Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng agreed to the Ye Family’s plans for expanding into the Central Region and reforming its halls and branches, then traveled to the Yuan Magnetic Forbidden Ground to investigate its growing power. There he discovered and bonded with a third-order Yuan Magnetic Mountain Spirit housed in a fifth-order stone body.

• Ye Jingcheng approved the Ye Family’s Central Region business plans and heard Ye Haicheng explain the proposed reforms to the family’s halls, branches, and support system.
• Ye Jingcheng allowed Ye Qing Nian to discuss a possible marriage alliance with Wan Yulian with his mother.
• After the meeting, Ye Jingcheng left Sky Shadow Peak and traveled to the Yuan Magnetic Forbidden Ground, where he used the Jade Scale Flood Dragon to push deeper past the repulsive force and Yuan Magnetic Divine Light.
• Ye Jingcheng spotted the Magnetic Essence Mountain and realized that it had produced a Yuan Magnetic Stone Spirit with little intelligence.
• Ye Jingcheng urged the Jade Scale Flood Dragon close enough to send his essence blood onto the mountain, forming a contract with the spirit.

After contracting the Yuan Magnetic Mountain Spirit, Ye Jingcheng collected magnetic treasures and assessed the Ye Family’s needs, then arranged to use the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly to strengthen clan members’ temperaments. He returned to find Wan Yulian visiting his cave abode, where his family welcomed him.

• Ye Jingcheng brought the Yuan Magnetic Mountain Spirit into his grotto heaven, reduced its influence with formations, and fed it resources and Treasure Light to help awaken its intelligence.
• Ye Jingcheng gathered Profound Origin Magnetic Crystals and other spirit materials while leaving the Yuan Magnetic Forbidden Ground, and planned to build a Teleportation Array there.
• Ye Jingcheng observed three Ye Family members attempt breakthroughs to the Purple Mansion; two succeeded, while one failed under the pressure of their inner demons.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Xuefan the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly and proposed building an illusion valley to temper clan members before their breakthroughs.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to his cave abode and met Wan Yulian, whom Ye Qing Nian had brought to visit.

Ye Jingcheng received gifts from Ye Yunxi and Ye Qing Feng during a family meal, while the Ma and Xu Families made plans to strengthen their positions before the Ye Family’s Nascent Soul Ceremony. The chapter left the Xu Family preparing to travel by teleportation with a hidden Cave Heaven treasure, amid growing competition among the oasis families.

• Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing welcomed Wan Yulian with spirit cuisine and Bright Heart Tea, and Ye Jingcheng urged Ye Qing Feng to focus on cultivation.
• Ye Yunxi presented Ye Jingcheng with a spirit jade magic treasure, and he gave her a Fourth-Order Magic Treasure in return.
• Ye Qing Feng gave Ye Jingcheng a three-thousand-year Moonlight Ganoderma and said the Great Crowned Phoenix wanted her to form a contract with it.
• Ma Xiuyuan learned that the Wan Family had gained three oases and arranged Wan Yulian’s marriage into the Ye Family, so he ordered the Ma Family to send its thousand-year spirit herbs to the Ye Family.
• Xu Xuanjing told Xu Haocheng that he had secured a Teleportation Array ride with Ye Yunshan, and Xu Haocheng revealed that the Xu Family’s hidden Cave Heaven treasure made the expense worthwhile.

The Ma Family and other guests arrived at Sky Phoenix Oasis for the Ye Family’s Nascent Soul Ceremony and were directed to wait in Facing Phoenix City. At Earth Shadow Peak, Ye Qing Feng tested the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly’s formation, endured a terrifying vision, and unexpectedly manifested a Law-Containing Divine Power.

