Chapter Summaries

Su Ping discussed Ye Zhou’s Regression Potion research and revealed that he had developed Taiji Two Poles Incarnation and External Incarnation, both connected to Hall-level Super-Rank Skills. He offered to help Qin Xiaoxue cultivate the new skill in her Life Ancient Tree, and the group planned to examine Big Tree after dinner before resting for New Year’s Day.

• Ye Zhou explained that Demon City Academy had developed Regression Potions for wolfhound-type and some avian pet beasts, and Su Ping suggested Pingyun sell them.
• Su Ping told Dong Muxuan and Ye Zhou that Little Crow’s Taiji Two Poles Incarnation was based on ancient Taiji theory and opposing energy dualities.
• Su Ping said Qin Xiaoxue’s Life Ancient Tree could be a better vessel for the skill and offered to help cultivate it in Big Tree.
• Su Ping revealed that Xiao Qing’s Clone Skill was External Incarnation, ranked second among Hall-level Super-Rank Skills.
• Su Ping said he would examine Big Tree after dinner, and the group would rest before New Year’s Day.

On New Year's Day 226, Su Ping arrived at the Linzhou Breeder Competition as its final head judge after spending the previous days researching Possession Type pet beasts and the Life Ancient Tree. He took the stage amid great respect, while rumors spread that he and Zhu Hong were working to restore the lost Super-Tier skill All Rivers Run to the Sea.

• Su Ping reflected on his breeding research and considered whether two Forest Wolf evolved forms could complete the species' Record requirements.
• Liu Fuhai visited Su Ping backstage, and they prepared to join the competition as head judges.
• Liu Fuhai and Zhu Hong were introduced and took their seats as head judges.
• Breeders discussed rumors that Zhu Hong and Su Ping were researching how to restore All Rivers Run to the Sea.
• Su Ping was introduced as the final head judge, and the audience stood as he walked onto the stage.

Zhongyuan Province’s Breeder team presented the Warm Jade Puppy, a valuable Forest Wolf evolution whose costly breeding requirements earned it a low difficulty score. Su Ping then stopped the team from leaving and offered to explain a different, improved breeding method, leaving everyone stunned.

• Li Qinglong and his students introduced the Warm Jade Puppy, a tiny Life Element evolution with Commander Rank potential and strong recovery and enhancement abilities.
• The judges gave the Warm Jade Puppy high value scores, averaging 92 among the regular judges and 93 among the head judges.
• Li Qinglong revealed that breeding the Warm Jade Puppy required two Monarch Rank resources and other costly materials, leading the judges to award it a low difficulty score.
• Su Ping gave the Warm Jade Puppy a difficulty score of 50, bringing its total score to 280.
• As Li Qinglong turned to leave, Su Ping stopped him and offered another perspective on the breeding method, and Li Qinglong asked him to explain.

At the Breeder Competition, Su Ping impressed the judges by explaining how to improve Li Qinglong’s Warm Jade Puppy method, then became interested in the Water-Wood Immortal Wolf and unlocked the final requirements to advance his Forest Wolf Record. Meanwhile, Feifei, Dong Muyun, and Wu Kuang examined leaked mechanical data and suspected the Heart of Gold had arranged for Su Ping to receive it.

• Su Ping secretly explained his improved Warm Jade Puppy breeding method to Li Qinglong, who bowed and regretted not having met him sooner.
• Li Qinglong said Su Ping’s advice could have raised the method’s difficulty score enough for the Warm Jade Puppy to contend for the competition’s top ranks.
• Su Ping watched the remaining presentations until the Water-Wood Immortal Wolf caught his interest, and the Myriad Spirits Codex offered ways to perfect its method or deduce the Bodhi Heart Wolf.
• Su Ping realized the Forest Wolf Record’s level-five requirements were complete, clearing the way for him to begin simulated evolutions for Xiao Qing and Old Sha after New Year’s Day.
• At the Mechanical Heart, Feifei explained that the USB drive contained a design for a mechanical virtual mental-strength server that could convert transactions into electronic mental strength.
• Dong Muyun and Wu Kuang suspected the Golden Society had passed the technology to Su Ping on the Heart of Gold’s behalf, and Dong Muyun insisted that was definitely its intent.

