Recaps

Jiang Ziliu attended the public Contract Mark awakening for sixteen-year-olds at No. 12 Level Four Base and received a B-minus mark with a hundred-cubic-meter Beast-Taming Space. After Ninth Middle School grouped students with B-grade or higher marks for focused training, Jiang Ziliu looked ahead to becoming a beast tamer, confident that his transmigrator’s special advantage would help him advance.

• An instructor explained that the students would awaken their Contract Marks in the public energy chamber and warned them not to leave their compartments or interfere with others.
• Jiang Ziliu entered the chamber, where increased dark energy strengthened and nourished the students’ souls before their awakenings began.
• Jiang Ziliu awakened a Contract Mark connected to a hundred-cubic-meter Beast-Taming Space, which was tested and rated B-minus.
• The base recorded three SS-grade, twelve S-grade, fifty-eight A-grade, and 157 B-grade marks among the 1,356 students who awakened.
• Ninth Middle School’s teachers took the students back and gathered those with B-grade or higher marks into a small class for focused training.
• Jiang Ziliu sensed his Beast-Taming Space and felt confident that his special advantage would help him reach greater heights.

After awakening as a beast tamer, Jiang Ziliu contracted an Azurite Rock Man whose rare concealment skill suited his plans, despite its weak bloodline and low growth potential. He left school burdened by a loan and headed to the open market to buy resources that could speed its hatching.

• Jiang Ziliu reviewed his personal panel and considered how his Probability Judgment skill consumed dark energy, soul power, or vitality to use.
• On the coach, Jiang Ziliu kept to himself while his classmates focused on their prospects and Li Wanqiu’s SS-grade Contract Mark.
• At school, Jiang Ziliu chose a low-tier Azurite Rock Man egg, contracted it, and saw that its Life Aura Concealment skill was SSS grade.
• Jiang Ziliu planned to gain the concealment skill through contract feedback and use Probability Judgment to guide the beast’s future evolution.
• Jiang Ziliu signed a school loan agreement and went to the nearby beast-taming open market to buy hatching resources.

Jiang Ziliu bought slime gel and a demon horn at the open market, then used a carefully prepared potion to hatch and strengthen his Azurite Rock Man. The hatchling raised him to Four-star Gray Rock Grade, and he concealed his true strength as he began his beast-taming path.

• Jiang Ziliu bought high-quality slime gel and used Probability Judgment to identify a demon horn that could strengthen his soul, then bargained for it.
• Jiang Ziliu returned home and prepared a potion from slime gel, petrifying lantern fruit, black marsh salt mud, Decapod Ground-Crawling Insect bone shell, and an earth-attribute essence crystal.
• Jiang Ziliu coated his Azurite Rock Man egg with the potion, and it hatched three hours later into a finely formed, sky-blue stone creature.
• The Azurite Rock Man’s feedback lit four of Jiang Ziliu’s soul stars, raising him to Four-star Gray Rock Grade and increasing his lifespan.
• Jiang Ziliu chose and activated the SSS-grade Life Aura Concealment skill, masking his strength as One-Star Gray Rock Rank, and confirmed that his Azurite Rock Man was Black Iron Grade with 80% affection toward him.

Jiang Ziliu used his parents’ savings to prepare a potion that safely removed the demon horn’s side effects while strengthening his soul. After surviving dangerous nightmares, his soul strength reached 11.3, allowing him to pursue a second contracted beast.

• Jiang Yuan examined Jiang Ziliu’s Azurite Rock Man, noticed its unusual quality, and gave him 350,000 yuan to develop his own plans.
• Jiang Ziliu used Probability Judgment to identify Holy Light Lark feathers, clotted Kobold heart’s blood, and Beholder’s Eye as a formula that could eliminate the demon horn’s side effects with 100% certainty.
• Jiang Ziliu bought the three materials cheaply at an open market in Base No. 12 and prepared the potion according to his calculated proportions.
• After applying the mixture before bed, Jiang Ziliu endured deadly nightmares but was repeatedly rescued by the potion’s supernatural effects.
• Jiang Ziliu woke with his soul strength increased to 11.3 and decided to search for a second beast in the open market before considering the wilderness or instance spaces.

