Chapter Summaries

The Earth Dragon Demon King began breaking through to fifth-stage Nascent Soul, stirring excitement across the Ye Family as its cultivators prepared for the breakthrough and a lineage gathering. Ye Xuefan ordered precautions against outside threats while the chapter also followed preparations for the lineage competition and Ye Yunxi’s progress in the Water Marsh Small World.

• The Three-Eyed Demon Rocs retreated into Roc Valley as the Earth Dragon Demon King’s breakthrough drew spiritual energy toward Sky Shadow Peak, and Ye Family cultivators celebrated the prospect of becoming a Nascent Soul lineage.
• Ye Xuefan, Ye Haicheng, Ye Haiyu, Ye Haiyan, and Ye Xueliang observed the breakthrough, while Ye Xuefan ordered surveillance of the surrounding oases and additional arrays across the Heavenly Phoenix Oasis.
• Ye Haicheng reported that the Immortal Ascension Assemblies had begun and expected the Ye Family to find more than three hundred young cultivation talents.
• Ye Jingzhong prepared Sand Ginseng Scorpions and thorn fruits for the lineage gathering, hoping his spirit-insect group would compare well with the other Ye Family halls and peaks.
• Ye Yunxi mastered new secret arts for the lineage competition, then found Ye Qingnian and Ye Qingfeng waiting outside her door and promised that their Great-Aunt would teach them cultivation methods.

Ye Jingcheng returned to Heavenly Phoenix Oasis as the Ye Family welcomed several new Purple Palace cultivators and prepared to oversee the Earth Dragon Demon King's breakthrough. The Earth Dragon Demon King formed its beast nascent soul and drew a vast thunder tribulation out into the desert, where the chapter left it facing the storm.

• Ye Jingcheng returned to Heavenly Phoenix Oasis with Ye Qingfeng, Ye Qingwen, and the others, then congratulated Ye Haicheng, Ye Haiyan, Ye Haiyu, and the Fifteenth Granduncle on their breakthroughs.
• Ye Jingcheng received spiritual herbs that completed the advancement materials for the Golden-Scaled Beast and asked about the Earth Dragon Demon King's progress.
• Ye Xuefan told Ye Jingcheng that the Earth Dragon Demon King was close to forming its nascent soul, and Ye Jingcheng went to Sky Shadow Peak to watch over it.
• The Earth Dragon Demon King completed its beast nascent soul, rose into the sky, and released Nascent Soul-level aura that shook Heavenly Phoenix Oasis.
• Vast thunderclouds gathered, so the Earth Dragon Demon King flew out of Heavenly Phoenix Oasis to face the tribulation in the desert; Ye Jingcheng tossed it half a top-grade spirit stone as it passed.

The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor survived its Nascent Soul tribulation, and the Ye Family celebrated its rise as a Nascent Soul lineage. With the breakthrough secured, Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xuefan began planning the family’s expansion and the refinement of Space Jade.

• Ye Jingcheng monitored for nearby beasts as the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor endured the first eight tribulation bolts, using its spells, treasures, and bodily tempering to survive.
• The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor overcame its fear of the final lightning-dragon apparition after Ye Jingcheng reminded it through their Soul Pact that the dragon was only an illusion.
• The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor survived the final strike and emerged from the crater as a fifth-stage Demon Emperor; Ye Jingcheng and the Ye Family members congratulated it.
• Ye Jingcheng told the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor that finding a formula could still let it become a true dragon, and it went to Sky Shadow Peak to heal and consolidate its cultivation.
• Ye Xuefan ordered preparations for a lineage assembly and an Immortal Ascension Assembly, then asked Ye Jingcheng to choose between the Heavenly Blade True Lord and True Lord Ziming for refining Space Jade.
• Ye Jingcheng chose the Heavenly Blade True Lord, planning to use the spirit peaches to negotiate while helping the Heavenly Blade Sect oppose the Green River Sect.

