Chapter Summaries

Ye Jingyu and the fleeing Ye Family group fought off a beast tide in the Falling Cloud Archipelago and reunited with Ye Haihe and Ye Xuefu, while Ye Xuecang warned that multiple forces were driving the invasion. Back in the grotto-heaven, Ye Jingcheng worried over his relatives and prepared the Three-Headed Bird Demon King’s earth head and core to help the Crimson Flame Fox reach the fourth rank.

• Ye Jingyu and Ye Haifei lured the pursuing Blue Moon Flood Dragon and python demons to an island, where their formation and beasts helped them fight back.
• Ye Haihe and Ye Xuefu arrived, killed the Blue Moon Flood Dragon, and helped defeat the remaining great demons as most Purplewood Sect cultivators fled or surrendered.
• Ye Xuecang arrived aboard a fourth-order spirit vessel, warned that the Chen Whale Sea and Heavenly Flood Dragon Sea were driving a massive beast tide, and ordered the group to board.
• In the grotto-heaven, Ye Xuefan told Ye Jingcheng that Ye Xingxiao was safe but Ye Jingyu and the others remained in danger in the Falling Cloud Archipelago.
• Ye Jingcheng prepared the Three-Headed Bird Demon King’s earth head and demon core so the Crimson Flame Fox could attempt a breakthrough to the fourth rank.

As beast tides threatened the Azure Cloud Sea Region, Ye Xingxiao passed through Heavenly Horse Pass with Wen Quancheng and secretly left aboard a spirit shuttle carrying the Haoyang Daoist Temple’s treasures. Two female cultivators emerging from seclusion discussed the turmoil and their suspicions as they guarded the transport, unaware of who else might be concealed aboard.

• Heavenly Horse Pass’s Sea-Viewing Mirror screened cultivators seeking entry while the city’s forces prepared for the approaching beast tide.
• Ye Xingxiao entered the pass with Wen Quancheng, then followed him through a hidden route to a dock where the Haoyang Daoist Temple’s disciples were gathering to evacuate their treasures.
• Wen Quancheng and other disciples departed with their companions aboard fourth-rank spirit shuttles, and Ye Xingxiao sent messages to her family before meditating in her room.
• Two nearly identical female cultivators visited Young Master Xu, then used formation flags to conceal themselves after he left.
• The elder sister, Jade Spirit, and her companion discussed the Heavenly Flood Dragon Sea, the Profound River Infinite Sword Array, and their suspicions about Beast Wasteland and the Yun Family.
• Jade Spirit counted the cultivators aboard and warned that another Purple Palace cultivator might be hidden among them.

The Ye Family abandoned its attempt to enter Heavenly Horse Pass and hid beneath the seabed, planning to wait for the beast tide to begin before escaping toward Dark Shark Abyss. At Heavenly Horse Sea-Repelling City, the True Lords argued over who had provoked the beast tide and agreed to await the Immortal Sect while searching for Beast Wasteland and its spirit treasure.

• Ye Xuecang concluded the Ye Family could not pass through Heavenly Horse Pass, rejected retreating into secret realms, and decided to take the family toward Dark Shark Abyss.
• Ye Haifei spread news of secret realms among independent cultivators, while a cultivator from Long Abyss Sea Region exposed the attempted trade for a withdrawal slot and caused further unrest.
• Ye Xuecang led the Ye Family into a deep-sea abyss, hid them beneath the mud using the Sea-Measuring Stele, and ordered them to wait until the beast tide began.
• Ye Jingyu and Ye Haifei left weak Heavenly Soul Art avatars carrying Demon-Luring Grass behind as the rest of the Ye Family moved into hiding.
• North River True Lord and Green River True Lord denied responsibility for provoking the beast tide, while Azure Spirit True Lord, Baiyu True Lord, and Crimson Fan True Lord traded accusations over Beast Wasteland and the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng.
• Grand Dragon True Lord ended the dispute by ordering the True Lords to await the Immortal Sect and search for Beast Wasteland and its spirit treasure.

