Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng discovered a Fire Pattern Sinking Iron vein in a scorching cave and used his spirit beasts and insects to mine it while hiding valuable loot. After tending to his newly advanced Three-Colored Cloud Deer, he sensed that an even better treasure lay deeper inside the cave.

• Ye Jingcheng entered a blazing cave after his Five Poisons Bees detected it and found a vein of Fire Pattern Sinking Iron.
• Ye Jingcheng set up an array and sent his Five Poisons Bees, Jade Ring Rat, Golden Scale Beast, and Three-Tailed Crimson Flame Fox to mine the ore.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven to hide Fire Pattern Sinking Iron and precious Monster Beast corpses, including those with demon cores.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the newly advanced Three-Colored Cloud Deer Violet Wood Pills and Spirit Herbs, then returned it to its Spirit Beast Bag to stabilize its cultivation.
• Ye Jingcheng noticed the Five Poisons Bees and Three-Tailed Crimson Flame Fox probing anxiously toward the cave’s depths, suggesting a better treasure was farther inside.

Ye Jingcheng found a third-order Three Star Scarlet Cloud Ginseng and a small Fire Pattern Sinking Iron vein before joining Ye Xingliu to fight over a Golden Light Rhino cub. After they killed its mother, Kong Guangyun offered Spirit Stones for the cub, but Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu had not agreed to part with it.

• Ye Jingcheng collected a thousand-year-old Three Star Scarlet Cloud Ginseng and more than thirty pieces of Fire Pattern Sinking Iron, then left the vein for Ye Family clansmen to mine.
• Ye Jingcheng answered Ye Xingliu’s call and found him facing a Golden Light Rhino guarding its cub.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu attacked the Golden Light Rhino, whose cub Ye Jingcheng’s Treasure Book revealed could evolve three times.
• Ye Xingliu used a second-order Golden Sword Talisman while Ye Jingcheng struck with his Eternal Green Sword, and together they killed the Golden Light Rhino.
• Kong Guangyun arrived with Xu and Kong Family cultivators, claimed the cub should be shared, and offered Ye Jingcheng two thousand Spirit Stones for it.

The Ye Family and Kong Family clashed over a Golden Light Rhino cub, and the conflict escalated into a fight between their Purple Mansion cultivators. Xuandao Real Person stopped the battle, punished both sides, and announced preparations to enter the cleared secret realm.

• Ye Xingliu offered the Kong Family Spirit Stones, but Ye Jingcheng entered the cave and took the adult Golden Light Rhino's corpse and its cub.
• Kong Guangyun accused Ye Xingliu of stealing the cub and deliberately took a sword strike to provoke a confrontation.
• Kong Chenmu and Kong Chenyun fought Ye Haicheng, who was badly overwhelmed before Kong Guxiang's arrival drove him into the ground.
• Xuandao Real Person and Heaven Array Shangren arrived and ordered the Kong Family cultivators to stop.
• Xuandao Real Person ordered both sides to serve on the demon-slaying operation's front lines and accept Taiyi Punishment, then told the factions to prepare Foundation Establishment Cultivator quotas for the secret realm.

The Ye Family and other cultivators gathered as Taiyi Sect opened a lake-bound secret realm and announced its rules. As the cultivators prepared to enter, the Kong Family planned to track Ye Xingliu, while Taiyi Sect shifted its suspicions toward other families.

• Ye Xingliu told Ye Jingcheng that Ye Haicheng's injuries were not serious and urged him not to hold back against their enemies in the secret realm.
• Kong Chenmu learned from Kong Chenyun that the Kong Family had marked Ye Xingliu with sword qi and had dealt with the Wan Family.
• The red-faced elder and Tianfu Real Person concluded that the Ye Family likely held no secrets and agreed to focus their attention on the Wan, Zhong, and Zhao Families.
• Xuandao Real Person opened the lake vortex, tested it with demon insects, and announced that the secret realm would stay open for a month, with Taiyi Sect claiming forty percent of its gains and priority over core Spirit Herbs.
• Taiyi Sect distributed jade talismans to the three Ye Family members who would enter the secret realm.

