Recaps

At the Xiao Clan’s spirit-testing ceremony, Xiao Yan gained a supreme-grade fire Spirit Root and became the Seventh Elder’s disciple, while Xiao Wan revealed a heavenly water Spirit Root. Ye Jinyu and Wang Yan remained unwilling hostages at Qixia Mountain, and Ye Jinyu finally received a cultivation system after years of being unable to cultivate.

• Xiao Shan tested with three middle-grade Spirit Roots and was assigned to cultivate in the Spirit Construction Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan tested with a supreme-grade fire Spirit Root and a wood Spirit Root, accepted the Seventh Elder as his master, and received the name Xiao Changyan.
• After many disciples tested poorly, Xiao Wan revealed a heavenly water Spirit Root that drew the elders’ attention.
• Ye Jinyu and Wang Yan discussed their decade as hostages and their families’ hopes of gaining influence through the Xiao Clan.
• Ye Jinyu revealed that he had been unable to cultivate for seventeen years, then received the Heavenly Mandate Immortal Cultivation System.

Ye Zhanqiu broke through to the Golden Core realm and announced his new Dao Fruit, Autumn, while the Xiao Clan welcomed him as a powerful family ally. Ye Jinyu activated his system, received a cultivation method tied to Bifeng, and was reunited with his mother as Ye Zhanqiu arrived at Green Peak bearing peach blossoms.

• Ye Jinyu learned that his father, Ye Zhanqiu, had reached the Golden Core realm, activating the Heavenly Mandate Immortal Cultivation System.
• Ye Zhanqiu manifested Autumn Waters and Boundless Sky, declared that he had attained Autumn and held sway over Lesser Yin, and received the reverence of cultivators across the region.
• Xiao Chengyi welcomed Ye Zhanqiu, while Xiao Clan elders gathered at Green Peak and offered gifts to the Eighth Elder in celebration.
• Ye Jinyu opened his beginner's gift pack and received the incomplete Calamity and Blessing Aspect of the Destiny Dao Fruit, the Bifeng Dao Calamity Scripture, and Bifeng Qi.
• Ye Jinyu's mother drew him into the pavilion, where they spoke of her first meeting with Ye Zhanqiu.
• Ye Zhanqiu arrived at Green Peak carrying a flowering peach branch as the Xiao Clan elders bowed to him.

Ye Zhanqiu reunited with Xiao Qingyao and Ye Jinyu, then brought his family back toward the Ye Clan and began helping his son prepare for cultivation. Ye Jinyu used the system to borrow Heavenly Mandate Points against his father as collateral and bought the Heavenly Cauldron of Fate, while Ye Zhanqiu sensed something amiss ahead.

• Ye Zhanqiu reunited with Xiao Qingyao, examined Ye Jinyu's poor cultivation foundation, and vowed to teach him himself.
• Ye Zhanqiu pressured the Xiao Clan elders into accepting the families' continued alliance, gave Xiao Xianwan the Moonlit Azure Sea Scripture, and left with his wife and son.
• Aboard the Great Void Cloud Ship, Ye Zhanqiu used his origin Law Power to cleanse Ye Jinyu's meridians and improve his Root Bone.
• Ye Jinyu considered how to cultivate the system's Calamity Method without arousing suspicion, and the system offered him a loan secured by Ye Zhanqiu.
• Ye Jinyu accepted 50,000 Heavenly Mandate Points as a loan against his father and bought the Heavenly Cauldron of Fate.
• Ye Zhanqiu sensed something amiss ahead as the cloud ship silently shifted course.

Ye Zhanqiu stopped the Wind Calamity Old Devil Xu Feng from taking over three cultivators and bound the weakened Purple Mansion expert to serve Ye Jinyu. He gave Jinyu the three rescued cultivators as guards and promised him the Wind Abyss Ruin Realm as the cloudship approached the Ye Clan’s ancestral home.

