Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng exchanged his expedition spoils for pill formulas and Spirit Herb materials after learning that First-Order Grade-High Alchemists could study the family’s formulas for free. He returned to his courtyard and began refining Azure Spirit Pills, achieving a successful rapid furnace-warming for the first time.

• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Haiping his Spirit Snake materials and most of his Red Joint Fish to exchange for Contribution Points.
• Ye Haiping told Ye Jingcheng he could study all the Ye Family’s First-Order Grade-High pill formulas for free and brought him the Red Ganoderma Pill and Lotus Yellow Pill formulas.
• Ye Jingcheng borrowed both Jade Slips and bought ten sets of materials for each formula, along with materials for Azure Spirit Pills, Body Tempering Pills, and Spirit Feeding Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng asked about exchanging Contribution Points for higher-grade Spirit Beast eggs or cubs, but Ye Haiping told him he would learn more after reaching Qi Refining Late Stage.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to his courtyard and began refining Azure Spirit Pills with the Crimson Flame Fox, successfully warming the furnace rapidly as pill fragrance appeared before Pill Formation.

Ye Jingcheng refined a pill-patterned Azure Spirit Pill and studied the Lotus Yellow Pill before helping the Golden Scale Beast break through to the First Rank Late Stage. After forming a Beast Communication Mark with the beast, he cultivated to Qi Training Stage 7.

• Ye Jingcheng refined nine Azure Spirit Pills, including one with a pill pattern, and reviewed how the Crimson Flame Fox's improved flame control helped his alchemy.
• Ye Jingcheng studied the Lotus Yellow Pill formula while his Spirit Beasts practiced their spells, then successfully refined the pill after three months.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the Golden Scale Beast a pill-patterned Azure Spirit Pill and Lotus Yellow Pills, helping it break through to the First Rank Late Stage and strengthen its Earth Spike Art.
• Ye Jingcheng formed a Beast Communication Mark with the Golden Scale Beast, which supplied him with earth-attribute spiritual power as he cultivated.
• Ye Jingcheng consumed a Lotus Yellow Pill and two Azure Spirit Pills, breaking through to Qi Training Stage 7.

After reaching Qi Training Stage 7, Ye Jingcheng mastered a powerful bronze Stone Skin Art and went with Ye Haiping to ask about obtaining more Spirit Beasts. Ye Haiping brought him to the Treasure Pavilion's third floor, where Ye Jingcheng received an Inner Hall token that granted access to family secrets and a wider treasure exchange list.

• Ye Jingcheng used the Golden Scale Beast's spiritual energy to master the Stone Skin Art, whose bronze defense resisted his Flowing Shadow Sword and required spiritual power from the Silver Snow Needle to pierce.
• Ye Jingcheng confirmed that the Golden Scale Beast's scales grew more defensive as their golden light intensified, then let the newly advanced beast stabilize before refining an Advancement Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng visited Ye Haiping after reaching Qi Training Stage 7 and openly asked whether the family could exchange for new Spirit Beasts.
• Ye Haiping led Ye Jingcheng to the Treasure Pavilion's empty third-floor hall, where a Spirit Map showed rival families marked in red and the Taiyi Sect marked in deep crimson.
• Ye Haiping replaced Ye Jingcheng's Family Token with an Inner Hall token, which contained a detailed exchange list and signaled meetings or family crises through rays of light.

Ye Haiping explained the Inner Hall Token and showed Ye Jingcheng the family’s spirit-beast exchanges, revealing how the Ye Family used inherited beasts to support cultivation. After a long afternoon of guidance, Ye Jingcheng returned home to find the exhausted Golden Scale Beast waiting for food.

• Ye Haiping demonstrated how a Beast Communication Mark activated the Inner Hall Token and warned Ye Jingcheng not to reveal its secrets outside the family.
• Ye Jingcheng examined the token’s listings, noting the discounted defective Jade Scale Snake egg, the Blood Leech King egg, and the costly Second Order Crimson Blood Hawk inheritance.
• Ye Jingcheng concluded that the Ye Family was a Purple Mansion Family with powerful Spirit Beasts and likely multiple Foundation Building Cultivators.
• Ye Haiping led Ye Jingcheng downstairs, then spent half a day advising him on cultivation and alchemy over spirit tea.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to his courtyard at sunset, where the hungry Golden Scale Beast rushed to meet him after exhausting its spiritual energy.

