Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng negotiated marketplace cooperation with the Yuan and Wei Families, then reviewed the Ye Family’s finances and learned of a chance to acquire Purple Palace Jade Liquid at next year’s auction. He left the hall planning to attend the auction, while sensing an unusual force drawing on the family’s spiritual vein.

• Ye Jingcheng asserted the Ye Family’s ambitions in Taihang Marketplace, and Wei Yunchang and Yuan Haoyun agreed to cooperate in exchange for marketplace access and an introduction to Market Master Jiang.
• Wei Yunchang presented a Cold Snow Silkworm, while Yuan Haoyun offered Earthflame Fire Sha and sought a trade channel for the Ye Family’s spirit beast hides.
• After the two family heads departed, Ye Xingyi delivered items and accounts from Taichang Market, and Ye Jingcheng shared his alchemy insights with him.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Xingyi that the Yuan and Wei Families likely wanted Illusion Peak’s support and instructed him to bring more spirit beasts to Taichang Commandery.
• Ye Xingyi revealed that two portions of Purple Palace Jade Liquid would be auctioned next year and that several families would stay out of the bidding, prompting Ye Jingcheng to plan to attend.
• As Ye Jingcheng left the hall, he sensed a powerful suction force affecting the family’s spiritual vein beyond the one from his Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven.

Ye Haiyi attempted Foundation Establishment without a pill, briefly succeeded, and died when his aging body could not sustain the spiritual power. Ye Jingcheng honored his sacrifice by opening the path to Foundation Establishment for the clan and began arranging opportunities for its elders while preparing for his own advance to the Purple Palace realm.

• Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family clansmen witnessed Ye Haiyi break through to Foundation Establishment, but his body failed to contain the liquid spiritual power and he died.
• Ye Jingcheng led the clan in bidding farewell to Ye Haiyi and declared that every member who reached the ninth level of Qi Refinement would receive the family's full support to attempt Foundation Establishment.
• After three days of mourning, Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Xingqun and Ye Xinghan life-extending spirit peaches and assigned them secret plans to break through and become the Ye Family's hidden Foundation Establishment force.
• Ye Jingcheng offered Ye Xingqun Earthflame Fire Sha and a choice of second-rank spirit beasts, while telling Ye Xinghan to wait for the Taiyi Sect's auction, where Foundation Establishment Pills and Purple Palace Jade Liquid would be sold.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to refining pills for his spirit beasts and the Wood Demon, while realizing that his Three Thousand Harmony Furnace could no longer keep up with him.

Ye Jingcheng trained his spirit beasts and developed his Grotto-Heaven while preparing for his own future breakthrough. The Golden Falcon began advancing to the third rank, and Ye Jingcheng concealed the breakthrough’s disturbances with Arrays and a storm over Soaring Cloud Peak.

• Ye Jingcheng practiced earth-attributed secret arts with the Golden-Scaled Beast and gave it an Earth Return Pill as it prepared to break through.
• Ye Jingcheng reviewed the Ye Family’s progress and surveyed his spirit beasts, spirit fields, lake, and plants in the increasingly developed Grotto-Heaven.
• Ye Jingcheng studied the Purple-Condensing Spirit Liquid formula and Purple Palace Jade Liquid recipe while planning to temper his mind before attempting the Purple Palace realm.
• The Golden Falcon’s breakthrough drew spiritual energy toward the mountain, so Ye Jingcheng left the Grotto-Heaven and rushed to Soaring Cloud Lake.
• Ye Jingcheng activated two Arrays to conceal the Golden Falcon’s breakthrough, while Ye Jinghu and other cultivators on Soaring Cloud Peak noticed the sudden thunderstorm.

Ye Jingcheng watched the Golden Falcon break through to the third rank, then prepared the Ye Family’s Beast Communion trials while Ye Xingqun faced his Foundation Establishment illusion trial. The chapter ended with Ye Xingqun overcoming the illusion and successfully condensing his spirit platform.

