Chapter Summaries

Ye Haicheng and Ye Jingcheng convened a Ye Family meeting to assess the clan’s cultivators and resources, then established stipends, organizational divisions, and reward policies. The family ended the meeting with a plan to develop trade routes and encourage its members’ cultivation and growth.

• Ye Jingcheng joined Ye Haicheng at the Treasure Pavilion, where Ye Haiping opened the hidden route to the clan meeting room.
• Ye Haisheng reported the Ye Family’s cultivator numbers, and Ye Haiping described its extensive spirit veins, mines, gardens, beasts, and mineral resources.
• Ye Haicheng proposed that Jingyun contact the Heavenly Blade Sect to explore a trade route, and he set annual stipends for cultivators at each cultivation level.
• Ye Haicheng organized the family into ten halls and an External Affairs Tower, assigned roles and rewards, and established regular evaluations for the halls.
• Ye Haicheng and Ye Jingcheng set rewards for clan members who bore spirit-rooted descendants or awakened strong Beast-Link Marks, and established three-year minor and ten-year grand competitions.

The Ye Family held its Immortal Ascension Assembly, tested nearly three hundred spirit-rooted children, and announced its new clan rules, stipends, and hall appointments. The assembly ended with Ye Jingcheng named Alchemy Hall Master and Chu Yanqing appointed Artifact Hall Master, as clansmen began planning how to benefit from the new policies.

• Ye Haicheng finalized instructions for the clan halls, including dividing each into Inner and Outer Halls and strengthening the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Ye Jingcheng distributed spirit pills to the clan elders and gave additional pills to Ye Haiping before returning to Chu Yanqing.
• The Ye Family held its Immortal Ascension Assembly, where 287 children were tested; 109 carried Ye Family bloodlines, and eight had dual spirit roots.
• Ye Xingxiao rewarded the mayors of the ten towns that had produced the most immortal seedlings.
• Ye Haicheng announced the clan rules, stipends, and hall appointments, naming Ye Jingcheng Alchemy Hall Master and Chu Yanqing Artifact Hall Master.

Ye Jingyun confronted Ye Jingsheng and Ye Qinglin for contacting Ye Qingwen, then set new measures to protect the Ye Family and arrange contact with the Xiao Family. Meanwhile, Ye Jingcheng welcomed his newborn twins and traded with the Vast Azure Turtle, who hoped to strengthen himself with Treasure Radiance and a pill.

• Ye Jingyun questioned Ye Jingsheng and Ye Qinglin about contacting Ye Qingwen, and Ye Jingsheng acknowledged that the Ye Family's support had enabled his Foundation Establishment.
• Ye Jingyun ordered the Lineage school reopened, new oaths and soul restrictions imposed, and contact with the Heavenly Blade Sect pursued through the Xiao Family; Ye Jingli promised to mine for ten years after the crisis.
• Ye Jinghu broke through, visited Ye Jingcheng, and left to temper his heart among the Lineage's mortals with a lightning-attribute pill.
• Ye Jingcheng welcomed his twins, Ye Qingnian and Ye Qingfeng, and accepted gifts from visiting Ye Family members and the Vast Azure Turtle.
• The Vast Azure Turtle gave Ye Jingcheng Cloud-Soaring Lizard eggs and traded his treasures and contribution points for Treasure Radiance, asking Ye Jingcheng to make him a pill.

Ye Jingcheng inspected the breakthroughs of his spirit beasts and discovered that the Dream-Devouring Insect could reconstruct memories from shattered souls, then used the recovered soul power to advance his Divine Soul to the middle stage of Golden Core. After leaving the Grotto-Heaven, he learned that Ye Xuefan had reached the peak of the Purple Palace stage and went to meet him at the council hall.

