Recaps

Chen Changming and Lin Mengxuan took the Beast Taming Immortal Sect’s first assessment and both successfully contracted a Beast Soul Stone. After the test, the elders planned to sharply reduce the number of candidates before the spiritual-root assessment began.

• Chen Changming introduced himself as Chen Shan from Changling Commandery and befriended Lin Mengxuan while they waited for the sect’s recruitment assessment.
• The Beast Taming Immortal Sect began its assessment, requiring candidates to contract a Beast Soul Stone before their spiritual roots were tested.
• Chen Changming saw Liu Qingwu overseeing the test, and she briefly recognized him before regaining her composure.
• Lin Mengxuan and Chen Changming both successfully contracted the Beast Soul Stone and joined the other successful candidates in the plaza.
• After three thousand candidates passed the first stage, the steward elders decided to accept Nascent Soul Realm candidates with Heavenly Spirit Roots and reject Golden Core Realm candidates below mid-grade Heaven-rank spirit roots.

Chen Changming challenged the Beast Taming Immortal Sect’s decision to reject candidates based on spirit root alone and helped secure another chance for those who failed the test. He finally touched the Spirit Testing Stone, which revealed a dim five-colored light, and Liu Qingwu reacted with surprise.

• Nascent Soul Realm cultivators tested their spirit roots, and the Beast Taming Immortal Sect admitted only those with Heavenly Spirit Roots to the next stage.
• Lin Mengxuan learned that Golden Core Realm candidates needed at least a heaven-grade mid-tier spirit root, while Chen Changming feared his own aptitude would disqualify him.
• Chen Changming argued that candidates should be judged by their beast-taming ability, and Liu Qingwu backed his proposal to let them retake the first trial.
• The steward elders agreed to give candidates another chance, and Lin Mengxuan passed the test with a heaven-grade high-quality fire spiritual root.
• Chen Changming tested last, producing a dim five-colored light that made Liu Qingwu's expression change.

During the Beast Taming Immortal Sect retest, Chen Changming revealed a Mystic-grade mid-grade Five Elements Spirit Root and boasted that his beast-taming talent eclipsed everyone else’s. After more than a thousand candidates failed to contract with a Beast, Chen Changming succeeded, leaving the elders and Liu Qingwu surprised.

• The Spirit Testing Stone identified Chen Changming’s aptitude as a Mystic-grade mid-grade Five Elements Spirit Root, astonishing Liu Qingwu and the other candidates.
• Lin Mengxuan assumed Chen Changming’s poor spirit-root grade meant their association was over, while a Heaven-grade low-grade youth mocked Chen Changming for entering the selection.
• Chen Changming claimed his beast-taming talent made everyone else seem like fireflies compared with the bright moon, irritating the Beast Taming Immortal Sect disciples.
• An elder deacon adjusted the Beast Soul Stone to test contracts with Beasts one minor realm above the candidates, and Liu Qingwu oversaw the retest.
• The Nascent Soul Realm candidates and then the Golden Core Realm candidates failed or withdrew until Chen Changming was the only Golden Core candidate left.
• Chen Changming used the Contract Technique and successfully formed a contract, prompting the elder deacons to inspect the Beast Soul Stone while Liu Qingwu said it was functioning correctly.

Chen Changming proved his exceptional beast-taming talent and was admitted as an inner sect disciple of the Beast Taming Immortal Sect despite his poor spiritual roots. Though none of the Thirteen Peaks accepted him, he was assigned to guard the Ten Thousand Beast Garden, where the Demon Kings of Wuyuan Island were imprisoned.

• The presiding elders initially refused Chen Changming because his spiritual roots were below the sect’s standards, then offered admission if he contracted a Beast two minor realms above his own.
• Chen Changming accepted the challenge and succeeded in contracting the stronger Beast, prompting the elders to admit him as an inner sect disciple.
• The thirteen Peak Masters divided the new disciples among their groups, but none would take Chen Changming because of his poor spiritual roots.
• A deacon elder returned from the Logistics Hall and assigned Chen Changming to guard the Ten Thousand Beast Garden, where he hoped to meet the Heavenly Fox King and the other imprisoned Demon Kings of Wuyuan Island.

