Chapter Summaries

Divine Lord Zhengyuan declared war on three forces after hearing how Ye Jingcheng died, then tested Ye Jingyu as a potential disciple. Ye Jingyu failed to reach the hundred-pace mark, while Chen Hong followed a buyer of a Golden Origin Profound Heart Fruit Sapling and was pulled into a hidden realm.

• Sky Cloud True Monarch recounted the events surrounding Ye Jingcheng’s death, and Divine Lord Zhengyuan ordered war against the Sky Jiaolong Sea, the Profound Sky Demon Sect, and Penglai.
• Sky Cloud True Monarch presented Ye Jingcheng’s recovered treasures, and Divine Lord Zhengyuan offered to take Ye Jingyu as his disciple if he could walk within a hundred paces beneath the divine domain.
• Ye Jingyu failed the trial and Divine Lord Zhengyuan left; Xiao Xueqiang comforted Ye Jingyu while Sky Cloud True Monarch inspected the other cultivators’ spoils.
• Chen Hong spotted a Golden Origin Profound Heart Fruit Sapling in Tianjing Prefecture’s market and waited for its buyer to claim it.
• Chen Hong followed the black-robed buyer out of the city and was dragged into a hidden realm by a spell.

Tian De interrogated Chen Hong, confirmed Ye Jingcheng was dead, and challenged Divine Lord Zhengyuan by declaring war on the Righteous Path Sect. At Ye Spirit Mountain, Ye Jinghu gathered the family and chose to defend its Central Region foothold while Ye Jingting, Ye Qingfeng, and Xiao Shaon refused to abandon the Ye Family.

• Tian De bound Chen Hong and used a Soul Inquiry Talisman to learn that Ye Jingcheng was dead and Ye Jingyu had failed to become Divine Lord Zhengyuan's disciple.
• Tian De killed Chen Hong, used the Azure Blood Mirror and Bagua Disc to confirm Ye Jingcheng's death, and concluded that Ye Jingcheng had not faked his death.
• Divine Lord Zhengyuan confronted Tian De, who threw Chen Hong's corpse toward the marketplace gates and called it a declaration of war before escaping.
• Ye Jinghu returned to Ye Spirit Mountain, ordered the bell rung, and summoned Ye Family clansmen from the Central Region for a Clan Meeting.
• Ye Jinghu declined to enter the Righteous Path Sect and urged Ye Jingting and Ye Qingfeng to go there, but Ye Qingfeng, Ye Jingting, and Xiao Shaon chose to stand with the Ye Family.

The Ye Family returned from the Earth Immortal Realm with major gains, but Ye Jingcheng judged that the family’s crisis remained unresolved and prepared to break through in seclusion. He tightened the family’s defenses and ordered changes to its communications, training, and cultivation plans.

• Ye Qing Feng confirmed the family’s Nascent Soul seclusions were progressing safely and told Ye Jingcheng that Penglai’s people had been stopped by the Phoenix Saint and Qingqiu Fox Saint.
• Ye Jingcheng decided the Sea of Sand had not been exposed, asked Guan Feng to promise further rewards to the two saints, and said he would enter seclusion while Jade Scale Dragon prepared to break through elsewhere.
• The Ye Family returned through the oasis teleportation array, where Ye Jingcheng ordered them to sever most contact with the Central Region, restrict cross-realm training, and hold separate, shorter Ascension Assemblies while cultivating Beast Communication inheritances.
• Ye Zhijian, the Three-Eyed Demon King, and the Rhino Deer Demon King began preparing for breakthroughs, while Ye Xuecang, Ye Haicheng, and other clansmen studied battle formations and defensive techniques.

As the Ye Family and its allies evacuated Ye Spirit Mountain for safer Southern Cloud State, Ye Jinghu explained that demon sect harassment had made remaining in their territories untenable. He promised to return to the front lines and, with the support of allied sects, proposed a strike against the Ghost Scorpion Sect.

• Ye Jinghu rallied the departing cultivators and clansmen, promising that they would one day return in greater glory.
• Ye Jinghu’s allies followed him to Southern Cloud State, while he explained that demon sect harassment and limited Righteous Path Sect support had forced the evacuation.
• Purple Blessing Real Person and Qin Xin True Person affirmed their loyalty to the Ye Family and agreed to take a gamble with Ye Jinghu.
• Ye Jinghu proposed striking the Ghost Scorpion Sect to repay their allies’ loyalty and prove they were not demon sect lackeys.

