Chapter Summaries

Su Ping invited Yang He and Shangguan Ye to teach him the basics of cultivating plant-type Pet Beasts, and learned that the habitat he was preparing for the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng was a spirit ground. After the Yao Sage watched Su Ping leave while disguised as a child, Su Ping returned to Woodheart eager to finish the spirit ground and see what it could do.

• Su Ping prepared a woodland habitat in Woodheart for the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng and arranged to cultivate Mistwater Pines with help from Yang He and Shangguan Ye.
• Over lunch, Shangguan Ye and Yang He explained spirit grounds, their role in cultivating plant Pet Beasts, and the Feng Shui traditions behind their arrangements.
• Su Ping realized the resources and layout specified by the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng formed a complete spirit ground, possibly even one centered on the ginseng itself.
• Su Ping arranged for Shangguan Ye to stay at Cloudheart and planned to study the plant-type pets with him the next day.
• A child watched Su Ping leave and privately revealed that he was the Yao Sage, who wanted access to Su Ping's Dreamheart virtual game.

Su Ping completed the Heart of Spring spirit land, where the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng’s presence accelerated plant growth and evolution and illuminated the Cloudwater Azure Lotus Record. He then began evolving the Mistwater Pine with both spirit-land conditions and Snow Mist Ice, leaving Shangguan Ye stunned when the process finished in under two hours.

• Su Ping finished arranging the Heart of Spring, and the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng settled into its earth, causing the plants to grow and the Cloudwater Azure Lotus to bloom and advance.
• Su Ping used Rain Prayer on the woodland, and the Cloudwater Azure Lotus Record lit up, enhancing his talent.
• Su Ping surveyed the spirit land with a Spirit Land Compass and learned from the Jade Demon Spring Ginseng that it could accelerate plant breeding and evolution.
• Shangguan Ye explained how spirit-land evolution could give a Cold Mist Locks River Pine Mistwater Domain instead of Ice Mist Chill, and Su Ping used Record experience to complete an enhanced evolution path.
• Su Ping brought the Mistwater Pine into the Heart of Spring and combined the spirit land with Snow Mist Ice, intending to produce a pine with both skills.
• The spirit land reduced the Mistwater Pine’s three-day nurturing process to minutes, and Su Ping completed its evolution in under two hours, leaving Shangguan Ye astonished.

Su Ping completed the Mistwater Pine’s rapid evolution into a Cold Mist Locks River Pine and discussed his cultivation method with Shangguan Ye. At Waterheart, a twelve-year-old provoked Su Ping into agreeing to a fishing contest, which was about to begin before a crowd.

• Su Ping used the Heart of Spring and linked resources to the spiritual land to evolve the Mistwater Pine into a Cold Mist Locks River Pine in two hours, while Shangguan Ye marveled at the result.
• Su Ping examined the evolved pine’s skills, including Mist Demon Condensation, then sent it into his Beast Taming Space and invited Shangguan Ye to fish at Waterheart.
• Li Shu left with Guan Lili to take Beast Tamer assessments and pursue junior and intermediate Forest Wolf specialist Breeder certificates.
• At Waterheart, Su Ping noticed Lu Heng’s twelve-year-old child fishing and warned Xiao Fang that the child should not be there because it was dangerous.
• The child challenged Su Ping to a fishing contest, and Su Ping agreed that the loser would have to accept the winner’s terms.
• Su Ping, the child, and Shangguan Ye went to the water’s edge as onlookers, including Xu Li, gathered for the contest.

Su Ping lost a bizarre fishing contest to Little Fish, who caught a tankful of aquatic pet beasts with a bare hook. Little Fish offered Su Ping a method for rapidly nurturing or evolving Rainbow Coral Polyps in exchange for a Dreamheart headset, but Qin Erlong recognized him as the Yao Sage.

• Su Ping and Little Fish competed to catch more fish, and Little Fish repeatedly pulled up valuable and unusual aquatic pet beasts with an unbaited hook.
• Su Ping caught an Elite Tier Ghosthead Eel, but Little Fish filled three large tanks with nearly a hundred fish before Su Ping conceded.
• Little Fish claimed his reward was a Dreamheart headset and offered Su Ping a method to accelerate or evolve Waterheart's Rainbow Coral Polyp.
• Qin Erlong arrived, saw Little Fish, and blurted out that he was the Yao Sage.

