Chapter Summaries

The Ye Family prepared blood disks and scent-tracking spirit beasts to hunt the surviving Zhang Family cultivators, while Rogue Cultivators joined the search for rewards. In a hidden third-rank secret realm, Zhang Yucheng and Zhang Yongtai feared discovery and debated how to escape with their unfinished treasure.

• Ye Haisheng showed Ye Xueliang three blood disks made from the blood essence of more than ten thousand Zhang Family members, and Ye Xueliang paired them with scent-tracking spirit beasts.
• Ye Xueliang divided the hunters into three teams led by himself, Ye Haisheng, and Ye Jingfeng, then sent them across the Desert Sea with spirit beasts and Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles.
• Rogue Cultivators at Far Spirit Oasis discussed the Ye Family's upcoming auction and the rewards for capturing Zhang and Jia Family members.
• Zhang Yuan entered a concealed third-rank secret realm and told Zhang Yucheng that Rogue Cultivators and the Ye Family were hunting the Zhang Family.
• Zhang Yucheng urged Zhang Yongtai to mine their hidden resource and flee, but Zhang Yongtai warned that the Ye Family's blood disks could track them and that they lacked anyone trustworthy to carry a spatial artifact.

Ye Jingcheng oversaw the Ye Family’s expanding spirit-beast valleys, shared tea with Chu Yanqing, and refined pills with the Crimson Flame Fox. After producing four portions of Purple Palace Jade Liquid, he sensed that the spiritual vein was about to advance to the Fifth Stage.

• Ye Jingcheng surveyed the growing beast valleys on Sky Shadow Peak and Earth Shadow Peak as the Ye Family expanded its spirit-beast breeding and cultivation efforts.
• Chu Yanqing joined Ye Jingcheng for Crimson Ford Tea, and he gave her the Savage Overlord Body Secret Canon to strengthen her body.
• Ye Jingcheng prepared the Crimson Flame Fox for alchemy and refined Spirit Nurturing Pills, Jade Soul Pills, and Purple Soul Pills before beginning Purple Palace Jade Liquid.
• Ye Jingcheng refined four portions of Purple Palace Jade Liquid from a Purple Jade Fruit, easing the Ye Family’s need for breakthrough supplies.
• As Ye Jingcheng prepared to treat the Crimson Flame Fox with Treasure Radiance, he sensed the spiritual vein beginning to surge toward the Fifth Stage.

Ye Jingcheng used the spirit vein’s advancement to the Fifth Stage to create a spiritual energy tide that helped Ye Family cultivators and spirit beasts improve their cultivation. As the Earth Dragon Demon King neared a breakthrough, Ye Jingcheng prepared to begin soul infusion with Turtle Ancestor.

• Ye Jingcheng summoned clansmen on the verge of breakthroughs to cultivate in the spiritual energy tide at Sky Shadow Peak.
• Ye Jingcheng released the Golden-Scaled Beast, Five-Colored Cloud Deer, and Golden Falcon to absorb the tide, and the spirit vein advanced from the Fourth Stage to the Fifth Stage.
• The Golden-Scaled Beast asked Ye Jingcheng to help it break through, so he gave it a Fourth Stage earth-attribute demon core and sent it into the Grotto-Heaven.
• Ye Jingcheng directed the awakened Qi Refining clansmen to collect Foundation Establishment Pills and gave Ye Haiyu and Ye Haiyan Purple Palace Jade Liquid for their breakthroughs.
• Ye Jingcheng promised to refine a top-grade Third Stage Sea-Born Pill for Ye Xuefan, who remained just short of the peak of the Purple Palace.
• Ye Xuefan urged Ye Jingcheng to begin soul infusion for the Earth Dragon Demon King, and Ye Jingcheng contacted Turtle Ancestor through divine sense.

