Chapter Summaries

The Ye Family held an Ascension Assembly that revealed several exceptional young talents, then announced changes to its childbirth stipends before beginning a grand ceremony for Ye Qing Feng and Azure Chu’s Nascent Soul attainments. The celebrations reached a startling height when Demon King Guan Feng delivered a gift of rare fifth-order treasures.

• Ye Xingxiao and Ye Qing Nian began the Ascension Assembly, where Ye Tengjia was identified with an Ice Spiritual Root and Ye Guangyuan with a Wood Spirit Root and a possible Spirit Body.
• Ye Qing Nian and Ye Xingxiao announced reforms to the Ye Family’s childbirth stipends, drawing objections that were soon overshadowed by preparations for the Nascent Soul Ceremony.
• Ye Jingcheng drank with Ye Jing Yun, Ye Jingli, Ye Xingqun, and Ye Xingshui, reflecting on how age and failed efforts to reach Nascent Soul had changed them.
• Representatives from the Wan, Ma, and Xu Families presented gifts to honor Azure Sword True Monarch and Azure Chu True Monarch, with the Xu Family also providing information about the ice plains.
• Guan Feng delivered fifth-order treasures as a ceremonial gift, and Ye Jingcheng vanished after auspicious clouds and spiritual rain appeared.

The Phoenix Saint secretly visited Ye Jingcheng and warned him about dangers facing cultivators who entered the Earth Immortal Realm, while offering support for the Ye Family’s path to Spirit Transformation. She left him a Phoenix Tribulation Feather that could block a Spirit Transformation attack and potentially save his life.

• Ye Jingcheng discovered the Phoenix Saint secretly observing the Ye Family’s peaks and questioned her unexpected visit.
• The Phoenix Saint said she would help the Ye Family pursue Spirit Transformation and allow them to enter the Earth Immortal Realm through the Earth Immortal Platform in the Mount Taihang Mountain Range.
• The Phoenix Saint warned Ye Jingcheng to beware cultivators from the Yuanqing Realm and Small Huan Realm, whose Spirit Transformation cultivators could still ascend normally despite claiming otherwise.
• Ye Jingcheng thanked the Phoenix Saint and considered her offer to guard his breakthrough at Phoenix Saint Palace, while remaining cautious about where to cultivate.
• The Phoenix Saint gave Ye Jingcheng a Phoenix Tribulation Feather that could block a Spirit Transformation attack and provide life-saving vitality, then departed.

At the Ye Family banquet, Ye Jingcheng prepared his children and allies for the coming Earth Immortal Realm expedition while the families discussed rewards for their discoveries. Ma Yu Yuan proposed a contest between young cultivators, leaving the banquet poised for a challenge.

• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Qing Feng cultivation pills and Black Crow Advancement Pills, signaling that she could try contracting with Nirvana Phoenix.
• Ye Qing Feng vowed to prove herself and aimed to reach Nascent Soul before the Earth Immortal Realm expedition.
• Ye Xueliang offered the Xu Family at least a fourth-rank Demon King demon core as a reward for their Northern Plains discovery.
• Ma Yu Yuan challenged the Ye Family's young talents to exchange pointers and add excitement to the ceremonial banquet.

At Ye Qing Nian’s Nascent Soul Ceremony, the Ye Family hosted contests and lectures before gathering to appoint its new leadership and set out plans for its growing clan. The chapter ended with the family preparing its cultivators for wider experience and beginning a plan to preserve the bloodlines of its Spirit Beasts.

