Chapter Summaries

Ye Qing Feng underwent soul infusion in the Beast Communication Tower, gaining memories of a burning Spirit Realm scene and greatly strengthening her soul and Crimson Phoenix Fire Seed. As Ye Jingyu and Ye Xuefan began their own infusions, Ye Haicheng and Ye Xuefan considered what the memories meant and continued planning for the Ye Family’s future breakthroughs.

• Ye Qing Feng endured the Beast Communication Tower’s trial and saw a scorched hall, spatial rifts, unburned bones, and mysterious eyes in a vision she believed came from the Spirit Realm.
• Ye Qing Feng’s divine soul advanced to the middle Fourth Order, her Black Crow gained power, and her Crimson Phoenix Fire Seed transformed into a phoenix silhouette with flames several times stronger.
• A Black Crow Demon King underwent a powerful breakthrough in Black Crow Valley, then entered seclusion as Ye Qing Feng returned to her cave abode to consolidate her cultivation.
• Ye Haicheng and Ye Xuefan discussed the possibility that the vision showed the Ye Family’s final scene and considered whether the other Saint Spirits could pass on inheritances.
• Ye Jingyu and then Ye Xuefan entered the Beast Communication Tower for soul infusion, while Ye Haicheng noted the need for more Beast Souls and hoped the Rhino Deer Demon King could reach Golden Core Peak.
• Ye Haicheng told the indignant Great Azure Turtle that the family was searching for Spirit Herbs and pills, then had it place the Beast Communication Tower in Ye God Valley.

The Ye Family expanded its Spirit Beast breeding efforts while Ye Jingcheng spent two years preparing to refine Nascent Soul Pills. He successfully produced two pills, leaving the family with a supply that would still be hard-pressed to meet its cultivators’ needs.

• Ye Yunyu oversaw the Evergreen Whisker Carp at Sky Phoenix Oasis and told young clansmen to work harder as the Ye Family bred Spirit Beasts across its territories.
• Ye Jingcheng spent two years in Stone Spirit Cave Heaven studying pill arts and preparing to refine a Nascent Soul Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Six-Part Pill Refining Method and successfully formed two Nascent Soul Pills, one of them flawed.
• Ye Jingcheng stored both pills for the Ye Family and fed a Fifth Order Spirit Pill to the Crimson Flame Fox.
• The Golden Falcon, Roc Fish, and White Eyebrow Azure Wolf watched eagerly as the Golden Falcon worried that the others would surpass it.

Ye Jingcheng expanded his grotto-heaven and spent three years refining Nascent Soul Pills and three Advancement Pills. After giving the Jade Scale Flood Dragon its Advancement Pill, he prepared to return to the Sea of Sand to deliver Nascent Soul Pills and help the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor advance.

• Ye Jingcheng surveyed his enlarged grotto-heaven, reviewed his alchemy experience for six days, and began refining Nascent Soul Pills.
• Over the next three years, Ye Jingcheng refined two Nascent Soul Pills and completed all three Advancement Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng gave the Jade Scale Flood Dragon Fifth Order water-attribute pills, beast meat, and its Jade Scale Advancement Pill, then told it to refine the effects before attempting its breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng promised the Crimson Flame Fox its Advancement Pill once he obtained the necessary blood essence.
• Ye Jingcheng distributed Treasure Light to the Spirit Beasts, Wood Demons, and Spirit Herbs, then set out for the Sea of Sand to deliver Nascent Soul Pills and help the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor advance.

Ye Jingcheng secretly left seclusion, learned about the Ye Family’s losses in the war, and returned to the Sea of Sand. He revealed that he had refined four Nascent Soul Pills and set two aside for future clan breakthroughs before heading to Dragon Valley.

• Ye Jingcheng secretly met Ye Tengqiu on Ye Spirit Mountain and learned that demonic cultivators had plundered resources and killed Ye Family members in Xiao Mountain and Wang Qing Prefectures.
• Ye Jingcheng traveled to the Sea of Sand in disguise, where Ye Haicheng recognized him in the Council Hall.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Haicheng and Ye Xueliang that his two batches of alchemy had produced four Nascent Soul Pills, including two batches that yielded two pills each.
• Ye Jingcheng entrusted two pills to Ye Haicheng for future breakthroughs by Chu Yanqing and Ye Xuecang, then went to Dragon Valley to see the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor.

