Recaps

Zhao Jian explained the Beast Worship Sect, its threat to humanity, and the alliance’s plan to attack Zhanpuneisi for a not-yet-hatched Divine Pin war beast. Ling Yi chose to go, then revealed he had already contracted a Steel-Armored Turtle, leaving Zhao Jian relieved and eager to learn more.

• Zhao Jian told Ling Yi that the Beast Worship Sect enslaved humans through psychic alien beasts and that its members gained power by integrating with war beasts at the cost of irreversible transformation.
• Zhao Jian explained that the Human Beastmaster Alliance would assemble in two months and attack Zhanpuneisi, where a Divine Pin war beast was expected to hatch.
• Zhao Jian said the Ancient Country would lead much of the campaign because Ling Yi was the only person on Blue Star able to contract a Divine Pin war beast, and Ling Yi chose to go to Zhanpuneisi.
• Ling Yi revealed that he had already contracted a war beast, and Zhao Jian reacted with excitement and relief when Ling Yi opened his war beast space.
• Ling Yi told Zhao Jian that Uncle Yan knew about the contract, and Zhao Jian explained that Yan was his former teacher, a sixth-tier beastmaster whose cultivation could be restored with a Ninth Tier psychic alien beast’s crystal core.
• Ling Yi said his contracted war beast was a Steel-Armored Turtle.

Ling Yi learned that the War Preparedness Bureau had thwarted thirty-four assassination attempts against him over three years, at the cost of fourteen lives, and resolved to grow strong enough to destroy the Beast Worship Sect and the Madhouse. After reflecting on the sacrifices and care that gave him a sense of belonging, he discovered that his Steel Armor Turtle had advanced to the third tier and raised his Blood Qi to the fourth tier.

• Zhao Jian advised Ling Yi to skip the graduation trial, but Ling Yi insisted he needed to face danger and honor the people counting on him.
• Zhao Jian revealed that the War Preparedness Bureau had stopped thirty-four attempts on Ling Yi's life, with fourteen people killed, and said the Beast Worship Sect and the Madhouse were responsible.
• Zhao Jian explained that the Madhouse had killed four immortal pin beast tamers while seeking a way to devour Battle Beast Spaces, and that Lan Yanxue had crushed its branches in the Ancient Country.
• Ling Yi asked for the names of the fallen beast tamers and learned that divine pin mental power gave his battle beast a ten-point aptitude bonus and divine pin initial skills.
• Ling Yi reflected on his past, the original owner's death, and the sacrifices and care that helped him feel he belonged in the Ancient Country.
• The Steel Armor Turtle advanced to the third tier, and Ling Yi's system showed his Blood Qi had reached 1,000,160, placing him in the fourth tier, first pin.

Ling Yi tested the Steel Armor Turtle’s new God Grade Recovery skill and its speed, then learned that his graduation trial would likely take place in the dangerous Azure Plain Secret Realm. The trial was one week away, and Ling Yi kept his successful contract with the turtle secret as he planned to visit the Battle Beast Department.

• Ling Yi tested the Steel Armor Turtle’s God Grade Rapid Speed and found it could reach roughly 1,000 meters per second, while its God Grade Recovery could rapidly restore its body and Qi and Blood.
• Ling Yi ignored the growing online criticism calling him a trash Divine Pin beast tamer, though he noticed that people around him treated him differently.
• Liu Hong announced that the graduation assessment was one week away and said the trial would likely be held in the Azure Plain Secret Realm, where the strongest exotic beasts were First Tier, Second Pin.
• Liu Hong warned the students to study the secret realm’s exotic beasts and their weaknesses after they worried about the danger and deaths in past trials.
• Liu Hong asked Ling Yi about his future and urged him to keep visiting the Battle Beast Department, while Ling Yi concealed that he had already contracted the Steel Armor Turtle and said he would visit after eating.

