Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family attended Taichang Market’s grand auction as signs of upheaval around Taiyi Sect troubled him. After the family bid for an Earth Spirit Fruit, the auction revealed a Spirit Transformation Fruit with a bite taken from it, and the bidding surged.

• Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family joined the Chu and Wan Families at the auction, where the projected treasures included Cloud Silver Iron Crystal for the Ye Family’s Teleportation Array.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed pressure from Taiyi Building and discussed with Ye Xingliu signs that Taiyi Sect was clearing the field amid trouble involving the Zhong and Zhang Families.
• Qiu Xianyun opened the auction with Heavenly Snow Silkworm silk, which sold for 1,710 Spirit Stones, then offered an Earth Spirit Fruit that Ye Jingli won.
• Ye Jingcheng spotted cultivators resembling Chen Ya and Xu Xiuqing among the auction attendees, while Xu Xiuqing ignored the treasures as she waited for a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Qiu Xianyun presented a Second-Order High-Grade Spirit Transformation Fruit with a rat bite and possible residual poison, prompting the bidding to soar.

Ye Jingcheng bid on scarce spirit materials and watched the auction of Foundation Establishment Pills drive prices to new heights, while the Ye Family secured a group of three. The auction then turned to a suspicious Heavenly Corpse Spear and ended as Qiu Xianyun introduced the Third-Order Cloud Silver Iron Crystal.

• Ye Jingcheng won the Spirit Transformation Fruit for 3,500 Spirit Stones after the Kong Family tried to outbid him, then spent 6,300 Spirit Stones on three Thundercloud Grasses.
• Qiu Xianyun began auctioning Foundation Establishment Pills, and Rogue Cultivators and families pushed individual pill prices above 20,000 Spirit Stones as Xu Xiuqing failed to win one.
• Ye Xingyi and Ye Jingyong failed to obtain individual pills, while the Xu Family won one for 24,800 Spirit Stones and Ye Jingli secured another.
• Ye Jingcheng invited Xu Xiuqing to meet at Chu Ye Pavilion, and the Ye Family bought a group of three Foundation Establishment Pills for 69,000 Spirit Stones.
• Ye Jingcheng recognized the Heavenly Corpse Spear as likely connected to the Corpse Daoist and warned Ye Xingliu that Taiyi Sect was fishing for demonic sect members; the spear sold for 30,000 Spirit Stones.
• Qiu Xianyun introduced the finale treasure, a Third-Order Cloud Silver Iron Crystal, with a starting price of 40,000 Spirit Stones.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu secured the Cloud Silver Iron Crystal for the Ye Family’s Teleportation Array while the auction exposed the fall of the Zhong Family and the growing power struggle among the cultivation families. After the Kong Family bought the Mountain and River Seal, Ye Xingliu warned Ye Jingcheng to postpone seeking out Chen Ya until he had reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

• Qiu Xianyun demonstrated the Cloud Silver Iron Crystal’s strength, and Ye Xingliu won it for the Ye Family with a bid of seventy thousand Spirit Stones.
• Kong Yulong blamed the Ye Family for opposing the Kong Family and said his family was seeking permission to establish a branch in Taihang County.
• The Wan Family bought the Purple Mansion Jade Liquid for one hundred and thirty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Qiu Xianyun revealed that the Mountain and River Seal had belonged to the executed Zhong Xianhe, and the Kong Family bought it for three hundred and eighty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Ye Xingliu told Ye Jingcheng to wait until he safely reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage before seeking Chen Ya, who might be possessed by the powerful Corpse Daoist.

After the auction, Ye Jingcheng obtained a Foundation Establishment Pill from Ye Xingliu and met Xu Xiuqing, who traded treasured items for a pill and planned to visit Lingyun Peak after her breakthrough. The chapter ended with Ye Jingcheng agreeing to a two-year wait before she could see the Golden Scale Beast.

• Ye Xingliu arranged for the family members to return home in half a month and warned Ye Jingcheng that the sect might soon make a move.
• Ye Jingcheng asked for a Foundation Establishment Pill for Xu Xiuqing, and Ye Xingliu gave him one while cautioning him against seeking the Corpse Daoist.
• Xu Xiuqing visited Ye Jingcheng, who offered her the Foundation Establishment Pill for fifteen thousand Spirit Stones in repayment for her past help.
• Xu Xiuqing traded the Azure Swan Sword and Heaven Essence Fruit for the pill and gave the items to Ye Jingcheng as a gift celebrating his becoming family head.
• Xu Xiuqing asked to see the Golden Scale Beast, and Ye Jingcheng told her it was in seclusion before agreeing she could visit Lingyun Peak in one or two years.

