Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng weighed Wan Hongchang’s offer to bring ten Wan Family members under Ye protection, but remained unsure whether the Zhang Family’s Teleportation Array could safely be attacked. He attended Zi Ming True Monarch’s Dao lecture and returned to learn that the Jia Family had gifted the Ye Family a pair of Mystic Cloud Rhinoceroses.

• Wan Hongchang offered the Ye Family the Wan Family’s inheritance and information about the Zhang Family in exchange for protecting ten Wan Family members, then left Ye Jingcheng a jade talisman with an address.
• Wan Hongchang swallowed a third-order spirit pill and a poison pill, dying in an inn; Ye Jingcheng sensed his death and considered the dangers of acting against the Zhang Family.
• Ye Jingcheng sent Ye Xuecang and Ye Haicheng the Wan Family’s information, then brought the Ye Family to hear Zi Ming True Monarch preach the Dao and recorded the lecture.
• After the lecture, Ye Jingcheng learned that the Qingling Merchant Guild’s Night Market would begin the following evening and that its auction would take place three days later.
• Ye Jingyun reported that the Jia Family had settled its business with the Ye Family and gifted them a pair of trained Mystic Cloud Rhinoceroses; the Ye Family had sent a Cloud Horn Deer and its antler treasure in return.

Ye Jingcheng went undercover at the Qingling Night Market, traded for rare spirit materials, and avoided a suspected trap involving ingredients for his Third Order Wood Recipe. The Qingling Merchant Guild’s investigator remained unable to identify him and ordered his agents to watch Wood Attribute cultivators more closely.

• Ye Jingcheng disguised himself and sent Qingling Tokens to be sold while he kept one for entering the Night Market.
• Ye Jingcheng followed the token’s guidance to a hidden market and traded a set of Third Order low-grade artifacts and Spirit Stones for Three Leaf Wood and four Thousand-Legged Frost Centipedes.
• Ye Jingcheng suspected that a female cultivator’s Third Order Wood Recipe ingredients were bait, so he instead bought an Azure Vein Ginseng from her.
• Ye Jingcheng set up a stall to sell artifacts after finding no other treasures he wanted.
• A Qingling Merchant Guild cultivator learned that Ye Jingcheng had ignored the suspected bait and told the female cultivator to watch Wood Attribute cultivators.

Ye Jingcheng traded a third-order talisman treasure for Mystic Silver Light Sand and bought two pill formulas before the Green Spirit Night Market’s main trade fair began. As he approached the cultivation inspection, he disguised his aura and waited to see whether the guards would detect him.

• Ye Jingcheng found Mystic Silver Light Sand at a stall and exchanged his Mystic Ice Seal talisman treasure for it.
• Ye Jingcheng bought the Thunder Essence Pill and Mystic Body Pill formulas, intending to give the latter to Ye Haicheng.
• At midnight, the Night Market announced separate trade sessions for Purple Mansion cultivators and those below that realm.
• Ye Jingcheng used Beast Communion and several treasures to conceal his cultivation, then joined the line for inspection.
• At the entrance, two Purple Mansion cultivators reassured Ye Jingcheng that they were checking for Purple Mansion cultivation and would reward any Golden Core cultivator.

Ye Jingcheng attended the Green Spirit Night Market, bought a Third Order Spirit Eye Spring, and watched the auction expose a confrontation between the Qingling Merchant Guild and Taiyi Sect. He stayed for the continuing trade fair, hoping to sell unwanted treasures and secure resources for the Ye Family.

