Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family’s Hidden Peak agreed to raid Moonwatch Lake and provoke a beast tide, while he prepared the family’s public response to its supposed losses. The chapter left Taihang Marketplace rallying behind Jiang Jinghe’s demon-hunting squads as the Ye Family displayed blood corpses and offered rewards for killing evil cultivators.

• Ye Haicheng, Ye Xueliang, and Ye Jingcheng agreed to attack Moonwatch Lake, using the Earth Dragon Demon King’s aid to face the Silver Moon Pythons and draw the Silver Moon Demon King into a wider beast tide.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to oversee the relocation of the Ye Family’s mortals, then departed with Ye Jingli, Ye Jingyun, and Ye Haicheng for Taihang Marketplace.
• The Ye Family displayed blood corpses and accused evil cultivators of killing its mortals and abducting its cultivators, claiming it had lost tens of thousands of people.
• Ye Jingcheng urged Jiang Jinghe, Jin Yutang, and Kong Wanjun to organize demon-hunting teams and investigate mysterious cultivators.
• Ye Jingcheng offered Spring Welcoming Tea and a ten-percent discount at Ye Family shops to those who killed evil cultivators, and the marketplace backed Jiang Jinghe’s demon-hunting effort.

Ye Jingcheng secured Taihao Master’s support and examined the spoils from the Corpse Daoist while the Ye Family prepared to move its mortals amid rising danger. After coordinating with Jiang Jinghe, Ye Jingcheng met a concealed visitor he recognized as Chu Yanqing, whose purpose remained unknown.

• Ye Haicheng told Taihao Master that the rogue cultivators came from the Heavenly Corpse Sect, and Taihao Master gave Ye Jingcheng a jade slip containing the Purple Sky Talisman method.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng planned to press Jiang Jinghe to delay organizing a demon-hunting team while the Ye Family worked to evacuate mortals.
• Ye Jingcheng inspected the Corpse Daoist’s storage pouches and found three peak second-rank offensive talismans, a Black Corpse Needle, and captives being turned into refined corpses.
• Ye Jingcheng studied the Golden Falcon Pill formula, then visited Jiang Jinghe, who continued stalling because he feared getting caught in the Ye Family’s conflict.
• Ye Xinghe told Ye Jingcheng that a veiled visitor was waiting at the family restaurant, and Ye Jingcheng recognized the visitor as Chu Yanqing from her pill bottle.
• Ye Jingcheng asked Chu Yanqing why she had come without warning, while suspecting that the Chu Family wanted his help.

Chu Yanqing warned Ye Jingcheng that a Nascent Soul True Lord had divined a hidden relic in Taihang Commandery, but Ye Haicheng dismissed the danger as secondary to the Ye Family’s plans. After the family staged attacks on its towns and set a beast tide in motion, Ye Jingcheng secretly traveled into the Taihang Mountain Range and reached Moonwatch Lake.

• Chu Yanqing told Ye Jingcheng that his family might be targeted over the Eight Desolations Sect’s hidden relic and gave him an escape route to Zhao Kingdom.
• Ye Jingcheng reported her warning to Ye Haicheng, who focused instead on whether Taiyi Sect had a Nascent Soul cultivator and on triggering a beast tide.
• Jiang Jinghe handed Ye Jingcheng a weak demon-hunting roster, while the Ye Family staged reports of massacres and relocated its mortals.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng confirmed the teleportation formation had been hidden, burned the staged towns, and received reports that a beast tide had begun.
• Taihao Master and Qian He investigated the apparent attacks, while Ye Jingcheng arranged supplies and left Soaring Cloud Peak in disguise that night.
• Ye Jingcheng crossed into the Earth Dragon Demon King’s territory aboard the Black Coffin White Bone Boat and arrived at Moonwatch Lake.

Ye Jingcheng joined the Ye Family’s force as it launched an attack on Moonwatch Lake, where they faced a vast host of demon beasts and two powerful Silver Moon Pythons. The battle began with the family’s Purple Palace cultivators holding off the pythons while Ye Jingcheng and the others fought the beasts across the lake.

