Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng received supplies and a secret message from the Ye Family, then sold pills and studied the Jade-Scale Pill formula at Taichang Market. As he prepared to close the shop, Chu Yanqing confronted him, asking why he would not see her.

• Ye Xingyi gave Ye Jingcheng spirit tea and spirit honey from the family and told him to send the family a letter after emerging from seclusion; Ye Jingcheng introduced him to the Bloodrage Pill formula.
• Ye Jingcheng agreed to watch the shop's second floor while Ye Xingyi refined pills, then found spirit apricots, Origin-Returning Milk, and a jade slip among the family supplies.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered that the jade slip named a street stall, realizing the Ye Family had secretly sent other cultivators to help deal with Mo Hongyuan.
• Ye Jingcheng studied the Jade-Scale Pill formula and sold several spirit pills, including a Bloodrage Pill, while limiting sales of the Jade Soul Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng prepared to close the shop, but Chu Yanqing appeared across the corridor and asked why he refused to meet her.

Ye Jingcheng suspected that the Mo Family had deliberately revealed its Supreme Mystery Wine to provoke the Ye Family, so he sent Ye Jinghao to buy scorpions for an unclear purpose. Meanwhile, Chu Xiyu learned that Ye Jingcheng might have a spirit body and discussed a sect’s discovery of a secret realm in the Taihang Mountain Range.

• Chu Yanqing told Ye Jingcheng that the Mo Family was brewing Supreme Mystery Wine in the western district, but he avoided her questions and returned to his courtyard.
• Ye Jingcheng concluded that the Mo Family had intentionally publicized its wine as bait and worried that something had changed in its plans.
• Ye Jingcheng summoned Ye Jinghao and sent him to buy two Purple Cloud Scorpions with intact stingers, accompanied by a Five Poison Bee.
• Chu Yanqing complained to Chu Xiyu about Ye Jingcheng, and Chu Xiyu asked what she really thought of him.
• Chu Yanqing said Ye Jingcheng seemed mysterious and intimidating and might have reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage; Chu Xiyu suspected he had a spirit body.
• Chu Xiyu’s Eighth Brother arrived with refined magic artifacts, and she asked him to make more spirit armor and fire-attributed artifacts because the sect had discovered a second-tier secret realm in the Taihang Mountain Range.

Ye Jingcheng learned that Taiyi Sect planned another expansion into the Taihang Mountain Range and prepared for the Ye Family’s efforts to draw out Mo Hongyuan. The chapter ended as a disguised cultivator arrived at Ancient Fragrance Tower and Mo Qianyu’s eyes went blank.

• Ye Jinghao bought scarce spirit herbs and two black-hooked Purple Cloud Scorpions, while the stall owner later quietly corrected the placement of his spirit eggs.
• Ye Jingcheng received Ye Jinghao’s memories through the Five Poison Bee and learned that Taiyi Sect planned to advance deeper into Jade Dragon Valley and explore an unknown second-tier mystic realm.
• Ye Jingcheng concluded that the Mo Family had offered the Supreme Mystery Wine recipe to avoid being conscripted into Taiyi Sect’s campaign, and he prepared to lure Mo Hongyuan out with Ye Xueliang and Ye Haifei.
• Ye Jingcheng refined pills as the Ye Family’s Jade Soul Pills and Bloodrage Pills sold well, then announced that he was entering seclusion to make a breakthrough.
• A mysterious gray-robed cultivator entered Taichang Market and sat across from Mo Qianyu at Ancient Fragrance Tower, causing Mo Qianyu’s eyes to go blank.

Mo Qianyu recognized Mo Xingyan in Ancient Fragrance Tower and reported the sighting to Mo Hongyuan, who believed the Mo Family patriarch had returned. Mo Hongyuan set out to find him, leaving Mo Qianyu a jade slip and instructions in case he did not return.

