Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingyu and Ye Xuecang escaped the battle in the Cloud Sea Spirit Abyss and hid in the Ancient Gem Coffin while the beast tide overwhelmed the region. At Town Suppressing Abyss, Ye Yunfeng worried about their fate, while Mu Yuanchun dismissed them as likely doomed and focused on the Mu Family’s losses.

• Ye Jingyu and Ye Xuecang refused the blue-robed cultivator’s offered storage bag and fled using thunder escape and concealed blood-escape techniques.
• The Cloud Crane Demon Emperor struck the blue-robed cultivator away, and the pseudo-Demon Saint was killed by its lightning tribulation after causing heavy casualties.
• Ye Jingyu and Ye Xuecang chose to hide until the crisis passed, burrowed deep beneath a barren island, and entered the Ancient Gem Coffin.
• At Town Suppressing Abyss, Ye Yunfeng worried about the missing Ye Jingyu and Ye Xuecang and waited for help from the family.
• Mu Yuanchun counted the Mu Family’s losses and decided to stop pursuing Ye Jingyu and Ye Xuecang, assuming they would die in the Spirit Abyss.

Lan Yuanqing recovered on an island after fleeing with two Fifth Order Top Grade Spirit Attraction Stones, but Ye Xuecang and Ye Jingyu found and killed him. By searching his soul, they learned that Zhang Ping of the Zhang Family of the Green Abyss Sect possessed the other Sixth-Order Spirit Attraction Stone.

• Lan Yuanqing treated his wounds and swallowed several spirit pills while hiding on an unnamed island.
• Ye Xuecang and Ye Jingyu ambushed Lan Yuanqing as he healed, breaking his spirit umbrella and trapping him with an array.
• Ye Xuecang killed Lan Yuanqing, and vines pierced through his escaping Nascent Soul.
• Ye Jingyu concealed the battle’s spiritual fluctuations and erased its traces.
• Ye Xuecang searched Lan Yuanqing’s soul and learned that Zhang Ping possessed the other Sixth-Order Spirit Attraction Stone and had recently sought a life-extending Spirit Herb at a literary gathering.

As the beast tide continued to batter Town Suppressing Abyss, Chu Yanqing arrived to support the defenders and helped Ye Yunfeng arrange a covert route for the returning Ye Xuecang and Ye Jingyu. After they returned, Ye Jingyu urged Ye Xuecang to have a Purple Sun Sect cultivator exchange for the Spirit Attraction Stone instead of Yun Su True Monarch, to draw less suspicion to the Ye Family.

• Chu Yanqing arrived at Town Suppressing Abyss, where she supported Ye Yunfeng and supplied him with a map of a Monster Beast faction's forces.
• Chu Yanqing and Ye Yunfeng used a Blue Water Whale to help Ye Xuecang and Ye Jingyu return through a weak point in the beast tide.
• Ye Xuecang and Ye Jingyu returned to Town Suppressing Abyss after the Human Race cultivators attacked the Monster Beasts from within and without.
• Ye Jingyu advised Ye Xuecang to have a Purple Sun Sect Nascent Soul Cultivator exchange for the Spirit Attraction Stone rather than Yun Su True Monarch.

Ye Jingyu met Yuan Tan True Monarch in Town Suppressing Abyss to ask for a Sixth-Order Spirit Attraction Stone for his cousin, Ye Jingcheng. Yuan Tan agreed to help arrange an exchange and carry the stone back to the Great Yu Realm, while warning Ye Jingyu about the Ouyang Family's ties to the Mu Family.

• Yun Su True Monarch brought Ye Jingyu to meet Yuan Tan True Monarch, who recognized him after he removed his Aura Isolation mask.
• Ye Jingyu asked where the Sixth-Order Spirit Attraction Stones were, and Yuan Tan explained that one was with Bai Songshu and another with Zhang Ping.
• Yuan Tan offered to help Ye Jingyu exchange for a stone in return for Ye Jingcheng promising to give her alchemy guidance if he reached Sixth Order.
• Ye Jingyu accepted the condition and welcomed Yuan Tan's offer to carry the stone back to the Great Yu Realm.
• Yuan Tan warned Ye Jingyu that cultivators of the Ouyang Family had once been familiar with the Mu Family.

Yuan Tan True Monarch secured Zhang Chun’s Sixth-Order Spirit Attraction Stone for the Ye Family in exchange for a life-extending Spirit Peach and a promised pill. At Ye Spirit Mountain, Ye Jingyu received the stone through Chenxia Fairy and prepared to upgrade the Ye Family’s spirit vein in the Sea of Sand while keeping its power concealed.

