Chapter Summaries

Xu Ran gave the Velvet Sparrow a sand bath and conditioning treatment, leaving it beautifully groomed. Cat Boss asked Xu Ran to let the Velvet Sparrow stay at the Starfire Foster Shop while Cat Boss began a new life, and the Velvet Sparrow offered Xu Ran a secret about Supernatural Creature evolution in exchange.

• Xu Ran explained how a sand bath would clean the Velvet Sparrow's unusual down, and the Velvet Sparrow tried it and eagerly rolled in the bath sand.
• Xu Ran conditioned the Velvet Sparrow's dry down, and the grooming left it clean, soft, and pure white.
• The Velvet Sparrow refused to seek a Beast Tamer and told Xu Ran it wanted to return for grooming every day, but Xu Ran said once every twenty days was enough.
• Cat Boss asked Xu Ran to let the Velvet Sparrow stay at the shop while Cat Boss tried a different way of life, and Xu Ran agreed.
• The Velvet Sparrow refused to let Cat Boss pay its boarding costs and offered Xu Ran a secret about Supernatural Creature evolution instead.

Xu Ran welcomed the mysterious Velvet Sparrow into his shop after it claimed to know about evolution, and helped Cat Boss join the Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad. A boy then asked Xu Ran to groom Huo Huo, an ancient Contract Beast nearing the end of its life, and Xu Ran agreed to do it for free seven days later.

• The Velvet Sparrow told Xu Ran that a transcendence flower helped commander species evolve into monarch species, then hid its true identity behind a story about being abandoned.
• Xu Ran believed the Velvet Sparrow's story, gave it a place to live, and allowed it to explore the city as long as it returned for meals.
• Cat Boss decided to join a Hunting Squad, and Xu Ran arranged for it to join Zhang Yun's Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad.
• A teenage boy told Xu Ran that Huo Huo, a commander-rank Contract Beast that had protected his family for nine generations, would die of old age within a week.
• Xu Ran agreed to groom Huo Huo for free seven days later so it could look dignified before its death.

Can Can, Purple Cloud, and Starlight met the newly arrived Velvet Sparrow, whose secret about evolution turned out to be old news to them. After Xu Ran learned about their encounter, he said they would attend the funeral of a long-serving Contract Beast in a week.

• After training, Can Can anticipated evolving soon, while Purple Cloud and Starlight lamented how much longer their own preparations had taken.
• The Velvet Sparrow visited Boarding Area residents and used Command Without Sign to influence the unfriendly Flame Monkey.
• Can Can, Purple Cloud, and Starlight approached the Velvet Sparrow, which learned they were Xu Ran's Contract Beasts and that two of them were monarch species.
• The Velvet Sparrow proudly revealed its evolution secret, but Can Can said they already knew about the Transcendence Flower, leaving the bird embarrassed and distressed.
• Xu Ran learned that the three little ones had met the Velvet Sparrow and said they should look for it a suitable Beast Tamer.
• Xu Ran told the three little ones they would attend the funeral in a week of a Contract Beast that had protected one family for nine generations.

Xu Ran groomed the elderly Contract Beast Huo Huo, restoring its appearance as it briefly regained the vigor of its prime. Huo Huo then went to its former master's grave and died there, leaving the Velvet Sparrow with an answer to its question about a life spent in service.

• Xu Ran welcomed Huo Huo, Du Ziyu, and Du Long to the closed Starfire Foster Shop, while the Velvet Sparrow translated Huo Huo's request for grooming.
• Xu Ran groomed Huo Huo, making its coat and flames appear youthful again, though he knew the change could not restore its life.
• Huo Huo left the shop, and Xu Ran and the others followed it toward the cemetery where its former master was buried.
• Huo Huo curled around its master's grave as the Velvet Sparrow asked whether guarding a human at the cost of its freedom had been worthwhile.
• Huo Huo answered that the Velvet Sparrow would know when it met the right person, then closed its eyes and died.

Xu Ran attended Huo Huo’s funeral at the Du Family Courtyard, where his Contract Beasts schemed to get Liu Gu’s Wind Lion Dog back to the Starfire Foster Shop. The Velvet Sparrow used Command Without Sign to persuade the dog to request grooming the next day, while Xu Ran greeted Liu Gu and prepared to borrow his luck for a draw.