• Mo Qianyu spotted a familiar figure at Ancient Fragrance Tower, excused himself from Young Master Kong, and hurried to the Mo Family shop.
• Mo Qianyu told Mo Hongyuan that he had seen Patriarch Xingyan and described following the man out of the city.
• Mo Hongyuan concluded that the figure was likely Mo Xingyan and told Mo Qianyu to guard the shop and go to Taiyi Purple Peak if anything happened.
• Mo Hongyuan gave Mo Qianyu a jade slip to use if he did not return within three days, then disguised himself with a human-skin mask resembling Mo Qianyu.
• Mo Hongyuan left the city and followed the glowing signal from the Mo Family's Bloodline Jade, switching spirit boats along the way.

Ye Xueliang and the Ye Family sprang their ambush on Mo Hongyuan, trapping him in a formation and overwhelming him with coordinated attacks. Mo Hongyuan activated a third-rank defensive talisman, but another formation controller appeared with an enormous broadsword behind the formation.

• Mo Hongyuan recognized that the figure posing as Mo Xingyan was false, but Ye Family cultivators and arrays surrounded his spirit skiff.
• Lizard Elder, Ye Xueliang, and the Crimson Flame Fox attacked Mo Hongyuan as Ye Haifei sealed the skiff inside a formation.
• Mo Hongyuan fought back with powerful artifacts, but Ye Jingcheng’s Golden-Scaled Beast and the Jade-Scale Snake joined the assault.
• Ye Jingcheng struck the Evil Ghost Gong, stunning Mo Hongyuan long enough for the Ye Family’s forces to unleash their strongest attacks.
• Mo Hongyuan’s Golden Turtle Shield shattered, so he used a third-rank Golden Heaven Turtle Armor Talisman.
• A calm voice warned Mo Hongyuan that someone else was controlling the formation, and a figure appeared holding a formation flag with an enormous broadsword behind the formation.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family eliminated Mo Hongyuan and covered up the killing, while a black-robed cultivator attacked the Mo Family shop in Taichang Market. The market was sealed by Miaofa True Person, and Ye Jingcheng realized Ye Xueliang’s plan had succeeded.

• Ye Haitian ordered Ye Jingcheng to return to Taichang Market while Ye Xueliang arranged for Mo Xingyan’s clone to self-destruct and erase evidence.
• Ye Jingcheng entered the market, returned to Chu-Ye Pavilion, and began cultivating as investigators rushed toward the distant explosion.
• A black-robed cultivator killed Mo Qianyu and the other Mo Family disciples at their shop, then destroyed himself and the storage pouches as a spiritual hand descended.
• Miaofa True Person sealed Taichang Market and threatened to execute anyone who tried to leave.
• Ye Jingcheng heard Miaofa True Person’s announcement and concluded that Ye Xueliang had succeeded.

Miaofa True Person investigated the destruction of the Mo Clan’s shop and the spirit explosion but found no living witnesses who could reveal what happened. Meanwhile, Ye Jingcheng cultivated the Green Wood Spirit Seed, refined Jade Soul Pills, and learned from Seventh Sister that the Mo Family had been wiped out.

• Miaofa True Person examined the Mo Clan’s ruins with a retrospective mirror, but the key jade slip and the traces of those involved were gone.
• Miaofa True Person investigated the spirit wine and the explosion site but found no clues identifying Mo Hongyuan’s killer or explaining why he had left the market.
• Ye Jingcheng reached a cultivation bottleneck and began practicing the Green Wood Spirit Seed secret art with Poison Thorn Flower seeds.
• Ye Jingcheng refined five Jade Soul Pills, including one with pill markings, for Ye Haifei and the ancestor.
• Ye Jingcheng left seclusion, asked Seventh Sister whether anything had gone wrong, and learned that the Mo Family had been wiped out.

After his seclusion, Ye Jingcheng inspected the Ye Family shop and heard Chu Yanqing’s news about an impending Taiyi Sect attack and her offer to form an alliance. He left to seek spirit vine seeds and promising spirit beasts, with the story ending as he entered the Jin Family shop.