Jiang Ziliu searched Base No. 12’s open markets for a rare young beast and discovered an injured mutant Lightning Snake with an extraordinary attack skill. He treated and contracted it, gaining his second tamed beast.

• Jiang Ziliu visited several open markets but found no overlooked young beasts that met his requirements.
• Jiang Ziliu greeted Li Wanqiu and her father, who were selling slime materials, and noticed that her family’s circumstances might have changed.
• Jiang Ziliu found a badly injured white mutant Lightning Snake and assessed that it possessed an SSS-grade attack skill or higher.
• Jiang Ziliu bargained with the stallholder and bought the Lightning Snake for eight thousand yuan, then purchased materials to prepare medicine for its wounds.
• Jiang Ziliu treated the Lightning Snake until it recovered, then successfully contracted it as his second tamed beast.

Jiang Ziliu gained the Mutated Lightning Snake’s SSS+ rank Electromagnetic Manipulation skill and considered how its intelligence and railgun potential could help it grow. Facing high feeding and evolution costs for both tamed beasts, he decided to explore instance spaces for resources and income.

• Jiang Ziliu received the Mutated Lightning Snake’s contract feedback, raising his dark energy level and life level.
• Jiang Ziliu selected Electromagnetic Manipulation as his feedback skill and realized it could power a railgun.
• Jiang Ziliu recognized that the Mutated Lightning Snake’s Mutated Spirituality made it more intelligent and could potentially be improved.
• Jiang Ziliu calculated the substantial costs of feeding and evolving the Azurite Rock Man and Mutated Lightning Snake.
• Jiang Ziliu decided to explore instance spaces to gather resources for his tamed beasts or earn money.

Jiang Ziliu entered Base No. 12’s Dungeon Space No. 1 to gather resources and train his contracted beasts. After a nervous first encounter, the Mutated Lightning Snake killed and ate a Slime, leaving Jiang Ziliu ready to continue exploring.

• Jiang Ziliu passed the military zone’s identity checks and paid five hundred yuan to enter the Dungeon Space area.
• He entered Dungeon Space No. 1, bought a map and information at the fortress, then set out into the wetland.
• A Slime attacked Jiang Ziliu by spitting toxic sludge, and he dodged before summoning the Mutated Lightning Snake.
• The Mutated Lightning Snake used Lightning Godspeed to coil around and electrocute the Slime.
• Jiang Ziliu allowed the Mutated Lightning Snake to eat the Slime and remembered his goals of gathering resources and training his two exotic beasts.

Jiang Ziliu explored the swamp instance with the Azurite Rock Man and Mutated Lightning Snake, gathering slime materials and training his beasts. After selling his haul, he returned to the instance to seek goblins and improve the Azurite Rock Man’s combat skills.

• Jiang Ziliu summoned both beasts, armed himself and the Azurite Rock Man with short blades, and sent the Azurite Rock Man ahead to scout underground.
• The Azurite Rock Man ambushed and killed a slime, allowing Jiang Ziliu to collect its skin and gel and feed its beast core to the beast.
• As the Azurite Rock Man practiced its underground attack, Jiang Ziliu discovered that it had learned the Rock and Earth Sneak Stab skill.
• Jiang Ziliu gathered nearly twenty portions each of slime skin and gel, sold them for 6,000 yuan, and ate lunch at the instance entrance.
• Jiang Ziliu returned to the swamp and headed toward the forests to train the Azurite Rock Man’s blade attacks against goblins.

Jiang Ziliu and the Azurite Rock Man ambushed a group of Goblins, using saber combat and Electromagnetic Cannon attacks to defeat them. After collecting valuable materials from the corpses, Jiang Ziliu headed toward the Goblins’ lair, pleased with the Azurite Rock Man’s progress in mastering the saber.