• Xu Feng tried to transfer his cultivation into three Foundation Establishment cultivators, but Ye Zhanqiu struck him with Sword Qi and destroyed the mountain cave.
• Xu Feng revealed that the Wind Abyss Ruin Realm held fragments of the wind Dao’s origin, a branch of the Azure Luan Clan, and other secrets, and explained that eight Purple Mansion cultivators had wounded him there.
• Ye Zhanqiu spared Xu Feng because Ye Jinyu wanted the realm’s Bifeng, healed him with the [Autumn Wind Concealment] Divine Ability, and made him Jinyu’s bound servant.
• Ye Zhanqiu gave the three Foundation Establishment cultivators to Jinyu as guards and declared that the Wind Abyss Ruin Realm would be his to claim.
• The cloudship neared Cloud Mist Mountain, and Ye Jinyu anticipated returning to the Ye Clan after ten years away.

Ye Zhanqiu returned to the Ye Clan with Xiao Qingyao and Ye Jinyu, where he found the clan weakened by Ye Zhanshan’s rule and prepared to reclaim authority. As the family faced a court ceremony to invest Ye Zhanqiu with heaven, he planned to settle the clan’s affairs and make Ye Jinyu its young master.

• Ye Zhanshan and the Ye Clan elders welcomed Ye Zhanqiu back to Cloudmist and announced the Great Jin court’s plans to invest him with heaven.
• Ye Zhanqiu rejected Ye Zhanshan’s attempt to discuss the clan succession and said he would speak after meeting their father; he then told Ye Jinyu that he would become the Ye Clan’s young master.
• Xu Feng told Ye Jinyu that Ye Zhanshan’s rule had brought corruption, declining revenues, rebellions in the Ruin Realms, and harsh treatment of clan disciples.
• Ye Jinyu heard that the expelled genius Ye Chen had died, then abruptly began cultivating as Spiritual Qi surged through Qiuran Palace.
• Ye Zhanqiu told Xiao Qingyao that the court’s ceremony was part of a wider struggle over Daoist inheritance and that Ye Zhanshan would likely be sent away after the next day’s proceedings.

Ye Jinyu prepared for the ceremony as Sima Huanyu arrived at the Cloud-Heaven Azure Palace and tested the Ye Clan’s strength. Ye Zhanqiu revealed his Golden Core cultivation, and Sima Huanyu issued a court edict granting him a heavenly rank, leaving him honored as Autumn Unfolds the Clear Firmament Heaven.

• Ye Qiniang helped Ye Jinyu dress for the ceremony, and he thanked her for her years of service.
• Sima Huanyu arrived from Huainan and pressured the Ye Clan with his overwhelming water-phase force.
• Ye Zhanqiu confronted Sima Huanyu, who recognized his strength and withdrew from the threat of a fight.
• Sima Huanyu congratulated Ye Zhanqiu and opened a rift to summon a Huangchu Imperial Edict from Huainan.
• The court sacrificed thirty million people of the Ruin Realms and opened thirteen Ruin Realms to mark Ye Zhanqiu’s new heavenly rank.
• The Huangchu Imperial Edict named Ye Zhanqiu Autumn Unfolds the Clear Firmament Heaven.

Sima Huanyu tried to bind Ye Zhanqiu’s Dao Path to the blood sacrifice of thirty million people, but Ye Zhanqiu transformed the tainted Blood Qi into a new Divine Ability and shared its karma through a cultivation scripture. The chapter ended with the Late Autumn Blood Sun Scripture spreading across the Cloud Mist Mountain Range and Ye Zhanqiu challenging Sima Huanyu over his scheme.

• Sima Huanyu ordered Ye Zhanqiu to accept the Huangchu Imperial Edict, which carried the blood sacrifice’s karma and threatened to taint the Ye Clan’s autumn-aspect lineage.
• Ye Zhanqiu accepted the edict’s supposed gift but used Sword Qi to gather the Blood Qi instead of taking the decree.
• Ye Zhanqiu fused the Blood Qi with autumn chill and created the initial form of the Autumn Sun Blood Divine Ability.
• Ye Zhanqiu derived the Late Autumn Blood Sun Scripture up to the Purple Mansion Realm and spread it across the Cloud Mist Mountain Range.
• Ye Zhanqiu declared that cultivators of the scripture would inherit his lineage and share the blood sacrifice’s karma, then asked Sima Huanyu whether he was satisfied.

