Chapter Summaries

Ye Qing Feng began her Golden Core breakthrough as the Ye Family gathered to witness it, while news of other gains strengthened the family’s position. She formed a Top Grade Golden Core and was told to enter the formation to face her lightning tribulation.

• Ye Tenghe and another spirit planter noticed the strange heat and dark clouds over the spirit fields as Ye Family cultivators gathered above Sky Phoenix Oasis.
• Ye Xuefan told Ye Haicheng and the others that the family had found the Old Cold Jiaolong and was preparing to slay it, while Ye Jingcheng’s Crimson Flame Fox was also nearing a breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng returned from the Central Region and joined Chu Yanqing and the elders to watch Ye Qing Feng and the Crimson Flame Fox break through at Sky Shadow Peak.
• Ye Qing Feng’s Golden Core appeared with a crimson phoenix shadow, and Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing realized she had formed a Top Grade Golden Core.
• Ye Qing Feng called Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing her parents, and they told her to enter the formation and undergo the lightning tribulation.

Ye Qing Feng successfully crossed her Golden Core tribulation, resisted the Heart Demon Tribulation, and received a Three-Colored Peacock spirit egg. As her family celebrated, the Crimson Flame Fox began its breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm, filling the sky with immense thunderclouds.

• Ye Qing Feng used her Scarlet Phoenix Fire Seed to devour tribulation lightning and survived the unusually powerful fourth bolt that shattered the array.
• Ye Qing Feng overcame a familiar Heart Demon Tribulation and became the Ye Family's tenth Golden Core cultivator.
• Ye Xuecang congratulated Ye Qing Feng with a spirit egg from the Three-Colored Peacock King, and Ye Jingcheng sent her to consolidate her cultivation.
• Ye Haicheng urged Ye Qing Nian to work harder while the family celebrated Ye Qing Feng's breakthrough.
• The Crimson Flame Fox manifested five spirit fires, transformed into a Five-Tailed Crimson Flame Fox, and began its Nascent Soul tribulation as enormous thunderclouds covered the oasis.

The Crimson Flame Fox survived its tribulation and advanced to the Fifth Order, giving Ye Jingcheng another Demon Emperor and strengthening his plans for pill refinement and the Ye Family’s growth. Ye Xuecang reported on the Eastern Wu Sea Region, while the family considered how to use its accumulated soul infusion opportunity.

• The Crimson Flame Fox used its Sky Fox Fire Furnace and Azure Sun Flame to withstand the lightning tribulation, then defeated the three phantom lightning tribulations and reached the Fifth Order.
• Ye Jingcheng’s family congratulated him, and he said he would begin refining pills once the Crimson Flame Fox recovered.
• Ye Jingcheng asked Ye Xuecang about the Eastern Wu Sea Region, and Ye Xuecang described the Star Sea, its Star Sect and Sun and Moon Twin Sages, and the family’s encounters with demon kings and the Old Cold Jiaolong.
• Ye Xuecang reported that the Ye Family had accumulated an opportunity to perform a soul infusion on a Fourth Order demon king, leaving them to decide which demon king and recipient to choose.

Ye Jingyu succeeded in using the Blood-Qi Conversion Method to break through to the Purple Mansion, giving the Ye Family a model for aging cultivators to attempt breakthroughs. Beneath the Yin Shark Sea, Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xuecang confirmed that the fourth-rank Chen Whale was nurturing Chen Whale Jade, and they awaited the cold flood dragon.