The Ye Family settled in Yunming Prefecture with Xiao Wankun’s help, and Ye Jinghu prepared to strike the Ghost Scorpion Sect at Green Scorpion Mountain. On the Qingyang State battlefield, Ye Family newcomers Teng Jia and Ye Yunfeng killed demonic cultivators while Penglai’s forces held back, believing Ye Jingcheng was dead.

• Xiao Wankun gave Ye Jinghu deeds, commercial contracts, and secret-realm locations to help the Ye Family establish itself in Yunming Prefecture, and warned Ye Xingliu not to seize territory.
• Ye Jinghu asked to use the Teleportation Array to attack Green Scorpion Mountain, and Xiao Wankun understood that he wanted to challenge the demonic sects and give the Ye Family cultivators battle experience.
• At Qingyang State, Ye Jingyu ordered Teng Jia and Ye Yunfeng to retreat from the battlefield after they fought through Purple Mansion demonic cultivators; Teng Jia had killed four and Ye Yunfeng five.
• A Penglai Nascent Soul cultivator lamented that Ye Jingcheng had been killed and that Martial Uncle Nine Infants had taken many cultivators to the Great Abyss Realm, but he did not send his Nascent Soul cultivators into the fight.

After the Ye Family destroyed the Blood Demon Scorpions, Ye Haiyan forbade Ye Jinghu from pursuing revenge for several years. Meanwhile, allies gathered at Lingyun Peak and launched a major advance against Medicine King Valley, escalating the war between the righteous and demonic paths.

• Ye Qingfeng obtained a Three-Headed Snake, while Ye Haiyan ordered Ye Jinghu to refrain from further action for five years.
• Ye Tengxi welcomed Void Embrace True Monarch and Yun Tan, who sought his help reaching the Qingqiu Tribe.
• Ye Tengxue, Ye Tengyuan, and Ye Yun Chang arrived with Golden Light Temple cultivators to join the campaign.
• More than a dozen Nascent Soul Cultivators assembled at Lingyun Peak, and Yu'er learned that Martial Uncle Gu Meng would also come.
• The gathered forces advanced toward Medicine King Valley in Zhao Country, bringing the war between the righteous and demonic paths to its climax.

Penglai’s forces attacked Medicine King City to seize its Spirit Herbs, while Ye Jingcheng used the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly’s Great Dream Past Life Method to revisit his past life. The chapter left Ye Jingcheng stepping calmly into the street of his former life as the traffic light turned green.

• Xue Tian told Great Sun True Monarch that the Righteous Path Sect and Purple Sun Sect had spread news of valuable treasures and cultivation methods, drawing forces toward Penglai.
• More than ten Nascent Soul Cultivators breached Medicine King City’s formation, and Great Sun True Monarch, Xue Tian, and three others fled toward the Teleportation Array.
• Hundred Refinements True Monarch and Medicine King Valley’s Nascent Soul Cultivators intercepted the fleeing demon cultivators, though two escaped as the battle became a slaughter.
• Hundred Refinements True Monarch and the other forces attacked Penglai’s Golden Core and Purple Mansion Cultivators and divided the Fifth Order Spirit Herbs.
• Ye Jingcheng began the Great Dream Past Life Method with the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly and awoke on a zebra crossing in his former life.
• Ye Jingcheng ignored the horns and curses, recognized the scene as his past life, and walked forward when the light turned green.

Ye Jingcheng recovered from the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly’s century-long illusion and prepared medicines and treasures for his own Spirit Transformation breakthrough and the Jade Scale Dragon’s advancement. After sending the dragon to Qingqiu Mountain and paying respects to the Ye Family ancestors, he began gathering spiritual energy atop Sky Shadow Peak.

• Ye Jingcheng recognized the Heaven Dream Illusion Butterfly’s power as an illusion, reflected on the dangers of the Spirit Transformation Heart Demon Tribulation, and healed the butterfly with Treasure Light and a spirit pill.
• Ye Jingcheng processed Sixth Order treasure medicines into an Azure God Pill and medicinal liquids, while refining Fifth Order pills to strengthen his cultivation before attempting Spirit Transformation.
• Ye Jingcheng gave the Jade Scale Dragon a Heavenly Demon Blood Dragon Fruit, a Nether Marrow Pill, spirit pills, and treasures to support its breakthrough to the Sixth Order at Qingqiu Mountain.
• Ye Jingcheng visited his descendants and the Ye Family’s halls, then offered Spirit Fragrance to the ancestors and asked them to protect the family.
• Ye Jingcheng activated the Sixth Order Spirit Vein atop Sky Shadow Peak and drove the Five Spirits True Scripture to its limit as five spiritual vortexes formed around him.

