Chapter Summaries

Lu Ran assessed Lujia Village’s growing forces and planned to build an Undead Department by recruiting suitable Beast Tamers whose pet beasts had died. After learning that Bai Qi had lost four pet beasts in battle, Lu Ran decided to investigate recruiting him and obtained a Heart-Questioning Stone to assess his honesty.

• Lu Ran learned that Lujia Village had nine Level One Beast Tamers and 241 Apprentice Beast Tamers, and he planned to form a Flood Dragon Squad to tackle Legendary Secret Realms.
• Lu Ran asked Manager Ying to alert him to Necromancy news and outlined plans to connect Lujia Village, Green Sea, and a future Undead Department.
• Manager Ying told Lu Ran that Four Saints Gang leader Bai Qi had lost four pet beasts while helping his team escape a Level 52 Spatial Boss, and suggested that Bai Qi might qualify to become a Necromancer.
• Lu Ran consulted Gu Qingyi, who offered him the Exquisite-tier Heart-Questioning Stone to evaluate Bai Qi before recruiting him.
• After receiving the stone, Lu Ran tested it on Manager Ying and the Weather Spirit, then chose a harmless shirt for his meeting with Bai Qi.

Lu Ran summoned Bai Qi to Green Sea City and offered to revive his four dead Pet Beasts through necromancy in exchange for Bai Qi abandoning the Four Saints Gang and joining his planned Special Department. Bai Qi accepted, but Lu Ran’s Death Revival Skill Card and ominous claims about overthrowing the Alliance left him realizing he had walked into a dangerous secret.

• Lu Ran called Bai Ling and told her to send Bai Qi to Green Sea City, claiming he could bring dead Pet Beasts back to life.
• Bai Ling told her dejected brother that Lu Ran had summoned him, and Bai Qi immediately regained his spirits and traveled to meet him.
• On Emerald Mountain, Bai Qi showed Lu Ran the bodies of his four mainstay Pet Beasts, and Lu Ran offered to revive them if Bai Qi gave up the Four Saints Gang and worked for him.
• Lu Ran handed Bai Qi a Death Revival Skill Card and asked whether he would change from a Beast Tamer into a Necromancer.
• Bai Qi panicked at the taboo skill, and Lu Ran donned his Undead Saint Robe and joked that his organization would overthrow the Alliance and rule the New World.

Lu Ran founded Xia Country’s Netherworld Department and helped Bai Qi revive his four pet beasts as undead, then assigned him to hunt dangerous ferocious beasts. Manager Ying also found sellers for the ores Lu Ran needed to forge a weapon for General Ha, and Lu Ran offered an Ant Queen Egg as payment.

• Lu Ran revealed that the Alliance-backed Necromancy project could preserve undead pet beasts’ memories and consciousness, and that he had solved the drawbacks of Necromancy.
• Bai Qi agreed to join Lu Ran, disband the Four Saints Gang, and help develop Necromancy, which Lu Ran named the Netherworld Department.
• Bai Qi used the Death Revival skill and Lu Ran’s knowledge to transform his four dead pet beasts into undead, then learned to keep their existence secret and hunt dangerous beasts for Lu Ran.
• Lu Ran told Bai Qi to register with Dr. Gu and assigned him to hunt ferocious beasts in dangerous areas of Xia Country, while Lu Ran planned to provide soul food and storage bottles.
• Manager Ying told Lu Ran she had found sellers for Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Heart and Eye of the Storm, and Lu Ran offered an Ant Queen Egg to pay for the ores and her commission.

Gu Qingyi delivered young proto-dragons and a Nature Control Trait Crystal as Lu Ran prepared to build the Flood Dragon Squad and considered when to evolve General Ha and Dark Crow. After arranging training for Lujia Village’s new Beast Tamers, Lu Ran learned Fang Lan had joined Lin Yin and Xia Ri for a secret-realm team.

• Gu Qingyi brought Lu Ran a Nature Control Trait Crystal and twelve young proto-dragons to support the Flood Dragon Squad.
• Lu Ran and Gu Qingyi discussed whether he should delay evolving General Ha and Dark Crow while waiting for better resources.
• Lu Ran sent Dark Crow and the crow army to move the snakes to Emerald Mountain, then invited Lu Bing and the other eight new Beast Tamers from Lujia Village to Green Sea.
• Lu Ran invited Fang Lan to train with the Flood Dragon Squad, but Fang Lan declined because she had agreed to team up with Lin Yin and Xia Ri.
• Lu Ran accepted Fang Lan’s choice and judged that her team might clear a legendary secret realm before the Flood Dragon Squad.

