Chapter Summaries

At Taihang Market, the Ye Family confronted the Chen and Li Families over evidence that they had joined heretical cultivators in attacking the Ye clan mountain. Ward Master Jiang decided to submit the evidence and related family disputes to Taiyi Sect, while the Chen and Li heads scrambled to delay an investigation.

• Ye Xingliu demanded that Chen Xuanzhou and Li Muhe identify the robe found among the evidence and called for their ancestors to face the Ye Family’s accusations.
• Jiang Jinghe chose to submit the evidence in the Ye and Chu Families’ disputes to Taiyi Sect rather than judge the tangled cases himself.
• Chu Xiyu urged the families to unite against heretical cultivators and warned that people with sinister intentions should not be left free.
• Chen Xuanzhou and Li Muhe claimed their ancestors were in seclusion, but Ye Xingliu gave them three days to produce the ancestors or swear a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• Mo Hongyuan asked who the heretical cultivator was, as the Chen and Li heads sought the Mo Family’s help.

Ye Xingliu refused to settle the attack on the Ye Family clan mountain through negotiation and demanded that the matter be handled by the Taiyi Immortal Sect. When sect and family representatives arrived with compensation, he discovered a third-order Blue Jade Lotus and a promising young Spirit Beast cub.

• Ye Xingliu left the meeting hall after telling the families to await a summons from the Taiyi Immortal Sect, and Jiang Jinghe ordered the Chen and Li Families to produce their leaders.
• Mo Hongyuan urged Chen Xuanan and Li Muhe to offer treasures that would satisfy the Ye Family, while Xu Wenchang promised to seek help within the sect.
• Ye Xingliu returned to the shop with Ye Jingyu, learned that the family had suffered enormous losses, and agreed that they would not compromise.
• Qian He Shangren, Xu Chunlin, and Mo Wenchen arrived at the Ye Family Shop, where Qian He Shangren presented sect compensation and soul slips showing that Chen Xuanan and Li Yulan had entered seclusion unharmed.
• Ye Xingliu inspected the compensation and found a third-order Blue Jade Lotus and a lively, winged cub with a powerful spiritual aura inside the Spirit Beast Bag.

The Ye Family secured a favorable judgment after Grandmaster Taihao and Heaven Array Shangren intervened in the dispute over the assault on its ancestral mountain. On Lingyun Peak, Ye Jingcheng awoke to discover that the Jade Scale Snake had broken through to the Second Order.

• Qian He Shangren proposed a judgment requiring the Li Family and Chen Family to compensate and apologize to the Ye Family.
• Grandmaster Taihao and Heaven Array Shangren arrived, and Qian He Shangren presented records claiming the old patriarchs of the Li and Chen families had left to seek breakthroughs.
• After hearing that the Ye Family had also been plotted against in Jade Dragon Valley, Qian He Shangren fined each family two spirit mountains or herb mountains, bringing the total compensation to four.
• The Ye Family thanked Grandmaster Taihao and Heaven Array Shangren, then hosted them with Spirit Food and Spirit Wine.
• Ye Jingcheng woke from his interrupted breakthrough and found that the Jade Scale Snake had become a Second Order Spirit Beast.

Ye Jingcheng witnessed the Jade Scale Snake’s growing strength and advanced his Falling Flame Fire Feather to Great Mastery. After learning that Ye Xingliu had returned and spotting a newly listed Three-Colored Cloud Deer, he headed to the Council Hall to investigate.

• Ye Jingcheng fed the Jade Scale Snake Black Water Python flesh, pills, and an Azure Cloud Wolf, and observed its powerful new Jade Scale Tail Blade and the developing bloodline bulge that might let it become a Jade Scale Flood Dragon.
• The Golden Scale Beast showed Ye Jingcheng that it wanted pills to advance, but he could not help it yet because its cultivation had not stabilized and he lacked suitable resources.
• Ye Jingcheng cultivated through the night and restored balance between his water- and fire-aspect spirit energy, while worrying about his missing fourth Spirit Beast and the Golden Scale Beast falling behind.
• At dawn, Ye Jingcheng practiced Falling Flame Fire Feather and reached Great Mastery, producing three patterned flaming feathers; he recorded the technique’s change on a jade slip.
• Ye Jingcheng received Ye Haiyun’s message that Ye Xingliu had returned and the Celestial Soul Art assessment could proceed, then saw that a Three-Colored Cloud Deer had been listed for four thousand Contribution Points.
• Ye Jingcheng went to the Council Hall, suspecting the Three-Colored Cloud Deer’s high price reflected an assessment of its potential exceeding the Jade Scale Snake’s.

