Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing agreed to become Dao companions, while the Taichang Alarm Bell announced Green River Sect’s invasion and Taiyi Sect began conscripting cultivators. As the sect hurried to defend Taichang, Ye Xuecang instructed Ye Jingcheng to delay, protect the family, and prepare escape plans.

• Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing picked spirit apricots, offered fruit and tea at Ye Haiyun’s memorial, and agreed to marry three months later after he promised to help her deal with the Jin Family.
• The Taichang Alarm Bell rang ten times, and Ye Xingyi ordered the Ye Family to gather, buy spirit talismans, and seek cooperation while avoiding the Wan Family.
• Zitian announced that Green River Sect had taken Taiqing Commandery and was advancing on Taichang, ordered all cultivators under Taiyi command, and had suspected collaborators executed.
• Tianfu True Person and the other leaders ordered Jade Dragon Valley abandoned and its cultivators and spirit items sent toward Taichang Commandery.
• Ye Jingcheng considered the Ye Family’s risks, and Ye Xuecang told him to delay travel, prepare to evacuate mortals, and postpone or reschedule the wedding depending on the war’s outcome.

Ye Jingli organized the Ye Family for the looming sect war, then Taiyi Sect forced its cultivators to march toward Taichang Commandery. Meanwhile, the Feather Transformation Sect prepared ambushes against Taihang Commandery’s reinforcements, and Ye Haicheng and Ye Haiyan learned of the plot and set out to warn the Ye Family and Azure Cloud Nunnery.

• Ye Jingli warned the Ye Family Inner Hall that Green River Sect might investigate their secrets, assigned duties, and ordered preparations to evacuate people and valuable resources.
• Li Xuan'an arrived with Taiyi Sect’s order, demanded that most Ye Family cultivators leave for Taichang Commandery, and led them away after Ye Jingli assembled them.
• The Bloodthirsty Sect Master forced captured Foundation Establishment families to ambush Taihang Commandery’s forces, assigning Cheng Tianxiang to target the Ye Family and taking the Jin Family’s route himself.
• The Bloodthirsty Sect Master sent Blood Eye to watch the Ye Family, while a green cicada carried news of the ambush to a spirit snake that transformed and sent a message.
• Ye Haicheng and Ye Haiyan discussed warning the Ye Family and Azure Cloud Nunnery about the ambushes as they worried over the conflict between Green River Sect and Taiyi Sect.

The Ye Family and Li Xuan'an were ambushed by Cheng Family cultivators on their way to Taichang Commandery, and the battle ended with Li Xuan'an and the attackers dead after the Ye Family revealed some of its hidden strength. Other groups traveling toward Taichang Commandery also faced attacks, while the Jin Family’s vessel entered a trap at Zichang Ridge.

• Ye Jingli and Li Xuan'an’s spirit vessel was ambushed near Double Bridge Peak by Cheng Tianxiang and four other Cheng Family Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Ye Xueliang killed the blood-eyed cultivator outside the formation and took his powerful bloody eyes, while Ye Xingqun deployed Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles to turn the battle inside against the Cheng Family.
• Cheng Tianxiang killed Li Xuan'an with a secret frost attack and a follow-up sword strike, but Ye Jingli’s Three-Colored Bonefire Pearls and the Ye Family’s combined forces killed the remaining Cheng Family cultivators.
• Ye Xingqun ordered the Ye Family to erase witnesses’ memories and impose soul restrictions so the Green River Sect would not learn their strength.
• Daoist Jingxin sensed an ambush as Azure Cloud Nunnery and Taiyi Sect cultivators traveled toward Taichang Commandery, while a valley formation swallowed a vessel carrying Wei Family and Taiyi Martial Peak cultivators.
• At Zichang Ridge, the Feather Transformation Sect’s Bloodthirsty Sect Master destroyed the Jin Family’s spirit vessel and realized the attack was a trap after seeing the Taiyi and Jin Family Purple Palace cultivators aboard.