Lu Ran continued training his Pet Beasts, while General Ha and Dark Crow delayed First-Stage Evolution to build stronger foundations. Manager Ying then told him that Living Fossil’s ancient Iron-Eating Beast totem had awakened, leaving Lu Ran curious about the giant panda.

• General Ha mastered thirtyfold Energy Compression and began using fortyfold compression, while Sudden Death King started training in Falling Star Conception and exploring ways to shield its teammates.
• General Ha asked Lu Ran to forge its new weapon before it evolved, and Dark Crow also refused to evolve until it could better control its soul power.
• Lu Ran explained that he was encouraging the Weather Spirit to become a future legion leader by having it watch gangster dramas.
• Manager Ying told Lu Ran that Youxiong Anlin’s younger sister had discovered the awakened Iron-Eating Beast worshipped by the Youxiong Clan.

Lu Ran and Manager Ying traveled to Youxiong Ancient Town to meet the clan’s newly awakened Iron-Eating Beast guardian deity. They joined six First-Generation figures and other guests, and the chapter ended as the powerful guardian deity arrived.

• Manager Ying told Lu Ran that the Youxiong Clan had announced its ancient Iron-Eating Beast would serve as Xia Country’s guardian deity, and Lu Ran agreed to visit it with her.
• Lu Ran and Manager Ying teleported to Youxiong Ancient Town and asked Youxiong Anlin to receive them.
• Youxiong Anlin brought them to the main hall, where six First-Generation figures, including Pig God, Shi Zhen, Dr. Gu, and Zhu Kaixin, had gathered.
• Youxiong Jiyuan said the clan knew little about the guardian deity, while Youxiong Anlin explained that Lu Ran would learn more by meeting it.
• The Iron-Eating Beast arrived with a girl, and the guests identified it as a level 68, high-overlord Gold-grass dual-type creature.

President Youxiong revealed that ancient Secret Realms exist on Blue Star and that the Youxiong Clan would open its exclusive trial realm so others could help gather food for its guardian deity. The Iron-Eating Beast Guardian Deity challenged Lu Ran after learning he might be stronger than Youxiong Anlin, and Lu Ran wondered whether Lujia Village had once possessed its own Secret Realm.

• President Youxiong told the First Generation members that Infinite City had operated thousands of years ago and left special Secret Realms on Blue Star.
• President Youxiong explained that the Youxiong Clan’s exclusive trial realm dropped Armorization, Super Sleep, and bamboo resources, and said the clan would open it to other Beast Tamers for help feeding its guardian deity.
• The Iron-Eating Beast Guardian Deity praised Youxiong Anlin’s strength, but the gathering looked toward Lu Ran, whom President Youxiong acknowledged as stronger.
• Lu Ran agreed to try a fight and wondered whether Lujia Village had also had an exclusive trial Secret Realm in ancient times.
• The Iron-Eating Beast Guardian Deity challenged Youxiong Anlin to fight Lu Ran and threatened to train someone else if Anlin lost.

Lu Ran and the others met the Iron-Eating Beast Guardian Deity, who agreed to wait until Youxiong Anlin’s panda evolved before fighting him. After Gu Qingyi pieced together the history linking the Star-Moon Continent to Blue Star, she kept the First Generation members and Lu Ran behind, apparently to discuss his Necromancy pet beast.

• Youxiong Anlin asked to postpone his fight with Lu Ran until his panda underwent its first-stage evolution, and the Iron-Eating Beast Guardian Deity agreed.
• Manager Ying asked whether the Iron-Eating Beast Guardian Deity had ancient treasures to trade, but it said its supernatural resources had mostly decayed.
• Lu Ran considered whether the Divine Deer Pendant could be the key to Lujia Village’s exclusive secret realm.
• Gu Qingyi outlined the history of spirit energy’s rise and decline, and the group accepted that the Star-Moon Continent was Blue Star’s prehistoric civilization.
• Youxiong Jiyuan explained the guardian deity’s role and the secret realm’s opening schedule, while Gu Qingyi persuaded Lin Nian and the others to stay.
• Lu Ran realized Gu Qingyi likely intended to discuss his Necromancy with the First Generation members and prepare protection for Dark Crow’s evolution.