• Ma Xiuyuan warned the Ma Family to show reverence to the Ye Family, and they entered Facing Phoenix City after Ye Qingshan directed them there.
• Ma Xiuyuan and his clansmen marveled at Sky Phoenix Oasis’s growth and its abundance of spiritual resources and third-tier treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng asked Ye Qing Feng to test the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly’s illusion formation, which Ye Xuefan had found powerful enough to evoke his Golden Core Heart Demon Tribulation.
• Ye Qing Feng’s illusion showed her forming a Blood Pact with the Great Crowned Phoenix, provoking a Spirit Transformation Demon Saint who killed her father and devastated the Ye Family.
• Ye Qing Feng emerged from the illusion at Purple Mansion Peak with a newly manifested Law-Containing Divine Power, and Ye Jingcheng told her to test the formation every three months.
• Ye Qing Feng accepted her father’s instruction, then secretly summoned Ye Qing Nian to test the formation too.

Ye Qing Nian underwent the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly’s trial, and Ye Jingcheng’s family began adapting the illusion formation for future awakenings and breakthroughs. In Facing Phoenix City, Xu Haocheng presented the Ye Family with the Snail Within the Sky and received support to help his family gain a Purple Mansion cultivator.

• Ye Xuefan guided the illusion around Ye Qing Nian, whose imagined wedding with Wan Yulian ended with him entering seclusion to protect the Ye Family’s secrets.
• Ye Jingcheng asked Ye Xuefan to refine Array Disks so the family could use the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly’s formation for future Beast Communion awakenings and soul infusions.
• Ye Xingxiao, Ye Jinghu, and Ye Qingfu received Xu Haocheng, who presented them with the Snail Within the Sky and a Golden Core cultivation inheritance.
• Ye Jinghu confirmed that the patterned snail held a true grotto-heaven, and Xu Haocheng offered both treasures to the Ye Family.
• Ye Xingxiao rewarded Xu Haocheng with Purple Mansion Jade Liquid, access to the Origin Demon Jade, and two Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Ye Xingxiao arranged to spread news of the reward through the Wan Family and Ma Family, while Ye Jinghu planned to tell Ye Jingcheng about the grotto-heaven.

At Ye Jingcheng’s Nascent Soul celebration, the Ye Family’s strength and its affiliated families’ lavish offerings astonished the guests. Wan Muchun challenged Ye Zhijian to prove his swordsmanship, but Ye Zhijian overwhelmed him and left him facing defeat.

• The Ye Family displayed its many spirit beasts and welcomed affiliated factions to Lingyuan Peak for Ye Jingcheng’s ceremony.
• The Ma Family offered several third-order spirit herbs to atone for encroaching on Vast Jade Oasis, while the Wan Family presented a Third-Order Secret Realm and several spirit mountains.
• After the banquet began, Wan Chengjie asked Ye Jingcheng to let Wan Muchun perform, and Wan Muchun defeated Ma Yu Yuan in a duel.
• Wan Muchun challenged the Ye Family Sword Hall, and Ye Zhijian accepted despite being at Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Ye Zhijian shattered Wan Muchun’s sword attacks with his golden sword and superior sword intent, forcing Wan Muchun to block with his Spirit Shield and recognize his defeat.

At the Ye Family’s banquet, Ye Tengchuan revealed his Sword Intent and was chosen as Sword Hall’s spiritual heir, prompting the family to plan how to cultivate his Five Elements sword talent. The next day, Ye Jingcheng began a three-day Nascent Soul discourse at Lingyuan Peak Plaza, where even Turtle Ancestor’s young Spirit Turtles listened.

• Ye Zhijian defeated Wan Muchun, then recommended Ye Tengchuan to test his sword before Ye Jingcheng.
• Ye Tengchuan defeated Wan Yuhe with a Water Attribute sword carrying Sword Intent, and Ye Xingyuan revealed that Sword Hall had chosen him as its spiritual heir.
• Ye Xingyuan explained that Ye Tengchuan might have comprehended Fire, Earth, and Water Sword Intents; Ye Haicheng and Ye Jingcheng discussed Spirit Beasts and cultivation techniques for him.
• Ye Jingcheng announced that the Nascent Soul discourse would take place the next morning, and the Ye Family later discussed spiritual heirs for its other halls.
• At Lingyuan Peak Plaza, Turtle Ancestor brought gifted little turtles to listen, and Ye Jingcheng began his plain-language discourse with Qi Refining.

