Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng refined the Golden Sun Ganoderma into spirit liquid and used the Spirit Substitution Secret Method to complete his five-element spirit roots. After reviewing Ye Xuecang’s cultivation advice and news of the Ye Family’s progress, he prepared to change cultivation arts and returned to plans for the family’s growth.

• Ye Jingcheng studied all 108 spirit seals for three months, then refined most of the Golden Sun Ganoderma into spirit liquid while preserving a small piece to regrow.
• Ye Jingcheng consumed the golden spirit liquid and performed the Spirit Substitution Secret Method, forming a metal-aspected ganoderma within himself.
• Ye Jingcheng tested his spirit roots and saw five colors of light, with his Water Spirit Root reaching more than ten feet; the Golden Falcon’s spiritual energy then strengthened the ganoderma.
• Ye Jingcheng read Ye Xuecang’s advice to cultivate the Five Spirit True Canon while using the Five-Phase Heavenly Origin Scripture to temper his true essence.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that Ye Jingyu had reached the Purple Palace realm, Ye Xing shui had established Foundation, the Ye Family controlled Idle Cloud Mountain, and its restaurant at Great Prosperity Market was nearly ready.

Ye Jingyu overcame her heart-demon illusion and established her Foundation, while Ye Jingcheng hid the truth about his five spiritual roots. Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing traveled to Idle Cloud Mountain, where they discovered two cultivators waiting for the Chu Family to return to the blood-watered Purple Moon Roses.

• Ye Jingcheng left seclusion and found Chu Yanqing tending the spirit apricot tree before they sensed the Ye Family spirit vein advancing to third-rank, mid-grade.
• Ye Jingyu faced an illusion accusing her of being unworthy of the Lineage’s resources, reaffirmed her resolve to help the Ye Family, and formed her Mystic Wood Azure Elephant spirit platform.
• Ye Jingcheng and the others welcomed Ye Jingyu’s successful breakthrough, and Ye Xinghan gave Ye Jingcheng an improved Woodheart Spirit Liquid formula.
• Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing flew to Idle Cloud Mountain after Ye Xinghan mentioned the Purple Moon Roses left by the Wei Family.
• Ye Jingcheng concealed their identities with the Bronze Ancient Lamp and Chu Yanqing’s Five-Colored Dao Robe, then overheard two hidden cultivators discussing how the Chu Family might return to investigate the roses.

Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing uncovered the Chu Family’s connection to a third-rank secret realm while investigating Idle Cloud Peak. Chu Yanqing resolved to prepare for a Purple Palace breakthrough, and the chapter ended with them discovering the Pill Wasteland Secret Realm’s hidden entrance token.

• Ye Jingcheng captured Xuan Five and Xiao Six, learned they had come under the Xun Family’s orders to find a Chu Family descendant, then killed them after Chu Yanqing verified their message.
• Ye Jingcheng advised Chu Yanqing not to rush to Returning Goose Commandery, and the two returned secretly to Idle Cloud Peak.
• Chu Yanqing mourned the fallen Chu Family members for thirty days and declared herself ready to pursue a Purple Palace breakthrough.
• Chu Yanqing showed Ye Jingcheng a Thousand-Year Idle Cloud Sinking Ironwood tree and revealed that its concealed token was the key to a third-rank Pill Wasteland Secret Realm.
• Ye Jingcheng recognized the token’s significance and considered gathering more Ye Family cultivators before entering the dangerous secret realm.

Ye Jingcheng returned to the Ye Family and learned that the Purplewood Sect might be under scrutiny as the Green River Sect’s purge continued. Ye Xuefan warned him to avoid the Pill Wasteland Secret Realm until the regional dangers were clearer, and Ye Jingcheng left with a new Blackwood Disk and began refining it.