• Ye Jingcheng approved the Ye Family shop’s new layout and reviewed the rise in spirit pill sales.
• Ye Jingyu told Ye Jingcheng that Chu Xiyu had turned away people who came asking about him during his seclusion.
• Chu Yanqing visited Ye Jingcheng, revealed that Taiyi Sect would attack the Taihang Mountain Range again, and proposed an alliance for the second-rank secret realm.
• Ye Jingcheng left the shop to look for spirit vine seeds and promising spirit beasts, then headed to the Jin Family shop.
• The Jin Family’s female cultivators warmly welcomed Ye Jingcheng when he arrived.

Ye Jingcheng bought ten Adamantine Vine seeds from the Jin Family shop and searched Taichang Market’s stall plaza for useful treasures. He intervened when Meng Xuan was treated unfairly over a spirit pill, then asked the stall owner about a bird egg.

• Ye Jingcheng bought ten second-rank upper-grade Adamantine Vine seeds for three thousand spirit stones and gave the steward a Jade Soul Pill and three middle-grade spirit stones for Yutang.
• Ye Jingcheng went to the western district’s stall plaza, hoping to find spirit beast eggs, but initially found no bargains.
• Ye Jingcheng recognized Meng Xuan arguing with a stall owner and a wealthy young master over a spirit pill.
• Ye Jingcheng used his Foundation Establishment Middle Stage spiritual pressure to make the young master leave, then offered one spirit stone more than the young master had bid.
• Ye Jingcheng asked the stall owner how much he wanted for a bird egg.

Ye Jingcheng bought a crimson spirit egg for Ye Jingyun and visited the Wan Family shop to inspect its spirit beasts. In the family courtyard, the Treasure Book imprinted an image of a large boulder, leaving Ye Jingcheng astonished.

• Ye Jingcheng negotiated the crimson spirit egg down to five hundred and fifty spirit stones and bought it for Ye Jingyun.
• Ye Jingcheng declined Meng Xuan's questions and left, avoiding discussion of his connection to Tang Haobo.
• Ye Jingcheng visited the Wan Family shop, where he found many magical swords but few spirit beast eggs and cubs.
• A female cultivator led Ye Jingcheng into the Wan Family courtyard, where he saw a pond filled with Five Poisons being fed by a white-haired old man.
• Ye Jingcheng examined the courtyard with his Treasure Book and saw it imprint an image of a large boulder.

Ye Jingcheng discovered that a stone in the Wan Family’s poison pond contained a dormant stone spirit with a Grotto-Heaven, and negotiated with Wan Hongchang for a chance to obtain it. The chapter left them preparing to pit their spirit insects against each other.

• Ye Jingcheng saw the stone’s spirit image reveal a vast inner world, then realized it was a dormant stone spirit capable of containing a Grotto-Heaven.
• Ye Jingcheng concealed his excitement and asked Wan Hongchang about buying Azurewater Scorpions and the stone in the poison pond.
• Wan Hongchang agreed to sell the stone for the price of a second-rank spirit stone if Ye Jingcheng competed with him using spirit insects.
• Ye Jingcheng released more than a hundred Five Poison Bees to begin the insect duel.

Ye Jingcheng and Wan Hongchang held an insect contest, where Ye’s Five Poison Bees narrowly prevailed through careful coordination. Wan honored their agreement by discounting Ye’s purchase, and Ye left with venomous insects, a secret art, and a spirit stone.

• Ye Jingcheng and Wan Hongchang released their specially trained Five Poison Bees and Black-Wing Scorpions for a friendly contest.
• Ye Jingcheng used coordinated volleys of poison stingers to confuse the scorpions before sending his bees into close combat.
• Ye Jingcheng scattered his bees to attack from a distance again, and Wan Hongchang conceded defeat and recalled his surviving scorpions.
• Ye Jingcheng found that only seven or eight of his bees had died, while the rest were injured and could recover.
• Wan Hongchang waived ten percent of the price, and Ye Jingcheng bought two Azurewater Scorpions, two Black Jade Toads, the Heavenly Poison Water formula, and a spirit stone for forty-five hundred spirit stones.