Ye Jingcheng underwent a third soul infusion in the Beast-Link Tower, helping the Earth Dragon Demon King approach a divine-soul breakthrough while directing soul power to his other linked creatures. Meanwhile, the Ye Family investigated the Zhang and Jia Families’ hidden activity in the Desert Sea and captured over a thousand Sand Ginseng Scorpions.

• Ye Jingcheng and the Earth Dragon Demon King worshipped at the Ye Family’s ancestral shrine before Ye Jingcheng entered the Beast-Link Tower for a soul infusion.
• Ye Jingcheng guided the Beast-Link Mark’s soul power mainly to the Earth Dragon Demon King, then shared some with his other creatures and encouraged the slow-growing Jade Ring Rat.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed the Earth Dragon Demon King’s divine soul leaking power as it neared a breakthrough, while Ye Xuefan worried about the Zhang and Jia Families’ silence.
• Ye Haisheng and Ye Qingfeng found and killed Zhang Family cultivators at an underground Yellow Jade Oasis base, but the jade talisman they found revealed no further location.
• Ye Xueliang’s group trapped more than a thousand Sand Ginseng Scorpions and learned that the creatures could be raised on sand gold and helped build resistance to poison.

Ye Jingzhi proposed that the Zhang Family was using decoy cultivators to lure the Ye Family away from its hidden location, and Ye Jingfeng prepared to investigate the theory through the Far Spirit Oasis auction. At Sky Shadow Peak, Ye Jingcheng checked on his advancing spirit beasts and assigned the Stone Spirit to guide the newly awakened Malachite Stone Spirit.

• Ye Jingfeng and the Ye Family cultivators killed another group of Zhang Family members, but found no important targets to interrogate.
• Ye Jingzhi suggested the Zhang Family was guiding the Ten-Thousand-Blood Disk westward to draw the Ye Family away from a hidden site near Far Spirit Oasis.
• Ye Jingfeng reported the theory to the family and planned to search for clues at the auction while continuing to hunt Zhang Family cultivators.
• Ye Jingcheng visited his grotto-heaven, where the Golden-Scaled Beast was nearing a breakthrough to the fourth rank and other spirit beasts were cultivating.
• Ye Jingcheng rewarded Peachwood for its help at Heavenly Phoenix Oasis and discovered that the Malachite Stone Spirit had developed a trace of intelligence.
• Ye Jingcheng asked the Stone Spirit to guide the Malachite Stone Spirit, leaving Peachwood to manage the grotto-heaven.

Ye Jingcheng strengthened his spirit beasts and surveyed the treasures he had won, keeping several powerful items and giving the Golden Cry Spear to the Earth Dragon Demon King. As the Far Spirit Oasis auction approached, Ye Haicheng prepared the Ye Family’s security and intelligence network for its bid to establish a marketplace.

• Ye Jingcheng guided the Malachite Stone Spirit, urged the Grotto-Heaven Stone Spirit and Peachwood to advance, and checked the progress of his other spirit beasts.
• Ye Jingcheng warned the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King against betraying the Ye Family and agreed to let Star Seven remain with him while the other Star Pear Tree Demons went to Sky Shadow Peak.
• The Jade Ring Rat refined its own breathing technique and spoke its first words, while Ye Jingcheng rewarded it with a patterned Spirit Nurturing Pill.
• Ye Jingcheng gave the Golden Cry Spear to the Earth Dragon Demon King and kept the Heavenly Illusion Dao Robe, Ancient Bronze Mirror, Decapitation Saber, and Nine Nether Needles for himself.
• Ye Jingcheng began studying the Five Elements Divine Lightning as the auction at Far Spirit Oasis drew near.
• Ye Haicheng ordered Ye Family members to secure the auction and deploy a Spirit-Inquiring Array, while Ye Haiping reported that undercover agents were ready to trace the people behind any suspicious activity.

