Chapter Summaries

Sun Saint True Lord arranged for Thousand Cloud Palace and Moon Sea Gate to attack Ye Yuan Restaurant, suspecting it connected to another Cultivation World through a Teleportation Array. The two sects agreed but planned to limit their forces, while their cultivators arrived at the bustling restaurant on Pity Star Island.

• Sun and Moon Twin Sages discussed Li's prospects and summoned Du Yuan of Thousand Cloud Palace and Qin Hong of Moon Sea Gate.
• Sun Saint True Lord told Du Yuan and Qin Hong that Ye Yuan Restaurant might come from another Cultivation World and ordered them to take it down in exchange for a share of its treasures.
• Du Yuan and Qin Hong agreed to the task but decided to send only a small force so they would not reveal their sects' strength to Star Sect.
• Ye Yuan Restaurant continued to draw customers on Pity Star Island with its spirit food, tea, and wine.
• Cultivators from Thousand Cloud Palace and Moon Sea Gate flew toward Ye Yuan Restaurant, attracting the attention of those gathered outside.

Ye Jingcheng led the Ye Family in destroying Thousand Cloud Palace and Moon Sea Gate strongholds, seizing their resources and uncovering the Star Secret Realm’s location and treasures. After the Sun and Moon Twin Sages presented him with the realm’s records, he agreed to discuss the Great Dao with them once matters were settled.

• Du Yuan and Qin Hong tried to frame Ye Yuan Restaurant, but Ye Jingcheng appeared and slaughtered them and the cultivators of Thousand Cloud Palace and Moon Sea Gate.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Dream Devouring Insect to uncover that the Star Secret Realm was on Sun and Moon Island and that the two sects possessed Nascent Soul breakthrough treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng killed Thousand Cloud Palace’s Golden Core cultivators, captured its Nascent Soul Pill, and left Ye Family members to plunder the island.
• Ye Jingcheng killed Moon Sea Gate’s patriarch and fleeing cultivators, then recovered Chen Whale Jade, Top-Grade Spirit Stones, and other treasures from the sect.
• Sun Saint True Lord gave Ye Jingcheng the title deeds and contracts for properties on Sun and Moon Island, then handed him a jade slip about the Star Secret Realm.

Ye Jingcheng reorganized the Ye Family’s Star Sea branch, then returned to the Central Region to learn about the Boundary Gate and the family’s situation. He learned that the six immortal sects were gathering in Jia Yuan Prefecture and that the Ye Family had suffered casualties but lost no Golden Core cultivators.

• Ye Haiyu gave Ye Jingcheng a report on the gains from two sects, and he assigned the Alchemy Pavilion and Weapon Forging Workshop to take over their counterparts while keeping watch on Star Sect.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Haiyu the Sea Suppressing Demon Emperor to guard Thousand Cloud Island, promised Ye Jingli he would look after Ye Qingxian and Qing Quan, and gave Ye Jingli a fourth-order talisman treasure.
• Ye Jingcheng set up a Teleportation Array and traveled with several Ye Family cultivators to Ye Spirit Mountain in Celestial Pivot Prefecture.
• Ye Jingcheng met Ye Tengqiu, who reported that the six immortal sects had gathered at the Boundary Gate in Jia Yuan Prefecture and were holding a competition to decide who could enter.
• Ye Tengqiu told Ye Jingcheng that three Purple Mansion cultivators and thirty-two Foundation Establishment cultivators had died, while no Golden Core cultivators had fallen, and added that Jinghu had reached Golden Core Middle Stage and Fairy Zi Lan was at Celestial Pivot Market.

Ye Jingcheng visited Ye Jinghu at Thousand-Ren Cliff and urged him to stop blaming himself and settle his relationship with Zi Lan. He then sent Ye Jinghu to seek a fifth-order transaction in the Heavenly Demon Mountain Range and headed to meet Divine Lord Zhengyuan, intending to become his disciple.

• Ye Jingcheng found Ye Jinghu meditating at Thousand-Ren Cliff and asked whether he had accepted the family’s decision after taking Zi Lan’s primordial yin.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Jinghu to pursue Zi Lan and promised to arrange their wedding after the family’s crisis had passed, while Ye Jinghu could earn the contribution points for her pills.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Jinghu a Jade Mirror and asked him to find Long Xunxian in the Heavenly Demon Mountain Range to discuss a major fifth-order transaction.
• Ye Jingcheng left for Xiao Mountain Prefecture and reflected on the deaths caused by Demon Subduing City’s destruction and the sects’ impatience over the Boundary Gate.
• Ye Jingcheng concluded that he would meet Divine Lord Zhengyuan and likely accept his apprenticeship, bringing a fifth-order Water Spirit Pearl as a gift.

