Chapter Summaries

The Ye Family prepared for Earth Dragon Demon King's breakthrough to Fifth Order Nascent Soul, which could establish the family as a Nascent Soul clan, while strengthening its defenses and celebrating its rapid growth. Ye Yunxi mastered new techniques for the clan competition and looked after the young Ye Qing Nian and Ye Qing Feng as the story left Earth Dragon Demon King's breakthrough underway.

• Three-Eyed Demon Peng grew unusually restless as the Ye Family learned that Earth Dragon Demon King was about to break through, and cultivators discussed rewards for the coming clan competition.
• Ye Xuefan and Ye Haicheng watched spirit qi surge toward Sky Shadow Peak, while Ye Xuefan ordered vigilance against nearby Monster Beasts and additional formations around Sky Phoenix Oasis.
• Ye Haicheng told Ye Xuefan that the Ascension Assemblies had begun and that the Ye Family expected hundreds of Immortal Seedlings, while Ye Xuefan asked about Jingcheng's child.
• Ye Jingzhong ordered his people to gather the best Sand Ginseng Scorpions and prepared Thorn Fruit for the family's celebration.
• Ye Yunxi finished mastering secret arts for the clan competition, then found Ye Qing Nian and Ye Qing Feng at her door asking about cultivation techniques.

Ye Jingcheng returned to Sky Phoenix Oasis as the Earth Dragon Demon King neared its breakthrough to Demon Emperor. After the Beast Infant formed, the newly ascended Demon Emperor drew a vast lightning tribulation away from the oasis.

• Ye Jingcheng returned to Sky Phoenix Oasis and congratulated Ye Haicheng, Ye Hai Yan, Ye Haiyu, and the Fifteenth Grand Uncle on their breakthroughs.
• Ye Jingcheng received gifts containing the Spirit Herbs needed to prepare advancement pills for the Golden Scale Beast.
• Ye Xuefan told Ye Jingcheng that the Earth Dragon Demon King was close to forming its Beast Infant and asked him to keep watch.
• The Earth Dragon Demon King formed its Beast Infant, rose into the air with a Nascent Soul-level aura, and triggered a massive lightning tribulation.
• The Earth Dragon Demon King flew beyond Sky Phoenix Oasis to spare its formation and buildings, and Ye Jingcheng gave it half a Top-Grade Spirit Stone as the thunderclouds spread across the desert.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family watched the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor survive its Nascent Soul tribulation and become a fifth-order Demon Emperor, making the Ye Family a Nascent Soul family. After the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor began recovering, the family prepared to gather its clansmen and strengthen its connections with the Eastern Region.

• Ye Jingcheng watched the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor withstand eight thunder tribulations, using its tempered body and magic treasure to survive.
• When a thunder dragon appeared for the final strike, Ye Jingcheng reminded the frightened Earth Dragon Demon Emperor through their Soul Contract that it was only an illusion, and the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor defeated it with Mountain Prison.
• The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor emerged from the crater, and Ye Jingcheng led the Ye Family in celebrating its breakthrough to Demon Emperor.
• Ye Jingcheng arranged for the Two-Headed Turtle Demon King to help the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor recover, then told it that becoming a dragon might still be possible.
• Ye Xuefan ordered Ye Haicheng to arrange a clan meeting and an Ascension Assembly, while Ye Jingcheng chose Heavenly Saber True Monarch over Zi Ming True Monarch for the Space Jade plan.

Ye Jingcheng returned home to Chu Yanqing and their children, then tested Ye Qing Nian and Ye Qing Feng’s Spirit Roots. Qing Nian had Three Spiritual Roots with exceptional affinity, while Qing Feng possessed a Heavenly Spiritual Root, and Ye Jingcheng decided their talents did not need to be kept low-key.

