Chapter Summaries

After the East Xuan Auction brought Dongxuan City a fortune and attracted attention, Ye Qingxuan negotiated with Cheng Yuan over Luo Jiutian’s death and Su Jianfeng. Cheng Yuan left with a face-saving agreement, while rumors about the settlement and the auction spread through the Outside World.

• Ye Qingxuan counted nearly ten million High-grade Spirit Stones in auction profits and decided to sell most Tier 5 and Tier 6 items only through limited auctions.
• Cheng Yuan confronted Ye Qingxuan over Luo Jiutian’s death and demanded Su Jianfeng be handed over, but Ye Qingxuan refused both demands.
• Cheng Yuan proposed that Dongxuan City publicly claim it had compensated the Huangji Sect, and Ye Qingxuan instead agreed not to deny rumors of compensation.
• Cheng Yuan left after accepting the arrangement, and news of the supposed compensation and reconciliation spread through the Huangji Sect’s sphere of influence.
• Details of the auction also circulated, prompting cultivators to question the compensation rumors while Dongxuan City made no response.

Bai Qingan sought to buy an Enlightenment Pill from Ye Qingxuan, who asked him to pay with Spirit Mineral instead of Spirit Stones. As Dongxuan City attracted Rogue Cultivators and raw materials through new missions, Li Changsheng arrived to inspect the city and asked about renting a shop.

• Bai Qingan offered 1.1 million High-grade Spirit Stones for an Enlightenment Pill, but Ye Qingxuan required Spirit Mineral of equal value instead.
• Ye Qingxuan began offering missions that doubled Contribution Points for unrecorded Spirit Mineral, drawing more Rogue Cultivators to Dongxuan City.
• Rogue Cultivators discovered Low-grade Spirit Ore Veins near Dongxuan City and earned enough Contribution Points to buy houses in its Mortal District.
• Li Changsheng entered Dongxuan City, read the Dongxuan Edict, and bought ten Eight Treasures Chickens from a mortal stall.
• Li Changsheng went to the East Xuan Market management office and asked about renting a shop.

Li Changsheng leased a shop in Dongxuan City despite the strict terms and opened Linglu Shop, selling his pills and diluted plant-growth dew. He kept the Everlasting Immortal Bottle and its true capabilities secret, hoping to attract Rogue Cultivators without drawing the attention of powerful forces.

• Jiang Xu explained East Xuan Market’s leasing rules, including its restrictions on goods and minimum annual turnover, and warned Li Changsheng that shops without special goods could lose money.
• Li Changsheng chose a shop near the East District Teleportation Array, completed the lease with Jiang Xu, and received a wooden plaque controlling its formation.
• Li Changsheng opened Linglu Shop, offering pills below Fourth Order and Linglu for Spirit Plants of the first three tiers.
• Li Changsheng relied on diluted Longevity Immortal Dew to attract Rogue Cultivator customers while concealing the Everlasting Immortal Bottle that produced it.

Ye Qingxuan traded with a masked Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator and arranged a long-term Spirit Mineral partnership with Bai Qingan. He learned that Chaos Spirit Stones and Chaos Spirit Trees were found in distant Linyuan State, leaving those resources beyond his reach for now.

• Ye Qingxuan delivered a Tier Six Top-grade Attack Talisman and a Top-grade Spirit Treasure Long Zither to a masked Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator, who left without revealing his identity.
• Ye Qingxuan reflected that he needed to conceal Dongxuan City's strength and avoid expanding until the city could withstand Xingluo State's powers.
• Bai Qingan brought Spirit Minerals worth 1.1 million High-grade Spirit Stones to Ye Qingxuan and received the Enlightenment Pill he had requested.
• Ye Qingxuan offered to buy Spirit Minerals long-term, and Bai Qingan agreed to establish permanent cooperation on behalf of the Treasure Pavilion.
• Ye Qingxuan asked Bai Qingan about Chaos Spirit Stones and Chaos Spirit Trees, and Bai Qingan said they were found in Linyuan State near the Heavenly Abyss.
• Ye Qingxuan concluded he could not reach Linyuan State soon and considered the dangers and structure of the Heavenly Abyss and the world.

