Chapter Summaries

Su Ping discovered that the supposed Jade Demon Spring Ginseng was only a discarded branch, but Xiao Qing sensed its lingering power and ate it. A brief Light of Evolution appeared, giving Su Ping a new reason to keep searching Tianshan for the ginseng’s cast-off bodies.

• Su Ping removed the branch from the Golden Box and realized it showed no signs of being a living Legend-tier resource.
• Su Ping checked the Breeder Association’s records and concluded the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng had abandoned the branch as a cast-off husk.
• Xiao Qing confirmed he could sense the branch only from nearby, and Su Ping learned the real ginseng was still somewhere in Tianshan.
• Xiao Qing ate the branch, and Su Ping saw a brief Light of Evolution flash from him.
• Su Ping resolved to search Tianshan for more cast-off husks that might help Xiao Qing evolve.

After failing to find the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng in Tianshan, Su Ping returned to Beihan City with Xiao Qing stronger and ready for the Heavenly Tomb Breeder selection. Meanwhile, Su Anyong and Master Leng arrived as examiners, unaware that Su Ping had also reached the Breeder Association campus.

• Su Ping found no Jade Demon Spring Ginseng after three days of searching, but Xiao Qing reached Commander Tier Three and perfected Poison Flower and Grass Root after consuming discarded husks.
• Su Ping and Rong Mang left Tianshan for Beihan City so Su Ping could attend the Heavenly Tomb special elite unit's Breeder selection.
• Su Anyong piloted Master Leng to the Breeder Association campus, where they discussed Master Yin, Undead breeding, and which Dragon City inheritance Su Ping might choose.
• Su Anyong and Master Leng entered Building C-01 with the welcoming association group as Su Ping arrived nearby with two familiar figures.

Master Yin sought to recruit Su Ping as his student, hoping the young breeder could help with research into the Heavenly Tomb. Su Anyong arranged for Su Ping to meet Master Yin at the Beihan City Breeder Association headquarters that afternoon.

• Master Yin praised Su Ping’s breeding achievements and asked whether he already had a mentor.
• Master Leng revealed that Su Ping’s Mutated Paper-Folding Man had evolved, prompting Master Yin to ask about taking Su Ping as a student.
• Su Anyong explained that Su Ping was in Beihan City and offered to call him over to meet Master Yin.
• Su Ping joked with Su Anyong over the phone, then agreed to come to the Breeder Association headquarters around five or six that afternoon.

Su Ping attended the secret selection for the Heavenly Tomb Special Beast Tamer Corps and volunteered to take the first simulated-combat test. When he discovered his father, Su Anyong, was serving as an instructor, Su Ping insisted that his test beast’s secrets be protected by a confidentiality agreement.

• Master Leng and Master Yin prepared the simulated Heavenly Tomb environment and began calling the Breeders upstairs for the selection.
• Su Ping arrived at the gathering, drew attention from the other Breeders, and volunteered to go first, boasting that he could settle the test in one blow.
• Su Ping rode the elevator to the testing hall while eating pastries and was startled to see Master Leng, Master Yin, and his father, Su Anyong, behind the glass.
• Master Yin learned Su Ping’s identity and invited him to summon his beast for the simulated-environment combat test.
• Su Ping warned the three officials that his participating beast involved Dragon Nation secrets and demanded that they sign a confidentiality agreement.

Su Ping revealed that his candidate pet beasts were evolved Five Elements Paper-Folding Men, then tested their combat strength in a simulated Heavenly Tomb. The simulation reached peak Monarch Rank, but Su Ping and the Paper-Folding Men remained unaffected and easily defeated every undead beast that appeared.

