Chapter Summaries

Xu Ran watched Starlight advance to Elite Rank and received a major boost through their contract. With both Purple Cloud and Starlight needing training resources, he sought advice on the Beast Tamer Forum and devised a flexible value-based system for distributing them, but still needed to find out whether his Contract Beasts could do arithmetic.

• Xu Ran spent 88 Constitution Points to bring Starlight to its growth limit, and Starlight advanced to Elite Rank as its power and Xu Ran’s strength increased.
• Xu Ran noticed Starlight began Elite Rank at 5000 progress and guessed that Contract Beasts could accumulate power after reaching a rank’s peak before advancing.
• Purple Cloud and Starlight showed their continued closeness, and Xu Ran realized he needed a fair way to allocate points and universal skills between them.
• Xu Ran posted on the Beast Tamer Forum and read suggestions about resource distribution, including a method where Contract Beasts received equal value allowances and could borrow from one another.
• Xu Ran assigned provisional values to Constitution Points, Skill Points, skills, and draw rewards, then asked Purple Cloud and Starlight whether they could do arithmetic.

Xu Ran welcomed Liu Gu and began grooming Sea Wave Flower, whose Elite Rank growth and intense response to his new massage techniques brought him a surge of Happiness Points. While Sea Wave Flower was being groomed, Liu Gu and the Wind Lion Dog met Starlight and discovered that Purple Cloud had reached Elite Rank; Xu Ran then emerged with Sea Wave Flower and prepared to groom the Wind Lion Dog.

• Xu Ran reviewed his growing resources and waited for Liu Jinli to arrive, hoping her visit would help him earn enough Happiness Points for a Ten-Pull Draw.
• Liu Gu returned from a week of fighting outside the city with the Wind Lion Dog and Sea Wave Flower, and asked Xu Ran to groom both Contract Beasts.
• The Wind Lion Dog yielded its turn to Sea Wave Flower, which entered the Grooming Room for a bath and a thorough cleaning from Xu Ran.
• Xu Ran noticed Sea Wave Flower had advanced to Elite Rank and used his new massage techniques, causing it to relax and generate unusually high Happiness Points.
• The Wind Lion Dog reacted warily when Starlight entered the shop, but Liu Gu calmed it and began admiring Starlight.
• Liu Gu was surprised to see Purple Cloud had reached Elite Rank, and Xu Ran emerged with Sea Wave Flower as the Wind Lion Dog's grooming turn began.

After upgrading his shop and grooming Liu Gu’s Contract Beasts, Xu Ran used ten draws to obtain a Monarch Species Evolution Route. He chose a five-star-potential path for Purple Cloud, which revealed demanding skill, material, and ritual requirements.

• Xu Ran told Liu Gu that the shop’s grooming service had improved and introduced its new sparring and expanded boarding services.
• Xu Ran’s ten draws produced a Monarch Species Evolution Route, seven Skill Fusion Stones, and two Stamina Potions.
• Xu Ran and his Contract Beasts tallied their Value Points, and Starlight agreed to let Purple Cloud receive the evolution route.
• Xu Ran examined Purple Cloud’s possible evolutions and selected the five-star-difficulty, five-star-potential route to the Flashing Thunder Cat.
• Xu Ran learned that the evolution required four three-star skills, seven materials, and a dangerous cliff-climbing ritual, then asked Purple Cloud if it was ready to borrow Value Points from Starlight.

Purple Cloud spent heavily on evolution resources and borrowed 959 value points from Starlight, then fused Returning Shadow with Lightning Pursuit to create the three-star skill Treading Lightning, Leaving Traces. Xu Ran tested the skill and discovered its lightning phantoms could explode when attacked, while Purple Cloud still lacked several evolution materials.

• Purple Cloud borrowed 959 value points from Starlight and used its resources to prepare for skill upgrades and evolution.
• Xu Ran fused Purple Cloud's Returning Shadow and Lightning Pursuit using two Skill Fusion Stones, creating the three-star skill Treading Lightning, Leaving Traces.
• Xu Ran invested 812 constitution points in Starlight, raising its growth rank from 5189 to 6001, while Starlight chose to save its two-star skill for a future fusion.
• Xu Ran exchanged beast tamer points for a drop of lightning element monarch rank blood essence but found he lacked enough points for all the supplementary materials and began searching for the other primary materials.
• Xu Ran and Purple Cloud tested Treading Lightning, Leaving Traces and found that Purple Cloud could move faster, return to its lightning phantoms, and detonate them for area damage.
• Starlight carved the number 959 into a rock to remember the debt, then went to find Xu Ran and Purple Cloud.

