Chapter Summaries

General Ha evolved into the Sword Domain Hound and awakened a powerful Sword Domain, though his Quasi-Legendary boost from the Divine Deer Sword was healing-focused. After Lu Ran’s evolution once again stunned Beast Tamers worldwide, Infinite City announced a world-class competition against the Star-Moon Continent within one year.

• General Ha’s evolution gave him the Sword Domain and a Quasi-Legendary species rank when he wielded the Divine Deer Sword, but Lu Ran discovered that the sword’s power was healing rather than offensive.
• General Ha used the Winter Sword Spirit’s possession to raise his displayed species rank to Mid-level Overlord, then dispersed his domain and revealed his Sword Domain Hound form to the watching Beast Tamers.
• Lu Ran kept General Ha’s true strength secret, recalled his pets, and left with Lin Nian as news of the level-30 domain spread across the world.
• Lu Ran met with First Generation tamers at the Cat-Eared Maid Café, where Infinite City announced a world-class competition and promised its top ten Beast Tamers rewards and a trip to the Star-Moon Continent.

Infinite City announced a World War in which Blue Star would select ten Beast Tamers to face a team from the Star-Moon Continent, with partial administrative access as the prize. Lu Ran decided to pursue a place on the team and urged his pet beasts to endure another year of special training.

• Infinite City announced the World War, prompting Zhu Kaixin, Lin Nian, Gu Qingyi, Shi Zhen, Manager Ying, and Lu Ran to discuss the unknown Star-Moon Continent team and the risks and rewards of the competition.
• Manager Ying guessed that Lu Ran wanted to challenge the First Generation, earn a spot among Blue Star’s ten representatives, and gain administrative access to Infinite City; Lu Ran admitted that was his goal and explained how he helped General Ha learn a domain.
• Lu Ran returned to Green Sea and calculated that he would need to level quickly and train his pet beasts to fight above their levels if he hoped to compete within a year.
• Lu Ran summoned General Ha, Sudden Death King, and Dark Crow, explained that winning could secure their future, and proposed a year of grueling special training.

Lu Ran learned the rules for the world war’s arena challenges and prepared for his upcoming Breakthrough Secret Realm. Before entering, he arranged for Manager Ying to care for the Weather Spirit and Winter Sword Spirit and planned to train Dark Crow’s growing flock.

• Dark Crow, General Ha, and Sudden Death King agreed to train hard and defeat their opponents after Lu Ran promised them future rewards.
• Manager Ying explained that Beast Tamers would reach the King's Domain by passing difficult preliminaries, where champions defended ten arenas in three-on-three battles.
• Lu Ran and Manager Ying discussed the challenge limits, the risks of fighting foreign tamers, and the possibility that the battles would encourage Beast Tamers to develop Combined Domains.
• Lu Ran told Manager Ying she would care for the Weather Spirit and Winter Sword Spirit while he spent a month in a Breakthrough Secret Realm, explaining that the Sword Spirit could not accompany him inside.
• Lu Ran planned to establish a Real-World Secret Realm as a training home for Dark Crow’s flock and learned that it already numbered 5,173 crows, including hundreds above level 10.

Lu Ran opened a new Secret Realm for Dark Crow’s flock, then entered a Level Two Breakthrough Secret Realm and was matched with Beast Tamers from another world. He arrived in Tree Realm City on the Divine Tree Continent, where he had to compete in the Plant and Beast Championship.

• Lu Ran assigned Dark Crow to cultivate the flock, prioritizing Psychic awakening resources for most crows and focused training for twelve elite crows with Dark-Type or Psychic attributes.
• Lu Ran opened a small Secret Realm at Red Leaf Park Back Mountain, made Dark Crow’s feather its key, and planned to shape the environment for Wind, Psychic, and Dark-Type crows.
• Manager Ying gave Lu Ran an Ethereal Flower from Gu Qingyi and asked him to help cultivate Gu Qingyi’s Pet Beasts after his trial.
• Lu Ran entered a Level Two Breakthrough Secret Realm and was matched with Infinite City Beast Tamers from another world, prompting him to suspect that other worlds were involved in the coming world war.
• Lu Ran arrived in Tree Realm City on the Divine Tree Continent and learned that he had to place in the top twelve of the Plant and Beast Championship.

