Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiuqing left Ye Jingcheng a talisman treasure as a loan, and he turned his attention back to preparing for the Second-Order Secret Realm. Chen Ya then brought him a secret commission for a Second-Order High-Grade spirit pill, whose connection to a Celestial Corpse Token made him suspect a trap.

• Xu Xiuqing insisted that Ye Jingcheng take her talisman treasure, then left after he offered to lend her a Foundation Establishment Pill if she could not buy one.
• Ye Jingcheng paid for the meal and returned to Chu Ye Pavilion, where Ye Jingyu told him Chen Ya had stayed to speak with him.
• Ye Jingcheng sealed the courtyard and released the Jade Ring Rat before Chen Ya revealed that a mysterious senior wanted a Second-Order High-Grade spirit pill refined in exchange for three portions of Spirit Herbs.
• Chen Ya showed the restraining Spirit Patterns on her arm and handed Ye Jingcheng a jade slip after he made a Heavenly Dao Oath not to reveal the matter.
• Ye Jingcheng recognized a Celestial Corpse Token projection in the jade slip and, suspecting a connection to the Mad Corpse Two Fiends or a trap, asked where the mysterious senior had arranged to meet; Chen Ya said the Flat Housing Area.

Ye Jingcheng met Corpse Daoist, who demanded Bone Transformation Pills and entry into the secret realm in exchange for keeping the Ye Family’s secrets. After they swore Heavenly Dao Oaths, Ye Jingcheng suspected Corpse Daoist was seeking something connected to an ancient Spirit Map and contacted Ye Xingliu to discuss the risks.

• Ye Jingcheng met a mysterious corpse refinement in Taichang Market, who removed Chen Ya’s restraints and sent her outside.
• Corpse Daoist gave Ye Jingcheng a Bone Transformation Pill formula and spirit herbs, then demanded that the Ye Family bring him into the secret realm.
• Corpse Daoist threatened to reveal the Celestial Corpse Token and bring the Celestial Corpse Sect’s wrath upon the Ye Family if Ye Jingcheng refused.
• Ye Jingcheng agreed to the demand, and he and Corpse Daoist swore Heavenly Dao Oaths before arranging a meeting time and token.
• Back at the family courtyard, Ye Jingcheng wondered whether the secret realm contained the ancient Spirit Map and considered how the Bone Transformation Pill could help conceal the Ye Family’s cultivators.
• Ye Jingcheng contacted Ye Xingliu to discuss the secret realm arrangement and the risks of allowing Corpse Daoist to enter.

The Taiyi Sect and Xu Family prepared for the newly exposed secret realm while the Ye Family made its own plans and supplied Ye Jingcheng with resources. After successfully refining Bone Transformation Pills and helping the Three-Colored Cloud Deer prepare to break through, Ye Jingcheng welcomed his elder brother Ye Jingteng, who had advanced to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and asked him to make more Jade Soul Pills.

• Miaofa Real Person and Xuandao Real Person decided to challenge the secret realm with help from other cultivators, hoping to obtain Golden Core spirit herbs.
• Xu Chunlin ordered the Xu Family cultivators to obey Xu Hanqing and target the Ye Family's young cultivator, while planning to use news about Mo Hongyuan to turn Mo Hongwen against him.
• Ye Xuecang told Ye Xingliu that the Ye Family belonged to the Beast Desolation Lineage and ordered him to send Ye Jingcheng spirit beasts, Spirit Stones, and Bone Transformation Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng successfully refined two Bone Transformation Pills and began preparing the Three-Colored Cloud Deer for its breakthrough to the second order.
• Ye Jingteng visited Ye Jingcheng after advancing to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, discussed the secret realm, and asked him to refine more Jade Soul Pills for fellow disciples.

Ye Jingcheng shared a meal with Ye Jingteng and arranged for him to obtain the remaining spirit mines and medicinal herbs the family needed. After ten days of waiting, Ye Jingcheng’s Jade Scale Snake advanced into a Jade Scale Flood Dragon, revealing a powerful new tail attack.

• Ye Jingcheng asked Ye Jingteng to acquire Yellow Cloud Rock Marrow, Purple Maple Sand, and Void Meteorite Iron, and Ye Jingteng agreed.
• Ye Xingyi told Ye Jingcheng that Blood Burst Pills were becoming difficult to sell, and Ye Jingcheng advised limiting sales and urged Ye Xingyi to keep cultivating.
• Ye Jingteng delivered the three spirit mines, and Ye Jingcheng asked him to seek herbs for the Tier 2 Golden Scale Pill and Tier 2 Three-Colored Pill.
• After ten days, Ye Jingcheng detected the Jade Scale Snake’s breakthrough, set up arrays, and watched it transform into a huge white-scaled Jade Scale Flood Dragon.
• The Jade Scale Flood Dragon ate five Azure Cloud Wolves, shrank to three chi long, and demonstrated a tail strike that swiftly cut through an array-covered pillar.

