Ye Family

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Ye Family (叶家)
Alias(es)	Celestial Pivot Ye Family
Species/Race	Cultivator clan
Occupation/Role	Beast-taming immortal clan
Status	Active; maintains interests across the Great Yu Realm, Lofty Furnace Realm, and Spirit Realm. 1846 1933 2287
First Appearance	1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Foundation Establishment family	1	Held only modest standing among Foundation Establishment clans, but was already notable across Taihang Mountain for its spirit beasts.
Purple Palace family	222 357	Its Purple Palace ceremony marked its elevated status; under Ye Xingliu, the family expanded territory and population after rising from Foundation Establishment.
Nascent Soul family	788 1047	Held Nascent Soul ceremonies in Heavenly Phoenix Oasis and was openly recognized as the ruling power of the Desert Sea.
Spirit Transformation immortal clan	1490 1521	Its new Spirit Transformation status allowed it to lead a joint purge despite not deploying a Nascent Soul cultivator; its rise from Purple Palace to Spirit Transformation in five or six centuries was described as unprecedented.
Consolidated Spirit Transformation clan	1644 1726	Ye Jingyu reached Spirit Transformation, while the family maintained multiple sixth-rank battle powers and dispatched a seven-member Nascent Soul expedition supported by three demon saints to pursue the Heaven-Sealing Sect inheritance.
Cross-realm immortal clan	1933 2287	Ye Qingnian established a concealed foothold after ascending to the Spirit Realm, while the family continued deploying inheritances, treasures, and personnel across lower realms to preserve and expand its lineage.

Background

Celestial Pivot origins

The Ye Family traces its true lineage to the Celestial Pivot Ye Family, a major Spirit Realm clan from the Celestial Pivot Spirit Domain on Mortal Dust Continent. At its height, it possessed three Body Integration cultivators and the Beast-Link Tower. 937 997

The clan fell after its beast-linking methods were exposed. The Jade Soul Race attacked, human factions turned against the family, and other forces sought its Mysterious Heaven Blood Treasure. Nearly ninety percent of its cultivators died; surviving Spirit Transformation and Nascent Soul members fled with the Beast-Link Tower to lower realms. 997

An inherited historical record identifies Ye Hui as the Spirit Transformation founder of the Spirit Realm Ye Family. After ten thousand years of development, the family produced a Void Refinement cultivator, while the genius Ye Qixian obtained immortal scriptures and a Mysterious Heaven Blood Treasure alongside cultivators of the Qi and Gu Families. 2159

The family later concealed much of this history in the Great Yu Realm. Half of its inheritance was known to originate from the Beast Wasteland, while the source of the remaining half remained restricted even among senior members. 372

Early Great Yu period

During its early appearance in Taihang Mountain, the Ye Family was a modest Foundation Establishment clan centered on spirit-beast cultivation. Unlike most cultivation families, it did not judge potential solely by spiritual roots; members with poor roots could still receive focused support through exceptional spirit beasts, alchemy, craftsmanship, or effort. 1 10

The family maintained strict secrecy because it lacked a Golden Core cultivator and had only five Purple Palace cultivators during one documented crisis. Its strongest external support was the Earth Dragon Demon King, a former family spirit beast that owed the Ye Family three favors. 372

Rise through Taihang and the Desert Sea

The Ye Family survived the Taihang beast tides, defeated hostile clans, and grew from a Foundation Establishment family into a Purple Palace family under Patriarch Ye Xingliu. Its territory and mortal population expanded alongside its cultivation base. 357

After relocating major operations to the Desert Sea, the family established Heavenly Phoenix Oasis, Sky Shadow Peak, Beast Valleys, markets, spirit fields, and affiliated-family networks. It used Nascent Soul ceremonies, trade fairs, body-tempering formations, and public displays of spirit beasts to establish authority over the region. 787 788 1059