Ye Jingcheng returned to his family and reunited with Chu Yanqing and their children, then tested the children’s spirit roots. Ye Qingnian had three spirit roots with exceptionally high affinity, while Ye Qingfeng possessed a Heavenly Spiritual Root; Ye Jingcheng decided they would not hide their talents at the upcoming Immortal Ascension Assembly.

• Ye Jingcheng returned to his cave abode, where Chu Yanqing and Ye Qingnian and Ye Qingfeng surprised him with a welcome home.
• Ye Jingcheng gave Chu Yanqing Blackwater Pills and Water Spirit Pearls, and gave Ye Qingnian a Blood Jade Lion cub and Ye Qingfeng a Long-Eared Red Rabbit cub.
• Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing tested the children’s spirit roots after lunch; Ye Qingnian showed three spirit roots with very high affinity.
• Ye Qingfeng displayed a Heavenly Spiritual Root with powerful fire affinity, delighting Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing.
• Chu Yanqing warned the children to stay humble and treat their clansmen well, while Ye Jingcheng decided they should not conceal their talents at the Immortal Ascension Assembly.

The Ye Family held its grandest Ascension Assembly yet, showcasing the results of its childbirth policy and rewarding promising immortal seedlings and prolific parents. Ye Qingfeng and Ye Qingnian revealed exceptional talent, while Ye Haicheng instructed Ye Xingxiao to train certain outsiders for business roles.

• Ye Xuefan completed the sacrifice, and Ye Haicheng opened the Ascension Assembly as spiritual manifestations filled the sky.
• Ye Haicheng announced rewards for the top spirit-root talents and for town chiefs whose towns produced the most immortal seedlings.
• The tests revealed eleven dual-spiritual-root cultivators, including Ye Yunxuan, whose spiritual-root affinity surpassed Ye Qingnian's.
• Ye Qingnian demonstrated extraordinary triple-spiritual-root affinity, and Ye Qingfeng displayed a heavenly spiritual root with even greater affinity.
• Ye Jingcheng received congratulations and gifts after his children claimed two of the top three talent rankings, while the assembly also rewarded prolific parents and town chiefs.
• Ye Haicheng told Ye Xingxiao to train outsiders with four or five spiritual roots for business-related roles.

Ye Jingcheng oversaw the Ye Family’s alchemy and artifact competitions, then met with the newly stabilized Earth Dragon Demon Emperor. They agreed that the demon emperor would help secure the family’s plans in the Desert Sea, while allowing Ye Jingcheng to use Beast Communion on his demon essence.

• Ye Qingfeng and Ye Qingnian entered the family school as the Ye Family began its competitions for practical arts, cultivation, and spirit-beast or spirit-plant growth.
• Ye Jingcheng presided over the alchemy assessment, where Ye Xingxiao excelled and Ye Qingdan and Ye Yunxiang drew his attention; he then demonstrated refining five Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Chu Yanqing demonstrated artifact forging and explained how the Zhang Family’s Three-Forging Hammer and Spirit-Nurturing Seal improved artifacts.
• The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor told Ye Jingcheng that he had stabilized his cultivation and asked about the formula for transforming into a flood dragon; Ye Jingcheng handed him two versions.
• Ye Jingcheng asked the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor to help with the Central Region teleportation array and matters involving the Black Crow Forbidden Zone, and the demon emperor agreed to let Ye Jingcheng use Beast Communion on his demon essence.

The Ye Family planned a Purple Palace ceremony and trade negotiations while its members made breakthroughs and faced renewed pressure from the Kong Family. In the Desert Sea, Ye Jingcheng refined the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor’s true essence, then prepared to help Ye Xuefan contract a Two-Headed Turtle.

