Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng returned to Lingyun Peak, arranged surveillance of Ye Jinghe, and began preparing for Purple Mansion advancement by nurturing the Heaven Bell Furnace and refining rare spirit liquids. The Wood Demon and Golden Scale Beast broke through, while Ye Jingcheng’s own cultivation loosened toward its next stage.

• Ye Jingcheng returned to Taichang Market with Chu Yanqing disguised as Xiao Yan, then arranged for her to work in the Artifact Crafting Hall and told Ye Jingyu to return to the family after reaching the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
• A cultivator delivered rare spirit herbs exchanged by Ye Jingteng, and Ye Jingcheng sent spiritual items and Spirit Stones back to him.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to Lingyun Peak, ordered Ye Xingqun to watch Ye Jinghe and create appearances of family cultivators going to Buqing Mountain, and warned that the Huayu Sect might be involved.
• Ye Jingcheng nurtured the Heaven Bell Furnace to perfection and studied the methods for refining Violet Condensing Spirit Liquid and Purple Mansion Jade Liquid.
• The Golden Scale Beast, Soil Turning Earthworm, and Peach Wood Wood Demon completed their breakthroughs; the Golden Scale Beast sparred with the Crimson Flame Fox and was badly scorched.
• The Peach Wood Wood Demon told Ye Jingcheng it could now bear spirit peaches that increased lifespan by twenty years, and Ye Jingcheng gave it the Supreme Clarity Spirit Guarding Art to practice.

Ye Jingcheng strengthened his spirit beasts and prepared to refine Violet Condensing Spirit Liquid and Purple Mansion Jade Liquid. After reaching the family’s Pill Pavilion and demonstrating basic pill refining to Ye Qingyan, he began preparing the Violet Condensing Spirit Liquid herbs.

• The Peach Wood Wood Demon and Soil Turning Earthworm advanced, and Ye Jingcheng gave the worm Sinking Iron to produce Second Order Spirit Soil.
• Ye Jingcheng encouraged the Golden Scale Beast to master a Breathing Method and urged the Jade Ring Rat to learn from it.
• Ye Jingcheng promised the Crimson Flame Fox it could devour the Azure Sun Flame if it refined Purple Mansion Jade Liquid and Violet Condensing Spirit Liquid first.
• Ye Jingcheng went to the Pill Pavilion, where he learned of the family’s recent affairs and arranged to use the Earth Fire Room.
• Ye Jingcheng refined several kinds of First and Second Order spirit pills while Ye Qingyan watched, then took out the herbs for Violet Condensing Spirit Liquid.

Ye Jingcheng successfully refined Violet Condensing Spirit Liquid and Purple Mansion Jade Liquid, preparing to attempt his breakthrough to the Purple Mansion realm. Outside the Earth Fire Room, Ye Qingyan showed off his pill-refining progress and resolved to train further before serving at Taihang Market.

• Ye Jingcheng restored himself, then used the Heaven Bell Furnace and the Crimson Flame Fox's flames to refine Violet Condensing Spirit Liquid, producing enough for about one and a half portions.
• Ye Jingcheng recorded his refining experience and immediately began preparing to refine Purple Mansion Jade Liquid.
• Ye Qingyan brought Ye Xingming several fragrant Spirit Feeding Pills, explained that he had followed Ye Jingcheng's method, and asked to choose a Fire Attribute Spirit Beast and serve at Taihang Market.
• Ye Xingming praised Ye Qingyan's ambition but told him to refine Azure Spirit Pills first and reminded him to address Ye Jingcheng as Clan Head within the clan.
• Ye Jingcheng successfully refined Purple Mansion Jade Liquid, though it lacked spirit fragrance, and put it away for his planned breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng told the Crimson Flame Fox that they would face whatever happened when he let it devour the Azure Sun Flame after they returned to the courtyard.

Ye Jingcheng helped the Jade Scale Flood Dragon begin its breakthrough to the Third Order, then guided the Crimson Flame Fox in devouring and containing the Azure Sun Flame. With both Spirit Beasts undergoing breakthroughs, he prepared to pursue his own Purple Mansion breakthrough and left the mountain to experience life among the Ye Family’s people.

