Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming tested the Sky Shaking Nine Swords against the level-80 Tongbei Monkey in the Green Bamboo Secret Realm but lost after dealing nearly three hundred thousand damage. After three days of training and cooking, he prepared to summon the old beggar with an All Snake Banquet.

• Ye Weiming used the Sky Shaking Nine Swords and other techniques against the Tongbei Monkey, but its superior attributes inflicted Crushing Damage that killed him.
• After the challenge failed, Ye Weiming concluded that the first three sword techniques could narrow but not overcome the gap between their levels and attributes.
• Ye Weiming considered using Life Creation Pills but realized their cooldown made them insufficient to defeat the Tongbei Monkey.
• Ye Weiming focused on trying his level-eight cooking and raising Ah Hong's loyalty, and three days passed.
• Ye Weiming prepared an All Snake Banquet to summon the old beggar.

Ye Weiming gathered his companions at Suzhen Wine House for an All Snake Banquet and used an exceptional flatbread to bargain with Hong Qigong. Hong Qigong agreed to trade palm strikes for dishes, and Ye Weiming asked him to teach seventeen strikes.

• Ye Weiming invited Sanyue to share the banquet and waited for Xiao Qiao, who was delayed by a sect mission.
• Ye Weiming showed the group an ordinary-looking flatbread, drawing their ridicule before a mysterious voice defended its quality.
• Hong Qigong appeared, tasted the flatbread, and praised it as nearly perfect.
• Hong Qigong offered one palm strike for each dish, and Ye Weiming counted the flatbread and twenty All Snake Banquet dishes as twenty-one dishes.
• Ye Weiming offered Hong Qigong a twenty percent discount and asked to learn seventeen palm strikes.

Ye Weiming negotiated with Hong Qigong for lessons in the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms after the Prince Zhao's Estate quest. He discovered that A Zhong's flatbread held a Mysterious Iron Token that could summon Xie Yanko, and he arranged to trade dishes for two palm techniques and a clue to learning Soaring Dragon, Regret.

• Hong Qigong refused Ye Weiming's request to learn a third palm technique, explaining that the quest's high completion rating had earned him the chance to learn two.
• Hong Qigong bit into A Zhong's flatbread, found a small iron plate inside, and threw it to Ye Weiming while claiming his Dragon Subduing Palm was gone.
• Ye Weiming identified the plate as a Mysterious Iron Token that could summon Xie Yanko and grant one request.
• After Ye Weiming reassured Hong Qigong that the iron plate had been hidden in the flatbread without his knowledge, Hong Qigong agreed to teach him two palm techniques in exchange for food.
• Ye Weiming offered Beggar's Chicken and Gathering of Heroes, then arranged to learn two techniques first and discuss the clue to Soaring Dragon, Regret after Hong Qigong ate the All Snake Banquet.

Hong Qigong taught Ye Weiming Dragon's Might and Shocking the Hundred Li, two powerful Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms moves that Ye Weiming found just as sinister as the one he already knew. When Yun Zhonghe attacked Xiao Qiao, a special quest tasked Ye Weiming with rescuing her using the newly learned palms, temporarily raising both moves to Max Level.

• Hong Qigong gave Ye Weiming manuals for Dragon's Might and Shocking the Hundred Li instead of letting him choose which palms to learn.
• Ye Weiming studied the manuals and discovered that both moves could be used in sinister ways.
• Xiao Qiao called for help while Yun Zhonghe pursued and attacked her near Suzhen Wine House.
• Ye Weiming received a special quest to defeat Yun Zhonghe and rescue Xiao Qiao using his new palms.
• The quest temporarily raised Ye Weiming's Dragon's Might and Shocking the Hundred Li to Level 10.

Ye Weiming faced Yun Zhonghe alone after Hong Qigong warned that joining the fight would cost him one of his newly learned palm techniques. He used Dragon's Might and Hidden Dragon, Do Not Act to break Yun Zhonghe's defenses, then prepared to unleash Shocking the Hundred Li as his teammates waited for a signal.

