Chapter Summaries

Jin Mingzhu, owner of the Pearl Boarding Shop, examined Xu Ran’s exceptional grooming and toured the Starfire Foster Shop’s vast, custom-built Boarding and Training Areas. She left stunned by the shop’s advanced facilities and low prices, wondering why someone with such wealth was competing with other Boarding Shops.

• Jin Mingzhu examined the Linglong Dog’s fur and skin, recognized Xu Ran’s grooming and styling as superior, and introduced herself as the owner of the Pearl Boarding Shop.
• Jin Mingzhu told Xu Ran that Li Dajin had invited her and the owners of the Beast Broth and Emperor Boarding Shops to see the shop, while Xu Ran recalled having Li Dajin’s group thrown out for cutting in line.
• Jin Mingzhu asked to tour the shop, and Xu Ran led her through the underground Boarding Area, where she saw six custom environments and questioned why the shop’s prices were so low.
• Xu Ran showed Jin Mingzhu the Training Area’s enormous elemental environments, including ocean, fire, lightning, earth, wind, and ice zones.
• After seeing the elaborate facilities, Jin Mingzhu wondered why Xu Ran, with such expensive technology, had opened a Boarding Shop to compete for their customers.

Jin Mingzhu left the Starfire Foster Shop convinced that it far surpassed her own and the city’s other boarding shops, and warned her companions not to make it an enemy. Later, Xu Ran arrived at the Beast Taming Rankings to challenge the commander-level Contract Beast Team Battle Power Rankings, leaving the Three Little Ones to begin the fight on their own.

• Jin Mingzhu told her companions that the Starfire Foster Shop was far beyond their competition and advised them not to oppose it.
• Xu Ran closed the Starfire Foster Shop and set out with Starlight to challenge the final commander-level ranking he had not yet attempted.
• Onlookers gathered at the Beast Taming Rankings, where Purple Cloud and Can Can waited for Xu Ran to arrive.
• Xu Ran entered testing site C02 and chose to let the Three Little Ones fight without his commands.
• Can Can and Purple Cloud unleashed their power as the team battle began.

Xu Ran and the Three Little Ones placed third in the Contract Beast Team Battle Power Rankings, but Mu Yunchao quickly overtook them. Xu Ran bet Mu Yunchao that he would reclaim third place the next day, hoping to gain access to Mu Yunchao’s Skyscraper Puppet’s Shapeshifting skill, then returned to the Starfire Foster Shop.

• Mu Yunchao and Qu Cheng arrived at the rankings to see whether Xu Ran would surpass them, and Xu Ran’s result raised Starfire Foster Shop to third place, dropping Mu Yunchao to fourth.
• Xu Ran emerged from testing area C02 with the exhausted Three Little Ones and remarked that he had split Mu Yunchao and Qu Cheng apart on the rankings.
• Mu Yunchao challenged Xu Ran, retested, and took third place with a score of 339233, pushing Starfire Foster Shop to fourth with 337742.
• Xu Ran agreed to return the next day and bet Mu Yunchao ten grooming sessions, aiming to learn more about his Skyscraper Puppet’s Shapeshifting skill.
• Xu Ran fed six boarded Contract Beasts at the Starfire Foster Shop, including three new one-day residents, and noticed that the Fighting Hairball seemed calmer.

Xu Ran groomed a King-Rank Beast Tamer’s damaged Extreme Spirit Wind Eagle and restored its feathers, revealing that his work was Perfect Grooming. The middle-aged man, impressed by Xu Ran’s ability, decided to ask him for something more important.

• A short-haired woman persuaded her father, a square-faced middle-aged man, to inspect Starfire Foster Shop while she watched from a nearby drinks shop.
• The middle-aged man summoned his Monarch Rank Extreme Spirit Wind Eagle and asked Xu Ran to groom it.
• Xu Ran carefully cleaned and groomed the eagle, restoring its damaged feathers and earning its happiness.
• The middle-aged man recognized Xu Ran’s work as Perfect Grooming and explained that it could repair a Contract Beast’s decline.
• The middle-aged man changed his mind about merely assessing the shop and decided to ask Xu Ran for something more important.

