Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng’s Jade Book awakened while he failed to refine a batch of Spirit Feeding Pills, and he left the Alchemy Pavilion with a secret subsidy from Ye Haitian. He headed to the Demon Hunting Hall, still hoping the book could help him raise a spirit beast worth his four hundred Contribution Points.

• Ye Jingcheng’s Jade Book emitted radiant haze during a failed refinement, revealing its first illuminated page.
• Ye Haitian recorded Ye Jingcheng’s fifty Spirit Feeding Pills and secretly awarded him thirty extra Contribution Points for their pill fragrance.
• Ye Haitian told Ye Jingcheng that absolute fairness was unfairness, and Ye Jingcheng bowed before leaving with seventy-four Contribution Points from the session.
• Ye Jingcheng considered how to balance buying a spirit beast cub against his cultivation and other expenses, then arrived at the Demon Hunting Hall.

Ye Jingcheng saw the Yellow-Covered Ancient Book respond to a dying Crimson Flame Fox and suspected it had extraordinary potential. After his relatives chose the healthier Spirit Beasts, he acquired both the fox and another beast and hurried back to his courtyard with the Ancient Book glowing within him.

• Ye Haiyun declared the poisoned Crimson Flame Fox beyond saving, while Ye Jingcheng saw the Ancient Book reveal a vision of a powerful nine-tailed fox.
• Ye Haiyi offered Ye Jingcheng a choice of Spirit Beast cubs, but he waited for his older siblings to choose first.
• Ye Jingyong and Ye Jingyu took the Flying Cloud Leopards, while Ye Jingli and Ye Jingyu chose the Azure Scale Snake and a Jade Ring Rat.
• Ye Jingcheng asked to take the dying Crimson Flame Fox, and Ye Haiyi let him take both it and another beast for 250 Contribution Points.
• Ye Jingcheng thanked Ye Haiyi and Ye Haiyun, then hurried to his courtyard as the Ancient Book emitted spiritual light.

Ye Jingcheng used the Yellow-Covered Ancient Book’s spiritual radiance to heal the Crimson Flame Fox and discovered that the book could reveal ways to help exceptional Monster Beasts evolve. After testing a Blood Pact on the Jade Ring Rat and assessing the costs of raising both beasts, he weighed joining the Demon Hunting Team against refining pills for income.

• Ye Jingcheng channeled the Yellow-Covered Ancient Book’s spiritual radiance into the Crimson Flame Fox, healing nearly all its injuries.
• As Ye Jingcheng performed a Blood Pact with the Crimson Flame Fox, the book revealed Spirit Herbs that could help it become a Two-Tailed Crimson Fox.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the Crimson Flame Fox two Spirit Feeding Pills, then performed a Blood Pact on the Jade Ring Rat and found that the book did not react to it.
• Ye Jingcheng concluded that the book could heal and improve exceptional Monster Beasts, reveal their growth methods, and form a more domineering Blood Pact.
• Ye Jingcheng realized that raising two Spirit Beasts would strain his finances and considered hunting demons or refining pills, noting that the Crimson Flame Fox might eventually help with Alchemy.

Ye Jingcheng visited the Ye Family’s Treasure Pavilion to restock supplies for his Spirit Beasts and learned that Ye Jingyu was organizing an expedition to Demon Valley in a month. He left with herbs, meat, pills, and talismans, while learning that the Ancient Book’s pill formula required ingredients beyond his current Alchemy skill.

• Ye Jingyong told Ye Jingcheng that Ye Jingyu planned to lead a team to Demon Valley in a month to hunt Monster Beasts drawn to its spirit vein.
• Ye Jingcheng exchanged fifty Contribution Points for Spirit Feeding Pill herbs, Spirit Beast Meat, Detoxification Pills, and Blood Essence Pills, while telling Ye Haiping that the Crimson Flame Fox’s poison seemed to be fading.
• Ye Haiping identified the unfamiliar Spirit Herbs from Ye Jingcheng’s jade slip, and Ye Jingcheng realized the pill formula required a pill beyond his current Alchemy ability.
• Ye Jingcheng exchanged another sixty Contribution Points for six First-Order Grade-Middle Spirit Talismans to prepare for the Demon Valley expedition.

