Chapter Summaries

Lu Ran traveled with Fang Lan to Jinling, discussing Dark Crow’s potential as a legion leader and giving Fang Lan a Fusion skill card. Manager Ying brought them to the Rainbow Sky Dojo, where they encountered an apprentice accompanied by a Domestic Cat carrying a Wooden Sword.

• Lu Ran considered awakening Dark Crow’s spirit attribute so it could command a Crow Legion and benefit from compatible combination and Legion Skills.
• Lu Ran persuaded Manager Ying to accompany him and Fang Lan to Jinling, agreeing to cook for it regularly with Dragon Culinary Will in return.
• Fang Lan told Lu Ran she was raising Little Purple, a Purple Poison Snake, and had fused a Poison Healing Trait Crystal into it.
• Lu Ran offered Fang Lan his unused Fusion Skill Card, and Fang Lan happily accepted it.
• Manager Ying brought Lu Ran and Fang Lan to the Rainbow Sky Dojo, where they saw an apprentice walk out with a Domestic Cat carrying a Wooden Sword.

Lu Ran visited the Rainbow Sky Dojo with Fang Lan, where Master Jiang Dou learned that Lu Ran had comprehended sword will and asked him to defeat his rival’s apprentice, Xia Ri, in the upcoming competition. The dojo apprentices debated whether Lu Ran’s sword-bearing pet represented a new Beast Taming style as he prepared to stay at the dojo for a few days.

• Ning Fan recognized Lu Ran and explained that he and two other Rainbow Sky Dojo apprentices had copied General Ha by training cats to carry swords.
• Ning Fan led Lu Ran and Fang Lan into the dojo, where Master Jiang Dou was training Senior Brother Jin and Senior Sister Fan.
• Lu Ran told Jiang Dou that he had comprehended sword will, astonishing the dojo apprentices.
• Jiang Dou asked Lu Ran to defeat Xia Ri, the spear-wielding apprentice of his rival, and Lu Ran agreed; Fang Lan also volunteered to face her.
• The apprentices wondered whether Lu Ran’s sword-bearing pet style was a new approach that could challenge established Beast Taming styles.

Lu Ran prepared for the Freshman Tournament Preliminary Assessment and learned that exceptional candidates might become Seed Competitors, allowing them to skip part of the main event. He devised a tactic for Sudden Death King to absorb damage from General Ha, heal, and unleash the stored power on an examiner’s pet.

• Lu Ran advised the Dojo’s junior disciples to abandon their ideas about pets wielding swords and consider becoming Beastman Swordsmen instead.
• Lu Ran and Fang Lan met Pig Farmer and their friends for dinner, where they discussed their assessment numbers, the tournament, and rumors about Seed Competitors.
• After dinner, Lu Ran called Manager Ying and confirmed that candidates who excelled in the preliminary assessment could skip part of the competition.
• Before dawn, Lu Ran took General Ha and Sudden Death King into the Training Secret Realm to test a tactic that combined Sudden Death King’s Heart of the Overlord with the Divine Deer Pendant.
• Lu Ran and General Ha began preparing to beat Sudden Death King nearly unconscious so he could unleash the accumulated damage during his assessment.

Lu Ran began his preliminary Beast Taming assessment against Third-Generation examiner Wu Le, and Sudden Death King overwhelmed Wu Le’s Giant Rock Rhinoceros with a single lightning-shield strike. The arena was left stunned as Lu Ran’s true strength became impossible to ignore.

• Lu Ran and Fang Lan arrived early at the Jinling Beast Taming Arena and waited to take their first and second assessment turns.
• Examiner Wu Le summoned his level-29 Giant Rock Rhinoceros to face Lu Ran, who called out the imposing Sudden Death King.
• Sudden Death King unleashed a huge armored energy phantom, shocking the examiners and candidates.
• Wu Le ordered his rhinoceros to charge, but Sudden Death King slammed it with a Lightning Shield and knocked it out in one strike.
• The candidates and examiners stared in disbelief as Wu Le stood stunned by Lu Ran’s power.

Lu Ran and Fang Lan both passed their practical exams by overwhelming Wu Le’s pets with Sudden Death King’s powerful strike and Fang Lan’s mixed poison gas. After being driven out of the arena twice, Wu Le summoned his level-36 monarch-species ace against the next candidate, prompting the other examiners to consider abandoning their usual restraint.

