Chapter Summaries

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.

Li Qingcheng ended the special class’s stench-filled survival exercise and explained why beast tamers needed to prepare for worse trials. The students returned to camp, while those covered in the sludge were quarantined and the special class’s harsh training became known throughout No. 9 Middle School.

• Li Qingcheng lured the Stinky Little Demon Bats back into their cage and blew the whistle to end the exercise.
• The students rinsed themselves, and several tried to flee from classmates who wanted to smear the stench on them; Jiang Ziliu, Li Wanqiu, and Tang Yunu took shelter beside Li Qingcheng.
• Li Qingcheng handed masks to the students who had avoided the sludge and lectured the class about preparing for the dangers of life as beast tamers.
• The students returned to camp, where those covered in sludge were assigned designated areas for eating and sleeping because of the stench.
• The special class’s ordeal became known throughout No. 9 Middle School, and regular-class students realized that they did not have access to the same training.

Jiang Ziliu advanced to black iron grade after his Azurite Rock Man reached seven-star black iron, then concealed his life aura and assessed his beasts’ development. He planned to awaken the Azurite Rock Man’s space attribute, improve both beasts, and study electromagnetic applications with the Mutated Lightning Snake.

• Jiang Ziliu fed his nearly breaking-through Azurite Rock Man a C-grade earth-attribute essence crystal, and it advanced to seven-star black iron grade.
• Jiang Ziliu received the advancement feedback, broke through to black iron grade, and concealed his life aura at three-star gray rock grade.
• Jiang Ziliu reviewed his increased lifespan, Dark Energy, and the improved favorability of his Azurite Rock Man.
• Jiang Ziliu planned to find space-related resources to awaken the Azurite Rock Man’s Earth Space Evasion and eventually evolve its bloodline.
• Jiang Ziliu decided to develop the Mutated Lightning Snake’s Electromagnetic Manipulation and began reading a popular science book on electromagnetic research.

Li Qingcheng put the class through a week of punishing wilderness running and weapon combat, forcing them to endure difficult terrain, pain, and the lingering odor from the previous training. The week ended with the students tougher and more composed, no longer letting discomfort disrupt their judgment or fighting ability.

• Li Qingcheng sent the students jogging through thorn bushes, mud, a rocky slope, and a strong river current, with their performance affecting their academic records and resource allocations.
• The students crossed a grove by leaping between trees, while Chen Zheng fell and was made to continue after the teacher confirmed he was uninjured.
• In the afternoon, Li Qingcheng trained the students with weapons and personally sparred with anyone whose attacks or defenses fell short.
• Jiang Ziliu and Tang Yunu fought to a draw, with his experience and ruthlessness countered by her superior technique.
• The class repeated the exhausting morning runs and afternoon combat sessions for a week, until heavy sweating removed the odor caused by the Stinky Little Demon Bat.
• By the final day, the students had grown more resilient and stopped allowing discomfort to impair their judgment or combat performance.

Li Qingcheng had the class reveal their tamed beasts, exposing a wide gap in their bloodlines, combat power, and potential. Li Wanqiu’s Two-Headed White Moon Ice Phoenix stunned the class and left the other beasts cowering beneath its bloodline pressure.

• Li Qingcheng began the class’s first beast-taming combat lesson by having everyone summon their tamed beasts.
• Jiang Ziliu saw Tang Yunu’s Four-Tailed Silver-Eyed Eye Demon and learned that she was gambling on its chance to evolve into an Eight-Tailed Golden-Eyed Eye Demon.
• Chen Zheng revealed a rare One-Horned Dragon-Scale Snake, while Hu Yifeng showed his battle-focused Blade-Legged Four-Winged Mantis.
• Chen Ke revealed a powerful Hundred-Blade Thorn Vine, and Zhang Ziqi showed a Light Unicorn prized for its healing abilities.
• Li Chengqi presented his Gold Rank Frost Five-Stripe Sparrow, while Jiang Xiaoli revealed her Shadow Night Fox.
• Li Wanqiu summoned her Two-Headed White Moon Ice Phoenix, whose noble bloodline frightened the other beasts and made her superiority over the class unmistakable.

Li Qingcheng assessed the students’ beasts and trained them to fight under the pressure of powerful exotic beast bones. After nearly two months of lessons and combat practice, the class reached another long holiday.

• Li Qingcheng led the class to a secluded training ground, where the pressure from a Silver Rank exotic beast’s bone tested the students and their beasts.
• Li Qingcheng had each student demonstrate their beast’s skills and gave guidance on improving their combat techniques, while reserving Gold Rank bone training for Li Wanqiu, Li Chengqi, Jiang Xiaoli, and other students with strong bloodlines.
• Jiang Ziliu demonstrated the Azurite Rock Man’s skills, recorded Li Qingcheng’s advice, and received a saber technique manual for his beast.
• The students trained and fought under supervision, with a healing-type beast teacher providing care, and the routine continued for nearly two months until a long holiday began.

After two months of training, Jiang Ziliu used Probability Judgment to locate deposits of Stalactite Vein Milk and refine a potion formula that could evolve his Azurite Rock Man. He gathered the ingredients, including a Soul Crystal, and headed southeast into the wilderness to obtain the treasure.