Lu Ran arrived in Tree Realm City on the Divine Tree Continent and registered for the Plant Beast Tournament, hoping to complete his breakthrough mission and find ways to help his pets. Three other Trial Takers from his world also registered, and Yu Rui urged his companions to observe Lu Ran before deciding how to deal with him.

• Lu Ran reviewed his goals and his Beast Taming Studio identity, and considered finding a way to awaken the intelligence of his Sword Grass.
• While waiting to register, Lu Ran spotted three other Trial Takers and noticed that the composed, unusually young Yu Rui seemed to detect his gaze.
• Lu Ran registered for the Plant Beast Tournament, learned that the preliminary round would begin in seven days, and left to find lodging.
• Liu Man and Jiang Ming recognized each other and approached Yu Rui, then discussed whether to contact or capture Lu Ran.
• Yu Rui advised them to wait until they had assessed Lu Ran's strength at the tournament and said his father suspected Infinite City was connected to the Four Great Creation Divine Dragons and a historical disaster.

Lu Ran accepted Shi Ze's invitation to stay with the Shi Family and considered representing them in Tree Realm City's Plant and Beast Championship. After learning the tournament's past winners, he revealed his level-two rank and asked the Shi Family about awakening Ferocious Plants, leaving Shi Ze baffled by the Beast Taming Studio's unusual approach.

• Lu Ran met Shi Ze, who invited him to the Shi Family and explained that Tree Realm City was divided among nine great families and the City Lord's Manor.
• Shi Ze explained that the Plant and Beast Championship supported the city's three beast-taming families, then asked Lu Ran to represent the Shi Family for a promised reward and a share of any benefits.
• Lu Ran agreed to represent the Shi Family if the rules allowed it and asked Shi Ze about previous tournaments.
• Shi Ze described past champions and top finishers, and Lu Ran disclosed that he was only a level-two Beast Tamer but expected to reach the top sixteen or better.
• Lu Ran asked whether the Shi Family could teach him to awaken Ferocious Plants, then mentioned Dog-Holding Grass and the Beast Taming Studio's innovations, confusing Shi Ze.

Lu Ran visited the Shi Family estate to represent them in the Plant and Beast Championship and asked about awakening ferocious plants, revealing that General Ha fought with Longleaf Sword Grass in its mouth. He left the family stunned when General Ha’s summoning revealed it was an overlord species.

• Shi Ze brought Lu Ran to the Shi Family estate and offered to arrange a spar and targeted preparations for the championship.
• The Shi Family elders explained competing theories about how plants awaken intelligence, but knew no universal method.
• Lu Ran revealed that General Ha wielded an unawakened Longleaf Sword Grass in battle and wanted to awaken it, prompting Shi Ze to challenge him to a spar.
• Shi Ze summoned his level-35 Moon-Swallowing Dog, Bright Moon, whose fear intensified when Lu Ran summoned General Ha.
• Shi Ze’s second grandfather recognized General Ha as an overlord species, shocking the Shi Family elders and raising doubts about Lu Ran’s true standing.

Lu Ran revealed General Ha as an overlord and defeated Shi Ze’s Moon-Swallowing Dog with Sword Control, winning the Shi Family’s support. He asked them to find poisonous Ferocious Plants and agreed to visit the Death Forest before the competition, hoping to learn from its legendary owner.

• Lu Ran showed the Shi Family that General Ha was an overlord, then used Sword Control with Sword Grass to make Shi Ze’s Moon-Swallowing Dog surrender.
• The Shi Family elders offered to help Lu Ran awaken his Sword Grass and find Ferocious Plants for him.
• Lu Ran requested high-level Ferocious Plants that had not awakened intelligence, preferably poisonous ones.
• Shi Ze’s eldest uncle explained that the Death Forest was the city lord’s garden of dangerous Ferocious Plants and that contestants had to pass through it to reach the competition.
• The Shi Family invited Lu Ran to train in the Death Forest with Shi Ze as his guide, and Lu Ran accepted after hearing about its Phantom Orchid, Liquor-Dripping Guanyin, and Dragon-Blood Willow.