Ye Jingcheng successfully refined two Golden Scale Pills and prepared the Golden Scale Beast to take one after resting. He then attended his first Ye Family Inner Hall meeting, where members began voting on candidates for the Beast Communication Ceremony.

• Ye Jingcheng refined two Golden Scale Pills after his first attempt failed and recorded the successful process.
• Ye Jingcheng made the impatient Golden Scale Beast rest before taking its pill so it could recover its strength.
• Ye Jingcheng reflected on his cultivation and the potential growth of his Spirit Beasts before his Family Token summoned him to the Treasure Pavilion.
• Ye Jingcheng joined the Inner Hall cultivators at the Ye Family meeting, where Ye Xingliu explained the rules for voting on three Beast Communication Ceremony nominees.

At the Clan Meeting, Ye Jingcheng voted on candidates for the Beast Communication Ceremony and learned about the Ye Family’s plans to strengthen its spirit vein and expand demon hunting. He signed up for a Lush Forest Pig hunt near Little Chong Mountain, where the operation could bring him Contribution Points and put the family in conflict with the Li Family.

• Ye Jingcheng voted for Ye Jingyun, Ye Jingli, and Ye Jingfeng, and Ye Jingyun and Ye Jingli qualified for the Beast Communication Ceremony.
• Ye Xingliu announced that the Ye Family would secretly gather spirit stones for a Spirit Ascension Array and send Inner Hall cultivators to hunt in the Mount Taihang Mountain Range.
• Ye Xingliu offered an extra twenty thousand Contribution Points to the greatest contributor to the spirit vein upgrade effort and announced a premium on Spirit Beast Meat.
• Ye Haiyi reported a Lush Forest Pig herd near Little Chong Mountain, and Ye Xingliu threatened to eliminate the Li Family if they interfered.
• Ye Jingcheng signed up for the Lush Forest Pig operation to earn Contribution Points.

Ye Jingcheng prepared for the upcoming beast hunt while the Golden Scale Beast consumed a Golden Scale Pill to advance. The beast grew stronger but showed no major breakthrough, and a message arrived as Ye Jingcheng continued feeding it.

• Ye Jingcheng returned to the courtyard, fed the Jade Ring Rat, and gave the Golden Scale Beast Treasure Light before bringing it inside.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the Golden Scale Beast a Lotus Yellow Pill and a Golden Scale Pill, then concealed it with an array while its advancement began.
• Ye Jingcheng prepared pills for a long-term hunt in the Mount Taihang Mountain Range, refining Qi Replenishing Pills, Qi Blood Pills, Ice Purity Pills, and Red Ganoderma Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered that the Golden Scale Beast had grown larger and stronger but had not formed a Demon Beast Inner Core, so he concluded it might need another Golden Scale Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the Golden Scale Beast Body Tempering Pills and Lotus Yellow Pills, then caught a streak of spiritual light that flew into the courtyard.

Ye Jingli celebrated his Azure Scale Python’s ability to launch talismans representing all five elements, while Ye Jingcheng learned that the family expedition was approaching. Ye Haiyi led eight people toward the Mount Taihang Mountain Range aboard an unfamiliar spirit boat.

• Ye Jingli visited Ye Jingcheng to celebrate his Beast Communication Marks and the Azure Scale Python’s newly demonstrated five-element spells, which came from a Spirit Talisman Launcher fitted in its mouth.
• Ye Jingli offered to make Ye Jingcheng a launcher at a discount, and told him to keep his own progress and opportunities secret.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that Ye Jingli planned to hunt Lush Forest Pigs in the Mount Taihang Mountain Range and that Ye Haiyi would lead the family expedition.
• Ye Jingcheng noticed that Lizard Elder had appeared as an exchange target for fifty thousand Contribution Points and suspected Ye Haicheng was preparing to form Beast Communion with Turtle Ancestor.
• Two days later, Ye Haiyi gave eight members Aura Isolation Robes and led them toward the Mount Taihang Mountain Range aboard a spirit boat.