• Yuan Tan True Monarch asked Zhang Chun to exchange his Sixth-Order Spirit Attraction Stone and offered him a Spirit Peach that could extend his lifespan by two hundred years.
• Zhang Chun agreed after learning the stone was for the Ye Family of Righteous Path Sect, and he asked Yuan Tan True Monarch to provide the pill he needed.
• Zhang Ping recognized the Ye Family’s name and recalled how Ye Jingcheng had advanced from a Golden Core cultivator to the brink of Spirit Transformation.
• Chenxia Fairy visited Ye Jingyu and Ye Xuecang, delivered a warning to strengthen the formation concealing Ye Spirit Mountain’s spiritual qi, and departed.
• Ye Jingyu inspected the Sixth-Order Spirit Attraction Stone and planned to upgrade the spirit vein in the Sea of Sand while awaiting the Earth Immortal Realm and Ye Jingcheng’s breakthrough.

After completing decades of mortal life to temper his heart, Ye Jingcheng returned to the Ye Family with his cultivation restored and his Divine Domain bottleneck loosened. He learned that the family had flourished during his absence, then arrived as Turtle Ancestor began breaking through to the fifth rank.

• Ye Jingcheng’s elderly friend, Old Man Qi, died after wondering aloud whether Ye Jingcheng was an immortal master, and Ye Jingcheng carried him home for his children to bury.
• Ye Jingcheng completed his experiences of three mortal lives and returned to the spirit mountain, recovering his Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivation and sensing that his Divine Domain bottleneck was loosening.
• A Yun Generation cultivator reported that the Ye Family was thriving, with several new Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators.
• Ye Jingcheng went to Sand Sea Sky Phoenix Oasis to check on his Spirit Beasts and saw earth-attribute spiritual clouds gather as Turtle Ancestor began breaking through to the fifth rank.
• Ye Haicheng and other cultivators emerged from Sky Shadow Peak and Earth Shadow Peak, greeted Ye Jingcheng, and watched the phenomenon over Turtle Ancestor’s cave dwelling.

After completing his tribulation, Ye Jingcheng reunited with the Ye Family and learned how its members had advanced during his long seclusion. He returned to his cave residence and discovered that the family had extended its Sixth Order Spirit Vein there.

• The Ye Family gathered to congratulate Turtle Ancestor on surviving its lightning tribulation, but Heavenly Ancestor Xue Fan sent it to consolidate its cultivation on Sky Shadow Peak instead of entering Ye Jingcheng’s grotto-heaven.
• Heavenly Ancestor Xue Fan told Ye Jingcheng that Chu Yanqing had forged Natal Magic Treasures for the newly advanced Nascent Soul cultivators while he was in seclusion.
• Ye Qing Feng reported that she and Guan Feng had advanced, and that Qing Nian, Yun Xi, Yun Xuan, and Heavenly Ancestor Xue Fan had entered seclusion to break through.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that the family had used up nearly all its Nascent Soul Pills and decided to refine more from his Nine Twists Spirit Ginseng.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to his cave residence, noticed changes to its formation and apricot trees, and asked whether the family had extended the Sixth Order Spirit Vein there.

Ye Jingcheng returned to the Ye Family, learned of the Spirit Attraction Stone and their plans for the Earth Immortal Realm, and inspected his family and spirit beasts. He discovered Zhu Yan’s powerful new abilities and continued checking the grotto-heaven’s other residents.

• Chu Yanqing told Ye Jingcheng how the Ye Family had obtained a Sixth-Order Spirit Attraction Stone and recounted the Great Abyss Realm and Mu Family Yuan Tan True Lord.
• Ye Jingcheng decided to gather his descendants, invite Wan Yulian, and reward and guide them before the Earth Immortal Realm opened.
• Ye Jingcheng entered his grotto-heaven and saw how its spirit lakes, Golden Light Bamboo Forest, and herb gardens had grown.
• Zhu Yan demonstrated its Myriad Laws Intrusions Immunity and Law, Heaven, Spirit Body abilities, impressing Ye Jingcheng with its strength.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that the Dream Devouring Insect had advanced and improved its ability to extract memories from lingering souls.
• Ye Jingcheng inspected the Golden Scale Beast and noticed its injuries, which suggested it had fought Zhu Yan.

Ye Jingcheng inspected his strengthened spirit beasts, the newly Fifth Order Blood Spring, and the family’s growing resources as he prepared for the Earth Immortal Realm and his eventual breakthrough. After gathering treasures and medicine, he welcomed his descendants in the cave abode and reflected on the younger generation’s progress.