• Su Ping summoned three evolved Five Elements Paper Diagrams and explained that Paper-Folding Men had completed a basic evolution with far greater potential still undiscovered.
• The Ghost Sage, Master Yin, and Su Anyong began a Commander Rank Heavenly Tomb simulation to test Su Ping’s resistance to death energy and combat strength.
• The Paper Diagrams transformed into armor, a shield, and a sword, protecting Su Ping from the simulation’s darkness and death energy.
• When undead beasts appeared, the Paper Diagrams cycled their five-element energy and greatly increased their strength, prompting Su Ping to ask for the difficulty to rise faster.
• The simulation advanced to peak Monarch Rank, but Su Ping hunted down the undead beasts and defeated them with a single strike each.

Su Ping’s Five Elements Paper Diagram endured the Heavenly Tomb trial’s highest difficulty, astonishing the observers with Emperor-Tier power before the simulation ran out of energy. He explained how Paper-Folding Men could splice into evolved forms, then withheld the name of the form’s second Super-Rank Skill until the observers signed a confidentiality agreement.

• Su Ping swept through the simulated Heavenly Tomb with the Five Elements Paper Diagram, whose energy and defenses overwhelmed the spectral beasts.
• Master Yin and Master Leng raised the trial to its highest difficulty, and the Paper Diagram unleashed Emperor-Tier energy to withstand the intensified environment.
• After thirty minutes, the simulation exhausted its energy, and Su Ping explained that five spliced Paper-Folding Men formed the Five Elements Paper Diagram.
• Su Ping described Paper Body Splicing, the Paper-Folding Men’s strengths and weaknesses, and their Five Elements Elemental Heart Super-Rank Skill.
• Su Ping brought out three sheets of paper and said he would reveal the second Super-Rank Skill only after the three observers signed a confidentiality agreement.

Su Ping’s Five Elements Paper-Folding Men passed the Special Beast Tamer Corps trial, and the judges selected him as one of the corps’ Breeders. He joined the judges for the next evaluation, leaving Jian Yue stunned when she arrived as the second contestant and found him behind the glass partition.

• Master Leng asked Su Anyong whether Su Ping and the Paper-Folding Men were suitable for the corps, and Su Anyong agreed after Master Leng offered to handle any criticism of the family connection.
• Master Leng, Master Yin, and Su Anyong agreed to select another Breeder whose beast had stronger reconnaissance abilities, and Master Leng invited Su Ping to stay and judge the remaining candidates.
• The waiting Breeders assumed Su Ping had failed and left, and Jian Yue volunteered to go next.
• Master Leng told Jian Yue that the trial’s combat resistance requirements had been lowered and its reconnaissance requirements increased.
• Su Ping arrived behind the glass with pastries and a chair, and Master Yin explained that Su Ping’s evolved beast had passed and would be cultivated by the corps.

Jian Yue demonstrated that her mutated Night Crow Scarecrow could withstand the Heavenly Tomb’s death energy and use Death-Omen Crows to scout and fight, earning a place on the shortlist. Su Ping asked to learn her cultivation method and offered to exchange his own, leaving Jian Yue surprised by his willingness to share.

• Master Yin identified Jian Yue’s pet as a Monarch Rank Night Crow Scarecrow and assigned her tests of death resistance and reconnaissance.
• Jian Yue’s Night Crow Scarecrow concealed her aura, resisted the death energy, and used its crows to survey the trial field without alerting the undead pets.
• The Night Crow Scarecrow revealed its Death-type mutation and summoned Death-Omen Crows, performing well in a follow-up combat test.
• Jian Yue confirmed that the mutation cost less than two Emperor Tier resources, and Master Leng added her to the shortlist as a potential second Breeder for his unit.
• Su Ping asked Jian Yue to raise a Night Crow Scarecrow for him or share her cultivation method, and Jian Yue proposed exchanging methods instead.
• Su Ping readily agreed to exchange cultivation methods, surprising Jian Yue with his stated belief that breeders should share knowledge.

Su Ping’s promise to publish the Paper-Folding Man’s evolution method deeply impressed Jian Yue, who later learned she had been selected as the Heavenly Tomb Special Beast Tamer Corps’ Second Breeder. After Master Yin revealed he had hoped to take Su Ping as a student, Jian Yue asked whether she could learn from Su Ping instead.

