Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng set the Ye Family’s plans for expanding its influence and then traveled to Earth Dragon Valley, where the Earth Dragon Demon King tested him and hinted at a possible bond with the family. The chapter ended with Ye Jingcheng considering whether he could form a Blood Pact with the Demon King and transform it into a Soul Contract.

• Ye Jingcheng appointed new hall masters and ordered preparations for a Taichang Market restaurant and two Spirit Beast Valleys.
• Ye Jingcheng warned the family to keep its distance from the Wan Family and to caution the Yuan Family.
• Ye Jingcheng traveled to Earth Dragon Valley, where a Chameleon Lizard great demon led him to the Earth Dragon Demon King.
• The Earth Dragon Demon King challenged Ye Jingcheng’s caution and reminded him that it had once been part of the Ye Family.
• Ye Jingcheng inferred that the Earth Dragon Demon King might want Soul Injection to aid its breakthrough, then considered binding it with a Blood Pact and converting it into a Soul Contract.

Ye Jingcheng endured the Earth Dragon Demon King's test and defeated its Earth Puppet, earning the right to choose a Beast Communion in Earth Dragon Valley. He postponed his choice and received a valuable scale from the Demon King to refine his Natal Magic Treasure.

• The Earth Dragon Demon King tested Ye Jingcheng by summoning a Golden Giant Lizard spirit puppet and promising him any Beast Communion in Earth Dragon Valley if he defeated it.
• Ye Jingcheng fought the puppet with his Azure Swan Sword, Golden Escape, Adamantine Vine, Palm Lake Pearl, and Aura Dissolving Net.
• The Earth Dragon Demon King conceded that Ye Jingcheng had won and gave him three days to choose a Beast Communion.
• Ye Jingcheng asked to postpone his choice after noticing that the Earth Dragon Demon King still had potential for bloodline advancement.
• The Earth Dragon Demon King accepted and gave Ye Jingcheng a high-grade scale for refining his Natal Magic Treasure, the Heavenly Sand Seal.

Ye Jingcheng traveled through Earth Dragon Valley to the Ye Family’s hidden Teleportation Array and crossed to the Green Cloud Sea Region. After changing his appearance, he received instructions from Ye Xueliang to learn the area and prepare for the Purple Wood Sect’s recruitment trials without drawing too much attention.

• Ye Jingcheng surveyed Earth Dragon Valley with Ye Haicheng and recorded Monster Beasts with strong talent for possible Beast Communication.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng reached the hidden Beast Hall, where Ye Haiping and Ye Haiyan were stationed beside the Teleportation Array.
• Ye Jingcheng used a Teleportation Talisman to cross to the Green Cloud Sea Region and met Ye Xueliang, who revealed the family cultivators’ altered identities.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Xueliang gifts and took a Bone Transformation Pill to change his appearance.
• Ye Xueliang directed Ye Jingcheng to stay on Green Fish Island, visit Sky Cloud Island, and prepare for the Purple Wood Sect’s recruitment trials.

Ye Jingcheng disguised himself as a mortal and infiltrated Great Prosperity Village and its pier to learn local customs and investigate the Green Cloud Sea Region. When a suspicious crate of small fish arrived, his Treasure Book reacted, revealing that a Spirit Beast capable of five advances had passed nearby.

• Ye Jingcheng crossed the sea to Green Fish Island, disguised himself as the dark-skinned martial artist Hei Cheng, and joined Great Prosperity Village under Zhong Fuyun.
• Ye Jingcheng began carrying Azure Fish at the pier and memorized the workers’ habits while keeping his identity hidden.
• Ye Jingcheng noticed two unusually powerful body cultivators among the workers and learned that the Dragon Gate Festival was approaching.
• On his tenth day at the pier, Ye Jingcheng sensed that the two body cultivators were anticipating trouble during the late-night fish delivery.
• Ye Jingcheng saw a small crate arrive with the final batch of Spirit Fish, and his Treasure Book lit up with five layers of spiritual light.

