Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng reported the defeat of Yin Yuan True Monarch to the Righteous Path Sect and requested that Xing Yuan True Monarch refine the Taiyin Ancient Crow's wing into a flying magic treasure. As a Profound Heaven Demon Sect army arrived at Demon Subduing City, Xing Yuan True Monarch planned to use Ye Jingcheng's strength to kill enemy Nascent Soul cultivators.

• Mystic Puppet True Monarch recounted how Ye Jingcheng had helped kill Yin Yuan True Monarch, shocking Xing Yuan True Monarch, Prefecture Lord Liu, Wang Kewei, and Xiao Wankun.
• Ye Jingcheng credited Mystic Puppet True Monarch's strength and Yin Yuan True Monarch's unstable foundation, then asked Xing Yuan True Monarch to refine the Taiyin Ancient Crow's wing into a Fifth Order High Grade flying magic treasure.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch offered to refine treasures for Mystic Puppet True Monarch and Jiang Daorong as well, and said the Boundary Gate showed no sign of opening.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed the Profound Heaven Demon Sect's army approaching Demon Subduing City, and Xing Yuan True Monarch told him to stay back and target Nascent Soul Early Stage opponents.
• Ye Jingcheng agreed to let the others hold off the attackers first so he could conceal his strength and seek chances to kill enemy cultivators.

The Profound Heaven Demon Sect attacked Demon Subduing City with powerful corpse refinements and a vast insect swarm, while both sides’ Nascent Soul Cultivators argued over the killing of Gui Xiao and the Ghost Profound Sect. The chapter ended with Xing Yuan True Monarch challenging Ghost Profound True Monarch to demonstrate Gui Xiao’s alleged strength-boosting secret technique.

• The attackers sent spirit-patterned blood corpses against the city’s arrays, but Demon Subduing City’s Golden Sun Flame and Beacon Towers burned away the corpse blood and killed several demonic cultivators.
• Xuan Ming True Monarch ordered the Xiao Family to unleash Green Poison Corpse Kings, while Five Poisons True Monarch sent a massive Flying Armored Scorpion swarm toward the city.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch appeared on the wall with ten other Nascent Soul Cultivators as reinforcements continued arriving through the Teleportation Array.
• Kasyapa True Monarch accused the Righteous Path Sect of killing Ghost Profound Sect cultivators and demanded that Void Embrace True Monarch appear.
• Ghost Profound True Monarch claimed Gui Xiao could temporarily reach Nascent Soul Late Stage, and Xing Yuan True Monarch challenged him to demonstrate the technique.

The Righteous Path Sect faced the Ghost Profound Sect and its allies outside Demon Subduing City as powerful Nascent Soul cultivators split off to fight away from the city. Ghost Profound True Monarch returned to the battlefield and targeted Ye Jingcheng, claiming he had trapped Min Yue True Monarch.

• Ghost Profound True Monarch prepared to use the Thousand Ghosts Qi Seeking secret art, but Xing Yuan True Monarch's Star Scatter Divine Power forced Kasyapa True Monarch to intervene.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch and Kasyapa True Monarch flew away from Demon Subduing City to fight, while Xuan Ming True Monarch and Prefecture Lord Liu also left to battle elsewhere.
• Mystic Puppet True Monarch sent True Monarch Liu Yuan to face the old devil of the Xiao Family, who unleashed a fifth-rank Corpse Emperor before they moved their battle away from the city.
• Wang Kewei assigned Ye Jingcheng and the remaining Nascent Soul cultivators to hold off nine Nascent Soul Early Stage opponents.
• Ghost Profound True Monarch returned alone, revealed that he had trapped Min Yue True Monarch, and focused his attention on Ye Jingcheng.

Ye Jingcheng revealed that he had been pretending to be helpless and killed Ghost Profound True Monarch inside the Chessboard Pearl with his treasures and Demon Emperors. After returning to the battle above Demon Subduing City, he killed two more Nascent Soul Early Stage demonic cultivators while the Ye Family fought to hold its section of the city wall.