• Du Long and Du Ziyu arranged to bury Huo Huo in the cemetery and hold a funeral that night at the Du Family Courtyard, which Xu Ran agreed to attend.
• At the funeral, Purple Cloud, Starlight, and Can Can planned to persuade Liu Gu’s Wind Lion Dog to visit the Starfire Foster Shop for grooming so they could receive another resource allocation.
• The three Contract Beasts tried to convince the Wind Lion Dog, but it refused until the Velvet Sparrow offered to help with Command Without Sign in exchange for learning what resource allocation meant.
• Purple Cloud explained resource allocation, and the Velvet Sparrow used Command Without Sign to make the Wind Lion Dog decide to ask Liu Gu for grooming the next day.
• Xu Ran greeted Liu Gu and, after noticing him, began to ask whether he knew Cat Boss.

Xu Ran allocated the team’s rewards and guided Can Can through several skill fusions, bringing its Innate Skills to Three-Star and upgrading Dragon Might into Dragonblood Horn. Can Can endured the painful upgrade and met its evolution conditions, leaving only one step before evolution.

• Liu Gu thanked Xu Ran for helping Cat Boss join his team as a Commander Rank Contract Beast, then went to the Wind Lion Dog as Huo Huo’s memorial ceremony began.
• Xu Ran discovered an Innate Skill Fusion Stone among his rewards and learned that only emperor species could use it; the three little ones chose to save it for later.
• Xu Ran divided 22,701 Value Points among Purple Cloud, Starlight, and Can Can, then prioritized Can Can’s skill fusions.
• Can Can fused Earth Collapse with Shockwave to create Earth-Splitting Heaven-Shattering, and fused Wall of Solid Rock with Regenerative Power to create Eternal Iron Wall.
• Xu Ran fused Dragon Might with Fervor and Taunt, creating Dragonblood Horn; Can Can endured the painful upgrade and announced that its evolution conditions were met.

Xu Ran and the Contract Beasts distributed their resources after Can Can unlocked Dragonblood Horn and met all its evolution requirements. Purple Cloud upgraded Blood Rage into Crimson Fighting Spirit, while the team prepared to leave the city to find a suitable evolution site for Can Can.

• Can Can learned that Dragonblood Horn could grow stronger by consuming dragon Contract Beasts' blood essence, and Xu Ran raised its skills to Crescent Level while putting its remaining Skill Points into Earth Vein Resonance.
• Can Can repaid Purple Cloud and Starlight, then gave up priority on the remaining resources so they could strengthen themselves.
• Purple Cloud used a Three-Star Skill Scroll to upgrade Blood Rage into Crimson Fighting Spirit, which enhanced its abilities and Fighting Element skills while replacing its old side effects.
• Purple Cloud and Starlight divided the remaining Skill Fusion Stones and resources, and Can Can spent its remaining Value Points on Skill Points for Earth Vein Resonance.
• Xu Ran finished the distribution and announced that they would leave the city the next day to find the buried remains of an Earth Element dragon and help Can Can evolve.

Xu Ran and his pets searched Beast Domain No. 97 for buried Earth Element Dragon remains that Can Can needed to evolve, but found none across dozens of mapped locations. Back at the shop, the Velvet Sparrow revealed it might know a suitable site.

• Xu Ran closed the Starfire Foster Shop and took Can Can, Purple Cloud, and Starlight outside Qingzhou City to search for an evolution site.
• Can Can used Earth Vein Resonance, boosted by Starlight, to survey a wide area and discovered buried resources but could not reach a commander-rank one.
• Xu Ran and the pets searched dozens of mapped detection points over two days without finding Earth Element Dragon remains.
• Xu Ran encouraged the disappointed Can Can and decided they should return to Qingzhou City to gather more maps before exploring unknown areas.
• The Velvet Sparrow asked what kind of location Can Can needed, then said, “Why didn't you ask me sooner?”

Velvet Sparrow led Xu Ran and his Contract Beasts to the monarch-rank remains of an Earth Element Dragon so Can Can could evolve. The Nightmare Beast King learned of their destination and sent a marshal-rank subordinate to test whether Xu Ran would protect Little Twelve; Can Can began its evolution beneath the remains.