• The Golden Falcon shed its feathers, advanced to the third rank, and thanked Ye Jingcheng, who rewarded it with Golden King Pills and collected its feathers.
• Turtle Ancestor brought the Beast-Link Tower and told Ye Jingcheng that enough Beast Communion soul power was available for his second communion, then explored Ye Jingcheng’s expanded Grotto-Heaven.
• Ye Jingcheng summoned the Ye Family Inner Hall members to discuss Beast Communion slots, while Turtle Ancestor spoke with Ye Haicheng and proposed dissolving their Beast Communion.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed that Ye Xingqun was breaking through Foundation Establishment and sealed the bamboo grove with an array to keep him from being disturbed.
• Ye Xingqun rejected an illusion that tempted him to regret choosing spirit insects over Foundation Establishment, completed his spirit platform with Earthflame Fire Sha, and reached Foundation Establishment.

Ye Jingcheng reviewed the Ye Family’s recovering finances and held a vote that approved Ye Jinghu, Ye Jingting, and Ye Jinghe for beast-bonding. He then secretly began the bonding process with Ye Jinghu, who retained two five-inch Beast-Link Marks and one three-inch mark.

• Ye Xingqun emerged from seclusion after breaking through to Foundation Establishment and recommended Ye Jinghu, Ye Jingting, and Ye Jinghe for beast-bonding.
• Ye Jingyun reported that the Ye Family had recovered its businesses and listed its assets, while Ye Jingcheng urged the family to develop cautiously and wait for its opportunity.
• Ye Jingcheng held a vote on beast-bonding candidates, and the family approved Ye Jinghu, Ye Jingting, and Ye Jinghe with nearly eighty percent support each.
• Ye Jingcheng accepted spirit stones and magical artifacts from Ye Jingyun, then reassured the Jade Ring Rat that it could remain guarding his spirit field.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Golden Dragon Token to test Ye Jinghu, judged that he needed guidance to temper his hatred, and led him into the ancestral hall for beast-bonding.
• Ye Jinghu endured the Beast-Link Tower’s assault and retained two five-inch Beast-Link Marks and one three-inch mark, impressing Ye Jingcheng.

Ye Jingcheng awakened Beast-Link Marks in Ye Jinghu and Ye Jingting, gave them access to beast-linking knowledge and family resources, and investigated Ye Jinghe through the Golden Dragon Token. He discovered Ye Jinghe had agreed to sell a Ye Family secret for a Foundation Establishment Pill, then arranged surveillance and ordered changes to the family’s loyalty tests.

• Ye Jinghu read the Beast-Link Mark jade slip, recorded his unusual results, and received four Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles in exchange for contribution points.
• Ye Jingting awakened two three-inch and two one-inch Beast-Link Marks, learned about beast-linking, and recorded her results for Ye Jingcheng.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Golden Dragon Token on Ye Jinghe and learned that Ye Jinghe planned to trade a Ye Family secret for a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Jinghe a Dust-Forgetting Pill, returned him to his courtyard, and planted a surveillance spirit talisman and flower nectar on him.
• Ye Jingcheng summoned the hall masters and clan elders, ordered family tests to require joint approval and include coercion or temptation, and assigned Ye Xingqun to track Ye Jinghe.

Ye Jingcheng underwent his second soul infusion in the Beast-Link Tower, greatly widening his Beast-Link Marks and strengthening the souls of his spirit beasts. After the beasts' sudden power surge nearly overwhelmed them, he forced them to vent their energy in battle and learned that a third infusion would have to wait until he reached the late Purple Palace stage.