• Ye Jingyu proposed holding a ceremony for Ye Jinghu’s breakthrough and using it to approach the Heavenly Blade Sect, while Ye Jingyun agreed to invite the Taiyi Sect’s five peaks and watch for rival families.
• Ye Xingliu broke through to the Purple Palace stage, but his success brought back painful memories.
• Ye Qingyan refined ten Jade Soul Pills, learned that the Kong Family had begun targeting the Ye Family Restaurant again, and invited Ye Jingteng and Ye Qingshuang to help distribute ceremony invitations.
• Ye Jingteng warned Ye Qingyan about the Kong Family’s ties to Dharma Peak and advised inviting both the Kong and Jin families.
• Ye Jingcheng refined a wisp of the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor’s fifth-stage true essence after ten days and watched Ye Yunxi compete before heading to the spirit lake to summon Ye Xuefan for a contract with the Two-Headed Turtle.

Ye Jingcheng transferred the Twin-Headed Turtle Demon King to Ye Xuefan, then traveled with the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor to the Black Crow Forbidden Zone to subdue its Demon Kings. After learning that the remaining late-fourth-stage Black Crow was incubating eggs, Ye Jingcheng arranged to lure it out, and two ancient crow figures and the Heavenly Crow Ancient Tree Demon King charged into the array.

• Ye Jingcheng dissolved his Soul Pact with Wood Head and Water Head, and Ye Xuefan established a new blood pact with the Two-Headed Turtle.
• Ye Jingcheng left the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon and Golden-Scaled Beast at Sky Shadow Peak, then took the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor to the Black Crow Forbidden Zone.
• The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor killed a pursuing mid-fourth-stage Black Crow, and Ye Jingcheng collected its soul and demon core.
• Ye Jingcheng and the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor killed another mid-fourth-stage Black Crow, while two other Black Crow Demon Kings submitted.
• Ye Jingcheng learned that the remaining late-fourth-stage Black Crow was incubating eggs, established a Soul Pact with one of the submitted crows, and sent it to lure out the king.
• Two ancient crow figures and the Heavenly Crow Ancient Tree Demon King charged into the array.

Ye Jingcheng subdued the Black Crow clan and claimed Black Crow Flame Ear for the Ye Family, while discovering a rare Lunar Yin Ancient Crow egg. He left the forbidden zone under the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor’s protection and tested the herb’s effects on the Crimson Flame Fox, whose flames began to change.

• Ye Jingcheng bound the weakened late fourth-stage Black Crow Demon King with a soul pact, and the Heavenly Crow Ancient Tree Demon Kings and other beasts submitted to the Ye Family.
• Ye Jingcheng harvested most of the potent Black Crow Flame Ear and found a spirit egg with four layers of treasure radiance, revealing its Lunar Yin Ancient Crow bloodline.
• Ye Jingcheng left the egg in the forbidden zone, asked the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor to guard it, and planned for Ye Family cultivators to develop the herb and form beast pacts.
• Ye Jingcheng entered the Grotto-Heaven and found that the Peachwood Demon, Stone Spirits, and Star Pear Tree Demon had advanced, while five spirit peaches had grown.
• Ye Jingcheng fed a giant Black Crow Flame Ear to the Crimson Flame Fox, whose scarlet spirit flame darkened and began forming new spiritual images.

The Ye Family prepared Soaring Cloud Peak for Ye Jinghu’s Purple Palace ceremony, using the gathering to promote its businesses and announce an auction of secret-realm treasures. As the ceremony began, guests arrived with gifts, including the Wei Family’s costly Cloudfall Tiger cub.

• Ye Jingyu and the Ye Family distributed spirit stone tokens to visiting cultivators and planned to use the ceremony to promote their shops and future auction.
• Ye Jingyu learned that spies from the Jin and Kong Families were among the guests and ordered them housed near Shadow Wood puppets, while Ye Jinghu reported that several major families and Mo Dao True Person would attend.
• Three days later, the Purple Palace ceremony began, and Ye Jinghu watched cultivators gather to celebrate his breakthrough as guests presented gifts.
• Wei Dazhong led the Wei Family to the ceremony and presented Master Thunder Tiger with a cub of the third-rank great demon Cloudfall Tiger.
• Ye Jingyu watched the horizon, waiting for the Taiyi Sect cultivators and Mo Dao True Person to arrive.