• Ye Jingcheng entered the hidden auction hall and heard Steward Qing announce the merchant guild’s rules and fees.
• Ye Jingcheng bid on Tai Chi Ant Crystals but stopped as their price rose, then watched them sell for 310,000 Spirit Stones.
• Ye Jingcheng recognized ingredients for the Third Order Wood Recipe among the next lots, made token bids, and let other Purple Mansion cultivators win them.
• Ye Jingcheng outbid the crowd at 350,000 Spirit Stones for a Third Order Spirit Eye Spring and took the spring despite Steward Qing’s scrutiny.
• A cultivator denounced the Qingling Merchant Guild for auctioning Wu Quancai’s corpse, but Steward Qing threatened him and continued the auction.
• Ye Jingcheng stayed in the hall, deciding that he still needed to trade unwanted magic treasures and obtain resources for the Ye Family.

Ye Jingcheng bought Kun Fish essence blood at the Night Market, then secretly returned to Taichang Market and merged a Spirit Eye Spring into his grotto-heaven. After preparing for an auction, he met Bai Yuanqing of the Heavenly Dry Bai Family and recognized the talisman on his chest as a Soul Inquiry Talisman.

• A Taiyi Sect cultivator bought back the Martial Peak cultivator's corpse for 138,000 Spirit Stones, and Ye Jingcheng considered the political tensions behind the transaction.
• Ye Jingcheng bought twelve drops of third-rank Kun Fish essence blood for 160,000 Spirit Stones and later exchanged treasures and sold unused magical artifacts during free trade.
• Ye Jingcheng evaded possible pursuers on his return to Taichang Market, planted third-rank Purple Spirit Pills at the Ye Family's One Leaf Pavilion, and merged a Spirit Eye Spring into his grotto-heaven.
• Ye Jingcheng set up formations to stabilize the spring, warned his Spirit Beasts not to drink from it before it advanced, and distributed spirit pills among them.
• Ye Jingcheng met Zhang Yuhuai and Bai Yuanqing at the Ye Family Alchemy Pavilion, served them Purple Poria Tea, and identified Bai Yuanqing's chest talisman as a Soul Inquiry Talisman.

Ye Jingcheng bought the newly forged Towering Turtle Shell and realized the Qingling Merchant Guild was searching for the person who had killed Qing Kongying, though Qing Xuanyuan’s test did not identify him. As the auction began, Ye Jingcheng joined the crowds heading to the North City District.

• Bai Yuanqing tested Ye Jingcheng with a Soul Inquiry Talisman, then bought all six of Ye Jingcheng’s Purple Spirit Pills.
• Zhang Yuhuai delivered the third order high grade Towering Turtle Shell that Ye Jingcheng had commissioned, and Ye Jingcheng paid him the remaining one hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Bai Yuanqing told Qing Xuanyuan that Ye Jingcheng had not recognized his Big Brother, and Qing Xuanyuan reluctantly accepted that Ye Jingcheng was not the person they sought.
• Ye Jingcheng set up a Spirit Gathering Array outside Ye Jinghu’s courtyard to support Ye Jinghu’s ongoing breakthrough, then refined the Towering Turtle Shell.
• The Crimson Firmament Spirit Screen appeared, and Ye Jingcheng led the Ye Family cultivators toward the auction in the North City District.

Ye Jingcheng attended a grand auction jointly held by Taiyi Sect and Medicine King Valley, where he bought Foundation Establishment Pills for the Ye Family and bid on a Heavenly Wood Puppet and a Blood King Pill. The chapter ended as he made an eighty-thousand-Spirit-Stone bid for the Blood King Pill.

• Ye Jingcheng entered the crowded auction hall with his family, greeted familiar factions, and noticed Xun Taishou's suspicious behavior toward the Ye Family.
• Jin'an Shangren opened the auction and presented a Heavenly Wood Puppet, which Ye Jingcheng bid on before stopping when the price climbed too high; it sold for one hundred and eighty-eight thousand Spirit Stones.
• Ye Jingcheng passed on the Taiyuan Earthly Fiend and spent eighty-eight thousand Spirit Stones on two sets of Foundation Establishment Pills for the Ye Family.
• Jin'an Shangren introduced a Blood King Pill that could help body cultivators and Spirit Beasts break through bottlenecks, and Ye Jingcheng bid eighty thousand Spirit Stones for it.