Ye Jingcheng secured the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor’s loyalty before giving it pills, then prepared for secluded cultivation in the Sea of Sand. Ten years later, two striking manifestations appeared over Sky Shadow Peak as Ye Qing Nian and Ye Yun Xuan advanced, while Ye Xuecang and Chu Yanqing arrived at Golden Core Peak.

• Ye Jingcheng gave the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor an Advancement Pill after it swore a Heavenly Dao Oath to defend the Ye Family, then supplied it with Yuan Extreme Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng left an Advancement Pill for the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly with the elder guarding Illusion Valley and moved the Six-Colored Cloud Deer and Golden Scale Beast to the Sea of Sand.
• Ye Jingcheng prepared Spirit Gathering Arrays on Sky Shadow Peak and began secluded cultivation with Body Forging Golden Milk and a Vine Origin Star Tempering Fruit.
• Ten years later, manifestations of a Three-Colored Spirit Flower and countless talisman shadows appeared over Sky Shadow Peak as Ye Qing Nian and Ye Yun Xuan broke through.
• Ye Haicheng, Ye Xueliang, Ye Xuefan, and the other cultivators watched the manifestations, while Ye Xuecang and Chu Yanqing arrived at Golden Core Peak.

Ye Qing Nian and Ye Yunxuan broke through to the Golden Core realm and passed their lightning and Heart Demon tribulations. As the Ye Family celebrated, the Golden Scale Beast began its breakthrough to Demon Emperor and emerged searching for Jade Qilin.

• Ye Qing Nian and Ye Yunxuan formed Golden Cores, flew to their assigned tribulation sites, and passed their tribulations with the Ye Family’s formations and treasures.
• Ye Haicheng and the clan elders congratulated the two, and Ye Qing Nian promised Wan Yulian he would earn enough Contribution Points to exchange for a Gold Core Pill for her.
• Ye Haicheng told Ye Qing Nian and Ye Yunxuan to consolidate their cultivation and prepare Dao Names before their Golden Core Ceremony in five years.
• A powerful Nascent Soul aura and gathering thunderclouds alerted the clan that a Demon King was breaking through to Demon Emperor.
• The Ye Family identified the Golden Scale Beast as the one undergoing tribulation, and it emerged in a hundred-zhang form asking where Jade Qilin was.

The Golden Scale Beast survived its Nascent Soul tribulation and hurried off to guard Ye Jingcheng in seclusion. Over the next year, four Ye Family members formed Golden Cores, but troubling news arrived from the Central Region.

• The Golden Scale Beast underwent a fierce lightning tribulation, broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, and received spirit pills Ye Jingcheng had left for it.
• After learning that Ye Jingcheng, the Jade Scale Flood Dragon, the Crimson Flame Fox, and the Six-Colored Cloud Deer were in seclusion or approaching a breakthrough, the Golden Scale Beast rushed to guard Ye Jingcheng.
• Over the following year, Ye Xingliu, Ye Qingyan, Ye Haiyu, and Ye Hai Fei formed Golden Cores, with Ye Haiyu nearly failing before the family’s treasures helped her succeed.
• As the Ye Family celebrated gaining four Golden Core cultivators, unpleasant news arrived from the Central Region.

After fleeing the fall of Demon Subduing City, the Jade Union Sect survivors were ambushed on the way to Celestial Pivot Prefecture. Ye Jinghu rescued them, but the Black Skull Sect’s formation began to appear around him, suggesting the ambush had targeted him all along.

• Qin Xin Real Person, Elder Gu, and Zi Lan led the Jade Union Sect survivors toward Celestial Pivot Prefecture after Demon Subduing City fell, and Qin Xin urged Zi Lan to marry into the Ye Family.
• Elder Gu detected strange spiritual energy in the canal, but the Black Skull Sect trapped their spirit boat in a water-prison formation and outnumbered them.
• Qin Xin Real Person, Elder Gu, and Zi Lan fought to protect the survivors, but Black Skull Real Person knocked away Elder Gu’s sword and their chances of escape dwindled.
• Ye Jinghu arrived and shattered the formation with a Thunder Spear, then killed Black Skull Real Person as the Black Skull Sect cultivators tried to flee.
• Ye Jinghu realized that the ambush might have targeted him, but stood by his decision to come, even as formation auras began appearing around him.

Ye Jinghu was trapped by two Nascent Soul Demon Lords while protecting Zi Lan, but Prefecture Lord Liu, Ye Jingyu, and other allies arrived and drove the demons away. Ye Jingyu reprimanded Ye Jinghu and ordered him to return to the mountain for fifty years of punishment and talisman-making.