Ye Jingcheng agreed to lead the Ye Family to aid Taiyi Sect, while Ye Haicheng suspected Taiyi Sect’s Purple Extreme Patriarch was still alive. The Ye Family set out for Taichang Commandery as Green River Sect continued its assault on Taiyi Sect’s array foundations.

• Ye Haicheng told Ye Haiyan that Taiyi Sect’s actions suggested its Purple Extreme Patriarch was probably alive, then sent a message as a bloodied figure approached them.
• Chen Yan waited outside Ye Jingcheng’s courtyard and summoned him when the sect’s crisis made urgent aid necessary.
• Ye Jingcheng agreed to gather the Ye Family and head to Taichang Commandery, where Green River Sect was attacking Taiyi Sect.
• Chen Yan gave Ye Jingcheng a third-rank treasure boat, and Ye Jingcheng secretly prepared to use borrowed spiritual energy rather than his own true essence to pilot it.
• Ye Jingcheng departed with more than twenty Ye Family cultivators, while Ye Jinghu and a few others stayed behind to guard Soaring Cloud Peak.
• At Taichang Mountain Range, Ye Xingyi and the other Ye Family cultivators defended an array foundation as Green River Sect forces approached.

Taiyi Sect struggled to hold the Five Spirits Grand Formation as Green River Sect attacked with Blood Array Fish and overwhelming forces. Meanwhile, Ye Jingcheng’s group escaped pursuit, attacked the Wu Family, and discovered Zhou Family captives among their spoils.

• Green River Sect’s formation-breaking talismans and Blood Array Fish weakened the outer formation, forcing Ye Xingyi, Ye Xingqing, and the other defenders to fight outside the barrier.
• West King True Person led a powerful assault on Taichang Market, then ambushed the returning Three Origins True Person and four others until Zitian True Person joined the battle and summoned the White Tiger True Spirit.
• Ye Jingcheng diverted the Ye Family vessel away from Taichang Commandery, used Chen Yan’s Gale for Ten Thousand Miles talisman to escape their pursuer, and switched to a smaller vessel to recover his true essence.
• Chen Yan urged Ye Jingcheng to attack the Wu Family after learning they had plundered the Zhou Family, and the Ye Family quickly defeated the four Wu Family Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Ye Jingcheng ordered captives taken for soul-searching and divided the spoils, while Ye Jingli found Zhou Family cultivators in the Wu Family’s spirit beast bag.

Ye Jingcheng realized the Green River Sect's campaign was part of a purge aimed at finding the descendants of the Beast Wasteland and their secret treasure, while Chen Yan continued toward the Taiyi Sect with the spoils. At Taichang Market, North River Patriarch confronted Taiyi Sect Master Sikong Ziming, and the Nascent Soul battle began as Green River Sect forces attacked the formation foundations and targeted the Ye Family.

• Ye Jingcheng soul-searched Wu Quanshuang and learned that the order to leave Zhou Family members alive came after Green River Sect disciples arrived, then burned the two captives' bodies.
• Ye Jingli brought Ye Jingcheng three storage pouches containing spiritual herbs, which Ye Jingcheng sorted for his spirit beasts and grotto-heaven.
• Chen Yan kept the storage pouches and urged the Ye Family to attack Green River Sect cultivators, while the True Persons' battle at Taichang Market intensified.
• West King True Person unleashed the West King Blood Mother Sword, but North River Patriarch appeared and revealed that he had reached Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Sikong Ziming emerged from seclusion as a Nascent Soul cultivator and tried to negotiate, but North River Patriarch demanded the murderer of Xiao Xuanhe and an Infant Transformation Pill before launching another attack.
• As North River Patriarch and Sikong Ziming clashed, Green River Sect forces charged Taiyi Sect's formation foundations, and Ye Xingyi and Ye Jingqing's group was targeted.