• Su Anyong told Jian Yue that Su Ping planned to release the Paper-Folding Man’s evolution and breeding method publicly, leaving her astonished by his generosity.
• Jian Yue returned to the second floor and watched several Breeders leave after their trials, while she waited for the selection result.
• Su Anyong announced that Jian Yue had been chosen as the Heavenly Tomb Special Beast Tamer Corps’ Second Breeder.
• Master Yin admitted he had hoped to take Su Ping as a student, but Su Ping suggested they might conduct research together instead.
• Jian Yue asked Su Ping if she could learn from him on future scarecrow research projects, leaving Master Yin wondering how she had become his rival for a student.

Su Ping traveled back to Tianshan with Xing Chen and Xiao Qing to find the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng’s true body. After their trap caught nothing, they spotted the ginseng moving to a nearby cliff face, leaving Su Ping face-to-face with his real target.

• Master Leng received approval for Su Ping and Su Anyong to work with the Beiyuan Legion, but was told to keep Su Ping away from the team members.
• Yao Sage asked Master Leng to contact Su Ping about making more Dreamhearts for his virtual game, Pingyun.
• Master Leng returned to Beihan City and learned that Su Ping had left for Tianshan before dawn.
• Su Ping and Xing Chen followed Xiao Qing deeper into Tianshan, where Xiao Qing led them to an inconspicuous blade of grass on a cliff.
• Su Ping’s Paper-Folding Men trapped the patch of rock, but the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng was not inside; Su Ping and Xiao Qing spotted it on a nearby section of cliff.

Su Ping and Xing Chen tried to capture the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng with Qianyi and Xing Chen’s mechanical tiger, but the intelligent plant evaded them and left them with an ordinary horsetail weed. After deciding to make one more attempt before calling Master Leng, Su Ping opened the gold enclosure, gave the grass to Xiao Qing, and sat near the ginseng to try a gentler approach.

• Su Ping ordered Qianyi to trap the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng in a gold box, but the plant escaped and left behind ordinary horsetail grass.
• Xing Chen offered help, and his mechanical tiger liquefied into the ground to encircle the ginseng with gold, but the captured plant was also ordinary grass while the real ginseng appeared nearby as a morning glory.
• Su Ping realized their failed attempts had not even threatened the ginseng and resisted Xing Chen’s suggestion to summon Master Leng, choosing to try once more himself.
• Su Ping opened the gold box, gave the strange grass to Xiao Qing, and sat a few meters from the ginseng to attempt communication and persuasion.

Su Ping tried several ways to communicate with the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng, but Xiao Qing’s aura prompted the legendary creature to reveal itself and recognize Xiao Qing as kin. The Jade Demon Spring Ginseng agreed to cooperate in exchange for the Elixir of Immortality, gave Xiao Qing a Ginseng Rootlet, and then hid inside Xiao Qing, leaving Su Ping stunned by how easily it bypassed his capture plans.

• Su Ping failed to reach the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng through speech and Mental Communication, then used Ancient Serpent Script to draw its attention.
• After Xiao Qing ate the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng’s fresh Cast-off Husk, its Light of Evolution shone, and the creature emerged in a flame-like green form.
• The Jade Demon Spring Ginseng examined Xiao Qing, and Su Ping falsely presented Xiao Qing as its flesh and blood before proposing that they cooperate.
• The Jade Demon Spring Ginseng agreed through Xiao Qing and showed Su Ping images of a divine tree and a fruit, revealing that it wanted the Elixir of Immortality.
• The Jade Demon Spring Ginseng gave Su Ping a Ginseng Rootlet for Xiao Qing and demonstrated that the Golden Box could not trap it.
• The Jade Demon Spring Ginseng merged into Xiao Qing and remained hidden even after Su Ping summoned Xiao Qing into his Beast Taming Space.