Chen Changming joined the Beast Taming Immortal Sect under the name Chen Shan and was assigned to guard the Ten Thousand Beast Garden. After arriving, he faced hostility from its steward, Mu Feihe, who suggested he enter the dangerous area near a level-eleven Demon King.

• Chen Changming gave the executive elder his name and identity token, and Liu Qingwu wondered whether he might be connected to Chen Changming or Luo Shan.
• Elder Li brought Chen Changming to the Ten Thousand Beast Garden and told him to attend the inheritance rite the next morning.
• Chen Changming met Mu Feihe, who resented that a disciple with weaker spirit roots had become an inner sect disciple.
• Mu Feihe led Chen Changming through the garden, where he saw numerous rare Beasts, including a Spirit-Devouring Insect.
• When Chen Changming asked about level-eleven Demon Kings, Mu Feihe sarcastically urged him to venture into the garden's depths, and Chen Changming called out the danger.

Chen Changming secretly entered the Level Eleven valley in the Ten Thousand Beast Garden and met the white-robed elder and red-clad girl Qin, who were trying to contract the Heavenly Fox King. After the fox offered to cooperate in exchange for eating Chen Changming, the elder rejected the bargain and sent him out of the valley.

• Chen Changming avoided Mu Feihe and traveled alone into the Level Eleven area of the Ten Thousand Beast Garden.
• The red-clad girl and the white-robed elder captured Chen Changming, questioned him, and learned that he was a newly promoted inner sect disciple.
• The red-clad girl tried to contract the Heavenly Fox King, who offered to cooperate if she let it eat Chen Changming.
• The white-robed elder warned his granddaughter not to trust the Heavenly Fox King and sent Chen Changming out of the valley.
• Chen Changming waited outside as the red-clad girl and the elder emerged, with the girl looking vexed.

Chen Changming infiltrated the Beast Taming Immortal Sect’s Ten Thousand Beast Garden and secretly met the imprisoned Heavenly Fox King, promising to master the sect’s contract technique and rescue the captured Demon Kings. He escaped safely and resolved to strengthen the Heavenly Spirit Pact and reach the Nascent Soul Realm before returning.

• Qin Qiao'er failed to contract the Heavenly Fox King, and the white-robed old man escorted her away after warning Chen Changming to avoid the valley.
• Chen Changming entered the valley and used his Three Talents Sword Formation to withstand attacks from the imprisoned Demon Kings.
• Chen Changming secretly told the Heavenly Fox King that he had come to find a way to rescue her and the other Demon Kings by learning the Heaven-Locking Spirit-Taming Pact.
• The Heavenly Fox King warned Chen Changming to leave, and he pretended to retreat after she publicly dismissed him.
• The Ancient Ming Demon King suspected Chen Changming’s identity, while Chen Changming escaped the valley and decided to strengthen the Heavenly Spirit Pact and break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.

Chen Changming settled into the Ten Thousand Beast Garden and faced a confrontation arranged by Mu Feihe, only for Liu Qingwu to intervene and offer him Sky Spirit Pills. The chapter left Chen Changming surprised by the pills and Mu Hui and the others coveting them.

• Chen Changming considered postponing a contract with the Heavenly Fox King until he learned whether Golden Core cultivators could contract eleventh-level Demon Kings, then claimed a cave residence from Mu Feihe.
• Mu Feihe summoned his nephew Mu Hui and two other inner disciples to confront Chen Changming after Chen Changming refused to settle wherever he pleased.
• Mu Hui and the others attacked Chen Changming, but a massive hand knocked away their Natal Law Treasures.
• Liu Qingwu arrived, reprimanded Mu Hui and the others for fighting within the sect, and warned them not to bully Chen Changming again.
• Liu Qingwu offered Chen Changming a bottle of Sky Spirit Pills, while Mu Hui and the other two inner disciples stared at it eagerly.

Liu Qingwu gave Chen Changming a precious Sky Spirit Pill, then attempted to contract a level-eleven Demon King and emerged injured. Chen Changming healed her with his Sweet Rain Art, and she began telling him more about the Beast Taming Immortal Sect.

