Chapter Summaries

The Ye Family discovered juvenile Blood Jade Eels in Green Willow Lake and waited for the adult pair to return. When two mutated late second-rank eels appeared, the family began a coordinated attempt to capture them while preserving the juveniles.

• Ye Jingli and Ye Xingqun searched Green Willow Mountain and found thirty-eight juvenile Blood Jade Eels in Green Willow Lake.
• The Ye Family set up concealment and isolation formations, then spent five days feeding the juveniles while waiting for the adult eels.
• As the family prepared to leave for Soaring Cloud Peak, two mutated late second-rank Blood Jade Eels appeared and consumed the blood food.
• Ye Xingqun assigned Ye Jingyong's peak second-rank Silver Moon Python to confront the adults while the clansmen supported it with formations.
• Ye Xingqun deployed the Water-Separating Mountain-Dispelling Formation, and Ye Jingyun set up the second-rank Heaven-Trapping Formation around the eels.

The Ye Family captured two Blood Jade Eels and their young at Green Willow Lake, then prepared to clear the beast tide and develop their expanded territory. Meanwhile, sect leaders traveled toward the Eastern Sea, where Taiyi Sect planned to aid the counteroffensive, attend a grand auction, and establish a branch in the Skycloud Archipelago.

• Ye Jingyun's group captured two late second-rank Blood Jade Eels and thirty-eight juveniles, then left Ye Jingli to guard Green Willow Lake.
• Ye Jingyun led most of the clansmen toward Soaring Cloud Peak while Ye Qingyan and Ye Xingqun catalogued demon beasts, cores, and spirit medicines aboard the spirit vessel.
• North River True Lord told West King True Person that they could not avoid the Eastern Sea counteroffensive and advised him to keep a low profile until Heavenly Blade True Lord's lifespan ended.
• Ziming True Lord told Taiyi Sect's cultivators that they were heading to the Eastern Sea for the Immortal Sect's auction and trade fair, where they could seek treasures for forming Nascent Souls.
• Ziming True Lord announced that Taiyi Sect planned to establish a branch sect in the Skycloud Archipelago to gather resources and counter Green River Sect's influence.

Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Jingzhong a pill formula to strengthen the Ye Family’s Sand Ginseng Scorpions, then investigated the Soulfall Forbidden Zone for Soul-Extinguishing Insects and a possible teleportation array. He learned that several powerful demon kings guarded the zone’s depths and remained outside, unwilling to risk entering alone.

• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Jingzhong a revised Advancement Pill formula for Sand Ginseng Scorpions, and Ye Jingzhong ordered Insect Valley’s young clan members to post a task for it.
• Ye Jingcheng visited the Soulfall Forbidden Zone alone and lured out several hundred Soul-Extinguishing Insects, capturing them in the Void Mystery Dharma Bottle.
• Ye Jingcheng killed the early-stage third-tier insect leading the swarm and let his Dream-Devouring Insect consume its beast soul before searching its memories.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that the forbidden zone contained many third-tier insects, at least three demon kings, and a possible ancient teleportation array.
• Ye Jingcheng continued baiting third-tier insects for over half a month, killing seven and discovering there were probably five demon kings, some possibly at the late fourth tier.
• Ye Jingcheng decided not to enter the dangerous forbidden zone alone, though he remained interested in finding out where its ancient teleportation array led.

Ye Jingcheng escaped the Soul-Extinguishing Insects in the Soulfall Forbidden Zone and recorded their strengths and weaknesses, deciding the Ye Family must investigate all four Desert Sea forbidden zones. At Azure Sand Oasis, Chu Yanqing detected signs of a hidden water-attributed secret realm, which Ye Jingcheng suspected the Jia Family had used to conceal its activities.