After a month of tending his Spirit Beasts, Ye Jingcheng discovered that his Crimson Flame Fox had recovered and grown powerful enough to rival a Qi Training Stage 5 cultivator. Ye Jingyu summoned Ye Jingcheng and their brothers for a journey into the Mount Taihang Mountain Range, where the group prepared to travel by spirit boat.

• Ye Jingcheng saw that the Crimson Flame Fox had healed, then watched it race through a clearing and blast a huge pit with a powerful Fireball.
• Ye Jingcheng received a Sound Transmission Talisman telling him to come quickly, stored the tired Crimson Flame Fox in its bag, and met Ye Jingyong, Ye Jingyu, and Ye Jingli.
• Ye Jingyu hinted that the Crimson Flame Fox had great potential, then brought out a spirit boat and explained how the brothers would travel toward their destination in the Mount Taihang Mountain Range.
• Ye Jingyu told Ye Jingcheng to release his Jade Ring Rat to detect powerful Monster Beasts, and the others noticed that it had grown unusually well.
• Ye Jingyu guessed that Ye Jingcheng's alchemy had improved, and Ye Jingcheng accepted the explanation for the Jade Ring Rat's rapid growth.

Ye Jingcheng traveled with Ye Jingyu, Ye Jingyong, and Ye Jingli into Mount Taihang Mountain Range, learning about beast taming and cultivation along the way. They reached a secluded valley that had once been the lair of two Flying Cloud Leopards, and Ye Jingyu set up a formation there as Ye Jingyong prepared to enter.

• Ye Jingyu found a familiar cave at the foot of the mountains and set up a formation while the group rested for the night.
• Ye Jingcheng learned from the others and sold Ye Jingli three Spirit Feeding Pills, which Ye Jingli promised to repay by crafting Dharma Artifacts for him.
• The four entered the mountains on foot, following the Flying Cloud Leopards while the Jade Ring Rat warned them of nearby sounds.
• Ye Jingyu led the group to a hidden valley with a spring and a small spirit vein, explaining that it had been the Flying Cloud Leopards' former lair.
• Ye Jingyu and Ye Jingcheng stopped Ye Jingyong from entering the valley before they scouted it again.

Ye Jingyu and the others were ambushed by an Azure Cloud Wolf Pack in the valley and fought to hold them off with a formation, spirit beasts, and talismans. After the formation broke, three wolves charged the group, leaving Ye Jingcheng, Ye Jingyu, and Ye Jingyong facing a deadly choice as Ye Jingli went to retrieve his badly wounded Azure Scale Snake.

• Ye Jingyu sent Ye Jingli's Azure Scale Snake into the valley while the others prepared to fight behind a formation.
• An Azure Cloud Wolf Pack rushed out, and the lead wolf badly injured the Azure Scale Snake before Ye Jingyu raised a Spirit Shield and slowed the pack with his Wind Flag.
• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Jingyong, and Ye Jingli attacked the wolves, while the Flying Cloud Leopards dragged one into the formation and helped kill two others.
• Ye Jingyu unleashed two First-Order Grade-High Fire Rain Talismans and used his Wind Flag to spread the flames across the pack.
• Three Azure Cloud Wolves smashed through the weakened Spirit Shield as Ye Jingli went to retrieve the Azure Scale Snake, and Ye Jingyu killed one with a Heavenly Sword Talisman while the other two charged the group.

Ye Jingcheng and his companions defeated the Azure Cloud Wolves and discovered that a herd of Long-Eared Deer was hidden in the valley. As the deer drove the surviving wolves toward them, Ye Jingyu urged the group to use fire spells to make the beasts fight each other.

• Ye Jingcheng's group killed the Azure Cloud Wolves, and Ye Jingyu and Ye Jingyong saw that Little Flame had reached First-Order Grade-Middle.
• Ye Jingcheng reassured Ye Jingli, fed Blood Tendon Pills and spiritual radiance to the injured Azure Scale Snake, and helped it recover enough for Ye Jingli to store it away.
• Ye Jingyong gathered the wolf carcasses and counted five First-Order Grade-Middle wolves and twenty-three First-Order Grade-Low wolves among their kills.
• The group spotted a herd of Long-Eared Deer driving injured Azure Cloud Wolves out of the valley, and Ye Jingyu proposed using Fireball Spells to force the wolves to fight the deer.

