Recaps

Lu Ran commissioned Master Lin to forge a Wind-attribute sword for General Ha, then bought a Wind-Slaying Sword for himself. After seeing General Ha wield the new weapon, Lu Ran asked Master Lin how he learned forging, and Master Lin explained that he had learned it in a Breakthrough Secret Realm.

• Lu Ran persuaded Master Lin to forge a sword for General Ha, paying 2,000 Crystal Coins and providing meteoric iron ore.
• While the weapon was being forged, Lu Ran examined the equipment in the Forge and considered buying defensive items and a sword for himself.
• Master Lin finished the Windfall Sword, and General Ha wrapped it in Wind energy to demonstrate how well it conducted and amplified its power.
• Lu Ran bought a Wind-Slaying Sword for 1,500 Crystal Coins.
• Lu Ran asked Master Lin where he had learned forging, and Master Lin said he had cleared a crafting-focused task in a Breakthrough Secret Realm.

Lu Ran bought two swords for General Ha and headed to the Beast Taming Plaza to purchase extraordinary food, where he reunited with Pig Farmer and learned about the guild he had joined. A worldwide update announced the new Divine Pet Rankings, leaving Lu Ran worried that the rankings would expose him and General Ha.

• Lu Ran considered learning a noncombat profession later and bought two swords from Master Lin for practicing with General Ha.
• Lu Ran took General Ha out to buy extraordinary food and ran into Pig Farmer exercising with his wild boar.
• Pig Farmer added Lu Ran as a friend and explained that he had joined a guild offering two million Crystal Coins to Full Members, subject to a difficult assessment.
• Infinite City announced the Divine Pet Rankings after the number of Beast Tamers who had passed the Novice Trial reached 100,000, and a stone ranking monument appeared in each Beast Taming Plaza.
• Pig Farmer focused on the possibility of winning Crystal Coins, while Lu Ran worried that the rankings would reveal his and General Ha's strength.

Lu Ran and Pig Farmer visited the Beast Taming Plaza, where regional Divine Pet Rankings revealed powerful newcomers and a famous veteran. Lu Ran weighed the rankings’ rewards against the risks of public attention, while Fang Lan’s parents forbade her from entering secret realms and told her to keep Lu Ran from taking dangerous risks.

• Lu Ran and Pig Farmer went to the Beast Taming Plaza to learn how the Divine Pet Rankings worked.
• Dark Night, High Winds’s black bear and Tiger-Dragon Showdown’s rock tiger took the top two places on the Extraordinary Species Rankings.
• Starfall’s Nine-Star Light-Tailed Sparrow claimed first place on the Monarch Species Rankings, and Pig Farmer explained that Starfall led his guild, The Stars.
• Lu Ran decided the rankings would expose only selected combat feats, then left to buy supplies and urged Pig Farmer to train instead of watching.
• Fang Lan told her parents she had become a Beast Tamer, but they forbade her from entering secret realms and urged her to study at Beast Taming University.
• Fang Lan’s parents told her to find Lu Ran and keep him from doing anything dangerous, leaving her to blame Lu Ran for putting her in this position.

Lu Ran shopped for nutritious food and Energy Surge Fruits to strengthen General Ha, then suggested Fang Lan fight in the Arena instead of risking secret realms. Fang Lan embraced the plan and decided to dye her hair purple.

• Fang Lan argued with her parents, who refused to let her challenge secret realms, while her father considered becoming a Beast Tamer to help her.
• Lu Ran and Pig Farmer visited a food shop in Xia Country's Third Infinite City and struggled with its self-service ordering machines and high prices.
• Lu Ran bought premium ingredients for General Ha and five Energy Surge Fruits, planning to use their power boost for emergencies and training with the Divine Deer Pendant.
• Fang Lan added Lu Ran as a friend and complained that her parents had forbidden her from challenging secret realms.
• Lu Ran suggested Fang Lan compete in the Arena to earn rewards and prove herself more safely, and Fang Lan decided to live there and dye her hair purple.