Su Ping met Yao Sage, who explained that the East Sea flood had been a ritual to revive the ancient Water Venerable and revealed the history linking it to Su Ping’s Fire Phoenix. Yao Sage helped Su Ping activate a Dreamheart headset, then offered guidance on Feifei and a theoretical breeding method for Su Ping’s Rainbow Coral Polyp, leaving Su Ping eager to try it.

• Qin Erlong arrived at Waterheart and recognized the child fishing with Su Ping as Yao Sage, astonishing the onlookers with the Saint Spirit’s presence.
• Yao Sage told Su Ping that the East Sea flood had been the Water Venerable’s resurrection ritual, connected to the revived Flame Venerable that Su Ping had encountered before.
• Yao Sage explained that the Flame Venerable and Water Venerable had once been ancient totems, and that their revival was allowed so they could keep each other in check.
• Su Ping took Yao Sage to the mechanical laboratory, where Feifei activated a Dreamheart headset; Yao Sage praised Feifei’s mental-power abilities but could not advise on its evolution.
• Yao Sage told Su Ping about Dragon City’s Emerald Dreamland and revealed that the Rainbow Coral Polyp could theoretically evolve into a dual Water- and Light-type Rainbow Dragon.
• Su Ping said he wanted to try the Rainbow Coral Polyp’s theoretical breeding method despite its lack of proven success.

Su Ping studied Dragon City's Rainbow Coral Polyp dragon-transformation research and saw how repeated experiments had failed to produce a Rainbow Dragon. After finishing the log, he focused on the Myriad Spirits Codex, hoping it could help him develop a successful cultivation method.

• Yao Sage left Su Ping a Space Bracelet containing a USB Drive with Dragon City's Rainbow Coral Polyp testing log.
• Su Ping read that twelve specimens had produced only limited evolutions, with some dying or losing their dragon-transformation potential.
• The log described a light-based evolution into an Aurora Rainbow Worm, which had combat ability but no longer had potential to become a dragon.
• Su Ping concluded that the many branching stages of evolution made developing a Rainbow Dragon cultivation method exceptionally difficult.
• After reading the full document, Su Ping focused his attention on the Myriad Spirits Codex.

Su Ping considered how to gather the experience needed to complete the Rainbow Dragon’s evolution method, then learned that Old Liu wanted to discuss progress on a Super-Rank Skill. As Su Ping headed to the Breeder Association, the Water Venerable sent an avatar toward the Nine Provinces and revealed that its External Incarnation was incomplete.

• Su Ping found that the Rainbow Dragon’s first evolution stage required 1,500 Divine Dragon Record experience points, which he could not afford without sacrificing other records or earning universal experience.
• Su Ping inspected Feifei’s Dreamheart website and forum, then promised to bring her successfully awakened Mechanical Core pet beasts so she could fight in the game.
• Old Qin offered Su Ping a nominal teaching position at the planned Jianghai Advanced Beast Tamer Academy, but Su Ping declined and learned that Old Liu wanted to discuss his Super-Rank Skill research.
• Su Ping agreed to visit the Breeder Association to meet Old Liu and investigate Dragon-type resources, then left for the association.
• On Yanxun Island, the Water Venerable split into a mermaid avatar and an azure serpent, sending the mermaid to meet human leaders and search for the Flame Venerable.
• The Water Venerable explained that its External Incarnation was incomplete and returned to the Endless Sea to reclaim its power.

Su Ping visited Liu Fuhai at the Jianghai Breeder Association and helped him find a promising direction for an Ice Fang White Wolf super-rank skill. Their experiments with Bai Ye revealed that adding moisture to the air transformed the effects of its ice skills, and they identified Waterheart as a skill that could improve both humidity and energy circulation.

