Chapter Summaries

Mo Liuming killed Mo Liuyi and stole a rare rainbow egg before leaving for the Mo Family, while Soaring Cloud Peak began celebrating Patriarch Ye’s Purple Palace ceremony. The chapter ended with Chen Xuanzhou presenting the Chen Family’s gift as guests gathered and awaited the ceremony’s other powerful attendees.

• Mo Liuyi and Mo Liuming found an injured-looking anaconda swallowing a rainbow egg in a cave and killed it to claim the egg.
• Mo Liuming betrayed Mo Liuyi, killed him with a silver needle, took his belongings, and left for Green Willow Mountain with the egg.
• Nearly invisible mosquitoes watched Mo Liuming depart as Soaring Cloud Peak prepared for Patriarch Ye’s Purple Palace ceremony.
• Ye Haiyun announced arriving guests and their gifts while cultivators from several commanderies gathered on the mountain.
• Chen Xuanzhou arrived on behalf of the Chen Family and presented a second-rank Purple Heart Jade to congratulate Patriarch Ye.

The Ye Family hosted a lavish Purple Palace ceremony, using its guests, treasures, and displays of spiritual rain to demonstrate its growing prestige and expose tensions with the Xu and Mo Families. The festivities turned to a youth contest, where Ye Jingtai faced Azure Cloud Nunnery’s sword cultivator Nian Yun.

• The Idle Cloud Chu Family presented a second-rank Black Mulberry Fruit Tree, and the Ye Family welcomed Chu Xiyu with a spectacle of spiritual rain.
• The Xu and Mo Families presented gifts but received no auspicious display, reflecting their strained ties with the Ye Family.
• Mingyuan, Taihao Master, and Master Tianzhen arrived with third-rank gifts, and Ye Haicheng personally welcomed the Taiyi Sect representatives.
• Ye Haicheng toasted the guests as the Ye Family served spirit dishes and wine and spirit cranes performed in the sky.
• Azure Cloud Nunnery’s abbess requested a disciple match, and Ye Haicheng agreed.
• Nian Yun and Ye Jingtai began their contest; Nian Yun revealed herself as a sword cultivator, while Ye Jingtai displayed his spirit beasts.

Nian Yun lost her duel with Ye Jingtai, and Xu Wencheng challenged the Ye Family to an alchemy contest against Ye Jingcheng. As both alchemists refined Azure Spirit Pills, Xu Wencheng revealed thirteen pills and his Heart-Melting Flame, while Ye Jingcheng’s results remained unknown.

• Ye Jingtai used his magical artifacts and beasts to defeat Nian Yun, who accepted her loss and withdrew.
• Xu Wencheng proposed an alchemy contest with the Ye Family, naming Ye Jingcheng as his opponent and choosing Azure Spirit Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng agreed to compete, and Master Tianzhen inspected the isolating array before the alchemists began refining with two portions of materials and a one-and-a-half-hour limit.
• Ye Jingcheng used his natal spirit flame and Dual-Partition Alchemy Method to refine more than one batch in the Three Thousand Harmony Furnace.
• Xu Wencheng revealed thirteen spirit pills, nine with pill patterns, and displayed his Heart-Melting Flame, stunning the watching alchemists.

Ye Jingcheng decisively defeated Xu Wencheng in an alchemy contest, and Ye Haicheng opened Soaring Cloud Peak to visitors while announcing the Ye Family’s plans for a restaurant. At Green Willow Mountain, Mo Liuming’s attempt to claim a spirit egg failed as a beast tide led by the Three-Eyed Demon King descended on the region.

• Ye Jingcheng revealed eighteen Azure Spirit Pills refined in two batches at once, and Mingyuan confirmed his victory over Xu Wencheng.
• Xu Wenchang apologized for Xu Wencheng’s outburst, and Ye Haicheng announced the Ye Family’s plans to open a restaurant and display Spirit Beast Valley.
• Ye Haicheng led the guests through Spirit Beast Valley and said the formations on Soaring Cloud Peak would be activated to contain the spirit beasts.
• Mo Liuming tried to establish a Blood Pact with the multicolored egg, but its bloody light and the apparition of a Three-Eyed Demon Bird overwhelmed him.
• Mo Wenchen arrived and tried to restrain the egg, but it broke free as he sensed Snake-Scent Pills and Beast-Luring Pills nearby.
• Mo Wenchen discovered that a beast tide of demon birds and beasts had begun, while the ancestral hall’s jade-slip guardian lay dead and several jade slips had shattered.