• Ye Jingcheng concealed the Ye Family force near Moonwatch Lake while Ye Haiyu and Ye Haifei began setting up the Yin-Yang Bright-Dark Formation.
• The Ye Family gathered its Foundation Establishment cultivators and spirit beasts, and Ye Haicheng ordered them to attack the lake’s remaining demon beasts.
• A horned Silver Moon Python appeared alongside another Silver Moon Python, and Ye Haicheng realized the beasts had discovered the formation.
• Ye Haicheng split the lake with his Water-Separating Banner, exposing a huge host of demon beasts, then led the battle against the two Silver Moon Pythons.
• Ye Jingcheng released nine second-rank spirit beasts and joined the fight, while Ye Haicheng and the other clansmen battled the lake’s demons.

The Ye Family overwhelmed the demon beasts at Moonwatch Lake, captured several promising young beasts, and killed the two Silver Moon Python great demons. After claiming the spoils, the family prepared to hold the lake and draw together a beast tide as distant demons approached.

• Ye Haicheng held off a Silver Moon Python with support from the Manflame Green Ox while Ye Jingcheng and the other Ye Family cultivators slaughtered the lake’s demon beasts.
• Ye Haifei and Ye Haiyu sealed Moonwatch Lake with the Dual Polarity Twin Formation, and the Ye Family’s formations and attacks turned the battle into a rout.
• Ye Jingcheng captured a three-opportunity Silver Moon Python and an early second-rank Blood-Patterned Crocodile as the family killed the remaining second-rank beasts.
• The Ye Family formed the Star-Moon Unity Battle Formation and killed both Silver Moon Python great demons, with Ye Haicheng claiming their inner cores and giving Ye Jingcheng natal blood essence.
• Ye Haicheng used the Heavenly Demon Banner to absorb demon souls, while Ye Xuefu assigned the spoils and sent the family to gather young beasts and resources.
• Ye Haicheng stayed outside the formation to deter approaching demons as the rest of the Ye Family searched Moonwatch Lake, intending to hold the area and draw together a beast tide.

Ye Jingcheng harvested Moonwatch Grass, a Dragon Whisker Fruit tree, Water Azure Cold Iron, Silver Moon Python eggs, and Azure Moon Fish from Moonwatch Lake as the Ye Family completed its raid. The family escaped the arriving Silver Moon Python demons using a Spirit Explosion Formation, and the Silver Moon Demon King arrived afterward to learn that humans had attacked and tried to enslave its clan.

• Ye Jingcheng collected Azure Moon Fish and carefully transplanted the Moonwatch Grass in the Silver Moon Python lair.
• Ye Jingcheng found a Dragon Whisker Fruit tree, mined Water Azure Cold Iron, and took the Silver Moon Python eggs.
• Ye Jingcheng reunited with Ye Xingyu and Ye Jingyu as the Ye Family withdrew from the lake ahead of the approaching great demons.
• Ye Haicheng and the Star-Eyed Iron Ape killed an early third-rank Silver Moon Python before the Turtle Ancestor swallowed the retreating group and fled with a Windstride Talisman.
• Ye Haifei activated a Spirit Explosion Formation that devastated Moonwatch Lake and threw the remaining Silver Moon Pythons into disarray.
• The Silver Moon Demon King arrived and learned that humans from beyond Taihang Mountain had attacked the Silver Moon clan and tried to enslave it.

The Xu and Chu Families faced imminent destruction as the Jin and Kong Families pursued them and searched for a secret treasure they suspected was held by the Ye Family. Meanwhile, Silver Moon Demon King launched another beast tide toward the human territories, and Ye Jingcheng returned to Soaring Cloud Peak, where Taihao Master and Qian He saw him refining high-grade second-rank spirit pills.