Its later growth relied on accumulated inheritances from the Beast Wasteland, Pill Wasteland, Sword Wasteland, Talisman Wasteland, conquered clans, secret realms, and Heavenly General inheritances. 1222 1558

Spirit Transformation and cross-realm expansion

Following its Spirit Transformation rise, the Ye Family expanded Sanyuan Sacred City, upgraded its formations and spirit veins, and attracted cultivators from multiple regions to its ceremonies and markets. 1586 1644

The family prepared for eventual migration to the Spirit Realm by concealing its most important assets, including relocating the Beast-Link Tower under the protection of the fifth-rank Turtle Ancestor. It also established escape routes, maintained personnel inventories, and divided responsibilities between those designated to cross realms and those selected to preserve the family's kindling in lower realms. 1368 1726

Ye Qingnian later ascended to the Spirit Realm and began planning a safe ascension route for mortal-realm clansmen while concealing his Ye identity within the Tan Family's Spirit Mine Secret Realm. 1933 2088

The family additionally cultivated covert or affiliated foundations in the Lofty Furnace Realm, including forces connected to Lightwood Valley and the Horizontal Cloud Mountain Range. These networks were intended to develop into independent Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and eventually higher-level powers while retaining their Ye Family connection. 1771 1846

Patriarchal Succession

• Ye Xingliu — Led the family through its transition from Foundation Establishment to Purple Palace status and formally transferred the Golden Dragon Token to his successor. 357
• Ye Jingcheng — Became patriarch after Ye Xingliu and directed the family’s expansion, reforms, spirit-beast development, and rise to Spirit Transformation status. 357 1490
• Ye Qingnian — Appointed patriarch during a later clan assembly; he oversaw long-term expansion plans, spirit-disciple policy, resource allocation, and the Beast Hall’s establishment. 1303 1612
• Ye Jingyu — Served as acting head during major inheritance expeditions and assumed responsibility for protecting the family while senior members pursued the Heaven-Sealing Sect inheritance. 1726
• Ye Qingnian and Ye Jingyu — Continued jointly planning family succession, cross-realm migration, and post-smuggling arrangements after Ye Jingyu’s Spirit Transformation breakthrough. 1644

Organization

Bloodline and membership

Membership is verified through the ancestral hall and family token. Possessing even a trace of Ye Family blood qualifies a person as a bloodline member, while non-bloodline cultivators may still serve as Ye Family cultivators under greater restrictions. 236

The family cultivates and employs non-bloodline members according to talent and loyalty. Those with suitable roots may marry into the clan, join specialized halls, or enter the Earth Inner Hall; those with weaker prospects may work in marketplaces, shops, and family duties. 236 358 1048

The clan uses a combination of bloodline, technical aptitude, combat ability, temperament, and loyalty to determine long-term support. This approach allows artisans, body cultivators, sword cultivators, and members with weaker spiritual roots to attain important positions through merit. 1048 1303 1460

Inner Hall and Beast-Link Marks

The Inner Hall consists of trusted cultivators who possess Beast-Link Marks and meet the family’s loyalty requirements. Its members are protected by restrictive formations intended to prevent soul-searching and the exposure of family secrets. 375

A Beast-Link Mark is innate and manifests only once, but its capacity can be increased through the Beast-Link Tower. The mark allows a cultivator to form links with spirit beasts and is one of the family’s highest secrets. 354 836

• Beast-Link assessments examine loyalty before marks are bestowed. 836
• Mark length determines potential capacity; seven-inch marks are regarded as exceptional. 640 836 837
• The family can value five-spirit-root cultivators when their Beast-Link Marks, skills, and spirit beasts compensate for poor root aptitude. 1 1054
• The Beast-Link Tower was removed from immediate family operations and hidden under the Turtle Ancestor’s protection during preparations for the Heaven-Sealing Sect expedition. 1726
• The family regards the Beast-Link Tower and Beast-Link Marks as its paramount secrets, as exposure of its deeper methods could attract hostile Spirit Realm races and threaten its Mysterious Heaven Blood Treasure. 1260 1555