• Ye Jingcheng fled the mid-fourth-rank Soul-Extinguishing Insect King and its swarm aboard the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon, using the Five-Colored Cloud Deer to endure a soul attack while he prepared his Vermilion Bird technique.
• Ye Jingcheng abandoned his attack when another demon king approached, then recorded what he had learned about the Soul-Extinguishing Insects and resolved to investigate the other three forbidden zones.
• Ye Jingcheng headed to Azure Sand Oasis to visit Chu Yanqing and her children, while considering the danger that the forbidden zones might contain teleportation arrays.
• Chu Yanqing noticed that Azure Sand Oasis's azure sand berries and spirit vein suggested a hidden water-attributed source, and she explained her reasoning to Ye Jingcheng.
• Ye Jingcheng concluded that increasing the fire-attributed spiritual qi could reveal the hidden secret realm and suspected the Jia Family had used it to conceal itself and possibly reach the Soulfall Secret Realm.

Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family discovered the Jia Family’s Water Marsh Small World and stormed inside. Ye Jingcheng killed its four hidden Purple Palace cultivators, then used the Dream-Devouring Insects to search their souls while Ye Xuefan dealt with the remaining Jia Family cultivators.

• Ye Xuefan, Ye Jingcheng, and Chu Yanqing used fire-aspected Arrays to locate the hidden entrance beneath Green Sand City.
• Ye Jingcheng sent the Peachwood Demon to break the natural Array and revealed that the entrance led to a small world.
• Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family entered the Water Marsh Small World, home to the Jia Family and a low fourth-grade water-aspected spirit vein.
• Jia Zeyang gathered three hidden Purple Palace cultivators at Water Marsh Mountain as he sensed that danger was approaching.
• Ye Jingcheng and his spirit beasts killed Jia Zeyang and the other three Purple Palace cultivators, while the Peachwood Demon collected their storage bags.
• Ye Jingcheng used the Dream-Devouring Insects on the four Divine Souls to attempt a soul search, and Ye Xuefan moved to deal with the remaining Jia Family cultivators.

The Ye Family secured Water Marsh World, a resource-rich small world with a fourth-rank water spirit vein, and uncovered valuable Jia Family treasures and intelligence. Ye Jingcheng revealed a new grotto-heaven and information about the Central Region, while privately planning how to use two Gold Condensation Pills.

• Ye Xuefan oversaw the new Azure Water Cloud-Heaven Array as the Ye Family prepared Water Marsh World for spirit-fish farming and settlement.
• Chu Yanqing reported that the Jia Family cultivators had been wiped out, and Ye Xingyu listed the treasury's spirit stones, supplies, and cultivation resources.
• Ye Jingcheng used his Dream-Devouring Insect to uncover Jia Family knowledge about the Central Region and learned that reaching it safely would require the Earth Dragon Demon King to advance to the fifth rank.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Xuefan about a fourth-rank puppet and presented Jade Heaven, a newly formed grotto-heaven, which Ye Xuefan accepted for the family.
• Ye Jingcheng privately resolved to give Jia Zeyang's Gold Condensation Pill to Ye Xuefan and seek the Gold Condensation Fruit to make a pill for Chu Yanqing.

Ye Jingcheng distributed the Jia Family’s treasures, gave Ye Xuefan a Gold Condensation Pill, and made plans with Chu Yanqing before leaving the Water Marsh Small World. Meanwhile, Human Nascent Soul cultivators gathered before Heavenly Horse Pass, prompting the Heavenly Flood Dragon Sea to order a retreat and defense of its territory.

• Ye Xuefan gave Ye Jingcheng spirit materials and ancient herbs from the Jia Family’s treasury, including an Earth Sovereign Mystic Lotus, filling gaps in several of Ye Jingcheng’s Advancement Pill formulas.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Ye Xuefan a Gold Condensation Pill, and Ye Xuefan promised to prepare an Array for Chu Yanqing’s future tribulation and reserve the next Gold Condensation Fruit for her.
• Ye Xuefan organized the Ye Family’s settlement in the Water Marsh World after the family learned how the Jia Family had used Sand Thornwood Demons to bypass the entrance Array.
• Chu Yanqing decided to remain in the Water Marsh Small World with Feng'er and Nian'er, while Ye Jingcheng promised to return to the Heavenly Phoenix Oasis in eight years and then left for the Black Crow Forbidden Zone.
• Dozens of Human Nascent Soul cultivators appeared before Heavenly Horse Pass, and the Heavenly Flood Dragon Sea ordered its forces to retreat and defend their territory.