• Ye Yunkai fought Ma Yu Yuan, but Ye Xuecang declared him the loser after he struggled to handle her close-combat tactics, prompting the Ye Family to arrange more contests against visiting female cultivators.
• Chu Yanqing, Ye Xuecang, and the Black Crow Demon Emperor gave lectures over ten days, sharing their cultivation knowledge with the gathered cultivators.
• Ye Xuecang formally handed Ye Qing Nian the Family Token and appointed four temporary Peak Lords to oversee the Ye Family’s territories.
• Ye Qing Nian reported the clan’s population and strength, awarded Spirit Sons for their contributions, and expanded the Spirit Son program to cover more fields.
• Ye Qing Nian announced plans to train Rapid Spirit clansmen, require Foundation Establishment cultivators to gain experience outside the Sea of Sand, and preserve the bloodlines of the Ye Family’s Spirit Beasts.

After handing leadership of the Ye Family to Ye Qing Nian, Ye Jingcheng traveled with Ye Jingfeng and Xu Family cultivators through an ancient teleportation array to the Northern Plains. He bound the Azure Moon Wolf King, learned about the region’s powers and a rare Frost Condensing Origin Fruit tree, and ordered the Xu Family to withdraw from further exploration.

• Ye Jingcheng passed the Ye Family’s leadership to Ye Qing Nian and urged him not to disappoint the clan.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingfeng inspected an ancient teleportation array with Xu Haocheng, then traveled through it to the Northern Plains.
• Ye Jingcheng learned from a Xu Family cultivator that the group was in the Cloud Silver Snowfield, near the Northern Cold Kingdom and its two Nascent Soul sects.
• Ye Jingcheng subdued the Azure Moon Wolf King with a Soul Contract and learned about the Purple Eye Cold Eagle, the snowfield’s overlord.
• The Azure Moon Wolf King revealed that the Purple Eye Cold Eagle had a Frost Condensing Yuan Fruit Tree, so Ye Jingcheng ordered it to gather information on nearby treasures and spirit mines.
• Ye Jingcheng rewarded the Xu Family with a Gold Core Pill and told them to stop exploring the snowfield and go to Crimson Jade Mountain.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingfeng subdued the Purple Eye Cold Eagle on Purple Cold Peak and discovered a Cold Jade Mine and a Frost Condensing Yuan Fruit Tree. As Ye Jingcheng prepared to cultivate there, two Northern Cold Kingdom Nascent Soul Cultivators approached, and he sent the newly bound eagle to drive them off.

• Ye Jingfeng set up a concealment formation while Ye Jingcheng trapped the Purple Eye Cold Eagle with his mirror treasure and defeated it with his magic treasures and the Jade Scale Dragon.
• The Purple Eye Cold Eagle submitted to Ye Jingcheng, who learned that the Northern Plains had one Demon Saint, Azure Kun Demon Saint, who rarely left the North Sea.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingfeng inspected the eagle’s nest, found a Frost Condensing Yuan Fruit Tree and a fourth-order Cold Jade Mine, and let Yu Ling and the Jade Scale Dragon cultivate at the Spirit Eye Spring.
• Ye Jingcheng decided to enter seclusion on Purple Cold Peak, then sensed two Northern Cold Kingdom Nascent Soul Cultivators approaching and ordered the Purple Eye Cold Eagle to drive them away.

True Monarch Yun Xuan lured True Monarch Shuang Yun into a proposed alliance before the Purple Eye Cold Eagle attacked them, forcing Shuang Yun to flee. At Purple Cold Peak, Ye Jingcheng and the Jade Scale Dragon killed another Nascent Soul spy, but Ye Jingcheng still worried about attracting Hundred Crafts Valley’s attention.

• True Monarch Yun Xuan offered to let Frost Cloud Valley safeguard the Fifth Order Frost Condensing Yuan Fruit Tree, briefly persuading True Monarch Shuang Yun to consider joining forces.
• The Purple Eye Cold Eagle ambushed the two cultivators, and True Monarch Yun Xuan fled while Shuang Yun fought with his treasures and talismans.
• True Monarch Shuang Yun’s treasures were swept away, so he abandoned his body and storage bag and escaped as a Nascent Soul; the Purple Eye Cold Eagle collected his remains and returned to Purple Cold Peak.
• A spying Nascent Soul appeared at the cavern entrance, where Ye Jingcheng and the Jade Scale Dragon ambushed him and shattered his body.
• The Jade Scale Dragon swallowed the spy’s Nascent Soul, and Ye Jingcheng collected the fallen treasures while worrying that the commotion might draw Hundred Crafts Valley’s attention.

