Chapter Summaries

Yang Shan led Wind and Thunder Pavilion against the Xiao Alliance and Medicine God Valley, demonstrating his overwhelming strength while ordering Players to spare ordinary NPCs. After scouting a force of nearly ten thousand led by Xiao Kuang, he suspected Xiao Ding had prepared a trap or was buying time and went ahead to investigate.

• Yang Shan killed Mu Mu and eighteen Dou Zongs, but spared Yuan Ge and four other NPCs, prompting Mu Mu to realize that Yang Shan did not kill NPCs.
• At the Wind and Thunder Pavilion spatial exit, Yang Shan stopped Feng Tianyu from killing a Medicine God Valley NPC and explained why Players should protect NPCs with personal ties to them.
• Yang Shan tasked Feng Tianyu with telling Dou Zun Players to avoid killing ordinary NPCs from the Xiao Alliance and Medicine God Valley, then spreading the warning to Dou Zong Players.
• As Wind and Thunder Pavilion advanced cautiously, Yang Shan detected nearly ten thousand cultivators ahead and told Thunder Lord he would scout them alone.
• Yang Shan identified Xiao Kuang as the opposing force's Six Star Dou Zun leader, reported the intelligence to Thunder Lord, and continued past the formation to investigate what lay ahead.

Yang Shan infiltrated the Yao Clan’s formation site but was detected by Yao Ling’s Heaven Soul Net, so he launched an attack to disrupt the formation and delay its completion. Xiao Ding and Xiao Li fought him together, but Yang Shan held his ground as the battle began.

• Liao Wuchen and Lin Maokai learned that Yang Shan had arrived and worried about facing him, while Xiao Ding and Yao Ling sensed an intruder nearby.
• Xiao Li searched the area but found no one, and Xiao Ding sent him to patrol while Yao Ling said she needed a cup of tea to finish the formation concealing the Top Grade Spirit Vein.
• Yang Shan appeared and unleashed twelve Overloads, disrupting Yao Ling’s incomplete formation with explosions of Crimson Thunder and Sea Heart Flame.
• Xiao Ding ordered the others to protect the Medicine God Valley leaders, then joined Xiao Li in attacking Yang Shan.
• Yang Shan fought Xiao Ding and Xiao Li at once, parried their attacks with Yama’s twin blades, and taunted them for underestimating him.

Yang Shan’s Thunder Illusory Body was trapped by the Yao Clan’s formation and used as leverage by Xiao Ding, but Yang Shan revealed that his true body had brought Thunder Lord, Lei Che, and reinforcements to Hundred Spirits Canyon. As Xiao Ding’s forces moved to destroy the clone, Yang Shan struck Yao Xingji and tore open the formation.

• Yang Shan’s Thunder Illusory Body appeared to attack Yao Ling, but Yao Ling and the other Yao Clan prodigies combined their Soul Strength to activate the Mystic Turtle Heaven Sealing Formation and trap him.
• Xiao Ding offered to release the captive clone if the Wind and Thunder Pavilion stayed out of Hundred Spirits Canyon, but Yang Shan’s true body appeared with Thunder Lord, Lei Che, and more than five hundred Dou Zun-level Players.
• Yang Shan explained that he had sent his Thunder Illusory Body in his place while he retreated and summoned reinforcements through a Space Channel.
• Xiao Ding refused to retreat and ordered Yao Ling and the other Yao Clan prodigies to destroy Yang Shan’s Thunder Illusory Body.
• Yang Shan appeared behind Yao Xingji, slammed him into the ground, and used Yama and Supreme Void Power to tear open the flaming turtle formation.

Yang Shan fought the Yao Clan prodigies while the Wind and Thunder Pavilion battled Xiao Alliance and Medicine God Valley, revealing his Saint Weapon and Heaven Realm soul. He incapacitated Yao Xingji and slammed Yao Ling into the ground, leaving the Yao Clan pair defeated.

• Yao Xingji developed hatred for Yang Shan after being tricked into eating dirt, and Yao Ling, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li attacked Yang Shan as Thunder Lord and Lei Che came to support him.
• Lei Che and Thunder Lord engaged Xiao Li and Xiao Ding while Wind and Thunder Pavilion Players fought Xiao Alliance and Medicine God Valley Players, using their Three Thousand Thunder Illusory Bodies to match the opposing forces.
• Yang Shan battled Yao Ling, using Sea Heart Flame and his Saint Weapon Yama to suppress her despite her Nine-Star Dou Zun cultivation.
• Yao Xingji attacked Yang Shan with a soul skill, but Yang Shan shattered it with his Heaven Realm soul and restrained him with Imprisoning Spirit True Skill.
• Yang Shan distracted Yao Ling with Ten Thousand Demons Howling to the Heavens, then seized her and slammed her head into the ground, creating a crater two hundred meters wide.