Sima Huanyu and Ye Zhanqiu ended their confrontation with both sides preparing for the court’s campaign against the Wind Abyss Ruin Realm in two years. Ye Qingming explained the campaign and the Ye Clan’s rule over Ruin Realms to Ye Jinyu, who was chosen to represent the clan and oversee it.

• Sima Huanyu praised Ye Zhanqiu’s Late Autumn Blood Sun Scripture, then left for Luoyang after warning that the court would campaign against Wind Abyss in two years.
• Sima Huanyu ordered Huainan’s official to raise military merit rewards for the Wind Abyss campaign and kill anyone who showed signs of Mingyang.
• Ye Qingming told Ye Zhanqiu that the Wind Abyss Ruin Realm could strengthen the Ye Clan’s wind-aspected heavenly position, but Golden Core cultivators could not enter the fighting themselves.
• Ye Zhanqiu brought his seventeen-year-old son Ye Jinyu before Ye Qingming, who examined his spirit roots and learned that he had recently begun cultivating.
• Ye Qingming explained the ranks of Ruin Realms and the Ye Clan’s methods of controlling their people, then said Ye Jinyu would represent the clan and oversee the Wind Abyss campaign.
• Ye Jinyu said Ruin Realm cultivators would surely resist an invasion, but that he would govern with both kindness and authority to make the realms serve the Ye Clan.

Ye Jinyu underwent a brutal three-month survival trial in the Qingyu Ruins Realm, advancing to Qi Cultivation and refining Bifeng Qi. After passing, he was entrusted with the realm and arrived to take charge of its surrendering forces.

• Ye Qingming challenged Ye Jinyu to test his ideas about governing a Ruins Realm, while Ye Zhanqiu arranged a trial that could cost him his status as the Ye Clan's young master.
• Ye Zhanqiu sent Ye Jinyu into a beast-filled forest with only a sword, a storage ring, and a map, ordering him to survive for three months.
• Ye Jinyu fought Demon Beasts, refined Bifeng Qi through painful cultivation, and advanced from Fetal Breath Middle Stage to Qi Cultivation before passing the trial.
• Ye Jinyu demanded more opponents, and the Cloud Guards threw two Qi Refinement Rogue Cultivators into the forest for him to fight.
• Seven days later, Ye Jinyu arrived at the Qingyu Realm gate with twelve Cloud Guards and Xu Feng, where Ye Guyi and local representatives welcomed him as its new ruler.

Ye Jinyu arrived in the Qingyu Ruins Realm and assessed the guardian Ye Guyi and the native clans, while Xu Feng warned him that the locals concealed resentment and ambition. A Jade Slip revealed the Zhao Clan’s cruel use of descendants of the former realm lord, and Ye Jinyu reached the guardian’s residence determined to investigate.

• Ye Guyi welcomed Ye Jinyu, and Xu Feng explained that the guardian had grown close to Qingyu’s native powers and might have built influence of his own.
• Ye Jinyu noticed Zhao Yuan and his two daughters among the kneeling clan representatives, accepted Zhao Yuan’s offer of Qingyu Spirit Marrow Wine, and rode to the guardian’s residence.
• Ye Jinyu read records describing how the Zhao Clan used descendants of True Person Qingyu to make wine and had once offered an Azure Wood Spirit Body woman as a reward.
• Ye Guyi told Ye Jinyu that the heads of Qingyu’s six clans were waiting at the residence, where hundreds of people knelt to welcome him.
• Xu Feng sensed resentment, hatred, fear, and ambition among the locals, and Ye Jinyu stepped out of the carriage, amused by their contrived welcome.

At a banquet, Ye Jinyu exposed the Zhao Clan’s ties to the Yu Clan and used Xu Feng’s Turbid Bi Wind to drive guests into chaos, then ordered the Zhao Clan seized. A flashback showed Zhao Qiyu trying to suppress Zhao Qiwei’s sympathy for Yu Qinglin before they were summoned to wear Azure Nether Jade.