Wan Hongchang recognized Ye Jingcheng’s talent and traded an unusual stone for spirit-insect control methods, hoping to earn his goodwill before their families entered the Taihang Mountain Range secret realm. Ye Jingcheng returned to Chu-Ye Pavilion with spirit beasts for his relatives and found business picking up.

• Wan Hongchang explained that he feared Ye Jingcheng’s potential, reviewed a recording of his skill controlling spirit insects, and decided their exchange was worth the favor it might earn.
• Ye Jingcheng bought a Jade-Horned Horse and a Crimson Lion as gifts for his relatives, then returned to Chu-Ye Pavilion as cultivators gathered to buy spirit pills.
• Ye Jingcheng invited cultivators with Ye Family tokens to browse second-rank spirit pills upstairs without proving their assets.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Xingyi a pouch containing two Azurewater Scorpions, but Ye Xingyi asked him to deduct their cost from his salary.

Ye Jingcheng studied the Stone Spirit and discovered that Treasure Radiance could accelerate Adamantine Vine seeds, then returned to his room to form a pact with the Stone Spirit. The pact revealed that its Grotto-Heaven space was tiny, while the Treasure Book produced a stone formula rich in Void Nether Stone.

• Ye Jingcheng examined the strange stone and found it lacked any noticeable spirituality, so he put it away while he watched over the shop.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Green Wood Spirit Seed incantation on Adamantine Vine seeds and discovered they could store Treasure Radiance for faster catalyzation.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Jingyu and Ye Jinghao a Jade-Horned Horse and a Crimson Lion as rewards for their work at the shop.
• Ye Jingcheng arranged protective Arrays, summoned the Crimson Flame Fox, and formed a Blood Pact with the Stone Spirit.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed a connection to the Stone Spirit but found its Grotto-Heaven space was tiny, and the Treasure Book revealed a stone formula containing many ores and Void Nether Stone.

Ye Jingcheng finished refining three Green Wood Spirit Seeds and reunited with Ye Xingliu and the returning clansmen at the Ye Family shop. After discussing the shop’s earnings, Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng an ownerless storage pouch containing a high-grade second-rank spirit vessel.

• Ye Jingcheng refined three Green Wood Spirit Seeds in three days and drew them into his spiritual platform to nourish them.
• Ye Jingcheng left seclusion, fed his spiritual beasts, and headed toward the shop to study the Jade-Scale Pill formula.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed Ye Xingliu, Ye Jingyong, and other clansmen arriving, then welcomed them into the shop and courtyard.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Xingliu that the shop would earn about two thousand spirit stones that month, and Ye Xingling praised his success.
• After the other clansmen left, Ye Jingcheng prepared to hand Ye Xingliu his accumulated spirit stones, but Ye Xingliu gave him a storage pouch containing a high-grade second-rank spirit vessel.

Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng a powerful spirit boat and told him the Ye Family wanted him to enter a dangerous secret realm in search of herbs that could aid Core Formation. Ye Jingcheng agreed, asking the family to gather the spirit ores needed for his stone spirit before the expedition.

• Ye Xingliu presented Ye Jingcheng with the Mysterious Shadow Azure Cloud Boat, a concealed second-rank top-grade spirit boat, and warned him that it had been modified from Mo Hongyuan's boat.
• Ye Xingliu explained that the Green Ancient Sect secret realm might contain herbs for Core Formation and asked Ye Jingcheng to join the Ye Family's expedition.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that Turtle Ancestor could not safely enter the secret realm, while the family planned to use a Bone-Hiding Ring and secret art to conceal a spirit beast.
• Ye Jingcheng agreed to take part and showed Ye Xingliu the jade slip containing his stone formula, asking the family to gather the required spirit ores.
• Ye Xingliu promised to gather the spirit ores and said Ye Jingcheng would receive one of two Gold Condensation Pills if the family obtained the formula and refined them.

Ye Jingcheng broke through to Foundation Establishment Late Stage spiritual sense and prepared to refine Jade-Scale Pills before the secret realm expedition. The chapter ended as he and the Crimson Flame Fox began refining the pills.

