Recaps

Di Tian asked about the Auspicious Beast and left after hearing she was spending time with Zeng Tian, while the Scarlet King worried about the consequences of Di Tian choosing a successor. In a golden valley, Zeng Tian began training and agreed to teach the Auspicious Beast how to improve her fighting technique.

• Di Tian asked the Scarlet King about the Auspicious Beast, then vanished after learning she had taken Zeng Tian home.
• The Scarlet King worried that Di Tian was preparing to choose a successor and that Xiong Jun and humans might react to the news.
• The Auspicious Beast told Zeng Tian she wanted him to stay with her forever after he explained that his tail flame reflected his life.
• Zeng Tian finished eating a Radiant Tiger and invited the Auspicious Beast to join him for training.
• Zeng Tian pointed out the delays in the Auspicious Beast's Golden Dragon Fist and suggested streamlining it or linking it with other abilities.
• The Auspicious Beast eagerly asked Zeng Tian to teach her how to practice.

Zeng Tian explained two ways for the Auspicious Beast to improve her skills, and she resolved to pursue both while aiming to surpass him. As they trained, Zeng Tian mastered Growl and began combining it with Scary Face, ending as the two effects started to merge into a new attack.

• Zeng Tian told the Auspicious Beast that she could improve by practicing more or by studying how skills worked together, and she chose to do both.
• The Auspicious Beast declared that she would learn Zeng Tian's skills and become stronger than him, then started training Golden Dragon Fist while Zeng Tian practiced Scary Face.
• Zeng Tian spent his remaining training time practicing Scary Face and trying to combine it with Growl, gradually reducing the conflict between the two moves.
• Zeng Tian's Growl reached lv10, and he unleashed a roar that left soul beasts within several miles trembling, with those under ten thousand years collapsing.
• Zeng Tian combined his terrifying expression and Scary Face's Pressure with Dragon's Roar, causing the Pressure to merge into the sound waves and tint them faint purple.

Zeng Tian developed Terrifying Growl by combining Scary Face and Growl, while the Auspicious Beast showed him her new Golden Dragon Flame Fist. After seeing her progress, he agreed to teach her Flame Charge, though he warned it would be difficult.

• Zeng Tian tested his combined move, found that it reduced enemies’ attack power and speed, and named it Terrifying Growl.
• The Auspicious Beast asked about the move, and Zeng Tian explained how he had created it.
• Zeng Tian asked about her Golden Dragon Flame Fist, and she demonstrated it by striking him with a golden, flame-wreathed dragon head.
• Zeng Tian said her punch was at least fifty percent stronger than before, and the Auspicious Beast protested that he had underestimated her.
• The Auspicious Beast reminded Zeng Tian that he had promised to teach her Flame Charge, and he agreed despite warning that it would take time.

Zeng Tian taught the Auspicious Beast how Flame Charge worked and estimated that she could learn it within half a year. After secretly studying his techniques, the Scarlet King overcame his reluctance and asked Zeng Tian to teach him Flame Charge too.

• Zeng Tian demonstrated Flame Charge and explained how fire quality, physical strength, and fine control affected the move.
• Zeng Tian told the Auspicious Beast she could likely learn Flame Charge in half a year, and she eagerly began practicing its energy circulation.
• The Scarlet King secretly listened to Zeng Tian's lessons and realized the techniques could be used by Soul Beasts of different species.
• The Scarlet King decided that learning from Zeng Tian was worth setting aside his pride and hurried to the training grounds.
• The Auspicious Beast challenged the Scarlet King for interrupting her training, and he asked Zeng Tian to teach him Flame Charge.

The Scarlet King asked Zeng Tian to teach him Flame Charge and offered him the Blazing Flame Valley in return. Zeng Tian accepted and arrived at the valley with the Scarlet King and the Auspicious Beast, where he found it filled with blazing fire grass.