• Ye Jingmu told Ye Jingcheng that the spirit fish seemed to be dwindling, and Ye Jingcheng explained that he had fed a spirit beast.
• Xuefan warned Ye Jingcheng that the Vast Righteousness Chamber of Commerce and Mystic Sword Pavilion might be investigating the Purplewood Sect, prompting the Ye Family to prepare for a future Eastern Sea beast tide.
• Ye Jingcheng offered materials for Five Elements Heavenly Armor Puppets and revealed that he had obtained a key to a third-rank secret realm that might lead to the Pill Wasteland Secret Realm.
• Ye Xuefan ordered Ye Jingcheng not to enter Returning Goose Commandery until the family understood the Toxic Swamp and the factions’ relationships, and advised him to investigate the secret realm through Rogue Cultivators.
• Ye Haicheng gave Ye Jingcheng the Blackwood Disk, and Ye Xuefan supplied him with spirit pills for converting his cultivation method.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to his courtyard, refined the Blackwood Disk in half a day, and assessed its binding and lightning abilities.

Ye Jingcheng brought Ye Family members to Taichang Market to reopen their alchemy pavilion and tavern, while paying respects to Tianfu True Person and learning about Sikong Ziming’s wedding and auction five years later. After checking the family’s new businesses, he visited Eternal Peace Pavilion to discuss sourcing materials for Five Elements Heavenly Armor Puppets.

• Ye Jingcheng traveled to Taichang Market with Ye Jingyun, Ye Jingyong, Ye Qingyan, and other Ye Family members to reopen One Leaf Pavilion and its tavern.
• Ye Jingcheng paid respects at Tianfu True Person’s mourning hall, where Master Tianzhen said he would enter seclusion and told him to send the tavern proceeds to Taihao Master.
• Taihao Master warned Ye Jingcheng to avoid Taiqing Commandery for now and told him about Sikong Ziming’s wedding, auction, and Azure Spirit Commerce Association trade fair in five years.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Taihao Master storage pouches for Xuandao True Person and several others, then returned to One Leaf Pavilion and confirmed that the Ye Family’s alchemy pavilion and tavern were operating.
• Ye Jingcheng visited Eternal Peace Pavilion to seek a reliable supplier of materials for refining Five Elements Heavenly Armor Puppets.

Ye Jingcheng bought artifact-refining materials from the Zhang Family and suspected they were secretly active in the Sand Sea World. Meanwhile, Xun Changsheng pressured Chu Xiqing to find a secret realm, and the Ye Family Restaurant opened in Taichang Market to a packed crowd, with Taihao Master present to support it.

• Ye Jingcheng examined the Zhang Family's artifact materials, bought metal- and wood-attributed supplies, and exchanged a promise of free spirit meals for the Zhang Family's offer of a second-tier dharma sword.
• After Ye Jingcheng left, Zhang Yujing collected the sand and earth spiritual ores and privately called Ye Jingcheng an interesting head of the Ye Family.
• Xun Changsheng threatened Chu Xiqing with using her essence blood to locate the Chu Family's remaining bloodline if she failed to find the secret realm within half a year.
• The Ye Family opened its restaurant in Taichang Market with live spirit-beast demonstrations, free benefits, and a prize draw, drawing a large crowd of Rogue Cultivators.
• Taihao Master and disciples from across the Taiyi Sect attended, the restaurant filled its tables and private rooms, and Ye Jingcheng asked Taihao Master to inspect the spirit-isolating jars.

Ye Jingcheng strengthened the Ye Family’s defenses and his spirit beasts before beginning to cultivate the Five Spirit True Canon. After dispersing his cultivation and rebuilding his Heavenly Palace, he completed its five elements and saw new spirit silhouettes begin to form.

• Ye Jingcheng warned Ye Jingyun not to expand the market recklessly, entrusted him with the remaining Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles, and secretly bought materials for Heavenly Armor Puppets.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to Soaring Cloud Peak, inspected the Grotto-Heaven’s growing spirit beasts, and established a Blood Pact with the White-Brow Green Wolf so he could obtain its Advancement Pill formula.
• Ye Jingcheng refined more than a hundred Thunder Rhinoceros Pills for his beetles, then planted spirit trees in a special Array to produce potent woodhearts for the Peachwood Demon.
• Ye Jingcheng dispersed his four-aspect cultivation and spent three months rebuilding it with the Five Spirit True Canon.
• Ye Jingcheng condensed a metal-aspect Heavenly Palace, completing all five palaces as spirit silhouettes began forming within them.