Ye Jingcheng’s five-day Dao sermon deepened his comprehension and drew him into prolonged enlightenment, while the Ye Family sealed Lingyuan Peak and prepared its reforms without delaying the Clan Meeting. At the meeting, Ye Haicheng announced new governance, hall appointments, Spirit Child cultivation plans, and competition-based access to Gold Core Pills.

• Ye Jingcheng preached for five days, helping cultivators clarify their doubts while the Mystic Lotus Spirit Mat strengthened his insight and formed an azure lotus around him.
• Ma Xiuyuan and Wan Chengjie left to cultivate after gaining much from the sermon, and Ye Jingcheng remained in enlightenment after it ended.
• Ye Xuefan ordered Lingyuan Peak sealed and assigned the Great Azure Turtle to guard Ye Jingcheng, while Ye Haicheng and Ye Xuefan scheduled the Clan Meeting and other ceremonies.
• Ye Jingcheng contemplated combining his five Law-Containing Divine Powers, but found even joining two attributes difficult.
• Ye Haicheng convened more than seventy Ye Family cultivators and announced the Elder Council, hall appointments, Spirit Child support, a new Inner Hall division, and six competitions whose winners could prioritize exchanging for Gold Core Pills.
• Ye Haicheng stated that family stipends and childbirth support would continue, with extra rewards for branches and halls that made significant progress.

The Ye Family completed its Ascension Assembly and competition while preparing to expand into the Central Region. After half a year of secluded enlightenment, Ye Jingcheng emerged able to use three Law-Containing Divine Powers and assessed the Yuan Magnetic Mountain Spirit’s growing intelligence, leaving it to train for a future role.

• Ye Haicheng directed Ye Xingxiao to select five loyal clansmen with Fire, Earth, and Water Three Spiritual Roots for rapid cultivation, and reminded her to prepare for the Clan Competition.
• Ye Haicheng worried that Penglai cultivators might disrupt the Nascent Soul Ceremony at Lingyun Peak and target the Ye Family’s Beast Communication Mark Inner Hall clansmen.
• The Ye Family completed its competitions and began studying the Central Region’s factions and customs ahead of its expansion.
• Ye Jingcheng emerged from secluded enlightenment with three connected Nascent Soul Spirit Patterns and successfully cast two Divine Powers, nearly shattering a Fifth Order Formation.
• Ye Jingcheng visited the Yuan Magnetic Mountain Spirit in Snail Within the Sky, tested its control over its Divine Light and magnetic restraint, and promised it further pills and training.
• Ye Jingcheng inspected his Spirit Beasts and Wood Demons in the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven, then told them they could cultivate in the neighboring cave heaven.

Ye Jingyu completed his change of cultivation to the Nine Stars Divination Spirit Codex and reviewed preparations for the Ye Family’s upcoming Nascent Soul Ceremony. At Cloud Lake Mountain, the aging Wei Dazhong arranged the Wei Family’s gifts and attendants for the ceremony and entrusted Wei Yuanyu with his guidance.

• Ye Jingyu completed his change of cultivation, tested the Codex’s divination arts, and saw a vague sign pointing toward Tiandu County.
• Ye Jingyu checked on his Spirit Beasts’ breakthroughs and joined Ye Jingyun and the Clan Elders to review the ceremony preparations, including arrangements for Penglai Sect.
• Ye Jingyu went to inspect Soaring Clouds Market and planned to use his newly cultivated spirit eyes to check for concealed identities.
• Wei Dazhong insisted on personally attending the Ye Family’s ceremony and reminded Wei Yuanyu to show the Ye Family the utmost respect.
• Wei Dazhong reviewed the selected young women and the Wei Family’s nine Spirit Herb gifts, then gave Wei Yuanyu a jade slip of guidance.

Jiang Xuanyuan secretly approached Li Shangwu as the Jiang and Li Families faced pressure to choose sides before True Monarch Qianchen’s Nascent Soul Ceremony. As the Xiao Family and Heavenly Saber Sect prepared gifts for the ceremony, the Jiang and Li leaders remained cautious and uncertain about their next move.

