Chapter Summaries

As the Ye Family prepared Lingyun Peak for Ancestor Ye’s Purple Mansion Ceremony, Mo Liuming murdered Mo Liuyi to steal a mysterious Colored Egg and headed for Green Willow Mountain. The ceremony began as guests arrived, and the chapter ended with Chen Xuanzhou presenting the Chen Family’s gift.

• Mo Liuming and Mo Liuyi found a black anaconda swallowing a mysterious Colored Egg in a cave and killed it.
• Mo Liuming murdered Mo Liuyi, stole his storage bag, and fled with the Colored Egg after covering himself in Fire Cloud Tiger dung powder.
• Tiny mosquitoes watched Mo Liuming depart for Green Willow Mountain without his noticing.
• The Ye Family prepared Lingyun Peak for Ancestor Ye’s Purple Mansion Ceremony as guests arrived beneath a crimson-cloud traveling manor.
• Ye Haiyun announced the guests’ gifts, and Chen Xuanzhou presented the Chen Family’s second-rank Purple Heart Jade.

The Ye Family hosted a lavish Purple Mansion Ceremony for Ye Haicheng, using its treatment of guests to signal which factions it favored. After Azure Cloud Nunnery proposed a junior contest, Ye Jingtai and Nian Yun began their match, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Foundation Establishment families arrived, and Chu Xiyu presented the Ye Family with a second-order Black Mulberry Fruit Tree.
• The Ye Family welcomed the Chu Family with spiritual rain but gave no such display to the Xu and Mo Family Heads, whose factions had conflicts with the Ye Family and its allies.
• Superior Mingyuan, Grandmaster Taihao, and Heaven Array Shangren arrived with third-order gifts, and Ye Haicheng personally received the Taiyi Sect representatives.
• Ye Haicheng toasted the guests, and spirit cranes performed in the sky during the banquet.
• An Azure Cloud Nunnery abbess proposed a contest between juniors, and Ye Haicheng agreed.
• Ye Jingtai and Nian Yun stepped onto the platform to compete, with Ye Jingtai displaying his Spirit Beasts and Nian Yun revealing herself as a sword cultivator.

Ye Jingtai defeated Nian Yun in a dangerous duel, after which Xu Wencheng challenged Ye Jingcheng to an alchemy contest. Xu Wencheng finished first with thirteen Azure Spirit Pills, while Ye Jingcheng was still refining his batch.

• Ye Jingtai used his Azure Cloud Mirror and his beasts to defeat Nian Yun, who then admitted defeat.
• Xu Wencheng proposed an alchemy contest, citing the Ye Family's planned pill shop and challenging Ye Jingcheng to refine Azure Spirit Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng accepted the contest and prepared to use the Dual-Furnace Alchemy Method inside the isolating array.
• Ye Jingcheng and Xu Wencheng began refining with two sets of materials and an hour and a half to finish.
• Xu Wencheng opened his furnace and revealed thirteen spirit pills, nine bearing pill patterns, thanks to his Heart Melting Flame.

Ye Jingcheng won the alchemy contest by refining eighteen Azure Spirit Pills, and Ye Haicheng opened Lingyun Peak for inspection while announcing the Ye Family’s plans for a restaurant. At Green Willow Mountain, Mo Liuming’s attempt to claim the Colored Egg ended in his death as a sudden beast tide swept toward the region.

• Ye Jingcheng revealed eighteen pills, including nine with pill patterns, and Superior Mingyuan confirmed that he had refined two batches at once.
• Xu Wencheng accused Ye Jingcheng of cheating, but Xu Wenchang stopped him and apologized to Ye Haicheng after the Xu Family lost the contest.
• Ye Haicheng announced the Ye Family Restaurant and invited the guests to inspect Lingyun Peak’s Spirit Beast Valley.
• Mo Liuming tried to establish a Blood Pact with the Colored Egg, but a Three-Eyed Demon Bird appeared and its power killed him before Mo Wenchen arrived.
• The Colored Egg broke free of Mo Wenchen’s restraints as he sensed Serpentine Essence Pills and Enticement Beast Pills, while a beast tide advanced toward the region.
• Mo Wenchen discovered that many Jade Slips in the Mo Family Ancestral Hall had shattered and that the attendant had been killed, leaving the beast tide’s approach unreported.