Ye Jingcheng discovered that the Ye Family had staged the theft of an atavistic green fish to ambush rival cultivators, then left Green Fish Island for Sky Cloud Island. He entered Sky One City seeking rare herbs and materials for advancing his beasts, and asked the Yun Family’s Spirit Treasure Pavilion for resources to enter the Purple Mansion.

• Ye Jingcheng saw an unusually intelligent, First-Order Middle Stage green fish with signs of Roc Fish bloodline atavism and realized the Ye Family had arranged for it to be stolen.
• Ye Hai Fei and Ye Xingyu ambushed and killed the two thieves, then gave Ye Jingcheng the green fish and received cultivation gifts from him.
• Ye Hai Fei and Ye Xingyu discussed investigating and eventually targeting the Jade Chu Sect, while Ye Jingcheng returned to Great Prosperity Village and continued concealing his identity.
• After fifteen days, Ye Jingcheng left Green Fish Island, traveled to Sky Cloud Island as Tang Cheng, and heard the Sky Cloud Mountain Spirit call out to him.
• Ye Jingcheng entered Sky One City and asked the Yun Family’s Spirit Treasure Pavilion steward for items that could help him advance into the Purple Mansion.

Ye Jingcheng bought a Third Order Earth Cloud Ganoderma and Golden Root Fruit at Spirit Treasure Pavilion, then prepared a false identity and gathered treasures for a Trade Fair. After bonding with a mutated green fish he named Roc Fish, he left for the Trade Fair when his token grew hot.

• Ye Jingcheng inspected Spirit Treasure Pavilion’s wares and bought a thousand-year Earth Cloud Ganoderma and Golden Root Fruit, bargaining the plump manager into including a Second Order soil-attributed Demon Beast inner core and Trade Fair access.
• The plump manager recorded Ye Jingcheng as a promising Foundation Establishment Late Stage Rogue Cultivator and told someone to watch whether he joined the Purple Wood Sect.
• Ye Jingcheng searched other shops for Accumulated Cold Grass and materials for his Natal Magic Treasures, then stayed at an inn and continued building his Tang Cheng identity.
• Ye Jingcheng examined the green fish in his Spirit Beast Bracelet, bonded with the mutated fish, named it Roc Fish, and learned that its ability was Devouring Art.
• Ye Jingcheng prepared spirit peaches, Dharma Artifacts, Adamantine Vine seeds, and Second Order spirit soil to exchange, then headed to Cloud Sky Pavilion when his token heated up.

Ye Jingcheng attended the Sky Cloud Island Trade Fair, traded for Mystic Origin Heavy Water and half a section of Crystal Willow Wood for his Heaven River Pearl, and learned that the Five Elements True Monarch’s spirit palace might have left an inheritance map. He left without pursuing the map, prioritizing the Ye Family’s plans to guard Ye Xuecang’s Golden Core breakthrough and contact the Earth Dragon Demon King.

• Ye Jingcheng entered the Trade Fair and silently recognized his fourth brother, Ye Jingyu, who was attending as headmaster of the Purple Wood Sect.
• Yun Fusheng presented a fragmentary Five Elements Palace Spirit Map, a Golden Strength Fruit, and Mystic Origin Heavy Water, seeking life-extending treasures or Spirit Herbs that could aid a breakthrough to Purple Mansion.
• Ye Jingcheng exchanged two life-extending spirit peaches and three thousand Spirit Stones for the Mystic Origin Heavy Water and Golden Strength Fruit, while another cultivator traded for the map.
• Ye Jingcheng offered second-order spiritual soil and dharma artifacts for Crystal Willow Wood, Accumulated Cold Grass, or Purple Mansion breakthrough herbs, and exchanged the soil plus eight hundred Spirit Stones for half a section of Crystal Willow Wood from Yun Fusheng.
• Ye Jingcheng suspected Yun Fusheng had used the map to draw out people who knew the spirit palace’s whereabouts, but decided not to pursue it because the Ye Family needed to support Ye Xuecang’s breakthrough and reconnect with the Earth Dragon Demon King.

