Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ziliu spent nearly two years growing his contracted beasts and opening all nine Bronze Rank Hidden Soul Stars while living under an alias in Base No. 6. After exhausting his resources and reaching 10,000 soul strength, he prepared to break through to Silver Rank, ending his peaceful period of development.

• Jiang Ziliu settled in Base No. 6 and ran a modest bookstore while secretly developing his strength and collecting rare books.
• Jiang Ziliu nurtured his three contracted beasts until they all reached nine-star Bronze Rank, while he suppressed his own advancement and opened four Hidden Soul Stars.
• Jiang Ziliu learned that a major power was searching for his former identity and offering a bounty, so he memorized the Jiang Lineage and resolved to seek revenge someday.
• Jiang Ziliu continued growing in seclusion for nine more months and opened his final Bronze Rank Hidden Soul Star, raising his soul strength to 10,000.
• Jiang Ziliu exhausted his remaining soul crystals and prepared to break through to Silver Rank, bringing his nearly two years of peaceful growth to an end.

After opening all nine Hidden Soul Stars, Jiang Ziliu advanced to Silver Rank and planned to keep his true strength hidden as he ventured to Scallion Ridge for resources. On the road, he avoided a predatory recruiter and continued toward a region where fellow humans could be more dangerous than beasts.

• Jiang Ziliu's Silver-Rank breakthrough raised his lifespan to 600 years, brought his soul strength above 10,000, and allowed him to contract two more beasts.
• Jiang Ziliu decided to conceal his strength and reveal only enough to survive danger, using Silver-Rank power only when his life was at risk.
• Jiang Ziliu left his home of nearly two years and set out for Scallion Ridge to seek Elemental Crystals, Beast Cores, and other resources while avoiding major trouble.
• Jiang Ziliu traveled along a broad military highway toward Scallion Ridge and passed groups of adventurers, students, and Rogue Person beast tamers.
• A middle-aged vulture adventurer tried to recruit Jiang Ziliu, but Jiang Ziliu's killing intent and soul pressure drove him away.
• Jiang Ziliu continued toward Scallion Ridge, where adventurers faced both dangerous beasts and human predators operating as bandits.

Jiang Ziliu entered Scallion Ridge to retrieve treasures whose locations he had mapped, fighting off local beasts as he traveled. After he obtained an A-grade Soul Crystal, a One-Eyed Ba Snake tracked him, but he killed it and continued his hunt.

• Jiang Ziliu bought and verified intelligence about Scallion Ridge before entering the forest on foot.
• Jiang Ziliu fought off attacking Red and Green Three-Stripe Winged Snakes and killed a Shadow Cat while moving through the forest.
• The Azurite Rock Man retrieved an A-grade Soul Crystal sealed underground for Jiang Ziliu.
• A One-Eyed Ba Snake tracked Jiang Ziliu by the soul traces he had left, and the Mutated Lightning Snake warned him of its approach.
• Jiang Ziliu flew into a giant tree and used a concealed SS-grade metal chain to kill the pursuing One-Eyed Ba Snake.
• Jiang Ziliu collected the snake's corpse and resumed searching Scallion Ridge for treasures.

Jiang Ziliu watched a human slave-catching team capture a Troll tribe whose camp hid a buried spatial orb. After the team left, he retrieved the orb and departed.

• Jiang Ziliu followed treasure locations deeper into Scallion Ridge and found a cache buried beneath a Troll camp.
• Jiang Ziliu watched a fifty-person adventuring group with three silver-rank beast tamers surround the Troll tribe to capture its members as slaves.
• The Wailing Banshee knocked out weaker Trolls, the Illusory Pupil Eye Demon trapped the chief and his Earth Rock Hound, and the Petrifying Cyclops turned the tribe to stone.
• The team chained the Trolls, injected them with paralyzing poison, and quickly left with them on load-bearing tamed beasts.
• Half a day later, Jiang Ziliu had the Azurite Rock Man retrieve the buried spatial orb and swiftly departed.

Jiang Ziliu discovered a vast fortune in a spatial orb once owned by a Diamond Rank dwarf elder, then learned that continuing to explore Greater Verdant Ridge would certainly draw an evil god's gaze. He fled toward Scallion Ridge's outskirts, where an unexpected encounter awaited him.

• Jiang Ziliu bound the ownerless spatial orb and found abundant Elemental Crystals, Soul Crystals, Beast Cores, and rare materials inside.
• Jiang Ziliu read the dwarf elder's notes and learned that the elder had encountered an evil god in a hidden Dungeon Space on Earth.
• Jiang Ziliu used Probability Judgment and found no chance that the windfall itself would draw the evil god's attention, but a 100% chance of attracting its gaze if he kept exploring Greater Verdant Ridge.
• Jiang Ziliu determined that leaving would avoid the evil god's gaze, disguised himself as a frightened fugitive, and ran toward the outskirts of Scallion Ridge.
• Nearly three kilometers from the ridge's outer edge, Jiang Ziliu encountered something unexpected.

