Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng examined the treasures in a storage bag and found the five-hundred-year-old Scarlet Wood Ginseng, completing the three main ingredients for Tier 2 Crimson Flame Pills. He then began soul fusion with the Five Poisons Bee and witnessed memories of a battle between the Ye and Mo Families.

• Ye Jingcheng inspected the storage bag’s pills, talismans, and Dharma Artifacts, setting aside items to sell to the family.
• Ye Jingcheng found a five-hundred-year-old Scarlet Wood Ginseng and sealed it with the Sky Crimson Fruit and Fox Red Grass, completing the main ingredients for Tier 2 Crimson Flame Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng stored the remaining treasures and considered how the pills could help his Spirit Beasts advance.
• Ye Jingcheng prepared to fuse souls with the Five Poisons Bee and entered his room to cultivate.
• Ye Jingcheng saw memories of the Ye Family fighting the Mo Family and observed that the family’s great demons were powerful but needed better coordination.

Ye Jingcheng’s soul fusion greatly expanded his divine sense and improved his alchemy, while his Wood Demon’s spirit peaches showed signs of extending lifespan. He attended a Ye Family meeting to plan the restaurant’s opening, where Ye Xinghe raised the Xu Family’s offer to reconcile.

• Ye Jingcheng’s divine sense reached two hundred zhang after his soul fusion, and he found his thoughts and cultivation had also improved.
• Ye Jingcheng refined eight Fire Heart Pills, including two with faint pill patterns, without using the Four Divisions Pill Refining Method.
• Ye Jingcheng noticed the Wood Demon’s spirit peaches had grown more vigorous and suspected they could increase lifespan, then promised the Golden Scale Beast a share.
• Ye Jingcheng received notice of a clan meeting and went to the Treasure Building, where Ye Xingliu asked him to preside over the restaurant’s opening plans.
• Ye Xinghe reported that the Xu Family had killed the Li Family remnants and wanted to reconcile with the Ye Family, offering a banquet.

The Ye Family rejected the Xu Family’s banquet and demanded the Li Family’s Ice Spiritual Root cultivator, while moving ahead with plans to expand its influence in Taihang Market. Ye Jingcheng visited Ye Haiyun, who told him he had leads on the Blood Burst Pill but might not have time to refine it.

• Ye Jingcheng said the Ye Family would refuse the Xu Family’s banquet and continue confronting them to keep control of Taihang County.
• Ye Xingliu demanded that the Xu Family hand over the Li Family’s Ice Spiritual Root cultivator, alive or dead, or risk exposure of its Body Seizing plans.
• Ye Jingcheng presented the family restaurant plan, and Ye Xingliu assigned Ye Jingyu to oversee Taihang Market.
• Ye Jingcheng prepared to refine Alchemy before traveling to Taichang Market, then visited Ye Haiyun and saw Ye Jinghu making rapid progress in cultivation.
• Ye Haiyun told Ye Jingcheng that he had leads on the Blood Burst Pill but might not have time to refine it soon.

Ye Jingcheng met with Ye Haiyun, who revealed that his life was nearing its end, and offered him a Longevity Peach. They set aside their personal concerns to discuss the Blood Burst Pill and study pills refined from Monster Beast cores, leaving Ye Jingcheng prepared to face Mo Hongyuan at Taichang Market.

• Ye Jingcheng noticed Ye Haiyun's weakening spiritual aura while serving him Cloud Floating Tea, and Ye Haiyun admitted he might live only another two or three years.
• Ye Jingcheng offered Ye Haiyun a Longevity Peach, but Ye Haiyun refused so the family could reserve the fruit for other cultivators.
• Ye Haiyun and Ye Jingcheng discussed the Blood Burst Pill formula and exchanged their Alchemy insights.
• Ye Jingcheng showed Ye Haiyun two pills refined from Monster Beast cores, and Ye Haiyun agreed to help study them.
• Ye Haiyun warned Ye Jingcheng to be careful at Taichang Market and let the family handle Mo Hongyuan if necessary, but Ye Jingcheng said he had a plan to lure him.

The Mo and Xu Families dealt with the aftermath of recent upheavals while the Ye Family opened its restaurant in Taihang Market to a large crowd. The chapter ended with Ye Jingyu affirming that Ye Jingcheng would become the next Patriarch, despite Jiang Jinghe’s attempt to stir discord.