• Jiang Xuanyuan told Jiang Yunchu to prepare gifts and Soul Inquiry Talismans for the ceremony and have the Jiang Family’s leaders carry their treasures with them.
• Jiang Xuanyuan met Li Shangwu in disguise and claimed the Jiang Family had agreed to cooperate with its enemies in exchange for safety and a Gold Core Pill.
• Jiang Xuanyuan proposed that the Li Family provide information about Teleportation Arrays and Mountain Protection Arrays, and said both families should disrupt the Ye Family’s ceremony, but Li Shangwu refused to commit without more details.
• Li Quanxian urged his father to expose the Jiang Family, but Li Shangwu cautioned him that Jiang Xuanyuan’s apparent defection might be a test and chose not to make a definitive report.
• Xiao Yuntian ordered the Xiao Family to prepare congratulatory gifts and planned to leave early for the Ye Family’s ceremony.
• The Heavenly Saber Sect gave Ye Jingfeng an enormous collection of gifts, including Fifth Order Spirit Herbs, Spirit Stones, and materials, and supplied tea and wine for the Ye Family to serve guests.

As the Ye Family prepared for Ye Jingcheng’s Nascent Soul Ceremony, they stayed alert to possible schemes by Penglai Sect while opening their market and hosting trade fairs. On the eve of the ceremony, Nascent Soul guests arrived, but Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu remained wary and ordered continued surveillance.

• Liu Huan warned the Ye Family that several factions might have pledged allegiance to Penglai Sect, and Ye Jingcheng’s council considered whether the ceremony or Medicine King Valley was the real target.
• Ye Jingcheng ordered the Tiangang Body Tempering Grand Array opened to visitors, and cultivators tested its stages at Little Wang Mountain as Ye Qingwen oversaw them.
• Ye Jingli hosted the Purple Mansion Trade Fair and offered his Four-Colored Bone Fire Pearl in exchange for a spiritual flame.
• Ye Jingyu and other Ye Family members hosted the Gold Core Trade Fair, where Ye Jingyu offered three fourth-order upper-grade Array Disks in exchange for spirit herbs.
• On the day before the ceremony, Nascent Soul cultivators from several factions arrived at the Temporary Palace, and Ye Jingcheng told Ye Jingyu to watch the mountain range and keep the Shadow Wood Puppet clan members on guard.

The Ye Family held a grand ceremony for Ye Qianchen’s breakthrough to Nascent Soul, and cultivators from many factions presented lavish gifts. The celebration took a dangerous turn when Penglai Sect and the Celestial Corpse Sect arrived with cultivation arts and corpse-refining methods as their offerings, leaving Ye Jingcheng and his allies wary of their intentions.

• Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family opened the ceremony as cultivators and factions climbed Lingyun Peak to congratulate True Monarch Qianchen.
• The Wei Family presented a three-thousand-year-old Earth Ginseng Jade Fruit, while Ye Qing Quan carefully isolated the Shi Family’s suspicious Origin Seeking Crystal gift.
• Jiang Xuanyuan declared that he had purged wayward Jiang Family juniors, and Li Shangwu presented the Li Family’s precious Golden Core Fruit Tree sapling.
• Nascent Soul cultivators from several factions offered fifth-order treasures, including a Golden Scale Pill ingredient from Qingchen True Monarch and an Azure Light Mysterious Sound Tea Tree from Qingling True Monarch.
• Saint Cloud True Monarch, Crimson Blood True Monarch, and Celestial Corpse True Monarch arrived and presented Jade Slips containing two earth-rank cultivation arts and methods for refining Living Corpses and conducting blood sacrifices.
• Ye Jingcheng wondered whether Penglai was testing or pressuring the Ye Family, while Qingchen True Monarch sent word to summon Senior Brother Bailian.

Penglai Sect used its gift and a staged trial challenge to draw attention away from an assault on Medicine King Valley, where Bai Yao True Monarch was breaking through. With Lingyun Peak sealed and Medicine King Valley besieged, the chapter left the defenders facing overwhelming forces and preparing to fight for their lives.