Ye Jingcheng cultivated the Star Illusion Eye and prepared to leave the Heavenly Horse Sea Region while the Ye Family waited for their Dragon Ancestor to break through. After escaping a fight aboard the spirit shuttle, he discovered the twin cultivators were pursuing him with a Golden Core spirit puppet.

• Ye Jingcheng successfully cultivated the Star Illusion Eye, and Ye Xuefan told him the Ye Family would keep its plan to aid their Dragon Ancestor before supporting the relatives at Heavenly Horse Island.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that the spirit vessel had reached the Heavenly Lu Archipelago and took the appearance of a Purple Palace rogue cultivator from the Lu Kingdom.
• Ye Jingcheng boarded the spirit shuttle, where Ye Xingxiao warned him that more than the eleven known passengers might be aboard.
• Two twin female Purple Palace cultivators fought a hidden stowaway and other cultivators aboard the shuttle, so Ye Jingcheng fled without joining the battle.
• Ye Jingcheng saw through the fight with his Star Illusion Eye and discovered the twins had used a Golden Core spirit puppet to kill a peak Purple Palace cultivator.
• The twin cultivators turned toward Ye Jingcheng, apparently intending to silence him.

Ye Jingcheng defeated two women pursuing him, escaped toward Desolate Cloud Ridge, and discovered they had likely carried valuable treasures. Zhang Mingli later examined the battle site, realized the women and the Astral Whale Jade were lost, and set out after Ye Jingcheng.

• Ye Jingcheng stopped to deceive the two pursuing women, then used the Void Mystery Dharma Bottle and Five Elements Heavenly Pearl to trap them and their Golden Core spirit puppet.
• Ye Jingcheng killed the woman controlling the puppet with his God-Slaying Needle, chased down the other with blood escape, and shattered her Purple Palace, but a soul restriction destroyed her soul during his search.
• Ye Jingcheng collected the women’s treasures and remains, concealed the battle site, changed his appearance, and traveled by a remote route to Desolate Cloud Ridge.
• Zhang Mingli inspected the sea with a jade map scroll and found only traces of water arts and a departing figure.
• Zhang Mingli learned that Zhang Yuling and Zhang Yuxue had died and the Astral Whale Jade was gone, then decided to pursue the figure cautiously.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family examined the spoils from their recent victory, gaining abundant resources and discovering that the Zhang Family had stolen Astral Whale Jade. Ye Jingcheng weighed whether to tell the Earth Dragon Demon King about the jade, then continued searching the last storage pouch.

• Ye Jingcheng inspected the captured cultivators’ storage pouches and found demon beast corpses, more than a thousand spirit herbs, eight hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones, and over five thousand beast souls.
• Ye Jingcheng distributed artifacts and treasures to Ye Family members in exchange for contribution points, and Ye Jinghu chose a Thunderclap Axe while Ye Xuefan selected two third-rank treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng discovered two formation tokens marked Zhang and Golden Valley, then told Ye Xuefan that the Zhang Family had obtained Astral Whale Jade that could improve the chance of reaching Nascent Soul.
• Ye Xuefan told Ye Jingcheng to follow his own judgment about whether to reveal the jade to the Earth Dragon Demon King, and Ye Jingcheng continued examining the remaining treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng took out a palm-sized piece of water jade from another storage pouch.

Ye Jingcheng uncovered Astral Whale Jade, a depleted Divine Concealment Talisman, and a young Star Whale among the recovered treasures, then gave the Star Whale to Ye Haisheng. The Earth Dragon Demon King considered changing its Blood Pact to Ye Jingcheng, while Ye Jingcheng left the Grotto-Heaven to relieve Ye Haicheng as the spirit boat continued across the Beast Plains.