Ye Jingcheng tested the Jade Scale Flood Dragon’s new abilities and prepared his courtyard and techniques for the Second-Order Secret Realm. After three days, Ye Xingliu arrived with Ye Jingyu and more than thirty Ye Family cultivators to join the sect’s preparations.

• The Jade Scale Flood Dragon demonstrated its poisonous mist and speed, then Ye Jingcheng fed it spirit pills and stored it in the Spirit Beast Bag.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered that someone had triggered an outer warning formation, kept the warnings active, and prepared the Peach Wood Wood Demon and Poison Thorn Flower seeds for the secret realm.
• Ye Jingcheng tested his Mist Escape and Mystic Ice Shield, finding that the techniques had grown stronger through his connection with the Jade Scale Flood Dragon.
• Three days later, Ye Xingliu arrived with Ye Jingyu and more than thirty Ye Family cultivators, and Ye Jingcheng awaited news of Ye Xingliu’s Spirit Mine and Stone Spirit.

Ye Jingcheng prepared with the Ye Family for the Suppression Desolation Secret Realm and discovered that his Stone Spirit could absorb spiritual essence from spirit ores. After a day of feeding it earth-aspect spiritual power, he awakened its sentience and found that the Stone Square had become a cave-heaven.

• Ye Xingliu settled the arriving Ye Family members, then met with Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu to discuss their secret-realm plans and give Ye Jingcheng spirit mines and protective treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng recognized that his map from the Mad Corpse Two Fiends overlapped with the family’s map of a medicinal garden in the Suppression Desolation Secret Realm.
• Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng three sets of herbs for Bone Transformation Pills and left him the secured room to refine them.
• Ye Jingcheng laid extra protections, released his Five Poisons Bees, and used earth-aspect spiritual power to make the Stone Spirit draw essence from the spirit mines.
• After absorbing the mines’ essence for a day, the Stone Spirit grew and gained a faint, chaotic sentience, while the ores crumbled into ordinary stone.
• Ye Jingcheng formed a Blood Pact with the Stone Spirit and sensed that its enlarged light aperture was an entrance to a cave-heaven.

Ye Jingcheng tested whether the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven could sustain living creatures and inspected the Ye Family’s treasures for the upcoming secret realm. After confirming the Five Poisons Bees survived inside, he prepared to refine Bone Transformation Pills before the secret realm opened.

• Ye Jingcheng furnished the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven with Moonlight Stones, soil, a pond, and grass, then sealed it with several Five Poisons Bees inside to test whether it could store living creatures.
• Ye Jingcheng rewarded the Golden Scale Beast with Treasure Light and earth-element pills, then meditated to restore his spiritual energy and divine sense.
• Ye Jingcheng reopened the cave heaven and found the Five Poisons Bees unharmed, but sealed it again and left the Three-Colored Cloud Deer outside until the test lasted longer.
• Ye Jingcheng inspected the Ye Family’s Mystic Ice Seal, Palm Shield, escape talismans, thunder beads, and other supplies, then put them in his Storage Ring.
• Ye Jingcheng examined the Spirit Herbs Ye Xingliu had brought and decided to refine at least two batches of Bone Transformation Pills, so he summoned the Crimson Flame Fox and began refining them.

Ye Jingcheng emerged from seclusion with three Bone Transformation Pills and learned that the Ye Family would soon join the expedition toward Red Clouds Peak. After consulting Turtle Ancestor about his Stone Spirit cave heaven, he discovered that the turtle was intensely interested in it.

• Ye Jingcheng finished refining two batches of Bone Transformation Pills and continued testing the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven with the Golden Scale Beast.
• Ye Jingli warned Ye Jingcheng that Ye Jingyu's spiritual energy had grown stronger and showed him a mirror that could detect cultivators' fluctuations.
• Ye Jingcheng presented Ye Xingliu with three Bone Transformation Pills and learned of the Foundation Establishment exchange meeting, the coming expedition, and concerns about the Mo and Xu Families.
• Ye Jingcheng asked Ye Xingliu about Turtle Ancestor, received the Spirit Beast Bag, and brought Turtle Ancestor to his room.
• Ye Jingcheng showed Turtle Ancestor the Stone Spirit and asked about the flaws of cave heavens, while Turtle Ancestor eagerly examined it.