• Ye Jingcheng saw the Adamantine Flying Ants form a Golden Giant, then praised the Insect King’s intelligence and strengthened the swarm with Treasure Light and spirit pills.
• The Space Crack Divine Earthworm showed Ye Jingcheng a map of the Sea of Sand’s secret realms and Space Nodes, including one difficult-to-use node that he planned to investigate for Sixth Order materials.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that the Fifth Order Blood Spring could accelerate spirit plants by five years per drop and had ripened three Azure God Fruits, while failing to make Peach Wood bear fruit.
• Ye Jingcheng harvested the Azure God Fruits and other medicines, collected Moon Spirit Shells and Water Spirit Pearls, and set aside a Fifth Order pearl as a gift for Chu Yanqing.
• Ye Jingcheng’s younger descendants gathered in the cave abode, where he noted that Ye Tengming had reached the Purple Mansion Middle Stage Peak before turning eighty.

Ye Jingcheng reunited with his descendants and coordinated the Ye Family’s preparations for entering the Earth Immortal Realm. After establishing fallback plans for the family, he set out to visit his master in the Central Region.

• Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing attended a family meal, where Ye Qing Feng led the descendants in toasting them; afterward, Ye Jingcheng asked Ye Qing Feng to give Ye Tengming spirit pills.
• Ye Jingcheng joined Ye Xuecang and the Clan Elders to decide who would enter the Earth Immortal Realm and who would remain behind, keeping the Sea of Sand platform secret.
• Ye Xuecang outlined evacuation plans that included withdrawing from parts of the Central Region, relocating core family members near the Northern Plains, and using a teleportation array to reach the Qian Yuan Realm if necessary.
• Ye Jingcheng distributed fifth-order magic treasures, advised the family on who should remain behind, and revealed that Blood Spring could harvest large quantities of juvenile spirit herbs.
• After the family spent the night discussing their plans, Ye Jingcheng asked the Clan Elders to review them again and said he would travel to the Central Region to meet his master.

Ye Jingcheng visited Divine Lord Zhengyuan at Righteous Yellow Mountain and demonstrated his progress in resisting a Divine Domain. He revealed that he planned to feign his death during his trip to the Earth Immortal Realm, and Divine Lord Zhengyuan tested the concealment method he intended to use.

• Ye Jingcheng arrived at Righteous Yellow Mountain and resisted Divine Lord Zhengyuan’s Divine Domain with a five-colored Spirit Shield as he climbed toward the palace.
• Divine Lord Zhengyuan praised Ye Jingcheng’s progress and welcomed him into the palace to talk.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Divine Lord Zhengyuan a box of Enlightenment Tea and said he planned to feign his death during his trip to the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Ye Jingcheng demonstrated the Heavenly Ghost Spirit Severing Art, and Divine Lord Zhengyuan’s ancient mirror could not detect him.
• Ye Jingcheng explained that the art impaired his comprehension of the Heavenly Dao and his circulation of true essence, but he expected it to conceal him long enough for his enemies to lower their guard.

Ye Jingcheng discussed his plan to feign his death with Divine Lord Zhengyuan, who offered him refuge and information about a rare herb in the Azure Sky Island inheritance realm. Before leaving, Ye Jingcheng met Sky Cloud True Monarch, who warned him about powerful demon sect cultivators entering the Earth Immortal Realm.

• Divine Lord Zhengyuan assessed the weakness left by Ye Jingcheng's secret art and asked whether the Ye Family could endure the consequences of his feigned death.
• Ye Jingcheng explained that the Ye Family had survived through enduring hardship, and Divine Lord Zhengyuan offered to shelter him at Righteous Yellow Mountain if he had nowhere else to turn.
• Ye Jingcheng promised to retrieve the Seeking Heaven Sect's Severing Space Ruler, and Divine Lord Zhengyuan gave him a jade slip describing a sixth-order Pure Yuan Red Ganoderma Flower hidden in the Azure Sky Island inheritance realm.
• Sky Cloud True Monarch invited Ye Jingcheng to his palace, where Ye Jingcheng offered him Enlightenment Tea.
• Sky Cloud True Monarch showed Ye Jingcheng a battle image of himself losing to a powerful demonic cultivator and warned him that the cultivator and the Profound Sky Demon Sect's Spirit Transformation Seed would enter the Earth Immortal Realm.

Ye Jingcheng refused Sky Cloud True Monarch’s offer to join forces in the Earth Immortal Realm, choosing instead to prepare the Ye Family for the dangers ahead. Divine Lord Zhengyuan revealed that Ye Jingcheng was stronger than Sky Cloud True Monarch in the Divine Domain and instructed Sky Cloud to cooperate with him secretly after he faked his death.