Su Ping brought the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng back to the Rong residence and planned Xiao Qing’s evolution, while the ginseng’s mysterious abilities continued to puzzle him. After returning home, he tested the ginseng’s reaction to the little flame, which suddenly grew and spoke more fluently than before.

• On the journey back, Su Ping wondered what the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng was and realized its presence was making resources grow around Xiao Qing in his Beast Taming Space.
• Su Ping outlined Xiao Qing’s evolution and External Incarnation breeding process, including the resources and Mirror Reflecting the Myriad Heavens he planned to use.
• Su Ping told Xing Chen about his trip and discussed his difficulty finding a suitable mechanical body for Feifei’s Psychic Element Mechanical Core.
• Su Ping returned to the Rong Family residence, shared dinner with Rong Bao, and went back to his room after hearing his grandfather reminisce about Chun’er.
• In his Beast Taming Space, Su Ping asked the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng about the little flame, and it infused the flame with jade-green aura.
• The little flame grew and spoke more fluently, cursing Su Ping in familiar words and prompting him to wonder whether it had regained consciousness.

Su Ping tried to learn why the newly awakened little flame hated humans, but its fierce rejection of a Soul Contract left him with more questions. After an unsuccessful night of research, he challenged the Rong Family cousins who opposed his receiving one of the Five Saints' Eggs to defeat him in a beast-taming battle.

• Su Ping spoke with the awakened little flame, which accused humans of being despicable and refused any future Soul Contract.
• The Jade Demon Spring Ginseng gave Su Ping no answer about the flame's origins, so he planned to raise its intimacy and consult the Myriad Spirits Codex.
• Su Ping searched historical records about the Fire Phoenix throughout the night but found no useful information.
• Rong Mang and Rong Chan joined Su Ping for breakfast, and Rong Chan told him that Rong Cheng, Rong E, and Rong Xing had criticized his receiving one of the Five Saints' Eggs.
• Su Ping asked Rong Mang to tell the other Rong Family cousins that anyone who opposed the decision could challenge him, and he would refuse the egg if they beat him.

Su Ping announced that he would let pet battles decide who deserved the Five Saints' Eggs, with Rong Bao supporting his choice. As Rong Cheng arrived at the training grounds to challenge him, Su Ping prepared to have Xiao Qing fight.

• Su Ping told Rong Mang he would accept challenges from anyone who disputed his claim to a Five Saints' Egg, and Rong Bao approved after asking if he was confident.
• News of Su Ping's challenge spread through the Rong Family, prompting Rong Cheng and his father, Rong Lu, to discuss how to turn a victory into support for their branch.
• Rong Lu urged Rong Cheng to defeat Su Ping and win favor among the other branches; Rong Cheng agreed, confident in his Corrupted Blood Mosquito.
• At the training grounds, Su Ping chose Xiao Qing to fight instead of Qianyi, relying on Xiao Qing's Poison Flower and Grass Root skills and its resistance to poison.
• Rong Cheng arrived with members of his branch and challenged Su Ping to a battle.

Su Ping's Forest Wolf Xiao Qing faced Rong Cheng's Corrupted Blood Mosquito in a beast battle and proved immune to its blood-based poison skills. Xiao Qing absorbed Blood Curse, evolved Poison Woodheart to Perfection, and poisoned Bloodthirst, leaving Rong Cheng and the spectators stunned.

• Rong Cheng challenged Su Ping and chose a one-on-one beast battle, sending out his Corrupted Blood Mosquito, Bloodthirst.
• Su Ping summoned Xiao Qing, and Bloodthirst's Bloodletting Art and later poison attacks failed to affect the Forest Wolf.
• Bloodthirst used Life Drain to draw out a drop of Xiao Qing's blood and activated Blood Curse.
• Xiao Qing absorbed the Blood Curse, advanced Poison Woodheart to Perfection, and shed the crimson effect.
• Bloodthirst fell from the air with signs of poisoning, and Rong Mang realized Xiao Qing's blood had poisoned it.