• Ye Jingcheng reunited with Chu Yanqing, Ye Qing Nian, and Ye Qing Feng, shared lunch with them, and gave Chu Yanqing pills and the children Spirit Beast cubs.
• Ye Jingcheng tested Ye Qing Nian’s Spirit Roots and found that he had Three Spiritual Roots with unusually high affinity.
• Ye Jingcheng tested Ye Qing Feng’s Spirit Roots and discovered she had a Heavenly Spiritual Root.
• Chu Yanqing asked whether the children’s talents should be kept low-key at the Ascension Assembly, but Ye Jingcheng said the Ye Family could display its strength.
• Chu Yanqing warned Ye Qing Nian and Ye Qing Feng to remain humble and treat their fellow clansmen well.

The Ye Family held its largest Ascension Assembly yet, celebrating its growing population and Dragon Ancestor’s Nascent Soul breakthrough with lavish rewards for talented children and their families. The tests revealed exceptional talents among Ye Jingcheng’s children, and the clan began assigning future roles to Immortal Seedlings without Ye Family bloodlines.

• Ye Haicheng opened the Ascension Assembly, announced spirit-beast rewards for the most talented Immortal Seedlings, and offered Blood Nurturing Pills to the most successful mortal town chiefs.
• The assembly tested more than four hundred children, including eleven with Dual Spiritual Roots and forty-two with Three Spiritual Roots; Ye Yunxuan displayed exceptionally high Spirit Root affinity.
• Ye Qing Nian showed outstanding Three Spiritual Roots affinity, while Ye Qing Feng revealed a Heavenly Spiritual Root with even greater affinity, making both children top candidates for the clan’s future.
• Ye Xuefan and Ye Haicheng congratulated Ye Jingcheng, who urged fellow clansmen to consider marrying into the Chu Family; the clan then announced the top Immortal Seedlings and distributed rewards.
• Ye Haicheng instructed Ye Xingxiao to train Immortal Seedlings without Ye Family bloodlines who had Four or Five Spiritual Roots for business roles.

Ye Jingcheng oversaw the Ye Family’s clan competitions, where alchemy and artifact-crafting talent showed the clan’s progress and Chu Yanqing explained the Zhang Family’s artifact techniques. He then met the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor, exchanged the dragon transformation pill formula, and began arranging how the newly strengthened ally would support the Ye Family’s plans.

• Ye Jingcheng presided over the alchemy competition, where Ye Xingxiao refined a Second-Order High-Grade Spirit Pill, while Ye Qingdan and Ye Yunxiang also impressed him.
• Ye Jingcheng demonstrated how to refine Foundation Establishment Pills and later saw the Ye Family’s artifact crafters’ progress under Chu Yanqing’s guidance.
• Chu Yanqing explained that the Zhang Family’s Three Forging Hammer and Nurturing Spirit Seal improved the toughness, sharpness, and power of its dharma artifacts.
• Ye Jingcheng met the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor on Sky Shadow Peak and gave it the two dragon transformation pill formulas.
• The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor offered the formula to the Ye Family and proposed claiming territory in the Sky Leaving Grassland, but Ye Jingcheng asked it to help guard the teleportation array and deal with threats in the Black Crow Forbidden Ground.
• The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor agreed to Ye Jingcheng’s plans and said it no longer needed to close off its Demon Essence for Beast Communion.

The Ye Family planned a Purple Mansion ceremony and Ascension Assembly to strengthen its connections and address its markets, while Ye Xingliu successfully broke through to the Purple Mansion Realm. In the Sea of Sand, Ye Jingcheng refined the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor’s true essence and prepared to help Ye Xuefan contract the Two-Headed Turtle.

