Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family gathered in the outer seas to investigate the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King and prepare an ambush. After reaching the hunting grounds, they confirmed the opportunity and began luring the old turtle with Blood Demon Fish.

• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haicheng arrived at a concealed teleportation hall, where Ye Xingliang told them the others would arrive in about half a day.
• Ye Xuecang and the rest of the Ye Family arrived aboard a Bluewater Whale, and Ye Haicheng handed over his Heavenly Armor Puppets for the operation.
• The group traveled to Ye Shengyi's seabed refuge, where he gave Ye Jingcheng jade slips containing pill-refining advice and breakthrough insights.
• The Ye Family continued into more dangerous waters, using Blood Leeches and a fourth-tier mirror treasure to scout for the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King.
• After Ye Xuecang declared the waters suitable for an attack, the group released Blood Demon Fish as bait while Ye Xuefan prepared to set up an array.

Ye Xuecang and the Ye Family lured the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King into an ambush, then fought it with sword arts, divine lightning, a formation, and Ye Jingcheng’s spirit beasts. The Mystic Square Water-Banishing Grand Formation trapped the Demon King, but the battle continued with it still formidable.

• Ye Xuecang’s Blood Demon Fish bait drew Water Arrow Turtles to the beach twice, so the Ye Family moved between islands before trying again.
• Ye Xuecang used a peak second-tier Blood Demon Fish to lure out the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King, and he wounded its water-aspect head with Thundercrash.
• Ye Shengyi struck the wood-aspect head with Yang Fire Divine Thunder as Ye Xuefan began setting up a formation.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Haihe released their spirit beasts, and the group worked together to keep the Demon King from escaping into the seabed.
• Ye Xuefan completed the Mystic Square Water-Banishing Grand Formation, trapping the Demon King without water to hide in, while the Ye Family’s spirit beasts pressed their attack.

Ye Xuecang and Ye Jingcheng forced the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King to submit after a fierce battle, and Ye Jingcheng bound both heads with soul contracts. The demon king secretly planned to escape, while the Crimson Flame Fox withdrew the Azure Sun Flame to cultivate and the Golden-Scaled Beast awaited healing.

• Ye Xuefan strengthened the Water-Banning Grand Formation as the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King tried to heal its shell and break free.
• Ye Xuecang wounded the water-aspect head with Moon Slash, and the Golden-Scaled Beast lost a leg before crushing the wood-aspect head with its Earth-Scale Seals.
• Ye Xuecang and Ye Shengyi used sword strikes, thunder, and Five Elements Heavenly Armor Puppets to worsen the demon king's injuries as the Azure Sun Flame burned its vitality.
• The Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King offered to submit, and Ye Jingcheng formed soul contracts with both heads, discovering that they intended to flee once healed.
• The Crimson Flame Fox reclaimed the Azure Sun Flame and prepared to enter seclusion, while Ye Jingcheng ordered the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King to heal the Golden-Scaled Beast.

Ye Jingcheng used the Soul Pact to force the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King to heal the Ye Family’s wounded spirit beasts and cultivators, then brought it into the Turtle Ancestor Grotto-Heaven. While the others recovered, he studied the path to the golden-core stage and decided to prepare an illusory Array to temper his Dao heart, but he lacked one of at least the fourth rank.

• The Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King healed the Golden-Scaled Beast, but Ye Jingcheng used the Soul Pact to punish its reluctance and make it obey.
• Ye Jingcheng ordered the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King to heal Ye Xuefan, then Ye Xuecang led the group back to the Turtle Ancestor Grotto-Heaven.
• The Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King healed Ye Xuefan and the other injured spirit beasts while Ye Jingcheng gave the advancing Crimson Flame Fox Treasure Radiance and Mystic Flame Pills.
• Ye Jingcheng read Ye Shengyi’s and Ye Xuecang’s jade slips about golden-core breakthroughs and the dangers of the inner-demon and Lightning Tribulations.
• Ye Jingcheng chose to temper his Dao heart in an illusory Array inside the Grotto-Heaven, but he did not have an Array of at least the fourth rank.

Ye Jingcheng studied Ye-family cultivation methods and learned about the family’s lost Grotto-Heaven and its secrets from Ye Shengyi. Ye Shengyi gave him a life-extending spirit peach, prepared an illusion-formation array for him, and agreed to teach him alchemy on Hidden Azure Island.

