Chapter Summaries

Xu Ran uncovered that the side hall’s formation sacrificed Supernatural Creatures but allowed humans to enter once twelve lives had been taken. The humans claimed the treasures and advanced to the next area, while their Contract Beasts vanished through golden formations and left the Supernatural Creatures behind.

• Xu Ran found murals showing humans sacrificing captured Supernatural Creatures and had Can Can conceal the final clue from their enemies.
• Xu Ran told Fang Canghai and the other Beast Tamers that the formation would keep killing Supernatural Creatures after twelve sacrifices, while humans could enter safely.
• When negotiations failed, Fang Canghai ordered the humans to push Supernatural Creatures into the formation; eleven creatures and one human Contract Beast died, unlocking it for humans.
• Fang Canghai and the Beast Tamers entered the formation, claimed its twelve treasures, and Xu Ran subdued a saber named Do Not Pursue.
• The humans moved toward the next area as their Contract Beasts held back the Supernatural Creatures, then vanished in golden light, leaving the Light Phoenix furious and vowing to pursue them.

Xu Ran and Can Can uncovered a hidden chamber beneath the empty side hall of the Yangguang Heavenly Palace, where the Beast Tamers discovered a portal offering each person a chance to claim a reward. Xu Ran used the Insight Glasses to select a massive point of light and obtained Thick Earth Marrow, which Can Can eagerly stored away.

• Xu Ran realized the side hall's opportunity might be underground, and Can Can found mismatched floor tiles that concealed stone pillars.
• Xu Ran activated ten pillars, opening a black portal, while Fang Canghai and the other Beast Tamers held off the pursuing Supernatural Creatures in the passage.
• Fang Canghai and the other Beast Tamers entered the portal in turn and received rewards ranging from a useless clue to an Emperor Rank resource.
• Xu Ran drew the Insight Glasses, used them to identify the largest point of light, and selected it.
• Xu Ran obtained a tiny but immensely heavy piece of Thick Earth Marrow and handed it to Can Can, who swallowed it for safekeeping.

Xu Ran discovered that removable dragon pearls could counter the gravity formation and helped the Beast Tamers reach the second floor of the Yangguang Heavenly Palace. As the beasts retreated after the Giant Dragon Beast Emperor was killed, the humans entered an independent garden space and encountered a strangely dressed man in a pavilion.

• Fang Canghai led the Beast Tamers toward the second-floor staircase, but moving statues and crushing gravity forced them to retreat.
• Qi Cheng discovered that the wall reliefs reflected force, and Xu Ran found a removable dragon pearl in a dragon-head relief.
• Xu Ran led the first group of nine through the formation with dragon pearls, and the pearls returned to the reliefs so the second group could follow.
• The Giant Dragon Beast Emperor charged into the formation and was torn apart by the statues; the Light Phoenix ordered the beasts to leave and gather outside to ambush the humans.
• The Beast Tamers reached the second floor, found an elegant garden and a pavilion, and heard a strangely dressed man invite them to talk.

Fang Canghai and the others learned the history of the Final Battle from the lingering obsession of a Yangguang Heavenly Palace expert, then received the Yangguang Cultivation Method to strengthen their individual power. The expert vanished after binding them to an oath to protect his world’s humans, while the Light Phoenix’s gathered beasts found their intended targets had disappeared.

• The lingering obsession explained that humans and beasts fought a Final Battle, after which humanity sealed the beasts in Cangming Land and the Dawnlight Realm within the Cangming World Stele.
• Fang Canghai asked for help against the calamity threatening his world, and the expert required everyone to promise they would preserve a chance for his world’s humans if the two worlds became enemies.
• Xu Ran’s system nullified the oath’s effects on him, while the expert examined the Beast Taming Contract and devised a martial arts method to cultivate its feedback power.
• The expert taught everyone the Yangguang Cultivation Method and sent them away before his remaining form and garden dissolved.
• The Light Phoenix rallied a large force of Supernatural Creatures to ambush the humans, but the Yangguang Heavenly Palace vanished before they could emerge.

Cloudcrow Half-Saint arrived in No. 47 Beast Domain on the Saints’ orders and confronted the Demonwood Half-Saint over failing to visit Beast Domain No. 8. The Demonwood Half-Saint refused Cloudcrow Half-Saint’s demand to accompany it to pay respects to the Saints.