• The Scarlet King asked Zeng Tian to teach him Flame Charge and offered the Blazing Flame Valley as payment.
• Zeng Tian accepted the offer, but the Auspicious Beast objected because she feared the Scarlet King would interfere with her plans to spend time with Zeng Tian.
• Zeng Tian reassured the Auspicious Beast that he would teach her a stronger acceleration skill first, and she advised him to demand payment for any future lessons.
• The Scarlet King led Zeng Tian and the Auspicious Beast to the Blazing Flame Valley and ordered two Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Hounds to leave, declaring that the valley belonged to Zeng Tian.
• Zeng Tian saw a scarlet cavern filled with blazing fire grass at the end of the passage.

Zeng Tian cultivated in the Blazing Flame Valley and taught the Scarlet King and the Auspicious Beast Flame Charge. Three months later, the Scarlet King had grasped the skill’s basics and credited Zeng Tian with saving him hundreds of thousands of years of detours, just as an urgent summons called him away.

• Zeng Tian surveyed the Blazing Flame Valley, learned that its oldest Blazing Fire Grass was eighty thousand years old, and agreed that the available herbs could still benefit his cultivation.
• Zeng Tian invited the Scarlet King to join his lessons with the Auspicious Beast instead of secretly eavesdropping, and the Scarlet King eagerly accepted.
• Zeng Tian taught Flame Charge to the Scarlet King and the Auspicious Beast before beginning secluded cultivation with the blazing fire grass.
• Three months later, the Scarlet King grasped the basics of Flame Charge after battling the Auspicious Beast and Zeng Tian above a desert.
• The Scarlet King thanked Zeng Tian for teaching him combat techniques and flame control that greatly increased his strength, then received an urgent summons.

Zeng Tian’s rapid growth left him strong enough to challenge the Scarlet King, while he considered seeking powerful herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to keep advancing. Di Tian summoned the Scarlet King, praised his newly learned Flame Charge, and asked what he thought of Zeng Tian.

• Di Tian summoned the Scarlet King, who left Zeng Tian and the Auspicious Beast to answer the call.
• The Auspicious Beast questioned Zeng Tian about his strength, and he reflected that his Blazing Fire Grass-fueled growth had slowed and considered visiting the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The Scarlet King told Di Tian that Zeng Tian had taught him Flame Charge and demonstrated how it greatly increased his speed.
• Di Tian praised the Scarlet King’s new skill and said his growing strength could make him a great general.
• Di Tian asked the Scarlet King what he thought of Zeng Tian after spending several months with him.

Di Tian decided to bring Zeng Tian and the auspicious beast to the next gathering, intending to announce something about Zeng Tian. Meanwhile, Zeng Tian tested his newly learned Fire Blast, forcing the auspicious beast to dodge before the attack smashed into a distant rock wall.

• The Scarlet King told Di Tian that Zeng Tian's strength, creativity, and training had made him a formidable soul beast, while describing his guarded attitude toward humans.
• Di Tian judged Zeng Tian's pride to be understandable and decided his caution toward humans could later be guided.
• Di Tian instructed the Scarlet King to bring Zeng Tian and the auspicious beast to the next gathering so he could make an announcement.
• Zeng Tian practiced Fire Blast, launching a massive flame shaped like 大 at the auspicious beast.
• The auspicious beast dodged with Flame Charge, and Fire Blast struck a towering rock wall hundreds of meters away.

Zeng Tian tested Fire Blast and discussed advanced techniques with the Auspicious Beast before the Scarlet King brought news that Di Tian wanted them to attend the ferocious beasts’ next gathering. The Auspicious Beast explained that the gathering took place every hundred years and would happen in a few months.