After two years of cultivation, Ye Jingcheng returned to the middle stage of the Purple Palace realm as several of his spirit beasts advanced and revealed new abilities. He tended to his beasts and spirit plants, then turned to alchemy to prepare for Chu Yanqing’s breakthrough and possibly help Ye Jingteng.

• Ye Jingcheng practiced Vermilion Bird Burns the Heavens but could not yet form a Vermilion Bird, then tested his four Hidden-Wing Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles after they advanced to the third rank.
• The Four-Colored Cloud Deer advanced to the middle of the third rank, became the Five-Colored Cloud Deer, and demonstrated its ability to dispel Gold Scale’s defense, summon five-colored Wood Giants, hide in forests, and heal others with its blood.
• Ye Jingcheng assessed his spirit beasts’ cultivation, rewarded the White-Brow Green Wolf for breaking through, and noted that the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon was nearing the late third rank.
• Ye Jingcheng refined Woodheart Spirit Liquid for the Peachwood Demon, which eagerly thanked him for the gift.
• Ye Jingcheng prepared to resume alchemy, including refining Purple Palace Jade Liquid for Chu Yanqing and possibly Ye Jingteng, while considering pills for his other spirit beasts.

Ye Jingcheng refined Purple Palace Jade Liquid, helped Chu Yanqing prepare for her breakthrough, and learned that strangers were secretly watching the Ye Family. After two years of cultivation, he mastered the basics of a Fire Spirit Secret Art and tested the Heaven-Opening Divine Drum Insect Array, leaving him eager for the Lineage’s next move.

• Ye Jingcheng refined two portions of Purple Palace Jade Liquid and saw that the Peachwood Demon was nearing a breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng checked his growing Thunder Rhinoceros Beetle force and found that more than thirty beetles had reached the Second Stage.
• Chu Yanqing emerged at the peak of Foundation Establishment, and Ye Jingcheng gave her Purple Palace Jade Liquid before she returned to cultivate for her breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that three strangers carrying a blood vial had been watching the Lineage and heard about True Lord Ziming’s wedding auction in two and a half years.
• After two more years in seclusion, Ye Jingcheng reached age seventy-seven, neared the peak of mid-stage Purple Palace, and grasped the basics of Vermilion Bird Burns the Heavens.
• Ye Jingcheng tested the Heaven-Opening Divine Drum Insect Array with more than 120 Second Stage Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles and watched its lightning attack strike the Shadowless Bowl.

Ye Jingcheng discovered that the Xun Family had been searching the Ye Family’s leased mountain for a secret key, then heard their proposal to explore the Pill Wasteland Secret Realm together. He remained wary of the dangerous opportunity and the Xun Family’s motives as their pitch ended.

• Ye Jingcheng tended his spirit beasts and spirit fish, then strengthened the Dragon Whisker Fruit tree in the Grotto-Heaven.
• Ye Jingming told Ye Jingcheng that cultivators had been disturbing Idle Cloud Peak while Ye Jinghu and Ye Xingqun supposedly prepared an ambush there.
• Ye Jingcheng learned from Ye Jinghu and the others that the message about Idle Cloud Peak was a decoy and that they were waiting near Soaring Cloud Peak.
• Three disguised Xun Family cultivators arrived posing as Ye Family members, and Ye Jingcheng escorted them to the council hall after recognizing their deception.
• The Xun Family cultivators revealed that they wanted Chu Yanqing’s secret key to enter the Pill Wasteland Secret Realm and urged Ye Jingcheng to join their expedition.
• Ye Jingcheng questioned the danger and reliability of the offer while the Xun Family cultivators described the Secret Realm’s treasures and their plan to explore it over repeated visits.

