Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng prepared for the Ye Family Restaurant’s opening while weighing the marketplace’s shifting alliances. He met Tianfu True Person, Taihao Master’s Golden Core master, and left the story facing a powerful new presence.

• Ye Xinghong told Ye Jingcheng that an anxious Foundation Establishment cultivator in a Spirit-Isolating Robe had come looking for him.
• Ye Jingcheng inspected the Ye Family’s spirit beast shop and confirmed with Ye Xinghe that the restaurant opening was fully prepared.
• Ye Xinghe identified the visitor as Xu Wenjin and explained that the Xu and Chu Families faced pressure from the Kong and Jin Families.
• Ye Jingcheng chose to investigate before taking sides, then went to meet Taihao Master, Master Tianzhen, and the Taiyi Sect guests.
• Ye Jingcheng entered their room and learned that the purple-robed Tianfu True Person was Taihao Master’s master and a Golden Core cultivator.

Ye Jingcheng accepted Tianfu True Person’s offer to become his registered disciple and received the Red Sun Disk, though he remained wary of the Taiyi Sect’s motives. After thanking Liu Huan, he visited Ye Jingteng, who gave him valuable spirit materials and told him Xu Yinglong had disappeared.

• Tianfu True Person invited Ye Jingcheng to become his registered disciple, and Ye Jingcheng accepted while withholding the Fire Sincerity Pill formula’s secrets.
• Tianfu True Person gave Ye Jingcheng the Red Sun Disk and said the discipleship would not be announced until Ye Jingcheng reached the Purple Palace realm.
• After Ye Jingcheng left, Tianfu True Person told Taihao Master and Master Tianzhen that the sect needed to build ties with him and suspected the Taiyi Sect held the hidden treasure.
• Ye Jingcheng visited Liu Huan and gave her spirit beast bags to thank her and her fellow disciples for their help.
• Ye Jingteng told Ye Jingcheng that Xu Yinglong had disappeared and gave him a storage bag containing nearly half of the collected Shi Fang spirit materials.

Ye Jingcheng opened the Ye Family Restaurant in Taihang Marketplace and used the gathering to strengthen the family’s ties with Taiyi Sect while rebuffing pressure from the Kong and Jin families. Afterward, he told Ye Haicheng that Tianfu True Person had accepted him as a nominal disciple, and Ye Haicheng judged the Red Jade Disk to be a test of the Ye Family’s combat strength.

• Ye Jingcheng avoided discussing an alliance with Xu Wenjin, then spent the night studying the Ren Water Pill formula.
• Ye Jingcheng opened the Ye Family Restaurant, where crowds of cultivators arrived for its half-price dishes and spiritual tea.
• Ye Jingcheng seated Golden Jade Hall on the third floor and faced Kong Yulong, who complained that the Kong Family had not been invited.
• Taihao Master asked Kong Yulong to present a congratulatory gift in front of Tianfu True Person and other Taiyi Sect guests, forcing him to offer valuable peacock stone.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to Soaring Cloud Peak, found Ye Xuecang had gone to the Eastern Sea, and told Ye Haicheng about becoming Tianfu True Person’s nominal disciple.
• Ye Haicheng examined the Red Jade Disk and said it likely tested the Ye Family’s combat strength, while Tianfu True Person’s support could benefit the family.

Ye Jingcheng nurtured his spirit beasts and discovered that Amber Crystal had mutated four Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles with hidden wings and powerful concealed Lightning Nets. A year and a half later, the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon and Crimson Flame Fox both broke through to the late second rank, and Ye Jingcheng seized the chance to advance his own cultivation.

• Ye Jingcheng fed the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon a Ren Water Pill and a water buffalo spirit beast, and its aura neared a breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng found that seven Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles had reached the second rank, including four mutated Hidden-Wing Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles whose concealed Lightning Nets blasted a crater.
• Ye Jingcheng rewarded the Golden Falcon and saw that it had become submissive and eager for his attention.
• After another year and a half, the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon broke through to the late second rank, followed immediately by the Crimson Flame Fox.
• Ye Jingcheng gave the two beasts pills and spirit beast meat, then began cultivating beside the Spirit Eye Spring as refined spiritual power surged into him.

Ye Jingcheng emerged from more than two years of seclusion after reaching Foundation Establishment Late Stage and reviewed the Ye Family’s growing strength and mounting problems in Taihang Commandery. The chapter ended as Ye Xingyu told him that the Jin Family and Kong Family wanted another meeting to divide the marketplace’s profits.