Ye Jingcheng received thirty thousand Contribution Points for the Celestial Soul Art, exchanged for the Three-Colored Cloud Deer, and obtained a second-order earth-attribute Monster Beast inner core. He brought the wary young deer back to his courtyard and began taming it, but ran short of Treasure Light and Spirit Feeding Pills.

• Ye Xingliu and the elders assigned the four spirit mountains, then awarded Ye Jingcheng thirty thousand Contribution Points for the Celestial Soul Art after he swore not to sell it outside the family.
• Ye Jingcheng exchanged for the Three-Colored Cloud Deer, and Ye Xingliu warned him about the limits of his Beast Communication Mark.
• Ye Xingliu offered Ye Jingcheng a second-order earth-attribute Monster Beast inner core for eight thousand Contribution Points to help his Golden Scale Beast break through.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Jingyu a bottle of Spirit Nurturing Pills in thanks for his help, then returned to his courtyard with the Three-Colored Cloud Deer.
• Ye Jingcheng soothed the wary deer with Treasure Light, ran out of it and Spirit Feeding Pills, and decided to refine another batch.

Ye Jingcheng used Spirit Feeding Pills to tame and form a Blood Pact with the Three-Colored Cloud Deer, discovering that it could evolve into a True Spirit called the Nine-Colored Mysterious Cloud Deer. The chapter left him delighted by the beast’s powerful wood-manipulating abilities and its potential as a flying companion.

• Ye Jingcheng refined twelve Spirit Feeding Pills and used them to lure the wary Three-Colored Cloud Deer closer.
• Ye Jingcheng formed a Blood Pact with the Three-Colored Cloud Deer, opening a new page in his Treasure Book and learning of its True Spirit potential.
• Ye Jingcheng saw the Treasure Book reveal the Three-Colored Cloud Deer’s future form as a Nine-Colored Mysterious Cloud Deer and its second-rank pill formula.
• The Three-Colored Mysterious Cloud Deer scattered seeds that grew into enormous trees and transformed one tree into a mid first-rank wooden puppet.
• Ye Jingcheng stopped the deer from further damaging his house and fed it Spirit Beast Meat, pleased with his new flying companion.

Ye Jingcheng discovered that the Three-Colored Cloud Deer could absorb blood essence and spiritual energy from meat, then settled into a routine of cultivation and beast-raising. After Ye Xinghe arrived with the Patriarch’s orders, he told Ye Jingcheng that the family was preparing to move against the Li Family and seize its alchemy market.

• Ye Jingcheng discovered that the Three-Colored Cloud Deer absorbed blood essence and spiritual energy from Lush Forest Pig meat, revealing its second talent.
• Ye Jingcheng introduced the Three-Colored Cloud Deer to the Scarlet Flame Fox, Jade Scale Snake, and Golden Scale Beast, stopping the snake from eyeing the newcomer as food and the beast from attacking it.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to his daily routine and made rapid progress cultivating the Mystic Ice Shield over the following months.
• Ye Jingcheng demonstrated a powerful ice shield in the snow, bringing the secret art close to major mastery.
• Ye Xinghe visited Ye Jingcheng on the Patriarch’s orders and said the family was preparing to target the Li Family’s alchemy market.

Ye Xinghe told Ye Jingcheng that the sect supported the Ye Family’s campaign to dismantle the Li Family, then gave him five pill formulas to develop. Ye Jingcheng accepted the task and resolved to make the most of the chance to weaken the Li Family and earn Spirit Stones.