• Xu Chunlin rejected Xu Wenjin's plan to flee and prepared the Xu Family to defend Granary Mountain until Qian He arrived with the Taiyi Sect's punishment decree.
• Kong Yulong led the Kong Family's forces to apprehend the Xu Family, accusing them of concealing the Beast Wasteland Minor World and being remnants of the Eight Desolations Sect.
• Chu Tianfen told Chu Xiyu and the remaining Chu Family members to escape while he stayed behind, expecting Chu Yanqing and the strongest members to have reached the Zhao Kingdom.
• Kong Guxiang persuaded Jin Chengyun that the secret treasure might belong to the Ye Family, and they traveled toward Soaring Cloud Peak to investigate.
• Silver Moon Demon King ordered the beasts of the Taihang Mountain Range to launch a new tide toward Soaring Cloud Peak and the human territories.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng returned to Soaring Cloud Peak, where Taihao Master and Qian He saw Ye Jingcheng refining high-grade second-rank spirit pills.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng gathered the Ye Family to hunt the blood cultivators, but an unexpected beast tide descended on Soaring Cloud Peak. As the family fled, the Silver Moon Demon King smashed a mysterious spirit ark, and several cultivators—including Ancient Fragrance True Person and Chengyun True Person—escaped from it.

• Ye Jingcheng presented high-grade spirit pills to Taihao Master and Qian He, then refused Qian He's proposal to use Ye Family sites as bait for blood cultivators.
• Ye Haicheng emerged from seclusion and assembled the Ye Family cultivators, claiming he had refined Blood-Seeking Talismans to track the blood cultivators.
• A massive beast tide approached from the Ethereal Mountain Range, and Taihao Master recognized that the Earth Dragon Demon King had split its forces.
• Taihao Master supplied a third-rank formation, but the Silver Moon Demon King appeared, forcing the group to abandon Soaring Cloud Peak and flee.
• The Silver Moon Demon King caught and smashed a mysterious spirit ark, after which several escaping cultivators emerged, including Ancient Fragrance True Person and Chengyun True Person.

The Ye Family fled a brutal beast tide while Ye Haicheng, Ye Xingliu, and other elders stayed behind to hold off the pursuing great demons. Jade Dragon Valley reinforcements arrived, and Ye Jingcheng led the survivors toward Green Willow Lake, where the Jin Family demanded an explanation for the beast tide.

• Kong Guxiang and Jin Chengyun fled the Silver Moon Demon King toward Soaring Cloud Peak, while their clansmen were caught in the beast tide.
• Ye Xingliu ordered the elders and older clansmen to stay behind, and Ye Haicheng handed Ye Jingcheng control of the spirit boat before they faced the pursuing demons.
• Ye Jingcheng led the remaining Ye Family clansmen onward, then begged Tianfu True Person to save the elders when Jade Dragon Valley reinforcements arrived.
• Tianfu True Person went to aid the elders and directed Ye Jingcheng to take the survivors to Green Willow Lake; Ye Jingcheng sent Ye Jingli and Ye Jingyun to warn the family mortals at Cloud-Spreading Mountain.
• The Ye Family reached Green Willow Mountain, where Golden Jade Hall demanded to know why the beast tide had broken out, and Ye Jingcheng said he did not know but believed the Silver Moon Demon King had pursued the Jin Family ancestor.

Ye Jingcheng brought the battered Ye Family into Green Willow Mountain as the beast tide approached, while the Jin Family learned that its ancestor had been gravely wounded and the Kong Family ancestor had died. With the Silver Moon Demon King still nearby, the families prepared to defend the mountain, and Ye Jingcheng led a team of Ye cultivators out to fight.

• Jin Zongliang challenged Ye Jingcheng, then let the Ye Family enter Green Willow Mountain after Ye Jingcheng invoked Tianfu True Person’s judgment.
• Tianfu True Person returned with the wounded Jin Chengyun and revealed that many Ye Family members had sacrificed themselves to escape the beasts; he set up a fourth-rank formation to defend Green Willow Mountain.
• Taihao Master told Ye Jingcheng that Ancient Fragrance True Person had died and Soaring Cloud Peak was nearly ruined.
• Master Tianzhen and Taihao Master warned that waves of demonic beasts were approaching, so Golden Jade Hall and Ye Jingcheng selected cultivators to fight outside the mountain.
• Ye Jingcheng chose Ye Jinghu and the young Ye Jingting for the fifteen-person team, then released his Crimson Flame Fox and Golden-Scaled Beast as the group prepared to advance.