Ling Yi learned about the Madhouse’s dangerous research and received an incomplete Qi-and-blood technique from Yan Yunshan. At the Battle Beast Department, he contracted a Swiftness Monkey with a Son Goku template, then returned to Yan Yunshan, who asked which beast he wanted to report as contracted.

• Yan Yunshan explained that the Madhouse had developed cultivation methods and equipment for beast tamers, and warned Ling Yi that the organization was an enemy of humanity.
• Yan Yunshan gave Ling Yi an incomplete Madhouse technique that could help him control and conceal Qi and blood, but warned that absorbing power from the Battle Beast Space would weaken battle beasts and eventually destroy the space.
• Ling Yi visited the beast garden and used his system to contract a low-aptitude Swiftness Monkey, gaining Qi and blood and synchronizing with its Son Goku transformation skill.
• Ling Yi summoned the golden-furred monkey and told Yan Yunshan not to underestimate it, while Yan Yunshan advised him to seek a higher-pin battle beast.
• Ling Yi checked the other floors but found no other beasts available for random templates, and Yan Yunshan asked which beast he would report as contracted in seven days.

Ling Yi arrived at the Azure Plain Secret Realm entrance riding his third-tier Steel Armor Turtle, revealing that he had successfully contracted a battle beast. After explaining that influencers had delayed him and the War Preparedness Bureau had arrested them, he stood ready to enter the graduation trial.

• Ling Yi chose to report only his Steel Armor Turtle and spent the days before the trial stocking supplies in his battle beast space.
• Students gathered at the Azure Plain Secret Realm entrance, where they admired Lan Yanyu's Two-Headed Iron-Wire Flood Dragon and Shen Bin mocked Ling Yi for supposedly having no battle beast.
• Principal Zhao Jian and Liu Hong waited for Ling Yi, while students speculated that he would not attend the trial.
• Ling Yi arrived atop his enormous Steel Armor Turtle, stunning the students and revealing that he had contracted a battle beast.
• Ling Yi told Zhao Jian that influencers had blocked his home and that the War Preparedness Bureau had taken action against them.
• Shen Bin and other students lowered their heads as Ling Yi explained that obstructing a student from attending the trial carried a minimum ten-year sentence.

Ling Yi entered the Cangyuan Exotic Beast Secret Realm for the graduation trial and began to open up to his classmates after years of isolation. He formed a team with his entire class and sent his Steel Armor Turtle to clear their path.

• Xia announced the start and rules of the fifteen-day graduation trial, and the students collected trial watches before entering the secret realm.
• Song Luoxue asked Ling Yi to team up, and he reflected on how his talks with Zhao Jian and Uncle Yan had changed his outlook and eased his loneliness.
• Ling Yi and his classmates entered the Cangyuan Exotic Beast Secret Realm, where Lan Yanyu headed into the forest alone with his Earth Pin battle beast.
• Ling Yi accepted Song Luoxue's team request and added every student in Senior Class One, despite Shen Bin's provocation and others' jokes about his turtle.
• Ling Yi summoned his truck-sized Steel Armor Turtle and told it to clear the way.

The Beast Worship Sect’s hidden members in Dafeng City discussed how to kill Ling Yi, a divine pin beast tamer whose growth threatened the beasts’ plans. They decided to wait until his graduation trial and arrange a high-tier secret realm invasion to draw off the War Preparedness Bureau.

• News spread that Ling Yi had contracted a Steel Armor Turtle, while authorities banned hostile accounts and cracked down on their operators.
• Lin Hao, Lü Xin, Zhang Wen, and Zhang Wu met in Dafeng City and discussed Ling Yi’s strength and the orders to kill him.
• Zhang Wen explained that Ling Yi’s divine pin talent could make his battle beast exceptionally powerful, so they needed cannon fodder to test his abilities before acting.
• Zhang Wen speculated that the beasts were keeping Lan Yanxue alive as a controllable seed and feared Ling Yi could disrupt their invasion plans.
• The four agreed to wait until after Ling Yi’s graduation trial, and Zhang Wen revealed that their master had alerted the beasts’ higher-ups, who might open a high-tier secret realm in Dafeng City to trigger an invasion.