• Jiang Ziliu trained at the camp for two months, raising his Azurite Rock Man to eight-star black iron grade and his Mutated Lightning Snake to seven-star black iron grade.
• Jiang Ziliu used Probability Judgment to locate several deposits of Stalactite Vein Milk near Base No. 12 and confirmed it could potentially trigger the Azurite Rock Man's evolution.
• Jiang Ziliu tested potion formulas until he found a sixteenth formula with a 99.1% chance of evolving the Azurite Rock Man, though it required a Soul Crystal.
• Jiang Ziliu bought the necessary ingredients and set out into the wilderness southeast of the base.

Jiang Ziliu discovered a huge reserve of Stalactite Vein Milk and turned its cavern into a wilderness safe house while strengthening himself and his tamed beasts. The chapter ended with him asleep after taking the treasure and the Azurite Rock Man undergoing evolution in the beast-taming space.

• Jiang Ziliu reached the small mountain safely, used the Azurite Rock Man to dig underground, and found roughly a bowlful of Stalactite Vein Milk.
• Jiang Ziliu fed Stalactite Vein Milk to the Azurite Rock Man and Mutated Lightning Snake, then excavated four chambers to make a basic underground safe house.
• The Mutated Lightning Snake's body strengthened, while Jiang Ziliu and the snake practiced Electromagnetic Cannon attacks to carve out the cavern.
• The Azurite Rock Man awakened at the pinnacle of nine-star Black Iron grade, and its growth raised Jiang Ziliu to two-star Black Iron grade.
• Jiang Ziliu prepared Formula No. 16 medicine, gave the Azurite Rock Man five drops of Stalactite Vein Milk, and began its evolution.
• Jiang Ziliu took half a drop of Stalactite Vein Milk and fell asleep as the Mutated Lightning Snake guarded him and the Azurite Rock Man evolved.

After a day of enhancement, Jiang Ziliu discovered that his strength and vitality had nearly doubled and that the Azurite Rock Man had evolved, gaining a Dwarf Titan bloodline and a powerful giant-form skill. He decided to seek lightning resources to strengthen the Mutated Lightning Snake during the remainder of his vacation.

• Jiang Ziliu found that absorbing Stalactite Vein Milk had greatly increased his strength, constitution, vitality, and physical toughness, but he restrained himself from consuming more.
• Jiang Ziliu summoned the Azurite Rock Man and discovered that it had evolved while remaining Nine-Star Black Iron Grade, awakening a 1.2% Dwarf Titan bloodline and the S- rank skill Rock and Earth Avatar.
• Jiang Ziliu tested Rock and Earth Avatar, and the Azurite Rock Man formed a nearly ten-meter-tall rock-and-earth giant that could reassemble when shattered.
• Jiang Ziliu concluded that the Azurite Rock Man had gained major potential and would be able to reach far higher life grades, though it needed time to adapt before another evolution.
• Jiang Ziliu turned to the Mutated Lightning Snake and decided to use Probability Judgment to search for lightning resources during the remaining third of his vacation.

Jiang Ziliu used Probability Judgment to locate a lightning-struck peach tree whose rare peaches could strengthen or evolve the Mutated Lightning Snake. He stole all three peaches from a flock of Thunder Sparrows and had four days left before school started to use them.

• Jiang Ziliu used Probability Judgment to pinpoint a nearby treasure and learned that the best one lay southwest, on a small peak.
• Jiang Ziliu found a lightning-struck peach tree bearing three ripe wood-and-lightning treasure peaches.
• Jiang Ziliu sent the Azurite Rock Man to scout and discovered that at least ten thousand Thunder Sparrows guarded the tree.
• Jiang Ziliu prepared a hiding place and waited until night, when the Thunder Sparrows had poor eyesight.
• The Azurite Rock Man used Rock and Earth Evasion to steal all three peaches, escaping the Thunder Sparrows' lightning attacks with minor injuries.
• Jiang Ziliu obtained the peaches, giving the Mutated Lightning Snake a chance to improve or evolve before school started in four days.

Jiang Ziliu strengthened the Mutated Lightning Snake and developed several applications for his Electromagnetic Manipulation while hiding from the Thunder Sparrows. When he set out for the base, Probability Judgment revealed that two beast tamers were certain to ambush him from the front and rear, and he proceeded expecting the confrontation.

• Two human adventurers escaped the Thunder Sparrows, while the fat and thin cousins deduced that a lightning-attribute treasure had been stolen and planned to ambush the thief.
• Jiang Ziliu fed a treasure peach to the Mutated Lightning Snake, then practiced controlling metal with electromagnetic force and mastered the use of a flying blade.
• Jiang Ziliu developed microwave and electromagnetic induction heating, testing the latter by melting an iron bead from ten meters away.
• The Mutated Lightning Snake completed its strengthening at nine-star Black Iron Grade, and its feedback raised Jiang Ziliu to three-star Black Iron Grade.
• Jiang Ziliu used Probability Judgment before returning to the base and confirmed that two beast tamers would attack him from the front and rear, so he set out prepared for their ambush.

