Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming fought through the second stage of the Green Bamboo Secret Realm, studying the little monkeys’ intermediate Moon Maiden Swordplay before facing the Level 80 Tongbei Monkey. The BOSS overwhelmed him in every respect, and with his health nearly depleted, Ye Weiming began to flush and heat up.

• Ye Weiming defeated the first little monkey and noticed that each successive monkey gained four levels and one level of intermediate Moon Maiden Swordplay.
• Ye Weiming carefully watched the seventh, eighth, and ninth monkeys demonstrate their swordplay, memorizing their moves before defeating them.
• Ye Weiming encountered the Level 80 Tongbei Monkey, whose fast, powerful first strike knocked him back and dealt Crushing Damage.
• Ye Weiming tried his available skills but could neither harm the Tongbei Monkey nor find an opening, so he defended with Dragon-Phoenix Dance as its attacks steadily reduced his health.
• After taking five strikes and falling below a quarter of his health, Ye Weiming flushed red and grew scorching hot.

Ye Weiming failed to defeat Tongbei Monkey in the Green Bamboo Secret Realm, but studied the fight and learned from it. Ping Yizhi assigned him a new target, Ouyang Ke, and Ye Weiming arranged to meet Dao Mei and their allies before heading to Prince Zhao's Estate.

• Ye Weiming activated Jade Shatters Kunlun Peak and wounded Tongbei Monkey, but the monkey killed him and ended his challenge.
• Ye Weiming reviewed the battle for half an hour, then learned that the Green Bamboo Staff would take nearly a day to recharge.
• Ye Weiming visited Ping Yizhi, who assigned him to kill Ouyang Ke in any mode.
• Ye Weiming arranged with Dao Mei to meet at Suzhen Wine House the day after tomorrow and invited Xiao Qiao, Xuan Xiaobi, and Xiao Yao Tan to join them.
• Ye Weiming contacted Insect-Taming Sword Immortal and felt relieved that Ouyang Ke could be dealt with during the Prince Zhao's Estate mission without killing his true body.

Ye Weiming’s party learned that Xuan Xiaobi could not join their operation, then discovered that Wang Chuyi had been poisoned and Guo Jing needed help stealing medicine from Prince Zhao’s Estate. The quest required five party members, so Ye Weiming arranged to bring in another friend before they met Guo Jing at the estate’s back gate.

• Dao Mei received a message that Xuan Xiaobi had withdrawn from the operation because of an important timed quest.
• Dao Mei gave up competing for command, and Ye Weiming became captain of the four-person party.
• Ye Weiming’s group found Guo Jing’s message at Pinggu Peak and returned to Tianjin City, where they met him outside Yuelai Inn.
• Guo Jing explained that Master Lingzhi had poisoned Wang Chuyi and asked the group to help steal medicine from Prince Zhao’s Estate.
• The system said the medicine-heist quest could not activate with fewer than five members, so Ye Weiming asked to recruit another friend.
• Guo Jing agreed to wait for the group at the back gate of Prince Zhao’s Estate after he met up with Rong'er.

Ye Weiming’s group chose Yin Bukui to join their mission at Prince Zhao’s Estate, hoping his knowledge of the original story would help them find a hidden boss. After meeting Guo Jing and Huang Rong and activating the medicine-stealing mission, the group entered the estate.

• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei rebuked Xiao Yao Tan for suggesting they cure Wang Chuyi before entering the estate, since they wanted the mission to follow its original course and find Ye Weiming’s viper.
• Ye Weiming recommended Yin Bukui over Cang Xingyu because Yin Bukui knew the original story and might help them defeat a hidden boss; Dao Mei agreed after reading Ye Weiming’s private message.
• Yin Bukui arrived and explained that his Wudang Nine Yang Skill had reached Level 6, then joined Ye Weiming, Dao Mei, Xiao Qiao, and Xiao Yao Tan on their way to Prince Zhao’s Estate.
• Outside the estate, Guo Jing introduced Huang Rong, and the group accepted the six-star mission to steal the medicinal ingredients needed to cure Wang Chuyi.
• Yin Bukui explained how Guo Jing’s extraordinary generosity had won Huang Rong over, earning the group’s respect before Ye Weiming led them over the wall into the estate.

