Chapter Summaries

Ye Xingliu lured the Xu Family fighters into the Great Sun Flame Dragon Formation while Xu Wenchang attacked from outside and threatened to expose the Ye Family’s Bone Transformation Technique. As Xu Wenchang fought the Ye Family’s spirit beasts, an unseen golden flash moved behind the Wood Giants.

• Ye Xingliu used a Spirit Shield and the spirit beasts to hold off Xu Wenchang’s three Sunlight Swords, then cast the Great Sun Flame Dragon Formation over the seven Xu Family fighters.
• Ye Xingliu’s formation trapped the seven Xu Family members, and two Great Sun Flame Dragons attacked them while Xu Wenchang threatened to reveal the Bone Transformation Technique.
• Xu Wenchang used his mirror and Formation Breaking Talismans to search for the formation’s cores, but the formation concealed Ye Xingliu and the trapped Xu Family fighters.
• The Jade Scale Flood Dragon attacked Xu Wenchang, who blocked it with a Cloud Sky Stone Shield and countered with Sunlight Swords, a Wooden Vine Talisman, and a Yellow Sand Talisman.
• The Crimson Flame Fox and Three-Colored Cloud Deer joined the attack, and Xu Wenchang deployed an Ironclad Corpse against the Wood Giants as a golden flash vanished behind them.

Ye Jingcheng killed Xu Wenchang and fought Xu Hanqing, who used Mystic Ice Soul Pearls to threaten the formation and freeze his spirit beasts. The Crimson Gold Peng seized an opening to dive at Xu Hanqing while her Ice Diamond Blade was caught in the Jade Scale Flood Dragon's jaws.

• The Adamantine Vine trapped Xu Wenchang and the Ironclad Corpse, and Ye Jingcheng killed Xu Wenchang with his Corpse Needle as Xu Hanqing arrived.
• Ye Jingcheng retreated into the formation while Xu Hanqing attacked it with three Mystic Ice Soul Pearls, but his Thunder Beads weakened their cold before they could damage the formation further.
• Ye Jingcheng sent his spirit beasts and Six-Colored Bees to surround Xu Hanqing, but her icy attacks froze the bees and wounded the Golden Scale Beast and Three-Colored Cloud Deer.
• Xu Hanqing stabbed at the Jade Scale Flood Dragon with her Ice Diamond Blade, and the dragon caught the blade in its jaws.
• The Crimson Gold Peng plunged toward Xu Hanqing from behind while her attention and weapon were occupied.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family defeated Xu Hanqing and the Xu Family cultivators, but lost the Six-Colored Bee and left several Spirit Beasts badly injured. After fleeing to a bamboo grove, they prepared to examine Xu Hanqing's treasures while demonic activity threatened the Taiyi Sect cultivators elsewhere in the secret realm.

• Ye Jingcheng used the Adamantine Vine to bind Xu Hanqing, then concealed a third-order Thunder Tribulation Pearl behind his Golden Lightning Spear and killed her; the Three-Colored Cloud Deer absorbed her escaping soul.
• Ye Jingcheng revived the badly injured Jade Scale Flood Dragon with Treasure Light and fed it wolf carcasses, while the Six-Colored Bee was confirmed dead.
• Ye Xingliu finished off the remaining Xu Family cultivators, and he and Ye Jingcheng collected their Storage Bags and withdrew aboard the Mystic Shadow Azure Cloud Boat.
• Mo Hongwen concluded that the Ye Family had moved too quickly to pursue and learned that the Xu Family's aura had vanished.
• Yun Jianzi ordered Taiyi cultivators to gather against a demonic shadow that was growing stronger by consuming blood and producing refined corpses.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu reached a secluded bamboo grove, where Ye Xingliu sealed the area and released the Treasure Seeking Rat and Jade Ring Rat before they examined Xu Hanqing's treasures.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu inventoried Xu Hanqing’s treasures and discovered the Five Elements Heavenly Mansion Secret Art, which could greatly improve the Ye Family’s chances of reaching the Purple Mansion realm. They continued searching the defeated Xu cultivators’ belongings and found more talisman treasures, a battle formation, and captured Thunder Rhino Beetles.