Xu Ran followed a lead on Strength Bone Dust to the Bamboo Leaf Martial Arts School, where his visit was mistaken for a challenge to Lü Huang. Lü Hong turned the misunderstanding into a match and offered Strength Bone Dust as the prize, leaving Xu Ran eager to fight.

• Xu Ran paid a masked informant fifty thousand for a lead that the Bamboo Leaf Martial Arts School used Strength Bone Dust in a secret formula.
• Xu Ran went to the school with Purple Cloud and Starlight, where Aji mistook his visit for a challenge after hearing he had reached the Second Tier.
• Lü Huang broke through to the Elite Rank with his Boxing Bear Disciple and contracted his prepared Mighty Beetle.
• Xu Ran told school master Lü Hong that he had come seeking Strength Bone Dust, but Lü Huang arrived expecting to fight him.
• Lü Hong declared that Xu Ran had come to challenge Lü Huang and offered a portion of Strength Bone Dust as the match's prize; both Xu Ran and Lü Huang eagerly accepted.

Xu Ran and Purple Cloud fought Lü Huang for Strength Bone Dust, using Starlight’s support to overwhelm Lü Huang’s two Contract Beasts. Purple Cloud defeated both with one lightning strike, leaving Lü Huang devastated and Xu Ran’s side victorious.

• Lü Hong announced an unrestricted match between Xu Ran and Lü Huang, with Strength Bone Dust as the prize.
• Lü Huang charged Xu Ran alongside the Boxing Bear Disciple and Mighty Beetle, while Xu Ran mounted Starlight.
• Starlight used Starlink to empower Xu Ran and Duskwatch to boost Purple Cloud’s strength and presence.
• Xu Ran ordered Purple Cloud to attack, and Purple Cloud unleashed a sea of purple lightning that knocked out the Boxing Bear Disciple and Mighty Beetle in one strike.
• Lü Huang sat in despair after his defeat, while Purple Cloud celebrated securing the Strength Bone Dust.

Xu Ran returned with the strength bone dust he had won and welcomed Gu Ling and Dark-Scaled Dragon to the Starfire Foster Shop for grooming and training. Fur Plucking reached B-Rank and yielded Dark-Scaled Dragon’s Dragon Might skill, and the chapter ended as Dark-Scaled Dragon began training that skill by staring at a dragon statue.

• Xu Ran defeated Lü Huang, received the strength bone dust from Lü Hong, and left the Bamboo Leaf Martial Arts School with Purple Cloud and Starlight.
• Xu Ran met Gu Ling at the shop, introduced her to Starlight, and asked her to tell Gu Wu that the shop could now groom super-large contract beasts.
• Xu Ran groomed Dark-Scaled Dragon, and Fur Plucking advanced to B-Rank while yielding the unteachable two-star skill Dragon Might.
• Xu Ran showed Gu Ling and Dark-Scaled Dragon the shop’s training area, then prepared training guides for Dark Origin Orb and Dragon Might.
• Xu Ran placed a dragon-shaped statue before Dark-Scaled Dragon and told it to imagine being the statue; as Dark-Scaled Dragon stared, its Dragon Might began to grow.

Xu Ran groomed Gu Wu’s four Marshal Rank dragons, confirming that his shop used spatial expansion technology and earning their happiness points. He obtained the three-star skill Annihilating Thunder Palm, bringing Purple Cloud closer to evolution.

• Gu Ling told Gu Wu that Xu Ran’s training had greatly improved her Dark-Scaled Dragon, and she explained that Xu Ran’s shop seemed to use spatial expansion technology.
• Gu Wu visited Xu Ran’s shop the next morning and agreed to let him groom his four Contract Beasts, though Xu Ran insisted that the first session be free.
• Xu Ran groomed Gu Wu’s Red-Eyed Demon Dragon, Wind Abyss Dragon, Blazing Flame Dragon Lord, and Thunderstorm Dragon, leaving each refreshed and deeply affected by the experience.
• After grooming all four dragons, Xu Ran discovered that he had obtained the teachable three-star skill Annihilating Thunder Palm.
• Xu Ran concluded that Purple Cloud was one step closer to evolving.