Ye Jingcheng secured the Sunflower Wood Demon and arranged for the Azure Cloud Nunnery to buy Purple Mansion Jade Liquid on his behalf, completing his goals at Taichang Market’s auction. As the finale began, the Jia Family bought the Gold Core Pill for 930,000 Spirit Stones, and Jia Tiange left the auction early.

• Ye Jingcheng won the Third Order Blood King Pill for 110,000 Spirit Stones and watched as the Beast Spirit Sect bought the Three-Eyed Demon Peng cub and the Thunder Horn Sky Ox cub.
• Ye Jingcheng outbid Sky Ox Shangren and bought the Sunflower Wood Demon for 100,000 Spirit Stones.
• Ye Jingcheng arranged for Abbess Jingxin to bid on his behalf, and she secured a portion of Purple Mansion Jade Liquid for 165,000 Spirit Stones.
• Ye Jingcheng refrained from bidding on the later high-grade treasures, including the Qin Heart Pill recipe and Cloud Iron Mystic Wood Wood Core.
• The Jia Family bought the Gold Core Pill for 930,000 Spirit Stones, and Jia Tiange left the auction hall early.

Ye Jingcheng left the auction and prepared for his upcoming secret-realm trip while tending to the Ye Family and his grotto-heaven. He contracted the Sunflower Wood Demon and discovered it was close to advancing to the middle Second Order, though it had recently depleted its vital essence bearing spirit fruit.

• Ye Jingcheng left the auction after the Thousand Yuan Cold Dew's bidding passed five hundred thousand Spirit Stones, then urged the Ye Family clansmen to cultivate and strengthen their clan.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to One Leaf Pavilion, reviewed Cultivator Jun's invitation for a secret-realm visit one month later, and sent the Zhang Family information to Ye Xuecang and Ye Xuefan.
• Ye Jingcheng entered his grotto-heaven and fed the Jade Scale Flood Dragon a Blood King Pill, a Black Water Pill, and a Second Order water python, but it did not break through to the late Third Order.
• Ye Jingcheng released the Sunflower Wood Demon, subdued it with Thunder Nets, and established a Blood Pact and Soul Contract with it.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed that the Sunflower Wood Demon was close to the middle Second Order but had depleted its vital essence after recently bearing spirit fruit.

Ye Jingcheng prepared for Cultivator Jun’s secret realm expedition, strengthening his pill-refining and formation skills and receiving support from Ye Shengyi. He reached Heaven Scorched Peak and joined six other cultivators invited to explore a possible fourth-order inheritance, though Cultivator Jun still withheld its details.

• Ye Jingcheng refined Second Order Water Spirit Pills and White Eyebrow Pills, distributed them to his spirit beasts, and brought his Thunder Rhino Beetle formation to minor mastery.
• Ye Shengyi met Ye Jingcheng, discussed the Zhang Family and the Wan Family, and gave him a Storage Bracelet containing spirit pills and defensive magic treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng left Taichang Market in disguise and flew to Heaven Scorched Peak for his appointment with Cultivator Jun.
• Cultivator Jun led Ye Jingcheng into a formation where four Purple Mansion cultivators were already waiting, including a woman Ye Jingcheng recognized from the Night Market.
• The final invited cultivator arrived, bringing the gathering to seven as Cultivator Jun continued to conceal the secret realm’s details.

Cultivator Jun gathered seven Purple Mansion cultivators and revealed an ancient Heavenly Mountain Sect inheritance guarded by a powerful mountain spirit. After learning about the dangers and treasures, everyone agreed to enter, while Ye Jingcheng focused on the spirit as his target.

