Chapter Summaries

Luo Yu told Director Yu Lei that he expected to discover how to evolve Ink Fish into Water Devil Beasts before the Tidal Corpse Transformation, and secured a promise of funding if he succeeded. Back at his institute, he discovered the Bee Empress could awaken a Honey Water Bee’s spatial talent and realized he could use major public reactions to rapidly strengthen her.

• Luo Yu asked Director Yu Lei about the Alliance inspector and learned the guardian god was an Abyss Species that would be informed at the Mirror Moon Celebration.
• Luo Yu revealed that he expected to develop a method for evolving Ink Fish into Water Devil Beasts before the Tidal Corpse Transformation, and Yu Lei agreed to set aside some military funding.
• After returning from Thousand Rock Island, Luo Yu found that most of his Honey Water Bee pairings had failed, but Intelligence and Diligence had produced a bee with the Senior Level talent Heaven Rewards Diligence.
• Luo Yu realized the Bee Empress might enhance innate talents, and she awakened Intangibility, a spatial ability, in a Honey Water Bee.
• Luo Yu decided that developing Water Devil Beasts and having July suppress powerful zombies at the Mirror Moon Celebration could generate emotional energy to strengthen the Bee Empress.

Luo Yu recruited Lin Li to help fund research into Honey Water Bee evolution and tested how the Bee Empress’s Command enhanced the bees’ abilities. After deciding to test Earth Penguin evolution in the Ancient Grotto, he left with fermented goat’s milk to collect emotional energy from wild beasts.

• Lin Li visited Luo Yu to see the Bee Empress, and he proposed that the Moon-Facing Pavilion support research using its Honey Water Bee farm.
• Luo Yu had the Bee Empress boost Honey Water Bees’ Spirit Enhancement and Strength Enhancement stings, which dramatically affected his mind and body.
• Luo Yu watched the Bee Empress accelerate Honey Water Bee mating and egg-laying, producing an egg with talents inherited from both parents.
• The Bee Empress weakened after repeatedly using her Command, so Luo Yu planned to feed her before continuing his experiments.
• Luo Yu set out for the Ancient Grotto to test Earth Penguin evolution and collect emotional energy from wild beasts with fermented Rock Goat milk.
• Yu Wan opened the rancid milk, recoiled from its stench, and rushed to the bathroom.

Luo Yu brought the foul-smelling Rock Goat milk to the Ancient Grotto and asked to test a Heart of Rock with an Earth Penguin. The test succeeded when the penguin evolved through contact with the Ancient Evolution Stone, confirming that the Heart of Rock worked.

• Luo Yu walked toward the Ancient Grotto with Fermentation Master goat milk, and the Bee Empress fed on the intense emotions of nearby wild beasts.
• Luo Yu encountered a Dripping Rain Butterfly with the Growth Fluid ability and decided that the species could serve as gardeners for his future farm.
• Luo Yu returned to the Ancient Grotto, where Bai Dong and the researchers agreed to let him keep the Rock Goats and confirmed that the Hearts of Rock had arrived.
• Luo Yu examined the nine captured Earth Penguins and selected one with the Thick Skin and Tough Flesh talent for an evolution test.
• Luo Yu placed a Heart of Rock around the Earth Penguin's neck and brought it into contact with the Ancient Evolution Stone, triggering its evolution.

Luo Yu confirmed that Earth Penguins could evolve into Blade Rock Penguins with the Heart of Rock and Ancient Evolution Stone, while researchers tested other birds and he helped the newly arrived Rock Goats adapt. Days later, a young-looking swimmer named An Yao reached Mirror Moon Island and introduced herself as an archaeologist invited by Director Yu Lei, explaining that a time-element beast’s curse made her look like a child.

• Luo Yu evolved an Earth Penguin into a Blade Rock Penguin, which awakened Sword of the Earth, and confirmed the same evolution worked on a chick with Dragon Blood.
• Luo Yu concluded that Earth Penguins were especially compatible with the Heart of Rock and Ancient Evolution Stone, but delayed evolving his pet July until he could prepare more resources.
• The researchers tested Hearts of Rock on several bird species and found that Earth Penguins gained a new attribute, while other birds mainly grew stronger physically.
• Luo Yu treated the Rock Goats with enhancement needles to help them adjust to their new home and assigned Chen Bo to milk them.
• Over the next two days, July drank a blend of Rock Goat milk and Rock Turtle honey while training, and research at the Ancient Grotto continued without producing a superior species.
• A patrol fleet found An Yao swimming toward Mirror Moon Island; she said Director Yu Lei had invited her and explained that a time-element beast’s curse made her look like a child.