• Ye Jingcheng revealed Astral Whale Jade and a nearly spent Divine Concealment Talisman, and the Ye Family members swore oaths to keep the jade's discovery secret.
• Ye Jingcheng found a young Star Whale and sold it to Ye Haisheng for a million contribution points, with Ye Haisheng agreeing to owe most of the amount.
• Ye Jingcheng presented a Golden Light Python, but Ye Xuefan decided the family should keep it until a suitable handler could be found.
• The Earth Dragon Demon King discussed dissolving its Blood Pact with Ye Xuecang and contracting with Ye Jingcheng instead, after Ye Jingcheng showed his seven-inch Beast-Link Mark.
• Ye Jingcheng left the Grotto-Heaven to relieve Ye Haicheng and saw that the spirit boat had reached the Beast Plains beyond Desolate Cloud Ridge.

As the beast tide threatened Heavenly Horse Island, cultivators used demon-luring grass to enrage the Demon Emperors and force the True Lords into battle. Ye Xuecang evacuated his clansmen and fled across the seabed, leaving the island’s defenders facing an imminent assault.

• Great Roc True Lord warned the True Lords that losing Heavenly Horse Island could cost them their Earth Immortal Realm quotas, and Rising Sun True Lord said the Eastern Heaven Sect was prepared.
• Demon-luring grass appeared on Heavenly Horse Island, drawing the Demon Emperors into a frenzy; the cultivators responsible detonated themselves after using the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s Heavenly Soul Art.
• Great Roc True Lord ordered the True Lords to leave the array and fight before the Star Whales could crash into the island.
• Ye Xuecang had Ye Jingyu, Ye Xingliu, and the other clansmen enter the painting-world treasure and Heavenly Mechanism Manor, then carried both treasures and the Sea-Measuring Stele away through the seabed.
• A Darklight Shark Demon King searched the area but found no cultivators and headed toward Heavenly Horse Island, while Ye Xuecang continued his escape.

Chu Yanqing agreed to help the Ye Family investigate a powerful wood demon in Zhao Kingdom while Ye Jingyun arranged extra precautions for Soaring Cloud Peak. The chapter ended with the family concerned about growing unrest and rumors across the cultivation world.

• Chu Yanqing taught Ye Yunxi, an eleven-year-old heavenly-spiritual-root cultivator, and reminded her not to neglect the family school.
• Ye Jingyun told Chu Yanqing that the Ye Family’s merchant association had found a wood demon that might be at the late second rank in Zhao Kingdom.
• Chu Yanqing agreed to travel with the Ye Family to investigate the wood demon near the border of New Peace Commandery and Mountain Ling Commandery.
• Ye Jingyun arranged for the family to seal off Soaring Cloud Peak while Chu Yanqing was away and asked Ye Jingli to help protect it.
• Ye Jingyun urged Ye Jingli to send Ye Jingcheng a message asking whether anything unusual had happened recently in Yan Kingdom.

Ye Jingyun, Chu Yanqing, and Ye Xinghan left Soaring Cloud Peak as part of a plan to draw out an attack, and three disguised cultivators tried to poison Soaring Cloud Lake. The Ye Family defeated them and held a warning assembly, while Ye Jingyun secretly arranged to impersonate absent family members before continuing the plan to capture the Wood Demon.

• Ye Jingyun and Ye Xinghan departed with Chu Yanqing, who turned the spirit boat around after Ye Jingyun claimed they had forgotten a magic artifact.
• Three disguised cultivators tried to poison Soaring Cloud Lake, but Ye Jingli and more than ten second-order spirit beasts killed two and captured the third before he poisoned himself.
• Ye Jingli and Ye Jingzhi found no clear evidence tying the attackers to another family, and Ye Jingyun returned to find Soaring Cloud Peak had been attacked.
• Ye Jingyun told Ye Xinghan that the attackers had struck because Jingcheng and most of the Ye Family's main force were away, and proposed having people impersonate Jingcheng and Jinghu at the meeting.
• The Ye Family held a warning assembly, where Ye Jingyun urged the clansmen to stay vigilant against the Jin Family, the Kong Family, and other threats.