• Li Dazui arrived late, and Cultivator Jun formed an Isolation Array before asking everyone to swear a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• Cultivator Jun revealed that the secret realm lay outside Yan Country and claimed it belonged to the ancient Heavenly Mountain Sect.
• Cultivator Jun explained that six cultivators were needed to break the formation and showed footage of the mountain spirit, whose strength ranged from mid to late third rank.
• Cultivator Jun described the treasures in the ancient pavilions, and Ye Jingcheng agreed to join because he wanted to target the mountain spirit.
• Chen Niangzi was the last to agree, and Cultivator Jun celebrated their decision and imagined they might one day establish their own sect.

Ye Jingcheng and six other cultivators reached a hidden Third-Order Secret Realm in Jin Country, where Jun Buhui led them to an inheritance trial guarded by a Mountain Spirit. As the others charged toward the mountain’s treasure pavilions, Ye Jingcheng stayed behind to fight the Mountain Spirit Avatar, while Jun Buhui’s motives remained suspect.

• Jun Buhui brought Ye Jingcheng and the other cultivators to a desert entrance and revealed that the inheritance lay inside a Third-Order Secret Realm.
• At midnight, Jun Buhui used a compass and formation to reveal the secret realm gate, and the group sent puppets and Five Poisons Bees inside to scout it.
• The cultivators entered the realm, where Jun Buhui explained that six people had to operate a battle formation to break the barrier around the Mountain Spirit’s mountain.
• Ye Jingcheng volunteered to be the substitute who would choose treasures last, then helped the others break the formation while fighting the Mountain Spirit Avatar.
• Jun Buhui urged Ye Jingcheng to hold the Avatar back as the others climbed toward the pavilions, and Qiu Yongtai nearly reached one while Ye Jingcheng remained in place.

Ye Jingcheng uncovered Jun Buhui’s inheritance scam and fought to escape while Jun Buhui and the Mountain Spirit attacked the other cultivators. The chapter ended with Ye Jingcheng blocking the Secret Realm exit and summoning his spirit beasts as Jun Buhui closed in.

• The Mountain Spirit’s avatars attacked the cultivators, while Li Dazui revealed his plan to make spirit cuisine from their flesh.
• Ye Jingcheng confronted Jun Buhui, who attacked him with blood claws and revealed that he was a Purple Mansion Late Stage Heretical Cultivator.
• Chen Niangzi revealed that her true name was Qing Xinwei and begged Ye Jingcheng to help her, but he gave no answer.
• Bai Xiaosheng killed Lin Fuqing, and Qiu Yongtai was left fighting the Mountain Spirit’s forces alone.
• Chen Niangzi escaped the Mountain Spirit’s range, while Ye Jingcheng covered the Secret Realm entrance with a spirit bowl instead of fleeing.
• Ye Jingcheng summoned his Four-Tailed Demon Fox, Golden Falcon, Five-Colored Cloud Deer, Golden Scale Beast, and Giant Jiaolong as Jun Buhui pursued him.

Ye Jingcheng defeated Jun Buhui and Bai Xiaosheng, then uncovered the Mountain Spirit’s trap and rejected its offer to cooperate. He killed the Mountain Spirit by destroying the words on its Body Tempering Tablet, leaving the secret realm’s inheritance and spoils within reach.

• Jun Buhui was trapped by Ye Jingcheng’s Spirit Beasts, burned by the Crimson Flame Fox, and killed by the Golden Falcon’s sword strike.
• Ye Jingcheng seized Bai Xiaosheng’s soul and killed him with the Heaven River Pearl and Heavenly Sand Seal, while Li Dazui fled and Chen Niangzi approached cautiously.
• The Mountain Spirit offered Ye Jingcheng a partnership to lure cultivators into the secret realm, but Chen Niangzi realized it was moving its main body and warned him.
• The Mountain Spirit activated its formation and sent six powerful avatars against Ye Jingcheng, who used Mist Escape to rush toward the mountain and reveal the Mountain Spirit’s location.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Sky Opening Divine Drum Insect Array and Mystic Wood Disc to restrain the Mountain Spirit, then struck its Body Tempering Tablet with the Crimson Flame Fox’s Azure Sun Flame.
• The Azure Sun Flame erased the words on the Body Tempering Tablet, killing the Mountain Spirit and making its avatars vanish.

