Recaps

Ye Jingcheng healed and strengthened his Spirit Beasts, advanced as an alchemist, and joined his relatives in running the Ye Family shop at Taihang Market. As rival families threatened the Ye Family’s business, the clan secured a Blood Heart Pill and Ye Jingcheng began studying a new pill-refinement method during the shop’s closure.

• Ye Jingcheng healed the Crimson Flame Fox with the Ancient Book, formed a Blood Pact with it, and learned that the book could reveal ways to improve exceptional Spirit Beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng joined Ye Jingyu and Ye Jingyong on a hunt, where their group defeated Azure Cloud Wolves and Long-Eared Deer before sharing the spoils with the Ye Family.
• Ye Jingcheng broke through to Qi Training Stage 5, improved his pill-making, and was sent with other young cultivators to maintain the Ye Family shop at Taihang Market.
• When rival families blocked access to Earth Fire Rooms and threatened the Ye Family’s supply contracts, Ye Jingcheng used the Crimson Flame Fox’s fire to refine pills, including Qi Blood Pills and Qi Return Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng bought ingredients from a veiled seller and later sold pills at a rented stall, drawing the attention of a brocade-clad youth who recognized they had been made without Earth Fire.
• At the auction, Li Xiangcai drove up prices against Ye Jingcheng, while Ye Xinghe won the Blood Heart Pill for twenty-two thousand Spirit Stones.
• Ye Xinghe closed the shop for ten days and gave Ye Jingcheng the Red Dragon Fruit, which Ye Jingcheng used with the Ancient Book to study a pill-refinement method.

Ye Jingcheng strengthened his bond with the Ye Family’s Spirit Beasts, helped the clan defeat Blood Cultivators, and won the middle-stage Clan Competition. He chose the Four Aspects Heavenly Origin Scripture and left with a difficult cultivation path ahead.

• Ye Jingcheng survived a rogue cultivator ambush with the Ye Family, earned the Beast Communication Mark, and discovered a seven-inch mark in his Ancient Book.
• Ye Jingcheng killed robbers on the road, then joined Ye Xinghe’s search for the Heretical Cultivators after Xu Xiuqing asked the family to save her father.
• Ye Jingcheng trapped Old Xu during the battle beneath the lake, but Old Xu died from the Blood Heart Curse, and Xu Xiuqing gave Ye Jingcheng the Golden Scale Beast.
• Ye Jingcheng raised the Golden Scale Beast alongside his other Spirit Beasts and became a First-Order Grade-High Alchemist by refining Ice Purity Pills with the Crimson Flame Fox.
• Ye Xinghe returned Ye Jingcheng to Lingyun Peak as the Ye Family faced the Xu, Li, Chu, and Chen Families over Turtle Ancestor’s blood demon qi and the poisoned Blood Heart Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng advanced through the Clan Competition, defeating Ye Xingyu, Ye Jingli, and Ye Jingyong to win first place in the middle-stage group.
• Ye Haiping tested Ye Jingcheng’s Beast Communication Mark and offered him cultivation methods, and Ye Jingcheng chose the Four Aspects Heavenly Origin Scripture despite its demand for four Foundation Establishment Monster Beasts.

Ye Jingcheng advanced his alchemy and helped strengthen his Spirit Beasts before joining the Ye Family’s expedition into Jade Dragon Valley. The family obtained valuable treasures from a hidden cavern, then became caught in a deadly battle against a snake tide.

• Ye Jingcheng studied the Four Aspects Heavenly Origin Scripture, learned from Ye Haiyun’s alchemy, and rebuilt his cultivation to Qi Training Stage 6.
• Ye Jingcheng refined a Crimson Flame Pill for the Crimson Flame Fox, which broke through to the equivalent of Qi Training Stage 8, and trained the Golden Scale Beast for battle.
• Ye Xingliu warned Ye Jingcheng to stay near him and avoid using the Crimson Flame Fox and Beast Communication Mark during the expedition to Jade Dragon Valley.
• The Ye Family entered Jade Dragon Valley, where Ye Jingcheng and his kin helped trap and fight a river full of frenzied spirit snakes.
• Ye Haiyi led Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu secretly to Jade Dragon Pool, where they found Jade Dragon Grass and spirit eggs, including one with the potential to become a flood dragon.
• The Turtle Ancestor stored the eggs and herbs as Ye Haiyi’s group escaped, while two Third Rank Jade Scale Snakes broke free and drew the expedition’s cultivators into battle.
• Ye Xingliu held the Ye Family back until Qian He Shangren called for help, then sent Lizard Elder and the Blue-Eyed Hanging-Eye Tiger into the fight as Ye Jingcheng attacked weaker snakes with the Golden Scale Beast.
• Luo Yuan Shangren arrived and killed the Jade Scale Snake Great Demon, leaving two Purple Mansion Shangren to face the remaining Purple Mansion Monster Beast.

After returning from Jade Dragon Valley, Ye Jingcheng advances his cultivation and strengthens his Spirit Beasts while the Ye Family prepares a hunt in the Mount Taihang Mountain Range. The hunt becomes a battle with the Li Family, ending with the Ye Family taking Li Mu Valley and Ye Jingcheng uncovering valuable artifacts and techniques in the spoils.

• The Ye Family won a greater share of Jade Dragon Valley’s mines and spirit fish after Ye Xingliu presented evidence that the Li Family had caused the Snake Ape Pill incident.
• Ye Jingcheng traded for a Green Root Fruit, learned new pill formulas, advanced to Qi Training Stage 7, and formed a Beast Communication Mark with the Golden Scale Beast.
• Ye Xingliu announced the Ye Family’s Spirit Ascension Array effort and the hunt for Lush Forest Pigs, and Ye Jingcheng joined Ye Haiyi’s expedition.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingqun helped prepare for the hunt, and the Ye Family drove a herd of Lush Forest Pigs into their traps before Li Xiangcai and the Li Family attacked.
• The Ye Family’s prepared formations trapped the Li Family, and Ye Jingcheng killed Li Xiangcai while Ye Haiyi and the family’s Spirit Beasts defeated Li Muhai and Li Yufei.
• The Ye Family seized Li Mu Valley, where Ye Jingcheng killed the hidden body cultivator Li Xiangjin after the Jade Ring Rat detected him underground.
• Ye Haiyi destroyed the mine vein and led the Ye Family away, and Ye Jingcheng discovered Dragon Spring Stone ore, the Hidden Spirit Armor, the Blood Jade Body Tempering Scripture, and other valuables in the Li Family’s storage bags.