• Ye Jingcheng opened Xu Hanqing’s Ice Ring and found Purple Jade Fruits, valuable spirit herbs, a phoenix-bearing ice pearl, rare materials, and other treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu discovered the Five Elements Heavenly Mansion Secret Art and learned it could help multirooted cultivators form multiple Purple Mansions before merging them.
• Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng Forget Dust Pills from the Second Ancestor so they could guard against Soul Questioning, and they returned to the bamboo grove to inspect the remaining jade slips.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu found a second matching treasure map, biographies of the Suppressing Desolation Heavenly Mansion True Lord, and the Mystic Ice Ren Water Scripture.
• Ye Jingcheng found a Five-Colored Umbrella talisman treasure in Xu Wenchang’s storage bag, while Ye Xingliu found a Three-Colored Umbrella talisman and a battle formation.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered captured Thunder Rhino Beetles in one of Xu Hanqing’s Spirit Beast Bags.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu uncovered Azure Jade Lotuses, a soul-attacking secret art, and a Dharma treasure crafting method in the Town Cloud Hall painting. They then answered the Taiyi Sect’s summons and reached the Spirit Valley, where a huge formation was struggling against a powerful figure within.

• Ye Jingcheng collected the Thunder Rhino Beetles and their remains, then entered the Town Cloud Hall painting with Ye Xingliu.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu discovered Azure Jade Lotuses, a Smoke Art Inheritance containing the God Piercing Needle Secret Art and God Extinguishing Needle crafting method, and an Eight Immortals table made from Soul Nourishing Wood.
• The Taiyi Sect’s jade talismans summoned cultivators to the secret realm’s center, so Ye Xingliu sent Spirit Beasts ahead while Ye Jingcheng finished refining Bone Transformation Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu retrieved their jade talismans and joined Chu Yanqing and the Chu Family aboard their spirit boat, learning that both families had lost cultivators.
• Wan Hongchang joined them after losing three Wan Family cultivators, and the group reached the Spirit Valley, where a massive formation battled a figure that had not been subdued.

Ye Jingcheng and the other cultivators helped the Taiyi Sect activate a massive sword formation against the Corpse Daoist’s forces and the Violet Sun Demon Corpse. The formation destroyed the ghost array, but the demon corpse killed Yun Jianzi before the chapter ended with the sect’s leaders and talisman treasures trapping it beneath another golden sword strike.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu joined the eastern sector of the formation as Corpse Refiners and ghosts attacked from the ruined Spirit Herb Garden.
• Taiyi Sect disciples distributed Array Flags, and Ye Xueliu identified the maturing treasure as Golden Dewdrop Fruit.
• Liu Huan activated the Ten Thousand Swords Return to One Great Formation, which shattered the ghost banner and wiped out most of the Corpse Refiners.
• The cultivators saw the Violet Sun Demon Corpse tear Yun Jianzi’s heart out while the Corpse Daoist stood nearby.
• Wang Tianfa and Chen Yunzi used talisman treasures to bind the Violet Sun Demon Corpse with lightning and suppress it with a golden Daoist ruler as the sword formation struck again.

After the Violet Sun Demon Corpse was slain, Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu suspected the Corpse Daoist had deliberately stayed behind and disguised himself among the survivors. As they prepared to leave the secret realm, the Ye Family avoided a trap from the Mo Family and secured the Jin Family’s protection, while the Kong Family abandoned its pursuit.

• The Violet Sun Demon Corpse was cut in two, and the Corpse Daoist fled before Chen Yunzi, Wang Tianfa, Xiao Tai A, and others chased him; Liu Huan stayed behind to oversee the battlefield cleanup.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu secretly speculated that the Corpse Daoist had chosen to die and might have returned to his original appearance, leaving an extra person among the cultivators.
• The cultivators traded ordinary Spirit Herbs, then Chen Yunzi reported that the Corpse Daoist had been executed and warned that someone had brought him into the secret realm.
• Ye Jingteng warned Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu that a Senior Brother Xu from Law Peak had left the group; the Mo Family then departed, and the Ye men suspected Senior Brother Xu was backing them.
• Ye Xingliu spotted the Kong Family watching them, so Ye Jingcheng asked Jin Yutang to travel together, and the Jin Family took the Ye men aboard its spirit boat.
• The Kong Family saw the Ye Family traveling with the stronger Jin Family and gave up pursuing them, deciding instead to target the Wan Family.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu left Jin Yutang’s spirit boat and returned to the valley to prepare an ambush for Corpse Daoist. As they waited, Ye Jingcheng formed a Soul Contract with the Golden Falcon and began training it for the coming fight.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu left Jin Yutang after recognizing his attempt to make the Ye Family indebted to the Jin Family.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu buried the jade talisman, concealed their cultivation, and returned to the valley, where Ye Xingliu set up the Great Sun Double Dragon Formation.
• Ye Jingcheng fed Treasure Light to the Crimson Gold Peng, while Ye Xingliu urged him to contract the Golden Falcon for additional strength against Corpse Daoist.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven and the Mystic Azure Tower to subdue the Golden Falcon, then transformed its Blood Pact into a Soul Contract.
• Ye Jingcheng tormented the Golden Falcon until its hostility eased, then helped it recover and strengthened it with Treasure Light.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu ambushed Corpse Daoist in the valley, but his Five Sons Demonic Corpses and strange techniques repeatedly countered their attacks. They eventually killed him and captured the corpses, then hurried to leave the secret realm with little time remaining and their formation destroyed.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu waited in hiding until Corpse Daoist emerged with three refined corpses and headed toward the teleportation area.
• Corpse Daoist broke through their attacks, used the refined corpses to damage the Great Sun Double Dragon Formation, and forced the two men to reveal themselves.
• Corpse Daoist’s Blackwood Sword destroyed the formation, but Ye Xingliu’s Mystic Ice Seal and Thunder Hammer and Ye Jingcheng’s attacks left him vulnerable.
• Ye Jingcheng’s small golden sword split Corpse Daoist’s head and body, and the Thunder Hammer struck him again, killing him.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu captured or killed all five Five Sons Demonic Corpses, and Ye Xingliu recovered the Bone Ring that had concealed Corpse Daoist.
• With little time left to escape the secret realm, Ye Jingcheng urged them to leave, while Ye Xingliu put away their destroyed formation.

