Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng received gifts and pill materials from the Ye Family, including a hidden message revealing that family members were secretly stationed nearby. He sold pills and began studying the Jade Scale Pill formula, then encountered Chu Yanqing as he was about to close the shop.

• Ye Jingcheng introduced Ye Xingyi to the newly refined Second-Order Blood Burst Pill, and Ye Xingyi urged him to refine more pills for the family shop.
• Ye Jingcheng received spirit tea, spirit honey, Spirit Apricots, Origin Returning Milk, and a jade slip from the family.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered that the jade slip named a street stall, realizing that the Ye Family had secretly sent cultivators to support him against Mo Hongyuan.
• Ye Jingcheng sold ten Second-Order spirit pills, including a Blood Burst Pill, while limiting Jade Soul Pill sales to maintain demand.
• Chu Yanqing appeared across the corridor as Ye Jingcheng prepared to leave and asked why he refused to meet her.

Ye Jingcheng suspected the Mo Family had deliberately revealed that it was brewing Supreme Mystery Wine to bait the Ye Family into acting sooner than planned. As he sought clues and prepared a task for Ye Jinghao, Chu Yanqing and Chu Xiyu discussed Ye Jingcheng’s strength and the sect’s preparations for a newly discovered secret realm.

• Chu Yanqing told Ye Jingcheng that the Mo Family was brewing Supreme Mystery Wine in the West City Flat Housing Area, but he evaded her questions and returned to his room.
• Ye Jingcheng concluded that the Mo Family had intentionally leaked the news to provoke the Ye Family, then reconsidered his plan to lure Mo Hongyuan out after two and a half years.
• Ye Jingcheng sent Ye Jinghao to buy two Purple Cloud Scorpion eggs or larvae with intact stingers and gave him a Five Poisons Bee to take along.
• At the Chu Family courtyard, Chu Yanqing complained about Ye Jingcheng, and Chu Xiyu suggested he had reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and might possess a spirit body.
• A Chu Family member reported that a batch of Dharma Artifacts had been refined, and Chu Xiyu requested more spirit armor and Fire Attribute Dharma Artifacts for the sect’s expedition to a Second-Order Secret Realm in the Mount Taihang Mountain Range.

Ye Jingcheng learned that Taiyi Sect planned to expand into Mount Taihang and explore an unknown Second-Order Secret Realm, while he prepared to lure Mo Hongyuan out and entered seclusion again. The chapter ended with a mysterious gray-robed cultivator meeting Mo Qianyu at Ancient Fragrance Pavilion.

• Ye Jinghao bought Purple Cloud Scorpions after advising the stall owner to rearrange their eggs.
• Ye Jingcheng received Ye Jinghao’s memories and learned that Taiyi Sect planned to expand deeper into Jade Dragon Valley and enter an unknown Second-Order Secret Realm.
• Ye Jingcheng considered the Mo Family’s offer of Supreme Mystery Wine and prepared to draw Mo Hongyuan out with help from Ye Xueliang and Ye Hai Fei.
• Ye Jingcheng refined pills as the Ye Family Shop’s sales improved, then announced he was entering seclusion to seek a breakthrough.
• A mysterious gray-robed cultivator entered Taichang Market and sat across from Mo Qianyu at Ancient Fragrance Pavilion, causing Mo Qianyu’s eyes to go blank.

Mo Qianyu recognized Mo Xingyan in Ancient Fragrance Pavilion and reported the sighting to Mo Hongyuan, who believed the ancestor had returned. Mo Hongyuan disguised himself and followed the Mo Family Bloodline Jade’s signal out of the city, leaving Mo Qianyu with instructions in case he did not return.

• Mo Qianyu spotted a familiar figure at Ancient Fragrance Pavilion, gave Young Master Kong two Three Talents Copper Barrier Formation Array Disks, and hurried after the departing man.
• Mo Qianyu told Mo Hongyuan that he had seen Old Ancestor Xingyan, and Mo Hongyuan questioned him about the encounter.
• Mo Hongyuan told Mo Qianyu to guard the shop and gave him a jade slip to use if he had not returned within three days.
• Mo Hongyuan disguised himself with a human-skin mask, left the shop under another identity, and followed the Mo Family Bloodline Jade’s signal away from the city.