• Jiang Ziliu hid in a tree while the Azurite Rock Man and Mutated Lightning Snake watched for threats, and more than thirty Goblins gathered nearby.
• The Azurite Rock Man used Rock and Earth Evasion and Rock and Earth Sneak Stab to kill three Goblin archers and four spear throwers before drawing the remaining Goblins into a fight.
• The Azurite Rock Man scattered the Goblins and killed ten in close combat, rapidly improving its saber technique under Jiang Ziliu’s direction.
• Jiang Ziliu used Electromagnetic Manipulation to fire iron pellets at fleeing Goblins, killing seven despite injuring his hand with his first shot.
• Jiang Ziliu and the Azurite Rock Man killed twenty-five Goblins in total, collected their beast cores, hearts, and spines, and then set off toward their lair.

Jiang Ziliu sent the Azurite Rock Man to find and clear a goblin lair, where he discovered three Soul-Cleansing Mushrooms among the loot. He used one on himself and each of his contracted beasts, greatly improving their spirituality and ranks, and the chapter ended with him checking the gains on his information panel.

• Jiang Ziliu had the recovering Azurite Rock Man locate the goblin lair, then approached it cautiously with his two contracted beasts.
• The Azurite Rock Man secretly killed the goblins in their burrow, including their Black Iron Grade two-headed chief, and carried their belongings outside.
• Jiang Ziliu found a mysterious metal plate with a living-looking leaf embedded in it, along with three C-grade Soul-Cleansing Mushrooms.
• Jiang Ziliu gave Soul-Cleansing Mushrooms to the Azurite Rock Man and Mutated Lightning Snake, awakening or improving their spirituality and raising them to five-star and three-star Black Iron Grade.
• Jiang Ziliu endured severe pain while consuming the last mushroom, then saw that his own soul strength, life level, and lifespan had increased.

After returning safely from Instance Space No. 1, Jiang Ziliu reassured his worried parents and received their practical support for his next journey. His parents equipped him and the Azurite Rock Man with new gear, leaving him better prepared for future dangers.

• Jiang Ziliu returned home with 23,597 yuan from selling his spoils and found Jiang Yuan and his mother anxiously waiting for him.
• Jiang Ziliu described how cautiously he had acted in the instance, easing his parents' worries, and Jiang Yuan offered to forge an earth-attribute blade for the Azurite Rock Man.
• Jiang Ziliu's mother gave him three notebooks recording her and Jiang Yuan's beast-taming experiences for him to study.
• At the Jiang Armaments Workshop, Jiang Yuan and Jiang Ziliu's mother forged an earth-attribute short blade that satisfied the Azurite Rock Man.
• Jiang Ziliu's mother made him lightweight inner armor from Rock Armor Beast hide and prepared protective boots and trousers for him.

Jiang Ziliu returned to school after strengthening his contracted beasts and hiding his nine-star Gray Rock Grade level. He joined No. 9 Middle School’s new special class, where he gained a wealthy, shy girl named Li Wanqiu as his deskmate and sensed that practical combat teacher Li Qingcheng might be connected to her.

• Jiang Ziliu’s Azurite Rock Man learned Saber Mastery, and both contracted beasts grew stronger while Jiang Ziliu approached Black Iron Grade.
• Jiang Ziliu concealed his true nine-star Gray Rock Grade strength and presented himself as a two-star beast tamer when he returned to school.
• The school announced its new special class, and Jiang Ziliu joined the forty-student class in its dedicated laboratory building.
• A shy, well-dressed girl named Li Wanqiu took the only empty seat beside Jiang Ziliu, becoming his deskmate.
• Practical combat teacher Li Qingcheng unnerved Jiang Ziliu with her dangerous aura, then briefly looked at Li Wanqiu with tenderness and pity.

Jiang Ziliu explored the special class’s facilities and spent two months devouring its advanced beast-taming books. He discovered that his mysterious metal disc enhanced his intelligence and memory, and eventually found a method for awakening the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth Soul Stars at Gray Rock Grade.