Xu Ran agreed to groom Huī Hétian’s old friend’s ailing giant Spirit Cloud Beast at the Huíyún Boarding Shop, provided he could also groom Can Can there afterward. Huī Hétian left confident that his friend’s problem could be solved, while Huī Xīngwēi learned that her father expected Xu Ran’s shop to surpass the Beast Broth Boarding Shop.

• Huī Hétian introduced himself to Xu Ran and explained that his former Hunting Squad companion’s giant Spirit Cloud Beast had a severe condition imbalance that was harming its health.
• Huī Hétian offered the Huíyún Boarding Shop’s giant-sized Grooming Room so Xu Ran could groom the beast, promising him a favor in return.
• Xu Ran agreed to perform the grooming the next morning, on the condition that he could also groom Can Can in the same room.
• Huī Xīngwēi met Huī Hétian after he left the Starfire Foster Shop, and he told her that Xu Ran’s shop would eventually surpass the Beast Broth Boarding Shop.
• Huī Hétian told Huī Xīngwēi that her Uncle Zhou’s problem was as good as solved.

Xu Ran and Starlight arrived at the Beast Taming Rankings for a wager match against Mu Yunchao, while Fang Yuling watched. After Mu Yunchao improved his team battle power score, Xu Ran entered the test with the Three Little Ones and overtook both Mu Yunchao and Qu Cheng, leaving Mu Yunchao stunned.

• Starlight raised its historical speed ranking to second place, then Xu Ran rode it to the Beast Taming Rankings.
• Fang Yuling arrived to watch Mu Yunchao's wager match with Xu Ran and revealed she planned to make her own ranking attempt afterward.
• Mu Yunchao summoned his Skyscraper Puppet, Steel Shield Dog, and Venom Stinger Mad Bee before entering the C02 testing facility first.
• Mu Yunchao raised his team battle power score to 341221, and Xu Ran entered the facility with the Three Little Ones.
• Xu Ran's name overtook Mu Yunchao's and Qu Cheng's as the second, third, and fourth ranking positions lit up, leaving Mu Yunchao bewildered.

Xu Ran used Purple Cloud’s enhanced power to make another ranking attempt, surpassing Mu Yunchao on the Commander Level Beast Tamer overall battle power rankings. The result also lit up the historical rankings, and Mu Yunchao lost his bet with Fang Yuling.

• Mu Yunchao realized Xu Ran’s earlier gains came from the Beast Tamer Points he had earned through historical rankings and accepted that he owed ten grooming sessions.
• Xu Ran entered C01 Testing Area with the Three Little Ones to attempt the overall battle power rankings, while Mu Yunchao insisted his second place was safe.
• Fang Yuling bet Mu Yunchao ten grooming sessions that Xu Ran would surpass him, and Mu Yunchao accepted.
• Xu Ran used Chain of Fate to sustain Purple Cloud as it activated Crimson Fighting Spirit and unleashed repeated Full Moon Level Annihilating Thunder Claws against the Beast Tide.
• The rankings updated with Starfire Foster Shop in second place at 362732 overall battle power, pushing Mu Yunchao and Qu Cheng down a place and lighting up the historical rankings.
• Fang Yuling reminded Mu Yunchao to pay for her ten grooming sessions and praised Xu Ran’s performance.

Xu Ran rose to second place on the rankings, met Fang Yuling, and returned to feed the Starfire Foster Shop’s residents. At midnight, the weekly Beast Taming Rankings rewards were settled, leaving Xu Ran awaiting the results.

• Xu Ran entered 453rd place on the Historical Overall Combat Power Rankings, surpassing Mu Yunchao and prompting Mu to leave after losing their bet.
• Fang Yuling introduced herself to Xu Ran, put her Contract Beasts’ grooming sessions on Mu Yunchao’s tab, and rose from ninth to sixth place on the Historical Overall Combat Power Rankings.
• Qu Cheng took encouragement from Xu Ran’s words and headed back to challenge the rankings.
• Xu Ran returned to the shop and fed its five residents, including the new Glutinous Sprite and Cyathea Ghost Shadow, while noticing something different about the Fighting Hairball.
• A text notification arrived at midnight announcing the weekly Beast Taming Rankings reward settlement.

Xu Ran received 74,900 Beast Tamer Points from the weekly rankings settlement and planned to save the Three Little Ones’ new resources until they finished absorbing their current ones. The next day, he visited Hui Hetian’s Huíyún Boarding Shop to groom a Giant Spirit Cloud Beast and toured its facilities.