• Ye Jinyu questioned Zhao Yuan about the Zhao Clan’s connection to the Yu Clan and refused to drink the spirit wine.
• Ye Guyi presented Zhao Qiwei and Zhao Qiyu as potential concubines for Ye Jinyu, but Ye Jinyu smashed his cup.
• Xu Feng’s Turbid Bi Wind plunged the clan heads and Ye Clan stewards into a stupor, causing them to fight, while Ye Guyi restrained Ye Anlan.
• Zhao Yuan resisted the confusion long enough to call for the young master’s protection, prompting Ye Jinyu to suspect his jade had guarded him and order the Zhao Clan seized.
• Three days earlier, Zhao Qiyu warned Zhao Qiwei never to mention Yu Qinglin and insisted the Yu Household was fit only to be used for wine.
• A maid delivered Azure Nether Jade on Zhao Yuan’s orders and said the sisters had to wear it when the time came.

Ye Jinyu learned that the Zhao Clan’s century-long scheme involved Yu Qinglin and the Withering and Flourishing Yin Body Scripture, then ordered the Zhao Clan’s execution and a search for the Yu Clan. Above the Cloud-Heaven Azure Palace, Ye Qingming acknowledged an improvement and warned a Great Peace Temple fellow Daoist that they had overstepped.

• Yu Qinglin sensed that the Zhao Clan was in danger, but Ye Guyi’s attack destroyed the valley; an aged voice helped Yu Qinglin escape.
• Ye Guyi ordered Ye Anlan to seal off Qingyu and hunt for Yu Qinglin, while the Twelve Cloud Guards continued killing Zhao Clan members.
• Ye Jinyu questioned Xu Feng about the Zhao Clan’s cultivation method and learned that Yu Qinglin’s bloodline and Azure Wood Spirit Body were central to True Person Qingyu’s plan.
• Ye Jinyu inferred that True Person Qingyu had faked his death and used multiple Divine Abilities, then resolved to act decisively and received a breakthrough in his State of Mind.
• Ye Jinyu ordered the Zhao Clan executed in three days and demanded that the Yu Clan be found as he sought the Yin-Yang Spirit Wood Heart.
• Ye Qingming told a Great Peace Temple fellow Daoist that they had overstepped.

Yu Qinglin’s memories revealed how the Zhao clan exploited the Yu family and how Qingyu helped him take revenge, while Qingyu used the Spirit-Withered Pine Forest to transform Yu Qinglin and pursue his own plan. As Ye Jinyu and the Ye clan arrived, a vision of a flourishing Jianmu tree appeared above Great Peace Temple.

• True Person Qingyu used the Spirit-Withered Pine Forest’s power to heal Yu Qinglin, advance his cultivation, and form the Divine Ability Azure Bathed in Yang.
• Yu Qinglin remembered his father’s death, the Zhao clan’s exploitation of the Yu family, and how Qingyu helped him kill the Zhao steward and seize control of the Zhao clan.
• As Yu Qinglin faced death, he wished for the Yu clansmen and others to live free from being used as medicine, while Qingyu resolved to fulfill his promise to his lord.
• Ye Jinyu arrived at the Spirit-Withered Pine Forest with Xu Feng, Ye Guyi, Ye Anlan, and more than twenty Ye clan cultivators.
• A vision of spring growth and a towering Jianmu tree appeared above Great Peace Temple’s Heaven of Withering, Flourishing, Life and Extinction.

Zhang Daoist arrived at Yunlan to claim the Qingyu Ruins Realm’s origin, while Qingyu revived within the realm and completed the Divine Ability [All Things Live]. The chapter ended as heaven and earth changed and tribulation Qi arose around Qingyu.

• Zhang Daoist explained to Ye Zhanqiu that he had come to take the Ruins Realm’s origin and cast an origin seed toward it.
• Xu Feng sensed Qingyu’s growing power and urged Ye Jinyu to flee, but the Great Void was sealed and Ye Jinyu remained calm.
• The withered spirit pine forest gathered into Jianmu as the realm’s origin, merit, and fortune revived Qingyu.
• Qingyu remembered how an immortal had saved his mother and taught him the Scripture of Withering and Flourishing in a dream.
• Qingyu invoked four Divine Abilities, realized [All Things Live], and caused heaven and earth to change as tribulation Qi arose.