Gu Qingyi revealed that Lu Ran’s parents had secretly worked their way into Other Shore’s upper ranks and left behind Death Revival Skill Cards, while Lu Ran had helped Xia Country remove Necromancy’s soul-consumption drawback. The First Generation members agreed to guard Lu Ran during the upcoming Evolution Secret Realm and began pooling exquisite resources for his Dark Crow, leaving several contributions in progress.

• Gu Qingyi told the First Generation members that Lu Ran’s parents had been Xia Country undercover agents in Other Shore and had sent back more than a hundred Death Revival Skill Cards before dying in a Breakthrough Secret Realm.
• Gu Qingyi revealed that Lu Ran had developed a way to eliminate Necromancy’s soul-consumption side effect, and said Xia Country planned to reveal the breakthrough after his next evolution.
• Gu Qingyi asked the First Generation members to protect Lu Ran in the Evolution Secret Realm, and they agreed to help in exchange for Death Revival Skill Cards.
• Manager Ying persuaded the group to contribute exquisite resources for Dark Crow, and Lu Ran described the pet beast’s attributes and special traits.
• Jiang Rui offered a Mandala Flower, Wu Ma contributed a Devouring Agate, and Lin Nian added a Super Mind Fruit for Dark Crow.

Lu Ran prepared Dark Crow for evolution by feeding him three rare resources, and Dark Crow gained powerful psychic abilities and a new curse skill. As they approached the second evolution secret realm, Dark Crow proposed eating his own equipment to keep growing.

• Lu Ran accepted the resources from the First Generation tamers and planned to take Dark Crow to the Arctic Ocean Public Secret Realm in three days.
• Lu Ran fed Dark Crow the Devouring Agate, Super Mind Fruit, Mandala Flower, and Soul Bone Soup to prepare him for evolution.
• Dark Crow rapidly absorbed the resources, greatly strengthened his psychic and soul powers, and awakened the Dark Vision curse.
• Lu Ran read online speculation about his pet beasts' prospects in the second evolution secret realm while Dark Crow showed off his new skill.
• Dark Crow asked to eat his Soul Scarecrow, and Lu Ran joked about him consuming his Evil God's Eye and healing with the Divine Deer Pendant; Dark Crow eagerly agreed.

Lu Ran helped Dark Crow cultivate by repeatedly having him consume his own Evil God's Eyes and using the Divine Deer Antler to regrow them. The process greatly increased Dark Crow’s power and gave him a body covered in hidden eyes, and Lu Ran ended the training when Dark Crow reached a bottleneck.

• Dark Crow asked Lu Ran to let him try Self-Consumption Cultivation by eating his own Evil God's Eyes, and Lu Ran agreed to use the Divine Deer Antler to heal him.
• Lu Ran took Dark Crow to the Verdant Forest Secret Realm, where Dark Crow gouged out an eye and swallowed it after Lu Ran restored it.
• Dark Crow repeated the process, absorbing his own power until his strength surged and a third eye grew on his forehead.
• After a day of training, Dark Crow reached a bottleneck and developed Evil God's Eyes across his body, which he learned to hide.
• Lu Ran stopped the training and wondered what Dark Crow would evolve into.

Lu Ran joined Xia Country’s First Generation members before entering the second evolution secret realm, where they planned to use him as bait for anyone plotting against him. After arriving, he met India’s Golden Generation team and put off their offer to discuss superpowers until after his evolution.

• Lu Ran met Tang Changpu at the Cat-Eared Maid Café and discussed the possibility that Infinite City might eventually let uncontracted beasts train there.
• Lin Nian and Gu Qingyi proposed that Lu Ran enter the secret realm without his companions nearby to draw out potential attackers, and Manager Ying agreed to guard him in disguise.
• Lu Ran entered the evolution secret realm with Sudden Death King, General Ha, and Dark Crow, drawing the attention of Beast Tamers as Sudden Death King flew them to a quiet area.
• Jialan introduced his sister Jiana and teammate Manasa, India’s Golden Generation team, and offered to explain what superpowers represented.
• Lu Ran declined to become friends with the trio and told them they could talk after his evolution.

Lu Ran brought Dark Crow to the Evolution Secret Realm and used the Undead Clone Trait Crystal during the eruption. Dark Crow evolved into Twin Crows, a unique Low-tier Overlord species with separate Curse Crow and Death Crow forms, leaving the gathered Beast Tamers and the Ice King stunned.