Yun Fusheng reported the treasure-map inquiries to Uncle Xuan, who ordered the Jade Chu Sect and Purple Wood Sect to be set against each other. Ye Jingcheng watched the auction from the sidelines, then went to the sect recruitment assembly and headed for the Purple Wood Sect after hearing He Xiangjian’s advice.

• Yun Fusheng told Uncle Xuan that Yu Xingmu had offered a life-extending Spirit Herb and information about the Purple Jade Vine for the treasure map, and Yun Fusheng speculated that Yu Xingmu might possess other fragments.
• Uncle Xuan ordered his subordinates to stoke conflict between the Jade Chu Sect and Purple Wood Sect.
• Ye Jingcheng skipped the auction, listened to its proceedings from an inn, and noticed a mysterious observer sending a report to the Yun Family’s Spirit Treasure Pavilion.
• Ye Jingcheng went to Dao Seeking Mountain for the sect recruitment assembly and paid He Xiangjian fifty Low-Grade Spirit Stones for advice.
• He Xiangjian warned Ye Jingcheng away from several sects, but Ye Jingcheng used the advice as an excuse to head for the Purple Wood Sect, where applicants faced age limits.

Ye Jingcheng passed the Purple Wood Sect’s three gates and joined the sect, while learning that the Ye Family used the assessments to screen recruits and study their abilities. The assembly ended with Ye Jingcheng warned to beware Yun Baili, the Yun Family’s Purple Mansion cultivator who was secretly watching the Ye Family.

• Ye Jingcheng entered an illusion of Purple Wood Island under attack and chose to help the island, then fought a spirit puppet before answering An Yuhuai’s questions about his background and plans.
• An Yuhuai gave Ye Jingcheng a Purple Wood Token and advised him to cultivate diligently, while Ye Jingyu handed him a jade slip explaining the Ye Family’s assessment rules and observations.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that the Ye Family rejected some recruits for suspiciously selfless behavior, preserved combat images to study their techniques, and let An Yuhuai manage much of the sect.
• The jade slip identified the hidden observer as Yun Baili, a Purple Mansion cultivator of the Yun Family known for seeing through people’s hearts, and Ye Jingyu warned Ye Jingcheng to act cautiously.
• The sect assembly ended, and Ye Jingcheng prepared to explore Purple Wood Island openly as a member of the Purple Wood Sect.

Ye Jingcheng arrived at Purple Wood Island, reunited with Ye Jingyu, and learned that he would train on a hidden island before guarding Second Ancestor during his breakthrough. As conflict between Purple Wood Sect and Jade Chu Sect intensified, he set out into the Outer Sea and neared Sand Cloud Hidden Peak.

• Ye Jingcheng arrived at Purple Wood Island and admired the Hundred Arrays Foundation as he joined Purple Wood Sect under the name Tang Cheng.
• Ye Jingyu secretly told Ye Jingcheng that he would train on his father's hidden island for two months before protecting Second Ancestor during a breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Jingyu materials for his magic treasure and gifts, including a Jade Scale Pill, before returning to his courtyard as Tang Cheng.
• As fighting between Purple Wood Sect and Jade Chu Sect escalated, Ye Jingcheng received a spirit boat, a jade token, and a sea map and departed for the Outer Sea.
• Ye Hai Fei gathered Purple Wood Sect cultivators on Mountain Isle Island to prepare to hunt Thunder Shuttle Fish, while Ye Xingyu and the Xing Generation discussed an aura sensed by Xing Yun's Eight-Legged Cloud Seal.
• Ye Jingcheng traveled underwater in his spirit shuttle, let his Jade Scale Flood Dragon hunt Golden Horn Fish, and approached Sand Cloud Hidden Peak.