• Ye Xinghe explained that the sect’s intention was to let the Ye Family gradually devour the Li Family, and that the Xu Family would not intervene.
• Ye Xinghe gave Ye Jingcheng a jade slip containing five pill formulas formerly sold by the Li Family, including the second-order Violet Wood Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng warned that he lacked enough Spirit Herbs to mass-produce the pills or train others, but Ye Xinghe promised the family would supply herbs and said a second-order pill furnace might appear at auction.
• Ye Xinghe left to visit the Treasure Pavilion and oversee new recruits for the Ye Family Shop, which would soon have a second-order alchemist present daily.
• Ye Jingcheng reflected on Ye Xinghe’s limits on the cultivation path, then entered his room with the formulas and prepared to help bring down the Li Family.

Ye Jingcheng cultivated his Spirit Field and prepared his Five Poisons Bee for advancement before being summoned to meet guests from the Chu Family. At the Council Hall, he learned that the Chu Family’s visit involved a marriage alliance, leaving him to face an unexpected arrangement.

• The old man concealed Hai Cheng’s impending Purple Mansion breakthrough, fed the Taicang Turtle a pill, and ordered a cultivator to secretly buy Azure Wave Wine.
• Ye Jingcheng planted spirit flowers across his expanded Spirit Field and used pills, Spirit Honey, venom, and Treasure Light to help the Five Poisons Bee advance.
• Ye Jingcheng prepared a special meal for the Jade Ring Rat after worrying that its cultivation had stagnated.
• Ye Jingcheng received word that the Chu Family had arrived and went to the Council Hall with Ye Jingyu and Ye Jingyong.
• Ye Xingliu told the Chu Family Head that the Ye Family had few women and could only take brides for a marriage alliance.

The Ye Family hosted Chu Xiyu and his clanswomen for a marriage alliance gathering, while Ye Jingcheng suspected the Chu Family was also investigating his rapid cultivation. After the Chu Family departed, Ye Jingyong surprised Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu by saying he liked Chu Yanliu.

• Ye Xingliu welcomed the Chu Family cultivators and explained that the Ye Family had few eligible youths because of deaths in the Mount Taihang Mountain Range.
• Ye Jingyu and Ye Jingyong escorted Chu Family women around Lingyun Peak, while Ye Jingcheng drank alone.
• Chu Yanqing sat with Ye Jingcheng, exchanged barbed remarks with him, and left without revealing why she had come.
• Chu Yanqing said she had come with the Chu Family sisters, and Chu Xiyu later took his people away after speaking with Ye Xingliu.
• Ye Xingliu asked the Ye Family cultivators whether they had found potential matches, and Ye Jingyong named Chu Yanliu as someone he liked.

Ye Jingcheng received Jade Soul Grass and other pill ingredients from Ye Haitian, along with a new mountainside cave abode. After the Ye Family's marriage proposal party departed, Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xinghe set off for Taihang Market.

• Ye Jingcheng visited Ye Haitian and received three mature Jade Soul Grasses, other spirit herbs, and permission to keep seventy percent of the pills he refined for the Family.
• Ye Haitian gave Ye Jingcheng a jade talisman mapping his new pavilion, which had better spiritual energy, a Spirit Field, Beast Rooms, and protective mechanisms and formations.
• Ye Jingcheng inspected the new abode, released his four beasts there, and then returned to his former courtyard.
• The Ye Family's marriage proposal party set out on the third day.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xinghe departed for Taihang Market on the fifth day, and Ye Jingcheng reflected on how much time had passed since his first visit.

Ye Jingcheng reviewed the Ye Family’s plan to undermine the Li Family’s pill shop and proposed a Ban Li Decree offering discounts and free pill refining to cultivators who swore not to buy Li goods. Ye Xinghe and Ye Haiyun approved the proposal and planned to involve the Chu Family in the campaign.

• Ye Xinghe brought Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family group to Bamboo Forest Market, where they found the family shop busy selling Spirit Beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Xinghe, and Ye Haiyun entered the Inner Courtyard and reviewed the plan to give away Spirit Feeding Pills with purchases of the Li Family’s pills.
• Ye Jingcheng proposed a Ban Li Decree that rewarded cultivators for refusing to buy Li goods and for bringing others into the program.
• Ye Xinghe and Ye Haiyun approved Ye Jingcheng’s proposal, and Ye Xinghe planned to share the strategy with the Chu Family.

Li Xiangfei and Li Mutian struggled to understand why the Li Family’s spirit-pills business had collapsed and blamed the Ye Family. Li Mutian ordered a campaign of pressure and espionage against the Ye Family, while the Li Family prepared for deeper losses.

