Chapter Summaries

Ye Xingliu sprang his hidden array against the Xu Family while Xu Wenchang stayed outside and fought off the Ye Family’s concealed spirit beasts. The battle left Xu Wenchang facing a jade-scaled flood dragon, the Crimson Flame Fox, and wooden giants as another golden flash slipped past his defenses.

• Ye Xingliu revealed that he had only pretended the Great Sun Flame Dragon Array was broken and trapped the seven Xu Family members inside it.
• Xu Wenchang threatened to expose Ye Xingliu’s Bone-Transforming Art, then used his mirror and array-breaking talismans to search for the array’s foundations.
• A Jade-Scale Flood Dragon attacked Xu Wenchang, but he blocked it with the Cloud Sky Stone Shield and countered with his Radiant Sun Swords and talismans.
• The Crimson Flame Fox launched fireballs at Xu Wenchang, who identified and countered them with silver needle artifacts and a Golden Shield Talisman.
• The Three-Color Cloud Deer summoned three wooden giants, and Xu Wenchang sent an iron-armored corpse to meet them as a flash of golden light slipped behind the giants.

Ye Jingcheng killed Xu Wenchang and fought Xu Hanqing as she attacked the formation with powerful Mystic Soul Cold Pearls. As Xu Hanqing threatened the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon, the Scarlet-Gold Roc seized an opening to strike from behind.

• Ye Jingcheng trapped Xu Wenchang with the Adamantine Vine and killed him with the corpse needle after Xu Hanqing tried to intervene.
• Xu Hanqing revealed her ice abilities, attacked Ye Jingcheng, and then used three Mystic Soul Cold Pearls against the formation.
• Ye Jingcheng countered the pearls with lightning pearls and sent his spirit beasts and Six-Color Bees to surround Xu Hanqing.
• Xu Hanqing froze the Six-Color Bees, injured the Golden-Scaled Beast, and pressed the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon with her ice-ridge blade.
• The Jade-Scale Flood Dragon caught Xu Hanqing's blade in its jaws, giving the Scarlet-Gold Roc a chance to swoop at her from behind.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family defeated Xu Hanqing, but the battle cost them the Six-Color Bee and left their spirit beasts badly wounded. After escaping the ruined rainforest, Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu hid in a bamboo valley and prepared to examine Xu Hanqing’s treasures, while Taiyi Sect cultivators confronted a growing demonic threat elsewhere in the secret realm.

• Ye Jingcheng trapped Xu Hanqing with the Adamantine Vine and killed her with a third-tier Lightning Tribulation Pearl, while the Three-Color Cloud Deer swallowed her escaping soul.
• Ye Jingcheng used Treasure Radiance, spirit pills, and wolf carcasses to stabilize the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon, but the Six-Color Bee had died and its soul contract vanished.
• Ye Xingliu finished off the remaining Xu Family cultivators, gathered the damaged array, and joined Ye Jingcheng as they fled aboard the Mysterious Shadow Azure Cloud Boat.
• Mo Hongwen concluded that the Ye Family was too powerful to pursue and learned that the Xu Family’s aura had disappeared as well.
• Taiyi Sect cultivators gathered before a demonic shadow that was absorbing flesh and blood, and Cloud Sword Master ordered them to summon reinforcements.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu hid in a bamboo valley, where Ye Xingliu sealed the area and released two spirit rats to guard them before they examined Xu Hanqing’s treasures.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu searched Xu Hanqing’s Cold Ring and discovered the Five-Element Heavenly Palace Secret Art, a method that could improve breakthroughs by allowing cultivators to form multiple Purple Palaces. After securing the secret art and examining the other spoils, they continued sorting through the Xu Family’s belongings, where Ye Jingcheng found captured Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles whose value might rival the Golden Falcon.

• Ye Jingcheng erased the Cold Ring’s divine-sense imprint and found Purple Jade Fruits, rare spirit medicines, a cold-attribute magic treasure, and valuable spiritual materials inside.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu discovered the Five-Element Heavenly Palace Secret Art and learned it could help Foundation Establishment cultivators form multiple Purple Palaces and improve their odds of reaching the realm.
• Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng Dust-Forgetting Pills from the Second Ancestor so they could protect the secret art from spirit interrogation.
• The two returned to the bamboo forest and found a second treasure map, records about the Wild-Suppressing Heavenly Palace True Lord, and the Mystic Cold Renwater Scripture among the jade slips.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu searched the Xu Family’s storage pouches, finding Talisman Treasures, spirit herbs, and a battle formation.
• Ye Jingcheng examined Xu Hanqing’s spirit beast pouch and found the captured Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles, which might be as valuable as the Golden Falcon.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu uncovered spirit insects, Jade Lotus plants, and a divine-sense attack inheritance in the Cloud-Suppressing Hall before answering the Taiyi Sect’s summons. They joined the Chu and Wan Families on the way to the Spirit Herb Garden, where they found cultivators struggling to contain a powerful figure in a vast spirit valley.

