Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng observed his improved divine sense and tested the Three-Color Cloud Deer after it broke through, while the Jade Ring Rat and Golden-Scaled Beast also advanced. With the Li Family under pressure and a new move being arranged, Ye Jingcheng gained confidence in luring the enemy.

• Ye Jingcheng used his enhanced divine sense to explore the hidden passages beneath the Ye Family estate and reflected on his progress cultivating the Heavenly Soul Art.
• The Three-Color Cloud Deer broke through, and Ye Jingcheng tested its strengthened abilities before notifying Ye Xinghe to proceed with their careful arrangements.
• Ye Jingcheng noted that the Li Family had stopped selling pills at street stalls after the Xu Family and Mo Family opposed its price-cutting.
• The Jade Ring Rat broke through, and Ye Jingcheng rewarded it with Spirit Nurturing Pills for its improved warning abilities.
• The Golden-Scaled Beast broke through and demonstrated stronger Earth Spike and Golden Armor Techniques, giving Ye Jingcheng more confidence in luring the enemy.

Ye Jingcheng received a Golden Bell Shield talisman and a Spirit-Protecting Pendant, then left with another cultivator to carry out the Ye Family’s plan. As the Li Family prepared to act, Mo Wenchen concealed himself, but an old man at Soaring Cloud Peak used a Sea-Sky Leech to mark his location.

• Ye Jingyu gave Ye Jingcheng a Four-Square Spirit Beast Bag, a Golden Bell Shield talisman, and a Spirit-Protecting Pendant, which Ye Jingcheng refined before setting out.
• Two veiled figures departed by spirit boat with a Jade Ring Rat, while Li Mutian received their departure notice and prepared for the plan despite his doubts.
• Mo Hongyuan asked Mo Wenchen how the Mo Family should respond to the Ye and Li Families’ moves, and Mo Wenchen told him to watch the person buying Blue Wave Wine and keep a low profile.
• Mo Wenchen raised a spiritual barrier over the spirit lake and teleported away using an array.
• An old man at Soaring Cloud Peak used a mirror on his Sea-Sky Leech and discovered that it had marked Mo Wenchen’s location.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xinghe flew into an ambush at Tiger Roar Pass, where formations, illusion arts, and a mysterious silver needle attacked them. After facing three cultivators, Ye Jingcheng countered an eerie gong with his Spirit-Shocking Drum as the battle continued.

• Ye Xinghe used a Formation-Breaking Talisman to breach the first formation, while Ye Jingcheng resisted an illusion and blocked a silver needle with his defenses and spirit beasts.
• Ye Xinghe broke the gravity formation, and the pair encountered Li Yufu, Li Muhe, and a ghost-eyed cultivator.
• Ye Xinghe crushed a jade slip to alert the sect, alarming the ghost-eyed cultivator, who attacked with illusion arts and a gong.
• The gong’s sound enraged Ye Xinghe’s two Qi Refinement spirit beasts and affected the others, so Ye Jingcheng struck his Spirit-Shocking Drum to counter it.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family fought off the Li Family and a black-robed blood cultivator while concealing their strongest support. Turtle Ancestor revealed its breakthrough and battled Xu Chunlin, while Ye Jingcheng killed Li Yufu and the evil cultivator, leaving Li Muhe trapped as he learned the Ye Family had applied to become a Purple Palace family.

• Ye Jingcheng used the Blackwood Coffin to capture the evil cultivator’s silver needle while he and the Crimson Flame Fox fought off attacks, but Li Muhe and Li Yufu’s forces gradually gained the advantage.
• Ye Jingcheng secretly activated a Corpse Spear talisman treasure, and the evil cultivator exposed his plan, prompting the enemies to attack while he stood still.
• Turtle Ancestor appeared to block the attacks and began battling the black-robed Xu Chunlin, who tried to leave but was forced to face it.
• Ye Jingcheng sent the Corpse Spear after Li Yufu, piercing his defenses and killing him.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Blackwood Coffin and his spirit beasts to help the Corpse Spear kill the black-robed evil cultivator, while Ye Jingyu and Ye Xingliu blocked Li Muhe’s escape.
• Li Muhe accused the Ye Family of concealing its strength, and Ye Jingcheng revealed that the family had applied to the Taiyi Sect for promotion to a Purple Palace family.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family defeated Li Muhe, but Taihao Master revealed that an unidentified Purple Palace cultivator had escaped after being injured. The Ye Family gained authority over the Li Family’s affairs, and Taihao Master privately offered to recommend Ye Jingcheng to the sect.