• Liu Fuhai told Su Ping that his victory in the Breeding Competition had drawn many breeders to the Jianghai Breeder Association.
• Liu Fuhai showed Su Ping how Bai Ye combined Temperature Control, Frozen Bloodline, and Ice Storm, and proposed freezing water inside enemies.
• Su Ping rejected that approach and suggested using water in the air as a medium to amplify Bai Ye's ice skills.
• Su Ping used Rain Prayer Technique to condense moisture in the laboratory, and Bai Ye froze it into ice crystals that he shaped into blades and frost wings before running out of energy.
• Su Ping explained that Bai Ye needed both a way to increase water molecules and a skill to sustain energy circulation.
• Su Ping and Liu Fuhai independently identified Waterheart as a skill that could address both needs.

Su Ping and Liu Fuhai discussed developing Waterheart for Ice Fang White Wolf and agreed that Liu would bring Bai Ye to the Heart of Myriad Spirits. They went to observe the Intermediate Breeder assessment, where Li Shu and Guan Lili prepared to develop Forest Wolves and Xiao Long chose a Flame Wolf, determined to outshine them.

• Su Ping declined to co-lead Liu Fuhai's Waterheart research but invited Liu and Bai Ye to the Heart of Myriad Spirits and asked for dragon-related resources.
• Su Ping and Liu Fuhai went to the Breeder Association to watch the assessment, drawing attention from company representatives who recognized Su Ping.
• Breeder Lin explained the Intermediate Breeder assessment rules, which required candidates to successfully develop a pet beast's skill or evolution.
• Breeder Lin arranged high-quality Forest Wolves for Li Shu and Guan Lili, while Ding Yan encouraged his nephew Xiao Long.
• Xiao Long viewed Li Shu and Guan Lili as rivals and chose to rent a Flame Wolf for his assessment.

Su Ping agreed to take Ding Xiaolong on as a student at the Heart of Myriad Spirits, with Liu Fuhai offering access to his Wolf Pet evolution methods in return for their research collaboration. As Su Ping watched the Breeder examination, Xiao Qing alerted him to a change in his Beast Taming Space, where Little Crow appeared to be beginning his Ancestral Evolution.

• Ding Yan introduced his nephew Ding Xiaolong to Su Ping, and Ding Xiaolong said he hoped to become a powerful Breeder like him.
• Liu Fuhai offered Su Ping access to his Ice Fang White Wolf, Lava Giant Wolf, and Frenzied Sand Wind Wolf methods, and Su Ping accepted.
• Su Ping agreed to let Ding Xiaolong study at the Heart of Myriad Spirits, where he would focus on Flame Wolves and other Wolf Pets.
• Li Shu, Guan Lili, and Ding Xiaolong began their Intermediate Breeder examinations by cultivating their assigned beasts.
• Xiao Qing alerted Su Ping to something happening in his Beast Taming Space, where Little Crow showed signs of beginning his Ancestral Evolution.

Su Ping documented Little Crow’s Ancestral Evolution into a Dark Flame Ancient Crow and discovered its powerful abilities. Little Flame then sensed another of its kind nearby, and Su Ping headed north with Old Sha to find it while Ye Zhou tried unsuccessfully to call him back.

• Su Ping brought Little Crow to the Laboratory, where Little Flame’s Flame Fruit completed Little Crow’s Ancestral Evolution.
• Little Crow became a Dark Flame Ancient Crow with a Monarch Tier Seven racial realm and seven skills, including Undying Fire and Black Flame Incarnation.
• Little Flame sensed another Flame Venerable incarnation to the north and asked Su Ping to help it defeat and devour it.
• Su Ping agreed to help Little Flame in exchange for future repayment, then took Old Sha and headed north from the Heart of Myriad Spirits.
• Ye Zhou read Su Ping’s message about Little Crow’s evolution and called him repeatedly, but Feifei silenced the unanswered phone in the Laboratory.

Su Ping and Old Sha tracked down another fire spirit split from the Flame Venerable, which had already devoured one of its kind and controlled two Blue-Feathered Flame Sparrows. Little Crow defeated both sparrows with its Inextinguishable Flame, leaving the opposing fire spirit to surrender to Little Flame.

• Su Ping followed Little Flame's sense of a nearby fire spirit into the wilderness north of the Heart of Myriad Spirits.
• Su Ping discovered the fire spirit had already devoured another of its kind and commanded two Commander Rank Blue-Feathered Flame Sparrows.
• Su Ping summoned Xiao Qing and Qianyi while Little Crow, Yaya, faced the two sparrows in battle.
• Yaya's Inextinguishable Flame devoured the sparrows' fire and overwhelmed them despite their higher stages.
• The defeated fire spirit approached Little Flame and offered no resistance to being devoured.