Ye Weiming and his companions entered Prince Zhao's Estate to help Guo Jing and Huang Rong, but the system accelerated the events and Guo Jing drank the Crimson Scale Viper's blood. After gathering medicine and earning a reward, Ye Weiming confronted standard-state BOSS Liang Zi Weng and chose to hold him back while Guo Jing went to rescue the Mus.

• The system revealed that Guo Jing and Huang Rong had split up, so Ye Weiming divided the party to support them and look for the viper.
• Ye Weiming found Guo Jing at the pharmacy after he had drunk the Crimson Scale Viper's blood, then accepted the timed quest to gather medicine.
• Ye Weiming quickly filled the prescription, completed the quest, and earned experience and cultivation points.
• Ye Weiming, Yin Bukui, and Xiao Yao Tan found Liang Zi Weng attacking Guo Jing, while both NPCs remained at full health and internal energy.
• The system identified Liang Zi Weng as a standard-state BOSS, and Ye Weiming chose to hold him back so Guo Jing could rescue Uncle Mu and Miss Mu.

Ye Weiming, Yin Bukui, and Xiao Yao Tan fought Liang Zi Weng while Guo Jing went to rescue Mu Yi and his daughter. When Liang Zi Weng took Yin Bukui hostage, Yin Bukui unleashed a point-blank roar to break his grip.

• Guo Jing knocked Liang Zi Weng aside and headed for the eastern courtyard, while Ye Weiming, Yin Bukui, and Xiao Yao Tan stayed to fight the BOSS.
• Ye Weiming explained that the system had ample reason to restore the story’s events, then wounded Liang Zi Weng with a sudden change of swordplay.
• Xiao Yao Tan joined the fight, and he and the others landed heavy blows on Liang Zi Weng.
• Liang Zi Weng broke away and chased after Guo Jing, but Ye Weiming and his companions pursued him to prevent him from reaching Guo Jing.
• Liang Zi Weng seized Yin Bukui by the throat and threatened to kill him if the others approached.
• Yin Bukui shook off Liang Zi Weng’s grip and roared directly into his ear.

Yin Bukui, Ye Weiming, and Xiao Yao Tan killed Liang Zi Weng, earning rewards and discovering that Dao Mei’s group had already killed Peng Lian Hu. Ye Weiming decided to continue helping Guo Jing, and Xiao Yao Tan eagerly agreed after learning Guo Jing’s signature skill was the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.

• Yin Bukui stunned Liang Zi Weng with a roar and used Heaven-Earth Kidney Stab, while Ye Weiming and Xiao Yao Tan followed with attacks.
• The three players killed Liang Zi Weng and received experience, cultivation, reputation, and sect contribution rewards; the system announced that he would not respawn.
• Ye Weiming and the others realized Dao Mei’s group had killed Peng Lian Hu first and that both teams shared the first-kill achievement in the special map.
• Ye Weiming collected Liang Zi Weng’s corpse and three insight manuals, then proposed continuing to help Guo Jing.
• After Yin Bukui identified the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms as Guo Jing’s signature skill, Xiao Yao Tan enthusiastically supported Ye Weiming’s decision.

Ye Weiming's group divided their rewards from Liang Zi Weng and discovered that he had dropped the Crimson Scale Viper. They reached Guo Jing and the others, where Ouyang Ke was attacking, but Ye Weiming froze when his familiar calculation presented him with an unexpected question.

• Xiao Yao Tan and Yin Bukui shared the items they had obtained from Liang Zi Weng, and Yin Bukui offered Ye Weiming two items he thought suited him better.
• Dao Mei and Xiao Qiao shared their loot, and Ye Weiming revealed that Liang Zi Weng had dropped the Crimson Scale Viper.
• Ye Weiming told the team the viper counted as his share of the drops, and the others accepted his claim.
• The system announced that a Divine Constable Bureau player had secured the first kill of Master Lingzhi.
• Ye Weiming's group found Guo Jing being beaten by Ouyang Ke while Yang Tiexin lay injured and Mu Nianci and a middle-aged woman stood with sealed acupoints.
• Ye Weiming prepared to lure Ouyang Ke into a fight, but stopped when the question before him was "1 + 1 =".