• Ye Jingcheng emerged from two days of studying the jade slip and learned the Palace-Expanding Method and the Enlightenment Method.
• Ye Shengyi told Ye Jingcheng that a Ye-family Grotto-Heaven had collapsed and explained Turtle Ancestor’s importance to the family’s future.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Shengyi a fifty-year life-extending spirit peach and learned that Peachwood’s improved spirit peaches could extend lifespan further.
• Ye Shengyi promised to guide Ye Jingcheng in alchemy and gave him an array disk and flags for the illusion formation.
• Ye Jingcheng put away the recovering Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King, then left the Grotto-Heaven with Ye Shengyi for Hidden Azure Island.

Ye Jingcheng arrived at Hidden Azure Island, where Ye Shengyi revealed the family had upgraded its spirit vein to the fourth order and established a new base. Ye Jingcheng set up the Four Mystic Heavens Illusion Array to temper his mind, then recognized its second illusion as the Star Sea Demon Emperor and prepared for the formation’s harder layers.

• Ye Shengyi activated the island’s concealment array, revealing its fourth-order spirit vein, and opened a cave abode to protect and guide Ye Jingcheng.
• Ye Jingcheng opened his own cave abode, released several spirit beasts into the surrounding sea, and instructed the Golden Falcon to patrol and search for treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng and the tree demons arranged the Four Mystic Heavens Illusion Array, and Ye Jingcheng entered it after setting a fifteen-day limit for his trial.
• Ye Jingcheng shattered the first illusion, which depicted female cultivators tempting him, and returned to the grotto-heaven.
• The next illusion showed the Star Sea Demon Emperor swallowing Ye Jingcheng and his grotto-heaven; Ye Jingcheng realized it was an illusion when his Treasure Book remained unchanged.
• Ye Jingcheng saw the formation cores within the Star Sea Demon Emperor’s eyes and braced himself as the third and fourth illusion layers approached.

Ye Jingcheng failed to escape the illusion formation but learned from the trial and spent two years tempering his body, strengthening his soul, and refining pills. He advanced his body to the middle Purple Palace stage and his divine soul to the fourth tier, and Ye Shengyi advised him to rest before condensing his core.

• Ye Jingcheng emerged from the illusion formation after fifteen days of unknowingly climbing in place, then reassured the tree demons and reviewed what he had learned.
• Ye Jingcheng resumed his cultivation routine, tempering his body, enhancing his divine soul through the Dream-Devouring Insect, and refining pills.
• After two years, Ye Jingcheng broke through to the middle Purple Palace stage, defeated two third-rank Adamantine Vine wooden giants, and tested his speed against the Five-Colored Cloud Deer.
• Ye Jingcheng used a Purple Soul Pill and a killer whale beast soul to push his divine soul into the fourth tier, then extended his divine sense across the surrounding seas and islands.
• Ye Shengyi witnessed Ye Jingcheng's breakthrough and advised him to relax and commune with beasts before condensing his core.

After the Crimson Flame Fox reached the peak of the third rank, Ye Jingcheng refined the pills needed for his Golden Core breakthrough and successfully became a fourth-rank alchemist. He tested the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King's obedience and rewarded it with Treasure Radiance and a Mystic Jade Azurewater Pill, leaving it eager to serve the Ye Family.

• The Crimson Flame Fox broke through to the peak of the third rank, and its four tails changed into different colors.
• With Ye Shengyi's guidance, Ye Jingcheng refined a third-rank White-Brow Pill and the Gold Rite Pill, Fire Complete Pill, and Earth King Pill, then successfully refined an ordinary fourth-rank Mystic Jade Azurewater Pill.
• Ye Shengyi left Ye Jingcheng a peak third-rank lightning-armor magical treasure and a Heavenly Dragon Fruit that could help the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon reach the fourth rank.
• Ye Jingcheng ordered Wood Head to bite Water Head's head apart, then stopped it to confirm the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King could not resist the Soul Pact.
• Ye Jingcheng healed the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King with Treasure Radiance and showed it a Mystic Jade Azurewater Pill, prompting both heads to pledge loyalty to the Ye Family.

Ye Jingcheng used the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King's true essence to fill his five Purple Palaces and began attempting to form a Golden Core. Meanwhile, Ye Shengyi organized the Ye Family's defenses around Hidden Azure Island and placed his hopes in Ye Jingcheng's breakthrough.