The Ye Family ambushed Mo Hongyuan and trapped him inside a formation, where their cultivators and spirit beasts overwhelmed him. Mo Hongyuan relied on a third-order defensive talisman, but another figure appeared behind the formation with an enormous broadsword.

• Mo Hongyuan recognized the supposed Mo Xingyan as an impostor, but the Ye Family revealed their ambush and sealed his spirit boat inside an array.
• Ye Xueliang, Lizard Elder, the Crimson Flame Fox, and the Golden Scale Beast attacked Mo Hongyuan, who fought back with powerful artifacts and wounded Lizard Elder.
• Ye Jingcheng and the Jade Scale Snake joined the assault, and Ye Jingcheng struck the Evil Ghost Gong to leave Mo Hongyuan open to their combined attacks.
• Mo Hongyuan’s Golden Turtle Armor shattered, so he activated a third-order Golden Sky Turtle Shell Talisman and claimed the Ye Family could not break through it.
• An unidentified figure appeared with an Array Flag, controlling the array as an enormous broadsword stood behind it.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family eliminated Mo Hongyuan and concealed their involvement, but an attacker then slaughtered Mo Qianyu and the other Mo Family disciples in Taichang Market. Miaofa Real Person sealed the city, leaving Ye Jingcheng to await the investigation from seclusion.

• Ye Jingcheng’s Symbol Treasure killed Mo Hongyuan, and Ye Xueliang used the Beast Tower to check that Mo Hongyuan had told no one about the East Sea.
• Ye Haitian ordered Ye Jingcheng to return to Taichang Market while Ye Xuecang’s divided soul destroyed itself to erase evidence.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to Chu Ye Pavilion and began cultivating, planning to announce his Foundation Establishment Middle Stage breakthrough after a few days.
• A black-robed cultivator entered the Mo Family shop, killed Mo Qianyu and the other disciples, took their Storage Bags, and detonated himself before a spirit hand could capture him.
• Miaofa Real Person closed Taichang Market and forbade anyone from leaving, while Ye Jingcheng heard the order from seclusion and concluded that Ye Xueliang had succeeded.

Miaofa Real Person investigated the destruction of the Mo Family Shop but found no clear trail to the killer. Meanwhile, Ye Jingcheng mastered the Azure Wood Spirit Seed, refined Jade Soul Pills, and learned that the Mo Family had been wiped out.

• Miaofa Real Person used a mirror to review the Mo Family Shop’s ruins, but the visions ended before revealing the Yellow-Robed Old Man.
• Miaofa Real Person learned that the Spirit Wine had no life-extending effect and failed to find clues at the explosion site.
• Ye Jingcheng cultivated the Azure Wood Spirit Seed secret method and formed two seeds within his spiritual platform.
• Ye Jingcheng refined five Jade Soul Pills, gave the Crimson Flame Fox a pill, and left seclusion.
• Ye Jingcheng asked Seventh Sister what had happened, and she told him that the Mo Family had been wiped out.

After emerging from seclusion, Ye Jingcheng inspected the Ye Family Shop and learned that Chu Xiyu had shielded him from visitors. Chu Yanqing told him the Taiyi Sect would attack the Mount Taihang Mountain Range again and proposed an alliance for the coming battle, leaving Ye Jingcheng to prepare by seeking spirit vines and spirit beasts.

• Ye Jingcheng approved the shop’s tea, pill displays, and fish tank, then discussed the Mo Family’s troubles and the rise in spirit pill sales with Ye Jingyu.
• Ye Jingyu told Ye Jingcheng that Chu Xiyu had turned away people who came to inquire about him.
• Chu Yanqing noticed Ye Jingcheng’s unusual spiritual energy, drank his Cloud Floating Tea, and told him the Taiyi Sect planned another attack on the Mount Taihang Mountain Range, with Second-Order Secret Realm slots awarded based on wartime performance.
• Chu Yanqing proposed that she and Ye Jingcheng form an alliance, then left.
• Ye Jingcheng instructed Ye Jingyu and went to the Jin Family Shop to seek Second-Order Spirit Vine Seeds and potentially valuable Spirit Beasts.

