Chapter Summaries

Xu Ran upgraded Starlight’s Night March and Starlink, then discovered that combining skills with shared fusion origins could raise fusion success rates. Starlight chose to try merging its non-Innate Skills, while Purple Cloud began considering doing the same.

• Xu Ran fused Night March with Moon Concealment and Dark Glint, creating the three-star Night-Hiding Star Gallop, which greatly increased Starlight’s speed and concealed its presence at night.
• Xu Ran used a Three-Star Skill Scroll to upgrade Starlink into Fate-Binding Star-Link, and its link with Starlight raised their combined strength above one hundred thousand.
• Xu Ran fused Starlight’s Self-Healing with Night Capture to create Embrace of the Night, then found that pairing it with Long Night and other skills sharing Night Capture increased fusion success rates.
• After weighing the potential benefits and lost Skill Point investment, Starlight decided to fuse its non-Innate Skills, and Purple Cloud considered whether it could eventually fuse its own skills too.

Xu Ran and his Contract Beasts left Qingzhou City to return to the giant beast's remains, hoping Purple Cloud could obtain powerful Lightning Element resources there. After reaching the cave, they gathered their strength and Purple Cloud charged at the remains.

• Xu Ran explained that Qingzhou City had no suitable resources for Commander Rank Purple Cloud, so they planned to seek better resources in Cloud-Gathering City or at the giant beast's remains.
• Xu Ran learned from Liu Gu that wild Supernatural Creatures had been fighting outside the city, then decided to leave before the City Gate closed for the evening.
• At the City Gate, Purple Cloud's Commander Rank aura deterred people trying to approach Xu Ran, and the group departed with Starlight carrying Cancan and Purple Cloud.
• Starlight sped through the countryside while Purple Cloud intimidated wild Supernatural Creatures and electrocuted a black lizard that crossed their path.
• Xu Ran and his three Contract Beasts reached the cave beneath Thunder Half-Mountain and stood before the giant beast's remains.
• Xu Ran and Starlight empowered Purple Cloud, which unleashed its full strength and charged at the giant beast's remains.

Purple Cloud’s lightning awakened the power within the enormous beast’s remains, causing them to vanish and leave behind a Thunder Pearl and a long saber. As Xu Ran tried to take the saber, it erupted with a fierce pressure, while outside the mountain three powerful wild creatures argued over the remains and learned that the Nightmare Beast King’s twelfth daughter had gone missing nearby.

• Purple Cloud struck the enormous beast’s remains with Annihilating Thunder Claw but could not damage them, then walked toward them as their lightning responded to her power.
• The lightning drew inward, the remains disappeared, and a Thunder Pearl and long saber appeared as Purple Cloud sat beneath them.
• The Silver Moon Pack Leader rejected the Dark Corrosion Snake and Nightflame Crow’s plan to devour the remains and proposed reporting them to the Core Six Kings.
• The Nightflame Crow revealed that the Nightmare Beast King’s twelfth daughter had gone missing near a human city, unsettling the Silver Moon Pack Leader.
• Xu Ran tried to take the Thunder Pearl and was shocked, so Purple Cloud collected it instead; when he grasped the long saber, it trembled and released a fierce pressure at him.

Xu Ran endured the saber’s blade intent, claimed it, and used its power to kill the Dark Corrosion Snake and Nightflame Crow. While looting the Crow’s lair, he found human remains and a pendant whose photograph seemed to show Cat Boss, leaving him with a troubling mystery.

• Xu Ran endured the saber’s pain, glimpsed a powerful man cleave a giant beast with it, and strengthened his own blade intent until he could claim the saber.
• Xu Ran healed his injured hand with Starlight’s Fate-Binding Star-Link and Embrace of the Night, then left the half-mountain with Starlight, Purple Cloud, and Can Can.
• The Dark Corrosion Snake and Nightflame Crow attacked Xu Ran over the Thunder Pearl, and he cut both down with a single slash while the Silver Moon Pack Leader fled with its pack.
• Xu Ran located the two dead creatures’ lairs and let Can Can fight under Purple Cloud’s protection and Starlight’s amplification as they looted their way through the area.
• Xu Ran found human bones in the Nightflame Crow’s lair, and Purple Cloud retrieved a damaged photo pendant showing an unfamiliar man with a Fury Battle Cat that Xu Ran thought resembled Cat Boss.