Cultivators returned from the Red Clouds Ridge secret realm, where Taiyi Sect questioned them and inspected their harvests. As Xu Chunlin accused the Ye Family of targeting the Xu Family, Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu finally emerged injured, leaving them to face scrutiny from Taiyi Sect’s other peaks.

• Xuandao Real Person reopened the secret realm and ordered the affiliated families to clear nearby Monster Beasts.
• Heaven Array Shangren questioned returning cultivators and took forty percent of their gains after inspecting their Storage Bags.
• Xiao Tai A emerged and asked Three Yuan Real Person to punish him, claiming a demon had harmed his junior brother.
• Wan Hongchang reported the Wan Family’s discoveries, surrendered its treasures, and was followed by two cultivators from Azure Cloud Nunnery.
• Xu Chunlin accused Ye Haicheng’s family of targeting the Xu Family, but Luo Yuan Shangren ordered him to retreat.
• Miaofa Real Person drew out Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu, who appeared bloodied and badly injured.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu concealed the Ye Family’s secret gains during questioning, while the Zhong Family’s answers raised suspicion. The Earth Dragon Demon King then led a massive force against Taiyi Sect, and Ye Haicheng ordered the Ye Family to retreat aboard the Chu Family’s spirit boat.

• Ye Xingliu and Ye Jingcheng denied colluding with demonic sects and reported selected treasures, then handed over their tribute while concealing the Ye Family’s most valuable Spirit Herbs.
• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Jingli, and Ye Jing Yong mourned Ye Jingyu, while families continued emerging from the secret realm and facing questioning.
• Luo Yuan Shangren and Qian He Shangren questioned the Zhong Family about its mission and concealed ring space, leaving its cultivators unable to answer.
• The Earth Dragon Demon King arrived with Cloud Lion Demon King, Three-Eyed Demon King, and a vast host, then trapped the gathering in a stone prison and began fighting Taiyi Sect’s True Persons.
• Ye Haicheng ordered Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu to lead the clansmen away, and Chu Yanqing offered them passage aboard the Chu Family’s spirit boat.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family escaped the beast tide and reached Jade Dragon Valley, where the Kong Family tried to question them about Kong Wanling. After the sect's cultivators intervened, the injured survivors gathered behind the valley's grand array as Demon Kings watched from nearby.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu helped the Chu Family drive off a Cloud Turtle Great Demon, and Ye Xingliu paid most of the cost of Chu Xiyu's Wind-Breaking Talisman.
• The Ye Family reached Jade Dragon Valley and faced Kong Wanjun, who asked whether they had seen Kong Wanling while his cultivators covertly prepared a Soul Inquiry Talisman.
• With Liu Huan and other sect cultivators backing them, Ye Xingliu denied seeing Kong Wanling, and Kong Wanjun left after handing over a Three-Colored Stone.
• Xuandao Real Person activated Jade Dragon Valley's grand array as the surviving cultivators returned, revealing that the Zhong and Zhang Family Purple Mansion Cultivators and two others had died, while Ye Haicheng was badly injured.
• The Demon Kings and their great demons gathered on a nearby mountaintop and confronted the cultivators from afar.