• Teacher Zhang introduced the special class’s curriculum, which emphasized advanced beast-taming knowledge and offered practical training later in the year.
• Jiang Ziliu toured the school’s network room, gravity chamber, specimen room, illusion simulation room, and library, and moved into a single dorm room.
• Jiang Ziliu devoted his time after class to studying in the library while his classmates trained their tamed beasts and pursued resources.
• At home, Jiang Ziliu accidentally discovered that his mysterious leaf-shaped metal disc greatly enhanced his intelligence and memory, though it also made him ravenously hungry.
• Jiang Ziliu wore the disc while reading, earned the nickname Book Maniac, and memorized the contents of every library book over two months.
• Jiang Ziliu found a method for awakening the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth Soul Stars at Gray Rock Grade.

Jiang Ziliu discovered that Hidden Soul Stars could greatly strengthen a beast tamer’s dark energy and soul, but opening them required scarce soul crystals. Facing an imminent advance to Black Iron Rank, he began considering how to use Probability Judgment to obtain soul crystals without buying them.

• Jiang Ziliu learned from a hidden biography that nine Hidden Soul Stars existed within each major rank and could improve dark energy quality and soul strength.
• Jiang Ziliu stole the biography and hid it away from his home to protect his family and keep the secret from being discovered.
• Jiang Ziliu learned that soul crystals could help him open Hidden Soul Stars, but they were tightly controlled and cost at least one hundred million yuan.
• Jiang Ziliu realized he had to find soul crystals before his tamed beast’s growth feedback advanced him from Nine-Star Gray Rock Rank to Black Iron Rank.
• Jiang Ziliu set his sights on using his Probability Judgment skill to obtain soul crystals without buying them.

Jiang Ziliu used Probability Judgment to locate Soul Crystals and set out from Base No. 12 to retrieve one during the break. After encountering dangerous parasites near the base, he entered the wilderness more cautiously and concealed his presence.

• Jiang Ziliu narrowed down the locations of several Soul Crystals and discovered that one was guarded by a Star-Patterned Gale Swift Leopard, so he chose a safer target among the ruins of an ancient city.
• Jiang Ziliu prepared supplies and iron beads for Electromagnetic Manipulation, then left home for the wilderness without telling his parents his real destination.
• Jiang Ziliu passed through the southern gate of Base No. 12 with the Azurite Rock Man and Mutated Lightning Snake guarding him.
• Jiang Ziliu found and destroyed several Purple-Patterned Leeches on his clothes, realizing that even the area near the base posed hidden dangers.
• Jiang Ziliu crossed a small river into more dangerous terrain, activated Life Aura Concealment on himself and the Mutated Lightning Snake, and slowed his advance.

Jiang Ziliu traveled through the hills, passing colonies of Rock Armor Rats and a Gale Earth Rabbit before reaching a valley. There, he spotted a herd of Sword-Spiked Golden-Furred Wild Boars surrounded by wolves, as a hunt was about to begin.

• Jiang Ziliu crossed the hills and passed ten underground colonies of Rock Armor Rats, which fled rather than attack him.
• Jiang Ziliu passed a Gale Earth Rabbit nest, and the rabbit watched from a distance while he left its young unharmed.
• The Azurite Rock Man warned Jiang Ziliu about large creatures in the valley, so he concealed himself and looked down from a rock face.
• Jiang Ziliu saw a herd of Sword-Spiked Golden-Furred Wild Boars led by a massive, high-ranking male chewing river sand beside a stream.
• A pack of wolves surrounded the boars, and a great hunt was about to erupt.

Jiang Ziliu watched Curled-Tail Bone-Armored Wolves hunt a herd of Sword-Spiked Golden-Furred Wild Boars, then saw Wind-Piercing Blue-Feathered Eagles steal some of the wolves’ prey. He left with new insights into exotic-beast hunting and how beast tamers should protect their tamed beasts’ weaknesses.