Ye Jingcheng, Ye Xingliu, and Ye Jingyu entered the secret realm, where Ye Jingcheng found a patch of Amethyst Crystal Flowers guarded by a Five-Colored Snake. He killed the snake and began transplanting the flowers.

• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Xingliu, and Ye Jingyu entered the secret realm after the family cultivators, while Heaven Array Shangren ordered the valley secured once the sect cultivators had gone in.
• Ye Jingcheng arrived alone in a grassy valley, put on an Aura Isolation Robe, and discovered dozens of Amethyst Crystal Flowers.
• Ye Jingcheng sent his Five Poisons Bees toward the flowers, but the concealed Five-Colored Snake emerged and corroded many of them with venom.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Blackwood Coffin, Eternal Green Sword, Earth Spike Array, Profound Shadow Needle, and Corpse Needle to kill the Five-Colored Snake.
• Ye Jingcheng stored the snake's corpse and began transplanting the Amethyst Crystal Flowers into Jade Boxes.

Ye Xingliu found and harvested an unripe Jade Vermilion Fruit Vine before following the Six-Colored Bee toward Ye Jingcheng, while several other groups explored the secret realm. Ye Jingyu disguised himself as a Taiyi Sect cultivator, awakened a sinister Bone Ring, and prepared to feed it with blood.

• Ye Xingliu used his spirit beasts, Flying Swords, and a Frost Crystal Talisman to destroy a Jade Vermilion Fruit Vine, then collected its unripe fruits and poisonous vines.
• Ye Xingliu sent the Six-Colored Bee ahead to guide him toward Ye Jingcheng so they could join forces and heal their spirit beasts.
• A cultivator slaughtered Three-Colored Spirit Devouring Bees, gathered Three-Colored Flowers, and followed a Spirit Map toward a subsidiary garden.
• Kong Guangyun used a Concentric Jade to locate Ye Xingliu and ordered his clan members to pursue him and seize his Spirit Map.
• An icy-robed woman killed a Heavenly Pattern Scarlet Lion, collected its Heavenly Astral Treasure Crystal, and headed toward the mountains.
• Ye Jingyu disguised himself as a Taiyi Sect cultivator, removed a Bone Ring from his thumb, and let its green flames form a demonic mark between his brows.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu disguised themselves as Taiyi Sect cultivators and raced across the Secret Realm aboard the Mystic Shadow Azure Cloud Boat. After flying for a day and a half while avoiding fights and passing up Spirit Herbs, they neared their destination, a mountain peak surrounded like a cage.

• Ye Jingcheng met Ye Xingliu, who gave him a Vermilion Fruit for his Golden Scale Beast and asked him to ready the Mystic Shadow Azure Cloud Boat.
• Ye Jingcheng healed Lizard Elder and the Green Eyed Golden Eyed Tiger with Treasure Light while Ye Xingliu disguised their boat as a sect vessel and had the jade tokens hidden in a cliff.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu checked their disguised appearances and sped toward Town Cloud Hall aboard the Mystic Shadow Azure Cloud Boat.
• The two avoided other cultivators, repelled Thunder Rocs with Beast Attracting Powder, and passed up Spirit Herbs as they traveled for a day and a half.
• Ye Xingliu announced that they were nearing their destination, a mountain peak surrounded like a cage.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu entered Town Cloud Hall, where Ye Jingcheng broke through the mountain gate’s formation and discovered a vast herb garden. He recognized a tiny spring at its center as the legendary Spirit Eye Spring.