Ye Jingcheng joined Ye Haiyi and other Ye Family cultivators in the Mount Taihang Mountain Range to prepare for driving a Lush Forest Pig herd toward a planned hunt. After reviewing the herd’s location and the nearby Li Family’s activity, they began laying Beast Repellent Powder to keep dangerous beasts away.

• Ye Haiyi led the cultivators into the Ye Family’s hidden cave dwelling, where Ye Xingqun briefed them on the Lush Forest Pig herd and the Li Family’s guarded valley.
• Ye Xingqun used his Blackwood Ants to relay information and assigned the cultivators locations for placing Beast Repellent Powder.
• Ye Haiyi ordered the group to rest before driving the beasts the following day, and Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingli received Beast Repellent Powder.
• Ye Xingqun led Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingli toward their assigned locations, following a Blackwood Ant while they wore Swift Steps Talismans.
• Ye Jingcheng brought out his Jade Ring Rat and strengthened it with Spirit Feeding Pills and Treasure Light, surprising Ye Xingqun.

Ye Xingqun, Ye Jingcheng, and Ye Jingli encountered and killed a First Rank Late Stage Iron Claw Leopard while laying Beast Repellent Powder near Little Chong Mountain. Back at the cave, Ye Xingqun explained his approach to cultivating spirit insects and began dividing the spoils.

• Ye Xingqun led Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingli to the edge of Little Chong Mountain to lay Beast Repellent Powder, warning them not to seek Spirit Herbs.
• The Jade Ring Rat sensed danger, and Ye Xingqun's Blackwood Ants identified a First Rank Late Stage Iron Claw Leopard nearby.
• The Iron Claw Leopard attacked the Jade Ring Rat, but Ye Xingqun's Blackwood Ant swarm, Ye Jingcheng's Ironwood Vine, and the three cultivators' Flying Swords killed it.
• Ye Xingqun fed a piece of the leopard's flesh to his Blackwood Ants, put them away, erased the traces, and returned with the others to the cave.
• Ye Xingqun explained that insect cultivators needed to stir their spirit insects' ferocity and manage their numbers, then began dividing the leopard's spoils.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingli received Ye Xingqun’s guidance on raising spirit insects and learned the Enticement Beast Pill formula. The Ye Family prepared to capture Lush Forest Pigs, while Li Xiangcai led the Li Family toward Evergreen Mountain Valley to confront them.

• Ye Xingqun divided the Iron Claw Leopard’s remains with Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingli, then accepted Azure Bamboo Wine from Ye Jingcheng.
• Ye Xingqun advised Ye Jingcheng to seek insect-type Monster Beasts in Black Cloud Swamp after reaching Qi Training Stage 8 and acquiring two high-grade Dharma Artifacts.
• Ye Xingqun gave Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingli jade slips about raising spirit insects, including the Enticement Beast Pill formula.
• After returning to the Ye Family, Ye Xingqun led the group toward a valley of sleeping Lush Forest Pigs, and Ye Haiyi ordered the array activated.
• Li Xiangcai accused the Ye Family of framing the Li Family and led his group toward Evergreen Mountain Valley to search their Storage Bags for Snake Ape Pills.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family prepared traps and coordinated their attack to drive a herd of Lush Forest Pigs toward Evergreen Mountain Valley’s southern entrance. As the herd charged, Ye Jingcheng hesitated to cast a spell while the pigs began to split toward the sides.

• Ye Jingcheng helped prepare deep pit traps lined with First-Order Law Thorns behind a veil of spiritual mist.
• Ye Haiyi assigned the clansmen to guard the valley while Ye Jingcheng followed the Crimson Crown Snow Eagles east on a spirit boat.
• Ye Jingcheng spotted more than a hundred Lush Forest Pigs, including a First Rank Late Stage Pig King, and released his strengthened Crimson Flame Fox.
• The Snow Eagles attacked the herd with Ice Rain, while a Fire Snake Spell set pigs and northern shrubs ablaze, driving the herd south.
• Ye Xingyao cast two Fire Snake Spells from the west and urged Ye Jingcheng to cast a spell before the herd split toward his side.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family used an array to capture a Lush Forest Pig herd, then prepared to claim the spoils. The Li Family arrived to seize the pigs, but Ye Haiyi revealed that the Ye Family had anticipated the ambush and trapped them instead.