• Ye Jinghu fled with Zi Lan as Crimson Blood Demon Lord trapped them in the Demonic Banner World and demanded the Ye Family’s secrets.
• Ye Jinghu prepared to detonate his Golden Core rather than let Penglai seize the family’s secrets.
• Prefecture Lord Liu, Ye Jingyu, Wang Kewei, Void Embrace True Monarch, and other Nascent Soul Cultivators appeared and shattered the demonic banners.
• Crimson Blood True Monarch and Saint Cloud Demon Lord retreated after learning that Purple Sun Immortal Sect reinforcements had arrived elsewhere, but first unleashed poisonous liquid toward Ye Jinghu and the Jade Union Sect members.
• Ye Jingyu scolded Ye Jinghu for acting alone and ordered him to remain on the mountain for fifty years, refining fifty fourth-rank and three thousand third-rank Spirit Talismans.

After Xiao Mountain Prefecture fell, Ye Jingyu and the others arrived in Celestial Pivot Prefecture as the Central Region’s forces gathered. In Xing Yuan Palace, Xing Yuan True Monarch warned that the Profound Sky Demon Sect would soon open the Boundary Gate, leaving the gathered Nascent Souls preparing for another clash.

• Ye Jingyu and the Ye Family and Jade Union Sect cultivators arrived at the city in Celestial Pivot Prefecture, where they saw Purple Sun Immortal Sect cultivators and signs of the Central Region’s alliance.
• Ye Jingyu told Ye Yunxi that Ye Jinghu would return to Ye Spirit Mountain to reflect, while Ye Qing Nian and Ye Yunxuan would come to Penglai under her guidance.
• Ye Yunxi returned Ye Jinghu’s Spirit Beast Bags and storage bag, reassured him that she would protect the family and look after Zi Lan and the Jade Union Sect, and Ye Jinghu accepted his punishment.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch introduced Ye Jingyu to the Nascent Souls as Qianyu Real Person and credited his warnings with helping them stay vigilant.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch said the Profound Sky Demon Sect would soon open the Boundary Gate and urged the Nascent Souls to kill Profound Sky Nascent Souls if possible.
• A Nascent Soul asked whether True Monarch Qianchen had emerged from seclusion, as the others hoped to repeat his past great victory.

Nascent Soul Cultivators debated how to respond to the escalating conflict but reached no agreement, while Ye Jingyu offered the Ye Family’s support if needed. Ye Qing Nian arrived at Ye Spirit Mountain with a group of cultivators to gain experience, where Penglai might become their opponent.

• The Nascent Soul Cultivators dispersed without deciding whether to attack Exterminate Righteousness Pass, seize the Ancient Origin Secret Realm, or target Red Blood and Sheng Yun.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch asked Ye Jingyu whether Ye Jingcheng had emerged from seclusion, and Ye Jingyu said there was still no news.
• Ye Jingyu thanked the seniors and offered one Nascent Soul combatant from the Ye Family, with the Crimson Flame Fox prepared for deployment if needed.
• Void Embrace True Monarch proposed charging through the Boundary Gate, but Xing Yuan True Monarch said the affiliated forces were not yet ready to agree.
• Ye Yunxuan, Ye Qing Nian, and Ye Xingliu arrived at Ye Spirit Mountain, where Ye Xingliu warned Ye Qing Nian to avoid risks and conceal his relationship with his father.

Ye Jingcheng broke through to Nascent Soul Middle Stage after nineteen years of seclusion, while the Jade Scale Flood Dragon began its own advancement. He promised the Golden Scale Beast its advancement pill once it proved itself against a Nascent Soul opponent of the same rank.

• Peach Wood praised Stone Spirit’s cultivation before both noticed Ye Jingcheng’s breakthrough aura spreading through the Cave Heaven.
• The Jade Scale Flood Dragon began breaking through, and Peach Wood ordered the spirit beasts to prepare the Spirit Gathering Array.
• Ye Jingcheng awakened at Nascent Soul Middle Stage, with his divine sense at Nascent Soul Late Stage and his body at Golden Core Peak.
• Peach Wood and the Cave Heaven’s spirits congratulated Ye Jingcheng, while the Golden Scale Beast repeatedly congratulated him with visible grievance.
• Ye Jingcheng told the Golden Scale Beast he would give it its refined advancement pill after it defeated a Nascent Soul cultivator of the same rank, and it eagerly searched for an opponent before shying away from the advancing Jade Scale Flood Dragon.