Ye Jingcheng urged the Purple Eye Cold Eagle to build a force around Purple Cold Mountain while the Ye Family kept a low profile and secured its teleportation array. Meanwhile, True Monarch Han Yun failed to reach the Cold Eagle and began suspecting that True Monarch Shuang Yun had betrayed his disciple.

• Ye Jingcheng explained that the Purple Eye Cold Eagle needed its own force and encouraged it to gather Cold Eagles and other beasts around Purple Cold Mountain.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Jingfeng that the Ye Family would lie low and planned to buy a Fifth Order Formation to conceal the Teleportation Array.
• Ye Jingcheng inspected the two Storage Bags, finding eleven million Spirit Stones and four Fifth Order magic treasures, then began cultivating.
• True Monarch Han Yun and True Monarch Xue Li found that the Cold Eagle had gathered too many Monster Beasts to attack safely.
• True Monarch Han Yun accused Frost Cloud Valley of failing to avenge Shuang Yun and asked True Monarch Xue Li to accompany him there.

Ye Jingcheng prepared his allies and spirit beasts for his upcoming seclusion to break through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage. After settling everyone in Purple Cold Mountain and his Grotto Heaven, he left his older companions to choose their own quiet cultivation.

• The Purple Eye Cold Eagle reported that the cultivators had fled, and Ye Jingcheng gave it two Fifth Order water-attribute spirit pills and ordered it to guard the surrounding mountains.
• Ye Jingcheng gave cultivation pills to Yu Ling and the Jade Scale Dragon, then told the dragon to cultivate while he entered seclusion.
• Ye Jingcheng arranged for the Yuan Magnetic Mountain Spirit to deliver a storage bag to Patriarch Xuecang if he came, then entered the Grotto Heaven.
• Ye Jingcheng gave spirit pills and Treasure Light to Peach Wood and the Grotto Heaven Stone Spirit, and distributed pills to his spirit insects and spirit clams.
• Ye Jingcheng asked the Jade Ring Rat and Soil Turning Earthworm whether they wanted to leave the Grotto Heaven for experience, but both chose to stay and cultivate there.

After seventy years of seclusion, Ye Jingcheng broke through to Nascent Soul Late Stage just as the Stone Spirit and Peach Wood faced their own tribulations on Purple Cold Mountain. He emerged to find the demons ready to advance and ordered them to separate for their lightning tribulations.

• Cultivators approaching Purple Cold Mountain saw a Tribulation Cloud forming and retreated when the Nascent Soul Late Stage Purple Eye Cold Eagle warned them away.
• The Purple Eye Cold Eagle ordered patrols around the mountain while the Stone Spirit and Peach Wood worried that Ye Jingcheng had not yet emerged from seclusion.
• Ye Jingcheng broke through to Nascent Soul Late Stage in the grotto-heaven, sensed the shackle of the divine domain, and recognized the vast increase in his strength.
• The Jade Ring Rat gave Ye Jingcheng a storage bag containing valuable Spirit Herbs and spirit soil, and he praised it for taking charge.
• Ye Jingcheng saw that the Stone Spirit and Peach Wood were about to face their tribulations and told them to spread apart.

Ye Jingcheng watched Stone Spirit and Peach Wood successfully undergo their Fifth Order tribulations, strengthening the Ye Family’s forces and expanding Stone Spirit Cave Heaven. The chapter ended with Ye Jingcheng uneasy that no cultivators had come to investigate the breakthroughs.