Ye Jingyu reflected on the mortal world’s peaceful beauty and learned that the flood dragons had withdrawn from Heavenly Horse Pass, while the threat of war remained uncertain. Ye Xuecang split the Ye Family into groups to reduce exposure, sending Ye Jingyu toward the pass to attend its auction as the Penglai Immortal Sect prepared to negotiate with the flood dragon clan.

• Ye Haihe told Ye Jingyu that the flood dragon clan had withdrawn from Heavenly Horse Pass and warned that the next conflict or peace was uncertain.
• Ye Jingyu tended the Blue Jade Flood Dragon egg and felt renewed determination to grow stronger.
• Ye Xuecang ordered the Ye Family to divide into groups, keeping himself and several others behind while Ye Jingyu prepared to leave for Heavenly Horse Pass.
• Ye Xuecang gave Ye Jingyu spirit-herb and family intelligence records, along with magic treasures and spirit puppets, and told him to keep his target small during the withdrawal.
• Divine Lord Tiande told Great Roc True Lord to prepare a grand auction and seek a Dragon Soul Flower to help him seize a Dao Foundation without demonic deviation.

Ye Jingyu disguised himself as Tang Haoran and negotiated with Yu Xuanying to smuggle thirty-two Ye Family cultivators through Heavenly Horse Pass as Jade Family merchants. He reached the pass safely and contacted his scattered relatives, while learning that the Jade and Xu Families were helping other cultivators escape for profit.

• Yu Xuanying warned the Jade Family cultivators to keep a low profile as they abandoned Jade Cloud Archipelago and prepared to relocate its mortals.
• Ye Jingyu, disguised as Tang Haoran, negotiated a higher fee with Yu Xuanying for thirty-two people to cross Heavenly Horse Pass under Jade Family merchant tokens.
• Ye Jingyu and the others used Beast Communion aura marks on the tokens, then traveled with Yu Xuanying toward Heavenly Horse Pass.
• Ye Xingliu disguised himself and a group of independent cultivators, told them to conceal their auras, and waited for news while they hunted demon beasts.
• Ye Jingyu passed inspection at Heavenly Horse Pass and learned that the Xu Family also helped people leave the region; Yu Xuanying warned him not to reveal the arrangement.
• Ye Jingyu searched his inn room for hidden surveillance, set up a spirit-severing formation, and sent word to Ye Xingliu, Ye Xuecang, and the others.

Ye Jingyu explored Heavenly Horse Pass, bought several materials, and learned about a Heavenly Water Sect trading meetup featuring rare treasures. At the meetup, Miaoyuan True Person offered Mystic Sun Spirit Water, Thunder Flood Dragon essence blood, and a body-tempering technique in exchange for demonic beast inner cores.

• Ye Jingyu browsed the independent cultivators' plaza and bought a Three-Star Fruit for Ye Jingcheng's Golden Scale Pill.
• Ye Jingyu met Chen Xiuyuan of the Heavenly Water Sect, who showed him Thunder Flood Dragon essence blood and invited him to a trading meetup; Ye Jingyu also bought artifact materials.
• Ye Jingyu purchased a snake egg for three thousand spirit stones after exposing the stall owner's false claim that it was a flood dragon egg.
• Ye Jingyu attended the Heavenly Water Sect's trading meetup at True Person Hall, where Miaoyuan True Person announced that the treasures would be exchanged for demonic beast inner cores.
• Miaoyuan True Person presented fourth-rank Mystic Sun Spirit Water, early fourth-rank Thunder Flood Dragon essence blood, and the Profound Origin Body-Tempering Scripture.