Xu Ran discovered the remains of Cat Boss’s former Beast Tamer and buried them, then returned the man’s photo pendant to Cat Boss. Cat Boss mourned as it held the pendant, while a powerful, mischievous little creature set off toward Qingzhou City.

• Xu Ran recognized Cat Boss’s former Beast Tamer among the remains outside the city, had Can Can bury the bodies, and kept the man’s photo pendant.
• A round, white-feathered creature evaded its pursuers, subdued a red lion with its cry, and headed toward the city.
• Xu Ran returned to Qingzhou City, exchanged scavenged resources for Beast Tamer Points, and left his Contract Beasts at the shop before visiting Cat Boss.
• Xu Ran shared bread with Cat Boss and learned it bought two pieces to remember the breakfasts it once shared with its Beast Tamer.
• Xu Ran told Cat Boss he had killed the black-flamed Nightflame Crow and gave it the photo pendant he had recovered.
• Cat Boss recognized the pendant, held it close, and wept as Xu Ran quietly left it alone.

After leaving Cat Boss, Xu Ran returned to the shop, where Purple Cloud and Starlight were teaching Can Can arithmetic before the trio rushed off to train. Meanwhile, He Nian explained Qingzhou City’s plans for a newly competitive exchange, and Xu Ran learned he might face powerful opponents before revealing that he had reached the third tier of Contract Power.

• Xu Ran returned to the Boarding Shop and found Purple Cloud and Starlight teaching Can Can arithmetic so it could manage the next resource distribution.
• Xu Ran sent the three Contract Beasts to train and resolved to earn resources while working toward the fourth tier of Contract Power.
• Gu Wu and He Nian discussed Cloud-Gathering City’s decision to turn the alliance exchange into sparring matches, the strength of its young Beast Tamers, and the danger posed by a Beast King searching for its cub.
• Gu Wu told Xu Ran that the exchange would begin in a week and warned him that he might face Commander Level opponents, but Xu Ran asked about the rewards for defeating Cloud-Gathering City’s Beast Tamers.
• Xu Ran told Gu Wu that his Contract Power had reached the third tier, leaving Gu Wu stunned.

Xu Ran learned that the Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad had been trapped outside Qingzhou City and went out with his Contract Beasts to find them. As the squad faced a deadly horde, a black figure arrived and unleashed Monarch's Might and a sea of lightning.

• Gu Wu learned that Xu Ran had reached the third tier and contracted the Beast Egg he had won, then arranged to meet him in seven days.
• Xu Ran waited for Liu Jinli so he could use her luck for two Ten-Pull Draws, but grew concerned when the Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad failed to return.
• Xu Ran took Purple Cloud, Starlight, and Can Can outside the city after suspecting the squad was in danger.
• Liu Gu, Zhang Yun, Du Heng, Yan Fan, and Liu Xue were trapped in a cave by a horde of Supernatural Creatures after discovering a valuable resource.
• When a creature found the cave, the Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad fought their way outside and was surrounded by the horde.
• A black figure arrived, suppressed the creatures with Monarch's Might, and struck them with Thunder-Shaking Heavenly Sound.

Xu Ran rescued Zhang Yun’s team, then returned to the shop and began allocating resources among his Contract Beasts. After Starlight successfully fused its skills into Heart of Eternal Night, Can Can received two five-star-potential evolution choices and had to decide between a dual-element Dark Underworld Turtle and an earth-element Coiling Dragon Tortoise.

• Xu Ran arrived in time to save Zhang Yun’s team from Supernatural Creatures and escorted them back to the city.
• Xu Ran returned to the shop and listed the resources available for allocation; Starlight, Purple Cloud, and Can Can agreed that Starlight would fuse its skills first.
• Xu Ran used seven Skill Fusion Stones to fuse Starlight’s Long Night, Nightfall, and Embrace of the Night into the three-star Heart of Eternal Night, which boosted dark-element skills and restored strength and injuries anywhere.
• Xu Ran gave Can Can the Monarch Species Evolution Route, and Can Can chose to see the routes with the highest potential.
• Xu Ran revealed that Can Can could evolve into either a dual-element Dark Underworld Turtle or an earth-element Coiling Dragon Tortoise, both with four-star difficulty and five-star potential; Purple Cloud favored dual elements while Starlight pointed to Dragon Might.