A sudden beast tide struck Green Willow Mountain, and Mo Wenchen tried to save the Mo Family by reaching the hidden teleportation array while demonic beasts held him back. The Three-Eyed Demon King arrived as the family’s defenses collapsed, leaving Mo Wenchen beneath its descending claw.

• Mo Hongchou ordered the Mo Family to activate its formations, gather spiritual herbs, prepare an evacuation, and blame the Ye Family for the beast tide.
• Mo Wenchen attacked the Demon King’s spirit phantom around the multicolored egg, but a Blood Hawk disrupted him as the Three-Eyed Demon King approached.
• Mo Family cultivators fled toward the Xu Family while demonic beasts attacked them, and Mo Wenchen struggled toward Green Willow Lake.
• A chameleon dragon-lizard joined the Blood Hawk in delaying Mo Wenchen, while the Mo Family’s defensive line broke and its abandoned members realized their leaders had fled.
• The teleportation array surfaced in the Spirit Lake, but the Three-Eyed Demon King arrived and sent a colossal claw toward Mo Wenchen.

Mo Wenchen died as the Three-Eyed Demon King’s assault devastated Green Willow Lake, while black-robed cultivators escaped with the Mo Family’s teleportation formation. At the Ye Family’s Purple Palace ceremony, news of the beast tide and the Demon King’s attack on Mo territory left Mo Hongyuan accusing the Ye Family of conspiracy.

• The Three-Eyed Demon King killed Mo Wenchen, reclaimed the colored egg, and sent the Three-Eyed Roc Clan to slaughter the cultivators around Green Willow Lake.
• The Mystic Turtle broke Green Willow Lake’s formation, and black-robed cultivators killed the Mo Family guards before teleporting away and carrying off the formation.
• At the Ye Family’s Spirit Beast Valley, Ye Haicheng’s guests learned that a beast tide had erupted across the Taihang Mountain Range and that Three-Eyed Roc Demons were attacking Mo territory.
• Mo Hongyuan asked Master Tianzhen and the other Taiyi Sect Masters to save the Mo Family, but Master Tianzhen ordered the families to defend their territories and wait for a True Person.
• Mo Hongyuan accused the Ye Family of planning the beast tide because it began during their Purple Palace ceremony.

Mo Hongyuan tried to blame the Ye Family for the beast tide, but Ye Haicheng forced him to apologize and agree to compensation. As Taiyi Sect prepared the Ye Family’s defenses, Xuandao True Person and Miaofa True Person confronted the Three-Eyed Demon King, who defeated them and flew toward the Taihang Mountain Range.

• Mo Hongyuan accused the Ye Family of hiding Purple Palace cultivators, but Ye Haicheng crushed him with spiritual pressure until he offered compensation, and Master Tianzhen intervened to spare him.
• Taihao Master and Master Tianzhen built two third-tier defensive formations on Soaring Cloud Peak and told Ye Haicheng which Taiyi Sect True Persons were coming.
• Xuandao True Person and Miaofa True Person arrived at Green Willow Mountain to confront the Three-Eyed Demon King, who attacked them after accusing humans of stealing its descendant.
• The Three-Eyed Demon King overwhelmed Xuandao True Person and Miaofa True Person, then flew toward the Taihang Mountain Range with its roc birds.
• Xuandao True Person and Miaofa True Person realized the Mo Family’s blood pact had triggered the Demon King’s soul shadow and caused the beast-tide slaughter.

The Ye Family’s forces attacked the Mo Family’s East Sea stronghold during a beast tide, using powerful spirit beasts to overwhelm its defenders and kill Mo Xingyan. As the assault unfolded, Ye Jingcheng’s Five Poison Bees were sent out to help protect the Ye Family’s wider territory.