• Ye Jingcheng established a Beast-Link Mark with the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King, then sent it back to cultivate in the sea.
• Ye Jingcheng refined the turtle demon king's true essence for more than ten days until his five Purple Palaces brimmed with power.
• Ye Jingcheng took three spirit pills and began compressing his Purple Palaces to break through to Golden Core.
• Ye Shengyi assigned Ye Xuefan, Ye Haihe, Ye Haifei, and Ye Xuefu to guard Hidden Azure Island from four directions.
• Ye Shengyi told Ye Haifei to let the Falling Cloud and Jade Cloud Archipelagos investigate, then watched the island's mist thicken as he hoped Ye Jingcheng would lead the Ye Family back to its ancestral land.

The Green River Sect investigated signs that the Yun Family had been taken over while preparing its Profound River Infinite Sword Array, as the Ye Family readied its defenses and a new Golden Core breakthrough. The Yun Family then announced an auction and a contest to choose Yun Caini’s husband, drawing the Azure Spirit Commerce Association into its planned confrontation.

• Cheng An showed Elder Xuanming a dying Yun Family descendant’s testimony that the Yun Family Patriarch and its Purple Palace cultivators had changed, but Elder Xuanming refused to investigate and prioritized collecting beast souls for the array.
• Fairy Wu Xin reported that the Mystic Sword Pavilion had gathered all one hundred thousand swords but only one-third of the required beast-soul swords, while demon beasts and spirit fish were multiplying.
• Five years later, Ye Shengyi saw a five-colored spiritual haze form over Hidden Azure Peak and alerted the Ye Family that its second Golden Core cultivator was about to emerge.
• Ye Xuefu, Ye Haihe, Ye Haifei, and Ye Xuefan prepared Demon-Luring Grass and layered arrays on separate islands to protect the family and exploit the coming beast tide.
• The Yun Family ancestor and the Purplewood Sect announced an auction offering Purple Palace Jade Liquid and a husband-selection contest for Yun Caini, while Qing Yuanming prepared the Azure Spirit Commerce Association to help expose the Yun Family after Uncle Mystic Tiger arrived.

Ye Jingcheng struggled to condense his Five-Colored Golden Core as his water and fire spirit shadows absorbed his true essence, then faced a heart-demon illusion that exposed his past life and made the Ye Family turn against him. He affirmed that he was Ye Jingcheng, overcame the illusion, and completed his Golden Core just as the lightning tribulation arrived.

• Ye Jingcheng used fire spirit stones and pills to replenish his dwindling true essence while the Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird shadows absorbed it during core condensation.
• Ye Jingcheng was drawn into a heart-demon illusion in which the Ye Family gathered to install him as family head.
• Ye Jingyu accused Ye Jingcheng of being a transmigrator who had seized another person's body, and Ye Haicheng raised his flying sword against him.
• Ye Jingcheng recalled his breakthrough, declared himself a reborn member of the Ye Family, and Ye Haiyun defended him before fading from the illusion.
• Ye Jingcheng felt his five semicircular Golden Cores converge into a complete Five-Colored Golden Core as lightning gathered overhead.

Ye Jingcheng formed a five-colored Golden Core and endured an unprecedented lightning tribulation as his family and spirit beasts defended Hidden Azure Island. He survived the final strike, leaving Ye Shengyi and the others unsure whether his Core was high-grade or supreme-grade.

• Ye Jingcheng’s divine sense reached nineteen thousand zhang as spirit beasts gathered around Hidden Azure Island and Ye Shengyi guarded his breakthrough.
• Ye Jingcheng faced the first two waves of lightning with formations, the Five Elements Heavenly Pearl, and his other treasures, while the lightning tempered his body and Golden Core.
• The final wave descended as three immense thunderbolts, and the island-protecting formation and Ye Jingcheng’s remaining defenses could barely withstand them.
• Ye Jingcheng unleashed Black Tortoise Floodwaters—Divine Wrath, whose Black Tortoise spirit phantom scattered most of the lightning before he endured the last strike with his body and armor.
• Ye Shengyi and the others debated whether Ye Jingcheng had formed a high-grade or supreme-grade Golden Core, while Ye Haifei urged the family to promote cultivators with five spiritual roots.

Ye Jingcheng completed his Golden Core breakthrough, strengthened his body, and handed Ye Shengyi his insights on core formation. As the Ye Family prepared for a beast tide, he stayed behind to consolidate his cultivation while the Golden Falcon revealed a distant island where people were provoking beast tides.