• Ye Jingcheng fed the Jade Scale Flood Dragon Meat Ganoderma, a Third Order Silver Moon Python’s corpse and inner core, and Treasure Light, prompting it to begin breaking through to the Third Order.
• Ye Jingcheng killed the Azure Sun Bird and waited until its Azure Sun Flame weakened before allowing the Crimson Flame Fox to swallow it.
• The Crimson Flame Fox contained the Azure Sun Flame in a Spirit Map, gained an azure-and-red tail, demonstrated its new flame, and began breaking through to Second Order Peak.
• Ye Jingcheng established formations around the Crimson Flame Fox and Jade Scale Flood Dragon, and ordered Peach Wood to watch over them.
• Ye Jingcheng prepared to face the Heart Demon Tribulation by traveling incognito, and quietly descended the mountain toward Baiyun Town.

Ye Jingcheng wandered through towns selling candied hawthorns, reflecting on cultivation and adding clan peace to his Dao heart before returning to a valley from his past. There, the Jade Scale Flood Dragon broke through to the third order, and Ye Jingcheng’s own cultivation reached the Foundation Establishment Peak as his other Spirit Beasts neared breakthroughs.

• Ye Jingcheng sold candied hawthorns in Baiyun Town, helping its frightened residents and children bring activity back to the streets.
• Ye Jingcheng left Baiyun Town and traveled through Ye Family territory, selling hawthorns and telling children stories about immortals as he cultivated his heart and embraced clan peace.
• Ye Jingcheng visited a familiar valley but found its pavilions abandoned, then sensed that the Jade Scale Flood Dragon had broken through.
• Ye Jingcheng opened the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven, rewarded the third-order Jade Scale Flood Dragon, and discovered that water-aspect true essence had raised his cultivation to the Foundation Establishment Peak.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the anxious Golden Scale Beast Earth Return Pills and Treasure Light, then gave the Crimson Flame Fox a third-order Fire Swallowing Sparrow core, triggering its breakthrough.

Ye Jingcheng returned to Lingyun Peak and began his long-awaited breakthrough to the Purple Mansion realm, while learning that Xu Xiuqing had joined the Ye Family. After the Crimson Flame Fox advanced to Tier 3 and helped accelerate his cultivation, Ye Jingcheng completed his Four Aspects Purple Mansion, though the final merging of his divine souls began producing illusions.

• Ye Jingcheng returned to Lingyun Peak, learned that Ye Xinghan had reached Foundation Establishment and Xu Xiuqing had become a Ye Family guest elder, then went to Lingyun Lake to cultivate.
• The Crimson Flame Fox broke through to Tier 3, gained the ability to speak, and told Ye Jingcheng that its Azure Sun Flame could devour and renew vitality.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Crimson Flame Fox's breakthrough to hasten his spiritual-energy condensation, then split his divine soul and formed four Heavenly Mansion prototypes.
• Ye Jingcheng opened his Purple Mansion Dao Meridian and solidified the four Heavenly Mansions by directing his Four Forms spiritual energy into them.
• Ye Jingcheng used Purple Mansion Jade Liquid to merge the four Heavenly Mansions into a Four Aspects Purple Mansion, but illusions appeared as his divine souls began merging.

Ye Jingcheng overcame the Heart Demon Tribulation and broke through to Purple Mansion, then concealed his new cultivation while continuing to prepare the Ye Family for future threats. He left the chapter with his cultivation stabilized and his attention turning to the grotto-heaven and the family’s spirit beasts.

• Ye Jingcheng recognized the terrifying scenes of the Beast Communication Tower’s exposure and the Ye Family’s suffering as illusions, then completed his Purple Mansion breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered that his Four Aspects Purple Mansion contained spirit shadows, and his divine sense extended to two thousand seven hundred zhang.
• Ye Jingcheng declined to hold a Purple Mansion Ceremony or choose a Dao Name, deciding to conceal his breakthrough while he prepared treasures, pills, and spirit-vein improvements.
• Ye Jingcheng read family updates, including Ye Jingyu giving up on Foundation Establishment, Ye Jinghu reaching Qi Training Stage 7, and Ye Jinghe volunteering to guard a mortal town outside Buqing Mountain.
• Ye Jingcheng noticed the Jade Ring Rat showing signs of a Breathing Method, then stabilized his cultivation for ten days and concealed his aura at Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Ye Jingcheng opened the grotto-heaven, curious about the Golden Scale Beast’s progress and his next soul infusion.