True Person Qingyu reached the peak of the Purple Mansion realm with All Things Live, believing he had fulfilled the immortal’s teachings, but Zhang Xuan revealed that he had been manipulated to cultivate a Dao seed for the Great Peace Temple. Qingyu was killed, and his powers and remains were claimed by Ye Qingming and Ye Zhanqiu.

• True Person Qingyu completed All Things Live and celebrated his rise to the peak of the Purple Mansion realm while Ye Jinyu recognized his talent and warned that his fate had run out.
• Zhang Xuan appeared above the Ruins Realm with two fellow True Lords and told Qingyu that he had taught him Divine Abilities to prepare him to repay a debt.
• Zhang Xuan revealed that Qingyu’s four earlier Divine Abilities were inferior, incompatible, or incomplete, and that his cultivation had been designed to produce All Things Live for him.
• Zhang Xuan used the blood-red scripture and Jianmu seed to drain Qingyu’s All Things Live and plucked the ripe Dao seed from his body.
• Ye Qingming sent a wisp of wind that dispersed Qingyu, while Ye Qingming took the dead Jianmu and Ye Zhanqiu received the decaying wind.
• Qingyu’s Yin-Yang Spirit Wood Heart, the remnant of his cultivation and Azure Wood Spirit Body, remained suspended in the air.

Ye Jinyu resisted the Yin-Yang Spirit Wood Heart’s overwhelming pull after Zhang Xuan’s Divine Ability stirred his greed, and learned Zhang Xuan believed he had an affinity with the Great Peace Temple. Ye Zhanqiu cleansed the heart and returned it to Ye Jinyu, whose desire for it surged again.

• The Yin-Yang Spirit Wood Heart awakened Ye Jinyu’s longing for power, and Zhang Xuan’s voice intensified the temptation until Ye Zhanqiu’s sword intent cleared his mind.
• Zhang Xuan apologized, claimed Ye Jinyu had an affinity with the Great Peace Temple, and explained the art [Decay of the Other Shore] before departing.
• Ye Jinyu feared Zhang Xuan had marked him, while Ye Qingming said Zhang Xuan was unlikely to use underhanded methods against him.
• Ye Zhanqiu cleansed the Yin-Yang Spirit Wood Heart of lingering imprints and Qingyu’s spirit, then placed it before Ye Jinyu.
• The heart’s pure attraction made Ye Jinyu’s heart pound harder and reignited his urge to claim and consume it.

Ye Jinyu refined the Yin-Yang Spirit Wood Heart, completed his Azure Wood Spirit Body, and gained an initial connection to the Qingyu Ruins Realm’s remaining origin and fortune. He awakened the [Life] Aspect and left the realm-control quest in progress at 70%.

• Ye Qingming and Ye Zhanqiu explained the treasure’s benefits and told Ye Jinyu that the clan would settle the young lord position at its year-end gathering.
• Ye Jinyu touched the Yin-Yang Spirit Wood Heart and endured its clashing forces as his cultivation, Divine Sense, and wood affinity grew.
• The [Life] Aspect harmonized the forces and helped Ye Jinyu complete his Azure Wood Spirit Body, while the Yin-Yang Spirit Wood Heart settled within him.
• Ye Jinyu used his thoughts to briefly revive grass and wither a Foundation Establishment Demon Beast, sensing the Qingyu Ruins Realm’s remaining origin.
• The system confirmed Ye Jinyu had unlocked the [Life] Aspect, gained initial access to the realm’s origin, completed the treasure quest, and received 15,000 Heavenly Mandate Points.
• Ye Jinyu opened his eyes, and Xu Feng and Ye Guyi congratulated him on mastering his divine art and forging his foundation.