Ye Jingyu advised the Ye Family to stay out of the Boundary Gate quota competition and remain cautious if they entered the Heavenly Insect Realm. After the other forces departed for the contest, Ye Jingcheng arrived in Four Sages City and asked whether Divine Lord Zhengyuan was there.

• Ye Yunxuan asked Ye Jingyu whether the Ye Family should volunteer for the Boundary Gate battle, but Ye Jingyu said their lives mattered more than competing.
• Ye Qing Nian judged that the competition would assess the sects’ strength and help stabilize the Boundary Gate formation, and advised the Ye Family to avoid the front lines.
• Ye Jingyu praised Ye Qing Nian’s judgment and told the juniors to stay cautious, obey orders, and avoid fighting recklessly for treasures in the Heavenly Insect Realm.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch gathered the cultivators and led them away aboard the Righteous Path Sect’s Dragon-Horn Flying Boat.
• Ye Jingcheng emerged from the teleportation array in Four Sages City, learned that Xing Yuan True Monarch had given him leave to act freely, and asked whether Divine Lord Zhengyuan was still there.

Ye Jingcheng visited Divine Lord Zhengyuan at Four Sages City and asked to become his disciple, offering three precious gifts. After explaining his three reasons for seeking apprenticeship, he was accepted and began serving tea to his new master.

• Ye Jingcheng arrived at the Zhengyuan Divine Palace and endured the pressure of its Heavenly Palace power.
• Ye Jingcheng met Divine Lord Zhengyuan and became absorbed in the artistic conception of his landscape folding screen.
• Ye Jingcheng offered three treasures as apprenticeship gifts and asked to seek the Dao under Divine Lord Zhengyuan.
• Ye Jingcheng named the Dao, his hatred of the demonic sects, and his wish to serve the righteous path as his three reasons for seeking apprenticeship.
• Divine Lord Zhengyuan accepted Ye Jingcheng as his disciple and took the three gifts, and Ye Jingcheng served him Longevity Tea.

Divine Lord Zhengyuan accepted Ye Jingcheng as his disciple and gave him powerful treasures and cultivation insights while explaining the dangers facing ascenders. He asked Ye Jingcheng to search for Space Nodes during the coming Boundary Gate war, and Ye Jingcheng kept the passage in the Ye Family’s ancestral precepts to himself for now.

• Divine Lord Zhengyuan explained the Righteous Path Sect’s principles and gave Ye Jingcheng the Kun Peng Leaping Sea Screen as his first gift.
• Divine Lord Zhengyuan warned Ye Jingcheng to preserve the sect’s factions if the Ye Family gained influence, then gave him sealed insights into Nascent Soul Late Stage and Spirit Transformation.
• Divine Lord Zhengyuan told Ye Jingcheng that the Severing Space Ruler was a Spirit Treasure sought from the Seeking Heaven Sect, but made clear that obtaining it was optional.
• Divine Lord Zhengyuan explained that ascension pools might be controlled by foreign races and that Spirit Transformation cultivators were considering smuggling themselves through Space Nodes in the Heavenly Insect Realm.
• Divine Lord Zhengyuan asked Ye Jingcheng to search for suitable Space Nodes during the coming Boundary Gate war, and Ye Jingcheng decided not to reveal the passage recorded in the Ye Family’s ancestral precepts yet.

Ye Jingcheng accompanied Divine Lord Zhengyuan to meet several Divine Lords, receiving rare treasures and materials for his Five Elements Natal Magic Treasure. He then went to the Boundary Gate, where he spotted Liu Huan of Illusion Cloud Valley among the competing cultivators.

• Divine Lord Zhengyuan introduced Ye Jingcheng to Purple Sun Divine Lord, who let him choose a Fifth Order Stone Emperor heart and gave him Purple Firmament Cloud Tea.
• Divine Lord Zhengyuan negotiated with Righteous Spirit Divine Lord, securing Ye Jingcheng a Righteous Spirit Pill and a Fifth Order Sky Flame Sparrow feather.
• At the Zhao Family’s Sky Piercing Divine Palace, Divine Lord Zhengyuan obtained a Yellow Lin Beast Demon Emperor horn for Ye Jingcheng.
• Divine Lord Zhengyuan told Ye Jingcheng to rely on himself and return before entering the Earth Immortal Realm, then Ye Jingcheng set out for the Boundary Gate.
• Ye Jingcheng arrived at the Boundary Gate and recognized Liu Huan of Illusion Cloud Valley fighting in one of its arenas.