• The Purple Eye Cold Eagle told Ye Jingcheng about the Teleportation Array on Purple Lake Mountain, and Ye Jingcheng sent Peach Wood there to undergo its tribulation.
• Stone Spirit’s lightning tribulation shook and expanded its Cave Heaven, but Stone Spirit endured it and advanced to the Fifth Order, becoming a Demon Emperor.
• Ye Jingcheng considered the Ye Family’s growing strength and its preparations for the Earth Immortal Realm, while noting that its future breakthroughs would leave little time to prepare.
• Stone Spirit’s breakthrough caused Spirit Herbs, spirit veins, and Spirit Mines in its Cave Heaven to flourish, and Ye Jingcheng urged Spring Spirit and Yu Ling to prepare for their own breakthroughs.
• The Purple Eye Cold Eagle reported that no Nascent Soul or Golden Core cultivators had come to spy on them, which made Ye Jingcheng uneasy.
• Peach Wood returned after successfully reaching the Fifth Order and said its peaches could now extend a person’s lifespan by two hundred years.

After the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven advanced to the Fifth Order, Ye Jingcheng tested its concealment and learned it could relocate some secret realms. The Peach Wood also revealed stronger formation-breaking and healing abilities, including transferring lifespan, leaving Ye Jingcheng considering how it could help the Ye Family.

• Ye Jingcheng watched the Fifth Order Stone Spirit Cave Heaven prevent the Space Crack Divine Earthworm from entering.
• The Stone Spirit Cave Heaven concealed itself so completely that Ye Jingcheng could not detect it with his divine sense.
• The Stone Spirit Cave Heaven revealed that it could sever secret realms’ ties to the Great World and relocate some First and Second Order secret realms.
• Ye Jingcheng had Yuhuan and the Soil Turning Earthworm relocate spirit herbs while the Peach Wood took root again.
• The Peach Wood told Ye Jingcheng that its six Natal Spirit Roots could break ordinary Sixth Order formations and that it could transfer up to two hundred years of lifespan to someone once in their lifetime.
• Ye Jingcheng thought of Ye Jingyu, who could use the added lifespan to continue studying spirit liquids and possibly pursue the Golden Core.

Ye Jingcheng inspected his spirit beasts and insects after emerging from seclusion, then returned to the Sea of Sand and learned that several members of the Ye Family were preparing to break through. He planned to consolidate his cultivation while the family’s trials continued.

• Ye Jingcheng had the newly advanced Stone Spirit and Wood Demon enter seclusion, inspected his other spirit beasts and insects, and promised Yu Ling, Spring Spirit, and Mountain Spirit the next batch of Fifth Order Advancement Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng collected Water Spirit Pearls from the Moon Spirit Shell clan and learned from the Purple Eye Cold Eagle that high-level cultivators had gathered in the Central Region, apparently on Ouyang Family territory.
• Ye Jingcheng rewarded the Purple Eye Cold Eagle and used teleportation arrays to return to the Sea of Sand.
• Ye Jingcheng met Ye Xuecang, Chu Yanqing, and the Ye Family elders, confirmed his breakthrough, and said he would consolidate his cultivation.
• Ye Xuecang told Ye Jingcheng that Jingyu, Hai Cheng, Hai He, Qing Feng, and the Great Azure Turtle were attempting breakthroughs, while Jinghu and Xuefan were tempering their Dao hearts.

After more than seventy years in seclusion, Ye Jingcheng returned to find the Ye Family vastly expanded and met his great-grandson, Ye Tengming. He learned that the Central Region was in turmoil over Penglai’s plans and refused to join the conflict, instead planning to temper his Dao heart while staying near Ye Spirit Mountain.