• Liu Qingwu gave Chen Changming a Sky Spirit Pill and warned Mu Hui and the others to leave him alone.
• Liu Qingwu went deeper into the Ten Thousand Beast Garden to try contracting a level-eleven Demon King, while Chen Changming learned how disciples formed contracts with Beasts.
• Mu Feihe and the others apologized to Chen Changming, and he let the matter go before heading to check on Liu Qingwu.
• Chen Changming waited outside the level-eleven area and found Liu Qingwu injured when she emerged from the valley.
• Chen Changming used the Sweet Rain Art to heal Liu Qingwu, who warned him to keep the art secret.
• Liu Qingwu began explaining more about the Beast Taming Immortal Sect as she walked with Chen Changming.

Chen Changming sought the Sky Spirit Pill formula at Seven Treasures Pavilion and demonstrated his alchemy by refining a batch of pills. The shopkeeper agreed to cooperate with him, giving Chen Changming a steady source of ingredients and a way to make more pills for his clone.

• Chen Changming studied a low-grade Sky Spirit Pill and sent his true body to Immortal Taming City to seek the pill formula.
• At Seven Treasures Pavilion, Chen Changming asked about buying the formula, and the shopkeeper offered it in exchange for a successful alchemy test and future cooperation.
• Chen Changming accepted five sets of ingredients and deliberately failed with the first four batches while the shopkeeper watched.
• Chen Changming refined ten Sky Spirit Pills from the fifth batch and handed them to the shopkeeper.
• The shopkeeper confirmed the pills and agreed to cooperate with Chen Changming.

Chen Changming arranged to refine Sky Spirit Pills for the Seven Treasures Pavilion while keeping most of its ingredients for his clone. At the Beast Taming Immortal Sect’s Inheritance Hall, the new disciples swore oaths, and the founder’s statue suddenly came to life.

• Chen Changming returned to his cave abode with five hundred sets of Sky Spirit Pill ingredients and planned to supply the Seven Treasures Pavilion with seventy-five batches.
• Chen Changming’s Golden Core clone went to the Inheritance Hall, where Lin Mengxuan greeted him and defended their friendship against Sun Huanzhen’s criticism.
• The white-robed elder led the new disciples into the Inheritance Hall and made them kneel before the sect’s founding master’s statue.
• The new disciples swore Dao oaths not to betray the Beast Taming Immortal Sect or reveal its inheritance.
• The statue’s eyes opened as beams of light entered it, making the founding sect master appear to come alive.

Chen Changming received the Heavenly Spirit Pact and two hundred Sky Spirit Pills, while Li Zizai and He Changkong discussed his unusual beast-taming talent and compared his potential with Ye Xuanji. Chen Changming began studying the pact and planned to cultivate it alongside his Golden Origin Unification Art.

• The disciples received the Heavenly Spirit Pact, and Lin Mengxuan left to cultivate before planning to meet Chen Changming at the Ten Thousand Beast Garden.
• Li Zizai gave Chen Changming Sky Spirit Pills, saying he wanted to support his cultivation and see how far his beast-taming talent could take him.
• Li Zizai and He Changkong discussed Chen Shan's potential, Ye Xuanji's Sacred Spirit Root, and the Calamity Beast on Wuyuan Island.
• Chen Changming returned to his cave dwelling and found two hundred low-grade Sky Spirit Pills in the bottle.
• Chen Changming began studying the Heavenly Spirit Pact and planned to cultivate it while continuing to raise his cultivation with the Golden Origin Unification Art.

Chen Changming mastered and strengthened the Heavenly Spirit Pact, while his main body and clone discovered that their cultivation enhancements synchronized. He continued raising his cultivation in the Ten Thousand Beast Garden and told Lin Mengxuan that he had not yet mastered the pact, though Lin Mengxuan had already contracted a Beast.

• Chen Changming mastered the Heavenly Spirit Pact, traveled to Immortal Taming City, and secretly received pills and defensive formations from his main body.
• Chen Changming installed the defensive formation in his cave dwelling, while Mu Feihe watched with resentment.
• Chen Changming's main body mastered and enhanced the Heavenly Spirit Pact, and the clone synchronized with the enhancement.
• Chen Changming's main body enhanced the pact twice more, strengthening the Heaven Lock that the clone could summon.
• Lin Mengxuan asked Chen Changming whether he had mastered the Heavenly Spirit Pact and showed him the Beast Taming Bracelet he wore after contracting a Beast.

