Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng prepared for the Ye Family Restaurant’s opening while learning that the Xu and Chu Families were under pressure from the Kong and Jin Families. He went to meet the sect guests and discovered that Golden Core cultivator Tianfu Real Person had arrived, leaving him wary and cautious.

• Ye Xinghong told Ye Jingcheng that an anxious, veiled cultivator had come looking for him, and Ye Xinghe later identified him as Xu Wenjin, the Xu Family Head.
• Ye Jingcheng checked the restaurant preparations with Ye Xinghe, who confirmed the tables were filled with arranged guests and reported the Kong Family’s planned pill shop and the Chu Family’s retreat.
• Ye Jingcheng chose to investigate the situation before committing to an alliance, and went to meet Heaven Array Shangren, Grandmaster Taihao, and Taiyi Sect disciples at the restaurant.
• Ye Jingcheng found Tianfu Real Person seated with Grandmaster Taihao and Heaven Array Shangren, learned that Tianfu was Taihao’s master, and cautiously paid his respects.

Ye Jingcheng accepted Tianfu Real Person’s offer to become a Nominal Disciple and received a Crimson Sun Disc, while remaining wary of Taiyi Sect’s motives. After leaving, he visited Liu Huan and Ye Jingteng, who told him Xu Yinglong had disappeared and gave him spirit materials for a dharma artifact.

• Tianfu Real Person saw through Ye Jingcheng’s guardedness, offered him a place as a Nominal Disciple, and gave him the Crimson Sun Disc as a gift.
• Tianfu Real Person told Grandmaster Taihao and Heaven Array Shangren that Taiyi Sect needed to form ties and that the sect itself likely held the hidden treasure sought in Taihang County.
• Ye Jingcheng privately doubted Tianfu Real Person’s motives and planned to have Ye Xuecang examine the Crimson Sun Disc.
• Ye Jingcheng visited Liu Huan and gave her Spirit Beast Bags containing White Foxes and Brocade Rabbits as thanks for her help.
• Ye Jingteng told Ye Jingcheng that Xu Yinglong had disappeared, then gave him collected spirit materials for forging a dharma artifact.

Ye Jingcheng opened the Ye Family Restaurant in Taihang Market, where a confrontation with the Kong Family ended after the arrival of powerful Taiyi Sect figures, including Tianfu Real Person. He later learned that Ye Xuecang had gone to the East Sea and asked Ye Haicheng about the Red Jade Plate, which seemed to have tested the Ye Family’s strength.

• Ye Jingcheng declined to discuss business with the disguised Xu Family patriarch and focused on gathering resources and studying the Ren Water Pill formula.
• Ye Jingcheng opened the Ye Family Restaurant and welcomed cultivators and family representatives, assigning guests to different floors.
• Kong Yulong challenged Ye Jingcheng over the Kong Family’s missing invitation, but Ye Jingcheng greeted Taiyi Sect figures, including Tianfu Real Person, whose presence left Kong Yulong and Jin Yutang wary.
• Kong Yulong presented a Second-Order High-Grade Peacock Stone as a congratulatory gift, and the restaurant opening became a celebrated event in Taihang County.
• Ye Jingcheng visited Lingyun Lake but received no reply from Ye Xuecang, then learned from Ye Haicheng that Ye Xuecang had gone to the East Sea.
• Ye Jingcheng showed Ye Haicheng the Red Jade Plate and told him that Tianfu Real Person had accepted him as a Nominal Disciple; Ye Haicheng thought the plate had tested the Ye Family’s strongest combat power.

Ye Jingcheng strengthened the Jade Scale Flood Dragon, the Thunder Rhino Beetles, and the Golden Falcon in his grotto-heaven while waiting for his spirit beasts to advance. A year and a half later, the Jade Scale Flood Dragon and Crimson Flame Fox both broke through to the Second Order Late Stage, giving Ye Jingcheng a chance to advance his own cultivation.