As Ye Jingcheng entered seclusion, the Ye Family worked to strengthen its resources and defenses by relocating a powerful spirit-plant formation, researching Earth Armor Puppets, and selecting new battle formations. The family’s preparations continued across the grotto-heaven and the Sea of Sand.

• Ye Haihe and the Ye Family Formation Masters began relocating the Spirit Nurturing Mending Heaven Grand Array into Ye Jingcheng’s grotto-heaven, where Ye Jingyu and Ye Yunmei recognized its potential for cultivating spirit plants and Wood Demons.
• Ye Haihe told Ye Jingyu to devote herself to researching the formation, and its gathered spiritual energy quickly benefited the grotto-heaven’s Spirit Herbs, Peach Wood, and Blood Spring.
• Ye Haicheng studied whether he could use a Spirit Core Formation and Spirit Stones to power the Earth Armor Puppets without relying on the Northern Darkness Secret Realm’s formations.
• Ye Xuecang reviewed the battle formation spirit jades and chose the Sky Yuan Fire Spirit Battle Array and Diamond Battle Formation as the Ye Family’s next priorities.

A hundred years after the Jade Scale Dragon began its breakthrough, the Ye Family had expanded and strengthened, with twelve Nascent Soul cultivators. At the family’s grand competition, Ye Tengchuan defeated Ye Tengming, while Ye Zhijian was preparing to attempt a Nascent Soul breakthrough.

• The Qingqiu Fox Saint agreed that the Qingqiu Fox Clan would follow the Tian Nie Phoenix Clan, leaving the Heaven Nirvana Phoenix Saint to ponder their future alliance with the Ye Family.
• Over the next hundred years, the Ye Family expanded Sky Phoenix Oasis and established Heavenly Realm Mountain, where it held its fifty-year grand competition.
• Ye Tengchuan defeated Ye Tengming in the Golden Core contest, and Ye Tengming praised his opponent’s skill.
• Ye Qing Nian reminded Ye Tengming to learn from Ye Tengchuan, who had won without using his sword intent or lesser divine ability.
• Ye Qing Nian noted that the Ye Family now had twelve Nascent Soul cultivators and that Ye Zhijian was preparing for his breakthrough, while Ye Xuefan had failed his attempt and fallen to the late Golden Core stage.

The Ye Family held a Golden Core Competition in a relocated Sea of Sand secret realm, rewarding top cultivators with Spirit Beasts as the family expanded its training grounds and Beast Valleys. After another clansman broke through to Golden Core, Ye Qing Nian looked toward his father’s secluded peak, where there had been no sign of a breakthrough for a hundred years.

• The Ye Family group emerged into a Secret Realm Hall after using the Heaven-Gazing Spiritual Record to relocate secret realms onto Heavenly Realm Mountain.
• The Ye Family held its Golden Core Competition in the Sea of Sand secret realm to provide training while keeping its cultivators’ abilities and secrets from being exposed.
• Ye Qing Nian announced Spirit Beast rewards for the top competitors and gave out tokens for choosing from Beast God Valley.
• The chapter described the Ye Family’s five great Beast Valleys and the rare Spirit Beast hatchlings prepared for Ye Tengming and Ye Tengchuan.
• Ye Qing Nian watched a distant clansman break through to Golden Core, then looked toward his father’s secluded peak after noting there had been no movement for a hundred years.

Ye Jingcheng’s Jade Scale Dragon began breaking through to the sixth order at Qingqiu Holy Mountain, drawing attention from the Demon Race and Penglai. Meanwhile, Ye Jingcheng’s own breakthrough in the Sea of Sand began unfolding beneath the spectacle at Sky Shadow Peak.

• Yu'er sensed the Jade Scale Dragon’s impending breakthrough and alerted the Ye Family cultivators, the Heaven Nirvana Phoenix Saint, and the Qingqiu Fox Saint.
• The Jade Scale Dragon’s frigid breakthrough phenomena spread across Mount Taihang, and the two Demon Saints watched as a Profound Cold Storm covered the mountain range.
• Ye Tengxi and cultivators from the Righteous Path Sect and Purple Sun Sect saw the distant omen and suspected the Demon Race was gaining another Demon Saint.
• Tian De and Nine Infants viewed the phenomenon on Penglai Island, and Nine Infants sent Tian De to investigate and summon Xuan Wu.
• Nine Infants suspected the awakening might involve the Ye Family’s spirit beast, while Ye Jingcheng’s cultivation at Sky Shadow Peak gathered five-colored phenomena across Sky Phoenix Oasis.

Ye Jingcheng began his Spirit Transformation breakthrough as the Ye Family prepared its defenses and waited for him to succeed. He condensed a Primordial Spirit, achieving Spirit Transformation, but still faced the Heart Demon Tribulation and lightning tribulation.