A month after refining the Yin-Yang Spirit Wood Heart, Ye Jinyu relaxed at his new palace retreat and accepted Ye Anlan’s allegiance. He gave Anlan resources and ordered him to deliver a challenge to clan members spreading rumors about the young master’s standing.

• Ye Anlan leaped into the lake to attach a spirit carp to Ye Jinyu’s hook, hoping to win his favor.
• Ye Anlan pledged his loyalty to Ye Jinyu and offered to deal with anyone in the clan who opposed him.
• Ye Jinyu gave Ye Anlan calamity wind source Qi and spirit wood origin, and directed him to Xu Feng for more resources and cultivation methods.
• Ye Jinyu told Ye Anlan that elders and collateral-branch geniuses in the Thirty-Two Peaks of Cloudmist had challenged his status and instructed him to deliver a written challenge.
• Ye Anlan accepted the task and left determined to prove his loyalty by confronting the clan’s disciples.

Ye Anlan seized the Purple Heart Radiant Pills allotted to the Ye Clan’s young nobles, provoking Ye Jinming and other Foundation Establishment elites to confront him at Pill Peak. The chapter ended with Anlan openly admitting he took the pills and challenging Jinming to object.

• Ye Jinxuan and Ye Jinling discussed the coming contest for the Ye Clan’s young master position and the growing tensions around Yunlan.
• A steward reported that Ye Anlan had taken all the Purple Heart Radiant Pills allotted to Jinming, Jinxuan, and Jinling.
• Ye Jinming led the angry young nobles to Pill Peak after Ye Jinxuan warned that they needed to respond or lose the clan’s support.
• Ye Anlan appeared from the Pill Pavilion’s second floor, dismissed the nobles’ accusations, and declared that he had taken the pills.
• Ye Jinming narrowed his eyes as the gathered clan members watched the confrontation.

Ye Anlan used his newly refined Calamity Wind to defeat Ye Zhifan, Ye Zhiwen, and Ye Jinxuan at the Pill Pavilion. Xu Feng stopped the confrontation, healed Jinxuan, and announced that the young master had opened the Qingyu Ruins Realm to the Ye clan.

• Ye Zhifan and Ye Zhiwen provoked Ye Anlan, who smashed the Pill Pavilion counter and revealed his powerful Calamity Wind.
• Ye Anlan struck Ye Zhifan and Ye Zhiwen, leaving both badly injured, and Ye Jinming and Ye Jinxuan challenged him.
• Ye Jinxuan fought Ye Anlan, but Anlan broke his shoulder and the Calamity Wind began to wither his meridians.
• Xu Feng appeared, healed Ye Jinxuan, and reprimanded Ye Anlan for causing trouble.
• Xu Feng announced that Ye clan members could apply to enter the Qingyu Ruins Realm and seek treasures and rewards.

Ye Zhanshan explained the Ye Clan’s past struggles and told Ye Jinming and Ye Jinxuan to help Ye Jinyu unite the Lineage behind its chosen leader. Ye Zhanqiu confronted Ye Jinyu, who admitted his mistakes but defended his methods, and his father approved of his ambition.

• Ye Jinming and Ye Jinxuan recounted the day’s events to Ye Zhanshan, who told them that Ye Jinyu had been chosen to lead the Ye Clan.
• Ye Zhanshan described how the Ye Clan had endured the Sima Clan’s efforts to destroy Ye Zhanqiu and weaken their family.
• Ye Zhanshan instructed his sons to help Ye Jinyu win the Lineage’s loyalty and handed them a second letter of challenge.
• Ye Zhanqiu confronted Ye Jinyu in an autumn realm and asked him what he had done wrong.
• Ye Jinyu admitted that his methods had been crude but said he would not change his approach to testing and winning over those close to him.
• Ye Zhanqiu noticed Ye Jinyu’s advancing cultivation and approved of his open path and ruler’s resolve.

Ye Jinming and Ye Jinxuan came to Ye Jinyu to apologize on behalf of their branch and submit to his leadership. Ye Jinyu demonstrated his mastery of wind and sword, winning the brothers’ sincere admiration and leaving them fully committed to following him.