• Ye Yunmei emerged from seclusion and waited with Ye Qingyuan and the Spirit Plant Hall cultivators while Ye Jingyu attempted her breakthrough.
• Ye Jingyu broke through to the Purple Mansion and regained a youthful appearance, and Ye Yunmei embraced her before they both returned to consolidate their cultivation.
• Ye Qingyuan went to report Ye Jingyu's success to Family Head Ye Haicheng.
• Beneath the Yin Shark Sea, Ye Xuecang told Ye Zhijian and Ye Jingcheng that the Chen Whale had reached the fourth rank and the family had begun cultivating Chen Whale Jade.
• Ye Zhijian released the Chen Whale at the fourth-rank spirit jade mine, where it circulated Demon Essence and infused nearby spirit jades with dark red light.
• Ye Jingcheng said they now needed to wait for the cold flood dragon to arrive.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family trapped Old Cold Jiaolong with a Heavenly Dragon Fruit bait and fought to subdue it. With the jiaolong badly wounded and surrounded, Ye Jingcheng demanded that it submit or die.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xuecang lured Old Cold Jiaolong to Fish Hawk Island with a Heavenly Dragon Fruit Tree and sealed it inside the Chessboard Pearl.
• Old Cold Jiaolong unleashed its cold pearl, but the Jade Scale Flood Dragon fought it and kept it from escaping.
• The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor used Rock Burst while Ye Jingcheng’s purple flame drained Old Cold Jiaolong’s life force.
• Ye Jingcheng suppressed Old Cold Jiaolong with the Saint Spirit Tower as the Jade Scale Flood Dragon tore off its claw, the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor struck it, and the Crimson Flame Fox burned it.
• Ye Jingcheng ordered Old Cold Jiaolong to submit or die.

Ye Jingcheng defeated and killed the treacherous cold jiaolong after it broke free of his attempted Soul Contract, then collected its valuable remains. Two white-robed cultivators arrived afterward and worried about the jiaolong’s death and growing danger in the Star Sea, deciding to keep a lower profile.

• The cold jiaolong pretended to submit, then shattered the Cave Heaven Bead with its cold pearl and escaped, freezing Ye Xuecang as it fled.
• Ye Jingcheng tracked the cold jiaolong with his Star Illusion Eye, burned and restrained it with his spirit treasures, and killed it despite its renewed pleas to submit.
• The Dream Devouring Insect consumed the cold jiaolong’s demon nascent soul, while Ye Jingcheng saved the jiaolong’s body for the Ye Family and rewarded his other beasts.
• Ye Xuecang and Ye Jingcheng left with the jiaolong’s remains, and two white-robed cultivators arrived less than half an hour later.
• The white-robed cultivators discussed the Star Divine Lord’s Inheritance Cave, the cold jiaolong’s death, and a future plan to kill the Shark Demon Emperor Yuan, then agreed to keep their forces quiet.

Ye Jingcheng reviewed the Frost Flood Dragon’s memories and gathered information about treasures, powerful cultivators, and the Star Divine Lord’s inheritance. He stored the dragon’s remaining treasures and prepared to head to the Central Region, leaving Ye Xuecang with leads for the Ye Family to pursue.

• Ye Jingcheng fed the Dream Devouring Insect spirit pills and Beast Souls after it finished searching the Frost Flood Dragon’s memories.
• Ye Jingcheng learned of Fifth Order spirit trees, Golden Core Fruit Trees, and the strength of two Star Sea Nascent Soul cultivators, and decided to delay pursuing the Sea Suppressing Demon Emperor until after his own breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng recorded treasure locations for Ye Xuecang and Ye Xuefan to investigate while he prepared to travel to the Central Region in response to the Mystic Puppet True Monarch’s transmissions.
• Ye Jingcheng examined the Frost Flood Dragon’s Red Conch storage treasure, found Spirit Herbs and other valuables, and chose several herbs for himself.
• Ye Jingcheng decided to give Ye Xuecang the Red Conch and jade slip so he could practice his sword arts and pursue treasures and Demon Kings in the sea region.

As Ye Jingcheng’s allies and clansmen completed handovers across the Eastern, Central, and Celestial Pivot Regions, several prepared to return to the Sea of Sand and attempt the Golden Core realm. Ye Qing Nian emerged from the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly Valley as Ye Family members gathered at Sky Shadow Peak, marking the start of a new period of advancement for the family.