Chen Changming learned about the Inner Sect Disciple Tournament but forfeited because he had not completed the Heavenly Spirit Pact and was too weak to compete. Nine months later, he perfected the pact and began searching for a powerful companion Beast, finding none that suited him in the Level Eight Beast area.

• Lin Mengxuan told Chen Changming that the tournament's top three could enter the Immortal Pool, which could improve spiritual roots and cultivation.
• Chen Changming declined to compete, and Elder Li approved his withdrawal while Elder Wu mocked her choice of recruit.
• Inner sect disciples scorned Chen Changming as he left the tournament, but he returned to the Ten Thousand Beast Garden and continued cultivating.
• After nine months, Chen Changming cultivated the Heavenly Spirit Pact to Great Perfection and produced an unusually thick Heavenly Lock.
• Chen Changming went to the Level Eight Beast area to choose a companion Beast, found none with a bloodline he wanted, and headed for the Level Seven Beast area.

Chen Changming searched the Ten Thousand Beast Garden for a pact beast and became interested in a Magnetic Mystic Turtle despite learning that it evolved extremely slowly. The turtle recognized a familiar aura in him and urged him to form a pact, while other disciples arrived and questioned his choice.

• Chen Changming searched the Level 7 and Level 6 areas before visiting the Level 5 area in hopes of finding an overlooked pact beast.
• Chen Changming sensed a faint trace of Primal Magnetism Ren Mountain's aura from a Magnetic Mystic Turtle and inspected it.
• Qin Qiao'er warned Chen Changming that the turtle had taken more than a thousand years to evolve from the initial to the middle stage of Level 5, then left for the depths of the garden.
• Chen Changming decided to visit the Level 11 area after Qin Qiao'er left to discuss contracting with the Heavenly Fox King.
• The Magnetic Mystic Turtle awoke, telepathically urged Chen Changming to contract it, and said it recognized a familiar aura in him.
• Several inner sect disciples found Chen Changming beside the turtle and mocked him for possibly wanting to contract it.

Chen Changming contracted the Magnetic Mystic Turtle despite the inner disciples’ ridicule, believing it was connected to Primal Magnetism Ren Mountain. He later returned to the level-eleven area to see the Heavenly Fox King, who warned him that the sect’s contract method could fail if his Heavenly Lock was not strong enough.

• Chen Changming drove off the inner disciples and resolved to contract the Magnetic Mystic Turtle after sensing its connection to Primal Magnetism Ren Mountain.
• Chen Changming used his Heavenly Lock to contract the Magnetic Mystic Turtle, and the inner disciples discovered the vanished cage and mocked him.
• After waiting in his cave dwelling, Chen Changming entered the level-eleven area and used his Three Talents Sword Formation to approach the Heavenly Fox King.
• Chen Changming told the Heavenly Fox King that he had cultivated the Heavenly Spirit Pact and asked whether he should contract her.
• The Heavenly Fox King refused, warning Chen Changming that the contract could shatter if his Heavenly Lock could not withstand her demon core.

Chen Changming tried to arrange a contract with the Heavenly Fox King, then faced Li Zizai’s anger over his Magnetic Mystic Turtle contract. The chapter ended with He Changkong visiting an Underground Palace, where the sect still could not contract a Calamity Beast from Wuyuan Island.

• Chen Changming secretly asked the Heavenly Fox King to cooperate in forming a contract, but she refused until he reached the Nascent Soul Realm and assured him Qin Qiao'er would not succeed for ten years.
• The Heavenly Fox King urged Chen Changming to find a way to rescue her, while the Ancient Ming Demon King and other Wuyuan Island Demon Kings defended her from mockery.
• Chen Changming returned to his cave dwelling, swallowed a top-grade Sky Spirit Pill, and began cultivating so he could contract the Heavenly Fox King before Qin Qiao'er.
• Li Zizai summoned Chen Changming and reprimanded him for contracting a Magnetic Mystic Turtle three minor realms below his cultivation, then ordered him to place in the top hundred of the inner sect disciple tournament in five years or be demoted.
• He Changkong visited an Underground Palace, where sect elders reported that they still could not contract the Calamity Beast from Wuyuan Island.