Wan Chengjie used the Wan Family’s Ethereal Spirit Bug to recruit Xu Changkong’s help in finding hidden Zhang and Jia Family strongholds, while the Ye Family’s influence over the Sand Sea continued to grow. At the opening of the Ye Family auction, Ye Haicheng prepared to announce the family’s rules to the gathered cultivators.

• Wan Chengjie told Wan Chengming that the Wan Family should hunt Zhang Family cultivators and use their spirit insects to secure a place in the Ye Family’s expansion toward the mountains.
• Wan Chengjie showed Xu Changkong an Ethereal Spirit Bug and asked him to identify regions likely to conceal secret realms and small worlds, offering the chance to claim an oasis.
• Wan Chengjie urged Xu Changkong to act before the auction, arguing that waiting would leave him unable to compete for the Qi of Heavenly Gang.
• Three days later, the Ye Family’s auction opened in Far Spirit Oasis with a low entry fee, drawing a packed crowd and more than fifty Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Ye Haicheng released his Purple Palace aura and prepared to announce the Ye Family’s rules to the auction attendees.

Ye Haicheng opened the Far Spirit Market auction by offering cultivators century-long control and protection of oases in exchange for obligations to the Ye Family. The Ye Family used a Spirit Inquiry Formation to learn about hidden secret realms, then Ye Jingfu began the auction with Qi of Absolute Yin Earth Sha.

• Ye Haicheng announced the oasis auction and promised buyers a century of autonomous control and protection, while listing their duties to the Ye Family.
• Ye Haicheng required cultivators to help find Zhang and Jia Family remnants and keep the day's events secret, then had the Ye Family question them with a Spirit Inquiry Formation.
• The Ye Family learned of three second-rank and five first-rank secret realms, but found no minor worlds or Zhang and Jia Family agents among the auction attendees.
• Ye Jingfu began the auction and offered Qi of Absolute Yin Earth Sha, which sold for eight thousand nine hundred spirit stones.

Wan Chengjie and his companions found the Zhang and Jia Families’ concealed secret realm in East Flame Sand Valley and prepared to guard its entrance. Inside, Zhang Yongtai learned their location had been exposed and led the cultivators in a breakout, while Ye Haicheng raced toward the valley after detecting their blood qi.

• Wan Chengjie chose East Flame Sand Valley as the fastest place to search, and his group endured its punishing storms until the Ethereal Spirit Bug revealed a hidden, array-sealed secret realm.
• Wan Chengjie sent a transmission talisman and set up defensive arrays outside the entrance as Xu Changkong and Jiang Yuwei prepared their own measures.
• Zhang Yucheng discovered that the secret realm had been exposed, and Zhang Yongtai ordered the cultivators to gather the mined high-grade spirit stones and the unfinished supreme-grade spirit stone before fighting their way out.
• Zhang Yongtai led more than thirty cultivators through the secret realm’s gate and out toward the guarded entrance.
• Ye Haicheng hurried toward East Flame Sand Valley, and his Ten-Thousand-Blood Disk detected numerous Zhang Family bloodline cultivators, prompting him to speed up his spirit boat.

Wan Chengjie and Wan Chengming escaped into the secret realm after Wan Chengjie killed Zhang Yucheng with a Talisman Treasure, while the Zhang Family fled from the pursuing Ye Haicheng. Zhang Yongtai and Zhang Yongbei raced toward Heavenly Departure Grassland, but Ye Haicheng’s spirit vessel caught up and attacked them.

• Wan Chengjie and the others prepared formations as the secret-realm entrance opened and more than thirty Zhang Family cultivators emerged behind a giant golden shield.
• Xu Changkong and Jiang Yuwei fled while Wan Chengjie stayed hidden, then killed Zhang Yucheng with his Talisman Treasure broadsword.
• Wan Chengming used his blood to empower the sword formation and held back the Zhang Family cultivators as he and Wan Chengjie escaped into the secret realm.
• Zhang Yongtai returned with Jiang Yuwei’s head, found Zhang Yucheng dead, and ordered the Zhang Family to scatter toward Heavenly Departure Grassland.
• Zhang Yongbei abandoned his pursuit of Xu Changkong and joined Zhang Yongtai, who demanded his storage pouch before they fled together.
• Ye Haicheng’s spirit vessel accelerated after Zhang Yongtai and Zhang Yongbei, and a black flame-sparrow phantom sprayed fire onto their vessel.

