Chapter Summaries

Hundred Refinements True Monarch and Golden Spirit True Monk discussed Medicine King Valley’s hidden cultivators and the Ye Family’s potential, then Ye Jingcheng attended a fifth-order auction at Divine Medicine Market. He left the chapter bidding two million Spirit Stones for Long-Armed Golden Ape essence blood to strengthen his Golden-Eyed Zhu Yan.

• Hundred Refinements True Monarch told Luan Fu True Monarch and Blood Cloud True Monarch to break through under the fifth-order formation and showed them a jade slip depicting three vanished Medicine King Valley cultivators.
• Golden Spirit True Monk explained that he had traded away Heavenly Heart Silkworm Grass in hopes of forging a bond with the Ye Family, and suggested they seek Spirit Herbs in the Western Region.
• Ye Jingcheng arrived at Divine Medicine Market with Ye Jingli and younger Ye Family clansmen, and he and Ye Jingli bought young Spirit Beasts for their family members.
• At the fifth-order auction, Ye Jingcheng let Ye Jingli and a younger clansman bid on early lots, then waited as the auction advanced to fourth-order treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng bid two million Spirit Stones for five drops of Fourth Order Peak Long-Armed Golden Ape essence blood, which could help the Golden-Eyed Zhu Yan advance.

Ye Jingcheng attended Medicine King Valley’s auction, acquiring Long-Armed Golden Ape essence blood, a Gold Core Pill, the Mountainous Giant Peak Grand Array, and the Sky Vast Mysterious Light Furnace. After spending heavily, he failed to win the final Dragon Essence Pill, which Blood Cloud True Monarch secured.

• Ye Jingcheng examined five drops of Long-Armed Golden Ape essence blood while Ye Jingli won several spiritual materials and reflected on how the Ye Family’s influence had grown.
• Ye Jingcheng spent 1.48 million Spirit Stones to win one of the two Gold Core Pills offered at the auction.
• Ye Jingcheng outbid Luan Fu True Monarch and Blood Cloud True Monarch with an offer of sixteen million Spirit Stones for the Mountainous Giant Peak Grand Array.
• Luan Fu True Monarch won a soul-seizing bronze bell, and a Western Region Nascent Soul Cultivator bought the Mystic Sky Divine Mud.
• Ye Jingcheng bid seventeen million Spirit Stones and smoothly acquired the Sky Vast Mysterious Light Furnace, leaving him strained after spending more than thirty million Spirit Stones at the auction.
• Ye Jingcheng bid on the Dragon Essence Pill but could not match Blood Cloud True Monarch, who had saved his strength to win it.

After the auction, Qingchen True Monarch offered Ye Jingcheng access to Western Region spirit herbs and a chance to send a few Ye Family members to Western Region sects. Back at Lingyun Peak, Ye Jingcheng joined a discussion about exploring a secret realm in Yan Return County, where the Ye Family feared a possible Qinghe Sect trap.

• Qingchen True Monarch told Ye Jingcheng that Golden Spirit True Monk would supply spirit herbs and treasures at normal prices and allow three or four Ye Family members to enter Western Region sects discreetly.
• Ye Jingcheng agreed to prepare suitable clan members and a sect entrance gift, then submitted a list of needed spirit herbs that also included items to conceal his pill formulas.
• Ye Jingcheng and the other Ye Family members returned to Lingyun Peak by teleportation array, and he went straight to the Council Hall to discuss choosing Western Region candidates.
• Ye Jingyu told Ye Jingcheng that a possible Eight Desolations Sect secret realm had been found in Yan Return County, and the family was weighing whether to explore it or suspect a Qinghe Sect trap.

Ye Jingcheng decided to explore the Fourth-Order Secret Realm with other sects and families, while also choosing clansmen to send to Golden Light Temple in the Western Region. He then refined the Sky Vast Mysterious Light Furnace and began making a Zhu Yan Pill.

• Ye Jingcheng agreed with Ye Jingyu to bring Heavenly Saber Sect and other forces into the secret realm so the risks would be shared.
• Ye Jingyun recommended Yun Chang, Teng Yuan, and Teng Xue for the Western Region, and Ye Jingcheng promised to question them and provide cultivation resources.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Jingyu three Spirit Beast Bags but kept Zhu Yan so he could help it break through with a Zhu Yan Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to his cave abode, refined the Sky Vast Mysterious Light Furnace, and began refining pills.

The Celestial Corpse Sect, Qinghe Sect, and Penglai prepared an ambush in the Wild Wasteland Secret Realm to kill Ye Family cultivators and seize their secrets. After Crimson Blood True Monarch's avatar departed, the ambushers concealed themselves beneath the illusory spirit pool and waited for the Ye Family to arrive.

