Recaps

Ye Jingcheng raised his spirit beasts, advanced his alchemy, and joined Ye Jingteng’s dangerous expedition to Five Poisons Peak, where the Ye Family uncovered a risky sect mission and recovered valuable spoils. Back at Lingyun Peak, Ye Jingcheng established a Spirit Field, helped his Jade Scale Snake break through, and advanced to Qi Training Stage 8.

• Ye Jingcheng claimed and hatched a Jade Scale Snake, then trained his spirit beasts and improved his alchemy under Ye Haiyun and Ye Haitian’s guidance.
• Ye Jingteng recruited Ye Jingcheng and other Ye cultivators to search Five Poisons Peak for Purple Poison Thorns, and the group encountered the Yongnan Duo Robbers and another cultivator.
• Ye Jingcheng helped defeat the robbers and kill the one-armed cultivator, while the Ye Family recovered valuable artifacts and Five Poisons Bee pupae.
• Ye Jingcheng argued that the Mo Family had influenced Ye Jingteng’s dangerous sect mission, and Ye Haiyun directed the family to prepare for the political conflict.
• Ye Jingcheng restored the Five Poisons Bees and refined a peak-grade Spirit Nurturing Pill, prompting Ye Haitian to discuss Alchemy Elder treatment and support for a Spirit Field.
• Ye Jingyu helped Ye Jingcheng establish a Spirit Field, and Ye Xinghan provided Purple Illusion Flower seeds and other plant materials.
• Ye Jingcheng used Treasure Light on the seeds, while his Jade Scale Snake broke through and he advanced to Qi Training Stage 8.
• Ye Jingcheng found his Spirit Field fertile and learned that the Jade Ring Rat had reached strength comparable to a Qi Training Stage 6 cultivator.

Ye Jingcheng traveled undercover to Taichang Market, won recognition as an alchemist, and supported the Ye Family’s mission as it struck the Chu Family and faced accusations from rival clans. Back at Lingyun Peak, he advanced his Jade Scale Snake and his own cultivation before the elders urged him to prepare for Foundation Establishment.

• Ye Jingcheng tended his Spirit Field and beasts, shared Welcoming Spring Tea with Ye Haiyun, and helped him test the Crimson Flame Pill formula, earning a promise of a Foundation Establishment Pill if the trials succeeded.
• At the Ye Family council, Ye Xingliu assigned Ye Jingcheng to buy formation treasures in Taichang Market under the disguise of Tang Haobo, and Ye Jingcheng traveled there with Ye Haiyi.
• Ye Jingcheng attended the Alchemist Exchange Meeting, won its Azure Spirit Pill contest as Tang Haobo, and chose array treasures over a sect recommendation.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haiyi attended the auction but failed to obtain Water Cloud Grass or Foundation Establishment Pills, while the Ye Family began its operation against the Chu Family’s stronghold at Yuli Valley.
• Ye Xueliang and the Ye Family forces killed the Chu cultivators and seized the valley, while the Chen Family raided a Ye Family Spirit Mine and later agreed to compensate the Ye Family.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haiyi returned to Lingyun Peak with the mission goods, and Ye Jingcheng used Spirit Honey and a Jade Scale Pill to help the Jade Scale Snake break through.
• Ye Jingcheng completed Beast Communication with the Jade Scale Snake, reached the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, and learned that the snake’s Water Escape Technique greatly improved its speed and mobility.
• Ye Xingliu and the elders awarded Ye Jingcheng Contribution Points for his pill research, and Ye Haiyun advised him to develop his alchemy and prepare for Foundation Establishment.

Ye Jingcheng reached Foundation Establishment at Sand Cloud Mountain, strengthened his spirit beasts, and returned to Lingyun Peak as the Ye Family faced growing pressure. Corpse Refiners attacked the peak, but the family’s defenders repelled them and trapped two intruders in an unexplained prairie illusion.

• Ye Jingcheng trained and hunted at Sand Cloud Mountain, helped kill the Golden Eyed Crow, and used its demon core and body to advance the Scarlet Flame Fox to the Second Order.
• Ye Jingcheng successfully established his Four Aspects Spirit Platform, overcame two heart-demon illusions, and emerged from seclusion as a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu returned to Lingyun Peak, where Ye Xingliu rewarded them, warned them to conceal their cultivation, and described mounting pressure from the Chen and Li Families.
• Ye Jingcheng prepared his Spirit Field and spirit beasts, helped Ye Jingteng obtain herbs, and learned that Ye Xingliu was leaving for Jade Dragon Valley as the Ye Family prepared for danger.
• Two black-robed cultivators recruited the Mad Corpse Two Fiends to attack the Ye Family, and Corpse Refiners soon assaulted Lingyun Peak while Ye Xingliu was away.
• Ye Haiyun defended the peak with the Mountain Protection Array as Ye Jingyu and Ye Jingcheng joined the battle against Heaven Fiend and Earth Fiend and their corpse refiners.
• Ye Jingcheng and the defenders overwhelmed Earth Fiend and countered Heaven Fiend, while two intruders retreated from the Ancestral Hall and became trapped in an endless prairie illusion.

Ye Jingcheng strengthened his spirit beasts, gained a new pill furnace, and helped the Ye Family undermine the Li Family’s alchemy business. After two Ye Family cultivators were killed, he agreed to serve as bait for a counterattack, with two months to prepare.

• Ye Jingcheng killed the Green Hair Corpse, recovered its treasures, and helped the Ye Family secure compensation from the Li and Chen Families.
• Ye Jingcheng acquired the Three-Colored Cloud Deer, formed a Blood Pact with it, and helped several spirit beasts advance while cultivating his secret arts.
• Ye Xinghe explained the Ye Family’s plan to take over the Li Family’s alchemy market, and Ye Jingcheng proposed the Ban Li Decree to reward customers who avoided Li goods.
• Ye Jingcheng refined Jade Soul Pills and advanced the Five Poisons Bee into a Six-Colored Bee Queen as the Ye Family’s campaign weakened the Li Family’s sales.
• Ye Jingcheng won the Three Qian Taihe Furnace at auction, while the Supreme Mystery Spirit Wine Formula sold for 45,000 Spirit Stones to a first-floor bidder.
• Ye Jingcheng refused to travel to Juehe Valley to trade for the incomplete Blood Burst Pill recipe, offering instead to meet the rogue cultivator in the market.
• Ye Xinghe told Ye Jingcheng that Ye Jingfeng and Ye Jingyu had been killed, and Ye Jingcheng agreed to act as bait against a Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator after two months of preparation.