Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng investigated a suspicious visit from Ye Jingteng, ordered the Ye Family to maintain pressure on the Yuan and Wei Families while he stayed hidden, and began studying the Jade Treasure Art. Meanwhile, Yuan Haoyun plotted with Spirit-Isolating Robe-clad figures to cross demon territory and stir up conflict with the Wei Family.

• Ye Jingcheng learned that Ye Jingteng had visited his secluded courtyard twice and left a pouch of cultivation materials, so he told Ye Jingyun to keep it and conceal whether he had broken through.
• Ye Jingcheng ordered Ye Jingyun and Ye Jingli to continue pressuring the Yuan and Wei Families, contact Azure Cloud Nunnery, obtain high-grade spirit stones, and bar anyone without a Beast-Link Mark from approaching his courtyard.
• Ye Jingcheng learned Xu Xiuqing had left six years earlier, then began studying the Jade Treasure Art and found that his soul power improved slightly despite the strain.
• Ye Jingcheng deployed Five Poison Bees and Red-Node Fish around Soaring Cloud Lake to detect disturbances.
• At Granary Mountain, Yuan Haoyun showed Spirit-Isolating Robe-clad figures a route between Lion King Ridge and Red Glow Ridge, assuring them he had investigated the demons.
• The Spirit-Isolating Robe-clad figures warned Yuan Haoyun that another failure would cost him the promised Purple Palace Jade Liquid and ordered him to intensify conflict between the Yuan and Wei Families at Taihang Marketplace.

Ye Jingteng advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage and learned that the Ye Family wanted him to help deal with the Yuan Family. After hearing Ye Jingli’s plan to use evidence of the Yuan Family’s past actions to bring it down, Ye Jingteng agreed and returned to the Taiyi Sect to recruit fellow disciples.

• Ye Jingteng broke through to Foundation Establishment Late Stage and received Taihao Master’s message about the Ye Family’s urgent matter.
• Taihao Master told Ye Jingteng that Ye Jingcheng might become Tianfu True Person’s registered disciple if he broke through to the Purple Palace soon.
• Ye Jingteng met Ye Jingli and Ye Xingyi at One Leaf Pavilion, where they discussed the Ye Family’s growing business and Ye Jingcheng’s progress.
• Ye Jingli showed Ye Jingteng evidence of Yuan Family cultivators entering the Ethereal Mountain Range and argued that the family had plotted the Spirit-Extinguishing Locust plague.
• Ye Jingteng accepted Ye Jingli’s plan to bring down the Yuan Family and returned to the Taiyi Sect to seek help from fellow disciples, including Fairy Liu Huan.

Liu Huan and the Ye Family raided the Wei Family, forcing its elders to expose the Yuan Family’s role in the Spirit-Extinguishing Locust case and its alliance with the Green River Sect. They then struck the Yuan Family at Severing Harmony Valley and Granary Mountain, where they discovered the family had hidden its younger members and Yuan Haoyun was absent; the battle began as Liu Huan attacked Yuan Shan'an.

• Wei Yunchang ordered the Wei Family to help the Yuan Family stage a clash, but Liu Huan and the Ye Family arrived and broke the Wei Family’s mountain formation.
• After Ye Jingteng presented Taiyi Illusion Peak’s Enforcement Token, Liu Huan killed Wei Yunchang and forced the surviving elders to produce evidence implicating Yuan Haoyun and the Yuan Family.
• The Wei Family ambushed Yuan Haoqiang’s force at Severing Harmony Valley, killing him and the Yuan Family cultivators with him.
• At Granary Mountain, Yuan Shan'an warned Yuan Changxing to flee if Yuan Haoyun’s jade slip shattered, then led the remaining Yuan Family cultivators to face Liu Huan and the others.
• Liu Huan’s group broke through the Yuan Family’s layered formations and found that the family had moved its talented young members elsewhere.
• Yuan Shan'an taunted Liu Huan about the Purple Extreme Patriarch’s likely death, and Liu Huan attacked him as the two sides clashed.

