Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming and Dao Mei abandoned their rope plan after discovering termite nests near the cliff, then chose to climb immediately despite nightfall. Ye Weiming distracted the Blood Crows with a blood-soaked wild boar, and the pair began leaping toward a ledge halfway up the mountain.

• Ye Weiming proposed using ropes to descend the cliff, but he and Dao Mei realized termites could attack any ropes tied to nearby trees.
• Ye Weiming called off the rope plan and took Dao Mei down the mountain to gather materials for Plan B.
• As darkness approached, Ye Weiming offered Dao Mei the choice of climbing immediately or waiting until morning, and she chose to act at once.
• Ye Weiming threw a blood-soaked wild boar toward the Blood Crows, drawing the flock away from the cliff.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei used the opening to leap toward the ledge halfway up the mountain.

Ye Weiming and Dao Mei climbed a sheer cliff while using wild boar corpses to distract attacking blood crows. As they neared their target platform, the Blood Crow King appeared, ignored the bait, and lunged at Ye Weiming’s left eye.

• Ye Weiming told Dao Mei that he had learned the Ladder Cloud Ascending Technique and given the Lone Wanderer skill to Fei Yu.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei climbed the cliff, relying on their movement skills and carefully chosen footholds.
• Dao Mei and Ye Weiming repeatedly threw wild boar corpses to draw blood crows away from them as they climbed.
• The Blood Crow King seized Dao Mei’s bait and passed it to its underlings before lunging at Ye Weiming’s left eye.

Ye Weiming and Dao Mei overcame the Blood Crow King and a hidden wind vent to reach Dugu Qiubai’s Burial Ground. They entered its stone chamber and found a skeleton seated on a stone bed beneath the name carved into the wall.

• Ye Weiming used Tian Boguang’s corpse and a Golden Silk Nanmu Grand Coffin to blast the Blood Crow King away, then saw that no Chivalry Points had been deducted as the king pecked at the corpse.
• A silent, powerful wind vent blew Dao Mei away from the burial-ground platform, and Ye Weiming realized he was about to be swept off as well.
• Ye Weiming used rapid footwork to land on the platform, anchored himself with his Golden Light Sword, and threw a rope to help Dao Mei land beside him.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei crawled through the wind-protected passage, using their weapons and claws to grip the rock as blood crows were driven back by the gale.
• After passing a fork and following a narrow corridor, Ye Weiming and Dao Mei entered a stone chamber and found a skeleton seated on a stone bed beneath the inscription “Dugu Qiubai’s Burial Ground.”

Ye Weiming and Dao Mei entered Dugu Qiubai’s Burial Ground and read the Sword Master’s life story and profound swordsmanship engravings. The engravings raised two of Ye Weiming’s sword arts, and he began checking their new attributes.

• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei entered the secret realm after discovering Dugu Qiubai’s stone chamber.
• Ye Weiming read Dugu Qiubai’s account of his life, his unmatched swordsmanship, and his decision to leave the condor behind before dying in Shennongjia.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei studied Dugu’s Engraving but could understand only fragments of its profound insights.
• Ye Weiming gained one level in Moon Maiden Swordplay and Quanzhen Swordsmanship from reading the engravings.
• Ye Weiming suspected the engravings could raise every sword art he knew and opened his Skill Panel to inspect the two skills.

Ye Weiming examined his improved sword techniques as Dao Mei studied Dugu's Engraving and transformed her saberplay. The chapter ended with Ye Weiming interrupting her practice and revealing that she was nearly starving.

• Moon Maiden Swordplay reached Level 10, gaining faster sword-drawing speed, while Quanzhen Swordsmanship rose to Level 9 and became Ye Weiming's primary offensive sword technique.
• Dao Mei practiced the Blood Saber Technique and Hu Family Saber Technique, gradually imprinting her own style onto both.
• Dao Mei combined insights from Dugu's Engraving with her natural ferocity and sharpness, then abandoned the Hu Family Saber Technique and focused on the Blood Saber Technique.
• Ye Weiming interrupted Dao Mei's enlightenment with Finger Flicking Divine Power and offered her a Beggar's Shangfu.
• Dao Mei noticed her hunger had reached 97% and nearly collapsed.

Ye Weiming and Dao Mei ate Beggar's Shangfu, then Ye Weiming recovered Dugu Qiubai's remains and gained a powerful Swordsmanship Insights item. He decided to save it for an ultimate sword technique and made rubbings of every carving in the stone chamber.