• Ye Jingyu proposed holding a Purple Mansion ceremony for Ye Jinghu, inviting the Taiyi Sect’s five peaks and other families, and using the gathering to negotiate with the Heavenly Saber Sect.
• Ye Xingliu broke through to the Purple Mansion Realm, though his breakthrough left him sorrowful.
• Ye Qingyan learned the Kong Family was targeting the Ye Family Restaurant, then asked Ye Jingteng and Ye Qingshuang to deliver invitations for the ceremony and Ascension Assembly.
• Ye Jingcheng refined a trace of the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor’s fifth-rank true essence and judged that continued cultivation could help him reach the Golden Core Middle Stage.
• Ye Jingcheng watched Ye Yunxi hold her own in the family competition, then went to summon Ye Xuefan so he could contract the Two-Headed Turtle.

Ye Jingcheng freed the Two-Headed Turtle Demon King from its old Soul Contract and helped Ye Xuefan bind it before heading to the Black Crow Forbidden Ground with the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor. There, they killed two Black Crow Demon Kings, subdued two others, and lured the remaining late fourth-order king toward a confrontation.

• Ye Jingcheng arranged for the Two-Headed Turtle Demon King to leave his Soul Contract and recognize Ye Xuefan as its master, and Ye Xuefan established a new Blood Pact.
• Ye Jingcheng left the Jade Scale Flood Dragon and Golden Scale Beast on Sky Shadow Peak, then traveled with the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor to the Black Crow Forbidden Ground.
• A mid fourth-order Black Crow Demon King pursued Ye Jingcheng's Flying Puppet into a formation, where the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor killed it.
• Ye Jingcheng and the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor killed another mid fourth-order Black Crow Demon King and persuaded two others to submit.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that the late fourth-order Black Crow Demon King was incubating eggs, contracted one subordinate, and sent it to lure the king out.
• Two ancient Black Crow figures and the Sky Crow Ancient Tree Demon King charged into the formation.

Ye Jingcheng subdued the Black Crow Demon Kings and secured the Black Crow Forbidden Ground’s Spirit Herbs and a rare Taiyin Ancient Crow egg for the Ye Family. He then tested Black Crow Flame Ear on the Crimson Flame Fox, whose fire grew stronger and began producing spiritual phantoms.

• The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor seized the late Fourth Order Black Crow Demon King, and Ye Jingcheng bound it with a Soul Contract after it agreed to submit.
• Ye Jingcheng had the Sky Crow Ancient Tree Demon Kings and other monsters submit, then ordered them to summon the remaining creatures in the forbidden ground.
• Ye Jingcheng harvested most of the potent Black Crow Flame Ear and discovered a four-layer Treasure Light Spirit Egg with the bloodline of a Taiyin Ancient Crow.
• Ye Jingcheng left the forbidden ground and its Spirit Egg under the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor’s protection before heading toward Sky Phoenix Oasis.
• Ye Jingcheng entered his Grotto Heaven, checked on the Spirit Peach crop, and fed a Fourth Order Black Crow Flame Ear to the Crimson Flame Fox.
• The Crimson Flame Fox’s fire grew stronger and darker, producing spiritual phantoms without developing six-colored flames.

The Lingyun Ye Family prepared for Ye Jinghu’s Purple Mansion Ceremony by welcoming cultivators, promoting its businesses, and arranging the guests. As the ceremony began, the Wei Family presented a Fallen Cloud Tiger cub, while Ye Jingyu waited for important guests from the Taiyi Sect and the Heavenly Saber Sect.

• The Ye Family offered Rogue Cultivators spiritual tea and Spirit Stone Tokens, and announced an auction of treasures from a secret realm.
• Ye Jingyu and the others discussed the ceremony, watched for Jin Family and Kong Family spies, and confirmed that families from Skyfall County and Mo Dao Real Person would attend.
• Ye Jinghu prepared for his Purple Mansion Ceremony as cultivators gathered at Lingyun Peak and presented gifts.
• The Wei Family presented Ye Jinghu with a cub of the Third Order Great Demon, the Fallen Cloud Tiger, surprising the Ye Family’s leaders.
• Ye Jingyu watched the horizon while waiting for the Taiyi Sect’s guests and Mo Dao Real Person to arrive.