Liu Huan and the Ye Family destroyed the Yuan Family at Granary Mountain, but Yuan Changxing escaped their initial search. The Ye brothers caught and killed him the next morning, divided his treasures, and continued toward Soaring Cloud Peak with promises of future support for the family.

• Liu Huan killed Yuan Shan'an, and Ye Jingteng and the others wiped out the remaining Yuan Family cultivators at Granary Mountain.
• Liu Huan awarded the Ye Family ten percent of the gains and left for Taihang Marketplace to warn the sect about the beast tide.
• Yuan Changxing returned to Granary Mountain, where Ye Jingli, Ye Jingyun, and Ye Jingteng trapped and killed him with their spirit beasts and artifacts.
• Ye Jingyun soul-searched Yuan Changxing but found that the Yuan Family's soul restriction blocked him from learning its secrets.
• The three Ye brothers divided Yuan Changxing's treasures, leaving the Azure Deer and jade slips for the family while Ye Jingteng took most of the remaining resources to prepare for the Purple Palace realm.

Yuan Haoyun was killed after leading Spirit-Isolating Robe cultivators into an ambush, while Jing Teng’s suspicious behavior prompted Ye Jingcheng to investigate him. Ye Jingcheng broke through in divine sense, harvested four Life-Extending Spirit Peaches, and arranged a test for Jing Teng, then received an ancient lamp and a promising azure deer.

• Yuan Haoyun led cultivators into Cloud Lion Ridge, where they were ambushed by spirit beasts and he was beheaded.
• Jing Teng guarded Ye Jingcheng’s courtyard for two days, then inspected the clan school and left for Jade Dragon Valley.
• Ye Jingcheng comprehended a Treasure-Linking Art spirit rune and used a Soul-Rending Fruit to break through his divine sense.
• The Jade Ring Rat entered seclusion after benefiting from a Foundation Establishment Pill, and Ye Jingcheng harvested four ripe Life-Extending Spirit Peaches for the Ye Family.
• After hearing Ye Jingyun and Ye Jingli’s account of Jing Teng, Ye Jingcheng asked them to give him the Heavenly Soul Art and observe his reaction.
• Ye Jingyun showed Ye Jingcheng an ancient blue-and-red lamp and a young azure deer with exceptional advancement potential.

Ye Jingyun revealed the concealment power of the Bronze Ancient Lamp and reported clan candidates and plans to Ye Jingcheng, who continued studying the Treasure-Linking Art. Three months later, Turtle Ancestor emerged stronger and fought the newly advanced Golden-Scaled Beast, which managed to damage its shell.

• Ye Jingyun used a soul-searching platter to explain that the Azure Deer descended from a powerful Azure Hidden Deer and demonstrated how the Bronze Ancient Lamp concealed his aura from Divine Soul detection.
• Ye Jingcheng accepted the lamp, rewarded Ye Jingyun with five thousand contribution points, and selected Ye Qingyan to receive the Azure Deer.
• Ye Jingcheng reviewed the ninth-level Qi Training clansmen and Beast Communion candidates, then left Ye Jingyun to handle the family's market and political plans while he studied the Treasure-Linking Art.
• After three months, Ye Jingcheng had comprehended nine spirit patterns and released Turtle Ancestor, whose cultivation had advanced to minor mastery of the mid-third grade.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered that the Golden-Scaled Beast and Jade Ring Rat had also advanced, and the Golden-Scaled Beast challenged the others to change its ranking.
• Turtle Ancestor fought the Golden-Scaled Beast, but its two Earth-Scale Seals struck Turtle Ancestor's shell and left two gaps even though the Golden-Scaled Beast had not used its demon core.

Ye Jingcheng explored Turtle Ancestor’s Grotto-Heaven, learned of the worsening conflict in Returning Goose Commandery, and secretly Beast-Linked three young Ye Family members. The chapter ended with Ye Jingcheng resuming his seclusion while Ye Jingyun hoped the Qing generation could carry the family forward.

