Chapter Summaries

Xu Ran handled a string of overnight Happiness Points crises among the boarded Contract Beasts, and the Starfire Foster Shop earned a historic perfect score in the exhibition. After the judges moved on to the Wild Wolf Boarding Shop, they found its service disappointing by comparison, while Xu Ran and the Five Little Ones departed for Cloud-Gathering City to pursue Firefly’s evolution and Starlight’s final evolution material.

• Xu Ran discovered Sweet Bell crying from an unexplained low mood, and Twelve entered its dream and transformed its nightmare into a joyful dream, restoring its Happiness Points.
• Xu Ran and Twelve resolved seven more abnormal Happiness Points drops before the twenty-four-hour boarding period ended, and the Starfire Foster Shop received the exhibition’s first-ever full score.
• Xu Ran closed the shop and set off with the Five Little Ones for Cloud-Gathering City, where Firefly would evolve and they hoped to find star-guarding stone for Starlight.
• Zou Cheng welcomed the twenty judges to the Wild Wolf Boarding Shop with an elaborate ceremony, but communication problems kept some companions apart and the beasts disliked the boarding environment.
• The judges reported the beasts’ complaints, and the head judges explained that the Wild Wolf Boarding Shop’s environment rivaled Pingtian’s, making the Starfire Foster Shop’s exceptional performance stand out even more.

Xu Ran encountered Gu Wu’s Qingzhou City group being extorted by Beast Tamers from Bloodslaughter City at Cloud-Gathering City’s gates and used Purple Cloud’s Emperor Species power to make them surrender resources and apologize. He then left for Poison Flame Valley with his Contract Beasts so Firefly could evolve.

• Gu Wu led the Qingzhou City Beast Tamers to Cloud-Gathering City, where Bloodslaughter City’s group accused Hezhou of breaking an ornament and demanded compensation.
• Li Chang arrived to help Gu Wu, but Bloodslaughter City’s king-rank leader showed up and demanded greater compensation.
• Xu Ran arrived, revealed Purple Cloud’s Emperor Species power, and forced Bloodslaughter City’s leader to hand over two Monarch Rank resources and apologize.
• Li Chang told Gu Wu that Xu Ran had surpassed President Fang on the Beast Taming Rankings, and the Qingzhou City group headed to see the rankings.
• Xu Ran left with his Contract Beasts for Poison Flame Valley, where Firefly planned to evolve.

Xu Ran and his beasts entered Poison Flame Valley to find the heart-burning poison flame marrow Firefly needed to evolve, and Firefly began evolving in a cavern. A bloodline vision presented Firefly with the chance to become a Fire-Tailed Bear, but Firefly rejected it and faced the figure in battle as their evolution turned perilous.

• Firefly used Flowing Flame Evasion to dispel the fire poison around the group, allowing them to enter Poison Flame Valley safely.
• Twelve controlled supernatural creatures to search for resources and found a lead to heart-burning poison flame marrow in a nearby cave.
• Xu Ran and the five beasts entered the cavern, where Firefly collected the heart-burning poison flame marrow and began evolving with the other prepared materials.
• Firefly's evolution became unstable as their form began changing from a Fire-Eared Bear into a Fire-Tailed Bear, alarming Xu Ran and the others.
• Firefly rejected the Fire-Tailed Bear form that appeared in their bloodline vision, then faced it in battle after their skills reverted to their original states.

Firefly battled the Fire-Tailed Bear power inside its consciousness, overcame it, and absorbed the evolution resources while suppressing the spreading fire poison in a magma vent. Its body erupted with the light of evolution, and a transformed figure emerged from the spring vent as Xu Ran and the other pets rushed to greet it.

• Firefly fought the Fire-Tailed Bear Firefly in its consciousness, using Undying Burning Flame and Sky-Scorching Dance to overcome its opponent.
• Xu Ran realized Firefly’s incomplete mutation had triggered a struggle between its Fire-Eared Bear and Fire-Tailed Bear powers, while the fire poison threatened to overwhelm it.
• Firefly defeated the Fire-Tailed Bear Firefly and returned to its body, then absorbed the resources’ power to suppress the fire poison.
• Firefly entered the magma spring vent with the Heart-Burning Poison Flame Marrow and accepted the fire poison, allowing it to spread through its body and integrate with its power.
• A brilliant light of evolution erupted from the spring vent, and Firefly emerged as Xu Ran and the four pets hurried forward to greet it.

