Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng announced new family appointments and plans to expand the Ye Family’s businesses and hidden beast-raising bases before traveling to Earth Dragon Valley. There, the Earth Dragon Demon King tested him, and Ye Jingcheng realized the Demon King might want to form a Beast Communion pact with him.

• Ye Jingcheng assigned Ye Jingyun, Ye Xing Yu, Ye Xing Shui, Ye Jingyu, and Ye Jinghu to lead family halls while he entered seclusion.
• Ye Jingcheng announced plans for a Taichang Market restaurant and two new Spirit Beast Valleys, assigning Ye Xinghan to the beast valley and Ye Xingqun to the insect valley.
• Ye Jingcheng advised delaying the Wan Family’s spirit beast exchange and supporting Taiyi Sect’s pressure on the Yuan Family.
• Ye Jingcheng traveled through the rain to Earth Dragon Valley, where a great demon chameleon lizard led him to meet the Earth Dragon Demon King.
• Ye Jingcheng recognized Dragon Ancestor and inferred that the Demon King might seek a Beast Communion pact, while considering turning a Blood Pact into a Soul Pact.

Ye Jingcheng endured the Earth Dragon Demon King's pressure and defeated its spirit puppet, earning the right to choose a beast companion. He postponed his choice and received a valuable scale from the Demon King, while recognizing the Earth Dragon Demon King's remaining potential for bloodline advancement.

• The Earth Dragon Demon King tested Ye Jingcheng by offering him any beast companion if he could disperse its spirit puppet.
• Ye Jingcheng fought the Golden Giant Lizard puppet with his sword, techniques, and artifacts, escaping its Spirit Prison and exploiting its stiffness while it cast spells.
• The Earth Dragon Demon King declared Ye Jingcheng the winner and gave him three days to choose a beast companion.
• Ye Jingcheng asked to postpone his choice after sensing that the Earth Dragon Demon King still had two chances to advance its bloodline.
• The Earth Dragon Demon King agreed and gave Ye Jingcheng a golden scale as material for refining his natal magical artifact.

Ye Jingcheng traveled through Earth Dragon Valley to the hidden teleportation array and arrived in the Azure Cloud Sea Region. Ye Xueliang welcomed him, gave him guidance for blending in, and sent him toward Greenfish Island ahead of the Purplewood Sect’s disciple recruitment.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng crossed Earth Dragon Valley, where Ye Jingcheng searched for talented demon beasts before they reached the concealed Beast Hall.
• Ye Jingcheng greeted Ye Haiping and Ye Haiyan, then used a teleportation talisman to travel to the Azure Cloud Sea Region.
• Ye Xueliang welcomed Ye Jingcheng and gave him a jade slip showing the altered appearances of the Ye Family cultivators.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Xueliang regional gifts and took a Bone-Transforming Pill to change his appearance.
• Ye Xueliang instructed Ye Jingcheng to stay in Great Prosperity Village on Greenfish Island, visit Skycloud Island, and prepare for the Purplewood Sect’s recruitment trials without drawing too much attention.

Ye Jingcheng disguised himself as a mortal and settled in Great Prosperity Village to study the fishing trade and investigate the Azure Cloud Sea Region without exposing the Ye Family’s plans. During a late-night fish delivery, his Treasure Book revealed that a spirit beast capable of advancing five times had passed nearby, leaving him wondering whether the Purplewood Sect had been infiltrated.

• Ye Jingcheng left Purplewood Island, crossed the sea, and disguised himself as a dark-skinned martial man named Black City.
• Ye Jingcheng persuaded Zhong Fuyun to let him stay in Great Prosperity Village as a supposed mortal servant of Immortal Master Li.
• Ye Jingcheng began hauling greenfish at the dock, observing the workers and noting two suspiciously powerful body cultivators among them.
• On the tenth night, Ye Jingcheng sensed that something unexpected might happen as the dock received its final shipment of spirit fish.
• A small crate passed by Ye Jingcheng, and his Treasure Book shone with five layers of spiritual radiance, revealing a nearby spirit beast capable of advancing five times.