Lu Ran stayed with the Shi Family while they sought ways to awaken his Sword Grass and arrange early entry to the Forest of Death. After learning that Sword Grass might awaken by cutting things, Lu Ran considered how to develop his Pet Beasts and spotted a way for Dark Crow to gain new curses from Ferocious Plants.

• The Shi Family's second elder visited the Vine Family for advice about awakening Sword Grass, while the third elder applied for Lu Ran to enter the Forest of Death early.
• At a welcoming banquet, Lu Ran met Shi Ze's cousin, who showed little interest in him and left after eating.
• The second elder told Lu Ran about the Ji Clan in Ten Thousand Leaves City and relayed the theory that Sword Grass might need to cut many things to awaken its intelligence.
• Shi Ze brought rare food for Lu Ran's canine Pet Beast and asked about overlord species, while Lu Ran explained their ability to adapt and control their bodies.
• Lu Ran read a plant encyclopedia and wondered whether Dark Crow could extract Ferocious Plants' abilities and turn them into curses.

Lu Ran entered the Death Forest with Shi Ze to scout for a powerful plant, bringing General Ha along to test whether it could control Ferocious Plants. General Ha unexpectedly shaped energy into Divine Deer antlers, and its aura made plants throughout the forest submit, drawing the attention of Yu Rui’s group and an elderly woman in the City Lord’s Manor.

• Shi Ze warned Lu Ran that contestants might use Ferocious Plants to ambush one another during the preliminaries, while Lu Ran considered whether he could eliminate the other contestants and win early.
• At the forest entrance, Lu Ran recognized Yu Rui, Jiang Ming, and Liu Man, and both groups entered the Death Forest separately.
• Lu Ran asked Shi Ze to lead him to a Dragon-Blood Willow and summoned General Ha to test its ability to control Ferocious Plants.
• Instead of activating Sword Domain, General Ha formed deer antlers from energy and transformed into a glowing deer-dog resembling the Divine Deer.
• Ferocious Plants across the forest submitted to General Ha’s aura, startling Yu Rui’s group and causing a white-haired elderly woman in the City Lord’s Manor to investigate.

Lu Ran and General Ha caused a disturbance in the Death Forest when General Ha mimicked the Divine Deer’s aura, drawing the attention of Tree Realm City’s legendary City Lord, Ye Ying. After learning Lu Ran wanted to study plant taming, Ye Ying offered to teach him if he won the Plant and Beast Championship, which he accepted.

• General Ha mimicked the Divine Deer’s aura, suppressing the Ferocious Plants but stirring up the Death Forest.
• Shi Ze panicked over the disturbance, while Lu Ran realized General Ha’s transformation showed the effects of his enlightenment trait.
• Ye Ying arrived on her Dandelion Ruler, identified Lu Ran as the source, and ordered General Ha to return to normal so she could tend to the plants.
• Lu Ran told Ye Ying he wanted to learn plant taming so his Pet Beast could tame plants, and Shi Ze vouched for his idea.
• Ye Ying offered to teach Lu Ran if he took first place in the Plant and Beast Championship, and he accepted the challenge.
• Ye Ying told Lu Ran to stay out of the Death Forest while she restored the plants, then introduced herself by name.

Lu Ran trained for the Plant and Beast Championship while City Lord Ye arranged for her senior sister’s disciple to challenge him. The preliminaries began in the Death Forest, where Lu Ran, Yu Rui, and another contestant revealed Overlord pets.

• Lu Ran asked Shi Ze to keep his contact with Legendary creatures secret and returned to the Shi Family to train General Ha, Sudden Death King, and Dark Crow.
• City Lord Ye visited her senior sister and asked her disciple to enter the championship and pressure Lu Ran; her senior sister agreed.
• City Lord Ye’s senior sister sent a talented Plant Tamer to Tree Realm City, and several days later the championship preliminaries began.
• The examiner announced that contestants had to cross the Death Forest, could eliminate rivals, and were permitted to kill; Yu Rui prepared to travel with Liu Man and Jiang Ming.
• Yu Rui summoned his Overlord War Ancient Tree, another contestant summoned a Flower Demon Emperor, and Lu Ran revealed General Ha as a Low-Tier Overlord, shocking Yu Rui, Liu Man, and Jiang Ming.