• Li Xiangfei questioned the Li Family’s Twin Beauties about the shop’s declining sales and suspected the Ye Family was responsible.
• Li Mutian rejected Li Xiangfei’s suggestion to cut prices, warning that it would further antagonize the Xu Family and Mo Family.
• Li Mutian ordered Li Xiangfei to demand compensation from the Chen Family, pursue a marriage alliance, investigate the Ye Family and Chu Family, and cut family stipends.
• Li Xiangfei reported that Ye Jingcheng was likely the Second-Order Alchemist he had seen at the Taichang Market alchemy exchange, where a senior brother of Ye Jingteng had met him privately.
• Li Mutian ordered rumors spread that the Ye Family had bought a Purple Mansion treasure and that Ye Haicheng had reached the Purple Mansion, and he called for more investigators after the Li Family’s scouts in the Mount Taihang Mountain Range died again.

Ye Jingcheng successfully refined two Jade Soul Pills and trained his Three-Colored Cloud Deer, which appeared ready to advance. As he brought the deer inside to break through, he noticed a faint black glow coming from another Spirit Beast Bag.

• Ye Jingcheng refined two Jade Soul Pills with the Scarlet Flame Fox’s help, producing pills with strong spirit fragrance and faint patterns.
• He rewarded the Scarlet Flame Fox with a Fire Heart Pill, then fed and trained his Spirit Beasts, focusing on the Three-Colored Cloud Deer.
• The Three-Colored Cloud Deer eagerly ate Wood Cloud Grass and showed signs of advancing to the First Rank Late Stage.
• Ye Jingcheng brought the deer inside to break through, then sensed a faint black spiritual glow coming from another Spirit Beast Bag.

Ye Jingcheng’s Five Poisons Bee advanced into a Six-Colored Bee Queen, and he prepared to attend the auction for the Three Qian Taihe Furnace. He arrived with Ye Xinghe and Ye Jingyun, intending to compete against the Li Family and Chen Family.

• Ye Jingcheng saw the Five Poisons Bee advance into a Six-Colored Bee Queen and learned that its potential ended at the Second-Order mid-stage.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the queen Spirit Honey and Spirit Nurturing Pills, then released the other Five Poisons Bees so the swarm could reunite.
• Ye Xinghe told Ye Jingcheng that the auction’s finale was the sect’s Second-Order mid-grade Three Qian Taihe Furnace and warned that the Chen Family might ally with the Li Family.
• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Xinghe, and Ye Jingyun went to the auction hall, where Ye Jingcheng planned to deal the Li Family another blow.
• Ye Jingcheng saw that Li Mutian and Li Yufu had already arrived in a private room.

Ye Jingcheng competed with the Li Family for a valuable Tier 2 pill furnace at the Taihang Market auction. The bidding reached 15,000 Spirit Stones, and Ye Jingcheng left Li Yufu to decide whether the furnace was worth pursuing further.

• Silver Moon opened the auction, and Ye Jingyun failed to win the Heavenly Fire Ring before later buying the Cloud Iron Furnace for 2,800 Spirit Stones.
• Ye Jingcheng bought supplementary materials for Tier 2 Crimson Flame Pills while noticing that the Li Family had not yet bid.
• Silver Moon presented the Three Qian Taihe Furnace, and Ye Jingcheng opened the bidding at 11,000 Spirit Stones.
• The Xu Family and Li Yufu competed with Ye Jingcheng over the furnace, pushing its price to 15,000 Spirit Stones.
• Ye Jingcheng told Li Yufu that a higher-grade pill furnace was not necessarily better if it did not suit its owner.

Ye Jingcheng used the auction to strengthen the Ye Family’s position against the Li Family, winning the Three Qian Taihe Furnace and selling his Fire Heart Pills for a high price. The auction ended with fierce bidding for a rare Second-Order High-Grade spirit wine formula that could extend lifespan.