Ye Jingcheng crippled Chen Niangzi and killed Li Dazui after both tried to secure their survival in the collapsing secret realm. He searched the mountain’s pavilions and reached the Heavenly Mountain Sect’s final hall, where the Peach Wood Wood Demon broke through the formation and revealed what lay inside.

• Chen Niangzi opened the Shadowless Bowl’s entrance, but Ye Jingcheng’s Heavenly Armor Puppet wounded her, and he shattered her Purple Mansion while keeping her alive.
• Ye Jingcheng confronted Li Dazui, who offered a storage bag and demanded an oath, but Ye Jingcheng’s Spirit Beasts killed him and exposed his bluff.
• Ye Jingcheng collected the six cultivators’ Storage Bags, burned away traces of the conflict, and sent Five Poisons Bees to search the mountain.
• Ye Jingcheng gathered Third Order materials from several pavilions, then found the Heavenly Mountain Sect hall protected by a Third Order formation.
• Ye Jingcheng sent the Peach Wood Wood Demon to absorb the hall’s Spirit Shield, revealing everything inside.

Ye Jingcheng searched the ancient Heavenly Mountain Sect hall, obtained the Mystic Desolate Overlord Body inheritance and a Golden Ganoderma Fruit, and harvested its Golden Light Bamboo forest. When he left the secret realm disguised as Jun Buhui, Qing Xuanyuan and another Qing Family cultivator attacked him, but Ye Shengyi killed them and exposed a hidden enemy.

• Ye Jingcheng searched the hall, recorded the Mystic Desolate Overlord Body inheritance, and sealed the Golden Ganoderma Fruit in a jade box.
• Ye Jingcheng transplanted the Golden Light Bamboo forest and gathered Spirit Herbs from the Peach Wood Wood Demon before preparing to leave the secret realm.
• Ye Jingcheng sent a spirit puppet outside to scout, then exited the secret realm carrying Chen Niangzi and the Grotto Heaven Stone Spirit while disguised as Jun Buhui.
• Qing Xuanyuan and an elderly Qing Family cultivator trapped Ye Jingcheng in a formation and demanded his treasures, but Ye Shengyi appeared and killed them both.
• Ye Shengyi killed the fleeing formation master’s clone, identified that the true body was hiding nearby, and directed Ye Jingcheng to burn the area with spirit fire.
• Ye Jingcheng released the Crimson Flame Fox to burn the surroundings, and Ye Shengyi struck down the enemy who emerged from a nearby mound.

Ye Jingcheng disguised himself as Jun Buhui, bought pills and defensive treasures in Tianqian Market, then returned to the Ye Family with Ye Shengyi. After confirming the family had concealed his absence and that inquiries about him had stopped, he prepared to review the resources he had gained.

• Ye Jingcheng traveled to Tianqian Market disguised as Jun Buhui and bought healing and cultivation pills along with defensive treasures before heading back toward Yan Country.
• A month later, Ye Jingcheng and Ye Shengyi returned to Lingyun Peak, where they fed the Red Joint Fish together.
• Ye Shengyi gave Ye Jingcheng three Storage Bags taken from Qing Xuanyuan and the others, along with a jade slip containing his alchemy experience, then prepared to return to the East Sea.
• Ye Jingcheng met with the Ye Family elders and learned that a Zhang Family cultivator had asked about him, while the family had maintained the appearance that he had remained aboard the spirit boat.
• Ye Jingcheng heard Ye Jinghu's report on the family's affairs and went to his courtyard to take stock of his gains.

Ye Jingcheng sorted the spoils from the Purple Mansion cultivators he had defeated, finding valuable treasures, cultivation methods, and rare materials for the Ye Family and his own advancement. His harvest included nearly all the materials for the Third Order Wood Recipe, powerful Magic Treasures, and an Azure Sky Sword talisman treasure, leaving him eager to put the gains to use.