Jiang Ziliu encountered the remnants of the slave-hunting adventurer band and found trolls blocking his escape from Scallion Ridge. He unleashed his hidden strength to break through the troll force and fled beyond the ridge, still wary of the mysterious evil god.

• Jiang Ziliu met the wounded slave-hunting adventurers fleeing deeper into Scallion Ridge and learned that trolls were pursuing them.
• Jiang Ziliu used Probability Judgment and chose to fight through the trolls rather than risk escaping underground and attracting the evil god’s gaze.
• Jiang Ziliu killed three Bronze Rank trolls with his greatsword and broke through the blockade with a heavy hammer, gravely wounding a Silver Rank troll.
• The clever trolls ordered their force to withdraw, realizing Jiang Ziliu was fleeing from a greater danger in Scallion Ridge.
• Jiang Ziliu escaped Scallion Ridge and continued putting distance between himself and the area.

Jiang Ziliu fled Scallion Ridge, but a clash between the Dwarf King and the sealed evil god beneath it devastated a nearby Human Race base. Lightning Spear Supreme defeated the Dwarf King, leaving his damaged divine hammer behind as Jiang Ziliu escaped before the ensuing scramble for the treasure.

• Jiang Ziliu used Probability Judgment to confirm a major event would occur near Scallion Ridge and flew away on the Mutated Lightning Snake.
• The Dwarf King attacked beneath Scallion Ridge, where his hammer struck the sealed head of an evil god and its counterattack devastated a nearby Human Race base.
• The master of Scallion Ridge warned the Dwarf King, and Lightning Spear Supreme intervened after the Dwarf King's attack killed humans.
• Lightning Spear Supreme defeated the Dwarf King, severed his arm, and destroyed his divine hammer, which fell near Scallion Ridge.
• Jiang Ziliu realized the damaged hammer would draw powerful factions and left the area to keep developing elsewhere.

Jiang Ziliu settled in Base 51 under the identity Xiong Chengqi, aiming to earn Martial King Base contribution points and obtain restricted beast-taming knowledge. He spent years discreetly combining dwarven forging techniques with human methods, leaving him prepared to build his equipment business on his own terms.

• Jiang Ziliu arrived in the Martial King Base region and settled in Base 51 as Xiong Chengqi, a muscular young weaponsmith.
• Jiang Ziliu planned to earn contribution points by forging equipment so he could exchange them for secrets about beast-taming spaces, favorability, and advanced beast-taming knowledge.
• Jiang Ziliu used the dwarf elder's forging inheritance to make aura-suppression rings and concealed their high-grade materials beneath C-grade metal casings.
• Jiang Ziliu opened a weapon shop but spent nearly a year studying human and dwarven forging books before incorporating dwarven knowledge into his own techniques.
• Jiang Ziliu spent two years mastering and combining the forging traditions, aided by the mysterious metal disc bearing a leaf.

Jiang Ziliu reviewed how high-grade resources had advanced his beasts and raised him to four-star Silver Rank, while his forging skill had secretly reached the level of a Gold Rank weapons master. He equipped himself and his Azurite Rock Man with powerful S Rank gear but continued hiding his true strength and abilities.

• Jiang Ziliu advanced the Azurite Rock Man to four-star Silver Rank, raising its dwarf titan bloodline and improving its skills.
• The Mutated Lightning Snake reached two-star Silver Rank, while the Green-Skinned Shapeshifting Spirit reached three-star Silver Rank and developed stronger healing skills.
• Jiang Ziliu reached four-star Silver Rank at age twenty-one, with a lifespan of 750 years.
• Jiang Ziliu secretly reached the ability to forge S Rank equipment, despite publicly presenting himself as a much weaker weaponsmith.
• Jiang Ziliu forged an S Rank battle saber for the Azurite Rock Man, defensive inner armor for himself, and three sets of gear that concealed his aura and enabled shapeshifting.

Jiang Ziliu accepted Qian Duoduo’s invitation to the Grand Martial Arena and watched two Black Iron Grade Beast Taming School martial artists fight. He studied their techniques and shared what he learned with his three beasts, leaving with a clearer view of the school’s strengths and limits.

• Qian Duoduo visited Jiang Ziliu’s workshop and invited him to see newcomers at the Grand Martial Arena.
• Jiang Ziliu agreed to go with Qian Duoduo, and they traveled to the arena together.
• Two Black Iron Grade Beast Taming School martial artists rode Gale Leopards into the arena and began a spear fight.
• Jiang Ziliu studied the fighters’ techniques and transmitted his observations to his three beasts through their contracts.
• The two evenly matched fighters continued battling, while Jiang Ziliu assessed Beast Taming School martial artists as formidable in close combat but limited by their dark energy and ranged ability.