Ling Yi led his classmates through the Azure Plain Secret Realm, where his Steel Armor Turtle’s overwhelming presence kept strange beasts away. After Song Luoxue’s attempts to distribute points fairly led most of the class to split up, Ling Yi, Song Luoxue, and Cong Fei remained together and set out to farm points.

• Ling Yi’s classmates marveled at the Steel Armor Turtle, while Shen Bin dismissed it and argued with those praising Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi put away the Steel Armor Turtle, and the group began encountering Fanged Mountain Rats after it stopped scouting ahead.
• The students defeated the first two groups of rats, but Song Luoxue’s efforts to let everyone share points frustrated classmates who wanted to compete on their own.
• More than half the students left the party in smaller groups, leaving Ling Yi, Song Luoxue, and Cong Fei together.
• Ling Yi explained that the graduation trial was an exam and a competition, then led Song Luoxue and Cong Fei off to farm points.

Ling Yi led Song Luoxue and Cong Fei to a Fanged Mountain Rats’ nest and used his Steel Armor Turtle’s God Grade Rapid Speed to wipe out most of the swarm, sending their points soaring. As teachers debated Ling Yi’s growing visibility and the threat against him, the group later faced a swarm of Silver Wings Poison Bees that threatened Song Luoxue and Cong Fei.

• Ling Yi sensed the Fanged Mountain Rats’ nest and led Song Luoxue and Cong Fei there, where the rats surrounded them.
• Ling Yi summoned his shrunken Steel Armor Turtle, which raced around the group and killed most of the Fanged Mountain Rats.
• Song Luoxue’s Feng Wolf and Cong Fei’s Kung Fu Rabbit finished off the surviving rats, while the group’s points rose on the leaderboard.
• Zhao Jian told the principal of No. 1 Middle School that Lan Yanxue would arrive in three days with War Preparedness Bureau elites to help lure out their enemies.
• Ling Yi and the others encountered a swarm of Silver Wings Poison Bees that Song Luoxue and Cong Fei could not fend off, and Cong Fei asked Ling Yi what to do.

Ling Yi contracted the Silver Wings Venomous Bee Queen with the God Grade Summon template, gaining its summoning and corrosion skills and driving off its swarm. He camped with Song Luoxue and Cong Fei, then discovered that God Grade Summon had restrictions when he tried to use it.

• Ling Yi hid Song Luoxue and Cong Fei beneath the Steel Armor Turtle while the Silver Wings Poison Bees attacked, then bound their queen with the God Grade Summon template.
• Ling Yi received the queen’s skills and attributes, realized he could summon millions of bees with his Qi and Blood, and ordered the swarm to leave.
• Ling Yi let Song Luoxue and Cong Fei out of the pit, and the trio decided to camp in the bees’ territory for the night.
• Ling Yi’s points rose above six thousand as the War Preparedness Bureau observers discussed his successful contract and unusual strength.
• Ling Yi, Song Luoxue, and Cong Fei set up camp, ate Cong Fei’s cooking, and went to sleep without setting a watch.
• Ling Yi tried God Grade Summon and realized the skill had restrictions when he used it.

Ling Yi discovered that God Grade Summon could create powerful Dark Shadow Clones, then led Song Luoxue and Cong Fei south through the Azure Plain Secret Realm. The trio reached the inner region while holding the top three spots on the points leaderboard, and Ling Yi let his companions finish off a weakened Spiked Wild Boar.

• Ling Yi learned that his summons drew on his Qi and Blood and Battle Beast Space energy, then discovered he could summon Dark Shadow Clones with shared battle beast skills.
• Ling Yi noticed two War Preparedness Bureau beastmasters watching him, and they speculated about his talent and their director's suppressed cultivation.
• After waking, Ling Yi told Song Luoxue that his Dark Shadow Clone was a battle beast, and the trio agreed to head toward the secret realm's central region.
• Ling Yi, Song Luoxue, and Cong Fei traveled south for three days, fighting exotic beasts and climbing to the top three positions on the points leaderboard.
• Ling Yi weakened a Spiked Wild Boar and called Song Luoxue and Cong Fei over so Cong Fei's Kung Fu Rabbit could finish it.

