Chapter Summaries

Luo Yu expanded his research institute to farm and breed thousands of Ink Fish, then examined the new arrivals and discovered a varied collection of advanced talents. He also found that his octopus breeding attempt produced no offspring with either parent’s advanced talent, and the chapter leaves him intrigued by an Ink Fish’s Dominion talent.

• Yu Lei praised Luo Yu’s work and left to report the new medical Ink Fish to the island lord, while Yu Wan agreed to help Luo Yu.
• Luo Yu and Yu Wan planned an expansion with space for ten thousand Ink Fish, and construction began with exceptional speed.
• Yu Wan arranged for more than two thousand Ink Fish from Wang Defa’s seized farms to be transferred to Luo Yu’s new facility.
• Luo Yu found that none of the eight eggs from the Dark Octopus and the Eight-Sword Style Octopus inherited either advanced talent.
• The institute’s four ponds and enclosed breeding base were completed, and Ink Fish began arriving from across the island.
• Luo Yu examined the new Ink Fish and identified eleven advanced talents, including Ice Element Affinity, Gu King, Mental Overload, Berserker, Water Element Immunity, Danger Sense, Super Antibody, and Dominion.

Luo Yu suspected that Ink Fish with the Dominion talent could lead their school’s evolution into a Water Devil Beast, and he tested his theory by making one the strongest fish in a smaller group and provoking the school. The Ink Fish briefly evolved, but their low levels caused the Water Devil Beast to fall apart, leaving Luo Yu determined to breed the Dominion Ink Fish.

• Luo Yu guessed that a Dominion Ink Fish might serve as the core of its school’s evolution and concluded that it needed to outrank the others.
• Luo Yu separated the Dominion Ink Fish and placed it with weaker Ink Fish, making it the strongest in the group.
• Luo Yu tried to create a crisis by attacking the Ink Fish with a stick after July failed to pressure them.
• The Ink Fish fused into a Water Devil Beast centered on the Dominion Ink Fish, but the creature collapsed back into the original fish almost immediately.
• Luo Yu realized the Ink Fish were too underdeveloped to sustain the evolution and decided to breed the Dominion Ink Fish extensively.

After the Water Devil Beast's failed evolution, Luo Yu examined its data and theorized that its inherited talents could be shaped by selecting the Ink Fish that fused together. He decided to investigate how to raise a more powerful Water Devil Beast and searched for a way to gain another pet-beast contract slot.

• Luo Yu studied the Water Devil Beast's data, noting its lack of sex, Level 5 life level, monarch species rank, abilities, and three talents.
• Luo Yu theorized that the Water Devil Beast retained the most common talents among the 81 Ink Fish, while other talents were lost during evolution.
• Luo Yu speculated that he could customize future Water Devil Beasts by adjusting the Ink Fish talent mix and possibly strengthen talents through large groups of matching individuals.
• Luo Yu regretted that he could not contract a Water Devil Beast because each beastmaster normally had only one pet-beast slot.
• Luo Yu returned to the research institute's library to look for a way to increase his number of contracts.

Luo Yu researched ways to gain additional Contract Slots and found that a notebook by researcher Luo Shui described Bloodline Dependents as a possible method. The notes claimed even Common Species might be able to have dependents, leaving Luo Yu wondering whether July could provide him with a second pet.

• Luo Yu read about the Sea of Contracts and Sea of Void, which could help people awaken additional Beast-Taming Spaces.
• Luo Yu learned that Canglan Ocean University awarded Gene Evolution Potions to outstanding students, and he considered earning one by studying Water Devil Beast evolution.
• Luo Yu found other options involving the Mermaid Goddess and the Sky Tree Fruit, but judged them out of reach.
• Luo Yu read that Monarch Species mutant beasts could have Bloodline Dependents, which counted as part of their Bloodline Lord and could share its Beast-Taming Space.
• Luo Yu discovered that his father’s notebook claimed Common Species could also have Bloodline Dependents, despite July being a Common Species.