Ye Jingcheng negotiated compensation from the Xun Family, learned that the Ye Family had taken control of its leadership, and prepared for a trade fair while cultivating and refining pills. As he was about to leave for Taichang Market, a breakthrough to the Purple Palace stage began on Soaring Cloud Peak, drawing the Ye Family’s Foundation Establishment cultivators to his courtyard.

• Ye Jingcheng accepted four Foundation Establishment Pills as compensation from the infiltrating Xun Family cultivators and took their storage pouches for the family treasury.
• Ye Xingqun presented Ye Jingcheng with a thousand-year Twin Joy Lotus and reported that the Ye Family had acquired more materials for his pill and cultivation formulas.
• Ye Jingcheng checked on Chu Yanqing’s secluded breakthrough, then returned to cultivate the water-element secret art and train the Thunder Rhinoceros Beetle.
• Ye Haicheng told Ye Jingcheng that he, Ye Xuefan, and Ye Haiyan had replaced the Xun Family’s leadership while keeping up cooperation to avoid suspicion.
• Ye Jingcheng refined pills and continued cultivating after the Xun Family delivered the agreed four Foundation Establishment Pills and a sound-transmission jade token.
• As Ye Jingcheng prepared to leave for Taichang Market, a Purple Palace breakthrough phenomenon appeared on Soaring Cloud Peak, and the Ye Family’s Foundation Establishment cultivators gathered outside his courtyard.

Chu Yanqing overcame her heart demon tribulation and successfully condensed her Purple Palace, then reunited with Ye Jingcheng and prepared to consolidate her cultivation. Ye Jingcheng left for Taichang Market with fifteen Ye Family members and the supplies they had gathered for the auction.

• Chu Yanqing relived memories of her mother and faced accusations about her family’s blood feud and her feelings for Ye Jingcheng during her heart demon tribulation.
• Chu Yanqing rejected the false voices, remembered that Ye Jingcheng had treated her well, and successfully formed her Purple Palace.
• Ye Jingcheng told the Ye Family members to keep Chu Yanqing’s breakthrough secret and continued studying the insect formation while she stabilized her cultivation.
• Chu Yanqing emerged after three days, received water-attributed spirit pills and Water Spirit Pearls from Ye Jingcheng, and declined to accompany him to Taichang Market.
• Ye Jingcheng gathered fifteen clansmen, spirit stones, supplies, and two Azure Spirit Tokens, then led the group toward Taichang Market aboard a third-rank spirit vessel.

Ye Jingcheng brought the Ye Family to Taichang Market and stocked One Leaf Pavilion with spirit pills, including third-rank pills, while his relatives explored the crowded marketplace. The chapter ended with Ye Jingli spotting a crystal that resembled the Great Qian Origin Stone.

• Ye Jingcheng arrived at One Leaf Pavilion with Ye Jingli, Ye Jinghu, and other Ye Family clansmen, then reassured them to stay cautious in the market.
• Ye Jingcheng restocked the shop with spirit pills and opened its third floor for third-rank pill sales.
• Ye Jingcheng sent the marketplace guides to spread news of the Ye Family's third-rank pills and offer to refine unfamiliar pills from rare formulas.
• Ye Jinghu and Ye Jingli split up with the younger clansmen to browse the Rogue Cultivators' stall plaza.
• Ye Jingli examined a piece of purple ore silver iron and noticed a translucent crystal resembling the Great Qian Origin Stone.

Ye Jingcheng traded for rare stone materials at the market and learned that the disguised cultivator Jun knew the whereabouts of a mountain spirit and was recruiting for an inheritance cave abode. After arranging for Ye Jingli to trade pills and artifacts for more materials, Ye Jingcheng spent five days refining pills before Jun’s invitation to the first Purple Palace trade gathering arrived.