• Ye Xuecang coordinated the Ye Family's defenses, and Ye Haicheng reported that one hundred and eight Earth Armor Puppets were ready to protect the Sea of Sand.
• Ye Xuecang told Ye Qing Nian to seek help from Divine Lord Zhengyuan, while Ye Family cultivators deployed beyond the Sea of Sand to guard against threats.
• Ye Jingcheng entered a state of unity between man and heaven and began drawing spiritual energy into his body to condense his Primordial Spirit.
• After days of painful cultivation, Ye Jingcheng transformed his cracked Nascent Soul into a five-colored Primordial Spirit and achieved Spirit Transformation.
• Ye Jingcheng realized that he still had to face the Heart Demon Tribulation and lightning tribulation.

As the Jade Scale Dragon began its breakthrough on Qingqiu Mountain, Ye Jingcheng faced a vast lightning tribulation over Sky Shadow Peak. Just before it fell, Ye Jingcheng was caught in a Heart Demon Tribulation and had to awaken quickly.

• Heaven Nirvana Phoenix Saint and Qingqiu Fox Saint repelled Divine Lord Tiande and Divine Lord Xuanwu, who failed to disrupt the Jade Scale Dragon's breakthrough.
• Divine Lord Tiande and Divine Lord Xuanwu retreated as tribulation clouds gathered over the Jade Scale Dragon.
• The Jade Scale Dragon began crossing its lightning tribulation while thinking of Ye Jingcheng, and Heaven Nirvana Phoenix Saint warned it to focus.
• Ye Jingcheng arrived at Thunder Tribulation Mountain and began preparing to control the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for his breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng's eyes reddened and his surroundings changed as the Heart Demon Tribulation struck before his lightning tribulation.

Ye Jingcheng endured illusions in his Heart Demon Tribulation before facing a powerful five-colored thunder tribulation. After recognizing and dispelling several final illusions, he emerged from the tribulation just as the real thunderclouds began gathering.

• Ye Qing Nian's vision of the Ye Family being driven from the Sea of Sand vanished when he affirmed the clan's shared heart.
• Ye Jingcheng witnessed the Qinghe Sect slaughtering mortals left behind in the Eastern Region and dispelled the illusion with a shout.
• Ye Jingcheng emerged from the Heart Demon Tribulation and summoned the Six-Dipper Thunderfall Array and Saint Spirit Tower to resist the five-colored thunder tribulation.
• The first wave of lightning destroyed the array and overwhelmed Ye Jingcheng, but he recognized an illusion with the help of a piece of Apricot Jade and dispelled it.
• Ye Jingcheng endured further illusions of Earth Star, betrayal by the Righteous Path Sect, and an attack by Penglai before realizing he had returned to reality.
• Chu Yanqing and the Ye Family clansmen warned Ye Jingcheng as the real thunderclouds gathered their first bolt.

Ye Jingcheng endured the waves of tribulation lightning as he underwent his Spirit Transformation breakthrough, using his Divine Domains and spirit treasures to survive. As the final thunder-dragon bolt descended, a Demon Saint from the Heavenly Demon Mountain Range approached, prompting the Ye Family to summon Divine Lord Zhengyuan.

• Ye Jingcheng used the Six-Dipper Thunderfall Array and the Saint Spirit Tower to repel the first tribulation bolt, then endured the next two waves with his Five Elements Divine Domains.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered that wielding his Divine Domains drained his lifespan, and he used the Water Divine Domain and the Saint Spirit Tower to withstand the Five Elements Tribulation Lightning.
• Ye Jingcheng activated the Mystic Lotus Spirit Mat and Ink Spirit Ten Directions Inkstone to survive the later waves, while the Tribulation Cloud remained overhead.
• Ye Xuecang, Ye Haihe, Ye Qing Nian, and the others sensed a Demon Saint approaching from the west, and Ye Xuecang sent word for Divine Lord Zhengyuan to come.
• Ye Jingcheng faced the ninth wave as it formed a thousand-zhang True Spirit thunder dragon that swallowed the Tribulation Cloud.

Ye Jingcheng survived the Spirit Transformation tribulation, used the Thunder Pool to recover, and advanced his body-refining cultivation. As the Five Colors Demon Saint and Heavenly Bamboo Wood Demon Saint attacked the Ye Family, the Nirvana Phoenix Demon Saint intervened, but the Five Colors Demon Saint sensed that it was stalling for time.