The Ye Family held Thunder Tiger High Lord’s Purple Mansion Ceremony, drawing an impressive gathering of Purple Mansion and Golden Core cultivators and strengthening its reputation. The banquet included a one-strike contest that Ye Jinghu won, while the chapter ended with Ye Jingyu privately offering Mo Dao Real Person lifespan-extending spirit fruits in exchange for the Bone Flame Demon Fox essence blood.

• Ye Xingsu and numerous Purple Mansion and Golden Core cultivators arrived at Lingyun Peak to congratulate Thunder Tiger High Lord, while Heaven Array Real Person, Zi Yue Real Person, and Mo Dao Real Person presented valuable gifts.
• Ye Jinghu opened the banquet, and Kong Yurong challenged him to a one-strike spar; Ye Jinghu defeated him with a Heavenly Gang Thunder Seal.
• Xiao Shaoan proposed another spar, and Ye Jingyong fought for the Ye Family and won.
• Ye Jingyun received marriage-alliance offers from Wei Dazhong and other families, but refused proposals involving Ye Family women marrying outward.
• Ye Jingyu and Ye Jinghu held a Purple Mansion and Golden Core trade fair, where Mo Dao Real Person offered Bone Flame Demon Fox essence blood; Ye Jingyu privately offered him spirit fruits that could extend lifespan by fifty years.

The Trade Fair ended with the Ye Family’s guests trading for rare materials, while Ye Jingyu privately arranged an exchange with Mo Dao Real Person. The story left Ye Jingyu and Mo Dao Real Person bound by oath to trade a life-extending Spirit Herb for refined Space Jade.

• Mo Dao Real Person failed to find medicine at the Trade Fair, while Heaven Array Real Person and Zi Yue Real Person completed exchanges.
• Ye Jingyu obtained a Jade Emperor Lotus, and Ye Jinghu acquired Purple Thunder Leopard hide for crafting talismans and defensive gear.
• After escorting the guests out, Ye Jingyu warned Ye Jinghu to watch the Kong Family and Jin Family.
• Ye Jingyu met Mo Dao Real Person in a hidden pavilion and inspected the Bone Flame Demon Fox blood essence offered in exchange for a life-extending Spirit Herb.
• Ye Jingyu agreed to provide a second Spirit Herb in return for Mo Dao Real Person arranging refined Space Jade, and they swore a Heavenly Dao Oath.

Ye Jinghu bonded with a Fallen Cloud Tiger, while Ye Jingyu settled urgent matters involving the Wei Family, the family’s trade plans, and spies from the Jin and Kong Families. He hurried back to Lingyun Lake, where the Azure Jade Egg began hatching beside the Jade Emperor Lotus, leaving him poised to gain a second flood dragon.

• Ye Jinghu fed the Fallen Cloud Tiger Spirit Nurturing Pills and completed a Blood Pact with the cub.
• Ye Jingyun offered Ye Jinghu marriage alliance options from the Wei and Xiao Families, but he declined arranged matches.
• Ye Jingyu returned with the Bone Flame Demon Fox essence blood and warned that the Ye Family might need it before Heavenly Saber True Monarch’s lifespan ran out.
• Ye Jingyu instructed Ye Jingyun to restrict marriage alliances and ordered the Jin and Kong Family clansmen who had stayed behind to be killed after they left.
• Ye Jingyu urged Ye Jingli to prepare Dharma Artifacts for an auction meant to establish Taihang Market and support the Ye Family’s secret chamber of commerce.
• Ye Jingyu hurried to Lingyun Lake, where the Azure Jade Egg cracked and drew in the Jade Emperor Lotus as it began to hatch.

The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor fought the Sky Roc Demon Emperor over the Black Crow Forbidden Ground and drove it away without suffering defeat. Ye Jingcheng then brought Ye Jingyu and other Ye Family members to cultivate Black Crow Flame Ear, while the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor entered secluded cultivation.