• Ye Jingcheng welcomed the Soil-Turning Earthworm’s breakthrough, watched it produce grade-three spirit soil, and rewarded it and the Jade Ring Rat.
• Ye Jingcheng tested the Dream-Devouring Insect’s new ability and found it could search memories by recreating dreams from intact or shattered beast souls.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the Dream-Devouring Insect Treasure Radiance and a spirit pill, then cultivated with the soul power he had absorbed from two greater demons.
• After three months, Ye Jingcheng’s Divine Soul broke through to the middle stage of Golden Core, extending his spiritual-sense range to about thirty thousand zhang.
• Ye Jingcheng saw that the Star Pear Tree had advanced, gave the Turtle Ancestor a tested pill, and left the Grotto-Heaven with it.
• Chu Yanqing told Ye Jingcheng that Ye Xuefan wanted to see him; Ye Jingcheng learned Ye Xuefan had reached the peak of the Purple Palace stage and went to the council hall.

Ye Jingcheng prepared to leave Heavenly Phoenix Oasis for Yan Kingdom to protect the family’s teleportation formation as the Eastern Region faced mounting danger. Before departing, he entrusted his young sons to Ye Xuefan’s care, received gifts and warnings from his elders, and set out with Ye Xingyu’s Poplar Dew and parting presents for the family.

• Ye Xuefan discussed Golden Core preparations and formation plans with Ye Jingcheng, then gave him Blood Soul Soft Jade pendants for Nian'er and Feng'er and news of the Demon Race holding Heavenly Horse Pass.
• Ye Xuefan gave Ye Jingcheng the Jia Family's Flying Puppet Art and a Mystic Gate Concealment Formation, and warned him to watch the Green River Sect and Azure Spirit Commerce Association without acting rashly.
• Ye Jingcheng left the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King with Ye Xuefan, gave him spirit pills, and explained his latest insights into forming a Golden Core.
• Ye Jingcheng placed the jade pendants beside Qingnian and Qingfeng, stored three Demon Kings, and went to the hidden teleportation array beneath the lake.
• Ye Xingyu gave Ye Jingcheng Poplar Dew to share with Brother Xingqun, Jingyu, and Jingyun, along with personal gifts for family members, and asked him to deliver his toast.
• Ye Jingcheng activated the teleportation array and departed for Yan Kingdom, while Ye Xingyu watched him go and resolved to repay the Poplar Dew with Green Bamboo Wine.

Ye Jingcheng left Earth Dragon Valley and established a hidden refuge at Half Moon Lake, where he prepared an escape route and practiced the Flying Puppet Art. He left his true body behind and sent a puppet incarnation toward Soaring Cloud Peak, though its stiff speech revealed a limitation of the technique.

• Ye Jingcheng met Ye Xing shui and Ye Jinghong at the teleportation array, sent the Three Demon Kings back to their territories, and had the array removed before bringing the two cultivators into his Grotto-Heaven.
• Ye Jingcheng traveled to Half Moon Lake, trapped the early third-tier Silver Moon Python, and forced it into a Blood Pact, but killed it when it continued resisting.
• Ye Jingcheng released the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon into the lake, set up Ye Xuefan's Array, and had Ye Xing shui and Ye Jinghong restore the teleportation array as an escape route.
• Ye Jingcheng studied the Flying Puppet Art and split off part of his Divine Soul to possess a fourth-tier spirit puppet.
• Ye Jingcheng disguised the puppet as himself and told Ye Xing shui that he was heading to Soaring Cloud Peak.

Ye Jingcheng met True Lord Ziming’s avatar, who used a chess game to warn him that the Ye Family was surrounded by powerful enemies. After preparing his relatives to withstand questioning, Ye Jingcheng left Soaring Cloud Peak to unleash a beast tide from Red Glow Ridge.

• True Lord Ziming used a rigged chessboard to show Ye Jingcheng that the Green River Sect, the Azure Spirit Commerce Association, and the Bai Family threatened the Ye Family, and warned that the Taiyi Sect might not be able to protect them.
• Ye Jingcheng returned to Soaring Cloud Peak and met Ye Xingqun, Ye Jingyun, and Ye Jingli in a secluded bamboo grove.
• Ye Jingcheng told the three relatives to use Dust-Forgetting Pills, spread a cover story about clansmen entering a secret realm, and delay their enemies by having Ye Xingqun enter closed-door cultivation.
• Ye Jingcheng left Soaring Cloud Peak after giving them gifts and confirming the Heavenly Blade Sect’s situation, while True Lord Ziming’s avatar checked that he had not taken away the clansmen.
• Ye Jingcheng headed for Red Glow Ridge, intending to unleash a massive beast tide against the factions searching for the Beast Wasteland.