Ye Weiming exploited a plot-kill opportunity to cripple Ouyang Ke’s hands and drive him into a dry well. After leaving Yin Bukui and Xiao Yao Tan to guard the well, he freed Mu Nianci by striking her sealed acupoint with a Steel Bullet.

• Ye Weiming answered the simple question and realized how to defeat Ouyang Ke, then used Tai Shan's Secret to taunt him into attacking.
• Ye Weiming slashed Ouyang Ke’s right wrist with a divine weapon dagger, dealing nearly one hundred thousand damage and severing his muscles.
• Ye Weiming crippled Ouyang Ke’s left wrist as well, and Ouyang Ke fled into a dry well in the neighboring yard.
• Yin Bukui warned that the well might be dangerous, so Ye Weiming told Yin Bukui and Xiao Yao Tan to guard its entrance.
• Ye Weiming confirmed Mu Nianci’s sealed acupoints and struck her Shanzhong acupoint with a Steel Bullet, successfully freeing her.

Ye Weiming sent Guo Jing, Huang Rong, and the others away before confronting Ouyang Ke and the hidden BOSS Mei Chaofeng with his allies. The battle began with Mei Chaofeng and Ouyang Ke attacking Dao Mei, while Ye Weiming revealed that Yin Bukui’s howl was his finishing move.

• Mu Nianci released the middle-aged woman's acupoints, and Ye Weiming urged the group to leave while he stayed to cover their retreat.
• Dao Mei arrived with Xiao Qiao and reported that her group had defeated its three BOSSes.
• Ye Weiming persuaded Huang Rong to escort Guo Jing and the others away, then told his teammates that Ouyang Ke was hiding in a neighboring dry well.
• Ouyang Ke broke out of the well with Mei Chaofeng, a level 85 hidden BOSS, perched on his shoulders.
• Mei Chaofeng and Ouyang Ke attacked Dao Mei together, and Ye Weiming called on Yin Bukui to unleash a howl as his finishing move.

Ye Weiming and his allies fought Mei Chaofeng and Ouyang Ke, using Yin Bukui’s roar to disrupt Mei Chaofeng and Ye Weiming’s attacks to exploit the pair’s weaknesses. The battle continued after Ye Weiming crippled Ouyang Ke’s leg with the dagger engraved “Guo Jing.”

• Yin Bukui’s Lion’s Roar threw Mei Chaofeng’s hearing-based attacks into disarray, and Ye Weiming called everyone to surround her.
• Ye Weiming opened the Seventh Gate and struck Mei Chaofeng with Hidden Dragon, Do Not Act, briefly stunning her so the group could attack.
• Dao Mei struck Mei Chaofeng’s wrist, but her saber failed to break through the Iron Corpse’s hardened body.
• Ye Weiming shot a Seven-Colored Glazed Bead at Ouyang Ke’s knee, but Ouyang Ke dodged it and counterattacked.
• Ye Weiming used the dagger engraved “Guo Jing” to slash Ouyang Ke’s right leg, triggering Muscle Severing and crippling him.

Ye Weiming and his teammates crippled Mei Chaofeng through coordinated attacks and defeated the level 85 BOSS. After Mei Chaofeng died, Ye Weiming intercepted Ouyang Ke as he tried to flee and prepared to attack him despite his threat that Ouyang Feng would seek revenge.

• Ye Weiming and his teammates seized Mei Chaofeng's dagger and used their ultimate moves to cripple one of her arms.
• Yin Bukui's Lion's Roar Skill stopped when his inner force ran low, letting Mei Chaofeng regain her hearing and injure Xiao Qiao before the group switched to skirmishing.
• After Xiao Qiao and Yin Bukui recovered, the group resumed their attacks and defeated Mei Chaofeng.
• Ouyang Ke tried to flee, but Ye Weiming intercepted him and switched to the Guo Jing Dagger after Ouyang Ke threatened him with Ouyang Feng's name.