Ye Jingcheng bought Adamantine Vine seeds at the Jin Family Shop and gave Yu Tang a Jade Soul Pill as a gift. At the Stall Plaza, he intervened when Meng Xuan was being cheated over a spirit pill, then asked the stall owner about a bird egg.

• Ye Jingcheng purchased ten Adamantine Vine seeds from the Jin Family Shop for three thousand Spirit Stones.
• Ye Jingcheng gave the plump manager a Jade Soul Pill and three Mid-Grade Spirit Stones to pass along to Yu Tang.
• Ye Jingcheng visited the Stall Plaza and found no bargains among the spirit beast eggs.
• Ye Jingcheng stepped in when a stall owner tried to sell a spirit pill to a wealthy young master despite Meng Xuan having offered first.
• Ye Jingcheng asked the stall owner how much he wanted for a bird egg.

Ye Jingcheng bought a crimson spirit egg for Ye Jingyun and visited the Wan Family’s shop to look for spirit beasts. In the family courtyard, he spotted a boulder that left an imprint in his Treasure Book, and the chapter ended as he reacted in astonishment.

• Ye Jingcheng bargained for the crimson spirit egg, exposed the stall owner's feigned grief, and bought the egg for Ye Jingyun.
• Ye Jingcheng declined to give Meng Xuan his name and left the market stall.
• Ye Jingcheng visited the Wan Family shop, where he found rows of Dharma swords and few spirit beasts for sale.
• Ye Jingcheng followed the Wan Family cultivator into its courtyard and saw a pond full of poisonous creatures being fed by a white-haired old man.
• Ye Jingcheng examined the courtyard with his Treasure Book and was astonished when it left an imprint on a boulder.

Ye Jingcheng discovered that the stone in Wan Hongchang’s poisonous-insect pond might be an unawakened stone spirit containing a Cave-Heaven, and sought to acquire it. Wan Hongchang agreed to sell it for the price of a Second-Order spirit stone if Ye Jingcheng competed in insect fighting, and Ye Jingcheng prepared his Five Poisons Bees.

• Ye Jingcheng saw the Treasure Book reveal a vast scene within the stone and suspected it was a stone spirit with a Cave-Heaven.
• Wan Hongchang showed Ye Jingcheng Azure Water Scorpions and quoted their prices, along with discounts for handling the insects or competing in sword techniques.
• Ye Jingcheng examined the poisonous pond, asked about the stone, and learned that Wan Hongchang’s family had studied it without finding anything conclusive.
• Wan Hongchang offered to sell the stone at the price of a Second-Order spirit stone if Ye Jingcheng competed in insect fighting.
• Ye Jingcheng released more than a hundred Five Poisons Bees to begin the competition.

Ye Jingcheng competed against Wan Hongchang in an insect-fighting contest and won through careful control of his Five Poisons Bees. Wan honored his promise of a discount, and Ye Jingcheng bought spirit insects, a secret art, and a stone.

• Ye Jingcheng and Wan Hongchang released their specially trained Five Poisons Bees and Black Wing Scorpions for an amicable contest.
• Ye Jingcheng used staggered volleys of poison stingers and the bees’ superior speed to disrupt and outmaneuver the scorpions.
• Wan Hongchang recalled his remaining scorpions and conceded defeat, while Ye Jingcheng found that only seven or eight of his bees had died.
• Wan Hongchang offered Ye Jingcheng a ten-percent discount and let him choose his purchases.
• Ye Jingcheng selected two pairs each of Azure Water Scorpions and Black Jade Toads, the Heavenly Poison Water formula, and a stone, then paid forty-five hundred Spirit Stones.