Halls and branch lineages

The Ye Family established dedicated halls to organize cultivation, production, discipline, and combat. Early appointments included an Alchemy Hall led by Ye Jingcheng, with Ye Xuefu as deputy hall master, and a Law Enforcement Hall led by Ye Haisheng. 722

Later reforms divided the clan into halls and branch lineages, including the Soaring Cloud, Yellow Sand, Distant Spirit, and White Poplar branches. Branch leaders receive stipends comparable to hall masters, while exceptional breakthroughs and spirit-child achievements earn additional rewards. 1048

The Beast Hall was established to manage ownerless spirit beasts and Sacred Mountains. Its beasts may be exchanged for family treasures and contribution points rather than treated as private property. 1612

The clan further strengthened its competitive structure by increasing stipends and rewards, holding Foundation Establishment competitions every ten years, Purple Palace competitions every twenty years, and Golden Core and Nascent Soul competitions every fifty years. High-ranking competitors may receive ancient treasures or spirit treasures. 1612

Cross-realm arrangements

The Ye Family divides its personnel between core clansmen designated for high-risk inheritance expeditions, lower-realm members responsible for preserving the family’s foundations, and hidden lineages tasked with establishing external powers. 1726 1771

Its Lofty Furnace Realm strategy relies on members and affiliated forces developing openly under separate identities, allowing the family to establish Dao lineages and cultivate local influence without exposing the full extent of its connection. 1771 1846 1935

Practices & Institutional Capabilities

Beast taming and breeding

Spirit beasts are the foundation of the Ye Family. The clan maintains Beast Valleys, breeds demon beasts and spirit fish, distributes suitable cubs to members, and uses selective breeding rather than relying on quantity alone. 1 605 787

• Spirit-beast quality can outweigh poor spiritual roots in the family’s cultivation policy. 1 10
• Breeding programs favor competition among stronger specimens, allowing superior bloodlines to produce more offspring. 605
• The family has raised formidable Beast Valley residents, including mammoth elephants, golden giant lizards, demon rocs, and thunder rocs. 788
• High-level spirit beasts may be inherited by selected spirit children to improve cultivation speed and breakthrough chances. 1047
• The Beast Spirit Seal allows the family to control pledged spirit beasts, including demon kings and great demons acquired from hostile forces. 1166
• The family continues to allocate advancement pills, treasure light, and specialized resources according to the combat potential and technical utility of individual contracted beasts. 2296

Alchemy and spirit plants

The Ye Family uses contribution points to reward alchemy and family service. Ye Jingcheng earned early contribution points through refining Spirit-Feeding Pills, including additional rewards for pill fragrance. 1

Its alchemical inheritance later became a core institutional strength, with the Alchemy Hall tasked with researching advanced pill formulas and supporting Purple Palace breakthroughs. 722

The family also maintains extensive spirit-herb gardens, secret realms, spirit fields, and spirit-rice production. Spirit Plant Hall members are expected to nurture increasingly valuable spirit herbs as the family expands. 1047 1555 1612

The Spirit Plant Hall employs the Spirit-Seed Grand Formation, imported spiritual soil, and specialized herb-nurturing methods such as the Greenwood Spirit-Urging Scripture and Hundred Herbs Origin-Nourishing Spirit Canon. These systems support the large-scale cultivation of materials for Infant Transformation Pills, Primordial Spirit Pills, and other high-rank medicines. 1612

Within Ye Jingcheng’s grotto-heaven, the family arranged the Spirit-Nurturing Sky-Patching Grand Formation to accelerate spirit-herb growth. The formation is especially valuable because the family must supply a growing number of Nascent Soul cultivators and demon emperors. 1437