• Ghost Profound True Monarch trapped Ye Jingcheng in a ghost domain and tried to extract his divine soul, but Ye Jingcheng escaped and revealed his hidden strength.
• Ye Jingcheng trapped Ghost Profound True Monarch inside the Chessboard Pearl and attacked him with chess puppets, Demon Emperors, Buddhist treasures, and the Yuan Magnetic Mountain Spirit.
• The Jade Scale Flood Dragon destroyed Ghost Profound True Monarch's body, and the Scarlet Flame Fox burned away his Nascent Soul before Ye Jingcheng collected his treasures.
• Ye Jinghu brought out his Spirit Beasts and the White Eyebrow Azure Wolf and Golden Falcon to defend the Ye Family's city wall from Green Poison Corpse Kings and demonic cultivators.
• Ye Jingcheng killed the Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator who had fought him, then used the Thousand Moon Soul Needle and Jade Scale Flood Dragon to kill another cultivator who exposed his disguise.

Ye Jingcheng killed Ghost Profound True Monarch and two other Nascent Souls, turning the battle for Demon Subduing City in the Righteous Path Sect’s favor. After Kasyapa True Monarch and He Yu True Monarch failed to kill him and escaped with True Monarch Miao Chong, the surviving cultivators regrouped and Ye Jingcheng confirmed that the Ye Family’s core members had survived.

• Ye Jingcheng killed Ghost Profound True Monarch and two more Nascent Soul cultivators, prompting the remaining demon cultivators to flee or scatter.
• Min Yue True Monarch trapped True Monarch Miao Chong with the Moon Thunder Pearl and exposed his escape technique, while Ye Jingcheng moved in to surround him with the Jade Scale Flood Dragon and Crimson Flame Fox.
• Kasyapa True Monarch and He Yu True Monarch ambushed Ye Jingcheng with divine powers, but the Jade Scale Flood Dragon and Crimson Flame Fox took blows before Xing Yuan True Monarch intervened and stopped the attack.
• Kasyapa True Monarch and He Yu True Monarch shattered Min Yue True Monarch’s Moon Thunder Pearl, seized True Monarch Miao Chong, and escaped; Xing Yuan True Monarch gave Ye Jingcheng a Five Revolutions Golden Essence Pill to heal.
• Min Yue True Monarch and Flowing Cloud True Monarch learned that Ye Jingcheng had slain Ghost Profound True Monarch, and Xing Yuan True Monarch ordered the survivors to recover after the demon cultivators retreated.
• Ye Jingcheng checked on the Ye Family and found that Ye Jinghu, Ye Jingting, and the other core family members were still alive.

After Demon Subduing City survived the attack, Ye Jingcheng tended to his family, arranged for reinforcements, and cultivated while the demon cultivators stayed quiet. He searched the storage bags of three fallen Nascent Soul enemies, finding materials for his Natal Magic Treasure and the Thousand Ghosts Qi Seeking secret art.

• Xing Yuan True Monarch welcomed Bai Yuan True Monarch and State Shepherd Lu, discussed the wounded and fallen, and assigned Merit Points for the Nascent Soul enemies killed.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to the Ye Family’s damaged section of the city wall, distributed medicinal pills, and ordered Ye Jinghu to bring Ye Jingzhong and the Two-Headed Turtle to reinforce the family.
• Ye Jingcheng cultivated for two days to absorb the remaining effects of the Five Revolutions Golden Essence Pill, gaining a small amount of cultivation.
• Ye Jingcheng searched the three Nascent Soul demon cultivators’ storage bags and found a fifth-order Black Tortoise shell, a top-grade earth-attributed Spirit Stone, and several ghost magic treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng found the Thousand Ghosts Qi Seeking secret art among Ghost Profound True Monarch’s jade slips and considered using it for the Ye Family.

After inventorying Ghost Profound True Monarch’s inheritance, Ye Jingcheng reviewed the Ye Family’s progress and began planning an assault on Beast Spirit Sect before the Eastern Region’s calm ended. With roughly six or seven years to prepare, he returned to refining pills for the coming conflict and his Spirit Beasts’ advancement.