Yang Shan nearly captured Yao Ling before her Yao Tian puppet intervened, and Xiao Ding then revealed a puppet carrying Xiao Qian Di’s remnant soul. The two clans’ powerful preparations left Yang Shan wondering whether the Thunder Clan had a comparable trump card.

• Yang Shan restrained Yao Ling, hid Yan Luo in his arm, and beat her while preparing a sealing formation.
• Yao Ling summoned a powerful puppet from her Storage Ring, and it drove Yang Shan back before she called it her brother, Yao Tian.
• Lei Che identified the newcomer as Yao Tian and accused the Yao Clan of breaking the rules, while Yang Shan realized it was a puppet containing Yao Tian’s remnant soul.
• Yao Ling demanded that Xiao Ding reveal his own puppet, and Xiao Ding produced one carrying Xiao Qian Di’s remnant soul.
• Yang Shan recognized that both puppets had the combat strength of Two-Revolution Dou Zun Peaks and questioned why the Thunder Clan had not revealed a similar trump card.

Yang Shan confronted the puppets inhabited by Xiao Qian Di and Yao Tian’s fragmented souls, refusing to answer their questions and boasting that he could defeat them. Just as Xiao Qian Di advanced to punish him, a woman’s threatening voice interrupted, leaving the identity of Yang Shan’s potential rescuer unknown.

• Lei Che told Yang Shan that he had a righteous spirit, while Thunder Lord ordered the Wind and Thunder Pavilion members to withdraw.
• Xiao Qian Di and Yao Tian exchanged taunts through their puppets, then questioned Yang Shan, who refused to answer and defended the Wind and Thunder Pavilion.
• Yang Shan challenged Xiao Qian Di and Yao Tian, claiming he had spared Yao Ling and would not exploit the rules for protection.
• Lin Maokai and Liao Wuchen speculated that Yang Shan had powerful Space Jade Slips, and Xiao Ding warned that Mystic Wrath Thunder Saint could not intervene in this fight.
• Xiao Qian Di stepped forward to teach Yang Shan a lesson, but a woman’s cold voice demanded to know what he intended to do.

Yun Yun arrived to support Yang Shan against Xiao Qian Di, and their intimate exchange stirred Xiao Qian Di’s jealousy and hostility. Yun Yun declared the Flower Sect’s entry into the battle and summoned its powerful elders and the Green-Hua Two Immortals, leaving Xiao Qian Di facing a much stronger opposing force.

• Yun Yun arrived at Hundred Spirits Canyon, and she and Yang Shan exchanged teasing remarks while Xiao Qian Di watched with growing jealousy.
• Xiao Qian Di lost 20 Favorability toward Yang Shan, reaching the threshold where further losses could turn into Hatred.
• Yun Yun stepped in to confront Xiao Qian Di, and she promised Yang Shan she would leave him alive.
• Yun Yun announced that the Flower Sect was joining the contest for resources and summoned Plum Elder, Orchid Elder, Chrysanthemum Elder, and the Green-Hua Two Immortals.
• Xiao Qian Di’s confidence faltered when the two Nine-Star Dou Zun Peak immortals arrived, while Yang Shenqing remarked that Yang Shan’s reputation for living off a woman would endure.

With the Flower Sect backing him, Yang Shan forced the Xiao Alliance and Medicine God Valley to pay compensation and promise to stay out of Hundred Spirits Canyon for three months. The factions prepared to leave, but Yang Shan had not yet said whether he would accept their terms.

• Xiao Qian Di and the Flower Sect’s Grand Elders intervened, and Yang Shan’s True Dragon Mystic Body answered Xiao Qian Di’s dragon roar.
• Xiao Ding admitted the Xiao Alliance’s defeat, while Yao Tian withdrew Medicine God Valley rather than fight the Flower Sect’s experts.
• Yang Shan demanded compensation and ransom before allowing either faction to leave, threatening to send Yao Ling to the Thunder Clan if Yao Tian attacked.
• Xiao Ding gave Yang Shan seven Variant Spirit Crystals and promised the Xiao Alliance would stay out of Hundred Spirits Canyon for three months.
• Yao Tian gave Yang Shan seven attribute pills and made the same three-month promise, while Lei Che urged Yang Shan to accept the terms and secure the Top Grade Spirit Vein.