Ye Jingcheng used a Spirit Transformation Fruit and three Spirit Transformation Pills to awaken intelligence in the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven, then assigned Peach Wood to teach it. After tending to his spirit beasts and plants, he left the cave heaven with plans to refine pills for the Jade Scale Flood Dragon and Chu Yanqing.

• Ye Jingcheng fed the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven a Spirit Transformation Fruit and three Spirit Transformation Pills, awakening its intelligence and forming a python-shaped spirit phantom.
• Ye Jingcheng tested the Stone Spirit's phantom inside the cave heaven, where the Crimson Flame Fox and Jade Scale Flood Dragon reacted to it.
• Ye Jingcheng asked Peach Wood to teach the newly awakened Stone Spirit how to communicate, promising it future advancement.
• Ye Jingcheng fed and trained his spirit beasts, using Treasure Light and supplies to further tame the Golden Falcon and Thunder Rhino Beetles.
• Ye Jingcheng checked the blooming Peach Wood and growing vines, then left the cave heaven with the Crimson Flame Fox to refine Fire Beast Pills and Mystic Water Pills.

Ye Jingcheng studied and practiced refining Fire Beast Pills from demon beast inner cores, eventually producing one successful pill. A message then revealed that Ye Haiyun was at death's door, and Ye Jingcheng hurried with his family toward Lingyun Peak.

• Ye Jingcheng refined Mystic Water Pills, studied the Fire Beast Pill formula, and spent more than ten days preparing to work with a demon beast inner core.
• Ye Jingcheng's first Fire Beast Pill attempt failed, but he reviewed the process and continued practicing.
• Chu Yanqing refined a Second-Order High-Grade concealment and defensive dharma artifact, while Chu Xiyu warned her that troubled times were coming and ordered her to return to Idle Cloud Mountain.
• Ye Jingcheng used four Crimson Flame Foxes to refine a Fire Beast Pill, producing one successful pill and one flawed pill, then fed the successful pill to a fox.
• Ye Jingcheng received a Sound Transmission Talisman saying Ye Haiyun was at death's door and regretted that Ye Haiyun had not taken the life-extending spirit peaches he had left behind.
• Ye Jingcheng joined Ye Xingliu and the others as they closed the family shop and set out for Lingyun Peak.

Xu Yinglong suspected the Ye Family had hidden strength and arranged a route to pursue them. As Ye Jingcheng hurried home to see the dying Ye Haiyun, Ye Xingliu detected pursuers following their spirit boat, leaving the family preparing for a confrontation in the storm.

• Xu Yinglong met an Aura Isolation Robe-clad figure in a North City tavern and confirmed a route through Ziyun City and around Yellow Ridge.
• Ye Jingcheng’s group abandoned their slow carriage journey and flew toward Taihang County aboard the Mystic Shadow Azure Cloud Boat.
• Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng the concealed dharma robe refined by Chu Yanqing, and Ye Jingcheng kept the spirit pills he had made for her after learning she had returned to Taihang County.
• Ye Jingcheng drove the boat at full speed, hoping to reach Ye Haiyun before his cultivation dwindled completely.
• Ye Xingliu’s pollen and Treasure Seeking Rat revealed that someone was pursuing the boat, so the Ye Family climbed toward the thunderclouds without slowing down.
• Ye Jingli, Ye Jingyong, and the others readied their Spirit Beasts as the boat blended into the dark clouds, while the family prepared to judge the pursuers’ strength.

Ye Jingcheng led the Ye Family away from two Taiyi Sect stewards who pursued them, then revealed the family’s hidden strength and killed them. The Ye Family destroyed evidence and fled, leaving Ye Jingcheng to keep the encounter secret.

• Ye Jingcheng changed course toward the Fu Family’s Dawn Peak while the pursuing spirit boat closed in, and he gave his companions talisman treasures to prepare for a fight.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered that the pursuers were two cultivators at Foundation Establishment Late Stage and Foundation Establishment Peak, and suspected they had tracked the family through their Taichang Tokens.
• Ye Jingcheng let the enemy catch up before launching talisman treasures and sonic and divine-sense attacks, while the Ye Family’s Monster Beasts emerged to join the battle.
• Xu Yinglong and Zi Wuyai identified the Ye Family and tried to escape, but Ye Jingcheng’s Black Wood Sword disrupted one talisman treasure and the Golden Falcon killed both pursuers.
• Ye Jingcheng ordered the others to keep the battle secret, and Ye Xingliu identified the dead men as Taiyi Sect stewards before the family used thunder and an Array Disk to obscure their traces and flee.