• Ye Jingcheng broke through to Foundation Establishment Late Stage in the Grotto-Heaven, then fed and inspected his spirit beasts and plants before leaving seclusion.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that the Crimson Flame Scale Python and Violet Flame Longhorn Beetle had advanced, two clansmen had reached Foundation Establishment, and the Alchemy Hall had narrowed its Earth-Tier and Water-Tier Pill research to two formulas.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that rogue cultivators and suspected bandit and demonic cultivators had caused disappearances among the Ye Family’s mortals and clansmen in Taihang Commandery.
• Ye Jingcheng reviewed how the Jin Family and Kong Family were expanding their businesses while the Xu Family and Chu Family sought support from other powers.
• Ye Xingyu arrived with a message and told Ye Jingcheng that the Jin Family and Kong Family wanted to convene another meeting to divide Taihang Marketplace’s profits.

Ye Jingcheng learned more about the Ye Family’s Beast-Link Tower and its plans to survive the growing pressure in Taihang Commandery. He traveled with Ye Haicheng to Taihang Marketplace to defend the Chu Family and face the coming negotiations over marketplace profits.

• Ye Haicheng and the Ye Family elders discussed the Jin and Kong families’ push to redraw marketplace profits, the Chu Family’s troubles, and rising killings of Rogue Cultivators, then decided Ye Haicheng and Ye Jingcheng would go to the marketplace.
• Ye Xingliu told Ye Jingcheng that Ye Haitian had died and left him alchemy notes, while Ye Haicheng explained that Ye Xuecang was secluded for a breakthrough and that Beast-Link Marks could receive a second soul infusion before the Purple Palace Realm.
• Ye Haicheng revealed that the Beast-Link Tower depended on demon souls, warned Ye Jingcheng to preserve the family’s foundations if necessary, and said Ye Jinghu and Ye Jingtai might soon form beast links.
• Ye Jingcheng entered the Alchemy Pavilion, took an earth-fire room, and began refining Fasting Pills and Spirit Feeding Pills as Ye Qingyan watched nearby.
• Three days later, Ye Haicheng and Ye Jingcheng arrived at Taihang Marketplace aboard an Iron-Controlling Boat, where Jiang Jinghe proposed holding the families’ meeting in three days before the auction.

Ye Jingcheng learned that Xu Xiuqing had returned to Taihang Marketplace after failing to break through Foundation Establishment, and he struggled with the possibility that their appointment would never be kept. At the meeting to redistribute the auction shares, the Jin and Kong Families pushed through a four-four-two division, and the Xu Family prepared to fight for its share.

• Ye Jingcheng asked Ye Xinghong whether Xu Xiuqing had come; she said Xu had bought a Jade Ring Rat and left, and Ye Jingcheng realized she had likely failed her breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng spent the day grieving, tended to the Jade Ring Rat, and poorly refined a small batch of Spirit Nurturing Pills before regaining his resolve the next morning.
• Ye Haicheng, Ye Jingcheng, and Ye Xinghe attended the auction-share meeting, where Kong Yulong and Jin Zongliang arrived together and argued that their families deserved greater influence.
• Chu Tianfen said the Chu Family would accept half a share, while Kong Yulong proposed dividing the shares four-four-two among the six families.
• Xu Chunlin rejected conceding and called for a Purple Palace cultivation competition, hoping the Xu Family could still secure a share.

The Ye, Xu, Jin, and Kong families agreed to hold Purple Palace duels in two days, with Xu Chunlin facing Kong Yulong and Jin Zongliang facing Ye Haicheng. Afterward, Ye Haicheng warned that the Ye Family could not afford to win and said they needed to keep contact with the Xu Family while uncovering what the Chu Family knew.

• Ye Haicheng and Xu Chunlin invited Taihao Master and Qian He to oversee the duels, and the families settled on holding them in two days.
• The families set Xu Chunlin against Kong Yulong and Jin Zongliang against Ye Haicheng, reflecting the deeper feud between the Xu and Kong families.
• Ye Jingcheng sent Chu Xiyu a voice transmission to confirm that Yan Qing had received the promised spirit pills, but Chu Xiyu remained distant.
• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Haicheng, and Ye Xinghe visited the crowded Ye Family Restaurant, where Ye Jingcheng inspected its operations and considered using spirit beasts as attendants in Taichang Market.
• Ye Haicheng told Ye Jingcheng that the Ye Family could not win the duel and needed to maintain ties with the Xu Family and learn what the Chu Family knew.