Shen Bin's jealousy spiraled out of control as his battle beast space collapsed and his Scythe Mantis transformed into a fourth-tier, first-pin beast. Meanwhile, Ling Yi discovered that his battle beast space could hold and weaken uncontracted creatures, potentially letting him choose beasts of any pin or tier to contract.

• Shen Bin's teammates rejected him and praised Ling Yi, provoking him to storm away toward the inner region.
• Shen Bin's battle beast space collapsed as the Scythe Mantis's Qi and Blood surged to one million, and the beast entered his body.
• Ling Yi sent steaks to the examiners with his Dark Shadow Clone while he, Song Luoxue, and Cong Fei ate lunch.
• Ling Yi explained that his battle beast space could hold living creatures that had not been contracted, provided they did not resist.
• Ling Yi observed that creatures inside his battle beast space could absorb its energy and that it weakened their will, suggesting he could eventually contract uncontracted beasts of any pin or tier.

Ling Yi discovered that his divine pin battle beast space could hold living strange beasts and other people’s contracted battle beasts, letting them cultivate inside and grow rapidly. By the following noon, the visitors’ strength had increased, while Liu Chenghu and Bai Hongshan considered the discovery’s importance and hoped Ling Yi would join the War Preparedness Bureau.

• Ling Yi stored two living one-horned goats in his battle beast space, revealing that it could hold living strange beasts.
• Ling Yi placed Cong Fei’s Kung Fu Rabbit inside his space, where it cultivated and rapidly increased its Qi and Blood, boosting Cong Fei as well.
• Ling Yi also placed Song Luoxue’s Feng Wolf inside and decided they would rest for the day before grinding monsters the next day.
• Liu Chenghu and Bai Hongshan observed Ling Yi’s experiment and agreed not to interfere, while discussing how his ability could benefit the War Preparedness Bureau.
• By the following noon, the goats, Kung Fu Rabbit, and Feng Wolf had grown stronger, but Ling Yi decided not to contract any of them.

Ling Yi and his companions encountered Lan Yanyu fleeing a second tier ninth Pin Crocodile-Scaled Berserk Bear, and Ling Yi subdued it with his bare hands before adding it to his Battle Beast Space. Lan Yanyu thanked Ling Yi and recovered with his help, while Ye Fei and Song Luoxue watched their meeting.

• Song Luoxue's Feng Wolf and Cong Fei's Kung Fu Rabbit defeated Deer-Antlered Purple Foxes while Ling Yi explained that he planned to join the War Preparedness Bureau instead of attending a beast-taming university.
• Song Luoxue and Cong Fei discussed Shen Bin's absence from their class group before a roar sounded deeper in the ravine.
• Lan Yanyu ran toward the group, pursued by a second tier ninth Pin Crocodile-Scaled Berserk Bear, and stumbled as it charged her.
• Ling Yi caught the bear's jaws, slammed its head into the ground, knocked it unconscious, and sent it into his Battle Beast Space.
• Ling Yi helped the exhausted Lan Yanyu stand, and she thanked him while Ye Fei and Song Luoxue reacted to their encounter.

Ling Yi and his companions welcomed Lan Yanyu into their group as they traveled deeper into the Azure Plain Secret Realm, while War Preparedness Bureau members discussed protecting Ling Yi and the danger posed by the Beast Worship Sect. In the inner region, Shen Bin killed an Immortal Pin candidate and began using a black ring of light on him.