• Ye Jingcheng fed the Jade Scale Flood Dragon a Ren Water Pill and a First Rank Late Stage water buffalo Spirit Beast, bringing it close to the Second Order Late Stage.
• Ye Jingcheng examined the Thunder Rhino Beetles, found four had mutated Hidden Wings and powerful concealed Thunder Nets, and rewarded them with Spirit Nurturing Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng tested the Golden Falcon's obedience by reducing its food, then rewarded it with Spirit Beast meat, two Spirit Nurturing Pills, and more Treasure Light.
• Another year and a half passed, and the Jade Scale Flood Dragon broke through to the Second Order Late Stage.
• The Crimson Flame Fox also broke through to the Second Order Late Stage, and Ye Jingcheng began cultivating beside the Spirit Eye Spring with pills prepared for the two beasts.

Ye Jingcheng emerged from more than two years of seclusion after advancing to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage and learned how the Ye Family had fared. The Jin Family and Kong Family were pressing for a meeting to divide Taihang Market's interests, leaving Ye Jingcheng to respond to the growing pressure.

• Ye Jingcheng broke through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and his Spirit Beasts gathered around him for food, pills, and Treasure Light.
• Ye Jingcheng checked the blessed grotto's Spirit Herbs, left seclusion, and learned that Ye Xingyi and Ye Jingyong had advanced to Foundation Establishment while Ye Jingli had entered seclusion.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that Rogue Cultivators had caused security problems and disappearances in Taihang County as the Jin Family and Kong Family expanded their shops and influence.
• Ye Xingyu delivered a message to Ye Jingcheng and told him that the Jin Family and Kong Family wanted to convene another meeting to divide Taihang Market's interests.

Ye Jingcheng learned more about the Ye Family’s Beast Communication Tower and joined Ye Haicheng on a trip to Taihang Market amid rising conflict over the market’s profits. The family prepared to protect the Chu Family and display its strength, while Ye Haicheng warned that they might have to sacrifice their holdings to preserve the clan before an ancestor’s breakthrough.

• Ye Jingcheng joined the Ye Family elders’ meeting and learned that the Jin and Kong Families were pushing to redistribute Taihang Market’s profits while the Chu Family faced harassment and rogue cultivators were being harmed.
• Ye Haicheng said he and Ye Jingcheng would go to Taihang Market in three days to protect the Chu Family, and the elders began preparing items for the annual auction.
• Ye Haicheng explained that the Beast Communication Tower could strengthen Ye Jingcheng’s Beast Communication Marks through another soul injection, and said Ye Jinghu and Ye Jingtai might soon undergo beast communion.
• Ye Haicheng told Ye Jingcheng to consult Taiyi Sect’s True Persons and Exalted Persons about the crisis and to preserve the family if necessary before the second grand uncle’s breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng visited the Pill Pavilion, requested an Earth Fire Room, and began refining Grain Avoidance Pills and Spirit Feeding Pills as Ye Qingyan watched.
• Ye Haicheng led Ye Jingcheng and the others to Taihang Market aboard a Mystic Iron Boat, where they met Jiang Jinghe and agreed to hold the families’ meeting in three days before the auction.

Ye Jingcheng learned that Xu Xiuqing had failed to break through and was left waiting for news of her while confronting the sorrow of partings and mortality. He then joined the Taihang Market families’ meeting, where the Jin and Kong Families pushed to redistribute the auction shares in their favor and Xu Chunlin called for a Purple Mansion contest.

• Ye Jingcheng asked Ye Xinghong whether Xu Xiuqing had visited and learned that she had come only to buy a Jade Ring Rat, leaving him to realize she had likely failed her breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng spent several days grieving, while the Jade Ring Rat comforted him and the Crimson Flame Fox watched him struggle to refine Spirit Nurturing Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Haicheng, and Ye Xinghe attended the auction-share meeting, where Kong Yulong and Jin Zongliang arrived together and backed a four-four-two division.
• Chu Tianfen conceded the Chu Family’s share to half a tenth, while Xu Chunlin refused to concede and proposed a Purple Mansion cultivation contest.