Luo Yu studied a method for giving ordinary species commander heterogeneity and proposed the Dependent Evolution Method, which might let a pet evolve through a powerful dependent. He recruited the commanding Ink Fish for his research, then faced Chen Bo, who challenged him after Luo Yu’s success made Chen Bo’s parents intensify his training.

• Luo Yu learned that ordinary species could gain commander heterogeneity through a dangerous, costly blood-bath procedure and could form dependent systems.
• Luo Yu theorized that an Ink Fish could become July’s dependent before evolving into a monarch species, possibly causing July to evolve as well, and named the idea the Dependent Evolution Method.
• Luo Yu decided not to test the uncertain method on July and considered recruiting famous beast tamers who wanted their original ordinary pets to evolve.
• Luo Yu took the female commanding Ink Fish from the farm and planned to use it in his research.
• Chen Bo challenged Luo Yu, explaining that Luo Yu’s achievements had led Chen Bo’s parents to increase his studying and training.
• Luo Yu asked whether Chen Bo had passed the cultivation qualification assessment and offered him a job feeding fish.

Luo Yu visited the beast arena with Yu Wan and Chen Bo, where he observed a battle and assessed the pet beasts’ neglected talents. After Chen Bo challenged him to a match, Luo Yu agreed to battle Bing Liang first, leaving Chen Bo to wait his turn.

• Luo Yu teased Chen Bo about working for him, and Yu Wan arrived to take them to the beast arena for a medical partnership discussion.
• Director Zhang showed Luo Yu and Chen Bo around the arena and its training grounds before they went to watch two young Beast Tamers spar.
• Luo Yu watched the Wave Dog lose to the Cold Mist Lizard and noticed that both beasts’ Beast Tamers had overlooked their individual talents.
• Luo Yu recognized Bing Liang and Zhuang Feng from his earlier trip to catch Honey Water Bees, and Bing Liang challenged him to a beast battle.
• Luo Yu accepted Bing Liang’s challenge and told Chen Bo that he would battle him next.

Luo Yu and July defeated Bing Liang’s Cold Mist Lizard in a beast battle, revealing July’s extraordinary ability to reshape the arena floor. Chen Bo abandoned his own challenge, while Director Zhang worried about the damage and the trouble it would cause.

• Director Zhang refereed as Luo Yu and Bing Liang summoned July and the Cold Mist Lizard, and the spectators were surprised to see Luo Yu’s Earth Penguin.
• July calmly dodged the Cold Mist Lizard’s icy mist until it exhausted its stamina, then opened a pit beneath it and buried it in sand and soil.
• Luo Yu claimed the victory, leaving Bing Liang, Chen Bo, Zhuang Feng, and Director Zhang stunned by July’s unusual use of Dig.
• Director Zhang fretted over the extensive arena damage, and Chen Bo declined to fight, saying he would go home and discuss Luo Yu’s suggestion with his parents.
• Chen Bo left, while Bing Liang and Zhuang Feng remained dazed by the battle.

After learning about the Mirror Moon Celebration and its guardian deity, Luo Yu agreed to help Teacher Wang train three orphaned students to compete as school representatives. He planned to devise a training program that could also support his Honey Water Bee research, and asked whether the students could endure pain and hardship.

• Bing Liang and Zhuang Feng reported their strange defeat by Luo Yu's Earth Penguin to their teacher, Wang Ze.
• Wang Ze approached Luo Yu and asked him to become an extracurricular teacher for three students he hoped to prepare for the Mirror Moon Celebration.
• Luo Yu recalled that the celebration honored the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile, the island's guardian deity, and offered students a chance to demonstrate their skills and attract fleet employers.
• Wang Ze explained that his three students were orphans whose parents had been his crewmates, and asked Luo Yu to help them despite his limited ability to train them.
• Luo Yu accepted in exchange for a year's salary and Wang Ze's labor, seeing the students as potential participants in his Honey Water Bee stinging-training research.
• Luo Yu promised to create a new training plan and asked whether the students could handle minor injuries and hardship.

