Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng and his allies defeated Divine Lord Jiu Ying after Jiamoluo drained the formation’s blood qi and Ancient Demon Qi. With Jiu Ying dead, Ye Jingcheng concealed the ancient demon and prepared to handle matters in Penglai.

• Jiamoluo absorbed the formation’s blood qi and Divine Lord Jiu Ying’s Ancient Demon Qi, strengthening himself while Jiu Ying’s transformation spiraled out of control.
• Ye Jingcheng, Divine Lord Zhengyuan, and their allies held back the Nine Great Heavenly Demons as the Saint Spirit Tower and Qingqiu Fox helped overwhelm Jiu Ying.
• The group unleashed their strongest attacks, leaving Jiu Ying critically injured and his demon transformation in collapse.
• Jiamoluo tore through Jiu Ying’s defenses, and the Jade Scale Dragon swallowed his Primordial Spirit and body, confirming his death.
• Ye Jingcheng put away the ancient demon and declined to bring Divine Lord Zhengyuan into his cave heaven before dealing with Penglai.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Qing Feng defeated Crimson Punishment True Monarch and secured Penglai's grotto-heaven and its treasures. The Ye Family began taking control of Penglai Island and expanding across the Eastern Region after destroying its greatest Spirit Transformation sect.

• Ye Qing Feng, Black Crow, and Guan Feng restrained Crimson Punishment True Monarch's sixth-order corpse puppet until Ye Jingcheng arrived.
• Ye Jingcheng bound the corpse puppet, destroyed Crimson Punishment True Monarch's divine soul, and absorbed it with the Dream Devouring Insect for a soul search.
• Ye Jingcheng found Penglai's grotto-heaven and discovered numerous Spirit Herbs, including the mature Heavenly Illusion Silver Jade Flower.
• Ye Qing Feng agreed to return to Spirit Mountain, resolving to help Ye Jingcheng bear the family's burdens.
• The Ye Family completed a Teleportation Array on Spirit Mountain and sent cultivators to Penglai Island and other parts of the Eastern Region to claim and manage their new territory.

After the Ye Family defeated Penglai, Ye Jingyu confirmed he was safe despite losing several hundred years of lifespan, and Ye Jingcheng gathered the allies to discuss the spoils. Ye Qing Nian began listing the vast haul of spirit veins, spirit herbs, and treasures.

• Ye Jingli checked on Ye Jingyu, who said he was unharmed but had spent several hundred years of lifespan warning the Ye Family about danger.
• Ye Xuecang and Ye Haicheng reported that Penglai's Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators had all been confirmed dead.
• Ye Jingyu urged Ye Xuecang to summon the Great Demon Saints, Feng Yun, and the other allies to discuss distributing the rewards.
• Ye Xuecang sent messages to the Ye Family's Nascent Soul cultivators, branch leaders, and allied races to gather in the Council Hall.
• Ye Jingcheng welcomed the gathered allies and asked Ye Qing Nian to inventory Penglai's gains, including Crimson Punishment True Monarch's storage bag and cave heaven.
• Ye Qing Nian began listing the captured spirit veins, spirit herbs, and nine Spirit Treasures, including the High Grade Heaven Seizing Demon Dragon Pillar.

Ye Jingcheng distributed the Ye Family’s spoils from destroying Penglai and discussed the family’s next steps with Divine Lord Zhengyuan. He chose to avoid expanding into the Southern Region and left the Ye Family poised to consolidate its new territory.

• Ye Qing Nian listed the Ye Family’s cultivation arts and treasures, revealing the scale of its gains and drawing excitement from the assembled clansmen and allies.
• Ye Jingcheng offered Tian Nie, Qingqiu, and Divine Lord Zhengyuan shares of the spoils, but Zhengyuan returned his treasures and warned that Penglai’s cultivation arts could attract powerful Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Tian Nie and Qingqiu returned most of their shares, keeping one spirit treasure each, and Ye Jingcheng promised to refine spirit pills for them within ten years.
• Divine Lord Zhengyuan asked what pills Ye Jingcheng could refine and raised the question of the Southern Region after the Profound Sky Demon Sect’s defeat.
• Ye Jingcheng said the Ye Family would not interfere in the Southern Region and asked Zhengyuan to grant it a few prefectures in the Central Region instead.
• Ye Jingcheng considered the Ye Family’s prospects, including its remaining rare ingredients and intelligence about the Mu Family and Sky Beast Sect.