• Ye Jingcheng inspected the Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles, set aside eight with the potential to advance twice, and stored the demon cores.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu explored the painting’s inner space, found Jade Lotus plants and a smoke art inheritance, and learned the Spirit-Breaking Needle secret art and the God-Slaying Needle refining method.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu received the Taiyi Sect’s summons, refined Bone-Transforming Pills, restored their appearances, and set off toward the spirit herb garden.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu retrieved their jade talismans and joined Chu Yanqing and Chu Xiyu aboard the Chu Family’s spirit boat.
• Chu Yanqing reported that the Chu Family had lost one cultivator, while Wan Hongchang said the Wan Family had lost three in a spirit crocodile ambush.
• Ye Jingcheng and the others reached the spirit valley, where a grand array of cultivators struggled to subdue a powerful figure, prompting Ye Jingcheng to wonder if a third-rank great demon had appeared.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu joined Taiyi Sect’s formation around the ruined Spirit Herb Garden, where a Corpse Daoist’s ghost banners and refined corpses had held the cultivators at bay. When the Gold-Condensing Fruit ripened, Taiyi Sect unleashed its Ten Thousand Swords formation, breaking the ghost formation and exposing the Purple Sun Demon Corpse as it killed Cloud Sword Master; the chapter ended as a combined attack closed in on the demon corpse.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu took their assigned place in the eastern sector of the formation and saw the Corpse Daoist’s refined corpses and ghostly mist attack the array.
• Ye Xingliu warned Ye Jingcheng that the valley contained a Purple Sun Demon Corpse, while the two avoided revealing their full strength and waited as Taiyi Sect prepared its formation.
• When the Gold-Condensing Fruit began to ripen, Liu Huan distributed array flags and gathered spiritual power from the Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• The Purple Sun Demon Corpse emerged amid violet flames and clashed with Taiyi Sect’s sword embryos as Liu Huan transformed the formation into a massive sword strike.
• The golden sword formation shattered the ghost banners and destroyed most of the corpse puppets, revealing the Purple Sun Demon Corpse devouring Cloud Sword Master’s heart.
• Wang Tianfa, Chen Yunzi, and other Taiyi Sect cultivators trapped the Purple Sun Demon Corpse with talisman treasures as Liu Huan and the sword embryos launched another attack.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu survived the battle that killed the Purple Sun Demon Corpse and speculated that the Corpse Daoist had deliberately sought death for a hidden reason. As the cultivators prepared to leave the secret realm, the Ye Family avoided a confrontation with the Kong Family by joining the Jin Family’s group.

• Chen Yunzi, Wang Tianfa, Xiao Ta'a, and the other cultivators pursued the fleeing Corpse Daoist while Liu Huan stayed behind to oversee the ruined Spirit Herb Garden and gather the remaining treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu suspected the Corpse Daoist had been left behind on purpose and waited to see whether he would return to his original appearance.
• Chu Yanqing organized an exchange of spiritual herbs and ores, and Chen Yunzi announced that the Corpse Daoist had been executed and that the sect would investigate who brought him into the secret realm.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu received Ye Jingteng’s warning that Senior Brother Xu had split off from the group, while Mo Hongwen and the other Mo Family cultivators departed by flying boat.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu joined Golden Jade Hall and the Jin Family aboard their spirit boat after noticing the Kong Family watching them.
• The Kong Family abandoned its plan to pursue the Ye Family and decided to target the Wan Family instead.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu left Jin Yutang’s vessel, returned to the valley where they suspected Corpse Daoist was hiding, and prepared to confront him. Ye Jingcheng then used his Treasure Book to turn a forced Blood Pact with the Golden Falcon into a Soul Pact, leaving the bird under his control as they readied for the fight.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu parted from Jin Yutang, who hinted that the Ye Family owed the Jin Family a favor.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu returned to the silent valley, concealed their presence, and set up the Great Sun Twin Dragon Formation to prepare for Corpse Daoist.
• Ye Jingcheng infused the Scarlet-Gold Roc with Treasure Radiance while Ye Xingliu urged him to subdue the Golden Falcon.
• Ye Jingcheng entered the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven and used the Mystic Azure Tower to restrain the weakened Golden Falcon while forming a Blood Pact.
• Ye Jingcheng’s Treasure Book transformed the Blood Pact into a Soul Pact, allowing him to punish the Golden Falcon’s resistance and begin tempering it.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu ambushed the Corpse Daoist as he emerged from the ravine, but his five demon corpses and powerful techniques overwhelmed their formation and spirit beasts. They finally killed him with their talisman treasures and a hidden golden sword, discovered a mysterious Bone Ring, and hurried to leave the secret realm before time ran out.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu waited near the ravine until the Corpse Daoist appeared with three refined corpses and tried to fly toward the teleportation area.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu attacked the Corpse Daoist with their formation, spirit beasts, and talisman treasures, but he used his five demon corpses and secretly detonated the three scouts to break through their defenses.
• The Corpse Daoist destroyed the Great Sun Twin Dragon Formation with his Blackwood Ancient Sword, exposing Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu as they launched their Mystic Cold Seal and lightning hammer.
• Ye Jingcheng’s hidden golden sword split the Corpse Daoist in two, and the lightning hammer finished him while the spirit beasts helped defeat the five Five Sons Demon Corpses.
• Ye Xingliu found the Bone Ring that had concealed the Corpse Daoist, and Ye Jingcheng urged him to leave immediately because the secret realm was about to close.