• Velvet Sparrow offered to guide Xu Ran to Earth Element Dragon remains in exchange for being taken outside Qingzhou City, and Xu Ran agreed.
• Velvet Sparrow guided Xu Ran and his Contract Beasts out of the city while the Nightmare Beast King discovered their destination and ordered a subordinate to test Xu Ran’s loyalty to Little Twelve.
• Xu Ran’s group reached the valley, where Can Can confirmed the remains were monarch-rank and found them buried underground.
• Xu Ran and the others encouraged Can Can, which descended beneath the valley to begin evolving beside the dragon remains.

Can Can used the dragon's aura to control the chaotic forces in its body and completed its evolution into a Coiling Dragon Tortoise, then broke through to Commander Rank. It emerged from underground at an enormous size, eager to show its new form to Xu Ran, Purple Cloud, Starlight, and the Velvet Sparrow.

• Can Can combined its evolution materials beside the Monarch Rank Earth Element Giant Dragon's remains, but the resulting power caused painful, uncontrolled mutations.
• Can Can sensed the dragon's aura in its blood-soaked surroundings and separated the dragon and tortoise powers within itself.
• Can Can chose to reunite the two powers in a new order, taming them as its body transformed into a dragon-like form and grew to thirty-six meters.
• Can Can completed its evolution and began advancing in rank as it rose through the rock toward the surface.
• Xu Ran sensed Can Can's evolution and rank advancement, then Can Can emerged at a length of one hundred and eight meters, astonishing Xu Ran, Purple Cloud, Starlight, and the Velvet Sparrow.

After Can Can evolved into a Coiling Dragon Tortoise, Xu Ran learned that Dragonblood Horn and Monarch's Might had fused into Dragon Tortoise's Might, while Can Can gained the ability to burrow underground. A Marshal Rank Thunderhowl Sky Tiger attacked the group, and Can Can and Starlight combined their powers to block its strike before Can Can restrained it and Purple Cloud prepared to attack.

• Xu Ran saw that Can Can had gained Burrowing and Dragon Tortoise's Might, a fusion of Dragonblood Horn and Monarch's Might.
• Can Can explained that Burrowing would let it gather resources buried underground, but a roar carrying powerful Monarch's Might interrupted them.
• Xu Ran mounted Starlight with Purple Cloud and the Velvet Sparrow while Can Can followed underground, but they stopped when a Marshal Rank presence caught up with them.
• The Marshal Rank Thunderhowl Sky Tiger, a subordinate of the Velvet Sparrow's father, attacked the Velvet Sparrow, which urged Xu Ran and the others to flee.
• Can Can enlarged itself and used Earth Vein Resonance with Starlight and Xu Ran's Fate-Binding Star-Link to block the Thunderhowl Sky Tiger's strike.
• Can Can used Dragon Tortoise's Might to pin the Thunderhowl Sky Tiger, and Purple Cloud confronted it with a deep-purple energy ball as it tried to retreat.

Xu Ran and his Contract Beasts returned to Qingzhou City after the Thunderhowl Sky Tiger retreated, carrying a powerful Monarch Rank resource for Can Can. The Nightmare Beast King learned about Xu Ran’s strength and grew wary, while Xu Ran reached his shop and was greeted by Tony’s loud celebration.

• The Thunderhowl Sky Tiger fled after clashing with Xu Ran and his Contract Beasts, and Can Can retrieved an earth-type Monarch Rank resource before they hurried toward Qingzhou City.
• The Velvet Sparrow realized the Nightmare Beast King had marked her with Dormant Seed and suspected the Thunderhowl Sky Tiger had been testing Xu Ran, though she decided she liked Xu Ran’s loyalty.
• The Thunderhowl Sky Tiger reported that Xu Ran’s three Contract Beasts had challenged its Marshal Rank strength, prompting the Nightmare Beast King to reconsider his assumptions about humans and Xu Ran’s background.
• Xu Ran reached Qingzhou City and called Gu Wu to report the encounter, but Gu Wu hung up in shock after learning Can Can had evolved and helped face a Marshal Rank creature.
• Xu Ran arrived at the Starfire Foster Shop, where Tony greeted him in a Sao Pink suit with music, party cannons, and a request for promotion.

Xu Ran halted resource distributions while he gathered the points and Skill Fragments needed to promote Mr. Tony to System Shop Manager and open a branch in Cloud-Gathering City. Mr. Tony proposed a fifty-percent grooming discount to speed up the savings, drawing customers to the Starfire Foster Shop as the news of its possible move spread.

