Chapter Summaries

After the immortal departed from the Canglang Gang's headquarters, Prefect Su and the gathered crowd watched the Crane King desecrate Sha Pingwei's corpse before carrying its master into the sky. A little girl then emerged from the ruins holding a strange, faintly glowing orb.

• Prefect Su arrived and learned from Left Thousand Commander that the immortal had killed Sha Pingwei with heavenly lightning.
• Left Thousand Commander described the Canglang Gang's crimes and resolved to destroy evidence of his own ties to the gang.
• The Crane King came out, tore apart Sha Pingwei's corpse, and returned to its master when summoned.
• The immortal rode the Crane King into the sky and vanished into the clouds as the crowd watched.
• A little girl emerged from the compound holding a translucent orb that glowed faintly green.

Vice Prefect Xiao returned to Dingzhou City with an Immortal Elixir, only to learn that an immortal had just departed and regret missing the chance to see him. At the Canglang Gang’s headquarters, Xiao Ya faced a crowd of powerful onlookers as Xue Wenqian greeted her as the immortal’s emissary.

• Vice Prefect Xiao carried the Immortal Elixir toward Dingzhou City after he and Zhang Huaimin concealed the Prefect’s niece’s remains to avoid official trouble.
• A huge white crane flew out of Dingzhou City, and Vice Prefect Xiao admired its extraordinary size.
• Vice Prefect Xiao found the city deserted and learned that an immortal had descended in South City, then flown away on a crane before he arrived.
• Vice Prefect Xiao blamed Zhang Huaimin for the circumstances that had caused him to miss seeing the immortal.
• At the Canglang Gang’s headquarters, Xiao Ya nervously faced a crowd of officials and dignitaries while holding the immortal’s Precious Pearl.
• Xue Wenqian approached Xiao Ya and introduced himself, greeting her as the immortal’s emissary.

Gao Yunyi crafted an exquisite blue Azure Mystic Sword in a hidden valley, then made several ordinary pieces of equipment. He prepared to use his three Artifact Refining Stones on the sword, despite the risk of failure, and fumed that the game store was unavailable.

• Gao Yunyi emerged from two days of meditation and set up a bath and incense before crafting equipment in the valley.
• Gao Yunyi crafted the Azure Mystic Sword, an exquisite blue-quality weapon with a chance to unleash an extra Sword Qi attack.
• Gao Yunyi tested the sword's Sword Qi and destroyed nearby plants and rocks with its sharp strikes.
• Gao Yunyi used the rest of his materials to make hats and shoes, but every piece came out Common quality.
• Gao Yunyi decided to enhance the Azure Mystic Sword with his three Artifact Refining Stones and cursed the unavailable game store.

Gao Yunyi risked his Azure Mystic Sword and successfully enhanced it to +2, then tested its increased power by cleaving a path through a cliff. He left the valley with Xiaobai, newly delighted by his weapon and strengthened character.

• Gao Yunyi successfully enhanced the Azure Mystic Sword to +1, increasing its attack to 53.
• Gao Yunyi used the Azure Mystic Robe as a sacrificial item, and it shattered during a failed refinement.
• Gao Yunyi used his last Artifact Refining Stone on the +1 Azure Mystic Sword and successfully raised it to +2, increasing its attack to 60.
• Gao Yunyi activated Blazing Sun Sword Qi with the enhanced sword and carved a long fissure through a cliff.
• Gao Yunyi checked his improved character attributes and told Xiaobai to leave with him.

Gao Yunyi descended from the mountain and found lodging for the night at the head of East Creek Village’s home. He gave the village head a large silver ingot, and the chapter ended as the village head’s grandson came home to find his grandmother weeping over the slaughtered hen.

• Gao Yunyi entered East Creek Village and asked the village head for a place to stay.
• The village head invited Gao Yunyi to spend the night at his home and offered him his son and daughter-in-law’s room.
• Gao Yunyi gave the village head a ten-tael silver ingot, which the village head eventually accepted.
• The village head ordered his wife to slaughter their laying hen to prepare dinner for Gao Yunyi.
• The village head’s grandson returned from school, and his grandmother embraced him in tears.