After the Xiao Alliance and Medicine God Valley withdrew, Yang Shan thanked the Flower Sect elders and brought Yun Yun and three Great Elders to the Wind and Thunder Pavilion. He learned that Xiao Xun'er had claimed a Top Grade Spirit Vein by defeating two powerful opponents, then gave Yun Yun a Jade Beauty Pill, and she fell asleep in his arms after realizing her wish had been fulfilled.

• Yang Shan arranged for the Wind and Thunder Pavilion to develop Hundred Spirits Canyon’s spirit veins and thanked the Flower Sect elders for their help.
• Yang Shan gave Azure Fairy two Enlightenment Pills and told her that Yao Chen had returned, prompting her to leave to attend to personal matters.
• Xiao Xun'er defeated Huo Zhi and Shi Xiaoqi with Golden Crow Burning Heaven and claimed the Top Grade Spirit Vein.
• Yang Shan brought Yun Yun and the three Great Elders, Plum, Orchid, and Chrysanthemum, to the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, then took Yun Yun by the hand.
• Yang Shan gave Yun Yun a Jade Beauty Pill that he had refined for her, and she fell asleep in his arms as her favorability toward him rose to 84.

Yun Yun woke beside Yang Shan, and after spending eight days at the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, she reluctantly prepared to return to the Flower Sect. Mystic Wrath Thunder Saint returned with a mysterious short-haired woman and asked Yun Yun and the elders to keep his arrival secret, while Yang Shan learned he had come to settle Lei Ting’s matter.

• Yun Yun woke with her arms around Yang Shan, and he teased her until her Favorability increased to 86.
• After eight days at the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, Yun Yun said she would return to the Flower Sect and discuss an alliance with the Wind and Thunder Pavilion.
• Yun Yun offered Yang Shan a hug before leaving, just as Mystic Wrath Thunder Saint arrived with an unfamiliar short-haired woman.
• Mystic Wrath Thunder Saint asked Yun Yun and the three elders to conceal his return and gave each of them an eighth-tier Variant Spirit Crystal.
• Yang Shan asked why Mystic Wrath Thunder Saint had not gone to the Flower Sect, and learned he planned to settle Lei Ting’s matter first.

Yang Shan persuaded Lei Ting to stay at the Wind and Thunder Pavilion by arguing that its trials could help her prove herself to the Thunder Clan. He made her a miscellaneous disciple and summoned Lei Che to escort her to the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall, leaving Lei Ting horrified that her brother would learn about her new position.

• Lei Zhanghao explained that Lei Ting had agreed to stay at the Wind and Thunder Pavilion for half a year but wanted to cultivate independently.
• Yang Shan offered Lei Ting a dangerous mission to capture Xiao Qian Di's puppet, then used the risks of the Central Plains to challenge her plan to go alone.
• Yang Shan compared Lei Ting's situation with Lei Che's progress and convinced her that the Wind and Thunder Pavilion could help her prove herself to the clan.
• Lei Ting agreed to accept any trial, and Yang Shan assigned her to begin as a miscellaneous disciple.
• Yang Shan summoned Lei Che to escort Lei Ting to the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall, and Lei Ting panicked when he recognized her.

Lei Zhanghao began passing the Heaven Rank Nine Heavens Thunder Appraisal to Yang Shan by striking him with Golden Qilin Mystic Lightning, while the Thunder Clan youths and Wind and Thunder Pavilion elders watched. Yang Shan’s system arranged for the inheritance to continue while he was offline, and Lei Ting acknowledged that she was inferior to him.

• Lei Zhanghao offered to pass the Nine Heavens Thunder Appraisal to Yang Shan and invited Lei Ting and the Thunder Clan youths to observe.
• Yang Shan asked Lei Che to summon Lei Yang, Lei Ying, their fellow Thunder Clan youths, Thunder Lord, and Fei Tian to Venerable Battle Valley.
• Lei Zhanghao summoned the Golden Thunder Qilin and struck Yang Shan with Golden Qilin Mystic Lightning to transmit the cultivation method into his soul.
• Yang Shan lowered his sensory intensity to zero and endured the lightning as the system scheduled the inheritance to continue during his offline time.
• Thunder Lord, Fei Tian, Lei Ting, Lei Yang, Lei Che, and the youths observed Yang Shan, while Fei Tian praised his journey and character.
• Lei Ting admitted that she was inferior to Yang Shan, and Lei Zhanghao urged her to learn from him in Wind and Thunder Pavilion.

