Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family attended Taichang Market’s auction, where they watched valuable treasures draw fierce bids and assessed signs of growing upheaval. The chapter ended as the auctioneer offered a Wisdom-Transforming Fruit with a rat bite and possible poison, sending the bidders into a frenzy.

• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Xingliu, and the Ye Family entered the auction with the Chu and Wan families and took a private room on the second floor.
• Qiu Xianyun opened the auction with Snow Sky Silkworm silk, which sold for 1,710 spirit stones, then offered an Earthheart Spirit Fruit that Ye Jingli successfully bought.
• Ye Jingcheng spotted figures resembling Chen Ya and Xu Xiuqing among the attendees, while the Ye Family members focused on bidding for treasures.
• Ye Xingliu warned that the situation might change, and Ye Jingcheng connected his concerns to the Corpse Daoist’s appearance and the absence of the Zhong and Zhang families.
• Qiu Xianyun presented a Wisdom-Transforming Fruit with a bite taken from it by a spirit rat, and its bidding quickly surged.

Ye Jingcheng bought a Wisdom-Transforming Fruit and Thundercloud Grass before the auction’s scarce Foundation Establishment Pills drove prices to record highs. The Ye Family secured a set of three, and the chapter ended as the auction began bidding on a third-tier Cloud Silver Iron Crystal.

• Ye Jingcheng outbid the Kong Family and bought the flawed Wisdom-Transforming Fruit for 3,500 spirit stones, then purchased three stalks of Thundercloud Grass for 6,300 spirit stones.
• Qiu Xianyun auctioned the first ten Foundation Establishment Pills, which sold for 21,000 to 23,000 spirit stones each, while Xu Xiuqing failed to buy one.
• Ye Xingyi bid on a later pill, but the Xu Family secured it for a record 24,800 spirit stones; Ye Jingli obtained one of the following pills.
• Ye Jingcheng invited Xu Xiuqing to meet at Chu-Ye Pavilion, and the Ye Family bought a set of three Foundation Establishment Pills for 69,000 spirit stones.
• Ye Jingcheng recognized the Heavenly Corpse Spear as resembling his Talisman Treasure and warned Ye Xingliu that the sect was fishing for demonic cultivators; another bidder bought it for 30,000 spirit stones.
• Qiu Xianyun began the auction of a third-tier Cloud Silver Iron Crystal, starting at 40,000 spirit stones.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu secured the Cloud Silver Iron Crystal at the auction, while the Wan Family and Kong Family won the later treasures. The auction revealed that the Zhong Family ancestor had been eliminated, and Ye Jingcheng prepared to return home before seeking out Chen Ya.

• Qiu Xianyun demonstrated the Cloud Silver Iron Crystal’s strength, and Ye Xingliu won it for the Ye Family with a bid of seventy thousand spirit stones.
• Kong Yulong blamed the Ye Family for competing with the Kong Family and hinted that his family planned to expand its influence into Taihang Commandery.
• The Wan Family purchased Purple Palace Jade Liquid for one hundred and thirty thousand spirit stones.
• Qiu Xianyun announced that the Mountains and Rivers Seal had belonged to Zhong Xianhe, who was eliminated for colluding with Green River Sect.
• The Kong Family won the Mountains and Rivers Seal for three hundred and eighty thousand spirit stones, and Ye Xingliu advised Ye Jingcheng to delay seeking Chen Ya until he reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

After the auction, Ye Jingcheng obtained a Foundation Establishment Pill from Ye Xingliu and met Xu Xiuqing, who traded her Azure Swan Sword and Heavenly Origin Fruit for the pill. Xu Xiuqing left promising to visit Soaring Cloud Peak after breaking through within one or two years, while Ye Jingcheng agreed to wait.

• Ye Xingliu announced that the Ye Family would close its marketplace shops in half a month and return for the family gathering, and Ye Jingcheng asked to buy a Foundation Establishment Pill for Xu Xiuqing.
• Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng a Foundation Establishment Pill and warned him that the sect might soon make a move and that he should avoid seeking out the Corpse Daoist.
• Ye Jingcheng welcomed Xu Xiuqing to the courtyard and offered her the pill in exchange for fifteen thousand spirit stones as repayment for her Talisman Treasure.
• Xu Xiuqing exchanged the Azure Swan Sword and Heavenly Origin Fruit for the Foundation Establishment Pill, and gave Ye Jingcheng the items as a gift for becoming family head.
• Xu Xiuqing asked to see the Golden-Scaled Beast, learned it was in seclusion, and promised to visit Soaring Cloud Peak after her breakthrough within one or two years.