• Ye Jingcheng entered the Beast-Link Tower for his second soul infusion while Ye Haicheng and Turtle Ancestor guarded him.
• The myriad beasts widened Ye Jingcheng's Beast-Link Marks and flooded them with soul power, which he channeled into his spirit beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng entered the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven and found his spirit beasts agitated, with several having broken through or nearing the next rank.
• Ye Jingcheng released the Purple Sun Demon Corpse so his spirit beasts could expend their excess soul power by attacking it.
• The spirit beasts gradually returned to normal with stronger souls and greater intelligence, while the Beast-Link Tower's soul power was nearly exhausted.
• Ye Jingcheng realized his widened Beast-Link Mark could support more spirit-beast links, but he would need to reach the late Purple Palace stage before attempting a third infusion.

Ye Jingcheng healed and strengthened his spirit beasts after the Beast Communion, then learned that the Jade Ring Rat had endured a dangerous surge in its Divine Soul. With the Beast-Link Tower depleted and family matters unresolved, he prepared to recover before heading to Taichang Market to seek Purple Palace Jade Liquid and gather materials for his beasts.

• Ye Jingcheng healed his spirit beasts in the Grotto-Heaven, fed the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon Flesh Ganoderma, and supplied pills and resources to the others as they recovered or approached breakthroughs.
• Ye Haicheng and Turtle Ancestor told Ye Jingcheng that the Jade Ring Rat’s Divine Soul had reached peak First Stage strength, and Ye Jingcheng healed it and promised it would not lack cultivation resources.
• Ye Haicheng explained that the Beast-Link Tower had no soul power left and that the teleportation array was in Earth Dragon Valley, then urged Ye Jingcheng to break through to the Purple Palace and warned him to be cautious about Ye Jinghe.
• Ye Jingcheng changed the water in Soaring Cloud Lake to disguise the family’s actions, then returned to his room to cultivate before setting out for Taichang Market to pursue Purple Palace Jade Liquid and Third Stage Jade-Scale Pills.

Ye Jingcheng traveled with several Ye Family members to Taichang Market, where he arranged for them to learn the market and its forces while he went to visit Tianfu True Person. After passing Taiyi Sect’s guarded mountain gate and seeing its vast territory, he reached Skyhorn Peak with Taihao Master, who led him to meet his waiting master.

• Ye Jingcheng brought Ye Jingli, Ye Jinghe, Ye Jingting, and Ye Jinghu to Taichang Market, where Ye Jingli briefed the others on market precautions.
• At One Leaf Pavilion, Ye Jingcheng asked Ye Xingyi to arrange rooms and have Ye Jinghao show the newcomers around, then gave him a jade slip instructing him to watch Ye Jinghe.
• Ye Jingcheng climbed Taiyi Sect’s Devotion Path Ladder, received the Golden Dragon Blessing, and used Tianfu True Person’s token to enter the sect.
• An Illusion Peak disciple escorted Ye Jingcheng through Taiyi Sect to Skyhorn Peak, where he met Taihao Master.
• Taihao Master told Ye Jingcheng that Tianfu True Person had been waiting for him and led him up the mountain.

Ye Jingcheng visited Skyhorn Peak, presented Tianfu True Person with a spirit peach, and learned that his new master had mistaken his gift as a taunt about his dwindling lifespan. Tianfu True Person taught him the Supreme Clarity Spirit-Nourishing Art and promised to teach him the Crimson Cloud Spirit-Slaying Art after he reached the Purple Palace realm.

• Taihao Master led Ye Jingcheng through the Purple Fir Celestial Formation to meet Tianfu True Person at Heavenly Horn Palace.
• Ye Jingcheng offered Tianfu True Person a spirit peach and cautiously drank Heavenly Horn Tea, whose bitterness turned to sweetness and strengthened his body and meridians.
• Tianfu True Person explained that he came from a small family and accepted Ye Jingcheng for his talent, while Taihao Master revealed that Tianfu True Person's lifespan was running short.
• Ye Jingcheng realized the spirit peach had seemed like a mockery of Tianfu True Person's imminent death and apologized for his suspicions and precautions.
• Tianfu True Person taught Ye Jingcheng the Supreme Clarity Spirit-Nourishing Art, then promised to teach him the Crimson Cloud Spirit-Slaying Art after he broke through to the Purple Palace realm.