Yang Shan absorbed Lei Zhanghao’s Golden Qilin Mystic Lightning and perfected the Heaven Rank Mid-Level technique Nine Heavens Thunder Appraisal in two days. After waking, he confirmed his achievement to the Thunder Clan, while Lei Zhanghao demanded that he share the technique’s remaining insights.

• Yang Shan comprehended Nine Heavens Thunder Appraisal to perfection while absorbing the Golden Qilin Mystic Lightning.
• Lei Zhanghao and the Thunder Clan prodigies realized Yang Shan had absorbed all the golden lightning and worried when he did not wake.
• Yang Shan examined the technique’s abilities and restrictions, then emerged from cultivation with his Exotic Lightning and True Dragon Mystic Body on display.
• Yang Shan admitted that he had perfected the technique, prompting Lei Zhanghao to praise him and secretly ask him to share insights.
• Yang Shan questioned whether Lei Zhanghao had also perfected the technique, and Lei Zhanghao threatened to break his legs if he refused to compare insights.

Yang Shan displayed the might of his perfected cultivation method and three Heaven and Earth Oddities, helping the Thunder Clan and Wind and Thunder Pavilion experts comprehend and break through. After managing the pavilion and arranging Soul Sweeping Tower’s resource-contract business, he received a Mystic Spirit Crystal and a Three Oddities Invitation that changed his plans.

• Yang Shan circulated Nine Heavens Thunder Appraisal and unleashed his three Heaven and Earth Oddities, overwhelming the assembled experts with pressure as they struggled to endure and comprehend.
• Lei Zhanghao asked Yang Shan to guide the others, then left for the Flower Sect with a Five-Colored Pill Lightning Jade Beauty Pill for Senior Yu.
• Yang Shan used his Thunder Phantom Body to protect the meditating group and temporarily managed the Wind and Thunder Pavilion while cultivating Ten Thousand Demons Howling to the Heavens.
• After a month, the pavilion’s upper ranks awoke from their comprehension, and Thunder Lord and Fei Tian had both broken through in cultivation.
• Yang Shan organized Soul Sweeping Tower’s contracts to secure resource sites for clients, drawing business from Ancient Beast families while the tower struggled to find enough manpower.
• Thunder Lord gave Yang Shan a Mystic Spirit Crystal and a Three Oddities Invitation jointly issued by Pill Tower, Treasure Appraisal Mountain, and Earth Travel Sect.

Yang Shan prepared the Soul Sweeping Tower to help Sound Valley confront Yellow Spring Pavilion, while advancing his plans for the Three Oddities Grand Meet and Hundred Spirits Canyon. The chapter ended with Yang Shan leading Soul Hall experts to attack Yellow Spring Pavilion, confident they could win if its Pavilion Master Jin Buhuan stayed away.

• Yang Shan received the Pill Tower's invitation to compete in the Three Oddities Grand Meet and told Thunder Lord to develop Hundred Spirits Canyon as the Wind and Thunder Pavilion's next resource center.
• Yang Shan promoted Lei Ting to Outer Disciple and assigned her to mine in Hundred Spirits Canyon while keeping her strength concealed.
• Yang Shan met Hun Dan, Qiu Di, and Mo Yu at the Soul Sweeping Tower and promised a way to overcome the Soul Hall branch's difficulties in the Western Region.
• Yang Shan arranged for Sound Valley to endorse the Soul Sweeping Tower, then recruited its experts to help Sound Valley against Yellow Spring Pavilion.
• Yang Shan brought six Soul Sweeping Tower experts to Sound Valley and told Qu Tianqin they could crush Yellow Spring Pavilion if Jin Buhuan did not come.

Sound Valley, aided by Soul Sweeping Tower, attacked Yellow Spring Pavilion’s Ancient Green Ridge to seize its small Top Grade Spirit Vein. After Qiu Di and Mo Yu broke the spatial defense, Mu Xian and a large force of defenders emerged, and the two sides prepared to fight.

• Qu Tianqin led Sound Valley’s disciples and Players through a Space Channel toward Ancient Green Ridge, while Su Yitang explained that Yang Shan had arranged Soul Sweeping Tower’s help.
• Hun Dan sent Qiu Di and Mo Yu to break Yellow Spring Pavilion’s spatial defensive formation over Ancient Green Ridge.
• The shattered formation alerted the defenders, and Mu Xian led more than a hundred Dou Zun experts out through a spatial rift.
• Mu Xian questioned Qiu Di and Mo Yu about serving Sound Valley, and they introduced Hun Dan as Soul Sweeping Tower’s master and a new Seven Heavenly Venerate, and Mister E as a new Ten Heavenly Venerate.
• Xin Shi urged Yellow Spring Pavilion’s forces to stop talking and attack.