Ye Jingcheng used a Wisdom-Transforming Fruit and Spirit-Transforming Pills to awaken the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven, which began communicating through a python-shaped spirit shadow. After arranging for the Wood Demon to teach it, Ye Jingcheng tended to his spirit beasts and plants before preparing to refine more pills.

• Ye Jingcheng fed the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven a Wisdom-Transforming Fruit and three Spirit-Transforming Pills, awakening its intelligence and collecting poisonous residue from the fruit.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered that the Stone Spirit could form a python-shaped spirit shadow, but it could not yet understand complex communication or commands.
• Ye Jingcheng brought the Stone Spirit into the Grotto-Heaven, where the Crimson Flame Fox and Jade-Scale Flood Dragon reacted to its shadow and the Wood Demon agreed to teach it.
• Ye Jingcheng fed and trained his spirit beasts, used Treasure Radiance on the Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles, and coaxed the aloof Golden Falcon closer to being tamed.
• Ye Jingcheng checked the Purple Jade Vine and Adamantine Vine, then left the Grotto-Heaven with the Crimson Flame Fox to prepare Fire Beast Pills and Profound Water Pills.

Ye Jingcheng refined Profound Water Pills and worked through repeated attempts to make a Fire Beast Pill from a demon beast core while his family waited out the dangerous period after the auction. He finally produced a Fire Beast Pill, then learned that Ye Haiyun was at death’s door and hurried back to Soaring Cloud Peak with his family.

• Ye Jingcheng refined three Profound Water Pills, including one with clear pill patterns, and continued studying the Fire Beast Pill formula in seclusion.
• Ye Jingcheng spent more than ten days practicing and deducing the process before his first Fire Beast Pill attempt failed, so he collected the pill dregs and kept refining.
• Chu Yanqing told Chu Xiyu that she had refined a second-rank high-grade artifact, and Chu Xiyu instructed her to return to Idle Cloud Mountain and prepare for unsettled times.
• Ye Jingcheng used four Crimson Flame Foxes to help refine a Fire Beast Pill, producing one pill and one failed pellet, then fed the successful pill to the foxes.
• Ye Jingcheng found a voice transmission talisman reporting that Ye Haiyun was at death’s door, then gathered with Ye Xingliu and the others to return to Soaring Cloud Peak.

Xu Yinglong arranged to pursue the Ye Family after suspecting the Ye Family had been involved in the Mo Family's destruction. As Ye Jingcheng hurried home to see the dying Ye Haiyun, Ye Xingliu detected someone following their spirit boat, leaving the family braced for a confrontation in the storm.

• Xu Yinglong concluded that the Ye Family might have destroyed the Mo Family and arranged to track them, but he decided not to pursue alone.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Mysterious Shadow Azure Cloud Boat to speed the Ye Family's return to Soaring Cloud Peak, driven by his desire to see Ye Haiyun before he died.
• Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng the concealed Daoist robe refined by Chu Yanqing, and Ye Jingcheng entrusted him with spirit pills to deliver to her.
• Ye Jingcheng pushed the spirit boat through the storm while the family traveled toward home, hoping to arrive before Ye Haiyun passed away.
• Ye Xingliu's pollen and Treasure-Seeking Rat revealed that someone was pursuing them, so he told Ye Jingcheng to fly higher into the thunderclouds.
• The Ye Family prepared their spirit beasts and considered splitting up if the pursuers included a Purple Palace cultivator.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family fled pursuers from the Taiyi Sect, then ambushed and killed them before they could escape. The chapter ended with Ye Xingliu identifying the dead cultivators as Xu Yinglong and Zi Wuya and the family disguising the battle’s traces as a thunderstorm.

• Ye Jingcheng directed the spirit boat toward the Fu Family’s territory while the pursuing boat closed in, and the Ye Family concealed their Taichang Tokens.
• Ye Jingcheng identified two Foundation Establishment pursuers and suspected they had tracked the family through the tokens, then ordered the others to wait until the right moment to strike.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu unleashed Talisman Treasures and attacks as the pursuers approached, while the Ye Family’s spirit beasts appeared and surrounded them.
• The Blackwood Sword neutralized one enemy Talisman Treasure, and Ye Jingcheng’s Golden Falcon killed both pursuers as Adamantine Vines trapped them.
• Ye Xingliu identified the dead men as Xu Yinglong of Illusion Peak and Zi Wuya of Purple Peak, then used an array disk and a spirit talisman to disrupt the traces before the Ye Family escaped.