• Lan Yanyu explained that she wanted to contract a Crocodile-Scaled Berserk Bear and join the War Preparedness Bureau, while Ling Yi revealed his awareness of the sniper watching him and stopped the man from aiming at his head.
• Lan Yanyu said her sister, Lan Yanxue, was deliberately holding back her level, but she refused to explain why.
• After Cong Fei served lunch, Song Luoxue invited Lan Yanyu to join the group, making it a team of four.
• Gao Ming joined Liu Chenghu and Bai Hongshan, who discussed Ling Yi's importance and the Beast Worship Sect's likely attempt to target him.
• Shen Bin approached an Immortal Pin candidate, killed the candidate's Cloud-Winged Black Tiger and stabbed the candidate through the heart, then pressed a black ring of light onto his head.

Shen Bin tested the Madhouse’s method for devouring Battle Beast Spaces, while Ling Yi and his companions explored the central region in search of powerful exotic beasts. The chapter ended with Ling Yi summoning five hundred Silver Wings Poison Bees to confront a mutated Flower-Kissed Spider that had trapped the Kung Fu Rabbit.

• Shen Bin devoured an examinee’s Battle Beast Space, sent his scythe mantis into it, and planned to save Ling Yi’s Divine Pin Battle Beast Space for last.
• Ling Yi’s group found the Crocodile-Scaled Berserk Bear gone, and Ling Yi considered using his Battle Beast Space to weaken adult exotic beasts so others could contract them.
• Ling Yi’s group traveled deeper into the mountain range, where Cong Fei and Song Luoxue hunted exotic beasts while Lan Yanyu’s injured Two-Headed Iron-Wire Python recovered.
• Ling Yi pondered whether he could permanently improve uncontracted beasts’ aptitude and decided to investigate the breeder profession after the trial.
• A giant, sixteen-eyed Flower-Kissed Spider trapped the Kung Fu Rabbit, and Ling Yi summoned five hundred Second Tier Silver Wings Poison Bees to surround it.

Ling Yi learned that otherworldly beasts could voluntarily accept contracts that ignored differences in talent and level, though the method carried serious drawbacks and could fail against divine-pin beasts. The Mutant Flower-Kissed Spider revealed that humanity’s Contract Secret Art was incomplete, leaving Ling Yi to question how the spider knew so much.

• The Mutant Flower-Kissed Spider backed down before Ling Yi and the Silver Wings Poison Bees, then tried to negotiate instead of surrendering outright.
• Ling Yi offered the spider a contract and promised it Cong Fei’s cooking in exchange for absolute loyalty.
• The Mutant Flower-Kissed Spider explained that voluntary contracts ignored talent and level but prevented Battle Beast Space access and Qi and Blood feedback, burdened the tamer’s mental power, and risked betrayal.
• The spider told Ling Yi that such contracts always failed against a divine-pin Beast Clan emperor, regardless of level.
• The spider revealed that humanity’s Contract Secret Art was incomplete, prompting Ling Yi to suspect the otherworldly beasts had deliberately leaked it.
• The spider denied having the complete secret art, and Ling Yi asked how a second-tier beast knew so much.

Cong Fei contracted the Mutant Flower-Kissed Spider, and Ling Yi's group reached the trial's central mountain. After Ling Yi discovered a Beast Worship Sect infiltrator and suspected that three immortal-pin candidates had been killed, he refused to leave the secret realm and set out to confront the danger.

• Cong Fei chose to contract the Mutant Flower-Kissed Spider, which cooperated after enjoying his cooking, and the group obtained two more spider eggs for Song Luoxue and Cong Fei.
• Two days later, Ling Yi's group reached the tallest peak, where Lan Yanyu noticed that three candidates with immortal-pin talents had stopped gaining points.
• Ling Yi sent his Silver Wings Poison Bees to scout and discovered a candidate who could merge with a mortal-pin Scythe Mantis, leading him to suspect the Beast Worship Sect or the Madhouse was involved in the candidates' disappearance.
• Bai Hongshan could not contact the outside, and Liu Chenghu and Gao Ming concluded that the system might have failed and an insider could be involved.
• Liu Chenghu urged Ling Yi to leave the secret realm, but Ling Yi vanished rather than go with him, while Shen Bin remained unaware that he had been discovered after devouring two immortal-pin candidates and reaching sixth tier with his merged Scythe Mantis.