• Xu Ran told The Four Little Ones that resource distributions would stop while they saved up the requirements for Mr. Tony's promotion, and Can Can offered to gather resources while Purple Cloud and Starlight asked to borrow points and money.
• The Velvet Sparrow returned to the Boarding Area, feeling lonely at the thought that Xu Ran and the others might leave and wondering whether forming a contract with a human would bring the warmth it wanted.
• Mr. Tony suggested a limited-time grooming discount to attract more customers and make up for Qingzhou City's shortage of mid-level Beast Tamers, and Xu Ran agreed to try it.
• Lin Yue told Su Xiaoxiao that the Starfire Foster Shop was offering grooming at half price, and Su Xiaoxiao revealed that Xu Ran might be going to Cloud-Gathering City to open a branch.
• Aji reported the discount to Lü Hong, who led Lü Huang and the Bamboo Leaf Martial Arts School's Contract Beasts to the shop to take advantage of it.
• The Fierce Tiger Hunting Squad returned from an outing with Cat Boss and decided to visit the shop for discounted grooming, while Zhou Hao planned to take the Shadow-Hunting Lizard and Brilliant Dragon Sparrow there after training.

Xu Ran finished gathering the resources to promote Tony to System Shop Manager, then claimed the reward for completing his quest and received two new clerks. The chapter ended with Xu Ran meeting the unusual Green Frog and Black-Clothes clerks and questioning whether they were really his new staff.

• Qi He brought his Blaze Wind Eagle to Starfire Foster Shop for grooming and was impressed by the results.
• Xu Ran told Liu Yu and Qi He that he planned to open another Starfire Foster Shop in Cloud-Gathering City and that Tony would help run the original shop.
• Xu Ran used the final Skill Fragments from Qi He's Contract Beast to complete the resources needed for Tony's promotion.
• Xu Ran promoted Tony to System Shop Manager and claimed the completed Main Quest reward for two new System Clerks.
• A Green-Skinned Frog clerk emerged from the vortex, followed by a black-clad clerk named Mr. Black-Clothes.

Xu Ran unlocked teleportation between Starfire Foster Shop branches and opened the Cloud-Gathering City shop, while Tony explained that managers could call him between cities. Back in Qingzhou City, the new clerks began their duties, and Ye Haoming recruited Qin Can to visit Xu Ran’s shop and cause trouble.

• Xu Ran learned that Main Quest 3 required him to open a branch in a Second-Tier Stronghold and raise local name recognition to 70%, and he saw that the Cloud-Gathering City shop had been renovated.
• Xu Ran discovered the teleportation feature, spent 10,000 happiness points to travel to Cloud-Gathering City, and summoned his three Contract Beasts to join him.
• Tony called Xu Ran and explained that shop managers could contact him across cities by landline, with calls costing happiness points.
• Xu Ran opened the Cloud-Gathering City branch, while Tony, the Green-Skinned Frog, and the man in black began running the Qingzhou City shop.
• Ye Haoming told Qin Can that Xu Ran had registered the Starfire Foster Shop in Cloud-Gathering City and invited him to make trouble there, and Qin Can agreed on the condition that Ye Haoming paid.

Xu Ran opened the Starfire Foster Shop in Cloud-Gathering City, where Ye Haoming and Qin Can arrived and questioned his high grooming prices. Ye Haoming paid for his Flame Barbarian Bull to be groomed, and Xu Ran began earning Happiness Points as the bull reacted intensely to the treatment.

• Can Can worried that the shop had no customers, and Purple Cloud explained that the Starfire Foster Shop had once been just as quiet in Qingzhou City.
• Ye Haoming and Qin Can entered the shop, and Ye Haoming criticized Xu Ran's grooming prices while Qin Can admired how expensive they were.
• Qin Can persuaded Ye Haoming to pay for a grooming session so he could criticize Xu Ran's service fairly.
• Ye Haoming summoned his Flame Barbarian Bull, which recognized Purple Cloud and cowered before it.
• Xu Ran began grooming the Flame Barbarian Bull, whose Happiness Points rose as it struggled to suppress its sounds of pleasure.
• Xu Ran plugged the Flame Barbarian Bull's mouth with a cloth after its Happiness Points per reaction dropped when it mooed.