Lu Ran revealed that he had contracted two overlord beasts and sent Sudden Death King to block the Death Forest’s exit while General Ha overwhelmed the contestants with his Blizzard Sword Will. As contestants fled into the forest, Sudden Death King proved nearly impervious to its ferocious plants.

• City Lord Ye and her senior sister discussed the three contestants with overlord species and the growing difficulty of the championship.
• Lu Ran summoned Sudden Death King, a mid-level overlord dragon, after summoning General Ha, stunning the contestants and examiners.
• Lu Ran sent Sudden Death King to the far exit to stop anyone from leaving the forest while he and General Ha dealt with the contestants at the entrance.
• General Ha unleashed his Blizzard Sword Will, making weaker pets collapse and forcing Yu Rui to advise his companions to withdraw or enter the forest.
• Shi Ze withdrew to seek protection, while other contestants fled into the Death Forest, where Sudden Death King ignored attacks from its ferocious plants.

Lu Ran expanded General Ha’s Sword Domain and trapped the contestants who had teamed up against him, overwhelming their pets with its Sword Will. Outside the domain, the examiners and City Lord Ye’s group watched in shock as it spread through the Death Forest.

• Sudden Death King flew ahead under Lu Ran’s instructions, while Yu Rui, Jiang Ming, and Liu Man decided to withdraw.
• Yu Rui and several other contestants joined forces against Lu Ran, who calmly prepared to face them.
• Lu Ran expanded the Sword Domain, transporting the gathered contestants into a white space filled with Sword Grass.
• General Ha’s transformed appearance and powerful Sword Will felled several contestants, while Yu Rui and Gu Yu struggled to defend themselves with their pets.
• Yu Rui realized General Ha had caused the disturbance that made the Death Forest’s Ferocious Plants submit a week earlier.
• General Ha unleashed a storm of Sword Grass that battered the remaining pets as Lu Ran walked through the domain unharmed; outside, examiners and City Lord Ye’s group reacted to the expanding domain.

Lu Ran and General Ha overwhelmed every contestant in the Death Forest, ending the Plant and Beast Championship during its preliminaries and earning Lu Ran an SSS mission rating. City Lord Ye took Lu Ran to her manor and accepted him as her disciple, where he prepared to learn plant taming.

• General Ha's moving domain defeated Gu Yu and Yu Rui, while City Lord Ye's senior sister worried over Yu Rui and confirmed Lu Ran had held back.
• Lu Ran and his companions swept through the remaining contestants, with Sudden Death King and the Death Forest's dangers stopping the others before the finish line.
• Lu Ran alone reached the exit, and City Lord Ye declared him the sole champion and ended the competition.
• Lu Ran received his SSS breakthrough rewards, including Crystal Coins, a Miracle Seed, Abundant Vitality, Lucky Clover, and a Monarch Species plant seed, but declined immediate advancement.
• City Lord Ye took Lu Ran to her manor, accepted him as her disciple, and agreed to teach him plant taming.

Lu Ran accepted City Lord Ye as his master and explained his ambition to combine beast taming with plant taming. After reviewing his Breakthrough Secret Realm rewards, he visited the injured Trial Takers and proposed that they coexist peacefully, then asked them to answer his questions.

• Lu Ran told City Lord Ye he wanted to help Pet Beasts cultivate plant life-forms as familiars, and she offered to visit the Ji Clan to learn how to awaken his Sword Grass.
• City Lord Ye instructed Lu Ran to move into the City Lord's Manor and visit Yu Rui and Senior Sister Gu, while declining to hold a formal apprenticeship ceremony.
• Lu Ran examined his rewards, deciding to keep the Lucky Clover trait for a future support Pet Beast and considering the Vitality Gu Ran skill redundant because of his Divine Deer Antler.
• Lu Ran visited Yu Rui, Liu Man, and Jiang Ming at the Medical Hall and proposed that they put aside their differences and coexist peacefully.
• Yu Rui thanked Lu Ran for showing mercy, while Jiang Ming grew nervous as Lu Ran asked the three Trial Takers to answer some questions.

Lu Ran learned that the Star-Moon Federation, the Divine Tree Continent, and the elemental, beast-taming, and mechanical worlds were all eras of the same world. He and the Federation’s Beast Tamers confirmed that their worlds would fight in Infinite City’s World War in a year, while Lu Ran left wondering who had become Legendary in the Beast Taming Era.