The Zhang Family decided to spread rumors accusing the Ye Family of being descended from the Beast Wasteland, hoping to pressure Ye Jingcheng into appearing before making their move. Meanwhile, Ye Jingyun led the Ye Family’s strongest cultivators toward New Peace Commandery to investigate a Golden Dust Sandthorn Wood Demon and search for a path to the Western Sands World.

• Zhang Yujing used footage from Soaring Cloud Peak to argue that the Ye Family was likely tied to the Beast Wasteland, and Zhang Yuhuai warned that Ye Jingcheng would be a dangerous enemy.
• Zhang Yujing ordered rumors spread across the Zhao Kingdom, Jin Kingdom, and Green River Four Prefectures to pressure the Ye Family while withholding the evidence.
• Ye Jingyun told Chu Yanqing that the target was a Golden Dust Sandthorn Wood Demon and that the real goal was to find a teleportation array and clues to the Western Sands World.
• Ye Jingyun explained that the Ye Family had moved valuable resources into Hidden Valley and arranged for important clansmen, including Yunxi, to leave for training.
• The group took Bone-Transforming Pills and set out by a different route through Taiqing Commandery toward New Peace Commandery, where Ye Jingli had investigated possible teleportation-array sites and Zhang Family branches.

Ye Jingyun, Chu Yanqing, and the Ye Family disguised themselves as rogue cultivators and searched New Peace Commandery for the missing teleportation array. Near the Jia Family’s territory, Chu Yanqing spotted a concealed hall at Flame Fierce Peak, leaving the group with a likely lead.

• Ye Jingyun led the disguised group through New Peace Commandery, but their investigation of several families revealed nothing.
• Ye Jingyun told Chu Yanqing that a Wood Demon had sensed something near Zhurong Peak, and Chu Yanqing insisted on helping the Ye Family investigate.
• Ye Jingyun released a captured Fire Rock Bird and pursued it across the Jia Family’s territory as a cover for their search.
• Chu Yanqing used her Star Illusion Eye to glimpse a strange open-air hall near Flame Fierce Peak and became nearly certain they had found something significant.
• A Jia Family cultivator killed the Fire Rock Bird and confronted Ye Jingyun, who paid him three hundred spirit stones and fled.
• The Jia Family cultivator brought the bird and pouch to Flame Fierce Peak, where the middle-aged man with a puppet shadow checked them for a blood pact and found nothing.

Ye Jingcheng confronted the Earth Dragon Demon King after the demon king’s Blood Pact was lifted, then secured a new pact that gave him control through a Soul Pact. He left the demon king bound despite sensing the rage within him.

• The Earth Dragon Demon King broke free of the Blood Pact, and Ye Jingcheng learned from the family token that Ye Xuecang was safe and had ordered him to destroy the Grotto-Heaven if the demon king broke his word.
• Ye Jingcheng held his ground under the Earth Dragon Demon King’s pressure and displayed the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon and Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King, making clear that he controlled the situation.
• Ye Jingcheng offered the Earth Dragon Demon King pills and proposed using the Ye Family’s upper-grade spirit mine to help him break through, while the demon king agreed to make a new Blood Pact.
• Ye Jingcheng fed and trained his spirit beasts, then practiced the Great Wasteland Step in the Heavenly Gang Body-Tempering Grand Formation.
• Ye Jingcheng formed the pact with the Earth Dragon Demon King, but the connection proved to be a Soul Pact, and he sensed the demon king’s boundless rage.

Ye Jingcheng secured the Earth Dragon Demon King's place in the Ye Family, agreed to its three conditions, and gave it the Astral Whale Jade to aid its coming breakthrough. He then formed a beast link with the peak Golden Core demon king and continued toward Chu Kingdom, where the Ye Family planned to regroup.