Su Ping watched the Breeder Competition showcase remarkable achievements, but Ye Zhou’s Regression Potion ultimately won first place for Demon City Academy. After the competition, Ye Zhou told Su Ping he had withheld his real achievement and revealed that he had devised a new Super-Rank Skill.

• A Tianfu Province team presented the War King Ape, an Emperor Tier evolution that earned the competition’s highest difficulty score with only two Monarch Rank resources.
• Ye Zhou presented the Regression Potion, whose ability to regress certain low-level pet beasts stunned the audience and secured the championship for Demon City Academy.
• Imperial City Academy’s Ice-Swimming Fish placed second, while the competition’s champion received a special meditation-accelerating resource.
• Su Ping planned to collect the Warm Jade Puppy and Water-Wood Immortal Wolf breeding methods so he could upgrade the Forest Wolf Record to lv5.
• Ye Zhou approached Su Ping after the awards and revealed that he had not presented his newest achievement: a new Super-Rank Skill.

Ye Zhou showed Su Ping the Sundial Clock’s Super-Rank Skill, Time Negative, and proposed combining it with Little Time’s ability to pursue the Jiang Family senior’s wish. Su Ping then invited Breeder Li Qinglong and Wang Xiaowei to the Heart of Myriad Spirits, where he offered a new breeding approach for the Water-Wood Immortal Wolf.

• Ye Zhou explained that Time Negative could revive the dead temporarily by materializing a recorded version of them, and that it could retain only one negative at a time.
• Ye Zhou proposed combining Time Negative with Little Time’s Time Flies Like an Arrow, but Su Ping doubted Little Time could use both powerful skills in succession at its current level.
• Su Ping met Li Qinglong and Wang Xiaowei as they were leaving and invited them and their students back to the Heart of Myriad Spirits.
• Over dinner, Su Ping told Li Qinglong and Wang Xiaowei that he had ideas for replacing resources and techniques in the Water-Wood Immortal Wolf’s breeding method to create a new evolved form.
• Wang Xiaowei was dumbfounded by Su Ping’s offer to test the new breeding approach.

Pingyun launched Dreamheart at sharply reduced prices, and Dong Muyun monitored the huge presale and sales response. As the company’s new venture began taking off, Feifei rejected Dong Muyun’s proposal to turn virtual mental strength into tradeable currency, warning it would betray Dreamheart’s purpose.

• Dong Muyun confirmed that previous high-priced Dreamheart buyers had received exclusive in-game rewards and prestige effects to ease their complaints about the new prices.
• Dong Muyun learned Pingyun had prepared 300,000 helmets, with the Mechanic Association supplying materials on credit because of Su Ping.
• Dong Muyun proposed using virtual mental strength as an in-game currency, but Feifei argued it would encourage exploitation and entrench social classes, so Dong Muyun abandoned the idea.
• Dong Muyun watched General Manager Xu oversee the launch as sales began, and direct purchases surpassed 50,000 within ten minutes.
• Dong Muyun anticipated that Pingyun would expand into overseas demand and physical stores as Dreamheart’s sales boosted the company’s growth.

Su Ping completed the breeding method for Qin Xiaoxue’s Life Ancient Tree, Big Tree, by helping it fuse its opposing life and death energies through a Taiji-like circulation. The successful evolution left Big Tree surrounded by the Light of Evolution.

• Su Ping focused on breeding a simplified Two Forms Incarnation and developing a standardized breeding process for Possession Type pet beasts.
• Su Ping determined that Big Tree could not follow Little Crow’s elemental transformation and instead needed to fuse its life and death energies during evolution.
• Su Ping had Big Tree practice circulating the two energies in a Taiji-like pattern and prepared the Qi of the Two Forms for the final breeding step.
• Big Tree maintained the fusion as Su Ping used growth-stimulating resources, then drew the Qi of the Two Forms into its body.
• Big Tree formed a Taiji-shaped flow of energy behind it, and a ray of Light of Evolution rose into the sky.

Su Ping completed Big Tree’s evolution into a Reincarnation Ancient Tree, whose new life-and-death abilities and dramatic growth stunned Qin Xiaoxue. The chapter ended with Su Ping examining its unusual resource-producing skill and wondering about the unknown Reincarnation Fruit.