• Gold Armor Real Person and the Celestial Corpse Sect strengthened spirit corpses in the blood pool while preparing to ambush the Ye Family in the Wild Wasteland Secret Realm.
• Crimson Blood True Monarch's avatar used the Azure Blood Mirror to disguise the blood pool as a spirit pool and ordered Gold Armor Real Person to preserve the essence blood and demon souls of the Ye Family's core fighters.
• Gold Armor Real Person welcomed the chance to kill Ye Family Golden Core cultivators and earn a reward from Penglai Sect.
• Crimson Blood True Monarch's avatar left, and the Celestial Corpse Sect and Qinghe Sect Golden Core cultivators hid beneath the blood pool.

Ye Jingcheng sent Ye Yunchang, Ye Tengyuan, and Ye Tengxue to the Western Region to join a sect and scout a site for a Ye Family branch. He then prepared to guard the Eight Desolations Sect secret realm expedition and rewarded Ye Jingyu after his brother acquired a key pill ingredient.

• Ye Jingcheng confirmed that Ye Yunchang, Ye Tengyuan, and Ye Tengxue were willing to go to the Western Region and told them to map the region and find a suitable place for a Ye Family branch.
• Ye Jingcheng gave the three clansmen cultivation methods to choose from, then brought them to the Family Ancestral Shrine to pay their respects.
• Ye Jingcheng went to Heaven's Descent Market to guard the entrance to the Eight Desolations Sect secret realm while Golden Core cultivators explored it.
• Ye Jingyu told Ye Jingcheng that he had acquired a stalk of Fifth-Order Profound Origin Azure Grass, a main ingredient for the Six-Colored Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Jingyu a fourth-order Blue Jade Pill for the Azure Jade Serpent and a fourth-order monster core for the Jade Scale Flood Dragon.

Ye Jingcheng and the allied cultivators entered the Eight Desolations Sect secret realm on Azure Haze Mountain to search for treasures, while Ye Jingcheng stayed outside to guard the entrance. Ye Jingyu’s group found a ruined palace bearing the name Celestial Pivot Divine Calculation.

• The Ye Family’s gathered allies waited for the azure haze to reveal the secret realm entrance, then entered after preparing their defenses.
• Ye Jingcheng remained outside, set up Array Disks, and activated the Corpse Emperor’s token while guarding against a possible Qinghe Sect ambush.
• Inside the secret realm, the cultivators found no sign of an ambush and identified the ruins as belonging to the mysterious Wild Wasteland.
• Ye Jingyu and the other Golden Core cultivators agreed to search separately, leaving the area with the densest spiritual energy for Ye Jingyu.
• Ye Jingyu released the Jade Ring Rat and Heavenly Treasure Rat; the Jade Ring Rat reported no lurking flood dragons or cultivators, while the Heavenly Treasure Rat led the group to a spirit mountain.
• Ye Jingyu’s group reached ruined palaces and formations, where the main hall’s plaque read Celestial Pivot Divine Calculation.

Ye Jingyu led Ye Jingyong and Ye Jingfeng through the Wild Wasteland Secret Realm, carefully searching abandoned Spirit Mountains and gathering secret arts and Spirit Herbs. When the Heavenly Treasure Rat reacted to the realm’s Main Hall, Ye Jingyu withdrew and the Jade Ring Rat detected people on the mountain, confirming his suspicion that someone had come.

• Ye Jingyu broke the formation around a modest Spirit Mountain, checked for hidden threats with Attached Sandalwood Smoke, and led the others in searching its cave abode.
• The group found three practical Third Order secret arts and learned that the abandoned Heaven Pivot Divine Calculation Estate had belonged to a Wild Wasteland cultivator.
• Ye Jingyu refused Ye Jingfeng’s suggestion to split up, warning that the real secret realm could conceal an enemy trap and that the family had other plans.
• The three continued searching Spirit Mountains and collected secret arts, cultivation arts, and rare Spirit Herbs before spotting a grand mountain with formations and a hall atop it.
• When the Heavenly Treasure Rat showed interest in the mountain, Ye Jingyu hurried the group dozens of li away, where the Jade Ring Rat heard people on the final Spirit Mountain.

Ye Jingyu gathered the Golden Core cultivators from the gathered factions to assess their strength before they entered the dangerous secret realm. Meanwhile, Da Yan Real Person and Gold Armor Real Person prepared blood corpses and a Golden Dewdrop Fruit lure, confident they could kill the intruders and advance their factions.