Ye Haicheng killed Zhang Yongtai and Zhang Yongbei, then entered the third-rank secret realm and discovered a top-grade spirit stone vein with a recently excavated hollow. He found Wan Chengjie and another Wan Family member hiding nearby and began questioning them about the Zhang Family.

• Ye Haicheng used the Blood Pool Cloth and an earth-lizard demon to overwhelm Zhang Yongtai, then killed him with a strike that shattered his Purple Palace.
• Ye Haicheng and the Three-Eyed Demon Roc caught Zhang Yongbei, and Ye Haicheng killed him despite his offer of a great fortune.
• Ye Haicheng headed to the secret realm, where the Three-Eyed Demon Roc sensed a fire vein, but Ye Haicheng pressed on.
• Ye Haicheng discovered a small or possibly medium-sized top-grade spirit stone mine vein and noticed that something had recently been excavated nearby.
• Ye Haicheng found Wan Chengjie and another Wan Family member hiding beneath a hill, spared them after recognizing Wan Chengjie, and asked whether they had seen any Zhang Family members.

Ye Haicheng searched the third-rank mystic realm, found valuable spirit stones and herbs, and pursued the fleeing Zhang Family cultivators. Meanwhile, Wan Chengjie began rebuilding the Wan Family in the Desert Sea and noticed the Ye Family’s new External Affairs Tower.

• Ye Haicheng let Wan Chengjie and Wan Chengming leave after questioning them, and Wan Chengjie gave him an Ethereal Spirit Bug to help track the Zhang Family remnants.
• Ye Haicheng found a flawed supreme-grade spirit stone, two Purple Jade Fruits, and Purple Body Ginseng in the mystic realm, then rode the Three-Eyed Demon Roc after the remaining Zhang Family cultivators.
• Wan Chengjie returned to Far Spirit Oasis and told the Wan Family cultivators to establish another oasis, open a weapon-refining shop, and grow the family through marriage and children.
• Wan Chengjie visited the rogue cultivator square and saw Ye Jingfu recruiting cultivators for the Ye Family’s External Affairs Tower.
• Ye Jingfu noticed Wan Chengjie recruiting cultivators too and recognized him as a promising survivor of the Wan Family.

Ye Haicheng’s forces eliminated the remaining Zhang Family cultivators and explored opportunities in the Heavenly Departure Grassland, while the Ye Family uncovered major resources in the Sand Sea. Ye Jingcheng learned of three joyful developments, ending with Chu Yanqing revealing that she was expecting twins.

• Ye Haicheng crushed two fleeing Zhang Family cultivators near the Heavenly Departure Grassland, then ordered Ye Jingdian to map the grassland and investigate its demon kings and demon emperor.
• Ye Jingcheng practiced Yang Fire Divine Thunder near Heavenly Phoenix Oasis and was summoned to a gathering on Sky Shadow Peak.
• Ye Xueliang reported that the Ye Family had found a colony of over ten thousand Sand Ginseng Scorpions and a large Heavenly Sand Crystal vein outside Western Frontier Oasis.
• Ye Haicheng told Ye Jingcheng that the Ye Family had acquired a third-rank secret realm containing a medium-sized high-grade spirit stone mine, along with a token that might connect the Zhang and Jia Families.
• Ye Haicheng privately told Ye Jingcheng that the spoils also included a half-finished supreme-grade spirit stone, then Chu Yanqing revealed that she was pregnant with twins.