Firefly completed its evolution into a Poison Fire Bear and demonstrated its new skills by defeating several Blazing Wolves. Xu Ran and his five Contract Beasts then entered the Silent Abyss in search of the star-guarding stone, where they descended through hostile black fog and discovered a hidden landscape below.

• Firefly evolved into a Poison Fire Bear, gaining new skills and altered versions of some existing skills.
• Firefly tested Soul-Burning Body, Heart-Burning Blazing Flame, and Fire Devouring, killing three Blazing Wolves and scattering the rest.
• Xu Ran taught Firefly Miniaturization so it could ride on Starlight, then led the group toward the Silent Abyss.
• Xu Ran and his five Contract Beasts entered the abyss, where the black fog blocked sight and sound; Purple Cloud destroyed a hostile presence with Sky-Shocking Thunder Fury.
• The group descended until the fog cleared and revealed scenery that left Xu Ran astonished.

Xu Ran and the Five Little Ones fought three powerful Beast Kings at the bottom of the Silent Abyss and learned that the Star-Guarding Stone had formed at the center of the former Star Abyss. They reached the forbidden battlefield, found the hollow where the stone had formed, and uncovered a small stone that Starlight recognized as connected to star power.

• Xu Ran's group encountered the Nether Nightmare Bat, Dark Demon Lion, and Black-Scaled Leopard, and Purple Cloud defeated the bat and lion while the others badly wounded the leopard.
• Xu Ran questioned the surviving lion and leopard separately, learned how the Star-Guarding Stone had drained the Star Abyss of star power, and spared them after their accounts matched.
• The Dark Demon Lion revealed that the Star-Guarding Stone had formed at the abyss's center, a forbidden battlefield where the thoughts of fallen Overlord-rank beings lingered.
• Xu Ran encouraged Starlight and Firefly before leading the Five Little Ones into the blood-misted battlefield, where they fought off creatures formed from lingering consciousness and killing intent.
• Starlight sensed concentrated star power beneath a cliff, and Can Can dug up a small, smooth stone that Starlight identified as carrying star power.

Xu Ran and his beasts found a star source in the Silent Abyss, and Qi Yuan revealed how it could help locate Star-Guarding Stones and purify star power. Xu Ran began using the star source to aid Starlight’s evolution while continuing to build his Mysterious Star City shop’s reputation.

• Xu Ran and the Five Little Ones found a small, jade-like stone in the Silent Abyss and returned to Cloud-Gathering City, where Fang Canghai invited Xu Ran to explore possible ruins in the Mysterious Light Passage after the City Alliance formed.
• Fang Canghai warned Bloodslaughter City not to cause trouble for Xu Ran and confirmed that he knew of no Star-Guarding Stones beyond the one used in Mysterious Star City’s City-Guarding Star Formation.
• After Xu Ran returned to Mysterious Star City, the stone began glowing, and Qi Yuan summoned him with a lead about Star-Guarding Stones.
• Qi Yuan explained from the Second City Lord’s manuscript that star source could help form and detect Star-Guarding Stones and purify star power; Xu Ran realized the stone he had found was star source.
• Xu Ran placed the star source in an ink cloud crystal pendant for Starlight and checked that his Mysterious Star City shop’s recognition had risen to 16.2%, then prepared dinner and meditated.

Starfire Foster Shop’s perfect score left the judges dissatisfied with every shop that followed, while Zou Cheng discovered that Wild Wolf Boarding Shop could not match Xu Ran’s expensive facilities and food. After a melee wrecked Yangguang Boarding Shop, nearly all remaining competitors withdrew from the exhibition.

• Customers gathered outside Starfire Foster Shop, where rumors spread that it had earned a perfect experience score.
• Zou Cheng learned that the judges’ poor response to Wild Wolf Boarding Shop followed their stay at Starfire, then visited Xu Ran’s shop to inspect its prices, Boarding Area, and food facilities.
• After seeing Starfire’s spacious customized living areas and costly recipes, Zou Cheng left in tears, feeling that money had defeated him.
• At Yangguang Boarding Shop, the judges’ frustration led to a fight that escalated into a melee, and Monarch Rank beasts destroyed the Boarding Area.
• Zou Cheng learned that Yangguang’s destruction stemmed from the judges’ worsening experience at successive shops and angrily declared that they all had to die.
• Boarding shop owners visited Starfire Foster Shop to inspect its facilities, and eleven shops withdrew from the exhibition that evening.