• Ye Jingcheng discovered ghost-raising methods and cultivation techniques in Ghost Profound True Monarch’s storage, including the Sunflower Essence Nine Profound True Codex, and resolved to verify the techniques before the Ye Family used them.
• Ye Jingzhong reported the family’s developments and demonstrated mutated Spirit Extinguishing Locusts and Soul Devouring Insects whose battle formation could shake Ye Jingcheng’s divine soul.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that the Ye Family had investigated Beast Spirit Sect and estimated it had five or six Nascent Soul-level combatants, while Ye Jingyu predicted trouble near Medicine King Valley in about eight years.
• Ye Jingcheng concluded that the family had roughly six or seven years to prepare and began planning a major disturbance in the Central Region and an eventual campaign against Beast Spirit Sect.
• Ye Jingcheng returned from Jia Yuan Prefecture and began refining pills for Ye Family cultivators and Spirit Beasts, using demon cores gathered by Ye Xuecang.

The Hong Family’s hidden High-Grade Spirit Stone Mine drew an attack by demonic cultivators seeking to sacrifice the family and open the Boundary Gate. Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family repelled the ambush, secured the mine, and prepared to return to the Eastern Region after making their presence known in Xiao Mountain Prefecture.

• Two disguised heretical cultivators attacked Flowing Rainbow Mountain, and Patriarch Hong Qi exposed their ruse and ordered the Hong Family to resist.
• The attackers summoned demonic corpses and reinforcements, broke the Mountain Protection Array, and revealed their goal of seizing the Hong Family’s High-Grade Spirit Stone Mine.
• Thunder Tiger Real Person and Ye Family cultivators arrived, but Old Demon Xiao and another Nascent Soul Cultivator sprang an ambush against Ye Jinghu.
• Ye Jingcheng arrived with the Crimson Flame Fox, forced the Nascent Soul attackers to flee, and helped Ye Jinghu kill three Purple Mansion enemies; Ye Jingxin joined them.
• Hong Qi agreed to give up forty percent of the mine, which the Ye Family and Celestial Pivot Prefecture divided between them, and Ye Jingcheng said he would head for Xiao Mountain Prefecture before returning to the Eastern Region.

Xiao Yuankong reported that his attempt to kill True Monarch Qianchen had failed, and Kasyapa True Monarch turned the Profound Sky Demon Sect’s attention toward the coming Boundary Gate conflict. Meanwhile, Ye Jinghu and Ye Yunxi captured Blood Demon Forest for the Ye Family, while Ye Jingcheng waited to ambush the Nascent Soul reinforcements.

• Xiao Yuankong told Kasyapa True Monarch and the other Nascent Soul cultivators that True Monarch Qianchen had defeated his attack and wielded the refined Ancient Black Crow Wings.
• Kasyapa True Monarch said the sect had lost its chance to invade and ordered the cultivators to gather supplies for the coming expedition into the Heavenly Insect Realm.
• Ye Haiyan helped Ye Jinghu and Ye Yunxi infiltrate Blood Demon Forest by posing as a Ghost Profound Sect sentry and revealing the formation’s weak point.
• Ye Jinghu and Ye Yunxi broke the formation, killed the Ghost Profound Sect defenders, and slew the three Blood God Wood demon kings.
• Ye Jinghu and Ye Yunxi began harvesting Blood God Wood while Ye Jingcheng waited near a Teleportation Array to ambush the first Nascent Soul reinforcements.

Ye Jingcheng lured Ghost Profound Sect’s reinforcements into a trap at Blood Demon Forest and killed Old Demon Chu and his companions. He then left for the Eastern Region to prepare to destroy Beast Spirit Sect, having shown the Righteous Path Sect that Ye Family was still taking action.