Scholar An Yao examined Mirror Moon Island’s Ancient Grotto and concluded that it held the remains of a powerful ancient earth- or fire-aligned creature. She warned Director Yu Lei and Luo Yu that the grotto could draw increasingly dangerous Zombie Tides, leaving the island to choose between relocating and rapidly building its defenses.

• Director Yu Lei confirmed An Yao’s identity and brought her to meet Luo Yu at the Ancient Grotto.
• An Yao identified the grotto’s Ancient Evolution Stone as a means for avian mutant beasts to undergo atavistic evolution.
• An Yao explained her theory that an ancient meteorite had caused an extraordinary age of land, and that its surviving power opposed the present age of ocean mutations.
• An Yao connected the grotto’s ancient power to the unusual zombie movements near Mirror Moon Island and predicted stronger Zombie Tides.
• An Yao advised Mirror Moon Island to relocate to the Azure Billows Continent or rapidly strengthen its defenses before future tides brought Abyss Level Aberrant Corpse Beasts.

An Yao joined Mirror Moon Island’s Ancient Grotto research after Director Yu Lei granted her broader access, while Luo Yu discovered a highly successful batch of Ink Fish offspring. He continued preparing for July’s evolution and learned that Lin Li had chosen sweet sheep offal soup for the Mirror Moon Celebration.

• An Yao explained that the Abyss Trial could let an elite human youngster contract a killer whale calf and win the Abyss-Eroding Killer Whale clan’s protection, then negotiated permission to explore the Ancient Grotto.
• Director Yu Lei showed An Yao the atavistically evolved birds, and she chose to stay in the underground grotto and join the researchers.
• Luo Yu and Director Yu Lei discussed whether An Yao’s warning about possible damage to the grotto was concerning before Director Yu Lei left to report to the island master.
• Yu Wan told Luo Yu that the Ink Fish had laid eggs, and he found twelve Senior Level talents among the thirteen Breeding Paragon X Dominion eggs, along with many useful talents in the other groups.
• Luo Yu checked his resources for July’s perfect evolution and asked Lin Li about the Mirror Moon Celebration menu; she said she had settled on sweet sheep offal soup.

As the Mirror Moon Celebration approached, Luo Yu prepared for the return of the Mirror Moon Armed Fleet and learned that Wang Defa’s grandson would compete against him for the guardian deity’s blessing. Wang Defa planned to use his grandson’s performance to raise the Wang Lineage’s standing, while Luo Yu headed to arrange a purchase from Wang Defa’s farm.

• July reached level 9 after days of enhancement jabs, while the Bee Empress expanded and strengthened the Honey Water Bee swarm.
• Chen Bo told Luo Yu that the Mirror Moon Armed Fleet would return soon and that Wang Defa’s rookie grandson would compete in the Mirror Moon Celebration with a top-grade Superior Species.
• Chen Bo proposed betting on who would receive the guardian deity’s blessing, and Luo Yu refused before sending Honey Water Bees to sting him.
• Luo Yu went to find Lin Li and arrange a purchase from Wang Defa’s breeding farm, where the Dominion Ink Fish’s fry were still too weak for evolution experiments.
• Wang Defa said he hoped his grandson’s blessing would help make the Wang Lineage the island’s fourth great Lineage, and he offered the Moon-Facing Pavilion Fat Water Sheep for free.

Luo Yu prepared for the Mirror Moon Celebration by selecting unusually flavorful Fat Water Sheep and training his Dominion Ink Fish, while island guests and officials received invitations. At the celebration, he joined the student challengers and spotted the guardian deity, a powerful Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile with six advanced talents, including a mysterious Eye of the Moon.

• Luo Yu visited Wang Defa’s farm, selected Fat Water Sheep with Kindred Stenches and Aroma Condensation, and planned to raise them before giving some to Lin Li.
• Luo Yu completed July’s final special training and raised his Dominion Ink Fish to level 2, meeting the conditions for the offspring Water Devil Beast’s evolution.
• Handsome, An Yao, and Zhang Lei received invitations to the Mirror Moon Celebration, and Zhang Lei discussed the possible threat of the Wailing Pirate Crew with a crew member.
• At Moon Reflection Lake, Luo Yu joined the freshman challengers, met Bing Liang, Mi Xiaoyu, and Zhuang Feng, and learned that participants could choose their zombie challenge tier.
• While heading toward the buffet, Luo Yu spotted the level 63 Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile and discovered its six advanced talents, including Eye of the Moon.