• Ye Weiming gave Dao Mei Beggar's Shangfu, and they ate the rare food together, restoring their energy and permanently increasing their Vitality Limits.
• Dao Mei explained that she could understand the meaning of Dugu's Engraving but had grasped less than one-tenth of its artistic conception.
• Ye Weiming placed Dugu Qiubai's remains in a Glazed Pavilion Coffin and obtained Swordsmanship Insights worth 40 million Proficiency points for a designated sword technique.
• Ye Weiming chose to save the Swordsmanship Insights for an ultimate sword technique instead of using it on Quanzhen Swordsmanship.
• Ye Weiming prepared paper, ink, a mallet, a brush, and water, then made rubbings of all the stone chamber's carvings, including Dugu Qiubai's life history and the words above the stone bed.

Ye Weiming and Dao Mei spent three days studying Dugu Qiubai’s carvings and sparring, refining their sword techniques before deciding to leave. Before they went, Ye Weiming revealed a plan to kill the Blood Crow King and pocketed the stone bed.

• Ye Weiming made rubbings of Dugu Qiubai’s wall carvings and discovered they could be understood only by Peak Masters.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei sparred and studied the carvings for three days, improving their martial arts and gaining 300,000 proficiency in Ye Weiming’s Quanzhen Swordsmanship.
• Dao Mei decided they should leave because their rapid progress had nearly exhausted the foundations they had built up.
• Ye Weiming explained that the gale winds formed a natural barrier against the Blood Crows and discussed the trouble of killing the flying Blood Crow King.
• Ye Weiming shared a plan for killing the Blood Crow King, then lifted the stone bed into his bag as Dao Mei teased him for taking it.

Ye Weiming and Dao Mei returned to the wind tunnel platform and lured the Blood Crow King into an attack. Dao Mei revealed the Blade Will she had gained from studying Dugu's Engraving, severed the Blood Crow King's wing, and was pulled safely back by Ye Weiming.

• Ye Weiming tied Dao Mei to a rope before they entered the wind tunnel and reached the platform.
• The Blood Crow King attacked, and Dao Mei left the wind tunnel's shelter to confront it.
• Dao Mei struck the Blood Crow King's beak, then used a wall kick to slash through the base of its wing and sever it.
• As the Blood Crow King and Dao Mei fell, Ye Weiming hauled Dao Mei back onto the platform before the other blood crows could reach her.
• Dao Mei explained that studying Dugu's Engraving had transformed her perfected Blood Saber Technique and granted it the unique trait Blade Will.

Ye Weiming and Dao Mei defeated the blood crows and subdued the Blood Crow King as Ye Weiming’s pet. They returned from Shennongjia in two days, raising the creature’s loyalty by feeding it along the way.

• Dao Mei revealed that her new Blade Will skill increased blade sharpness and the chance of inflicting negative status effects.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei descended the cliff while fighting off the blood crows, then killed the flock’s ordinary members without being injured.
• The Blood Crow King begged for mercy, and Ye Weiming decided to keep it as a pet after showing Dao Mei a screenshot of All Snake Banquet.
• Ye Weiming named the low-loyalty pet Ah Hong and stored it in his Pet Silver Bracelet.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei returned along their cleared route, and six meals of his cooking raised Ah Hong’s loyalty by six points.

After leaving Shennongjia, Ye Weiming and Dao Mei discovered their delayed messages and discussed the urgent quests awaiting them. They parted at Zhushan County Town to handle separate business, agreeing to stay in touch and arrange the Prince Zhao’s Estate quest.

• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei received weeks of pigeon messages upon leaving Shennongjia and learned that Dao Mei had missed her chance to camp a Blood Saber Sect squad led by a level 67 BOSS.
• Dao Mei asked Ye Weiming for help, but he refused because he needed to pursue the Cold Pond White Fish quest at the Ancient Tomb for their Ultimate Skill Quest.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei headed to Zhushan County Town and agreed to coordinate later on the Prince Zhao’s Estate quest so Ye Weiming could retrieve the giant viper from Liang Zi Weng.
• Ye Weiming claimed the Heavenly Sword and giant viper as his own, and told Dao Mei that Zhang Wuji might reach level 185 after the storyline quests ended.
• Dao Mei traveled to Jingzhou City to handle her affairs, while Ye Weiming took a carriage to Bianjing City.

Ye Weiming reached the Ancient Tomb Sect and faced the Quanzhen Sect trial, where he easily defeated Zhen Ziping and Zhao Zhijing. After Zhao Zhijing launched a sneak attack, Ye Weiming killed him and continued toward the Ancient Tomb Sect.