• Lu Ran shut himself away beneath the Sudden Death King's wings while Beast Tamers and reporters gathered nearby for the evolution eruption.
• As the countdown ended, Lu Ran sent Dark Crow into the sky, and Dark Crow swallowed the Undead Clone Trait Crystal before Evolution Energy enveloped it.
• The Ice King's Permafrost Elephant Lord evolved into a Low-Tier Overlord, drawing attention as one of the strongest beasts present.
• After the Ice King's evolution, the starry sky lit up again around Lu Ran's still-evolving Pet Beast, and a constellation shaped like an eye sent down dazzling starlight.
• Dark Crow emerged as two bodies, Curse Crow and Death Crow, each a Low-tier Overlord, and the crowd—including the Ice King—was shocked by its evolution into Twin Crows.

Lu Ran revealed that he had joined the Undead Church, become its heir, and developed a safe way to raise undead pet beasts, while Dark Crow evolved into the two-bodied Twin Crows. After Lin Nian crushed an International Alliance police officer and drove back Lu Ran’s accusers, the crowd began to believe his claims and the White Mouse Reporter prepared to spread the news.

• Dark Crow evolved into the Twin Crows, gaining two overlord bodies that shared one consciousness, while Lu Ran explained its Twin curse talent.
• Kalon and a Nippon International Alliance police officer accused Lu Ran of illegal necromancy and tried to arrest him, but Lu Ran admitted his Undead Church ties and said he had resolved necromancy’s drawbacks.
• When the officer sent his black dog to attack Lu Ran, Lin Nian crushed them both with telekinetic force and then injured the other Beast Tamers who had prepared to attack.
• Shi Zhen and the other Xia Country First-Generation Beast Tamers arrived and restrained Lin Nian, while the crowd realized they were not surprised by Lu Ran’s claims.
• Lu Ran confirmed he would share his safe undead-raising method with Xia Country’s friends for a price, and the White Mouse Reporter left the Secret Realm to report the news.

News of Lu Ran’s split evolution and his method for eliminating the drawbacks of Undead growth drew global attention and threatened to ignite a power struggle within the Other Shore. As Lu Ran prepared to leave the Evolution Secret Realm, the Twin Crows began an unexpected fusion.

• The Ice King’s Permafrost Elephant advanced to overlord, but reports of Lu Ran creating two overlord forms from one Pet Beast overshadowed the news.
• Bai Qi recognized that Lu Ran’s announcement would make the Other Shore’s Death Revival Skill Cards and Undead methods a target for countries and powerful individuals.
• The Vampire Count discussed Lu Ran’s rise with Dr. Xien, who proposed that Lu Ran become the Other Shore’s new Lord and said the Eternal Life Faction would support him.
• Lu Ran grew tired of answering questions and prepared to leave the Evolution Secret Realm with Dr. Gu and the others.
• The Twin Crows rose into the air, and the Death Crow form began possessing the Curse Crow form to initiate Fusion.

Dark Crow fused its two bodies, cursed the injured Beast Tamers into pigs, and later possessed Lu Ran to give him crow wings and a beak. Lu Ran returned to Green Sea as Xia Country prepared for international scrutiny, and he began testing how possession could help forge General Ha a new weapon.

• Dark Crow fused its bodies and transformed the severely injured Beast Tamers and their Pet Beasts into pigs with its curse.
• Shi Zhen questioned Dark Crow’s Transformation Curse, while Lu Ran explained that it was temporary and still developing.
• Gu Qingyi warned Lu Ran to stay in Xia Country as the International Alliance arranged a research visit, and Zhu Kaixin offered to seek evolution resources for General Ha.
• Lu Ran returned to Green Sea, where General Ha focused on sword training while Dark Crow guessed that Lu Ran wanted to use Soul Flame to forge it a new weapon.
• Dark Crow possessed Lu Ran, giving him black wings and a crow-shaped beak that made him complain about his appearance.

Lu Ran prepared to forge equipment using the Soul Forging Method while the International Alliance arranged to verify the Undead incident in Xia Country. When the visitors arrived in Green Sea, Dark Crow greeted them on Lu Ran’s behalf.