• Wu Le claimed Lu Ran had passed after Sudden Death King defeated his Giant Rock Rhinoceros with a devastating strike, and the examiners awarded Lu Ran full marks.
• Fang Lan faced Wu Le with her Poison-Healing Spider, fused with it, and filled the arena with concentrated poison gas that she strengthened using her poison crossbow.
• Fang Lan concealed herself in spider silk as the poison gas corroded the rock prison and the canine’s defenses, forcing Wu Le to flee the arena with his pet.
• Fang Lan cleared the poison gas by absorbing it through her spider legs, then met Lu Ran and wondered whether she could become a seeded candidate.
• Wu Le summoned his level-36 Yak King, a low-level monarch species, against the third candidate, while the other examiners considered using their strongest pets from the start.

Lu Ran and his friends passed the Beast Taming University preliminary assessment despite Examiner Wu Le’s brutal matches, while reports of Lu Ran and Fang Lan spread across the Beast Tamer Forum. After Manager Ying summoned Lu Ran to cook an exquisite Dragon King Bird ingredient, Lu Ran returned to Green Sea and planned intensive training for General Ha and Sudden Death King.

• Lu Ran reassured Pig Farmer and the others that Wu Le was still following the assessment rules, and the candidates passed if their abilities met the expected standards.
• Candidates posted about Wu Le and the powerful Jinling examinees on the Beast Tamer Forum, making Wu Le infamous as an unlucky examiner.
• Pig Farmer, Lu Bing, Lu Xiao Wu, and the rest of Lu Ran’s group passed their assessments, while Lu Ran left for Jinling Beast Taming Tower after Manager Ying contacted him.
• Manager Ying asked Lu Ran to cook meat from a Dragon King Bird and promised him half a slice; Lu Ran requested time to practice cooking it with Flame Dragon Culinary Will.
• Lu Ran returned to Green Sea and set training plans for General Ha and Sudden Death King, including developing Sudden Death King’s Red Lightning Trait.
• Lu Ran asked Zhao Chen to arrange access to a power plant so he could temper Sudden Death King’s body.

Lu Ran and his pets trained intensely while he prepared Dragon King Bird meat, and the chapter ended with Sudden Death King awakening Thunder Dragon Armor after eating it.

• Sudden Death King endured escalating electrical shocks at the power plant while General Ha and Lu Ran trained.
• Lu Ran learned that powerful rookie Beast Tamers had appeared across the country, then continued training as the preliminary assessment ended and he received a seeded place in the top hundred.
• Lu Ran and Manager Ying roasted a slice of Dragon King Bird meat, whose aroma drew powerful creatures from across Green Sea City to their barrier.
• Lu Ran shared the meat with General Ha and Sudden Death King, and Sudden Death King absorbed the nutrients and manifested a solid, winged dragon-shaped energy construct.
• Sudden Death King's Contract Card gained Thunder Dragon Armor, a Dragon Conception Energy Shaping skill that briefly gives an energy construct the power of a giant dragon.

Sudden Death King formed a powerful Thunder Dragon shell while General Ha unexpectedly learned Dragon-Slaying Sword Will, and Lu Ran traveled to Beast Taming University for the freshman tournament. Unhappy with his small dormitory, Lu Ran decided to apply for a professor position so he could live in better quarters before his matches.

• Sudden Death King used dragon artistic conception to create a durable Thunder Dragon shell, but its enormous energy consumption forced it to shrink the form.
• General Ha comprehended Dragon-Slaying Sword Will after studying dragon power and eating grilled Dragon King Bird meat, alarming Sudden Death King and surprising Manager Ying.
• Manager Ying sent Sudden Death King to tell Dark Crow and the other crows to leave after the grilled meat’s aroma attracted powerful creatures across Green Sea.
• Two days later, Lu Ran traveled to Sky City for the final ranking tournament, where he and Fang Lan had advanced as seeded contestants while Pig Farmer and most of their companions were eliminated.
• Lu Ran reached his small single-occupancy dormitory at the Forging Academy and asked Master Lin about larger, villa-style accommodations.
• Master Lin offered Lu Ran his empty professor’s dormitory, so Lu Ran decided to contact the person in charge and apply to teach in the Culinary Major.

Lu Ran persuaded Master Lin to recommend him for a professorship in the Breeding Department, then learned he would face tournament favorite Zhou Mo in the freshman tournament’s opening match. He planned to send Sudden Death King out to probe Zhou Mo while keeping General Ha hidden as a trump card.