• Ye Jingli found a Great Qian Origin Stone at a stall and summoned Ye Jingcheng after the owner demanded a third-rank defensive magical treasure for it.
• Jun privately told Ye Jingcheng that he knew the whereabouts of a mountain spirit and offered the Great Qian Origin Stone and Mystic Origin Red Gold in exchange for the Mystic Mountain Shield and five thousand spirit stones.
• Jun invited Ye Jingcheng to join an expedition to an inheritance cave abode after the grand wedding, but Ye Jingcheng left without agreeing.
• Ye Jingcheng instructed Ye Jingli to set up a stall and trade third-rank spirit pills and magical artifacts for materials listed in a jade slip.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to refining pills for five days, then received Jun’s invitation to the first small Purple Palace trade gathering.

As Patriarch Ziming’s wedding approached, Ye Jingcheng attended a Purple Palace trading gathering at Zitian Estate under the hidden identity Seven Wounds. The gathering began with Xu Wuyou lecturing on observing aura, leaving Ye Jingcheng wary of the Taiyi Sect’s ability to discern fortune and calamity.

• Ye Jingcheng traveled through Taichang Market’s wedding festivities to the Zitian Estate for a Purple Palace trading gathering.
• He concealed his identity and aura, adopted the Daoist title Seven Wounds, and entered the gathering.
• Ye Jingcheng found more than two hundred Purple Palace cultivators assembled, including Taihao Master and Fairy Liu Huan.
• Xu Wuyou welcomed the guests and announced rewards of five magic treasures for each of five cultivators who gave sermons.
• Xu Wuyou lectured on observing aura and discerning fortune, opportunities, calamities, and blessings, prompting Ye Jingcheng to worry about the Ye Family’s concealment.

At the Purple Palace exchange, Ye Jingcheng listened to Dao discussions from several sects and traded his Purple Soul Pills for Fourth Stage roc wings from Li Baihe of the Penglai Immortal Sect. The exchange continued, and Ye Jingcheng recognized a Cave Heaven Mystic Stone that could help complete the materials for his Third Stage stone formula.

• Xu Wuyou, Qiu Xueyun, Li Shiyi, Lan Wenyuan, and Li Baihe each shared insights on their respective arts, with Li Baihe impressing the hall with practical Spirit Talisman techniques.
• Xu Wuyou offered six treasures in exchange for items that could restrain inner demons or cold jade at least three thousand years old.
• Li Baihe offered Fourth Stage roc wings for Third Stage pills that strengthened the Divine Soul, and Ye Jingcheng traded one Purple Soul Pill with pill patterns and three with Pill Fragrance for them.
• Ye Jingcheng examined the wings and found that they retained roughly one drop of blood essence, while their bones could be refined into valuable flying equipment.
• As the exchange continued, a cultivator presented a Cave Heaven Mystic Stone, and Ye Jingcheng recognized it as a key material for the Third Stage stone formula.

Ye Jingcheng obtained a Grotto-Heaven Mystic Stone at the trade fair and tried to exchange several treasures for rare materials, but a suspicious cultivator recognized his magic treasures. After covering his tracks and resuming pill refining, Ye Jingcheng saw the wedding celebrations begin at Taichang Mountain Range.

• Ye Jingcheng exchanged two Purple Spirit Pills and two thousand spirit stones for the Grotto-Heaven Mystic Stone, completing the main materials for the third-rank Shi Fang.
• Ye Jingcheng offered the Thunderstorm Spear, Violet Gold Ring, and Heavenly Water Pills in exchange for rare materials, but no one made an offer.
• After the trade fair, Ye Jingcheng noticed a divine sense following him and set up a stall to draw out whoever was watching.
• A cultivator in a Spirit-Isolating Robe examined Ye Jingcheng’s treasures, claimed they resembled an old acquaintance’s, and promised to seek fourth-rank Peachwood heartwood.
• Ye Jingcheng used disguises, concealment treasures, and false evidence to cover his identity and hide his Azure Cloud Sea Region belongings, then resumed refining pills.
• The wedding at Taichang Mountain Range began with music, auspicious clouds, dragons, and phoenixes appearing in the sky.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family joined the cultivators traveling to Taiyi Sect for Sikong Ziming’s wedding, where the sect’s lavish displays culminated in a shower of spiritual grace. As guests presented their congratulations, the chapter ended with Zhou Xu offering three stalks of third-rank Purple Mystic Azure Sandalwood.