• Lu Ran used Dark Crow’s possession to master Soul Flame and reviewed how the Soul Forging Method could replace Inscription Stone with soul power and nurture Artifact Spirits.
• Dr. Gu warned Lu Ran that International Alliance representatives, including a Necromancer connected to Other Shore, would arrive to verify the incident.
• Lu Ran celebrated General Ha’s thousand collected teeth, then accepted Zhu Kaixin’s Exquisite Spatial resource, Boundary-Breaking Root, despite General Ha’s frustration at the prospect of improving the teeth again.
• Lu Ran decided not to replace General Ha’s current materials and postponed forging an Exquisite weapon until after the Alliance visitors left.
• Gu Qingyi welcomed Heavenly King Caesar and Dr. Parr at Magic City International Airport, then escorted them and their Xia Country companions to Green Sea.
• Dark Crow met the visitors at Green Sea Airport with a flock of crows and told them to follow him to see his Great King, Lu Ran.

Lu Ran demonstrated that his soul-processing method let Undead grow without harmful side effects, then negotiated with the International Alliance to verify his claims and control access to the technique. The Alliance’s announcement shook the world and intensified Other Shore’s internal conflict, while a desperate level-five Necromancer called Lu Ran seeking protection and offering information about a Real-World Secret Realm.

• Lu Ran had Noren’s Undead gorilla eat processed Fire Ant Beast souls, and Noren confirmed that neither he nor his Pet Beast suffered the usual mental effects.
• Lu Ran told the International Alliance that only a few people could learn soul processing, but soul-preserving containers could make the method practical, and he set conditions for teaching it.
• The International Alliance and Xia Country negotiated, then the Alliance publicly verified Lu Ran’s claims and announced joint research into Necromancy.
• Countries rushed to obtain Lu Ran’s method and stepped up efforts to hunt Necromancers, while more than half of Other Shore’s level-five Necromancers reportedly wanted Lu Ran to lead them.
• A level-five Necromancer called Lu Ran, offered to reveal how to enter a Real-World Secret Realm with Death Revival skill books, and begged to join him.

Lu Ran and Dr. Gu met with two Other Shore members, who explained the organization’s history and offered cooperation in exchange for safety and harmless soul food. Pan Kai revealed that a sufficiently potent Pet Beast blood crystal combined with spiritual energy could open Other Shore’s Undead Secret Realm, and that the Red Earl had been raised as a blood-drawing test subject.

• Lu Ran agreed to consider the Other Shore members’ terms and arranged a meeting with Dr. Gu in a Public Infinite City.
• Pan Kai and Dr. Xien introduced themselves and explained that Other Shore had split into three factions after its founder died.
• Pan Kai said the Necromancers wanted a safe place to research and harmless soul food, while offering Lu Ran the location and opening method for the Undead Secret Realm.
• Lu Ran questioned how Other Shore could open the Secret Realm after its original key-holder died, and Pan Kai explained that the researchers had discovered how to make duplicate keys.
• Pan Kai revealed that a high-quality Pet Beast blood crystal combined with powerful spiritual energy could open the Secret Realm, and that the Red Earl was one of Other Shore’s blood-drawing test subjects.

Lu Ran agreed to shelter the cooperative members of Other Shore while planning to seize its South American headquarters and use its dangerous Necromancy Secret Realm to nurture an Artifact Spirit. Back in Green Sea, he learned that Manager Ying had traded the Ant Queen Egg to Lin Nian for Lin Yin, then planned General Ha’s evolution and his own next breakthrough.

• Pan Kai revealed Other Shore’s South American headquarters and described its internal split, while Dr. Xien said most Necromancers there wanted to cooperate with Lu Ran.
• Lu Ran agreed to protect willing members by publicly dismantling Other Shore, gave Pan Kai a ring containing a hundred Harmless Souls, and heard that the Necromancy Secret Realm rewarded clears but endangered souls.
• After learning that the Secret Realm lay on a Legendary Battlefield filled with death aura, Lu Ran decided it could serve as an Artifact Spirit Nurturing Site and agreed to meet the group in the real world.
• Gu Qingyi volunteered to lead First Generations to South America to secure Other Shore’s territory, while Lu Ran returned to Green Sea to forge weapons and spirit storage rings.
• Lu Ran discovered that Manager Ying had traded the Ant Queen Egg to Lin Nian for Lin Yin, and complained that Fang Lan might feel awkward seeing it with Lin Yin.
• Lu Ran decided General Ha should skip the upcoming Evolution Secret Realm, evolve in a later one, and then accompany him into the level-two Breakthrough Secret Realm.