• Lu Ran convinced Master Lin that his Culinary Will, knife skills, and heat-control knowledge qualified him to teach in the Cooking Department while researching dragon cuisine.
• Master Lin introduced Lu Ran to Dean Chu Yan, who recognized him as the man connected to Dragon Culinary Will and agreed to process his appointment without an assessment.
• Lu Ran checked the freshman tournament schedule and discovered his first match was against Zhou Mo, the famous Dog King whose Hell Two-Headed Hound specialized in flames and mental attacks.
• Lu Ran reassured his companions that General Ha and Sudden Death King could withstand mental attacks, and planned to keep General Ha hidden while Sudden Death King faced Zhou Mo first.
• Sudden Death King volunteered to fight Dog King, then realized Lu Ran meant for it to probe the opponent; General Ha eagerly encouraged it to take the first beating.

Lu Ran faced Zhou Mo in the Freshman Tournament’s first Ranking Battle and defeated his Hell Two-Headed Hound with Sudden Death King’s overwhelming defense and counterattack. After the match, Zhou Mo’s guild leader learned Lu Ran was John Doe, who had not even used his starter pet.

• Zhou Mo investigated Lu Ran and prepared to face him, while contestants and spectators gathered in Sky City for the nationally broadcast Ranking Battle.
• Xu Pingze opened the tournament and announced the first match between Combat Department freshman Zhou Mo and Forging Department freshman Lu Ran.
• Zhou Mo summoned his Hell Two-Headed Hound, whose Eye of Hell created a materialized illusion, but Lu Ran’s Sudden Death King resisted it and formed a dragon-shaped armor through Dragon Artistic Conception.
• The Hell Two-Headed Hound’s Netherflame and tenfold-compressed attack failed to defeat Sudden Death King, who rebuilt his armor and knocked the hound unconscious with his Lightning Shield.
• Xingchen told the Circus Troupe Leader that Lu Ran was John Doe and had beaten Zhou Mo without summoning his Sword-Bearing Dog or using his Beast Taming Skill.

Lu Ran advanced in the Freshman Tournament as Gong Kaixin revealed a powerful Fusion skill, while a superpowered Imperial Capital competitor and other hidden talents drew attention. News that the Divine Eagle Federation had resurrected dinosaurs and formed the Tyrannosaurus Squad provoked Xia Country’s Beast Tamers, and Lu Ran prepared to challenge them after General Ha reached level 20.

• Lu Ran met Xia Ri, heir to the Blazing Fire Style, and said he looked forward to fighting her in the arena.
• Gong Kaixin fused his Giant Turtle and snake into a Black Tortoise-like beast, defeating a brown bear and becoming Lu Ran’s next opponent.
• The day’s tournament matches ended, with Fang Lan advancing and a telekinetic Superpower User emerging as a leading contender.
• News broke that the Divine Eagle Federation had resurrected dinosaurs and assembled the Tyrannosaurus Squad, whose members mocked Xia Country’s Beast Tamers and claimed they could sweep the Freshman Tournament.
• Manager Ying told Lu Ran that the Tyrannosaurus Squad would welcome challenges in a public Infinite City and that defeating all eight could earn valuable resources.
• Lu Ran said he would take General Ha to challenge the squad after it reached level 20 and gained a new trait; Manager Ying said Dr. Gu was training in the deep sea and would return soon.

Lu Ran publicly declared that he would challenge the Tyrannosaurus Squad, then revealed his Flame Spirit Beast Taming Skill in the Freshman Tournament and used it to defeat Gong Kaixin. The chapter ended with Lu Ran’s companions recognizing the lost technique and Gong Kaixin understanding why Lu Ran had dared to challenge the Tyrannosaurus Squad.

• Lu Ran decided to answer the online discussion by declaring that he would visit the Tyrannosaurus Squad’s arena in a few days.
• Dean Chu Yan told Lu Ran he could establish a course at Beast Taming University, and Lu Ran said he could evolve his dragon lizard into a Giant Dragon.
• Before his match with Gong Kaixin, Lu Ran told the livestream audience that the Tyrannosaurus Squad’s resurrected Tyrannosaurus Rexes could not compare with his carefully raised Pet Beasts.
• Gong Kaixin fused his level 16 giant snake and level 17 Giant Turtle into Black Tortoise, while Lu Ran sent out Sudden Death King.
• Lu Ran used Flame Spirit to fuse fire power with Sudden Death King, creating a Thunderflame Dragon whose explosion defeated Black Tortoise.
• Dean Kong identified Flame Spirit as Yan Sizhen’s lost Beast Taming Technique, and Gong Kaixin admitted defeat.