• Ye Jingcheng planted the Golden Light Bamboo in his Grotto-Heaven, fed its Spirit Beasts, and built a pavilion beside the new grove.
• Ye Jingcheng searched Lin Fuqing, Chen Niangzi, and Qiu Yongtai's Storage Bags, finding the Third Order Mystic Lake Wood Wood Core, the Silver Eye Dharma Eye secret art, Foundation Establishment Pills, and Qiu Yongtai's Mystic Autumn Blade.
• Ye Jingcheng examined Bai Xiaosheng and Li Dazui's meager belongings, kept Bai Xiaosheng's Corpse Bone Substitute Tribulation secret art for the family, and took Jun Buhui's Golden Mystic Bell, Primal Chaos Sky Umbrella, Blood Pool Cloth, and Blood King Body Refining Scripture.
• Ye Jingcheng found formation materials among the concealed cultivator's belongings and set them aside for Ye Jingyu, then discovered Qing Xuanyuan's wealth of Spirit Stones, a Fourth Order Thunder Peach Wood Wood Core, and most of the materials for the Third Order Wood Recipe.
• Ye Jingcheng acquired a drop of Fourth Order Crimson Phoenix Finch essence blood and inspected Qing Xuanyuan's powerful Magic Treasures, including the Wind Essence Bottle, Dark Mystic Pearl, and Azure Sky Sword talisman treasure.

Ye Jingcheng uncovered the Heavenly Mountain Sect’s surviving inheritance, including powerful cultivation arts, a body-tempering formation, a Spirit Canon for his Stone Spirit, and a Five Elements Divine Lightning secret art. After preserving and copying what he could, he discovered that a golden Peacock Stone could give birth to another Stone Spirit.

• Ye Jingcheng opened the Heavenly Mountain Sect’s enormous storage bag and found a palace full of inherited jade slips, materials, and pills, many of which had deteriorated over time.
• Ye Jingcheng preserved the remaining treasures and copied cultivation methods, finding twelve Mystic Rank High Grade methods and numerous other family-building techniques.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered the Tiangang Body Tempering Grand Array and the Spirit Canon, which taught Stone Spirits and mountain spirits to strengthen themselves by devouring Dharma Artifacts.
• Ye Jingcheng gave the Spirit Canon to his Stone Spirit and urged it to cultivate until it could devour Second Order defensive Dharma Artifacts.
• Ye Jingcheng found the Five Elements Divine Lightning secret art, copied it for Ye Shengyi and Ye Xuecang, and finished reviewing the inheritance.
• Ye Jingcheng’s Treasure Book revealed that a golden Peacock Stone could give birth to a Stone Spirit, delighting him.

Ye Jingcheng sorted through his treasures, strengthened his spirit beasts and cultivation, and reunited with Chu Yanqing, who gave him a heartfelt magic artifact. He then learned that the Ye Family’s latest Ascension Assembly had uncovered a talented child with an Ice Spiritual Root, but the news had already spread beyond the family.

• Ye Jingcheng replenished the Peacock Stone with spiritual energy, sorted the remaining treasures, and fed his spirit beasts, warning the Jade Scale Flood Dragon to train harder.
• Ye Jingcheng gave the Sunflower Wood Demon further care, then consumed a Golden Ganoderma Fruit that improved his earth-aspect talent and advanced his cultivation overnight.
• Ye Jingcheng brought four Thousand-Legged Frost Centipedes out of his grotto-heaven, planning to keep two and give the others to the family.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Chu Yanqing spirit pills, and she presented him with a third-order soul magic artifact modeled after a Spirit Apricot and inspired by her feelings for him.
• Ye Jingcheng arrived at the Council Hall and learned that the Ye Family had discovered a child with an exceptionally fine Ice Spiritual Root, whose identity had been publicized after the Ascension Assembly.