Ye Jingcheng proposed reforms to encourage childbirth, support young cultivators, and strengthen the Ye Family as it expanded in the Desert Sea. He refused to resume as Family Head, then gave Ye Haicheng and Ye Xueliang Purple Palace Jade Liquid to support the family’s plans and help Ye Xueliang pursue a breakthrough.

• Ye Haicheng pointed out that the Ye Family had too few Inner Hall members and asked Ye Jingcheng to consider family policies.
• Ye Jingcheng proposed providing spirit-rooted children with spirit beasts and education, increasing clan stipends and childbirth rewards, and allowing adopted members into the council of elders with safeguards against infiltration.
• Ye Haicheng suggested Ye Jingcheng continue as Family Head, but Ye Jingcheng refused and offered to serve as a Supreme Elder of alchemy instead.
• Ye Haicheng asked about Purple Palace Jade Liquid for Azure Cloud Nunnery, and Ye Jingcheng gave one portion to Ye Haicheng and another to Ye Xueliang.
• Ye Jingcheng urged Ye Xueliang to accept the jade liquid and a Life-Extending Spirit Peach, while Ye Haicheng supplied two Purple Jade Fruits; Ye Xueliang accepted them and the meeting ended.

Ye Jingcheng spent time with Chu Yanqing on Sky Shadow Peak before returning to his Grotto-Heaven to prepare advancement pills and Purple Palace Jade Liquid for the Ye Family and its spirit beasts. Meanwhile, Ye Haisheng pursued a Jia Family cultivator into the Soulfall Forbidden Land and waited outside, intending to kill him if he emerged.

• Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing shared a meal beneath the spirit apricot tree, and Chu Yanqing urged him to withdraw the Ye Family from Yan Kingdom if its position became untenable.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to the Grotto-Heaven, checked on its spirit creatures, and gave the Star Pear Tree Demon an advancement elixir.
• Ye Jingcheng refined Purple Palace Jade Liquid and began making fourth-tier spirit pills for himself and the Ye Family's spirit beasts.
• Ye Haisheng and his companions pursued a Jia Family cultivator carrying stolen treasures until he fled into the Soulfall Forbidden Land.
• Ye Haisheng chose to wait outside the forbidden land and set up a sword formation, while Ye Qingfeng warned that cultivators had vanished there and a demon king might lurk within.

Ye Haisheng rescued Ye Qingfeng from a Jia Family cultivator, then led the Ye Family group through an attack by Soul-Extinguishing Insects near the Soulfall Forbidden Land. After killing a third-rank insect demon, he withdrew and chose to search the Jia Family Secret Realm before reporting the danger to the family.

• A golden-armored Jia Family cultivator ambushed Ye Qingfeng, but Ye Haisheng killed him with his blood-red Sword Embryo and reprimanded Ye Qingfeng for letting his attention wander.
• A black swarm of Soul-Extinguishing Insects emerged from the sandstorm, and Ye Qingwen recognized them and warned the group to flee without using their artifacts.
• The swarm's soul-devouring sounds incapacitated the Ye Family cultivators until Ye Haisheng's soul pendant protected them and they began retreating.
• Ye Haisheng used five Five Elements Heavenly Armor Puppets to trap a third-rank Soul-Extinguishing Insect demon, then killed it with his Sword Embryo.
• Ye Haisheng collected the demon's corpse and led the group away from the remaining swarm, deciding to search the Jia Family Secret Realm before reporting back to the family.

Ye Jingli showed Ye Xingqun his new Five-Colored Bone Fire Pearls, then shared a lonely drink with him and heard his thoughts on family, legacy, and hope. Ye Jingli chose to enter seclusion to seek Foundation Establishment Late Stage, while Ye Xingqun took a pearl for Ye Jingyun ahead of the family assembly.