• Turtle Ancestor showed Ye Jingcheng Leaf God Valley, its fourth-rank Spirit Eye Spring, rare herbs, and the Beast-Link Tower.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that the Wan Family’s request to settle in Taihang Commandery had failed, Azure Cloud Nunnery would move to Granary Mountain, and Returning Goose Commandery was falling into conflict.
• Ye Jingcheng refused to lease Cloud-Spreading Mountain and told Ye Jingyun to bring Ye Qingyan, Ye Qingfeng, and Ye Qingwen to Soaring Cloud Lake for Beast-Linking.
• Ye Jingcheng secretly tested the three young clansmen, performed Beast-Linking on them, and placed soul restrictions on them.
• Ye Qingyan asked when Ye Jingcheng would emerge from seclusion, and Ye Jingcheng told him it would be soon.
• Ye Jingyun watched the three young clansmen and said that the Qing generation had shouldered the burden too.

Ye Jingcheng completed the Treasure-Linking Art, retrieved and refined the One-Breath Blood Soul Pearl, and prepared to confront the growing conflict in Taiqing Commandery. He arranged for the Earth Dragon Demon King to hide in Leaf God Valley and planned to hunt a lightning demon before facing Tianfu True Person.

• Ye Jingcheng finished comprehending the Treasure-Linking Art after a year of secluded cultivation and strengthened his spirit beasts with treasure radiance.
• Ye Jingcheng collected the sealed spirit treasure from Ye Haicheng and asked the Earth Dragon Demon King to hide in Leaf God Valley while he handled affairs in the Yan Kingdom.
• Ye Haicheng told Ye Jingcheng about a late third-rank lightning demon in Thunder Roc Valley and agreed to accompany him there.
• Ye Jingcheng broke the seals on the storage pouch and refined the One-Breath Blood Soul Pearl, which protected his sea of consciousness and let him alter his aura.
• Ye Jingcheng tested the pearl’s concealment with Ye Haicheng, who said he could no longer see through him.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng trapped and killed a Thunder Roc, then took its egg and Thunder Essence Grass from its nest. Ye Jingcheng later killed an Azure Hidden Deer and escaped a pursuing pack of Azure Wind Wolves on his Golden Falcon.

• Ye Jingcheng set a formation near the Thunder Roc’s lightning-drawing tree and waited for the storm to draw the roc out.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng trapped the Thunder Roc, and Ye Jingcheng’s spirit beasts killed it.
• Ye Jingcheng uprooted the thousand-year-old lightning-attracting wood and found a Thunder Roc egg and Thunder Essence Grass in the nest.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng fled the Silver Moon Demon King’s territory, with Ye Jingcheng concealing himself and leaving the Golden Falcon’s aura behind.
• Ye Jingcheng lured an Azure Hidden Deer with its offspring’s blood, trapped it, and killed it with help from his spirit beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng collected the deer’s blood and demon core, then escaped a pack of Azure Wind Wolves on his Golden Falcon.

The beast tide struck Jade Dragon Valley as the Three-Eyed Demon King and Azure Wind Wolf King attacked the Taiyi Sect’s formation, while Tianfu True Person arrived to defend it. Ye Jingcheng escaped the danger nearby but was trapped by Nine Rivers Master, whose ambush forced him to reveal his spirit beasts.

• The Three-Eyed Demon King and the Azure Wind Wolf Clan attacked Jade Dragon Valley, and Miaofa True Person strengthened the formation while calling for reinforcements.
• Tianfu True Person arrived aboard a golden spirit vessel and confronted the Azure Wind Wolf King, who demanded the return of his clan’s wolf cub.
• Ye Jingcheng recovered in a cave, then concealed his aura and rode his Four-Colored Cloud Deer away from Jade Dragon Valley.
• Nine Rivers Master trapped Ye Jingcheng with a spirit bowl and formation, but Ye Jingcheng escaped the bowl and recognized him.
• Ye Jingcheng released five spirit beasts, alarming Nine Rivers Master, while the Golden-Scaled Beast unleashed Golden Light Earth Spikes from underground.

