Recaps

Ye Jingcheng prepared for a campaign against Green Spring Sect and joined Xu Qiukui’s expedition, while the Ye Family and Sky Sand Sect launched a separate assault on Sky Sword Sect. After the attacks succeeded, Ye Jingcheng killed Demon Jade Real Person but found Xu Qiukui fleeing Ghost Profound Sect pursuers and asking for help.

• Ye Jingcheng refined a patterned Gold Core Pill for Chu Yanqing, bought the Profound Light Boat, and traded for rare materials and demon blood essences while preparing for the campaign.
• Ye Jingcheng joined Xu Qiukui’s operation against Green Spring Sect, swore a Heavenly Dao Oath, and accepted a diversionary attack on Demon Jade Mountain in exchange for a share of the spoils.
• At Sunken Abyss Valley, Ye Jingcheng split from Xu Qiukui’s force and led Foundation Establishment cultivators toward Demon Jade Mountain while Xu Qiukui’s allies attacked Green Spring Sect.
• Xu Qiukui’s force broke Green Spring Sect’s defenses, but Green Willow Old Demon escaped after detonating Azure Fiend Old Demon’s corpse and injuring Xu Qiukui and the Three-Headed Lion.
• Ye Jingcheng killed Mo Yunzi, helped destroy Demon Jade Mountain, and fled when Demon Jade Real Person approached, while Ye Xingliu and Huang Tieyun defeated Sky Sword Sect and Huang Tieyun killed Xuan Qiusheng.
• Ye Jingcheng withdrew toward Yellow Court Peak after the rendezvous went quiet, then turned back and destroyed the Ghost Spirit Boat and killed Demon Jade Real Person when the Ghost Profound Sect pursued him.
• Ye Jingcheng escaped aboard the Profound Light Boat and changed course toward Sand Yellow Mountain, where he saw Xu Qiukui fleeing another Ghost Spirit Boat and offering a Nascent Soul breakthrough secret art for help.

Ye Jingcheng strengthened the Ye Family, gained allies and resources, and led a campaign against the Jin Family while the Silver Moon Demon King was drawn into a trap. The arc ended with the Ye Family destroying the Jin Family’s resistance and Chu Yanqing avenging her family.

• Ye Jingcheng killed Ghost Profound Sect cultivators, returned to Sand Yellow Mountain, and uncovered valuable inheritances and resources in the captured storage bags.
• Ye Jingcheng advanced his cultivation and divine sense, while the Ye Family received Profound Far Peak and prepared its younger members for Beast Communication assessments.
• Ye Qing Feng and Ye Qing Nian gained seven-inch Beast Communication Marks, and Ye Xuefan survived his tribulation to become the Ye Family’s third Golden Core cultivator.
• Ye Jingcheng agreed to aid the Zhu Family, then learned he had an eight-million-Spirit-Stone bounty and returned to plan a strike against the Jin Family.
• The Ye Family lured Silver Moon Demon King and Silver Mysterious Demon King into their formation, killed both, and raided Silver Moon Lake for treasures.
• As the Jin Family held its anniversary celebration, Ye Jingcheng ordered an assault, while Ye Xuefan trapped and killed Kong Taixuan and the departing Kong Family.
• Ye Jingyuan and his allies broke the Jin Family’s Five Elements Tai Geng Sword Formation, but Jin Xuanhen and West King Real Person trapped them in the Heavenly Hatred Bowl.
• Ye Jingcheng and his allies killed Jin Xuanhen, Cloud Wood Real Person, and West King Real Person, while Chu Yanqing killed Jin Xuanzhao and avenged her family.

Ye Jingcheng consolidated the Ye Family’s gains, strengthened its alliances, and prepared to enter the Earth Immortal Realm despite its risks. Meanwhile, the family expanded its enterprises and selected promising young talisman crafters to inherit the Kong Family’s secret canon.

• Qingxi Sect and North River Old Ancestor failed to prove who had killed West King Real Person, while Heavenly Saber True Monarch drove Qing River Old Ancestor to retreat.
• Ye Qingyan entered seclusion, Chu Yanqing left the surviving Chu descendants in Chu Yanliu’s care, and Ye Jingcheng received the Kong Family’s talisman inheritances and spoils.
• Ye Jingcheng traded with Heavenly Saber True Monarch and agreed to consider a hidden Ye Family base in Tianyou County while the clan prepared for the Earth Immortal Realm expedition.
• Ye Jingcheng helped the White Eyebrow Azure Wolf, Roc Fish, and Great Azure Turtle survive their tribulations, then led fifty clansmen toward the Fallen Soul Forbidden Ground.
• Ye Jingcheng held the Sky Sand Sect’s ceremony, auction, and Golden Core exchange, building ties with cultivators including Prefect Wang, Prefecture Lord Xiao, and Thousand Crane Real Person.
• Prefect Wang invited Ye Jingcheng to join an expedition to a suspected Fifth-Order inheritance, and Ye Jingcheng later decided to take the risk while seeking the Clan Elders’ counsel about concealing the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor.
• Ye Jingcheng completed the Jade Scale Pill and placed several spirit beasts in formations to advance, while the Ye Family finalized a partnership with the Duan Family and opened its Talisman Association competition.
• Ye Xuefan named the six leading young talisman crafters, warned them to keep the Heavenly Talisman Mystic Body Secret Canon secret, and gave each a jade slip to copy onto their arm.

Ye Jingcheng strengthened the Ye Family and its allies while gathering treasures, mastering techniques, and preparing a group to enter the Earth Immortal Realm. The arc ended with Prefect Wang assembling the expedition and giving its cultivators travel supplies and precautions.

• Ye Yunxuan completed a Water Marsh Talisman, swore to keep the Heavenly Talisman Mystic Body Secret Canon secret, and agreed to change cultivation under Ye Xuefan’s protection.
• Wan Chengjie and Ma Xiuyuan found Cloud Wilds Real Person’s inheritance and traded its treasures and information to Ye Jingcheng for resources and access to the Ye Family’s spirit puppets and magic treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng joined Mystic Machine Real Person and Azure Origin Real Person in the Fallen Soul Forbidden Ground, where he helped defeat a Fourth Order Peak Earth Flood Dragon and claimed a share of its treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng oversaw breakthroughs by the Stone Spirit, Peach Wood, and Peacock Stone, then reached the Golden Core Late Stage after ten years of seclusion.
• Ye Jingcheng brought the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor to the Illusion Sand Forbidden Ground, where Peach Wood broke the illusion formation and revealed an Earth Immortal Platform.
• Ye Jingcheng subdued the Rhino Deer Demon King, while the Ye Family arranged its plans for Chen Whale Jade, Sky Leaving Grassland, and the Earth Immortal Realm expedition.
• Ye Jingcheng entrusted the Blood Soul Pearl to Ye Xuecang, received supplies from his relatives, and made preparations with Chu Yanqing before leaving for the expedition.
• Union Madam secured Ye Jingcheng’s oath to protect the Jade Union Sect if she died, and Prefect Wang later gave Ye Jingcheng and the other expedition cultivators Jade Mirrors and Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.