• Da Yan Real Person worried that the blood corpses beneath the Spirit Pools were becoming uncontrollable, but Gold Armor Real Person reassured him and described their plan to kill the Golden Cores and lure the Ye Family with a Golden Dewdrop Fruit Tree.
• Ye Jingyu destroyed suspicious spiritual trees around a pavilion, collected the valuable ones, and met the arriving factions and families there.
• Ye Jingyu showed the gathered Golden Cores a Spirit Map and asked what preparations they had for the dangers ahead.
• Gu Yulai revealed the Gu Family's fourth-order demon king and Gold Armor Mysterious Puppet, while Xiao Yuntian offered a pill that could temporarily raise his cultivation to the Golden Core Middle Stage.
• Xuan Cheng could not name a comparable resource, while Night Edge Real Person and Scarlet Origin Real Person described their combat abilities and magic treasure.

Ye Jingyu’s group returned to Spirit Mountain and revealed that the Ye Family had prepared an ambush for Gold Armor Real Person and the Celestial Corpse Sect. The two sides began fighting, with the Chess Puppet Two Elements Grand Array trapping the blood corpses as Gold Armor Real Person unleashed his strongest forces.

• Ye Jingyu used spirit rats and formations to probe Spirit Mountain while Gold Armor Real Person and the others waited beneath it, believing the Ye Family had taken the bait.
• Gold Armor Real Person realized the formation had not broken and led his allies out, only to find Ye Jingyu’s group backed by five Spirit Boats and more than thirty cultivators.
• The Ye Family’s allies prepared their spirit puppets, Demon King, flags, and saber treasures as they faced the Celestial Corpse Sect’s powerful blood corpses.
• Ye Jingyu activated the Chess Puppet Two Elements Grand Array, slowing the blood corpses and summoning chess puppets to fight them.
• Gold Armor Real Person summoned blood water and five golden Spirit Coffins, while Da Yan Real Person’s attempt to use his Spirit Fan was turned back by an astral wind.

The Ye Family’s spirit beasts turned the battle against Gold Armor Real Person and the Celestial Corpse Sect, while their forces overwhelmed the enemy’s corpses and cultivators. As the fighting continued, an azure mirror began emerging from the blood pool.

• The White Eyebrow Azure Wolf’s astral wind scattered Gold Armor Real Person’s attack and helped the Chess Puppet Formation hold back the blood corpses.
• Gold Armor Real Person empowered his five Gold Armor Corpses, but six Wood Giants and the Six-Colored Cloud Deer disrupted them and drained their blood qi.
• Ye Jingyu and the Ye Family’s allies unleashed their spirit beasts, while the Golden Falcon and other cultivators attacked the Celestial Corpse Sect’s forces.
• The Six-Colored Cloud Deer weakened the Fourth Order Azure Sun Demon Corpse, and the battle increasingly favored the Ye Family.
• An azure mirror began to emerge from the blood pool as the cultivators continued fighting.

Ye Jingyu’s group fought Gold Armor Real Person and the Celestial Corpse Sect forces as the Azure Blood Mirror turned the battle against them. Mo Dao Real Person used the Heavenly Saber Sect’s Blood Demon Saber to kill Gold Armor Real Person, and Ye Jingyu’s side defeated the remaining enemies and recovered the mirror.

• Gold Armor Real Person activated the Azure Blood Mirror, ensnaring Ye Jingyu’s allies in illusions and forcing them to defend themselves against one another.
• Ye Jingyu used the Blood Soul Pearl to strike Gold Armor Real Person’s divine sense, weakening both him and the Azure Blood Mirror.
• Mo Dao Real Person unleashed the Blood Demon Saber and split Gold Armor Real Person in two, spending more than thirty years of his lifespan.
• With Gold Armor Real Person dead, the Celestial Corpse Sect cultivators fled, but Ye Jingyu’s formations trapped them, and the Golden Falcon killed Da Yan Real Person as he tried to escape.
• Ye Jingyu’s group killed the remaining True Persons, divided the spirit corpses, and retrieved the Azure Blood Mirror from the blood pool.

Ye Jingyu examined the Azure Blood Mirror, discovered its dangerous influence and ability to extract memories, and sealed it away for the Ye Family. After the group divided their spoils, he led his family toward the secret realm’s exit, confident that their gains were already substantial.