• The Sky Roc Demon Emperor confronted the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor at the Black Crow Forbidden Ground, and the two moved their battle away from the Black Crow Demon Kings.
• The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor used the Sea of Sand, Mountain Prison, and Rock Burst against the Sky Roc Demon Emperor, injuring it and collecting three fallen treasure feathers.
• The Sky Roc Demon Emperor escaped to the sky and departed after neither side could overcome the other's strengths.
• The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor returned to the forbidden ground, instructed the Black Crow Demon Kings to cultivate Black Crow Flame Ear, and entered secluded cultivation.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Jingyu to focus on cultivating Black Crow Flame Ear and led clansmen to the forbidden ground to begin cultivation.

Ye Jingcheng harvested five ripened Longevity Spirit Peaches and distributed pills and treasures to his Spirit Beasts. The Crimson Flame Fox revealed a powerful Five-Colored Fire Lotus, while the other beasts continued cultivating toward the Fourth Order.

• Ye Jingcheng completed major mastery of the Great Desolate Step and advanced his body cultivation with help from the Body Tempering Golden Liquid.
• Ye Jingcheng harvested five spirit peaches and gave the Peach Wood Wood Demon spirit liquid and pills, promising to gather an Advancement Spirit Pill for it.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the Jade Scale Flood Dragon a Fourth-Order Profound Jade Azure Water Pill and monster corpses, then gave spirit pills to the Crimson Flame Fox and Golden Scale Beast.
• The Golden Scale Beast demonstrated its Earth Qilin Hall technique, and the Crimson Flame Fox revealed a Five-Colored Fire Lotus that startled it.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Fourth-Order demon cores and Treasure Light to the Five-Colored Cloud Deer and Golden Falcon, who began cultivating in seclusion.

Mo Dao Real Person exchanged the completed Space Jade with Ye Jingyu for Longevity Spirit Peaches, while Heavenly Saber True Monarch instructed the Heavenly Saber Sect to preserve its ties with the Ye Family. Ye Jingyu and his family installed the Space Jade in their Teleportation Array and prepared to test it.

• Mo Dao Real Person passed the Heavenly Saber Sect’s saber arrays and met Heavenly Saber True Monarch, who praised his work refining the Space Jade and discussed keeping the Ye Family’s secrets and maintaining good relations with them.
• Heavenly Saber True Monarch gave Mo Dao Real Person a saber technique and told him to gather news about the Chen Whale Sea and items that could aid in forming a Nascent Soul.
• Ye Jingyu left the Ye Family’s array work to meet Mo Dao Real Person, inspected the completed Space Jade, and agreed that the Spirit Peaches would be ready in ten days.
• Ye Jingyu returned to Lingyun Peak, where Ye Xingliu and Ye Jinghu confirmed that the Space Jade matched the family’s records and that the Teleportation Array was ready.
• Ye Jingyu installed the Space Jade, and the family activated the array’s surrounding formations as he prepared Mountain Devouring Rats for a test.

Ye Jingcheng fed Turtle Ancestor Treasure Light and spirit pills as the Great Azure Turtle prepared to enter seclusion and break through. He then teleported to Lingyun Peak, reunited with his family, and celebrated with them in the bamboo grove, where gifts and rare materials strengthened his plans for future pills.

• Ye Jingcheng gave the near-peak Third Order Great Azure Turtle Treasure Light and Yellow Ganoderma Mysterious Origin Pills before its planned seclusion and breakthrough.
• After a Mountain Devouring Rat arrived through the Sea of Sand Teleportation Array, Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingyu traveled to Lingyun Peak, intending to destroy the array afterward.
• Ye Jingcheng reunited with Ye Jingli, Ye Jingyun, Ye Jingyu, Ye Xingliu, Ye Xingqun, and the others, then joined them for a drinking gathering in the bamboo grove.
• The family gave Ye Jingcheng's children gifts, including Twin Rhinoceros Jade, spirit pills, spirit insects, Array Disks, and spirit eggs; Ye Jingcheng recognized the snake egg's exceptional potential.
• Ye Jingyu gave Ye Jingcheng rare spirit materials and essence blood, completing the materials for the Fourth Order Golden Scale Pill and advancing his preparations for several other pills.