Ye Xingyi died detonating his soul restriction after Ye Xingqing was killed, while Ye Qingfu escaped with the Ye Family’s earnings. As the battle between Taiyi Sect and Green River Sect reached a turning point, White Medicine True Lord intervened by revealing that Sikong Ziming was his son-in-law, and the True Lords went to negotiate.

• Ye Xingqing deliberately let her attacker’s sword pierce her heart, and Ye Xingyi charged the Foundation Establishment cultivators before detonating his soul restriction and destroying himself.
• Ye Jinghao sent Ye Qingfu toward Illusion Peak with the Lineage’s storage bags, then the Foundation Establishment cultivators shattered the remaining Ye Family members’ energy seas and captured them.
• Liu Huan appeared, rescued Ye Qingfu, and seized Ye Xingqing’s body before a Purple Palace Middle Stage cultivator forced her to withdraw.
• As Green River Sect took more array foundations, Sikong Ziming used the Purple Palm Token to fight back against the North River Patriarch, but the Green River Patriarch arrived to help.
• White Medicine True Lord arrived and declared that Sikong Ziming was his son-in-law, prompting the fighting to stop and the four True Lords to head to Purple Extreme Peak to talk.
• Sanyuan told Tianzhen to summon the disciples back to see their master, and agreed that Ye Jingcheng should be included as a registered disciple.

Ye Jingcheng’s party reached Taichang Market after raiding three Sima Family forces and learning that the Green River Sect’s invasion had paused. Grieving Ye Xingyi and concealing his true strength, Ye Jingcheng arrived in mourning, calling for his clan uncle’s soul to return home.

• Ye Jingcheng and his companions burned the remains of a Sima Family stronghold, celebrated their spoils, and learned that Taiyi Sect’s ancestor had anticipated the Green River Sect’s invasion.
• Chen Yan told Ye Jingcheng that True Lords were negotiating an end to the fighting, that Iron Fist True Person had fallen, and that the Ye Family had suffered heavy losses.
• Ye Jingcheng mourned Ye Xingyi, dressed his family in white, and arranged a vigil while Chen Yan quietly sent messages.
• Ye Jingcheng concealed his cultivation and relied on his plans to avoid scrutiny from the Nascent Soul Cultivators gathered in the Taichang Mountain Range.
• Ye Jingcheng’s party reached Taichang Market, where he blamed himself for Ye Xingyi’s death and called for his clan uncle’s soul to return home.

Ye Jingcheng returned to Soaring Cloud Peak with the ashes of Ye Xingyi and Ye Xingqing, mourned his clan losses, and maneuvered to keep Taiyi Sect from suspecting the Ye Family. After Tianfu True Person’s death was reported and Ye Jingcheng accepted his new sect position, Ye Jingqi arrived at the ancestral shrine to pay his respects.

• Ye Jingcheng brought the ashes home, vowed revenge on the Yan Family and Xun Family, and led the Ye Family procession to Soaring Cloud Peak.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Xuecang about the battle, and Ye Xuecang ordered the family to hide its strength, exaggerate its losses, and prepare for the wedding.
• Jiang Jinghe informed the Ye Family that Tianfu True Person had died and that Ye Jingcheng had advanced to Purple Palace and become a Taiyi Sect outer-sect deacon.
• Ye Jingcheng swore the sect’s Heavenly Dao oath but decided not to travel to receive Tianfu True Person’s remaining treasures before the wedding.
• Ye Jingqi arrived at the ancestral shrine to mourn Ye Xingyi and recalled that Ye Xingyi had helped him obtain a spiritual root.

Ye Jingcheng survived Tianfu True Person’s attempt to possess him, with Ye Xuecang helping destroy the intruder’s body. After Tianfu True Person’s soul vanished into the One-Breath Blood Soul Pearl, Ye Jingcheng searched his storage pouch and found pills, magic treasures, secret records, a sealed spiritual object, and fifty high-grade spirit stones.