Lu Ran and General Ha entered the Demon Cat Forest to recharge the Divine Deer Pendant and gather resources, but General Ha surprised Lu Ran by mastering Sword Aura and instantly killing a level 8 Demon Cat. General Ha’s achievement earned him a place on the Extraordinary Divine Pet Rankings, drawing attention across the Beast Taming Plaza.

• Lu Ran agreed to take General Ha to the Demon Cat Forest before their intensive sword training, and they entered the Novice Secret Realm.
• Lu Ran began gathering Woodscale Fruit while General Ha practiced with the Windfall Sword at their familiar spawn point.
• A level 8 Demon Cat emerged, and General Ha released Sword Aura that killed it and cut down a tree behind it.
• General Ha’s Contract Card gained the Sword Aura skill, and his Wind-attribute Snowfield Dog appeared on the Extraordinary Divine Pet Rankings.
• Beast Tamers at the Beast Taming Plaza reacted with astonishment to General Ha’s ranged Sword Aura and his victory over a level 8 Demon Cat.

General Ha’s Sword Aura attack put him and Lu Ran on the Extraordinary Pet Ranking, drawing attention from people who knew Lu Ran. Unaware of the ranking, Lu Ran continued exploring the Demon Cat Forest Secret Realm, where General Ha fought with his sword and they found a worthless claw.

• General Ha’s Sword Aura feat earned him a place on the Extraordinary Pet Ranking, and Sister Hua and Little White Dragon recognized John Doe as Lu Ran.
• Little White Dragon warned Sister Hua not to spread Lu Ran’s information, while Pig Farmer also saw the ranking entry.
• Fang Lan heard that John Doe’s Snowfield Dog had used Sword Aura to kill a higher-level Demon Cat and realized Lu Ran had entered the Secret Realm.
• Lu Ran learned that Sword Aura exhausted much of General Ha’s stamina and decided to save it for special situations.
• Lu Ran and General Ha continued deeper into the forest, killing Demon Cats with sword strikes while Lu Ran practiced Super Beast Mimicry.
• The pair found a Demon Cat Claw after a battle, appraised it as nearly useless, and decided the Secret Realm was poor value.

Lu Ran and General Ha explored the Demon Cat Forest, but they fled when the level-10 Demon Cat Leader ambushed them with a group of elite followers. Back in Lu Ran’s Exclusive Room, they learned General Ha had made the Divine Pet Rankings in tenth place, though he was unhappy with the result.

• Lu Ran tested the Wind-Slaying Sword’s Storm Slash and gathered resources while General Ha slaughtered Demon Cats in the forest.
• The concealed, grass-attribute Demon Cat Leader attacked them, and Lu Ran ordered General Ha to hold it off while he began their escape.
• The Demon Cat Leader dodged General Ha’s sword aura and summoned more than a dozen elite Demon Cats, but Lu Ran and General Ha escaped when the ten-second exit countdown ended.
• Lu Ran checked his messages and learned General Ha had ranked tenth among the Divine Pets, prompting General Ha to sulk over placing last.

Lu Ran took General Ha to the Training Secret Realm and used an Energy Surge Fruit to push him into a powerful, high-speed energy state. After General Ha’s rampage ended in severe pain, the Divine Deer Pendant was ready to heal him, and his Contract Card showed that he had reached Level 5.

• Lu Ran planned General Ha’s training around agility and the energy flow technique, then decided to use an Energy Surge Fruit and the Divine Deer Pendant to demonstrate high-speed energy flow.
• Lu Ran and General Ha entered the Training Secret Realm, where General Ha slowly ate the Energy Surge Fruit.
• The fruit triggered a powerful, rapidly flowing energy coat that boosted General Ha’s strength, speed, and defense.
• General Ha demolished the Training Secret Realm and began losing his reason, but Lu Ran used Telepathy to bring him back to his senses.
• General Ha collapsed in pain, and his Contract Card changed to show that he had reached Level 5.