• Mo Hongyuan reassured the Mo Family cultivators that Mo Wen Chen would recover, ordered Mo Qianyu to arrange sect placements for the family’s female cultivators, and urged them to protect their Array Disk business.
• Xu Wenchang checked on the Xu Family’s hidden ancestor, who was inhabiting Li Mubing’s body and said she needed decades to recover.
• The Ye Family replaced the Mo Family Tavern’s sign with the Ye Family Restaurant’s and drew a large crowd of cultivators to its opening.
• Ye Jingyu welcomed Jiang Jinghe and Chu Xiyu, while the Ye Family was relieved that no Mo or Xu Family cultivators arrived to cause trouble.
• Chu Xiyu asked about the Ye Family’s plans for a shop in Taichang Market, and Ye Jingyu said Ye Jingcheng was handling the preparations and would be the next Patriarch.
• When Jiang Jinghe questioned why Ye Jingyu’s father was still Patriarch, Ye Jingyu replied that the capable should hold the position and that the Ye Family stood as one.

Ye Jingcheng recovered from splitting his soul, strengthened his spirit-beast forces, and harvested the ripened Spirit Longevity Peaches before setting out for Taichang Market. At the Treasure Hall, he joined the group assigned to the market, including several familiar Ye Family members and the unexpectedly recruited Ye Jingyu.

• Ye Jingcheng used a Jade Soul Pill to ease the pain of his successful second soul division, then inspected the growing Spirit Peaches and checked on his spirit beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that Peach Wood's Spirit Peaches would ripen within two months and watched his spirit beasts train while he prepared for the market trip.
• The Six-Colored Bee Queen broke through to the Second Order, and Ye Jingcheng tested its extraordinary speed before strengthening the Five Poisons Bees with spirit honey and Treasure Light.
• After another month and a half of pill research, Ye Jingcheng harvested five ripe Spirit Longevity Peaches and thirty-five ordinary Spirit Peaches, then packed his spirit beasts, bees, and supplies for the journey.
• Ye Jingcheng left Spirit Longevity Peaches and other gifts for several family members before meeting the Taichang Market party at the Treasure Hall, where he found Ye Jingyun, Ye Xingyi, Ye Jinghao, and Ye Jingyu among the travelers.

Ye Jingcheng led Ye Jingyu, Ye Jinghao, Ye Jingyun, and Ye Xingyi to Taichang Market, where he arranged their entry and gathered information about the market and the Chu and Mo Families. He learned that the Mo Family had secretly rented rooms under the name of a missing guide’s friend, while the Ye Family’s co-rented shop had not yet received its other tenants.

• Ye Jingyu told Ye Jingcheng she had no regrets about going to Taichang Market to make one last attempt at advancement before settling into family life as a Spirit Plant Master.
• Ye Jingcheng and the others crossed the plains, reached Taichang Valley, paid for entry tokens, and entered the crowded market.
• Ye Jingcheng hired a female cultivator as their guide and had Ye Jingyu and Ye Jingyun record her explanations of market rules and local businesses.
• The guide described the Chu Family’s artifact shop and the Mo Family’s troubled Array Disk business, including its former winehouse that had been sold.
• Ye Jingcheng paid the guide, offered her Spirit Stones to refer customers to the Ye Family’s shop, and learned that the Mo Family had rented rooms smelling of wine under the name of her long-missing friend.
• The guide told Ye Jingcheng that the shop had been rented jointly by the Chu Family and another Ye Family, which had not yet arrived.

Ye Jingcheng bought ingredients for several advancement medicines at the Jin Family Shop while concealing his identity, then reunited with the Ye Family members and visited Chu Ye Pavilion. There, he encountered Chu Yanqing, now a Foundation Establishment Cultivator and shop steward.

• Ye Jingcheng sent Ye Jingyu, Ye Jinghao, and Ye Xingyi to browse the stalls and investigate the Chu, Mo, and Xu Families, while he headed to the Jin Family Shop.
• Ye Jingcheng disguised himself and inspected the Jin Family Shop’s wares, then purchased ingredients for the Tier 2 Crimson Flame Pill, Jade Scale Pill, and Wood Demon advancement medicine.
• Ye Jingcheng visited a nearby dharma artifact shop without buying anything, concealed his cultivation, and met Ye Jingyu, Ye Jinghao, Ye Jingyun, and Ye Xingyi at the plaza entrance.
• Ye Jingcheng led the group to Chu Ye Pavilion, where Chu Yanyu announced that her fifth sister was waiting upstairs.
• Chu Yanqing greeted Ye Jingcheng and recalled his earlier dismissal of her at the marriage alliance gathering.