After two years in seclusion, Ye Jingcheng entered his enlarged cave heaven having reached Purple Mansion perfection and found that his Spirit Beasts and plants had advanced in different ways. He rewarded them, considered how to develop the cave heaven, and learned from the Jade Ring Rat that Ye Xingqun had arrived despite Ye Jingcheng concealing his breakthrough.

• Stone Spirit and Peach Wood welcomed Ye Jingcheng with spirit rain and congratulations, while he observed Peach Wood's growth and the poor condition of the other spirit herbs.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that Stone Spirit had reached the Second Order Late Stage, possibly by drawing nourishment from the cave heaven's spirit vein as it contemplated a star map.
• The Golden Scale Beast demonstrated its Breathing Method and powerful spells, so Ye Jingcheng fed it first and reminded it that it needed to reach the third order before bloodline advancement.
• Ye Jingcheng fed his other Spirit Beasts, assessed their progress, and used Treasure Light to nourish the cave heaven's spirit plants.
• Ye Jingcheng rewarded the Jade Ring Rat for reaching the equivalent of Qi Refining Ninth Layer, and it sensed Ye Xingqun approaching despite Ye Jingcheng's concealment art.

Ye Jingcheng traveled toward Buqing Mountain to investigate Ye Jinghe’s suspected betrayal and learned about the worsening conflict between the Taiyi Sect and the Qinghe Sect. Along the way, he refined the Azure Swan Sword and discovered that his Purple Mansion spirit phantom could enter it; at Buqing Mountain, Ye Xinghan showed him spiritual liquid that had raised two Cloud Floating Tea plants to the Second Order.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingqun discussed Ye Jinghe’s departure for Buqing Mountain, the Taiyi Sect’s precarious position, and the Ye Family’s planned Spirit Beast exchange with the Wan Family.
• Ye Jingcheng departed Lingyun Peak alone and refined the Azure Swan Sword aboard his spirit boat, discovering that his Purple Mansion spirit phantom could enter the sword and enhance it.
• Ye Jingcheng reached Buqing Mountain, entered the Ye Family formation in disguise, and went to visit Ye Xinghan.
• Ye Xinghan showed Ye Jingcheng a spiritual liquid and its formula, explaining that it accelerated Wood Demon and spiritual plant growth.
• Ye Xinghan pointed out two Cloud Floating Tea plants that had reached the Second Order after he watered them with the spiritual liquid.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family uncovered Ye Jinghe’s betrayal as they prepared for an attack on Buqing Mountain, while Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing discussed her family’s possible restoration. After defeating the intruders, Ye Jingcheng discovered hidden insect eggs among spiritual plants, leaving the threat unresolved.

• Ye Jinghe secretly planted an Array Disk in the tea valley while cooperating with cultivators who planned to attack Buqing Mountain for its supposed Spirit Stone Mine and Spirit Herb Garden.
• Chu Yanqing questioned Ye Jingcheng about restoring the Chu Family, but he did not offer her the hope she sought.
• Ye Xinghan and other Ye Family members confronted Ye Jinghe, who admitted he had betrayed the clan for a chance to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng stopped Tian He, Huang He, Xuan He, and their companion from attacking Buqing Mountain, but their souls detonated before he could learn who they served.
• Ye Jingcheng examined the area with his Purple Mansion divine sense and found concealed insect eggs on spiritual plants.

Ye Jingcheng discovered that rogue cultivators had planted Spirit Extinguishing Locusts near Buqing Mountain and warned Taiyi Sect that the threat could spread across Taihang County. After arranging a response and meeting Heaven Array Shangren, he learned that the Ye Family's Second Ancestor was expected to reach the Golden Core stage in half a year, after which Ye Jingcheng would travel to the Green Cloud Sea Region.

