Chapter Summaries

Luo Yu considered breeding rock-talented dependents to help July gain rock powers and exploit the Ancient Evolution Stone. Meanwhile, Director Yu Lei hoped the Ancient Grotto could revive Mirror Moon Island’s economy, and Luo Yu imagined how his research might strengthen the island and elevate his own influence.

• Luo Yu considered breeding Ink Fish with Rock Element Affinity Talents and Honey Water Bees with Rock Element Enhancement Talents to improve July’s compatibility with the Ancient Evolution Stone.
• After Luo Yu’s Earth Penguin failed to evolve, Director Yu Lei urged Chen Zhuo and Luo Yu to research the Ancient Grotto and help turn it into a popular attraction.
• Yu Lei explained that he hoped to promote the grotto at Aocang Island’s academic exchange conference and revive Mirror Moon Island’s tourism industry.
• Luo Yu compared Yu Lei’s plan with Golden Island’s Golden Waterfall tourism model and recognized that Mirror Moon Island could not yet reliably reproduce the Waterfallen Chicken’s evolution.
• Luo Yu reasoned that his dependable Ink Fish evolution research could eventually give Mirror Moon Island reliable military gains and help him rise to leadership.

Luo Yu continued using Honey Water Bees to strengthen himself and discussed the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile’s blessing and possible Abyss-level strength with Lin Li. After learning that the upcoming Mirror Moon Celebration might let him make a wish, he revealed that he wanted the guardian deity’s blood, and Yu Wan encouraged his plan to assassinate it.

• Luo Yu arranged for a Water Element Enhancement Honey Water Bee and a Rock Element Affinity Honey Water Bee to breed, hoping their offspring might inherit fused talents.
• Luo Yu endured daily stings from enhancement Honey Water Bees while Yu Wan and Chen Bo watched, and Lin Li later stopped the training.
• Lin Li described how the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile had blessed her Honey Water Bee by mutating its venom into an ice-element toxin.
• Luo Yu asked about the guardian deity’s species level and said he wanted a basin of its blood for condensing Commander Heterogeneity.
• Yu Wan overheard Luo Yu and told him to share the blood if he succeeded in assassinating the guardian deity.

Luo Yu learned why Lin Li suspected the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile was an Abyss Species and decided to compete in the Mirror Moon Celebration to meet it and earn its blessing. After experimenting with breeding and evolution, he found Coral Flower Squid that could let him test a Honey Water Bee’s Flower-Picking Bandit talent.

• Lin Li guessed that Island Lord Bai Ling had bought an Abyss Core with money from Mirror Moon Island’s mineral vein so the guardian crocodile could absorb Abyss Power safely.
• Luo Yu decided to enter the celebration’s rookie challenge, and Lin Li agreed to prepare food that would please the guardian deity.
• Director Yu Lei warned Luo Yu that the challenge took place on water, but registered him after Luo Yu said July was learning to swim.
• The Breeding Paragons’ eggs hatched, the Honey Water Bees began laying low-quality eggs, and Luo Yu confirmed that rock affinity alone could not make a bee evolve at the Ancient Grotto.
• Luo Yu spotted Coral Flower Squid among Lin Li’s ingredients and took one to test whether his Honey Water Bee’s Flower-Picking Bandit talent could steal its nutrients.

Luo Yu discovered that Flower-Picking Bandit bees could turn nutrients from mutated beasts into enhancement honey, then used rock-type honey to help Waterfallen Chickens evolve. He concluded that rock-type talent and the Ancient Evolution Stone were key to their evolution, leaving July’s path to evolve open.

• Luo Yu tested pink honey made from a Coral Flower Squid and found it was rich in water-type nutrients and enhancement factor.
• Luo Yu had Lin Li bring a Rock Algae Turtle to the institute, where Flower-Picking Bandit produced crimson honey that contained rock-type nutrients and enhancement factor.
• Luo Yu fed rock-type honey to Waterfallen Chickens while two Honey Water Bees produced an egg with the Hardness Enhancement Talent.
• Yu Zhifeng suggested that hidden rock-type talent might explain the Waterfallen Chickens’ evolution, while researchers admitted they could not yet verify the theory.
• Luo Yu rushed into the researchers’ meeting with an evolved Water Terror Chicken and announced that he had found the key factor in its evolution.