Ye Jingcheng helped the Ye Family recover a rare greenfish with Roc Fish bloodline potential, then watched the family prepare to exploit the rival Jade Chu Sect. He traveled to Skycloud Island in disguise, where the Cloud Heaven Mountain Spirit called out to him, and entered Heaven One City to seek cultivation resources.

• Ye Jingcheng saw a greenfish reveal an extraordinary Roc Fish-like bloodline, then followed two thieves who had stolen fish from the spirit ship.
• Ye Haifei and Ye Xingyu ambushed and killed the thieves, explained that they had staged the theft to keep the rare fish from attracting trouble, and gave Ye Jingcheng the fish.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Haifei and Ye Xingyu cultivation gifts, while they discussed investigating and eventually attacking Jade Chu Sect for its Jade Spring Spirit Jade.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to Great Prosperity Village, concealed his identity during Purplewood Sect’s investigation, and left for Skycloud Island after fifteen days.
• The Cloud Heaven Mountain Spirit called out to Ye Jingcheng as he approached Skycloud Island, and he entered Heaven One City under Tang Cheng’s identity.
• Ye Jingcheng went to Spirit Treasure Pavilion and asked its steward for items that could help him advance into the Purple Palace realm.

Ye Jingcheng bought rare spirit herbs in Tianyi City, established a cover identity, and contracted a mutated bluefish he named Roc Fish. He prepared items to trade and headed to the Cloud Sky Pavilion when the trade fair began.

• Ye Jingcheng bought the thousand-year Earth Cloud Ganoderma and Gold Root Fruit from the Spirit Treasure Pavilion after haggling, and received tokens for an auction and a trading gathering.
• The pavilion steward recorded Ye Jingcheng as a promising alchemist and potential recruit, while Ye Jingcheng continued searching the market and found no Cold-Nurturing Grass.
• Ye Jingcheng settled into an inn, sealed away his tokens, and set up an array before examining the spirit fish in his bracelet.
• Ye Jingcheng contracted the mutated bluefish, named it Roc Fish, and learned that its Devouring Art let it swallow almost anything.
• Ye Jingcheng prepared spirit peaches, magic artifacts, Adamantine Vine seeds, and spirit soil for trade, then left for the Cloud Sky Pavilion as the token grew hot.

Ye Jingcheng attended the Skycloud Island trade fair, exchanging spirit peaches for Profound Origin Heavy Water and trading spirit soil for Crystal Willow Wood. He left with key materials for his Heavenly River Pearl, while the Five Elements Spirit Palace map passed to another cultivator and the Ye Family’s priorities remained unchanged.

• Ye Jingcheng entered Cloud Sky Pavilion, recognized his fourth brother Ye Jingyu, and silently exchanged glances with him.
• Yun Fusheng opened the trade fair by offering a Five Elements Spirit Palace map, a Gold Strength Fruit, and Profound Origin Heavy Water in exchange for life-extending treasures or medicines that could aid a Purple Palace breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng exchanged two lifespan-extending spirit peaches and three thousand spirit stones for the Profound Origin Heavy Water and Gold Strength Fruit after Yun Fusheng had already traded away the map.
• Ye Jingcheng traded several hundred-year Blazing Maple Leaves during the fair, then offered spirit soil and two magic artifacts in search of Crystal Willow Wood, Cold-Nurturing Grass, or Purple Palace breakthrough medicines.
• Yun Fusheng exchanged half a piece of Crystal Willow Wood for Ye Jingcheng’s second-tier spirit soil and eight hundred spirit stones.
• Ye Jingcheng considered the rumors surrounding the Five Elements Spirit Palace but decided he could not pursue it, since the Ye Family needed to protect Ye Xuecang’s Golden Core breakthrough and attempt Beast Communion with the Earth Dragon Demon King again.