A beast tide led by the Three-Eyed Demon King overwhelmed Green Willow Mountain, while Mo Wenchen tried to seize the demon king’s egg and reach the Teleportation Array. The Mo Family’s defenses collapsed as its members scattered, and the Three-Eyed Demon King attacked Mo Wenchen.

• Mo Hongchou organized the Mo Family’s defenses and evacuation, ordering cultivators to prepare the arrays, gather Spirit Herbs, and blame the Ye Family for the beast tide.
• Mo Wenchen attacked the Demon King’s spirit shadow around the Colored Egg with the Green Willow Ruler, but a Tier 3 Blood Hawk interrupted him.
• Mo Family cultivators fled toward the Xu Family as Blood Hawks and demon snakes attacked them, while Mo Wenchen tried to reach Green Willow Lake and the Teleportation Array.
• A Tier 3 Chameleon Lizard ambushed Mo Wenchen, pierced his shoulder, and joined the Blood Hawk in delaying him.
• The Mo Family’s defensive line collapsed as its members realized the clan’s leaders and talented younger generation had fled; the Three-Eyed Demon King then arrived and reached for Mo Wenchen with a gigantic claw.

Mo Wenchen and the Mo Family’s escape plan were destroyed as the Ye Family’s hidden cultivators seized their teleportation array during the beast tide. At the Ye Family’s Purple Mansion Ceremony, news of the Three-Eyed Demon King’s attack on Mo territory reached the guests, and Mo Hongyuan accused the Ye Family of plotting the disaster.

• The Three-Eyed Demon King killed Mo Wenchen, then summoned the beasts to continue the slaughter across Green Willow Lake.
• A mysterious turtle and Black Robed Cultivators crushed Green Willow Lake’s array, killed the Mo Family guards, and took the teleportation array and Spirit Lake into the turtle’s inner world.
• At the Ye Family’s Spirit Beast Valley, Ye Xingliu received word that a beast tide had struck the Taihang Mountain Range and ordered the cultivators to defend the region.
• A jade slip showed the Three-Eyed Demon King and its rocs attacking Mo territory, shocking Heaven Array Shangren and the other guests.
• Heaven Array Shangren contacted the Taiyi Sect and ordered the families to hold the line, while Mo Hongyuan pleaded for help and then accused the Ye Family of causing the beast tide.

Mo Hongyuan’s accusation against the Ye Family nearly provoked a crisis, but Ye Haicheng spared him after Heaven Array Shangren intervened. Meanwhile, Xuandao Real Person and Miaofa Real Person confronted the Three-Eyed Demon King, who defeated them and withdrew toward the Mount Taihang Mountain Range, leaving Miaofa Real Person disillusioned with the Mo Family.

• Mo Hongyuan accused the Ye Family of hiding its strength, but Ye Haicheng overwhelmed him with spiritual pressure, and Heaven Array Shangren urged Ye Haicheng to spare him while insisting the Mo Family pay a price.
• Grandmaster Taihao and Heaven Array Shangren established two Tier 3 defensive formations on Lingyun Peak to protect the Ye Family during the beast tide.
• Heaven Array Shangren told Ye Haicheng that Xuandao Real Person and Miaofa Real Person were arriving to confront the Three-Eyed Demon King.
• The Three-Eyed Demon King revealed that it had advanced to late Tier 4, attacked Xuandao Real Person and Miaofa Real Person, and left them at a disadvantage before flying toward the Mount Taihang Mountain Range.
• Xuandao Real Person and Miaofa Real Person realized the Mo Family had used a Blood Pact to activate the Demon King’s soul phantom, and Miaofa Real Person abandoned his intention to support the Mo Family.

The Ye Family launched a coordinated assault on the Mo Family’s East Sea stronghold, using disguised cultivators and powerful demon beasts to overwhelm the island. Mo Xingyan fell in the attack, while Ye Jingcheng deployed his Five Poisons Bees to scout during the beast tide.