• Ye Jingcheng's Crimson Flame Fox drove the Lush Forest Pig herd into the South Valley Entrance, where the illusion array's pits killed the adults and the cultivators captured the piglets.
• Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family estimated their haul would be worth thousands of Spirit Stones, with Ye Jingcheng expecting a substantial contribution reward.
• Li Xiangcai and the Li Family appeared, claimed the Lush Forest Pigs, and formed a trapping array around the Ye Family.
• Li Muhai confronted Ye Haiyi, who claimed that he was a robber cultivator and vowed to kill them.
• Blackwood Ants dismantled the Li Family's trapping array, revealing that the Ye Family had prepared a second array and had been waiting for the Li Family to spring the trap.

The Ye Family trapped the Li Family cultivators in a valley and launched a coordinated attack, seeking revenge and intending to leave no witnesses. Ye Jingcheng confronted Li Xiangcai with his spirit beasts, but Li Xiangcai countered his tactics and threw a Thunder Talisman at him.

• Li Muhai reassured the Li Family cultivators that a Foundation Building Cultivator would come to their aid, but the black array blocked his attempt to send a spirit talisman for help.
• Ye Haiyi ordered the attack, and the Ye Family cultivators and spirit beasts unleashed spells, insects, and flying swords against the Li Family.
• The Li Family spread out and raised spirit shields, but Ye Jingcheng's Crimson Flame Fox blasted a Qi Training Stage 5 cultivator with a Greater Fireball Spell.
• Li Muhai told Li Xiangcai to deal with Ye Jingcheng's Crimson Flame Fox, and Ye Jingcheng summoned both the fox and the Golden Scale Beast to attack Li Xiangcai.
• Li Xiangcai evaded Ye Jingcheng's beasts and fire spells, countered his hidden Ice Seal Talismans with Fireball Talismans, and hurled a Thunder Talisman at him.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family’s Spirit Beasts overwhelmed the Li Family in a planned ambush, killing Li Xiangcai and trapping the survivors. Li Muhai’s attempt to escape failed, while Li Yufei remained surrounded by three Foundation Establishment Spirit Beasts.

• Ye Jingcheng used the Cold Sun Seal and his Spirit Beasts to defeat and kill Li Xiangcai, then collected his spoils.
• Li Muhai mourned the Li Family’s losses and accused Ye Haiyi of concealing the Ye Family’s strength.
• Li Muhai feinted an attack on Ye Jingcheng, used a Formation Breaking Talisman, and ordered the surviving Li cultivators to retreat to Li Mu Valley.
• The Li Family survivors discovered a second formation outside, where Li Yufei was fighting the Lizard Elder, the Blue-Eyed Hanging-Eye Tiger, and the Crimson Blood Hawk.
• The three Spirit Beasts pressed their attack on Li Yufei, while the trapped Li Family cultivators lost their will to fight.

The Ye Family defeated Li Yufei and the Li Family cultivators at the valley entrance, though the Crimson Flame Fox was badly wounded. After tending to their spirit beasts, Ye Haiyi led the family toward Li Mu Valley to seize its resources.

• Li Muhai used his last Formation Breaking Talisman against the Ye Family’s formation, then Ye Haiyi killed him with a snow needle.
• Li Yufei used a Taiqing Sword Light to wound the Crimson Flame Fox, but the three spirit beasts overpowered and killed him.
• Ye Jingcheng treated the Crimson Flame Fox’s injured leg and placed it in a Spirit Beast Bag, while Ye Haiyi gathered the other spirit beasts.
• The Ye Family dismantled their formation, and Ye Jingcheng fed Spirit Feeding Pills to Lizard Elder.
• Ye Haiyi led the family toward Li Mu Valley and told them to wear the Li Family cultivators’ Aura Isolation Robes.