Yun Fusheng reported on cultivators seeking the treasure map, and Uncle Xuan ordered the conflict between the Purplewood Sect and Jade Chu Sect to be inflamed. Ye Jingcheng watched the auction from the sidelines, then followed He Xiangjian’s advice to try joining the Purplewood Sect, where he faced an age check.

• Yun Fusheng told Uncle Xuan that Yu Xingmu had offered a life-extending medicine and news of the Purple Jade Vine for the treasure map, and Uncle Xuan ordered his followers to intensify the rivalry between the Purplewood Sect and Jade Chu Sect.
• Ye Jingcheng stayed away from the auction, watched it from a teahouse, and learned that his expenses were being tracked by the Yun Family’s Spirit Treasure Pavilion.
• At Dao-Seeking Mountain, Ye Jingcheng paid He Xiangjian fifty spirit stones for advice about choosing a sect.
• He Xiangjian urged Ye Jingcheng to avoid the Yun Family, Jade Chu Sect, Purplewood Sect, and Vast Righteousness Pavilion, but praised the Mystic Sword Pavilion; Ye Jingcheng instead chose the Purplewood Sect as a pretext for visiting it.
• At the Purplewood Sect’s gate, Ye Jingcheng heard that Foundation Establishment applicants had to be under one hundred and Qi Refinement applicants under forty.

Ye Jingcheng passed the Purplewood Sect’s three trials and learned that the Ye Family used the recruitment process to assess candidates and gather combat information. He also discovered that Yun Baili, a Purple Palace cultivator of the Yun Family, was surveilling the Ye Family, and prepared to act cautiously as he began exploring Purplewood Island.

• Ye Jingyu prompted Ye Jingcheng to display his alchemy skills while they suspected someone was watching the hall.
• Ye Jingcheng entered the first trial’s illusion and chose to defend Purplewood Island from a simulated demon beast attack.
• Ye Jingcheng fought the second trial’s spirit puppet and passed after using the Evergreen Sword, then answered An Yuhuai’s questions in the third trial.
• Ye Jingyu gave Ye Jingcheng a jade slip explaining the Ye Family’s assessment rules and revealing that Yun Baili had been watching them.
• The sect assembly ended, and Ye Jingcheng prepared to descend onto Purplewood Island openly.

Ye Jingcheng arrived at Purplewood Island, reunited with Ye Jingyu, and was assigned to train on Hidden Island before guarding the Second Ancestor. As tensions with Jade Chu Sect rose, he set out for the outer sea and neared Sandcloud Hide while Purplewood Sect prepared to hunt Thunder Shuttlefish.

• Ye Jingcheng arrived at Purplewood Island and saw the Hundred Formations Foundation, then met privately with Ye Jingyu and agreed to train on Hidden Island before guarding the Second Ancestor.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu shared news about their family, and Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Jingyu materials for his magic treasure and gifts, including a Jade-Scale Pill.
• As the conflict between Purplewood Sect and Jade Chu Sect escalated, Ye Jingcheng received a spirit boat, jade token, and sea chart and departed for the outer sea.
• Ye Haifei told Purplewood Sect cultivators on Mountain Islet Island to prepare to capture a passing school of Thunder Shuttlefish, then questioned Xingyun about Spring Jade's aura on Jadeclear Island.
• Ye Jingcheng traveled underwater in his spirit shuttle and released the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon, which caught two Golden-Horn Fish before he recalled it to the spirit beast bracelet.
• Ye Jingcheng continued toward Sandcloud Hide, and a desolate island appeared in the distance.

Ye Jingcheng reached the Ye Family’s hidden island in the outer sea, reunited with Ye Xuefu and Ye Xingliu, and revealed the strength of his Purple Palace spirit beasts. After demonstrating his alchemy skill, he received the family’s Spirit Pill Token and its extensive inheritance; the group then set out to hunt a Golden-Clawed Sea Heron.