• A pack of Curled-Tail Bone-Armored Wolves ambushed the Sword-Spiked Golden-Furred Wild Boars, slicing open the bellies of several adults and young.
• The boars counterattacked with their golden hairs, injuring two wolves, while the wolf leader lured the herd’s leader away from the wounded.
• The wolves harried the herd until its leader abandoned the doomed boars and rejoined the surviving herd.
• Two Wind-Piercing Blue-Feathered Eagles swooped down and carried off two young boars, prompting the wolves to kill the remaining adults and divide their prey.
• Jiang Ziliu reflected on the hunt and recognized that beast tamers needed to protect their tamed beasts’ weaknesses or strengthen their defenses.

Jiang Ziliu traveled south through the wilderness and spent his first night in a tree, learning how many dangers prowled after dark. He survived the night under the Mutated Lightning Snake’s watch and continued his wilderness training.

• Jiang Ziliu avoided the main road and traveled through increasingly forested terrain, observing mutated beasts without being detected.
• Jiang Ziliu climbed a giant toon tree, secured himself with a rope, ate his rations, and arranged for the Azurite Rock Man and Mutated Lightning Snake to take turns keeping watch.
• Jiang Ziliu watched a swarm of Three-Winged Six-Tailed Bats pass through the moonlit wilderness before a Unicorn Lightning Feathered Serpent hunted them.
• Jiang Ziliu saw a Rolling Ball Blood-Devouring Vine capture and drain a Gale Earth Rabbit, then memorized the plant’s appearance.
• Jiang Ziliu watched Shadow Cats and other nocturnal beasts hunt, stayed awake through the first half of the night, and eventually fell asleep while the Mutated Lightning Snake guarded him.

Jiang Ziliu crossed dangerous grasslands and witnessed a concealed assassin use a poison-emitting skunk to incapacitate and slaughter a caravan. After the assassin searched the area twice, Jiang Ziliu escaped across the river elsewhere and continued prioritizing his search for soul crystals.

• Jiang Ziliu crossed the grasslands with the Azurite Rock Man scouting and the Mutated Lightning Snake guarding him, while avoiding powerful exotic beasts.
• The Azurite Rock Man spotted a hidden beast tamer ambushing a caravan with a bronze-rank skunk that released colorless, odorless poison.
• The disguised assassin killed the caravan members and their tamed beasts, burned the goods, and searched the area for witnesses.
• Jiang Ziliu stayed concealed while the Azurite Rock Man and Mutated Lightning Snake tracked the assassin as he returned to check the scene.
• After waiting nearly two hours, Jiang Ziliu crossed the river at a more dangerous location and resolved to avoid meddling while seeking soul crystals.

Jiang Ziliu crossed a supernatural maze domain into the ruins of a nuclear-blasted city and searched the remains of powerful beasts for Soul Crystals. After collecting five, he concealed his route and left, unaware that a giant rainbow butterfly of unknown rank slept above the ruins.

• Jiang Ziliu used the Azurite Rock Man to dig a tunnel beneath the maze domain and entered the ruins safely.
• Jiang Ziliu searched the city and found the enormous crater where powerful beasts had died in the nuclear blast.
• Jiang Ziliu spent several days digging beneath beast skulls, finding five Soul Crystals but no beast cores.
• Jiang Ziliu destroyed the tunnel and quietly left the ruins to keep his discovery secret.
• After Jiang Ziliu departed, the sleeping giant rainbow butterfly above the ruins continued to weaken slightly.

Jiang Ziliu fought and killed an Azure-Patterned Forest Wolf that tracked him by the vibrations of his footsteps and revealed a powerful healing ability. He returned safely to Base No. 12 before dark with the soul crystals hidden in the Azurite Rock Man's mouth.

• The Azure-Patterned Forest Wolf tracked Jiang Ziliu by the vibrations of his footsteps and stalked him through the forest.
• Jiang Ziliu chose to fight and demonstrated his Electromagnetic Cannon, but his first shot missed as the wolf charged at him.
• The Azurite Rock Man ambushed the Azure-Patterned Forest Wolf and slashed open its belly, but the wolf began healing with a life-type skill.
• Jiang Ziliu hit the wolf in the head with a second electromagnetic projectile, and the Azurite Rock Man beheaded it before it could recover.
• Jiang Ziliu left the wolf's remains untouched, traveled cautiously, and returned to Base No. 12 before dark with the soul crystals concealed in the Azurite Rock Man's mouth.