Ye Jingyu traded for Mystic Sun Spirit Water and won the Houxuan Qilin Lion essence blood at Yuan Hao’s auction, while the Carefree Divine Lord’s cultivation inheritance emerged as a coveted final offering. The chapter ended with Yuan Hao calling the inheritance’s flaws severe and offering only one fifty-year life-extending spirit fruit for it.

• Ye Jingyu traded eleven third-tier great demon inner cores, ten thousand spirit stones, and two third-tier magical treasures for the Mystic Sun Spirit Water, then failed to obtain several other treasures.
• Master Yuan Hao turned his portion of the exchange meeting into an auction and sold Houxuan Qilin Lion essence blood, a Heavenly Origin Barrier-Breaking Pill, and Golden Light Armor.
• Ye Jingyu bid six hundred and ten thousand spirit stones to secure the Houxuan Qilin Lion essence blood for Ye Jingcheng’s Golden-Scaled Beast.
• A Spirit-Isolating Robe-clad old man offered the Three-Origin Dao Foundation Method, the Carefree Divine Lord’s incomplete inheritance, in exchange for at least two life-extending medicines totaling one hundred years.
• Master Yuan Hao inspected the inheritance, confirmed its provenance, and offered one fifty-year life-extending spirit fruit, prompting others to consider the method more desirable.

Ye Jingyu traded Great Demon materials for a Three Talents battle formation and kept his identity concealed during the trade fair. On the eve of the fifth-rank auction, he joined the Ye Family clansmen and Yu Xuanying’s group as they left Heavenly Horse Pass by spirit skiff.

• Mo Dao True Person failed to exchange a fourth-rank Boneflame Demon Fox’s blood essence and a magic treasure for life-extending medicine, while Ye Jingyu held back from approaching him.
• Ye Jingyu offered several Great Demon materials, including Skywind Python hide and Blue Jade Whale fin, and traded some auxiliary materials for a battle formation requiring three closely allied Purple Palace cultivators.
• Ye Jingyu left the trade fair in disguise, changed identities on the way back to the inn, and stayed inside while the auction approached.
• Ye Jingyu learned that one Ye Family team had withdrawn and that the Xu Family demanded five hundred spirit stones per person for assistance.
• When Yu Xuanying’s token glowed on the eve of the auction, Ye Jingyu led the Ye Family clansmen to the rear-island dock and boarded Yu Xuanying’s spirit skiff with nearly two hundred other people.
• Yu Xuanying paid Manager Wan and led the group away from Heavenly Horse Pass as Ye Jingyu assessed the other passengers and judged that he could handle any unexpected danger.

Ye Jingcheng explored the Black Crow Forbidden Zone with a flying puppet, discovered its powerful defenders and valuable Black Crow Flame Ears, and escaped without taking any. He then traveled toward another forbidden zone, while Bai Changsheng and Black Tiger True Person prepared to ambush the Yun Family and Yellow Springs True Person on Jade Fish Island.

• Ye Jingcheng sent his flying puppet into the Black Crow Forbidden Zone and found no teleportation array before a fourth-rank Heavenly Crow Ancient Tree Wood Demon attacked.
• Ye Jingcheng saw the nest’s Black Crow Flame Ears, including several fourth-rank clusters, as the Black Crow Demon Kings returned.
• Four Wood Demon kings trapped Ye Jingcheng’s flying puppet, but his Gold Glaze Sword and Decapitation Saber cut it free and helped it escape.
• Ye Jingcheng decided to leave the Flame Ears untouched for now and headed toward the next forbidden zone.
• On Jade Fish Island, Bai Changsheng told Black Tiger True Person that they were waiting to intercept the Yun Family and Yellow Springs True Person for their ginseng roots.

Ye Jingyu and the Ye Family were caught in a pursuit when the Bai and Qing families intercepted their spirit shuttle. He hid among the Jade Family and passed Black Tiger True Person’s inspection, leaving the group temporarily safe as the pursuers chased the escaped cultivators.

