Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing agreed to become Dao companions and planned to marry, but the Taichang Crisis Bell soon announced the Qinghe Sect’s invasion and the fall of Taiqing County. As the Taiyi Sect mobilized cultivators for war, Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family prepared to delay their departure and protect their people while the outcome remained uncertain.

• Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing picked Spirit Apricots, offered fruit and tea to Ye Haiyun’s memorial tablet, and agreed to become Dao companions, with a wedding planned for three months later.
• The Taichang Crisis Bell rang ten times, and Ye Xingyi ordered the Ye Family to secure treasures, buy Spirit Talismans, and seek cooperation while avoiding the Wan Family.
• Zitian Real Person announced that the Qinghe Sect had taken Taiqing County and breached Chang'an Pass, conscripted cultivators, and executed members of families accused of collusion.
• Tianfu Real Person ordered the evacuation of Jade Dragon Valley and the conscription of its cultivators after Three Yuan Real Person and Chengxuan Real Person reported that Taiqing County had fallen.
• Ye Xuecang told Ye Jingcheng to remain in seclusion and delay traveling to Taichang County, while preparing the Ye Family’s mortals and Immortal Seedlings for evacuation if the war went badly.

Ye Jing Li organized the Ye Family for the Qinghe Sect war, then led its cultivators away under a Taiyi Sect order. A Huayu Sect-led ambush waited for the families from Taihang County, but Ye Haicheng and Ye Haiyan learned of the plan and prepared to warn the Ye Family and Azure Cloud Nunnery.

• Ye Jing Li warned the Ye Family’s Inner Hall members to protect their secrets and ordered them to prepare family resources and mortals for the crisis.
• Taiyi Law Peak’s Li Xuan'an ordered Ye Jing Li to send most of the Ye Family’s cultivators to Taichang County, and Ye Jing Li gathered them before departing by spirit boat.
• The Bloodthirsty Sect Master directed allied families to ambush the Taihang County reinforcements, ordering Cheng Tianxiang to capture Ye Family members alive and assigning Blood Eye to watch them.
• A concealed green cicada observed the ambush meeting, then carried word to a black spirit snake that transformed and sent a message.
• Ye Haicheng and Ye Haiyan learned of the planned ambush and decided to warn the Ye Family about its route and alert Azure Cloud Nunnery.

Ye Jingli and the Ye Family fought off a Cheng Family ambush, revealing hidden strength and killing Li Xuan'an and the attackers. Meanwhile, other groups traveling toward Taichang County were ambushed, and the Jin Family’s spirit boat entered a formation where the Bloodthirsty Sect Master discovered that his attack had been a trap.

• The Cheng Family ambushed Li Xuan'an and the Ye Family near Double Bridge Peak, and the battle exposed the Ye Family’s concealed methods and strength.
• Ye Xueliang killed a Blood Eye cultivator outside the formation and took his blood eyes, while Ye Xingqun released Thunder Rhino Beetles to turn the battle inside.
• Cheng Tianxiang killed Li Xuan'an with a soul-breaking attack, but Ye Jingli’s Three-Colored Bone Fire Pearls and the group’s combined assault defeated the remaining Cheng Family cultivators.
• Ye Xingqun ordered the Ye Family to erase the memories of those without Beast Communion and place soul restrictions on them to keep their strength hidden from the Qinghe Sect.
• Nun Jingxin sensed an ambush while traveling with Azure Cloud Nunnery and Taiyi Sect cultivators, while a separate illusion formation trapped a spirit boat carrying Wei Family cultivators and Taiyi Martial Peak disciples.
• The Jin Family branch’s spirit boat was caught in a formation at Zichang Ridge, where the Bloodthirsty Sect Master shattered it and discovered Taiyi Sect and Jin Family Purple Mansion Cultivators waiting in ambush.

Ye Jingcheng gathered the Ye Family to answer Taiyi Sect’s call for urgent reinforcements, while the sect’s forces continued defending the Formation Cores across the Taichang Mountain Range. The chapter left Ye Xingyi and the other defenders facing an approaching Qinghe Sect assault.