Ye Jingcheng led the Ye Family in repelling the beast tide’s first assault on Green Willow Mountain, then organized the clan’s recovery and defenses. As more cultivators arrived from Taihang Marketplace, Taihao Master warned that the orderly beast tide might persist for a long time.

• Ye Jingcheng led the Ye Family down Green Willow Mountain and coordinated their spirit beasts and spells against the first- and second-order beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng directed the Golden-Scaled Beast and Crimson Flame Fox to hunt water-attributed pythons while he fought with basic techniques and protected the clan’s strength.
• When the beast tide withdrew, Ye Jingcheng stopped Ye Jingli from pursuing, ordered the battlefield counted, and distributed compensation for lost spirit beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng returned the clan to Green Willow Mountain’s formation, where Taihao Master warned him that the cautious, organized beast tide could last for some time.
• Miaofa True Person arrived with cultivators from Taihang Marketplace, including Ye Jingyong, Chu Yanliu, and Ye Wen, while Kong Family cultivators also gathered nearby.

At Green Willow Mountain, the Taiyi Sect prepared its defenses as the Silver Moon Demon King led a vast beast tide against the fourth-rank formation. Ye Jingcheng secured his clan’s support and warned them to flee if the formation failed, while the Demon King suddenly charged after spotting two Kong Family cultivators.

• At Green Willow Lake, Miaofa True Person questioned whether the Three-Eyed Demon King had once sought a secret treasure, but Tianfu True Person told him to stop discussing the matter and focus on defending Green Willow Mountain.
• Ye Jingyong challenged Ye Jingcheng’s leadership, but Ye Jingcheng accepted responsibility for the family’s losses and asked the clan to give him ten years to rebuild it.
• Ye Jingcheng surveyed the growing beast tide, found no Xu, Chu, or Chen Family clansmen, and traded for supplies to improve his chances of survival.
• The Silver Moon Demon King led tens of thousands of beasts in an assault on Green Willow Mountain as the True Persons activated the formation and Ye Jingcheng ordered the Ye Family onto the walls.
• Several Silver Moon Python demons approached Kong Yulong and Kong Wanjun, prompting the Silver Moon Demon King to roar and attack the formation in a rage.

As the Silver Moon Demon King battered Green Willow Mountain, the beast tide exposed hidden rogue cultivators and devastated the Kong Family while Ye Jingcheng concealed the Ye Family’s strength. Tianfu True Person activated another formation as reinforcements appeared in the distance.

• Tianfu True Person redirected Green Willow Mountain’s formation to fight the Silver Moon Demon King, leaving the mountain exposed to the beast tide it summoned.
• Ye Jingcheng defended the Ye Family with formation plates, artifacts, and spirit talismans while hidden Purple Palace cultivators among the rogue cultivators revealed themselves to battle third-rank demons.
• Kong Yulong watched Silver Moon Pythons slaughter his clansmen and ordered the Kong Family to join the Jin Family.
• Ye Jingcheng held back his strongest spirit beasts and magical methods, while the Golden-Scaled Beast and Crimson Flame Fox fought amid mounting losses.
• Tianfu True Person activated another formation around Green Willow Mountain as additional figures appeared in the distance.

The Taiyi Sect turned the beast tide with its Heavenly Dipper Sword Array and wounded the Silver Moon Demon King, but a Blood King Valley cultivator stole much of the scattered wyrm blood. After the beasts fled, Ye Jingcheng concealed some blood for the Peachwood Demon, tended the Ye Family, and traded for resources while the surviving cultivators regrouped.