The Ye Family held Thunder Tiger Master’s Purple Palace ceremony, drawing powerful sects and families whose gifts strengthened the impression that Taiyi Sect supported the family. After Ye Jinghu defeated Kong Yurong in a one-strike spar, the chapter ended with Ye Jingyu spotting Mo Dao True Person’s Boneflame Demon Fox essence blood at a trade fair and offering longevity-extending spirit fruits for it.

• Ye Xingsu and Purple Palace families from across the region congratulated Thunder Tiger Master, and Taiyi Sect and Heavenly Blade Sect sent True Persons bearing valuable gifts.
• Kong Yurong challenged Ye Jinghu to a one-move spar, and Ye Jinghu defeated him with a Heavenly Gang Thunder Seal after Tianzhen True Person strengthened the pressure of the barrier.
• Xiao Shaoan arranged another spar, and Ye Jingyong helped the Ye Family win the subsequent match.
• At the banquet’s trade fair, Wei Dazhong offered women of his family for marriage alliances, while Ye Jingyun refused offers to marry Ye Family women out.
• Mo Dao True Person displayed Boneflame Demon Fox essence blood, and Ye Jingyu offered him multiple spirit fruits that could extend one’s lifespan by fifty years.

The Ye Family’s trade fair ended with Ye Jingyu and Ye Jinghu acquiring useful materials, while they reflected on the threat posed by the Kong Family and Jin Family. Ye Jingyu then negotiated with Mo Dao True Person, agreeing to trade a longevity-extending pill for a Space Jade refined from Ye Jinghu’s spatial node information.

• Mo Dao True Person failed to exchange for longevity-extending medicine, while Master Tianzhen and Ziyue completed trades at the fair.
• Ye Jingyu traded a Bloodflame Crystal for a Jade Emperor Lotus, and Ye Jinghu obtained Purple Thunder Leopard hide.
• After the guests left, Ye Jingyu warned Ye Jinghu to watch the Kong Family and Jin Family, then went to meet Mo Dao True Person in a concealed pavilion.
• Mo Dao True Person showed Ye Jingyu a drop of Boneflame Demon Fox essence blood, and Ye Jingyu confirmed the longevity-extending medicine would mature in three months.
• Ye Jingyu offered the second pill in exchange for a Space Jade, and Mo Dao True Person agreed to arrange one using Ye Jinghu’s spatial node information.
• Ye Jingyu and Mo Dao True Person exchanged the jade slip and swore Heavenly Dao oaths before parting.

Ye Jinghu formed a Blood Pact with a Cloudfall Tiger cub while Ye Jingyu secured a drop of Boneflame Demon Fox blood essence and gave orders concerning the Ye Family’s alliances and plans. Ye Jingyu then returned to Soaring Cloud Lake, where the blue jade egg began hatching with the help of the Jade Emperor Lotus.

• Ye Jinghu fed the Cloudfall Tiger Spirit Nurturing Pills and formed a Blood Pact with it.
• Ye Jingyun offered Ye Jinghu marriage-alliance candidates, but Ye Jinghu declined to have a match arranged for him.
• Ye Jingyu returned with a drop of Boneflame Demon Fox blood essence and warned that the Green River Sect might take advantage of Heavenly Blade True Lord’s failing lifespan.
• Ye Jingyu told Ye Jingyun to keep marriage alliances rational and forbid concubinage, directed Ye Jingli to prepare magical artifacts for an auction, and ordered the Jin Family and Kong Family spies killed when they left.
• Ye Jingyu placed the Jade Emperor Lotus beside the cracking blue jade egg, which began to hatch as its aura strengthened.