• Mo Hongyou and the other Mo Family cultivators prepared for Patriarch Wen Chen and the family members they expected to arrive by teleportation.
• Ten unidentified cultivators in Aura Isolation Robes appeared on the teleportation platform and summoned nearly twenty demon beasts, including the Savage Flame Azure Ox and Star-Eyed Iron Ape.
• The demon beasts slaughtered the Mo Family defenders, while the black-robed attacker trapped the island beneath a vast spirit net.
• Mo Xingyan emerged from seclusion, but the Star-Eyed Iron Ape and Savage Flame Azure Ox broke his magic treasures, and a Ye Family flying sword killed him.
• Ye Jingcheng sent his two thousand Five Poisons Bees to scout as the Ye Family prepared to protect its towns from the beast tide.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingli hunted Monster Beasts across Taihang County after the beast tide, capturing Cloud Horn Deer and Jade Ice Toads. As they continued their sweep, the Ye Family summoned them back because a True Person had arrived at the clan mountain.

• Ye Jingcheng trapped a herd of Cloud Horn Deer with an array and used his Five Poisons Bees to drive most of them into a frenzied melee.
• Ye Jingcheng killed the Cloud Horn Deer King, collected its blood and inner core, and the Ye Family kept several does and young deer while processing the rest of the herd.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingli discussed their Spirit Beasts, and Ye Jingcheng promised to give Ye Jingli a Spirit Transformation Pill.
• After hunting for half a month, Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingli continued collecting Jade Ice Toads near an old pool.
• A Ye Family cultivator brought word that a True Person had arrived at the clan mountain and the family had summoned them back.

Ye Jingcheng met two Taiyi Sect True Persons investigating the suspicious beast tide and explained what he had learned. After the inquiry, Xuandao True Person hinted that Ye Jingcheng could join the sect, but the Ye Family’s leadership presented him as a candidate for patriarch.

• Ye Jingcheng arrived at the Council Hall, where Xuandao True Person and Miaofa True Person were being received.
• Miaofa True Person questioned Ye Jingcheng about the beast tide, and Ye Jingcheng said the Monster Beasts had come from the outer Mount Taihang Mountain Range and might have been stirred up by a Demon King seeking treasure.
• Ye Jingcheng appealed for justice, reporting that the beast tide had destroyed at least ten towns and killed at least ten thousand people.
• Ye Haicheng said the Ye Family had been treading carefully and would cooperate with the investigation, while Xuandao True Person acknowledged that the account matched what they had found.
• Xuandao True Person asked whether Ye Jingcheng had a master and suggested he could join the Taiyi Sect; Ye Haicheng replied that Ye Jingcheng was a candidate for the Ye Family patriarch.
• The two True Persons and the other guests departed, and Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family members finally relaxed.

The Ye Family assessed its losses from the beast tide and planned recovery efforts, including opening new shops and a tavern. Ye Jingcheng proposed a promotion linking the tavern with the family’s other businesses, and Ye Xingliu told him the family was preparing a Teleportation Array to return his Spirit Beasts.

• Ye Haiyun reported the family’s losses from the beast tide, and Ye Xingliu instructed Ye Jingcheng to double the figures before submitting them to the sect.
• Ye Xingliu directed family cultivators to help mortals with spring planting and announced plans to open a tavern in Taihang Market and shops in Taichang Market.
• Ye Jingcheng proposed giving customers a Red Joint Fish spirit-cuisine dish for qualifying purchases, and Ye Xingliu approved the promotion.
• Ye Xingliu asked Ye Jingcheng to take part in an upcoming Ascension Assembly to seek Immortal Seedlings for the family.
• Ye Xingliu told Ye Jingcheng that the family was preparing a Teleportation Array so his Spirit Beasts could return, and praised how well he had raised them.

Ye Jingcheng tended his spirit trees, beasts, and bees during the rainy season as several of them showed signs of growth. The Six-Colored Bee Queen began its breakthrough to Foundation Establishment, and Ye Jingcheng sealed its hive to protect it.