• Mo Family cultivators at the teleportation platform prepared for Ancestor Wenchen, but ten unknown cultivators in Spirit-Isolating Robes appeared instead.
• Mo Hongyou ordered the defenders to attack, but the newcomers released nearly twenty spirit beasts, including the third-rank Manflame Green Ox and Star-Eyed Iron Ape, which broke the Mo Family’s defenses.
• The Star-Eyed Iron Ape bewitched Mo Hongyou, while the spirit beasts slaughtered the Mo Family cultivators and the black-robed leader trapped the island beneath a vast spiritual net.
• Mo Xingyan emerged from seclusion in a frenzy after forcing his breakthrough, but the Star-Eyed Iron Ape and Manflame Green Ox defeated his magic treasures, and a Ye Family flying sword killed him.
• Ye Jingcheng dispatched his two thousand Five Poison Bees as the Ye Family prepared to protect towns beyond Soaring Cloud Peak during the beast tide.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingli led Ye Family cultivators through the territory to hunt demon beasts, capturing Cloud-Horn Deer and later collecting Cold Jade Toads. After half a month of successful sweeps, they were called back to the clan mountain because a True Person had arrived.

• Ye Jingcheng used Five Poison Bees to drive the Cloud-Horn Deer into a frenzy, then killed their king and recovered its second-order inner core.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingli captured seven stag carcasses, five does, and ten fawns, and Ye Jingcheng suggested Ye Jingli choose a promising fawn.
• Ye Jingcheng led the group to further hunting grounds after discovering that the Cloud-Horn Deer had destroyed the spirit fields.
• Ye Jingli praised Ye Jingcheng's Five Poison Bees, and Ye Jingcheng promised to give him a Spirit-Transforming Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingli hunted Cold Jade Toads near a pool until a clan member reported that they had to return because a True Person had arrived at the Ye clan mountain.

Ye Jingcheng reported to Xuandao True Person and Miaofa True Person that the beast tide likely began when a Demon King sought a treasure, while the Ye Family concealed its involvement. The True Persons accepted the explanation, and Xuandao True Person invited Ye Jingcheng to consider joining the Taiyi Sect before departing.

• Ye Jingcheng arrived at Soaring Cloud Peak and saw signs of the beast tide’s damage as he made his way to the discussion hall.
• Ye Jingcheng joined the meeting with Xuandao True Person, Miaofa True Person, and Ye Family leaders, who questioned him about the suspicious beast tide.
• Ye Jingcheng said the beasts came from the outer Taihang Mountain Range and suggested a Demon King’s search for treasure had triggered the tide.
• Xuandao True Person said the account matched their investigation and promised the Mo Family would also need to explain itself.
• Xuandao True Person praised Ye Jingcheng’s alchemy and hinted that he could join the Taiyi Sect, but Ye Haicheng said Jingcheng was a candidate for the Ye Family patriarch.
• The two True Persons and the other guests left, and Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family leaders finally relaxed.

After the beast tide, Ye Xingliu reviewed the Ye Family’s losses and assigned plans for rebuilding and expanding its markets. Ye Jingcheng helped shape the new restaurant’s promotion, and Ye Xingliu told him that a teleportation array was being prepared to bring his spirit beasts back.

• Ye Haiyun reported the beast tide’s losses, and Ye Xingliu told Ye Jingcheng to double the figures before submitting them to the sect.
• Ye Xingliu ordered cultivators over twenty to help mortals with spring plowing and announced that the family restaurant would open in Taihang Marketplace.
• Ye Xingliu assigned Ye Jingcheng to oversee the Ye Family’s first three-year rotation at the pill-and-artifact shop being opened with the Chu Family in Taichang Market.
• Ye Jingcheng proposed giving customers a Red-Node Fish spirit cuisine dish for qualifying purchases, and Ye Xingliu approved the plan.
• Ye Xingliu told Ye Jingcheng that the family was preparing a teleportation array so his spirit beasts could return, and praised how well he had raised them.

Ye Jingcheng observed signs that the Peachwood Demon's blossoms were forming lifespan-increasing spirit fruits and celebrated the Three-Color Cloud Deer's breakthrough. He discovered that the Six-Color Bee Queen was about to attempt Foundation Establishment and secured its hive so it could break through undisturbed.