After Starfire Foster Shop’s success drove most competitors from the exhibition, Xu Ran completed Main Quest 4, upgraded Drugging to A-Rank, and gained time to step back from shop duties. He then obtained Twelve’s six-star evolution route, whose arduous requirements left Twelve plotting how to gather ten thousand believers, before Purple Cloud volunteered to exchange for an Innate Skill Fusion Stone.

• The exhibition judges ended the competition early after eleven Boarding Shops withdrew; Starfire Foster Shop took first place, and its name recognition in Mysterious Star City surpassed 50%.
• Xu Ran claimed Main Quest 4’s rewards, hired three System Clerks for the Mysterious Star City shop, and received Main Quest 5, which required helping the human forces defeat an approaching catastrophe.
• Xu Ran used his sole System Skill Upgrade Token to raise Drugging to A-Rank, increasing Constitution Point earnings tenfold, and later returned to Minghui City before holding a resource allocation in Mysterious Star City.
• Xu Ran bought Twelve an Emperor Species Evolution Route that required difficult skill fusions, rare materials, a Monarch Rank kill, and the faith of more than ten thousand believers.
• Twelve recovered from its initial despair and decided to become Cult Leader Twelve, while Purple Cloud offered to exchange for the Innate Skill Fusion Stone.

Purple Cloud spent its Value Points on Innate Skill Fusion Stones and fused Undying Battle Body with Thunder Execution to create the quasi-five-star Annihilating Thunder Body, which also changed its purple fur to purplish-black. Starlight then fused skills and upgraded Night Pursuit Appraisal, gaining Star Pursuit and Stargazing.

• Purple Cloud redeemed the remaining Innate Skill Fusion Stones and chose to fuse Undying Battle Body with Thunder Execution first.
• Xu Ran used twenty-six Innate Skill Fusion Stones before the fusion succeeded, creating Annihilating Thunder Body and raising the fusion success rate with each failure.
• Purple Cloud explained that Annihilating Thunder Body made it elemental, granted it physical-attack immunity and rapid recovery, and spread Thunder Execution's weakness-marking effect to its Lightning skills.
• Starlight fused Gap-Flow Shuttle, Nightfall Passing Trace, and Starlight Trail into Star Pursuit, gaining greater speed, concealment, and increased Star Power affinity while running.
• Starlight used a four-star skill scroll to upgrade Night Pursuit Appraisal into Stargazing, which let it observe a wide area from above and investigate three abilities of a locked-on opponent.

Xu Ran oversaw Can Can and Twelve advancing skills to four stars and Firefly reaching Marshal Rank before answering President Fang’s call in Cloud-Gathering City. Fang Canghai explained the Alliance’s population transfers and asked Xu Ran to join the Overlord Rank Beast Tamers heading to the Mysterious Light Passage in two days.

• Can Can advanced Fertile Soil Bestows Its Body into the four-star skill Void Soil, which weakened attacks and restrained nearby opponents.
• Twelve advanced Soul-Tethered Command into the four-star skill Soul Seal, which let Twelve control targets through prepared seals and grant them access to Twelve’s other skills.
• Firefly spent nearly three hundred thousand constitution points and broke through to Marshal Rank.
• Xu Ran went to Cloud-Gathering City after Fishing Enthusiast relayed that President Fang wanted to meet him.
• Fang Canghai explained that the Alliance was moving vulnerable residents south and sending high-ranking Beast Tamers north in preparation for the threat from Beast Domain No. 8.
• Fang Canghai told Xu Ran that the Overlord Rank Beast Tamers of No. 47 Beast Domain would gather in Cloud-Gathering City in two days and travel together to explore the Mysterious Light Passage.

Xu Ran joined Fang Canghai and the Overlord-Rank Beast Tamers from several cities to explore the ruins beyond the Mysterious Light Passage. After crossing the passage’s deadly Unending Light, they reached a mysterious gateway, and Fang Canghai approached it.