• Ye Jingcheng observed the Wood Demon's peach tree blooming with signs of life-extending fruit and kept the Five Poisons Bees from damaging its blossoms.
• The Three-Colored Cloud Deer advanced to Qi Training Stage 8, and Ye Jingcheng fed it pills and trained its evasive movements in the rain.
• Ye Jingcheng inspected his Spirit Field and continued cultivating Welcoming Spring Tea, which several Ye Family members had ordered and the family planned to serve at its restaurants.
• The Six-Colored Bee Queen told Ye Jingcheng it was about to break through, and he gave it pills before clearing the hive and setting up an array to keep it undisturbed.

Ye Jingcheng returned to Baiyun Town with Ye Jingyu for the Ascension Assembly and revisited the people and places of his mortal childhood. After reconnecting with the aged Old Town Chief, he invited local children to undergo Immortal Seedling tests in the courtyard.

• Ye Jingcheng arrived in Baiyun Town with Ye Jingyu and recalled his childhood belief that immortals lived in Liangfu Mountain's Immortal Hall.
• Ye Jingcheng visited the Old Town Chief, helped him put on his shoe, and shared Welcoming Spring Tea with him.
• Ye Jingcheng reflected that avoiding his mortal ties might harm his Dao Heart and felt content while drinking tea with the Old Town Chief.
• Ye Jingcheng announced that the Old Town Chief's family's children could be tested for Spirit Roots ahead of the Ascension Assembly.
• Ye Jingcheng invited the waiting middle-aged men to bring their children for testing in the courtyard, and they hurried to fetch them.

Ye Jingcheng privately tested Baiyun Town’s children for Spirit Roots and discovered that Ye Ting had Four Spiritual Roots. After arranging her official test at the Immortal Hall, he felt his state of mind improve and rang the Immortal Bell to summon children from nearby villages.

• Ye Jingcheng tested the eligible children in the Old Town Chief’s courtyard, and the first several showed no Spirit Roots.
• Ye Ting’s hand awakened the Spirit Testing Disk’s light, revealing ordinary Four Spiritual Roots.
• Ye Jingcheng rebuked the women who looked down on Ye Ting and told her to report to the Immortal Hall for another test the next day.
• The Old Town Chief explained that Ye Ting was the daughter of his late youngest son, and Ye Jingcheng left feeling his state of mind had improved.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to the Immortal Hall and rang the Immortal Bell to call children from nearby villages for testing.

Ye Jingcheng tested children at the Ascension Assembly and captured a colony of Mountain Devouring Rats that had appeared in Purple Bamboo Mountain. When he returned to the Immortal Hall, Ye Jingyu told him that a clansman with a Variant Spiritual Root had been discovered.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu tested children at the Immortal Hall, where Ye Ting and Ye Ming revealed Spirit Roots.
• Ye Jingcheng left the assembly to investigate a report of giant rats destroying bamboo in Cloud Rain Village.
• Ye Jingcheng identified the creatures as Mountain Devouring Rats and captured the colony with an Earth Shaking Talisman and Five Poisons Bees.
• Ye Jingcheng told the villagers to report any remaining rats and arranged a grand residence for the man who had guided him.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to the Immortal Hall, where Ye Jingyu reported that a clansman with a Variant Spiritual Root had appeared.

Ye Jingcheng brought Ye Ting, Ye Ming, and Ye Hu to Lingyun Peak after discovering Ye Hu's rare Thunder Spiritual Root. The Ye Family concealed Ye Hu's talent, welcomed the new Immortal Seedlings, and assigned Ye Jingcheng to help restore the family's Teleportation Array.

• Ye Jingyu gave Ye Ting, Ye Ming, and Ye Hu portions of Grain Avoidance Pills, and Ye Hu asked whether he could send some to his parents.
• Ye Jingcheng brought the three children to Lingyun Peak, where Ye Xingliu and other family members met them and ordered a Bloodline Test.
• Ye Ting, Ye Ming, and Ye Hu all passed the test and were confirmed to have Ye Family blood.
• Ye Haiyun arranged the three children, while the Ye Family concealed Ye Hu's Thunder Spiritual Root from the rest of the family.
• Ye Xingliu told Ye Jingcheng to go to Spirit Beast Valley and help set up the family's Teleportation Array again.

Ye Jingcheng met Ye Xuecang beneath the spirit lake, where the Ye Family prepared a seized Teleportation Array for use. After the array’s Space Jade was inspected, they stood ready to test the connection by sending a Five Poisons Bee through it.