• Ye Jingcheng received praise from Ye Xingliu for his battle, alchemy, and strategy, then accepted three storage pouches and healed Lizard Elder and the Blood Hawk.
• Taihao Master arrived with Turtle Ancestor and revealed that the escaped Purple Palace cultivator was not Xu Chunlin, though he had been wounded and had fled using a blood escape technique.
• Taihao Master gave the Ye Family full authority to deal with the Li Family and granted them three months to settle their affairs before returning to Jade Dragon Valley.
• Ye Xinghe handed Taihao Master jade slips recording the battle and the appearances of Li Yufu and Li Muhe.
• Before departing, Taihao Master privately offered to recommend Ye Jingcheng to the sect.

After Taihao Master departed, Ye Jingcheng declined the prospect of becoming his disciple, and Ye Xingliu assigned the family members tasks to secure the Li Family's resources. Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu reached Cloud-Spreading Valley, where the Ye Family had already taken control, but the valley still needed a Foundation Establishment guard.

• Ye Xingliu asked Ye Jingcheng what he thought of Taihao Master's offer, and Ye Jingcheng said the True Person and the sect were unsuitable for him.
• Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng healing pills and ordered him and Ye Jingyu to protect Cloud-Spreading Valley and preserve its spirit herbs.
• Ye Xingliu sent Ye Xinghe to Taihang Marketplace to announce Ye Haicheng's breakthrough and invite people to the Purple Palace Assembly.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu traveled by spirit boat toward Cloud-Spreading Valley while Ye Jingcheng recovered his spiritual energy and set his spirit beasts to guard the boat.
• Ye Jingyu recognized the Ye Family's Seven Enigmatic Mist-Rain Array around Cloud-Spreading Valley, confirming that the Ye Family had taken control of it.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu joined Ye Xingqun at Buyun Valley after the Ye Family took control of it, and Ye Jingcheng inspected the valley’s vast medicinal gardens. Inside the extravagant Spirit-Raising Garden, he found valuable ancient herbs and a Heavenly Spirit Fruit tree, while the Heavenly Crimson Flower brought him closer to completing the ingredients for a second-rank Crimson Flame Pill.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu arrived at Buyun Valley and revealed to Ye Xingqun that the Ye Family had authority to deal with the Li Family.
• Ye Xingqun said the Ye Family had captured the valley but suffered losses because the Li Family had uprooted or destroyed spiritual herbs during its retreat.
• Ye Jingcheng surveyed the valley’s medicinal gardens and followed Ye Xingqun into the walled Spirit-Raising Garden.
• Ye Jingcheng recognized three thousand-year herbs, two eight-hundred-year herbs, and a Heavenly Spirit Fruit tree inside the garden.
• Ye Jingcheng realized the Heavenly Crimson Flower could serve as an ingredient for the Crimson Flame Fox’s second-rank pill formula, alongside the Fox Red Grass he had already obtained.

Ye Jingcheng opened the storage bags of the cultivators he had defeated and sorted through their artifacts, formations, and other treasures. The black-robed evil cultivator’s unexpectedly rich stash left him especially pleased.

• Ye Jingcheng found an Azure Cloud Ring in Li Yufu’s storage bag and decided to keep it.
• Ye Jingcheng took Li Muhe’s Golden-Faced Silver-Ring Saber, pill furnace, Heavenly Net Formation, and Spirit-Hiding Grand Formation, while planning to sell or give other items to the clan.
• Ye Jingcheng opened the black-robed evil cultivator’s storage pouch and found spirit stones, secret arts, spirit herbs, special materials, and several powerful artifacts.
• Ye Jingcheng was delighted by the black-robed evil cultivator’s Evil Ghost Gong, Black-Green Shield, Crimson Crab Claw, and second-tier spirit boat.

