Chapter Summaries

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.

Ouyang Yu and Ouyang Xiong revealed that their apparent conflict was a scheme to enlist Ye Wenting in a plot against Tianlan’s six other families. Ye Wenting agreed to help frame the families as rebels, and Ouyang Yu declared that in ten days only the Ouyang Household would remain in Tianlan.

• Ouyang Yu entered the courtyard, where Ouyang Xiong revealed his Purple Mansion Late Stage cultivation and sealed the area with twenty-four Spirit-Locking Restriction Stones.
• Ouyang Xiong explained that his apparent loyalty to the six families had been an act, and introduced Ouyang Yu as the future head of the Ouyang Household.
• Ouyang Yu and Ouyang Xiong proposed portraying the six families as rebels and using their wealth and evidence to earn merit from the Ye Clan.
• Ouyang Yu offered Ye Wenting a chance to share in the credit for quelling the supposed rebellion, and Ye Wenting agreed to cooperate.
• Ouyang Yu said the Ouyang Household would eliminate the six families within ten days and that someone would deal with the Sima Clan spy.

The Gongsun, Zhao, Li, and Chen families tried to buy Ouyang Yu and Ye Wenting’s favor, but the Ye Clan Punishment Hall arrived to investigate Tianlan’s traitors. Ouyang Xiong led the families into rebellion, which Fengyi swiftly crushed, leaving Tianlan under Ye Clan control.

• The Gongsun, Zhao, Li, and Chen family heads gave Ouyang Yu seven hundred thousand high-grade Spirit Stones, and Ye Wenting publicly approved the arrangement.
• Ye Zhanyan and three Ye Clan Punishment Hall elders arrived at the Ruin Realm guardian’s residence as the ten-day deadline expired.
• Ouyang Xiong warned the family heads that the Ye Clan meant to punish them and persuaded them to rebel with help from Great Jin.
• The six families sent their cultivators against Ye Clan forces while the Ouyang family opened the Ruin Realm’s formation, allowing a white-clad figure to enter.
• Ouyang Yu gave Ye Zhanyan a Jade Slip recording the families’ wealth, and the Punishment Hall elders moved to end the rebellion.
• Fengyi defeated the rebels, and Ye Zhanyan ordered Ouyang Yu to summon Ouyang Xiong with everything he had.

After the rebellion in Tianlan Ruin Realm was crushed, Ouyang Xiong delivered evidence and the captured household heads to Ye Zhanyan, while the conspirators learned they had been manipulated by Ye Jinyu. Ye Jinyu rewarded Ouyang Yu and assigned new duties, leaving the Ye Clan in control as preparations began for Wind Abyss.

• Ouyang Xiong presented Ye Zhanyan with the six rebel households’ hidden wealth, records, and evidence, and Ye Zhanyan praised his cooperation.
• The captured Gongsun and Li household heads were brought before Ye Zhanyan, and a released memory revealed that the supposed Jin envoy and wider-universe conspiracy had been fabricated.
• Ye Zhanyan gave the captured household heads to Ouyang Xiong as a reward, and Ouyang Xiong and Ouyang Yu pledged loyalty to the Ye Clan.
• Ye Jinyu discussed Ouyang Yu’s ruthless nature with Xu Feng and decided to use him as a blade for investigating illicit dealings.
• Ye Jinyu appointed Ouyang Yu Deputy Transport Commissioner, granted him access to two Purple Mansion Cultivation Methods, and ordered the Ouyang Clan to oversee Tianlan Ruin Realm.
• Ye Jinyu arranged cultivation opportunities and a Cloud Palace position for Ye Wenting, then ordered him sent to Jiangnan ahead of Wind Abyss’s opening.

Ye Jinyu learned that the Cangxuan All-Heavens would open the Wind Abyss Ruin Realm in a month for a decade-long contest that would decide territory, clan ranks, and the next century’s fortune. He planned to lead the Ye Clan’s preparations and compete for the realm’s treasures, including the Bifeng origin and Zhu Nantian Yin Fire, before meeting Cangxuan’s other geniuses in Jiangnan.

• Xu Feng told Ye Jinyu that the imperial court would open the Wind Abyss Ruin Realm in one month, with Purple Mansion cultivators fighting outside it and lower-level cultivators contesting its resources for ten years.
• Xu Feng explained that the contest would select Cangxuan’s leading young geniuses, determine immortal clan ranks, and offer the victor an imperial title and fortune.
• Xu Feng described four treasures in the realm: the Heavenly Gang Bifeng Pool’s Bifeng origin, heavenly will sword soul grass, void heavenly water marrow, and Zhu Nantian Yin Fire.
• Ye Jinyu recognized that Bifeng and Yin Fire could help him achieve his chosen Foundation Establishment path.
• Xu Feng reported that the Ye Clan had selected disciples and assigned alchemists, a formation master, an artifact refiner, and supplies for the expedition.
• Ye Jinyu ordered the clan to prepare more pills, talismans, defensive formations, Spirit Treasures, and Foundation Establishment Law Artifacts, then said they would go to Jiangnan in three days.