• Xu Ran checked the rankings settlement, found he had earned 74,900 Beast Tamer Points, and told the Three Little Ones to wait before receiving more resources.
• Xu Ran saw that the Starfire Foster Shop’s local name recognition had reached 30.1 percent and resolved to find another way to advertise.
• After the settlement drew more attention to the Starfire Foster Shop, curious customers arrived the next morning but found it closed while Xu Ran went to the Huíyún Boarding Shop.
• Hui Hetian welcomed Xu Ran and showed him a memorial sculpture containing the remains of a Contract Beast that had died protecting him during a Beast Tide.
• Xu Ran toured the Huíyún Boarding Shop and saw its communal, nature-themed boarding area, which contrasted with the Starfire Foster Shop’s individual accommodations.

Xu Ran visited the Huíyún Boarding Shop and learned how Huī Hétian’s experience with wild Supernatural Creatures inspired its communal boarding model. He began grooming Zhou Han’s Giant Spirit Cloud Beast, whose weakened condition came from going too long without grooming, and revealed that his modified vacuum could purify its cloudlike energy.

• Xu Ran watched the Contract Beasts share the Huíyún Boarding Shop’s Boarding Area and learned from Huī Hétian that he had modeled it on peaceful coexistence among wild Supernatural Creatures.
• Xu Ran considered adapting his own Boarding Area so Contract Beasts could choose between solitude and group living, then prepared to groom the Giant Spirit Cloud Beast.
• Huī Hétian introduced Xu Ran to his friend Zhou Han, whose Marshal Rank Giant Spirit Cloud Beast was suffering from unusually weak power fluctuations.
• Xu Ran identified the Giant Spirit Cloud Beast as an energy-body Contract Beast that could become critically ill without grooming and began using a modified vacuum cleaner on it.
• Zhou Han doubted that Xu Ran was grooming the beast until Huī Hétian pointed out that the vacuum returned its clouds purer, and the Giant Spirit Cloud Beast cheered.

Xu Ran groomed Zhou Han’s Giant Spirit Cloud Beast and then worked with Can Can, Purple Cloud, and Starlight to groom Can Can at the Huíyún Boarding Shop. After the Three Little Ones returned to the Starfire Foster Shop, Fang Yuling arrived with a powerful insect Contract Beast for grooming.

• Xu Ran’s grooming rapidly restored Zhou Han’s Giant Spirit Cloud Beast, and Zhou Han thanked him while Huī Hétian offered Xu Ran the Grooming Room for the rest of the day.
• Can Can revealed its enormous original size, and Xu Ran, Purple Cloud, and Starlight worked together to groom it.
• Can Can tried to help groom Purple Cloud by pouring bathing solution over its head, and Purple Cloud later gave Can Can a bruised eye in retaliation.
• Xu Ran and the Three Little Ones returned to the Starfire Foster Shop, where Fang Yuling was waiting for him.
• Fang Yuling summoned her insect Contract Beast, and Purple Cloud sensed its formidable strength.

Xu Ran groomed Fang Yuling’s Battle Bee and showed her the Starfire Foster Shop’s vast Boarding Area and its feeding routine. As Fang Yuling considered recommending the shop to a friend, she spotted Fighting Hairball displaying signs of evolution.

• Xu Ran groomed Battle Bee while Fang Yuling watched, and Purple Cloud sensed that the bee was stronger than itself.
• Purple Cloud urged Can Can and Starlight to train, and the two headed to the Training Area.
• Fang Yuling asked Xu Ran to show her the Boarding Area so she could assess the shop for a friend seeking boarding for her Contract Beast.
• Xu Ran showed Fang Yuling the expansive Boarding Area and explained its tailored living spaces and meals.
• Xu Ran fed the boarded Contract Beasts and gave Battle Bee a bowl, impressing Fang Yuling with the animals’ reactions.
• Fang Yuling noticed Fighting Hairball eating amid unusual energy and exclaimed that it showed signs of evolution.