Ye Jingcheng organized the treasures he had gathered and guarded Cloud-Spreading Valley while the Ye Family expanded its holdings and transplanted ancient spirit herbs. Before departing, Ye Xinghan warned him that the Lineage’s Blood Pact had failed on a Wood Demon, leaving Ye Jingcheng eager to try using his Treasure Book while regretting that he had been assigned to guard the valley.

• Ye Jingcheng sorted his magical artifacts, kept the ones he could use, and stored the rest with other spoils to sell to the Lineage.
• He found only bedroom arts in the jade slips, then spent several peaceful days cultivating and refining pills in Cloud-Spreading Valley.
• Ye Xinghan arrived with Ye Jingyu and Lineage cultivators to transplant ancient spirit herbs, and Ye Jingcheng learned that the Ye Family had occupied Cloud-Spreading Mountain and gained control of three second-tier spirit veins.
• Ye Xinghan transplanted two thousand-year-old herbs and a nine-hundred-year-old Earth Cloud Ganoderma while Ye Jingyu prepared to escort the group back.
• Before leaving, Ye Xinghan warned Ye Jingcheng that the Lineage’s Blood Pact had failed on a Wood Demon and cautioned him to watch for one pretending to be bound.
• Ye Jingcheng thought he might succeed with the Treasure Book, but regretted having said that Cloud-Spreading Valley suited his cultivation when the Lineage assigned him to guard it.

Ye Jingcheng absorbed Jade Soul Pills and advanced his divine sense to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, gaining the ability to cultivate the soul-splitting art. After Ye Haiyi arrived to take over Cloud-Spreading Valley, Ye Jingcheng set off for Soaring Cloud Peak to attend Ye Jingyong’s wedding and investigate the wood demon.

• Ye Jingcheng’s divine sense broke through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage after he absorbed the Jade Soul Pills refined from Jade Soul Fruits.
• Ye Jingcheng realized he could now cultivate the soul-splitting secret art and was pleased that his Beast-Link Mark had accelerated his spiritual energy cultivation.
• Ye Jingcheng left his cabin and congratulated Ye Jingyu on breaking through to the sixth level of Qi Refinement while cultivating in Cloud-Spreading Valley.
• Ye Haiyi arrived and told Ye Jingcheng to return for Ye Jingyong’s wedding banquet while he took charge of the valley.
• Ye Jingcheng replaced the Heavenly Crimson Flowers for Crimson Flame Pills, gathered his spirit beasts, and departed for Soaring Cloud Peak with Ye Jingyu and two younger clansmen.

Ye Jingcheng returned to the Ye Family and learned that an ancestor would summon him in a few days. After discovering that his Treasure Book recognized the captured wood demon as a spirit plant, he asked to exchange for it and received permission to take it from the family herb garden.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu returned to the Ye Family aboard a second-rank spirit vessel, and Ye Jingcheng encouraged her to pursue cultivation.
• Ye Jingcheng reported his mission and the Heavenly Crimson Flower to Ye Xingliu, who told him that a family ancestor would summon him soon.
• Ye Jingcheng asked whether the family had subdued the wood demon, and Ye Xingliu said they planned to imprison or kill it.
• Ye Jingcheng's Treasure Book revealed the wood demon's spirit image as a peach tree bearing spirit flat peaches.
• Ye Jingcheng asked to exchange for the wood demon, and Ye Xingliu approved the request and gave him a jade slip to collect it from the family spirit herb garden.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu discovered that the Wood Demon had escaped the Spirit Herb Garden and was hiding beneath the council hall. Ye Jingcheng captured it and bound it with a Soul Pact, leaving it under his control in his courtyard.

• Ye Jingcheng used his divine sense to find the Wood Demon underground, and he and Ye Xingliu forced it to the surface and trapped it.
• Ye Jingcheng took the captured Wood Demon to his courtyard and planted its true body in the ground.
• Ye Jingcheng formed a blood pact and Soul Pact with the Wood Demon, which revealed a spirit-nurturing liquid recipe in his Treasure Book.
• The Wood Demon tried to flee after Ye Jingcheng removed its restraints, but he used the Soul Pact to make it submit.