Luo Yu explained that rock-type affinity determined how far birds could evolve with the Ancient Evolution Stone, and the researchers discussed ways to improve it. He decided to seek more methods to strengthen July’s talent before evolving him, while Director Yu Lei agreed to contact Thousand Rock Island and obtain more Earth Penguins for testing.

• Luo Yu told Director Yu Lei that rock-type talent enabled the Waterfallen Chickens’ evolution, but the resulting Water Terror Chicken remained a Low-Rank Species because its acquired elemental affinity was limited.
• Luo Yu explained that he wanted to improve July’s rock-type talent before using the Ancient Evolution Stone, and Hybridization Granny suggested seeking expertise from Thousand Rock Island.
• Luo Yu proposed combining different methods to develop rock-type talent, and Director Yu Lei agreed to contact Thousand Rock Island.
• Director Yu Lei offered Luo Yu a reward, but Luo Yu declined and asked for more wild Earth Penguins to study their possible evolution paths.
• July put down Eighteen Fishing Techniques and practiced with his fishing rod, while Luo Yu called it part of his training.

After July dreamed of a colossal lava-armored dinosaur, Luo Yu bred Ink Fish toward creating a Water Devil Beast dependent suited to July’s needs. Yu Wan connected the dream to an archaeologist’s theory that supernatural dinosaurs once existed, leaving Luo Yu interested in finding the archaeologist.

• July dreamed of an apocalyptic world where a giant lava-armored dinosaur roared at him, and Luo Yu woke and comforted him.
• Luo Yu attributed July’s strange dream to the Ancient Grotto’s chaotic magnetic field and its ancient ley-line memories.
• Luo Yu paired a third-generation Breeding Paragon with a Dominion Ink Fish and selected other mates to pursue useful talents for future Water Devil Beasts.
• Luo Yu planned a dependent for July with Dominion, rock affinity, Eight-Sword Style, and possibly ice affinity.
• Luo Yu asked Yu Wan whether July might evolve into a dinosaur, and she recalled an archaeologist’s theory that some dinosaurs had mutated into lava behemoths.
• Luo Yu asked whether Yu Wan was still trying to contact the archaeologist, who might know more about Mirror Moon Island’s ancient supernatural history.

Luo Yu and Yu Wan reached the missing archaeologist An Yao, who agreed to investigate Mirror Moon Island’s Ancient Grotto. After breeding Ink Fish produced several promising talents, Director Yu Lei summoned Luo Yu to select Rock Goats on Thousand Rock Island for a rock-affinity project.

• Luo Yu used a Communication Conch fished up by his penguin to contact An Yao, and Yu Wan invited her to investigate the Ancient Grotto on Mirror Moon Island.
• An Yao said pirates had kidnapped her to explore an undersea ruin, but she escaped after the pirates died there, and she agreed to travel to Mirror Moon Island.
• Yu Wan called Director Yu Lei to report that An Yao would arrive in about half a month, while Luo Yu continued waiting for an Earth Penguin test subject.
• Luo Yu’s Ink Fish breeding produced seven high-level-talent offspring from one pairing, including an Antivirus Master, and an Infant Care Expert grew up.
• Director Yu Lei explained that Thousand Rock Island’s Heart of Rock and Rock Goat milk could improve rock-type affinity, then asked Luo Yu to travel there and select Rock Goats.

Luo Yu agreed to accompany Shui Wuyue to Thousand Rock Island, where Shui Wuyue would teach him to pilot a ghost ship. Aboard the Raging Blue, Shui Wuyue explained how Soul Contracts with ghosts worked and warned Luo Yu about the deadly consequences of failing to fulfill a ghost’s obsession within five years.

• Shui Wuyue offered Luo Yu Soul Liquid and lessons in ghost-ship piloting if he joined the voyage to Thousand Rock Island.
• Yu Lei explained that Yu Wan was Shui Wuyue’s niece, and Luo Yu agreed to go; Chen Bo joined as a translator while Lin Li stayed to care for the institute’s beasts.
• Luo Yu, Yu Wan, and Chen Bo boarded Shui Wuyue’s ghost warship, the Raging Blue, and it set sail with Shui Wuyue’s Ghost Type pet beast at the helm.
• Shui Wuyue told Luo Yu that the Sea of Ghosts sought out Soul-type Beast Tamers and that ghosts could be contracted through Soul Contracts tied to their deathbed obsessions.
• Shui Wuyue warned that a Soul Contract would devour a Beast Tamer’s soul if its ghost’s obsession remained unfulfilled after five years, revealing that his own failed contract had cost him an arm.