• Penglai Sect presented two supreme cultivation techniques as a congratulatory gift, while Ye Jingcheng recognized that accepting or refusing them could divide the Ye Family.
• Qingchen True Monarch confronted Penglai Sect over its Body Seizure of Medicine King Valley juniors, and the rival factions traded threats during the ceremony.
• Shi Yuxian raised the trial issue, but Ye Jingcheng realized the challenge was a diversion and suspected that Medicine King Valley was the real target.
• Saint Cloud True Monarch revealed that Lingyun Peak had been sealed, while a Fifth Order Late Stage peng eagle obstructed Hundred Refinements True Monarch from returning to Medicine King Valley.
• Celestial Poison True Monarch, Wu Xin True Monarch, and Xuan Shi True Monarch brought beasts, blood corpses, and talismans to attack Medicine King Valley.
• Fu Yun True Monarch and another Medicine King Valley cultivator activated the Ten Thousand Refinements Furnace formation, but the attackers continued their assault with powerful beasts and corpse forces.

Divine Lord Tiande abandoned the attack on Medicine King Valley after Gu Meng warned him that Bai Yao was protected in his grotto-heaven. Golden Light Temple’s allies then reinforced Medicine King Mountain and turned the assault against the Beast Spirit Sect and Celestial Corpse Sect, though several enemies escaped.

• Divine Lord Tiande confronted Gu Meng at a Teleportation Array, then withdrew and headed for the East Sea after learning Bai Yao was breaking through inside Gu Meng’s grotto-heaven.
• Celestial Poison True Monarch used ancient poison needles to weaken Medicine King Valley’s formation while beasts and Blood Corpses attacked the mountain.
• Golden Light Temple’s Nascent Soul allies arrived with Gu Chen True Monarch and Hundred Refinements True Monarch, who deployed new formations around Medicine King Mountain.
• Celestial Poison True Monarch ordered the attackers to split up and flee, while Xuan Shi True Monarch escaped early using Blood Escape.
• Gu Chen True Monarch and two others wounded the Earth Jiao, which escaped underground, while Hundred Refinements True Monarch’s assault forced Wu Xin True Monarch to send out his Nascent Soul and teleport away.
• Hundred Refinements True Monarch ordered Fu Yun and Zi Zhao to guard the area and pursued the fleeing enemies.

Ye Jingcheng and the other cultivators waited to learn whether Medicine King Valley had survived Penglai Sect’s attack, while Celestial Corpse True Monarch tried to exploit the crisis to kill Ye Family members. Medicine King Valley’s allies returned victorious, and the chapter ended with Ye Jingcheng considering how to acquire the blood essence of a pure-blood Earth Jiao.

• Ye Jingcheng held back from releasing the Yuan Magnetic Mountain Spirit as Qingchen True Monarch advised him to wait for news from Medicine King Valley.
• Saint Cloud True Monarch announced that Medicine King Valley had been destroyed, and Celestial Corpse True Monarch escaped Ye Jingcheng’s attack while striking at the Ye Family’s clansmen.
• Golden Spirit True Monk urged the other cultivators not to retreat, but Saint Cloud True Monarch, Crimson Blood True Monarch, and their allies fled Lingyun Peak.
• Hundred Refinements True Monarch reported that Medicine King Valley had wounded Wuxin and a pure-blood Earth Jiao, killed a Corpse Emperor, and exposed many traitors among Yan Zhao Jin Wei’s four kingdoms.
• Qingchen True Monarch and the others killed the cultivators who had switched sides, while Ye Jingcheng considered how to buy the Earth Jiao’s blood essence without revealing its value.

After the purge on the mountain, Ye Jingcheng learned that the Beast Spirit Sect possessed valuable Demon Emperors and began planning how the Ye Family could target the sect. The family prepared to locate and destroy its Teleportation Arrays, while Ye Jingcheng also planned to earn more Spirit Stones at the auction and eventually establish a foothold in the Central Region.