Bai Qingan abandoned his breakthrough attempt after raising his understanding of the Nascent Soul mysteries to sixty percent, and decided to gather spirit minerals for more Enlightenment Pills. Meanwhile, a severely injured cultivator claiming to be an old acquaintance of Gui Xuanzi arrived at Dongxuan City and was brought before Ye Qingxuan.

• Bai Qingan emerged from three months of cultivation without breaking through, having chosen not to risk a dangerous attempt.
• Bai Qingan realized the Enlightenment Pill had increased his understanding of the Nascent Soul mysteries from fifty to sixty percent and decided to seek more pills before attempting a breakthrough.
• Bai Qingan resolved to collect spirit minerals for Ye Qingxuan so he could earn enough spirit stones to obtain more Enlightenment Pills.
• A severely injured cultivator arrived outside Dongxuan City and asked to see its City Lord, claiming he was an old acquaintance of Gui Xuanzi.
• Ye Qingxuan inspected the visitor, allowed him to enter, and received him at the Great Hall.

Han Ming sought Ye Qingxuan’s help in Dongxuan City after Lin Yun arranged an ambush that killed three of his companions and left him badly injured and poisoned. Ye Qingxuan asked what reward Han Ming could offer for treatment, while making clear he could not promise to escort him to East Extremity State.

• Han Ming recognized Ye Qingxuan as Gui Xuanzi and asked him for help.
• Han Ming explained that Lin Yun had hired rogue cultivators to ambush his group after they left the Tianyuan Merchant Guild tower ship, killing three companions and injuring the survivors.
• Han Ming used talismans to escape and uncover Lin Yun’s role, but the rogue cultivators pursued him across a great province until he reached Xingluo State, badly injured, poisoned, and out of supplies.
• Han Ming came to Dongxuan City because its City Lord, Ye Qingxuan, was an acquaintance from the Eastern Domain whom he trusted more than local forces.
• Han Ming asked Ye Qingxuan to heal him and send him to East Extremity State, but Ye Qingxuan asked what reward he could offer and said he could not promise the journey.

Ye Qingxuan healed Han Ming in exchange for 1 million High-grade Spirit Stones and a Dao Oath, and Han Ming left for East Extremity State to seek help. Half a month later, the rogue cultivators pursuing Han Ming arrived near Dongxuan City, then continued after him without investigating the city.

• Ye Qingxuan demanded 1 million High-grade Spirit Stones and a Dao Oath from Han Ming before agreeing to heal him, and Han Ming accepted both conditions.
• Ye Qingxuan gave Han Ming Tier Five pills, then sent him from Wan Ling Mountain to its foothills after Han Ming explained he was seeking Mo Shu'an in East Extremity State.
• Several days later, Han Ming recovered, advanced from Peak Golden Core Realm to Nascent Soul Early Stage, and set off for East Extremity State.
• Ye Qingxuan watched Han Ming depart and said he would go to East Extremity State, but not yet.
• Half a month later, the Rogue Cultivator leader and his black-robed followers reached Dongxuan City and learned Han Ming had already left.
• The Rogue Cultivator leader decided not to enter Dongxuan City, and his group continued tracking Han Ming while Ye Qingxuan returned to brewing tea.

Over thirty years, Dongxuan City grew into a stable, profitable center with a developing talent base and many resident and visiting cultivators. With the city established, Ye Qingxuan returned his main consciousness to his body and found Qingxuan Cave Heaven had advanced to Fourth-grade Late Stage, while his Fourth Element Spirit Root still needed about fifty years to form.

• Ye Qingxuan’s Dongxuan Academy cultivated many foundational practitioners in Qi Refining and the Four Arts, while strict enforcement of the Dongxuan Edict helped attract cultivators to settle in the city.
• Hundreds of Foreign Cultivators settled in Dongxuan City, thousands more entered daily through East Xuan Market, and the city’s average daily profit reached one hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Bai Qingan collected the remaining Spirit Mineral for Ye Qingxuan, received three more Enlightenment Pills over thirty years, and began Closed-door Cultivation to attempt a breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• After Dongxuan City stabilized, Ye Qingxuan returned his main consciousness to his main body, ending its sixty-year stay in the External Incarnation.
• Ye Qingxuan inspected Qingxuan Cave Heaven, which had advanced to Fourth-grade Late Stage, and estimated that his Fourth Element Spirit Root needed about fifty more years to fully form.