Little Four resisted the Beast Taming Immortal Sect’s attempts to contract it and planned to exploit Ye Xuanji’s weaker cultivation if he tried. A month later, Chen Changming’s clone broke through to the sixth layer of the Golden Core Realm, received Sky Spirit Pills from Liu Qingwu, and learned that the Magnetic Mystic Turtle had awakened.

• He Changkong rejected suggestions to let others try immediately and planned to continue wearing down Little Four, while Little Four plotted to escape through a contract with Ye Xuanji.
• A month later, Chen Changming broke through to the sixth layer of the Golden Core Realm and planned to increase his daily intake of top-grade Sky Spirit Pills.
• Chen Changming returned to the Beast Taming Immortal Sect and prepared to cultivate in the Ten Thousand Beast Garden for the inner sect disciples’ tournament.
• Liu Qingwu gave Chen Changming a bottle containing a hundred Sky Spirit Pills and expressed her support for his choice of the Magnetic Mystic Turtle.
• The Magnetic Mystic Turtle awakened and spoke to Chen Changming through the Beast Taming Bracelet.

Chen Changming learned that the Magnetic Mystic Turtle had absorbed mysterious black sand and evolved into the Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle. At the Logistics Hall, the elder recognized its transformation and gave Chen Changming fifty mid-tier Level Five bloodflesh pills.

• The Magnetic Mystic Turtle told Chen Changming that it had slept for thousands of years while digesting unusual black sand with a repulsive force.
• Chen Changming deduced that the sand was debris from Primal Magnetism Ren Mountain, and the turtle said it had absorbed all of it and felt transformed.
• The Magnetic Mystic Turtle chose the name Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle, saying it had an instinctive sense that the word “Primal” belonged in its name.
• Chen Changming went to the Logistics Hall to collect bloodflesh pills for his awakened Beast, where inner disciples mocked him for contracting a turtle that rarely ate.
• Chen Changming summoned the Magnetic Mystic Turtle, and the Logistics Hall elder, impressed by its changed appearance, gave him fifty mid-tier Level Five bloodflesh pills.

Chen Changming received extra flesh pellets for the Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle and learned that Lin Mengxuan had been ostracized for supporting him. He agreed to team up with Lin Mengxuan to hunt Beasts, then discovered that the turtle could eat ten flesh-and-blood pills at once.

• A Logistics Hall elder gave Chen Changming forty extra flesh pellets and praised him for contracting a Beast above his cultivation level.
• Lin Mengxuan noticed Chen Changming had reached the sixth level of the Golden Core realm and suggested they hunt Beasts together, but Chen Changming hesitated.
• Chen Changming overheard inner disciples gossiping that Lin Mengxuan had been isolated for supporting him, then confronted them.
• The Logistics Hall elder dispersed the disciples surrounding Chen Changming, and Chen Changming later agreed to hunt Beasts with Lin Mengxuan after Lin finished an urgent sect mission.
• Back at his cave abode, Chen Changming fed the Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle a pill and learned it could eat ten at once.

Chen Changming traveled to Boundary Layer Mountain to hunt Level 6 Demonic Beasts for Flesh Pills, while Mu Feihe hoped the trip would leave him vulnerable. After inner sect disciples mocked him for coming alone, Chen Changming encountered them struggling against Ironclad Bears and refused to help without first calling out their hypocrisy.

• Chen Changming fed the Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle nine more Flesh Pills, stored it in his Beast Taming Bracelet, and set out for Boundary Layer Mountain to replenish his supply.
• Mu Feihe heard Chen Shan was traveling alone and hoped he would die in the mountains.
• After resting at Boundary Layer Mountain, Chen Changming was mocked by a group of inner sect disciples who warned him about hunting alone.
• Chen Changming recovered his spiritual power and flew into the Level 6 Demonic Beast region to hunt for sect points and Flesh Pills.
• The inner sect disciples he had met earlier became trapped fighting Ironclad Bears, and one called for Chen Changming's help.
• Chen Changming stopped above the battle and asked whether they were asking to team up with him, leaving the disciple who had mocked him speechless.