Ye Jinyu equipped his clan’s disciples and himself with powerful artifacts before leading the Cloud Mist Ye Clan to Jiangnan for the Ruin Realm campaign. At the reception platform, he surveyed the gathered factions and learned about the Four Nobles of the Jin Court, the formidable rivals awaiting him.

• Ye Wan presented Ye Jinyu with 130 Azure Scale Mystic Armor suits, which Ye Jinyu ordered distributed to the disciples joining the expedition.
• Xu Feng brought Ye Jinyu three treasures from Qiuran Palace and Azure Nether Palace: the Azure Nether Jade Glass Fan, the Mystic Nether Heavenly Wind Shield, and the Autumn Evolution Dao Profound Robe.
• Ye Jinyu thanked his father and grandfather for their support and promised not to disappoint them before the expedition departed for Jiangnan the next day.
• Ye Jinyu led the armored Ye Clan contingent from the Great Void Cloud Ship onto the Jiangnan Ruin Realm Conquest Office’s reception platform, drawing attention from the assembled cultivators.
• Xu Feng identified Sima Ruiming, Chen Yi, Xie Qingying, and Wang Maohong as the Four Nobles of the Jin Court and described their backgrounds, cultivation, and Dao foundations.
• Ye Jinyu studied the Four Nobles as he stood among the gathered factions, aware that they would be major obstacles in the campaign.

As Great Jin prepared to invade the Wind Abyss Ruin Realm, Ye Jinyu studied intelligence on its powers and watched thirteen Purple Mansion cultivators combine their abilities to attack the realm’s barrier. The chapter ended with Ye Jinyu observing the might and coordination of the realm-conquering force.

• Xu Feng reported that the clan’s pills had been distributed, and Ye Wenting gave Ye Jinyu intelligence on the Wind Abyss Ruin Realm’s major powers and notable rogue cultivators.
• Ye Jinyu considered how the Great Qi and Great Yin Dynasties cultivated sword techniques through their imperial providence, then reviewed the Yuanming Sword-Playing Sect and the realm’s two great Demon Race clans.
• A vast gate opened above the receiving platform, and a screen revealed the Great Void battlefield and the Wind Abyss Ruin Realm’s barrier.
• Five Wang Clan cultivators unleashed nine flaming stars, and Fengyi and two Ye Clan cultivators used wind abilities to turn their attack into a wind-and-fire tornado.
• Three Sima Clan cultivators and two Xie Clan cultivators added a torrent of Heavenly River Heavy Water, combining water, fire, and wind into a strengthening assault on the barrier.
• Ye Jinyu calmly assessed the thirteen Purple Mansion cultivators’ coordination and reflected on the terrifying power of their Divine Abilities.

The people of the Wind Abyss Ruin Realm united under Jian Yiyuan to resist an invasion by thirteen Purple Mansion True Persons from Cangxuan, and their combined sword strike weakened the attackers’ assault enough for the realm’s barrier to hold. After the barrier endured, the gate opened, and Cangxuan cultivators rushed in to begin their ten-year contest.

• Crown Prince Li Tian, the Yin Emperor, Jian Yiyuan, Situ Ze, and Luan Tian rallied their people to defend the Wind Abyss Ruin Realm from the descending attack.
• Jian Yiyuan gathered the realm’s strength into the Sword of Wind Abyss and struck against the torrent of flames, wind, and waves.
• Jian Yiyuan fell and the sword cultivators were badly hurt, but their strike cut the torrent’s power in half before it hit the barrier.
• The Wind Abyss barrier survived the impact, though the realm suffered widespread destruction and countless living beings died.
• True Person Fengyi acknowledged the realm’s resolve, then ordered the Cangxuan cultivators to enter through the opened gate.
• A white-haired official announced the rules, including a ten-year limit and a ban on Purple Mansion cultivators, as Cangxuan cultivators charged through the gate.

Ye Jinyu began establishing the Ye Clan's foothold in the Wind Abyss Ruin Realm by targeting South-Pacifying City and recruiting local cultivators. Ye Anlan killed the city's general in a single move, leaving its defenders in panic.