Ye Qingxuan reviewed the growth of the Spirit Beasts, Half Spirit Beasts, and Spirit Plants in Qingxuan Cave Heaven, then harvested five thousand Tier 5 Spirit Purifying Trees. He sold them to Bai Zichun for Spirit Vein Sources and left with his plans to expand his Blessed Land intact.

• Ye Qingxuan observed the Azure Dragon, Xiao Kong, and Xiao Ling thriving, while the other Spirit Beasts and Half Spirit Beasts contributed to Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Dongxuan City's development.
• Ye Qingxuan found that a new batch of Spirit Purifying Trees had reached Tier 5 and collected five thousand of them.
• Ye Qingxuan invited Bai Zichun to his Stone Pavilion and served him Tier Four Quiet Heart Tea.
• Ye Qingxuan exchanged the five thousand trees for 4.5 billion Alliance Contribution Points, which he used to obtain one Tier 5 and fifteen Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein Sources.
• Bai Zichun warned Ye Qingxuan that fusing so many Spirit Vein Sources could overwhelm his Blessed Land, but Ye Qingxuan reassured him and sent him off with tea leaves.

Ye Qingxuan integrated sixteen Spirit Vein Sources into the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land, accelerating its growth toward Tier 4 while he continued his quiet cultivation. After ten years of war in the Lower Realm, Bai Wenyang visited him unexpectedly, and their reunion left Ye Qingxuan wondering what had brought him there.

• Ye Qingxuan integrated one Tier 5 and fifteen Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein Sources into the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land, which developed them into Spirit Veins over three months.
• The Cave Heaven Blessed Land’s energy conversion surged, putting it on course to reach Tier 4 once it accumulated enough origin.
• Ye Qingxuan continued cultivating and tending Spirit Plants as ten years passed and cultivators fought the Azure Devil Race in the Lower Realm.
• Ye Qingxuan’s brother, Ye Qingxiao, spent years fighting in the Lower Realm and rarely returned to the Xuantian Sect.
• Bai Wenyang arrived to visit Ye Qingxuan, whose cultivation had advanced to Golden Core Early Stage, and they shared tea in the Stone Pavilion.

Bai Wenyang told Ye Qingxuan he had resigned from the Hundred Treasures Pavilion and planned to descend to the dangerous Xuanmu Realm to seek a breakthrough. Ye Qingxuan gave him powerful supplies for the journey and revealed that he owned Tianfu Shop, leaving Bai Wenyang regretting that he had once turned down a chance to work with him.

• Bai Wenyang told Ye Qingxuan he had resigned and was going to the Xuanmu Realm to train.
• Ye Qingxuan warned Bai Wenyang that the lower realm had become a deadly battlefield, but Bai Wenyang insisted he had made up his mind.
• Ye Qingxuan gave Bai Wenyang twenty Tier Five Top-grade Talismans and fifty Tier Five Top-grade Nuclear Explosion Pills.
• Bai Wenyang asked about Ye Qingxuan's shop, and Ye Qingxuan revealed that he owned Tianfu Shop.
• Bai Wenyang recognized Tianfu Shop and regretted refusing Ye Qingxuan's earlier invitation to help manage his shop.

Ye Qingxuan gave Bai Wenyang protective treasures before his descent to the Lower Realm, then sent Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu to deliver Enlightenment Pills to Ye Zhaoyang. After learning the pills might help him break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, Ye Zhaoyang decided to verify the messengers’ identities with Ye Yuhong.

• Ye Qingxuan reassured Bai Wenyang about his choice not to manage Tianfu Shop and gave him Tier Five Talismans and Tier Five Nuclear Explosion Pills for his journey to the Lower Realm.
• After Bai Wenyang left, Ye Qingxuan ordered Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu to deliver ten Enlightenment Pills to Ye Zhaoyang as repayment for his past kindness.
• Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu reached Ye Zhaoyang’s cave mansion, where he doubted they belonged to the Ye Family because he did not recognize them or their Nascent Soul cultivation.
• Ye Zhaoheng explained that Ye Qingxuan had sent the pills, and Ye Zhaoyang accepted the bottle and learned of the pills’ effects.
• Ye Zhaoyang, intrigued but unsure whether the pills were genuine, took out a jade talisman to confirm Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu’s identities with Ye Yuhong.