• Tianfu True Person revealed himself in the ancestral hall and attacked Ye Jingcheng’s sea of consciousness, but the One-Breath Blood Soul Pearl blocked his soul.
• Ye Xuecang broke through Tianfu True Person’s golden pagoda and destroyed his body with Mountainbreaker.
• Tianfu True Person’s remaining soul charged Ye Jingcheng’s blood-red barrier and was swallowed by the One-Breath Blood Soul Pearl.
• Ye Xuecang confirmed Tianfu True Person’s death, left Ye Jingcheng a storage pouch, and returned to the Azure Cloud Sea Region.
• Ye Jingcheng burned Tianfu True Person’s corpse and searched his pouch, finding valuable pills, magic treasures, four jade slips, a sealed spirit case, and fifty high-grade spirit stones.

After completing his vigil, Ye Jingcheng examined Tianfu True Person’s legacy and learned of the dangers facing his family, a possible refuge in the sea of sand, and a supreme metal spiritual item that could complete his five-element spiritual roots. He put away the Blood Soul Pearl and prepared to open the spirit jade box containing the item.

• Ye Jingcheng restored the ancestral shrine, finished his seven-day vigil, and returned to his courtyard determined to keep a lower profile.
• Ye Jingcheng watched Tianfu True Person’s message, which warned him to conceal his cultivation, avoid Taichang Mountain Range, and consider the sea of sand as a place for the Ye Family to develop.
• Tianfu True Person revealed that he had left Ye Jingcheng a supreme metal spiritual item for completing five-element spiritual roots and asked him to protect the Xu Family of Auspicious Fortune Town.
• Ye Jingcheng examined Tianfu True Person’s inheritance, finding advanced formation knowledge, pill formulas, and the latter half of the Supreme Clarity Spirit-Guarding Art.
• Ye Jingcheng visited the spirit beasts in the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven, noticed the Blood Soul Pearl had grown brighter, sealed it away, and took out the jade box containing the supreme metal spiritual item.

Ye Jingcheng captured a five-thousand-year-old Golden Sun Ganoderma and claimed Tianfu True Person's treasures, then weighed whether to tell the Ye Family about the Gold Condensation Pill. He decided not to visit the Taichang Mountain Range yet, choosing to let Tianfu True Person fade from notice before paying his respects.

• Ye Jingcheng set a trapping array and caught the Golden Sun Ganoderma after the Stone Spirit revealed where it was hiding.
• Ye Jingcheng refused to let the Golden Falcon and Golden-Scaled Beast eat the spirit medicine, then fed the spirit beasts pills and meat.
• Ye Jingcheng examined Tianfu True Person's treasures and refined the paired Golden Lion Seals.
• Ye Jingcheng used the patriarch's token to notify the others about the Gold Condensation Pill and considered who in the Ye Family should receive it.
• Ye Jingcheng decided to delay visiting the Taichang Mountain Range so no one could tell whether Tianfu True Person's attempt to take over his body had succeeded.

Ye Jingcheng prepared for his wedding and Purple Palace ceremony while testing Taiyi Sect’s response to his request concerning Tianfu True Person. He refined an Azure Puppet Shadow to spy on the Zhang Family, then advanced his spirit beasts and continued training the White-Brow Green Wolf.

• Ye Jingcheng greeted Ye Xinghe and Ye Jingfu, learned that the Ye Family’s Taihang Marketplace income had increased seven- or eightfold, and encouraged Ye Jingfu to keep cultivating.
• Ye Jingcheng chose the ceremony’s wine and tea, ordered invitations sent to major lineages and Taiyi Sect cultivators, and asked his senior martial brothers to bring Tianfu True Person’s memorial tablet to his wedding.
• Ye Jingcheng swallowed a Purple Soul Pill, refined an Azure Puppet Shadow, and planted it in the courtyard prepared for the Zhang Family so he could observe them.
• Ye Jingcheng refined two third-rank Four-Color Pills, then gave one to the Four-Colored Cloud Deer along with Purple Arrival Pills and Treasure Radiance, causing it to advance and produce third-rank Adamantine Vine Wood Giants.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Golden-Scaled Beast to make the White-Brow Green Wolf approach, then channeled Treasure Radiance into the wolf before abruptly stopping.