• The system made Ye Weiming captain of a new team with Xiao Qiao and set loot distribution to captain allocation.
• Hong Qigong stopped Ye Weiming's teammates from joining the fight and warned that the quest would fail if they helped or if Ye Weiming lost.
• Ye Weiming attacked Yun Zhonghe with Dragon's Might, forcing him to retreat until the circulating palm force suddenly collapsed.
• Yun Zhonghe lunged to grab Ye Weiming, who countered with Hidden Dragon, Do Not Act and severed the tendons in Yun Zhonghe's palm.
• Ye Weiming told his teammates to attack after Yun Zhonghe dodged his next palm, then unleashed Shocking the Hundred Li.

Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao crippled Yun Zhonghe and sent him away with Ah Hong for a live Sky Burial, then returned to the tavern with Hong Qigong. After completing the quest, Ye Weiming inspected Yun Zhonghe’s drops and was stunned by the lightness-skill manual Farewell to Cambridge.

• Xiao Qiao struck Yun Zhonghe with two Jade Peak Needles, and Ye Weiming crippled his right knee with a hidden weapon.
• Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao crippled Yun Zhonghe’s limbs, then Ye Weiming ordered Ah Hong to carry him off for a Sky Burial.
• Hong Qigong questioned Ye Weiming’s treatment of Yun Zhonghe, but Ye Weiming defended his choice and invited Hong Qigong back for the All Snake Banquet.
• The system awarded Ye Weiming experience and cultivation points, confirmed completion of Might of Dragon Subduing 2, and announced the team’s victory.
• Ye Weiming shared the Yangtian Sword and Farewell to Cambridge drops with his team, then stared in disbelief at the lightness-skill manual.

Ye Weiming traded Xiao Qiao a quest sword and poetry collection, then hosted Hong Qigong and the others at an elaborate snake banquet. Hong Qigong revealed that Elder Peng could point Ye Weiming toward retired Elder Song, who knew a clue to Soaring Dragon, Regret; Ye Weiming then secretly raised two palm techniques to level 9, leaving Hong Qigong exasperated.

• Ye Weiming gave Xiao Qiao the Yangtian Sword and Farewell to Cambridge, then recalled Ah Hong after its loyalty increased from the feast.
• Ye Weiming served his guests a variety of snake dishes and wines while Hong Qigong tried to persuade him to accept a different reward instead of the Soaring Dragon, Regret clue.
• Hong Qigong told Ye Weiming that retired Elder Song had comprehended Soaring Dragon, Regret and that Elder Peng on Junshan Mountain could help locate him in Dali.
• Ye Weiming left the wine house and used insights and Cultivation Points to raise Dragon's Might and Shocking the Hundred Li to level 9.
• Hong Qigong saw Ye Weiming's upgraded palm techniques and asked why he had not maxed them out, then told him to eat when Ye Weiming questioned the compensation.

After Hong Qigong perfected Ye Weiming’s two Dragon Subduing Palm moves, Ye Weiming rested, agreed to join Sanyue and Xiao Qiao in buying a shared residence, and heard the announcement of a Mid-Yuan Festival ghost event. He and Sanyue collected their rewards and Soul Gathering Beads from You Jin, where Sanyue’s three rapid level-ups left Ye Weiming astonished.

• Hong Qigong raised Ye Weiming’s two level-9 Dragon Subduing Palm moves to level 10, while Ye Weiming saved his two copies of "Fist and Palm Insights" for "Soaring Dragon, Regret."
• Ye Weiming returned to the Divine Constable Bureau, slept off his drunkenness, and woke the next morning refreshed after clearing the remaining alcohol from his system.
• Sanyue invited Ye Weiming to invest in a large residence with her and Xiao Qiao, and Ye Weiming agreed on the condition that he would own the kitchen.
• The system announced the Human-Ghost Connection Unresolved event, in which players could collect half-year rewards and Soul Gathering Beads to encounter ghosts and complete missions.
• Ye Weiming and Sanyue went to collect their rewards from You Jin, who gave Sanyue a black Soul Gathering Bead.
• Sanyue leveled up three times in succession, shocking Ye Weiming.

Ye Weiming claimed his Half-Year Bonus and reached Level 45, then encountered the ghost of Chou Ba with Sanyue. Sanyue chose to help Chou Ba fulfill his wish, and he began recounting how bandits had slaughtered his family.