Ye Jingcheng inspected the Chu Ye Pavilion, attended a banquet with Chu Xiyu, and prepared the Ye Family’s new pill business in Taichang Market. He recruited Chen Ya to help promote special Qi Replenishing Pills, though she did not yet understand his plan.

• Chu Yanqing showed Ye Jingcheng around Chu Ye Pavilion, but she withheld information about its customers and sales.
• Ye Jingcheng assigned rooms to the Ye Family members, searched his quarters for surveillance, and prepared to attend the Chu Family banquet because Chu Xiyu would be there.
• At the banquet, Chu Xiyu discussed the Ye Family’s spirit pills and advised Ye Jingcheng to use rogue cultivator guides and free stall spaces to attract customers.
• The next day, Ye Jingcheng surveyed pill shops, bought spirit herbs, and gathered advancement herbs for the Peach Wood Wood Demon.
• Ye Jingcheng summoned Chen Ya and gave her a bottle of Spirit Fragrance-infused Qi Replenishing Pills to sell at a market stall, assuring her he would not lower their price.

Ye Jingcheng organized a promotion for the Ye Family’s new pill shop, using fragrant tea and street-stall sellers to draw Rogue Cultivators to Chu Ye Pavilion. On opening day, the promotion succeeded and the prepared First-Order pills sold out, while the shop’s Second-Order pills still awaited buyers.

• Ye Jingcheng hired Chen Ya to sell Qi Replenishing Pills and Red Ganoderma Pills alongside Welcoming Spring Tea, and warned her not to betray the Ye Family.
• Ye Jingcheng revealed that Five Poisons Bees were tracking Chen Ya and that tea nectar on her clothes let them follow her through Taichang Market.
• The Ye Family opened its shop, attracting cultivators with two Mountain Devouring Rats while Ye Jingcheng and his relatives sold pills inside.
• At a West City street stall, an old Daoist used fragrant tea and pill sales to direct customers toward the Ye Family’s shop.
• Rogue Cultivators flocked to Chu Ye Pavilion, where the Ye Family’s prepared Qi Replenishing Pills and Red Ganoderma Pills quickly sold out.

Xu Jingcheng’s family opened Chu Ye Pavilion to strong business in Taichang Market, while rival Xu Family members discussed the Ye Family and warned against acting against them too soon. After celebrating the shop’s first-day sales, Ye Jingcheng refined advancement spirit liquid for the Peach Wood Wood Demon and discovered its resin might help him research Beautifying Pills.

• Xu Wenyuan told Xu Qingyu that the Ye Family had only brought five people to Taichang Market, that the Xu Family had informed the Kong Family, and that Qingyu should avoid provoking the Ye Family while the family gathered evidence.
• Ye Jingcheng sold several second-order pills at Chu Ye Pavilion, earning strong profits, while Chu Yanqing thanked him for the day’s business and he awkwardly ignored her.
• Ye Jingcheng refused to replenish the discounted first-order pills, then closed the shop and explained to the family that limited discounts would attract customers without disrupting the market.
• Ye Jingcheng prepared a celebratory meal for the Ye Family and later refined a basin of Wood Core Spirit Liquid with the Scarlet Flame Fox’s help.
• The Peach Wood Wood Demon offered peach resin and recalled seeing Beautifying Pills made before, giving Ye Jingcheng an idea for further pill research.
• Ye Jingcheng infused the peach tree with Treasure Light and advancement spirit liquid, prompting the Wood Demon to return to its trunk and produce more peach resin.

Ye Jingcheng managed the Ye Family shop in the market as sales settled, while his Spirit Beasts showed signs of advancement and he prepared to study a Tier 2 Crimson Flame Pill formula. His elder brother Ye Jingteng then unexpectedly arrived with Ye Xingyi, his cultivation improved after entering death seclusion.