The Ye, Xu, Jin, and Kong Families agreed to hold Purple Mansion sparring matches in Juehe Valley, with Xu Chunlin facing Kong Yulong and Jin Zongliang facing Ye Haicheng. Afterward, Ye Haicheng and Ye Jingcheng discussed the market’s looming takeover and the families’ limited information, leaving the Ye Family to proceed cautiously.

• Ye Haicheng and Xu Chunlin arranged for Grandmaster Taihao and Qian He Shangren to observe the matches, which were set for two days later in Juehe Valley.
• The families agreed that Xu Chunlin would fight Kong Yulong and Jin Zongliang would fight Ye Haicheng, with Xu Chunlin and Kong Yulong’s feud rooted in the Xu Family’s survival.
• Ye Jingcheng noticed Chu Xiyu’s unspoken hope for help, then asked whether the spirit pills promised to Yan Qing had arrived; Chu Xiyu confirmed they had.
• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Haicheng, and Ye Xinghe visited the busy Ye Family Restaurant, where Ye Jingcheng inspected its business and paid for a spirit peach.
• Ye Haicheng told Ye Jingcheng that he could not win against Jin Zongliang and said Taihang Market was bound to pass into the Jin and Kong Families’ hands.
• Ye Haicheng urged the Ye Family to stay in contact with the Xu Family and learn what the Chu Family knew, but Ye Jingcheng reported that Chu Xiyu had revealed nothing and their sect informants had sent no news.

Ye Jingcheng strengthened his divine sense, began Stone Spirit’s advancement, and joined the Ye Family delegation at Juehe Valley for the contest. As the Chu Family scattered its core members amid a regional hunt for the Eight Desolations Sect’s legacy treasure, the contest began with Xu Chunlin facing Kong Yulong.

• Ye Jingcheng fused his divided souls, strengthened his divine sense, and refined his three Soul Piercing Needles.
• Ye Jingcheng fed Stone Spirit the Stone Square and left it to advance with the cave heaven closed and his spirit beasts secured.
• Chu Tianfen told Chu Xiyu that the Chu Family had scattered its core members and that Taihang County’s families were imperiled by rumors about the legacy treasure.
• Ye Jingcheng traveled with Ye Xinghe, Ye Haicheng, and Ye Jingyong to Juehe Valley, where Grandmaster Taihao and representatives of the other factions had gathered.
• Jin Zongliang called for Xu Chunlin and Kong Yulong to spar, and Kong Yulong attacked with a Golden Lightning Spear.

Kong Yulong defeated Xu Chunlin, and Jin Zongliang narrowly won his match against Ye Haicheng, leading to a redistribution of Taihang Market’s proceeds. Ye Jingcheng returned to studying the battles and preparing to gather herbs for the Golden Falcon Pill as the threat of another beast tide remained unresolved.

• Kong Yulong used his Golden Lightning Spears to trap and nearly kill Xu Chunlin, who conceded after his Golden Dragon Armor blocked the final spear.
• Ye Haicheng fought Jin Zongliang with body cultivation, beast techniques, and the Mystic Ice Seal, but conceded after Jin Zongliang bound him with the Three Copper Rings.
• Jiang Jinghe announced that the Jin and Kong Families would each receive twenty percent of Taihang Market’s proceeds, reducing the Ye Family’s share to six percent.
• Grandmaster Taihao declined Ye Haicheng’s invitation to drink, citing the continuing danger at Jade Dragon Valley and declining to discuss the sect’s plans.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to the family, studied two Jade Slips about the Purple Mansion battles, and prepared to gather the spirit herbs for the Golden Falcon Pill.