General Ha mastered Gale and grew stronger through a week of training with Lu Ran, who also made progress in Super Beast Mimicry. When Pig Farmer asked Lu Ran to spar before a guild assessment, Lu Ran teased him for losing to Fang Lan’s poisonous spider and challenged him to try beating General Ha.

• The Divine Deer Pendant healed General Ha, and recalling the sensation helped him master Gale, which appeared on his Contract Card alongside Sword Aura.
• Over the next week, General Ha reached level 6 and improved his Gale and Sword Aura through training, while Lu Ran strengthened his body and developed his Super Beast Mimicry.
• Lu Ran sparred with General Ha, then left the Training Secret Realm to buy food after they had eaten their supplies ahead of schedule.
• Pig Farmer asked Lu Ran to be his sparring partner before a guild assessment, explaining that Fang Lan’s spider had beaten him twice in the Arena.
• Lu Ran joked that Pig Farmer’s boar would be worse than a spider or a dog if it lost to General Ha.

Lu Ran met Pig Farmer at the Arena and agreed to spar longer after Pig Farmer offered him an Awakening Leaf. Learning that the leaf could test a creature’s potential to become extraordinary, Lu Ran began considering candidates for a future second pet.

• Lu Ran checked the Divine Pet Rankings and saw Fang Lan’s tarantula in sixth place, along with other high-ranking pets and their feats.
• Lu Ran met Pig Farmer at the Arena, where Pig Farmer asked for extra practice against a Wind pet ahead of his guild assessment.
• Pig Farmer offered Lu Ran an Awakening Leaf from the Novice Secret Realm Awakening Island in exchange for sparring longer.
• Pig Farmer explained that Beast Tamers used Awakening Leaves to screen potential pets for aptitude.
• Lu Ran accepted the leaf and considered using more of them to assess familiar animals as candidates for his second pet.

Lu Ran and General Ha sparred with Pig Farmer and Wild Boar, revealing General Ha’s mastery of several Wind techniques and earning Lu Ran an Awakening Leaf. After returning home, Lu Ran found his timid Red-Eyed Hawk Lizard and prepared to test its potential with the leaf.

• Lu Ran asked Pig Farmer whether they would fight too, then summoned General Ha while Pig Farmer summoned Wild Boar for their sparring match.
• General Ha used Gale to dash around Wild Boar and knock him several meters away despite his Rock energy defense.
• General Ha stopped Wild Boar’s charge with Wind Roar, then formed a Wind Sword before Lu Ran ordered him to disperse it.
• Lu Ran took the Awakening Leaf as his sparring fee, returned home, and replied to Fang Lan that he would come back for a meal.
• Lu Ran found Red-Eyes Black Dragon on the television and offered him the Awakening Leaf to test his potential.

Lu Ran fed Sudden Death King an Awakening Leaf, and the lizard unexpectedly awakened as a high extraordinary creature, though he shrank to finger-length and kept playing dead. Lu Ran realized Sudden Death King had immense potential but worried that his tiny size and timid habits would make him difficult to train.

• Lu Ran offered Sudden Death King an Awakening Leaf, but the lizard pretended to die rather than accept it.
• Lu Ran coaxed Sudden Death King into eating the leaf, and the lizard showed no immediate change before Lu Ran set him down.
• Sudden Death King began glowing and evolved, shrinking instead of growing as a powerful presence emerged from him.
• Lu Ran summoned General Ha, who sensed Sudden Death King's strength and stood protectively in front of Lu Ran.
• Sudden Death King dropped dead again when General Ha bared his teeth, and Lu Ran concluded that the tiny lizard had awakened as a high extraordinary creature.

Lu Ran took Sudden Death King out to practice adapting to the world beyond home, then met Fang Lan and her parents for dinner, where he learned they planned to work in pet beast pharmacology. Remembering that he had missed his old master's sixtieth birthday, Lu Ran booked a train to Jinling to visit Jiang Dou and make amends.

