Chapter Summaries

Lu Ran took over the Orange Sky Research Institute and met his new tutor, Cheng Kong, who agreed to teach him mechanical engineering. After seeing No. 18, Cheng Kong discovered that Lu Ran’s Research Robot was an overlord.

• Manager Ying persuaded the Former President to become a Legendary Messenger for Divine Turtle, promising that he could lend his name and let Lu Ran and her handle the work.
• Lu Ran contracted No. 18, gaining mechanical engineering aptitude while boosting her abilities, then went to claim temporary use of the Orange Sky Research Institute.
• Ji Xie handed Lu Ran the institute’s access card and vowed to return with the repaired Profound Thunder Mecha to challenge him again.
• Cheng Kong called Lu Ran, agreed to tutor him, and warned him not to reveal his Ruins Space carelessly after he showed her the Ruins Tree Branch.
• Lu Ran cooked a feast for Cheng Kong inside the Ruins Space, and she agreed to provide study materials and a Research Robot to help him learn mechanics.
• Lu Ran summoned No. 18, and Cheng Kong was stunned to see that his Research Robot was an overlord.

Lu Ran and No. 18 began researching temporary mechanical evolution to earn a high mission rating, while No. 18 proposed using Cloud Baby and Six Path Flower to develop an Elemental Life Creation Device. Lu Ran also started pursuing soul evolution, but his attempt to copy Undead Clone failed, and he asked Six Path Flower to send him into Time Hell for training.

• Dr. Cheng Kong learned that Lu Ran had No. 18, an Overlord-level research robot, and left her research findings for No. 18 to study before departing for a month.
• No. 18 proposed developing temporary mechanical armament evolution for Cloud Baby and Death Crow, then revealed she had an approach to creating elemental life by studying Six Path Flower's Limit Breakthrough.
• Lu Ran approved No. 18's plan to use Cloud Baby and Six Path Flower as research subjects, and Six Path Flower reluctantly helped investigate the world's restrictions.
• Lu Ran began trying to copy Undead Crow's Soul Doppelgänger ability through Super Beast Mimicry, but he failed to learn Undead Clone.
• Lu Ran asked Six Path Flower to send him and his Pet Beasts into Time Hell for special training.

Lu Ran succeeded in creating a controllable soul doppelgänger and planned to strengthen it so it could possess General Ha. He then activated the Bone Bracelet: Dog God's Protection, transformed into a quasi-legendary dog demon, and prepared to test his new strength.

• Rumors spread that Dr. Orange Sky had taken John Doe as a student, prompting the other trial takers to seek legendary mechanical engineers for help with the Invention Contest.
• With Principal Fu's support and Dr. Orange Sky's institute secured, Lu Ran spent several days training and working with No. 18.
• Lu Ran used Dark Crow's talent to separate a soul doppelgänger, though it lacked intelligence and was too weak to possess anything.
• Lu Ran explained that he intended to strengthen the doppelgänger by creating it in his dog demon form, then have it possess General Ha.
• Lu Ran activated the Bone Bracelet: Dog God's Protection and transformed into a quasi-legendary dog demon with bone and wind powers.
• Lu Ran formed a bone club, noted that his stamina limited the transformation to about three minutes, and summoned Sudden Death King to test his strength.

Lu Ran tested the Bone Bracelet’s Dog Demon transformation while his team prepared for the invention competition and No. 18 struggled to develop an Elemental Life Creation Device. No. 18 finally succeeded using Six Path Flower’s limit-breaking sap, and Lu Ran planned to create more Elemental Life before the competition.

• Lu Ran used the Bone Bracelet to transform into a Dog Demon and beat Sudden Death King to test his quasi-legendary strength.
• Six Path Flower reflected on being a Historical Projection while No. 18 continued blowing up machines during her research.
• Lu Ran assigned General Ha to train with an epic light sword, Sudden Death King to recharge No. 18, and Dark Crow to help cultivate his Soul Doppelgänger.
• No. 18 completed the Elemental Life Creation Device and produced a Level 1 lower transcendent Wind Sprite using sap from Six Path Flower.
• Lu Ran told No. 18 to create other types of Elemental Life before the invention competition and planned to use the technology to gain status and funding.