• Ye Jingcheng identified the insect eggs outside Buqing Mountain as Spirit Extinguishing Locusts and found more than a hundred locusts in each of the Celestial Yellow Four Cranes' Spirit Beast Bags.
• Ye Jingcheng ordered Ye Xinghan to search for eggs and gather the Ye Family's insect-eating spirit beasts, told him to deal with Ye Jinghe under family rules, and secretly contacted Grandmaster Taihao.
• Ye Jingcheng examined the Celestial Yellow Four Cranes' belongings and found Dharma Artifacts, a Formation Breaking Talisman, and a Treasure Map, but no especially valuable treasure.
• Heaven Array Shangren arrived in place of Grandmaster Taihao, confirmed the locust crisis, and set off for Taihang Market to coordinate the response.
• Heaven Array Shangren reassured Ye Jingcheng that Taiyi Sect had prepared for the conflict, and Ye Jingcheng urged him to secure Jade Dragon Valley against rogue cultivators.
• Ye Haicheng told Ye Jingcheng that the Ye Family's Second Ancestor was likely to break through to the Golden Core stage in half a year and that Ye Jingcheng would then go to the Green Cloud Sea Region.

Ye Jingcheng received demon cores and plans for his Natal Magic Treasure before organizing the Ye Family’s response to the Spirit Extinguishing Locust plague in Taihang County. He arrived at Taihang Market and joined Heaven Array Shangren and the other factions’ cultivators to discuss the crisis.

• Ye Haicheng gave Ye Jingcheng Third Order Demon Cores and offered to help forge his Natal Magic Treasure, while Turtle Ancestor hinted that a cave heaven could nurture a spirit mine.
• Ye Jingcheng divided the Ye Family’s forces between Taihang Market and the clan mountain, assigning Ye Xingqun to lead the response and Ye Jingli to guard the clan.
• Ye Jingcheng sent Ye Jinghu and the other clansmen to the family inn after they reached Taihang Market, then went to the auction hall.
• A cultivator told Ye Jingcheng that severe Spirit Extinguishing Locust outbreaks had spread through several counties and that Heaven Array Shangren was coordinating their elimination.
• Ye Jingcheng entered the auction hall and found Heaven Array Shangren, Ward Master Jiang, and representatives of the Yuan, Wei, Jin, and Ye Families gathered.

Ye Jingcheng joined the campaign against the Spirit Extinguishing Locusts, discovered the Stone Spirit’s spatially displacing power, and helped fight the swarms in Xing County. Meanwhile, Ye Xingqun and Ye Xingshui spotted several concealed intruders moving toward Earth Dragon Valley.

• Heaven Array Shangren assigned the families to clear Spirit Extinguishing Locusts and suspected Heretical Cultivators from one another’s territories, and Ye Jingcheng agreed to lead the Ye Family into the Yuan Family’s lands.
• Ye Jingcheng formed a Beast Communication Mark with the Stone Spirit and discovered that its earth spells could cause slight spatial displacement.
• Taiyi Sect sent three more Purple Mansion Cultivators, and Ye Jingcheng and Heaven Array Shangren traveled to Xing County to confront the locust swarms.
• Heaven Array Shangren burned most of the locusts with Five-Colored Flames, while Ye Jingcheng and the others killed survivors and sent spirit beasts to find and consume the eggs.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered that a patch of Spirit Extinguishing Locust eggs could advance, but chose not to take them and instead had the Ye Family’s spirit beasts eat them.
• Ye Xingqun and Ye Xingshui detected five or six concealed figures approaching the Ethereal Mountain Range, shut down their spirit screen, and suspected the intruders were heading for Earth Dragon Valley.

Yuan Yongcai led Yuan Family cultivators into the Ethereal Mountain Range to trigger a beast tide and steal the Earth Dragon Demon King's treasures, but Ye Haicheng, the Golden Falcon, and Turtle Ancestor ambushed them. Yuan Yongcai was killed, and Ye Haicheng seized the Enticing Demon Grass as the surviving Yuan cultivators fled.