Ye Jingcheng and the others defeated the Azure Cloud Wolves and Long-Eared Deer, collected young deer and spirit-rich spring water, and returned to Lingyun Peak exhausted. After waking from a deep sleep to spring rain, Ye Jingcheng looked forward to spirit-rice plowing and wondered how many Spirit Stones he would receive.

• The four Ye Family cultivators and their Spirit Beasts drove the injured Azure Cloud Wolves into battle with the Long-Eared Deer, then killed the surviving deer.
• The Flying Cloud Leopards caught two young deer, while Ye Jingyu captured seven more and the group killed the female deer.
• Ye Jingyong and Ye Jingli cleaned up the battlefield as Ye Jingcheng collected spring water from the Micro Spirit Vein.
• The group left the valley and returned to Lingyun Peak two days later, where Ye Jingcheng went to bed exhausted.
• Ye Jingcheng woke to heavy spring rain and looked forward to spring plowing and learning his share of the Spirit Stones.

Ye Jingcheng worried that his spirit beasts and spring water would draw family scrutiny, but the Ye Family elders decided to support him and increase his stipend. After breaking through in cultivation, he learned the hunt had earned nine hundred Spirit Stones and that the family would give him a First-Order Grade-Middle Spirit Pill formula.

• Ye Jingcheng fed spring water to the Jade Ring Rat and Crimson Flame Fox, whose fur glowed with spiritual radiance.
• Ye Xingliu and the Ye Family elders agreed to support Ye Jingcheng’s talent with spirit beasts, increase his stipend, and have Ye Haiyun guide his alchemy.
• Ye Jingcheng cultivated for a day and sensed that he was close to breaking through a cultivation shackle.
• Ye Jingyu and Ye Jingyong visited Ye Jingcheng and told him the hunt had earned nine hundred Spirit Stones, with the family assigning him a thirty-percent share.
• Ye Jingyong told Ye Jingcheng that the family would give him a First-Order Grade-Middle Spirit Pill formula for free.

Ye Jingcheng advanced to Qi Training Stage 5 and visited the Treasure Pavilion to choose a First-Order Grade-Middle pill formula. He weighed the profitable but difficult Azure Spirit Pill against formulas that could better strengthen his Spirit Beasts.

• Ye Jingyu and Ye Jingyong advised Ye Jingcheng to improve his cultivation, raise his Spirit Beasts, and consider overseeing the Ye Family's shop in Taihang Market once he became a First-Order Grade-Middle Alchemist.
• Ye Jingcheng used an Azure Spirit Pill to cultivate and spent ten days breaking through to Qi Training Stage 5.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the Crimson Flame Fox, tidied his room, and went to the Treasure Pavilion to choose a pill formula.
• Ye Haiping congratulated Ye Jingcheng on his breakthrough and showed him seven First-Order Grade-Middle pill formulas.
• Ye Jingcheng considered the valuable but difficult Azure Spirit Pill formula alongside formulas that could help strengthen his Spirit Beasts.

Ye Jingcheng exchanged Contribution Points for pill formulas and ingredients, then studied Ye Haiyun’s alchemy through a half-open Pill Room door. After learning from Ye Haiyun’s careful demonstrations, he rented a Pill Room and furnace to begin refining pills with the Crimson Flame Fox.

• Ye Jingcheng chose the Azure Spirit Pill and Body Tempering Pill formulas and exchanged Contribution Points for ingredients to make several batches.
• After studying the formulas at home, Ye Jingcheng went to the Alchemy Pavilion and watched Ye Haiyun refine Azure Spirit Pills through a half-open door.
• Ye Jingcheng recorded Ye Haiyun’s methods and compared them with the borrowed Azure Spirit Pill formula as Ye Haiyun refined three successful batches before moving on to Body Tempering Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng rented a Pill Room and furnace, released the Crimson Flame Fox, and promised it an extra meal if it could someday provide flames like Earth Fire.

Ye Jingcheng broke through to become a First-Order Grade-Middle Alchemist while training the Crimson Flame Fox and improving his pill success rate over the following year. The chapter ended with Ye Xingliu urgently summoning him through a Sound Transmission Talisman.