After the Ye Family’s victory, Ye Jingcheng planned a Spirit Transformation Ceremony on Penglai Island and arranged the family’s next steps in the Eastern Region. News from the East Sea revealed Lan Li’s failed breakthrough and the Chen Whale Sea clan’s suspicions, and Ye Jingcheng prepared to inspect the spoils.

• Divine Lord Zhengyuan and Ye Jingcheng discussed the risks of the Ye Family expanding into other regions, and Ye Jingcheng set his Spirit Transformation Ceremony for fifty years later on Penglai Island.
• Ye Jingcheng asked Divine Lord Zhengyuan to inform him before smuggling himself across, then sent him off with the remaining Sage Tea.
• Ye Jingcheng ordered Ye Qing Nian to distribute usable Fifth Order treasures among the clan while he kept the Sixth Order treasures for inspection.
• Ye Hai Fei reported that Lan Li had failed her breakthrough and that the Chen Whale Sea clan suspected the Ye Family’s involvement.
• Ye Jingcheng ordered the Ye Family to abandon the Sky Horse Sea Region and Green Cloud Sea Region, hold the Qi-Lu Two Kingdoms, and have allied Nascent Soul cultivators resist the Demon Saints.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Qing Nian to reorganize the Eastern Region into provinces planned around three Nascent Soul factions, then asked Ye Hai Fei to show him the East Sea spoils.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family distributed the Spirit Beast hatchlings and treasures brought back from the East Sea, including a Purple Thunder Jiaolong and rare Chen Whale resources. After taking stock of their gains, the family planned to hold a postwar sacrificial ceremony at Lingyun Peak, their original ancestral land.

• Ye Yunxi presented Jiaolong hatchlings, including a Purple Thunder Jiaolong and two Azure Jade Serpent eggs, and Ye Jingcheng gave the Purple Thunder Jiaolong to Ye Tengming in exchange for Merit Points.
• Ye Yunxi handed over Dragon Soul Grass and other rare Spirit Herbs, and Ye Jingcheng planned to reward the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor with the grass after it matured.
• Ye Haihe presented Chen Whale, Saber-toothed Whale, and Sky-Swallowing Orca hatchlings, along with Chen Whale Jades, prompting the Ye Family members to compete for the beasts.
• The Ye Family distributed three Golden-Winged Roc hatchlings among clansmen with metal spiritual roots.
• Ye Haihe said he and Xuefan planned to hold the postwar sacrificial ceremony at Lingyun Peak.

After destroying Penglai, Ye Jingcheng tended to his wounded Spirit Beasts as the Crimson Flame Fox began preparing for a breakthrough to the Sixth Order. He attended the Ye Family’s memorial ceremony on Lingyun Peak, then heard that Golden Light Temple had seized a mysterious spirit vine and that the Wang-Zhao Families wanted him and Uncle Jade Dragon to pressure the temple.

• The Crimson Flame Fox’s spirit furnace erupted in countless flames, and Ye Jingcheng strengthened its chances of breaking through by feeding it an Azure God Pill, gathering spirit qi, and refining rare spirit plants into spirit liquid.
• Ye Jingcheng treated his wounded Spirit Beasts and spirit insects with Treasure Light and pills, while the Golden Scale Beast tempered itself in the Crimson Flame Fox’s flames.
• Ye Jingcheng attended the Ye Family’s memorial ceremony on Lingyun Peak, where Ye Xuecang urged the clan to keep striving against the remaining threats.
• After the ceremony, Ye Qing Nian told Ye Jingcheng that Xuan Wu had died and Golden Light Temple had seized the mysterious spirit vine.
• Ye Qing Nian reported that the Southern Region had been divided among the immortal sects and families, and that the Wang-Zhao Families wanted Ye Jingcheng and Uncle Jade Dragon to pressure Golden Light Temple.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Qing Nian discussed how the Ye Family should handle pressure from the Central Region and govern its newly controlled Eastern Region. Ye Qing Nian proposed auctions, tribute rules, and East Sea assignments, while Ye Jingcheng insisted Medicine King Valley’s tribute include high-year Spirit Herbs.

• Ye Jingcheng agreed with Ye Qing Nian that the Ye Family should avoid intervening in the dispute over the spirit vine and tell the Central Region factions to consult Divine Lord Zhengyuan.
• Ye Qing Nian explained that the Ye Family lacked enough Nascent Soul cultivators to occupy the Eastern Region and proposed an auction to attract factions and resources.
• Ye Qing Nian proposed calculating tribute by cultivation country and province, with reduced rates for subordinate Nascent Soul factions and additional duties for factions occupying multiple countries.
• Ye Qing Nian proposed keeping the Qi-Lu Two Kingdoms under Ye Family control, assigning sea regions to subordinate factions, and rewarding those who guarded the East Sea.
• Ye Qing Nian proposed Ye Family Merit Rankings linked to Earth Immortal Realm slots and Golden Core provincial governors.
• Ye Jingcheng approved most of the plan but required Medicine King Valley to pay tribute in high-year Spirit Herbs.