• Lu Ran questioned Liu Man, Jiang Ming, and Yu Rui about their home and learned that the Star-Moon Federation considered the Star-Moon Continent its ancient past.
• Yu Rui explained that the Elemental, Beast Taming, Plant, and Mechanical eras belonged to one world, with historical gaps separating them.
• Jiang Ming told Lu Ran that Infinite City had appeared in the Federation a year earlier and provided fewer facilities than it did on Blue Star.
• Liu Man revealed that the Federation’s Infinite City had announced a World War, and Lu Ran confirmed that Blue Star had received the same update for a duel in a year.
• Yu Rui said four humans had broken through to Legendary across the world’s history, and Lu Ran wondered whether the Beast Taming Era’s Legendary figure had been trained by his Undead Master.

Lu Ran shared information about Blue Star’s long history with Infinite City, then met Senior Martial Aunt Tian and learned that City Lord Ye would seek a way to awaken his Sword Grass. After breaking through to Level Three Beast Tamer, Lu Ran discovered his Pet Beasts had surged in level and learned the Familiar skill, which allowed a Pet Beast to contract a Familiar and fuse with it in battle.

• Lu Ran told Jiang Ming and the others that Infinite City had appeared on Blue Star over ten thousand years ago and had more facilities than their version, leaving them shaken by the scale of Blue Star’s civilization.
• Lu Ran left the hospital and met Senior Martial Aunt Tian, who said her disciple Yuer was recovering and still asleep.
• City Lord Ye told Lu Ran she would visit the Ji Clan in Ten Thousand Leaves City to ask how to awaken his Sword Grass, while Senior Martial Aunt Tian stayed behind to advise him.
• Lu Ran returned to his courtyard and promoted himself to Level Three Beast Tamer, strengthening his abilities and gaining Dragon Might and Super Vision through Super Beast Mimicry.
• Lu Ran checked his Pet Beasts’ growth levels and found General Ha at 33, Sudden Death King at 36, and Dark Crow at 39.
• Lu Ran used the Familiar Skill Card and learned that Familiar let a main pet contract a Familiar, share a strength, talent, or bloodline bonus, and perform a Fusion Technique together.

Lu Ran studied the Familiar skill and considered how to combine familiars, domains, and traits while managing his limited contract slots. While searching the Death Forest for a plant pet for Fang Lan, he learned from Senior Martial Aunt Tian about the Tree King's Legacy Ruins, whose victor could claim an immense Spatial Treasure.

• Lu Ran realized Familiar could currently assign only one familiar to one Pet Beast, then planned potential Sword familiars for General Ha and Dragon familiars for Sudden Death King.
• Lu Ran considered pairing Lucky Clover with Sword Grass or Dark Crow to save contract slots, and decided to contract Cloudy first.
• After City Lord Ye departed, Lu Ran returned to the Death Forest to find a Ferocious Plant for Fang Lan and spoke with Senior Martial Aunt Tian.
• Lu Ran asked Senior Martial Aunt Tian where he could obtain a Spatial Treasure that could hold living creatures.
• Senior Martial Aunt Tian told Lu Ran that the Tree King's Legacy Ruins offered the space of the fallen Epic Legendary Tree King to anyone who cleared its challenge, though every previous challenger had failed.

Lu Ran learned about the Tree King Ruins, where he hoped to obtain an Epic-level spatial treasure by defeating the Tree King at his own level. After discussing Long-Leaf Sword Grass and the possible shared origin of their worlds with Yu Rui, Lu Ran welcomed City Lord Ye back and hoped she would take him to the ruins.

• Senior Martial Aunt Tian told Lu Ran that Beast Tamers below level six could challenge the Tree King Ruins, but they had to defeat the Tree King at the same level.
• Lu Ran decided the distant, dangerous journey was too difficult to make alone and waited for his city lord master to return.
• Lu Ran visited the recovering Yu Rui, who said Long-Leaf Sword Grass had once evolved into a dual Grass- and Metal-type Overlord.
• Lu Ran and Yu Rui speculated that some people from their worlds might share ancestors, though neither could explain Infinite City.
• City Lord Ye returned to Tree Realm City, and Lu Ran greeted her, hoping she would take him to the Tree King Ruins.