Ye Jingcheng hosted Illusion Peak’s cultivators as they brought Tianfu True Person’s robe to witness his wedding, then traveled to meet Chu Yanqing and bring her back to Soaring Cloud Peak. The chapter ended with the newlyweds’ procession heading toward the Ye Family’s wedding celebration.

• Ye Jingting oversaw the wedding preparations as Taiyi Illusion Peak’s spirit vessel arrived at Soaring Cloud Peak.
• Master Tianzhen rebuked Ye Jingcheng for marrying before mourning Tianfu True Person, then helped him enshrine the late master’s robe in a ceremonial hall.
• Taihao Master warned Ye Jingcheng that Xuandao Martial Uncle now led Illusion Peak and that Ye Jingcheng should be mindful of their relationship.
• Ye Jingcheng led his clan to meet Chu Yanqing at a nearby mountain, where he presented betrothal gifts to Abbess Jingxin and carried Chu Yanqing aboard his spirit vessel.
• Abbess Jingxin announced Azure Cloud Nunnery’s dowry as the ten spirit vessels set off toward Soaring Cloud Peak.

Ye Jingcheng held his wedding and Purple Palace ceremony, welcoming gifts and auspicious blessings from cultivation families and Taiyi Sect cultivators. Xuandao True Person presented a third-rank mid-grade Spirit Gathering Formation, and the chapter ended as the wedding banquet began.

• Ye Jingcheng arrived at Soaring Cloud Peak in a bridal sedan as the Ye Family welcomed guests with spirit beasts, ceremonial music, and crimson auspicious clouds.
• Foundation Establishment and Purple Palace families presented wedding gifts, while cultivators discussed the losses caused by the Green River Sect’s upheaval.
• Golden Core families Zhang Quanyu and Golden Jade Hall offered gifts, and auspicious spirit rain fell over the gathered cultivators.
• Taiyi Sect Masters presented gifts, and Tianfu True Person sent a Purple Jade Fruit, prompting Ye Jingcheng to kneel in respect as diluted spirit water descended.
• Xuandao True Person gave Ye Jingcheng a third-rank mid-grade Spirit Gathering Formation, then joined the wedding rites as an honored witness.
• Ye Jingcheng began the spirit banquet, where the guests were served elaborate second-tier spirit dishes.

After his wedding banquet, Ye Jingcheng secured a century-long lease of the Wei Family’s four counties and gave Xuandao True Person tribute and Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles in exchange for sect support. He then returned to Chu Yanqing, who had come out to meet him rather than wait alone.

• Wei Dazhong asked Ye Jingcheng to protect the weakened Wei Family from bandits, then offered to lease the four counties of Idle Cloud Peak to the Ye Family for one hundred years and requested spirit stones to improve Long Cloud Peak.
• Ye Jingcheng accepted the lease, seeing a chance to manage Idle Cloud Peak and help Chu Yanqing return there.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Xuandao True Person the Ye Family’s tribute records and overdue payments, along with four second-rank Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles.
• Xuandao True Person gave Ye Jingcheng a third-rank spiritual item in exchange for the beetles.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to his courtyard and found Chu Yanqing waiting at the threshold, saying she had seen her father and relatives and that they were satisfied with him.

Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing celebrated their marriage, shared secrets about the Chu Family’s discovery of a third-tier secret realm, and discussed her future breakthrough. After delivering a Dao lecture and seeing off the guests, Ye Jingcheng asked Zhang Yuhuai to forge a protective treasure from a third-rank turtle shell.