• Ye Jingcheng verified the hidden island’s identity through the Black-Armored Scorpions and entered after Ye Xingliu showed his Beast-Link Mark.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Xuefu and Ye Xingliu gifts from Yan Kingdom, and they welcomed him into their concealed cave residence.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Xuefu and Ye Xingliu that he had three third-rank spirit beasts, and they chose a nearby Golden-Clawed Sea Heron as their target.
• Ye Jingcheng showed his three spirit beasts to the elders, then refined seven high-grade Ren Water Pills, one bearing a pill pattern.
• Ye Xuefu passed the Spirit Pill Token and the Ye Family’s pill formulas and alchemy records to Ye Jingcheng.
• Ye Jingcheng and the others trained their spirit beasts for several days, then rode a spirit shuttle toward the outer sea.

Ye Jingcheng, Ye Xingliu, and Ye Xuefu discovered a Moon Spirit Clam colony on Crescent Moon Island and ambushed the Golden-Clawed Sea Heron that preyed on it. They killed the third-rank great demon and captured most of the clams, then left before the blood scent could attract more powerful beasts.

• Ye Xingliu led the group to Crescent Moon Island, where they set a concealed array and waited three days for the Golden-Clawed Sea Heron.
• The group discovered hundreds of Moon Spirit Clams emerging onto the beach, including late second-rank clams with the potential to become Demon Kings.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingliu attacked the Golden-Clawed Sea Heron while Ye Xuefu and the Fire-Separation Green Ox used their pupils to control the clams.
• The Jade-Scale Flood Dragon and Golden Falcon severely wounded the heron, and the Crimson Flame Fox’s Azure Sun Flame helped Ye Jingcheng’s group finish it off.
• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Xingliu, and Ye Xuefu captured most of the Moon Spirit Clams using their spirit beasts, artifacts, and vines.
• The group divided the heron’s meat among their spirit beasts and left the island with their haul before other demons could arrive.

Ye Jingcheng returned to Sandcloud Island with Ye Xuefu and Ye Xingliu after escaping a late third-rank Ghost-Faced Shark, then used his grotto-heaven to house and Blood Pact with a large haul of Moon Spirit Clams. After collecting their pearls and discussing the Golden-Clawed Sea Heron’s remains, Ye Xingliu suggested the family could be less conservative now that they knew Ye Jingcheng’s strength.

• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Xuefu, and Ye Xingliu reached Sandcloud Island safely after the island’s formation repelled the Ghost-Faced Shark’s waves.
• Ye Jingcheng showed Ye Xuefu and Ye Xingliu his spacious grotto-heaven, its thriving spirit fields and lake, and his spirit beasts.
• Ye Xuefu used Moonlight Stones to make 332 Moon Spirit Clams open, revealing hundreds of Moon Spirit Pearls.
• Ye Jingcheng used Blood Pacts to take control of all the Moon Spirit Clams and collected more than five hundred pearls, including fifty second-rank pearls.
• Ye Jingcheng offered to leave the Golden-Clawed Sea Heron’s materials to the family, and Ye Xuefu told him to keep its wing skeleton for a flying boat artifact.
• Ye Xingliu suggested the family need not be so conservative now that they knew Ye Jingcheng’s strength.

Ye Jingcheng and his companions killed a Water Arrow Python and found a Yellow Ginseng Fruit, then he helped Flesh Ganoderma break through and formed a beast link with it. The story left them hurrying to Hidden Azure Island after learning that Ye Xuecang was nearing a breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm.

• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Xingliu, and Ye Xuefu ambushed and killed a Water Arrow Python, then explored its cave and found stone-milk pillars and a Yellow Ginseng Fruit.
• Ye Jingcheng decided to wait for the Yellow Ginseng Fruit to ripen and set guards around the island while the group rested.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed that Flesh Ganoderma was breaking through, entered the grotto-heaven, and watched it advance to the second rank.
• Ye Jingcheng formed a beast link with Flesh Ganoderma and gained a wood-aspect healing ability that could also be used on other cultivators.
• Ye Jingcheng received word that Ye Haicheng had reached Hidden Azure Island and that strange phenomena around Ye Xuecang's cave suggested his Golden Core breakthrough was near.
• Ye Jingcheng left the grotto-heaven, and Ye Xuefu said they would go to Hidden Azure Island after the Yellow Ginseng Fruit ripened.

Ye Jingcheng joined the Ye Family elders at Hidden Azure Island, where they prepared to protect Ye Xuefan’s brother during a Golden Core breakthrough by diverting the approaching demons. Before leaving on his assigned mission with Ye Haicheng, Ye Jingcheng received and refined the Heavenly River Pearl, then tested its power against his great-grandfather.

• Ye Jingcheng and the others arrived at Hidden Azure Island and met Ye Xuefan, Ye Haihe, and the assembled Ye Family cultivators.
• Ye Xuefan assigned eight cultivators to place formations and Demon-Luring Grass on four nearby spirit islands, with Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng responsible for the outermost Seaheart Island.
• Ye Haicheng gave Ye Jingcheng the newly refined mid-grade third-rank Heavenly River Pearl, which Ye Jingcheng quickly refined as his natal magical treasure.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Heavenly River Pearl’s water dragons, crushing force, and converging fragments to break Ye Haicheng’s turtle-shell defense twice.
• Ye Jingcheng recognized that he had held back during the test, while Ye Haicheng had not yet used his own natal magical treasure.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng prepared a fortified island to lure and delay demon beasts while Ye Xuecang underwent a breakthrough. Ye Haicheng warned Ye Jingcheng to survive for the family’s future, and they finished by assembling their spirit beasts and waiting to ripen the Demon-Luring Grass.

• Ye Haicheng gave Ye Jingcheng a spirit boat and warned him to flee with Turtle Ancestor if danger arose, explaining that the family was building Ye Jingcheng’s future at great risk.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng reached a broad island and set up a grand formation, fueling it with more than ten thousand spirit stones, a high-grade spirit stone, and a sealed second-rank high-grade spirit vein.
• Ye Haicheng gave Ye Jingcheng a Blood Escape Talisman and helped him set up additional formations to delay low-tier demon beasts.
• Ye Haicheng released Turtle Ancestor, the Blood Hawk, and the Blazing Flame Lion, while Ye Jingcheng deployed his combat-capable spirit beasts around the island.
• The Peachwood Demon promised to drag slain demon beasts to the island, and Ye Haicheng told everyone to wait until the time came to catalyze the Demon-Luring Grass.

Ye Xuecang attempted to condense his Purple Palace into a Golden Core on Hidden Azure Island, while Ye Xuefan and the Ye Family defended the breakthrough from approaching demon beasts. A heart demon illusion nearly made Ye Xuecang lose himself, but he recognized it and awakened, hearing his father direct the defense.

• Ye Haihe told Ye Haisheng to prepare their island’s Array and warned him not to delay the plan to protect the Demon-Luring Grass.
• Ye Xuefu prepared pills for his Black-Armored Scorpions, while Ye Haiyu and Ye Haiyan set Arrays to spread the Demon-Luring Grass’s scent and discussed the Ye Family’s past failed breakthrough.
• Ye Haifei reported that the Thunder Shuttlefish were heading toward Jadeclear Island, while Uncle Xuan ordered Yun Fusheng to investigate Purplewood Sect and spread blame for the Greenfish Island theft onto Jade Chu Sect.
• Ye Xuecang swallowed a Gold Condensation Pill and began condensing his three-colored Purple Palace into a Golden Core as Ye Xuefan activated a Spirit-Gathering Formation on Hidden Azure Island.
• Ye Xuecang became trapped in an illusion of his father’s failed breakthrough and the Ye Family’s destruction, but remembered the illusion was false and that he had obtained the Gold Condensation Fruit.
• Ye Xuecang awakened from the heart demon tribulation with bleeding wounds and disordered true essence, then heard his father order the family to stop the approaching beast tide and activate the Demon-Luring Grand Formations.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye family lured sea demons to their islands with four-leaf Demon-Luring Grass, then fought several third-rank great demons. As Ye Jingcheng prepared to face a Golden Great Roc Bird with the formation, the Sea-Overturning Demon King arrived.