Ye Jingcheng visited Illusion Grain Mountain and Hundred Flowers Valley, gaining breakthrough insights and arranging for Liu Huan to exchange spirit herbs for him. At Taichang Market, Ye Xingyi recognized a disguised Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Feather Transformation Sect and preserved evidence of his meeting with Ye Jinghe.

• Ye Jingcheng visited Ye Jingteng, but found him unresponsive; after Ye Jingcheng left, Ye Jingteng revealed that he had failed to break through and collected the pills and materials left outside his formation.
• Ye Jingcheng visited Liu Huan in Hundred Flowers Valley, exchanged insights about entering the Purple Palace, and persuaded her to help exchange for spirit herbs at a premium.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Liu Huan spirit beasts and the remaining main ingredients for the Jade-Scale Pill, and she agreed to assist him within limits.
• At Taichang Market, Ye Jinghu searched for young thunder-attributed spirit beasts while Ye Jinghao watched over the young Ye Family cultivators.
• Ye Jinghe argued with a Spirit-Isolating Robe cultivator over Green Grain Grass, then entered the marketplace as the cultivator left and changed his appearance.
• Ye Xingyi recognized the disguised cultivator as a Foundation Establishment member of the Feather Transformation Sect, preserved their encounter in a mirror, and decided to alert Ye Jingcheng.

Ye Jingcheng used a supposed spirit vein as bait to expose Ye Jinghe’s ties to the Feather Transformation Sect, while learning that the Eight Desolations Relic rumors and Foundation Establishment Pills pointed toward Taiqing. He left the Ye Family out of the immediate conflict but began preparing for a possible clash between Taiyi Sect and Green River Sect.

• Ye Jingcheng celebrated the Ye Family’s increased shop earnings with the clansmen and confirmed that the family aimed to acquire Purple Palace Jade Liquid.
• Ye Jinghu warned that many Foundation Establishment cultivators with heavy Killing Intent had arrived, and Ye Jingcheng cautioned the family against suspicious treasure-hunting offers.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered from Ye Xingyi’s jade slip that Ye Jinghe had contacted the Feather Transformation Sect and had been promised a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingyi revealed that they had leaked information about a hidden spirit vein to draw out Ye Jinghe and tempt the Feather Transformation Sect and Yuan Family.
• Ye Xingyi reported that leads on the Eight Desolations Relic pointed toward Taiyi Sect and that Taiyi Sect was offering Taiqing families access to Purple Palace Jade Liquid and Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng decided the Ye Family should avoid the relic affair for now, prepare for a possible conflict with Green River Sect, and contact the Wan Family.

Ye Jingcheng cautiously agreed to cooperate with the watched Wan Family, then merged a Five Poison Bee's split soul and advanced to the Earth Soul level. He stabilized his divine soul and joined his clansmen as they headed to the auction, where the Ye Family aimed to acquire Purple Palace Jade Liquid.

• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Xingyi to maintain limited cooperation with the Wan Family while staying alert to their tests and hidden schemes.
• Ye Jingcheng questioned Tianfu True Person's motives and decided to postpone further use of the Supreme Clarity Spirit-Nourishing Art.
• Ye Jingcheng merged the Five Poison Bee's split soul, used two Jade Soul Pills to break through to the Earth Soul level, and condensed six Spirit-Breaking Needles.
• After two days of stabilizing his divine soul, Ye Jingcheng received notice that the auction was beginning and concealed his aura before meeting the waiting Ye Family cultivators.
• Ye Jingcheng led Ye Xingyi, Ye Jingli, and the others to the auction, where they planned to bid for Purple Palace Jade Liquid.