• Lu Ran set rules for the newly powerful Sudden Death King and took it outside to test how well it handled the environment.
• Lu Ran met Fang Lan, Su Ya, and Fang Yuhang at a Hunan restaurant, where Fang Lan's parents revealed they were preparing to work and teach in pet beast pharmacology.
• Fang Yuhang asked Lu Ran and Fang Lan to help find a way for him and Su Ya to become Beast Tamers quickly.
• Fang Lan mentioned her upcoming birthday, prompting Lu Ran to realize he had forgotten Jiang Dou's sixtieth birthday.
• Lu Ran recalled his history at the Rainbow Sky Dojo and booked a train to Jinling to visit Jiang Dou the next morning.

Lu Ran returned to the Rainbow Sky Dojo to visit Master Jiang Dou and revealed that he had comprehended sword intent through his Beast Tamer powers. Jiang Dou told him that his adopted son Jiang Man had also been a Beast Tamer but died in a Secret Realm, then gave Lu Ran Jiang Man’s diary as a warning and source of guidance.

• Lu Ran arrived at the Rainbow Sky Dojo with a gift and was mistaken for a challenger, so the apprentices gathered to face him.
• Lu Ran’s beastlike sword intent overwhelmed the apprentices until Senior Brother He recognized him and led him to Master Jiang Dou.
• Lu Ran demonstrated his sword intent to Jiang Dou, who realized he had become a Beast Tamer.
• Jiang Dou explained that his adopted son Jiang Man had been an early Beast Tamer who died in a Secret Realm.
• Jiang Dou gave Lu Ran Jiang Man’s diary, whose opening entry described forming a contract with Silly Eagle and naming himself Divine Eagle Hero.

Lu Ran read Jiang Man’s diary and learned that his senior brother died while seeking a Humanoid Trait for Sand Eagle. Despite Jiang Dou’s warning, Lu Ran insisted that his own husky could use the Weapon Mastery Trait because he had already trained it in swordsmanship.

• Lu Ran read that Jiang Man earned an S rating, gained Fusion and Trait Borrowing, and sought the Weapon Mastery Trait to improve his swordsmanship.
• Jiang Man discovered that Sand Eagle was poorly suited to Weapon Mastery and planned to travel abroad to find a Humanoid Trait in the Orc Tribe Secret Realm.
• Jiang Dou told Lu Ran that Jiang Man and two friends died in that secret realm, then warned Lu Ran not to take reckless risks.
• Lu Ran explained that he had trained his pet beast in swordsmanship and believed it could handle Weapon Mastery better than Sand Eagle had.
• Jiang Dou guessed Lu Ran had contracted a monkey, but Lu Ran revealed that his pet beast was a husky.

Lu Ran showed Old Master Jiang Dou that General Ha could wield a sword and had developed sword intent. Jiang Dou explained the difference between their sword intents and described the legendary realm of sword will, leaving Lu Ran and General Ha with a potential path to pursue.

• Lu Ran summoned General Ha and had him demonstrate the Gale-Draw Sword Technique to Jiang Dou and Senior Brother He.
• Jiang Dou criticized General Ha’s technique, but General Ha released sword intent that left Jiang Dou and the others stunned.
• Lu Ran explained how he had first taught General Ha swordsmanship for fun and later trained him seriously after becoming a Beast Tamer.
• Jiang Dou acknowledged General Ha and asked him to become his disciple, but Lu Ran declined on the dog’s behalf and asked Jiang Dou about sword will.
• Jiang Dou explained how sword intent strengthened different aspects of their swordsmanship and said sword will could turn a swordsman’s spirit into a weapon.

Lu Ran stayed at the Rainbow Sky Dojo and learned that a pet beast’s deepest needs could shape its strongest attributes after evolution. Seeing that Sudden Death King’s fear of dying had likely made him exceptionally defensive, Lu Ran wondered whether to develop him as a shield alongside General Ha.