• A Ghost Profound Sect guard reported that Blood Demon Forest’s soul slips had shattered, and Yin Yuan True Monarch, disguised as Ghost Sky True Monarch, ordered Chu Family to investigate while blaming Ye Family.
• Old Demon Chu led Chu Family cultivators through the secret Teleportation Array and used the Blood Essence Mirror to confirm that Ye Jinghu and Ye Yunxi were at the ruined forest.
• Ye Jingcheng ambushed the Chu Family group with an ice palace and destroyed their route of escape, while several cultivators fled using spirit talismans.
• Ye Jingcheng and his demon companions trapped the remaining cultivators on a chessboard; the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor immobilized Old Demon Chu, and Ye Jingcheng killed his escaping Nascent Soul with the Violet Zenith Sword.
• Ye Jingcheng collected the treasures and left for the Eastern Region to prepare to destroy Beast Spirit Sect.

Ye Jingcheng met with Xing Yuan True Monarch after killing several demons and requested permission to cultivate in seclusion. With the Righteous Path Sect agreeing to support his family, he prepared to leave Ye Jinghu and Ye Yunxi in charge while he pursued his plans.

• Kasyapa True Monarch found traces of two flood dragons and left Xuan Ming True Monarch to guard Exterminate Righteousness Pass while he went to the Eastern Region for help from the Sky Jiaolong Sea.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch praised Ye Jingcheng’s victories, received his list of slain enemies, and approved his request for closed-door cultivation.
• Ye Jingcheng told Xing Yuan True Monarch he planned to use cold marrow to attempt a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and received a Xing Yuan Jade for contacting him.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Jinghu and Ye Yunxi their captured gains to return to the family, instructed them to avoid rash action, and left them spirit treasures and Demon Kings for protection.

Ye Xuecang and Ye Xueliang searched the Star Sea for the Star Divine Lord’s inheritance while gathering intelligence and preparing the Ye Family’s attack on the Beast Spirit Sect. At Sky Phoenix Oasis, Ye Haicheng and Ye Xuefan offered three Demon Kings a chance to compete for a breakthrough to fifth-order divine sense, then gathered them into a Spirit Beast Bag.

• Ye Xuecang asked Xia Yun’an about the Star Divine Lord’s legacy, while Xia warned that powerful sects were also searching for it.
• After Xia Yun’an left, Ye Xuecang and Ye Xueliang discussed how finding the inheritance might require locating a flaw in a Sixth Order Formation and suggested having Zhi Jian search for it.
• Ye Xuecang urged the Ye Family to gather more Monster Beasts for its plan to destroy the Beast Spirit Sect, and he and Ye Xueliang lamented that the Sea Suppressing Demon Emperor had fled with its spirit fruit tree.
• Ye Haicheng told the Black Crow Demon King, the Three-Eyed Demon King, and the Rhino Deer Demon King that their performance would determine who received the chance to gain fifth-order divine sense.
• The three Demon Kings pledged to do their best, and Ye Xuefan placed them in a Spirit Beast Bag.

Ye Qing Feng cultivated with the Great Crowned Crimson Phoenix and gathered rare spirit herbs before returning to join the Ye Family’s operation against the Beast Spirit Sect. The family prepared to travel to Yan Country and wait for Medicine King Valley to draw away attention, with evacuation plans in place if Bai Yao True Monarch’s breakthrough failed.

• The Great Crowned Crimson Phoenix gave Ye Qing Feng several Emperor Molten Dew drops, and Ye Qing Feng said she would return to help her family fight.
• The Great Crowned Crimson Phoenix followed Ye Qing Feng toward the Sea of Sand, but a cultivator stopped it and warned it against helping the human race.
• Ye Qing Feng returned to Sky Phoenix Oasis and gave Ye Jingcheng Cloud Pine He Shou Wu for the Golden Scale Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng warned Ye Qing Feng to listen during the operation, and she demonstrated her growing strength with a flare of spirit fire.
• Ye Haicheng arranged teleportation routes and handed Ye Jingcheng the Jade Within Sky as the family prepared to wait in Yan Country for the chance to attack the Beast Spirit Sect.