The Ye Family ambushed Li Mu Valley, overwhelmed its defenses, and took control of the Dragon Spring Stone mine. As Ye Jingcheng searched one of the mine shafts, the Jade Ring Rat sensed a hidden cultivator that his divine sense had missed.

• Li Mu Valley’s guards spotted the approaching Ye Family cultivators, but the Ye Family struck before they could raise the alarm in time.
• Ye Haiyi exposed the Second Order formation’s weaknesses, and the Ye Family’s Spirit Beasts shattered it and drove the Li Family cultivators to flee.
• Ye Jingcheng killed three Li Family cultivators while the Ye Family seized the valley and dismantled its formation.
• Ye Jingcheng entered a mine shaft, killed the mortal martial artists hiding inside, and collected their raw Dragon Spring Stone ore.
• The Jade Ring Rat detected a hidden cultivator behind a section of the mine wall, though Ye Jingcheng’s divine sense had found no one.

Ye Jingcheng used the Jade Ring Rat to uncover the hidden Li Family body cultivator Li Xiangjin and killed him in the mine tunnel. Ye Haiyi identified the attacker and praised the Jade Ring Rat’s extraordinary hearing.

• The Jade Ring Rat sensed someone beneath the mine, so Ye Jingcheng used an Earth Tremor Talisman to force the hidden cultivator out.
• Li Xiangjin, a Qi Training Stage 7 body cultivator, attacked Ye Jingcheng, but Ye Jingcheng’s body withstood his claw strike.
• Ye Jingcheng, the Golden Scale Beast, the Jade Ring Rat, and the Crimson Flame Fox overwhelmed Li Xiangjin with vines, spells, and attacks until he died.
• Ye Jingcheng had the Golden Scale Beast crush Li Xiangjin’s head to ensure he was dead, then told the arriving Ye Haiyi that the cultivator had been hiding underground.
• Ye Haiyi recognized Li Xiangjin and praised the Jade Ring Rat for detecting him with its exceptional hearing.

After destroying the Li Family’s mine at Li Mu Valley, Ye Haiyi led the Ye Family through the Mount Taihang Mountain Range and to a prepared cave dwelling near Lingyun Peak. Ye Jingcheng sorted his spoils, kept valuable artifacts and materials, and began searching Li Xiangjin’s storage bag for concealment-related treasures.

• Ye Haiyi gathered the Ye Family clansmen, destroyed the mine vein in Li Mu Valley, and led them deeper into the Mount Taihang Mountain Range.
• The group avoided pursuit by traveling through demon-beast territories, escaped a Three-Colored Roc by diving into a river, and reached the plains on the evening of the second day.
• Ye Haiyi brought the cultivators to a prepared cave dwelling, where they set up an array and began sorting their spoils from Li Mu Valley.
• Ye Jingcheng found modest wealth in two Qi Training Stage 5 cultivators’ storage bags, then discovered around three hundred Spirit Stones and valuable Dragon Spring Stone ore in Li Xiangcai’s storage bag.
• Ye Jingcheng kept Li Xiangcai’s Gold Shadow Sword and Blood Sky Claw, then opened Li Xiangjin’s storage bag, hoping to find a concealing artifact or cultivation technique.

Ye Jingcheng examined Li Xiangjin’s storage bag and assessed the valuable ore, spirit rice, artifacts, and cultivation inheritance inside. He left with the Azure Feather Boots and Hidden Spirit Armor, while the Blood Jade Spirit Rice and related recipes revealed more about Li Xiangjin’s opportunities.

• Ye Jingcheng found Spirit Stones, artifacts, Jade Slips, Blood Jade Spirit Rice, and a large quantity of Dragon Spring Stone ore in Li Xiangjin’s storage bag.
• Ye Jingcheng examined the heavy crimson broadsword and named the movement-enhancing spirit boots the Azure Feather Boots, planning to have Uncle Xingyu modify them.
• Ye Jingcheng recognized the tortoiseshell as a concealment artifact, named it the Hidden Spirit Armor, and judged that it could not withstand a direct attack.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered the Blood Jade Body Tempering Scripture, along with martial arts, Body Tempering Pill formulas, spiritual liquids, and a Blood Jade Spirit Rice recipe called Blood Spirit Cuisine.