• Xu Ran met Fang Canghai, You Shengjiang, Hu Yun, and Qi Cheng outside Cloud-Gathering City, where Fang Canghai explained that the threat from Beast Domain No. 8 would not arrive soon and the Demonwood Half-Saint would protect the strongholds.
• Zhou Qing and Du Chun arrived, and Xu Ran introduced himself as a Boarding Shop owner with branches in four cities; other presidents later invited him to open shops in their cities.
• Qi Yuan and the remaining Overlord-Rank Beast Tamers arrived, including Zhuo Li, and Fang Canghai led the group northwest toward the Mysterious Light Passage.
• You Shengjiang used Greedy Night’s power to shield Xu Ran and the Five Little Ones from the passage’s Unending Light as the group entered.
• Fang Canghai led nearly twenty Overlord-Rank Beast Tamers to a gateway covered in mysterious patterns of light and power, then walked toward it.

After being randomly teleported into a vast world with three suns, Xu Ran and the Five Little Ones explored a forest where Supernatural Creatures inexplicably hated humans. They found an Earth Vein Source Stone guarded by an armored Beast King, and Can Can prepared to test its Void Soil against it.

• Fang Canghai opened the ruins with the help of several Light Element Contract Beasts, and Xu Ran entered the light membrane with You Shengjiang before being separated from everyone else.
• Xu Ran used Starlight's Stargazing to survey the strange world and led the Five Little Ones into a forest containing Supernatural Creatures.
• Firefly fought a Crystal-Gold Ape, and Twelve discovered that it hated humans despite apparently never having seen one before, then controlled it with Soul Seal.
• Xu Ran and the Five Little Ones encountered more hostile Supernatural Creatures and followed the growing Earth Element energy toward a resource in the forest's depths.
• Xu Ran identified an Earth Vein Source Stone guarded by an armored Beast King, and Can Can used Void Soil to block its sword strike before preparing a counterattack.

Xu Ran and his Contract Beasts defeated the Armored Beast King and learned that its hatred of humans came from inherited memories of a lost war in another world. The Armored Beast King revealed the location of a ruined human site, and Xu Ran’s group headed there while an unseen creature followed them.

• The Armored Beast King accused Can Can of betraying beasts, then burned its strength to attack; Can Can defeated it and left it alive.
• Xu Ran explained Beast Tamers and showed the Armored Beast King his contracts, convincing it that humans and beasts could coexist in this world.
• The Armored Beast King said its people had lost the Final Battle, been confined by humans, and inherited fragmented memories of that conflict from their ancestors.
• The Armored Beast King revealed that humans had left a secret site nearby, now reduced to wreckage by passing beasts, and Xu Ran’s group set off to investigate.
• Starlight sensed a faint presence following them, while a tiny figure hid behind a tree and feared being discovered.

Xu Ran uncovered a hidden formation beneath the ruins and entered a trial where he fought saber-wielding versions of the same person at different ages. While he remained unconscious, his pets guarded him and captured a round creature that had been spying on them.

• Can Can discovered hidden pillars beneath the ruins, and Xu Ran and his pets raised seven of them from the ground.
• The group found an eighth position in the circle, turned all seven pillars toward it, and activated a formation that created a ball of light.
• Xu Ran entered the light, chose the saber, and began fighting a succession of opponents who appeared to be the same person at different ages.
• While Xu Ran sat motionless, Starlight sensed his aura growing sharper as the pets watched over him and Can Can searched the ruins.
• Can Can returned with a creature that Starlight recognized as the one that had followed them through the forest, and Purple Cloud eagerly proposed keeping it.

Xu Ran endured his final battle in the consciousness space and received the first five strikes of the incomplete Skybreaker Six Blades. After leaving the ruins with the Five Little Ones, he learned that the Brightlight Blob following them was trying to warn them about quasi-overlord-rank Beast Kings ahead, raising questions about why it did not share the other creatures’ hatred of humans.

• Xu Ran failed to defeat the sixth saber opponent, but the opponent’s final strike sent him the incomplete Skybreaker Six Blades, which contained its first five strikes.
• Xu Ran woke and told the Five Little Ones that the saber art could help him and Starlight challenge a quasi-overlord-rank opponent.
• Xu Ran discovered that the Brightlight Blob Purple Cloud had been holding was the creature that followed them from the forest, and Twelve confirmed it had no hatred toward humans.
• Xu Ran led the Five Little Ones out of the ruins and used Starlight’s Stargazing to spot a bright light in a desert covered in flying sand.
• The Brightlight Blob hurried after them and warned through Twelve that several near-overlord-rank Beast Kings lived in the desert, but Xu Ran decided to go there.
• Xu Ran questioned why the Brightlight Blob did not hate humans like the other creatures in the ruins, and wondered whether its ancestors had a different role in their original world.