• Ye Jingcheng counted the shop’s profits and arranged for the family members to take turns guarding its two floors.
• Ye Jingcheng observed the Wood Demon’s growth, protected its peach wood body with a concealed formation and Five Poisons Bees, and released the Golden Scale Beast and Three-Colored Cloud Deer.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the Three-Colored Cloud Deer Spirit Herbs and beast flesh, noticing that it was nearing another breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng sealed the formation and went to test the Tier 2 Crimson Flame Pill formula while continuing to cultivate the Wood Demon.
• Ye Xingyi arrived at the courtyard with Ye Jingteng, surprising Ye Jingcheng after his elder brother’s long death seclusion.

Ye Jingcheng hosted Ye Jingteng, who had emerged from seclusion without advancing to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, and gave him pills while asking for help sourcing spirit herbs. Ye Jingteng agreed to find ingredients and introduce potential buyers, and Ye Jingcheng returned to his courtyard to work on pill formulas.

• Ye Jingcheng served Ye Jingteng Cloud Floating Tea and learned that his older brother regretted missing recent family events while in seclusion.
• Ye Jingteng advised Ye Jingcheng to choose a suitable cultivation technique and asked about the family’s Jade Soul Pills to help with his stalled cultivation.
• Ye Jingcheng sold Ye Jingteng two Jade Soul Pills at a reduced price and gave him two patterned Violet Wood Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Jingteng a list of pill formulas and spirit herbs to procure, and Ye Jingteng agreed to find rare ingredients and introduce suppliers and buyers.
• Ye Jingteng left, and Ye Jingcheng returned to the courtyard to deduce pill formulas.

Ye Jingcheng used paired furnaces to compare pill-refining results, then prepared to refine a Tier 2 Crimson Flame Pill. He successfully made the pill from rare herbs and began recovering while the Crimson Flame Fox waited to use it.

• Ye Jingcheng used two furnaces at once to test golden pill liquid and sent Ye Xingyi and Ye Jingyun to watch the shop while he focused on refining.
• Ye Jingcheng recovered his soul power, reviewed the formula, set up protective formations, and prepared the Three Qian Taihe Furnace.
• Ye Jingcheng refined the auxiliary herbs, then added the Fox Red Grass, Scarlet Wood Ginseng, and Sky Crimson Fruit together despite the risk of the furnace exploding.
• Ye Jingcheng carefully controlled the flames as the herbs fused and successfully condensed a second-order Crimson Flame Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng stored the pill, replenished the Crimson Flame Fox's spirit power, and began cultivating the Celestial Soul Art after the two-day refinement.

The Ye Family struggled to obtain Spirit Herbs in Taichang Market, so Ye Jingcheng took charge and arranged to meet Jin Yutang of the Jin Family for supplies. He also ordered the family to retaliate against the Xu and Mo Families, leaving the Ye Family preparing to challenge its rivals in the market.

• Ye Jinghao reported that no one in Taichang Market would supply Spirit Herbs, leaving the Ye Family unable to replenish its popular pills.
• Ye Jingcheng emerged from seclusion, returned Ye Jingyun's pill furnace, and learned that the family was facing a Spirit Herb shortage.
• Ye Jingcheng offered to resolve the shortage through Jin Yutang, whom Ye Jingteng had introduced to him.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Jingyun and Ye Jingyu to continue issuing the Ban Xu Order and undercut the Xu Family's best-selling spirit pills.
• Ye Jingcheng ordered Chen Ya and the others to return more Array Disks to hinder the Mo Family.
• Ye Jingcheng used Ye Jingteng's token to arrange a meeting with Jin Yutang at the Zhong Family Restaurant.

Ye Jingcheng met Jin Yutang at Zhong Family Restaurant to secure Spirit Herbs for the Ye Family and discovered that a Jade Soul Pill could turn Jin’s initial reluctance into cooperation. He also bought an inexpensive pill furnace for his cousin, leaving Ye Jingyu puzzled as Jin offered the Ye Family a continuing source of herbs.

• Ye Jingcheng brought Ye Jingyu to Zhong Family Restaurant and paid to enter its third floor.
• Ye Jingcheng welcomed Jin Yutang, served him an extravagant spirit feast, and asked about the Spirit Herbs he had brought.
• Jin Yutang supplied a list of herbs, and Ye Jingcheng paid nearly ten thousand Spirit Stones, using a Jade Soul Pill to cover a shortfall of about four hundred.
• Ye Jingcheng asked whether Jin had a spare first-order pill furnace; Jin sold him a low-grade furnace, and Ye Jingcheng paid six hundred Spirit Stones.
• Jin Yutang changed his attitude and offered to supply the Ye Family with Spirit Herbs in the future, while Ye Jingyu remained confused.