Lu Ran won the College Student Invention Competition by revealing a device that created elemental life and could reopen the Elemental Era. His invention stunned the Star-Moon Republic, and he received his Breakthrough Mission rewards, including an offer to advance to Level Five Beast Tamer.

• Lu Ran entered the competition’s Mechanical Secret Realm and encountered Ji Xie, who challenged him to fight again after the competition.
• Lu Ran demonstrated Cloudy’s mechanical armament evolution, showing how an elemental life could combine with a firearm to become a powerful mechanical life.
• Lu Ran revealed his Elemental Life Creation Device, which created elemental beings, and Ultimate Space ranked his invention first.
• The Star-Moon Republic’s researchers and university officials rushed to contact Lu Ran, while Dr. Orange Sky learned that her student had won the competition.
• Lu Ran received an SSS rating and rewards including 20 million Crystal Coins, an Epic mechanical weapon, a Trait Crystal, and the Super Modification skill; he was offered promotion to Level Five Beast Tamer.

Lu Ran handed over the Elemental Life Creation Device’s technology to the country and joined the Divine Research Institute as a researcher. As Dr. Orange Sky introduced its projects, Lu Ran learned the Institute possessed Chaos Dragon God blood, a resource that might help create a Mechanical Main God.

• Lu Ran promised to give the country and Capital Mechanical University his research on the Elemental Life Creation Device, then broke through to Level Five and received a contract slot, a skill slot, Mechanical Heart, and an Epic bomb.
• Director Lin En invited Lu Ran to join the Divine Research Institute, and Dr. Orange Sky secretly brought him to the Island of the Gods, where he accepted the position.
• Director Lin En welcomed Lu Ran and asked him to help research how to create an Artificial God, then Dr. Orange Sky began showing him the Institute and its research facilities.
• Dr. Orange Sky explained the Institute’s three approaches to Artificial God research: Legendary research machines, mechanical modification of humans, and cloning and mechanically evolving Legendary Divine Beasts.
• Dr. Orange Sky revealed that the Divine Research Institute had successfully cloned a Quasi-Legendary creature resembling a Legendary Divine Beast Cub and possessed Chaos Dragon God blood, though the Epic Mechanical Engineers forbade researchers from studying it.

Lu Ran joined the Divine Research Institute and sought a way to obtain the Chaos Dragon God's blood, while he and Six Path Flower devised a scheme to claim it. He terminated No. 18's old contract, gave her a star-quality Contract Card and the Mechanical Heart trait, and prepared for Six Path Flower to impersonate a returning deity.

• Dr. Orange Sky explained that the institute valued Lu Ran's Elemental Life research, but warned him that the Chaos Dragon God's blood was dangerous and unlikely to be approved for him.
• Lu Ran and Six Path Flower planned to pose as the God of Six Paths and Reincarnation and demand the Chaos Dragon God's blood from the institute.
• Lu Ran contracted No. 18 with a star-quality Contract Card and fused her with the Mechanical Heart, granting her the Flash of Insight talent.
• No. 18 studied the institute's equipment while Lu Ran visited researchers, exchanged elemental sprites for mechanical advice, and received authorization to study Legendary and Epic resources.
• Lu Ran concluded that the available resources could not replace Six Path Flower's limit-breaking sap, and Six Path Flower rehearsed her false divine identity before setting out to retrieve the blood.

On the Island of the Gods, Lu Ran staged Sudden Death King's catastrophic injury to borrow the Life Flame, while Six Path Flower arrived and obtained the sealed blood of the Chaos Dragon God. After Infinite City ended the Secret Realm, Lu Ran was left unable to control his body, and Six Path Flower returned to find him and Sudden Death King incapacitated.