Xu Ran learned that Fighting Hairball had displayed rare evolution signs, giving it a strong chance to evolve into an emperor species and qualifying it and its tamer for Beast Tamer Association support. Fang Yuling left her three contract beasts at the shop for ten days, and Xu Ran wondered whether his food had helped trigger Fighting Hairball’s evolution signs.

• Fang Yuling explained that evolution signs appear when a contract beast unknowingly fulfills an evolution shortcut, and that the Association helps such beasts complete their evolution.
• Xu Ran told Fang Yuling about Fighting Hairball’s past mistakes and its recent calmness, leading her to suspect that its evolution shortcut involved staying calm.
• Fang Yuling summoned Three-Headed Nightmare and Lamp-Lighting Spirit Envoy and boarded them with Battle Bee so they could eat at the Starfire Foster Shop.
• Three-Headed Nightmare and Lamp-Lighting Spirit Envoy tried Xu Ran’s food and eagerly agreed with Battle Bee that it was delicious.
• Fang Yuling paid for ten days of boarding and said she would bring the head of the Transcendent Evolution Department to meet Fighting Hairball’s tamer after the stay.
• Xu Ran received two happiness points from Fighting Hairball and wondered whether the food he had added to its meals had contributed to its evolution signs.

Xu Ran watched Fighting Hairball reunite with its recovering Beast Tamer, Zhou Tianwu, who was determined to face the former members of his Hunting Squad despite their threats. After they left Starfire Foster Shop, Xu Ran called Fang Yuling, preparing to help resolve the trouble waiting at the Zhou home.

• Xu Ran saw the boarding shop's local recognition reach 40% as its business and reputation continued to grow.
• Zhou Che and the recovering Zhou Tianwu arrived to take Fighting Hairball home, though Zhou Che worried about the Hunting Squad members waiting to confront it.
• Zhou Che explained that the former squad members blamed Fighting Hairball for their losses, while Zhou Tianwu insisted he would share responsibility for his Contract Beast's actions.
• Fighting Hairball reunited tearfully with Zhou Tianwu, who promised they would face whatever happened together, and the two other marshal-rank Contract Beasts showed it no hostility.
• Xu Ran promised Zhou Tianwu that he would resolve the trouble, then called Fang Yuling after the family left.

Zhou Tianwu faced demands for compensation from his former Heavenly Dragon Hunting Squad members over Fighting Hairball’s loss of control, but Fang Yuling arrived with news that the Beast Tamer Association would support them because Fighting Hairball might evolve into an emperor species. After signing the agreement, Zhou Tianwu offered to pay half the compensation and ended his ties with the four men.

• Zhou Tianwu entered his home with Fighting Hairball and announced that he would withdraw from the Heavenly Dragon Hunting Squad, taking responsibility for Fighting Hairball’s mistakes.
• Liu He demanded Fighting Hairball’s life and compensation, while two other squad members also demanded payment for their lost Contract Beasts.
• Fang Yuling arrived on behalf of the Beast Tamer Association and offered Zhou Tianwu and Fighting Hairball resources and training because Fighting Hairball showed signs of evolving into an emperor species.
• Zhou Tianwu read and signed the Association’s agreement, and Fang Yuling explained that Fighting Hairball’s efforts to restrain its flaw had prompted the signs of evolution.
• After Fang Yuling left, the four squad members abandoned their demands and prepared to leave, but Zhou Tianwu offered to pay half the compensation and declared that they were strangers from then on.

Xu Ran renewed Fang Yuling’s fostering fees and groomed her Contract Beasts before Qin Can and Qin Yue visited the Starfire Foster Shop for grooming. Hoping to borrow the siblings’ luck for six Ten-Pull Draws, Xu Ran arranged a commemorative photo and offered them three more free grooming sessions each.

• Fang Yuling told Xu Ran that Zhou Tianwu’s troubles had been resolved and renewed a month of meals for her three Contract Beasts.
• Fang Yuling had Three-Headed Nightmare and Lamp-Lighting Spirit Envoy groomed, charging the cost to Mu Yunchao’s tab.
• Qin Can and Qin Yue brought Earth-Rumbling Rhino and Dark Soul Mother to the shop for grooming.
• Xu Ran groomed Dark Soul Mother and Earth-Rumbling Rhino, then asked the siblings to pose for a commemorative photo.
• Xu Ran offered Qin Can and Qin Yue three additional free grooming sessions for each of their Contract Beasts, and they agreed.