After drinking soul liquid, Luo Yu gained the ability to leave his body and discovered that the Raging Blue was a ghost ship riding on a giant Raging Sea Ghost Shark. As Shui Wuyue began teaching him to pilot the ship, July caught what appeared to be a human corpse.

• Shui Wuyue explained that he had spent six years fulfilling a Raging Sea Berserk Shark ghost's Obsession to find a wife, and warned Luo Yu that ghost Obsessions could be difficult to satisfy.
• Luo Yu drank the soul liquid, experienced his soul leaving his body, and saw the Raging Sea Ghost Shark beneath the Raging Blue.
• Luo Yu discovered that the shark's Obsession came from its lustful nature and learned that fulfilling an Obsession could sometimes cause a ghost to evolve.
• Luo Yu accidentally floated into Chen Bo's room, then returned to his body and confirmed to Shui Wuyue that he could leave it.
• Shui Wuyue slowed the Raging Blue to begin Luo Yu's ghost-ship piloting lessons while July started fishing.
• July hooked and hauled a human corpse onto the deck, leaving Luo Yu and Shui Wuyue bewildered.

Luo Yu and Shui Wuyue rescued an undercover Alliance investigator who warned that the Wailing Pirate Crew planned to attack Mirror Moon Island during the Tidal Corpse Transformation. As the island faced a massive Zombie Tide and a pirate assault, Luo Yu planned to test whether a monarch Water Devil Beast with the Antivirus Master Talent could eliminate hordes of zombies.

• July fished a badly injured man from the sea, and Shui Wuyue recognized the lamprey tattoo marking him as a member of the Wailing Pirate Crew.
• The man claimed he was an undercover Alliance investigator, and Yu Wan used psychic perception to confirm he was probably telling the truth.
• After learning Shui Wuyue was from Mirror Moon Island, Investigator Handsome revealed that the Wailing Pirate Crew planned to attack the island during the Tidal Corpse Transformation.
• Handsome explained that the pirate leader believed a treasure on Mirror Moon Island had attracted zombie sea beasts and planned to use the resulting Zombie Tide to weaken the island.
• Shui Wuyue promised to protect Handsome, while Luo Yu decided to test a monarch Water Devil Beast with the Antivirus Master Talent as a way to destroy large numbers of zombies.

Shui Wuyue brought Investigator Handsome back to Mirror Moon Island so he could testify about the Wailing Pirate Crew, then resumed teaching Luo Yu to pilot a ghost ship. Luo Yu unexpectedly made the raft fly, leaving Shui Wuyue stunned by his beginner’s breakthrough.

• Shui Wuyue and Luo Yu took Investigator Handsome to Mirror Moon Island, where he was hospitalized, before setting out again with Chen Bo aboard.
• Shui Wuyue taught Luo Yu that a soul could possess a ship and propel it by swimming, then demonstrated how Soul Mimicry let a soul take the shape of a sea beast.
• Luo Yu possessed the ghost raft in human form and tried to move it through the water.
• Luo Yu thought about controlling the raft with a thought, and it rose into the air before falling back into the sea.
• Shui Wuyue was astonished when Luo Yu asked what had happened, realizing the beginner had performed a sky ghost ship technique.

Luo Yu amazed Shui Wuyue by making a ghost raft fly with his soul power, then traveled with the Mirror Moon Island delegation to Thousand Rock Island to help assess Rock Goats for trade. He and Chen Bo went to find a Rock Goat to study through battle, and a girl with pigtails agreed to spar after inspecting their pet beasts.

• Luo Yu briefly made the ghost raft fly, leaving Shui Wuyue stunned by his extraordinary control over soul power.
• Shui Wuyue gave Luo Yu his cultivation notes, and Luo Yu decided to practice useful ghost-ship techniques rather than keep piloting himself.
• Shui Wuyue and Yu Wan planned to select healthy Rock Goats by observing their mental states because Mirror Moon Island lacked experts on the species.
• The Raging Blue reached Thousand Rock Island, where Shi Ning of the Glazed Glass Chamber of Commerce arranged the delegation’s lodging and trading itinerary.
• Luo Yu and Chen Bo went to the beast arena to find a Rock Goat for a spar, and a girl with pigtails demanded a fee before agreeing to fight.
• The girl with pigtails inspected Great General and July, saw their life levels were 8 and 7, and assumed the outsiders would be easy money.