Ye Jingcheng reunited with Ye Xuefu and Ye Xingliu on the Ye Family’s hidden Shayun Island, where they prepared to hunt a Golden Claw Sea Egret. After demonstrating his Alchemy, he inherited the family’s Spirit Pill Token and its extensive pill knowledge, then set out with his relatives toward the Outer Sea; the chapter ended with an unrelated account of Jiang Ming’s three cultivation lives and immortal ascension.

• Ye Jingcheng verified Shayun Island’s identity, entered its concealed formation, and reunited with Ye Xuefu and Ye Xingliu, who had both reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Ye Jingcheng shared supplies from Yan Country, revealed that he had three third-order Spirit Beasts, and agreed with Ye Xuefu and Ye Xingliu to target an early-third-order Golden Claw Sea Egret.
• Ye Jingcheng refined seven Second-Order High-Grade Ren Water Pills, including one with a pill pattern, and Ye Xuefu handed him the family’s Spirit Pill Token and its Alchemy inheritance.
• Ye Jingcheng and his Spirit Beasts trained for several days, then he, Ye Xuefu, and Ye Xingliu rode a spirit shuttle toward the Outer Sea.
• Jiang Ming’s story recounted how he died in his first two cultivation lives, pursued cautious longevity in his third, and ultimately ascended to immortality.

Ye Jingcheng, Ye Xingliu, and Ye Xuefu ambushed a Golden Claw Sea Egret at Crescent Moon Island and discovered a valuable Moon Spirit Shell colony. They captured most of the shells and left with the egret’s carcass, while planning to keep the colony hidden from the Purple Wood Sect.

• The three Ye Family members concealed themselves on Crescent Moon Island and waited for the Golden Claw Sea Egret to arrive.
• Moon Spirit Shells emerged onto the shallows, and Ye Xingliu recognized the colony’s value to the Ye Family.
• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Xingliu, and their spirit beasts ambushed and killed the Golden Claw Sea Egret.
• Ye Xuefu and the Li Fire Azure Ox controlled many Second Order Moon Spirit Shells while Ye Jingcheng, Ye Xingliu, and their spirit beasts captured the colony.
• The three collected the egret’s meat for their spirit beasts and left the island before its blood scent could attract stronger demons.

Ye Jingcheng and his companions escaped a Third Order Late Stage Ghost Face Shark and returned to Shayun Island, where they used his Stone Spirit Cave Heaven to secure their harvest. After blood-contracting 332 Moon Spirit Shells and discovering their valuable pearls, Ye Jingcheng and the clan elders divided the proceeds and began discussing how to make fuller use of his strength.

• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Xuefu, and Ye Xingliu reached Shayun Island after a Third Order Late Stage Ghost Face Shark chased their spirit shuttle, and the island's protection array repelled its waves.
• Ye Jingcheng showed Ye Xuefu and Ye Xingliu his developed Stone Spirit Cave Heaven, including its spirit lake, flourishing Spirit Fields, and growing spirit beasts.
• Ye Xuefu set up an array while Ye Xingliu and Ye Jingcheng released and counted 332 Moon Spirit Shells, then used Moonlight Stones to coax them open.
• Ye Jingcheng blood-contracted all the Moon Spirit Shells and collected more than five hundred Moon Spirit Pearls, including fifty Second Order pearls, agreeing to give the family forty percent.
• Ye Jingcheng offered the Golden Claw Sea Egret's materials to the elders, but Ye Xuefu told him to keep its wing skeleton for a future flying boat magic treasure.
• Ye Xingliu suggested that the family could stop being so conservative now that they knew how powerful Ye Jingcheng was.

Ye Jingcheng and his companions slew a Water Arrow Python and found a Yellow Ginseng Fruit in its cave. Meat Ganoderma broke through to the Second Order and formed Beast Communion with Ye Jingcheng, but news that Ye Xuecang was nearing a Golden Core breakthrough sent the group toward Azure Hidden Island.

• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Xingliu, and Ye Xuefu ambushed and killed a Water Arrow Python, continuing their run of victories against early Third Order Great Demons.
• The three explored the python’s cave, found living stone milk pillars and a Yellow Ginseng Fruit, and decided to wait for the fruit to ripen.
• Meat Ganoderma absorbed vast amounts of spiritual energy, advanced to the Second Order, and gained greater intelligence.
• Ye Jingcheng formed Beast Communion with Meat Ganoderma, strengthening his wood aspect and gaining a healing ability he could use on other cultivators.
• The Family Token announced that Ye Haicheng had arrived and Ye Xuecang was nearing a Golden Core breakthrough, so Ye Jingcheng’s group prepared to head to Azure Hidden Island after the fruit ripened.

Ye Jingcheng joined the Ye Family elders at Azure Hidden Island as they prepared to protect a clan elder’s Golden Core breakthrough from the Outer Sea’s demon tide. After receiving and refining the Heaven River Pearl, he tested it against Ye Haicheng and revealed its formidable power.

• Ye Jingcheng met Ye Haicheng and the other Ye Family cultivators, then traveled with them to Azure Hidden Island, where Ye Xuefan gathered the clan elders.
• Ye Xuefan assigned eight cultivators to lure great demons away from the island during Second Brother’s breakthrough, and Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng were tasked with outermost Sea Heart Island.
• Ye Haicheng gave Ye Jingcheng the newly refined Third Order middle-grade Heaven River Pearl, which Ye Jingcheng quickly refined as his Natal Magic Treasure.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng tested the pearl over the sea, and its fragments reformed into water blades that shattered Ye Haicheng’s tortoiseshell shield twice.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng prepared a fortified island to lure and delay demons while Ye Xuecang underwent a breakthrough. Ye Haicheng warned Jingcheng to survive at any cost, and the chapter ended with their Spirit Beasts assembled as they waited to ripen the Enticing Demon Grass.

• Ye Xuefan sent the eight selected people out in different directions, and Ye Jingcheng left Azure Hidden Island with Ye Haicheng.
• Ye Haicheng told Ye Jingcheng to protect himself and Turtle Ancestor, explaining that the family was building Jingcheng’s future at great risk.
• Ye Haicheng and Ye Jingcheng reached a broad island and built layered formations, powering the main array with thousands of Spirit Stones, a High-Grade Spirit Stone, and a sealed Second-Order High-Grade spirit vein.
• Ye Haicheng gave Ye Jingcheng a third-order high-grade Blood Escape Talisman and helped him set up additional formations across the island.
• Ye Haicheng and Ye Jingcheng released their Spirit Beasts around a three-and-a-half-leaf Enticing Demon Grass, then waited to begin catalyzing it at the right time.

Ye Xuecang attempted to condense a Gold Core on Azure Hidden Island, but a Heart Demon Tribulation trapped him in a vision of his father’s failed breakthrough and the Ye Family’s destruction. He recognized the illusion and woke just as Ye Xuefan’s voice called for the family to repel the approaching beast tide.

• Ye Haihe and Ye Haisheng surveyed an island and prepared the array for the Enticing Demon Grass, while Ye Haihe refused to compete with Ye Jingcheng for the Sea Heart Island posting.
• Ye Xingliu and Ye Xuefu prepared an island defense with Black Armor Scorpions, while Ye Haiyu and Ye Haiyan set arrays to spread the Enticing Demon Grass’s fragrance.
• Ye Hai Fei learned that Thunder Shuttle Fish were heading toward Jade Clear Island, and Uncle Xuan ordered Yun Fusheng to investigate the Purple Wood Sect and further inflame its conflict with the Jade Chu Sect.
• Ye Xuecang swallowed a Gold Core Pill and began condensing his Purple Mansion into a Gold Core, while Ye Xuefan prepared a Spirit Gathering Array to supply more spiritual energy.
• Ye Xuecang was trapped in an illusion of his father’s failed breakthrough and the Ye Family’s retreat from Mount Taihang Mountain Range, but he realized it was a Heart Demon Tribulation and woke.
• Ye Xuecang heard Ye Xuefan order the clansmen to stop the beast tide and activate the Demon-Luring Arrays on the four islands.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng lured sea demons to Sea Heart Island and killed several Great Demons, but a Golden Great Peng Bird and a host of Sabertooth Sharks arrived as the Sea Overturning Demon King approached. The chapter ended with Ye Jingcheng preparing to use the formation against the Golden Great Peng Bird while the Demon King’s aura bore down on them.