• Ye Haiyu secured Jin Meng’s agreement to return with her to the family and entrusted Long Elephant Valley to Ye Xingshui.
• Ye Hai Fei handed responsibility for Lingyun Peak and its Teleportation Array to Ye Xingqun and Ye Jingyun, then prepared to return to the Sea of Sand and pursue the Golden Core realm.
• Ye Qingyan refined his first Fourth-Order Spirit Pill and set out for Sky Shadow Peak after learning that Ye Jingcheng had produced ten Gold Core Pills.
• Ye Xingliu handed the Sky Sand Array Pavilion to Ye Haiyan and warned him to keep a close watch on Xiao Congrong.
• Ye Yunxuan finished his commissions at Ye Talisman Peak, including a Fourth-Order spirit talisman, and prepared to return to the Sea of Sand to break through.
• Ye Qing Nian emerged from Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly Valley and sensed several Purple Mansion Peak cultivators gathering at Sky Shadow Peak.

Zhu Wenjing and Sky Sand Sect cultivators hunted down a Ghost Profound Sect infiltrator near Yuan Ming Mountain and brought their spoils to Demon Subduing City. There, Zhu Wenjing warned Ye Qinghe that enemy cultivators were targeting Spirit Stone mines, possibly including the Feng Family’s mine at Yuan Feng Mountain.

• Zhu Wenjing trapped and killed a Ghost Profound Sect cultivator with help from her companions, defeating his Heavenly Wood Corpse as well.
• Zhu Wenjing led the Sky Sand Sect cultivators to Demon Subduing City, where they displayed the corpse and turned over some of the captured treasures.
• Zhu Wenjing asked Ye Qinghe whether Ye Jingcheng had left seclusion, and Ye Qinghe said he was meeting with Mystic Puppet True Monarch.
• Zhu Wenjing reported that enemy cultivators were seizing Spirit Stones and might target the Feng Family’s Mid-Grade Spirit Stone mine at Yuan Feng Mountain.
• Ye Qinghe agreed to report the intelligence, and Zhu Wenjing left the city to resume patrolling with the Sky Sand Sect disciples.

Ye Jingcheng learned that the Profound Heaven Demon Sect was gathering resources to open a Boundary Gate while he and two allies planned to seek Ten Thousand Year Cold Marrow in Demon Abyss Prefecture. After receiving warnings about the sect’s movements and news from his family’s agents, he prepared to leave in three days while keeping the Ye Family on guard.

• Jiang Daorong reported that Ghost Profound Sect had gained a Nascent Soul cultivator and that the Blood Fiend Xiao Family and Western Evil Chu Family elders had emerged from seclusion.
• Mystic Puppet True Monarch proposed that he, Ye Jingcheng, and Jiang Daorong travel to Demon Abyss Prefecture for Ten Thousand Year Cold Marrow, explaining that turmoil over the Boundary Gate would distract the Demon Sect.
• Ye Jingcheng agreed to the plan, and Mystic Puppet True Monarch arranged for them to depart in three days after publicly entering seclusion.
• Ye Jinghu reported that Celestial Pivot Prefecture had been settled and gave Ye Jingcheng a fourth-rank Heaven Gate Talisman; Ye Jingcheng told him to keep it and watch over the Ye Family clansmen.
• Ye Qinghe reported that the Profound Heaven Demon Sect was gathering Spirit Stones and brought a marked blood corpse carrying news from Ye Jingxin and Ye Qingxu.
• Ye Jingcheng searched the blood corpse’s soul and learned that Blood Xin Valley had grown in strength, the Demon Sect was directing agents to Slaughter Origin Prefecture, and the sect’s territory and expansion were constrained by a Demon Saint and the Southern Poison Mountain Range.

Prefecture Lord Liu prepared the city’s defenses as cultivators from the Central Region set out to raid Southern Barbarian State. Mystic Puppet True Monarch led Ye Jingcheng and Jiang Daorong to a hidden abyss, where an Azure Sky Fox guided them toward the entrance to a Small World.