• Sky Cloud True Monarch urged Ye Jingcheng to act with the Righteous Path Sect, but Ye Jingcheng declined because the Ye Family had matters to handle in the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Sky Cloud True Monarch promised to protect the Ye Family from extinction for a thousand years, and Ye Jingcheng thanked him before leaving for the Teleportation Array.
• Sky Cloud True Monarch entered the Heavenly Gate and endured Divine Lord Zhengyuan’s tempering, reaching the Zhengyuan Divine Palace with only a dozen steps left before completing the trial.
• Sky Cloud True Monarch asked Divine Lord Zhengyuan to persuade Ye Jingcheng, but Divine Lord Zhengyuan told him Ye Jingcheng was stronger and ordered him to cooperate with Ye Jingcheng after his planned fake death.
• Divine Lord Zhengyuan told Sky Cloud True Monarch to invite Ye Jingyu to the Sect Formation Assembly organized by Xue Qiang, while leaving any match between them to fate.

Ye Qingyan became a Fifth-Order Alchemist, and Ye Jingcheng entrusted him with the Ye Family’s most precious pill formulas and fire-attribute Spirit Beasts. After preparing Qingyan to safeguard the family’s legacy, Ye Jingcheng turned to plans for his own feigned death and the Ye Family’s affiliated factions.

• Ye Qingyan successfully refined a Fifth Order Mystic Glass Purple Flame Pill and told Ye Jingcheng he had stopped relying on the Crimson Flame Fox for alchemy thirty years earlier.
• Ye Jingcheng praised Ye Qingyan, answered his alchemy questions, and instructed him to travel to the Star Sea with Shark Demon Emperor Yuan after returning from the Central Region.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Qingyan a jade slip containing the Ye Family’s pill formulas and three promising fire-attribute Spirit Beasts, and Ye Qingyan agreed to protect the family’s legacy.
• Ye Jingcheng received his avatar, discovered it had reached Golden Core Peak, and stored it in his grotto-heaven to prepare it for a flawless feigned death.
• Ye Jingcheng began considering how to make arrangements for the Ye Family’s affiliated factions before his planned feigned death.

Ye Jinghu met with the Eastern Region factions to discuss the Ye Family’s plans for the Earth Immortal Realm and urged them to keep a low profile amid threats from Penglai and Profound Heaven. After the gathering, Ye Jingcheng praised Ye Jinghu’s handling of the meeting and entrusted him with his son, while privately wondering whether he would see everyone again.

• Ye Jinghu told the allied factions that the Ye Family would enter the Lower Earth Immortal region and warned that Penglai and Profound Heaven might target them.
• Xiao Shaoan and the other leaders said they were willing to stand with the Ye Family, but Ye Jinghu urged them to keep a low profile and consider entering alongside the Prefect of Wang Qing Prefecture.
• Ye Jinghu shared cultivation insights and held a Trade Fair, exchanging the Ye Family’s spirit pills, talismans, and magical treasures with the factions.
• After the gathering dispersed, Ye Jingcheng appeared with Ye Jinghu’s eldest son and assured Ye Jinghu that he had revealed nothing.
• Ye Jingcheng praised Ye Jinghu and privately hoped he would see everyone again before another bitter winter arrived.

Ye Jingcheng warned Ye Jinghu to consider the Ye Family’s wider interests and gave him a defensive treasure before leaving to meet his associates. Meanwhile, Flame Hibiscus True Monarch gave Penglai the Phantom Sound Palace’s location and copied formations, helping the sect prepare to kill Ye Jingcheng inside the secret realm.

• Ye Jinghu promised to protect the Ye Family’s affiliated forces, but Ye Jingcheng cautioned him to consider what his brothers would do and worry less about acting on impulse.
• Ye Jinghu said he planned to send Qingmu back to the Sea of Sand after the new year, and Ye Jingcheng gave him a defensive magic treasure before flying to Wang Qing Market.
• Flame Hibiscus True Monarch arrived at a concealed spirit mountain and challenged Yuan Hun True Monarch over Penglai’s caution and the delay in acting against Ye Jingcheng.
• Flame Hibiscus True Monarch handed Yuan Hun True Monarch a jade slip with the Phantom Sound Palace’s location and another containing copied formations.
• Yuan Hun True Monarch promised Flame Hibiscus True Monarch pills, a guarantee, and a share of the palace’s cultivation inheritance, then privately considered refining him into a Soul Sheath once he was no longer useful.