• Lu Ran arranged for Sudden Death King to suffer a staged mechanical-modification accident so the institute would lend him the Life Flame.
• Dr. Orange Sky secured the Life Flame, which began healing Sudden Death King, while researchers reprimanded Lu Ran for the failed experiment.
• A Legendary lifeform approached the Island of the Gods, and Six Path Flower revealed herself as the God of Six Paths and Reincarnation and requested the Chaos Dragon God's blood.
• Director Lin En consulted the Republic's leaders and the Oracle Machine, confirmed Six Path Flower's identity, and handed her the sealed divine blood.
• After Six Path Flower left, Lu Ran lost control of his body from a severe backlash caused by his Space-Time Concealment technique, and Infinite City announced the Secret Realm had ended.

After the Star-Moon Republic’s investigation left Lu Ran unable to move, the Divine Turtle helped him fuse his Flame Spirit with the Divine Phoenix’s Life Flame, restoring his ability to control his body. Lu Ran then left Chaos Dragon God blood with the Divine Turtle to prepare Sudden Death King’s evolution and set out to seek the God of the Abyss so Dark Crow could evolve.

• Lu Ran learned that the Star-Moon Republic’s mysterious investigation had severed the connection between his consciousness and body, and the Divine Turtle told him Legendary power could restore him.
• The Divine Turtle persuaded the Divine Phoenix’s lingering will to let Lu Ran fuse the Life Flame with his Flame Spirit, and Lu Ran gradually recovered control of his body.
• Lu Ran gave the Divine Turtle Chaos Dragon God blood to purify and dilute for Sudden Death King’s future evolution, while the Divine Turtle warned that Sudden Death King would need to strengthen its willpower.
• Lu Ran saw that Xiao Lin’s announcement of a level-seven Breakthrough Secret Realm challenge had taken the top trending spot, while news of Lu Ran’s Elemental Life Creation Device ranked second.
• Lu Ran headed toward the God of the Abyss to prepare Dark Crow’s evolution, then paused on an island to study his Flame Spirit and cook Epic Blood Curd while Dark Crow trained toward level sixty.

Lu Ran brought Dark Crow to Ghost Mother for its second-stage evolution, and Dark Crow became a Quasi-Legendary Oracle Crow with the Word Spirit attribute. After testing its new powers by defeating Shi Zhen’s Stone Ape, Lu Ran and Shi Zhen prepared to return to Blue Star and pursue their next breakthroughs and competitions.

• Lu Ran cooked Epic-level blood curd with Divine Beast blood, helping Dark Crow reach level 60 and preparing it for evolution.
• Lu Ran brought Dark Crow to Ghost Mother, who slowed its evolution and strengthened its soul so it could unify its powers.
• Dark Crow reclaimed its twin body’s power, gained the Undying Curse talent, and evolved into a Quasi-Legendary Oracle Crow with the Word Spirit attribute.
• Lu Ran and Dark Crow tested Word Spirit by making Stone Ape unable to reach them and then collapse unconscious, shocking Shi Zhen.
• Ghost Mother ended Shi Zhen’s special training and told him to enter a Breakthrough Secret Realm, while Lu Ran and Shi Zhen agreed to return to Blue Star and challenge the King’s Road.

After returning to Blue Star, Lu Ran learned about a secret realm holding a Flame Phoenix Hatchling and persuaded the Divine Deer to create a guardian fawn for the Beast Taming Empire. He used his Breakthrough Secret Realm resources to strengthen his team, then prepared to challenge a level-five Legendary Secret Realm featuring a strange monkey.

• Lu Ran returned to Blue Star with Shi Zhen, visited the Divine Deer, and showed her the Divine Phoenix's flame of life after she rebuked him for creating elemental life.
• The Divine Deer told Lu Ran about a secret realm left by a Legendary Flame Phoenix, whose level-80 lesser legendary phantom guarded her offspring; Lu Ran agreed to enter it later and bring the hatchling to the Divine Deer.
• Lu Ran proposed that the Divine Deer use his resources to create a powerful fawn as the Beast Taming Empire's guardian, and she agreed after beating him up.
• Lu Ran told Manager Ying about the awakened Quasi-Legendary fox, the Divine Turtle's dragon blood, and the other resources he had brought back, then used divine blood and Epic materials to strengthen his team and forge equipment.
• Shi Zhen asked Lu Ran when they would challenge the King's Road, and Lu Ran said he would first clear a level-five Legendary Secret Realm featuring a physically powerful, Non-Elemental monkey.