Medicine King Valley and Penglai prepared for a major upheaval while Divine Lord Tiande schemed against the Ye Family and tried to divine its origins. The chapter left him unable to resolve the uncertainty surrounding the family.

• Hundred Refinements True Monarch and Qingchen True Monarch coordinated Medicine King Valley’s preparations, including summoning allies and arranging Teleportation Arrays to Golden Light Temple.
• Qingchen True Monarch confirmed that cultivators across several countries were ready to respond if suspicious figures appeared in Zhao Country.
• Divine Lord Tiande ordered Demon Lord Hengdao to provoke Sky Jiaolong Sea against the Ye Family by revealing details about its jiaolongs and borrowed seed.
• Divine Lord Tiande called for a new purge of small sects and sent Demon Lord Hengdao to prepare it.
• Divine Lord Tiande attempted to divine the Ye Family’s background but remained baffled by the uncertainty and the lack of news from Senior Brother Nine Infants.

Ye Jingcheng prepared the Ye Family’s evacuation and coordinated a planned attack on the Beast Spirit Sect, relying on Ye Jingyu to divine the best time to strike. The clan waited for his prediction before setting out.

• Ye Jingyu’s Azure Jade Serpent reached the middle fourth rank and presented him with three Mystic Abyss Heavy Water ice pearls.
• Ye Jingyun reported that the Ye Family had gathered its core cultivators and secured its resources, and Ye Jingcheng approved evacuating five hundred Heavenly Saber Sect descendants under strict screening.
• Ye Jingcheng ordered loyal subordinate forces to be assessed and confirmed that the Netherworld Demon Emperor had lent the Ye Family the Heavenly Mystery Cloth, while Ye Jingfeng had obtained the Blood Demon Saber.
• Ye Jingcheng assigned Ye Jingfeng, Uncle Ancestor Xueliang, Ye Jingyun, and Uncle Xingqun to remain behind while the others prepared to destroy the Beast Spirit Sect.
• Ye Jingcheng gave the clansmen Blood Cleansing Pills and asked Ye Jingyu to divine when the Ye Family should launch its attack based on turmoil within Medicine King Valley.

Saint Cloud True Monarch and the allied sects prepared to attack Medicine King Valley and disrupt Bai Yao True Monarch’s breakthrough, while the breakthrough’s omens gathered over Zhao Country. As Medicine King Valley’s defenses reached full strength, a vast enemy fleet carrying nearly twenty Nascent Soul Cultivators approached, and Ye Jingcheng was still on his way.

• Saint Cloud True Monarch ordered the allied Nascent Soul Cultivators to march on Medicine King Valley, while Qinghe True Monarch proposed attacking the Ye Family’s home and exploiting the beast tide threat.
• Saint Cloud True Monarch assigned the Ocean Control Sect and Grand Sun Taoist Temple to guard the sea and approved a plan to pressure Medicine King Valley from several directions.
• After another fifteen days, auspicious clouds and a vast Spiritual Qi Tide gathered around Divine Medicine Mountain as Bai Yao True Monarch’s breakthrough approached.
• Over a thousand furnaces rose from Divine Medicine Mountain, true essence surged toward it, and Hundred Refinements True Monarch began driving the formations at full power.
• Luan Fu True Monarch and Blood Cloud True Monarch asked after Ye Jingcheng, and Hundred Refinements True Monarch assured them that he was coming.
• Hundred Refinements True Monarch spotted a massive fleet of Spirit Boats approaching Medicine King Valley, carrying nearly twenty Nascent Soul Cultivators.

Ye Jingcheng disguised himself as Wuxin True Monarch to infiltrate the Beast Spirit Sect, then attacked the real Wuxin and destroyed his body and Nascent Soul. He discovered that Celestial Poison True Monarch was apparently absent, while Yuan Hu True Monarch and the Mystic Bone Tiger Demon Emperor remained nearby.