• Ye Jingcheng refined a full batch of Spirit Feeding Pills, then failed four times before successfully refining three Body Tempering Pills on his fifth attempt.
• Ye Jingcheng exchanged twenty Spirit Feeding Pills for 20 Contribution Points and continued recording notes to improve his alchemy.
• Over the following year, Ye Jingcheng increased his success rates refining Body Tempering Pills, Azure Spirit Pills, and Spirit Feeding Pills while the Crimson Flame Fox grew nearly as strong as a First Rank Late Stage Monster Beast.
• Ye Jingcheng noticed Pill Poison accumulating in his body and discovered that the Ancient Book's spiritual radiance could fill two pages, apparently because of his Blood Pact with the Crimson Flame Fox.
• Ye Xingliu summoned Ye Jingcheng with an unusually urgent Sound Transmission Talisman.

Ye Jingcheng and three Ye Family cultivators were conscripted to keep the family’s Taihang Market shops operating after Taiyi Sect requisitioned its alchemists and artifact crafters. They chose Dharma Artifacts for the urgent assignment and prepared to travel to the market.

• Ye Xingliu explained that Taiyi Sect had conscripted the Ye Family’s alchemists and artifact crafters, then sent Ye Jingcheng, Ye Jingli, Ye Jingyun, and Ye Xingyu to maintain the shops at Taihang Market.
• Ye Xingliu promised the four a doubled stipend and family-provided defensive and flying Dharma Artifacts, and directed them to meet Ye Xinghe at the market.
• Ye Haiping let the four choose one offensive and one defensive Dharma Artifact each from the Treasure Hall’s third floor.
• Ye Jingcheng chose a wooden shield for defense after Ye Jingli compared it with armor.
• Ye Jingcheng selected an Ironwood Plate that could bind enemies with vines, while Ye Jingli chose a slightly damaged pill furnace as his offensive artifact.

Ye Jingcheng and the others received Dharma Artifacts and traveled with Ye Xingyu to Taihang Market, where he introduced its shops and warned them about dangers and possible threats to the Ye Family. They arrived at the Ye Family Shop, where a middle-aged man announced that the family had received a big order.

• Ye Jingli gave Ye Jingcheng the Three-Eared Pill Furnace, and Ye Jingcheng accepted it after Ye Jingli insisted.
• Ye Jingyun and Ye Xingyu chose their Dharma Artifacts, and Ye Haiping warned the group to be cautious in the Cultivation World.
• Ye Xingyu piloted the four on his spirit boat toward Taihang Market, stopping at familiar caves to rest along the way.
• Ye Xingyu introduced Taihang Market and its powerful families, shops, and Loose Cultivator Plaza, and warned the group not to trust claims of Inheritance Caves or ancient relics.
• Ye Xingyu warned that several Ye Family soul slips had shattered and told the others to report anyone suspicious following them.
• The four reached the Ye Family Shop, where a middle-aged man told Ye Xingyu that the family had received a big order.

Ye Xinghe and Ye Xingyu took on a major order from the Huayu Sect, but the Ye Family’s rivals blocked their access to the Earth Fire Rooms needed to fulfill it. Ye Jingcheng stayed quiet about his ability to heal Spirit Beasts while Ye Xinghe went to seek help and returned furious.

• Ye Xinghe explained that the Ye Family had signed a contract to supply the Huayu Sect with pills and Dharma Artifacts within a month.
• A young cultivator reported that the Xu Family had canceled the Ye Family’s Earth Fire Room reservations, while Foundation Building Cultivators and the Li Family had taken the remaining rooms.
• Ye Xinghe suspected Li Xiangmu and left to ask three families for access to Earth Fire Rooms, while Ye Xingyu went with him to a room reserved under a Rogue Cultivator’s name.
• Ye Jinghao showed Ye Jingcheng and the others the shop’s inner courtyard, where stronger Spirit Beasts and injured or weakened beasts were kept.
• Ye Jingcheng declined to reveal that he could heal Spirit Beasts and chose a room in the inner courtyard.
• Ye Xinghe returned to the shop at sunset with a grim expression.

Ye Xinghe organized the Ye Family’s response to a spirit-pill shortage after rival families blocked access to Earth Fire Rooms. Ye Jingcheng revealed that his recovered Crimson Flame Fox could provide fire for alchemy, and began preparing to refine Qi Blood Pills without an Earth Fire Room.