Luo Yu arranged new Ink Fish breeding pairings, including a trial between two Breeding Paragons, then began designing unconventional training plans for Teacher Wang Ze’s three students and their pet beasts. He left them with a one-week challenge to follow his methods and show results.

• Luo Yu established ten new Ink Fish breeding groups, pairing individuals with advanced talents and deciding to mate the two second-generation Breeding Paragons.
• Luo Yu delayed breeding the malnourished Dominion individual so it could receive nutritional supplements for half a month.
• Luo Yu met Teacher Wang Ze and his students Bing Liang, Mi Xiaoyu, and Zhuang Feng at the arena to assess their pet beasts.
• Luo Yu instructed Zhuang Feng to train his Wave Dog’s claws under the artificial waterfall and told him healing beasts could treat any injuries.
• Luo Yu assigned Bing Liang’s Cold Mist Lizard to agility training in the turbulent current maze and prescribed cold-resistance training for Mi Xiaoyu’s Wind-Entwining Worm.
• Luo Yu told the students to follow his training plans for one week and demonstrate their results.

Luo Yu selected Yu Wan as the Luo Yu Research Institute’s new security guard after learning about her experience as a navigator and her psychic abilities. As Yu Wan visited the institute to see where she would work, Luo Yu noticed the Ink Fish laying eggs.

• Luo Yu trained July in the Torrent Labyrinth and then met Yu Wan to review security candidates.
• Yu Wan described the candidates and revealed that she herself wanted to leave her clerk job and become Luo Yu’s bodyguard.
• Luo Yu agreed to hire Yu Wan if the bureau chief approved her resignation, and learned she hoped to contract a powerful mental-type pet beast.
• Yu Wan accompanied Luo Yu to the institute, where he suddenly spotted the Ink Fish laying eggs.

The Breeding Paragon laid a second clutch, and Luo Yu found a new Ink Fish with both Mercy and Breeding Paragon talents. As Yu Wan moved into the institute to work security, Luo Yu wondered why Chen Bo had not joined and asked Yu Wan to help feed the fish as well.

• The Breeding Paragon laid eleven eggs, including six with Senior Level talents and one offspring with both Mercy and Breeding Paragon.
• Yu Wan told Luo Yu she hoped he would use his Soul Talent to captain a Ghost Ship, and offered to serve as his navigator; Luo Yu said he needed a cook.
• Chen Bo asked his parents to let him help at Luo Yu's institute, but they refused and insisted he focus on his studies.
• Yu Wan resigned from her secretary job and persuaded Yu Lei to appoint her as security guard at Luo Yu's institute.
• Yu Wan moved her belongings into the institute, and Luo Yu asked her to feed the fish part-time using her telekinesis.

Luo Yu began a second training phase for three students, using Honey Water Bee stings to strengthen them, while continuing July’s punishing exercises. July’s fishing trip ended with him pulling a mysterious wooden chest from a lake.

• Luo Yu praised the three students’ progress and announced that their next training phase would last half a month.
• He brought Bing Liang, Mi Xiaoyu, and Zhuang Feng to his institute and explained that special Honey Water Bee stings could strengthen their bodies.
• Zhuang Feng and Wave Dog became the first to undergo sting training, and Yu Wan arrived after hearing their screams before deciding to keep watch from her room.
• Luo Yu continued training July with heat and water resistance exercises, then took him fishing to relax.
• July hooked a wooden chest instead of a fish, leaving Luo Yu startled and wondering what it contained.

Luo Yu discovered that July had fished up a valuable Communication Conch, then celebrated the arrival of promising Ink Fish offspring with a Senior Level Infant Care Expert talent. He ended the students’ training course and agreed to watch their upcoming school exam, where their results could help his research prospects.