• Ye Jingcheng watched the Peachwood Demon drive the Five Poison Bees between the peach trees and sensed strong vitality in its blossoms, suggesting lifespan-increasing spirit fruits might be forming.
• The Three-Color Cloud Deer emerged with a stronger aura, apparently reaching the eighth level of Qi Refinement, and Ye Jingcheng rewarded and trained it.
• Ye Jingcheng inspected his spirit fields and noted growing demand for Spring Welcoming Tea as the Ye Family planned to serve it at its restaurants.
• The Six-Color Bee Queen told Ye Jingcheng that it was about to break through, prompting him to consider breeding stronger bees after it reached Foundation Establishment.
• Ye Jingcheng gave the queen an Azure Water Pill and a Spirit Nurturing Pill, cleared the other bees from the hive, and set up a formation to protect its breakthrough.

Ye Jingcheng returned to White Cloud Town with Ye Jingyu to recruit children with spiritual roots, and revisiting his mortal home stirred memories and changed his view of the bond between immortals and mortals. After sharing tea with the aged town chief, he began testing the chief’s household and offered nearby families the same chance.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu arrived in White Cloud Town, where Ye Jingcheng recalled his childhood and the town’s Immortal Hall.
• Ye Jingcheng visited the old town chief, recognized by his childhood name Liu, and helped him sit up before serving him tea.
• Ye Jingcheng reflected that avoiding his mortal past might have harmed his Dao Heart and felt content while sitting with the town chief.
• Ye Jingcheng offered to test the town chief’s children for spiritual roots, and invited the waiting middle-aged men to bring their children as well.

Ye Jingcheng tested the children of White Cloud Town and discovered that Ye Ting had four spirit roots. After defending her from her relatives’ contempt, he sent her to the Immortal Hall for the required second test and rang the bell to summon children from the surrounding villages.

• Ye Jingcheng used a spirit-testing disk to test the town mayor’s children, while warning that children under nine were too young to test safely.
• The first children showed no spirit roots, but the frail Ye Ting produced a faint, four-colored glow indicating four spirit roots.
• Ye Jingcheng rebuked the women who looked down on Ye Ting and told her to report to the Immortal Hall for another test the next day.
• The old town mayor told Ye Jingcheng that Ye Ting’s father had been his youngest son and had died.
• Ye Jingcheng left the courtyard feeling his state of mind had improved, then rang the Immortal Bell to summon children from nearby villages for testing.

During the Immortal Ascension Assembly, Ye Jingcheng discovered two children with spiritual roots and captured a colony of Mountain-Devouring Rats for the Ye Family. On returning to the Immortal Hall, he learned that a clan member with a variant spirit root had been found.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu tested the children at White Cloud Town, where Ye Ting and Ye Ming displayed spiritual roots.
• Ye Jingcheng left the assembly after a villager reported giant rats destroying bamboo in Cloud Rain Village.
• Ye Jingcheng identified the creatures as Mountain-Devouring Rats and captured the colony with his Five Poison Bees.
• Ye Jingcheng rewarded the villager with permission to apply for a manor and returned him to the Immortal Hall.
• Ye Jingyu told Ye Jingcheng that a clan member with a variant spirit root had been discovered.

Ye Jingcheng brought three new spirit-root cultivators, including the rare Thunder Spirit Root bearer Ye Hu, to Soaring Cloud Peak, where the Ye Family tested their bloodline and arranged their place in the Lineage. The family concealed Ye Hu’s talent, and Ye Jingcheng was sent to Spirit Beast Valley to help set up a teleportation array.

• Ye Jingyu gave Ye Ting, Ye Ming, and Ye Hu fasting pills and reassured Ye Hu that his family would be provided for in town.
• Ye Jingcheng arrived at Soaring Cloud Peak with the three children, and Ye Xingliu gathered the elders to conduct the Blood-Drip Token Test.
• The test confirmed that Ye Ting, Ye Ming, and Ye Hu all had Ye Family bloodline, and Ye Haiyun took charge of their arrangements.
• The Ye Family concealed Ye Hu’s Thunder Spirit Root, while Ye Jingcheng noted that this year’s assemblies had found an unusually large number of spirit-root cultivators.
• Ye Xingliu sent Ye Jingcheng to Spirit Beast Valley to help set up the Lineage’s teleportation array.

