Recaps

Ye Weiming and his teammates survived Dugu Qiubai’s trial, then Ye Weiming and Sanyue traveled to Dali to pursue martial arts instruction and investigate the Four Great Evils. The group reached Duan Yanqing’s stone-chess challenge, where Ye Weiming began a match with Sheng Tian Banzi advising him.

• Ye Weiming and his teammates entered Dugu Qiubai’s secret realm, where Dao Mei, Cang Xingyu, and Sanyue each failed to defeat him before Ye Weiming won by exploiting Dugu Qiubai’s concern for his dignity.
• Dugu Qiubai rewarded the team with experience and sword qi, improved Ye Weiming’s Sky Shaking Nine Swords, and sent them out of the secret realm.
• Ye Weiming and Sanyue found Song Bingyi in Dali, accepted quests from him, and learned that Duan Zhengming’s troubles involved Duan Yu’s kidnapping and the Four Great Evils.
• At Myriad Tribulation Valley, Sanyue defeated Yue Lao San and became his disciple, while Ye Weiming took on Yue Lao San to secure an apprenticeship gift.
• Ye Weiming and Sanyue confronted Ye Erniang and Zuo Zimu, rescued Zuo Shanshan, and made Zuo Zimu sign a blood-written confession before returning his son.
• Liuyun asked Ye Weiming to help his group pass Evil Overtakes Merit’s stone-chess test, and Ye Weiming demonstrated that he could carve moves into the board with controlled internal energy.
• The players entered the Myriad Tribulation Valley instance and met Duan Yanqing, who challenged them to avoid losing for fifty moves, and Ye Weiming began the match with Sheng Tian Banzi advising him.

Ye Weiming’s group pursued Duan Yu’s rescue while facing the Four Great Evils, rival players, and Jiumozhi. After exposing and killing Duan Xiyang Wuyu, Ye Weiming identified the conspirators’ interest in the Six Meridian Divine Sword and improved his martial arts as the rescue remained unresolved.

• Ye Weiming won Duan Yanqing’s Stone Chessboard trial and learned Duan Yu was imprisoned in Myriad Tribulation Valley, where Duan Yanqing demanded a choice from Duan Zhengming to secure his release.
• Ye Weiming’s group discovered Duan Yu and Mu Wanqing had been poisoned, then prepared for the rescue while rival players plotted to obtain One Yang Finger manuals.
• Ye Weiming and his companions killed Yun Zhonghe, rescued Zhong Ling from him, and learned that Duan Yanqing and the other Great Evils were on their way.
• Sanyue revealed to Duan Yanqing that Dao Baifeng was the woman from his past, while Liuyun and Sanyue separately drove Ye Erniang and Yue Lao San away from the group.
• Ye Weiming fought Jiang Jin Jiu and his allies while Ba Tianshi escaped, killing I'm Looking For Something and Dugu Xingyun before learning that Hua Hegen had died in an ambush.
• Duan Yanqing told Ye Weiming that Jiumozhi had injured him and taken Duan Yu, and that Duan Yu and Mu Wanqing had three days to live without an antidote.
• Ye Weiming accused Duan Xiyang Wuyu of betraying the group and the Dali Duan Clan, then killed him after Duan Xiyang Wuyu admitted the betrayal.
• Ye Weiming concluded that Jiumozhi and the rival players were pursuing the Six Meridian Divine Sword and One Yang Finger manuals, while Sanyue gained Cloud Dragon Nine Apparitions and Ye Weiming advanced several skills.

Ye Weiming helped the Dali Duan Clan rescue Duan Yu by forcing Jiumozhi to retreat, then collected his rewards and became entangled in the aftermath of Duan Zhengchun’s death. When Jiumozhi stole Tianlong Temple’s Six Meridian Divine Sword manual, Ye Weiming investigated the scattered portions and set out to test where one might be found.

• Duan Yanqing and Duan Zhengming agreed to cooperate to rescue Duan Yu, and Ye Weiming joined their challenge against Jiumozhi with Xie Yanko.
• Ye Weiming disrupted Jiumozhi’s inner-energy contest with a Seven-Colored Glazed Bead, then triggered the monk’s hidden ailment and forced him to leave while the prisoners were freed.
• Song Bingyi rewarded Sanyue and taught Ye Weiming more of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, while Ye Weiming later chose the poison-immune Mang Gu Zhu Ha over the Bei Ming Divine Skill.
• Mu Wanqing’s contact with Duan Yu triggered his uncontrolled Bei Ming Divine Skill, and Jiang Jin Jiu, Dugu Xingyun, and I'm Looking For Something announced that they had killed Duan Zhengchun.
• Niu Zhichun brought Duan Zhengchun’s corpse to the palace, and Ye Weiming helped him avoid execution by inventing a story about Duan Zhengchun seeking Heaven-Reaching Grass for Duan Yu.
• Ye Weiming accepted quests to cremate Master Xuanbei and bury Duan Zhengchun, then collected Xuan Bei’s Ashes and a Sarira after the cremation.
• Jiumozhi took Tianlong Temple’s Six Meridian Divine Sword manual and sent six disciples away with its portions, while Dugu Xingyun obtained the Shangyang Sword manual.
• Ye Weiming reasoned that the players who had helped Jiumozhi would compete for the manuals, left Fei Yu to stand guard, and went alone to investigate a likely location as Fei Yu tracked Jiang Jin Jiu toward Mangzhi Mountain.

Ye Weiming obtained the Zhongchong Sword manual, escaped Jiumozhi with help from A Zhu and A Bi, and continued growing stronger while investigating the ledger and testing new techniques. The arc left him facing Xie Yanko at Sky-Piercing Cliff, committed to a three-palm wager after Dao Mei sought Dog Bastard.

• Ye Weiming killed Jiumozhi’s disciple in Myriad Tribulation Valley and obtained the Zhongchong Sword manual, but Jiumozhi captured him and tried to force him to surrender it.
• Ye Weiming escaped Jiumozhi’s control with A Zhu and A Bi’s help, then rescued them from Mama Yan at Mantuo Mountain Villa.
• Ye Weiming traded Jiang Jin Jiu a walkthrough of the sword-manual trial, learned Colorless Zen, and drove intruders away from Tingxiang Water Pavilion before killing Bao Butong.
• Ye Weiming improved his martial arts, defeated Tongbei Monkey in the Green Bamboo Secret Realm, and traded the ledger’s Minor Formless Skill fragment to Jiumozhi for Crane Control Skill.
• Ye Weiming fused Crane Control Skill with Unity of Heart and Sword to create Imperial Sword Technique, then tested it against crocodiles and received a special chair from Youyou.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei reached Sky-Piercing Cliff, where Xie Yanko blocked their search for Dog Bastard and demanded that Ye Weiming withstand three palms.
• Ye Weiming agreed to exchange three palms with Xie Yanko, summoned Ah Hong, and launched himself toward the old man with Soaring Dragon in the Sky.