The village head tried to keep his wife from embarrassing their honored guest, Gao Yunyi, while encouraging his grandson’s studies. When the boy asked Gao Yunyi to explain sayings from the Analects, Gao Yunyi gave wildly incorrect answers, leaving him bewildered.

• The village head stopped his wife from wailing and told his grandson that their honored guest had given the family money for his tuition.
• The village head caught his wife trying to save a chicken leg for their grandson and sent her away from the kitchen.
• The old woman’s sobbing distracted the boy from studying until the village head brought in chicken soup and drove her out again.
• The boy told the village head that he did not understand parts of the Analects, so the village head suggested asking Gao Yunyi for help.
• The boy visited Gao Yunyi and asked about several sayings from the Analects, but Gao Yunyi answered with absurd explanations that left him speechless.

Gao Yunyi enjoyed a meal with the village head’s family while the little boy struggled with the scholar’s unorthodox teachings and decided to keep them secret. After Gao Yunyi began meditating at night, armed men rode into the village and demanded its grain, plunging East Creek Village into chaos.

• Gao Yunyi ate chicken soup and shared a quiet, curious evening with the village head’s family.
• The little boy recognized Gao Yunyi’s teachings as treasonous but swore not to reveal them.
• Gao Yunyi waited until the family was asleep before entering Meditative Samadhi.
• Armed riders stormed East Creek Village and demanded that the villagers hand over their grain.
• The village head pleaded that the village had already surrendered grain and had little left, but the leader threatened to kill anyone who refused.

Gao Yunyi was disturbed while cultivating as soldiers raided a village for grain, then one soldier broke into his room and tried to assault him. Gao Yunyi laughed at the soldier, who realized too late that his target was no ordinary villager.

• Gao Yunyi stayed in his room while soldiers threatened the village head and began searching households for grain.
• A soldier entered the old woman's home, took the family's grain, and demanded money as the little boy tried to defend his grandfather and household.
• The soldier noticed Gao Yunyi's room and ignored the old woman's warning that an honored guest was inside.
• The soldier saw Gao Yunyi, became excited by his beauty, and shut the door to approach him.
• Gao Yunyi laughed, making the soldier reconsider his assumptions just before it was too late.

Gao Yunyi appeared in East Willow Village as soldiers plundered the villagers and prepared to slaughter them. He emerged through a collapsed wall after killing one of the soldiers, confronting the officer who was about to execute the village head.

• The officer ordered his soldiers to seize grain and assault the women while villagers were forced into the village square.
• After discovering the village had too little grain, the officer agreed to search other villages and decided to kill the defiant village head.
• The officer revealed that the soldiers planned to silence the villagers and slaughter everyone after killing the village head.
• A wall collapsed, and the corpse of Wang Er flew into the square, interrupting the officer's attack.
• Gao Yunyi stepped through the hole in the wall, coldly facing the officer after a man had looked at him with desire.

Gao Yunyi accepted a quest to rescue the village head and killed two elite soldiers who attacked him. The squad officer recognized that Gao Yunyi was far more dangerous than expected but ordered the remaining soldiers to surround him.

• Gao Yunyi asked the little boy whether he wanted help saving his grandpa, then accepted the rescue quest.
• The squad officer ordered two soldiers to attack Gao Yunyi after growing jealous and angry.
• Gao Yunyi caught one soldier’s saber barehanded, kicked the other away, and killed both in a swift exchange.
• Gao Yunyi felt satisfied after fighting at close range and reflected that he should have chosen the Shura Sect or the Hegemon Sect.
• The squad officer realized Gao Yunyi was an overwhelming opponent but urged the remaining soldiers to surround him.

Gao Yunyi used the Azure Mystic Sword to slaughter the soldiers attacking him, then left the villagers he had rescued. The village head’s grandson decided he wanted to learn martial arts, while the village head secretly resolved to stop him.