Ye Jingcheng joined Ye Xuecang and two formation masters to restore a seized teleportation formation beneath Soaring Cloud Peak. After they inspected the Space Jade, the formation was ready for a teleportation test.

• Ye Xuecang explained to Ye Jingcheng how Turtle Ancestor’s Grotto-Heaven and the Ye Family’s formations concealed the underground halls, then rewarded him with five thousand contribution points and Floating Cloud Tea.
• Ye Xuecang introduced Ye Jingcheng to Haiyu and Hai Fei, who entered the hidden chamber to repair the damaged teleportation formation.
• Ye Haiyu and Hai Fei restored the formation’s base and inscriptions while Ye Jingcheng waited and studied pill formulas.
• Ye Xuecang concealed the work with rain over Soaring Cloud Peak as Ye Haiyu and Hai Fei inspected the Space Jade and sent its light into the void.
• Ye Haiyu announced that the Space Jade inspection was complete and that the teleportation test could begin.

The Ye Family tested the teleportation array, confirmed it could send Five Poison Bees and receive cultivators, but found it damaged and in need of repairs. A Hidden Peak cultivator reported that the Eastern Sea offered room to grow but faced dangerous beast tides, and the family had five years to deal with Mo Hongyuan before he might suspect the truth.

• Ye Haiyu and Ye Haifei activated the Space Jade and linked the teleportation array to the Eastern Sea, though the array's materials showed signs of damage.
• Ye Jingcheng sent five Five Poison Bees through the array, and the test succeeded but left cracks in one corner.
• Ye Haifei explained that repairs would require inferior Black Cloud Iron, limiting future use to four people per trip and requiring repairs after each use.
• Ye Xingyu and two other cultivators returned through the array and reported that the Azure Cloud Sea Region had no great sects but faced dangerous beast tides.
• A Hidden Peak cultivator said Ye Family would proceed gradually in the Eastern Sea and needed to eliminate Mo Hongyuan within five years, since he was the last person there who knew the truth.

The Ye Family discussed the danger posed by Mo Hongyuan, who had retreated to Taichang Market, and reviewed the valuable resources they had seized from the Mo Family in the Eastern Sea. Ye Jingcheng received spirit beasts, merit records, and storage pouches from two Foundation Establishment cultivators, and prepared to examine the split soul to learn what happened in the Eastern Sea.

• Ye Haiyu told Ye Xuecang that Mo Hongyuan had handed over leadership of the Mo Family and moved to its shop in Taichang Market.
• Ye Xuecang ordered Ye Jingcheng to watch Mo Hongyuan and look for a way to draw him out, while the family handled the rest.
• Ye Jingcheng proposed targeting the Mo Family's other clan mountains, and Ye Xuecang agreed the idea had merit.
• Ye Haiyan reported the Ye Family's Eastern Sea gains, including a Purple Sun Fruit tree, a mid-grade spirit stone mine, and nearly two-thousand-year-old Purple Jade Ginseng.
• Ye Haiyan gave Ye Jingcheng spirit beast bags, jade slips recording contribution rewards, and two storage pouches taken from Mo Family cultivators slain by his spirit beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng accepted the rewards and prepared to inspect the split soul in a spirit beast pouch.

Ye Jingcheng rewarded his spirit beasts and examined the storage pouches recovered from the Mo Family, finding a pill made from a demonic beast’s inner core and a mirror artifact that revealed images from three hours earlier. He finished the chapter beginning his inspection of the second pouch.

• Ye Jingcheng prepared spirit cuisine and pills for his spirit beasts, then infused them with Treasure Radiance to help them cultivate.
• Ye Jingcheng tended the Peachwood Demon with spirit water, Treasure Radiance, and a mid-grade wood-attribute spirit stone, then summoned the Jade Ring Rat.
• Ye Jingcheng opened the first storage pouch and found four Evergreen Wood chests containing pills, talismans, artifacts, spirit herbs, jade slips, and spirit stones.
• Ye Jingcheng recognized an unfamiliar second-tier pill as one refined from a demonic beast’s inner core and planned to ask Ye Haiyun about it.
• Ye Jingcheng tested a mirror artifact, discovered it showed imprints from three hours earlier, and named it the Retrospective Mirror.
• Ye Jingcheng finished checking the first pouch and began examining the second storage pouch.