• Jiang Dou invited Lu Ran to stay at the Rainbow Sky Dojo, and Lu Ran agreed; Jiang Dou arranged a room for him and discussed how Beast Tamers might revive traditional martial arts.
• Lu Ran took General Ha and Sudden Death King into the nearby mountains, where he told Sudden Death King to hunt for food and asked General Ha to watch over him.
• Lu Ran checked the beast-taming forum after Fang Lan told him it had new basic guides and found a post explaining that a pet beast’s inner needs could strengthen a particular attribute after evolution.
• Lu Ran connected General Ha’s strong learning ability to his past training and concluded that Sudden Death King’s fear of death had likely amplified his already strong defense.
• Lu Ran considered training Sudden Death King to serve as a defensive shield alongside General Ha, but worried that making the timid lizard a meat shield would be cruel.

Lu Ran learned that Sudden Death King had shrunk because it lacked nourishment, and he promised to feed it better once he could afford it. While walking with General Ha and Sudden Death King, he overheard three unusually intelligent squirrels discussing humans killing each other and commanding monsters, then ordered General Ha to catch them.

• Sudden Death King explained that it wanted tough scales so it would not feel pain, and Lu Ran considered how its defensive focus contrasted with General Ha’s aggression.
• Lu Ran found a forum post explaining that a pet beast might shrink during awakening when its Beast Tamer provided too little power, and realized Sudden Death King was malnourished.
• Lu Ran promised Sudden Death King that he would provide better nourishment after earning money, while the lizard continued eating grasshoppers.
• Lu Ran overheard three squirrels talking about people killing each other and ordering monsters around.
• Lu Ran told General Ha to catch the squirrels, and the three squirrels fled in terror.

Lu Ran discovered the buried body of a Beast Tamer in the mountains and contacted Jinling officials. Zhao Chen identified the victim as a target of Other Shore, an international organization whose members became Necromancers by turning their pet beasts undead and hunting others for their souls.

• Lu Ran questioned three squirrels and learned that two people had fought on the mountain, one had died, and the other had buried the body.
• Lu Ran found the burial site and called Little White Dragon, who connected him with his former supervisor, Zhao Chen.
• Zhao Chen arrived with Xiao Wang, confirmed Lu Ran's report, and took him away while Xiao Wang handled the crime scene.
• Zhao Chen learned that the victim was Tao Hua, a Jinling Normal University student whose roommate had reported him missing.
• Zhao Chen told Lu Ran that Other Shore was suspected of killing Tao Hua and explained that its members used undead pet beasts to hunt Beast Tamers and devour their souls.

Lu Ran accompanied Zhao Chen to the Jinling Beast Taming Tower while they pursued a Necromancer, then tested Sudden Death King's attribute. Sudden Death King awakened Lightning, and Lu Ran left considering how its defensive body might use electricity against anything that touched it.

• Lu Ran agreed to accompany Zhao Chen to the Beast Taming Tower and imagined learning necromancy so he could revive General Ha if it ever died.
• Zhao Chen left Lu Ran in a reception room and told him he could test Sudden Death King's attribute at an Attribute Stone.
• Lu Ran found Sister Hua teaching newcomers and brought Sudden Death King forward to test its attribute.
• Sudden Death King scratched the stone, which sparked and showed that it had the Lightning attribute; the frightened lizard then fainted, and Lu Ran claimed it was playing dead.
• Lu Ran thanked Sister Hua, returned toward the reception room, and considered how Sudden Death King could use its conductive body as lightning armor to shock anything that touched it.

Lu Ran met Manager Ying, a talking ragdoll cat and powerful supernatural being recruited to help catch the Necromancer. After recognizing his psychic talent, she invited him to observe the hunt and prepared to use her time and spatial skills to track and trap the killer.

• Lu Ran considered building Sudden Death King around defense and damage reflection before Manager Ying stopped him in the Beast Taming Tower hallway.
• Manager Ying identified Lu Ran as the person who discovered the Necromancer and criticized him for contracting a dog instead of a cat.
• Manager Ying revealed that she knew Lu Ran was a psychic and told him about other powerful psychics, including someone besides Gu Qingyi.
• Manager Ying introduced herself as a founder of the Cat-Eared Maid Café and invited Lu Ran to learn how Necromancers fought.
• Zhao Chen arrived and identified Manager Ying as the outside help, and she proposed reconstructing the crime scene with a Time-Type Skill before sealing the Necromancer's escape route with a Spatial Skill.