The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor fought the Sky Roc Demon Emperor over the Black Crow Forbidden Zone, forcing him to retreat without securing a victory. With the threat gone, Ye Jingcheng led Ye Jingyu and other Ye Family members to cultivate black crow flame ears, while the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor secluded himself to refine his battle insights.

• The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor challenged the Sky Roc Demon Emperor’s claim to the Black Crow Forbidden Zone, and the two left to fight in the Desert Sea.
• The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor used the Desert Sea’s power and his Earth Concealment Art to injure the Sky Roc Demon Emperor, but could not catch him after he escaped into the sky.
• The Sky Roc Demon Emperor challenged the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor to fight in the Heavenly Departure Grassland, then departed when his attacks failed to overcome the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor’s defenses.
• The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor returned to the Black Crow Forbidden Zone with three Sky Roc feathers and entered seclusion after ordering the demons to cultivate black crow flame ears.
• Ye Jingcheng told Ye Jingyu to focus on cultivating black crow flame ears, then led more than a dozen Ye Family members to the forbidden zone.

Ye Jingcheng harvested five newly enhanced Life-Extending Spirit Peaches and distributed pills, demon cores, and other resources to his spirit beasts. The Crimson Flame Fox revealed a powerful five-colored fire lotus, while the other beasts prepared to advance, leaving Ye Jingcheng hopeful that they would all reach fourth tier within a few years.

• Ye Jingcheng completed six months of training and advanced his body cultivation, finding that the Great Wasteland Step had become a formidable kicking technique.
• The Peachwood Demon announced that its five spirit peaches were nearly ripe, and Ye Jingcheng used the Spirit Eye Spring to ripen and harvest them before promising to seek an Advancement Pill for it.
• Ye Jingcheng fed the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon a fourth-tier Mystic Jade Azurewater Pill and demon beast corpses, then encouraged the Crimson Flame Fox and Golden-Scaled Beast with spirit pills.
• The Golden-Scaled Beast demonstrated its growing command of secret arts, and the Crimson Flame Fox revealed a terrifying five-colored fire lotus that made it retreat.
• Ye Jingcheng gave the Five-Colored Cloud Deer and Golden Falcon fourth-tier demon cores and Treasure Radiance, and both began secluded cultivation beside the Spirit Eye Spring.

Mo Dao True Person brought the refined Space Jade to Ye Jingyu, while Heavenly Blade True Lord instructed the Heavenly Blade Sect to preserve its ties with the Ye Family. Ye Jingyu and his family completed their teleportation array and prepared to test it.

• Heavenly Blade True Lord received Mo Dao True Person’s report that the Space Jade had been refined and told him to maintain good relations with the Ye Family.
• Heavenly Blade True Lord gave Mo Dao True Person a blade technique to trade for Nascent Soul treasures and ordered him to gather intelligence on Chen Whale Sea.
• Ye Jingyu accepted the Space Jade from Mo Dao True Person and said the Life-Extending Spirit Peach would be ready in ten days, but Mo Dao planned to return in half a month.
• Ye Jingyu inspected the Space Jade and brought it to Soaring Cloud Lake, where Ye Xingliu and Ye Jinghu confirmed its patterns matched the clan’s formation.
• Ye Jingyu inserted the Space Jade into the completed teleportation array, and Ye Jingyun activated the rain formation while Ye Jingyu prepared Mountain-Devouring Rats to test the array.

Ye Jingcheng fed the Turtle Ancestor Treasure Radiance and pills as the turtle prepared to enter seclusion and pursue fourth rank, then traveled to Soaring Cloud Peak to reunite with the Ye Family. The chapter ended with Ye Jingcheng moved by his relatives’ gifts and beginning to search his storage pouch for something to give in return.