• Yu Xuanying and Yu Xianhao halted the spirit shuttle and dismissed its passengers when they sensed danger near Jade Fish Island.
• Cultivators from the Bai and Qing families pursued the passengers, and several concealed Purple Palace cultivators fled as Ye Jingyu recognized the danger.
• Ye Jingyu led the Ye Family clansmen to Yu Xuanying, handed him their storage pouches, and urged him to claim their treasures had been stolen.
• Yu Xuanying blamed the incident on rogue cultivators and invoked the Jade Family’s ties to the Heavenly Water Sect and Haoyang Daoist Temple when Black Tiger True Person questioned him.
• Ye Jingyu used Beast Communion to disguise his spiritual power, passed Black Tiger True Person’s mirror inspection, and stayed with the Jade Family as the Golden Core cultivators pursued the fugitives.

Ye Jingyu survived the Jade Family’s inspection and met Yu Junyuan, who revealed that the Jade Family knew of his family’s demon-luring ability and wanted to cooperate. Ye Jingyu left Xuanhe Island with his clansmen, considering whether to work with the Jade Family as they headed toward the mainland.

• Yu Junyuan watched the Jade Family’s spirit skiff depart and handed Black Tiger True Person the Jade Family’s share before leaving.
• At Xuanhe Island, Ye Jingyu learned that Yu Junyuan wanted to meet him and agreed to the meeting.
• Yu Junyuan told Ye Jingyu that the Jade Family wanted his family’s demon-luring ability to help them advance toward Nascent Soul formation.
• Yu Junyuan gave Ye Jingyu a Jade Family token, and Ye Jingyu swore a Heavenly Dao oath to keep the family’s secret.
• Ye Jingyu left the island with his clansmen, warning them that the Qing Family and Bai Family might return.

Ye Jingcheng failed to learn the secrets of the Mirage Sand Forbidden Zone and went to oversee his Golden-Scaled Beast’s fourth-tier breakthrough. The beast endured two increasingly powerful bolts of its lightning tribulation, and the thunderclouds began to gather for another strike.

• Ye Jingcheng found that his Five Poison Bees were trapped inside the Mirage Sand Forbidden Zone, so he decided to plant a Shadow Wood tree to monitor it.
• Ye Jingcheng recalled that the Magnetism Forbidden Zone required a powerful non-five-element body cultivator to explore, though it contained second-tier Heavenly Origin Stones.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that his Golden-Scaled Beast had broken through and taken on the lightning tribulation, then brought it to a desert spirit vein and set up the Great Jade Golden Bell Formation.
• Ye Jingcheng released the Crimson Flame Fox and Jade-Scale Flood Dragon to guard the Golden-Scaled Beast, which challenged the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon before focusing on its tribulation.
• The Golden-Scaled Beast used its Earth-Scale Hall to slow the first bolt and charged through the second, suffering cracked scales before new ones formed as the thunderclouds gathered again.

Ye Jingcheng used the Peachwood Demon to expose the Mirage Sand Forbidden Zone as a vast illusion concealing an ancient city, corpses, and abandoned treasures. He recovered the Heavenly Sand Spirit Canon and continued exploring the forbidden zone.

• The Golden-Scaled Beast endured the final two lightning bolts without using the array, survived its tribulation, and received Treasure Radiance from Ye Jingcheng.
• Ye Jingcheng sensed that the lightning tribulation had briefly weakened the Mirage Sand Forbidden Zone and followed the escaping Five Poison Bees to retrieve them and his split soul.
• Ye Jingcheng learned from their memories that the forbidden zone contained an illusory ancient city where many people had been trapped and died.
• Ye Jingcheng sent the Peachwood Demon to absorb the array's spiritual energy, revealing the ancient city's walls, remains, and abandoned storage bags.
• Ye Jingcheng's puppets recovered four intact storage bags containing a Blood Nurturing Pill formula and the Heavenly Sand Spirit Canon, a supreme-grade profound-tier earth cultivation method.
• Ye Jingcheng had Peachwood change positions and continued exploring the Mirage Sand Forbidden Zone.