• Prefecture Lord Liu confirmed that the city-wall formations were complete and rebuked Flowing Cloud True Monarch for refusing to take risks elsewhere.
• Mystic Puppet True Monarch asked Ye Jingcheng and Jiang Daorong to charge Martial Illusion Puppets with their true essence, then swore an oath to reassure them.
• Ye Jingcheng supplied the puppet with Crimson Flame Fox essence and concealed its source from Mystic Puppet True Monarch and Jiang Daorong.
• Mystic Puppet True Monarch led Ye Jingcheng and Jiang Daorong through a teleportation array to an abyss, where he released an Azure Sky Fox to find the Small World entrance.
• After searching for much of the day, the three followed the Azure Sky Fox into the dark river and found a massive Spirit Stone bearing traces of Ghost Profound Sect cultivators’ aura.

The Righteous Path Sect plundered spirit herb gardens across Jia Yuan Prefecture while Xuan Ming True Monarch waited for the Boundary Gate to be found and planned to ambush their Nascent Soul cultivators. As the factions began clashing elsewhere, Mystic Puppet True Monarch, Jiang Daorong, and Ye Jingcheng entered a frozen Small World and discovered that Yin Yuan Old Demon had been hiding there with Ghost Sky True Monarch.

• Liu Yuansheng stripped a spirit herb garden on Jade Peak Mountain and decided to keep plundering while seeking information from the Flowing Cloud Sect.
• Xiang Yuan attacked a Heavenly Devil Sect spiritual ground, while Xuan Ming True Monarch told his allies to let the Righteous Path Sect pursue minor gains until they could strike its Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Mountain Puppet Real Person received a signal and led two Martial Jade Puppets to attack a spirit mountain in Wildlands Prefecture.
• After learning that all five Nascent Soul cultivators had left, Mystic Puppet True Monarch, Jiang Daorong, and Ye Jingcheng broke into a Small World in Demon Abyss Prefecture.
• Inside the frozen world, Jiang Daorong detected Ghost Sky True Monarch and Yin Yuan Old Demon, whose Nascent Soul Late Stage strength and mastery of cold Killing Intent prompted Mystic Puppet True Monarch to order a retreat.

Yin Yuan True Monarch trapped Ye Jingcheng, Mystic Puppet True Monarch, and Jiang Daorong in the Mystic Ghost Howling Sky Formation and tried to sacrifice them to advance his cultivation. Ye Jingcheng lured Ghost Sky True Monarch into the Chessboard Pearl and killed him, while the others continued fighting Yin Yuan True Monarch’s formation.

• Yin Yuan True Monarch used the Star Shift divine ability to transport Ye Jingcheng, Mystic Puppet True Monarch, and Jiang Daorong into the Mystic Ghost Howling Sky Formation.
• Mystic Puppet True Monarch, Jiang Daorong, and Ye Jingcheng fought off waves of ghostly faces and bone dragons as Mystic Puppet True Monarch attacked the formation’s ghost banners.
• Yin Yuan True Monarch sent Ghost Sky True Monarch to kill Ye Jingcheng, who drew him into the Chessboard Pearl space.
• Ye Jingcheng revealed the Jade Scale Flood Dragon and Five-Tailed Crimson Fox, then used the Blood Soul Pearl to daze Ghost Sky True Monarch.
• Ye Jingcheng’s Azure Sun Flame, Jade Scale Flood Dragon, and Violet Zenith Sword overwhelmed Ghost Sky True Monarch, and the dragon swallowed his split Nascent Soul.

Ye Jingcheng and the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor turned the battle against Yin Yuan True Monarch, joining Mystic Puppet True Monarch and Jiang Daorong to destroy his formation and kill him. Yin Yuan True Monarch briefly escaped by teleportation, but Azure Sun Flame consumed his Nascent Soul as he emerged from the Small World.