After the beast tide ended, Ye Jingcheng and the others returned to Taichang Market, where he and Ye Xingliu recovered their sealed memories and explored Corpse Daoist’s Bone Ring. They discovered a newly ripened Golden Dewdrop Fruit and a Corpse Pearl inside, leaving the value of their secret-realm haul revealed.

• Ye Haicheng told Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu to delay taking the Forget Dust Pill antidote and sent Ye Xingliu onward to Taichang Market with the Turtle Ancestor.
• Ye Jingcheng encouraged Ye Jingli to pursue Foundation Establishment, and Ye Jingli vowed to succeed while Ye Jingcheng offered to lend Spirit Stones to his relatives.
• Ye Jingcheng and his family returned to Taichang Market and went to Chu Ye Pavilion, where Ye Jinghao had guarded the shop during their absence.
• After several days, Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu entered Turtle Ancestor’s space, took the antidote, and recovered their memories of the secret realm expedition.
• Ye Jingcheng erased Corpse Daoist’s imprint on the Bone Ring and entered its bone-filled hall with Ye Xingliu, where they found a Golden Dewdrop Fruit and a Corpse Pearl.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu examined Corpse Daoist’s treasures and discovered a Golden Dewdrop Fruit, a Violet Sun Corpse Orb, and several valuable cultivation methods and artifacts. They divided the spoils, with Ye Jingcheng taking two Dharma Artifacts, while Ye Xingliu insisted that the family’s elders decide the fate of the remaining treasures.

• Ye Xingliu carefully opened the jade box and confirmed it held a force-ripened Golden Dewdrop Fruit that could help the Second Ancestor attempt to form a Golden Core.
• Ye Xingliu identified the sealed corpse orb as belonging to the Violet Sun Demon Corpse and decided to leave it unopened for the Second Ancestor to handle.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu found Jade Slips containing corpse-refining methods, the Violet Sun Demon Scripture, and the Celestial Soul Art, and Ye Jingcheng proposed adapting the Corpse Contract for the Wood Demon.
• Ye Jingcheng took Corpse Daoist’s Ten Thousand Ghosts Banner and Black Wood Sword after Ye Xingliu offered them as a reward for his merit.
• Ye Xingliu assigned Ye Jingcheng most of the Contribution Points and some Spirit Herbs, while sending the other treasures to Turtle Ancestor for the Second Ancestor to decide upon.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu sorted the secret-realm treasures, then held a family banquet to recognize the Ye Family members’ efforts. As the family gathered over Spirit Beast dishes and wine, they mourned their losses and Ye Jingcheng considered the Star Eating Fish’s value and his future plans.

• Ye Jingcheng kept selected Spirit Beasts, the Spirit Eye Spring, and useful herbs while transferring the remaining treasures from the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven into Turtle Ancestor's cave heaven.
• Ye Xingliu proposed calling the family’s celebration a summary banquet, and Ye Jingcheng suggested serving Star Eating Fish and Red Joint Fish.
• Ye Jingcheng prepared the Spirit Beast meal as Taichang Market grew busier ahead of the auction and Ascension Assembly.
• Ye Xingliu replaced Ye Jingcheng’s tea with Azure Wave Wine and invited the family members to join the banquet.
• Ye Jingli and Ye Jingyong drank and recalled Ye Jingyu, while Ye Jingcheng observed the family and noted how strongly the Star Eating Fish affected their bodies.

After cultivating, Ye Jingcheng inspected the inhabitants of his cave heaven and planned how to nurture his Spirit Beasts and repair his losses from the secret realm. He turned his attention to the Thunder Rhino Beetle in the last Spirit Beast Bag.

• Ye Jingcheng refined the spirit meal, concluded that he had reached Foundation Establishment Level Five, and noticed his Scarlet Flame Fox and Jade Scale Flood Dragon were nearing breakthroughs.
• Ye Jingcheng entered the cave heaven, fed the Scarlet Flame Fox and Jade Scale Flood Dragon, and found both had grown stronger, with the Jade Scale Flood Dragon potentially advancing first.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the Golden Scale Beast and Three-Colored Cloud Deer, discovered the deer’s devouring ability had grown stronger, and resolved to nurture the four beasts toward breakthroughs or bloodline advancement.
• Ye Jingcheng assessed the still-ferocious Golden Falcon, stimulated the Wood Demon with Treasure Light, and decided to ask the Jin Family and the sect for missing cave-heaven components.
• Ye Jingcheng noted that fewer than three hundred of his Five Poisons Bees remained and decided to breed more perceptive, intelligent bees for exploration before opening the last Spirit Beast Bag containing the Thunder Rhino Beetle.