Ye Jingcheng returned to Lingyun Peak and learned that Ye Haiyun had died before he could come home. After mourning him and inheriting his research, treasures, and Soil Turning Earthworm, Ye Jingcheng prepared to take up the position of family head.

• Ye Jingcheng returned to Lingyun Peak with the Ye Family cultivators and went to the Council Hall to report his three years at Taichang Market before visiting the Family Ancestral Hall.
• Ye Haiyi gave Ye Jingcheng Ye Haiyun’s inheritance, including eight thousand Contribution Points, spirit fruits, pill-refining materials, research, and a message urging him to cultivate carefully and see Yun Fusheng.
• Ye Jingcheng mourned Ye Haiyun for three days and saw the growing row of spirit tablets, including those of Ye Jingyu and Ye Jingfeng.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered that the Soil Turning Earthworm could produce spirit soil and had two chances for advancement, then formed a bond with it and brought it into his cave heaven along with the apricot tree.
• Ye Jingcheng cleaned Ye Haiyun’s courtyard, shared Cloud Floating Tea in remembrance of him, and declared that he would succeed the position of family head.

Ye Jingcheng returned to his courtyard, released his spirit beasts, and examined the treasures and manuals taken from Xu Yinglong. A message arrived with details for the upcoming Clan Meeting, where the transfer of the Ye Family head position would be announced.

• Ye Jingcheng settled his spirit beasts in the courtyard, where the Jade Ring Rat eagerly returned to tending the spirit fields and the Crimson Flame Fox inspected his room.
• Ye Jingcheng examined Xu Yinglong's storage bag and found over ten thousand Spirit Stones, several second-order spirit talismans, the Eight Trigrams Plate, a Crimson Seal, and a Purple Mansion Jade Liquid pill formula with its required herbs except for the Purple Jade Fruit.
• Ye Jingcheng studied the Eight Trigrams Plate and then began researching the Ren Water Pill for the Jade Scale Flood Dragon.
• A spirit talisman delivered the Clan Meeting date, twelve days away, and informed Ye Jingcheng that the meeting would announce the transfer of the family head position.
• Ye Jingcheng received information about the Ye Family's known cultivators, forces, and upcoming strategies to prepare him for taking over as family head.

Ye Jingcheng returned to the Ye Family Council Hall and learned that the family had prepared its reforms, pill plans, and tavern takeover ahead of the Clan Meeting. As he and Ye Xingliu discussed suspicious new sect-approved settlements in Taihang County, the Golden Scale Beast began to swell after breaking through.

• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Xingliu that he had recovered and had come to learn, while intending to discuss the family's reforms.
• Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng the Vein Protecting Pill formula and explained how the family assessed Fire Attribute Spirit Beasts and assisted them with pill refining.
• Ye Xingliu said the family had bought the Mo Family Tavern and prepared its taverns, leaving Ye Jingcheng's eldest uncle to manage them.
• Ye Jingcheng asked about Green Willow Mountain and Green Willow Lake, and Ye Xingliu revealed that the Kong Family and Jin Family had both received approval to establish branch families nearby.
• Ye Xingliu warned that someone might be trying to destabilize Taihang County or the Taiyi Three Counties, while Ye Jingcheng sensed the Golden Scale Beast had broken through and was swelling.

Ye Jingcheng returned to the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven to witness the Golden Scale Beast break through and reveal stronger earth-element secret arts. The Three-Colored Cloud Deer also advanced, gaining new abilities that left Ye Jingcheng eager to see how its soul-pulling talent would help him.

• Ye Jingcheng left Ye Xingliu and rushed back to the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven after sensing the Golden Scale Beast’s urgent aura.
• The Golden Scale Beast advanced to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, strengthened its earth-element secret arts, and demonstrated a shrinking earthen prison.
• Ye Jingcheng rewarded the Golden Scale Beast with pills, spirit food, and Treasure Light, calming its desire to challenge the Crimson Flame Fox and Jade Scale Flood Dragon.
• The Three-Colored Cloud Deer completed its breakthrough, turning its fur four-colored and growing large feathered wings.
• At Ye Jingcheng’s urging, the Four-Colored Cloud Deer demonstrated that it could summon ten stronger Wood Giants and pull at a target’s divine soul with its breath.