• Mystic Puppet True Monarch used his Natal Spirit Root to break one of Yin Yuan True Monarch's ghost banners, but Ghost Sky True Monarch appeared and claimed to have slain Ye Jingcheng.
• Yin Yuan True Monarch realized the supposed Ghost Sky True Monarch was an impostor when he noticed that Gui Xiao never handed over Storage Bags after killing someone.
• The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor revealed its hidden strength and used Rock Burst to damage Yin Yuan True Monarch's defenses, while Ye Jingcheng attacked with the combined Natal Divine Powers of three true spirits.
• Mystic Puppet True Monarch and Jiang Daorong joined Ye Jingcheng and the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor, and Ye Jingcheng used a five-colored fire furnace to extinguish Yin Yuan True Monarch's Evil Ghost Soul Devouring Furnace.
• Yin Yuan True Monarch was overwhelmed by the group's attacks and teleported out as a Nascent Soul, but the Scarlet Flame Fox's Azure Sun Flame consumed him at the Small World entrance.

Ye Jingcheng killed the remaining Ghost Profound Sect cultivators and collected the Cold Marrow and a valuable Cold Jade Yu Ling from the underground mine. With Ghost Profound True Monarch likely approaching, Ye Jingcheng and his allies prepared to flee and agreed to divide the treasures in the Southern Wasteland.

• Ye Jingcheng reassured Mystic Puppet True Monarch and Jiang Daorong, then descended into the mine with the Jade Scale Flood Dragon to hunt the hidden demon cultivators.
• Ye Jingcheng killed the three concealed Golden Core cultivators and collected their storage bag.
• Ye Jingcheng gathered the Cold Marrow from three pieces of Ten Thousand Year Cold Jade, then discovered and collected a five-layer Treasure Light Cold Jade Yu Ling and the surrounding Cold Jade.
• Mystic Puppet True Monarch warned Ye Jingcheng that they needed to leave before Ghost Profound True Monarch arrived.
• Ye Jingcheng proposed dividing the treasures in the Southern Wasteland, and Mystic Puppet True Monarch and Jiang Daorong agreed.

Yin Yuan True Monarch’s external incarnation learned that his true body had been killed and urged Ghost Profound Child to recover the Soul Devouring Furnace’s refining method. Meanwhile, the Liu Family claimed a valuable Ghost Profound Sect herb garden, and Ye Jingcheng, Jiang Daorong, and Mystic Puppet True Monarch made their way through Demon Abyss Prefecture.

• Yin Yuan True Monarch’s external incarnation collapsed while taming Ghost Kings, and Ghost Profound Child drove away the onlookers and entered the cave.
• Yin Yuan True Monarch’s incarnation told Ghost Profound Child that his true body had been killed in the Mystic Ice World and ordered him to bring back his master and pursue the attackers.
• Ghost Profound Child set out to alert the sect and prevent the Soul Devouring Furnace’s refining method from being lost.
• Liu Yuansheng found the Ghost Profound Sect’s Golden Core Fruit Tree and herb garden unguarded, and he concluded that the Ye Family, Mystic Puppet Sect, and Jiang Family had forced the withdrawal.
• Ye Jingcheng, Jiang Daorong, and Mystic Puppet True Monarch emerged from concealment in Demon Abyss Prefecture, where Mystic Puppet True Monarch revealed he had prepared a temporary Teleportation Array.

Ga Ye True Monarch traced the attackers to a teleportation array, then ordered the Profound Heaven Demon Sect’s forces to assemble for war against the Righteous Path Sect. Hidden in an Ancient Gem Coffin, Ye Jingcheng and his companions learned they could escape through Jiang Daorong’s array in Azure Ox Prefecture, while Mystic Puppet True Monarch feared the situation elsewhere had turned grim.

• Ghost Profound True Monarch summoned ghosts to track the attackers, and Ga Ye True Monarch used a spirit treasure mirror to locate their temporary Teleportation Array.
• Ga Ye True Monarch found the array already activated and ordered Southern Barbarian State’s forces and Nascent Soul cultivators from neighboring states to assemble under the Profound Heaven Decree.
• Ga Ye True Monarch said destroying the Ye Family would earn their allies spirit treasures, Dragon Soul Grass, and other rewards, and claimed Azure Pass Divine Lord of the Ouyang Family had likely fallen.
• Ye Jingcheng, Earth Dragon Demon Emperor, and Mystic Puppet True Monarch revealed they had hidden in an Ancient Gem Coffin while a backup activated the array and escaped.
• Jiang Daorong said he had another Teleportation Array in Azure Ox Prefecture, and Mystic Puppet True Monarch worried that Xiao State Shepherd, Wang, and Xing Yuan True Monarch had failed to stop Ghost Profound True Monarch.