• Ye Jingli emerged from Soaring Cloud Lake and visited Ye Xingqun in the bamboo grove, where they shared wine and Black Ganoderma Fish.
• Ye Jingli presented his new Five-Colored Bone Fire Pearls, explaining that they could threaten even powerful cultivators.
• Ye Xingqun spoke of how a family’s legacy carried hope forward, and Ye Jingli tearfully acknowledged that the Ye Family had advanced despite the hardships of those on Soaring Cloud Peak.
• Ye Xingqun asked Ye Jingli to represent Soaring Cloud Peak at the family assembly, but Ye Jingli said he would enter seclusion to pursue Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Ye Xingqun took one of the Five-Colored Bone Fire Pearls for Ye Jingyun as the rain intensified.

Ye Jingcheng’s spirit beasts made breakthroughs in his Grotto-Heaven as the Ye Family and its allies navigated mounting political threats. The chapter ended with Ye Jingcheng preparing to attend the Ye Family’s largest lineage assembly yet.

• Ye Jingyun ordered the Ye Family to recruit immortal sprouts in Lotus County and Great Marsh County, then received Ye Xingqun’s Five-Colored Bone Fire Pearl.
• Ye Xingsu accepted the Purple Palace Jade Liquid and plans to isolate Azure Cloud Nunnery’s Ye-linked members while preserving fallback ties.
• Zitian True Person and True Lord Ziming decided to erase most Ye Family records and use the family’s promise against the Green River Sect if needed.
• Ye Jingcheng watched the Four-Colored Cloud Deer and golden falcon break through, then rewarded them with treasure radiance and spirit pills.
• Ye Jingcheng checked on the Jade Ring Rat and the soil-turning earthworm, then prepared to attend the Ye Family lineage assembly.

Ye Jingyu tested spirit liquid and a spirit-seed formation on the Star Pear Trees as the Ye Family prospered and its clansmen made breakthroughs. Ye Jingcheng visited pregnant Chu Yanqing, then went to the family assembly, where Soaring Cloud Peak members challenged how the family treated them compared with Hidden Peak.

• Ye Jingyu learned that the new spirit liquid suited the Star Pear Tree Demons and that the spirit-seed formation was nearly complete.
• Ye Jingyu sensed another Foundation Establishment breakthrough and decided she would enter seclusion after the family assembly.
• Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing discussed names for their unborn children, Ye Qingnian and Ye Qingfeng, and Ye Jingcheng reassured her about their future.
• Ye Jingcheng left Chu Yanqing to attend the family assembly and saw Soaring Cloud Peak youths kneeling before Ye Haicheng.
• Ye Qingwen asked how Soaring Cloud Peak clansmen would be treated and offered his stored gains, while Ye Jingting questioned whether the assembly could count as a true family assembly without several absent relatives.

Ye Jingcheng confronted Soaring Cloud Peak clan members who wanted to withdraw from the Desert Sea, using Hidden Peak’s casualty records and the Ye Family’s enemies to make them accept their duties. Afterward, Ye Haicheng warned him to investigate who had influenced them and strengthen safeguards, then called an Inner Hall meeting to decide the family’s future organization and stipends.

• Ye Qingwen argued that the Ye Family should summon its members back from the Desert Sea, but Ye Jingcheng showed the group Hidden Peak’s records of fallen cultivators and explained why the family could not retreat.
• Ye Jingcheng rebuked Ye Qingwen, Ye Jingting, and Ye Qingfeng for their weak cultivation, then ordered them to serve at a Hidden Peak outpost on the Heavenly Departure Grassland for thirty years.
• Ye Haicheng praised Ye Jingcheng’s handling of the dispute, urged him to find who had stirred up the younger clansmen, and recommended requiring family jade tomes and Heavenly Dao oaths from talented or high-ranking non-blood members.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Haicheng Bright King Pills and revealed that he could now barely refine mid-grade fourth-rank spirit pills.
• Ye Haicheng scheduled an Inner Hall meeting for Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivators and above to discuss the family’s halls and stipends, then briefed Ye Jingcheng on the Desert Sea, Eastern Region, and Eastern Sea.