• Su Ping photographed Big Tree’s unusual evolution and sent the image to Qin Xiaoxue, who hurried back to the Heart of Myriad Spirits with Ling Xiaoxiao and Lu Xiaolu.
• Big Tree’s evolution ended, revealing a Reincarnation Ancient Tree at Monarch Tenth Rank with Saint Spirit Tier tenth-rank potential and several Super-Rank Skills.
• Su Ping and Qin Xiaoxue examined the Reincarnation Body, Super Disk, and Super World skills, including its ability to revive after death and grow stronger with each rebirth.
• Qin Xiaoxue hugged Su Ping and celebrated with Big Tree after sensing its transformation through their Soul Contract.
• Su Ping inspected the tree’s Reincarnation Fruit Condensation skill and found it could eventually produce an unfamiliar Saint Spirit Tier Reincarnation Fruit.

After the Bodhi Heart Wolf was bred, Su Ping’s Forest Wolf Record reached level 5, upgrading Spirit Eye into Eye of Analysis and unlocking Breeding Simulation. His Mental Strength surged to Emperor Third Stage, and he began a simulated breeding of Old Sha using the Ten Thousand Woods Wolf evolution form.

• Qin Xiaoxue tested her Reincarnation Ancient Tree against Qin Erlong’s Wood Dragon, and the Ancient Tree narrowly won despite being a level lower.
• Su Ping and the other two Breeders completed the first Bodhi Heart Wolf, a new Monarch Tenth Rank evolution form with Wood and Psychic attributes.
• Su Ping’s Forest Wolf Record reached level 5, completing its origin laws and unlocking Breeding Simulation while evolving Spirit Eye into Eye of Analysis.
• Su Ping used Eye of Analysis on a Silk-Spitting Spider and received guidance about its temperament and possible evolution direction.
• Su Ping’s Mental Strength broke through to Emperor Third Stage, so he decided to stop meditating until the Spring Festival to stabilize his realm and those of Feifei and Xiao Qing.
• After setting aside experience for analyzing the Canopy Wolf Emperor’s Thorn Garden, Su Ping began simulating Old Sha’s Ten Thousand Woods Wolf evolution with twelve thousand experience points.

Su Ping used the Spirit Awakening Technique on Zhao Chen and discovered that it could begin repairing damaged souls, while also advancing his research into new pet beast evolutions. He planned to teach the technique to the other Heavenly Tomb soldiers so they could help restore their comrades.

• Su Ping visited the recovering members of the Heavenly Tomb Special Beast Tamer Corps and checked on Zhao Chen, whose soul remained severely damaged.
• After conventional treatments failed, Su Ping remembered the Spirit Awakening Technique and used it on Zhao Chen.
• Su Ping noticed a slight improvement in Zhao Chen’s soul readings, though the treatment weakened him and put him into a deep sleep.
• The Myriad Spirits Codex reported progress in the second evolution method for Evil Eye and Annihilation Eye, reducing the Universal Experience needed to complete it.
• Su Ping concluded that the Spirit Awakening Technique could repair and shape souls, and decided to have the Monarch Rank Heavenly Tomb members learn it and help treat their comrades.

Su Ping unlocked the Annihilation Eye’s second breeding method and learned how Light-Transmitting Film, Life Engraving, and soul guidance could create Possession Type pet beasts. After reporting the method and agreeing to train others, he learned that Meng Huangliang was being brought to him, setting the dream-killing breeding plan in motion.

• Su Ping spent 800 Universal Experience Points to unlock the Annihilation Eye’s second breeding method, which required Light-Transmitting Film, Illusionheart, soul guidance, and other resources.
• Su Ping concluded that the method could turn existing pet beasts such as the Evil Eye into Possession Type beasts, though skilled breeders and soul-guidance training would limit mass production.
• Su Ping learned that the evolved Annihilation Eye could still master Annihilation Ray after completing its evolution and staring at the Sun for three hours a day over three days.
• Su Ping reported the Possession Type breeding method to Elder Feng and agreed to teach people the Spirit Awakening Technique.
• Sacred Dragon Legend told Su Ping that Meng Huangliang would arrive in about ten minutes, and Su Ping prepared to begin the breeding plan concerning killing in dreams.