Xu Ran entered the desert with his five pets and the Brightlight Blob, then tested the Skybreaker Six Blades against the Crow Beast King. He defeated the Quasi-Overlord with Lifeless Stance, leaving the group to continue deeper into the desert.

• Xu Ran agreed to take the Brightlight Blob outside, and Purple Cloud carried it as the group crossed into the desert.
• Can Can used its power to open a passage through the sand wall, and Twelve sensed Psychic Element energy deeper inside.
• The Crow Beast King attacked Xu Ran, who used Cloud-Piercing Stance to wound its claws and drive it back.
• Xu Ran used Hidden Flower Stance and Stargazing to repel the Crow Beast King's Dark Feather Annihilation, then rode Starlight up pillars raised by Can Can.
• The Crow Beast King unleashed Dark Cross Slash, but Xu Ran used Lifeless Stance to break the attack and kill it.

Xu Ran and Purple Cloud defeated five Quasi-Overlord Rank beings in the Flying Sand Desert, allowing Twelve to obtain a resource needed for its evolution. After the group left, the Yangguang Heavenly Palace rose from the ruins, and Fang Canghai explained that his fight with an Emperor Rank Supernatural Creature had triggered its power.

• Xu Ran advanced into the desert’s center, where five Quasi-Overlord Rank beings gathered to attack him and his Contract Beasts.
• Purple Cloud transformed into a blade, and Xu Ran used Rainbow-Slashing Stance to kill all five enemies with one slash.
• Twelve collected the Fragmentary Seal of Reality and Illusion, a resource needed for its evolution into an Emperor Species.
• Xu Ran’s group left the Flying Sand Desert, but a massive palace rose from the ruins and drew the attention of everyone inside.
• Xu Ran reached the palace with Fang Canghai and learned that it was called the Yangguang Heavenly Palace and that Fang Canghai had triggered its power while fighting an Emperor Rank Supernatural Creature.

Fang Canghai and the Beast Emperors agreed to enter the Yangguang Heavenly Palace together, where its restrictions suppressed everyone stronger than Monarch Rank. Xu Ran followed and discovered that the palace’s main hall held nine colorful gemstones guarded by deadly pressure and a mystery tied to nine statues.

• Fang Canghai confronted five Beast Emperors with his own Emperor Rank Contract Beasts, then negotiated for both sides to enter the Yangguang Heavenly Palace and claim whatever they could find.
• The palace suppressed entrants above Monarch Rank, and its runes left Xu Ran and the Five Little Ones unaffected when they entered.
• Xu Ran led the Five Little Ones into the palace’s main hall, where they spotted rare treasures inside nine gemstones embedded in the ceiling.
• An Overlord Rank Fire Crow was crushed by the pressure as it approached the ceiling, and its blood strengthened the gemstones; a Fire Fox later died when its ranged attack triggered a deadly beam.
• Starlight noticed that the gemstones had nine different colors, and Twelve spotted nine stone statues whose painted eyes matched those colors.

Xu Ran deciphered the gaze pattern linking the Main Hall’s statues and gemstones, then helped Purple Cloud break the stones in sequence and took the gargoyle eye for Can Can. He escaped into a Side Hall, where a deadly array around twelve pillars left him searching for a safe way to claim their treasures.

• Can Can noticed that the statues were looking at one another, and Xu Ran traced a chain of gazes from the Black-Eyed Statue to the Golden-Eyed Statue, revealing the gemstone order.
• A Fire-Element Giant Lion shattered the Black Gemstone and earned a reward, while another creature was killed for attacking the Purple Gemstone out of sequence.
• Xu Ran sent Purple Cloud to shatter the Orange, Blue, and Green Gemstones in order; Purple Cloud seized the gargoyle eye from the Green Gemstone and returned it to Xu Ran.
• Xu Ran warned Fang Canghai to watch the statues’ gazes, then fled through a low doorway into a Side Hall with the Five Little Ones.
• The Jackal Overlord baited Xu Ran toward the twelve stone pillars, but Xu Ran sent Twelve’s phantom to scout and discovered that the array instantly destroyed it.