Ye Jingcheng arrived at the Boundary Gate as a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator and quietly tested whether the demon sects would attack him, but they held back. He reunited with the Ye Family, learned they could now develop more freely under his position as Divine Lord Zhengyuan’s disciple, and accepted Spirit Rainbow Fairy’s invitation to meet in Four Sages City.

• Ye Jingcheng’s arrival alarmed the demon cultivators, but Kasyapa True Monarch refused proposals from Penglai Sect to ambush him.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch recognized Ye Jingcheng as Divine Lord Zhengyuan’s disciple and introduced him to Nascent Soul cultivators from the major Immortal Sects.
• Ye Jingcheng joined the Ye Family, praised Ye Qing Nian, and told his relatives that the family had joined the Blood Red Faction but must keep its strict rules.
• Liu Huan defeated her arena opponent, while the Purple Sun Immortal Sect took first place and the Mystic Puppet Sect lost a Golden Core cultivator.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch invited Ye Jingcheng to a Nascent Soul exchange gathering, and Spirit Rainbow Fairy arranged to meet him privately.
• Spirit Rainbow Fairy met Ye Jingcheng in a Four Sages City tavern, asked whether he resented her connection to Sikong Zi Ming, and invited him to share a meal.

Ye Jingcheng met Spirit Rainbow Fairy in Four Sages City, where she gave him treasures and cultivation insights in exchange for his promises to restore Medicine King Valley and aid its future cultivators. Before they parted, he asked her to pass a message of thanks to Illusion Peak.

• Ye Jingcheng considered opening a tavern in Four Sages City and reassured Spirit Rainbow Fairy that the modest private room was acceptable.
• Spirit Rainbow Fairy asked about Ye Jingcheng’s plans, and he said he hoped to return to the Eastern Region when the opportunity arose.
• Spirit Rainbow Fairy gave Ye Jingcheng her father’s insights on breaking through to Spirit Transformation, an Azure God Fruit Tree, and three three-thousand-year Spirit Herbs.
• Ye Jingcheng agreed to restore Medicine King Valley’s legacy and offer it opportunities to refine Azure God Pills and pursue Spirit Transformation.
• Spirit Rainbow Fairy asked Ye Jingcheng what message he had for Illusion Peak, and he asked her to tell her, “thank you.”

Ye Jingcheng attended a Nascent Soul Trade Fair in Four Sages City, where Xing Yuan True Monarch offered rare demon essence blood and a breakthrough pill. Ye Jingcheng secured the essence blood he needed, while the assembled cultivators prepared to discuss the Boundary Gate’s opening.

• Prefect Lu welcomed Ye Jingcheng, Mystic Puppet True Monarch, and Jiang Daorong and gave them Dust Breaking Tea before they entered the grotto-heaven Trade Fair.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch and Void Embrace True Monarch greeted Ye Jingcheng, who joined a gathering that eventually reached ninety-three Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch warned the cultivators to set aside their prejudices and announced that the Trade Fair would cover treasure trades and preparations for the Boundary Gate opening.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch offered Seven-Cloud Auspicious Deer Demon Emperor Essence Blood, Ancient Golden Ape Demon Emperor Essence Blood, and a Mysterious Infant Pill in exchange for privately submitted offers.
• Ye Jingcheng offered two Longevity Spirit Peaches and a fifth-order magic treasure for the two kinds of essence blood, and Xing Yuan True Monarch accepted.

At the treasure exchange, Ye Jingcheng traded pill formulas for Yun Tan True Monarch’s Celestial Water Everlasting Radiance Furnace, then offered three treasures in search of rare materials. A demonic cultivator offered news of Spring Spirit cold marrow in exchange for Ye Jingcheng’s jiaolong claw.

• Xing Yuan True Monarch gave Ye Jingcheng two drops of essence blood, raising the other cultivators’ estimation of him as a Spirit Transformation Seed.
• Yun Tan True Monarch offered the Celestial Water Everlasting Radiance Furnace, the Yin Yuan Barrier Breaking Pill, and Azure Jade Underworld Mystic Iron in exchange for Fifth-Order pill formulas.
• Ye Jingcheng traded the Celestial Beast Nascent Soul Pill formula and another ancient Fifth-Order spirit pill formula to obtain the Celestial Water Everlasting Radiance Furnace.
• After Nascent Soul cultivators from the Zhao Family and Wang Family presented their treasures, Ye Jingcheng offered the Azure Xiao Sword, Golden Scale Shield, and Old Cold Jiaolong’s horn for rare materials.
• A demonic cultivator wearing an Aura Isolation Robe offered to trade news of Spring Spirit cold marrow for Ye Jingcheng’s jiaolong claw.

