Ancestor of Ten Thousand Beasts

The Zhan family, which governed the garrison army and Yishan City in the northern reaches of the Jiuyou Empire, was shattered overnight. The city lord, Zhan Ge, and his wife, Lei Ningyue, disappeared, and the garrison army vanished as well. In an instant, Yishan City became a land without a master.

Zhan Yiling, the five-year-old youngest son of the Zhan family, was spared from immediate danger under Ouyang Yuntian's protection. But in the three years after the family fell from power, his Yin-Yang Eyes brought him nothing but neglect and scorn.

He eventually left Yishan City and was taken in by a Tianyuan lion and a white tiger.

But his good fortune did not last. Eight years later, the white tiger and lion who had raised Zhan Yiling were hunted down and killed one after another, and Tianyuan was completely destroyed.

A Tianyuan spirit beast who had grown up alongside him, entrusted with Zhan Yiling by the lion, led him away from Tianyuan. But after they escaped, the beast was gravely wounded in a battle.

Determined to save it, Zhan Yiling returned to Yishan City.

There, he met the sisters Lou Ting and Lou Yun, who had come looking for their “father.” By a twist of fate, he also became the first student admitted to the Alchemy Institute. At the academy, he encountered the Lordly Crown Eagle mentioned by the Cloud Emperor Eagle, and learned from it that the lion was not dead.