• Ye Jingcheng absorbed the Five Poison Bees' fragment souls, used a Pill-Pattern Jade Soul Pill, and expanded his spiritual sense to four hundred and fifty zhang.
• Ye Jingcheng continued cultivating the Heavenly Soul Art until his soul stabilized, then considered the dangers and timing of the secret realm expedition.
• Ye Jingcheng studied the Jade-Scale Pill formula and practiced refining its medicinal liquid while the Crimson Flame Fox trained its fire control.
• Ye Jingcheng successfully prepared medicinal liquid in two furnaces and reviewed his notes and pill formulas before attempting the Jade-Scale Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng and the Crimson Flame Fox began heating the furnace and adding the Jade-Scale Pill ingredients.

Ye Jingcheng refined a Jade-Scale Pill and fed it to his Jade-Scale Snake, which began advancing toward the middle second rank and showed signs of a bloodline breakthrough. Ye Xingliu then told him about Taiyi Sect’s conscription order and gave him a family token for contacting the Ye Family.

• Ye Jingcheng used the Crimson Flame Fox’s fire control to refine a Jade-Scale Pill, though the pill lacked fragrance and fell short of perfection.
• Ye Jingcheng released the Jade-Scale Snake, fed it spirit beasts, Azure Water Pills, and the Jade-Scale Pill, then infused it with treasure light as it began to break through.
• Ye Jingcheng heard a dragon roar from the Jade-Scale Snake and moved it indoors to undergo its advancement in seclusion.
• Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng a storage pouch of spirit ore and reported that Taiyi Sect had conscripted cultivators from the Ye and Xu Families, as well as the Mo Family’s last Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Ye Xingliu urged Ye Jingcheng to eliminate the Mo Family patriarch in the mystic realm and gave him a Ten-Thousand-Mile Token from the Second Ancestor.

Ye Jingcheng trained his spirit beasts outside Taichang Market and discovered the Three-Color Cloud Deer had formidable abilities. On his way into the market, he saw Xu Xiuqing fleeing an old man and killed her pursuer.

• Ye Jingcheng set up a Sand Cloud Formation on a barren mountain and trained the Crimson Flame Fox, Golden-Scaled Beast, and Three-Color Cloud Deer.
• The Three-Color Cloud Deer used green pine giants to tear apart Ye Jingcheng’s Poison Thornwood and drained its vital essence, surprising him with its strength.
• After training the beasts for several hours, Ye Jingcheng put away the formation and flew toward Taichang Market.
• Ye Jingcheng spotted the injured Xu Xiuqing fleeing an old man and chose to intervene because she had given him the Golden-Scaled Beast.
• The old man hurled a second-rank spirit talisman at Xu Xiuqing, but Ye Jingcheng’s Blackwood Coffin swallowed it.
• When the old man mistook him for an evil cultivator, Ye Jingcheng fired a Mystic Silver Needle through his forehead, sending the man and his spirit boat crashing down.

Ye Jingcheng reunited with Xu Xiuqing after rescuing her from an old man who had hunted her for years. At Zhong Family Restaurant, Xu Xiuqing revealed her Purple Palace inheritance and offered him its treasures, but Ye Jingcheng accepted only the secret silver mystic rock.

• Ye Jingcheng rescued Xu Xiuqing from an old man and invited her to the marketplace, where she removed the disguise hiding a scar on her chin.
• Ye Jingcheng and Xu Xiuqing shared spirit tea at Zhong Family Restaurant and discussed her efforts to earn a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Xu Xiuqing explained that a Purple Palace cultivator’s legacy had left her pursued for years, and that a barrier-breaking talisman had helped her escape an ambush.
• Xu Xiuqing offered Ye Jingcheng her remaining inheritance treasures to repay him for saving her life.
• Ye Jingcheng refused the Talisman Treasure and accepted only the secret silver mystic rock, telling Xu Xiuqing to trade with him if she needed a Foundation Establishment Pill.