Su Ping brought Meng Huangliang to the Heart of Myriad Spirits and wagered that he would develop Dream Entry within six months, hoping to convince Meng that the world was real. After arranging to study Dream Butterflies, Su Ping spoke with his father, Su Anyong, who confirmed he would not return for the New Year.

• Su Ping received Meng Huangliang and his caregiver at the Heart of Myriad Spirits, where Meng insisted that the world was a dream and that Su Ping was a consciousness entity.
• Long Jiu explained Su Ping’s accomplishments and why Meng had been sent to him, but Meng dismissed the explanation and remained convinced he was in a dreamscape.
• Su Ping challenged Meng to admit that the world was real if Su Ping developed Dream Entry or a more advanced skill within six months, and Meng accepted the challenge skeptically.
• Su Ping reviewed Meng Huangliang’s records and Dream Butterfly research, planning to work with Liu Fuhai on experiments after the New Year.
• Su Anyong called Su Ping, discussed his promotion and work in Dian-Zang Province, and confirmed he would not return for the New Year before Su Ping resumed his research.

Su Ping visited the newly completed Sword-Washing Pool with Meng Yao and discovered it could strengthen sword-type pet beasts. He renamed it Metal Heart and asked Meng Yao to help recruit an Artifact Refiner to train as a Breeder at the Heart of Myriad Spirits.

• Meng Yao persuaded Su Ping to visit the completed Sword-Washing Pool, built larger than planned after Old Smith Peng supplied additional resources.
• Su Ping brought Qianyi, the Supreme Evil Spirit Sword, and the Dragon-Slayer Sword to the pool to test its Metal Element energy.
• The Supreme Evil Spirit Sword was cleansed by the pool, and Qianyi absorbed its energy and advanced from Emperor Third Stage to Emperor Fourth Stage.
• Meng Yao warned Su Ping not to let the pet beasts keep using the new pool until it recovered, and Su Ping renamed it Metal Heart and planned to develop nearby habitats for Metal-type pet beasts.
• Su Ping asked Meng Yao to speak with Senior Peng about finding a young, talented Artifact Refiner willing to train as a Breeder at the Heart of Myriad Spirits.

As the Spring Festival approached, Su Ping prepared an elaborate year-end gathering for the pet beasts of the Heart of Myriad Spirits and delegated its competition program to Li Shu. He was also weighing the many people who might spend the holiday with him when Lord Bai arrived with news about the kitten’s evolutionary cultivation.

• Su Ping reviewed the pet beasts’ annual points and planned to close the Heart of Myriad Spirits for the Spring Festival, hold a banquet, and prepare awards and activities.
• Unable to settle on a festival program, Su Ping heard Li Shu propose tiered battles and varied competitions, then assigned him to produce an event list by the following evening.
• Li Shu asked to stay for the festivities instead of visiting relatives, but Su Ping told him to go see his family and sent him off to prepare the schedule.
• Su Ping considered hosting the Heavenly Tomb Unit, the Connor Lineage girl, Zhu Hong, Meng Yao, Meng Huangliang, and possible New Year visitors from the Dong Family.
• Fortune Cat reprimanded Su Ping for criticizing Lord Sacred Dragon, then told him it had found a direction for the evolutionary cultivation of the kitten it had given him.

Su Ping found inspiration in a fable about the Three-Legged Golden Crow and began considering whether Old Sha could evolve by combining wood, fire, and light energies toward the sun. He asked Lord Bai to help him study the Sun, but Lord Bai admitted he could not fly.

• Lord Bai complained that the Heart of Myriad Spirits had many wolves but almost no feline pet beasts, then asked Su Ping to develop an evolution path for the mutated Fortune Cat.
• Lord Bai showed Su Ping a fable about Lu Wu and the Three-Legged Golden Crow, and Su Ping became absorbed in the Golden Crow’s relationship to light and fire.
• Su Ping connected the fable’s ideas to Old Sha’s Sunheart and considered evolving the Ten Thousand Woods Wolf toward the sun’s energy through wood, fire, and light.
• Lord Bai agreed to help Su Ping only if he promised to breed the mutated feline, and Su Ping boasted that he could do it.
• Su Ping asked Lord Bai to take him into space so he could observe the Sun up close, but Lord Bai confessed that he could not fly.