Little Flame devoured the Flame Venerable fire spirit, awakened more memories, and repaid Su Ping with the ancient True Flame Soup formula. Su Ping began researching its ingredients, while Ye Zhou continued trying unsuccessfully to reach him.

• Little Flame devoured the Flame Venerable fire spirit, reached Ordinary Tier Ten, and gained the Flame Soul skill while the Blue-Feathered Flame Sparrows joined Little Crow Yaya.
• Little Flame told Su Ping that its memories had surfaced and transmitted the True Flame Soup formula as repayment.
• Su Ping learned that True Flame Soup permanently raised the flame-temperature ceiling of Fire Element pet beasts and could help them level up, but its recipe required Ancient Fire.
• Little Flame identified Ancient Fire as edible fire, and Su Ping recognized the Flame Fruit produced by his Spatial Trait as the ingredient.
• Su Ping returned to the Heart of Myriad Spirits, began researching the formula, and asked Feifei to bring Fire Element materials from the warehouse.
• Ye Zhou repeatedly called Su Ping late at night without getting an answer and grew increasingly frustrated.

Su Ping successfully made True Flame Soup, then developed a mass-producible improved potion called Flameheart. After Dong Muyun arrived to test the new product, Su Ping proposed using Ding Yan’s expertise with Flame Wolves to assess it.

• Su Ping produced genuine True Flame Soup using Little Flame’s memories, then began researching substitutes that could make the potion suitable for mass production.
• Ding Yan brought Ding Xiaolong to the Heart of Myriad Spirits after Ding Xiaolong passed his breeder assessment, and they learned about the Dreamheart Experience Center.
• Dong Muyun arrived and said Su Ping had asked her to test new products; the Yao Sage noticed an unusual aura connected to her.
• Su Ping emerged from the laboratory with four grades of Flameheart, an improved potion that could raise Fire Element pet beasts’ flame temperatures and help them advance in tier.
• Su Ping suggested testing Flameheart on Flame Wolves with Ding Yan monitoring the trials.

Su Ping tested the Flameheart potion on juvenile Flame Wolves and found that it greatly increased their flame temperature and cultivation, though its strongest effects consumed vast amounts of energy. As Ding Yan prepared to test the Top-Tier Flameheart on his Ashen Wolf Lord, the Myriad Spirits Codex illuminated the Flame Wolf Record and rewarded Su Ping with an enhancement to True Eye.

• Su Ping brought Ding Yan, Ding Xiaolong, and others to the Skill Power Laboratory to test Flameheart on five juvenile Flame Wolves.
• The wolves’ Flame Claws initially reached 350 degrees, and a juvenile that drank basic Flameheart reached 500 degrees and broke through to ordinary tier seven.
• A second wolf drank intermediate Flameheart and rose from ordinary sixth rank to the peak of ordinary tier nine, then unleashed a 1,250-degree attack before collapsing from energy depletion.
• Su Ping continued testing repeated doses of basic Flameheart and offered Ding Yan the Top-Tier Flameheart to test on his Ashen Wolf Lord.
• The Myriad Spirits Codex illuminated the Flame Wolf Record and granted Su Ping an enhancement to True Eye.

Su Ping tested Flameheart on a Flame Wolf and Ding Yan’s Ashen Wolf Lord, finding that the genuine True Flame Soup dramatically increased the Ashen Wolf Lord’s Ashen Withering. The chapter ended with Ding Yan telling President Han that Su Ping had developed a powerful general-purpose Fire Element Magic Potion and inviting her to see it.

• Su Ping observed that repeated Flameheart doses still strengthened the Flame Wolf’s skills, though the improvement had sharply diminished.
• Ding Yan ordered his Ashen Wolf Lord, Little Gray Gray, to use Ashen Withering, and Su Ping measured its attack power and effects.
• Ding Yan gave the Ashen Wolf Lord Su Ping’s True Flame Soup, raising Ashen Withering’s attack power to 26,348 and its flame temperature to 5,200 degrees.
• Ding Yan praised the potion’s effectiveness, and Su Ping asked him to stay and help test its other effects.
• At the Breeder Association headquarters, President Han asked Liu Fuhai why Ding Yan had not returned, and Ding Yan called to explain that Su Ping had developed a powerful general-purpose Fire Element Magic Potion.

