Chickens’ aversion, inspiring them to train and improve. As the research project advanced, Jiang Xing began preparing an evolution stage called Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix.

• A-Ji trained through attacks from wild Pet Beasts and mastered Seduce at the proficient stage.
• A-Ji’s Seduce offset the Ugliness Talent’s effect on other Ugly Water Chickens, who began to find it attractive.
• Jiang Xing’s research showed how Energy Cubes coordinated Transcendental power and could improve Beauty Condition.
• The Ugly Water Chickens began secretly practicing Seduce at night and rapidly improved with Jiang Xing’s Phoenix Fairy Cube.
• Jiang Xing began preparing an evolution stage for the Ugly Water Chickens named Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix.

Jiang Xing used stories of the Ugly Duckling and the Phoenix to help the Ugly Water Chickens accept their potential and prepare to evolve. He built a stage with a Mental Field Generator for them to demonstrate their charm, and the chickens reached the threshold for evolution.

• Jiang Xing told the Ugly Water Chickens the story of The Ugly Duckling and encouraged them to overcome their insecurity and value their own kind.
• Jiang Xing told them the legend of the Phoenix, inspiring A-Ji to share food, learn Phoenix Demeanor, and prove Jiang Xing had believed in her.
• Jiang Xing announced a grand evolution stage and built it beside the research institute, using the Mental Field Generator to amplify the pet beasts' perception of Transcendental powers.
• The Ugly Water Chickens trained harder in Seduce, while A-Ji learned Phoenix Demeanor under Jiang Xing's guidance.
• The Ugly Water Chickens reached the limit of Low-Transcendental and stood one step away from meeting their evolution conditions.

Jiang Xing held the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Tournament to help Ugly Water Chickens overcome the influence of their Ugliness Talent and evolve. The first contestant conquered its past and transformed into a dazzling, beautiful great bird before the gathered Pet Beasts.

• Jiang Xing invited wild Pet Beast clans to watch the tournament and gave them feather props to throw in recognition of the performers.
• Jiang Xing arranged for the more than three hundred Ugly Water Chickens to compete one at a time, and Contestant Number 001 nervously stepped onto the stage.
• Contestant Number 001 confronted painful memories and the pressure of the other Ugly Water Chickens’ Ugliness Talents, but resisted the urge to flee and danced.
• The Ugly Water Chickens below the stage threw their feathers to recognize the contestant, helping it reconcile with its past.
• Contestant Number 001 evolved in a flash of white light into a beautiful great bird whose Strange Feathers dazzled every Pet Beast present.

Jiang Xing’s Ugly Water Chicken No. 1 evolved, inspiring its kind and changing wild Pet Beasts’ attitudes toward them. When one Ugly Water Chicken fled the stage in fear, Jiang Xing comforted it and reminded it that the research institute would remain its home.

• The evolved beautiful bird rejected the feathers offered by the audience, then sheltered and comforted the Ugly Water Chickens.
• Jiang Xing recognized that the evolution had opened a new path for the Ugly Water Chicken population and ended the curse that had shaped their lives.
• Wild Pet Beasts became more receptive to the Ugly Water Chickens, and a few were affected by their Seduce move, though most still struggled against their Ugliness Talent.
• One Ugly Water Chicken fled the stage under the pressure of its Inner Demons, and Jiang Xing picked it up and reassured it that it would not be abandoned.
• The Ugly Water Chicken calmed as it remembered life at the research institute, and white light burst forth.

Jiang Xing’s Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix tournament became an Inner Demon Tribulation, with Ugly Water Chickens evolving into Cloud Velvet Fat Birds or Dark Gray Big Birds as they faced their fears. A-Ji used the Strange Feathers of the evolved birds to create a Hundred Birds Garment, mastered Phoenix Demeanor, and evolved into a Mystic Black Phoenix Bird.

• An Ugly Water Chicken calmed down after leaving the stage and evolved into a Cloud Velvet Fat Bird, which clung to Jiang Xing.
• The tournament continued under the Lucky Cloud Qilin’s fixed mental pressure, and Ugly Water Chickens who failed to overcome their Inner Demons evolved into Cloud Velvet Fat Birds through Jiang Xing’s comfort.
• A-Ji faced the Ugliness Talent and danced Seduce, drawing feathers from the Ugly Water Chickens and some wild Pet Beasts, but suppressed its chance to evolve because it wanted to become a Phoenix.
• A-Ji gathered the Strange Feathers thrown by the evolved Dark Gray Big Birds, used them to form a Hundred Birds Garment, and released Phoenix Demeanor through it.
• A-Ji’s dance attracted nearly every wild Pet Beast, whose feathers completed the garment, and it evolved into a Mystic Black Phoenix Bird.