• After struggling with the Soul Pact for a month, the Earth Dragon Demon King accepted its bond with Ye Jingcheng and asked to discuss their arrangement privately.
• The Earth Dragon Demon King set three conditions: it could learn family affairs, its direct descendants could not be used as cannon fodder, and it could choose what to do if Ye Jingcheng's lifespan ran short; Ye Jingcheng agreed.
• Ye Jingcheng gave the Earth Dragon Demon King the Astral Whale Jade to improve its chances of reaching the Demon Emperor realm.
• Ye Jingcheng formed a beast link with the Earth Dragon Demon King using his seven-inch Beast-Link Mark, gaining a surge of powerful earth-aspect true essence.
• Ye Jingcheng told the Earth Dragon Demon King they would meet Turtle Ancestor in Chu Kingdom, then left to cultivate during the journey.

Ye Family members faced rumors that they descended from the Beast Wasteland, prompting scrutiny from Taiyi Sect and a plan to evacuate key clansmen. Zhang Family leaders prepared to weaponize the accusations, while Ye Jingcheng remained away and the family began arranging its own retreat.

• Ye Jingfeng reached Demon-Slaying Valley with Turtle Ancestor, learned Heavenly Horse Pass had fallen, and checked that Ye Jingcheng and Fourth Granduncle had passed through safely.
• Zhang Yongxin and Zhang Yujing arranged to spread claims that the Ye Family came from the Beast Wasteland and prepared to relocate Zhang Family members with help from the Jia Family.
• Xuandao True Person questioned Ye Jingteng and Ye Qingshuang, accepted their truthful denials, and warned that Taiyi Sect and Medicine King Valley might investigate the Ye Family.
• Ye Jingyun told the Soaring Cloud Peak gathering that Beast Wasteland rumors had spread through Zhao Kingdom and Jin Kingdom, leaving the family vulnerable to a search.
• Ye Jingyun organized an evacuation of younger talents and clansmen to Earth Dragon Valley, Hidden Valley, and Insect Valley, while Ye Jingli chose to remain behind and help cover the retreat.

With the Ye Family facing an investigation by Dharma Peak and Sword Peak, Ye Jingcheng weighed whether the family could seize the Far Western Sand Sea. The Earth Dragon Demon King offered three powerful beast allies, giving the Ye Family a possible path to victory, and Ye Jingcheng took the fourth-tier spirit vessel back toward Yan Kingdom.

• Ye Jinghu blamed himself for the crisis, but Ye Xuefan supported him and made him acting family head until the matter was resolved.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that Dharma Peak and Sword Peak were investigating the Ye Family, then asked Ye Xuefan about the Zhang and Jia Families’ Golden Core strength.
• Ye Xuefan estimated that the Zhang and Jia Families had at least five Golden Cores, making an attack on the Far Western Sand Sea dangerous.
• The Earth Dragon Demon King offered the Three-Eyed Demon Roc, Thunder Roc, and Mammoth Elephant Demon King as allies, provided Ye Jingcheng formed contracts with them instead of using Beast Communion.
• Ye Xuefan urged Ye Jingcheng to keep the Ye Family’s involvement concealed and use Taiyi Sect’s divisions to their advantage.
• Ye Jingcheng took over the fourth-tier spirit vessel from Ye Haisheng and hurried toward Yan Kingdom.

Ye Jingfeng sold rumors about the Zhang Family’s supposed Nascent Soul breakthrough to the Qiu Family Tavern and sent Ye clansmen to spread them, aiming to divert suspicion from the Ye Family’s real target, the Jia Family. At Soaring Cloud Peak, Ye Jingcheng returned after breaking through to early Golden Core, challenged the accusations against the Ye Family, and was left to meet Zitian True Person.

• Ye Jingfeng told Turtle Ancestor that the family had changed plans, then sold the Qiu Family Tavern information linking the Zhang Family to a planned Nascent Soul breakthrough and the Taiyi Sect’s troop movements.
• Ye Jingfeng released several Ye clansmen from Turtle Ancestor Grotto-Heaven and sent them to spread rumors about the Zhang Family among independent cultivators.
• Miaofa True Person pressured Ye Jingyun at Soaring Cloud Peak and accused the Ye Family of being descendants of Beast Wasteland, while Three Origins True Person agreed to wait for Ye Jingcheng.
• After seven days, Ye Jingcheng returned with an openly revealed early Golden Core aura and invited Three Origins True Person and Miaofa True Person into a side hall.
• Ye Jingcheng challenged the visitors’ belief in the Beast Wasteland rumors, and Three Origins True Person led the group away to report back.
• Zitian True Person entered the side hall, and Ye Jingcheng remained to meet him.