Ye Jingcheng attended Taihang Market’s auction and discovered that a map fragment to the Beast Wasteland Small World had become the center of a bidding contest. He suspected the Jin and Kong Families were using the auction to identify the Small World’s descendants, and sent Ye Jingyong to seek a chance to inspect the map as the auction continued.

• Ye Jingcheng bought the Golden Cloud Grass needed to complete the Golden Falcon’s First-Order Advancement Pill.
• Liu Yun introduced a map fragment made from Eight Desolations Silkworm silk and claimed it led to a Small World connected to the Beast Wasteland.
• Ye Jingcheng realized the Jin and Kong Families might be using the bids to identify Beast Wasteland descendants, so he joined the contest to avoid drawing suspicion.
• After the Jin Family won the map for fourteen thousand Spirit Stones, Ye Jingcheng asked Ye Jingyong to approach them and request a look at it.
• Several Second-Order High-Grade Dharma Artifacts were bought by mysterious first-floor bidders, and Liu Yun began presenting a special Wood Demon that produced Spirit Beast Meat.

Ye Jingcheng bought a Flesh Ganoderma Wood Demon at auction and learned from Ye Haicheng about the Ye Family’s hidden history and precarious position. He planned to take the demon back to Lingyun Peak to test whether the family’s contract could control it.

• Ye Jingcheng outbid the Jin Family and bought the Flesh Ganoderma Wood Demon for twelve thousand six hundred Spirit Stones.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Haicheng about the treasure map, and Ye Haicheng revealed the Ye Family’s five Purple Mansion cultivators, its favors owed by the Earth Dragon Demon King, and its troubled connection to the Beast Wasteland.
• Ye Haicheng said the family would focus on searching for Small Worlds, while Ye Jingcheng considered how to use the Earth Dragon Demon King’s remaining favor and gather Beast Souls for the Beast Communication Tower.
• Ye Jingcheng inspected the Meat Ganoderma, found that it needed soil and spiritual energy, and discovered that Treasure Light improved its conversion of spiritual energy into spirit meat.
• Ye Jingcheng decided to return to Lingyun Peak and test whether the Ye Family’s Wood Heart Blood Pact could contract the Wood Demon.

Ye Jingcheng refined Golden Falcon Pills and visited Xu Xiuqing, only to find her living with Xu Zhongxing and choose to leave. More than half a month later, the Stone Spirit advanced, expanded its Cave Heaven, and displayed new abilities, leaving Ye Jingcheng to plan its development and let his Spirit Beasts explore the enlarged space.

• Ye Jingcheng refined four Golden Falcon Pills and planned to use them to help the Golden Falcon advance.
• Ye Xinghe told Ye Jingcheng that Xu Xiuqing had been found in her father's valley, and Ye Jingcheng went there after stopping at a tavern.
• Ye Jingcheng saw Xu Xiuqing living with Xu Zhongxing, summoned the Golden Scale Beast to roar, and returned to Taihang Market without meeting her.
• Xu Zhongxing urged Xu Xiuqing to return to the Ye Family for another Foundation Establishment Pill, but Xu Xiuqing refused and resolved to cultivate with her Jade Ring Rat.
• After more than half a month, the Stone Spirit advanced to Second Order Grade-Middle, expanded its Cave Heaven to three times its former size, and showed Ye Jingcheng spiritual rain and short-range teleportation.
• Ye Jingcheng gave the Stone Spirit four Four Aspects Secret Technique jade slips to study, then released his Spirit Beasts into the enlarged Cave Heaven to claim territory.

Ye Jingcheng strengthened his spirit beasts, successfully contracted a Flesh Ganoderma Wood Demon, and met Ye Xuefan, who revealed the Ye Family’s plans for moving mortals to a Small World and warned him about the Xu Family. The chapter left Ye Jingcheng with a newly refined Third-Order Violet Sun Demon Corpse and an Array Disk to bolster his defenses.