Ye Jingcheng questioned Jiamoluo about the Maha Ancient Demon Spirit Seal and used the Beast Communication Mark to draw Ancient Demon Qi into his body. Jiamoluo recognized the strange event as a sign that Ye Jingcheng might belong to the legendary Spirit Devouring Clan, leaving Ye Jingcheng puzzled.

• Ye Jingcheng entered the Snail Within the Sky and asked Jiamoluo about the Maha Ancient Demon Spirit Seal.
• Jiamoluo explained that the seal could revive an Ancient Demon after its soul dispersed, but that it had strict limits and was difficult to refine.
• Ye Jingcheng told Jiamoluo that loyalty might earn him the chance to become a Heaven-Marked Maha Ancient Demon, then ordered him not to resist a spirit seal.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Beast Communication Mark to draw Ancient Demon Qi from Jiamoluo, and his Body-Refining Spirit Canon began circulating as his physical cultivation rose.
• Jiamoluo recoiled in terror and called Ye Jingcheng one of the legendary Spirit Devouring Clan, leaving Ye Jingcheng confused.

Ye Jingcheng arranged for Jiamoluo to recover under supervision and helped the Crimson Flame Fox begin its breakthrough in the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven. He then examined the treasures gained on the journey and discovered that the Heaven Seizing Demon Dragon Pillar could attack divine souls.

• Ye Jingcheng told Jiamoluo to recover in Snail Within the Sky, warned him against tricks, and had him record the Ancient Demon Spirit Seal refining method.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Jade Pearl Cave Heaven to house the Yuan Magnetic Mountain Spirit and limit Jiamoluo’s recovery.
• The Crimson Flame Fox’s furnace solidified, and Ye Jingcheng fed it refined treasure medicines before it began secluded cultivation.
• Peach Wood and the others congratulated Ye Jingcheng on the Crimson Flame Fox’s progress, while the Golden Scale Beast challenged Zhu Yan to fight.
• Ye Jingcheng examined the captured treasures and discovered that the Heaven Seizing Demon Dragon Pillar contained Dao foundations and could unleash a powerful divine soul attack.

Ye Jingcheng assessed the captured treasures and decided which ones the Ye Family would keep, trade, or give to its members. He also selected magic treasures for himself, leaving the family with a new defensive foundation and several strengthened cultivators.

• Ye Jingcheng sealed the Demon Dragon Pillar, intending to refine the divine-soul-attacking Spirit Treasure for himself.
• Ye Jingcheng planned to give the Celestial Fiend Banner to Ye Haihe and the Azure Crow Ancient Bell to Ye Qing Nian, while reserving the Jiu Ying Banner for trade unless a demonic cultivator joined the family.
• Ye Jingcheng assigned the Sky Observation Mirror to Ye Jingyu and the Cold Slaughter Sword to Ye Xuecang, noting that Ye Zhijian already had two swords.
• Ye Jingcheng decided to trade away the weakened Heavenly Demon Ancient Banner and the Blood Demon Azure Light Sword, but keep the Corpse Wrapping Blood Demon Inkstone to control the Sixth Order corpse puppet.
• Ye Jingcheng chose the Cold Marrow Spear and Purple Spirit Treasure Boots for himself, intending to use them until his Natal Magic Treasure reached the Sixth Order.

Ye Jingcheng inventoried the spoils from Penglai, chose secret arts and materials to develop his power, and began refining pills for the Ye Family. Meanwhile, leaders of the Eastern Region’s factions gathered on Wangshan Island for the Ye Family-led Cultivation Convention.

• Ye Jingcheng put four ancient treasures into storage for the Ye Family and found that the Sixth Order spirit materials he needed were unavailable.
• Ye Jingcheng decided to learn the Essence Blood Armor secret art and planned to use the Nine Spirit Demons to conceal Jiamoluo.
• Ye Jingcheng counted the Ye Family’s remaining Spirit Stones and recognized that destroying Penglai had greatly increased the family’s strength.
• Ye Jingcheng began refining Fifth Order pills and Nascent Soul Pills to support the Ye Family’s cultivators.
• Mo Dao True Monarch, Spirit Rainbow Fairy, Hundred Refinements True Monarch, Qingchen True Monarch, Sun Saint True Monarch, and Moon Saint True Monarch gathered on Wangshan Island for the Eastern Region Cultivation Convention.