• Ye Weiming stored his valuable items at the Divine Constable Bureau before traveling to Zhongnan Mountain to visit the Ancient Tomb Sect.
• Zhen Ziping and Zhao Zhijing blocked Ye Weiming's path and warned him away from Quanzhen territory.
• Xiao Qiao explained that defeating the Quanzhen Daoists was a trial for entering the Ancient Tomb Sect, and that the results affected a player's rewards.
• Ye Weiming accepted the trial and overwhelmed Zhen Ziping and Zhao Zhijing with his Quanzhen Swordsmanship.
• Ye Weiming declined to kill the defeated Daoists without cause, but Zhao Zhijing attacked him from behind.
• Ye Weiming dodged Zhao Zhijing's sneak attack, killed him, and said there would now be no negative consequences from killing him.

Ye Weiming killed Zhao Zhijing and Zhen Ziping after they tried to ambush him, then entered Ancient Tomb Sect territory with Xiao Qiao. Xiao Qiao used her Bee Control Technique to command the bees, but two women confronted her for bringing an outsider to compete for the sect’s limited resources.

• Ye Weiming counterattacked and killed Zhao Zhijing and Zhen Ziping, earning a first-kill announcement and challenge rewards.
• Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao examined the BOSSes’ loot, which included skills, swords, and 500 gold, and Ye Weiming buried the corpses in coffins to gain insights.
• Ye Weiming followed Xiao Qiao into Ancient Tomb Sect territory, where a swarm of bees surrounded them.
• Xiao Qiao used Jade Bee Jelly to control the bees and revealed her Bee Control Technique.
• Two women emerged from the woods and challenged Xiao Qiao for bringing Ye Weiming to compete for the sect’s limited resources.

Ye Weiming followed Xiao Qiao to the Ancient Tomb Sect to compete for a Cold Pond White Fish, while Granny Sun set him three trials to prove he deserved one. The chapter ended as Ye Weiming accepted the first trial: defeating three Ancient Tomb Sect disciples at once.

• Xiao Qiao defended her decision to help Ye Weiming against two Ancient Tomb Sect players, and Granny Sun intervened to end their argument.
• Granny Sun allowed Ye Weiming to enter the Ancient Tomb Sect’s outskirts, and Xiao Qiao explained her standing in the sect to him.
• Ye Weiming gave Xiao Qiao a Beggar's Shangfu and ten Zhu Yu Grass in thanks for her help.
• At the ancient tomb entrance, Granny Sun explained that Ye Weiming had to pass three difficult trials to earn a Cold Pond White Fish.
• Granny Sun set Ye Weiming’s first trial: defeat three Ancient Tomb Sect disciples working together.

Ye Weiming entered Granny Sun’s trial, where he had to defeat three Ancient Tomb Sect disciples by forcing them out of a circle without killing them. He knocked Laura and Lao Fu out of the circle, leaving Tian’er as his remaining opponent.

• Granny Sun explained that Ye Weiming would lose if he killed an opponent or was forced outside the circle, and that he had to push all three opponents out to win.
• Laura and Lao Fu volunteered to fight Ye Weiming, and Tian’er joined them; Xiao Qiao warned Ye Weiming that Tian’er’s Bee Control Technique made her dangerous.
• When Granny Sun started the match, Ye Weiming attacked Tian’er, but Laura and Lao Fu intercepted him with coordinated sword strikes.
• Ye Weiming pretended their sword techniques had countered his moves, then leaped past them and used Hidden Dragon, Do Not Act to knock Laura and Lao Fu out of the circle.

Ye Weiming passed the first two trials by forcing Tian'er out of the ring and giving Granny Sun a Quanzhen Swordsmanship manual. He accepted the seven-star final trial to survive three of Granny Sun’s palm strikes, but doubted the danger after seeing her level and attributes.

• Ye Weiming drove Tian'er out of the ring with a sword feint, and Granny Sun declared him the winner of the first trial.
• Xiao Qiao stopped Tian'er's jade bees from interfering, while Granny Sun ruled that she had acted within the rules.
• Granny Sun set the second trial as obtaining a Quanzhen Swordsmanship manual, and Ye Weiming handed her the manual he had taken from Zhao Zhijing.
• Granny Sun accepted the manual and promised to return it after the final trial, whether Ye Weiming gave up or failed.
• Ye Weiming received the mission to survive three of Granny Sun's palm strikes and saw that she was level 66 with 210,000 health.