Xu Ran earned enough beast tamer points through Gu Wu’s sparring session to buy most of Purple Cloud’s evolution resources, then taught her the three-star Annihilating Thunder Palm despite the painful risks. The chapter ended with a Beast Tamer Association courier delivering five resources, while Purple Cloud still needed a Thunderlight Stone Heart and further skill preparation to evolve.

• Xu Ran trained Gu Wu’s four Marshal Rank contract beasts and earned 1,064 beast tamer points, giving him enough to buy Purple Cloud’s needed resources.
• Xu Ran and the contract beasts allocated their new resources, with Starlight lending Purple Cloud enough value points to obtain Annihilating Thunder Palm.
• Xu Ran taught Purple Cloud the three-star skill, and she endured intense pain before mastering it.
• Xu Ran raised Annihilating Thunder Palm to the starlight level and redeemed four more evolution resources, leaving the Thunderlight Stone Heart as Purple Cloud’s only missing resource.
• Xu Ran found no leads on the Thunderlight Stone Heart on the forum and said he might ask Gu Wu for help.
• A Beast Tamer Association courier arrived on a Commander Rank giant eagle and delivered the five resources Xu Ran had redeemed.

Xu Ran arranged training plans for Starlight and Purple Cloud and explained how Self-Healing and cliff-climbing could aid Purple Cloud’s evolution. Three days later, Gu Wu told Xu Ran that his Thunderstorm Dragon had used a Thunderlight Stone Heart during evolution, and that it might have failed without it.

• Xu Ran secured the evolution resources and told Purple Cloud to keep them sealed until needed.
• Xu Ran prioritized Starlight’s support skills and Purple Cloud’s evolution-related skills, including Self-Healing.
• Xu Ran added daily rock-climbing practice in the earth-element Training Area because Purple Cloud’s evolution ritual required climbing a thousand-meter cliff during a thunderstorm.
• After three days without finding a Thunderlight Stone Heart, Xu Ran asked Gu Wu for help.
• Gu Wu said his Thunderstorm Dragon had absorbed a Thunderlight Stone Heart during evolution and might have failed without it.

Xu Ran learned how the rare Thunderlight Stone Heart forms and considered traveling to a Second-Tier Stronghold to obtain one for Purple Cloud’s evolution. When Liu Gu revealed that a thundercloud-covered resource site had suddenly cleared, Xu Ran recognized the sign of a newly formed Thunderlight Stone Heart and arranged to join the Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad.

• Gu Wu explained that Thunderlight Stone Hearts form when lightning compresses Thunderlight Stone until only one crystal remains, and said Xu Ran could seek one in a Second-Tier Stronghold.
• Xu Ran weighed buying a Thunderlight Stone Heart, searching for one near Qingzhou City, or traveling to another city, and decided to wait for a lead while preparing his Contract Beasts.
• Liu Gu brought Wind Lion Dog to Xu Ran’s shop for grooming and said the Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad was preparing to seize a resource site with help from other squads.
• Xu Ran heard that the site’s year-round thunderclouds and lightning had suddenly disappeared, recognized this as a likely sign of a Thunderlight Stone Heart forming, and asked to join the expedition.
• Liu Gu agreed to include Xu Ran as a temporary member of the Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad for their departure that afternoon.

Xu Ran discovered a lead to the Thunderlight Stone Heart and prepared to search for it with Uncle Liu and the Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad. Before leaving, he distributed resources to Purple Cloud and Starlight, strengthening their skills and growth ranks as Purple Cloud drew closer to evolution.