Xu Ran groomed Ye Haoming’s Flame Barbarian Bull and Qin Can’s Contract Beasts, impressing both men with the results while secretly gaining two Three-Star Skills. The chapter left Xu Ran eager to groom Qin Can’s Mist-Song Envoy and see whether Qin Can would bring him more luck.

• Xu Ran revealed the dramatically improved Flame Barbarian Bull, and Ye Haoming could find no fault with the grooming.
• Qin Can lured Ye Haoming outside, then used his money to have Xu Ran groom his Earth-Rumbling Rhino; Xu Ran gained the teachable Three-Star Skill Earthquake Roar.
• Qin Can persuaded Ye Haoming to pay for grooming the Wind-Listening Ambusher, and Xu Ran gained the unteachable Three-Star Skill Tornado Swarm.
• Ye Haoming refused to pay for another session and left, while Xu Ran offered Qin Can a grand-opening promotion to groom his Mist-Song Envoy for free.
• Xu Ran looked forward to grooming the Mist-Song Envoy and wondered whether Qin Can would become his second lucky customer.

Xu Ran groomed Qin Can’s Mist-Song Envoy and confirmed that Qin Can had a koi constitution. When Xu Ran asked about ways to promote Starfire Foster Shop, Qin Can told him about Cloud-Gathering City’s Beast Taming Rankings, which offered Beast Tamer Points to ranked tamers.

• Xu Ran took the Mist-Song Envoy to the grooming room while Qin Can stayed in the lounge, where the three little ones watched him hopefully.
• Xu Ran groomed the Mist-Song Envoy, earning its happiness and obtaining the three-star skill Cloud-Sea Vanishing Trace.
• Xu Ran secretly borrowed Qin Can’s luck through three ten-pulls and confirmed Qin Can had a koi constitution.
• Xu Ran asked Qin Can about upcoming competitions for Commander Level Beast Tamers, and Qin Can offered to explain an alternative in exchange for future free grooming sessions for his three contract beasts.
• Qin Can explained that Cloud-Gathering City had Beast Taming Rankings divided by criteria and strength, with weekly Beast Tamer Point rewards for those who stayed ranked.

Xu Ran and his three Contract Beasts allocated their resources, gained new skills, and strengthened their abilities before heading to the Beast Taming Rankings. Xu Ran registered under a pseudonym, leaving the staff member stunned when he chose Starfire Foster Shop.

• Xu Ran divided the resources among Purple Cloud, Starlight, and Can Can after they repaid their debts, leaving Can Can with the most Value Points.
• Can Can fused Earthquake Roar with Earth-Splitting Heaven-Shattering to create the stronger, wider-reaching Earthquake and Heaven Collapse.
• Starlight used a Three-Star Skill Scroll on Miniaturization and gained Gap-Flow Shuttle, which boosted speed and agility without reducing strength.
• Purple Cloud used its scroll on Miniaturization and gained Martial Combat Specialization, which adjusted its body and enhanced it for combat.
• Can Can spent its resources to raise Mount Sumeru in a Mustard Seed and Dragon Tortoise's Might to Full Moon Level, while Starlight and Purple Cloud exchanged their remaining Value Points for Beast Tamer Points and supplies.
• Xu Ran and the three little ones went to register for the Beast Taming Rankings, where Xu Ran chose Starfire Foster Shop as his pseudonym.

Xu Ran brought Purple Cloud, Can Can, and Starlight to the Beast Taming Rankings and learned how the current and historical rankings worked. Can Can scored 42,832 in the Commander Rank attack test, earning 18th place and drawing a stunned crowd’s attention to the Starfire Foster Shop.

• Xu Ran learned from a middle-aged man that the current rankings included living Contract Beasts at their present rank, while historical rankings recorded the best results of everyone who had ever placed.
• Xu Ran saw Fang Canghai’s Jade Mystic Azure Dragon at the top of the historical ranking, and Purple Cloud, Can Can, and Starlight each grew eager to test themselves.
• Xu Ran took the three Contract Beasts to Testing Area C12, where Can Can enlarged itself and unleashed Dragon Tortoise’s Might and Earthquake and Heaven Collapse against the energy targets.
• Can Can received a combat power score of 42,832, and Xu Ran noted that it ranked in the top twenty.
• The ranking bell rang as Can Can’s result pushed 482 names down; the Current Commander Rank list revealed the Starfire Foster Shop’s Coiling Dragon Tortoise in 18th place, leaving spectators wondering who the entrant was.