• Ye Jingyun showed Ye Jingcheng the expanded family peaks and explained that the Ye Family now had twenty-six Golden Core cultivators and twelve generations of descendants.
• Ye Yunsheng introduced his wife, Sikong Zixin, and their son, Ye Tengming, to Ye Jingcheng, who gave the child a fourth-rank talisman treasure after learning he had a Thunder Spiritual Root.
• Ye Jingyun told Ye Jingcheng that the Ouyang Family had lost its Spirit Transformation clan status and that Penglai intended to occupy two of its great provinces.
• Ye Jingyun said the Righteous Path Sect had asked about Ye Jingcheng, but Ye Jingcheng refused to get involved in the Central Region’s confrontation.
• Ye Jingcheng said he would accept alchemy commissions in the Central Region after the Ouyang matter was settled, then remain on Ye Spirit Mountain while secretly tempering his Dao heart.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xuecang discussed how the Ye Family would conceal Ye Jingcheng’s abilities, train another alchemist, and prepare for his future breakthrough. With the Golden Light Temple refusing to trade for Sixth-Order array materials and the Profound Heaven Demon Sect seeking the Ouyang Family’s array, Ye Jingcheng began considering other plans and selected two Demon Emperors to target before entering Heart Forging seclusion.

• Ye Jingcheng proposed using his concealment techniques and prepared Fifth Order Spirit Pills to withstand investigations, while Ye Qingyan refined Fourth Order High-Grade and Fifth Order Low Grade pills with the Crimson Flame Fox’s help.
• Ye Xuecang agreed that Ye Xuefu could replace Ye Qingyan in the Star Sea so Ye Qingyan could appear in the Central Region without drawing suspicion.
• Ye Xuecang told Ye Jingcheng that the Golden Light Temple had refused to exchange a Sixth-Order Spirit Gathering Array and Spirit Attraction Stones, though the Ye Family had gathered several lower-grade sets.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that the Profound Heaven Demon Sect was also seeking the Ouyang Family’s array materials, suggesting that both great demon sects were obstructing the Ye Family.
• Ye Jingyun shared information about Demon Emperors, and Ye Jingcheng chose to target the Thunder Eel Demon Emperor in the Yuan Shark Sea and the Wood Yang Yuan Deer Demon Emperor in the Snow Plains before entering Heart Forging seclusion.

Nascent Soul cultivators gathered in Qingyang City to choose fighters for the thirteen arena portions being contested from the Ouyang Family. Ye Jingcheng stayed in seclusion, while the Demon Sects discussed their plans against him; he visited the Ye Family’s new Beast God Valley and inspected its promising young beasts and eggs.

• Xing Yuan True Monarch appointed Mystic Puppet True Monarch as the Righteous Path Sect’s affiliated-force fighter for the arena battles.
• Cloud Miasma True Monarch and Sha Jia True Monarch discussed targeting Ye Jingcheng and securing Qingguan Divine Mountain, while Crimson Demon True Monarch revealed that Penglai had brought a spirit treasure.
• Saint Cloud True Monarch questioned Profound Heaven’s interest in the spirit vein, and Crimson Demon True Monarch said Penglai had no need to worry about a possible new Spirit Transformation there.
• Ye Jingcheng visited Beast God Valley and inspected the offspring of his Spirit Beasts, including three promising Dream Devouring Insects and a Great Azure Turtle egg.
• Ye Jingcheng instructed Jing Si to separate the Great Azure Turtle egg and provide it with an additional Spirit Gathering Array.

Ye Jingcheng inspected the Ye Family’s Beast Valleys, then visited Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly Valley and tested the butterfly’s strengthened illusions. After parting with Ye Jingli, who planned to break through to Golden Core, Ye Jingcheng entered the illusion and was trapped within its phantom light.