• Zeng Tian used Fire Blast, leaving a huge star-shaped scar in the cliff, and told the Auspicious Beast he could not teach her the move yet.
• Zeng Tian urged the Auspicious Beast to focus on mastering Dragon Flame Roar, while she asked about learning Great Sun Dragon Fist and then gave up when she heard how difficult it was.
• The Scarlet King returned and declined Zeng Tian’s invitation to spar, saying he had come to pass on a message from Di Tian.
• The Scarlet King told Zeng Tian and the Auspicious Beast to attend the next gathering, and the Auspicious Beast explained that it was a hundred-year meeting of the ferocious beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Zeng Tian and the Auspicious Beast headed to Di Tian’s gathering as powerful Soul Beasts woke throughout the Star Dou Great Forest, triggering a devastating migration toward its outskirts. Zeng Tian arrived near the Lake of Life, where the Ferocious Beasts’ auras filled the area.

• The Auspicious Beast told Zeng Tian that Di Tian’s gathering would take place in a few months, and Zeng Tian wondered what Di Tian wanted from them.
• A Soul King and a group of young Soul Masters encountered a Soul Beast rampage and fled as the Beast Tide swept through the forest.
• Zeng Tian woke in Blazing Flame Valley to find powerful auras stirring outside, and the Auspicious Beast arrived to take him to the gathering.
• As Zeng Tian and the Auspicious Beast flew toward the Lake of Life, she explained that lesser Soul Beasts were fleeing because powerful beasts had awakened for the gathering.
• Zeng Tian and the Auspicious Beast reached the Lake of Life, where Zeng Tian sensed several Ferocious Beasts and felt confident in his own strength.

Zeng Tian arrived at the Lake of Life for the Ferocious Beasts' gathering, confident in his improved combat strength and newly learned Sunny Day. After meeting the assembled leaders, he faced Xiong Jun's angry objection to his presence as a young Soul Beast.

• Over half a year, Zeng Tian advanced to level 53, strengthened his existing moves, learned powerful attacks, and gained Sunny Day.
• Zeng Tian and the Auspicious Beast reached the Lake of Life, where Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts were gathered.
• Zi JI greeted the Auspicious Beast, who dodged her attempt to pat her head and surprised her with her strength.
• Zeng Tian recognized the red-haired middle-aged man as the Scarlet King and learned that Soul Beasts over two hundred thousand years old could assume human form.
• Xiong Jun struck the table and angrily challenged the Scarlet King for bringing Zeng Tian, whom he considered too young for the gathering.

Xiong Jun challenged Zeng Tian’s presence at Di Tian’s gathering, but Di Tian confirmed he had invited him before the ferocious beasts discussed the soul beasts’ worsening position. Zeng Tian realized that humanity’s expansion and technological growth were making the soul beasts’ eventual defeat increasingly likely.

• Xiong Jun insulted Zeng Tian, but Di Tian stopped their confrontation and said he had invited Zeng Tian.
• The ferocious beasts examined Zeng Tian before Di Tian asked them to report on their territories.
• The Myriad Demon King and Zi JI reported declining soul beast numbers, shrinking habitats, and the loss of the Fire Luan Bird Clan leader.
• Di Tian learned that six hundred-thousand-year soul beasts had been killed in the past century while only five had replaced them.
• Zeng Tian concluded that soul beasts would eventually lose their war of attrition unless a powerful figure could halt humanity’s growth.

Di Tian announced that Zeng Tian would be his successor and begin managing soul beast affairs, shocking the assembled ferocious beasts. He defended his choice by revealing Zeng Tian’s exceptional talent and ferocious-beast-level strength, while Zeng Tian suspected Di Tian intended to prepare him to oppose humanity.

• Di Tian declared Zeng Tian his successor and said he would devote himself to nurturing him and letting him manage soul beast affairs.
• Xiong Jun objected, while Bi Ji and the Myriad Demon King questioned Di Tian’s decision; Zi JI resented that Zeng Tian had been chosen over her.
• The Scarlet King approved of Di Tian’s choice, and Zeng Tian guessed that Di Tian planned to train him to help halt human civilization’s advance.
• Bi Ji asked Di Tian what made Zeng Tian worthy of becoming his successor.
• Di Tian praised Zeng Tian’s cultivation speed and ability to develop Self-Created Skills, then revealed that Zeng Tian had reached ferocious-beast-level strength and could defeat the Scarlet King.