Ye Zhaoyang visited Ye Qingxuan after using four Enlightenment Pills to break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, thanking him and returning the pills he had not used. Ye Zhaoyang also asked after Qingxuan Blessed Land and said he had come to bid Ye Qingxuan farewell.

• Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu reported that the Ancestor had accepted Ye Qingxuan's medicinal pills, then returned to cultivating with Tier 5 Condensing Nascent Soul Pills.
• Ye Qingxuan reflected that the Ye Family's share of Qingxuan Blessed Land's revenue was fair, and that the contract would eventually expire.
• Three years later, Ye Zhaoyang arrived at Qingxuan Blessed Land and asked Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu to summon Ye Qingxuan so he could thank him.
• Ye Zhaoyang told Ye Qingxuan that four Enlightenment Pills had helped him break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, and Ye Qingxuan explained that the pills had come from a friend.
• Ye Zhaoyang asked about Qingxuan Blessed Land, then said he had come to return his unused Enlightenment Pills and bid Ye Qingxuan farewell.

Ye Zhaoyang gave Ye Qingxuan six Enlightenment Pills before leaving Xuantian Sect to descend to the Lower Realm and train. Ye Qingxuan then discovered that the war had severely weakened the Xuanmu Realm and considered whether it and the other fallen worlds would eventually collapse into the Dihuan Realm.

• Ye Zhaoyang gave Ye Qingxuan his remaining six Enlightenment Pills and said he was leaving to slay demons and improve his cultivation in the Lower Realm.
• Ye Qingxuan accepted the pills, and Ye Zhaoyang departed before the tea was ready.
• Ye Qingxuan sent his main consciousness to the Mysterious Mall in the Xuanmu Realm and sensed that the realm’s origin, laws, and spatial suppression had weakened.
• Ye Qingxuan watched battles in the nearby mountains for three days and realized that the realm’s repeated recovery from their destruction consumed its origin.
• Ye Qingxuan speculated that the nine fallen Minor Thousand Realms might lose their status and be pulled into the Dihuan Realm, drawing on the Earth Immortal Legacy’s account of affiliated worlds.

Ye Qingxuan began expanding the Mysterious Mall and received construction materials from Bai Qingan, who had recently advanced to the Spirit Transformation Realm. Bai Qingan proposed taking Jiang Yinyin as a concubine, and Ye Qingxuan injured and warned him before driving him out of Dongxuan City.

• Ye Qingxuan decided to expand the Mysterious Mall into a hundred-mile-square outer city and arranged to buy materials from Treasure Pavilion.
• Bai Qingan personally delivered the materials to Dongxuan City and asked Ye Qingxuan what they were for.
• Ye Qingxuan rebuked Bai Qingan for questioning a customer's purchase, and Bai Qingan apologized while suppressing his anger.
• Bai Qingan offered a Spirit Mineral worth 200,000 High-grade Spirit Stones to take Jiang Yinyin as a concubine.
• Ye Qingxuan used Dongxuan City's formation and his Sixth-Rank Puppet to injure Bai Qingan, warning him not to treat the city's residents as commodities.
• Bai Qingan agreed to the warning and hurriedly left Dongxuan City.

Ye Qingxuan gathered materials and prepared formations to expand the Mysterious Mall, using Dongxuan City cultivators to refine the city components. He completed the expansion in the Xuanmu Realm, where the Mysterious Mall grew to a hundred li in both length and width.

• Ye Qingxuan posted city component refining missions in Dongxuan City, which Jiang Yinyin eagerly accepted while Su Jianfeng ignored them.
• Ye Qingxuan had Zhu Dafu purchase Tier 6 materials and began refining Formation Bases after Ye Zhaoheng delivered the City Guard Great Formation materials.
• Ye Qingxuan completed the Formation Bases in one month, and Dongxuan City cultivators finished refining the city components during the same period.
• Ye Qingxuan secretly buried and activated the Formation Bases around the Mysterious Mall, reassuring startled cultivators that he was setting up its City Guard Formation.
• Ye Qingxuan arranged the city components outside the Mysterious Mall, creating an outer city and opening its shops for use.
• Ye Qingxuan announced that the expansion was complete, and the cultivators eagerly went to explore the enlarged Mysterious Mall.

Ye Qingxuan spent ten million Top-grade Spirit Stones to sustain the Mysterious Mall’s formation as Azure Devil Race cultivators reconsidered their planned attack. Moxu redirected their forces toward trapping and hunting Human Race cultivators across the mountain range.