With the Heart of Myriad Spirits closed for the holidays, Su Ping prepared its first pet beast sports competition and summoned the eligible beasts to Cloudheart's main square. He announced the events and rules, then opened registration for the tournament.

• Su Ping saw the employees leave for their New Year holidays and began preparing for the competition scheduled to start on the twenty-ninth.
• Su Ping appointed Feifei chief referee and had it gather every pet beast with a points recorder in Cloudheart's main square.
• Su Ping organized the gathered beasts and explained the rules for regular events and the Grand Military Competition, including a ban on lethal attacks.
• Su Ping announced that Yaya, Old Sha, and his contracted pet beasts could not compete, and described speed races with cultivation ranks suppressed by Lord Bai.
• Su Ping announced additional events, including a mathematics contest, weaving, target shooting, strength tests, and body-temperature challenges.
• Su Ping opened registration, and the Heart of Myriad Spirits' first sports competition began.

Su Ping opened the Heart of Myriad Spirits First Games with a livestreamed swimming race, introducing the contestants and revealing his Dreamlike Aurora Butterfly’s rare evolution. The Dreamlike Aurora Butterfly used Rainbow Bridge to win, leaving Su Ping and the viewers eager for the remaining events.

• Su Ping began livestreaming the first Heart of Myriad Spirits Games, drawing a huge audience and announcing that the opening event was a swimming race around Waterheart.
• Su Ping introduced the seven contestants: Big Black, Second Black, Third Black, Fourth Black, Guigui, the Water-Wood Immortal Wolf, and the Dreamlike Aurora Butterfly.
• Su Ping revealed that the Dreamlike Aurora Butterfly was a special evolution from the Rainbow Coral Polyp and could eventually evolve into a Rainbow Dragon.
• Feifei started the race, and the contestants surged through the water as the livestream viewers cheered for their favorites.
• The four Blackwater Mystic Snakes slowed their rivals with a defensive line and cold air, while the Water-Wood Immortal Wolf used Water-Wood Years to accelerate.
• The Dreamlike Aurora Butterfly unleashed Rainbow Bridge, crossed several kilometers in a burst, and won the swimming competition.

Su Ping held the Heart of Myriad Spirits’ aquatic and land speed races, drawing millions of viewers and turning the livestream into publicity for his establishment. After the Thunder Shadow Wolf King won the land race, Su Ping brought the contestants to a spectacular woodland canopy, where viewers began planning visits.

• The Dreamlike Aurora Butterfly won the aquatic speed race and received two thousand points as Su Ping’s livestream audience surged.
• Su Ping led the contestants to the Heart of Wilderness and introduced the Cloud-Winged Wood Jiao, explaining its legacy and potential to evolve into a Wood Dragon.
• Feifei started the land speed race, and the Thunder Shadow Wolf King outpaced the other contestants to win first place and two thousand points.
• Su Ping resolved to visit Earthheart more often and cultivate promising land-dwelling pet beasts, including the Thunder Shadow Wolf King.
• Su Ping brought everyone to a scenic woodland canopy, where viewers praised the Heart of Myriad Spirits and expressed interest in visiting.

Su Ping’s sports meet continued with a skill-power contest, where rare and powerful pet beasts stunned the livestream viewers with record-breaking attacks. Big Eagle, the Perching Phoenix Parasol Tree, and Old Tree each raised the bar, leaving the contest’s winner undecided.

• After the morning speed contests, Su Ping began the afternoon skill-power contest and introduced its many unusual contestants to the livestream.
• White Star unleashed Child of Winter, striking the target with an Ice Storm that reached 62,000 skill power.
• Big Eagle used Eye of the Hurricane to hit the target with 77,000 skill power, surpassing White Star.
• The Perching Phoenix Parasol Tree used Ashen World to produce a strike with 80,000 skill power and broke the record.
• Old Tree entered the contest after mutating into a Poison-type pet beast and used its venomous branches to show its strength.