Ye Qing Nian convened the Eastern Region’s sect leaders and family heads after the Ye Family’s rise to Spirit Transformation, then distributed lists of escaped Penglai disciples and received offerings from subordinate forces. The gathering ended with cultivators presenting storage bags of treasures and inheritances to prove their loyalty.

• Ye Jingyu and Ye Qing Nian entered the hall, where the gathered cultivators rose to greet them.
• Ye Qing Nian distributed Jade Slips listing Penglai’s escaped core disciples and asked the gathered forces to pursue them.
• Hundred Refinements True Monarch offered Spirit Herbs, pill formulas, and a lease contract for Medicine King Valley to rent its ancestral Spirit Mountain and Spirit Vein.
• Blood King True Monarch and Luan Fu True Monarch each presented a Storage Bag of treasures and inheritances from their sects.
• Golden Core and Purple Mansion Cultivators followed the Nascent Soul Cultivators in presenting Storage Bags as evidence of their loyalty.

Ye Qing Nian reviewed tribute from the Eastern Region’s factions, finding valuable spirit herbs, cultivation inheritances, and reports of Penglai cultivators. He invited two informants to speak privately and turned his attention to gathering intelligence on powerful nearby factions.

• Ye Qing Nian examined the tribute and recognized that its cultivation arts and spirit herbs could support the Ye Family’s research and the growth of its younger cultivators.
• Ye Qing Nian privately invited a Purple Mansion faction that had followed Blood King Valley to the Western Region to meet him after the assembly.
• Ye Qing Nian discovered that Ling Xuanhe, head of the Ling Family, had submitted a jade slip reporting possible Penglai cultivators in the Zhao Family and asked him to stay for a private discussion.
• Ye Qing Nian judged the escaped Penglai cultivators to pose little immediate threat and decided the Ye Family needed more information about the Mu Family, the Sky Beast Sect, and nearby beast-taming powers.

Ye Qing Nian laid out the Ye Family’s plans for governing and rebuilding the Eastern Region after Penglai’s defeat. The factions accepted the new arrangements, including rules protecting them from being wiped out.

• Ye Qing Nian denounced Penglai’s rule and promised that the Eastern Region would belong to its cultivators under the Ye Family’s protection.
• Ye Qing Nian announced that the Eastern Region’s Teleportation Arrays would connect to the Central Region, with a main array and San Yuan City established at San Yuan Mountain in Qin State.
• Ye Qing Nian said the nine countries would become Nine Provinces and explained how the Ye Family would collect tribute from each province.
• Ye Qing Nian outlined plans for resisting beast tides and rewards for Nascent Soul Cultivators who fought them, drawing interest from Sun Saint True Lord and Moon Saint True Lord.
• Ye Qing Nian prohibited factions from lightly exterminating Purple Mansion Factions or stronger and gave the Ye Family first claim to lands annexed in any such extermination; the factions agreed.

Ye Qing Nian announced a major Eastern Region auction to encourage cultivation and faction growth, while the Ye Family rewarded a cultivator who revealed a Fifth-Order Secret Realm. Ye Qing Nian and Ye Jingyu then agreed to share profits from Medicine King Valley’s Spirit Herb Garden, leaving the Ye Family with seventy percent.

• Ye Qing Nian announced that the Ye Family would hold an Eastern Region Auction in ten years featuring a Celestial Beast Nascent Soul Pill, Chen Whale Jade, and other treasures, and invited cultivators to profit from the coming beast tide.
• Ye Yunsheng gave the Nine Twists Spirit Ginseng contributor a Gold Core Pill, prompting him to disclose a Fifth-Order Secret Realm that Ye Yunsheng planned to relocate.
• Ye Yunsheng explained to Ye Tengming that he had tested the cultivator’s intentions by offering the Gold Core Pill and said the Ye Family would provide further rewards after securing the secret realm.
• Ye Qing Nian returned Medicine King Valley’s lease agreement for the sixth-order Spirit Herb Garden, and Hundred Refinements True Monarch set the profit split at seventy percent for the Ye Family and thirty percent for Medicine King Valley.

Han Ming tried to persuade the Chen Whale and Golden Roc Demon Saints to join Sky Jiaolong Sea against the Ye Family by revealing that the Ye Family could raise Monster Beast bloodlines. The two demons became interested in the rumored spirit treasure, but the Golden Roc still doubted that their strength was enough.