• Ye Jingcheng showed Chu Yanqing the deed and lease for the clan mountain, and the two shared their feelings and married.
• Chu Yanqing revealed that the Chu Family had found a third-tier secret realm in a poisonous miasma swamp and could call on the Xun Family for support.
• Ye Jingcheng promised to refine Purple Palace Jade Liquid to help Chu Yanqing break through, while revealing that he had reached the middle Purple Palace stage.
• Ye Jingcheng gave a Dao lecture at the Ye Family gathering, which ended with the family presenting Mountain-Devouring Rats as return gifts.
• Ye Jingcheng declined Fairy Liu Huan’s request to spar and visited the Zhang Family, where he asked Zhang Yuhuai to forge a protective shield from a third-rank turtle shell.

Ye Jingcheng tested the Zhang Family while arranging for Zhang Yuhuai to refine a defensive magic treasure, then maintained appearances with the Jin Family and considered the Ye Family’s next steps. After making the rounds among Purple Palace cultivators, he arrived at the Alchemy Pavilion and decided to refine pills.

• Ye Jingcheng agreed to provide Zhang Yuhuai with another hundred and fifty thousand spirit stones to refine a higher-grade defensive magic treasure, using the deal to probe the Zhang Family.
• Ye Jingcheng visited the Jin Family and accepted a wedding gift from Golden Jade Hall while reopening discussions about the spirit medicine business.
• After Ye Jingcheng left, Golden Jade Hall wondered whether Chu Qing was actually Chu Yanqing and resolved to watch the Ye Family.
• Ye Jingcheng visited other Purple Palace cultivators and considered how the Ye Family could form alliances while secretly strengthening itself.
• Ye Jingcheng arrived at the Alchemy Pavilion and decided to refine pills.

Ye Jingcheng openly demonstrated his pill-refining skill and taught the Ye Family methods for refining pills. He then met with Ye Jingteng and the others, where Ye Jingteng urged the family to pursue a more aggressive policy toward Taiyi Sect and place Ye Jinghu there.

• Ye Jingcheng found Ye Qingyan teaching several clansmen to refine pills openly and asked whether anything had gone wrong during the Azure Spirit Pill refinement.
• Ye Jingcheng demonstrated his furnace-nurturing technique and slowly refined eleven Azure Spirit Pills, three of them bearing pill patterns, before showing three methods for refining an Earth-Tier Pill.
• Ye Qingyan recognized what he thought were different-grade portions in the pills, and Ye Jingcheng gave him a jade slip and ordered him to destroy it after reading.
• Ye Jingteng summoned Ye Jingcheng to the bamboo grove, where Ye Jingli, Ye Jingyun, and Ye Xingqun were discussing his proposal to take a more aggressive approach toward Taiyi Sect.
• Ye Jingcheng realized Ye Jingteng wanted the Purple Palace Jade Liquid and wanted Ye Jinghu, who had a lightning spiritual root, to join Taiyi Sect.

Ye Jingcheng persuaded Ye Jingteng to build influence in the Taiyi Sect by cultivating talented sect disciples, then arranged the Ye Family’s return to Taichang Market. He led the family in raising Soaring Cloud Peak’s spirit vein and establishing a powerful protective formation, then prepared to mend his spirit roots.

• Ye Jingcheng advised Ye Jingteng to cultivate talented Taiyi Sect disciples rather than rely only on Ye Family clansmen, and Ye Jingteng agreed to support the family’s plans in Taichang Market.
• Ye Jingcheng asked the family elders to prepare spirit stones and a Spirit Gathering Formation to upgrade the family’s spirit vein, then studied the Spirit Substitution Method and examined the Azure Puppet Shadow.
• Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing joined the family elders at Soaring Cloud Lake, where Ye Jingcheng used spirit stones and a Spirit Gathering Stone to advance Soaring Cloud Peak’s spirit vein to mid-grade third rank.
• Ye Jingcheng set up the Nine Heavens Cloudwater Formation, which resonated with the upgraded spirit vein and strengthened the family’s defenses.
• Ye Jingcheng tasked Ye Jingyun with preparing the family’s restaurant and spirit beast shop for Taichang Market, then returned with Chu Yanqing to begin mending his spirit roots.