Luo Yu and Chen Bo challenged a wealthy girl’s Rock Goat to a wagered fight, but Chen Bo’s Thunderbolt Shrimp was quickly defeated by the goat’s speed and defenses. Luo Yu and July then trapped the Rock Goat in a pit and blasted it with their combination attack, Barbecue Grill, leaving the girl alarmed as the goat began to roast.

• Luo Yu recognized the girl’s Rock Goat as a formidable beast with Senior Level Divine Speed and Indomitable Heart, and noticed the Heart of Rock pendant it wore.
• The girl agreed to fight both Chen Bo and Luo Yu for 5,000 Alliance Coins, and Chen Bo bet Luo Yu 500 Alliance Coins that he could win.
• Chen Bo’s Thunderbolt Shrimp used Flash to escape into the pool, but the Rock Goat pursued it through the water and knocked it out with a headbutt.
• Luo Yu entered the arena with July and asked the girl if she needed a break before the fight began.
• July shattered the ground with Dig, causing the charging Rock Goat to fall into a pit, then used Heat Breath to unleash the Barbecue Grill combination attack.
• The trapped Rock Goat began to wail from the heat, and the girl realized Luo Yu and his Earth Penguin were far more dangerous than Chen Bo.

Luo Yu tested July’s abilities and investigated Rock Goat milk on Thousand Rock Island, then helped the group begin choosing goats for Mirror Moon Island. July first conjured magma with the Heart of Rock, while Luo Yu ended the chapter discovering an unusual talent in one of the female Rock Goats.

• July endured the Rock Goat’s attacks, then defeated it by dropping it into pits and roasting it with Heat Breath until its Beast Tamer conceded.
• Luo Yu and Chen Bo bought Rock Goat milk tea and discussed gathering information about Rock Goats, including how well they produced milk.
• Luo Yu gave July a Heart of Rock, and July combined heat with rock power to conjure magma for the first time.
• The next morning, Shi Ning led Luo Yu, Chen Bo, Shui Wuyue, and Yu Wan to the Red Stone Breeding Farm to choose Rock Goats.
• Luo Yu used his see-through cheat to identify a female Rock Goat with the ordinary talent Masochist, which improved its milk yield and quality after abuse.

Luo Yu selected fifteen Rock Goats with hidden talents for breeding on Mirror Moon Island, while Shi Ning began investigating him after learning of his surprising battle record. On the voyage home aboard the Raging Blue, Luo Yu planned to establish QQ Ranch, but the ship suddenly entered black fog.

• Luo Yu chose ten ewes, including Rock Goats with unusual talents, and the group selected fifteen goats to transport to Mirror Moon Island.
• After the group left, Shi Ning questioned the keeper about Luo Yu’s choices and ordered an investigation into what Luo Yu and Chen Bo had done on Thousand Rock Island.
• Shi Ning interviewed Yang Qian, who said Luo Yu’s Earth Penguin had defeated her Rock Goat almost instantly.
• Aboard the Raging Blue, Luo Yu admired the goats’ talents, especially Fermentation Master and Crossbreeding Model, and planned to apply to raise them at QQ Ranch.
• July fished and practiced condensing magma as the Raging Blue carried the goats home, then the sky darkened and the sea turned black when the ship entered black fog.

The Sea of Ghosts appeared around the ship, and Shui Wuyue explained that only Luo Yu had entered its true dimension. Inside, Luo Yu searched for a ghost pet beast, but the candidates he examined had unsuitable Obsessions.

• Shui Wuyue told Yu Wan that the ship was still in the living world and that Luo Yu alone had entered the Sea of Ghosts.
• Shui Wuyue said Luo Yu had one day to choose a ghost and warned that an extreme Obsession could hinder his cultivation.
• Chen Bo woke to find the black sea outside, then felt better after Shui Wuyue joked that his looks made him likely to encounter the Sea of Merfolk.
• Luo Yu entered the Sea of Ghosts and began inspecting ghost sea beasts with his Eye of Data.
• Luo Yu rejected a fighting-obsessed Thousand-Year Turtle and a White-Cut Duck bent on eliminating Azure-Scaled Snakes.
• Luo Yu found a Monarch-level Moon-Crowned Shrimp whose Obsession was to visit the moon, and doubted he could find a suitable beast.