Ye Jingcheng contracted twenty Thunder Rhino Beetles in Stone Spirit Cave Heaven and spent a month refining pills. A disguised visitor then came to the Ye Family's Chu Ye Pavilion to commission high-grade mysterious pills, signaling a secret connection to Ye Haicheng.

• Ye Jingcheng weakened and contracted twenty Thunder Rhino Beetles through Soul Contracts, leaving four for the Ye Family.
• Ye Jingcheng took the Crimson Flame Fox out of the cave heaven and spent a month refining Jade Soul Pills and other cultivation pills.
• Ye Jingcheng declined Chu Yanqing's requests for custom pills while he remained in seclusion.
• Ye Jingcheng refined eight Jade Soul Pills, including one with pill patterns, and judged his Second-Order High-Grade alchemy stable.
• A cultivator in an Aura Isolation Robe arrived at the Ye Family's Chu Ye Pavilion and used the code phrase for high-grade mysterious pills.
• Ye Jingcheng noticed the visitor's Beast Communication Marks, accepted his materials, and offered a Spirit Beast Bag in return.

Ye Jingcheng received seven Second-Order High-Grade pill formulas and Monster Beast Inner Cores from the Ye Family, then accepted Chu Yanqing’s commission to refine a Mystic Water Pill with pill markings. He returned to pill refining and successfully produced a Golden Scale Pill with half a pill marking, while Chu Yanqing worried over her missing aunt and watched the crimson clouds.

• Ye Jingcheng recognized Ye Xuefu beneath his Aura Isolation Robe, received seven pill formulas and Monster Beast Inner Cores, and learned the family wanted him to watch for Cloud Silver Iron Crystal.
• Ye Jingcheng agreed to Chu Yanqing’s commission for a marked Mystic Water Pill in exchange for artifact materials, five sets of ingredients, and an extended deadline, then requested a concealment robe for his materials.
• Chu Yanqing told her Third Grandfather that she had no news of her Aunt, and he urged her to focus on cultivation as he watched the crimson clouds.
• Ye Jingcheng studied the Golden Scale Pill formula and began refining it with the Six-Part Pill Refining Method.
• Ye Jingcheng produced two Golden Scale Pills, one bearing half a pill marking, and resolved to test the difference.

Ye Jingcheng nurtured his spirit beasts in the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven, advancing the Golden Scale Beast and Three-Colored Cloud Deer while drawing the Golden Falcon’s interest. He left the Golden Falcon eager for a bloodline transformation and planned to strengthen his soul and combat skills before refining Chu Yanqing’s Mystic Water Pill.

• Ye Jingcheng fed the Thunder Rhino Beetles and directed them to form a lightning net, then checked the thriving spirit herbs and Peach Wood Wood Demon.
• Ye Jingcheng restored the Golden Scale Beast, fed it an Armor Piercing Beast core and meat, and gave it a pill-patterned Golden Scale Pill, beginning its advancement.
• Ye Jingcheng cultivated Adamantine Vine seeds and later refined a Three-Colored Pill without a pill pattern, which he gave to the Three-Colored Cloud Deer to begin its bloodline advancement.
• The Golden Falcon watched both beasts’ transformations, accepted a metal-attribute spirit pill from Ye Jingcheng, and returned disappointed when it did not advance.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed the Golden Falcon’s growing interest and planned to split his soul and cultivate the Soul Piercing Needle before refining Chu Yanqing’s Mystic Water Pill.

Ye Jingcheng recovered from dividing his soul, met with Ye Jingteng, and prepared the Ye Family for the upcoming auction. Xiao Ming then reported that Chen Ya had disappeared, leading Ye Jingcheng to suspect that the Corpse Daoist’s divided soul was involved; he left the matter unresolved as the auction approached.

• Ye Jingcheng recovered from soul division with a Patterned Jade Soul Pill and found Ye Jingteng tending the Black Cloud Flowers.
• Ye Jingteng warned Ye Jingcheng that Xu Yinglong had been asking about the Ye Family, and agreed to seek materials for Ye Jingcheng’s Stone Spirit.
• Ye Xingliu urged Ye Jingcheng to prepare the Ye Family’s funds and pill stock to obtain Cloud Silver Iron Crystal at the auction.
• Xiao Ming told Ye Jingcheng that Chen Ya had disappeared after acting strangely for more than a month.
• Ye Jingcheng suspected the Corpse Daoist’s remaining divided soul had occupied Chen Ya and asked Xiao Ming to record the details while he investigated.