Ye Jingcheng attended Taichang Market’s auction with the Ye Family, bought the Lake-Holding Pearl and a Thunder Essence Fruit, and recognized that Taiyi Sect was urgently raising spirit stones. As Foundation Establishment Pills sold at record prices, he bought three for the family and prepared for the competition over Purple Palace Jade Liquid.

• Ye Jingcheng brought the Ye Family into the auction hall, where Miaofa True Person warned the crowd after cultivators drew attention to the fourth floor.
• Qiu Xianyun opened the auction with the Lake-Holding Pearl, and Ye Jingcheng won it for eleven thousand eight hundred spirit stones.
• Ye Jingcheng realized Taiyi Sect was gathering spirit stones and suspected it was preparing a huge Spirit-Gathering Array and a breakthrough to Nascent Soul.
• Ye Jingcheng bought a Thunder Essence Fruit for Ye Jinghu, while Ye Jingli and Ye Xingyi purchased other auction items.
• Qiu Xianyun announced fifty Foundation Establishment Pills, and Ye Jingcheng won a set of three for sixty thousand spirit stones as bidders saved their funds for Purple Palace Jade Liquid.

The auction offered a Verdant Sun Bird carrying a powerful source spirit fire, which Ye Jingcheng bought, before fierce bidding drove the prices of two Purple Palace Jade Liquid lots to record highs. The chapter ended with Qiu Xianyun presenting a third-rank mid-grade Lesser Five Elements Vajra Grand Formation, apparently prepared to help Taiqing Commandery withstand the Green River Sect.

• Wan Hongchang bid on Foundation Establishment Pills and told Wan Chengyi that the Wan Family faced heavy competition for the Purple Palace Jade Liquid.
• Qiu Xianyun revealed a Verdant Sun Bird with a mutated source spirit fire, and Ye Jingcheng bought it for eighty-eight thousand spirit stones.
• Ye Jingcheng bid on the first Purple Palace Jade Liquid lot, then watched a mysterious Foundation Establishment cultivator win it for one hundred and sixty-seven thousand spirit stones.
• The Cheng Family won the second Purple Palace Jade Liquid lot for one hundred and seventy thousand spirit stones after families from Taiqing Commandery competed fiercely.
• Qiu Xianyun introduced a third-rank mid-grade Lesser Five Elements Vajra Grand Formation and set its opening bid at ninety thousand spirit stones.

Ye Jingcheng attended the auction, where the Wan Family won a powerful defensive formation, then received an invitation to an unusual Foundation Establishment trade gathering. Back in his room, he contracted the dying Verdant Sun Bird and learned it feared the Azure Sun Flame, which might have consumed many lives without becoming self-sustaining.

• Ye Jingcheng stayed out of the bidding as the Wan Family and Cheng Family competed for the Lesser Five Elements Vajra Grand Formation, which Wan Hongchang bought for 150,000 spirit stones.
• The final two treasures, the Mystic Origin Grand Vast Tower and Crimson Sky Purple Spirit Sword, sold for 140,000 and 170,000 spirit stones, bringing the auction to an end.
• Wan Hongchang invited Ye Jingcheng, Ye Xingyi, and Ye Jingli to a Foundation Establishment trade gathering outside Taichang Market and gave them tokens bearing a blue flower.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to One Leaf Pavilion, sealed the Wan Family's token for safekeeping, and prepared to inspect the Azure Sun Flame.
• Ye Jingcheng used a blood contract to bind the frail Verdant Sun Bird and discovered that it had only about a year to live and was terrified of the Azure Sun Flame.
• Ye Jingcheng suspected that the Azure Sun Flame had burned through many lives but still could not exist on its own.

Ye Jingcheng tested what could sustain the Azure Sun Flame and met Liu Huan to trade for spirit medicines, while refusing to reveal his connection to Martial Uncle Tianfu. He left with Liu Huan still searching for a thousand-year Cold-Nurturing Flower needed for the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon’s advancement pill.