Ye Jingcheng and his spirit beasts fought Nine Rivers Master, defeated him with a combination of artifacts and hidden-wing beetles, and destroyed the evidence before returning to the wilderness. At Soaring Cloud Peak, the Ye Family learned the Taiyi Sect had conscripted four Foundation Establishment fighters for Jade Dragon Valley, and Ye Jingcheng assigned Ye Jingli and Ye Jingyun to go while giving them four Hidden-Wing Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles.

• Ye Jingcheng and his five spirit beasts attacked Nine Rivers Master, whose soul-capturing banner and trapping formation initially hindered them.
• Ye Jingcheng and the Crimson Flame Fox broke through Nine Rivers Master's defenses with flames and artifacts, while more than a hundred Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles exposed his hiding place.
• Nine Rivers Master used a Golden Thunder Pearl to repel several attackers, but four Hidden-Wing Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles and the reassembled Heavenly River Pearl killed him.
• Ye Jingcheng collected Nine Rivers Master's corpse, destroyed the battlefield, and left on the Golden Falcon after reflecting on how close he had come to defeat.
• At Soaring Cloud Peak, Ye Jingli and Ye Jingyun discussed the Taiyi Sect's order for the Ye Family to send four Foundation Establishment combatants to Jade Dragon Valley.
• Ye Jingcheng met with the family members, assigned Ye Jingli and Ye Jingyun to the conscription, and gave them four Hidden-Wing Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles for protection.

Ye Jingcheng reprimanded Ye Jinghu for recklessly attempting Foundation Establishment, then rewarded his improved talisman skills and assigned him to guard Insect Valley. While sorting through Nine Rivers Master's spoils inside the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven, Ye Jingcheng discovered a powerful wolf pup that might be the Azure Wind Wolf King's offspring, leaving the threat to Jade Dragon Valley uncertain and potentially much greater.

• Ye Jingcheng made Ye Jinghu promise to guard Insect Valley for ten years and accepted his two Greater Violet Firmament Talismans and forty Lesser Violet Firmament Talismans.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Jingyun and Ye Jingli the talismans for their journey to Jade Dragon Valley, where they expected to face the Green Wind Wolf pack.
• Ye Jingcheng offered Ye Jinghu a Thunder Roc egg for three thousand contribution points, and Ye Jinghu continued reclaiming the spirit fields with help from Ye Jingcheng's spirit beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng opened Nine Rivers Master's spirit beast pouch inside the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven and found a White-Brow Green Wolf pup that might be the Azure Wind Wolf King's offspring.
• Ye Jingcheng decided to raise the wolf pup himself and examined Nine Rivers Master's treasures, including the Soul-Snaring Banner, Shadowless Bowl, Shadowless Dao Robe, and Golden Thunder Pearl.

Ye Jingcheng assessed Nine Rivers Master's techniques and treasures, then visited Ye Jingyu and learned of her plan to steal lifespan from spirit plants. He gave Ye Jingyu and Ye Xing Shui life-extending spirit fruits and Foundation Establishment Pills, sending both toward breakthroughs.

• Ye Jingcheng discovered Nine Rivers Master's Mystic Wood True Scripture, Wood Puppet Shadow Art, Withered Wood Qi Concealment Art, and Jade Poison Vine.
• Ye Jingcheng visited the Spirit Herb Garden, where Ye Jingyu explained her research into using spirit-plant vitality to extend cultivators' lifespans.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Jingyu a life-extending spirit peach and a Foundation Establishment Pill, urging her to enter seclusion.
• Ye Jingcheng visited the Array Pavilion and gave Ye Xing Shui a life-extending spirit fruit and a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Ye Xing Shui returned to the Array Pavilion and told Ye Jingzhi he would delay going to Jade Dragon Valley to enter seclusion first.

Ye Jingcheng shared a quiet, intimate evening with Chu Yanqing before returning to a Ye Family facing mounting danger from the beast tide and pressure from Taiyi Sect. He refused to go to Jade Dragon Valley and ordered preparations for another beast tide in the Empty Spirit Mountain Range.