• Ye Jingcheng used the Saint Spirit Tower, Ink Spirit Ten Directions Inkstone, and Mystic Lotus Spirit Mat to weaken the final thunder dragon, then endured its attack and entered the Thunder Pool.
• Ye Jingcheng recovered with the Lightning Marrow Fluid and advanced his body-refining cultivation to Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Ye Xuecang ordered the Ye Family to meet the enemy as the Five Colors Demon Saint arrived, and Ye Haicheng's Earth Armor Puppets formed a Vajra Spirit Shield that the Demon Saint struck.
• The Heavenly Bamboo Wood Demon Saint attacked the wounded Ye Jingcheng, but the Nirvana Phoenix Demon Saint appeared and drove back its spiritwood tentacles with fire.
• The Five Colors Demon Saint tried to recruit the Nirvana Phoenix Demon Saint into the Heavenly Demon Plan, then realized it was stalling for time as it and the Heavenly Bamboo Wood Demon Saint attempted to evade.

Ye Jingcheng trapped the Five Colors Demon Saint and Heavenly Bamboo Demon Saint inside the Ink Spirit Ten Directions Inkstone Space, where Divine Lord Zhengyuan and the Sky Phoenix Demon Saint helped subdue them. The demons swore Primordial Spirit Oaths in exchange for their freedom and valuable treasures, then the Five Colors Demon Saint fled.

• Ye Jingcheng used the Heaven Reaching Spirit Treasure to draw the two Demon Saints into its Spirit Treasure Space, where Divine Lord Zhengyuan and the Sky Phoenix Demon Saint joined the fight.
• Divine Lord Zhengyuan and the Ink Spirits attacked the Five Colors Demon Saint while the Sky Phoenix Demon Saint fought the Heavenly Bamboo Demon Saint.
• Ye Jingcheng emerged after recovering most of his injuries and offered Longevity Spirit Peaches to ease his allies’ concerns about spending their lifespans.
• The Five Colors Demon Saint and Heavenly Bamboo Demon Saint offered Spirit Herbs and a Spirit Treasure and agreed to swear Primordial Spirit Oaths never to reveal the Heaven Reaching Spirit Treasure.
• Ye Jingcheng and his allies accepted the offer, swore their own oaths, and received three Sixth Order Spirit Herbs and the Primal Chaos Umbrella.
• The Five Colors Demon Saint left the Spirit Treasure Space and immediately fled.

Ye Jingcheng emerged from his Spirit Transformation breakthrough as the Five Colors Demon Saint and Heavenly Bamboo Wood Demon Saint decided to flee the Great Yu Realm. The Ye Family celebrated his ascension in the Sea of Sand, where he resolved to keep his new strength and treasure hidden.

• The Five Colors Demon Saint persuaded the Heavenly Bamboo Wood Demon Saint to leave the Great Yu Realm, fearing Ye Jingcheng would seek revenge and the Ye Family would target Demon Saints for their blood.
• A Shadow Wood Puppet secretly recorded the two demons as they departed, while Ye Jingcheng, Divine Lord Zhengyuan, and the Heaven Nirvana Phoenix Saint appeared in the Sea of Sand.
• Divine Lord Zhengyuan congratulated Ye Jingcheng on reaching Spirit Transformation and warned him to keep his treasure and breakthrough secret; Ye Jingcheng agreed to remain low-profile.
• The Ye Family clansmen and elders gathered to celebrate Ye Jingcheng, who accepted their congratulations as Divine Lord Thousand Dust.
• Ye Qing Nian declared that the Immortal Clan was established and raised all clansmen’s annual stipends and family-position salaries by thirty percent.

The Jade Scale Dragon endured its Sixth Order tribulation, using its treasures and body to temper itself with lightning until it became the Jade Scale Demon Saint. The Jiaolong Saint tried to persuade it to join the Green Cloud Sea Region, but the newly ascended dragon responded by declaring that it wanted to eat him.

• The Jade Scale Dragon used the Cold Sky Treasure Pearl and Cloud Shield to withstand the Sixth Order tribulation, then repeatedly charged into the clouds and shattered lightning with its body and tail.
• The Qingqiu Fox Saint explained that the Jade Scale Dragon was tempering its body and absorbing the Heavenly Demon Blood Dragon Fruit’s medicinal power, while Yu’er watched in awe.
• The Jiaolong Saint arrived and offered the Qingqiu Fox Saint Dragon Soul Grass in exchange for not being obstructed.
• The Jade Scale Dragon delivered its final strike, survived the tribulation, and stabilized at the early Sixth Order as the Jade Scale Demon Saint.
• The Jiaolong Saint urged the Jade Scale Demon Saint to go to the Green Cloud Sea Region, but it stared at him and said he smelled delicious and that it wanted to eat him.