• Ye Jingcheng emerged from his breakthrough with a more condensed golden core, a stronger Wasteland Body, and divine sense that reached over ten thousand zhang.
• Ye Jingcheng greeted the Ye Family elders and gave Ye Shengyi a jade slip recording his insights on condensing a core; Ye Shengyi urged him to consolidate his cultivation before the family called on his strength.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that the family elders had gone to the Skycloud Archipelago, while he stayed behind to protect Soaring Cloud Peak's secrecy and improve his abilities.
• The Roc Fish showed Ye Jingcheng its catches, and the late-third-rank Golden Falcon described treasure sites, including a far-northern island where people were provoking beast tides.
• Ye Jingcheng fed and strengthened the Golden Falcon, then rebuked the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King when it expected spirit pills.

After six years in his Grotto-Heaven, Ye Jingcheng celebrated his spirit beasts’ growth and tested the White-Brow Green Wolf’s wind ability. He comprehended the Black Tortoise divine ability Black Tortoise Suppresses Heaven, but the Vermilion Bird spirit shadow yielded only an incomplete ability, leaving him planning to ask his second great-uncle for help.

• Ye Jingcheng returned to his Grotto-Heaven at the Golden Core stage, praised the Peachwood Demon and Stone Spirit, and urged the Peachwood Demon to produce five spirit peaches.
• Ye Jingcheng gave spirit pills to the Golden-Scaled Beast and Crimson Flame Fox, checked the advancing Jade-Scale Flood Dragon and other spirit beasts, and tested the White-Brow Green Wolf’s Wind-Stilling Break and distant wind-sight.
• Ye Jingcheng collected the Grotto-Heaven’s resources and encouraged the aging Jade Ring Rat to keep cultivating after it tried to return its spirit pills.
• Ye Jingcheng entered the Black Tortoise spirit shadow and comprehended the nurtured divine ability Black Tortoise Suppresses Heaven.
• Ye Jingcheng explored the Vermilion Bird spirit shadow but found no complete technique and concluded that he might need his Five Spirit Secret Art and his second great-uncle’s help.

Yun Caini auctioned Purple Palace Jade Liquid and announced a husband-selection tournament, while the Ye Family prepared precautions against a possible Nascent Soul incursion. At the tournament, Yun Caini sought to expose the force secretly taking over the Yun Family, and Qing Yuanming hinted that Uncle Mystic Tiger should compete for her.

• Fairy Caini auctioned Purple Palace Jade Liquid, which sold for 160,000 spirit stones to a peak Foundation Establishment independent cultivator.
• Yun Caini announced a husband-selection tournament for cultivators under one hundred and said the Yun Family would recruit affiliated cultivators to explore the deep sea.
• Ye Xuecang learned that Haoyang Daoist Temple’s Sea-Viewing Mirror detected no Nascent Soul Cultivators in the region and ordered the Ye Family to watch for intruders and stay near Turtle Ancestor.
• Yun Caini opened registration for the tournament, hoping someone from the Azure Spirit Commerce Association would win and help expose the changed Yun Family ancestor.
• Qing Yuanming saw Yun Caini and told Uncle Mystic Tiger that he was the one worthy of enjoying Fairy Caini.

Yun Caini’s competition scheme collapsed when the champions unexpectedly conceded to Xiao Yuanhe, and the Yun Family redirected the gathering toward a major expedition. At Heaven One City, Ye Xuecang revealed to five Golden Core True Persons that the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng was real, though retrieving it would be difficult.

• Yun Caini began the three-arena competition, where Qing Bai'an and Xiao Xinyuan revealed their Purple Palace cultivation and competitors fought for the arena titles.
• Qing Bai'an and Xiao Xinyuan both conceded, leaving Xiao Yuanhe of the Purplewood Sect as the unexpected victor.
• Yun Caini tried to appeal to President Qing, but Yun Baili restrained her and announced that the Yun Family would lead an expedition into the outer seas.
• Cheng An and Fairy Wu Xin realized the competition and auction were smokescreens meant to gather the region’s Golden Core True Persons at Heaven One City.
• Ye Xuecang met five Golden Core True Persons at Heavenly One Pavilion and confirmed that the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng was real, while warning that retrieving it would be troublesome.