A-Ji evolved into an Ink-Colored Mystic Phoenix after winning the recognition of the birds, while the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Tournament continued and ended with the other Ugly Water Chickens evolving into new forms. Jiang Xing brought the evolved birds back to the institute, completed the Mystic Feather Peacock’s Beast Taming Compendium entry, and turned to examine the Cloud Velvet Fat Birds.

• A-Ji flew above the stage as an Ink-Colored Mystic Phoenix, stunning Jiang Xing and the surrounding Pet Beasts.
• A-Ji thanked the Dark Gray Big Birds and Ugly Water Chickens for their Strange Feathers, then returned to Jiang Xing’s side.
• The tournament resumed, and the remaining Ugly Water Chickens evolved into Dark Gray Big Birds or Cloud Velvet Fat Birds; none of the later birds became Ink-Colored Mystic Phoenixes.
• The tournament ended, and the evolved birds mingled happily with other Pet Beasts before Jiang Xing brought them to the institute for examinations.
• Jiang Xing completed the Beast Taming Compendium entry for the Mystic Feather Peacock and began examining the Cloud Velvet Fat Birds.

Jiang Xing recorded the Mystic Water Phoenix Chick’s strategic talent and continued investigating the Ugly Water Chicken’s evolutionary forms. After System Bro delivered his rewards, he saw that the Five-Color Bandana blueprint might help him develop a garment that aided the Phoenix evolution.

• Jiang Xing completed the Cloud Cotton Bird and Mystic Water Phoenix Chick entries, noting that the Phoenix Chick’s Ultimate Color strengthened Water and Phoenix moves while weakening most others in the Ink Realm.
• Jiang Xing reflected on his theory that evolution realized each pet beast’s potential and planned to gather more Ugly Water Chickens to identify the conditions for their three evolutionary forms.
• Jiang Xing posted a commission for more Ugly Water Chickens and reorganized his existing research data while waiting for them to be found.
• System Bro rewarded Jiang Xing with the Attract Move Tutor and a Five-Color Bandana blueprint after he raised a Champion-potential Shiny Milotic.
• Jiang Xing dismissed Attract as less useful than Seduce but planned to have research spirits study the tutor, while he considered using the bandana blueprint to create a Hundred Birds Garment that could aid Mystic Water Phoenix Chick evolution.

Jiang Xing decided the Gorgeousness Grand Festival mission needed more preparation, then began organizing the Intimacy Evolution Assembly with official support from Yuzhong City. He posted videos showing three new Ugly Water Chicken evolutions, drawing widespread attention and praise.

• Jiang Xing set aside the Grand Festival mission because he needed to define Gorgeousness and establish standards before holding a competition.
• After nearly three weeks had passed since the Conferment Ceremony, Jiang Xing contacted Chang Feng about holding an Intimacy Evolution Assembly, and Chang Feng agreed to organize it with official support and prizes.
• Jiang Xing posted videos of Ugly Water Chickens evolving into Cloud Cotton Birds, Mystic Feather Peacocks, and Mystic Water Phoenix Chicks, along with an appeal for people to trust their Pet Beasts.
• Fans and researchers reacted with amazement to the three evolutions, praised Jiang Xing, and asked about the Mystic Water Phoenix Chick's [Ultimate Color] Talent.

Jiang Xing announced an Intimacy Evolution Assembly in Yuzhong City, where he would reveal the methods and details for three Ugly Water Chicken evolutions and judge the awards. After Xia Kingdom promised National-Level rewards, researchers began registering, and Chang Feng asked whether students could visit Jiang Xing the next day to select Golden-Veined Koi.

• Jiang Xing teased the Mystic Water Phoenix Chick's unknown Talent, [Ultimate Color], before announcing that he would reveal its details and those of the Mystic Feather Peacock and Cloud Cotton Bird at an assembly in half a month.
• Jiang Xing invited Affection Evolution researchers to present their findings and said he would judge rather than compete, with a mysterious prize for the Best Achievement Award winner.
• Xia Kingdom's official account promised National-Level Assembly rewards, prompting researchers to register for the event.
• Nineteen research institutes or independent researchers registered within one day, and Jiang Xing expected at least forty findings by the assembly.
• Chang Feng called Jiang Xing to ask whether several Beast Tamer School students could visit the next day to select Golden-Veined Koi.