Taiyi Sect questioned cultivators emerging from the secret realm and investigated reports of an anomaly and the missing Xu Family members. Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu finally emerged wounded, leaving them to face questioning by Master Luoyuan and Qian He.

• Xuandao True Person opened the passage, and Master Tianzhen inspected the returning cultivators' gains while questioning them about events inside the secret realm.
• Xiao Ta'a emerged and accused himself of failing to protect Yun Jian, prompting Three Origins True Person to summon him for an explanation.
• Wan Hongchang described the Wan Family's treasure hunt and handed over part of its gains, while the Azure Cloud Nunnery cultivators reported an uneventful expedition.
• Eight Xu Family jade talismans failed to bring anyone out, and Xu Chunlin accused Ye Haicheng's family before Master Luoyuan ordered him to retreat.
• Master Luoyuan took over the investigation with Qian He, and Miaofa True Person activated the formation to bring out Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu, both wounded.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu passed Taiyi Sect’s questioning after concealing the Ye Family’s true gains, while the Zhong Family faltered under scrutiny. The Earth Dragon Demon King then led a massive force against Taiyi Sect, and the Ye Family fled toward Jade Dragon Valley aboard a Chu Family spirit boat.

• Ye Xingliu and Ye Jingcheng denied ties to demonic sects and reported the Ye Family’s harvest, including Star-Eating Fish, while keeping their other treasures secret.
• Master Luoyuan ordered the Ye Family to hand over forty percent of its harvest, and Ye Haicheng gave Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu pills that restored the Dust-Forgetting Pill’s effects.
• The Chu Family and Kong Family emerged from the secret realm, while the Mo Family’s absence suggested it had vanished from the Yan Kingdom.
• Qian He, Master Luoyuan, and Master Tianzhen questioned the Zhong Family about its mission and hidden ring space, leaving its cultivators unable to answer.
• The Earth Dragon Demon King arrived with a vast demon force and attacked Taiyi Sect’s True Persons and the gathered cultivators.
• Ye Haicheng ordered Ye Xingliu and Ye Jingcheng to lead the clansmen away, and Chu Yanqing invited the Ye Family to board the Chu Family’s faster spirit boat.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family escaped the beast tide and reached Jade Dragon Valley, where they faced Kong Wanjun’s questions about Kong Wanling. After the battered cultivators gathered behind the valley’s formation, the losses from the battle became clear, while demon kings watched from the mountains.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu helped the Chu Family repel a cloud turtle demon, and Ye Xingliu paid most of the cost of Chu Xiyu’s Windbreak Talisman.
• The Ye Family reached Jade Dragon Valley, where Kong Wanjun confronted them and asked whether they had seen Kong Wanling, but Ye Xingliu denied it and the Spirit-Questioning Talisman did not react.
• Liu Huan and other Taiyi Sect cultivators backed the Ye Family, and Kong Wanjun gave Ye Xingliu a tri-colored stone before leaving for North Peak.
• Xuandao True Person returned and activated Jade Dragon Valley’s grand formation, allowing the battered cultivators to gather inside.
• The Zhong and Zhang Families’ Purple Palace cultivators had been killed at Red Glow Ridge, two other Purple Palace cultivators were also lost, and several demon kings watched the valley from afar.