Ye Jingcheng kept the Wood Demon bound and wore it down while settling his spirit beasts into their new rooms at Soaring Cloud Peak. Ye Xinghan and Ye Jingcheng’s brothers visited, and the chapter ended as the brothers gathered to celebrate.

• Ye Jingcheng discovered that the Wood Demon escaped arrays and blood pacts by draining their spiritual energy, and he used the Soul Pact to keep it trapped.
• Ye Jingcheng gave the Golden-Scaled Beast, Jade-Scale Snake, Three-Color Cloud Deer, and Crimson Flame Fox their own rooms, then had the Golden-Scaled Beast attack the Wood Demon when it moved.
• Ye Xinghan arrived to warn Ye Jingcheng about the Wood Demon, but found it subdued; Ye Jingcheng served him Cloud Mountain Tea while they discussed spirit plants and blood pacts.
• Ye Jingcheng welcomed Ye Jingyu, Ye Jingyong, and Ye Jingli to his courtyard and offered them tea.
• Ye Jingli brought wine, food, and spirit snacks, then declared that the brothers would each drink a jug without using spiritual energy to dispel the wine.

Ye Jingcheng celebrated Ye Jingyong’s upcoming wedding with his brothers, then inspected his growing spirit-bee colony and continued developing his cultivation and spirit beasts. After visiting family elders, he met Ye Xuecang at the spiritual lake and entered the mysterious space within it.

• Ye Jingli joined Ye Jingcheng, Ye Jingyu, and Ye Jingyong for a feast, where he described the Xu Family’s support for Li Family remnants in Taihang Marketplace.
• After the others left, Ye Jingcheng found more than two thousand Five Poison Bee pupae, tended his Jade Ring Rat, and discovered that the Wood Demon still sought to break their soul contract.
• Ye Jingcheng cultivated his four aspects, visited Ye Haiyun, Ye Haiping, and Ye Haitian, then received a summons from Ye Xuecang.
• Ye Xuecang parted the spiritual lake into two paths, and Ye Jingcheng stepped inside to speak with him.

Ye Xuecang and Ye Haicheng explained that the Ye Family would present Ye Jingcheng as possessing an acquired Bloodwood Spirit Body and support him as a family-head candidate. They also sought his help for the clan’s plans at next year’s Purple Palace Assembly, then sent him back to find preparations underway for tomorrow’s wedding.

• Ye Jingcheng entered the underground hall and learned that the Ye Family planned to record his abilities as an acquired Bloodwood Spirit Body to explain his rapid cultivation and protect his secrets.
• Ye Xuecang named Ye Jingcheng a family-head candidate, and Ye Jingcheng accepted after hearing that the role would help support his cultivation and four beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng revealed that he could heal third-tier spirit beasts, and Ye Xuecang said the family would borrow his spirit beasts for next year’s Purple Palace Assembly.
• Ye Xuecang gave Ye Jingcheng a Spirit-Transforming Pill formula and a Beast-Link Body secret art suited to his Golden-Scaled Beast.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to find the mountain decorated for the wedding, with festive preparations and cultivators from the Chu Family gathered nearby.

Ye Jingyong married Chu Yanliu in a lively wedding on Soaring Cloud Peak, where the Chu Family also raised a proposal to open a shop with the Ye Family in Taichang Market. After Chu Xiyu left, the Ye family members discussed the risks and agreed to investigate the offer while prioritizing their upcoming Purple Palace grand ceremony.

• Ye Jingyong welcomed Chu Yanliu to Soaring Cloud Peak, and the two families celebrated their wedding with a feast.
• Ye Jingcheng received a summons and went to the council hall, where Chu Xiyu proposed that the Ye and Chu Families jointly open a shop in Taichang Market.
• Chu Xiyu explained that the Chu Family had found a shop and offered to pay forty percent of the rent, while Ye Xingliu said he needed to consult his eldest uncle and consider the risks of transporting goods.
• Chu Xiyu invited the Ye Family to the Chu Family's Purple Palace grand ceremony two years later, and Ye Xingliu accepted.
• Ye Jingcheng advised the family to investigate the Chu Family's motives and seek better terms, while Ye Haiyun urged them to delay and focus on their own Purple Palace grand ceremony.