Yang Shan fought as Soul Hall’s Tenth Heavenly Venerate in the battle for the Top Grade Spirit Vein of Ancient Green Ridge, overwhelming an Eight Star Dou Zun with his powerful Soul Piercing Finger. After killing Yao Chang and collecting his soul, he turned toward You Feng, who was already fighting Wu Ying and Old Ghost Zhaixing.

• Mu Xian ordered Yellow Spring Pavilion to attack, and Qiu Di and Mo Yu challenged him while the other fighters engaged their opponents.
• Su Yitang used her Eight Star Dou Zun strength to fight a Seven-Star opponent, while Yang Shan targeted Yao Chang under the identity of Cheng E.
• Yang Shan’s rapid Soul Piercing Finger attacks broke through Yao Chang’s defenses, and he killed him after a minute of fighting.
• Yang Shan collected Yao Chang’s drops and soul, then spotted You Feng fighting Wu Ying and Old Ghost Zhaixing.
• Yang Shan charged toward You Feng, who turned to him and pleaded for him to wait.

Yang Shan killed You Feng, advanced to Nine-Star Dou Zun, and joined Qiu Di and Mo Yu in their fight against Mu Xian. After Mu Xian survived Yang Shan’s finishing strike and tried to escape, a veiled woman appeared in his path and offered to see him off.

• Yang Shan killed You Feng and collected his soul after no players pleaded for him.
• Yang Shan broke through to Nine-Star Dou Zun and learned the rules of the Nine Revolutions to Sainthood stage.
• Yang Shan joined Qiu Di and Mo Yu against Mu Xian, who began preparing a powerful Dou Skill while trying to escape.
• Qiu Di and Mo Yu struck Mu Xian with their combined Dou Skill, Rain Erosion of the Sky, and Yang Shan pierced his chest with Ten Thousand Souls Finger.
• Mu Xian’s wood-element recovery restored his health, and he knocked Yang Shan away before attempting to flee.
• A veiled woman appeared before Mu Xian and said they had hit it off at first sight, offering to see him off.

Yang Shan and Su Yitang discussed Su Yitang’s Heaven Rank Dou Skill and prepared to enter Version 4.1, whose story would focus more on player influence and the Three Oddities Grand Meet. After logging in, Yang Shan confronted White Elder over Qing Lin’s complaint, and Qing Lin persuaded White Elder to let her remain at the Wind and Thunder Pavilion.

• Su Yitang explained that she had learned the Heaven Rank Dou Skill Farewell Wind from Wu Duxiu’s remnant soul, and Yang Shan praised her strength.
• News of Soul Sweeping Tower’s victory at Ancient Green Ridge spread, and Yang Shan unlocked player recruitment for the faction before Version 4.0 ended.
• Xiao Yan announced that future Legendary Expansion Packs would feature players more prominently and that the Three Oddities Grand Meet would provide material for Version 4.1.
• Yang Shan and Su Yitang logged out of the party hall, then Yang Shan entered the game and found White Elder listening to Qing Lin complain about her time as a miscellaneous disciple.
• Yang Shan showed White Elder evidence that Qing Lin had tried to seize his opportunity in the Creation Cave Abode, then explained that he had kept her at the Wind and Thunder Pavilion to train her.
• Qing Lin refused to return to the Heavenly Serpent Mansion, telling White Elder she wanted to stay at the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, become a True Disciple, and attend the Three Oddities Grand Meet with Yang Shan.

Yang Shan and the Wind and Thunder Pavilion arrived in Saint Pill City for the Three Oddities Grand Meet, where Pill Tower leader Xuan Kongzi personally welcomed them. At the reception, Yang Shan reunited with fellow Players and learned which Ancient Eight Clans representatives were competing, but he was puzzled by the Soul Clan contestant Hun Ji.

• Yang Shan traveled toward Saint Pill City with Qing Lin, Thunder Lord, Lei Ting, Lei Yang, Lei Che, and the rest of the Wind and Thunder Pavilion group.
• Xuan Kongzi met the group outside Saint Pill City and praised Yang Shan before leading them through the city to the Pill Tower reception hall.
• Yang Shan entered the reception hall, greeted Xiao Aotian, Zhuang Youqian, Thousand Jade Hands, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen, and sat with the other Players.
• Xiao Aotian showed Yang Shan the list of Ancient Eight Clans contestants, including Yao Xingji, Xiao Mei, Huo Ran, Ling Lie, and Hun Ji.
• Yang Shan asked who Hun Ji was.