Lu Ran prepared General Ha to challenge the Tyrannosaurus Squad, while the squad learned about the Thunderflame Dragon and made plans to counter it. After Lu Ran gave General Ha the Wind King's Fruit and fused it with the nature control trait, General Ha evolved into a level-20 Gale Sword Dog with the Sword King racial talent.

• Dr. Carson warned the Tyrannosaurus Squad that Lu Ran's Flame Spirit had empowered the Thunderflame Dragon with unstable but formidable power, and Rex agreed to prepare lightning and fire resistance.
• General Ha trained its Dragon-Slaying Sword Will and developed Sky-Piercing Rising Dragon Slash, while Lu Ran watched videos of the Tyrannosaurus Squad defeating challengers with ease.
• Manager Ying gave Lu Ran a Wind King's Fruit as an advance on his professor's salary, explaining that it would strengthen General Ha's wind control and support its evolution.
• Lu Ran used the Wind King's Fruit to raise General Ha to level 20, then fused it with the nature control trait as fierce winds transformed the Training Secret Realm.
• General Ha evolved into a Gale Sword Dog with the Sword King talent, wielding a sword of natural wind with its tail and the Ice-Sky Greatsword in its mouth.

Lu Ran brought General Ha to the public Fourth Public Infinite City, where General Ha defeated the Tyrannosaurus Squad’s Tyrannosaurus Rex in one strike. Lu Ran revealed that he was John Doe, and the news shocked Beast Tamers across Xia Country as the challenge drew worldwide attention.

• General Ha evolved into a High-level Leader Species, gained Gale Swordsmanship, and reached twentyfold energy compression after using the Wind King's Fruit and the Nature Control trait.
• Lu Ran left Third Infinite City for Fourth Public Infinite City, where the Tyrannosaurus Squad had been defeating every challenger.
• Xipu of the Snowfield Federation challenged the Tyrannosaurus Squad, but his polar bear was quickly defeated by the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
• Lu Ran arrived wearing a mask and cap, and General Ha used Sky-Splitting Rising Dragon Slash to defeat Ian’s Tyrannosaurus Rex in one strike.
• Lu Ran removed his disguise and revealed that he was John Doe, prompting astonishment at the arena and a surge of news across Xia Country.

Lu Ran and General Ha defeated Rex’s monarch-species Tyrannosaurus Rex, crushing the Tyrannosaurus Squad’s challenge. After Lu Ran departed, Xia Country announced that he was its first Dragon Chef, a revelation that intensified the rivalry with the Divine Eagle Federation.

• Dr. Hayden went to Infinite City after hearing that Ian’s Tyrannosaurus Rex had lost, confident that Rex’s monarch-species Tyrannosaurus Rex would defeat Lu Ran.
• Rex summoned his monarch Tyrannosaurus Rex and attacked General Ha with Dragon Meteor Swarm, but General Ha’s flying sword destroyed the meteors.
• General Ha used his tail to strike the Tyrannosaurus Rex, then pierced its armor and overwhelmed it with a series of sword attacks until it was defeated.
• Lu Ran dismissed the defeated Tyrannosaurus Squad, and Dr. Hayden challenged him by claiming the dinosaurs would become stronger as dragon-types; Lu Ran said he would wait and hinted he could breed a Giant Dragon first.
• Xia Country’s university website announced Lu Ran as a specially appointed professor and Blue Star’s first Dragon Chef, shocking the nations and the Seed Competitors preparing for the Freshman Tournament.

Gu Qingyi returned from the deep sea and learned about Lu Ran’s remarkable victory, while Manager Ying arranged for him to receive an Ethereal Flower. Gu Qingyi warned Lu Ran that the ocean’s rapidly evolving creatures could become a major threat, leaving him responsible for watching over the waters near Green Sea City.

• Gu Qingyi emerged from the deep sea and was stunned by news of Lu Ran’s feats, including defeating a Monarch Species tyrannosaur.
• Lu Ran asked Manager Ying for an Ethereal Flower, and Manager Ying explained that Beast Taming University president Shi Zhen had been cursed to periodically become a woman.
• Gu Qingyi called Lu Ran, praised his accomplishments, and said she would visit him in Sky City.
• Manager Ying advised Lu Ran to consult Gu Qingyi about the best time to awaken a pet beast’s Spatial attribute, and Lu Ran explained why he planned to delay General Ha’s evolution-related choices.
• Gu Qingyi arrived and reported that the deep sea held many powerful level-40 and level-50 beasts, with stronger creatures and land incursions possible as evolution progressed.
• Gu Qingyi warned Lu Ran that the ocean could become humanity’s greatest threat and told him to monitor the waters near Green Sea City.