Wan Hongchang explained why he had traded the strange stone to Ye Jingcheng, judging him too formidable to make an enemy of. Ye Jingcheng returned to Chu Ye Pavilion with spirit beasts for his relatives and gave Ye Xingyi two Azure Water Scorpions, though Ye Xingyi offered to pay him back.

• Wan Hongchang showed his nephew recordings of Ye Jingcheng controlling spirit insects and warned that Ye Jingcheng had held back while training and adapting his Five Poisons Bees.
• Wan Hongchang said the strange stone had been worth trading for insect-control methods, Spirit Stones, and a favor from Ye Jingcheng, especially if they met in the Mount Taihang Mountain Range secret realm.
• Ye Jingcheng bought a Jade Horned Horse and a Red Lion as gifts for Ye Jingyun, Ye Jingyu, Ye Xingyi, and Ye Jinghao.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to Chu Ye Pavilion, welcomed the cultivators browsing the shop, and invited Ye Family token holders to view Second-Order Spirit Pills upstairs.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Xingyi a Spirit Beast Bag containing two Azure Water Scorpions, but Ye Xingyi insisted that the cost be deducted from his salary or repaid.

Ye Jingcheng studied the stone spirit and Adamantine Vine seeds, then formed a Blood Pact with the stone spirit after returning to his room. The stone spirit’s grotto-heaven space was only bubble-sized, but the Treasure Book revealed a new stone formula dominated by Voidstone.

• Ye Jingcheng examined the strange stone and realized it had no spirituality yet, then put it away while he watched the shop.
• Ye Jingcheng imprinted a growth-control incantation on the Adamantine Vine seeds and discovered they could store Treasure Light.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Jingyu and Ye Jinghao a Jade Horned Horse and a Red Lion as rewards for their work at the shop.
• Ye Jingcheng set up formations in his room, summoned the Scarlet Flame Fox, and formed a Blood Pact with the stone spirit.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed a bubble-sized grotto-heaven space within the stone spirit, and the Treasure Book revealed a stone formula containing many spirit mines, especially Voidstone.

Ye Jingcheng finished refining three Azure Wood Spirit Seeds and welcomed Ye Xingliu and other Ye Family members to the shop in Taichang Market. After discussing the shop’s earnings, Ye Xingliu presented him with a Second-Order High-Grade spirit boat.

• Ye Jingcheng refined three Azure Wood Spirit Seeds in three days and drew them into his spiritual dais for nurturing.
• Ye Jingcheng fed his spirit beasts and noticed Ye Xingliu, Ye Jingyong, and other Ye Family members arriving at the shop.
• Ye Xingliu inspected the Ye Family Shop before joining Ye Jingcheng in the courtyard to discuss the family’s business and the shop’s monthly profits.
• Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng an ownerless storage bag, which contained a Second-Order High-Grade spirit boat.

Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng a concealed Mystic Shadow Azure Cloud Boat and asked him to join the Ye Family’s dangerous expedition into a secret realm that might contain herbs for forming a core. Ye Jingcheng agreed on the condition that the family gather treasures for his Stone Spirit, and Ye Xingliu promised to do so before the expedition.

• Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng the Mystic Shadow Azure Cloud Boat, a powerful escape craft modified from Mo Hongyuan’s boat, and warned him to keep its origins secret.
• Ye Xingliu told Ye Jingcheng that the Ye Family wanted him to enter the Taiyi Sect’s secret realm, which might hold Spirit Herbs for forming a core, and said he and Ye Jingyu would go as well.
• Ye Jingcheng asked whether Turtle Ancestor could enter the secret realm, and Ye Xingliu explained that inspections and the realm’s pressure would make that too dangerous.
• Ye Jingcheng agreed to join the expedition and showed Ye Xingliu a jade slip describing the Stone Square needed to activate his Stone Spirit.
• Ye Xingliu promised to gather the requested Spirit Mines and said Ye Jingcheng would receive one of two Gold Core Pills if the family obtained the pill formula and produced them.

Ye Jingcheng strengthened his divine sense and prepared for an upcoming secret realm expedition by refining and studying the Jade Scale Pill. After carefully preparing with the Scarlet Flame Fox, he began refining the pill.