Ling Yi began forming a Qi and Blood crystal as he advanced toward sixth tier, but Shen Bin rushed to stop him and consume his divine pin battle beast space. Shadow intercepted Shen Bin’s strike, only for Shen Bin to sacrifice a devoured battle beast space and break through to seventh tier.

• Ling Yi dismissed his summons, reclaimed their Qi and Blood, and began crystallizing his Qi and Blood as his companions and the arriving protectors guarded him.
• Bai Hongshan sent Lan Yanyu, Song Luoxue, and Cong Fei away from Ling Yi while his Qi and Blood crystal and meridians began to form.
• Shen Bin sensed Ling Yi’s breakthrough and hurried toward him, integrating with his Scythe Mantis along the way.
• Liu Chenghu spotted Shen Bin approaching, but Shen Bin dodged Gao Ming’s shot and charged straight at Ling Yi.
• Shadow appeared before Ling Yi and blocked Shen Bin’s scythes with two daggers.
• Shen Bin shattered the immortal pin battle beast space he had devoured and surged from sixth tier to seventh tier.

Ling Yi emerged from the silver squid battle beast and transformed into Son Goku, effortlessly capturing Shen Bin. The group remained under pressure as Dafeng City faced an exotic beast invasion and Ling Yi prepared to question Shen Bin.

• Shadow attacked Shen Bin while Lan Yanyu shielded Cong Fei and Song Luoxue from their hypnotic movement technique.
• Bai Hongshan told the group that Dafeng City was under attack by exotic beasts from a newly appeared secret realm and that the War Preparedness Bureau could not enter.
• Liu Chenghu, Gao Ming, Bai Hongshan, and Shadow combined their attacks against Shen Bin, but he blasted them back without breaking his defenses.
• Ling Yi emerged after the silver squid battle beast disappeared and confronted Shen Bin, saying he had questions for him.
• Ling Yi activated Son Goku Transformation, shouted “Freeze,” and sent Shen Bin into the battle beast space.

After Ling Yi defeated Shen Bin, Shadow revealed that Shen Bin had been a clone of the Madhouse’s Number Three and explained the threat posed by the surviving madmen. The War Preparedness Bureau’s trap in the Azure Plain Secret Realm was closing on the Beast Worship Sect, while Ling Yi collected exotic beasts outside besieged Dafeng City.

• Shadow identified Shen Bin as a clone of Number Three, one of the Madhouse’s three surviving madmen, and described the organization’s advanced research and methods for strengthening battle beasts.
• Liu Chenghu and the others learned that nearly sixty Beast Worship Sect members had entered the Azure Plain Secret Realm and that the War Preparedness Bureau planned to seal them inside and eliminate them.
• Gao Ming and Bai Hongshan explained that Dafeng City’s raised defensive walls and the War Preparedness Bureau’s forces were holding off the exotic beast invasion.
• Lan Yanxue fought three Seventh Tier, Ninth Pin exotic beasts in the sky above Dafeng City while other bureau fighters battled the invading hordes.
• Ling Yi stayed outside the walls collecting exotic beasts and received randomized templates for a Blazing Fire Centipede and a Six-Armed Snow Ape.

Ling Yi used his Son Goku Transformation to collect more than thirty-two thousand exotic beasts into his Battle Beast Space, disrupting the invasion and leaving the three seventh-tier beasts powerless. After the transformation ended, he revealed his identity to Lan Yanxue and captured the three enemy leaders, while recognizing that his growing strength could make the Beast World's schemes against Blue Star fail.