• July fished a Communication Conch from the lake, and Luo Yu recognized its value and decided to try dialing it each day.
• Twelve days later, Luo Yu examined twenty Ink Fish eggs from the two-Breeding-Paragon group and found fourteen offspring with Senior Level talents, including six Breeding Paragons and one Infant Care Expert.
• Luo Yu agreed to attend a meal at the Moon-Facing Pavilion with Wang Ze and Mi Xiaoyu, while deciding that Wang Ze’s pet beast’s Cleanliness Obsession talent offered little potential.
• Luo Yu learned that the three students would take part in a monthly exam attended by the director and ended their training so they could rest and prepare.
• Luo Yu promised to watch the exam and urged the students to do well, hoping their performance would help him secure more research funding.

Luo Yu watched Mirror Moon High School’s monthly combat exam, where students faced zombie sea beasts, and Mi Xiaoyu stunned the school by defeating one with her Wind-Entwining Worm’s newly developed ice ability. Her success drew Director Yu Lei’s attention, but she credited her extracurricular tutor, Luo Yu, leaving the school leaders worried about their education funding.

• Luo Yu arrived at Mirror Moon High School with Teacher Wang Ze and watched the students begin their combat assessment against zombie sea beasts.
• The early examinees struggled against the fast, pain-ignoring zombie frogs, and only one top student managed to kill one.
• Mi Xiaoyu entered the assessment with her Wind-Entwining Worm and froze a zombie frog with its powerful, ice-infused Wind Entwining ability.
• Director Yu Lei asked Mi Xiaoyu about her training, and she said Teacher Luo Yu from her extracurricular tutoring class had taught her the ice ability.
• Mi Xiaoyu followed her homeroom teacher to speak with Yu Lei, who noticed her swollen face as the school leaders reacted to her crediting Luo Yu.

After three students trained by Luo Yu excelled in the new students’ assessment, Director Yu Lei investigated their unusual pet-beast abilities. At the September research briefing, Luo Yu presented his experimental Sting Training Method and requested funds to expand Honey Water Bee research and breeding.

• Mi Xiaoyu told Yu Lei that Luo Yu had trained her, and the administrators learned that his tutoring class had three students.
• Zhuang Feng’s Wave Dog swiftly beheaded a zombie frog, while Bing Liang’s Ice Mist Lizard skated around a licker and evaded it.
• Yu Lei summoned Luo Yu, who explained that the students’ pet beasts had unusual talents and hinted that special Honey Water Bee training had strengthened them.
• At the research briefing, Luo Yu described how mutated Honey Water Bee stings could strengthen attributes and said his three students had excelled after less than half a month of training.
• Luo Yu explained the method’s pain, swelling, and limited supply of bees, then asked Yu Lei for more research funds and a Honey Water Bee breeding base.

Luo Yu secured approval to establish a Honey Water Bee breeding project and gained offers of help from Chen Bo and the Moon-Facing Pavilion’s Lin Li. The next day, he learned the restaurant would sponsor bees and send Lin Li to assist, and Director Yu Lei took him to visit the farm.

• Director Yu Lei approved Luo Yu’s Honey Water Bee farm and urged Chen Zhuo to send Chen Bo to work at the institute.
• Yu Lei recommended Lin Li, the Moon-Facing Pavilion owner’s daughter, because she managed the restaurant’s Honey Water Bee farm and had contracted a Bee Queen.
• Luo Yu agreed to invite Lin Li and considered researching whether a Bee Queen could also have the Strengthening talent.
• Chen Zhuo told Chen Bo to report to the Luo Yu Research Institute the next day, surprising his son.
• Yu Lei told Luo Yu that the Moon-Facing Pavilion would provide Honey Water Bees and Lin Li’s help for free.
• Yu Lei took Luo Yu to visit the Honey Water Bee farm, and Luo Yu summoned July to light his cigarette.

Luo Yu demonstrated July’s powerful fire ability to Lin Li and then searched the Moon-Facing Pavilion’s Honey Water Bee farm for bees with useful talents. He found several enhancement talents and a Senior Level talent that improved offspring aptitude with each birth, leaving him with a promising foundation for breeding.