• Yuan Yongcai's group killed a Second-Order Blood Eagle while traveling, unaware that Ye Xingqun was tracking them through mutated Blackwood Ants.
• Ye Xingqun sent the Golden Falcon to Earth Dragon Valley to alert Ye Haicheng and Turtle Ancestor, then ordered the Ye Family to keep monitoring the intruders.
• Yuan Yongcai's group reached a valley beyond Earth Dragon Valley and prepared a formation and the two-thousand-year Enticing Demon Grass to lure beasts and steal the Heavenly Dragon Tree.
• Ye Haicheng and the Golden Falcon attacked the Yuan cultivators, but Yuan Yongcai trapped Ye Haicheng in an Aura Dissolving Net and tried to strike him with his Flying Sword.
• The Golden Falcon and Turtle Ancestor struck Yuan Yongcai down, while Ye Haicheng collected the Aura Dissolving Net and the Enticing Demon Grass.

Ye Jingcheng led the Ye Family to rescue Taihang County from the Spirit Extinguishing Locusts and uncovered evidence that a hidden Purple Mansion cultivator was breeding unusually resilient locusts. He collected a cache of golden-marked eggs and headed to rendezvous with Heaven Array Shangren rather than confront the hidden cultivator alone.

• Ye Jingcheng warned Ye Jinghu that the locust attacks seemed timed to exhaust rescuers, and the Ye Family waited until the swarm began devouring the town before arriving.
• The Ye Family’s Spirit Beasts and cultivators slaughtered the locusts, while Lizard Elder and several other beasts advanced after feeding.
• Hundreds of golden-glowing, fire-resistant Spirit Extinguishing Locusts attacked; Ye Jingcheng drove them off with his Evil Ghost Gong and Crimson Sun Disc, but many escaped.
• Ye Jingcheng used a divine-sense imprint to track the controlled locusts and found hundreds of spirit eggs, including golden-marked eggs, beneath a withered tree.
• Ye Jingcheng destroyed the area around the eggs, collected them, and set off to meet Heaven Array Shangren instead of pursuing the hidden cultivator.

Ye Jingcheng and Heaven Array Shangren helped eliminate a swarm of Spirit Extinguishing Locusts, then followed clues to Poison Mountain to confront the cultivator breeding them. The cultivator revealed over a thousand stronger Golden Light Spirit Extinguishing Locusts, including more than a dozen second-tier insect kings.

• Heaven Array Shangren's Nine Dragons Burning Heavens Array burned the Spirit Extinguishing Locusts while Ye Jingyong's group cleared their spirit eggs.
• Ye Jingcheng reported that spiritual liquid had accelerated the eggs' hatching and that a cultivator at least as powerful as a Purple Mansion expert was behind the infestation.
• Heaven Array Shangren and Ye Jingcheng visited the Yuan Family at Taicang Mountain, where Yuan Haomiao answered questions about enemies and Heretical Cultivators.
• Heaven Array Shangren followed Ye Jingcheng's spirit disk to Poison Mountain, and Ye Jingcheng used Fireball Talismans to probe the miasma.
• A hostile cultivator emerged and accused Ye Jingcheng of betraying their cooperation, while Ye Jingcheng guessed at the man's sect and family affiliations.
• The cultivator released over a thousand Golden Light Spirit Extinguishing Locusts, including more than a dozen second-tier insect kings, and prepared to attack.

Ye Jingcheng and Heaven Array Shangren fought off Heaven Insect Shangren and a group of Rogue Cultivators, while reinforcements from the Taiyi Sect arrived to confront Blood Gold Real Person. San Yuan Real Person’s second sword wounded Blood Gold Real Person and revealed the power of a Golden Core cultivator’s Law-Containing Divine Power.

• Heaven Insect Shangren attacked Ye Jingcheng with a locust formation, but Heaven Array Shangren used a cold-based formation to scatter the insects and expose their weakness.
• Heaven Insect Shangren trapped Ye Jingcheng and the others in a blood-curtain formation, while Heaven Array Shangren countered it and protected them with a fourth-rank talisman.
• San Yuan Real Person, Luo Yuan Shangren, Qian He Shangren, and Superior Mingyuan arrived, and San Yuan Real Person identified the leading enemy as Blood Gold Real Person.
• San Yuan Real Person and Blood Gold Real Person fought in the sky as Ye Jingcheng assisted Heaven Array Shangren without revealing his Purple Mansion cultivation.
• San Yuan Real Person unleashed his second sword, Sun Slash, and wounded Blood Gold Real Person, whose golden body and treasure met the sword’s Law-Containing Divine Power.