Ye Jingcheng returned to Soaring Cloud Peak and learned that Ye Haiyun had died before he could see him again. After mourning and receiving Ye Haiyun’s legacy, he inherited the Soil-Turning Earthworm and set out to take over as family head.

• Ye Jingcheng returned to Soaring Cloud Peak, reported his mission, and learned that Ye Haiyun had died.
• Ye Jingcheng kowtowed before Ye Haiyun’s spirit tablet and received his contribution points, research, treasures, and a farewell message naming him as Ye Haiyun’s successor.
• Ye Jingcheng observed mourning in the ancestral hall for three days and reflected on the Ye Family’s losses and his resolve to cultivate.
• Ye Jingcheng visited Ye Haiyun’s courtyard, bonded with the Soil-Turning Earthworm, and moved it and the apricot tree into his Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven.
• Ye Jingcheng cleaned the courtyard, poured tea beneath the apricot tree, and declared that he would take over as family head.

Ye Jingcheng returned to his courtyard, settled his spirit beasts, and examined the treasures he had obtained from Xu Yinglong, including a pill formula and the Eight Trigrams Plaque. He learned that the Ye Family assembly would take place in twelve days and would announce the succession of its new family head.

• Ye Jingcheng returned to his courtyard and released his spirit beasts, allowing the Jade Ring Rat to tend the spiritual fields while the others settled in their rooms.
• Ye Jingcheng examined Xu Yinglong's storage pouch and found spirit stones, magical artifacts, the Crimson Seal, and the pill formula and ingredients for Purple Palace Jade Liquid, except for the Purple Jade Fruit.
• Ye Jingcheng studied the Eight Trigrams Plaque and learned it could deploy eight powerful arrays at the cost of substantial spiritual energy.
• Ye Jingcheng began researching the Ren Water Pill for the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon, drawing on Ye Haiyun's materials.
• A jade talisman informed Ye Jingcheng that the Ye Family assembly would be held in twelve days and announce the new family head, along with details of the family's forces and planned strategies.

Ye Jingcheng discussed the Ye Family’s reforms and pill plans with Ye Xingliu as the clan assembly approached. They learned that the Kong and Jin Families had secured permission to establish branches nearby, and the chapter ended with the Golden-Scaled Beast breaking through.

• Ye Jingcheng met Ye Xingliu after finishing his cultivation of the Soul-Splitting Art and discussed the Ye Family’s expansion and planned reforms.
• Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingcheng the Meridian-Protecting Pill formula and explained how the family would assess fire-attribute spirit beasts and use them in pill refining.
• Ye Xingliu said the Ye Family had purchased the Mo Family’s taverns and finalized plans to keep Ye Jingcheng’s Eldest Uncle in charge.
• Ye Jingcheng asked about Green Willow Mountain and Green Willow Lake, and Ye Xingliu revealed that the Kong Family and Jin Family had both won permission to establish branches nearby.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed a message from the Golden-Scaled Beast and learned that it had broken through.

Ye Jingcheng returned to the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven and watched the Golden-Scaled Beast and Three-Color Cloud Deer complete their breakthroughs, revealing stronger abilities. He rewarded both spirit beasts and left with a more powerful group of companions.

• Ye Jingcheng hurried back to the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven after sensing the Golden-Scaled Beast's urgent breakthrough.
• The Golden-Scaled Beast advanced to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, strengthened its earth secret arts, and sought the Crimson Flame Fox and Jade-Scale Flood Dragon for revenge.
• Ye Jingcheng soothed and rewarded the Golden-Scaled Beast with pills, meat, and treasure light.
• The Three-Color Cloud Deer completed its breakthrough, gained four-colored fur and feathered wings, and became the Four-Colored Cloud Deer.
• The Four-Colored Cloud Deer demonstrated its ability to summon ten powerful wooden giants and nearly pull Ye Jingcheng's divine soul from his body.