• Ye Haicheng told Ye Haiyan that Taiyi Sect’s actions suggested its Violet Zenith Old Ancestor was still alive, then used a Bronze Ancient Lamp to conceal their auras as a wounded cultivator fled toward them.
• Chen Yan waited for Ye Jingcheng at Lingyun Peak, and Ye Jingcheng emerged from seclusion and agreed to lead Ye Family cultivators to Taichang County.
• Ye Jingcheng gathered the Ye Family and accepted a third-order Treasure Boat from Chen Yan, while masking its operation with Spirit Beasts because his Purple Mansion cultivation remained unstable.
• Ye Jingcheng left a small group to guard Lingyun Peak and departed for Taichang County with more than twenty Ye Family clansmen.
• Ye Xingyi and the other Ye Family cultivators defended a mountain peak as Taiyi Sect’s forces contracted their lines and Qinghe Sect’s cultivators attacked the Formation Cores.
• A Taiyi Sect disciple warned the defenders that Qinghe Sect forces were approaching and said the attack would likely involve only lesser forces.

Summary

Plot Points and Events

• Taiyi Sect is surrounded by Qinghe Sect, with both sides engaged in a fierce battle.
• Taiyi Sect's defense is faltering due to Qinghe Sect's use of Blood Array Fish to defile formations.
• The Ye Family, led by Ye Jingcheng, is fleeing from Qinghe Sect's pursuers. They encounter and defeat the Wu Family, taking two captives.
• Ye Jingcheng plans to use soul searching to find a safe route to Taichang County.

Character Developments

• Ye Jingcheng: Shows strategic thinking and decisiveness in battle, willing to sacrifice for the sect's benefit.
• Chen Yan: Initially worried about the Ye Family's safety, becomes more optimistic after learning about the spoils of war.

Significant Themes

• The struggle for survival and power in the Cultivation World.
• The importance of strategic planning and adaptability in the face of adversity.
• The consequences of greed and ambition, as seen in Qinghe Sect's actions.

Character Interactions

• Ye Jingcheng and Chen Yan: Their relationship evolves from one of caution to mutual respect and cooperation.
• The Ye Family and the Wu Family: Their encounter highlights the brutal nature of the Cultivation World, where survival often depends on strength and ruthlessness.
• Taiyi Sect and Qinghe Sect: Their conflict underscores the theme of power struggles and the consequences of overreaching ambition.

Ye Jingcheng uncovered that Qinghe Sect’s campaign targeted families across the region to find descendants of the Beast Wasteland and a secret treasure, while he and Chen Yan continued toward Taiyi Sect. As Qinghe’s North River Old Ancestor and Taiyi Sect’s Sikong Zi Ming clashed, the battle turned against Taiyi Sect, and Qinghe cultivators targeted the Ye Family.

• Ye Jingcheng soul-searched Wu Quanshuang and learned that the Wu Family had been ordered to leave Zhou Family survivors alive after Qinghe Sect disciples visited.
• Ye Jingcheng burned the Wu cultivators’ bodies, examined the spoils from the Storage Bags, and kept useful Spirit Herbs for his Spirit Beasts.
• Chen Yan decided that staying in Taichang County to fight Qinghe Sect cultivators did not conflict with his mission and urged Ye Jingcheng to help protect other families.
• West King Real Person and Zitian Real Person exchanged attacks as Qinghe Sect’s formations and Taiyi Sect’s defenses remained locked in a fierce battle.
• North River Old Ancestor demanded the killer of his disciple Xiao Xuanhe and a Nascent Soul Pill from Sikong Zi Ming, then began fighting him when Sikong refused his terms.
• As the Nascent Soul battle weakened the formations, Qinghe Sect forces attacked Taiyi Sect’s Formation Cores, and Ye Xingyi realized the seven Ye Family members faced death.

Ye Xingyi and several Ye Family cultivators died defending their people as Qinghe Sect forces advanced through Taichang Mountain Range. Bai Yao True Monarch halted the battle by revealing Sikong Zi Ming was his son-in-law, while Taiyi Sect prepared for negotiations and recalled its disciples to Illusion Peak.