• Ye Xuecang explained the hidden formation beneath the spirit lake and rewarded Ye Jingcheng with five thousand Contribution Points and Cloud Floating Tea.
• Ye Xuecang introduced Ye Jingcheng to Haiyu and Hai Fei of Black Moon Hidden, then led them to the chamber where Turtle Ancestor revealed the Teleportation Array.
• Ye Haiyu and Ye Hai Fei repaired the array while Ye Jingcheng waited, and Ye Xuecang concealed Lingyun Peak with heavy rain.
• Ye Haiyu and Ye Hai Fei inspected the Space Jade, and its pillar of light vanished into the void as Ye Xuecang prepared for a teleportation test.

The Ye Family tested a Teleportation Array and confirmed it could connect to the East Sea, though the array was damaged and would require repairs after each use. Three Ye Family cultivators returned with news about the Green Cloud Sea Region, and the family faced a five-year deadline to act before Mo Hongyuan might expose their plans.

• Ye Xuecang, Ye Haiyu, and Ye Hai Fei activated the Space Jade and confirmed that it linked to a sea, but the array’s materials were damaged by the vibrations.
• Ye Jingcheng sent five Five Poisons Bees through the array, and the test succeeded, though cracks appeared and Ye Hai Fei said repairs would be needed after every use.
• After an hour, Ye Xingyu and two other hidden cultivators arrived safely through the array.
• One returning cultivator reported that the Green Cloud Sea Region had no great sects or Nascent Soul cultivators, but frequent beast tides forced its residents to retreat when powerful demons appeared.
• The returning cultivator said Fourth Uncle was contacting the Green Cloud Alliance and clearing out the Mo Family’s remaining forces, while the family planned to kill Mo Hongyuan and act within five years before he grew suspicious.

The Ye Family discussed the danger Mo Hongyuan posed after he withdrew to Taichang Market, and Ye Jingcheng agreed to monitor him and consider striking the Mo Family’s other holdings. The family also reviewed the treasures seized in the East Sea and gave Ye Jingcheng spirit beasts, rewards, and two Storage Bags, leaving him eager to inspect the split souls inside the Spirit Beast Bags.

• Ye Haiyu told Ye Xuecang that Mo Hongyuan had left the family-head position and hidden himself at the Mo Family shop in Taichang Market.
• Ye Xuecang ordered Ye Jingcheng to watch Mo Hongyuan and seek a way to draw him out, while the family handled the wider threat.
• Ye Jingcheng proposed targeting the Mo Family’s other clan mountains, and Ye Xuecang agreed that the family should consider it.
• Ye Haiyan reported that the Ye Family had acquired a Purple Yang Fruit Tree, a Mid-Grade Spirit Stone mine, an ancient Purple Jade Ginseng, and other East Sea resources.
• Ye Haiyan gave Ye Jingcheng several Spirit Beast Bags, a jade slip recording his rewards, and two Storage Bags taken from Mo Family Foundation Building Cultivators killed by his Spirit Beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng accepted the rewards and prepared to inspect the split souls inside the Spirit Beast Bags.

Ye Jingcheng rewarded his spirit beasts and examined the storage bags seized from the Mo Family cultivators. He discovered a mirror that could reveal images from three shichen earlier and continued sorting through the second bag.

• Ye Jingcheng prepared spirit food and pills for his four spirit beasts, then fed them Treasure Light to aid their cultivation.
• Ye Jingcheng watered and nourished the Peach Wood Demon, then called the Jade Ring Rat back from the Spirit Field.
• Ye Jingcheng opened the first storage bag and found spirit pills, talismans, Dharma Artifacts, Spirit Herbs, Jade Slips, and a large number of Spirit Stones.
• Ye Jingcheng found a second-order pill apparently refined from a Monster Beast Inner Core and planned to ask Ye Haiyun about its alchemy.
• Ye Jingcheng tested a special mirror, discovered it could show images left in the air from three shichen earlier, and named it the Image Retention Mirror.
• Ye Jingcheng finished examining the first storage bag and began inspecting the second.