• Ye Jingyu tested the Azure Blood Mirror, saw visions of slaughter, and used spirit blood to reveal memories of Gold Armor Real Person and other cultivators.
• Ye Jingyu sealed the mirror in a jade box and stored it in Jade Within Sky, wary of its power to search memories.
• The cultivators divided the spirit corpses and treasures, and Ye Jingyu gave three magic treasures from Gold Armor Real Person’s storage bag to Mo Dao Real Person, Night Edge Real Person, and Scarlet Origin Real Person.
• Ye Jingyu told the others they could search for one more day, while the group recognized that the spirit vein was declining and left the spirit mountain.
• Ye Jingyu declined to keep searching, citing the family’s great gains and the possibility that Da Yan Real Person’s storage bag held Wild Wasteland’s inheritance.
• Ye Jingyu, Mo Dao Real Person, and the Heavenly Saber Sect cultivators reached the secret realm’s entrance and waited for the others to return.

Ye Jingyu and Ye Jingcheng returned from the secret realm with the Azure Blood Mirror and Da Yan Real Person’s treasures, then decided to send the dangerous ancient treasure to Medicine King Valley. They discovered the first half of the Nine Stars Divination Spirit Codex among Da Yan Real Person’s jade slips, giving the Ye Family the core cultivation technique it had sought.

• Ye Jingyu told Ye Jingcheng that they had killed Gold Armor Real Person and obtained Crimson Blood True Monarch’s Azure Blood Mirror, so Ye Jingcheng took the cultivators to Heaven’s Descent Market.
• Ye Jingcheng met Spirit Rainbow Fairy and brought her and Ye Jingyu back to Lingyun Peak to discuss their gains.
• Ye Jingyu explained that the Azure Blood Mirror could use essence blood to deduce memories, and the brothers decided to seal it securely and send it to Medicine King Valley.
• Ye Jingyu revealed that Da Yan Real Person had used a Heaven Gate Talisman, and the brothers searched his storage bag for the Wild Wasteland inheritance.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu found the first half of the Nine Stars Divination Spirit Codex, a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivation technique, though its divinations consumed lifespan and it required a suitable physique.

Ye Jingcheng distributed the secret-realm spoils to Ye Jingyu, planned the Ye Family’s expansion, and comforted three relatives departing for the Western Region by giving them Golden Lizards. He then brought the Azure Blood Mirror to Medicine King Valley, where Hundred Refinements True Monarch examined it and asked whether anyone had infused it with blood essence.

• Ye Jingcheng gave nearly all the secret-realm spoils to Ye Jingyu and warned him to cultivate the newly obtained techniques inside the Demon Refining Pillar.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu agreed to let Heavenly Saber Sect govern most of Yan Country while the Ye Family expanded its businesses and focused its future growth on the Central Region.
• At the Ancestral Shrine, Ye Jingcheng encouraged Ye Yunchang, Ye Tengyuan, and Ye Tengxue before giving each a juvenile Golden Lizard for their journey to the Western Region.
• Ye Jingcheng and Spirit Rainbow Fairy traveled to Medicine King Valley, where Qingchen True Monarch welcomed them and privately regretted that Ye Jingcheng had not been born in the Central Region.
• Ye Jingcheng showed the Azure Blood Mirror to Hundred Refinements True Monarch and recounted the secret-realm events, prompting him to ask whether anyone had dripped blood essence into it.

Ye Jingcheng watched Hundred Refinements True Monarch negotiate with Crimson Blood True Monarch over the Azure Blood Mirror, securing Spirit Herbs and pills in exchange for its return. He left Medicine King Mountain with the final ingredient for the Jade Scale Pill and renewed hopes for the Ye Family’s cultivation plans.

• Ye Jingcheng asked Medicine King Valley for the final main ingredients for the Jade Scale Pill and the Fifth Order Crimson Flame Pill, while keeping his blood essence needs secret.
• Crimson Blood True Monarch arrived at Medicine King Mountain, and Hundred Refinements True Monarch challenged him over the Azure Blood Mirror and Penglai’s interference in the Eastern Region.
• Hundred Refinements True Monarch demanded four Fifth Order Spirit Herbs, then offered to accept a Nascent Soul Pill instead; Crimson Blood True Monarch said he had only the Azure Immortal Lotus and three Gold Core Pills.
• After Ye Jingcheng approved the deal, Hundred Refinements True Monarch exchanged the Azure Blood Mirror for the Azure Immortal Lotus and three Gold Core Pills.
• Hundred Refinements True Monarch gave Ye Jingcheng the exchange proceeds, and Ye Jingcheng kept only one Gold Core Pill.

Ye Qing Feng exchanged spiritual flames with Guan Feng and returned with a three-thousand-year Moonlight Ganoderma, while Ye Yunxuan shared new talismans and breeding research. At Far Spirit Oasis, Ye Qingfu reacted to the Ma Family’s seizure of Vast Jade Oasis by planning warnings and defenses, as Wan Chengjie began a cautious expansion of his own.