Jiang Ziliu used a false display of carrying treasure to lure two wilderness bandits into exposing themselves, killing the skinny cousin and wounding the fat man before escaping. He returned safely to Base No. 12 after powerful beast tamers searched him, while the Lightning Treasure Peach remained hidden elsewhere.

• Jiang Ziliu pretended to carry a valuable treasure, but the fat bandit suspected a trap and warned his skinny cousin not to act rashly.
• The Azurite Rock Man located the skinny cousin, and Jiang Ziliu sent the Mutated Lightning Snake to attack while venomous centipedes killed the skinny cousin.
• The fat bandit escaped on his Wind-Piercing Blue-Feathered Eagle, losing an arm when Jiang Ziliu's strike missed the eagle.
• Jiang Ziliu discarded a backpack full of rotten wood and left the Lightning Treasure Peach hidden in his safe house.
• The fat bandit sold information about Jiang Ziliu, who was searched by powerful bronze rank beast tamers before returning to Base No. 12.

Jiang Ziliu returned to school for a new training stage, then learned that a Beastman invasion had begun near Base No. 12. The base entered a quasi-war footing and offered anonymous military merit for hunting aliens, leaving the students to consider the danger and their own responses.

• Jiang Ziliu raised his displayed rank to four-star gray rock grade as his classmates also advanced and received more freedom to train and explore.
• Jiang Ziliu retrieved two Lightning Treasure Peaches from his safe house, avoided adventuring with Tang Yunu, and focused on finding ingredients to evolve the Mutated Lightning Snake.
• A month into the new stage, Jiang Ziliu and his classmates heard alien roars at camp and saw a caged werewolf presented by their teachers.
• Li Qingcheng explained that a new B-grade Dungeon Space southwest of Base No. 12 had allowed Beastmen to invade, and that a Skunk-Person scout had destroyed a human caravan.
• Li Qingcheng announced the base's quasi-war footing, anonymous military merit numbers, and warnings about alien assassinations; Jiang Ziliu recognized the measures as a way to conceal his identity.

Jiang Ziliu withdrew from the special class and left No. 9 Middle School, while his classmates and Teacher Li Qingcheng offered him support. After learning that he was leaving to pursue his own path, Li Qingcheng gave him a spatial treasure and sent him off with a promise to remain loyal to humanity.

• Teacher Li Qingcheng announced that the students would fight a Bronze Rank werewolf, and Jiang Ziliu unexpectedly chose to withdraw from the special class.
• Tang Yunu and Li Wanqiu left the class, then gave Jiang Ziliu a business card and beast-taming notes as he prepared to leave; Chen Zheng and Hu Yifei also gave him a bank card.
• Li Qingcheng told Jiang Ziliu she understood that he was leaving student life to conceal his strength and pursue his own path, then asked him to promise not to betray humanity.
• Jiang Ziliu made the promise, accepted Li Qingcheng's spatial treasure, and left the training camp.

Jiang Ziliu prepared medicine to heal his father Jiang Yuan's Lightning Thunder Eagle while making plans to leave Base No. 12. After the beast recovered, Jiang Ziliu was ready to begin the next stage of his adventure.

• Jiang Ziliu secured a leave of absence from No. 9 Middle School and persuaded his parents to accept his decision by revealing his Black Iron Grade strength.
• Jiang Ziliu bought two-year-old Snow Thunder Treasure Ginseng with the two million in the anonymous bank card Chen Zheng and Hu Yifei had given him.
• Jiang Ziliu spent two days preparing medicine, then treated Jiang Yuan's Lightning Thunder Eagle and returned it to the Beast-Taming Space to recover.
• Jiang Ziliu used the final Lightning Treasure Peach to prepare an evolution potion for his Mutated Lightning Snake.
• Jiang Yuan's Lightning Thunder Eagle healed completely, restoring some of Jiang Yuan's fighting strength, and Jiang Ziliu prepared to begin his journey.

Jiang Ziliu inspected the evolved Mutated Lightning Snake and decided to seek a shapeshifting beast for his third contract. He captured and contracted a Green-Skinned Shapeshifting Spirit, gaining an SS-rank ability that let him transform into another person, and prepared to begin his journey beyond the base.

• Jiang Ziliu found that the Mutated Lightning Snake had grown feathers and gained B-rank-or-higher skills, including the ability to fly, and returned it to his Beast-Taming Space to recover.
• Jiang Ziliu used Probability Judgment to locate a free-roaming Green-Skinned Shapeshifting Spirit cub in the eastern part of the base.
• Jiang Ziliu found the cub disguised as a bamboo stalk in a park and used Electromagnetic Manipulation to knock it unconscious and capture it.
• Jiang Ziliu contracted the cub and chose feedback from its SS-rank Flesh Shapeshifting skill, transforming into Tang Yunu's likeness.
• The Green-Skinned Shapeshifting Spirit woke frightened, but Jiang Ziliu won its acceptance with fine food and Elemental Crystals, completing his third contract.