• Ye Jingcheng led Ye Jinghu, Ye Jingli, Ye Qingyan, and other Ye Family members toward Taichang Mountain, noting the many prominent cultivators attending and the absence of the Azure Spirit Commerce Association and Li Baihe.
• Ye Jingcheng guided the Ye Family up Taiyi Sect’s Devotion Path Ladder, where its pressure tempered their cultivation before they reached the mountain gate.
• Three flood dragons, three luan phoenixes, and three white horned horses pulled Sikong Ziming’s wedding carriage, followed by a fleet of spirit vessels.
• Sikong Ziming appeared in wedding robes to receive the bride as Taiyi Sect’s Golden Core True Persons welcomed her and spiritual grace fell over the gathered cultivators.
• Taiyi Sect assigned guests to peaks according to their cultivation and began announcing gifts, and Zhou Xu presented three stalks of third-rank Purple Mystic Azure Sandalwood.

The Ye Family attended Sikong Ziming’s Nascent Soul celebration, where Ye Jingcheng presented a thousand-year Twin Joy Lotus and the family gained a modest treasure from Taiyi Sect’s lavish displays. The ceremony brought powerful True Lords from across the Eastern Region, and it ended with Great Roc True Lord of Penglai Immortal Sect arriving with a Fifth Stage gift and blessings that filled the skies.

• The Wan Family and Cheng Family presented gifts despite their ties to Green River Sect, while Ye Jingcheng reflected on how their allegiance had left them trapped between hostile powers.
• Ye Jingcheng led the Ye Family forward and presented a thousand-year Third Stage Twin Joy Lotus, earning them a better place among the Purple Palace guests.
• Second Stage spirit rain fell during the Golden Core gifts, and Ye Jinghu’s aura surged as he seemed close to a breakthrough.
• Cloud Blood True Lord, North River True Lord, and Heavenly Blade True Lord presented gifts, revealing the political tensions among Heavenly Corpse Sect, Green River Sect, and Heavenly Blade Sect.
• White Medicine True Lord arrived, announced that he would offer a top-grade Fourth Stage pill at the coming auction, and Ye Jingcheng caught a lower-grade Third Stage artifact among the falling treasures.
• Great Roc True Lord arrived atop a Fifth Stage Roc Fish, presented a Fifth Stage Heart-Linking Jade, and the gathered clouds formed a double-happiness sign before raining spirit fish and treasures across the mountain range.

At the wedding banquet of Ziming True Lord and Spirit Rainbow Fairy, Ye Jingcheng befriended Jia Tiange and arranged a trade between their families. Later, Wan Hongchang revealed that the Wan Family belonged to the Sword Wasteland Lineage and offered evidence linking the Zhang Family to a teleportation array to the Boundless Sand Sea, leaving Ye Jingcheng weighing the implications.

• Ye Jingcheng attended the wedding banquet, exchanged pleasantries with Jia Tiange, and agreed to trade Cloud-Horn Deer dishes for goods from the Jia Family.
• The sect's disciples competed in contests, and Ye Jinghu returned to secluded cultivation to pursue a breakthrough to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Ye Jingcheng disguised himself and met a Spirit-Isolating Robe wearer in the market, only to discover that the cultivator was Wan Hongchang.
• Wan Hongchang told Ye Jingcheng that the Wan Family belonged to the Sword Wasteland Lineage and asked whether the Ye Family had a special foundation or means of protecting its clan.
• Wan Hongchang offered a jade talisman containing old records that showed the Artifact Wasteland had received an ancient teleportation array leading to the Boundless Sand Sea, which the Zhang Family now controlled.
• Ye Jingcheng examined the records and realized that learning the Zhang Family's ties to Taiyi Sect and the array's location could help the Ye Family make plans.