Ye Jingcheng learned from Turtle Ancestor how Cave Heavens depended on life substance and discovered that a Starry Sky Visualization Chart could help his Stone Spirit expand its Cave Heaven. He prepared the Stone Spirit and Three-Colored Cloud Deer for growth, then went to a Foundation Establishment gathering to meet cultivators and seek a suitable dharma artifact, where Chu Yanqing greeted him.

• Turtle Ancestor explained Cave Heavens and gave Ye Jingcheng a Starry Sky Visualization Chart that the Stone Spirit could use to expand its Cave Heaven.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Turtle Ancestor spirit pills, then fed the Stone Spirit Spirit Transformation Pills and placed jade slips beside it to build its intelligence.
• Ye Jingcheng exchanged two Black Jade Toads for a jade slip of insect-controlling techniques from Ye Xingqun.
• Ye Jingcheng moved the Three-Colored Cloud Deer into the Cave Heaven and raised its spiritual energy with Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Ye Jingcheng brought Corpse Daoist, disguised as Ye Jingyu, to the Foundation Establishment gathering to observe possible stand-ins and seek a dharma artifact.
• Chu Yanqing greeted Ye Jingcheng outside Tai Xiang Building.

Ye Jingcheng attended the Foundation Establishment Conference at Tai Xiang Building with Ye Jingyu and the Chu Family cultivators. The host, Yu Tianhe, announced an auction followed by a trade session as the conference began.

• Ye Jingcheng greeted Chu Yanqing, Chu Yanxuan, Chu Yanhao, and Chu Xicheng, then entered Tai Xiang Building with them and Ye Jingyu.
• Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing sat near the rear of the hall, where Ye Jingcheng noticed Mo Hongwen speaking closely with members of the Xu Family.
• Ye Jingcheng spotted Jin Yutang and his Big Brother seated nearer the front and exchanged greetings with them through divine sense.
• Yu Tianhe introduced himself as Miaofa Real Person's seventh disciple and announced that the conference would begin with an auction of Dharma Artifacts from the Yong'an Zhang Family, followed by cultivator trading.

At a Taiyi Sect gathering, Zhang Xian'an presented Dharma Artifacts forged by the Yong'an Zhang Family, and Ye Jingcheng bought the Eternal Green Sword for fifty thousand Spirit Stones. Other cultivators purchased several treasures, while Yu Tianhe acquired the Heaven Shaking Bell as the sale concluded.

• Zhang Xian'an introduced the Zhang Family's Dharma Artifacts and demonstrated an attacking spirit brush and a Spirit Binding Whip.
• Ye Jingcheng bid on several items but stopped pursuing the spirit brush when its price exceeded his budget.
• Ye Jingcheng borrowed ten thousand Spirit Stones from Ye Jingyu and won the Eternal Green Sword with a fifty-thousand-Spirit-Stone bid.
• Ye Jingcheng examined the sword and explained its quality to Ye Jingyu, while Chu Yanqing and Ye Jingyu reacted with surprise.
• Chu Yanqing bought an Ice Crystal Flying Dagger, Ye Jingcheng's Big Brother bought a Mystic Ice Spear, and Yu Tianhe purchased the Heaven Shaking Bell at its capped price.

During the trade fair, Ye Jingcheng exchanged for Amber Crystal that could help his Five Poisons Bees mutate, then offered pills while observing the other cultivators. After the gathering, Mo Hongwen marked him with medicinal powder and threatened the Ye Family, while Ye Jingcheng noticed the Xu Family’s schemes and encountered a chilling veiled woman.

• Yu Tianhe traded his spirit treasures for defensive artifacts, while the old man exchanged Amber Crystal with Ye Jingcheng for three Longevity Spirit Peaches.
• The Chu Family traded several defensive Dharma Artifacts, and Ye Jingcheng offered Jade Soul Pills and Jade Injury Pills without receiving a trade.
• Ye Jingyu brought out a low-grade Dharma Artifact, and the trade gathering ended as Chu Yanqing invited Ye Jingcheng to enter the secret realm with her; he refused.
• Mo Hongwen secretly marked Ye Jingcheng with medicinal powder and threatened him on behalf of the Mo Family.
• Ye Jingcheng saw the Xu Family members and a veiled woman with cold, bloodthirsty eyes before Ye Jingteng caught up with him.