Lu Ran cleared the Wumeng Mountain legendary secret realm by fighting the Crimson Flame Monkey King in his dog-demon form, gaining powerful resources and discovering his transformation could last fifteen minutes. After returning to Green Sea City, he received three trait recommendations from Manager Ying, who asked him to make a wish for a resource that could evolve a High Overlord Nine-Tailed Cat into a Legendary Race.

• Lu Ran entered Wumeng Mountain and fought the Crimson Flame Monkey King himself, testing his transformed body, legendary flames, and combat abilities.
• Lu Ran defeated the Crimson Flame Monkey King after a prolonged fight and received Monkey Wine, Happy Beast Taming, the Equivalent Exchange trait, and other rewards.
• Lu Ran considered giving the Monkey Wine to Sudden Death King and saving Equivalent Exchange for a future choice, while wondering which Beast Taming Skill to learn.
• Lu Ran’s solo perfect clear was announced across Infinite Cities, and Pluto suspected Lu Ran had a Quasi-Legendary pet after seeing none of his pets appear in the rankings.
• Manager Ying recommended Bloodline Ruler for Sudden Death King, Attribute Trait Fusion for Cloudy, and Misfortune for Six Flower, and Lu Ran agreed to let it obtain all three.
• Manager Ying asked Lu Ran to wish for a resource that could evolve a High Overlord Nine-Tailed Cat into a Legendary Race before his next Breakthrough Secret Realm.

Lu Ran prepared his pet beasts for future growth while the Divine Deer created a quasi-legendary deer spirit named Lu Yao to assist him. Gu Qingyi won the blessing in a second-stage evolution secret realm, and she, Lu Ran, and Shi Zhen set off to challenge the King's Road, where Shi Zhen revealed his bizarre plan to change the world.

• Lu Ran asked Manager Ying to find a spatial awakening resource for No. 18 and a critical hit trait for General Ha, whose absolute enlightenment might make the trait especially powerful.
• In the Ruins Space, General Ha practiced with a Mechanical Lightsaber while Sword Grass fought Sword Spirit, Sudden Death King ate meteorites, and Six Path Flower warned Lu Ran that Dark Crow's prophecy-comes-true talent could fulfill wishes in dangerous ways.
• The Divine Deer used its blood essence and Lu Ran's resources to create a quasi-legendary Life Deer Spirit, then named her Lu Yao and instructed her to assist Lu Ran.
• At the second-stage evolution secret realm, Gu Qingyi's Azure Sea Dragon received the blessing and evolved into a high-overlord Dragon King, impressing the gathered beast tamers.
• Lu Ran, Gu Qingyi, and Shi Zhen headed to challenge the King's Road, and Shi Zhen said he planned to reveal his curse and threatened to distribute a potion that changed people's sex while boosting their strength and lifespan.

Lu Ran challenged India’s A’ermi for a World War slot and defeated him with Cloudy’s Calamity Pistol, powered by Lu Ran’s Time Acceleration. After the battle, Dark Crow contacted India’s guardian Divine Bull on behalf of the Supreme Throne, but the Divine Bull rejected the message and demanded that the visitor appear in person.

• Lu Ran cleared the King’s Road in seconds, then declared that he would challenge A’ermi, India’s Psychic Association president, while Shi Zhen and Gu Qingyi also cleared the road and chose their own opponents.
• Manager Ying gave Lu Ran several traits and agreed to provide six level-60 doppelgängers so he could study her technique through Super Beast Mimicry.
• A’ermi entered the King’s Battle with a level-70 Golden Elephant King and tried to hypnotize Lu Ran, but Lu Ran’s legendary fire burned A’ermi’s mind and disrupted the attempt.
• Lu Ran combined Cloudy with the Calamity Pistol and used Time Acceleration to unleash a single blast that froze A’ermi and all three of his Pet Beasts, winning the battle and taking his World War slot.
• A’ermi resolved to seek help from India’s Divine Bull so he could raise a quasi-legendary Pet Beast, while Dark Crow contacted the Divine Bull in the name of the Supreme Throne and was rebuffed.