• Two Beast Emperors welcomed Cloudcrow Half-Saint and its four Beast Emperor attendants, then led them to the Demonwood Domain to challenge the Demonwood Half-Saint.
• Cloudcrow Half-Saint and the Demonwood Half-Saint exchanged probing blows upon entering the domain, and the Ten-Thousand-Year Rock Turtle judged that the Demonwood Half-Saint had the advantage.
• Cloudcrow Half-Saint heard the Demonwood Half-Saint deny that No. 47 Beast Domain had fallen into disorder, then shifted the discussion to its recent breakthrough into the Half-Saint realm.
• Cloudcrow Half-Saint demanded to know why the Demonwood Half-Saint had not visited Beast Domain No. 8 within a month of evolving into the Holy Spirit Race.
• The Demonwood Half-Saint claimed its breakthrough was unstable and that it was not yet a true Holy Spirit, then refused to accompany Cloudcrow Half-Saint to meet the Saints.

Demonwood Half-Saint fought and killed Cloudcrow Half-Saint after the envoy attacked it, then returned to the Demonwood Domain with rare resources from Cloudcrow Half-Saint's belongings. It spared the surviving Beast Emperors and planned to send them back to Beast Domain No. 8, despite having killed their envoy.

• Demonwood Half-Saint attacked Cloudcrow Half-Saint in the Demonwood Domain, and Cloudcrow Half-Saint escaped beyond its borders to fight on more favorable ground.
• Cloudcrow Half-Saint used Greater Dimensional Slash and spatial manipulation against Demonwood Half-Saint, but Demonwood Half-Saint countered with its order skills and struck it down.
• Cloudcrow Half-Saint entered holy spirit form and believed Demonwood Half-Saint could not do the same, but Demonwood Half-Saint also transformed and defeated it.
• Demonwood Half-Saint restored the ruined land, collected rare resources from Cloudcrow Half-Saint's fallen belongings, and destroyed and buried its remains.
• Demonwood Half-Saint returned to the Demonwood Domain, where its Beast Emperors restrained the six Beast Emperors present; it declared Cloudcrow Half-Saint dead and said the survivors could return to Beast Domain No. 8.

After returning from the Dawnlight Realm, Xu Ran and the other Beast Tamers debated whether to reveal the Yangguang Cultivation Method or trade it for help from an Epic-Rank expert. When Demonwood Half-Saint revealed that they had killed a Half-Saint envoy and exposed their Holy Spirit Form, Fang Canghai set out for Abyssbreak City with Xu Ran to recruit Zhou Polu, leaving the cities to prepare for war.

• Fang Canghai proposed keeping the Yangguang Cultivation Method secret and offering it to an Epic-Rank Beast Tamer in exchange for help defending No. 47 Beast Domain.
• Qi Yuan suggested confirming whether the trade would work before making the method public, and Demonwood Half-Saint arrived and reported killing an envoy from Beast Domain No. 8 after revealing their Holy Spirit Form.
• Fang Canghai ordered the Beast Tamers to return to their cities, keep the method secret, and prepare for war while he traveled to Abyssbreak City.
• Fang Canghai asked Xu Ran to accompany him and demonstrate the Yangguang Cultivation Method to Zhou Polu, and Xu Ran agreed.
• On the journey, Fang Canghai explained how the Zhou Family could gain an advantage by acquiring the method early, while Xu Ran began preparing to improve his strength before their arrival.
• Xu Ran let the Brightlight Blob stay with him after it trembled at the danger of the outside world.

Xu Ran began practicing the Yangguang Cultivation Method and discovered that his contract power could absorb the spiritual sense he created, strengthening itself. Fang Canghai explained the unexpected cycle and decided the discovery would help persuade Zhou Polu to act as they continued toward Abyssbreak City.

• Xu Ran studied the Yangguang Cultivation Method and quickly formed his first drop of primal energy, which multiplied as it circulated through his meridians.
• Xu Ran visualized the great sun and began converting primal energy into spiritual sense, whereupon his fifth-stage contract power appeared around it.
• Fang Canghai asked Xu Ran to meditate on his contract power, and Xu Ran discovered it was siphoning his spiritual sense to grow stronger.
• Fang Canghai explained that the method traded some of a Beast Tamer’s individual strength for stronger contract power, and Xu Ran accepted the exchange.
• Fang Canghai said they would still go to Abyssbreak City, since the discovery improved their chances of persuading Zhou Polu to act.