Divine Lord Xuanwu ordered Wu Fa True Monarch to retrieve a Heaven Reaching Spirit Treasure from the Earth Immortal Realm, while the Ye Family prepared for the realm’s opening. Ye Jingcheng refused to join the Righteous Path Sect’s group, saying the Ye Family would collect interest from Penglai.

• Divine Lord Xuanwu explained that the Earth Immortal Realm had become more dangerous after a Blessed Land Legacy appeared and tasked Wu Fa True Monarch with bringing back a Heaven Reaching Spirit Treasure.
• Wu Fa True Monarch accepted the mission, and Divine Lord Xuanwu warned him not to share Kasyapa’s fate.
• Sha Jia True Monarch raised Penglai’s request to eliminate Ye Jingcheng, but Divine Lord Xuanwu said they should let Penglai and its rivals fight each other.
• Void Embrace True Monarch asked Ye Jingcheng to join the group entering the Earth Immortal Realm, but Ye Jingcheng refused.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch asked whether Ye Jingcheng planned to target Penglai’s subordinate forces, and Ye Jingcheng said the Ye Family would collect interest.

Ye Jingcheng gathered intelligence about the Earth Immortal Realm and considered the dangers facing the Ye Family, while the Phoenix Saint and Fox Saint prepared their Demon Emperors to support the Ye Family. The chapter ended with Bai Yu'er winning permission to enter the realm, provided she listened to Min Yue and helped the Ye Family.

• Ye Jingcheng concealed his hostile intentions toward Penglai and Profound Heaven as Xing Yuan True Monarch and Void Embrace True Monarch listed powerful cultivators who might enter the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch told Ye Jingcheng that suspicion for Mu Mingqing's grandson's death had fallen on a beast-taming immortal sect, and Ye Jingcheng recognized the news as crucial.
• Mystic Puppet True Monarch and the Liu Family's Nascent Soul Cultivator declined to enter the Earth Immortal Realm, while Spirit Rainbow Fairy chose to take the risk.
• The Phoenix Saint ordered Vermilion Luan and the gathered Demon Emperors to assist the Ye Family while pursuing other treasures without disrupting the greater plan.
• Bai Yu'er insisted on entering the Earth Immortal Realm, and the Fox Saint agreed on the condition that she listen to Min Yue and help the Ye Family.

Ye Jingcheng arrived at Righteous Yellow Mountain and met with the Righteous Path Sect cultivators before speaking privately with Divine Lord Zhengyuan. He received a warning about sixth-order methods and then went to Righteousness Pass, where Ye Jingyu introduced Xue Qiang as the Earth Immortal Realm’s opening drew near.

• Ye Jingcheng arrived with the Ye Family, and Xiao He welcomed them while reporting that the other cultivators were in Tianjing City.
• Xiao Wankun, Wang Kewei, Xing Yuan True Monarch, Void Embrace True Monarch, and other Nascent Soul Cultivators came to receive Ye Jingcheng.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch sent the other Ye Family cultivators to Righteousness Pass and escorted Ye Jingcheng to meet Divine Lord Zhengyuan.
• Divine Lord Zhengyuan noticed Ye Jingcheng’s fatigue, warned him that core cultivators might use sixth-order methods, and gave him a command talisman.
• Ye Jingcheng went to Righteousness Pass, where Ye Jingyu introduced Xue Qiang as a cultivator skilled in formations.

Ye Jingcheng and the Righteous Path Sect cultivators gathered to enter the Earth Immortal Realm, while the Ye Family prepared to guard its Sea of Sand platform during their planned fake deaths. The expedition began, but Divine Lord Zhengyuan sensed something was amiss as the Ye Family left Ye Qing Feng to protect their return route.

• Ye Jingcheng and the Righteous Path Sect cultivators used two teleportations to reach the sect's Earth Immortal Platform, where Sky Cloud True Monarch offered Ye Jingcheng a jade token for contacting him.
• Ye Jingcheng planned to claim a Sixth Order Spirit Herb at Burial Dao Lake, gather Spirit Herbs at Mending Heaven Garden, seek other inheritances, and visit Phantom Sound Palace.
• Divine Lord Zhengyuan sent eighteen Nascent Soul cultivators into the Earth Immortal Realm, and Xing Yuan True Monarch warned the gathered cultivators to prioritize survival before activating the platform.
• After the cultivators vanished, Divine Lord Zhengyuan told Huaiyuan True Monarch that something felt amiss, prompting the sect to inspect its formations and surroundings.
• Ye Xuecang gave Ye Qing Feng a jade token and charged her with guarding the Ye Family's Sea of Sand platform while Ye Haicheng, Ye Xuecang, and Ye Haihe prepared to enter the forbidden ground.