Lu Ran advanced to the Freshman Tournament quarterfinals after Fang Lan forfeited, then faced Xia Ri and revealed General Ha’s powerful Blizzard Sword Will. After defeating Xia Ri’s spear intent, Lu Ran invited her to study cooking with him to help perfect it.

• Lu Ran learned that Fang Lan was his next opponent, but she forfeited rather than face his Wind-type skills, sending him into the top eight.
• The tournament bracket paired Lu Ran with Xia Ri, the Blazing Fire Style spear fighter, whose refusal to forfeit drew the audience’s support.
• Xia Ri fused with her fire-phoenix-like cockatiel and challenged Lu Ran to show General Ha’s Flame Dragon Sword Will, but Lu Ran said they each possessed their own sword will.
• General Ha unleashed Blizzard Sword Will, froze the arena, and knocked Xia Ri’s spear away, winning their clash of weapon conceptions.
• Lu Ran told Xia Ri her spear intent had flaws and invited her to study cooking with him so she could work toward perfecting it.

Lu Ran’s strength drove his Freshman Tournament opponents to forfeit, and Lin Yin withdrew after suddenly fainting. At a Beast Taming Alliance meeting, Lin Nian revealed that Lin Yin’s recurring dreams featured a fox claiming to be a reincarnated Legendary creature and asking for an Epic-grade Psychic resource to free it.

• Lu Ran defeated Xia Ri, who conceded after witnessing General Ha’s Blizzard Sword Will, and he invited her to study cooking.
• Du Yuan and Youxiong Anlin discussed forfeiting against Lu Ran, then found Lin Yin clutching her head in pain; doctors arrived, and the university announced her withdrawal due to illness.
• Manager Ying checked on Lu Ran, while the tournament organizers informed him that Du Yuan and Youxiong Anlin had forfeited their upcoming matches.
• Lu Ran won the championship without further fights, frustrating spectators who wanted to see him compete.
• Lin Nian told the Beast Taming Alliance’s First-Generation Beast Tamers that Lin Yin dreamed of a fox claiming to be a reincarnated Legendary creature that needed an Epic-grade Psychic resource to escape another dimension.

After the Freshman Tournament, Lu Ran received his Monarch Species egg and planned to develop his Dragon-Type pets while farming Level One Secret Realms. He left for Infinite City aiming to awaken Dark Crow’s Psychic attribute and challenge the domestic Commander Divine Pet Rankings.

• Manager Ying told Lu Ran that the award ceremony had been canceled and explained that Lin Yin had been chosen by a powerful Psychic creature that contacted her through dreams.
• Lu Ran told Fang Lan to keep her tournament rewards so she could grow stronger and support him in future Abyss Secret Realms.
• Dr. Gu delivered Lu Ran the King Beast Egg and an Ethereal Flower, and explained that the egg would hatch in a little over two months.
• Lu Ran gave the egg to Manager Ying for safekeeping and entered Infinite City to farm Level One Secret Realms for a Psychic Gem for Dark Crow.
• Lu Ran decided to test General Ha and Sudden Death King against Third-Generation Beast Tamers on the domestic Commander Divine Pet Rankings.

Lu Ran entered the newly added legendary Secret Realm Dragon King's Nest and discovered that the Diamond Giant Dragon was far beyond his team's strength. Although they fled without clearing it, General Ha and Sudden Death King earned places on the Seventh Infinite City's Commander Divine Pet Rankings, with General Ha taking first place and knocking Qin Ming's Void Whale down.

• Lu Ran found the new legendary Secret Realms, rejected Pluto's offer to team up, and decided to test Dragon King's Nest with General Ha and Sudden Death King.
• Lu Ran and his pets entered Dragon King's Nest, where General Ha tried to cut a diamond in the cavern and Lu Ran warned him not to damage it.
• The Diamond Giant Dragon attacked Lu Ran's team; Sudden Death King took a heavy hit, while General Ha's Dragon-Slaying Sword Aura barely damaged the dragon before Lu Ran teleported them out.
• Lu Ran decided to warn the major factions about the Diamond Giant Dragon's strength, while Beast Taming University administrators discussed the danger of the legendary Secret Realms.
• The university administrators learned that Lu Ran had placed General Ha and Sudden Death King on the Seventh Infinite City's rankings, with General Ha taking first place over Qin Ming's Void Whale.