Ye Jingcheng strengthened his divine sense, began the Stone Spirit’s advancement, and set out with the Ye Family for a dangerous contest at Severing Harmony Valley. As the match between Xu Chunlin and Kong Yulong began, the Chu Family faced the prospect of its destruction amid rumors of the Eight Desolations Sect’s legacy treasure.

• Ye Jingcheng fused the souls of three Five Poison Bees, raising his divine sense close to Foundation Establishment Peak, then refined his Spirit-Breaking Needles.
• Ye Jingcheng fed Shi Fang to the Stone Spirit, which awakened its bloodline and began advancing while he studied pills for his spirit beasts.
• Chu Tianfen told Chu Xiyu that rumors of the legacy treasure in a secret-realm Grotto-Heaven had put the Xu and Ye Families in danger, and that the Chu Family had no way out.
• Ye Jingcheng left for Severing Harmony Valley with Ye Haicheng, Ye Xinghe, and Ye Jingyong, where they met Taihao Master and representatives of the other factions.
• Jin Zongliang ordered Xu Chunlin and Kong Yulong to spar, and Kong Yulong launched a Golden Thunder Spear at Xu Chunlin.

The Kong and Jin Families defeated the Xu and Ye Families in a contest over Taihang Marketplace’s profits, leaving the Ye Family with a sharply reduced share. Afterward, Ye Jingcheng studied the Purple Palace battles and began preparing to gain strength of his own.

• Kong Yulong defeated Xu Chunlin with his Golden Thunder Spears, and Qian He conceded twenty percent of Taihang Marketplace’s profits to the Green Willow Kong Family.
• Jin Zongliang defeated Ye Haicheng after a close exchange involving their artifacts, and Ye Haicheng conceded.
• Jiang Jinghe announced the new marketplace profit shares, reducing the Ye Family’s portion to six percent.
• Taihao Master declined Ye Haicheng’s invitation to drink, citing the unresolved danger of a beast tide at Jade Dragon Valley.
• Ye Jingcheng returned home, studied the battles in jade slips, and began preparing to gather spirit herbs for the Golden Falcon Pill.

Ye Jingcheng attended the Taihang Marketplace auction and bid on an ancient Eight Desolations Silkworm silk map that might lead to a Minor World. The Jin Family won the map, leaving Ye Jingcheng convinced the auction was a trap and determined to investigate it.

• Ye Jingcheng bought the Golden Cloud Grass needed to complete the first-rank Golden Falcon advancement pill.
• Liu Yun presented an incomplete Eight Desolations Sect map, and Ye Jingcheng recognized that its possible link to a Minor World could help the Ye Family conceal its survival and protect its mortals.
• Ye Jingcheng realized the Jin and Kong Families might be using the map auction to identify descendants of the Beast Wasteland, so he joined the bidding to avoid drawing suspicion.
• Ye Jingcheng bid against the Jin and Kong Families until the Jin Family bought the map for fourteen thousand spirit stones.
• Ye Jingcheng asked Ye Jingyong to investigate the map and seek a chance to borrow it from the Jin Family.
• Liu Yun introduced the fifth auction item, a Wood Demon that could produce spirit beast meat.

Ye Jingcheng bought a Flesh Ganoderma Demon at auction and learned from Ye Haicheng about the Ye Family’s strained position and hidden history. He tested the demon’s ability to produce spirit meat and planned to return to Soaring Cloud Peak to see whether the family could contract Wood Demons.

• Ye Jingcheng outbid Jin Yutang for the Flesh Ganoderma Demon after seeing its advancement opportunities in the Treasure Book.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Haicheng about the treasure map, and Ye Haicheng revealed the Lineage’s lack of Golden Core cultivators, its debt of favors to the Earth Dragon Demon King, and its troubled history with the Eight Desolations Sect.
• Ye Haicheng said the Lineage would focus on searching for Minor Worlds, and Ye Jingcheng considered how to use the Earth Dragon Demon King’s remaining favor and gather beast souls for the Beast-Link Tower.
• Ye Jingcheng found that the Flesh Ganoderma Demon needed soil and substantial spiritual energy, while Treasure Radiance increased its conversion of spiritual energy into spirit meat.
• Ye Jingcheng decided to return to Soaring Cloud Peak and test whether the Ye Family’s contract could control Wood Demons.

Ye Jingcheng visited Xu Xiuqing and found her living with Xu Zhongxing, then returned to Taihang Marketplace with a sense of loss. More than half a month later, the Stone Spirit advanced, enlarging its cave-heaven and revealing new abilities, while Ye Jingcheng began planning how to develop it.