Ye Jingcheng traded for information about the Spring Spirit, a mountain core, and a teleportation array, then joined the preparations for the Righteous Path Sect’s assault on the Heavenly Insect Realm. The attack was set for five days later, with Ye Jingcheng assigned to the territory of the mysterious Xuan Yuan Holy Ox Demon Saint.

• Ye Jingcheng exchanged a weaker jiao claw and a Gold Core Pill for two pieces of information, learning that the Mountain Spirit and Spring Spirit lay beyond Extraterrestrial Island in the South Sea and that a teleportation array connected Demon Gate Prefecture to the region.
• Ye Jingcheng traded for Spirit Herbs and gained enough materials to prepare to refine the Six-Colored Pill and Zhu Yan Pill, though Zhu Yan still needed to reach the fifth-order Nascent Soul stage to consume the latter.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch outlined the Heavenly Insect Realm’s Demon Saints and assigned the Ye Family to attack the territory of the Xuan Yuan Holy Ox Demon Saint, with the assault scheduled for five days later.
• Mystic Puppet True Monarch, the Jiang Family, and the Liu Family offered to ally with the Ye Family, and the Jiang Family gave Ye Jingcheng a talented pair of Azure Jade Whisker Carp.

Ye Jingcheng organized the Ye Family’s contingent for the Heavenly Insect Realm, assigning cultivators and distributing supplies before warning them to act cautiously. He gave Ye Qing Nian extra protection and sent him off with a grim request about what to tell his mother if he died.

• Ye Jingcheng announced the Ye Family’s required quota for the Heavenly Insect Realm, and Ye Qing Nian, Ye Yunxuan, Ye Xingliu, Ye Yunxi, and many Purple Mansion Cultivators volunteered.
• Ye Jingcheng chose four Golden Core cultivators and told Ye Jingting and Xiao Shaon to remain and refine Spirit Talismans, but they insisted on going to earn merit.
• Ye Jingcheng assigned other skilled cultivators to stay behind, then distributed Spirit Talismans, Dharma Artifacts, and magic treasures to the expedition members in exchange for Contribution Points.
• Ye Jingcheng warned the group not to act alone, to prioritize capturing and taming spirit insects, and to beware of demonic cultivators.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Qing Nian talisman treasures, fifth-tier Spirit Talismans, and a Spirit Beast Bag containing several Demon Kings for protection.
• Ye Qing Nian accepted the supplies and asked Ye Jingcheng to tell his mother he had entered seclusion if he died, waiting until she had stabilized her cultivation to reveal the truth.

Penglai’s Devil Lords debated whether to target Ye Jingcheng after Kasyapa True Monarch revealed his weakness and urged them to exploit the Heavenly Insect Realm. Five days later, Ye Jingcheng and the other cultivators gathered at the Boundary Gate, where six Divine Lords appeared.

• Kasyapa True Monarch challenged Penglai’s Devil Lords and argued that they could not safely attack Ye Jingcheng under the protection of Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Kasyapa True Monarch revealed that Ye Jingcheng lacked essence blood and suggested that the Heavenly Insect Realm’s Spirit Beasts and powerful bloodlines could be used to endanger him.
• Saint Cloud True Monarch decided to report Kasyapa True Monarch’s proposal to Tian De Divine Lord and awaited his orders.
• Five days later, Ye Jingcheng and the assembled Ye Family cultivators boarded the Dragon Envoy Flying Boat and traveled to the Boundary Gate.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch distributed Dust Breaking Tea as the cultivators prepared to enter the Heavenly Insect Realm.
• Six Divine Lords appeared in the void before the gathered cultivators.

Ye Jingcheng crossed the newly opened Boundary Gate into the Heavenly Insect Realm with the Righteous Path Sect’s expedition. He arrived amid a battle between cultivators and swarming demon insects and Monster Beasts.

• Six Paths activated the Boundary Gate, and Ye Jingcheng recorded its incomprehensible Spirit Patterns for the Ye Family.
• The Boundary Gate opened to reveal the Heavenly Insect Realm, and the six factions prepared their cultivators to cross.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch gave Ye Jingcheng a sixth-tier Domain Breaking Talisman and Blood Escape Talisman from Divine Lord Zhengyuan.
• The Purple Sun Immortal Sect and other factions entered the Boundary Gate before Ye Jingcheng and the Righteous Path Sect’s group followed.
• Ye Jingcheng emerged in the Heavenly Insect Realm, where demon insects and Monster Beasts filled the land and cultivators were already fighting.