• Xu Ran realized that the place where Liu Gu had seen thunderclouds disperse was likely connected to the Thunderlight Stone Heart, and he gained another Meditation Acceleration Card.
• Xu Ran told Purple Cloud and Starlight that they would close the shop early and leave the city with Uncle Liu and the Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad to pursue the lead.
• Xu Ran tallied the available resources, and Purple Cloud and Starlight agreed to divide them while also exchanging Beast Tamer Points for growth-boosting resources.
• Purple Cloud spent Skill Points to raise three skills to Crescent Level, and Xu Ran fused its Combat Instinct into Three-Star Combat Body and its Self-Healing into Super-Speed Self-Healing.
• Xu Ran fused Starlight's Eye of Insight and Night Eyes into Night-Hunting Eye, then the two Contract Beasts split Constitution Points and increased their growth ranks.
• Xu Ran told Purple Cloud and Starlight to get used to their improved strength and prepare to leave the city.

Xu Ran joined the Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad on a journey to claim a resource site and obtained their help despite Song Chen’s objections. When coordinated wild Supernatural Creatures ambushed the group outside Qingzhou City, Xu Ran had Starlight strengthen the squad’s fighters, turning the battle in their favor.

• Purple Cloud demonstrated its powerful lightning skills, and Xu Ran told Starlight it could use its Beast Tamer Points to catch up.
• Xu Ran met the Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad at Qingzhou City’s gates, where Song Chen accused them of unfairly bringing him along to claim resources.
• The group left the city, and Xu Ran told Purple Cloud to hold back while Starlight supported the fighters.
• After two hours of travel, dozens of coordinated wild Supernatural Creatures ambushed the Hunting Squads as night approached.
• When the attack began to overwhelm the Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad, Xu Ran had Starlight use Duskwatch to strengthen its fighting Contract Beasts.

Xu Ran helped the hunting squads defeat an attack by wild Supernatural Creatures, then left the campsite alone to reach a resource site and claim a Lightning Element resource. He arrived near the site and sent Purple Cloud to draw away its defenders so he could approach the power hidden underground.

• The Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad turned the battle around, but a poisonous lizard's self-destruction let two Supernatural Creatures escape; Xu Ran and Purple Cloud later caught them and exposed the lizard's survival trick.
• The shrunken black lizard escaped into the shadows, swearing revenge on Xu Ran, while the squads reached their campsite and settled in for the night.
• Xu Ran told the Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad he planned to take a resource and leave, and Zhang Yun gave him a map marking dangers along the route.
• Xu Ran rode Starlight through the night with Purple Cloud, evading pursuing black tigers and detouring around other gathering areas.
• At the resource site, Xu Ran spotted a strong Lightning Element fluctuation underground and sent Purple Cloud to lure away the wild Supernatural Creatures guarding it.

Xu Ran recovered the Thunderlight Stone Heart and fled a powerful wild lizard with Starlight while Purple Cloud began its evolution on a thousand-meter mountain during a thunderstorm. Purple Cloud endured the lightning and awakened the Fighting Element, then reached the summit and evolved into a Flashing Thunder Cat, defeating the lizards pursuing Xu Ran and Starlight.

• Xu Ran and Starlight dug up the Thunderlight Stone Heart, but a giant black lizard and a marked little lizard tracked them down.
• Starlight carried Xu Ran away from the lizards, and Xu Ran spotted a thousand-meter half-mountain beneath thunderclouds.
• Xu Ran gave Purple Cloud its evolution resources and threw it toward the cliff, where it climbed as the Lightning and Fighting Elements battled inside its body.
• Heavenly lightning struck Purple Cloud repeatedly, helping it subdue the Lightning Element as it climbed toward the summit.
• Purple Cloud's evolving power flowed through Xu Ran and Starlink to strengthen Starlight, then Purple Cloud reached the summit and evolved into a Flashing Thunder Cat.
• The newly evolved Purple Cloud struck down both pursuing lizards as Xu Ran recognized its new form.

Purple Cloud completed its evolution into a monarch species, gaining new skills and demonstrating its enhanced power. As Xu Ran prepared to return to the city, Purple Cloud sensed something unusual inside the lightning-struck mountain, prompting them to investigate.

• Purple Cloud evolved into a monarch species, and Xu Ran examined its upgraded status and increased growth potential.
• Xu Ran had Purple Cloud test Annihilating Thunder Claw and Fighting Body, then realized that evolution had transformed acquired skills and granted new innate skills.
• Xu Ran encouraged Starlight to pursue its own evolution route and planned to return for more Thunderlight Stones after the storm cleared.
• Purple Cloud told Xu Ran that it had sensed something familiar inside the mountain beyond the Thunderlight Stones, so Xu Ran decided to explore it.
• Xu Ran, Purple Cloud, and Starlight searched along the cliff and stopped at a corner that seemed hollow.