Chen Changming forced Zhao and the other Beast Taming Immortal Sect disciples to yield the Ironclad Bears after showing the power of his nine Flying Swords. A Blood Demon Sect disciple attacked him, but Yun Xueqi killed the attacker before fleeing, and Chen Changming used Blood Escape Technique to make two pursuing Blood Demon Sect Nascent Soul experts mistake him for one of their own.

• Chen Changming demanded all the Ironclad Bear corpses in exchange for helping Zhao and the other disciples, then held Zhao at swordpoint when Zhao insulted him.
• Chen Changming and the other disciples killed the Ironclad Bears, with Chen Changming doing most of the fighting, and Zhao and the others apologized before leaving.
• A Blood Demon Sect disciple emerged from a pool of blood and attacked Chen Changming, but Yun Xueqi shattered his blood cloud and killed him.
• Yun Xueqi fled after being wounded as two Blood Demon Sect Nascent Soul experts arrived and attacked Chen Changming.
• Chen Changming used Blood Escape Technique, and the two Blood Demon Sect experts mistook him for a fellow disciple and withdrew their attack.

Chen Changming used the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow to rescue Yun Xueqi from Blood Demon Sect pursuers in Boundary Layer Mountain and repeatedly treated her severe injuries. After killing another pair of reinforcements, he continued healing Yun Xueqi, who still had not awakened.

• Chen Changming sent his Snow Feather Ice Sparrow to Boundary Layer Mountain and followed the Blood Demon Sect disciples pursuing Yun Xueqi.
• Chen Changming found Yun Xueqi gravely wounded and used the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow to kill the two Blood Demon Sect disciples as she collapsed.
• Chen Changming treated Yun Xueqi with the Spring Return Immortal Art, realizing that much of its power was healing old injuries.
• Chen Changming summoned the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow to kill two arriving Blood Demon Sect reinforcements.
• Chen Changming restored his spiritual power with Sky Spirit Pills and kept healing Yun Xueqi, but she remained unconscious.

Chen Changming healed Yun Xueqi’s injuries and suppressed her Nine Yin Severed Meridian, saving her from the Blood Demon Sect. After learning about her condition and earning her oath to keep his healing ability secret, he was asked to let her stay by his side as his protector.

• Yun Xueqi woke to find her injuries healed, her cultivation recovering, and her Nine Yin Severed Meridian suppressed, then realized Chen Changming had saved her.
• Chen Changming explained that a beast he had once saved killed the two Blood Demon Sect disciples who had attacked Yun Xueqi.
• Yun Xueqi thanked Chen Changming tearfully, and he asked her to call him Chen Shan rather than benefactor.
• Yun Xueqi explained that the Blood Demon Sect wanted to capture her for an elder’s Nine Yin Banner, which required ninety-nine women with Nine Yin Severed Meridian.
• Chen Changming described his healing ability as a secret technique from an Elder Antiquity ruin, and Yun Xueqi swore to keep it secret.
• Yun Xueqi asked to stay beside Chen Changming and protect him because his cultivation was low.

Chen Changming agreed to let Yun Xueqi stay near him and continue treating her Nine Yin Absolute Veins, while she offered to protect him and confessed her love. As they returned from Boundary Layer Mountain, Yun Xueqi promised to find him Sky Spirit Pills, but froze after inspecting the jade bottle he gave her.

• Yun Xueqi offered to protect Chen Changming, provide cultivation resources, and even marry him in exchange for continued treatment.
• Chen Changming declined marriage but agreed that Yun Xueqi could stay nearby as his protector, and she explained the fall of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
• Yun Xueqi gave Chen Changming her Message Transmission Token, then agreed to return to Immortal Taming City and lie low while he treated her periodically.
• Yun Xueqi flew Chen Changming out of Boundary Layer Mountain, killed several hundred Level 6 Demonic Beasts, and gave him their Storage Ring.
• Yun Xueqi confessed that she wanted to stay with Chen Changming and help him rise, while he asked to remain friends.
• Yun Xueqi offered to find Chen Changming mid-grade and high-grade Sky Spirit Pills, but froze after examining the jade bottle he handed her.