• Ye Qingxuan fed ten million Top-grade Spirit Stones into the Mysterious Mall’s energy core to maintain its Tier 5 City Guard Formation.
• Hundreds of Azure Devil Race cultivators led by ten Nascent Soul Realm Peak experts noticed the Mysterious Mall’s expansion and its stronger Sixth-order Mid-grade formation.
• The Azure Devil Race leaders and their followers agreed that attacking the Mysterious Mall would be too dangerous, and they looked to Moxu for a decision.
• Moxu proposed using the assembled forces to hunt Human Race cultivators in the mountain ranges instead of besieging the Mysterious Mall.
• Moxu revealed the High-grade Spirit Treasure Void Locking Net and explained that the Azure Devil Race cultivators could use it together to seal off the area and trap their prey.
• The Azure Devil Race cultivators approved Moxu’s plan and prepared to act.

Moxu and hundreds of Nascent Soul Realm Azure Devil Race members sealed the mountain range with the Void Locking Net and launched a surprise attack on the trapped Human Race Cultivators. Ye Yuhong fled with Ye Qingshuang and two injured elders, but found the silver barrier impassable and feared the Ye Family’s remaining elites would be wiped out.

• Moxu used the Void Locking Net to seal most of the mountain range, trapping the Human Race Cultivators inside.
• Hundreds of Azure Devil Race members attacked the unprepared humans, killing more than a dozen Nascent Soul Realm Cultivators in the opening assault.
• Ye Yuhong escaped with Ye Qingshuang and two injured Golden Core Realm elders after the Ye Family Grand Elder sacrificed himself to drive off their attackers.
• Ye Yuhong regretted keeping the Ye Family in the Xuanmu Realm after their Tier Six Talismans ran out and vowed to get his companions out alive.
• Ye Yuhong reached the mountain range’s edge and found Human Race Cultivators unable to damage the silver barrier.

Ye Qingxuan sent puppets and powerful weapons toward the mountains as Moxu’s Azure Devil Race forces trapped fleeing Human Race Cultivators and attacked them. Ye Yuhong and the Ye Family Elders fought to protect Ye Qingshuang, who overcame her fear and joined the battlefield.

• Ye Qingxuan spotted a giant net covering the mountains and sent Three Top-grade Tier Five Puppets carrying talismans and Nuclear Explosion Pills to help the people still inside.
• Moxu led Azure Devil Race forces against nearly five hundred Human Race Cultivators, who chose to fight rather than flee and some of whom self-detonated.
• Ye Yuhong sent Ye Qingshuang and two injured Ye Family Elders to the rear, then fought a Nascent Soul Mid Stage Azure Devil Race member with the Green Leaf Sword Art.
• Ye Yuhong burned his Essence Qi Spirit Origin to strengthen his attacks, but his opponent kept his distance and wore him down.
• The two Ye Family Elders urged Ye Qingshuang to face the battle, then charged back into the fight themselves.
• Ye Qingshuang watched the defenders fight, steadied herself, and advanced toward the battlefield with Killing Qi filling her body.

Ye Qingshuang turned the tide against two Azure Devil Race cultivators with her mutated Green Leaf Sword Art, but a third enemy joined the fight and badly wounded her. As the Human Race neared defeat, Ye Qingxuan broke the Void Locking Net and unleashed six Tier Six Top-grade Talismans, killing five Nascent Soul Realm Azure Devil Race experts while Moxu escaped.

• Ye Qingshuang used ice leaves and an Ice Leaf Domain to suppress two Early Golden Core Realm Azure Devil Race cultivators, but a Mid Golden Core Realm cultivator joined them and severely injured her.
• The Human Race suffered heavy losses as the Azure Devil Race pressed its advantage, and Ye Yuhong’s two Golden Core Realm Elders fell while Ye Yuhong neared his limit.
• Ye Qingxuan’s three puppets broke the Void Locking Net and appeared above the battlefield.
• Ye Qingxuan launched six Tier Six Top-grade Talismans at six Nascent Soul Realm Azure Devil Race cultivators; Moxu escaped using a Talisman Treasure, while the other five were killed.
• The talismans’ explosions shattered the mountain range, and most surviving cultivators escaped the blasts with their lives.