At the Mirror Moon Celebration, Wang Heng narrowly defeated a Superior Species zombie sea beast, while the other newcomers struggled against weaker opponents. Luo Yu then challenged a Superior Species and stunned the crowd by summoning July, whose power raised a platform of rock from the lake for him to stand on.

• Yu Wan reunited with her parents and joked that Luo Yu might develop a Water Devil Beast, while explaining that she wanted to keep working at his institute.
• Wang Heng challenged a Superior Species zombie Crawler with his Crocodile Devil Turtle and won narrowly after the fight left his pet badly injured.
• The other newcomers challenged weaker zombie sea beasts, and Luo Yu’s three students chose low-rank opponents.
• Luo Yu appeared as the final challenger, introduced as a fifteen-year-old breeder and researcher, and announced that he would challenge a Superior Species.
• Luo Yu summoned July over the lake, and July raised a heated rocky platform from the lakebed, leaving the spectators stunned.

July used his newly mastered earth and magma abilities to defeat a Superior Species Crawler in one attack, leaving the Mirror Moon Celebration audience stunned. Luo Yu then learned that he and Lin Li would receive the guardian deity’s blessing, though the deity planned to leave the island’s other problems to its people.

• July raised a rock platform from the lakebed and stood on it as the Crawler charged across the water.
• July struck the Crawler with a magma attack that blew off its head and boiled the water around its body, killing it instantly.
• Luo Yu recalled July and left the venue, while the spectators reacted with disbelief and Scholar An Yao speculated that the penguin’s potential came from the Ancient Grotto master’s influence.
• Luo Yu sensed that the Bee Empress had gained power from the battle and expected her to reach level 10 before July reached level 11.
• Director Yu Lei told Luo Yu that Lin Li’s sheep offal soup had pleased the guardian deity, who wanted to bless them both.
• Luo Yu learned that the guardian deity knew about the Tidal Corpse Transformation, the pirate crew, and the grotto, but intended to let the island handle them unless a major crisis arose.

Luo Yu asked the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile to support his experiments, claiming he had nearly perfected a way to evolve Ink Fish into Monarch Species Water Devil Beasts. The guardian deity promised to protect his future work if the method proved real, but warned him of the consequences if he had lied.

• Bai Ya brought Luo Yu, Lin Li, and Yu Lei to the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile’s cave beneath Moon Reflection Lake.
• The guardian deity offered Lin Li and Luo Yu one wish each, and Lin Li wished for an Ice Spirit Pot before Luo Yu declined her offer to give him her wish.
• Luo Yu asked the guardian deity to help with an evolution experiment that he said could strengthen Mirror Moon Island and protect it from future threats.
• Luo Yu revealed that he had developed a method to evolve Ink Fish into Water Devil Beasts, prompting Bai Ya, Yu Lei, Lin Li, and the guardian deity to react with shock.
• Luo Yu offered to demonstrate the method at his research institute, and the guardian deity said it would safeguard his experiments if his claim was true.

At the Luo Yu Research Institute, Luo Yu demonstrated his Ink Fish evolution method before Yu Lei, Bai Ya, Yu Wan, Lin Li, and the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile. The experiment succeeded, producing a level 6 lower monarch species Water Devil Beast and leaving Mirror Moon Island’s leaders stunned by Luo Yu’s achievement.

• Yu Wan was surprised when Luo Yu arrived at the institute with Lin Li, Yu Lei, Bai Ya, and the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile.
• Luo Yu led the group to the Ink Fish breeding farm, where he prepared a school containing one Ink Fish with Dominion and one hundred ordinary Ink Fish.
• July repeatedly hurled magma into the pond, creating danger that triggered the school’s evolution.
• The Ink Fish converged into a massive Water Devil Beast, which Yu Wan restrained with her psychic power.
• Luo Yu examined the evolved beast and confirmed it had become a level 6 lower monarch species with Poison King and Piercing a Willow Leaf at a Hundred Paces talents.
• Yu Lei, Bai Ya, Yu Wan, and Lin Li realized Luo Yu had successfully developed the Water Devil Beast’s evolution method.