Xu Ran and Fang Canghai arrived at Abyssbreak City, where Fang Canghai explained the city’s role in guarding the Abyss of the Dead and arranged to report to the Beast Tamer Association. Xu Ran found that two rare evolution materials were sold out, though he obtained other supplies and learned that Can Can’s evolution still required substantial preparation.

• Xu Ran continued practicing the Yangguang Cultivation Method and used its combined power to cut a small hill in half with Skybreaker Six Blades.
• Fang Canghai brought Xu Ran to Abyssbreak City and explained that the floating city guarded the dangerous Abyss of the Dead, where seven Saint Spirit Rank beings had fallen.
• Fang Canghai told Xu Ran that Abyssbreak City’s Beast Tamer Association welcomed Zhou Polu’s help and that the imperial family held authority over the city.
• Fang Canghai went to report to an Association vice president while Xu Ran registered his account and checked the redemption listings, finding that shattered world cores and star-guarding stones were sold out.
• Xu Ran ordered Glorious Jade, Eternal Tribulation Dew, and emperor-rank blood essence, and the Association delivered the resources within minutes.
• Can Can celebrated collecting its evolution materials, but Xu Ran explained that it still needed to upgrade skills and meet difficult evolution conditions; Starlight remained disappointed because it still lacked a star-guarding stone.

Xu Ran met the imperial siblings Aike and Ailan in the Beast Tamer Association, then learned that the Half-Saint in No. 47 Beast Domain had become a target of the Beast Domain’s saints. The chapter ended with Ailan hinting that some human Holy Spirits also opposed the emergence of another Deer-Profound Holy Spirit.

• Aike approached Xu Ran and tried to learn where Starlight’s species came from, but Xu Ran refused to explain its unusual origins.
• Ailan interrupted Aike, and Fang Canghai later told Xu Ran that Ailan was the Eldest Imperial Daughter and Aike was the Fourteenth Imperial Prince.
• Ailan learned that Xu Ran came from No. 47 Beast Domain and refused Aike’s request to send people there to find a similar Contract Beast.
• Ailan explained that the Beast Domain’s saints feared the neutral Half-Saint in No. 47 Beast Domain resembled the Deer-Profound Holy Spirit and planned to send Half-Saints to capture it.
• Ailan revealed that the mysterious Half-Saint had killed an envoy and said that some human Holy Spirits also opposed another Deer-Profound Holy Spirit emerging.

After balancing his powers through the Yangguang Cultivation Method, Xu Ran accompanied Fang Canghai to meet Zhou Polu and demonstrate his personal combat strength. At the Zhou Family training grounds, Xu Ran chose Zhou Huanfeng and his Demon Abyss Dragon for the first of three matches, while Ji Xuan noticed that Xu Ran's saber was unusual.

• Xu Ran completed three days of preparation, brought his Contract Beasts with him, and headed to the Zhou Family with Fang Canghai.
• Zhou Polu told Ji Xuan about the Yangguang Cultivation Method and its proposed exchange for help in No. 47 Beast Domain, and the two agreed on a deal.
• Xu Ran met Zhou Polu and Ji Xuan, then confidently claimed he could fight a Monarch Rank Emperor Species without using his Contract Beasts.
• Zhou Polu gathered the Zhou Family's King-Rank juniors and arranged three sparring matches for Xu Ran against their strongest Contract Beasts.
• Xu Ran chose Zhou Huanfeng as his first opponent, and Zhou Huanfeng summoned his Demon Abyss Dragon as Ji Xuan studied Xu Ran's Mo Zhui Saber.

Xu Ran defeated Zhou Huanfeng’s Demon Abyss Dragon by countering its suppression and striking with his Skybreaker Six Blades, drawing the attention of Ji Xuan, the Blade Saint. Ji Xuan challenged Xu Ran to a saber spar, and Xu Ran recognized him as the mysterious master who had first inspired his saber arts.

• Xu Ran shattered the Demon Abyss Dragon’s breath with Hidden Flower Form and charged at it, impressing Ji Xuan and easing Fang Canghai’s worries.
• The Demon Abyss Dragon used Monarch’s Might and Emperor’s Crown to suppress Xu Ran, but Xu Ran combined divine sense, blood vitality, and essence power to break free and wound its claw with Cloud-Piercing Stance.
• Xu Ran followed with Moon-Breaking Stance, but Zhou Polu intervened and declared Xu Ran the winner of the match against Zhou Huanfeng.
• Ji Xuan stepped onto the platform, offered to suppress his strength to King-Rank, and challenged Xu Ran to spar; Xu Ran attacked first with Rainbow-Slashing Stance.
• Ji Xuan drew his saber and broke Xu Ran’s attack with one slash, prompting Xu Ran to recognize him as the master who had once slain a Lightning Element Beast Emperor and left behind the Broken Blade.