Ye Jingcheng fought the Heavenly Insect Realm’s swarms while secretly capturing valuable spirit insects for the Ye Family. He identified a seven-layer Treasure Light Adamantine Flying Ant as a future Primordial Heavenly Ant, then maneuvered Mystic Puppet True Monarch away from it so he could seize it.

• Ye Jingcheng and the other cultivators battled enormous swarms of Bloodthirsty Demon Spiders, Heavenly Abyss Colorful Centipedes, and Adamantine Flying Ants as the Ye Family secretly sought gifted insects.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Chessboard Pearl to collect spirit insects with high layers of Treasure Light while fighting an Azure Light Roc Demon Emperor.
• Ye Jingcheng spotted a seven-layer Adamantine Flying Ant within a giant fighting Mystic Puppet True Monarch and recognized its potential to become a Primordial Heavenly Ant.
• Ye Jingcheng lured his wounded Azure Light Roc toward Mystic Puppet True Monarch, who killed it with help from his Five Elements Puppet.
• Ye Jingcheng destroyed the Adamantine Ant giant and captured several dozen ants in the Chessboard Pearl, while Mystic Puppet True Monarch kept the roc’s body as a favor from Ye Jingcheng.

Ye Jingcheng discovered that Sky Rending Mantises were secretly killing Nascent Soul Cultivators and survived a sudden attack from one himself. After the Righteous Path Sect and Wang Family stabilized the void with an array, the invading beasts retreated, leaving the cultivators wary of further threats.

• Xing Yuan True Monarch warned Ye Jingcheng of danger, and Ye Jingcheng noticed that six Nascent Soul Cultivators had been hunted down.
• Wang Family cultivators identified the attackers as Fifth Order Sky Rending Mantises that could briefly travel through the void.
• A Sky Rending Mantis ambushed Ye Jingcheng, breaking his shield and wounding him, but he repelled it with his treasures and the Water King Mirror.
• Ye Jingcheng gathered the Ye Family cultivators and activated the Saint Spirit Tower while preparing to continue fighting.
• The Righteous Path Sect and Wang Family activated an array that stabilized the void, and the demon beasts and insects retreated without pursuit.

After the battle in the Heavenly Insect Realm, Ye Jingcheng learned about the hidden threat of a Sky Rending Mantis Demon Saint and heard about the Righteous Path Sect’s next targets in Holy Bull Continent. In his grotto-heaven, he forced an intelligent Adamantine Flying Ant to submit, leaving its taming underway.

• Xing Yuan True Monarch told Ye Jingcheng that a hidden Demon Saint protected the Sky Rending Mantises and warned him not to be the first to capture one.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch described Holy Bull Continent and its Heavenly Horned Black Ox and Azure Origin Golden Horned Rhinoceros clans as targets for the Righteous Path Sect.
• Ye Jingcheng considered earning more Merit Points, then entered his grotto-heaven and inspected the Adamantine Flying Ants in his cold-jade Insect Room.
• Ye Jingcheng demanded that the intelligent Third Order Adamantine Flying Ant submit, then struck it with a Thousand Leaf Soul Needle until it surrendered.
• Ye Jingcheng sent the Adamantine Flying Ant a soul needle and a drop of his essence blood to begin taming it.

Ye Jingcheng monitored Penglai’s departure from Heavenly Insect City, then prepared to set out with Xing Yuan True Monarch. Kasyapa True Monarch also gathered the Profound Sky Demon Sect to search for a Space Node, while privately anticipating a great opportunity.

• Ye Jingzhong harvested Heavenly Abyss Colorful Centipedes and decided to soak their spirit eggs in Clear Nether Profound Bone Poison.
• Saint Cloud True Monarch, Crimson Blood True Monarch, and Yuan Hun True Monarch sailed south, concealing their true intentions as Ye Jingcheng watched them with divine sense.
• Ye Jingcheng judged the moment favorable and met Xing Yuan True Monarch, who offered to help him kill the Purple Cloud Dark Hawk Falcon Demon Emperor.
• Kasyapa True Monarch told the Profound Sky Demon Sect cultivators to prioritize finding a Space Node over targeting Ye Jingcheng.
• After the others left, Kasyapa True Monarch studied a jade slip and anticipated obtaining a heaven-shaking opportunity.