• Ye Haihe and Ye Haisheng used the Enticing Demon Grass and a Wind Flag to draw Great Demons toward Stone King Island, where Ye Haihe drove back a Sabertooth Shark Great Demon.
• Ye Haicheng cultivated the Enticing Demon Grass on Sea Heart Island into its fourth leaf, drawing in numerous sea beasts and three Great Demons.
• Ye Jingcheng and his allies killed the Red Crested Sea Crane with the Soul Piercing Needle, the Crimson Flame Fox’s attacks, and the Azure Swan Sword.
• Ye Haicheng, Ye Jingcheng, and their spirit beasts subdued the Thousand Legged Dark Octopus and killed the Black Jade Thunder Eel and other arriving beasts.
• A Golden Great Peng Bird attacked the Golden Falcon as Sabertooth Shark Great Demons brought a powerful tsunami toward the island, and Ye Jingcheng prepared the formation.
• Ye Haicheng recognized the terrifying aura approaching from thousands of li away as that of the Sea Overturning Demon King.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng fought the Sea Overturning Demon King’s forces on Sea Heart Island, killed the Golden Great Peng Bird, and escaped after the Demon King destroyed their formation and took the Enticing Demon Grass. They reached Azure Hidden Island, where Ye Jingcheng found Ye Xuecang facing his Heart Demon Tribulation beneath the thunderclouds of his impending core formation.

• Ye Haicheng used the Four Directions Flag and a Mountain Prison to trap and kill the Thousand Legged Dark Octopus, while the Peach Wood Wood Demon collected the corpses.
• Ye Jingcheng’s formation and Spirit Beasts trapped and killed the Golden Great Peng Bird, and Ye Haicheng retreated into the formation after fighting a Two-Headed Sea Serpent.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng used the Profound Origin Water Wood Array, the Azure Sun Flame, and a self-destruction formation to delay the Sea Overturning Demon King, which swallowed the Enticing Demon Grass.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng fled on the Golden Falcon; the Demon King’s water sphere pierced Ye Haicheng, and Turtle Ancestor swallowed him into the cave heaven as the Violet Sun Demon Corpse covered their retreat.
• Ye Jingcheng flew toward Azure Hidden Island after the Golden Falcon sensed a stronger aura above, and he confirmed that Ye Haicheng was still alive.
• Ye Jingcheng arrived near Azure Hidden Island and saw thunderclouds gathering above it, while Ye Xuecang remained inside his Heart Demon Tribulation.

Ye Xuecang overcame his Heart Demon Tribulation and formed a Golden Core while the Ye Family fought off invading Great Demons on Sea Heart Island. After enduring three lightning strikes with his four swords, he emerged injured but powerful enough to make the demons tremble.

• Ye Xuecang rejected an illusion of the Ye Family’s defeat, steadied his resolve, and condensed his Golden Core embryonic form.
• Ye Shengyi and Ye Xuefan struggled to hold back the Great Demons while Ye Jingcheng arrived with his spirit beasts and joined the battle against the Golden Light Rhino Great Demon.
• Ye Xuecang formed his Golden Core, summoned a lightning tribulation, and flew away from the island’s other fighters to face it alone.
• Ye Jingcheng, the Crimson Flame Fox, and their allies injured the Golden Light Rhino Great Demon, while Ye Haihe and Ye Haisheng brought a Star-Eyed Iron Ape into the battle.
• Ye Xuecang endured three lightning strikes with his swords, including his final Thunder Collapse, and completed his Golden Core tribulation.
• Despite his injuries and a shattered sword, Ye Xuecang turned his gaze upon the Great Demons, causing the beasts to tremble.