• Ye Xingliu began setting up the Great Sun Double Dragon Formation while Ye Jingcheng scouted ahead with his spirit beasts and Five Poisons Bees.
• Ye Jingcheng reached Town Cloud Gate, where its inscription pressured his soul and a defensive formation stopped his attempt to cut down the archway.
• The Peach Wood Wood Demon drained spiritual energy from the formation, allowing Ye Jingcheng to shatter it with a Formation Breaking Talisman and remove the mountain gate’s foundation.
• Ye Jingcheng passed the ordinary buildings and headed with his spirit beasts toward the main herb garden on the central peak.
• Ye Jingcheng found a tiny Spring Eye at the center of the herb garden and recognized it as the Spirit Eye Spring.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu harvested the Spirit Herb Garden in Town Cloud Hall’s secret realm, finding a Spirit Eye Spring, rare herbs, and a nearly mature Golden Core Fruit Tree. As Ye Xingliu began transplanting the tree, a streak of golden light appeared, and he turned to confront whoever had finally arrived.

• Ye Jingcheng examined the Spirit Eye Spring and the abundant Tier 2 Spirit Herbs, including ingredients needed for the Golden Scale Pill and Three-Colored Pill.
• Ye Xingliu identified the nearly three-zhang Golden Core Fruit Tree and explained that it would soon bear Golden Dewdrop Fruit capable of helping the Ye Family become a Golden Core Family.
• Ye Jingcheng had his Peach Wood Wood Demon absorb the Spirit Herb Garden’s defensive formation, then opened the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven so they could conceal their harvest.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu uprooted the Spirit Herbs, collected pill ingredients, and sealed them in Jade Boxes, leaving only the Golden Core Fruit Tree and Spirit Eye Spring.
• As Ye Xingliu slowly began transplanting the Golden Core Fruit Tree, a streak of golden light appeared, and he asked whether the newcomer could no longer hold back.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu battled a lightning-fast golden falcon in the valley and captured it with the Mystic Azure Tower talisman treasure. The Treasure Book then revealed that the falcon was still very young.

• A Second Order Late Stage golden falcon pierced two layers of Ye Xingliu's Six Layer Shield and tried to retreat into the sky.
• Ye Xingliu sent out the Plum Feather Crane, Li Fire Azure Ox, and Crimson Gold Peng to pursue the falcon, while the Jade Scale Flood Dragon spread poisonous mist through the valley.
• The golden falcon dove at Ye Xingliu, evaded the beasts' attacks, and broke through the Beast Banner's assault before Ye Jingcheng trapped it with the Mystic Azure Tower talisman treasure.
• Ye Xingliu urged Ye Jingcheng to spare the falcon, and Ye Jingcheng agreed to suppress it instead of killing it.
• The Treasure Book within Ye Jingcheng lit up near the captured falcon, indicating that the golden falcon was still young.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu secured the Spirit Eye Spring and Golden Core Fruit Tree, then searched Town Cloud Hall and found a painting that might be a Spatial Treasure. They destroyed the mountain site and learned that other cultivators were approaching.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu transplanted the Golden Core Fruit Tree and Spirit Eye Spring into the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven, then gathered the spiritual soil and recorded the emptied garden with an Image Retention Mirror.
• Ye Jingcheng offered to share incomplete ancient pill formulas for Spirit Beasts, and Ye Xingliu said the Ye Family might eventually nurture him as a dragon son.
• At Town Cloud Hall, Ye Xingliu burned incense and played a guzheng, prompting a Ghost Cultivator's attack from the painting; he shattered the attack and gave the painting to Ye Jingcheng as a possible Spatial Treasure.
• Ye Xingliu set a self-destruction array across the mountains, and he and Ye Jingcheng left as the peaks collapsed and the Spirit Herb Garden vanished.
• Ye Xingliu noticed that other cultivators were coming, while Ye Jingcheng received the same message and they relied on an illusion spell and Five Poisons Bees they had left behind.

Kong Wanling’s Kong Family forces tracked the Ye Family to the snow mountains and trapped them, but the Ye Family’s hidden formation turned the pursuit against them. The Kong cultivators were separated and attacked by the Ye Family’s spirit beasts, while their Formation Breaking Talismans were swallowed.