• Chu Yanqing told Ye Jingcheng she had changed her name to Chu Qing and said she was tired of refining artifacts for a certain family.
• Ye Jingcheng picked the spirit apricots with Chu Yanqing, noticed the unfinished poem on her threshold, and invited her to pick the apricots on Soaring Cloud Peak.
• Green Wind Wolves and other beasts attacked Jade Dragon Valley, where Ye Jingli and Ye Jingyun defended the Ye Family cultivators, and Ye Jingyun released ten Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to Soaring Cloud Peak and learned that a Taiyi Sect deacon had come to summon him to Jade Dragon Valley.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Qingyan to claim his cultivation was unstable and ordered the Ye Family to prepare for a beast tide in the Empty Spirit Mountain Range.

As the Ye Family prepared for a beast tide and a confrontation with Tianfu True Person, Ye Jingcheng practiced spirit-controlling the Golden-Scaled Beast and Peachwood Wood Demon, discovering that the Wood Demon method could draw in his Divine Soul. The beast tide then advanced on Soaring Cloud Peak, where the Ye Family evacuated civilians and prepared its defenses.

• Ye Haicheng sent Ye Haiyan to seek help from Ye Xuecang and Ye Xuefan in the Azure Cloud Sea Region while Earth Dragon Valley's beasts gathered to threaten the Ye Family.
• West King True Person ordered his forces to prepare to invade Taiqing Commandery and target the Wan Family, after hearing that the beast tide might become the greatest on record.
• Ye Jingcheng told Chu Yanqing to wait at Soaring Cloud Peak, then went to Soaring Cloud Lake to practice spirit-controlling before Tianfu True Person could make his move.
• Ye Jingcheng successfully spirit-controlled the Golden-Scaled Beast, gaining its scales and earth abilities, then released it after the process exhausted them both.
• Ye Jingcheng spirit-controlled the Peachwood Wood Demon and discovered that a point of light in his mind could draw in his Divine Soul, encouraging him to continue his experiments.
• A massive beast tide advanced toward Soaring Cloud Peak as the Ye Family moved civilians into hidden caves, sent out its cultivators and young seedlings, and the Taiyi Sect steward departed for Jade Dragon Valley.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family defended Soaring Cloud Peak against a feigned beast-tide attack while Taiyi Sect prepared to counter Earth Dragon Demon King's plans. Tianfu True Person arrived, accepted Ye Jingcheng as his nominal disciple, and drove the attackers back with a powerful formation.

• Green Wind Wolves repeatedly attacked Jade Dragon Valley, killing more than ten Ye Family members and many spirit beasts as Ye Jingyun told Ye Jingli to wait for the signal to withdraw.
• Master Tianzhen reported Earth Dragon Demon King's plan to feint at Soaring Cloud Peak and Green Willow Mountain while the main force waited near Jade Dragon Valley, and the True Persons agreed that Tianfu True Person would send an avatar to Soaring Cloud Peak.
• Ye Jingcheng honored the dead in the ancestral hall, rallied the Ye Family, and led its defense as Earth Dragon Valley's beasts attacked Soaring Cloud Peak.
• Ye Jingcheng's Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles and the Ye Family's formations held back the beasts until Ye Jingyun and Ye Jingli arrived with Tianfu True Person and Illusion Peak disciples.
• Tianfu True Person accepted Ye Jingcheng as his nominal disciple, set up a vast formation, and drove back the Golden Lizard Great Demons as the beast tide receded.

Ye Jingcheng faced Tianfu True Person’s scrutiny after emerging from seclusion, expecting an attempt to seize his body, but Tianfu instead gave him cultivation and alchemy treasures and named him a nominal disciple. Tianfu then annihilated the beast tide and departed for Azure Cloud Nunnery, leaving Ye Jingcheng uneasy about why he had claimed to be only an avatar.

• Ye Jingcheng’s unstable breakthrough worried Tianfu True Person, who examined him and gave him a Profound Clarity Pill to stabilize his cultivation.
• Tianfu True Person told Ye Jingcheng that he had come only as an avatar, then spoke of his approaching death and the Taiyi Sect’s decline.
• Tianfu True Person gave Ye Jingcheng the Four-Flame True Art, alchemical insights, and a Heaven-Training Ruler, and said he would make Ye Jingcheng a nominal disciple.
• Tianfu True Person destroyed the beast tide and its four Golden Lizard Great Demons, then left alone for Granary Mountain and Azure Cloud Nunnery.
• Taihao Master told Ye Jingcheng that Illusion Peak would support the Ye Family and ordered the Taiyi Sect disciples to pursue the remaining beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng went to consolidate his cultivation, still wondering why Tianfu True Person had claimed to be an avatar.