• Ye Jingcheng gave the Turtle Ancestor Treasure Radiance and two bottles of Yellow Ganoderma Mystic Origin Pills before the turtle prepared to break through.
• Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xingyu traveled by teleportation formation to Soaring Cloud Peak, where Ye Jingyu and Ye Xingliu welcomed them.
• Ye Jingli recounted the family’s recent affairs and gave Ye Jingcheng’s children Twin Rhinoceros Jade.
• Ye Jingcheng and the family gathered in the bamboo grove to drink, remember the past, and give gifts to his children.
• Ye Jingyu gave Ye Jingcheng’s children two spirit eggs and supplied Ye Jingcheng with rare materials for advancement pills.
• Ye Jingcheng was deeply moved by his relatives’ gifts and began searching his storage pouch to reciprocate.

Ye Jingcheng distributed treasures and rewards to the clansmen at Soaring Cloud Peak, then traveled to Long Elephant Valley to establish a transmission array linking the Eastern Region and the Desert Sea. After completing it, he learned that the Gold-Quenching Origin Fruit tree had fallen ill and produced no fruit for over ten years.

• Ye Jingcheng gave his relatives selected magical artifacts and spirit pills, and they agreed to help auction some of the remaining treasures.
• Ye Jingcheng announced increased clan stipends and permission for the clansmen to contract third-tier great demons, then spent the rainy day drinking with them.
• Ye Jingcheng chose Long Elephant Valley as the site for a new transmission array and instructed the Mammoth Demon King to guard the area.
• Ye Jingcheng built and tested the transmission array beneath the Mammoth Demon King's palace, securing a connection between Soaring Cloud Peak and the Desert Sea.
• Ye Jingcheng asked how many Gold-Quenching Origin Fruits had ripened, and the Mammoth Demon King reported that the tree had borne no fruit for more than ten years.

Ye Jingcheng took the Gold-Quenching Origin Fruit tree from Elephant Valley and arranged for Ye Xueliang and Ye Haiyu to guard the teleportation array. After trading with other demon kings and delivering the Life-Extending Spirit Peaches to Mo Dao True Person, he learned that someone might be plotting against him at the auction.

• Ye Jingcheng exposed the Gold-Quenching Origin Fruit tree as a wood demon and brought it into the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven, promising the Mammoth Demon King three fruits every ten years.
• Ye Jingcheng gathered mature spirit herbs from Elephant Valley and left spirit pills for the mammoths, then Ye Xueliang and Ye Haiyu arrived to guard the teleportation array.
• Ye Jingcheng traveled to Red Glow Ridge and Cloud Lion Ridge, trading spirit pills for Bloodflame Crystal and Crimson Lion Flowers from the demon kings.
• Ye Jingcheng received Ye Jingyu's message, brought two Life-Extending Spirit Peaches to Mo Dao True Person, and heard that someone was plotting against him at the auction.

After three months of studying the fourth-tier Golden Scale Pill, Ye Jingcheng still lacked confidence to refine it, so he urged the Golden-Scaled Beast to keep training. He then learned of Ye Jingli’s plan to adapt the Zhang Family’s artifact methods and headed with him to Taihang Marketplace for the Ye Family’s auction.

• Ye Jingcheng emerged from seclusion and told the eager Golden-Scaled Beast to continue training because it might not get another Advancement Pill if it failed.
• Ye Jingcheng checked on the Wood Demon, the Gold-Quenching Origin Fruit Tree Demon, the White-Brow Green Wolf, and the Roc Fish in the expanded Grotto-Heaven.
• Ye Jingcheng found Spirit Talismans from Ye Jingyu and Ye Jingyun, signaling that the Lineage’s auction was approaching.
• Ye Jingli told Ye Jingcheng that he planned to adapt the Zhang Family’s Three-Forging Method into a Four-Forging Method and replace its seal with the Ye Family’s Soaring Clouds mark.
• Ye Jingcheng praised Ye Jingli’s plan and set off with him and other Ye Family members for Taihang Marketplace, where Ye Jingli intended to auction Four-Color Bonefire Pearls bearing the Ye Family’s name.