• Kong Wanling led eight Kong Family cultivators toward the collapsed snow peaks, following Ye Xingliu’s Sword Qi.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu hid behind the snow and debated whether to fight or flee as Kong Wanling set up a formation around them.
• Kong Wanling used the Peacock Mirror to locate the Ye Family’s Spirit Shield, then destroyed its Array Disk and Formation Cores as Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu fled.
• The snow mountains vanished inside the Ye Family’s formation, a colossal sun appeared, and the Kong cultivators were split into separate groups.
• The Crimson Gold Peng and Li Fire Azure Ox attacked Kong Wanling’s group, while a crimson dragon swallowed the Kong cultivators’ Formation Breaking Talismans.

Ye Jingcheng killed Kong Guanghe with the Mystic Ice Seal after his beasts and hidden Spirit Root weakened Kong Guanghe’s formation and distracted his talisman treasure. He entered the Great Sun Double Dragon Formation to find Kong Guangyun and three Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivators still holding their ground against his Flame Dragon and spirit beasts.

• Kong Guanghe hesitated to send a message after seeing the Kong Family cultivators disappear, then used the Ancient Monk Bell to fight Ye Jingcheng’s spirit beasts.
• A hidden Spirit Root drained Kong Guanghe’s formation cores, while Ye Jingcheng’s beasts delayed the Ancient Monk Bell and wounded Kong Guanghe’s opponents.
• Ye Jingcheng summoned the Mystic Ice Seal, shattered Kong Guanghe’s formation, and crushed him before collecting the talisman treasure and storage bag.
• Ye Jingcheng entered the formation and saw Kong Guangyun and three Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivators battling his Flame Dragon and spirit beasts.
• Kong Guangyun attacked the Crimson Flame Fox with a sword and spear while the other cultivators used shields, a fire banner, and a Netherwind Pearl to counter Ye Jingcheng’s forces.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family’s spirit beasts overwhelmed the Kong Family cultivators inside the formation, killing five of them. Ye Jingcheng then turned toward the battle with Kong Wanling, who began activating a blood art as he vowed to destroy the Ye Family.

• Kong Guangyun tried to strike the Crimson Flame Fox, but Ye Jingcheng’s Eternal Green Sword and Mystic Ice Seal thwarted him.
• The Plum Feather Crane disabled Kong Guangyu, and the Ye Family’s spirit beasts killed Kong Guangyun and the remaining Kong cultivators.
• Ye Jingcheng left the collection of the Kong cultivators’ Storage Bags to the Jade Ring Rat and went to join Ye Xingliu’s fight against Kong Wanling.
• The Crimson Gold Peng and Li Fire Azure Ox had already killed Kong Wanling’s two Foundation Establishment Early Stage allies.
• Seeing Ye Jingcheng arrive, Kong Wanling bit his lips and formed blood patterns around the others while threatening the Ye Family.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu captured Kong Wanling’s blood-shadow message in the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven and escaped as Taiyi Sect cultivators approached. They disguised themselves as Azure Cloud Nunnery cultivators and fled by flying shuttle as their formation destroyed the snowy mountain behind them.

• Kong Wanling’s Blood Shadow Stream formed after his death, but Ye Jingcheng pulled the shadow and corpse into the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven and sealed them inside.
• Ye Xingliu warned that sect cultivators were approaching and rejected Ye Jingcheng’s plan to fight them with the Great Sun Double Dragon Formation.
• Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng a jade slip and Bone Transformation Pill so they could disguise themselves as Azure Cloud Nunnery cultivators.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu changed into female cultivators’ clothing and escaped by flying shuttle as their formation triggered explosions and another avalanche.
• A cultivator in a white Sword Robe witnessed the avalanche.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu hid their identities while traveling through the secret realm, treating their injured spirit beasts and refining Bone Transformation Pills. After restoring their appearances, they prepared to search the Kong Family cultivators’ Storage Bags for useful treasures.