• Ye Jinyu ordered Ye Anlan and Ye Jinming to gather the scattered Ye Clan disciples in the southern region and secure a city as a stronghold.
• Ye Jinyu sent Ye Anlan to demand South-Pacifying City's surrender and tasked Ye Jinming with recruiting Rogue Cultivators and small-sect cultivators using promises of rewards.
• Ye Anlan arrived at South-Pacifying City and demanded that Li Pojun surrender the city and turn over its supplies, maps, and records.
• Li Pojun confronted Ye Anlan with two deputy generals and attacked him with the King-Observing Sword Force.
• Ye Anlan cut through Li Pojun's sword force and killed him with one strike, causing the defenders on the city wall to panic and flee.

After taking South-Pacifying City, Ye Jinyu learned that the Heavenly Gang Bifeng Pool was the Azure Luan Clan’s inheritance site and ordered the search for Azure Luan royal blood. When Ye Jinming reported that the Xie Clan was also hunting for it, Ye Jinyu began planning how to take advantage of their pursuit.

• Ye Jinyu questioned two captives about the region, and Ye Anlan searched their souls after the deputy general offered information and the recordkeeper refused to betray his country.
• Ye Anlan learned that Azure Luan royal blood could lead to Azure Nether Mountain and that the Bifeng Heavenly Gang Pool was the Azure Luan Clan’s inheritance site.
• Ye Jinyu’s Heavenly Cauldron of Fate revealed visions of an Azure Luan being hunted and of a blood-filled wind pool where Zhunan Yin Fire was born.
• Ye Anlan reported that Ye Jinming had recruited more than five thousand Rogue Cultivators and five small sects, and Ye Jinyu ordered them to search for Azure Luan royal blood.
• Ye Jinming reported finding three incomplete King-Observing Sword Force Instruction Jade Slips and revealed that the Xie Clan was also searching for Azure Luan royal blood.
• Ye Jinyu beckoned Ye Jinming and Ye Anlan closer to share a plan, remarking that the mantis had not noticed the oriole behind it.

Ye Jinyu and his companions came upon Qing Lingxi after Zhao Huayuan and Xie Yu captured and brutalized her for the Xie Clan. Ye Anlan challenged the pursuers as Ye Jinyu focused on Qing Lingxi, leaving a confrontation with the Xie Clan and Rogue Cultivators imminent.

• Zhao Huayuan used the Spirit-Locking Soul Chain to bring down Qing Lingxi and bind her.
• Xie Yu confirmed Qing Lingxi was the Azure Luan royal-blood descendant sought by Qingying, then tightened a chain around her neck.
• Zhao Huayuan and the other Rogue Cultivators discussed abusing Qing Lingxi before handing her over, while Xie Yu considered extracting her soul essence first.
• An unseen wind blade struck at Xie Yu, and Ye Jinyu emerged from the forest with two companions.
• Zhao Huayuan recognized Ye Jinyu as a lord of the Cloud Mist Ye Clan and asked him to make an exception, while Ye Jinyu studied Qing Lingxi.
• Ye Anlan confronted the Xie Clan cultivators as Ye Jinyu's Heavenly Cauldron of Fate and Dao Seed of Fate stirred.

Ye Jinyu’s group rescued Qing Lingxi from Xie Yu and the Rogue Cultivators, and Ye Jinyu discovered that her bloodline was far more powerful than it appeared. After Qing Lingxi swallowed his Fate Seed, Ye Jinyu killed the Rogue Cultivators, forced Xie Yu to kneel for three months, and left with Qing Lingxi.

• Xie Yu threatened Ye Jinyu, but Ye Jinyu summoned dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators and had Ye Anlan seize Zhao Huayuan.
• Ye Jinyu examined Qing Lingxi, suspected she possessed Heavenly Demon Emperor Blood, and gave her his blood to lick before freeing her from her chain.
• Ye Jinyu ordered Qing Lingxi to swallow the Fate Seed, binding her life and death to him, and she agreed.
• Ye Anlan and the Ye Clan cultivators killed the Rogue Cultivators while Ye Jinyu spared Xie Yu and ordered him to kneel for three months under Calamity Wind Soul-Locking Talismans.
• Ye Jinyu left with his group and Qing Lingxi, leaving Xie Yu kneeling in the forest.

Qing Lingxi learned that the Azure Luan Clan had sacrificed her to protect Qing Lingyue and accepted Ye Jinyu’s offer to help her seize the throne. After Qing Lingxi agreed to take revenge, Ye Jinyu sent her to kill Xie Yu, while Xie Qingying sensed his death from afar.