Ye Jingyu and Ye Xingliu returned to Soaring Cloud Peak, where Ye Jingyu took over as acting clan head so Ye Jingyun could cultivate in seclusion. Their return prompted clan members across the region to prepare for breakthroughs, while Ye Jinghu headed back to the peak and the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King wondered why Ye Jingcheng had gone into seclusion.

• Ye Jingyun welcomed Ye Jingyu, Ye Xingliu, and more than sixty clansmen back to Soaring Cloud Peak, and Ye Jingyu praised the family’s growth.
• Ye Jingyu refused to replace Ye Jingyun permanently as acting clan head, but agreed to take over while Ye Jingyun entered seclusion; he also urged Ye Xingliu to cultivate.
• Ye Jingyu sent messages to clan members, and Ye Jingli, Ye Jingyong, and Ye Qingyan arranged their duties and entered seclusion to pursue breakthroughs.
• Ye Jinghu realized that managing the family was not his strength, left his merchant post, and flew toward Soaring Cloud Peak to seek a breakthrough to the Purple Palace.
• Wood Head and Water Head asked Ye Xuefan where Ye Jingcheng was, and after he left, they discussed their place in the family and ate spirit fish while Ye Xuefan watched from concealment.

Ye Jingcheng joined Hidden Peak’s exploration of Heavenly Departure Grassland, claimed Green Ox Mountain as a base, and asked his family to spread an intimidating reputation for him. Elsewhere, Divine Lord Tiande negotiated with the Jiao Saint to trade one Dragon Soul Grass for Nascent Soul cultivators and access to the Heavenly Horse Sea Region.

• Ye Jingcheng met Ye Jingting at Green Ox Mountain and reviewed Hidden Peak’s map of Heavenly Departure Grassland, including its recorded demon kings and spirit veins.
• Ye Qingfeng, Ye Qingwen, and other clansmen returned, and Ye Jingcheng told them he would be stationed at Green Ox Mountain after being punished and assigned to Hidden Peak.
• Ye Jingcheng asked the clansmen to invent a fearsome title for him, and Ye Jingting chose Poison Adept while Ye Qingwen proposed Dust Demon.
• Ye Jingcheng killed the aged Mystic Green Ox, took Green Ox Mountain, and planned to use it as a base for exploring the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Divine Lord Tiande confronted the Jiao Saint and negotiated a deal: the flood dragon clan would receive one Dragon Soul Grass in exchange for helping Penglai obtain Nascent Soul cultivators and another cleansing in the Heavenly Horse Sea Region.

After seven years of training on Heavenly Departure Grassland, Ye Jingcheng prepared for the Earth Dragon Demon King's breakthrough and returned to Heavenly Phoenix Oasis with his relatives. Along the way, he saw the Ye Family's territories thriving and anticipated the upcoming Ascension Assembly, where his children would have their spiritual roots tested.

• Ye Jingcheng battled the Rhinoceros-Horned Deer Demon King, collected its blood, and tried to persuade it to join the Ye Family with offers of pills and treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng learned from a sound-transmission jade talisman that the Earth Dragon Demon King was about to break through and that the next Ascension Assembly was approaching.
• Ye Jingcheng recalled his spirit beasts and left Green Ox Mountain after the Golden-Scaled Beast complained that the Howling Moon Wolf had escaped.
• Ye Jingcheng met Ye Jingting, Ye Qingwen, and Ye Qingfeng at Yulanting, where he learned of their cultivation progress and the growth of their Azure-Scaled Horse herd.
• Ye Jingcheng visited Far Spirit Oasis, saw its flourishing markets and the Wan Family's growing influence, and spoke with Ye Jingfeng before continuing to Heavenly Phoenix Oasis.