Ye Jingcheng joined the Ye Family and Chu Family as they boarded Taiyi Sect’s Treasure Boat and traveled to Jade Dragon Valley for the Mount Taihang expansion. The Three-Colored Cloud Deer broke through successfully inside the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven, while the expedition’s first advance was set to begin the next day.

• Ye Jingcheng joined the Ye Family and Chu Family at the gathering point, where he examined the powerful cultivators assembling for the expansion and learned that the Xu Family’s icy female cultivator might be at Foundation Establishment Late Stage or Peak.
• Superior Mingyuan, Heaven Array Shangren, and Grandmaster Taihao brought Taiyi Sect’s Miaofa Treasure Ship, and the cultivators boarded it for the journey to Mount Taihang.
• Ye Jingcheng studied Ye Xingliu’s jade slip of formidable Foundation Building Cultivators, then sensed that the Three-Colored Cloud Deer was beginning a breakthrough inside the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven.
• Ye Jingcheng spoke with Ye Jingli and Ye Jingyong during the journey and learned that the expansion territory belonged to the Three-Eyed Demon King and the Three-Eyed Roc Clan.
• The Treasure Boat reached Jade Dragon Valley, where Ye Haicheng and other Purple Mansion Cultivators welcomed the cultivators and Superior Mingyuan announced that the expansion would begin the next day.
• Ye Jingcheng reassured himself that the Ye Family was prepared, continued concealing the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven with the Bone Concealing Ring, and sensed that the Three-Colored Cloud Deer had successfully broken through.

Taiyi Sect prepared Jade Dragon Valley to withstand the beast tide, revealing that its spirit vein had reached the top-grade fourth order. When the Three-Eyed Demon King led an assault, Miaofa Real Person, Xuandao Real Person, and Three Yuan Old Daoist confronted it, but its strength and unexplained injuries left the battle uncertain.

• Ye Haicheng explained the threats around Red Clouds Ridge as the Three-Eyed Demon Pengs reacted to a powerful divine sense and the beast tide gathered.
• Miaofa Real Person activated Jade Dragon Valley’s formations and spirit vein, then ordered Taiyi Sect to defend the valley and slay demons.
• Wan Hongchang proposed an alliance, while the Ye Family and other families deployed formations and brought out their Spirit Beasts.
• The Three-Eyed Demon King accused the humans of stealing its child, rejected Miaofa Real Person’s questions, and unleashed the beast tide.
• Miaofa Real Person fought the Three-Eyed Demon King as Xuandao Real Person and Three Yuan Old Daoist joined in, revealing that the demon king was wounded despite its overwhelming power.

The Taiyi Sect and the major families fought to hold Jade Dragon Valley against the Three-Eyed Demon Pengs and a massive beast tide. As Ye Jingcheng joined the battle, he suspected the Taiyi Sect was letting the families suffer to measure their hidden strength.

• Three Yuan Real Person wounded the Three-Eyed Demon King, prompting the Three-Eyed Demon Pengs to dive repeatedly and overwhelm the Taiyi Sect’s defenses with fire and feathers.
• The beast tide attacked across Jade Dragon Valley as cultivators used spells, Dharma Artifacts, and talismans to defend the peaks.
• Ye Jingcheng directed the Golden Scale Beast to attack with Earth Spike Art and Falling Cloud Star Rock while he prepared Adamantine Vine seeds against the diving Fire Swallowing Sparrows.
• Ye Jingcheng spotted Blazing Fire Lions approaching and concluded that Lion King Ridge had joined the battle.
• Ye Jingcheng noticed the Taiyi Sect and the major families were withholding their trump cards, and suspected the sect was testing the families’ strength.

Ye Jingcheng used the Adamantine Vine to kill two Fire Swallowing Sparrows and helped ease the pressure on South Peak while concealing his strength. The battle shifted as the Three-Eyed Demon King called for reinforcements from Lion King Ridge, and enormous flame lions charged toward the cultivators.

• Ye Jingcheng planted an Adamantine Vine seed, bound two Fire Swallowing Sparrows, and killed them with Falling Cloud Star Rock and his needle artifacts.
• Ye Jingcheng collected the birds’ corpses and continued fighting Long-Tailed Flame Wolves while pretending to be exhausted.
• Ye Xingliu and his tigers targeted the Fire Swallowing Sparrows, reducing their attacks and easing pressure on South Peak.
• The Golden Scale Beast grew more ferocious and improved its Falling Cloud Star Rock as it knocked down and killed Fire Swallowing Sparrows.
• The Three-Eyed Demon King howled toward the Mount Taihang Mountain Range, and enormous flame lions from Lion King Ridge charged into the battle.