Xu Ran chose the Coiling Dragon Tortoise evolution path for Can Can and reviewed its demanding evolution requirements. Can Can raised Miniaturization to three stars, transforming it into Mount Sumeru in a Mustard Seed, and then prepared to fuse Earth-Covering Like Bedrock with Mire.

• Purple Cloud, Starlight, Can Can, and Xu Ran considered Can Can's evolution options, and Can Can agreed to become a Coiling Dragon Tortoise.
• Xu Ran examined the evolution conditions and materials, finding that Can Can would need six crescent-level three-star skills, dragon blood, rare materials, and buried earth-element Dragon Remains.
• Can Can used a Three-Star Skill Scroll to upgrade Miniaturization into Mount Sumeru in a Mustard Seed, which let it enlarge or shrink while changing its strength, speed, reactions, and skill-casting frequency.
• Starlight offered Can Can its two spare Skill Fragments for 20 Value Points, and Xu Ran approved the trade.
• Can Can asked Xu Ran to fuse Earth-Covering Like Bedrock with Mire, and Xu Ran accepted the 11.4% fusion chance.

Xu Ran helped Can Can advance three skills to three stars, then the group spent their remaining Value Points on skills, resources, and Constitution Points. After finishing their preparations, they went to rest before setting out for Cloud-Gathering City with Senior Gu the next morning.

• Xu Ran fused Earth-Covering Like Bedrock with another Two-Star Skill, advancing it into Fertile Soil Bestows Its Body and giving Can Can tougher, adhesive mud armor.
• Can Can chose to fuse Heart of the Earth with Self-Healing and Seismic Wave, and the successful fusion created Earth Vein Resonance, which restored energy, healed injuries, strengthened Earth Element skills, and detected nearby terrain.
• Xu Ran taught Can Can Dragon Might and distributed the remaining Value Points among the three pets, including Skill Points for Purple Cloud and Starlight.
• Starlight and Purple Cloud spent their remaining Value Points on Constitution Points to prepare for their next growth, leaving the group with a finalized list of resources.
• Xu Ran finished the allocation and sent everyone upstairs to rest before they set out for Cloud-Gathering City with Senior Gu the next morning.

Xu Ran joined Gu Wu and the other young Beast Tamers on a trip to Cloud-Gathering City, where he considered contracting a bird Beast and learned about Beast Domains. Meanwhile, a mysterious creature used an illusion to slip into a hunter’s backpack and began heading toward Qingzhou City.

• Xu Ran met Su Xiaoxiao, Gu Ling, Xu Jiujiu, and Lü Huang outside the Beast Tamer Association, where they discussed their strength and Xu Ran’s rise to Commander Level.
• Gu Wu introduced four Association-selected Beast Tamers and took the group aboard his Marshal Rank Red-Eyed Demon Dragon toward Cloud-Gathering City.
• A plump white creature frightened away a Hunting Squad’s attackers with a majestic roar, then hid in a hunter’s backpack to enter Qingzhou City.
• While flying, Xu Ran considered contracting a bird Beast so he could travel through the air.
• Gu Wu explained that wild regions were called Beast Domains, that Qingzhou City lay in Beast Domain No. 97, and that Cloud-Gathering City lay in Beast Domain No. 47.

Xu Ran and the others reached Cloud-Gathering City, a powerful stronghold, and exchanged their points for resources to help Starlight, Can Can, and Purple Cloud grow stronger. After heading downstairs to eat, Xu Ran reunited with Xu Jiujiu and Lü Huang and met Xu Jiujiu’s new Rock-Fighting Badger.

• Gu Wu explained the ranks of Beast Domains and reassured the group that Beast Tamers would protect them as they traveled through Beast Domain No. 47.
• The group entered Cloud-Gathering City, where Zhou He described its powerful Beast Tamers and confirmed that the association had Darknight Demon Dragon horns brought back by Lin Gong.
• Xu Ran verified his identity on the association site and exchanged Starlight’s points for a Marshal Rank Darknight Demon Dragon horn and other Dark Element resources.
• Xu Ran used Purple Cloud’s points and a loan from Purple Cloud to buy Can Can’s evolution materials, then spent the remaining points on a Marshal Rank Resonance Bone Bead for Purple Cloud.
• Xu Ran and his three contract beasts went downstairs for food and found Xu Jiujiu and Lü Huang; Xu Jiujiu introduced her Rock-Fighting Badger, which bristled when Can Can wondered if it was going bald.