• Ye Jingcheng fed and nurtured his spirit beasts, and the Golden Falcon swallowed a pill that rapidly strengthened its aura before addressing him through his divine soul as “Master.”
• Ye Jingcheng had Ye Xinghan test the Wood Core Contract on the Flesh Ganoderma Wood Demon, then established a connection with the demon after Ye Xinghan’s method succeeded.
• Ye Xinghan gave Ye Jingcheng two improved Cloud Floating Tea trees and a new Spirit Liquid formula for cultivating spirit plants.
• Ye Xuefan told Ye Jingcheng that the Ye Family had found a Small World in the Green Cloud Sea Region and instructed him to arrange a covert transfer of some family mortals there.
• Ye Xuefan warned Ye Jingcheng to watch the Xu Family, which might have found the Beast Wasteland Small World, and gave him a Third-Order Violet Sun Demon Corpse and an Array Disk.

Ye Jingcheng bound the Violet Sun Demon Corpse and reconsidered the pressure he carried as family head after surveying the Ye Family’s lands. He convened a family assembly to plan a secret mortal relocation ahead of the approaching beast tide, leaving the clan to prepare a cover story involving heretical cultivators.

• Ye Jingcheng formed a Blood Pact with the Violet Sun Demon Corpse, and Ye Xuefan warned him that its body would need further refinement if it advanced.
• Ye Jingcheng advised Ye Haicheng not to attack the Xu Family and instead to help conceal it while the Ye Family prioritized relocating mortals.
• Ye Jingcheng surveyed Lingyun Peak with his divine sense and realized he had been losing sight of his own path by bearing the family’s burdens alone.
• Ye Jingcheng summoned the clan’s halls and Inner Hall members to a Family Assembly, where Ye Jingli’s breakthrough to Foundation Establishment was welcomed.
• Ye Jingcheng announced the plan to relocate mortals into the Small World and asked the clan to create a cover story about heretical cultivator attacks.
• Ye Jingyun proposed staging retaliatory blood sacrifices and using actual demon cultivators as part of the cover, and the clansmen approved.

Ye Jingcheng studied the clan’s spirit-vein methods and successfully established a spirit lake in his cave-heaven. After returning, he learned that demonic cultivators had slaughtered a Ye Family town and killed the cultivator sent to investigate.

• Ye Jingli told Ye Jingcheng he wanted to avenge Ye Jingyu, and Ye Jingcheng kept Ye Jingyu’s survival and the Hidden Peak secret.
• Ye Jingcheng exchanged for spirit-vein records and spirit herbs at the Treasure Pavilion, then entered his cave-heaven.
• Ye Jingcheng arranged arrays and buried thirty thousand Spirit Stones, forming a First-Order Grade-Middle spirit vein and a developing spirit lake.
• Ye Jingcheng received an urgent red Sound Transmission Talisman and went to the Council Hall.
• Ye Xingqun reported that demonic cultivators had slaughtered a Ye Family town near Buqing Valley and killed the Qi Refining Late Stage cultivator sent to investigate.

Ye Jingcheng led a Ye Family force to Buqing Mountain to confront the heretical cultivators attacking the family’s mortals, while secretly preparing defenses and dividing his soul again. At the mountain’s herb garden, Ye Haiyi revealed that he had sensed the family’s mortal migration was a fallback plan and asked Ye Jingcheng to confirm it.