Taiyi Sect was attacked by spirit puppets, but Purple Zenith True Lord revealed himself and destroyed the threat, restoring the sect’s confidence. The chapter ended with Ye Jingcheng fleeing the aftermath of a clash involving an imitation Spirit Treasure, uncertain whether Taiyi Sect or Qinghe Sect had prevailed in Taichang County.

• Miaofa Real Person and Chen Yunzi confronted a spirit puppet that attacked Purple Peak, while Taiyi Sect’s forces rushed to defend the mountain.
• An attacker used a fifth-order Formation Breaking Talisman to breach the mountain array, and the first puppet self-destructed, badly damaging Purple Zenith Hall and injuring Chen Yunzi.
• Purple Zenith True Lord sent down a massive purple palm that annihilated the second puppet, then ordered Miaofa and Chengxuan to arrange a birthday celebration in twenty years and invite Qinghe Sect’s representative.
• Azure King Real Person in Qinghe Sect suffered from the loss of two strands of divine sense, while Red Sun Real Person and Blue Water Real Person withdrew from the spirit vein confrontation in Taiqing County.
• Blood Gold Real Person used the imitation Spirit Treasure Heaven Startling Gong against Three Yuan Real Person’s group, injuring Ye Jingcheng and others with its sonic attack.
• Ye Jingcheng pretended to be badly hurt, returned toward Lingyun Peak with his clansmen, and wondered whether Taiyi Sect or Qinghe Sect had won in Taichang County.

Ye Jingcheng met with Heaven Array Shangren after the Taiyi Sect’s victory, received a Returning Soul Pill, and learned that the True Lord had returned. Ye Haicheng then gave him seized treasures and evidence concerning the Yuan Family, explained Ye Jingcheng’s Mansion Spirit, and revealed the Rogue Cultivator identity prepared for his work in the Green Cloud Sea Region.

• Ye Jingcheng injured his divine soul by splitting off three soul fragments before meeting Heaven Array Shangren, who treated him as a martial brother and gave him a Returning Soul Pill.
• Heaven Array Shangren announced that the True Lord had emerged from seclusion and would hold a birthday celebration in twenty years, signaling Taiyi Sect’s recovery.
• Ye Haicheng gave Ye Jingcheng an Aura Dissolving Net, a third-order formation Array Disk, and letters linking the Yuan Family to Qinghe Sect; Ye Jingcheng chose not to expose the Yuan Family.
• Ye Jingcheng showed Ye Haicheng the firebird and Water Dragon spirit shadows in his Purple Mansion, and Ye Haicheng identified them as a rare Mansion Spirit capable of nurturing secret arts.
• Ye Haicheng gave Ye Jingcheng information about the Green Cloud Sea Region and the Rogue Cultivator identity the Ye Family had prepared for him.

Ye Jingcheng traded with Ye Jingteng for spirit herbs and sect materials while managing the Ye Family’s affairs, then waited for Ye Jingyun’s Foundation Establishment breakthrough. As Ye Jingyun’s breakthrough began, Ye Jingcheng urged Ye Jingyu not to give up on cultivation, leaving her reconsidering her despair.

• Ye Jingteng visited Lingyun Peak and told Ye Jingcheng about Purple Zenith True Monarch’s return and a grand ceremony planned for twenty years later.
• Ye Jingcheng exchanged second-grade Cloud Floating Tea and other goods with Ye Jingteng for Golden Scale Pill herbs and materials for Ye Jingli’s artifact refining.
• Ye Jingcheng agreed to send promising young clansmen into the Taiyi Sect, while Ye Jingteng spoke to the Ye Family’s Inner Hall clansmen about events in the Taichang Mountain Range.
• After two peaceful months, spiritual energy gathered around Ye Jingyun’s courtyard, signaling his imminent Foundation Establishment breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng saw Ye Jingyu’s discouragement over being stuck at Qi Training Stage 8 and urged her to seek guidance and keep trying, reminding her that Ye Xinghan had broken through at nearly eighty.
• Ye Jingyun’s Foundation Establishment aura spread from his courtyard, and Ye Jingyu reflected on Ye Jingcheng’s words about the Great Dao not favoring those who gave in to decay.