Manager Ying took Lu Ran to the mountain where the novice Beast Tamer had been buried and decided to use the hunt for the Necromancer as a training opportunity for him. After learning that capturing the criminal could earn him a large reward, Lu Ran agreed to help lure the suspect out.

• Manager Ying persuaded Zhao Chen to let Lu Ran accompany her, assuring him she knew Gu Qingyi and would keep Lu Ran safe.
• Manager Ying used Instant Teleportation to bring Lu Ran to the mountain behind Rainbow Town, then offered him a chance to fight the Necromancer while she provided cover.
• Lu Ran initially resisted getting involved with Other Shore, but agreed to try after Manager Ying mentioned the Crystal Coin reward.
• Manager Ying searched the mountain with her skill and traced the novice Necromancer, who was likely still in Jinling City.
• Manager Ying planned to use Lu Ran and Sudden Death King as bait, explaining that the Necromancer would be drawn to their seemingly weak souls.

Lu Ran lured a Necromancer into an abandoned residential complex and defeated him and his possessed Necromantic Tabby Cat with General Ha’s sword techniques. Manager Ying watched the fight and prepared to intervene, but Lu Ran asked her to check that the pair had survived so they could be interrogated.

• Lu Ran smelled a suspicious scent, and a skinny young Necromancer approached him and lured him toward an abandoned complex.
• When Lu Ran refused to go farther, the Necromancer attacked with a throwing knife, but Lu Ran deflected it with his sword.
• The Necromancer activated his Black Card’s teleportation function, but the escape failed, so he ordered his hidden Necromantic Tabby Cat to attack.
• General Ha knocked the cat aside with his speed, and the Necromancer then had it possess him to increase their power.
• Lu Ran gave General Ha the Windfall Sword, and General Ha unleashed sword aura that blasted the Necromancer and his pet.
• Lu Ran asked Manager Ying to check that the Necromancer and cat were alive so they could be interrogated.

Lu Ran and General Ha defeated a rookie Necromancer, and Manager Ying explained how Necromancers and Other Shore operated before awarding Lu Ran the reward. After learning that Gu Qingyi did not know Lu Ran, Manager Ying decided to investigate his background and consider recruiting him.

• Lu Ran and General Ha defeated the Necromancer, and Manager Ying called Zhao Chen to arrange for officials to collect him.
• Manager Ying explained that undead pets consumed souls, that Necromantic Revival could turn a dead contracted pet into an undead creature, and that Other Shore monopolized the skill.
• Lu Ran accepted Crystal Coins as his reward and later returned to the dojo after declining Zhao Chen's offer of counseling.
• Manager Ying called Gu Qingyi and learned that she did not know Lu Ran or consider him one of her people.
• Manager Ying ordered a black cat to investigate Lu Ran and General Ha, including the husky's origins before he met Lu Ran.

Lu Ran and General Ha cleared the Demon Cat Forest Secret Realm with an SSS rating, and General Ha’s sword-aura attacks pushed him to first place on Third Infinite City’s Extraordinary Pet Ranking. Their sudden rise stunned Beast Tamers and drew attention to Lu Ran.

• Lu Ran decided to use his newly revealed supernatural ability as a cover for his Divine Deer Antler and took General Ha to challenge the Demon Cat Forest Secret Realm.
• Lu Ran told General Ha to avoid the Windfall Sword and Divine Deer Pendant, and General Ha used wind swords and sword aura to defeat the Demon Cat Leader without taking damage.
• The Divine Pet Rankings announced that General Ha had taken first place after killing the level-10 Demon Cat Leader, shocking Beast Taming Plaza.
• Lu Ran and General Ha received an SSS rating and high-grade grass resources, though Lu Ran considered the rewards unimpressive.
• Fang Lan decided to train harder after seeing Lu Ran’s ranking, while Shopkeeper Ying wondered why Lu Ran kept killing cats.