Di Tian confirmed that Zeng Tian could fight on the level of a 300,000-year ferocious beast, prompting Xiong Jun to challenge him to last fifteen minutes. As Zeng Tian and Xiong Jun prepared to fight, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion warned that Xiong Jun might use Sky-Rending Claw, and Xiong Jun angrily insisted he would not need it.

• Di Tian confirmed Zeng Tian’s combat strength, and Scarlet King and the young Auspicious Beast vouched for him.
• Xiong Jun challenged Zeng Tian to last a quarter of an hour, promising to acknowledge him as successor if he succeeded.
• Bi Ji worried that Xiong Jun would overpower Zeng Tian, while Scarlet King encouraged Zeng Tian to accept the challenge.
• Zeng Tian revealed he had grown stronger and agreed to fight Xiong Jun ten li east of the Lake of Life.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion stopped them and warned that Xiong Jun might use Sky-Rending Claw, provoking Xiong Jun to protest.

Di Tian approved a fight between Zeng Tian and Xiong Jun, while the Auspicious Beast worried about Zeng Tian and the other ferocious beasts watched. Zeng Tian opened with a powerful fire attack, but Xiong Jun emerged unharmed and demanded that he use his strongest skill.

• Xiong Jun dismissed the need to use Sky-Rending Claw against Zeng Tian, but Di Tian ended their argument and agreed to oversee the fight.
• Zeng Tian reassured the Auspicious Beast, then sped toward the battleground; Scarlet King overtook Xiong Jun on the way.
• Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts gathered to watch Zeng Tian and Xiong Jun face off across the grassland.
• Bi Ji and Zi JI teased the worried Auspicious Beast about her feelings for Zeng Tian, while Zi JI assessed his abilities.
• Zeng Tian struck Xiong Jun with Flamethrower, but Xiong Jun brushed off the damage and challenged him to use his strongest skill.

Zeng Tian fought Xiong Jun, whose overwhelming physical strength destroyed Fire Blast with a single claw swipe. Zeng Tian activated Sunny Day and used his speed to attack Xiong Jun’s eyes, but his strike failed to pierce Xiong Jun’s defenses, and the chapter ended with their sound-based attacks colliding.

• Xiong Jun cut through Zeng Tian’s Fire Blast with one swipe, shocking Zeng Tian and the Scarlet King with his immense strength.
• Zeng Tian activated Sunny Day, strengthening Fire-type skills and weakening Water-type skills; the Auspicious Beast and Scarlet King felt the boost, while Zi JI was disadvantaged by her yin-water attribute.
• Xiong Jun charged Zeng Tian, but Zeng Tian dodged with Flame Charge and knocked Xiong Jun’s claws aside with his tail.
• Zeng Tian struck at Xiong Jun’s eyes with Windfire Wings, but Xiong Jun’s eyelids blocked the attack, leaving them burning and painful.
• Xiong Jun roared to slow Zeng Tian, who answered with Terrifying Growl, and their sound waves collided.

Zeng Tian used his speed and chained skills to overwhelm Xiong Jun, drawing praise and surprise from the watching ferocious beasts. Xiong Jun finally unleashed Dark Gold Dreadclaw, sending enormous blades through the sky straight at Zeng Tian.

• Zeng Tian combined Air Slash and Fire Spin into a storm of flaming blades that cut Xiong Jun and damaged his fur.
• Zeng Tian followed up with a rapid chain of attacks, while Bi Ji praised his battle instincts and the Scarlet King admitted Zeng Tian had surpassed him.
• The young lady Auspicious Beast felt proud of Zeng Tian, while Zi JI and the Myriad Demon King watched in shock and Di Tian noted that Zeng Tian's skills consumed considerable soul power.
• Xiong Jun lost patience with the one-sided fight and unleashed Dark Gold Dreadclaw, sending hundred-meter dark golden blades tearing through space toward Zeng Tian.