• Ye Jingcheng bid sixteen thousand Spirit Stones for the Three Qian Taihe Furnace, and Li Yufu stopped bidding as Ye Jingcheng revealed he had refined the later Fire Heart Pills.
• Silver Moon announced that the three Fire Heart Pills came from a newly advanced Alchemy Grandmaster, and the pills sold for seven thousand two hundred Spirit Stones after the Xu Family and Mo Family bid.
• Silver Moon presented the Supreme Mystery Spirit Wine Formula, explaining that it could boost Water Attribute cultivators and slightly extend lifespan but required a rare Supreme Mystery Turtle spirit gallbladder.
• Cultivators began bidding on the wine formula, with offers quickly reaching twenty-four thousand Spirit Stones.

Bidders at the auction drove the Supreme Mystery Turtle wine recipe’s price to 45,000 Spirit Stones, and Ye Jingcheng settled his purchase of the Three Qian Taihe Furnace. The Mo Family patriarch obtained the recipe and suspected someone was forcing the family to act, while noting the Ye Family had also been buying Azure Wave Wine.

• Ye Jingcheng kept raising bids as the Mo and Xu Family patriarchs competed for the wine recipe, which ultimately sold for 45,000 Spirit Stones to a first-floor bidder.
• Ye Xinghe recognized the bidding as a planted-bidder stunt and said the Li Family’s alchemy plans had been ruined when Ye Jingcheng acquired the Three Qian Taihe Furnace.
• Ye Jingcheng paid the remaining Spirit Stones for the furnace and planned to refine Violet Wood Pills after strengthening his divine sense.
• Cultivators across Taihang Market searched for the buyer, but most lost track of the Aura Isolation Robe cultivator within fifteen minutes.
• At the Mo Family shop, the Mo Family patriarch examined a jade slip containing the Supreme Mystery Turtle wine recipe and discussed continuing to sell Azure Wave Wine.
• The Mo Family patriarch learned that the Ye Family had also been buying Azure Wave Wine and said Taihang County’s situation remained unclear.

Ye Jingcheng continued developing his alchemy and the Ye Family’s campaign against the Li Family, while refusing to meet a suspicious cultivator outside the market. The Li Family tried to recover its losses, and Ye Xinghe arrived with troubling news.

• Ye Jingcheng refined ten Spirit Nurturing Pills in the Three Qian Taihe Furnace and continued training with it as the Golden Scale Beast prepared to break through.
• Ye Xinghe told Ye Jingcheng that the Ye Family had received another hundred Ban Li Decrees and that three people had qualified for spirit pills, while the Li Family’s shop had lost customers.
• Ye Xinghe showed Ye Jingcheng three pill recipes, including an incomplete Second Order Blood Burst Pill recipe offered by the rogue cultivator who had auctioned the wine recipe and arranged a trade at Juehe Valley.
• Ye Jingcheng refused to leave the market to trade, offering instead to copy the recipe’s surviving half and requiring the cultivator to come to the market.
• The Ye Family faced questions from sect cultivators about Ye Jingcheng’s rapid cultivation, while the Li Family began selling pills at street stalls to offset its losses.
• After Ye Jingcheng spent ten more days cultivating and tending to the Spirit Beasts, Ye Xinghe entered with a face dark as storm clouds.

After Ye Jingfeng and Ye Xingyu were killed while transporting Spirit Herbs, Ye Jingcheng agreed to help the Ye Family lure out the attackers after two months of preparation. The chapter ended with the family tightening its security and warning members to stay in the market because heretical cultivators had appeared again.

• Ye Xinghe told Ye Jingcheng that Ye Jingfeng and Ye Xingyu had died, and their Jade Slips had shattered within five breaths of detecting danger.
• Ye Jingcheng suspected the attack might be aimed at him, and Ye Xinghe asked whether he could hold off a Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator as bait for the family’s counterattack.
• Ye Jingcheng agreed to the plan after the Ye Family offered Lizard Elder, the Second Order Blood Eagle, Turtle Ancestor, and all gains from the trip, but asked for two months to prepare.
• Ye Xinghe arranged to buy Spirit Herbs from the Xu Family and warned Ye Jingcheng to be careful, while Ye Jingcheng fed his Spirit Beasts and studied the Celestial Soul Art.
• The Ye Family gathered for a meal with two empty seats, and Ye Xinghe warned everyone not to leave the market without reporting it because heretical cultivators had appeared again.