After his Spirit Beasts advanced, Ye Jingcheng rewarded the Golden Falcon and Thunder Rhino Beetles and checked on the growing Adamantine Vine. He was preparing to visit two elders when Ye Xuecang summoned him to Lingyun Lake, where he headed to meet the family head.

• The Golden Scale Beast and Four-Colored Cloud Deer advanced, while the Stone Spirit continued developing its intelligence and Ye Jingcheng considered how it might cultivate.
• The Golden Falcon sought Ye Jingcheng’s attention, and he promised it an Advancement Pill once it fully pledged loyalty before rewarding it with pills and meat.
• Ye Jingcheng removed the Thunder Rhino Beetles’ formation and gave them pills and Fire Swallowing Sparrow meat.
• Ye Jingcheng checked the Adamantine Vine, then prepared spirit tea, Spirit Apricots, and a Second-Order Star Eating Fish to visit Ye Haiping and Ye Haitian.
• Ye Xuecang summoned Ye Jingcheng to Lingyun Lake, and Ye Jingcheng arrived and was invited inside.

Ye Xuecang rewarded Ye Jingcheng for his achievements in the secret realm and explained the family’s plans for his cultivation and Beast Communication Mark. Ye Jingcheng then visited Ye Haitian at the Earth Fire Room, where he quietly chose to spend time with his aging grandfather.

• Ye Xuecang gave Ye Jingcheng 150,000 Contribution Points, four Third Order Demon Beast Inner Cores, pill formulas, the later half of the Four Aspects Heavenly Origin Scripture, and a jade talisman.
• Ye Xuecang told Ye Jingcheng that the Beast Communication Mark could not be strengthened directly, but the Beast Communication Tower could increase its carrying capacity after he reached Purple Mansion.
• Ye Jingcheng asked what kind of family the Ye Family was, and Ye Xuecang answered that it could be considered both Purple Mansion and Golden Core before dismissing him.
• Ye Jingcheng went to the Earth Fire Room and saw that Ye Haitian had grown frail while recording his alchemy insights.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Haitian he had come to refine pills and brought him spirit fish, Azure Wave Wine, and Cloud Floating Tea without exposing his attempt to appear younger.

Ye Jingcheng refined Spirit Nurturing Pills, received a jade slip from Ye Haitian, and discovered that Ye Haiping was concealing his cultivation. He exchanged a family token for pill materials, visited Ye Xingqun and Ye Xinghan, and left with two promising Cloud Floating Tea saplings.

• Ye Jingcheng refined a batch of nine Spirit Nurturing Pills, including one pill with a Pill Pattern.
• Ye Haitian gave Ye Jingcheng a jade slip researched at the request of his Fourth Grandfather.
• Ye Jingcheng detected Ye Haiping's concealed Foundation Establishment cultivation and asked him to exchange a jade slip and Family Token for materials for Thunder Rhino, Golden Scale, and Jade Scale Pills.
• Ye Haiping recognized the significance of Ye Jingcheng's token but did not ask about it, and he went to retrieve the requested materials.
• Ye Jingcheng visited Ye Xingqun and Ye Xinghan, saw the progress of their Five Poisons Bees and Wood Demon Spirit Contract, and received two Cloud Floating Tea saplings from Ye Xinghan.

Ye Jingcheng tended the thriving Grotto-Heaven and fed Thunder Rhino Pills and Amber Crystal to his Thunder Rhino Beetles, triggering several attempted advancements. The next morning, he joined the Ye Family Clan Meeting, where twenty-seven new Immortal Seedlings had gathered for the Ancestor Recognition Ceremony.

• Ye Jingcheng observed how the Grotto-Heaven’s abundant spiritual energy nourished the Cloud Floating Tea and other plants, while the Four-Colored Cloud Deer and other spirit pets enjoyed the spiritual rain.
• Ye Jingcheng divided his twenty Thunder Rhino Beetles by talent and fed them Thunder Rhino Pills, Amber Crystal, Spirit Beast Meat, and Treasure Light; eight entered advancement, along with three of the less talented beetles.
• The Golden Falcon reacted jealously to the Thunder Rhino Beetles receiving Advancement Pills, so Ye Jingcheng used their Soul Contract to suppress its rebellion and withheld its Spirit Nurturing Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng cultivated overnight to prepare for the Clan Meeting, then dressed in the family-head attire and went to the Council Hall.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu joined Ye Haicheng on the high platform as nearly one hundred and fifty clansmen and Immortal Seedlings gathered; twenty-seven of the new recruits had Spirit Roots.