Ye Jingcheng tended to his advancing spirit beasts and considered his own cultivation before Ye Xuecang summoned him to Soaring Cloud Lake. The chapter ended as Ye Jingcheng arrived at the lake and was told to come in.

• Ye Jingcheng watched the Golden-Scaled Beast and Four-Colored Cloud Deer celebrate their advancement and considered how the beasts’ progress would help his cultivation.
• Ye Jingcheng told the Golden Falcon he would give it an Advancement Pill once it fully pledged loyalty, then fed it pills and Saber-Toothed Tiger meat.
• Ye Jingcheng released the Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles from their Array and gave them pills and Fire-Swallowing Sparrow meat.
• Ye Jingcheng checked the growing Adamantine Vine and prepared tea, fruit, and a Star-Eating Fish to visit Ye Haiping and Ye Haitian.
• Ye Xuecang summoned Ye Jingcheng to Soaring Cloud Lake, where the family could settle his secret-realm contributions and discuss the Lineage’s secrets.
• Ye Jingcheng reached Soaring Cloud Lake, and Ye Xuecang told him to come directly in.

Ye Jingcheng received the Ye Family’s rewards for the secret realm expedition and learned more about the family and his Beast-Link Mark. He then visited Ye Haitian at the earthfire chamber, where he recognized the old man’s fading condition and chose not to confront him about it.

• Ye Xuecang gave Ye Jingcheng 150,000 contribution points and a storage pouch containing four third-rank demon beast inner cores, pill formulas, and the later portion of the Four-Aspect Heavenly Origin Scripture.
• Ye Xuecang explained that the Beast-Link Tower could increase the Beast-Link Mark’s carrying capacity, gave Ye Jingcheng a jade talisman, and promised him another visit to the tower after he reached the Purple Palace stage.
• Ye Jingcheng asked what kind of family the Ye Family was, and Ye Xuecang answered that it could be called either a Purple Palace or Golden Core family.
• Ye Jingcheng left Soaring Cloud Lake and went to the earthfire chamber, where he found Ye Haitian recording alchemical insights.
• Ye Haitian tried to make himself look younger, but Ye Jingcheng saw through the disguise and quietly brought him spirit fish, Blue Wave Wine, and Floating Cloud Tea.

Ye Jingcheng refined Spirit Nurturing Pills, received a research jade slip from Ye Haitian, and visited Ye Haiping to exchange materials for spirit pills. He then visited Ye Xingqun and Ye Xinghan, learning about their spirit-beast and contract research and receiving two Floating Cloud Tea saplings.

• Ye Jingcheng rented an earthfire room, left a wider gap for other clan members to learn, and refined nine Spirit Nurturing Pills, including one with a pill pattern.
• Ye Haitian gave Ye Jingcheng a jade slip that Ye Jingcheng's Fourth Grandpa had assigned him to research.
• Ye Jingcheng visited Ye Haiping, recognized his concealed Foundation Establishment cultivation, and asked him to exchange materials for Thunder Rhinoceros Pills, Golden Scale Pills, and Jade-Scale Pills.
• Ye Haiping noticed something about Ye Jingcheng's family token but kept his question to himself and went to fetch the requested materials.
• Ye Jingcheng visited Ye Xingqun and saw that his Five Poison Bees had laid over a thousand spirit eggs in their second batch.
• Ye Xinghan showed Ye Jingcheng his improved Wood Demon Soul Contract research, then gave him two carefully cultivated Floating Cloud Tea saplings.

Ye Jingcheng cultivated his spirit plants and fed Thunder Rhinoceros Pills to his beetles, while the Golden Falcon showed defiance and was subdued through their soul contract. The next morning, Ye Jingcheng attended a Ye Family assembly where twenty-seven newly discovered youths with spirit roots had gathered, and he joined Ye Xingliu and Ye Haicheng on the platform.

• Ye Jingcheng watched the Floating Cloud Tea thrive in his Grotto-Heaven, where spiritual mist and rain nourished the garden and the Four-Colored Cloud Deer and other spirit beasts roamed.
• Ye Jingcheng fed Thunder Rhinoceros Pills, Amber Crystal, and Treasure Radiance to his beetles; eight of the more talented beetles and three others began advancing.
• The Golden Falcon resisted its usual Spirit Nurturing Pill, so Ye Jingcheng used their soul contract to suppress its defiance and withheld the pill.
• Ye Jingcheng cultivated through the night to prepare for the clan assembly, then dressed in the attire of the family head and went to the council hall.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu joined Ye Haicheng on the platform as the Ye Family gathered with twenty-seven newly discovered youths who possessed spirit roots.