• Han Ming confronted the Chen Whale and Golden Roc Demon Saints over the casualties their clans had suffered in the fighting.
• The Chen Whale and Golden Roc Demon Saints refused to pursue a war with the Human Race and said they intended to focus on reaching the Spirit Realm.
• Han Ming warned them that the Ye Family threatened all their clans and revealed records of Jade Dragon, the Six-Tailed Red Fox, the Half Qilin Golden Scale Beast, and the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor's humble origins.
• Han Ming swore upon his Primordial Spirit that the Ye Family possessed a spirit treasure capable of raising bloodlines, stirring greed in the Chen Whale and Golden Roc Demon Saints.
• The Golden Roc questioned whether their strength was sufficient to challenge the Ye Family.

Demon Saint Han Ming persuaded the Chen Whale and Golden Roc Demon Saints to join a coalition against the Ye Family and the Human Race, while arranging for allies in the Heavenly Insect Realm and Heavenly Demon Mountain Range. After they departed, Han Ming told Lei Chen that the Jiaolong Clan would ultimately surpass the other clans through its bloodline.

• Demon Saint Han Ming blamed the Chen Whale and Golden Roc Demon Saints for forcing Tian De to return to the East Sea and argued that the Ye Family’s cultivators were likely already injured.
• Han Ming proposed recruiting Mystic Bull, Primal Thunder, and Sky Rending Demon Saints from the Heavenly Insect Realm, promising to rotate the spirit treasure according to each clan’s contribution.
• The Chen Whale Demon Saint refused to openly pressure the Ye Family, so Han Ming agreed that Lei Chen would probe their strength while their subordinate clans joined the beast tide.
• The Golden Roc and Chen Whale Demon Saints agreed to contact White Ape and Five Colors Demon Saints, while the group rejected Lei Chen’s suggestion to approach the North Sea Demon Saint.
• Han Ming urged the coalition to act within the next twenty years, then told Lei Chen that the Jiaolong Clan’s bloodline would eventually make the other clans its vassals.

Ye Qing Nian welcomed Xing Yuan True Monarch and other Righteous Path Sect cultivators to Penglai Mountain, where they discussed the East Sea standoff and delivered generous gifts to the Ye Family. Xing Yuan True Monarch also invited Ye Qing Nian to an upcoming Spirit Transformation trade gathering and gave him information about other fairs.

• Ye Qing Nian used the Rock Flood Dragon to bring Xing Yuan True Monarch, Void Embrace True Monarch, Xiao Wankun, Wang Kewei, and others from the Righteous Path Sect to Penglai Mountain.
• Ye Qing Nian told Void Embrace True Monarch that the East Sea remained in a standoff near the Sky Horse Sea Region as the Ye Family recovered and the Demon Race factions tested its defenses.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch gave Ye Qing Nian a gift from five Central Region immortal sect factions, including spirit herbs, spirit stones, treasures, and magic treasures.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch presented the Righteous Path Sect's congratulatory gift of three Nascent Soul Pills, which Ye Qing Nian accepted.
• Xing Yuan True Monarch gave Ye Qing Nian a jade token for a Spirit Transformation trade gathering eight years later and a jade slip listing other major trade fairs and auctions.

Ye Qing Nian and Ye Haicheng considered requests from several Spirit Transformation factions to trade for the Ye Family’s Sky Yuan Vajra Battle Array and decided to leave the matter to Ye Jingyu. The chapter then showed the family’s newly acquired secret realms and Ye Haihe’s party arriving to choose White Eyebrow Azure Wolves as Spirit Beasts.

• Ye Qing Nian told Ye Haicheng that the Zhao Family, Hundred Crafts Valley, and Righteous Path Sect had all asked about the battle array, and Ye Haicheng warned him to stall Yuan Tan True Monarch if she asked about it or alchemy techniques.
• Ye Haicheng told Ye Qing Nian to let Ye Jingyu decide what to do about the requests, noting that a Spirit Transformation trade gathering would take place in eight years.
• Ye Hai Fei and Ye Haiyu left the relocated secret realms, where the fifth-order Great Azure Secret Realm contained a micro Top-Grade Spirit Stone mine, and discussed who might succeed with a cultivation method.
• Ye Haihe, Ye Yunfeng, and more than ten Ye Family clansmen arrived at Azure Sky Wolf Valley, where the Azure Sky Demon Emperor greeted them and they sought White Eyebrow Azure Wolves for Spirit Communion.