Ye Weiming and his teammates defeated Mei Chaofeng and Ouyang Ke, then faced the Jin soldiers who arrived at Prince Zhao's Estate. As the soldiers tried to burn them out of their shelter, Ye Weiming led the group toward the storeroom to turn the situation to their advantage.

• Ye Weiming’s team killed Ouyang Ke, and the system announced their first kills of both Ouyang Ke and Mei Chaofeng.
• Ye Weiming collected insight manuals from Mei Chaofeng’s and Ouyang Ke’s bodies while the team received a mission to delay the estate guards so Guo Jing and Huang Rong could escape with their companions.
• Dao Mei led the players into a room for cover when the Jin soldiers arrived and fired a volley of arrows.
• Yin Bukui tried to peek through the window, but the soldiers’ arrows shattered it, and Dao Mei mocked his mistaken approach.
• After Xiao Yao Tan warned that the soldiers had switched to fire arrows, Ye Weiming blasted a hole in the back wall and led the team toward a storeroom containing lamp oil.

Ye Weiming and his companions set fires across Prince Zhao's Estate and ambushed the Jin soldiers who tried to stop them. As the enemy grew stronger, they used Yin Bukui as bait to draw the troops into Wanyan Hong Lie's bedchamber, leaving him surrounded and still singing.

• Ye Weiming and his companions set fires across Prince Zhao's Estate, then slaughtered Jin soldiers who tried to put them out.
• Dao Mei and Yin Bukui warned Ye Weiming that newly spawned Jin soldiers kept gaining levels, so he decided they should retreat after one more fight.
• Ye Weiming chose Wanyan Hong Lie's bedchamber as their final ambush site and convinced Yin Bukui to lure the enemy there with his Lion's Roar Skill.
• Yin Bukui sang from the third-floor window, drawing nearly a thousand Jin soldiers into the pavilion while he barricaded the door.
• Yin Bukui provoked the Jin soldiers with more singing and dancing as another group charged inside and archers aimed at the window.

Ye Weiming and his teammates burned and collapsed Wanyan Hong Lie’s sleeping quarters, then escaped Prince Zhao’s Estate and cleared the special map. After collecting their rewards, they headed back to Yuelai Inn while Ye Weiming considered keeping one manual and trading Mei Chaofeng’s manual to Dao Mei.

• Ye Weiming ordered the team to ignite the lamp oil, and the teammates set Wanyan Hong Lie’s sleeping quarters ablaze before attacking the archers outside.
• Yin Bukui escaped from the third floor, and the five teammates regrouped and fled toward the estate’s rear gate as the building collapsed behind them.
• The team received level-up rewards and a system announcement declared Prince Zhao’s Estate a new dungeon for players level 40–50.
• Ye Weiming said the team would return to Yuelai Inn, where they could turn in the mission and discuss dividing the rewards and loot.
• Ye Weiming decided to keep the Thousand Miles in an Instant manual and use Mei Chaofeng’s Nine Yin White Bone Claw Fragment to negotiate with Dao Mei.

After helping Huang Rong and Guo Jing rescue the Yang family, Ye Weiming and the other players exchanged hidden contribution points for unusual manuals and recipes. Ye Weiming returned to Bianjing eager to study his rewards and obtain Sky Shaking Nine Swords.

• Huang Rong met the players outside Yuelai Inn and led them to a restaurant, where she explained that Guo Jing had escorted Wang Chuyi, Miss Mu, and the others out of the city.
• Huang Rong offered the players a one-time selection of bound miscellaneous manuals and formulas as hidden mission rewards; Ye Weiming chose the Method of Pet Raising, while the others selected items of their own.
• After the group ate, Ye Weiming told the waiter that Young Master Huang would pay the bill, and the players slipped away while Huang Rong was outside.
• Ye Weiming arranged to meet the group in three days to exchange items and asked Dao Mei to return to Bianjing with him for a mission.
• Ye Weiming arrived in Bianjing, received a notification that Huang Rong's favorability toward him had decreased, and looked forward to studying his rewards and obtaining Sky Shaking Nine Swords.