Xu Ran drew an Advanced Meditation Acceleration Card and discovered it could stack with his existing card, raising his meditation speed to six hundred times normal. He then began allocating a huge haul of resources to the Three Little Ones, and Purple Cloud prepared to pursue four-star skills.

• Xu Ran drew an Advanced Meditation Acceleration Card, used it, and found that it stacked with his existing card to accelerate meditation six hundredfold.
• Xu Ran remembered the Velvet Sparrow in Qingzhou City, where it used its psychic ability to ride a Gale Wolf to the food line and claim an extra-large meal.
• Xu Ran gathered the Three Little Ones and listed the resources available for their allocation, including more than twenty thousand Constitution Points and Skill Points and several three-star skills.
• Purple Cloud chose Thunder-Punishment Spear and Piercing Blast, then used a Three-Star Skill Scroll to upgrade Super-Speed Self-Healing into the three-star Extreme Self-Healing.

Xu Ran helped Purple Cloud fuse four three-star skills into the team’s first four-star skill, Undying Battle Body, and learned about its powerful effects. Can Can then planned its own fusion, though the chapter left its attempt unstarted and short on Skill Fusion Stones.

• Purple Cloud chose Extreme Self-Healing, Piercing Blast, and Martial Combat Specialization to fuse with Fighting Body.
• Xu Ran spent 48 Skill Fusion Stones before the fusion succeeded, creating Purple Cloud’s four-star Undying Battle Body.
• Purple Cloud discovered that Undying Battle Body granted pain-free healing, piercing and blasting boosts, body-shaping abilities, and enhanced flexibility and Fighting Element power.
• Can Can learned that only eleven Skill Fusion Stones remained, and Starlight offered to lend its own stones to support Can Can’s attempt.
• Can Can decided to fuse Earth-Binding Prison, Earthsource Fissure, and Earthquake and Heaven Collapse.

Xu Ran helped Can Can fuse three skills into the powerful four-star Land of Annihilation, then began spending Starlight’s value points on skills and upgrades. Starlight gained Star-Ring Repulsion, demonstrated its ability to counter negative effects, and planned another skill upgrade.

• Xu Ran used nearly all the Skill Fusion Stones to fuse Can Can’s Earth-Binding Prison, Earthquake and Heaven Collapse, and Earthsource Fissure into the four-star Land of Annihilation.
• Can Can explained that Land of Annihilation could plant energy points that retained their power, then bind and devastate enemies when detonated.
• Can Can repaid Starlight 900 value points for the borrowed Skill Fusion Stones, and Starlight spent over ten thousand value points on skills and other resources.
• Xu Ran taught Starlight Quiet Night’s Breath and Silent Realm, then used a Three-Star Skill Scroll to evolve Undying Star Guidance into Star-Ring Repulsion.
• Starlight demonstrated that Star-Ring Repulsion could reduce the negative effects of Can Can’s Dragon Tortoise’s Might, and Xu Ran noted its compatibility with Silent Realm.
• Starlight asked Xu Ran to use forty Skill Fragments to obtain a two-star skill and a Three-Star Skill Scroll to raise it to three stars.

During resource allocation, Starlight chose a Two-Star Dark Element skill to upgrade and prepare for fusing into Heart of Eternal Night, while Can Can upgraded Burrowing and the Three Little Ones distributed their remaining resources. Xu Ran then announced they would check out the Beast Taming Rankings.

• Starlight redeemed the Two-Star enhancement skill Night Splendor, upgraded it to the Three-Star skill Nocturnal Epic, and chose to save its remaining Skill Fragments for a future fusion.
• Starlight asked to fuse first at the next resource allocation, and Purple Cloud and Can Can agreed.
• Can Can used the final Three-Star Skill Scroll to upgrade Burrowing into Roaming Earth, Transforming into a Pond, which let it carry people or objects underground.
• Purple Cloud and Can Can split the remaining Skill Fragments, while Purple Cloud redeemed Stamina Potions and Can Can spent the most Skill Points to raise Land of Annihilation to Sun Halo Level.
• Purple Cloud and Starlight invested Skill Points in Undying Battle Body and Heart of Eternal Night, and Xu Ran said it was time to check the Beast Taming Rankings.