Ye Xingliu passed the patriarch’s position to Ye Jingcheng, who took up the mantle and announced new clan rules, expanded halls, and plans to develop the family’s restaurant and spirit beast cultivation. The assembly ended with Ye Jingcheng introducing a breakthrough opportunity for clan members’ fire-attribute spirit beasts.

• Ye Xingliu honored the dead, reviewed the Ye Family’s growth, and announced Ye Jingcheng as the next patriarch.
• Ye Jingcheng accepted the Golden Dragon Token from Ye Haicheng and vowed to lead the family to greater heights.
• Ye Jingcheng reorganized the family halls and raised clan salaries and rewards for hall leaders and top members.
• Ye Jingcheng announced that the family would take over the Mo Family restaurant and promote Spring Welcoming Tea and spirit meals.
• Ye Jingcheng offered clan members with fire-attribute spirit beasts a talent evaluation that could earn their beasts a breakthrough opportunity.

Ye Jingcheng announced the Ye Family’s secret talent assessment for spirit beasts and began testing the new immortal seedlings. The clan assembly concluded with preparations to test nineteen fire-attributed spirit beasts the following day.

• Ye Xingqun and Ye Jingcheng explained that fire-attributed spirit beasts currently had the highest chance of successfully advancing their bloodlines, while warning that the method remained secret and carried risks.
• Ye Jingcheng began the spirit root and bloodline assessment, finding one child with dual fire-and-wood roots and confirming that he had Ye Family blood.
• Ye Jingcheng renamed the child Ye Qingyan and recognized his potential as an alchemist.
• Ye Jingcheng assessed the other seedlings, including eleven without Ye Family blood, who would receive instruction and be expected to contribute to the family or join it through marriage.
• Ye Xingqun told Ye Jingcheng that nineteen fire-attributed spirit beasts had signed up, and Ye Jingcheng instructed him to prepare the Fire Sincerity Pill for them the next day.

The Ye Family planned its restaurant launch in Taihang Marketplace as the Kong and Jin Families’ arrival threatened its businesses. Ye Jingcheng refined the plan with scarce Star-Eating Fish meals, second-tier spirit meat banquets, customer prizes, and Taiyi Sect connections.

• Ye Xinghe presented the restaurant plan, which linked the Ye Family’s spirit pill, spirit beast, and restaurant businesses and promoted snake-infused Green Bamboo Wine.
• Ye Jingcheng chose Star-Eating Fish as the signature dish, proposing limited meals and lodging for visiting body cultivators.
• Ye Jingcheng planned advance-booked second-tier spirit meat banquets and offered to lead hunts for demon beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng proposed prize draws for diners and gave Ye Xinghe a jade slip to develop customer-attraction strategies.
• Ye Jingcheng planned to invite Taihao Master, Master Tianzhen, Liu Huan, and other Illusion Peak disciples, offering them discounts on future Jade Soul Pill purchases.

Ye Jingcheng oversaw a test of spirit beasts fed Fire Sincerity Pills, and the Crimson Flame Scale Python and Violet Flame Longhorn Beetle showed signs of bloodline advancement. He prepared to leave for the opening of the Ye Family Restaurant while Ye Xingliu stayed behind to oversee the clan.

• Ye Jingli asked Ye Jingcheng to judge his Crimson Flame Scale Python, and Ye Jingcheng confirmed that it appeared stronger than the Azure-Scaled Python.
• Ye Xingqun reported that nineteen spirit beasts had consumed Fire Sincerity Pill fragments, and Ye Jingcheng began testing their ability to maintain stable Spirit Flame.
• After an incense stick, only five spirit beasts remained; the Crimson Flame Scale Python and Violet Flame Longhorn Beetle began to advance after taking the pills, while the Tricolor Fire Sparrow and Azure Flame Scorpion grew stronger and the Fire Leopard was injured.
• Ye Jingcheng healed the Fire Leopard with a spirit pill and Treasure Radiance, and the successful test raised the Ye Family's confidence in its bloodline-enhancing pills.
• Ye Jingcheng reviewed the guests invited to the Ye Family Restaurant opening, while Ye Xingliu offered to stay behind as Ye Jingcheng prepared to set off the next day.