Ye Jingcheng’s Three-Colored Cloud Deer prepared to break through as his Peach Wood Wood Demon advanced to the Second Order. The Wood Demon demonstrated its new abilities and improved spirit peaches, while Ye Jingcheng continued to conceal its growth from the Chu Family.

• Ye Jingcheng gave the Three-Colored Cloud Deer spirit pills and a Wood Attribute Violet Cloud Ginseng, prompting it to prepare for a breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng strengthened the courtyard’s arrays and told Ye Xingyi to tell the Chu Family he was cultivating a secret art as Wood Attribute Spiritual Qi gathered.
• The Peach Wood Wood Demon advanced to the Second Order, bowed to Ye Jingcheng, and demonstrated its faster, denser roots and its ability to drain arrays.
• The Wood Demon said its spirit peaches could extend a person’s lifespan by around ten years, though it would bear only about three peaches once every five years.
• Ye Jingcheng gave the Wood Demon Treasure Light and Advancement Spirit Liquid, then told it to consolidate its cultivation and visit his room that night for beast communication.

Ye Jingcheng formed a Beast Communication with the Wood Demon and discovered that its spiritual power strengthened his Wood Aspect and let him take root to heal and toughen his body. After ten days of cultivation, the Three-Colored Cloud Deer began advancing to the ninth level of Qi Refinement, while the Crimson Flame Fox started a powerful Fire Attribute absorption that Ye Jingcheng concealed with formations.

• Ye Jingcheng set up multiple formations and a swarm of Five Poisons Bees before using a Seven-Inch Beast Communication Mark on the Wood Demon.
• The Wood Demon’s spiritual power accelerated Ye Jingcheng’s Wood Aspect cultivation, but the connection did not extend his lifespan.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered that he could root his spiritual veins into the earth to absorb healing spiritual power and slightly strengthen his body.
• After ten days of cultivation, the Three-Colored Cloud Deer began breaking through to the ninth level of Qi Refinement.
• Ye Xingyi mistook the disturbance from the Crimson Flame Fox for a furnace explosion, and Ye Jingcheng told him to keep using secret-art practice as an excuse with the Chu Family.
• Ye Jingcheng enclosed the Crimson Flame Fox in formations as it began absorbing Fire Attribute spiritual energy, and a Five-Inch Beast Communication Mark appeared in his hand.

Ye Jingcheng’s Crimson Flame Fox advanced to the Second-Order Middle Stage and gained stronger duplication and fire-convergence abilities, while he prepared to conceal his progress and cultivate. After the Three-Colored Cloud Deer also advanced, Ye Jingcheng completed Beast Communication with it and began seclusion to break through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

• Ye Jingcheng watched the Crimson Flame Fox advance, learn to create three phantoms that combined their power into a massive Fireball, and control its size.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the fox Fire Heart Pills and Treasure Light, then absorbed pure fire-attribute spiritual energy through the Beast Communication Mark and cultivated.
• Ye Jingcheng acted weakened at the shop, spoke with Ye Xingyi, and left before Chu Yanqing could approach him.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that the Xu Family had hired a Second-Order High-Grade Alchemist and that the Mo Family’s Spirit Wine and Mo Hongyuan’s absence heightened his concerns.
• After another half month, the Three-Colored Cloud Deer advanced to the peak of the First Rank Late Stage, and Ye Jingcheng used Beast Communication to gain wood-attribute benefits.
• Ye Jingcheng hung a sign on his door and began secluded cultivation to break through.

Ye Jingcheng cultivated for three months and broke through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, then concealed his increased cultivation and refined a batch of Blood Burst Pills. He left seclusion and met Ye Xingyi, who asked how the pill refinement had gone.

• Ye Jingcheng used a Spirit Gathering Array and a Violet Wood Pill to cultivate with the aid of his Beast Communication Marks.
• After three months, Ye Jingcheng broke through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and concealed his cultivation as peak Foundation Establishment Early Stage.
• Ye Jingcheng refined three Blood Burst Pills and considered selling them despite their harmful effects.
• Ye Jingcheng left his room, noticed the Wood Demon had grown new buds, and met Ye Xingyi, who asked about his pill refinement.