Ye Weiming arranged for Ping Yizhi to treat Bai Zhanji at the Divine Constable Bureau and traded with Dao Mei for a Guild Founding Token, the Imperial Jade Liquor recipe, and the Nine Yin White Bone Claw manual. Venerable Huang rewarded Ye Weiming with three moves from the Sky Shaking Nine Swords, and Ye Weiming went home to study them.

• Ye Weiming brought Bai Zhanji to the Divine Constable Bureau so Ping Yizhi could reset his broken hands.
• Dao Mei traded Ye Weiming a Guild Founding Token and 500 gold for the Nine Yin White Bone Claw, a seat at the All Snake Banquet, and the Imperial Jade Liquor recipe.
• Dao Mei learned the lower volume of the Nine Yin White Bone Claw after completing the trade.
• Venerable Huang gave Ye Weiming an incomplete Sky Shaking Nine Swords manual containing three moves as a reward for the mission.
• Ye Weiming returned to his apartment and began studying the Sky Shaking Nine Swords.

Ye Weiming used his loot from Prince Zhao's Estate to strengthen Sky Shaking Nine Swords, Thousand Miles in an Instant, and Finger Flicking Divine Power. After maxing out Finger Flicking Divine Power, he examined its attributes, which the chapter left unrevealed.

• Ye Weiming raised Sky Shaking Nine Swords to Level 5 before its level restriction prevented further upgrades.
• Ye Weiming merged Eight-Step Toad Leap into Thousand Miles in an Instant, then used insight manuals to raise the lightness technique to Level 7.
• Ye Weiming studied Mei Chaofeng's Finger Technique Manual and used cultivation to max out Finger Flicking Divine Power.
• Ye Weiming examined Finger Flicking Divine Power's max-level attributes and showed excitement.

Ye Weiming improved his skills with manuals and learned the Method of Pet Raising before returning to the Green Bamboo Secret Realm to challenge the Tongbei Monkey again. He cut through the stage’s ordinary monkeys and opened the rematch with a powerful strike that pierced the boss’s brow.

• Ye Weiming reviewed Finger Flicking Divine Power’s Aura Break effect and used several manuals of insights to raise his Medical Arts, Internal Skill, and Cooking proficiency.
• Ye Weiming learned the Method of Pet Raising, which improved pet control and loyalty gains while reducing loyalty losses when pets died.
• Ye Weiming found that he could not raise any more skill levels with his remaining Cultivation Points, then entered the Green Bamboo Secret Realm to challenge the Tongbei Monkey again.
• Ye Weiming swiftly defeated the nine ordinary monkeys with his Zhenfeng Treasure Sword and reached the Tongbei Monkey.
• Ye Weiming used Sky Shaking Nine Swords’ Flick Sword Stance to evade the Tongbei Monkey’s Xi Shi Holding Heart and pierce its brow for 30,069 damage.

Ye Weiming used the Sky Shaking Nine Swords to overwhelm the Tongbei Monkey with three devastating techniques. The chapter ended as he descended with the Falling Sword Stance, his sword sealing off every escape route.

• Ye Weiming struck the Tongbei Monkey between the brows with the Flick Sword Stance, dealing 30,000 damage.
• The Tongbei Monkey launched a three-part sweeping attack, and Ye Weiming bent his Zhenfeng Treasure Sword to evade the strikes and slash the creature's throat with the Sweeping Sword Momentum.
• Ye Weiming explained that Venerable Huang had created the Sky Shaking Nine Swords by combining insights from Dugu's Engraving, the Bixie Sword Manual, and Ye Weiming's movement technique.
• Ye Weiming rose nearly two zhang into the air, flipped upside down, and unleashed the Falling Sword Stance with five consecutive strikes aimed at crushing the Tongbei Monkey.