Ye Jingcheng reunited with the Ye Family, distributed treasures and rewards, then established a Teleportation Array at Long Elephant Valley to connect Lingyun Peak with the Sea of Sand. The Mammoth Demon King reported that the Golden Tempering Essence Fruit Tree had not borne fruit in over ten years.

• Ye Jingcheng gave his relatives dharma artifacts, magic treasures, and spirit pills, and the family granted Lingyun Peak clansmen increased stipends and the chance to contract Third Order Great Demons.
• After the rain cleared, Ye Jingcheng chose Long Elephant Valley as the site for the Ye Family's new Teleportation Array and passed through Earth Dragon Valley, where the Rock Lion Demon King now held territory.
• Ye Jingcheng met the Mammoth Demon King, ordered it to guard the area, and rewarded it with a Fourth-Order Spirit Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng installed and tested the Teleportation Array beneath the Mammoth Demon King's Temporary Palace, securing a connection between Lingyun Peak and the Sea of Sand.
• Ye Jingcheng asked about the Golden Tempering Essence Fruit, and the Mammoth Demon King said the tree had not borne fruit in over ten years.

Ye Jingcheng took the Golden Tempering Essence Fruit Tree from Long Elephant Valley and arranged for Ye Xueliang and Ye Haiyu to guard the teleportation array. After trading with nearby demon kings and delivering Longevity Spirit Peaches to Mo Dao Real Person, he learned that someone might be plotting against the auction.

• Ye Jingcheng exposed the Golden Tempering Essence Fruit Tree's intelligence, persuaded the Mammoth Demon King to give it up, and sent it into his cave heaven in exchange for promising the Mammoths Golden Tempering Essence Fruits.
• Ye Jingcheng gathered mature Spirit Herbs from Long Elephant Valley and left spirit pills for the Mammoths before testing the teleportation array.
• Ye Xueliang and Ye Haiyu arrived through the array and began guarding it, then gave Ye Jingcheng treasures Ye Haicheng wanted included in the auction.
• Ye Jingcheng stayed near the auction to protect the Ye Family's treasures, visited Red Clouds Ridge and Cloud Lion Ridge, and exchanged spirit pills for Spirit Herbs from the demon kings.
• Ye Jingcheng delivered two Longevity Spirit Peaches to Mo Dao Real Person, who warned him that someone seemed to be plotting against the auction.

After three months of studying the fourth-order Golden Scale Pill, Ye Jingcheng remained unsure he could refine it and urged his Spirit Beasts to keep training. He and Ye Jingli then prepared to attend the Ye Family auction at Taihang Market, carrying newly adapted Ye Family artifacts and expecting trouble.

• Ye Jingcheng judged that he needed to improve his Alchemy before risking the scarce ingredients for the Golden Scale Pill, and he urged the Golden Scale Beast, White Eyebrow Azure Wolf, and Roc Fish to train harder.
• The Wood Demon disciplined the Golden Tempering Essence Fruit Wood Demon while Ye Jingcheng checked on the Spirit Beasts in his grotto-heaven.
• Ye Jingli told Ye Jingcheng that he had adapted the Zhang Family Nurturing Spirit Seal and Three-Forging Method into a Ye Family Four-Forging Method and Soaring Clouds mark.
• Ye Jingcheng praised Ye Jingli's plan to help shift the reputation for Yan Country Dharma Artifacts from the Zhang Family to the Ye Family.
• Ye Jingli revealed that he had made Four-Colored Bone Fire Pearls bearing the Ye Family name, and he and Ye Jingcheng boarded a spirit boat for Taihang Market.