The Azure Demon Emperor learned that the Earth Dragon Demon King might be breaking through and colluding with humans, while Ye Jingcheng sought Heavenly Blade Sect support against a plot to frame the Ye Family. The chapter ended with North River, Azure Spirit, and Baiyu True Lords heading for Taihang Commandery to fabricate evidence against the Ye Family and divide its territory.

• The Three-Eyed Demon King warned the Azure Demon Emperor that the Earth Dragon Demon King might be breaking through and had humans in Earth Dragon Valley, prompting the Azure Demon Emperor to investigate.
• Ye Jingcheng and Xiao Shaoan met Vice Sect Master Wang Xuan, and Ye Jingcheng asked the Heavenly Blade Sect to oversee the coming accusations against the Ye Family while offering discounted supplies.
• Heavenly Blade True Lord decided to investigate but warned Wang Xuan that exposing the Ye Family could bring retaliation from the Green River Sect and the Immortal Sect.
• North River True Lord persuaded Azure Spirit True Lord and Baiyu True Lord to frame the Ye Family as Beast Wasteland and promised to divide the Taiyi Three Prefectures with them.
• Baiyu True Lord privately asked Azure Spirit True Lord to give him the remaining Nine-Bend Ginseng Root if Beast Wasteland fled to the Ye Family, and the three True Lords set off for Taihang Commandery.

North River True Lord and his allies arrived at Soaring Cloud Peak to investigate the Ye Family’s suspected connection to the Beast Wasteland, while Ziming True Lord and Heavenly Blade True Lord tried to limit their actions. After the Ye Family members answered questions under a Spirit-Inquiring Grand Formation, Baiyu True Lord proposed comparing their detailed memories to expose erased or altered recollections.

• A mysterious cultivator killed two Ye Family members and their Ironhook Eagle, then North River True Lord and his companions learned that the Ye Family had imposed soul restrictions on its members.
• Ziming True Lord confronted North River True Lord, Azure Spirit True Lord, and Baiyu True Lord at Soaring Cloud Peak, and Heavenly Blade True Lord arrived to stop North River from forcibly searching Ye Jingyun’s soul.
• Ziming True Lord summoned the Ye Family members for questioning, while Baiyu True Lord shattered their formations and forced cultivators out of secluded cultivation, injuring several and killing one.
• Ye Jingyun, Ye Jingli, and Ye Xingqun answered questions about the Ye Family’s history and hidden cultivators, but the Spirit-Inquiring Talismans showed no reaction.
• Baiyu True Lord proposed comparing the cultivators’ detailed memories of a chosen day to reveal whether the Ye Family had erased traces of its core members, and North River True Lord enthusiastically agreed.

The Azure Demon Emperor discovered signs of human involvement at Earth Dragon Valley, stole the Heavenly Dragon Fruit tree, and launched a beast tide across the Taihang Mountain Range. As Ye Jingcheng hid at Half Moon Lake and planned the Ye Family’s future, the Nascent Soul cultivators at Soaring Cloud Peak argued over responsibility before Ziming True Lord ordered the Ye Family to retreat to Green Willow Lake.

• The Azure Demon Emperor found evidence of human activity at Earth Dragon Valley, destroyed the stone chamber, and took the Heavenly Dragon Fruit tree.
• After sensing Nascent Soul fluctuations, the Azure Demon Emperor ordered the Three-Eyed Demon King to summon other Demon Emperors and sent the Azure Wind Wolf King to mobilize the Demon Kings.
• The Azure Demon Emperor, Netherfire Demon Emperor, and a golden tiger figure answered the call, sending a massive beast tide toward the mountain range’s outskirts.
• Ye Jingcheng concealed himself and the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon at Half Moon Lake, while reflecting on the Ye Family’s retreat and the Three-Eyed Demon King’s role as a spy.
• At Soaring Cloud Peak, North River True Lord accused the Ye Family of stirring up the beast tide, but Ye Jingyun denied it and asked Ziming True Lord for protection.
• Ziming True Lord raised Ye Jingyun from his bow and ordered the Ye Family to evacuate its mortals and belongings from Soaring Cloud Peak and defend Green Willow Lake.