• Qing Lingxi recalled how her clan favored Qing Lingyue and deliberately sent her to the Xie Clan as bait while hiding Qing Lingyue in the ancestral land.
• Ye Jinyu asked Qing Lingxi about the Heavenly Gang Bifeng Pool, then offered to help her take revenge and become the Azure Luan Clan’s queen.
• Ye Jinyu told Qing Lingxi that her bloodline was nobler than Qing Lingyue’s and urged her to lead his people to the ancestral land; Qing Lingxi vowed to kill Qing Lingyue.
• Ye Jinyu gave Qing Lingxi an azure jade dagger and ordered her to kill Xie Yu, and she brutally wounded him until his Dao foundation shattered.
• Xie Qingying sensed Xie Yu’s death from beside a lake and dismissed him as useless.

Qing Lingxi returned to the Azure Luan ancestral land and secretly prepared to act, while Ye Jinyu led an assault on the clan to seize the Bifeng Heavenly Gang Pool. As the Azure Luan elders faced the attack, Qing Lingyue ordered First Elder Luan Mi to take Qing Lingxi’s bloodline for her.

• Qing Lingxi summoned Third Elder Luan Qingyu, claimed the Xie Clan had captured and humiliated her, and was placed under guarded confinement.
• After Third Elder searched the palace with her Divine Sense, Qing Lingxi rose at midnight as the pale azure and dark red powers of her Dao Seed of Fate intertwined.
• Ye Jinyu gathered his Ye Clan elites and three thousand cultivators, promised rewards for the assault, and sent Ye Anlan and Ye Jinming to lead the frontal attack.
• Ye Jinyu slipped away toward a meeting with the Xie Clan’s legitimate daughter while the cultivators charged Azure Nether Mountain.
• At the Bifeng Heavenly Gang Pool, Qing Lingyue absorbed its Gang winds as First Elder Luan Mi guarded her royal blood inheritance.
• After learning that attackers had overwhelmed the outer forest, Qing Lingyue accused the elders of mishandling Qing Lingxi and asked Luan Mi to take her sister’s bloodline for her.

The Ye Clan broke into the Azure Luan Clan’s secret realm, where Ye Jinyu backed Qing Lingxi’s claim to rule and offered Luan Mi a deal. When Luan Mi attacked instead, Xie Qingying appeared to defend Ye Jinyu, revealing that the Xie Clan had joined forces with the Ye Clan.

• Luan Mi ordered the Azure Nether Barrier activated and the secret realm sealed after learning the Ye Clan had arrived, but Ye Jinyu shattered the formation and entered with Qing Lingxi and the third elder.
• The third elder accused Luan Mi of betraying Qing Lingxi, while Ye Jinyu proposed making Qing Lingxi the Azure Luan Clan’s ruler in exchange for Qing Lingyue.
• Qing Lingyue insulted Qing Lingxi and offered herself to Ye Jinyu, prompting Luan Mi to curse her and launch a charged Bifeng Nether Abyss attack at Ye Jinyu.
• Luan Mi ordered the thirty-six Azure Luan Royal Guards to attack, but Xie Qingying appeared and blocked the wind strike with a water barrier.
• Luan Mi demanded to know why the Xie Clan had joined the Ye Clan, while Xie Qingying and Ye Jinyu exchanged a knowing glance.

Ye Jinyu and Xie Qingying defeated the Azure Luan Clan’s resistance and helped Qing Lingxi claim the clan by killing Qing Lingyue. After Qing Lingxi pledged the clan’s loyalty to the Ye Clan, Ye Jinyu and Xie Qingying combined wind and heavy water at the Heavenly Gang Bifeng Pool, creating the Zhu Nantian Yin Fire and revealing a cultivation manual.

• Ye Jinyu and Xie Qingying agreed to divide the Azure Luan inheritance and the wondrous flame, then fought Grand Elder Luan Mi and the Azure Luan guards with help from Ye Anlan and the Ye Clan elites.
• Qing Lingxi called on her imperial bloodline to demand the Azure Luan Clan’s surrender and confronted Qing Lingyue, who begged for her life.
• Qing Lingxi killed Qing Lingyue, crushed her demon core, and forced Luan Mi and the Azure Luan Clan to submit to her rule.
• Qing Lingxi pledged the Azure Luan Clan’s loyalty to Ye Jinyu, who promised the clan a share in the Ye Clan’s glory.
• Ye Jinyu reversed the wind currents in the Heavenly Gang Bifeng Pool while Xie Qingying added Mystic Origin Heavy Water, and their forces produced the Zhu Nantian Yin Fire.
• The Heavenly Cauldron of Fate revealed the Zhu Yin Heavenly Fire Manual to Ye Jinyu.