• Taiyi Sword Peak revealed the Heavenly Dipper Sword Array as Three Origins True Person, Tianfu True Person, Miaofa True Person, and Jin Chengyun attacked the Silver Moon Demon King and drew its blood.
• A golden lizard demon shielded the Silver Moon Demon King, which broke through the formation and fled toward the Taihang Mountain Range with the four True Persons in pursuit.
• A red-robed Blood King Valley cultivator seized the wyrm blood, scattered some among the beast tide and rogue cultivators, and fled with the rest; Ye Jingcheng collected drops openly and secretly had the Peachwood Demon absorb blood from the earth.
• Taiyi's Heavenly Dipper Sword Array broke the beast tide, while Taihao Master and Master Tianzhen pursued the blood thieves and Sword Peak masters chased the fleeing demons.
• Ye Jingcheng let Ye Jingli and Ye Jingyong join the pursuit but warned them not to go beyond a hundred li, then treated the Ye Family's wounded and reprimanded its Qi Refinement cultivators.
• As cultivators returned and traded demon beast materials for pills, Ye Jingcheng exchanged pills for water-attributed demon cores, carcasses, and spirit talismans.

After the beast tide, Ye Jingcheng reassured the Taiyi Sect, strengthened ties with its Masters, and assessed the Ye Family’s prospects as the Jin and Kong families weakened. He set his brothers to restoring the family’s lands and mortals, then hinted that Ye Jingyong’s new spirit beasts marked the rise of the Jing generation.

• Ye Jingcheng waited openly for Master Tianzhen and Taihao Master, then handed them the dragon blood he and his clansmen had collected and offered them spirit-beast materials.
• Master Tianzhen and Taihao Master accepted the gifts and spoke warmly with Ye Jingcheng, while Three Origins True Person and Miaofa True Person returned without any apparent breakthrough in their investigation.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to his family and learned that Ye Jingli and Ye Jingyong had each slain several second-rank demonic beasts during the retreating tide.
• Ye Jingcheng ordered Ye Jingli to help clear demons from the Ye Family’s settlements and lead the mortals back, while Ye Jingyong checked his family token and found spirit-beast eggs and hatchlings chosen for him.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Jingyong that the family’s future belonged to the Jing generation, renewing his brother’s resolve as the family faced its responsibilities.

After Miaofa True Person addressed the beast tide survivors, he announced Taiyi Sect’s investigation, offered protection and trade opportunities, and opened an exchange list. Ye Jingcheng used the opportunity to obtain the rare herbs needed for the Five-Element Heavenly Palace Secret Art, while the Ye Family prepared to develop after the crisis.

• Ye Jingcheng assessed his Four-Phase spiritual energy and concluded that the Golden Falcon needed second-rank pills and third-rank metal beast cores to advance.
• Ye Jingyong chose a Silver Moon Python egg with great potential, increasing his contribution-point debt to seventeen thousand.
• Miaofa True Person displayed ten dead cultivators, said the beast tide’s cause remained under investigation, and announced that Taiyi Sect would buy beast materials and open an exchange list.
• Ye Jingcheng recognized that the exchange list could help him obtain the remaining ingredients for Purple-Condensing Spirit Liquid.
• Ye Jingcheng exchanged for enough Spring-Returning Flower and Soul-Nourishing Grass to prepare two portions of the needed materials.

Ye Jingcheng led the Ye Family back to Soaring Cloud Peak and began rebuilding their home while carefully searching for traces of intruders. He discovered someone had entered his courtyard, and the chapter ended with Ye Qingwen being found to have dual water-earth spiritual roots.

• Ye Jingcheng brought the Ye Family to reclaim Soaring Cloud Peak and ordered the clansmen to clear its remaining demon beasts without using Beast-Link Marks or spirit control.
• Ye Jingcheng restored the mountain’s formations and facilities, then noticed signs that someone had entered his courtyard and killed the Five Poison Bees he had left there.
• Ye Jingcheng rebuilt his courtyard, warned cultivators with Beast-Link Marks against using them, and secretly sent the Peachwood Demon to search the mountain for hidden marks.
• Ye Jingli and Ye Jingyong returned with the relocated mortals and fifteen spiritual seedlings, and Ye Jingli told Ye Jingcheng that Ye Qingwen had dual water-earth spiritual roots.