The Nascent Soul True Lords confronted Azure Demon Emperor as his destructive storms and the beast tide ravaged Taihang Commandery. After the Green-Faced Beast-Pattern Mirror helped break his largest storm, Netherfire Demon Emperor and Golden Tiger Demon Emperor arrived, and the True Lords began withdrawing toward Green Willow Lake to fight behind a Fifth Stage Array.

• Ziming True Lord forced the other True Lords to stay and face the beast tide rather than abandon Taihang Commandery.
• Ye Jingyun organized the Ye Family aboard the Taiyi Sect spirit vessel while Ye Xingqun began recovering from his grave injuries.
• Heavenly Blade True Lord and the other True Lords attacked Azure Demon Emperor's largest storm, but the Green-Faced Beast-Pattern Mirror disrupted his control and let the Five Spirit Seal bring the storm down.
• Azure Demon Emperor sent his remaining storms together as Ziming True Lord accused him of breaking the treaty, and the True Lords destroyed most of the storms while fighting him.
• Netherfire Demon Emperor and Golden Tiger Demon Emperor arrived, prompting Baiyu True Lord and Azure Spirit True Lord to call for a withdrawal to Green Willow Lake and its Fifth Stage Array.

Lin Qingxuan was killed by Great Roc True Lord after witnessing the Fox Saint confront him, while Ye Jingcheng escaped a terrifying divine sense from Half Moon Lake and destroyed the teleportation array in the Desert Sea. The Fox Saint and her granddaughter later destroyed the other end of the array, leaving the Ye Family's return route uncertain as the beast tide continued to strain the Jin Family.

• Lin Qingxuan entered Earth Dragon Valley, where the Fox Saint immobilized him as Great Roc True Lord delivered her an eight-thousand-year-old treasure and received a warning for Divine Lord Tiande.
• After the Fox Saint released Lin Qingxuan, Great Roc True Lord killed him with a claw through the chest.
• The stone spirit warned Ye Jingcheng that a terrifying divine sense might have noticed it, so Ye Jingcheng teleported to the Desert Sea and destroyed the array there.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Xingyu that a Demon Emperor had discovered them and that the Ye Family might have lost its route back to the Taihang Mountain Range.
• The Fox Saint and the young girl found the damaged teleportation array at Half Moon Lake, confirmed its other end was destroyed, and the girl blasted apart one corner of it.
• Jin Yurong heard that the Jin Family might withdraw from Taihang Commandery after the beast tide, then sent the elders to the city walls as the formation activated.

Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xuefan discussed how the Demon Saint’s intervention and the Ye Family’s division might protect the family while they dealt with the damaged teleportation array and its scattered members. As Ye Jingcheng prepared to establish a Hidden Peak at the Heavenly Departure Grassland, the beast tide reached Green Willow Mountain, where Ye Jingyun, Ye Jingli, and other Ye Family members joined the defense.

• Ye Xuefan identified the powerful divine sense as likely belonging to the Fox Saint, a five-tailed Azure Hill fox, and suspected it had targeted a Penglai Immortal Sect cultivator rather than Ye Jingcheng’s group.
• Ye Xuefan explained that the Ye Family’s split could shield its main forces from suspicion, and advised Ye Jingcheng to treat clansmen and their relatives fairly and to establish a Hidden Peak at the Heavenly Departure Grassland.
• Ye Xuefan said the teleportation array might be repaired if its Space Jade remained intact, and that the family should avoid trading too many treasures while the Penglai Immortal Sect watched them.
• Ye Jingcheng sent Ye Xingyu a sound-transmission talisman about Soaring Cloud Peak, then returned to Chu Yanqing and their two children.
• The beast tide reached Green Willow Mountain, where the Taiyi Sect, Green River Sect, and Heavenly Blade Sect defended the area with help from Baiyu True Lord and Azure Spirit True Lord.
• Ye Jingyun and Ye Jingli fought the beasts alongside other Ye Family clansmen, while Fairy Liu Huan protected the family members and helped bear the tide’s pressure.