• Ye Xingyi detonated his soul restriction after Ye Xingqing was killed, and Ye Jinghao and two other Ye Family cultivators were captured and killed while Ye Qingfu escaped with the family's Storage Bags.
• Liu Huan saved Ye Qingfu from the pursuing Foundation Building Cultivators, then withdrew when a Purple Mansion Middle Stage cultivator confronted her.
• North River Old Ancestor gained the upper hand against Sikong Zi Ming, but Qing River Old Ancestor arrived to help attack Taiyi Sect's formation.
• Bai Yao True Monarch arrived with Medicine King Valley cultivators and stopped the fighting after announcing that Sikong Zi Ming was his son-in-law; Sikong Zi Ming then lowered the formation and joined the True Lords in talks.
• Tianfu Real Person returned to Illusion Peak to enter seclusion, and Three Yuan Real Person told Heaven Array Shangren to summon Ye Jingcheng as well as the other disciples.

Ye Jingcheng and his companions finished raiding three Sima Family forces and hurried toward the Taichang Mountain Range as negotiations halted the fighting. Mourning Ye Xingyi, Ye Jingcheng concealed his cultivation and arrived at Taichang Market, where he invited his clan uncle’s soul home.

• Ye Jingcheng’s group celebrated their gains from three raids on Foundation Establishment families that had persecuted Qi Refinement families.
• Chen Yan received news that Nascent Soul cultivators had appeared and negotiations were underway, so Ye Jingcheng directed the spirit boat toward the Taichang Mountain Range.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that only four Ye Family soul slips remained and grieved over Ye Xingyi’s death, then dressed himself and the family in white mourning robes.
• Ye Jingcheng concealed his cultivation and Blood Soul Pearl while traveling, wary of the Nascent Soul cultivators and Tianfu Real Person.
• Ye Jingcheng reached the outskirts of Taichang Market and called out that he had come in white to invite Clan Uncle’s soul home.

Ye Jingcheng returned to Lingyun Peak with the ashes of Ye Xingyi and Ye Xingqing, concealed the Ye Family’s losses and renewed his plans against Qinghe Sect. After Tianfu Real Person’s death was reported and Ye Jingcheng swore loyalty to Taiyi Sect, Ye Jing Qi arrived to mourn Ye Xingyi.

• Ye Jingcheng gathered the Ye Family survivors at Taichang Market, learned that Ye Jing Hao, Ye Jing Xian, and Ye Qing Xuan had been captured, and vowed to destroy the Yan Family and Xun Family.
• Ye Jingcheng led the mourning procession to Lingyun Peak, where the family held a vigil; afterward, he and Ye Xuecang planned to conceal the family’s strength and proceed with the wedding.
• Jiang Jinghe told Ye Jing Yun that Tianfu Real Person had died, left treasures for Ye Jingcheng, and that Ye Jingcheng’s Purple Mansion breakthrough made him a Taiyi Sect outer-sect steward.
• Ye Jingcheng made a Heavenly Dao Oath to Taiyi Sect but decided not to travel to receive Tianfu Real Person’s treasures before the mourning vigil and wedding.
• Ye Jing Qi came to the Ye Family Ancestral Hall to pay respects to Ye Xingyi, who had helped him obtain a Spirit Root.

Ye Jingcheng survived Tianfu Real Person’s attempt to seize his body, with Ye Xuecang helping destroy Tianfu Real Person’s body and the Blood Soul Pearl consuming his soul. Afterward, Ye Jingcheng searched Tianfu Real Person’s storage bag and discovered a haul of pills, magic treasures, secret arts, and fifty High-Grade Spirit Stones, though a sealed spirit box remained unopened.