Jiang Ziliu watched the Grand Martial Arena’s bouts with Qian Duoduo and discovered the kind of contracted beast he wanted for his fourth. After the matches, he sent Qian Duoduo away and stayed behind to pursue another purpose.

• Qian Duoduo tried to assess Jiang Ziliu’s hidden strength and potential as an investment prospect, but Jiang Ziliu refused his offer to bet on the fights.
• A masked woman called Snow Fairy defeated a stronger burly man by using an Ice and Snow Domain that weakened his flames and let her move through the arena like a phantom.
• Jiang Ziliu recognized the domain’s power as a universal mystery of martial techniques and decided his fourth contracted beast needed an S Grade or higher domain-type skill.
• After the bouts ended, Jiang Ziliu sent Qian Duoduo away and remained at the arena for another purpose.

Jiang Ziliu cornered Nangong Zhenxue in the Grand Arena and bought information about domain-type exotic beasts with valuable items. After he vanished from her lounge, he remained inside the arena.

• Jiang Ziliu approached Nangong Zhenxue after she removed her disguise and persuaded her to let him into her lounge.
• Jiang Ziliu gave Nangong Zhenxue an A-grade ice-and-snow Beast Core in exchange for information about domain-type exotic beasts.
• Nangong Zhenxue demanded more payment and accepted B+-grade inner armor for her information.
• Nangong Zhenxue revealed that her bamboo bear gained domain skills after eating Yin-Yang Worms, and that some supreme-bloodline beasts could also possess domain skills.
• Jiang Ziliu disappeared from the lounge, while Nangong Zhenxue remained unaware that he was still inside the Grand Arena.

Jiang Ziliu spent contribution points at the Grand Martial Arena to learn how to improve his Beast-Taming Space and maximize his tamed beasts’ loyalty. He discovered that soul communion could evolve his contract into the Foundation of the Divine Contract, and left with plans to pursue its benefits.

• Jiang Ziliu used the alias Xiong Chengqi to exchange contribution points through the Grand Martial Arena’s confidential channel.
• Jiang Ziliu paid nearly 20,000 contribution points to learn the method for stably expanding his Beast-Taming Space, then learned that he could not disclose the answer under the transaction oath.
• Jiang Ziliu paid 50,000 contribution points to learn that maximum loyalty could evolve the Contract Mark into the Foundation of the Divine Contract.
• Jiang Ziliu learned that visualizing his tamed beasts could help him achieve soul communion, and that the evolved contract could grant a second feedback skill and allow him to fuse with a beast.
• Jiang Ziliu switched to another alias and left the Grand Martial Arena using Earth Space Evasion.

Jiang Ziliu focused on evolving the foundation of his divine contract before contracting a fourth beast, building soul channels with his three existing beasts through daily visualization. After all three reached 100% affinity, his contract mark became a perfect divine-grade mark, and he paused to discuss his beasts’ wishes before choosing a new feedback skill.

• Jiang Ziliu changed his plans and prioritized evolving the foundation of the divine contract, while keeping a strict routine of study, equipment crafting, and beast visualization.
• After nearly half a year of practice, Jiang Ziliu formed a soul channel with the Azurite Rock Man, raising its affinity to 100%, and named it Kun, or A Kun.
• Jiang Ziliu’s Mutated Lightning Snake reached 100% affinity, and he named her Lady White.
• After a year, Jiang Ziliu formed a soul channel with the Green-Skinned Shapeshifting Spirit, bringing all three beasts to 100% affinity and evolving his contract mark into a perfect divine-grade foundation.
• Jiang Ziliu named the Green-Skinned Shapeshifting Spirit Thousand Faces, consulted his beasts about their desires, and delayed choosing a new feedback skill.

Over the year, Jiang Ziliu strengthened his three tamed beasts and reached six-star Silver Rank, with combat power at early Gold Rank. After choosing new feedback skills and meeting his main goals at Martial King Base, he felt ready to move on.

• Jiang Ziliu’s three tamed beasts advanced two minor realms, and their feedback raised him to six-star Silver Rank.
• Jiang Ziliu chose Earth Space Evasion from A Kun, Lightning Sky Skimming from Lady White, and Light of Jade from Thousand Faces as feedback skills.
• Jiang Ziliu continued investing resources and potions, raising every skill of his three beasts to at least A- Rank.
• Jiang Ziliu gained Beast-Taming Fusion, which let him fuse with a tamed beast and sharply increase his combat strength.
• Jiang Ziliu concluded that he had achieved his main goals at Martial King Base and felt the urge to move again.