Old Snake left the Rong Family’s ancestral shrine after sensing an unusual aura and went to the arena, where Su Ping’s Forest Wolf Xiao Qing had defeated Rong Cheng’s Corrupted Blood Mosquito with its perfected Poison Woodheart. After tasting Xiao Qing’s Poison Flower, Old Snake asked Rong Bao whether Su Ping would take over as family head if the position were offered to him.

• Old Snake sensed an unusual aura near the Rong Family estate, learned that Rong Bao’s grandson Su Ping had returned, and asked Rong Bao to take him to see Su Ping.
• At the arena, Rong Cheng’s Corrupted Blood Mosquito remained poisoned despite the medical Beast Tamer’s efforts, and Su Ping drew the poison out of it with Xiao Qing’s perfected Poison Woodheart.
• Xiao Qing’s Poison Flower emerged from the mosquito’s blood, and the revived pet hid from Xiao Qing before circling him in an attempt to curry favor.
• Old Snake arrived at the arena, swallowed the remaining Poison Flower, and felt drawn to Xiao Qing.
• Old Snake asked Rong Bao to offer Su Ping the family head position in exchange for staying with the Rong Family.

Su Ping learned he could return to Linzhou to breed Paper-Folding Men for the Heavenly Tomb mission, then reviewed information about Anling Treehouse and its Thorn Wolf evolution. He planned to visit the breeding base with Rong Mang the next day to pursue its breeding method.

• Master Leng told Su Ping that he could return to Linzhou and breed Paper-Folding Men there, but the work had to be completed within a year and a half.
• Su Ping agreed to head back to Jianghai after the Five Saints' Egg matter was settled and considered using the time to explore the Paper-Folding Man's Monarch evolution.
• Rong Mang brought Su Ping detailed information about Anling Treehouse and its Thorn Wolf breeding method.
• Su Ping explained that he wanted to expand the evolutionary paths for Forest Wolves and learned that Anling Treehouse might not readily share its exclusive method.
• Su Ping asked Rong Mang to accompany him to Anling Treehouse the next day, and Rong Mang agreed.

Su Ping visited Anling Treehouse to meet Zhao Lintian and ask about buying the breeding method for the Thorn Wolf. Zhao unexpectedly said he might agree, leaving Rong Mang surprised by Su Ping’s influence.

• Su Ping and Rong Mang arrived at Anling Treehouse, where the receptionist said Zhao Lintian was too busy to meet them without an appointment.
• Su Ping called Master Yin, who contacted Zhao Lintian and arranged for the group to be received.
• Zhao Lintian warmly welcomed Su Ping and brought him and his companions to the VIP Guest Room.
• Su Ping asked Zhao to sell him the Thorn Wolf’s breeding method and offered to discuss other evolutions, resources, or terms in exchange.
• Zhao said he might agree for Su Ping’s sake, surprising Rong Mang.

Su Ping toured Anling Treehouse and saw its pet-beast facilities and simulated wilderness survival attraction. Zhao Lintian offered to exchange the Thorn Wolf's cultivation method for Su Ping cultivating Sunheart in his daughter Zhao Qingqing's Forest Wolf, and Su Ping considered the proposal.

• Zhao Lintian chose to build ties with Su Ping and arranged for him to tour Anling Treehouse while he considered terms for the Thorn Wolf's cultivation method.
• Su Ping inspected Anling Treehouse's Snow Wolves, Forest Wolves, Cloud-Pattern Tree Pythons, and simulated wilderness survival attraction, and considered recreating the attraction at the Heart of Myriad Spirits.
• Zhao Lintian introduced his daughter, Zhao Qingqing, and invited Su Ping to discuss the exchange over dinner.
• Zhao Lintian asked Su Ping to cultivate Sunheart in Zhao Qingqing's Forest Wolf in exchange for the Thorn Wolf's cultivation method, offering to send her to the Heart of Myriad Spirits as an assistant.
• Su Ping said the cultivation could be done but would take a long time, and Zhao Lintian agreed to have Zhao Qingqing stay at his base.