• Ye Jingcheng recognized Tianfu Real Person disguised as Ye Jingqi when a formation isolated them inside the Ancestral Hall.
• Tianfu Real Person attacked Ye Jingcheng’s soul, but the Blood Soul Pearl’s blood-light Spirit Shield blocked him.
• Ye Xuecang broke Tianfu Real Person’s golden tower protection and destroyed his body with his fourth-order Flying Sword.
• The Blood Soul Pearl consumed Tianfu Real Person’s soul, and Ye Jingcheng confirmed that he was safe.
• Ye Xuecang left Ye Jingcheng a storage bag of treasures and returned to the Green Cloud Sea Region.
• Ye Jingcheng burned Tianfu Real Person’s corpse and found valuable pills, magic treasures, four Jade Slips, a sealed spirit box, and fifty High-Grade Spirit Stones in his storage bag.

After completing his spirit-guarding duty, Ye Jingcheng examined Tianfu Real Person’s final messages and learned that his rapid cultivation came from a hidden ability, the Ye Family should consider moving west to the Sea of Sand, and Tianfu Real Person had left him a supreme metal spiritual item. He put away the Blood Soul Pearl and prepared to open the spirit jade box containing the item.

• Ye Jingcheng restored the Ancestral Hall, completed seven days of spirit guarding, and returned to his courtyard resolved to keep a lower profile.
• Ye Jingcheng viewed Tianfu Real Person’s spirit projection, which warned him to hide his cultivation, suggested the Endless Sea of Sand as a refuge, and revealed a metal spiritual item that could complete his Five Elements Spirit Roots.
• Tianfu Real Person asked Ye Jingcheng to protect the Xu Family of Xiangfu Town, and his projection and jade slip vanished.
• Ye Jingcheng studied Tianfu Real Person’s formation, pill, and cultivation-art inheritances, then wondered whether something remained hidden in the Blood Soul Pearl.
• Ye Jingcheng entered the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven, put the Blood Soul Pearl away, and took out the spirit jade box containing Tianfu Real Person’s supreme metal spiritual item.

Ye Jingcheng captured a five-thousand-year Golden Yang Zhi, secured Tianfu Real Person’s treasures, and informed the Ye Family about the Gold Core Pill. He decided to delay visiting the Taichang Mountain Range until Tianfu Real Person had disappeared from the Taiyi Sect’s attention.

• Ye Jingcheng used a formation to trap the Golden Yang Zhi after it escaped from the jade box, then sealed it inside the box again.
• Ye Jingcheng refused to let his Spirit Beasts eat the Golden Yang Zhi and fed them spirit pills and Spirit Beast Meat instead.
• Ye Jingcheng examined and refined Tianfu Real Person’s Void Profound Dharma Bottle and paired Golden Lion Seals.
• Ye Jingcheng sent voice transmissions to Ye Haicheng and Ye Xuefan about the Gold Core Pill, believing he was the most likely to use it.
• Ye Jingcheng decided not to visit the Taichang Mountain Range yet, reasoning that he needed to avoid revealing whether Tianfu Real Person’s body-seizing attempt had succeeded.

Ye Jingcheng prepared for his wedding and tested Taiyi Sect’s attitude by asking its elders to bring Tianfu Real Person’s memorial tablet to the ceremony. He refined an Azure Puppet Shadow to spy on the Zhang Family, then advanced the Four-Colored Cloud Deer before continuing to discipline the White Eyebrow Azure Wolf.

• Ye Jingcheng welcomed Ye Xinghe and Ye Jingfu, reviewed the family’s sharply increased market income, and urged Ye Jingfu not to neglect cultivation.
• Ye Jingcheng selected the ceremony’s wine and tea and ordered invitations sent to powerful families and Taiyi Sect cultivators, including a request for Tianfu Real Person’s memorial tablet.
• Ye Jingcheng consumed a Purple Soul Pill, studied the Azure Puppet Shadow, and planted Shadow Wood in the courtyard reserved for the Zhang Family.
• Ye Jingcheng refined two Third Order Four-Colored Pills, then gave one to the Four-Colored Cloud Deer with Purple Arrival Pills and Treasure Light, prompting its advancement and the appearance of Adamantine Vine Wood Giants.
• Ye Jingcheng infused the White Eyebrow Azure Wolf with Treasure Light, briefly softened its hostility, and stopped before it could enjoy the treatment.