Monster hordes overwhelmed the cultivators defending Jade Dragon Valley while two observers assessed the families and watched Ye Jingcheng. The battle worsened when a powerful Crimson Flame Cloud Lion Demon King arrived, forcing more Golden Core fighters into the fray.

• Winged Crimson Flame Cloud Lions joined the monster attack, and beasts struck the cultivators from the ground, sky, and underground until the families’ defenses began to collapse.
• Ye Jingcheng recognized that Dwelling Dragon Valley’s beasts were attacking from underground, and Earth Breaking Talismans exposed the Armor Piercing Beasts and Golden Scale Beasts.
• Two elderly Daoists watched the battle and debated the origins of the families, while Tianfu Real Person focused on Ye Jingcheng and considered him a possible successor.
• A Crimson Flame Cloud Lion Demon King arrived beside the Three-Eyed Demon King and attacked Three Yuan Real Person and Xuandao Real Person with wind and fire.
• Ancient Fragrance Real Person and Chengyun Real Person joined the fight, but the Demon King broke through their attacks and forced the battle’s defenders into a worse position.

The beast tide overwhelmed the cultivators on the peaks, inflicting heavy losses on the Ye Family and the other clans. Ye Xingliu led the Ye Family into Jade Dragon Valley, where Heaven Array Shangren ordered the retreating cultivators to keep fighting and forbade anyone from leaving.

• Ye Jingli’s Azure Scale Python was killed by a Crimson Peng, and Ye Jingcheng rebuked Ye Jingli for letting grief cloud his judgment.
• Ye Jingcheng saw the Ye Family lose many Spirit Beasts and two clansmen while he concealed his full strength and collected valuable Monster Beast materials.
• Ye Jingcheng observed the severe losses among the Chu Family, the strength of the Mo Family’s concealed Foundation Building Cultivator, and the Taiyi Sect disciples’ formidable abilities.
• After defensive lines collapsed on North Peak, cultivators began retreating into Jade Dragon Valley.
• Ye Xingliu ordered the Ye Family to withdraw after losing many hired Rogue Cultivators, clansmen, and Spirit Beasts.
• Heaven Array Shangren commanded everyone to keep resisting inside Jade Dragon Valley and forbade them from withdrawing.

Cultivators trapped in Jade Dragon Valley struggled to survive as Monster Beasts attacked from every side and flames turned the valley into a furnace. Ye Jingcheng recognized the Thousand Stars Return to One Grand Array as it activated, giving the cultivators a chance to retaliate and collect some of the fallen beasts.

• Fire Swallowing Sparrows, Crimson Pengs, and Cloud Lions launched another fierce attack while Ye Xingliu urged the cultivators to defend themselves with formations and Spirit Talismans.
• Ye Jingcheng concealed his strongest Spirit Beasts and used his Mystic Ice Shield, while Ye Xingliu and Ye Jingyu expended talismans and other defenses against the flames and beasts.
• The Ye Family and other cultivators suffered heavy losses as more Monster Beasts descended and blocked the valley entrance.
• Ye Jingcheng noticed points of light appearing on the stone walls and ordered the cultivators to attack with everything they had.
• The Thousand Stars Return to One Grand Array unleashed blades of stellar light that killed many flying beasts, and Ye Jingcheng urged the cultivators to collect the remnants.

The cultivators turned the beast tide around and drove the remaining Monster Beasts into retreat, though the Three-Eyed Demon King and Cloud Lion Demon King escaped. Ye Jingcheng pursued Golden Scale Beasts and Armor Piercing Beasts for their demon cores while the Treasure Boat’s observers discussed the Earth Dragon Demon King’s growing threat.

• The Thousand Stars Return to One Grand Array wounded the Purple Mansion Great Demons, allowing Ye Haicheng and the other Purple Mansion Cultivators to counterattack and kill several Monster Beasts.
• The Three-Eyed Demon King and Cloud Lion Demon King fled, and the Three Yuan Real Person failed to kill Three-Eye after its black flames burned the Three Yuan Sword Embryo.
• Jin Chengyun and Kong Guxiang blocked the Cloud Lion Demon King’s Fireball but could not continue pursuing it.
• The red-faced old Daoist speculated that the Earth Dragon Demon King might belong to the Beast Desolation Lineage as he and Tianfu Real Person watched the retreating beast tide.
• Ye Jingcheng pursued Golden Scale Beasts and Armor Piercing Beasts for their demon cores, and his Golden Scale Beast eagerly joined the hunt.
• Ye Jingcheng released seven or eight hundred Five Poisons Bees to search the mountains.