After revealing a possible method to evolve Ink Fish into Water Devil Beasts, Luo Yu proposed a riskier Dependent Evolution Method and persuaded Mirror Moon Island’s leaders and guardian deity to support a limited trial. The Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile ordered supplies to be bought, leaving Luo Yu ready to use the island’s resources for his experiments and prepare for the Abyss Trial.

• Luo Yu confirmed that Ink Fish could be bred into Water Devil Beasts in a steady supply, prompting Yu Lei, Bai Ya, and the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile to praise the potential benefits for Mirror Moon Island.
• Luo Yu explained his Dependent Evolution Method, which would evolve an Ink Fish contracted as a dependent and might also transform its Bloodline Master, while warning that the process was dangerous and untested.
• Bai Ya and the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile questioned the method’s cost and low success rate, but Luo Yu suggested trying it on a few individuals to prepare for the Abyss Trial and win an alliance with the Orca Clan.
• Luo Yu outlined how strengthening himself and July could protect Mirror Moon Island, and the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile decided to gamble on the plan and support the experiment.
• Yu Lei said Blood Coagulation Algae could be bought from the Azure Billows Continent or Future Town, and the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile ordered Shui Wuyue to fetch it as soon as possible.

Director Yu Lei arranged for Luo Yu to travel with Shui Wuyue to Future Town for the Alliance strength assessment and to buy Blood Coagulation Algae, while the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile appointed Luo Yu honorary vice island lord. The group then prepared to test the newly evolved Water Devil Beast, and Chen Bo found himself chosen to fight it.

• Director Yu Lei explained that Luo Yu needed to pass the strength assessment in Future Town before entering the Abyss Trial, and the group planned for Shui Wuyue to escort him there in a week.
• The Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile appointed Luo Yu honorary vice island lord and agreed to prepare the Blood of the Abyss while Director Yu Lei arranged to buy Blood Coagulation Algae.
• Yu Wan asked to contract with the Water Devil Beast, but Luo Yu refused because it was a test subject and better-aptitude specimens might be evolved later.
• The Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile took the Water Devil Beast for training and research, then offered to demonstrate its strength; when July was too exhausted to fight, it asked for another opponent.
• Chen Bo arrived and asked whether the guardian deity had been stingy, then panicked when he realized the crocodile had heard him.
• Yu Wan persuaded the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile to have Chen Bo's level 9 Thunderbolt Shrimp fight the Water Devil Beast.

Chen Bo tested his Thunderbolt Shrimp against Luo Yu’s newly evolved Water Devil Beast, which defeated it and revealed a mind-confusing attack and the ability to reshape itself. The group realized the Water Devil Beast could become equipment and serve as a powerful bloodline dependent, while July tried to recruit it as an enormous fishing rod.

• Chen Bo ordered Great General to attack the Water Devil Beast, but its Ink Sea Raging Tide overwhelmed the Thunderbolt Shrimp and left it confused and attacking Chen Bo.
• The Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile restrained the Water Devil Beast, and Yu Wan realized it still recognized her as its caretaker from when it was an Ink Fish.
• Yu Wan asked the Water Devil Beast to calm Great General, and it knocked the Thunderbolt Shrimp unconscious; Luo Yu identified Ink Sea Raging Tide as a group confusion ability.
• The Water Devil Beast demonstrated Shapeshifting at Will by turning into a Thunderbolt Shrimp-shaped creature and then a giant broom.
• Yu Lei and Luo Yu recognized that the Water Devil Beast could transform into equipment and become a powerful dependent, while July fetched his fishing rod and asked it to transform into one.

Luo Yu’s Bee Empress broke through to level 12 overnight, making him a Junior Level Beast Taming Master, and he planned to prepare her for the upcoming Abyss Trial. The chapter left him expecting the Honey Water Bee to help him pass the Strength Assessment despite July’s lack of sea-fighting ability.

• The Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile took the reluctant Water Devil Beast back to Moon Reflection Lake to train it, and the others left the research institute.
• Luo Yu realized the Bee Empress was close to breaking through after absorbing the guardian’s emotional energy and hurried away to focus on her progress.
• Yu Lei told Shui Wuyue that the guardian had requested him for an assignment with Luo Yu, then presented him with a confidentiality agreement.
• The Bee Empress reached level 12 overnight, and Luo Yu advanced to Junior Level Beast Taming Master.
• Yu Wan explained that the Abyss Trial’s first stage required participants to sail alone, fight zombie hordes, and collect crystal cores, raising doubts about whether July could help Luo Yu pass the Strength Assessment.
• Luo Yu said he would train his level-12 Honey Water Bee over the next few days and make her his main force for the trial.