Ye Weiming accepted the final trial, only for Yang Guo to appear and strike him with overwhelming force. Yang Guo revealed he had arranged the test to confront Ye Weiming over his father's death, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Ye Weiming accepted the mission and was immediately attacked by a mysterious assailant, whose first palm shattered his defense and broke his left arm.
• The assailant identified himself as Yang Guo and announced that Ye Weiming had to withstand two more palms after recovering between them.
• Ye Weiming recognized Yang Guo as a peak martial artist and prepared to use the Flying Flower Sword Token.
• Granny Sun challenged Yang Guo for disrupting the test, while Xiao Qiao and the Ancient Tomb disciples drew their swords against him.
• Yang Guo said Ye Weiming had killed his father and begged Granny Sun to let him take revenge, promising to accept her punishment afterward.

Yang Guo confronted Ye Weiming over his father’s death while Ye Weiming used their conversation and a letter from Qin Nanqin to stall for time. When Yang Guo mistook the letter’s lip print for proof that Ye Weiming had defiled his mother, he prepared to kill him, but destroying the letter summoned Qin Nanqin, who ordered him to stop.

• Granny Sun reluctantly sided with Yang Guo after he admitted lying to her to deceive Ye Weiming.
• Yang Guo explained that the Seven Star Mission required him to give Ye Weiming time to recover, and Ye Weiming questioned him about the mission’s rules and his sudden appearance as an adult.
• After healing, Ye Weiming delayed Yang Guo by offering to tell him about his parents and throwing him a letter addressed in Qin Nanqin’s handwriting.
• Yang Guo saw the lip print on the envelope, assumed Ye Weiming had defiled his mother, and shattered the letter as he prepared to attack.
• The destroyed letter summoned Qin Nanqin, who appeared between the two men and angrily told Yang Guo not to treat Ye Weiming that way.

Yang Guo learned the truth about his father from Qin Nanqin, apologized to Ye Weiming, and still had to continue their quest duel. As Ye Weiming prepared to take Yang Guo’s next palm strike, the chapter abruptly shifted to Su Qingwan and Su Chen facing a pack of Wind Wolves in the Sunset Forest.

• Yang Guo reunited with Qin Nanqin and listened as she explained his father’s past while Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao waited nearby.
• Yang Guo apologized to Ye Weiming but explained that their accepted quest required him to deliver two more palm strikes at increased power.
• Ye Weiming argued that Yang Guo’s interrupted second strike should count, and Yang Guo agreed while warning that the final strike would be stronger.
• Ye Weiming drew the Golden Light Sword, powered up his protective qi, and said he could maintain his state for only ten seconds.
• Su Qingwan killed a Tier 1 Mid-grade Wind Wolf, but more wolves surrounded her and Su Chen in the forest.

Ye Weiming survived Yang Guo’s palm trial only to die when Laura’s song restored the strike’s full power, but he still obtained the Cold Pond White Fish and Zhenfeng. After learning more about Yang Guo’s unusual incarnations, Ye Weiming brought Dugu Qiubai’s engraving rubbing to Venerable Huang, who declared that Ye Weiming’s ultimate swordsmanship had arrived.

• Laura sang during Yang Guo’s third palm strike, and the song’s mention of a green light plunged Yang Guo into gloom and restored the palm’s full power, killing Ye Weiming.
• Ye Weiming received the Cold Pond White Fish and the Zhenfeng Treasure Sword, while Blood Crow King Ah Hong’s loyalty fell by 10.
• Ye Weiming warned Yang Guo not to let Laura and Lao Fu get the Quanzhen Swordsmanship manual, then arranged with Xiao Qiao to raid Prince Zhao’s Estate later.
• Ye Weiming learned that the Ancient Tomb Sect secretly had four powerful experts, including Yang Guo, Xiao Longnv, the condor, and a woman known as Yellow Shirt Girl.
• Ye Weiming retrieved Dugu’s Engraving Rubbing from the Divine Constable Bureau warehouse and asked Venerable Huang to interpret it.
• After studying the rubbing for over an hour, Venerable Huang told Ye Weiming that his ultimate swordsmanship had arrived.

Venerable Huang offered to teach Ye Weiming fragments of the peerless sword technique Sky Shaking Nine Swords as he completed the Flying Eagle Reborn quest. After sorting through his martial arts gains, Ye Weiming entered the Green Bamboo Secret Realm to face its second-stage challenge.

• Venerable Huang explained that Dugu Qiubai’s scattered insights could be compiled into a peerless sword technique and offered to teach Ye Weiming in installments.
• Venerable Huang changed the reward for Ye Weiming’s Flying Eagle Reborn quest to a fragment of Sky Shaking Nine Swords.
• Ye Weiming returned to his apartment and used six insight manuals to improve the Yijin Duangu Bone Chapter, Ladder Cloud Ascending Technique, and Quanzhen Swordsmanship.
• Ye Weiming entered the Green Bamboo Secret Realm, where the system told him to defeat the Tongbei Monkey for the second-stage clearance reward.