Ye Jingcheng witnessed the Jade Scale Flood Dragon advance into a powerful Jade Scale Dragon and tested its formidable Frost Dragon Qi. He then tended to his other spirit beasts and herbs before turning to cultivate a spirit jade that might become Yu Ling.

• The Jade Scale Flood Dragon broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, gained dragon horns and five-toed claws, and Ye Jingcheng renamed it the Jade Scale Dragon.
• The Jade Scale Dragon demonstrated its precise Profound Cold Storm and devastating Frost Dragon Qi, which Ye Jingcheng planned to shape into dragon shadows for combat.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the Jade Scale Dragon Treasure Light and monster carcasses, then nourished his other spirit beasts and assessed their growth.
• Ye Jingcheng inspected the Nine Twists Spirit Ginseng Transformation Spirit Herb and the fifth-order Vine Origin Star Tempering Fruit tree, expecting the fruit to help him become a Nascent Soul Body Cultivator.
• Ye Jingcheng went to the Ten Thousand Year Cold Marrow Jade mine to cultivate the spirit jade that might transform into Yu Ling and provide the Ye Family with a lasting source of Cold Marrow.

Ye Jingcheng discovered that Cold Jade Yu Ling needed the Jade Scale Dragon’s cold air to awaken and arranged for it to provide a breath every ten days. He then checked the Yuan Magnetic Mountain Spirit and the Sea of Sand, where he saw Ye Xuefu forming a Golden Core.

• Ye Jingcheng found that Treasure Light and a Soul Contract had not awakened Cold Jade Yu Ling, but the Jade Scale Dragon’s cold air revealed faint spiritual patterns in the jade.
• Ye Jingcheng ordered the Jade Scale Dragon to breathe cold air over Cold Jade once every ten days in exchange for a Monster Beast corpse.
• Ye Jingcheng inspected the Thunder Rhino Beetles and saw that many had reached the third order.
• Ye Jingcheng visited the Yuan Magnetic Mountain Spirit, whose cultivation and control of Yuan Magnetic Divine Light had greatly improved.
• Ye Jingcheng surveyed the Sea of Sand with his divine sense and recognized Ye Xuefu forming a Golden Core beside Earth Shadow Peak.

Ye Xuefu survived his lightning tribulation and became a Golden Core True Person, prompting the Ye Family to plan ways to help more clansmen cross tribulations. Ye Jingcheng learned of the family's losses and pressing troubles, including the Boundary Gate, scarce breakthrough resources, and the Star Sect's infiltration of the Star Sea; the family had also found the Sea Suppressing Demon Emperor's hiding place.

• Ye Xuefu endured the lightning tribulation with the help of his artifacts and Golden Lizard, then broke through to the Golden Core realm.
• Ye Xuefu proposed reserving powerful Great Demons as tribulation-crossing Spirit Beasts, and Ye Xueliang and Ye Jingcheng supported establishing a family application system for eligible Purple Mansion cultivators.
• Ye Xueliang told Ye Jingcheng that Ye Xuecang and Chu Yanqing were attempting Nascent Soul breakthroughs, while the Roc Fish, Golden Falcon, and White Eyebrow Azure Wolf had entered seclusion to break through to the fifth rank.
• Ye Xueliang reported that the Boundary Gate had appeared in the Central Region and that Qing Nian had gone there to gain experience; Ye Jingcheng also learned that nearly two hundred Ye Family members had died.
• Ye Xueliang said Black Crow was attempting a breakthrough, while Three-Eye had to wait for more Wood Demon Demon King corpses.
• Ye Xueliang told Ye Jingcheng that the Star Sect had infiltrated the family's Star Sea investment and that the family had located the Sea Suppressing Demon Emperor.

Ye Zhijian hunted sea crocodiles in Yin Shark Sea while searching for the Star Divine Lord’s Inheritance Cave, then sensed three people watching him and called for help. Ye Jingcheng arrived, recognized the Xingchen Sect elders, and invited them to talk on a nearby island, leaving the outcome of their meeting undecided.

• Ye Zhijian used Origin Sharks to kill sea crocodiles and searched the surrounding waters for the Star Divine Lord’s Inheritance Cave.
• Ye Zhijian sensed several strands of divine sense, dived underwater, and crushed a jade slip to summon support.
• Sun Saint and two other Xingchen Sect elders discussed their suspicions that a powerful force controlled the Yuan Shark Clan and had killed Old Cold Jiaolong.
• Ye Jingcheng appeared before the three elders, who mistook him for a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator and explained that they had come to investigate unrest.
• Ye Jingcheng invited the Xingchen Sect elders to a nearby island to talk, intending to negotiate or test his strength if talks failed.