Xu Ran’s display of Ji Xuan’s Blade Intent impressed Zhou Polu, who arranged for Ji Xuan to help No. 47 Beast Domain. As the invasion devastated the domain and the Demonwood Half-Saint vanished, Ji Xuan arrived with Fang Canghai and Xu Ran, killed six enemy Half-Saints, and returned with proof of victory.

• Xu Ran used Blade Intent he had learned from Ji Xuan’s broken blade, prompting Ji Xuan to end their spar and Zhou Polu to invite Fang Canghai to negotiate.
• Zhou Polu agreed to protect the Yangguang Cultivation Method’s source for a year in exchange for it, while Ji Xuan accepted a deal to kill any Half-Saints who came to No. 47 Beast Domain.
• A Beast Emperor led an army from Beast Domain No. 8 across the border, and the invaders captured Youhan City and demanded the Demonwood Half-Saint’s death.
• The Demonwood Half-Saint fought three enemy Half-Saints, killing one and wounding two, but later disappeared as the invasion resumed and two more strongholds fell.
• Fang Canghai, Xu Ran, and Ji Xuan reached Cloud-Gathering City, where they learned six enemy Half-Saints remained in the invading army.
• Ji Xuan went to confront the six Half-Saints and returned an hour later carrying six bloodstained epic-rank resources.

After Ji Xuan’s victories stalled Beast Domain No. 8’s invasion, Xu Ran discovered a massive enemy army crossing the Cold Dragon River and learned that one of its members carried Star-Guarding Stone. Ji Xuan demanded the resource for Starlight’s evolution, but it belonged to a pampered heir who refused to give it up.

• Ji Xuan explained that he could not intervene against forces below Half-Saint rank, so Xu Ran asked him to scout the Cold Dragon River for enemy reinforcements.
• Ji Xuan transported Xu Ran and the Five Little Ones to a hill overlooking the river, where they saw a vast army crossing and more than a hundred emperor species arriving.
• Starlight’s Star Source began glowing, revealing that one of the arriving creatures carried Star-Guarding Stone.
• A Beast Emperor nearly attacked Xu Ran but recognized Ji Xuan and knelt; Ji Xuan then demanded Star-Guarding Stone as payment for the trip.
• The Beast Emperor learned that the stone belonged to a Monarch Rank heir of a Beast Saint, who refused to surrender it, leaving the Beast Emperor unsure how to answer Ji Xuan.

Xu Ran obtained the Star-Guarding Stone from the Emperor Species of Beast Domain No. 47 and returned to prepare for the coming war. In Mysterious Star City, he used the City-Guarding Star Formation to help Starlight evolve into the Nebula Guardian.

• The leading Beast Emperor persuaded the gathered Emperor Species to surrender the Star-Guarding Stone, and the Monarch Rank Emperor Species handed it over to Ji Xuan and Xu Ran.
• Xu Ran reported Beast Domain No. 8's reinforcements to Fang Canghai, who gave him battle plans to deliver to Minghui City, Mysterious Star City, and Demonwood City.
• Xu Ran delivered the plans and asked Qi Yuan to divert the City-Guarding Star Formation's power to support Starlight's evolution; Qi Yuan agreed to let him use one-tenth of the formation's star power that night.
• At the Star-Guiding Platform, Xu Ran completed Starlight's final star advancements, and Qi Yuan directed the formation's starlight onto it.
• Starlight successfully evolved into the Emperor Species Nebula Guardian.

After Starlight evolved into an emperor species and gained a divination-like skill, Xu Ran used it to seek the missing Demonwood Half-Saint. The revelation pointed to Beast Domain No. 76, so Xu Ran set off to find the Half-Saint while Purple Cloud considered its own potential transcendent attribute.

• Starlight completed its evolution, gaining Emperor's Crown and Starlight Enlightenment, a skill that could provide one revelation each day.
• Xu Ran raised Starlight Enlightenment's proficiency and used it to receive the words "Beast Domain No. 76" as a possible clue to the Demonwood Half-Saint's location.
• Qi Yuan agreed that the distant Beast Domain No. 76 could plausibly hide the missing Half-Saint and gave Xu Ran maps and records before Xu Ran departed with his Contract Beasts.
• As Starlight carried Xu Ran toward Beast Domain No. 76, Purple Cloud worried about its own transcendent attribute, and Xu Ran reassured it that he might find a Holy Spirit race evolution route in the future.