Zeng Tian withstood Xiong Jun’s relentless Dark Gold Dreadclaws by using Counter Punch Shield to reflect them. As Xiong Jun’s rage overwhelmed him, he unleashed Sky-Rending Claw at Zeng Tian, prompting Di Tian to react in alarm.

• Xiong Jun fired a barrage of Dark Gold Dreadclaws that shattered Zeng Tian’s Heat Wave Storm.
• Zeng Tian formed Counter Punch Shield from spinning Flame Whips and reflected Xiong Jun’s blades back at him.
• The Scarlet King watched Zeng Tian’s defense and decided to ask him to teach Counter Punch Shield.
• Xiong Jun grew furious that Zeng Tian could resist him, and his body and aura began to transform.
• Xiong Jun used Sky-Rending Claw against Zeng Tian, and Di Tian shouted for him to stop.

Zeng Tian fought to survive Xiong Jun’s Sky-Rending Claw, awakening Deep Crimson Blaze before Di Tian intervened. Di Tian subdued Xiong Jun, but noticed that Xiong Jun was acting strangely, while Bi Ji and the others rushed to the fallen Zeng Tian.

• Xiong Jun’s Sky-Rending Claw tore through Zeng Tian’s Double Counter Punch Shield and left him facing death.
• Zeng Tian used his ultimate Flare Blitz to collide with the Sky-Rending Claw, enduring severe recoil as Deep Crimson Blaze awakened.
• Zeng Tian’s power briefly pushed back the Sky-Rending Claw, but he ran out of energy and crashed into the earth.
• Di Tian destroyed the weakened Sky-Rending Claw and seized Xiong Jun with the Dragon God Claw.
• Xiong Jun continued attacking wildly without answering Di Tian, who sensed something was wrong.
• Bi Ji and the others reached Zeng Tian, and Miss Auspicious Beast screamed his name.

After Xiong Jun grievously injured Zeng Tian, Zeng Tian transformed into Mega Charizard X and flew after him. Di Tian recognized that Xiong Jun’s awakened Behemoth bloodline had clouded his mind and was taking him to check on Zeng Tian when Zeng Tian suddenly rushed toward them.

• The Auspicious Beast and Bi Ji found Zeng Tian gravely wounded, but he stood up and began approaching Xiong Jun as his tail flame turned black and blue.
• Zeng Tian struck the Scarlet King with a Fire Claw powerful enough to send him flying and grievously injure him.
• Zeng Tian transformed into Mega Charizard X, then flew away; the Auspicious Beast and Bi Ji followed to catch up with him.
• Di Tian realized Xiong Jun had lost control because his Behemoth bloodline had awakened further, and he decided to take him to check on Zeng Tian.
• A streak of black-and-blue light shot toward Xiong Jun as Di Tian held him in the Dragon God Claw.

Zeng Tian transformed into a black-and-blue creature and badly injured Xiong Jun before collapsing. Bi Ji healed him and said the ordeal had activated his Dragonkind bloodline, while the Auspicious Beast wondered if his transformation was a form of ancestral reversion.

• Di Tian caught Zeng Tian as he charged toward Xiong Jun, but Zeng Tian slipped around his claw and struck Xiong Jun with Flare Blitz.
• Zeng Tian burned and lashed Xiong Jun with his Dragon Tail, then raised a Fire Claw to attack again before suddenly reverting to his original form and falling unconscious.
• The Auspicious Beast caught Zeng Tian, and Bi Ji treated him, finding only severe injuries and exhaustion.
• Bi Ji said Zeng Tian's Dragonkind bloodline had been activated and that his transformation resembled ancestral reversion into an unknown creature from another world.
• Zeng Tian awoke, and the Auspicious Beast scolded him for risking his life and blamed Di Tian for letting the fight continue.