After the Lineage’s sacrificial rite, Ye Jingcheng inspected Soaring Cloud Lake and learned from Turtle Ancestor that someone had left a hidden method there. He concealed the lake and glacier with an array, then returned to his Grotto-Heaven to tend his spirit beasts and prepare for further cultivation.

• Ye Jingcheng oversaw the sacrificial rite, where Ye Wen’s dual spirit roots and the bloodlines of the sixteen youths were tested.
• Ye Jingcheng inspected Soaring Cloud Lake with the Retrospective Mirror and exchanged its water, then Turtle Ancestor found a hidden method and told him to avoid exchanging the water too often.
• Turtle Ancestor moved the Ye Family’s communications with the Eastern Sea to Hidden Peak at Sandcloud Hide and gave Ye Jingcheng array disks to conceal Soaring Cloud Lake and the glacier.
• Five days later, Ye Jingcheng exchanged the lake water again, planted Jade Lotus plants, and set up the array to block detection from both inside and outside.
• Ye Jingcheng entered his Grotto-Heaven, fed his spirit beasts, saw that Peachwood had borne six spirit peaches, and received five drops of the Silver Moon Demon King’s blood.
• Ye Jingcheng promised Peachwood a chance to advance after the current fruiting, and the Golden-Scaled Beast asked him for the corpses of the Silver Moon Pythons it had slain.

Ye Jingcheng planted Moonwatch Grass and a Dragon Whisker Fruit tree in his Grotto-Heaven, then successfully refined a second-order Golden Falcon Pill to prepare his Golden Falcon for a breakthrough. Meanwhile, Taiyi Sect’s True Persons suspected the Green River Sect of provoking the crisis, while West King True Person ordered more rumors spread to test whether Taoist Taiwu was still alive.

• Ye Jingcheng ignored the Golden-Scaled Beast’s boasting, planted Moonwatch Grass beside his spirit lake, and used Treasure Radiance and Silver Moon Python blood to revive a Dragon Whisker Fruit tree for the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon to guard.
• Taiyi Sect’s True Persons concluded that the exotic-treasure rumor had been spread to target their sect and discussed whether the Green River Sect or the Earth Dragon Demon King had caused the beast tide.
• Tianfu True Person proposed auctioning the Kong Family’s and Xu Family’s Purple Palace Spirit Liquid quotas to compensate the Taiyi Sect’s subordinate families.
• West King True Person told an agent to spread a rumor that the Kong Family Patriarch had obtained the secret treasure, hoping to discover whether Taoist Taiwu was still alive.
• Ye Jingcheng and the Crimson Flame Fox completed a second-order Golden Falcon Pill after two failed attempts, and Ye Jingcheng prepared for the spirit peaches to ripen as autumn approached.

Ye Jingcheng harvested six ripened spirit peaches, then gave the Golden Falcon rare pills and a third-order inner core to spur its breakthrough. After monitoring the Golden Falcon’s transformation, he learned that Ye Xingyi had returned with important spirit herbs and joined Yuan Haoyun and Wei Yunchang, whose visit raised questions about the families’ interests in Taichang Market.

• Ye Jingcheng harvested six spirit peaches from the Peachwood Demon and promised it Woodheart Spirit Liquid.
• Ye Jingcheng fed his spirit beasts and discovered that a Thunder Rhinoceros Beetle had advanced to the second order.
• Ye Jingcheng gave the Golden Falcon a Golden King Pill, a Golden Falcon Pill, and a third-order gold-attributed inner core, then watched over its attempted breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng received messages that Ye Xingyi had returned with the Spring-Returning Flower and Soul-Nourishing Grass from the Taiyi Sect.
• Ye Jingcheng went to the side hall and met Yuan Haoyun and Wei Yunchang, who had come to visit the Ye Family.