Xu Ran and the Qingzhou City group arrived at the intercity sparring exchange, where they learned its rules and saw the immense power of Vice President You Shengjiang’s Overlord Rank Four-Winged Mystic Tiger. As the matches began, Xu Ran chose to wait for Commander Level Beast Tamers before entering the stage.

• Xu Jiujiu kept her Rock-Fighting Badger from challenging Can Can, and Xu Ran talked with the group about evolution and the resources he had prepared for his second Contract Beast.
• Gu Wu led the Qingzhou City group to the exchange venue and explained that each Beast Tamer could earn one Association reward, with additional wagers allowed between competitors.
• The Beast Tamers from Cloud-Gathering City, Cangxue City, and Gale-Spirit City took prominent seats, and Vice President You Shengjiang arrived on his Overlord Rank Four-Winged Mystic Tiger, demonstrating its Emperor's Crown skill.
• You Shengjiang announced rewards for defeating Elite and Commander Level Beast Tamers and offered a Heavenly Spirit Stone to everyone who took the stage.
• Zhao Yi of Green-Wutong City challenged an opponent, Xu Jiujiu said she wanted to compete, and Xu Ran decided to wait until Commander Level Beast Tamers entered the matches.

Xu Ran entered the sparring exchange and Purple Cloud defeated Ye Haoming’s three Commander Rank Contract Beasts, earning Xu Ran a reward before he returned to the hotel. There, Xu Ran received the exchanged resources and prepared to help Starlight evolve.

• You Shengjiang rewarded the Beast Tamers who sparred, and Ye Haoming of Cloud-Gathering City challenged the assembled towns as a Commander Level Beast Tamer.
• Xu Ran accepted Ye Haoming’s challenge and let Purple Cloud fight alone against his three Contract Beasts.
• Purple Cloud used its full moon level skills to defeat all three opponents, and Xu Ran claimed a fighting element resource and a Heavenly Spirit Stone.
• Xu Ran declined another match, returned to his seat, and then left for the hotel.
• Xu Ran received the resources he had exchanged for and told the excited Starlight that they would prepare for its evolution.

Xu Ran gathered the evolution resources, bought a storefront in Cloud-Gathering City, and took Starlight to a dark mountain road to begin its evolution. When Starlight’s energy turned violent and would not merge with its body, Xu Ran realized what the ritual’s “pure darkness” might require and told Starlight to close its eyes and keep running.

• Starlight spotted the Darknight Demon Dragon horn among the resources, while Xu Ran checked the materials for Can Can and Purple Cloud.
• Ye Haoming hired Qin Can to challenge Xu Ran in a wager match, and Qin Can talked him into offering an extra Marshal Rank resource.
• Xu Ran bought a storefront in Cloud-Gathering City and registered it under his name, leaving Main Quest 2 halfway complete.
• Xu Ran brought Starlight, Purple Cloud, and Can Can to a mountain road at night, where Starlight swallowed its evolution resources and began galloping with the Darknight Demon Dragon horn around its neck.
• Starlight’s energy grew increasingly violent and painful without merging into its body, so Xu Ran realized darkness might mean being unable to see and told Starlight to close its eyes and run.

Xu Ran guided Starlight through a painful evolution in the darkness, where the white mark on its forehead overcame the Darknight Demon Dragon's horn and became part of its new form. Starlight evolved into a Star Divine Horse, reached commander rank, and tested its new skill before continuing to gallop with Xu Ran, Purple Cloud, and Can Can.

• Xu Ran urged Starlight to charge ahead with its eyes closed as it absorbed the evolution resources, but the Darknight Demon Dragon's horn remained inactive.
• Xu Ran pressed the horn to Starlight's forehead, awakening its dark power and provoking a struggle with the glowing white mark between Starlight's brows.
• Starlight's white mark overcame the horn's darkness and moved onto it, turning the horn into Starlight's own; Starlight then followed the light through memories of its father, Xu Ran, Purple Cloud, and Can Can.
• Starlight completed its evolution into a Star Divine Horse, advanced to commander rank, and gained Monarch's Might and Undying Star Guidance.
• Xu Ran had Starlight use Undying Star Guidance and learned that it dispelled illusions and falsehoods, then Starlight asked him to add points.

Starlight evolved to Commander Rank and trained its Undying Star Guidance, while Xu Ran's group prepared for the second day of the exchange, which introduced wager matches. The exchange began with Xu Ran drawing attention, and You Shengjiang hoped a golden-haired Cloud-Gathering City Beast Tamer would help restore the city's pride.