Luo Yu searched the Sea of Ghosts for a ghost pet beast worth contracting, rejecting several promising Monarch Species because their Obsessions, drawbacks, or potential did not suit him. Just as he considered settling for a spatial sponge, he discovered a Honey Water Bee ghost with the extraordinary Insect Empress talent.

• Luo Yu found an Annihilation Star Spirit whose Obsession was to kill an Abyss Species, but he passed on it because it lacked enough potential and would be costly to raise.
• Luo Yu encountered a beautiful male mermaid whose Obsession was to regain his human body and reunite with his wife and child, and he rejected it.
• Luo Yu continued searching, comparing candidates with the Water Devil Beast and deciding not to contract a ghost merely for its species rank.
• As time ran short, Luo Yu considered returning for a spatial sponge, but a Honey Water Bee ghost caught his attention.
• Luo Yu examined the Honey Water Bee and discovered its top-tier Insect Empress talent, which empowered insect subordinates and kept their souls undying while its own soul survived.

Luo Yu chose to form a Soul Contract with a Ghost Honey Water Bee Empress whose top-tier Insect Empress talent could command insects and whose Obsession was to lead Honey Water Bees to supremacy in the sky. The contract was completed, with the Bee Empress settling in Luo Yu’s right eye.

• Luo Yu examined the Bee Empress’s Insect Empress talent and considered how its command could strengthen insect abilities and let it recruit Honey Water Bee dependents.
• Luo Yu saw that the Bee Empress had died protecting its colony and regretted failing to become king of the sky and lead its species to supremacy.
• Luo Yu decided the Bee Empress’s ambition and talent suited his plans to breed powerful Honey Water Bees, and resolved to help it fulfill its Obsession.
• Luo Yu warned himself of the bodily and soul backlashes possible if a Soul Contract’s Obsession went unfulfilled, but accepted the risk and promised to help the Bee Empress become king of the sky.
• The Bee Empress’s soul entered Luo Yu’s right eye as the Soul Contract formed, and Luo Yu joked about finding a fish that wanted to rule the ocean.

Luo Yu returned from the Sea of Ghosts with a ghost Honey Water Bee, whose extraordinary power to command insects made it far more significant than its ordinary appearance suggested. He planned to help it fulfill its Obsession by expanding a Honey Water Bee colony to ten million, a goal that could require buying land on the Azure Billows Continent.

• Yu Wan, Shui Wuyue, and Chen Bo wagered on what kind of ghost pet beast Luo Yu would contract, with Yu Wan predicting an Everchanging Jellyfish.
• Luo Yu returned alone from the Sea of Ghosts and revealed that he had contracted a ghost Honey Water Bee empress.
• Luo Yu explained that the bee could command insects beyond its own species, including powerful and rare kinds, though the others underestimated the extent of its talent.
• Luo Yu said the bee's Obsession was to lead a colony of ten million Honey Water Bees and planned to expand the research institute's breeding efforts.
• Shui Wuyue realized Mirror Moon Island might not have enough space or food for such a huge colony, so Luo Yu might need to buy land on the Azure Billows Continent.

Luo Yu learned how to help Bee Empress grow by feeding her emotional energy and advancing her Obsession to become King of the Sky. After returning to Mirror Moon Island, he proposed raising more Honey Water Bees and building an artificial island and training school.

• Luo Yu introduced July to Bee Empress, but July and the bee paid little attention to each other.
• Shui Wuyue explained that ghost creatures grew through soul resources, emotional energy, and progress toward their Obsessions, and warned Luo Yu not to rely too much on fear.
• Luo Yu set Bee Empress the goal of defeating the director’s Storm Eagle as a step toward becoming King of the Sky.
• Luo Yu reported his new ghost contract to Yu Lei, who was relieved it was only a Honey Water Bee ghost but questioned why Luo Yu had chosen it.
• The Raging Blue returned safely to Mirror Moon Island, though one Rock Goat fell ill during the voyage.
• Yu Lei questioned how Mirror Moon Island could support Bee Empress’s ten-million-bee Obsession, and Luo Yu proposed creating Beehive Island and a Blue Soaring Beast-Taming School.