After learning that the National Professional Assessment preliminaries would begin in two months, Su Ping decided to focus on strengthening his contracted pet beasts, especially Qianyi, before competing for a place in the provincial top ten. The chapter ended with him considering the Paper-Folding Man Record as a way to raise Qianyi’s rank.

• Su Ping woke after a long rest and discovered his Mental Strength had reached Commander Rank, stage six.
• Su Ping sent Ye Zhou videos of Yaya’s Ancestral Evolution, and Ye Zhou called to discuss the evolution and invite him to compete in the upcoming assessment.
• Ye Zhou told Su Ping that the provincial preliminaries were two months away and declared that he would take first place nationwide.
• Su Ping reviewed the assessment schedule and decided to use the remaining two months to advance his pet beasts, focusing particularly on Qianyi’s sword skills and rank.
• Su Ping resolved to prioritize his contracted pet beasts, while continuing his promised work with Old Liu, and considered the Paper-Folding Man Record as a way to help Qianyi advance.

Li Shu and the others toured Soulheart, where Bai Cang showed them the eerie Reflection World built around Mirrors of Reflection. After the group became separated in its maze, Li Shu discovered that he had entered the world inside the mirrors.

• Li Shu, Ding Xiaolong, Zhao Qingqing, and Guan Lili arrived at Soulheart and learned that Su Ping wanted to meet them later.
• Bai Cang guided the group through Soulheart’s Death Wheat Field and Muyang Elementary School before showing them the unfinished Reflection World.
• The group lost their way in the mirror maze, and Li Shu split off to search for an exit.
• Li Shu found that his pet beasts would not answer and that the mirror maze had cut him off from the others.
• Li Shu saw Guan Lili and Zhao Qingqing nearby, but they could not see or hear him, and he realized he had entered the world inside the mirrors.

Li Shu escaped the Reflection World after a fake Bai Cang convinced him that the real Bai had sacrificed himself, and he returned determined to kill the impostor. Su Ping assigned breeding studies to his students, but Li Shu arrived and attacked the real Bai Cang, while the Mirror Saint watched and enjoyed the prank.

• Li Shu met a trapped version of Bai Cang in the Reflection World, who claimed a mirror monster had copied them and sent unaware doubles into reality.
• The fake Bai Cang persuaded Li Shu that one of them had to die to open a breach, then staged his own death so Li Shu could escape.
• Li Shu fled the Reflection World and vowed to avenge Bai Cang by killing the impostor he believed was outside.
• Su Ping assigned Zhao Qingqing, Guan Lili, Ding Xiaolong, and Bai Cang breeding methods to study, and told them Master Yin Luo would visit in a few months.
• Li Shu burst into the spirit hall, summoned Pinecone, and ordered it to kill Bai Cang, whom he mistook for an impostor.
• The Pink Twin-Tailed Anime Girl watched Li Shu's attack through the Mirror Reflecting the Myriad Heavens and laughed at her successful prank.

Su Ping visited Mirror Void’s true Mirror Realm, where he learned about its lifelike reflections and potential for spatial travel. His insight into the realm’s inability to let reflected pet beasts grow earned Mirror Void’s approval, while the Myriad Spirits Codex activated a new record for the Mirror of Reflection and upgraded his talent.

• Su Ping found Mirror Void in the Reflection World after sending Li Shu to the Medical Room, and accepted her invitation to visit her realm.
• Mirror Void led Su Ping through mirrors into her vast, lifelike city-sized Mirror Realm and explained that it could connect distant locations through mirror passages.
• Su Ping asked whether Mirror Void could mass-produce teleportation mirrors, and she offered to make short-range arrays if he answered a question about the Mirror Realm.
• Su Ping suggested that reflected pet beasts might be unable to grow or evolve, prompting Mirror Void to consider this a key difference between her realm and reality.
• The Myriad Spirits Codex activated the Mirror of Reflection Record, awarded Su Ping the Heaven-Mirroring Reflection talent, and upgraded it to Flower in the Mirror, Moon on the Water.