Ye Jingcheng prepared Lingyun Peak for his wedding to Chu Yanqing while receiving Illusion Peak cultivators who brought Tianfu Real Person’s robe to witness the ceremony. He fetched Chu Yanqing from Azure Cloud Nunnery, and their bridal procession set off for Lingyun Peak.

• Ye Jingting oversaw Lingyun Peak’s wedding preparations and alerted Ye Jingcheng when Grandmaster Taihao’s spirit boat arrived.
• Heaven Array Shangren rebuked Ye Jingcheng for neglecting Tianfu Real Person’s mourning rites, then brought the late master’s robe to serve as witness at the wedding.
• Grandmaster Taihao warned Ye Jingcheng that Xuandao Real Person controlled Illusion Peak and that he would need to maintain their existing relationship for the Ye Family’s protection.
• Heaven Array Shangren and Grandmaster Taihao privately discussed Ye Jingcheng’s unreadable strength and decided to remain on good terms with him.
• Ye Jingcheng traveled to the Azure Cloud Nunnery escort’s mountain, greeted Abbess Jingxin, and carried Chu Yanqing aboard his spirit boat.
• Azure Cloud Nunnery announced Chu Yanqing’s dowry as the ten spirit boats headed toward Lingyun Peak.

Ye Jingcheng’s wedding and Purple Mansion Ceremony drew cultivators and major powers to Lingyun Peak, where auspicious signs accompanied their gifts. Xuandao Real Person’s exceptionally valuable array gift strengthened Ye Jingcheng’s confidence in Illusion Peak’s support, and the chapter ended with the wedding ceremony complete and the feast beginning.

• Ye Jingcheng arrived at Lingyun Peak in a grand procession as the Ye Family displayed trained spirit beasts and welcomed the assembled guests.
• Foundation Establishment and Purple Mansion families presented gifts, including the Tai'an Li Family, the Yungu Zheng Family, the Yong'an Zhang Family, and the Hetian Jin Family; their offerings brought auspicious clouds and spiritual rain.
• Taiyi Sect’s Honored Lords presented gifts, and Heaven Array Shangren offered a third-order magic treasure while Tianfu Real Person gave Ye Jingcheng a Purple Jade Fruit.
• Xuandao Real Person presented Ye Jingcheng with a complete set of third-order mid-grade Spirit Gathering Arrays, and Ye Jingcheng welcomed him into the hall.
• Ye Jingcheng invited Xuandao Real Person and Tianfu Real Person to witness the wedding bows, then began the banquet with spirit dishes for the guests.

After the wedding banquet, Ye Jingcheng agreed to the Wei Family’s plan to lease its lands to the Ye Family and traded Thunder Rhino Beetles with Xuandao Real Person. He returned to Chu Yanqing, who welcomed him while revealing how much his wedding arrangements had meant to her.

• Wei Dazhong asked Ye Jingcheng for help protecting the weakened Wei Family from rogue cultivators, then offered to lease the Idle Cloud Four Counties to the Ye Family for one hundred years and requested Spirit Stones to improve Long Cloud Peak.
• Ye Jingcheng accepted the lease, seeing a chance to secure the land for the Ye Family and help Chu Yanqing return to Idle Cloud Peak.
• Ye Jingcheng met Xuandao Real Person, presented Illusion Peak’s overdue tribute, and gave him four second-rank Thunder Rhino Beetles in exchange for a third-rank spirit item.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to his courtyard and found Chu Yanqing waiting at the threshold with her bridal veil lifted; she said her father and family had seemed satisfied with him and smiled at his arrangements for the wedding.

Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing celebrated their marriage, discussed her planned Purple Mansion breakthrough, and learned that the Chu Family had discovered a Third-Order Secret Realm in Yan Return County. After his Dao lecture and the Ye Family gathering, Ye Jingcheng visited the Zhang Family to commission a protective treasure shield.