• The squad officer held back to figure out where Gao Yunyi had hidden the weapon that killed Wang Er.
• Gao Yunyi summoned the Azure Mystic Sword and cut through the soldiers’ armor and weapons as they charged him.
• The squad officer fled, and Gao Yunyi killed the remaining soldiers as they ran.
• The rescued villagers watched Gao Yunyi with fear, and the village head stood frozen as Gao Yunyi vanished into the night.
• The village head’s grandson said he wanted to learn martial arts so he could protect his family and village.
• The village head resolved to prevent his sole heir from learning martial arts, while the boy wondered why the back of his neck felt chilly.

Gao Yunyi and the Crane King hunted down the fleeing squad officer, completing their quest and leaving the area by air. Gao Yunyi realized he could claim quest rewards directly through the quest panel, then flew away with the Crane King instead of returning to the villagers.

• The squad officer fled toward his army camp after Gao Yunyi slaughtered his soldiers.
• The Crane King frightened the squad officer’s horse, then attacked and lifted him into the air with its talons.
• After dropping the squad officer, the Crane King left him before Gao Yunyi, who killed him with a flash of white light and received 15 experience.
• Gao Yunyi realized he could complete quests through the quest panel without returning to the quest-giving NPC.
• Gao Yunyi praised the Crane King, climbed onto its back, and flew into the night rather than returning to the villagers.

County Magistrate Zhang longed for the immortal while governing Heyang County, but Prince Ning’s heir arrived with an armed troop. Zhang received him and allowed the soldiers into the city after standing up for the city guards, while the heir concealed his anger to pursue a more important matter.

• County Magistrate Zhang heard that an armored troop bearing Prince Ning’s banner had gathered outside Heyang County and went to meet them.
• Prince Ning’s heir waited at the gate as the city guards barred his troop from entering under the court’s rules.
• The heir’s guard identified him, and Zhang and the County Yamen officials knelt to pay their respects.
• The heir mocked Zhang for letting the city guards stop him, but Zhang defended the guards as following the law.
• The heir’s guard reminded him of his important business, so the heir restrained his anger and entered the city with his troop.

The heir apparent of Prince Ning arrived in Heyang County to invite the immortal, but learned the immortal had left and that Vice Prefect Xiao had taken a life-prolonging Immortal Elixir for the Liang Emperor. Fearing the emperor’s recovery would destroy Prince Ning’s ambitions and his own chance to become emperor, the heir apparent ordered an urgent message sent to his father.

• The heir apparent demanded to see the immortal, and County Magistrate Zhang explained that the immortal had left Heyang County.
• The heir apparent decided to wait for the immortal and stayed in the west room while County Magistrate Zhang warned his subordinates to avoid offending him.
• After a day of boredom, the heir apparent learned from his guard that the immortal had given Zhang Huaimin an Immortal Elixir, but Vice Prefect Xiao had already taken it for the Liang Emperor.
• The heir apparent panicked at the prospect of the Liang Emperor recovering and ordered his guard to send word to his father at full gallop.

County Magistrate Zhang confronted Prince Ning's heir after hearing that his men had abducted Scholar Liu's daughter. The heir emerged from the Drunken Immortal Tower with County Magistrate Zhang's former concubine at his side.

• A Yamen Runner told County Magistrate Zhang that Prince Ning's heir had injured staff at the Drunken Immortal Tower and seized Scholar Liu's daughter.
• County Magistrate Zhang summoned armed Yamen Runners and constables after learning that the heir's guards had blocked Constable Chen.
• Scholar Liu mourned his daughter outside the tower as an angry crowd demanded her release.
• County Magistrate Zhang ordered his men to enter the tower and kill anyone who resisted.
• Prince Ning's heir emerged with a woman whom County Magistrate Zhang recognized as his former concubine.

County Magistrate Zhang stood up to Prince Ning's heir and forced him to release a young woman he had abducted. After Zhang rejected the heir's attempt to provoke him with his former concubine, the heir left and the people of Heyang City cheered their magistrate.