Lu Ran planned to strengthen his Soul Doppelgänger while Dark Crow built up its army, and Blue Star’s battles revealed new World War rules that offered super management permission to the winning side’s MVP. Lu Ran resolved to pursue that prize in hopes of bringing back the dead, while Fang Lan returned to find Dark Crow’s crows breeding across the Green Sea Secret Realm.

• Lu Ran tested his Dog Demon Soul Doppelgänger on General Ha, found it weak, and told Dark Crow to settle the Ancient Divine Bull within half a month.
• Dark Crow combined with its crow army, found the transformation too weak to defeat the Ancient Divine Bull yet, and ordered the crows to breed with Honeysuckle’s help.
• Six Path Flower returned to its territory, while Sudden Death King and Cloudy joined Black Tortoise in the Deep Sea to search for Nine-Colored Meteorite Fragments.
• Shi Zhen defeated Masayo, and Gu Qingyi beat Kaduo’s team with her Azure Sea Divine Dragon, earning Xia Country another World War representative slot.
• Infinite City announced that all ten members of the winning side would receive management permission and that its highest-scoring Beast Tamer would gain super management permission; Lu Ran decided to pursue it to try to resurrect his parents and Senior Brother Divine Eagle Hero.
• Fang Lan returned to the Green Sea Secret Realm and found Dark Crow’s army breeding throughout it.

Lu Ran prepared Cloudy for the upcoming Second-Stage Evolution Secret Realm and ordered No. 18 to develop a flying mechanical castle, while Dark Crow subdued the Ancient Divine Bull and delivered it to Six Path Flower. As Lu Ran forged the Divine Dog's remains and his forces expanded, Bai Lu arrived on Blue Star, and Divine Deer planned to leave Lu Yao in her care.

• Lu Ran chose to have Cloudy evolve in the upcoming Secret Realm, delayed General Ha's evolution, and tasked No. 18 with building a fast, bomb-equipped mechanical castle called the Kunpeng.
• Lu Ran discussed stronger training for Sword Spirit and Sword Grass, then went to Other Shore Island to forge the Divine Dog's remains for Corpse Dog's evolution.
• Dark Crow froze A'ermi, defeated the Ancient Divine Bull, and brought the bull to the Amazon, where Six Path Flower sent it to the Hell Path.
• Sudden Death King and Cloudy expanded the Beast Taming Empire's control over the ocean while Dark Crow searched for hidden Quasi-Legendary beings.
• Bai Lu arrived on Blue Star seeking stricter training from Divine Deer, which planned to leave her to care for Lu Yao.

Bai Lu discussed the World War and sought the Divine Deer’s help advancing to Legendary, while Lu Ran successfully evolved Sword Spirit and strengthened General Ha. Lu Ran then met Bai Lu on Blue Star and wagered a Legendary resource that she would join his Beast Taming Empire if his chosen Pet Beast defeated hers; Bai Lu accepted a match against Sudden Death King, giving Lu Ran two days to prepare.

• Bai Lu told the Divine Deer why she expected Star-Moon to win the World War, but the Divine Deer warned her that she lacked information about Lu Ran and revealed that he had rebuilt the Beast Taming Empire on Blue Star.
• The Divine Deer promised to help Bai Lu develop an Exclusive Beast Taming Technique, then left her to care for her level-90 humanoid daughter, whom Lu Ran had asked her to raise.
• Lu Ran forged the Divine Relic Bone Sword, and Sword Spirit underwent possession evolution into a level-55 High Overlord Hell Bone Sword.
• General Ha fused with Hell Bone Sword and reached Mid-level Overlord, Quasi-Legendary strength; Lu Ran also learned from Dark Crow about four Quasi-Legendary beings on Blue Star and chose the fox who had invited Lin Yin as his next target.
• Lu Ran found Bai Lu caring for the Divine Maiden and offered her a wager: if his Pet Beast won, she would join the Beast Taming Empire, and if hers won, he would give her a Legendary resource.
• Bai Lu agreed to fight Sudden Death King one-on-one, and Lu Ran secured two days to prepare the dragon for their match.