• Ye Xinghe ordered spirit pills covered by contracts to be purchase-limited and sent Ye Jingyun, Ye Jingli, and Ye Jingcheng to take turns using a borrowed Earth Fire Room.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Xinghe that his Crimson Flame Fox could breathe fire, allowing him to refine pills without an Earth Fire Room.
• Ye Xinghe praised Ye Jingcheng and gave Ye Jingyun and Ye Jingcheng pill formulas before taking Ye Jingyun and Ye Jingli to the Mo Family’s Earth Fire Rooms.
• Ye Xinghong gave Ye Jingcheng spirit herbs and an Array Disk, and offered to obtain any additional herbs he needed.
• Ye Jingcheng studied the Qi Blood Pill formula, set up the Isolation Spirit Array, and used the Crimson Flame Fox to heat his Three-Eared Pill Furnace.

Ye Jingcheng used the Crimson Flame Fox’s fire to refine pills faster and successfully produced Qi Blood Pills, then reported eighty pills to Ye Xinghe. The Ye Family continued its preparations for the Full Moon Period, and Ye Jingcheng received a chance to search the market for rare ingredients.

• Ye Jingcheng completed furnace warming with the Crimson Flame Fox and refined a full batch of Spirit Feeding Pills, rewarding the fox with two pills.
• Ye Jingcheng and the Crimson Flame Fox refined Qi Blood Pills together, succeeding on the first attempt and producing seven pills by the tenth day.
• Ye Xinghe gathered Ye Jingyun, Ye Jingli, Ye Jingyu, and Ye Jingcheng to report their progress toward the Full Moon Period.
• Ye Jingcheng reported refining eighty Qi Blood Pills, and Ye Xinghe praised him and said he would ask the clan to investigate using Beast Fire for alchemy.
• Ye Xinghe distributed more assignments and materials, including herbs Ye Jingcheng had requested, and allowed the group to spend half a day at the market while buying supplies for the clan.

Ye Jingcheng searched Taihang Market for pills and ingredients for a mysterious pill formula, uncovering a disguised seller and purchasing a Heartless Flower and Fallen Flame Grass. He still needed a hundred-year Red Dragon Fruit, which the Taiyi Pavilion clerk said might appear at next year’s auction.

• Ye Jingcheng searched the market stalls for pills and Spirit Herbs but found that the desired pills had been bought up.
• A veiled seller offered Ye Jingcheng pills, Dharma Artifacts, Spirit Herbs, and a supposed Foundation Building inheritance map, and Ye Jingcheng bought the pills, map, and Heartless Flower for fifty-three Spirit Stones.
• The seller met with associates, who revealed that Ye Jingcheng had seen through their act and that their real goal was to lower the Ye Family’s guard.
• Ye Jingcheng realized the Heartless Flower brought him closer to completing his mysterious pill formula and went to Taiyi Pavilion for the remaining ingredients.
• Ye Jingcheng bought Fallen Flame Grass for twenty Spirit Stones and asked the clerk about a hundred-year Red Dragon Fruit, learning that one might appear at next year’s auction.

Ye Jingcheng improved his pill refining and produced enough Qi Return Pills and Detoxification Pills to secure the Ye Family’s order. As the family prepared for a possible confrontation with rival families, Ye Xinghe and Ye Xingliu secretly agreed to test Jingcheng after the auction.

• Ye Jingcheng failed at first but refined Qi Return Pills in increasing quantities, producing 130 pills over ten days.
• Ye Xinghe ordered Jingcheng to focus on Detoxification Pills and planned to raise the Ye Family’s spirit pill prices while investigating the Li Family’s supply.
• Ye Xinghong reported that the Inner Courtyard’s Spirit Beasts had improved, and Ye Xinghe glanced at Ye Jingcheng with apparent satisfaction.
• Ye Xinghe privately told Ye Xingliu that there was an eighty percent chance rival families would act against them and asked him to prepare for trouble during the transaction.
• Ye Xinghe and Ye Xingliu used Spirit Restriction Smoke to conceal their conversation and agreed to begin Jingcheng’s test after the auction.
• Ye Jingcheng finished refining one hundred Detoxification Pills and let the Crimson Flame Fox rest.