• Ye Haihe and Ye Haisheng used Demon-Luring Grass and a wind banner on Stone King Island, drawing a Sword-Toothed Shark great demon and a growing beast tide.
• Ye Haicheng activated four-leaf Demon-Luring Grass on Seaheart Island, attracting a Red-Crowned Sea Crane, a Thousand-Foot Black Octopus, and a Black Jade Thunder Eel.
• Ye Jingcheng and his allies killed the Red-Crowned Sea Crane with the Spirit-Breaking Needle, fire attacks, and the Azure Swan Sword.
• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Haicheng, and their spirit beasts subdued the Thousand-Foot Black Octopus and killed the Black Jade Thunder Eel, while other beasts attacked the island.
• A Golden Great Roc Bird and several Sword-Toothed Shark great demons approached, and Ye Jingcheng prepared to use the formation against the roc.
• Ye Haicheng sensed the Sea-Overturning Demon King arriving from thousands of li away.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng fought their way through the demon-beast siege, then escaped the Sea-Overturning Demon King after striking at it with the Azure Sun Flame and destroying their array. They reached Hidden Azure Island to find Ye Xuecang facing his lightning tribulation while still trapped in a heart demon tribulation.

• Ye Haicheng trapped and killed the Thousand-Foot Black Octopus with the Four-Direction Banner and mountain seal while the Peachwood Demon collected the corpses.
• Ye Jingcheng and his spirit beasts used the Mystic Origin Water-Wood Array and Azure Sun Flame to kill the golden roc, then Ye Haicheng retreated into the array to face the Sea-Overturning Demon King with him.
• The Sea-Overturning Demon King broke through the array, but Ye Haicheng struck at the Demon-Luring Grass as the formation self-destructed, forcing the Demon King to swallow it while Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng fled.
• The Sea-Overturning Demon King pursued the pair and pierced Ye Haicheng with a water sphere, but the Turtle Ancestor took him into the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven as the Purple Sun Demon Corpse covered their escape.
• Ye Jingcheng fled toward Hidden Azure Island on the Golden Falcon and learned that Ye Xuecang had condensed his core but remained trapped in the heart demon tribulation.

Ye Xuecang overcame his heart demon and formed a Golden Core while the Ye Family fought off invading demons on Hidden Azure Island. After Ye Jingcheng arrived to help, Ye Xuecang survived his lightning tribulation and turned his attention to the demons, though he was badly wounded.

• Ye Xuecang recognized that the assault on the Ye Family was an illusion, focused on preserving the family for Ye Jingcheng, and formed a rudimentary Golden Core.
• Ye Xuecang saw Ye Shengyi and Ye Xuefan fighting the demons and began his Golden Core lightning tribulation above the island.
• Ye Jingcheng arrived with his spirit beasts and joined the fight against the Golden Light Rhinoceros, which gravely injured the Golden Falcon and struck Turtle Ancestor.
• The Crimson Flame Fox hit the Golden Light Rhinoceros with Azure Sun Flame as Ye Xuefan and the others tried to restrain it.
• Ye Xuecang endured the lightning bolts with his swords, shattered his treasured sword, and completed his Golden Core breakthrough.
• Ye Xuecang's aura solidified after the tribulation, and the demons trembled as he turned his gaze toward them.