• Ye Jinming and Ye Jinxuan arrived at Ye Jinyu’s residence and publicly begged forgiveness for their branch’s conduct, offering to follow his lead.
• Ye Jinyu accepted their apology graciously, while Ye Anlan volunteered to take blame for the previous day’s injuries and accepted thirty lashes.
• Ye Jinyu checked that Ye Jinxuan had recovered, then asked Ye Jinming how he understood the swiftness of wind and sharpness of the sword.
• Ye Jinyu demonstrated a wisp of Bifeng with an azure core that silently split a board, explaining that wind and sword were one and could break whatever the rules reached.
• Ye Jinming and Ye Jinxuan were awed by Ye Jinyu’s talent, knelt again, and declared that they would follow his lead.

Ye Jinyu consolidated his authority by ordering the creation of the Cloud Palace and proposing Transport Commissioners to centralize taxes and tributes from the Ruin Realms. The elders accepted his plans, leaving him poised to reshape the clan’s finances and reach.

• After resolving the Ye Clan’s internal conflict, Ye Jinyu ordered Ye Jinming to recruit three hundred people for an intelligence organization called the Cloud Palace and appointed him its envoy.
• Ye Jinyu gave Ye Jinming and Ye Jinxuan Fate Seeds, which heightened their loyalty and reverence for him.
• Ye Jinyu told Xu Feng to find principled, poor, or hot-blooded young cultivators to help enforce reforms and take control of the clan’s finances.
• Three days later, Ye Jinyu presented the elders with plans to establish the Cloud Palace and appoint Transport Commissioners to collect and allocate Ruin Realm tributes.
• Ye Jinyu cited hidden resources and corruption to defend the reforms, promised higher allocations to governors and elders, and warned against private dealings.
• Ye Zhanshan and the other elders agreed to the proposals, while Ye Zhanqing urged Ye Jinyu to include talented recruits from the Ruin Realms in the Cloud Palace.

Ye Jinyu’s reforms prompted the Tianlan Realm’s leading lineages to plot resistance and seek Great Jin’s support. Ouyang Yu arrived as the new Transport Commissioner and demanded an inventory, while the resentful guardian Ye Wenting agreed to summon the lineage heads.

• Ouyang Xiong told the six other lineage leaders that the new policies would expose their hidden resources and private trade, and revealed that Ouyang Yu had been appointed Transport Commissioner.
• Ouyang Xiong presented a token from Great Jin’s Sima Clan and urged the lineages to resist the Ye Clan; all seven agreed to conceal half their output, coordinate with other realms, and test Ouyang Yu with a gift.
• Ouyang Yu returned to the Tianlan Realm as a Purple Mansion cultivator and inspected the dilapidated Transport Commissioner’s residence.
• Ouyang Yu ordered Ye Wenting to summon the lineage heads within three days for a resource assessment, but Ye Wenting urged him not to rush.
• Ouyang Yu insisted that the inventory be completed before the expedition to the Wind Abyss, and Ye Wenting agreed to make the arrangements.

Ouyang Yu confronted Tianlan’s Lineage heads with evidence of concealed output and demanded back taxes, while Ye Wenting agreed to help prepare for a crackdown. Ye Wenting then secretly warned Ouyang Xiong to destroy evidence implicating the Ye Clan, but Ouyang Xiong remained composed.

• Ouyang Yu presented records suggesting the Gongsun Household and Ouyang Household had concealed the output of their mine and medicine garden.
• Ouyang Yu gave the Lineages ten days to pay the missing tribute and taxes, threatening severe punishment for anyone who refused.
• Ouyang Xiong challenged Ouyang Yu’s authority and left with the other Lineage heads after demanding ten days to respond.
• Ouyang Yu told Ye Wenting that a spy from Great Jin’s Firmament Heaven was in Tianlan and asked him to secure key teleportation arrays and prepare to suppress a rebellion.
• Ye Wenting met Ouyang Xiong secretly and urged him to erase records and contracts that could implicate the Ye Clan, offering to help preserve part of Ouyang Xiong’s bloodline or provide a way to survive.