Luo Yu began testing three possible evolution paths for Honey Water Bees with the Bee Empress’s help. Mental evolution failed and spatial evolution remained unresolved, but resonance evolution produced a strange change in ten bees linked to their bee king.

• Luo Yu announced a Honey Water Bee evolution project and outlined mental, spatial, and resonance-based methods.
• The Bee Empress helped a bee king develop powerful mental telekinesis, but it did not evolve into a higher species.
• Luo Yu assigned spatially talented Honey Water Bees to develop an internal space, but none had succeeded yet.
• Luo Yu gathered bees with Mental Overload and had the Bee Empress strengthen them until ten gained mental telekinesis alongside their bee king.
• The eleven bees formed a mental chain, and Luo Yu sensed a sudden change in the ten ordinary Honey Water Bees.

Luo Yu discovered that Honey Water Bees could evolve into Knight Bees through mental resonance, then used the Bee Empress and 10 spatial Bee Kings to produce a stronger variant with the potential to become Royal Knight Bees. After staying up through the experiment, he asked Yu Wan about the island’s strongest junior Beast Tamer with a flying pet, preparing to test the Bee Empress’s strength.

• Luo Yu and the Bee Empress watched 10 Honey Water Bees evolve into mid-rank Knight Bees with the Loyalty talent and Knight’s Soul ability.
• The Bee Empress recruited the Knight Bees, but they could not evolve a second time under her command; they reproduced, and their eggs were still Honey Water Bees.
• Luo Yu arranged 10 Honey Water Bees with Bee King and Power of the Void talents around the Bee Empress, and their mental networks resonated overnight.
• The 10 bees evolved into Knight Bees with Spear of the King, Command, and the potential to become Royal Knight Bees at level 40.
• Luo Yu told the Bee Empress to rest before he chose a Knight Bee for a soul-dependent contract, then asked Yu Wan about the strongest junior flying pet on the island.
• Yu Wan identified her younger cousin Yu Xiang, whose Gale Eagle was an upper-tier common species descended from her eldest uncle’s Storm Eagle.

Luo Yu discussed Honey Water Bee evolution and arranged a potential battle for the Bee Empress, while Lin Li asked him to evolve her bee and learned that Water Devil Beasts could inherit specialized talents. The chapter left Luo Yu considering Lin Li’s wish for a fire-and-ice pet beast to help her cook.

• Luo Yu asked Yu Wan to arrange a beast battle with Yu Xiang’s Gale Eagle for the Bee Empress, and Yu Wan agreed to see if she could arrange it.
• Luo Yu explained that he had discovered a way to evolve Honey Water Bees into Knight Bees, while Chen Bo became frightened by their enormous Poison Stings and backed out of testing their enhancement ability.
• Lin Li prepared a meal for Luo Yu and asked him about evolving her Honey Water Bee, and he agreed to help her pursue the evolution.
• Luo Yu explained that a Water Devil Beast could inherit specialized talents from the Ink Fish used to evolve it, and Lin Li became excited about the possibilities.
• Lin Li said she wanted a fire-element pet beast, ideally one with both fire and ice attributes, to help her cook, and Luo Yu imagined an ice-and-fire cooking companion.

Luo Yu helped the Bee Empress discover how to contract a Soul Dependent, and the first dependent, Void Knight, gained a powerful ghost form. Yu Wan then arranged a spar between Luo Yu and her younger clansman Yu Xiang for the following morning.

• Luo Yu selected the strongest of ten Knight Bees and named her Void Knight, the first captain of the Empress’s personal guard.
• Luo Yu guided the Bee Empress to uncover her Soul Imprint ability, and she marked Void Knight as her first dependent.
• The Soul Imprint triggered Void Knight’s second mutation, raising her to an Upper-Tier Common Species and granting her the ghost attribute and Ghost Form.
• Luo Yu told the Bee Empress to develop Void Knight’s space talent ahead of a difficult battle the next day.
• Yu Wan visited Yu Xiang and arranged for him to spar with Luo Yu at the research institute the following morning, where he would face Luo Yu’s level 12 Honey Water Bee ghost.