• Ye Jingcheng showed Chu Yanqing the deed and lease for a clan mountain, and the two shared their feelings before completing their wedding rites.
• Chu Yanqing revealed that she had sensed Ye Jingcheng's Purple Mansion breakthrough twelve years earlier, while Ye Jingcheng disclosed that he had reached the Purple Mansion Middle Stage and offered to refine Purple Mansion Jade Liquid for her.
• Chu Yanqing told Ye Jingcheng that her ancestor had discovered a Third-Order Secret Realm in the Poisonous Miasma Swamp and had counted on help from the Xun Family.
• Ye Jingcheng lectured on the Dao at the Ye Family gathering, then gave guests Mountain Devouring Rats as return gifts.
• Ye Jingcheng declined Fairy Liu Huan's invitation to spar and visited the Zhang Family to ask Zhang Yuhuai to forge a protective shield from the Great Azure Turtle's third-order shell.
• Zhang Yuhuai examined the shell and asked Ye Jingcheng where it had come from.

Ye Jingcheng tested the Zhang Family’s interest in his turtle material, then visited Jin Yutang and other Purple Mansion Cultivators while considering the Ye Family’s future alliances and expansion. He ended the chapter by entering the family’s Pill Pavilion to practice alchemy again.

• Ye Jingcheng agreed to pay Zhang Yuhuai another hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Stones to have the turtle material refined into a magic treasure, and Zhang invited him to Yong'an Mountain.
• Ye Jingcheng visited the Jin Family and renegotiated their Spirit Herb business while accepting Jin Yutang’s wedding gift.
• After Ye Jingcheng left, Jin Yutang wondered whether the bride Chu Qing was actually Chu Yanqing and resolved to stay vigilant toward the Ye Family.
• Ye Jingcheng visited other Purple Mansion Cultivators, exchanged cultivation insights, and considered building alliances beyond Taihang County.
• Ye Jingcheng entered the family’s Pill Pavilion and decided to practice alchemy again.

Ye Jingcheng demonstrated his alchemy to the Ye Family and gave Ye Qingyan a jade slip describing the methods he had used. He then joined Ye Jingteng and other family members to discuss a more aggressive policy toward Taiyi Sect, including securing a sect place for Ye Jinghu.

• Ye Jingcheng found Ye Qingyan openly teaching alchemy and asked about a flaw in his Azure Spirit Pills; Ye Qingyan admitted his heat control had faltered.
• Ye Jingcheng refined Azure Spirit Pills before the gathered clansmen, then demonstrated three methods for making an Earth Tier Pill for Ye Qingyan to observe.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Qingyan a jade slip and told him to destroy it after reading, while warning him not to make further mistakes.
• Ye Jingteng summoned Ye Jingcheng to the Green Stone Bamboo Forest, where Ye Jingli, Ye Jingyun, and Ye Xingqun were waiting.
• Ye Jingteng urged the family to pursue a more aggressive policy toward Taiyi Sect and revealed that he wanted Purple Mansion Jade Liquid and for Ye Jinghu to join the sect.

Ye Jingcheng persuaded Ye Jingteng to build influence in the Taiyi Sect by cultivating talented sect members, then arranged for the Ye Family to support him and open businesses in Taichang Market. He upgraded the family’s spirit vein and established a powerful grand formation, leaving the family ready to expand while he prepared to complete his Spirit Root.

• Ye Jingcheng warned Ye Jingteng that recruiting too many Ye Family clansmen into the Taiyi Sect would invite suspicion and drain the family, and urged him to cultivate talented sect disciples instead.
• Ye Jingcheng promised to support Ye Jingteng’s cultivation and asked him to secretly assist the Ye Family’s plans to open a restaurant and Spirit Beast Shop in Taichang Market; Ye Jingteng agreed.
• Ye Jingcheng studied the Spirit Replacement Method and examined the Azure Puppet Shadow, but found that the Zhang Family had revealed no core secrets.
• Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing joined the clan elders at Lingyun Peak, where Ye Jingcheng used Spirit Stones and a Spirit Gathering Array to upgrade the spirit vein to Third Order Mid-Grade.
• Ye Jingcheng established the Nine Heavens Cloud Water Formation, strengthening the family’s defenses, and assigned Ye Jingyun to prepare the Ye Family’s Taichang Market business plans.
• Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing returned to their courtyard as Ye Jingcheng prepared to complete his Spirit Root.