After returning from the secret realm, Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu recovered their sealed memories and examined the treasures they had taken from Corpse Daoist. They discovered a Gold Condensation Fruit and a corpse pearl in his Bone Ring, while the Ye Family prepared for the Taichang Market auction.

• Ye Haicheng told Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu to delay taking the Dust-Forgetting Pill and sent them onward to Taichang Market with Turtle Ancestor.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingli encouraged each other aboard the spirit ship, and Ye Jingcheng agreed to lend spirit stones to family members seeking Foundation Establishment Pills.
• The Ye Family returned to Chu-Ye Pavilion, where Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu entered seclusion and waited to see whether the Taiyi Sect would summon them.
• Ye Xingliu set up protective formations, and he and Ye Jingcheng entered Turtle Ancestor's space and took the antidote that restored their sealed memories.
• Ye Jingcheng erased Corpse Daoist's imprint from the Bone Ring and entered its space with Ye Xingliu, where they found empty coffins, a Gold Condensation Fruit, and a corpse pearl.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu searched the Bone Hall and found the Gold-Condensing Fruit, the Purple Sun Demon Corpse’s corpse pearl, and several valuable manuals and artifacts. Ye Xingliu divided the spoils, claiming authority as family head while telling Ye Jingcheng to wait until the family assembly before he could take charge.

• Ye Xingliu carefully opened the jade box and confirmed the Gold-Condensing Fruit could give Second Ancestor hope of forming a Golden Core.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu identified the sealed corpse pearl as belonging to the Purple Sun Demon Corpse and decided to leave it for Second Ancestor to arrange.
• The pair found cold-attributed spirit herbs and four jade slips containing corpse-refining methods, cultivation arts, and the Heavenly Soul Art.
• Ye Jingcheng suggested adapting the corpse contract for the Wood Demon, and he and Ye Xingliu rejected the Blood Corpses’ cultivation methods as temporary and impractical.
• Ye Jingcheng took the Ten Thousand Ghost Banner and Blackwood Sword, while Ye Xingliu asked him to refine Jade Soul Pills in return.
• Ye Xingliu assigned the remaining treasures and contribution points, then insisted that his decision stood because he was the family head.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu finished sorting the secret-realm treasures and prepared a family banquet to mark the Ye Family’s gains and losses. After the meal, the gathered clansmen drank and remembered Ye Jingyu, while Ye Jingcheng considered his growing responsibilities and the future of the family.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu moved most of the treasures from Ye Jingcheng’s Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven into Turtle Ancestor’s grotto-heaven, keeping selected spirit beasts, herbs, and resources.
• Ye Xingliu proposed a public summary banquet, and Ye Jingcheng suggested serving Star-Eating Fish and a larger Red-Node Fish.
• Ye Jingcheng prepared the spirit meal while Ye Xingliu helped at the family shop, as Taichang Market grew busier ahead of the auction and Ascension Convention.
• Ye Xingliu replaced Ye Jingcheng’s tea with Blue Wave Wine and invited the clansmen to share the meal and relax after their secret-realm journey.
• Ye Jingli and Ye Jingyong drank and talked about Ye Jingyu, while the Star-Eating Fish left the diners flushed and full of strength.

Ye Jingcheng assessed his Foundation Establishment cultivation and checked the spirit beasts and resources in his Grotto-Heaven after returning from the secret realm. He planned to raise his spirit beasts and rebuild his Five Poison Bee force, then turned his attention to the Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles.

• Ye Jingcheng refined the spiritual energy from his meal and estimated that he had reached the fifth level of Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Ye Jingcheng entered the Grotto-Heaven and fed the Crimson Flame Fox, Jade-Scale Flood Dragon, Golden-Scaled Beast, and Three-Color Cloud Deer while assessing their growth and abilities.
• Ye Jingcheng judged that the Golden Falcon had not truly submitted and used Treasure Radiance to encourage the Wood Demon.
• Ye Jingcheng inspected the Five Poison Bees, noted that fewer than three hundred remained and the Six-Color Bee had died, and began forming an exploration squad of intelligent bees with keen senses of smell.
• Ye Jingcheng turned his attention to the Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles in his final spirit beast pouch.

Ye Jingcheng bound twenty Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles with soul pacts, then spent a month refining pills and improving his alchemy. A disguised cultivator arrived at the Ye Family’s Chu-Ye Pavilion to commission coded “high-grade mysterious pills,” revealing a nearly five-inch Beast-Link Mark and delivering live demonic beasts for their blood essence.