Jiang Ziliu left the Martial King Base Cluster without telling Qian Duoduo, leaving him a coded message and three pieces of armor to repay his protection. Qian Duoduo realized Jiang Ziliu was a far more accomplished forging master than he had thought, while Jiang Ziliu continued toward his hometown.

• Qian Duoduo found Jiang Ziliu’s workshop empty and read his farewell note promising to repay the protection he had received.
• Qian Duoduo suspected that Xiong Chengqi was an alias and that Jiang Ziliu’s forging knowledge was connected to the dwarven inheritance near Scallion Ridge.
• Qian Duoduo decoded the numbers on the back of the note and learned that Jiang Ziliu had buried a gift ten meters underground in the backyard.
• Qian Duoduo used his pangolin-type contracted beast to retrieve a chest containing three flawless pieces of inner armor for Bronze, Silver, and Gold Rank beast tamers.
• Qian Duoduo recognized that Jiang Ziliu had hidden his exceptional forging ability, while Jiang Ziliu traveled far from the Martial King Base Cluster toward his hometown.

The Nangong Clan was destroyed in a battle over the Dwarf King's Hammer, which vanished into a mysterious plane. The damaged hammer then appeared in Jiang Ziliu's hand, where it absorbed his blood, and he recognized it.

• The Nangong Clan's hidden possession of the Dwarf King's Hammer was exposed, prompting major factions to surround their estate.
• The factions attacked despite the Nangong Clan offering to surrender the hammer, and the clan was wiped out.
• A Nangong elder powered the hammer with Elemental Crystals, unleashing attacks that devastated the besieging factions.
• The hammer stopped attacking, shattered reality, and disappeared into an unknown plane.
• The hammer appeared in Jiang Ziliu's hand while he prepared a picnic, cut him, and absorbed his blood.
• Jiang Ziliu recognized the damaged hammer.

Jiang Ziliu fled nearly 3,000 kilometers after the Dwarf King's Hammer suddenly acknowledged him as its master, fearing the treasure would bring pursuers. When he finally questioned the hammer, two mysterious beings appeared in his consciousness, and he realized they might explain why it had chosen him.

• Jiang Ziliu recognized the Dwarf King's Hammer, which had appeared in his hand and acknowledged him as its master, then immediately fled underground with A Kun.
• Jiang Ziliu and A Kun took turns using Earth Space Evasion for four days without going to the surface, reaching a backup safe house nearly 3,000 kilometers away.
• Jiang Ziliu questioned the hammer and prepared to rid himself of it, but the hammer broke free and struck him, leaving a huge lump on his head.
• Two voices emerged from the hammer: a man mocked Jiang Ziliu, while the hammer's own will angrily complained that he had scorned it.
• The hammer manifested a golden throne with an eye and a little girl carrying an enormous hammer in Jiang Ziliu's consciousness, and he recognized them as possible sources of answers.

Jiang Ziliu learned that the Dwarf King's Hammer housed Ailande and the recovering Forging Throne, who chose him as their master because of his talent and cautious nature. The Forging Throne offered to become Jiang Ziliu’s fourth tamed beast and revealed that a sleeping Thearch-Rank King of Origin had already marked him and could become his fifth.

• Ailande and the Forging Throne explained that the Forging Throne was a King-Rank King of Origin whose core fragment had been incorporated into the Dwarf King's Hammer.
• The Forging Throne said it had awakened, saved Ailande from madness, and chosen Jiang Ziliu to help bring about its return.
• Jiang Ziliu questioned why he should help them, and the Forging Throne offered to become his fourth tamed beast.
• Ailande objected, but the Forging Throne said Jiang Ziliu had already established the Foundation of the Divine Contract and that this was its only chance of survival.
• The Forging Throne revealed that a higher-ranked being had marked Jiang Ziliu and offered to make the sleeping Thearch-Rank King of Origin his fifth tamed beast.

Jiang Ziliu contracted the Forging Throne, a King of Origin concealed within the Dwarf King's Hammer, after confirming the contract was genuine and securing control over their plans. The Forging Throne sealed its life feedback because Jiang Ziliu could not safely receive it, while Ailande accepted that the hammer and everything within it now belonged to Jiang Ziliu.

• Jiang Ziliu used Probability Judgment to confirm that the Forging Throne sincerely wanted to become his beast and that their contract would work.
• Jiang Ziliu agreed to help the Forging Throne recover, provided that the Forging Throne followed his decisions about how to proceed.
• Jiang Ziliu contracted the Dwarf King's Hammer, directing the contract to the Forging Throne's core fragment inside it.
• Jiang Ziliu's information panel identified the Forging Throne as his fourth contracted beast and displayed its Origin Divine Power and Forging Authority.
• The Forging Throne explained that it had sealed its life feedback because it would overwhelm Jiang Ziliu and expose its existence.
• Ailande realized that Jiang Ziliu had contracted a King of Origin and that she could never return to the dwarves.