• Yu Lei questioned why Luo Yu had trained July to use a fire-type ability, and July demonstrated Blazing Blade’s increased power and heat wave.
• Luo Yu met Lin Li at the Honey Water Bee farm, showed her July’s enhanced physical toughness, and accepted her offer to select talented bees.
• Yu Lei left Luo Yu and Lin Li at the farm, where Luo Yu spent the evening and night examining the bees and ate Lin Li’s honey-themed dishes.
• Yu Wan divined Luo Yu’s future potential, but the pearl remained pitch-black.
• Luo Yu finished assessing the farm’s sixteen thousand bees and found sixteen with ordinary enhancement talents and three with Senior Level enhancement talents.
• Luo Yu discovered a Senior Level More Children, More Blessings talent that increased offspring aptitude with each birth.

Luo Yu selected eight hundred Honey Water Bees with useful talents and discussed possible paths for queens to evolve further with Lin Li. After returning to the research institute with Lin Li, he found Chen Bo waiting and imagined turning the institute’s staff into a fleet.

• Luo Yu identified Bee King, Power of the Void, More Children, More Blessings, and Flower-Picking Bandit as valuable talents for breeding Honey Water Bees.
• Luo Yu selected roughly eight hundred bees and told Lin Li that his Soul Talent helped him find individuals with unique souls.
• Luo Yu suggested that mental power or spatial abilities might help Honey Water Bee queens evolve, and invited Lin Li to conduct her own research at the institute.
• Yu Wan welcomed Lin Li and assigned her to make dinner, while Luo Yu asked her to cook for Chen Bo, who had been waiting outside the institute.
• Luo Yu imagined that Yu Wan, Lin Li, Chen Bo, and he could form an elite fleet, though he planned to make it a legitimate merchant fleet.

Luo Yu welcomed Chen Bo to the research institute and assigned duties to its four employees while they began their work with mutated beasts. The director then revealed that a Waterfallen Chicken had evolved after touching a strange rock in the Ancient Grotto and asked Luo Yu to test whether his Earth Penguin could do the same.

• Luo Yu read Chen Bo's father’s research notes on extending human lifespans and learned that Chen Bo’s Thunderbolt Shrimp had rare light affinity and a Clean Freak talent.
• Luo Yu hired Chen Bo as a research assistant, test subject, and cleaner, and the institute’s four employees shared their first meal together.
• Luo Yu assigned Yu Wan to security and Ink Fish care, Lin Li to Honey Water Bee care and cooking, and Chen Bo to injection tests and research.
• The director told Luo Yu that a Waterfallen Chicken had evolved from a low-rank to a mid-rank ordinary species after touching a special rock in the Ancient Grotto.
• The director said Luo Yu and his Earth Penguin seemed strong enough to endure the grotto’s harsh conditions and asked Luo Yu to test whether the rock could evolve the penguin.

Luo Yu visited an underground grotto where a special rock had evolved one Waterfallen Chicken into an Azure Terror Bird, hoping it might help July evolve too. July’s attempt failed, and Luo Yu left considering how he could strengthen July’s rock affinity.

• Director Yu Lei took Luo Yu by Storm Sea Eagle to the underground grotto, then led him through its waterways on a White Crocodile.
• Luo Yu learned that only one Waterfallen Chicken had evolved after touching the special rock, while researchers found no clear bloodline difference between it and its siblings.
• Researcher Chen Zhuo showed Luo Yu the evolved Azure Terror Bird, whose talents included Rock Element Affinity, prompting Luo Yu to suspect that rock-element power had enabled its evolution.
• Luo Yu summoned July and had him touch the special rock, but nothing happened.
• Director Yu Lei offered Luo Yu a pass to keep studying in the grotto, and Luo Yu considered increasing July’s rock affinity, perhaps by contracting a rock-element dependent.