Ye Xuecang negotiated with five True Persons over information about the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng and revealed that it lay deep in Dark Shark Abyss. After the visitors left, he ordered the Yun Family and Purplewood Sect to prepare for a larger plan.

• Black Tiger True Person and the others pressed Ye Xuecang to name his price for the information, and Ye demanded a fourth-rank treasure from each faction.
• Bai Changsheng proposed that contributors with fourth-rank magic treasures could bring an additional Golden Core cultivator, and the group agreed to the terms.
• The five visitors and Ye Xuecang swore Heavenly Dao oaths, exchanged treasures for the jade slip, and learned the ginseng's location in Dark Shark Abyss.
• After the True Persons departed, Ye Xuecang told Jingyu to gather the Yun Family's core Hidden Island cultivators and send the Purplewood Sect to Demon-Luring Site Number One.
• Ye Xuecang ordered the Third High Patriarch and Jingcheng to prepare, calling them crucial to the family's plan.

Ye Jingcheng’s Jade-Scale Flood Dragon underwent its fourth-rank breakthrough, facing a powerful lightning tribulation while its scales shed and its strength surged. The dragon plunged into the thunderclouds to devour them, leaving Ye Jingcheng wary of how powerful it might become.

• Black Tiger True Person told Qing Mingyuan to gather more Purple Palace cultivators and investigate the Vast Righteousness Chamber of Commerce and Mystic Sword Pavilion.
• Ye Jingcheng stabilized his Five-Colored Golden Core and tested the Void Mystic Treasure Vase’s ability to deflect Azure Sun Flame.
• The Jade-Scale Flood Dragon began its fourth-rank breakthrough in the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven, so Ye Jingcheng sent it outside to face its lightning tribulation.
• Ye Jingcheng released his spirit beasts to guard the island as demon beasts gathered, and the Golden-Scaled Beast and Golden Falcon attacked the approaching tide.
• The Jade-Scale Flood Dragon shed its white jade scales, struck lightning with its claws, and used its demon core to shatter a third bolt before plunging into the thunderclouds.
• As the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon’s aura grew more immense, Ye Jingcheng feared he could no longer defeat it even with the Void Mystic Treasure Vase and his Dao-Nurturing divine ability.

Ye Jingcheng watched the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon recover from its breakthrough and test its formidable new abilities on Hidden Azure Island. After recalling his spirit beasts and collecting the spoils, he received Ye Xuefan’s order to return to Purplewood Island as the Ye Family’s operation was about to begin.

• Peachwood collected demonic beast materials and captured several pregnant beasts alive for the Ye Family.
• Ye Jingcheng healed the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon with Treasure Radiance and took it into the sea to consume beasts trapped in the Roc Fish’s spirit bubbles.
• The Jade-Scale Flood Dragon unleashed a devastating ice storm on Hidden Azure Island, and Ye Jingcheng named the technique Mystic Origin Ice Storm.
• Ye Jingcheng tested the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon’s tail strike against the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King, whose shell caved in under the blow.
• Ye Jingcheng recalled his spirit beasts and put away the materials after Ye Xuefan ordered him to return to Purplewood Island for the Ye Family’s operation.

Ye Jingcheng arrived at Purplewood Island and joined the Ye Family’s hidden elders to hear their plan for confronting the beast tide. The family split into three dangerous missions, leaving Ye Jingcheng’s team to lure demons at Three Origins Island and kill a huge number of beasts within five days.

• Ye Jingcheng entered Purplewood Island, found the Ye Family’s concealed clansmen, and was introduced as the head of the Ye Family.
• Ye Xuefan gathered the family’s Golden Core and Purple Palace cultivators and had them reveal their Beast-Link Marks; Ye Jingcheng showed his seven-inch mark.
• Ye Xuefan assigned Ye Jingyu and Ye Haifei to lure the beast tide near Hidden Azure Island and Jade Mountain Island, where they would target Green River Sect.
• Ye Haihe and Ye Xuefu were assigned to Dark Shark Abyss with Ye Xuecang to draw the attention of demon emperors and human factions.
• Ye Jingcheng, Ye Haicheng, Ye Haisheng, Ye Xuefan, and Third Uncle were assigned to Three Origins Island to activate three fourth-rank Demon-Luring Grasses and kill at least seven demon kings, forty third-rank great demons, and over a hundred thousand lesser beasts within five days.