Ye Jingcheng emerged from two months of cultivation having split his soul and refined two Five Poison Bees into soul avatars. He tended his spirit beasts and expanded his Five Poison Bee hive, leaving him better prepared for the Ye Family’s coming operation.

• Ye Jingcheng stopped the Golden-Scaled Beast from attacking two nimble Five Poison Bees and recalled them to his hand.
• Ye Jingcheng explained that he had successfully split his soul and refined the two bees into soul avatars for cultivation.
• Ye Jingcheng fed his spirit beasts, assessed their progress, and gave each of the four beasts a Spirit-Transforming Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng found that his hive had produced a larger batch of Five Poison Bees, including ten queen bees and thirty male bees.
• Ye Jingcheng selected twelve talented worker bees, fed them powdered Spirit-Transforming Pills, and reinforced his Blood Pacts to secure control of the hive.

After more than a year of secluded cultivation, Ye Jingcheng had advanced in alchemy and watched the Peachwood Demon begin to sprout and bloom. He received the Purple Mist Fruit and learned that he would soon be able to take three spirit beasts and a split soul on an outing.

• Ye Jingcheng reflected on his cultivation, alchemy progress, and the growth of his Five Poison Bee divided souls as the Purple Palace ceremony drew near.
• Ye Jingcheng saw that the Peachwood Demon had sprouted and formed flower buds, and it told him it could bear peaches.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the Jade Ring Rat and traveled to the spirit lake to deliver Snake-Scent Pills, Beast-Luring Pills, and Falling Cloud Powder to Ye Xuecang.
• Ye Xuecang gave Ye Jingcheng new spirit herbs and the second-rank Purple Mist Fruit, leaving only a three-hundred-year-old Tricolor Flower for his second-rank Crimson Flame Pills.
• Ye Xuecang told Ye Jingcheng that in half a month he could borrow the Jade-Scale Snake, Crimson Flame Fox, and Golden-Scaled Beast, and send one split soul along.

As the Ye Family prepared for Ye Haicheng’s Purple Palace ceremony and a major family assembly, Mo Wenchen and Xu Chunlin chose to stay away while plotting against the Ye Family’s new businesses. The assembly began with ancestor worship and a report on the family’s cultivators, craftspeople, and resources.

• Mo Wenchen learned who the Ye Family had invited, declined to attend the ceremony, and used a silver mirror to check the three cultivators who left before entering mid-stage Purple Palace cultivation.
• Xu Chunlin decided not to attend the gathering and ordered Xu Wenchang to have Wencheng challenge Ye Jingcheng in alchemy and to investigate the Ye Family’s Spirit Beast Valley.
• Xu Wenchang told Xu Chunlin that the Li Family girl with a wind spirit root had married Ji Yu and wanted the Ye Family destroyed; Xu Chunlin ordered her kept out of sight until she reached Foundation Establishment.
• Ye Jingcheng joined the Ye Family’s assembly on Soaring Cloud Peak, where the clansmen performed ancestor worship before Ye Xingliu began the family’s report.
• Ye Xingliu announced the Ye Family’s totals for cultivators, alchemists and other craftspeople, spirit mountains, and resource sites.

Ye Haicheng reminded the Ye Family of its past humiliation by the Xu Family as the clan announced new benefits for its members and spirit beasts. The assembly ended with the family preparing for Ye Haicheng’s Purple Palace ceremony and carrying out its spirit-beast plans.

• Ye Xingliu described the Ye Family’s growth, and Ye Haicheng urged everyone to remain vigilant and remember how Xu Wenchang had once joined the Li and Chen Families in forcing the clan into a corner.
• Ye Xingliu announced that the Ye Family had advanced into a Purple Palace family, increased cultivator stipends, and added rewards for clan members who had children with spirit roots.
• Ye Xingliu announced that registered spirit beasts at the peak of the first rank or above would receive half a cultivator’s stipend, then asked everyone to hand over their high-rank spirit beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng handed over his spirit beasts and hid a soul fragment in a pouch with the Crimson Flame Fox, while trusting the family’s preparations for its plan.
• Ye Xingliu ended the assembly and directed the elders to prepare accommodations, feasts, and performances for Ye Haicheng’s Purple Palace ceremony.