Ye Xingliu presided over the Ye Family clan meeting and passed the patriarch position to Ye Jingcheng, who announced new clan rules, increased stipends, reorganized the family halls, and introduced new business and Spirit Beast policies. Ye Jingcheng ended the meeting’s announcements by offering qualified clansmen a chance to help their Fire Attribute Spirit Beasts break through.

• Ye Xingliu honored the dead and reported the Ye Family’s growth from a Foundation Establishment Family to a Purple Mansion Family.
• Ye Xingliu announced that Ye Jingcheng would become the next Family Patriarch, and Ye Jingcheng accepted the Golden Dragon Token from Ye Haicheng.
• Ye Jingcheng reorganized the family halls, named their leaders, and raised clan stipends.
• Ye Jingcheng announced that the Ye Family would take over the Mo Family Tavern and promote Welcoming Spring Tea and spirit meals.
• Ye Jingcheng offered clansmen with Fire Attribute Spirit Beasts an assessment and a chance to exchange sufficient talent for a breakthrough opportunity.

Ye Jingcheng introduced the Ye Family’s secret talent assessment and bloodline-raising pills, then oversaw spiritual-root and bloodline tests for the new Immortal Seedlings. He named the Dual Spiritual Root child Ye Qingyan and arranged for the family’s Fire Attribute Spirit Beasts to take Fire Sincerity Pills the next day.

• Ye Xingqun and Ye Jingcheng explained that the family’s Fire Attribute Spirit Beasts could receive bloodline-raising pills, while keeping the method secret and warning of its risks.
• Ye Jingcheng announced that Fire Attribute Spirit Beasts had the highest success rate and began the Spirit Root and bloodline assessments.
• Ye Jingcheng found that Ye Yan had fire-and-wood Dual Spiritual Roots and Ye Family bloodline, then renamed him Ye Qingyan.
• Ye Jingcheng arranged for eleven children without Ye Family bloodline to be taught about family duties or marrying into the Ye Family.
• Ye Xingqun reported that nineteen Fire Attribute Spirit Beasts had been registered, and Ye Jingcheng ordered them to take Fire Sincerity Pills the next day.

The Ye Family held a banquet and planned its restaurant opening as the Kong and Jin Families entered Taihang Market, threatening its business. Ye Jingcheng approved strategies to attract customers and strengthen ties with the Taiyi Sect, leaving the family preparing to establish its restaurant’s reputation.

• The Ye Family celebrated with spirit dishes while Ye Xinghe worried that the Kong and Jin Families’ arrival would threaten Taihang Market’s businesses.
• Ye Jingcheng asked about the restaurant plan, and Ye Xinghe presented a strategy connecting the family’s spirit pill, Spirit Beast, and restaurant businesses.
• Ye Jingcheng ordered the restaurant to serve Star Eating Fish, offer lodging and Second Order Spirit Meat Banquets, and give diners a chance to win spirit meals.
• Ye Jingcheng told the family to invite Grandmaster Taihao, Heaven Array Shangren, Liu Huan, and other Illusion Peak disciples, offering them a Jade Soul Pill discount.

The Ye Family tested nineteen Spirit Beasts with Fire Sincerity Pill fragments, and Ye Jingli’s Crimson Flame Scale Python and Ye Jingyun’s Purple Fire Sky Ox showed signs of bloodline advancement after taking the full pills. With the family’s pill breakthrough raising Ye Jingcheng’s prestige, preparations turned to the opening of the Ye Family Restaurant, where Ye Jingcheng would travel the next day.

• Ye Jingli asked Ye Jingcheng to assess his newly bonded Crimson Flame Scale Python, and Ye Jingcheng judged it stronger than the Azure Scale Python.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingqun oversaw tests of nineteen Spirit Beasts, eliminating those whose spirit fire became unstable after taking Fire Sincerity Pill fragments.
• Five Spirit Beasts received Fire Sincerity Pills and Vein Protecting Pills; Ye Jingli’s Crimson Flame Scale Python and Ye Jingyun’s Purple Fire Sky Ox showed signs of imminent breakthroughs, while Ye Jingcheng healed the injured Fire Leopard.
• Ye Jingcheng reviewed the invitations for the Ye Family Restaurant opening, which Liu Huan, Heaven Array Shangren, Grandmaster Taihao, his Big Brother, and Jin Yutang had accepted; the Ye Family did not invite the Kong Family.
• Ye Xingliu offered to watch over the family while Ye Jingcheng traveled to attend the restaurant opening, and Ye Jingcheng considered his Spirit Beasts, grotto-heaven, and future pill research.