• A white-robed figure failed to track spiritual traces after a formation’s destruction, then received a message summoning him to the Spirit Herb Garden because demons had appeared.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu disguised themselves as Azure Cloud Nunnery cultivators and drove off Foundation Building Cultivators who tried to approach them.
• Ye Xingliu suffered backlash from the formation and recovered while Ye Jingcheng treated their injured spirit beasts and replenished his spiritual energy.
• The pair hid in a valley for two days, collected Red Stone Grass, and Ye Jingcheng refined four Bone Transformation Pills that restored their original appearances.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu entered another valley to inspect the Kong Family cultivators’ Storage Bags, and Ye Jingcheng took out the Ancient Monk Bell talisman treasure.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu secured their valley and searched the Kong Family cultivators’ storage bags, finding valuable Dharma Artifacts, Spirit Herbs, and tracking tools. Ye Jingcheng accepted a Golden Flood Dragon Claw and compass, while Ye Xingliu replaced his damaged shield and chose a Five Mystic Seal.

• Ye Xingliu reinforced the valley’s formations while the Spirit Beasts recovered nearby and kept watch.
• Ye Jingcheng searched five Storage Bags, finding Dharma Artifacts, talismans, and ingredients for Tier 2 Golden Scale Pills and Three-Colored Pills.
• Ye Xingliu offered Ye Jingcheng Kong Wanling’s Second Order High Grade Golden Flood Dragon Claw, and Ye Jingcheng accepted it.
• Ye Xingliu replaced his damaged Six Layer Shield with Kong Wanling’s Stone Heart Shield and chose the Five Mystic Seal.
• Ye Xingliu explained how the Kong Family cultivators had used Concentric Jade and a compass to gather and locate Spirit Herbs, then gave Ye Jingcheng the compass.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu discovered and captured a lake full of Star Eating Fish, then hurried toward an explosion at the Spirit Map’s marked location. The chapter left them approaching a battle there.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu found that many treasure sites had already been stripped bare and discussed the delayed Mo and Xu Families.
• They recognized the lake marked on the Spirit Map and learned from their Spirit Beasts that it contained something valuable.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu identified the lake’s Star Eating Fish and lured them out with Five Poisons Bees.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu captured 120 Star Eating Fish, killing the five second-rank fish.
• After hearing an explosion from the Spirit Map’s marked location, Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu headed toward the battle.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu found the Xu Family breaking a powerful formation in a misty rainforest and prepared to confront them. Ye Jingcheng discovered rare Thunder Rhino Beetles guarding the formation, giving him another reason to stay despite the danger.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu disguised themselves as sect cultivators and cautiously entered the rainforest under the Supreme Turtle Qi Concealment Art.
• Ye Xingliu spotted Xu Family cultivators breaking a formation and began setting up the Great Sun Flame Dragon Formation while Ye Jingcheng prepared his treasures and Jade Scale Flood Dragon.
• Ye Jingcheng used an Image Retention Mirror to watch eight Xu Family cultivators attack the formation, which drew lightning from the forest.
• The Xu Family cultivators repelled a lightning net, and Ye Jingcheng recognized the horned insects behind it as rare Thunder Rhino Beetles.

Xu Hanqing’s Xu Family force broke through a formation guarding Thunder Rhino Beetles and a Purple Jade Vine bearing two Purple Jade Fruits. As Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu watched from nearby, Xu Wenchang attacked them from behind.

• Xu Hanqing led eight Xu Family Foundation Establishment cultivators in breaking the formation while the Thunder Rhino Beetles counterattacked.
• Xu Hanqing used icy beads and a combined strike to shatter the spirit shield and reveal the beetles, a Purple Jade Vine, and two Purple Jade Fruits.
• Xu Hanqing ordered the Xu Family cultivators to kill the adult Thunder Rhino Beetles and capture the others alive.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu recognized the Purple Jade Vine’s value and saw potential in using Amber Crystal to advance the Thunder Rhino Beetles.
• Xu Wenchang appeared behind Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu and sent Formation Breaking Talismans toward Ye Xingliu’s forehead.