Ye Jingcheng reasoned that Tianfu True Person was investigating him rather than preparing to possess him, and he met secretly with the Ye Family to discuss the danger. The chapter ended with Ye Jingcheng predicting that Tianfu True Person would summon him to Taichang Mountain Range and ordering the family to monitor Jade Dragon Valley.

• Ye Jingcheng concluded that Tianfu True Person wanted him to keep cultivating the Supreme Clarity Spirit-Guarding Art while investigating a suspicion.
• Taihao Master told Ye Jingyun that the beast tide had retreated and the Ye Family did not need to send more clansmen to Jade Dragon Valley; Ye Jing Teng then questioned Ye Jinghu about his aptitude and resources.
• Ye Jingcheng exchanged a coded message with Chu Yanqing, left Soaring Cloud Peak under a changed appearance, and met Ye Haicheng, Ye Haiyan, and Ye Xuecang in a Beast Valley.
• Ye Xuecang confirmed that Tianfu True Person had searched Earth Dragon Valley for the Earth Dragon Demon King, and Ye Jingcheng suspected Tianfu True Person believed the Ye Family had allied with the demon king.
• Ye Jingcheng predicted Tianfu True Person would summon him to Taichang Mountain Range and ordered Ye Jingyun and Ye Jingli to send support to Jade Dragon Valley and report what happened there.

The Demon Kings launched a full assault on Jade Dragon Valley, and their new abilities shattered the Purple Sun Cosmos Grand Formation. Tianfu True Person returned and burned his lifespan to drive them back, but the Earth Dragon Demon King intervened; the Cloud Lion Demon King died, and Tianfu gave Master Tianzhen its Golden Core before retreating into the valley.

• The Azure Wind Wolf King and the other Demon Kings led their forces against Jade Dragon Valley while Tianfu True Person controlled the Purple Sun Cosmos Grand Formation.
• The Three-Eyed Demon King used a new divine ability to breach the formation, and the Green Wind Demon King shattered it and charged through.
• Tianfu True Person returned, restored the formation, and used its Eight Trigrams weapons to trap the Azure Wind Wolf King.
• Three Origins True Person joined Tianfu True Person in killing the Cloud Lion Demon King with his three Sword Embryos.
• The Earth Dragon Demon King appeared and forced the Demon Kings to retreat, while Tianfu True Person's strength rapidly faded.
• Tianfu True Person gave Master Tianzhen the Cloud Lion Demon King's Golden Core and urged him to restore Illusion Peak before walking toward the central hall.

Shi Chen pressured the Wan Family into helping Green River Sect attack Taiyi Sect, then led an assault on Stone Gate Pass and killed Mingyuan. Meanwhile, Ye Xuecang and Ye Jingcheng planned to delay Tianfu True Person’s schemes by arranging Ye Jingcheng’s marriage to Chu Yanqing.

• Shi Chen revealed Green River Sect’s plans and demanded that the Wan Family guide its cultivators north along the Yuhe River.
• Wan Hongtu removed Wan Chengyi and Wan Chengrong from their positions, appointed Wan Hongchang family head, and prepared the Wan Family to cooperate with Green River Sect.
• Shi Chen attacked Stone Gate Pass with the Blood Array Fish and cultivators who had broken their Heavenly Dao Oaths, then killed Mingyuan as the West King True Person arrived.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that Jade Dragon Valley had been pacified and warned Ye Xuecang that Tianfu True Person was nearing the end of his lifespan.
• Ye Xuecang ordered Ye Jingcheng into death seclusion and proposed a marriage alliance with Azure Cloud Nunnery to delay Tianfu True Person while guarding against his attempt to seize Ye Jingcheng’s body.