• Ling Yi stopped studying the randomized templates and spent his Son Goku Transformation sweeping through the beast army, forcibly collecting eligible beasts and immobilizing the rest.
• The War Preparedness Bureau and the exotic beasts watched as Ling Yi gathered nearly thirty thousand beasts, then intercepted the remaining invaders at the Exotic Beast Secret Realm entrance.
• The three seventh-tier beasts realized the invasion had failed as the secret realm began closing, and Ling Yi's total collection reached about thirty-two thousand exotic beasts.
• Ling Yi appeared beside Lan Yanxue, revealed that he was Ling Yi, and dismissed the Huoyan Lion King's disbelief by suggesting he was using a battle beast's innate skill.
• The Vajra Ape King tried to expose Ling Yi's secret to provoke human infighting, but Ling Yi warned that absolute strength could crush any schemes.
• Ling Yi enveloped the Huoyan Lion King, Bloodthirst Bat King, and Vajra Ape King in purple rings, leaving them to accept that resistance would not change their fate.

After Lan Yanxue dealt with the aftermath of the failed assassination, Ling Yi entered his Battle Beast Space to examine the captured exotic beasts and question them about the Beast World. The Vajra Ape King revealed how secret realms and human beast tamers had emerged, leaving Ling Yi wondering whether Blue Star had possessed an older beast-tamer inheritance.

• Lan Yanxue concluded that Ling Yi’s strength would cause trouble on the coming trip to Zhanpuneisi, then flew to the Azure Plain Secret Realm to eliminate the remaining Beast Worship Sect members.
• Ling Yi entered his Battle Beast Space with 32,122 exotic beasts and planned tests to learn about his contracts, their feedback, and the Exotic Beast Secret Realms.
• When the Huoyan Lion King roared at Ling Yi, Ling Yi had the Swiftness Monkey transform into Son Goku and hurl the lion away, frightening the other exotic beasts.
• The Vajra Ape King told Ling Yi that an incomplete contract formation activated about five hundred years earlier and created the first transit station between the human world and the Beast World.
• The Vajra Ape King explained that the Beast World later helped humans develop beast-taming methods, and Ling Yi suspected Blue Star might have had an older beast-tamer inheritance.

Ling Yi learned that beast tamers came from another human world, where rare talents and a new magic-power cultivation path had reshaped human society. The Vajra Ape King offered contracts and knowledge in exchange for an equal pact, but Ling Yi planned to rely on the system and turned his attention to selecting exotic beast skills.

• Ling Yi pressed the Vajra Ape King about the origins of beast tamers, and the king admitted they belonged to the Human Clan of another world.
• The Vajra Ape King explained that taboo-grade beast tamers appeared every ten thousand years and that the latest had created a magic-power cultivation path for ordinary humans.
• The Vajra Ape King revealed that the exotic beasts' soul power was weakening and offered Ling Yi an equal contract, a complete Contract Formation, and a magic-power cultivation method.
• Ling Yi asked the Vajra Ape King to prepare the formation and cultivation method, sort the exotic beasts by strength and aptitude, and list their innate skills.
• Ling Yi flew toward a separate exotic beast area to choose template skills.

Ling Yi contracted the Six-Armed Snow Ape, Morning-Crowing Black Dog, and Shen Bin, gaining new skills and access to Shen Bin’s memories. Shen Bin explained how the Madhouse began as a group of scientists seeking immortality, ending with their discovery of the contract formation’s dangerous power.

• Ling Yi contracted the Six-Armed Snow Ape and gained Heaven and Earth Dharma Form and God Grade Berserk.
• Ling Yi contracted the Morning-Crowing Black Dog, whose Devouring Evolution skill could absorb living beings and control their bloodline genes.
• After contracting 176 more battle beasts, Ling Yi discovered Shen Bin listed among them with the Undead Mage template, which reduced Shen Bin’s Qi and Blood from the seventh tier to the fifth.
• Ling Yi questioned Shen Bin about the Madhouse, and Shen Bin revealed that it began 522 years earlier as the Frontier Technology Exploration Foundation, founded by nine scientists researching immortality.
• Shen Bin explained that Number Nine found an ancient contract formation and tried to contract all nine scientists, but his mental power failed and the backlash dispersed the contract’s power.
• Shen Bin said the failed ritual revealed the formation’s true secret and opened Pandora’s box.