• Ye Qing Feng traded a Moonlight Ganoderma to Guan Feng for a spirit pill, and they refined their fire seeds together; Guan Feng asked to become her spirit beast, but she refused.
• Ye Qing Feng gave Ye Yunxuan Third Order demon hides and essence blood, and he showed her his newly refined Small Heaven Gate Talismans.
• Ye Qingfu learned that the Ma Family had taken Vast Jade Oasis and discovered a pair of young Azure Sun Camels there, prompting him to consider the threat to the Sea of Sand’s oasis families.
• Ye Qingfu told Ye Yunfei to warn the affiliated families and planned an auction of Mountain Protection Array disks after the Nascent Soul Ceremony.
• Wan Chengjie signaled the Wan Family to take three backward oases after the Ma Family seized Vast Jade Oasis.

Ye Jingcheng returned to Sky Phoenix Oasis after years in the Eastern Region, having mastered three inherited secret techniques and found the Ye Family flourishing. As he discussed the family’s affairs and his Natal Magic Treasures with Chu Yanqing, Ye Xuefan emerged from seclusion after changing his cultivation technique.

• Ye Jingcheng reflected on mastering the Thousand Moon Soul Needle and Grand Origin Golden Body while continuing to study the Profound Wind Spirit Step.
• Chu Yanqing described the Ye Family’s growing strength and told Ye Jingcheng that Qing Nian had joined its management under Great Grandfather’s guidance.
• Ye Jingcheng considered the struggles over scarce oases and the limits on expansion into the Sky Leaving Grassland.
• Chu Yanqing offered to refine Ye Jingcheng’s Natal Magic Treasures after reaching late-stage Golden Core, and Ye Jingcheng presented her with treasures.
• Ye Xuefan emerged from seclusion with an aura suggesting he had successfully changed his cultivation technique.

Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Xuefan two Xiao Jin Returning Pills to help improve his Golden Core, then prepared the Six-Colored Cloud Deer for a Nascent Soul breakthrough with the Five Demons Nascent Soul Transformation Secret Technique. The deer entered seclusion in a Wood Attribute spirit mountain, leaving Ye Jingcheng to wait for its breakthrough and tribulation.

• Ye Xuefan told Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing that changing to the Heavenly Chess Soul Disk Spirit Codex had raised his divine sense, and learned of the Ye Family's victory over Gold Armor Real Person and its inheritance of the Wild Wasteland.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Xuefan two Xiao Jin Returning Pills, which could raise the quality of his middle-grade Golden Core.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed that the Six-Colored Cloud Deer was preparing to break through to the fifth order and entered the cave heaven to aid it.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the deer Treasure Light and spirit pills, then arranged the Five Demons Nascent Soul Transformation Secret Technique because he lacked a Nascent Soul Pill for it.
• Ye Jingcheng taught Peach Wood and the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven how to activate the formation, and sent the Six-Colored Cloud Deer into seclusion in a pure Wood Attribute spirit mountain.

Ye Jingyu urged Ye Yunmei to accept the Spirit Plant Hall’s Spirit Child position and aim for Nascent Soul, while the Ye Family prepared to select Spirit Children across its halls. After returning from Far Spirit Oasis, Ye Qing Nian faced a possible marriage alliance with Wan Yulian as Ye Jingcheng’s family discussed expansion into the Central Region.

• Ye Qingmu reported that the new Spirit Nurturing Water had greatly improved spirit seedling growth, and Ye Qingyuan praised its value to the Spirit Plant Hall.
• Ye Jingyu declined the Spirit Child position and urged Ye Yunmei to take it, arguing that her potential and responsibilities extended beyond reaching Purple Mansion; Ye Yunmei agreed to compete in the Clan Competition.
• The Ye Family began selecting Spirit Children, with candidates in the Pill, Artifact, and Array Halls competing to demonstrate their skills.
• Ye Xueliang, Ye Haicheng, and Ye Qing Nian returned from Far Spirit Oasis after the Ye Family raised tribute rates and the families involved in recent conflicts accepted the new policy.
• Ye Haicheng asked Ye Qing Nian about the Wan Family’s proposed marriage between him and Wan Yulian, and Ye Qing Nian left the decision to his parents while showing interest in the match.
• Ye Haicheng brought Ye Qing Nian to the Council Hall, where Ye Jingcheng and the Hall Masters discussed the Ye Family’s plans for the Central Region.