• Ye Jingcheng weakened the Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles in a containment box and bound twenty of them with soul pacts, leaving four for the Lineage.
• After leaving the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven with the Crimson Flame Fox, Ye Jingcheng spent a month refining pills and stabilized his alchemy at the upper second tier.
• Ye Jingcheng turned down Chu Yanqing’s request for commissioned pills while claiming he was in seclusion.
• A masked old man asked Ye Jingcheng to refine coded “high-grade mysterious pills,” and Ye Jingcheng recognized the phrase from Ye Haicheng.
• Ye Jingcheng noticed the old man’s nearly five-inch Beast-Link Mark and accepted his jade slip and spirit beast pouch of live demonic beasts, then offered a pouch in return.

Ye Jingcheng received seven second-tier high-grade pill formulas and demon beast inner cores from the Ye Family’s Lineage, then agreed to refine a pill-patterned Profound Water Pill for Chu Yanqing in exchange for materials and a magical artifact commission. He began refining the Golden Scale Pill and produced two pills, one bearing half a pill pattern.

• Ye Jingcheng recognized the Spirit-Isolating Robe visitor as Ye Xuefu and examined the seven pill formulas and demon beast inner cores the Lineage had sent him.
• Ye Jingcheng agreed to Chu Yanqing’s request to refine a pill-patterned Profound Water Pill, while she offered its formula, five sets of ingredients, extra time, and a magical artifact commission.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Chu Yanqing Five-Colored Snake skin, Armored Beast scales, and Crimson-Pattern Cloud Iron, asking her to forge a robe that concealed its wearer and could change shape.
• Chu Yanqing told her Third Grandfather that she had received no news from her aunt, and he urged her to cultivate diligently as crimson Chi Xiao clouds hung on the horizon.
• Ye Jingcheng began refining the Golden Scale Pill and produced two golden pills, one of which bore half a pill pattern.

Ye Jingcheng nurtured his spirit beasts in the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven, gave the Golden-Scaled Beast and Three-Color Cloud Deer pills that triggered bloodline advancement, and continued to test the Golden Falcon’s interest in transformation. The Golden Falcon grew eager to advance, while Ye Jingcheng planned to strengthen his soul and combat skills before refining Chu Yanqing’s Profound Water Pill.

• Ye Jingcheng fed and trained the Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles, inspected the Grotto-Heaven’s growing plants, and saw the Peachwood Demon spread its roots across much of the space.
• Ye Jingcheng restored the exhausted Golden-Scaled Beast, fed it a pill-patterned Golden Scale Pill, and watched it fall into an advancement slumber as the Golden Falcon took flight to observe.
• Ye Jingcheng planted Adamantine Vine seeds and refined Three-Color Pills, then fed the single pill to the Three-Color Cloud Deer, which began advancing its bloodline.
• The Golden Falcon flew toward Ye Jingcheng, who left it a lower second-rank gold-attributed spirit pill before departing; the Falcon swallowed it but did not advance and continued watching the two beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed the Golden Falcon’s growing desire to advance and planned to split his soul with the Heavenly Soul Art and complete the Spirit-Breaking Needle secret art before refining Chu Yanqing’s Profound Water Pill.

Ye Jingcheng recovered from a dangerous attempt to divide his soul, then learned that Chen Ya had disappeared after behaving strangely for months. Suspecting that Corpse Daoist’s remaining soul fragment had possessed her, Ye Jingcheng agreed to investigate while worrying that the upcoming auction would delay his chance to eliminate Corpse Daoist.

• Ye Jingcheng recovered with a Pill-Pattern Jade Soul Pill after his attempt to divide his soul among three Five Poison Bees overwhelmed him.
• Ye Jingteng warned Ye Jingcheng that Xu Yinglong had been asking about the Ye Family, and agreed to help trade Jade Soul Pills for materials to advance the Stone Spirit.
• Ye Jingteng advised Ye Jingcheng to send more clansmen to the Taiyi Sect, but Ye Jingcheng pointed out that the beast tide had left few promising immortal seedlings.
• Ye Jingcheng checked the Ye Family’s shop and spirit stone reserves as the family prepared to buy Cloud Silver Iron Crystal at the upcoming auction.
• Xiao Ming told Ye Jingcheng that Chen Ya had vanished after months of increasingly strange behavior and asked him to find her.
• Ye Jingcheng suspected Corpse Daoist’s remaining soul fragment was inside Chen Ya and told Xiao Ming to record her circumstances while he investigated.