Ye Jingcheng negotiated with Ziming True Lord's avatar over the Ye Family's alleged Beast Wasteland ties and Taiyi Sect's looming war with Green River Sect. Ziming agreed to cooperate under territorial limits and demanded a Heavenly Dao oath that included the Demon Emperor.

• Ye Jingcheng recognized that the Zitian True Person before him was an avatar of Ziming True Lord and proposed cooperation between their sides.
• Ye Jingcheng offered to prevent beast tides in the Taihang Mountain Range and provide a Nascent Soul combatant when Heavenly Blade Sect was attacked.
• Ye Jingcheng denied that the Ye Family was Beast Wasteland and argued that blaming them would only strengthen Green River Sect and isolate Taiyi Sect.
• Ye Jingcheng proposed that Taiyi Sect use the crisis to investigate Green River Sect and pursue the Zhang Family's Spirit-Gathering Array.
• Ziming True Lord agreed to cooperate, provided the Ye Family's influence stayed within Taihang Commandery, and ordered Ye Jingcheng to swear a Heavenly Dao oath including the Demon Emperor.

Ye Jingcheng secured the Taiyi Sect’s support, tightened the Ye Family’s defenses, and gathered hidden clansmen at Earth Dragon Valley. He prepared to meet the Three-Eyed Demon King there, ending as the Earth Dragon Demon King offered it a drop of essence blood.

• After True Lord Ziming departed, Ye Jingcheng summoned the Soaring Cloud Peak clansmen, staged a mid Purple Palace breakthrough, and ordered the family to suspend outward missions and stay vigilant.
• Ye Jingcheng assigned Ye Jingyun to keep searching for a family-head candidate, instructed the Taihang Marketplace merchants to raise prices and sell their stock, and released the Hidden Peak clansmen at Soaring Cloud Lake.
• At Earth Dragon Valley, Ye Jingcheng reassured Chu Yanqing, Ye Jinghong, and the young clansmen, then set up a fourth-rank array to conceal them from the arriving demon kings.
• Ye Jingcheng hid in the Earth Dragon Palace while the Earth Dragon Demon King brought the Three-Eyed Demon King, disguised as a crimson-robed Daoist, to discuss helping with its breakthrough.
• The Earth Dragon Demon King told the Three-Eyed Demon King that it only needed to cooperate and flicked a drop of essence blood toward it.

Ye Jingcheng and the Earth Dragon Demon King subdued the Three-Eyed Demon King with a Soul Pact and brought it into the Ye Family. The Three-Eyed Demon King returned with a Crimson-Pattern Bloodflame Crystal and its followers, while Ye Jingcheng prepared for the next demon king and strengthened his divine soul.

• The Earth Dragon Demon King trapped the Three-Eyed Demon King and forced it to accept Ye Jingcheng’s Soul Pact, then introduced it to the Ye Family.
• Ye Jingcheng stopped the Three-Eyed Demon King’s suffering and ordered Wood Head to heal it, while the Earth Dragon Demon King sent it to retrieve a Bloodflame Crystal and great demons.
• After the Three-Eyed Demon King departed, Ye Jingcheng used the Dream-Devouring Insect to continue strengthening his divine soul and considered the burden of forming more Soul Pacts.
• The Three-Eyed Demon King returned with a Crimson-Pattern Bloodflame Crystal and eleven great demons, then entered Ye Jingcheng’s Grotto-Heaven with its followers.
• The Three-Eyed Demon King saw the Ye Family’s powerful spirit beasts and began to hope it could reach the fifth rank, while Ye Jingcheng placed the Bloodflame Crystal beside the Crimson Flame Fox as it broke through.