Jiang Ziliu used a Soul Crystal to awaken all nine Hidden Soul Stars, forming Lesser Celestial Circuits that improved the quality of his dark energy and greatly strengthened his soul. He ended the chapter with soul strength of 100.1, the qualifications to advance to Bronze Rank and contract a third tamed beast, while his dark energy quantity had fallen to 6.2.

• Jiang Ziliu used gel medicine and his smallest Soul Crystal to awaken three Hidden Soul Stars before exhaustion forced him to rest.
• Jiang Ziliu hid his remaining Soul Crystals in special gel and a lead box, then recovered through a night's sleep as his soul strength rose to 27.8.
• Jiang Ziliu awakened three more Hidden Soul Stars on the second day, further improving his dark energy's quality while reducing its quantity.
• Jiang Ziliu awakened the final three Hidden Soul Stars on the third day, exhausting the Soul Crystal and raising his soul strength to 100.1.
• Jiang Ziliu concealed his powerful soul presence with Life Aura Concealment and realized he could qualify for Bronze Rank and contract a third tamed beast.

After a break, Jiang Ziliu returned to the special class and learned that Li Wanqiu had reached nine-star gray rock rank. He realized she had opened her Hidden Soul Stars, while Tang Yunu quietly inferred that Jiang Ziliu was far stronger than he let on, as the gap between special-class students and ordinary students continued to grow.

• Jiang Ziliu spent several days recovering after opening all nine Hidden Soul Stars, then returned to school for the special class’s practical application phase.
• Tang Yunu told Jiang Ziliu that Li Wanqiu had reached nine-star gray rock rank and might soon become the class’s first black iron grade beast tamer.
• Jiang Ziliu sensed a Hidden Soul Stars presence around Li Wanqiu and concluded that Li Qingcheng had likely taught her how to open them.
• Tang Yunu noticed Jiang Ziliu reacted to Li Wanqiu’s achievement by thinking rather than showing surprise, and suspected he had already reached or surpassed her strength.
• Jiang Ziliu observed that special-class students had advanced far beyond most ordinary-class students, and that their advantages in knowledge, resources, and opportunities would widen the gap further.

The special class began practical combat training at a military camp, where Li Qingcheng set up a survival exercise against Stinky Little Demon Bats. She left the students facing the bats without their contracted beasts, under threat of losing resources or being expelled from the special class.

• The special class arrived at its permanent training camp near the base walls and met Li Qingcheng on the training grounds.
• The students remembered Li Qingcheng's telekinesis and how she had forced classmates to perform a cross-dressing dance as punishment.
• Li Qingcheng announced that the first practical lesson would test the students' ability to survive and revealed a cage of Stinky Little Demon Bats.
• She ordered the students to evade the bats in the woods without summoning their contracted beasts, imposing resource penalties and threatening some students with expulsion.
• The students changed into training fatigues, and Li Qingcheng opened the cage's iron door.

Li Qingcheng released the Stinky Little Demon Bats as a harsh lesson, and Jiang Ziliu recognized that hiding in the foul mud pond was the only way to avoid being covered in their stench for a week. Several classmates followed his example, earning Li Qingcheng’s respect, while the others were attacked.

• The Stinky Little Demon Bats identified Li Qingcheng as the greatest threat, but her telekinetic shield kept them from reaching her.
• Jiang Ziliu guessed that the mud pond was the students’ sole chance to escape the bats’ urine attacks and hid in it using a hollow plant stem to breathe.
• Tang Yunu, Li Wanqiu, Chen Zheng, and Hu Yifeng followed Jiang Ziliu into the mud pond, each choosing temporary discomfort over a week of stench.
• Li Qingcheng admired the five students’ judgment and resolve, especially Jiang Ziliu, whom she realized she had underestimated.
• The bats attacked the students who remained behind or fled into the forest, then left the area because they disliked the stench themselves.