Formations, body cultivation, and talismans

The Ye Family operates the Heavenly Gang Body-Tempering Grand Formation, later adapted into the Heavenly Gang Stairway for public ceremonies and cultivation. 788 1572

• The formation provides body-tempering and spiritual-energy benefits at different levels of pressure. 788
• The family’s body cultivators use advanced inheritances such as the Stellar Body-Tempering Art and Profound Wasteland Tyrant Body Secret Canon. 600 1222
• Talisman cultivation became a priority after the clan acquired superior talisman inheritances and established dedicated specialists. 788 876 1222
• Its inherited cultivation methods encompass sword cultivation, body cultivation, alchemy, artifact refinement, formations, spirit insects, and the five elements. 579 600 1222
• The Northern Abyss inheritance added six major battle formations: the Heaven-Breaking Battle Formation, Cloud-Water Battle Array, Fire Spirit Battle Formation, Vajra Battle Formation, Divine Lord Battle Array, and Divine Wood Battle Formation. 1423
• The Divine Lord Battle Array can withstand Spirit Transformation cultivators and, with sufficient members, even resist Void Refinement cultivators; the family also considered using demon emperors as substitutes for cultivators in these formations. 1423
• Ye Haicheng used Spirit Realm inheritance to refine Wondrous Art Spirit Puppets, while continuing research into Earth Armor Puppets and the Heavenly Puppet Mystic Heart Scripture. 1437 1561

Spirit children and focused cultivation

The spirit-child system prioritizes attainment and contribution rather than spiritual roots alone. Selected members receive resources intended to support them through late Purple Palace cultivation. 1047 1048

Spirit children are chosen across technical, cultivation, and combat paths, including the Alchemy, Artifact, Talisman, Formation, Spirit Plant, Clan School, Sword, Blade, and Law Enforcement branches. 1047

The family also employs fast-spirit cultivation and beast-seed policies to rapidly cultivate useful technical and combat personnel. Such methods are especially suited to sword, saber, alchemy, artifact, formation, and other specialized paths, though their known upper limit was Purple Palace middle stage. 1303

Resources and Holdings

Holding / Asset	Details
Soaring Cloud Peak	Early clan mountain and long-term ancestral center; its defenses, formations, and spirit-beast forces were repeatedly strengthened. 174 1057
Heavenly Phoenix Oasis	Core Desert Sea base; its spirit vein reached fifth-rank middle-grade status, supporting greater spirit-rice yield and spirit-plant growth. 1047
Water Marsh Mountain	Former Jia Family small world seized by the Ye Family; contains a fourth-rank pure-water spirit vein and a teleportation route toward the Central Region. 746
Jade Heaven	Grotto-heaven discovered by Ye Jingcheng and given to the family. 746
Sanyuan Sacred City	Major city expanded after the Spirit Transformation ceremony, with upgraded formations, spirit veins, markets, and teleportation access. 1586
Beast Valleys	Controlled areas for breeding, training, and housing spirit beasts, including former forbidden zones such as Elephant Valley. 787 1612
Beast-Link Tower	The family’s central inheritance treasure, capable of improving Beast-Link Mark capacity; it was later concealed under Turtle Ancestor’s protection to prevent its loss or exposure. 354 1726
Star Cave Heaven	Star Divine Lord inheritance controlled by Ye Tengchuan, including the Sword Tower, Sword Bridge, and Sword Valley; family members may challenge the Sword Tower once every ten years. 1280
Five Spirits Palace secret realm	Secret-realm complex containing the latter half of the Five Spirit True Canon, cultivation methods, treasures, and more than eighty additional inheritance clusters. 1633 1635
Spirit-Nurturing grotto-heaven formation	Ye Jingcheng’s grotto-heaven contains the Spirit-Nurturing Sky-Patching Grand Formation, which accelerates high-rank spirit-herb growth. 1437
Mysterious Heaven Spirit Vine	A millennium-cultivated spirit vine expected to bear fruits capable of greatly improving blood qi after a little more than a century. 2296