• Qingchen True Monarch and the others left the mountain after the purge, and Ye Jingyu announced that the Nascent Soul lectures and auction would be delayed.
• Hundred Refinements True Monarch praised Ye Jingcheng for warning the factions and offered him a reward, while the Nascent Soul Cultivators agreed to purge dangerous factions in their territories.
• Ye Jingcheng arranged for the Ye Family to investigate Medicine King Valley and ordered greater vigilance around the family's Teleportation Arrays.
• Ye Jingyun reported that the Beast Spirit Sect's Earth Jiao blood and flesh had fallen into Scar Monk's hands, prompting Ye Jingcheng to consider targeting the sect for its spirit beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng assigned Ye Jingyu to investigate the Beast Spirit Sect's Teleportation Arrays and Ye Xuefan to prepare a concealing formation.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Jingyu to prepare the auction to earn more Spirit Stones, then planned for the Ye Family to keep a low profile and build a foothold in the Central Region.

After his Dao lecture, Ye Jingcheng hosted a Nascent Soul trade gathering at Lotus-Viewing Lake and exchanged treasures with fellow cultivators. He traded away the Black Origin Banner and Longevity Spirit Peach, acquiring Earth Jiao essence blood and a rare Blazing Flame Heart Lotus.

• Ye Jingcheng welcomed Nascent Soul Cultivators from the Eastern and Western Regions to Lotus-Viewing Lake for a Dao discussion and trade fair.
• Ye Jingcheng offered the Longevity Spirit Peach, Black Origin Banner, and Profound Yin Fan, and listed the Spirit Herbs he sought.
• Golden Spirit True Monk questioned whether Ye Jingcheng had obtained the Black Origin Banner from the Celestial Corpse Sect, and Ye Jingcheng denied it.
• Gu Chen True Monarch offered three drops of pure-blooded Earth Jiao essence blood for the Black Origin Banner, and Ye Jingcheng accepted.
• Ye Jingcheng traded the Longevity Spirit Peach to a Western Region Nascent Soul Cultivator for a 4,800-year-old Blazing Flame Heart Lotus.

At the dao discussion gathering, Qingchen True Monarch and Golden Spirit True Monk tried to learn whether Ye Jingcheng’s family had pill formulas that could advance Spirit Beasts. Ye Jingcheng denied having special formulas, exchanged a cultivation-consolidating pill formula for materials to make a Fifth Order Dust World Pill, and left the two True Lords believing the Ye Family had support from a Righteous Path immortal sect.

• Qingling True Monarch offered a Devouring Spring Python egg in exchange for Chen Whale Jade, but Ye Jingcheng had no jade to trade and she left disappointed.
• After the dao discussion gathering ended, Qingchen True Monarch explained the Beast Spirit Sect’s origins and asked Ye Jingcheng to join a future attack against it.
• Ye Jingcheng said the Ye Family could lead an attack when the Beast Spirit Sect lowered its guard, provided Medicine King Valley restrained the other Nascent Souls and the enemy’s Nascent Souls were not all at Beast Spirit Mountain.
• Golden Spirit True Monk and Qingchen True Monarch asked whether the Ye Family had pill formulas to help Spirit Beasts break through, and Ye Jingcheng said the family relied on Advancement Pills and large quantities of medicine.
• Ye Jingcheng exchanged a cultivation-consolidating pill formula for three sets of materials for the Fifth Order Dust World Pill, while asking Qingchen True Monarch to swear secrecy.
• After returning to Medicine King Mountain, Golden Spirit True Monk said he had seen a Black King Banner in the hands of a Profound Heaven Demon Sect cultivator, and Qingchen True Monarch concluded that the Ye Family had backing from a Righteous Path immortal sect.

After reviewing the Nascent Soul Ceremony gifts, Ye Jingcheng prepared the Ye Family to focus on entering the Central Region while leaving Ye Jingyu to oversee Lingyun Peak. At Soaring Clouds Market, Li Shangwu privately asked Ye Jinghu to help refine Space Jade for a Teleportation Array.

• Ye Jingcheng reviewed the ceremony gifts, including rare treasures, and ordered the gifted cultivation methods sealed or offered as competition rewards under different names.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Jingyu that the family would slow its Eastern Region development and rely on him to oversee Lingyun Peak while the others returned to the Sea of Sand.
• The Ye Family Clan Elders dispersed as Soaring Clouds Market grew quiet after the ceremony and its discounts.
• Li Shangwu met Ye Jinghu and Ye Jingyun in a secured room and asked Ye Jinghu to help refine Space Jade for a Teleportation Array.