• Ye Jingcheng used the Five Poisons Bees and a Patterned Jade Soul Pill to break through a soul barrier, expanding his divine sense to four hundred and fifty zhang.
• Ye Jingcheng considered the dangers of the secret realm expedition and the Ye Family’s plans, then used his extra time to study the Jade Scale Pill formula.
• Ye Jingcheng tested the Jade Scale Pill’s medicinal properties and successfully prepared spiritual liquid in two pill furnaces.
• Ye Jingcheng reviewed his notes and pill formulas while the Scarlet Flame Fox trained its Fire Control Art and prepared alongside him.
• Ye Jingcheng and the Scarlet Flame Fox began refining the Jade Scale Pill using the Spirit Herbs from several Jade Boxes.

Ye Jingcheng refined a flawed Jade Scale Pill and fed it to the Jade Scale Snake, which began advancing toward the Second-Order Middle Stage and possibly a stronger bloodline. As the snake entered seclusion, Ye Xingliu delivered Spirit Mine materials and warned that Taiyi Sect had conscripted cultivators from several families for the secret realm.

• Ye Jingcheng and the Crimson Flame Fox refined a Jade Scale Pill, though the pill lacked fragrance and was somewhat lacking.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the Jade Scale Snake spirit food, Azure Water Pills, and the Jade Scale Pill, then used Treasure Light to support its breakthrough.
• The Jade Scale Snake emitted what seemed to be a dragon roar and gathered white-jade spiritual light, so Ye Jingcheng arranged for it to break through in a room.
• The Golden Scale Beast showed eagerness to advance, but Ye Jingcheng lacked the Spirit Herbs needed to make its pill.
• Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng a storage bag of Spirit Mine materials and reported that Taiyi Sect had conscripted cultivators from the Ye, Xu, and Mo Families, urging him to eliminate the Mo Family patriarch in the secret realm.
• Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng a Ten Thousand Li Token from the Second Ancestor so he could contact the family.

Ye Jingcheng trained the Golden Scale Beast and Three-Colored Cloud Deer outside Taichang Market, discovering the deer’s formidable combat abilities. As he returned to the market, he saw Xu Xiuqing fleeing an old man and killed her pursuer, leaving the reason for their chase unresolved.

• Ye Jingcheng set up a formation on a barren mountain and trained the Golden Scale Beast and Three-Colored Cloud Deer with attacks from the Crimson Flame Fox and his own techniques.
• The Three-Colored Cloud Deer summoned three Azure Pine Wood Giants to destroy Ye Jingcheng’s poisonous brambles and absorbed their essence.
• After several hours of training, Ye Jingcheng put away the formation and flew toward Taichang Market.
• Ye Jingcheng saw the injured Xu Xiuqing fleeing an old man and intervened when the old man threw a Second Rank spirit talisman at her.
• Ye Jingcheng used his Blackwood Coffin to swallow the talisman, then killed the old man with a Mystic Silver Needle.

Ye Jingcheng reunited with Xu Xiuqing after saving her from a pursuer, and she recounted her years of flight after discovering a Purple Mansion Cultivator's legacy. She tried to repay him with several treasures, but he accepted only Mithril Dark Rock and refused her talisman treasure.

• Ye Jingcheng rescued Xu Xiuqing from an old man who had pursued her for ten years, then invited her to the Zhong Family Restaurant.
• Xu Xiuqing removed the disguise hiding a scar and told Ye Jingcheng she was trying to earn a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Xu Xiuqing explained that she had found a Purple Mansion Cultivator's legacy and escaped an ambush with a Formation Breaking Talisman.
• Xu Xiuqing offered Ye Jingcheng a storage bag containing a talisman treasure, an Azure Rainbow Magic Sword, Mithril Dark Rock, and a Heavenly Spirit Fruit.
• Ye Jingcheng accepted the Mithril Dark Rock but refused the talisman treasure, telling Xu Xiuqing to trade it to him if she later needed help obtaining a Foundation Establishment Pill.