Prefecture Lord Liu’s forces withdrew after confronting Xuan Ming True Monarch and Ga Ye True Monarch, who ordered the Profound Sky Demon Sect to prepare for all-out war. Ye Jingcheng, Mystic Puppet True Monarch, and Jiang Daorong escaped to Southern Wilderness State, destroyed their teleportation array, and began dividing the treasures they had seized.

• Prefecture Lord Liu revealed Ga Ye True Monarch with a mirror and withdrew with her allies, while Ga Ye True Monarch ordered preparations for war against the Righteous Path Sect and named Southern Wilderness State and Southern Jade State as targets.
• Ye Jingcheng refused Jiang Daorong’s suggestion to raid Azure Ox Temple or Mystic Blood Sect, and the three traveled to a hidden teleportation array.
• Jiang Daorong guided Ye Jingcheng and Mystic Puppet True Monarch to Azure Moon Prefecture, then destroyed the array after they arrived safely.
• Ye Jingcheng divided the Cold Marrow and Cold Jade, keeping four Cold Marrow drops, giving Mystic Puppet True Monarch two and Jiang Daorong one, and reserving three for the Righteous Path Sect.
• Ye Jingcheng offered Yin Yuan True Monarch’s treasures to his companions, gave Jiang Daorong the black rings, and traded Mystic Puppet True Monarch’s bone spears for the severed Natal Spirit Root of his Fifth-Order Wood Demon.
• Mystic Puppet True Monarch and Jiang Daorong declined shares of the remaining Jade Slips, Spirit Stones, and spirit materials, leaving Ye Jingcheng to inspect them.

After collecting Yin Yuan True Monarch’s treasures, Ye Jingcheng discovered secret arts for cultivating an incarnation, refining Spirit Treasures, and concealing his life and fate. He then examined Ghost Sky True Monarch’s belongings and began planning how to nurture Yu Ling and advance his other spirits.

• Mystic Puppet True Monarch and Jiang Daorong left Ye Jingcheng to recover after receiving their share of the treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng read the San Yuan Immortal Cultivation Record and learned how an external incarnation could recultivate before being devoured to strengthen its original body and aid breakthroughs.
• Ye Jingcheng studied the Spirit Treasure Refinement Method and the Heavenly Ghost Spirit Hiding Art, which could make divination treat its user as dead.
• Ye Jingcheng collected Ghost Sky True Monarch’s magic treasures, Spirit Stones, herbs, and materials, including body-tempering herbs.
• Ye Jingcheng summoned the Peacock Stone Spirit and assigned it to guide Yu Ling, then urged Peach Wood to advance using the wood core he had obtained.

Ye Jingcheng learned that demon sects from three states had mobilized and hurried toward Xiao Mountain Prefecture as the Ye Family prepared for war. The chapter ended with a massive demon army arriving before Demon Subduing City.

• Mystic Puppet True Monarch and Jiang Daorong told Ye Jingcheng that more than twenty Nascent Soul Cultivators had been identified, and Jiang Daorong led the group toward his family's Teleportation Array at Moon King Mountain.
• Ye Jinghu oversaw the Ye Family's preparations at Demon Subduing City and ordered the clansmen to ready their Spirit Beasts.
• Ye Jingting brought Xiao Shaon to join the Ye Family as a guest elder and delivered talismans, including two pseudo-Fourth Order Destruction Heavenly Fire Spirit Talismans crafted by Xiao Shaon.
• A vanguard of demon forces, including the Ghost Profound Sect and Five Poisons Sect, appeared before Demon Subduing City with at least fifteen Nascent Soul Cultivators already revealed.