• Ye Jingcheng refined four Golden Falcon Pills for the Golden Falcon and learned that Xu Xiuqing had settled in her late father's valley.
• Ye Jingcheng found Xu Xiuqing living with Xu Zhongxing, left without speaking to her, and returned to the Ye Family's spirit beast shop to drink with Ye Jingyong.
• Xu Xiuqing dismissed Xu Zhongxing's suggestion that she seek another Foundation Establishment Pill and encouraged her frail Jade Ring Rat to improve despite lacking resources.
• After more than half a month, the Stone Spirit advanced to the mid-stage second rank, expanded its cave-heaven threefold, and began forming a spiritual vein.
• The Stone Spirit demonstrated spiritual rain and short-range teleportation, and Ye Jingcheng gave it four Four-Aspect Secret Art jade slips to study.
• Ye Jingcheng released his spirit beasts into the enlarged cave-heaven, where they eagerly began claiming territory.

Ye Jingcheng strengthened his spirit-beast and spirit-plant contracts before Ye Xuefan summoned him to discuss the Ye Family’s plans for a newly discovered Minor World. The chapter left Ye Jingcheng with a third-rank Purple Sun Demon Corpse and a warning to watch the Xu Family’s movements.

• Ye Jingcheng fed his spirit beasts, and the Golden Falcon swallowed a pill that strengthened its aura before addressing him through Divine Soul voice transmission as its master.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xinghan successfully formed a Woodheart Spirit Pact with the Flesh Ganoderma Demon, and Ye Xinghan gave Ye Jingcheng two improved Floating Cloud Tea trees and a new spirit-liquid formula.
• Ye Xuefan told Ye Jingcheng that the Ye Family had found a Minor World in the Eastern Sea and ordered him to arrange for some mortals near the Taihang Mountain Range to be moved there during a staged rogue-cultivator attack.
• Ye Xuefan warned Ye Jingcheng that the Xu Family might have found the true Beast Wasteland Minor World and said it could contain spirit-beast eggs or young beasts.
• Ye Xuefan gave Ye Jingcheng a third-rank Purple Sun Demon Corpse and an array plate as additional rewards.

Ye Jingcheng formed a pact with the Purple Sun Demon Corpse as the Ye Family prepared for a coming beast tide and planned to relocate its mortals. After reflecting on his own path, he convened a clan assembly and won approval for a cover story involving attacks by evil cultivators.

• Ye Jingcheng summoned the Purple Sun Demon Corpse, formed a blood pact, and learned that its body could be refined further to help it advance.
• Ye Xuefan warned Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng to prepare to move mortals, then left to oversee the Azure Cloud Sea Region.
• Ye Jingcheng advised Ye Haicheng not to target the Xu Family and instead to help conceal its tracks while the Ye Family prepared its own relocation.
• Ye Jingcheng surveyed Soaring Cloud Peak with his divine sense, regained a sense of calm, and decided to share the crisis with the clan's senior members.
• Ye Jingcheng announced the coming beast tide and the plan to relocate as many mortals as possible, and Ye Jingyun proposed using attacks by evil cultivators as a cover.

Ye Jingcheng studied the clan’s spirit-vein methods and built a first-rank mid-grade spirit vein and spirit lake in his Grotto-Heaven. After receiving an urgent summons, he learned that demonic cultivators had massacred a Ye Family town and killed the late-stage Qi Refinement cultivator sent to investigate.

• After the clan assembly, Ye Jingli told Ye Jingcheng that he wanted to avenge Fourth Brother, and Ye Jingcheng withheld the truth about Ye Jingyu.
• Ye Jingcheng visited the Treasure Pavilion, obtained jade slips on spirit veins, and asked Ye Haiping to help find ingredients for a second-rank Peachwood Demon wood formula.
• Ye Jingcheng arranged Spirit-Gathering Arrays and Spirit-Attracting Stones in his Grotto-Heaven, buried thirty thousand spirit stones, and activated a Spirit-Locking Grand Formation to create a spirit vein and spirit lake.
• Ye Jingcheng left the Grotto-Heaven after cultivating and received an urgent red sound-transmission talisman summoning him to the council hall.
• Ye Xingqun told Ye Jingcheng that demonic cultivators had massacred a Ye Family town near Verdant Valley and killed the late-stage Qi Refinement cultivator sent to investigate.

Ye Jingcheng prepared to confront the rogue cultivators who had attacked Ye Family mortals, traveling to Cloud-Spreading Mountain with reinforcements while secretly strengthening the mountain’s defenses. There, Ye Haiyi recognized the family’s mortal migration as a fallback plan, and Ye Jingcheng confirmed it was Second Ancestor’s decision.