• Ye Jingcheng decided to go to Buqing Mountain with Ye Jingyun and ordered the family to create trouble for the Chu and Xu Families while leaving the Chen Family alone.
• Ye Jingcheng received a third-order Golden Shield Talisman from Ye Haicheng, divided one soul into a Five Poisons Bee, and set out aboard the Mystic Shadow Azure Cloud Boat.
• Ye Jingcheng brought his group to Buqing Mountain, where he reassured the guards and secretly tasked Ye Xingshui with inspecting the formation as a cover for setting up new defenses.
• Ye Haiyi led Ye Jingcheng through Buqing Mountain’s herb gardens, then revealed his Beast Communication Mark and said he had discerned the family’s fallback plan.
• Ye Jingcheng confirmed that the mortal migration was the Ye Family’s fallback route and that Second Ancestor had decided on it.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family confronted the Corpse Daoist, who attacked them with blood corpses and a powerful formation. Ye Haicheng destroyed the Corpse Daoist’s main body and captured his final split soul, while the family discovered a Hidden Spirit Stone and prepared to publicize their victory.

• Ye Jingyun reported refined corpses in Baiyun Town, and Ye Jingcheng waited for the Corpse Daoist to strike again.
• After Ye Haicheng reported an attack in Qingshui Town, Ye Jingcheng led the Ye Family’s core clansmen there, where the Corpse Daoist trapped their spirit boat with a formation and attacked with blood corpses.
• Ye Jingcheng and the family’s Spirit Beasts fought back, and Ye Jingcheng used the Five-Colored Umbrella to pursue the fleeing Corpse Daoist.
• The Corpse Daoist ambushed Ye Jingcheng with a third-order blood corpse, but Ye Haicheng emerged from the void and destroyed it; the Thunder Rhino Beetles then trapped the Corpse Daoist’s final split soul, which Ye Haicheng captured and searched.
• Ye Haicheng confirmed that no clones remained and returned to Buqing Mountain, while Ye Jingcheng arranged to display the slain corpses as proof of the Ye Family’s victory.
• Ye Xingshui identified the trapping formation and discovered a Hidden Spirit Stone, which was also one of the Third Order Stone Recipes.

After learning from Corpse Daoist’s memories that Qinghe Sect was preparing to attack Taiyi Sect while its True Lord was absent, Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng planned for the Ye Family to secretly evacuate its mortals and prepare for a beast tide. The chapter ended with Ye Jingcheng ordering the family to move quickly and stage a public show of outrage after the evacuation.

• Ye Jingcheng ordered the blood corpses burned and disposed of, then went to Qingshui Town, where Ye Family cultivators had already killed the refined corpses but many mortals had died.
• Ye Haicheng told Ye Jingcheng that Qinghe Sect had been infiltrating Yan Country through subordinate forces and that Taiyi Sect’s missing True Lord left it vulnerable to attack.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng agreed to relocate at least half the mortals, trigger a beast tide, and gather intelligence on Hidden Peak and the great demons of the mountain ranges.
• Ye Haicheng gave Ye Jingcheng a third-order metal-attributed Demon Core and urged him to preserve the Ye Family’s strength.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to Lingyun Peak and ordered the Inner Hall cultivators to move nearby family mortals into Turtle Ancestor’s blessed grotto, activate the Teleportation Array three days later, and prepare for his staged outburst at Taihang Market.

The Xu and Chu Families struggled to preserve their people and foundations as their secrets and dealings brought them under threat. Meanwhile, Ye Jingcheng’s Golden Falcon completed its breakthrough, and he strengthened his Cave Heaven’s resources by stocking its spirit lake with fish.

• Xu Chunlin ordered Xu Wenjin and two elders to hunt down the Xu Family’s enemies while secretly arranging for the family’s core disciples to flee.
• Chu Xiyu told Chu Yanqing that the Chu Family’s trade with the Huayu Sect had been exposed and ordered her to leave with promising family members.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed that the Golden Falcon had broken through to the Second Order Peak and watched it strike the Violet Sun Demon Corpse with a powerful dive.
• Ye Jingcheng rewarded the Golden Falcon, repaired the damaged Violet Sun Demon Corpse, and considered helping the falcon advance further with a Second Order Golden Falcon Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng released Star Eating Fish and Red Joint Fish into the spirit lake, separated them with a formation, and placed Azure Jade Lotuses beside the Red Joint Fish.