• Starlight's strength surged after evolving, and Xu Ran advised it to train Undying Star Guidance before spending Skill Points; Purple Cloud agreed to use Monarch's Might on Starlight for 100 Value Points a day.
• Starlight trained through the night and reached Crescent Level in Undying Star Guidance, while its excitement kept Purple Cloud and Can Can awake.
• Gu Ling resolved to prepare her Dark-Scaled Dragon for evolution after seeing Starlight's progress, and Gu Wu explained that the day's exchange would include wager matches with stakes.
• The Qingzhou City group received better seats after Xu Ran's performance, and Xu Jiujiu embarrassed him by loudly suggesting that he wanted a wife and men.
• You Shengjiang opened the exchange and spotted a golden-haired young Beast Tamer from Cloud-Gathering City, hoping he could help the city reclaim its pride.

Qin Can challenged Xu Ran to a wagered battle, confident that his three Monarch Species Contract Beasts would win. Xu Ran and his companions defeated all three with Purple Cloud’s amplified Full Moon Level lightning attack, leaving Qin Can stunned.

• Qin Can challenged Xu Ran and wagered a Bamboo-Shoot Stalagmite Root against Starlight’s Starforged Netherstone and Purple Cloud’s Resonance Bone Bead.
• Qin Can summoned the Mist-Song Envoy, Earth-Rumbling Rhino, and Wind-Listening Ambusher, which launched a coordinated assault on Xu Ran and his companions.
• Xu Ran called on Purple Cloud and Starlight to fight back as Qin Can’s beasts’ attacks surrounded them.
• Starlight used Heart of Eternal Night, Undying Star Guidance, and Dusk Night Emblem to amplify Purple Cloud’s power and break through the enemy beasts’ illusions and Monarch’s Might.
• Purple Cloud unleashed its Full Moon Level Thunder-Shaking Heavenly Sound across the arena, striking down all three of Qin Can’s Contract Beasts.
• Xu Ran smiled at the bewildered Qin Can and repeated his boast that a genius grew stronger every day.

Xu Ran defeated Qin Can, claimed the Bamboo-Shoot Stalagmite Root, and advertised the upcoming Starfire Foster Shop Cloud-Gathering City Branch before planning to return to Qingzhou City. Meanwhile, Cat Boss befriended a hidden Beast Domain creature, and Qin Can talked Ye Haoming out of demanding his resources back.

• Xu Ran waved a flag advertising the Starfire Foster Shop Cloud-Gathering City Branch, then accepted the Bamboo-Shoot Stalagmite Root from Qin Can after their battle.
• Can Can cried because it felt it had held the others back, but Xu Ran reminded it that Starlight had once been an ordinary creature, encouraging Can Can to work hard and grow.
• Xu Ran said he and his Beast Companions would explore Cloud-Gathering City before returning home the next day.
• A hidden Beast Domain creature watched a food stall, but Cat Boss discovered it, bought food for it, and heard it call him a good cat through Telepathy.
• Ye Haoming confronted Qin Can over the resources he had given him, but Qin Can persuaded him that losing had helped distract everyone from Ye Haoming's own failure.
• After Qin Can sent Ye Haoming away, Ye Haoming realized he had been fooled again and angrily complained outside Qin Can's house.

Cat Boss brought a little Velvet Sparrow to Xu Ran for free grooming after the bird agreed to follow Cat Boss and learn to live in the human city. Xu Ran returned to Qingzhou City, reopened the Starfire Foster Shop, and discovered the new visitor’s identity through the system appraisal.

• The little creature agreed to follow Cat Boss, learned that the Starfire Foster Shop groomed stray contract beasts for free, and decided to repay the twenty yuan she owed for food.
• Xu Ran told Su Xiaoxiao and Gu Ling that he planned to develop the Cloud-Gathering City branch and would likely move there, while hiring two clerks to run the Qingzhou City shop with Mr. Tony.
• Xu Ran and the others returned to Qingzhou City, where Mr. Tony welcomed him with a heart-shaped cake, and Xu Ran reopened the Starfire Foster Shop after four days away.
• Purple Cloud, Starlight, and Can Can resumed training with renewed determination while Xu Ran waited for customers.
• Cat Boss arrived carrying the little bird, and Xu Ran used the system to identify her as an Elite Rank Psychic Velvet Sparrow in need of grooming.