Documented Strength

Period	Recorded forces
Early Purple Palace period	Five Purple Palace cultivators, no Golden Core cultivators, and the Earth Dragon Demon King’s remaining favor as contingency support. 372
Nascent Soul period	Three Nascent Soul cultivators, thirteen Demon Emperors, seventeen Golden Core cultivators, 278 Purple Palace cultivators, 1,283 Foundation Establishment cultivators, and 43,000 Qi Refining clansmen. 1283
Later clan assembly	Three Nascent Soul cultivators, thirteen Demon Emperors, twenty Golden Core cultivators, 389 Purple Palace cultivators, 48,392 total cultivators, and 198 affiliated families. 1303
Spirit Transformation period	Five openly known Spirit Transformation battle powers, four hidden Spirit Transformation battle powers, and a sixth-rank spirit puppet. 1617
Later Spirit Transformation period	Ye Jingyu had reached Spirit Transformation; the Qingqiu Fox Saint had reached mid sixth-rank, two further sixth-rank battle powers had emerged, and Ye Haicheng, Ye Qingfeng, Uncle Long, and the Vermilion Luan were attempting further breakthroughs. 1644
Heaven-Sealing Sect expedition	Seven Ye Family Nascent Soul cultivators and three demon saints accompanied Ye Haicheng to search for the Heaven-Sealing Sect inheritance, while Ye Jingyu remained behind to oversee the family. 1726

Relationships

• Taiyi Sect — The Ye Family initially operated within Taiyi Sect’s sphere of influence, supplying cultivators during the Jade Dragon Valley purge and later enduring investigations after the beast tide. 63 230
• Medicine King Valley — Allied with the Ye Family in operations against demonic sects; Medicine King Valley operates a spirit-herb garden of which the Ye Family holds seventy percent. 1490 1567
• Wan Family — Desert Sea affiliate and marriage ally through Ye Qingnian and Wan Yulian; the Wan Family openly treats the Ye Family as the region’s sole dominant spirit-beast clan. 1047 1297
• Wei Family — Loyal subordinate family that credits the Ye Family with its survival and actively seeks marital ties with Ye Family Inner Hall members. 1057 1567
• Ma Family and Xu Family — Affiliated Desert Sea families whose tribute obligations, gifts, and political standing are shaped by Ye Family policy. 787 1047 1051
• Beast Spirit Sect — Major enemy purged by the Ye Family at Five-Colored Mountain, where the Ye Family sought to seize the sect’s young beasts and eliminate its remaining resistance. 1147
• Jade Soul Race — Historic enemy responsible for the destruction of the original Celestial Pivot Ye Family; later evidence suggested possible attempts to cross realms. 997 1637
• Mu Family — A hostile force whose patriarch suspects the Ye Family may possess Celestial Pivot inheritance or the family’s secret treasure; the Mu Family investigated the Ye Family’s Spirit Transformation ceremony accordingly. 1564
• Righteous Path Sect — Cooperated with Ye Family forces during the war against demonic sects, including operations against the Ghost Scorpion Sect in Southern Cloud Province. 1433
• Zou Family — Ancient allies bound by a ten-thousand-year agreement to support genuine Ye descendants. The Zou Family possesses the Treasure Lamp Spirit Pearl, which can investigate Ye bloodlines through its connection to the Mysterious Heaven Blood Treasure. 1933
• Tan Family — Ye Qingnian maintained a concealed master-disciple and marital connection with the Tan Family after ascending to the Spirit Realm, using the relationship to support his plans while avoiding exposure of his Ye identity. 1933 2088
• Divine Source Valley — A growing Spirit Realm ally that shared information concerning lower-realm opportunities and the widespread search for Ye Family and Heaven-Sealing Sect inheritances. 2262

Notable Quote

“A family is ten thousand hearts as one, it is the immortal path ever verdant, it is joining hands and strength...” 1042