• Ye Jingcheng found that Treasure Radiance best sustained the Verdant Sun Bird’s Azure Sun Flame, while qi-and-blood-rich foods and medicines could also help; ordinary spiritual-qi pills had no effect.
• Ye Jingcheng went to Golden Ceremony Tower and exchanged twenty-five thousand spirit stones and two Jade Soul Pills with Liu Huan for spirit medicines and materials.
• Liu Huan asked Ye Jingcheng about his relationship with Martial Uncle Tianfu, but he refused to answer and told her to ask Senior Xuandao.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Liu Huan Jade Lotuses and Purple Illusion Flower seeds, and she agreed to keep searching for a thousand-year Cold-Nurturing Flower.

Ye Jingcheng and his family reached a hidden black market run through the Azure Spirit Commerce Association, where he found Zhong Wuchang’s Heavenly Bell Furnace for sale. The chapter ended with Ye Jingcheng negotiating to buy the furnace for thirty-eight thousand spirit stones.

• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Jingyu to leave Xiao Ming hoping for news about Chen Ya until he reached Foundation Establishment or turned sixty, then noticed blade marks carved into One Leaf Pavilion’s threshold.
• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Jingli, and Ye Xingyi followed their Azure Flower Tokens from Blackstone Ridge to Medicine King Valley’s Azure Spirit Commerce Association and entered a hidden market at Dark Spirit Mountain.
• Ye Xingyi explained that the market’s evening session was the real trading event, and Ye Jingcheng refused to visit the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion because its sellers could learn about them.
• Ye Xingyi spotted Zhong Wuchang’s second-rank top-grade Heavenly Bell Furnace for sale, and Ye Jingcheng negotiated with the vendor until they settled on thirty-eight thousand spirit stones.

Ye Jingcheng attended the Azure Spirit Commerce Association’s secret auction, where he bought five drops of Earth-Scale Lion blood essence and then bid heavily to purchase Chu Yanqing. He left the auction with her in his arms, hiding his anger and concern behind the appearance of a lecherous buyer.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingyi entered the night market, passed the requirement to curse Taiyi Sect, and joined the masked cultivators at the auction.
• Steward Qing auctioned rare contraband, and Ye Jingcheng won five drops of third-rank Earth-Scale Lion blood essence for ninety thousand spirit stones.
• Steward Qing presented Chu Yanqing as the auction’s final item, revealing that she had been captured and that her Primordial Yin remained intact.
• Ye Jingcheng outbid the other cultivators and bought Chu Yanqing for one hundred and twenty thousand spirit stones, paying partly with Fire-Pattern Sinking Iron.
• Ye Jingcheng took the control token and jade slip, then carried Chu Yanqing back to his seat while pretending to enjoy his purchase.

Ye Jingcheng and his companions attended the Azure Spirit Commerce Association trade fair, where he helped Ye Xingyi avoid a fraudulent spirit beast egg and acquire a Three-Eyed Demon Ape. After leaving the gathering, Chu Yanqing recognized Ye Jingcheng, and she agreed to forge artifacts for the Ye Family for twenty years in return for his rescue.

• Ye Jingcheng watched the auction and warned Ye Xingyi that the supposed Southern Bright Bird egg was only a flame-tempered Red-Feathered Sparrow.
• Ye Jingcheng identified the small red ape as a Three-Eyed Demon Ape, and Ye Xingyi bought it for 1,900 spirit stones.
• Ye Jingli traded a refined artifact for a fire-attributed spirit fruit, while Ye Jingcheng failed to exchange Silver Moon Python inner cores for Essence-Containing Grass.
• Ye Jingli received a Silver Spirit-grade token for the future Silver Spirit Trade Fair, and Ye Jingcheng led the group out through one of the formation's gates as azure-robed cultivators followed protectively.
• Near Taichang Market, Chu Yanqing recognized Ye Jingcheng, accepted a Bone-Transforming Pill and supplies, and offered to forge artifacts for the Ye Family for twenty years.