After surviving Xiong Jun’s Sky-Rending Claw, Zeng Tian discovered that he had grown stronger and might have undergone an autonomous Mega Evolution. Di Tian placed Xiong Jun’s life in Zeng Tian’s hands, and Bi Ji pleaded for him to show mercy.

• The Auspicious Beast criticized Di Tian for letting Zeng Tian and Xiong Jun fight until Xiong Jun used Sky-Rending Claw, and Zeng Tian promised to be more careful.
• Bi Ji asked Zeng Tian to check himself for injuries, and he found that his level had risen from 53 to 54 and his physical strength and flames had increased.
• The Auspicious Beast told Zeng Tian that his body and flames had turned black and blue after the blow, leading him to suspect that he had undergone Mega Evolution.
• Di Tian returned with the dying Xiong Jun and gave Zeng Tian the choice to spare or kill him.
• Bi Ji pleaded with Zeng Tian to spare Xiong Jun, explaining that his awakened bloodline had robbed him of reason.

Zeng Tian spared Xiong Jun but made him promise to obey future requests, then discovered the power of his Mega Charizard X flames. As Bi Ji went to treat the forgotten Scarlet King, a mysterious voice arrived and Di Tian addressed it as “Master!”

• Zeng Tian ended the fight and made Xiong Jun promise not to refuse his future requests.
• Zeng Tian absorbed the flames burning Xiong Jun and realized they could make his Mega Charizard X form exceptionally powerful.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion revealed that the injured Scarlet King had been left lying in a pit, and Zeng Tian asked Bi Ji to treat him.
• Bi Ji healed most of Xiong Jun’s injuries and flew off to tend to the Scarlet King.
• Xiong Jun vowed to repay Zeng Tian, who planned to use him as a sparring partner.
• A clear voice remarked on Xiong Jun’s bloodline, and Di Tian knelt and called the speaker “Master!”

Gu Yuena awakened and discovered that Zeng Tian was less than ten years old and had only a few hundred years to live. She could offer no way to extend his lifespan beyond perhaps a thousand years unless he became a god, leaving the Auspicious Beast distraught.

• Gu Yuena awakened after sensing Di Tian and the others fighting and praised Xiong Jun for advancing his Behemoth Giant bloodline.
• Di Tian introduced Zeng Tian as his successor and described his rapid cultivation, remarkable combat ability, and self-created skills.
• Gu Yuena said Zeng Tian was unsuitable as Di Tian's successor because he seemed not to be of this world and was less than ten years old.
• Zeng Tian confirmed that he had been born less than ten years ago, shocking Xiong Jun, the Auspicious Beast, Scarlet King, and the others.
• Gu Yuena revealed that Zeng Tian's lifespan was only a few hundred years and might reach a thousand at most unless he became a god.
• The Auspicious Beast pleaded with Gu Yuena to extend Zeng Tian's life, but Gu Yuena said she had no good solution.

Gu Yuena confirmed that Zeng Tian’s mutation had shortened his lifespan, but its rapid-growth benefit might give the Soul Beast Clan a new path forward. Zeng Tian returned to the Blazing Flame Valley to study the Mega Charizard X flame, while the Auspicious Beast worried about his chances of becoming a god and resolved to do something.

• Zeng Tian declared that he would become a god rather than fear his limited lifespan, and Gu Yuena said his unusual mutation might give him a chance at godhood and help the Soul Beast Clan.
• Gu Yuena returned to her slumber, and Zeng Tian left with the Auspicious Beast following him as the Scarlet King and Bi Ji arrived.
• Zeng Tian flew back to the Blazing Flame Valley, reflecting on his increased speed and his Mega Evolution into Mega Charizard X.
• The Auspicious Beast watched Zeng Tian disappear and worried about his chances of surviving the Heavenly Tribulations, then made a resolution.
• Zeng Tian examined the black-and-blue flame he had taken from Xiong Jun and realized it was Dragon Flame, fueled by dragon-type energy.