Ye Jingcheng negotiated with the Sun and Moon Twin Sages over the Ye Family’s growing influence in the Star Sea. The Sun Saint True Lord offered resources, business interests, and islands, while Ye Jingcheng kept his sect’s identity secret and indicated that the Ye Family would claim a major share of the region’s resources.

• Sun Saint True Lord apologized to Ye Jingcheng and presented five Fourth Order Water Spirit Pearls, prompting Ye Jingcheng to invite the three into the pavilion.
• Ye Jingcheng served the Sun and Moon Twin Sages Fourth Order Longevity Tea, which they found could gradually extend their lifespans.
• Sun Saint True Lord revealed that the Star Island paid tribute to the Wang Family of Haoran Prefecture and admitted that his group was not a core affiliated force.
• Ye Jingcheng confirmed he was a core member of an immortal sect and said he had killed the cold flood dragon and offered its spoils to the sect, without naming it.
• Sun Saint True Lord proposed giving Ye Yuan Restaurant control over the restaurant, pill, and Dharma Artifact businesses, then offered three suitable islands for Ye Jingcheng to choose from.

Ye Jingcheng accepted the Sun and Moon Twin Sages’ offer of Star Sea intelligence and two islands, then set out to hunt the Sea Suppressing Demon Emperor. The Twin Sages feared his power and planned to send Si Kongli to the Central Region while hiding the Star Secret Realm’s inheritance for now.

• Ye Jingcheng accepted information about the Star Sea and Thousand Cloud Island and Moon Sea Island in exchange for Longevity Tea.
• Ye Jingcheng learned about three Demon Emperors, including the Moon Spirit Shell Demon Emperor and the powerful Myriad Feet Octopus Demon Emperor.
• Ye Jingcheng flew toward Peng Saint Island to find the Sea Suppressing Demon Emperor before it escaped again.
• Sun Saint True Lord told Moon Saint True Lord that the Blue Jade Toad’s fear showed Qinghe True Monarch was beyond their power to oppose.
• Sun Saint True Lord decided to conceal the Star Secret Realm and send Si Kongli to the Central Region to develop Chen Sect and gain the Wang Family’s favor.

Ye Jingcheng trapped and subdued the Sea Suppressing Demon Emperor, then claimed the Fifth Order Heavenly Jade Mysterious Origin Fruit tree. He learned that the demon emperor possessed a technique for devouring Monster Beast cores to aid breakthroughs.

• The Sea Suppressing Demon Emperor used a Silver Shark as bait to lure a Golden White Ape, but Ye Jingcheng revealed himself with a mirror, a formation, and the white ape.
• Ye Jingcheng trapped the Sea Suppressing Demon Emperor and defeated it with the Five Elements Divine Lightning, chess puppets, and the Three Edged Thorn.
• The Sea Suppressing Demon Emperor surrendered and was bound by a Soul Contract, despite reacting with fury and pain.
• Ye Jingcheng stored away the Heavenly Jade Mysterious Origin Fruit tree, which could provide a pill to help Nascent Soul Cultivators advance.
• Ye Jingcheng learned through the Soul Contract that the Sea Suppressing Demon Emperor's Spirit Devouring Body Tempering Demonic Art used Monster Beast cores to strengthen breakthroughs.

Ye Jingcheng captured the Moon Spirit Demon Emperor and its colony, then headed toward the Eastern Wasteland Islands and Yin Shark Sea to arrange the Ye Family’s control of Star Sea.

• Ye Jingcheng used Moon Spirit Shells from his grotto-heaven to lure the Moon Spirit Demon Emperor and asked Sea Suppressing Demon Emperor to find a source of Demon Beast Inner Cores and demon souls.
• Ye Jingcheng trapped the Moon Spirit Demon Emperor with an array and Yuan Magnetic Divine Light, then overcame its illusions with the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly.
• Ye Jingcheng used Jade Scale Dragon to freeze the island and threatened the Moon Spirit Demon Emperor until it submitted.
• Ye Jingcheng formed a Soul Contract with the Moon Spirit Demon Emperor and ordered it to bring the rest of its colony under his control.
• Ye Jingcheng collected the Moon Spirit Shells and set out for the Eastern Wasteland Islands and Yin Shark Sea to arrange for the Ye Family to take control of Star Sea.