• Wuxin True Monarch and two Beast Spirit Sect cultivators approached Five Colors Mountain aboard a concealed spirit boat and claimed they needed to reach the Teleportation Array.
• A Golden Core cultivator began opening the mountain formation, but the real Wuxin appeared inside it and sealed it shut.
• Ye Jingcheng revealed himself as the Wuxin outside the formation, covered Five Colors Mountain with the Heavenly Mystery Cloth, and broke through the formation.
• Ye Jingcheng and his allies overwhelmed Wuxin True Monarch, destroyed his body, and pierced his fleeing Nascent Soul with a spirit sword.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed that Celestial Poison True Monarch was absent and detected Yuan Hu True Monarch and the Mystic Bone Tiger Demon Emperor nearby.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family overwhelmed Beast Spirit Sect, destroying its Teleportation Arrays and battling its Nascent Soul experts. The fighting took a dangerous turn when a missed temporary array brought a Nascent Soul cultivator from Penglai to Lion Mountain, where the Ye Family’s Corpse Emperor and Shark Demon Emperor Yuan were already struggling.

• Ye Jingyu used his ancient coin to locate four Teleportation Arrays, and Ye Jingcheng led the Ye Family in destroying the three on Five Colors Mountain.
• The Jade Scale Flood Dragon attacked the Lion Qilin Beast Demon Emperor, while the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor fought Yuan Hu True Monarch and the Crimson Flame Fox faced the Profound Bone Tiger.
• Ye Jingyu and Ye Xuecang headed to Lion Mountain as Ye Family cultivators and Spirit Beasts overwhelmed Beast Spirit Sect’s forces.
• Ye Jingcheng turned toward Yuan Hu True Monarch after the three arrays were destroyed, intending to eliminate Beast Spirit Sect’s last Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Ye Jingyu warned Ye Jingcheng that a fifth, temporary Teleportation Array set up by Penglai had brought a Nascent Soul cultivator to Lion Mountain, where the Corpse Emperor and Shark Demon Emperor Yuan were losing.

Qinghe True Monarch and Celestial Poison True Monarch attacked Lingyun Peak, hoping to seize the Ye Family’s treasures and jiaos, but found the mountain abandoned. Celestial Poison True Monarch realized the Ye Family might be attacking his Beast Spirit Sect, and Qinghe True Monarch agreed to help in exchange for seventy percent of the spoils.

• Qinghe True Monarch and Celestial Poison True Monarch agreed to divide the Ye Family’s inheritance and target its jiaos.
• Qinghe True Monarch shattered Lingyun Peak’s formation, revealing spirit puppets and signs that the Ye Family had teleported away.
• Qinghe True Monarch proposed killing Ye Family members and destroying Lingyun Peak’s spirit vein to prevent the family from relocating freely.
• Celestial Poison True Monarch discovered that the jade talisman linking him to the Beast Spirit Sect had gone wrong and suspected the Ye Family was attacking his sect.
• Celestial Poison True Monarch offered Qinghe True Monarch seventy percent of the Beast Spirit Sect’s spoils, and Qinghe agreed to help.

The Ye Family overwhelmed the Beast Spirit Sect at Five Colors Mountain, while Ye Jingcheng flew to Lion Mountain to confront a newly revealed Penglai Sect Devil Lord. Thousand Mirrors True Monarch used his Water King Mirror to create multiple copies of Ye Jingcheng, leaving the fight at a dangerous disadvantage for the Ye Family.

• Ye Xuecang killed fleeing Beast Spirit Sect cultivators as Ye Xuefan neared completion of the formation and Soul Devouring Insects closed in.
• Ye Jingcheng left Five Colors Mountain after learning that the Corpse Emperor and Shark Demon Emperor Yuan were losing their fight against a Penglai Sect Nascent Soul cultivator.
• At Lion Mountain, Ye Jingcheng found Thousand Mirrors True Monarch using mirrored spirit phantoms to attack Shark Demon Emperor Yuan and the Corpse Emperor.
• Thousand Mirrors True Monarch created a spirit phantom of Ye Jingcheng, then used three more mirrors to produce three additional copies that attacked him.