• Ye Jingcheng decided to respond to the attacks at Cloud-Spreading Mountain, arranged for trouble to distract the Chu Family and Xu Family, and told Ye Haicheng he would split his soul again.
• Ye Haicheng gave Ye Jingcheng a third-rank Jia Wood Golden Shield Talisman, and Ye Jingcheng split off a soul fragment before setting out with Ye Jingyun and other clansmen.
• Ye Jingcheng flew conspicuously over the settlements near Cloud-Spreading Mountain, then arrived at the branch mountain and promised Ye Haiyi that he would kill the rogue cultivators within days.
• Ye Jingcheng ordered Uncle Xing Shui to inspect the formations while secretly preparing to establish new defenses, then followed Ye Haiyi to the Spirit Herb Garden.
• Ye Haiyi revealed his fading Beast-Link Mark and showed that he understood the mortal migration was the family’s fallback route, so Ye Jingcheng confirmed it was Second Ancestor’s decision.

Ye Jingcheng lured the Corpse Daoist into attacking the Ye Family, then helped defeat him and destroy his final divided soul. After the battle, the Ye Family discovered a concealed formation and a rare Concealing Spirit Stone, while Ye Haicheng prepared to share important news.

• Ye Jingyun reported that refined corpses had attacked White Cloud Town, and Ye Jingcheng suspected the Corpse Daoist was behind the incidents.
• Ye Haicheng reported refined corpses in Azure Water Town, so Ye Jingcheng gathered the core Ye Family members and flew there to confront them.
• The Corpse Daoist revealed himself as Chen Ya, trapped the Ye Family spirit boat, and sent blood corpses and five flying green zombies against Ye Jingcheng’s group.
• Ye Jingcheng’s spirit beasts defeated the attackers, but the Corpse Daoist lured him toward a third-rank blood corpse made from a Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator.
• Ye Haicheng emerged from the void and destroyed the third-rank blood corpse, while the Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles captured the Corpse Daoist’s final divided soul.
• Ye Haicheng confirmed through a soul search that no avatars remained, and Ye Xing shui discovered a concealed Water Curtain Sky-Sticking Array and a third-rank Concealing Spirit Stone.

After the battle, Ye Jingcheng learned from Ye Haicheng that the Taiyi Sect’s True Lord was gone and rival sects were preparing to strike, threatening the Ye Family. The family began an urgent evacuation and planned to exploit the coming beast tide while Ye Jingcheng prepared to make plans in the Taihang Mountain Range.

• Ye Jingcheng ordered the battlefield cleaned and the blood corpses preserved as evidence, then went to Azure Water Town, where Ye Family cultivators had already killed the refined corpses but many mortals had died.
• Ye Haicheng told Ye Jingcheng that the Feather Transformation Sect had secretly traded with the Heavenly Corpse Sect and that Yan Kingdom’s sects were preparing for a war among cultivators.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng agreed to move half the Ye Family’s mortals first and trigger a beast tide, while Ye Jingcheng requested information on Hidden Peak and the great demons of the mountain ranges.
• Ye Haicheng gave Ye Jingcheng a third-rank gold-element demon core and urged him to preserve his strength as the Ye Family’s hope.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to Soaring Cloud Peak and ordered the family’s Inner Hall cultivators to move all mortals near the Taihang Mountain Range into Turtle Ancestor’s grotto-heaven and activate the teleportation array in three days.

The Xu and Chu Families prepared to evacuate their promising members as their secrets and dealings drew powerful enemies, while Ye Jingcheng oversaw the Ye Family’s relocation. He welcomed the Golden Falcon’s breakthrough to the second-rank peak, tested its attack, and stocked his grotto-heaven’s spirit lake with fish and Jade Lotuses.

• Xu Chunlin ordered Xu Wenjin and two elders to hunt down the Xu Family’s exposed remnants while the family relocated its core disciples and struggled to preserve its foundations.
• Chu Xiyu told Chu Yanqing that the Chu Family’s exposed trade with the Feather Transformation Sect forced her to leave for the Zhao Kingdom with other promising members and mortals.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed that the Golden Falcon had broken through to the second-rank peak and watched it injure the Purple Sun Demon Corpse with a diving strike.
• Ye Jingcheng repaired the Purple Sun Demon Corpse, rewarded the Golden Falcon, and released Star-Eating Fish and Red-Node Fish into his grotto-heaven’s spirit lake.
• Ye Jingcheng separated the two kinds of fish and placed Jade Lotuses beside the Red-Node Fish.