Lu Ran’s Sudden Death King defeated Bai Lu’s Divine Wood Snake by combining its Planetary Artistic Conception, reinforced defenses, and drunken combat mode. Bai Lu accepted her loss and joined the Beast Taming Empire, while No. 18 continued her secretive research with Cloudy in Time Hell.

• Lu Ran discovered that Sudden Death King had comprehended Planetary Artistic Conception after eating a Nine-Colored Meteorite Fragment, then strengthened it further with meteorites and Monkey Wine.
• Lu Ran and Bai Lu arranged a battle between Sudden Death King and the Divine Wood Snake, their previous victor, while Six Path Flower watched from nearby.
• The Divine Wood Snake eventually pierced Sudden Death King’s defenses and began draining its blood and energy, but Lu Ran accelerated the process and exposed it to Sudden Death King’s potent alcohol.
• Sudden Death King entered Drunken Dragon Mode and battered the paralyzed Divine Wood Snake until Bai Lu conceded defeat and agreed to join the Beast Taming Empire.
• Six Path Flower praised Sudden Death King’s growth, and Cloudy suggested that No. 18 make clones to help finish her research in Time Hell.

Lu Ran invited several Xia Country powerhouses to the Amazon Divine Kingdom, showed them its army, labor camps, and Reincarnation Hall, and recruited them into the Beast Taming Empire with offers of powerful pets and reincarnation. He revealed that he was the King of Beast Taming and had contracted the Flower of Six Paths Reincarnation, then left the newly recruited Quasi-Legendary Fox to be beaten by General Ha.

• Lu Ran appointed Bai Lu as the Divine Deer Cult’s leader and tasked her with spreading the Divine Deer’s name through healing and public service.
• Lin Nian invited Lin Yin and the Quasi-Legendary Fox to join Lu Ran’s trip to the Amazon Divine Kingdom, where they met Shi Zhen and Pig God Zhu Kaixin.
• Lu Ran showed the visitors the Divine Kingdom’s Training Corps, its mines and labor system, and the hell-like Reincarnation Hall, where the Ancient Divine Bull guided them to a reincarnated Overlord Netherworld Pig.
• Lu Ran offered Zhu Kaixin the Netherworld Pig and invited the group to join the Empire; Shi Zhen, Lin Nian, Lin Yin, the Fox, and Zhu Kaixin accepted positions or membership.
• Lu Ran revealed that he was the King of Beast Taming and had contracted the Legendary Flower of Six Paths Reincarnation, then told the group to keep the information secret.
• The Quasi-Legendary Fox tried to charm General Ha, but General Ha became a Quasi-Legendary and attacked it with Sword Aura.

Lu Ran entered the final Second-Stage Evolution Secret Realm before the World War, hoping Cloudy could adapt to No. 18’s unfinished Mechanical Castle after evolving. Cloudy transformed into a Quasi-Legendary Mechanical Elemental Calamity, and Lu Ran publicly declared that he would take it to crush Star-Moon’s beast tamers in the World War.

• Six Path Flower watched the Fox God flee from General Ha and pondered how Lu Ran’s Imperial Heirloom Seal had grown stronger.
• Lu Ran discussed his plans to evolve Cloudy and support it with a Mechanical Castle, while No. 18 admitted she could not finish a compatible evolution item in time.
• Manager Ying gave Cloudy an Iridescent Cat’s Eye Gem, and Lu Ran decided to try consecutive evolutions so Cloudy might adapt to the Mechanical Castle afterward.
• Lu Ran entered the Second-Stage Evolution Secret Realm with Bai Lu, where Aube, Gu Qingyi, and A’ermi evolved powerful High Overlord Pet Beasts.
• Cloudy first evolved into a Nine-Tailed Cloud Cat, then underwent a consecutive evolution into a Quasi-Legendary Mechanical Calamity.
• Lu Ran announced that he would bring Cloudy to the World War and steamroll Star-Moon’s beast tamers.