• County Magistrate Zhang confronted Prince Ning's heir at the Drunken Immortal Restaurant and demanded that he release the abducted woman.
• Zhang's officers and yamen runners declared they would follow him inside, and Zhang warned that he would report the heir to the imperial court and Prince Ning's Residence.
• Prince Ning's heir backed down and claimed the abduction had been a misunderstanding, then had the young woman brought out to reunite with her father.
• The heir revealed Zhang's former concubine and asked whether Zhang would part with her, but Zhang dismissed her as a shameless woman.
• Prince Ning's heir shoved the woman away and departed, while the people of Heyang City cheered Zhang.

After leveling up and improving his gear, Gao Yunyi encountered a scholar attempting to hang himself and saved him to complete a quest. A second quest appeared when the scholar asked him to hear his story, so Gao Yunyi agreed to listen.

• Gao Yunyi emerged after two days, having leveled up, strengthened his robe and crown, and refined three Essence Gathering Pills.
• Gao Yunyi found a scholar standing beneath a noose, but the scholar accidentally slipped and began hanging himself.
• Gao Yunyi accepted a quest to save the scholar and cut him down, earning 10 experience points.
• The scholar thanked Gao Yunyi and asked him to hear his story, triggering a quest worth 50 experience points.
• Gao Yunyi accepted the quest and told the scholar to make his long story short.

Gao Yunyi learned that Fu Yihang needed two hundred taels to pass Master Gao’s first test for marrying Miss Gao, then reluctantly accepted a quest to help him. After giving Fu Yihang the silver, Gao Yunyi urged him to go complete the test.

• Fu Yihang told Gao Yunyi how Master Gao had set him three difficult tests before he could marry Miss Gao.
• Fu Yihang asked Gao Yunyi to lend him two hundred taels for the first test, and Gao Yunyi received a quest to help him pass it.
• Gao Yunyi accepted the quest and threw twenty silver ingots at Fu Yihang, leaving him delighted and stunned.
• Fu Yihang gathered the silver, thanked Gao Yunyi, and said his name was Fu Yihang.
• Gao Yunyi told Fu Yihang to hurry and turn in the quest.

Fu Yihang brought two hundred taels of silver to Master Gao as betrothal gifts, accompanied by Gao Yunyi. Master Gao’s attention shifted from Fu Yihang to Gao Yunyi, leaving Fu Yihang wondering whether he was still the one seeking to marry Miss Gao.

• Fu Yihang and Gao Yunyi arrived at Gao Family Village, where the gatekeeper initially refused Fu Yihang entry.
• Fu Yihang told the gatekeeper he had gathered the required bride price, and the gatekeeper eventually let both men into the residence.
• Master Gao recalled why he had set three tests for Fu Yihang and remained determined not to entrust his daughter to him.
• Fu Yihang revealed two hundred taels of silver, surprising Master Gao, who suspected Gao Yunyi was connected to the money.
• Master Gao warmly questioned Gao Yunyi about his family, age, and marital status while Fu Yihang stood bewildered.

Fu Yihang insisted on facing Master Gao’s second trial, a supposed mountain of blades and sea of fire, despite his terror. Gao Yunyi accepted a quest to help him and lent him game-made boots that could protect him, leaving Fu Yihang ready to attempt the trial.

• Fu Yihang reminded Master Gao of his promise to marry Xiuer, but Master Gao claimed the two hundred taels had only completed the first trial.
• Fu Yihang agreed to take the second trial, and Master Gao ordered servants to prepare a board of rusty nails and a path of burning charcoal.
• Gao Yunyi accepted a quest to help Fu Yihang pass the trial, whose reward was three hundred experience points and an unknown item.
• Fu Yihang gathered his courage and charged toward the nail-covered board, but Gao Yunyi stopped him and gave him the Azure Profound Boots.
• Fu Yihang put on the boots, then entrusted Xiuer’s future happiness to Gao Yunyi in case he died before setting off to face the trial.