Ye Jingyun and the other cultivators fought to hold Green Willow Mountain against a devastating beast tide, but the Taiyi Sect secretly ordered a retreat as the Nascent Soul cultivators struggled against the Demon Emperors. The retreat left the Green River Sect exposed, while Ye Jingyun and his family escaped toward Azure Jade Pass with their spoils.

• Ye Jingteng led the Ye Family into battle, while Ye Qingshuang, Ye Qingyan, and Ye Jingli fought the advancing beasts with the others.
• Ye Jingli’s Four-Color Bonefire Pearls and Ye Jinghu’s Crimson Sky Talismans helped repel the beasts, and Ye Jingli killed a wounded Third Stage greater demon with a Five-Colored Bone Fire Pearl.
• Ye Jingyun received a secret warning to prepare for retreat and led the Ye Family back without alerting the Azure Cloud Nunnery.
• Zitian True Person ordered another attack, then brought out a Fourth Stage spirit boat and evacuated the Taiyi Sect and Heavenly Blade Sect cultivators.
• West King True Person condemned Zitian True Person for leaving the Green River Sect behind, and the Green River Sect retreated after suffering heavy losses.

Ye Haifei and Ye Jingyu investigated the Heavenly Flood Dragon Sea, where a change had driven the Demon Race to occupy Heavenly Horse Pass. They sent Ye Jingyu’s Jade-Scale Flood Dragon into the sea to scout, and it blended in among the local flood dragons but was warned not to go deeper.

• Ye Haifei reported that the Heavenly Flood Dragon Sea carried an oppressive aura that disrupted his spirit beasts, while Ye Xuecang noted that the Demon Race had occupied Heavenly Horse Pass.
• Ye Jingyu volunteered to investigate with his Jade-Scale Flood Dragon, and Ye Xuecang agreed and advised him to take Ye Jingcheng’s Roc Fish.
• Ye Xingliu gave Ye Jingyu formation discs and urged him to be careful before Ye Jingyu joined Ye Haifei aboard the Bluewater Whale.
• After more than ten days, Ye Haifei and Ye Jingyu reached the sea’s outskirts and released the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon to enter the Heavenly Flood Dragon Sea.
• The Jade-Scale Flood Dragon mingled with the local flood dragons, but a late third-rank flood dragon warned it not to venture farther inside.

The Jade-Scale Flood Dragon entered the Heavenly Flood Dragon Sea and stole two pure-blooded flood-dragon eggs while the clan gathered for Lei Chen’s breakthrough. It brought the eggs to Ye Jingyu, who returned with Ye Hai Fei to the Dark Shark Abyss and reported that a Demon Emperor might be breaking through to become a Demon Saint.

• The old flood dragon ordered Xuanze to search for threats and protect Lei Chen’s breakthrough from Chen Whale Sea and the Golden-Feather Demon Roc Clan.
• A Wind Flood Dragon Demon King questioned the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon, which claimed to serve the Blue Jade Demon King and was warned not to go farther.
• The Jade-Scale Flood Dragon found two flood-dragon eggs in an unattended nest, swallowed them, and escaped the Heavenly Flood Dragon Sea.
• The Jade-Scale Flood Dragon gave the eggs to Ye Jingyu in exchange for a promise of a powerful pill, and Ye Jingyu and Ye Hai Fei discussed the possible Demon Saint breakthrough.
• Ye Jingyu and Ye Hai Fei reported the news and the eggs to Ye Xuecang and the others, and Ye Xuecang ordered them to find secret realms and send the news back to the Eastern Region.

Ye Xingliu’s group seized a Xu Family secret realm and crippled its cultivators, hoping to force the Xu Family’s Purple Palace cultivator to respond and enter the outer seas. The chapter ended with that cultivator sending a transmission to ask for details.