Xu Ran tracked the wounded Demonwood Half-Saint to a secluded valley and used its gifted Leaf of Order to help it recover. The Demonwood Half-Saint revived by absorbing Earth-Type Power, but its Azure-Gold Saintly Runes remained dark, leaving its recovery incomplete.

• Xu Ran questioned the Giant Wolf Beast King and learned it had found a branch left behind by the Demonwood Half-Saint.
• Xu Ran joined the Demonwood Half-Saint's branch with the gifted Leaf of Order, awakening a pull that led him toward its location.
• Starlight carried Xu Ran and his Contract Beasts toward the pull, while Purple Cloud knocked away a peak King-Rank creature that tried to stop them.
• Xu Ran found the Demonwood Half-Saint near death in a valley and used the Leaf of Order to accelerate the healing of injuries.
• The Demonwood Half-Saint awakened and absorbed vast amounts of Earth-Type Power, growing back to hundreds of meters tall, but said its recovery was incomplete because its Azure-Gold Saintly Runes had not lit up.

Xu Ran revived the Demonwood Half-Saint by helping it return to the earth attribute, and it gave him the shattered world core Twelve needed. The Demonwood Half-Saint returned to the Demonwood Domain in secret to recover and prepare to surprise Beast Domain No. 8.

• The Demonwood Half-Saint explained that it had abandoned its order attribute to regain the earth element and recover from its near-fatal injuries, though it would need a new path to become a Holy Spirit again.
• The Demonwood Half-Saint gave Xu Ran a shattered world core, which was the final evolution material Twelve needed, and heard his account of events in No. 47 Beast Domain.
• The Demonwood Half-Saint compressed its body into a mobile treant-and-spear form and followed Xu Ran back toward Mysterious Star City.
• The Demonwood Half-Saint told Xu Ran to keep its return secret and went back to the Demonwood Domain to recover while Beast Domain No. 8 underestimated it.
• Xu Ran informed Qi Yuan and Fang Canghai of the Demonwood Half-Saint’s return, and Fang Canghai agreed to preserve the secret and buy it time to regain strength.

As No. 47 Beast Domain’s forces struggled against Beast Domain No. 8, Xu Ran advanced his contract beasts’ growth while helping plan the defense of Changping City. He joined the assault to rescue and relocate the city, as Fang Canghai revealed that the Demonwood Half-Saint was ready to enter the battle.

• Over the month of fighting, Xu Ran groomed allied fighters’ beasts and led his five contract beasts in battle, while Qin Can’s luck helped Can Can and Twelve meet their evolution requirements.
• Twelve gained more than five thousand followers by comforting wounded fighters through dreams as the Dream God, while Can Can waited for a city to use in its evolution.
• At a war council, Fang Canghai decided the allied forces must rescue Changping City and move it ten thousand li, and Xu Ran offered Can Can for the relocation.
• Fang Canghai announced a counterattack using their full strength, signaling that the concealed Demonwood Half-Saint would join the fight.
• The allied army reached Changping City and attacked, while Fang Canghai challenged six Beast Emperors and Xu Ran charged into the city.

The Demonwood Half-Saint revealed himself and fought the Beast Emperors of Beast Domain No. 8 as No. 47's forces launched a prepared counterattack. Can Can carried Changping City across the battlefield, while the Feather Dragon prince charged toward it and Xu Ran's companions prepared to face him.

• The Demonwood Half-Saint revealed his identity after striking the Profound Dragon Beast Emperor, and Ji Xuan appeared to kill a Beast Emperor who addressed him disrespectfully.
• The Beast Emperors attacked the Demonwood Half-Saint, but Fang Canghai and other allies intercepted them as the Overlord Rank battle erupted.
• Can Can grew to more than two hundred thousand meters and lifted Changping City onto its back, forcing the Beast Domain No. 8 army to fight while the city moved away.
• The Demonwood Half-Saint wounded the Profound Dragon Beast Emperor and suppressed six other Beast Emperors, while the Feather Dragon prince flew toward Can Can.
• Xu Ran trusted Fang Canghai's warning to trust Xu Ran, and Starlight assessed the approaching prince as Purple Cloud prepared to fight him.