• Ye Jingcheng assessed the spirit beast young in the family’s Beast Valleys and selected ten to move into Beast God Valley, replacing ten weaker ones.
• Ye Jingli emerged from Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly Valley after breaking through its outer illusion and told Ye Jingcheng he planned to enter seclusion soon to reach Golden Core.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Jingli spirit pills for his breakthrough and his spirit beasts, and promised they would drink together in the bamboo forest afterward.
• Ye Jingli explained that Ye Xingqun and Ye Jingyun had once dreamed of Ye Jingcheng drinking alone, strengthening Ye Jingcheng’s resolve to help the family reach Spirit Transformation.
• Ye Jingcheng found that the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly had reached the peak of Fifth Order Early Stage and asked it to use its illusion arts on him.
• The Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly swept its wings and trapped Ye Jingcheng in countless bubbles of phantom light.

Ye Jingcheng was caught in the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly’s powerful array and learned more about its bloodline abilities before visiting the Ye Family Pill Hall. There, Ye Qingyan demonstrated methods for transferring medicinal liquid between furnaces and nurturing pill veins, leaving Ye Jingcheng impressed by their potential.

• Ye Jingcheng received urgent messages that the Demon Saints had attacked Crimson Jade Mountain and West Grain Oasis, then realized their assault was an illusion created by the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly.
• Ye Jingcheng rewarded the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly, asked about its Dreaming of a Past Life divine power and Illusion Jade Canon Breathing Method, and told it to keep cultivating.
• Ye Jingcheng went to the Ye Family Pill Hall and learned that Ye Qingyan was demonstrating a new alchemy method.
• Ye Qingyan demonstrated the temporary Spirit Furnace Method, using multiple furnaces and Fire Swallowing Sparrows to reduce failures during pill refinement.
• Ye Qingyan produced three pill-veined spirit pills and explained that his Nurturing Spirit Pill Veins Method could be used with the Ye Family’s Spirit Enhancement Method.

Ye Jingcheng began mentoring Ye Qingyan and other family alchemists after learning about the Spirit-Nourishing Pill Mark Method, and he chose family-wide alchemy as his path of Heart Forging. After returning to his grotto-heaven, he found the Spirit Beasts sparring and saw the Golden Scale Beast challenge them.

• Ye Qingyan explained that a Purple Mansion Rogue Cultivator had given him the Spirit-Nourishing Pill Mark Method, and Ye Jingcheng restricted its study to trusted elders who swore a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• Ye Jingcheng invited Ye Qingyan to study alchemy with him every ten days and demonstrated how to refine three Gold Core Pills for the family alchemists.
• Ye Jingcheng selected Ye Zhiqing and Ye Qing Xing to receive further instruction, then left the pills behind for the clansmen to examine.
• Ye Jingcheng resolved to forge his heart by devoting himself to his family, paid respects at Ye Haiyun's memorial tablet, and entered the grotto-heaven.
• The Golden Scale Beast, now at the Fifth Order Middle Stage, attacked Zhu Yan, the Seven-Colored Cloud Deer, and the Wood Giants, while Ye Jingcheng observed Zhu Yan's strengthened immunity to divine abilities.

Ye Jingcheng tested his newly advanced spirit beasts, distributed spirit pills and magic treasures, and refined an external incarnation using the San Yuan Immortal Cultivation Record. He left the grotto-heaven and began teaching Ye Qingyan, Ye Qingxing, and Ye Zhiqing the Dao of alchemy.

• Ye Jingcheng stopped Golden-Eyed Zhu Yan, the Seven-Colored Cloud Deer, and the Golden Scale Beast from continuing their sparring after Zhu Yan shattered the Golden Scale Beast’s qilin phantom.
• The Crimson Flame Fox demonstrated its illusions and Five-Colored Flames, and Ye Jingcheng praised its power before rewarding his spirit beasts with spirit pills and magic treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng used spirit materials to refine an external incarnation, placed part of his divine soul inside it, and hung Fourth-Order Yuan Demon Cold Jade around its neck to suppress it.
• Ye Jingcheng left the grotto-heaven and found Ye Qingyan, Ye Qingxing, and Ye Zhiqing waiting outside.
• Ye Jingcheng served the three Enlightenment Tea and began teaching them the Dao of alchemy.