• Xu Xiuyuan and the Xu Family cultivators attacked when a Black-Pattern Water-Spined Turtle entered their secret realm, but their strikes failed to pierce its shell.
• Ye Xingliu, Ye Xingmu, and An Yuhuai arrived and claimed to be Yun Family cultivators fleeing demon beasts, but Xu Xiuyuan threatened to contact the Wind Family.
• Ye Xingliu attacked when Xu Xiuyuan took out a Myriad-Mile Jade, and his group overwhelmed the Xu Family defenders with formations and demon beasts.
• Ye Xingmu crippled Xu Xiuyuan and the other Xu Family cultivators, while Ye Xingliu searched a Qi Refinement cultivator’s soul and confirmed they were not Yun Family members.
• Ye Xingliu sent a message about a demon saint among the flood dragon clan, then trapped the surviving Xu Family cultivators and divided their storage bags.
• The Xu Family’s Purple Palace cultivator sent a transmission asking for details.

Xu Changqing and Yu Xiaoqi informed the four True Lords that a Demon Saint had emerged in the Heavenly Flood Dragon Sea, prompting plans to report the news and organize a counterattack. Meanwhile, Ye Jinghu recovered the damaged teleportation array at Half Moon Lake and fled to hide in the Three-Eyed Demon King's Bloodflame Crystal mine.

• Xu Changqing arrived at Azure Crow City and reported that a Demon Saint had been born in the Heavenly Flood Dragon Sea.
• The four True Lords decided to report the news to the Penglai Immortal Sect, gather Nascent Soul cultivators for a counterattack, and announce a fifth-rank auction at Heavenly Horse Pass.
• Ye Xingliu and Ye Xuecang learned that the four sects had reacted strongly and led their group toward the Red Cloud Archipelago to seek shelter in a small world.
• Ye Jinghu monitored Half Moon Lake as his Thunder Roc repeatedly hunted there, then sent an incarnation puppet to check the teleportation-array site.
• Ye Jinghu used the Spirit-Slaying Sword to retrieve the damaged teleportation array and escaped to the Three-Eyed Demon King's Bloodflame Crystal mine.

Ye Jinghu copied the spatial node information from the teleportation array and followed Ye Xuefan and Ye Jingcheng’s orders to destroy it, but a Demon Emperor appeared after he detonated the formation. He escaped toward Taihang Commandery and decided to temper his state of mind before pursuing a breakthrough to the Purple Palace.

• Ye Jinghu reviewed his mission and sent Ye Xuefan and Ye Jingcheng a detailed account of his findings and concerns.
• After they ordered him to detonate the formation and destroy the Space Jade, Ye Jinghu copied its spatial node information and set traps around the teleportation array.
• Ye Jinghu moved the Space Jade to another Bloodflame Crystal deposit, set more traps, and used Shadow Wood puppets and North Star Ladybugs to monitor the area.
• Ye Jinghu detonated the teleportation array from a distance, but a green-cloaked Demon Emperor appeared and destroyed the Shadow Wood puppet.
• Ye Jinghu fled downstream toward Taihang Commandery and decided to temper his state of mind before attempting to break through to the Purple Palace.

At Azure Jade Pass, the beast tide retreated after Great Roc True Lord and the other True Lords intervened, and Ye Jingyun coordinated the Ye Family’s cleanup and recovery. The Jin Family withdrew from Taihang Commandery, and Taiyi Sect assigned Green Willow Mountain and its surrounding territory to the Ye Family.

• Ye Jingyun studied the three sects’ battlefield tactics and warned the Ye Family, Liu Huan, and Ye Jingteng that the beast tide was nearing its end, prompting them to target valuable demon beasts.
• Three distant roars sounded as the demon beasts retreated, and Great Roc True Lord and the other True Lords left the battlefield; Ye Jingyun then directed the Ye Family to distribute healing pills, record casualties, and assess their gains.
• Taihao Master summoned Ye Jingyun to Azure Jade Hall, where Master Tianzhen and Xuandao True Person told the regional family heads that the beast tide had ended and that Taihang Commandery must be cleared of remaining demon beasts.
• Jin Yurong announced that the Jin Family would move back to Hetian Mountain, and Ye Jingyun offered for the Ye Family to take responsibility for both its existing territory and Green Willow Mountain.
• Master Tianzhen approved the Ye Family’s takeover, allowed it five years of leeway on tribute, and urged it to hold an auction to attract independent cultivators to Taihang Commandery.