Xu Ran and Purple Cloud discovered the remains of a Monarch Rank Lightning Element Supernatural Creature beneath the half-mountain, but an energy barrier kept them from reaching it. They left to return to the city, while Zhang Yun’s Hunting Squad arrived at the resource site and found it undefended.

• Purple Cloud broke open a cave entrance, and Xu Ran descended with Purple Cloud while Starlight guarded outside.
• Xu Ran and Purple Cloud found a massive fallen Supernatural Creature with a saber embedded in its back and inferred that the saber had killed it.
• Purple Cloud tried to cross the cavern’s barrier, but even with Xu Ran and Starlight’s support, they could advance only thirteen meters before being repelled.
• Xu Ran marked and concealed the cave entrance, then returned with Purple Cloud and Starlight to the resource site, where Purple Cloud frightened off the wild creatures with Monarch’s Might.
• Xu Ran took another route toward the city as Zhang Yun led the Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad to the resource site, where they found its resources unguarded.

After returning to his shop in Qingzhou City, Xu Ran helped Purple Cloud and Starlight spend their Beast Tamer Points on training resources. The two Contract Beasts headed off to train with their new resources due to arrive the next day, while Xu Ran opened the shop for business.

• Xu Ran returned to the shop with Purple Cloud and Starlight after their trip outside the city and decided to spend their points on resources.
• Xu Ran bought Purple Cloud a Blue Lightning Glaze, four Fighting Power Strengthening Rings, and a mix of universal and dual-element Energy Cubes, leaving it with four points.
• Xu Ran bought Starlight four Dark Hoof Irons, an Eternal Night Pearl, a Dark Velvet Carpet, and eighty dark element Energy Cubes, leaving it with 4,133 points.
• Purple Cloud and Starlight hurried off to train, and Xu Ran opened the shop for business.

Xu Ran groomed Chen Xiyang’s filthy stray Pink Fleece Pig, Little Gray Gray, and learned that stray Contract Beasts gathered under a figure called Cat Boss. As Xu Ran prepared to close the shop, Gu Wu arrived with a chance to obtain a Thunderlight Stone Heart.

• Chen Xiyang brought Little Gray Gray to Xu Ran’s shop for grooming after becoming a Beast Tamer, and Xu Ran’s system appraised the pig as a Pink Fleece Pig with five-star grooming needs.
• Xu Ran thoroughly groomed Little Gray Gray, revealing its fluffy pink coat and delighting both the pig and Chen Xiyang.
• Chen Xiyang told Xu Ran that Little Gray Gray had protected him from bullies and had survived as a stray by receiving food from Cat Boss.
• Xu Ran asked Purple Cloud about stray Contract Beasts, and Purple Cloud recalled that powerful strays formed groups that other strays avoided.
• After Chen Xiyang left, Gu Wu arrived and told Xu Ran that he had a chance to obtain a Thunderlight Stone Heart.

Xu Ran told Gu Wu he no longer needed a Thunderlight Stone Heart, then stunned him by revealing Purple Cloud had evolved into a dual-element monarch species. Meanwhile, Little Gray Gray said goodbye to its former stray companions and returned to Chen Xiyang, leaving the strays inspired to get groomed.

• Gu Wu invited Xu Ran to join a Beast Tamer exchange in Cloud-Gathering City in a month, but Xu Ran said he had already obtained a Thunderlight Stone Heart and would decide later whether to attend.
• Purple Cloud entered the shop, and Gu Wu realized it had evolved into a monarch species; Xu Ran explained that it had gained the fighting element during its evolution.
• Shocked by Purple Cloud’s successful evolution, Gu Wu left the shop, while Xu Ran asked to give him an answer about the exchange later.
• Little Gray Gray refused Chen Xiyang’s offer to accompany it and went alone to say goodbye to its former stray companions.
• After its companions recognized it, Little Gray Gray explained its new life to the large cat that led the strays, and the cat approved its farewell.
• Inspired by Little Gray Gray’s clean fur, one stray suggested getting a bath, and the large cat ordered the group to get groomed.