• You Jin explained that the Half-Year Bonus granted 20% of eligible quest experience, and Ye Weiming claimed it, reaching Level 45.
• Sanyue told Ye Weiming that she had contacted Xiao Qiao to team up for the ghost quest.
• Ye Weiming and Sanyue left the Divine Constable Bureau and encountered Chou Ba’s ghost blocking Sanyue’s path.
• Ye Weiming advised Sanyue to help Chou Ba fulfill his wish, and she added him to her party before choosing that option.
• Chou Ba said he had become a villain because of the evil in the world and revealed that Lin Zhipei, chief of Lotus Stockade, had slaughtered his family.

Ye Weiming and Sanyue completed Chou Ba’s revenge quest by telling his ghost that they had already killed Lin Zhipei, and they continued toward Bianjing’s post station. There, Xiao Qiao appeared and was suddenly surrounded by four ghosts.

• Sanyue accepted Chou Ba’s Revenge quest, which called for killing Lin Zhipei.
• Ye Weiming told Chou Ba’s ghost that they had already killed Lin Zhipei, and Chou Ba verified it through the System Announcement before departing.
• Sanyue received 100 Chivalry Points and 1,000 Thunderclap Palm proficiency points for completing the quest.
• Ye Weiming shared his deductions about ghosts and revenge quests with Sanyue as they headed toward the post station.
• Ye Weiming and Sanyue saw Xiao Qiao arrive, and four ghosts suddenly appeared and surrounded her.

Xiao Qiao killed the Four Beauties of Qingcheng ghosts after rejecting their immoral mission and explained how recovering the Yangtian Sword greatly strengthened her martial arts. Ye Weiming, Xiao Qiao, and Sanyue traveled to Junshan Mountain to meet Elder Peng, where they found his equipment shop and questioned whether he was really the villain described in their guide.

• Xiao Qiao killed the Four Beauties of Qingcheng ghosts and earned 200 Chivalry Points for refusing their demand that she kiss them.
• Xiao Qiao told Ye Weiming and Sanyue that turning in the Yangtian Sword had let her upgrade the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra and several other martial arts.
• Ye Weiming agreed to travel with Xiao Qiao and Sanyue to Junshan Mountain, where Cang Xingyu offered to lead them to Elder Peng.
• Cang Xingyu explained that Elder Peng bought equipment for better prices than ordinary system stores, surprising Ye Weiming, who usually discarded common loot.
• Ye Weiming, Xiao Qiao, and Sanyue found Elder Peng's True Chivalry Equipment Recycling Center and saw its extravagant sales banners.

Ye Weiming visited Elder Peng with his companions to learn where the retired Beggar's Sect elder Song Bingyi was hiding. After learning that Song would only accept a quest from someone with the Hero Saint title, Ye Weiming headed to the Divine Constable Bureau to earn more Chivalry Points.

• Cang Xingyu explained Elder Peng's equipment-recycling system and sold him a pile of low-value equipment.
• When Elder Peng refused to answer Ye Weiming without a transaction, Ye Weiming threatened him with the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and invoked Chief Hong's name.
• Elder Peng said he would reveal Song Bingyi's location only to someone whose transactions exceeded one thousand gold, and Cang Xingyu met that condition for the group.
• Elder Peng revealed that Song Bingyi was begging in Dali City's marketplace but required five thousand Chivalry Points from anyone seeking a quest.
• Sanyue confirmed Elder Peng was telling the truth, so Ye Weiming left for the Divine Constable Bureau to earn Chivalry Points, while Elder Peng called after them.

After leaving the equipment recycling center, Ye Weiming and his companions encountered Feng Tiannan, whose evil nature had made him stronger as an Asura ghost. The system offered them the choice of defeating him or helping him kill Hu Fei.

• Elder Peng revealed that his old friend Song Bingyi possessed a martial art suited to Cang Xingyu, but Cang refused to promise that the group would spare Elder Peng in future quests.
• Ye Weiming told Cang Xingyu that a promise would not prevent him from arranging Elder Peng's death if necessary.
• The group encountered the ghost of Feng Tiannan, who offered them his golden staff in exchange for killing Hu Fei.
• Cang Xingyu identified Feng Tiannan as a villain from the Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain storyline and noted that the yin baleful energy had increased his strength.
• Ye Weiming explained that Feng Tiannan's irredeemable wickedness made him especially compatible with the yin energy, and the system presented the group with a choice to defeat him or help him kill Hu Fei.

Cang Xingyu chose to help Elder Peng, causing Feng Tiannan to transform into a level 85 demon. Ye Weiming and the party engaged the demon, but its powerful attacks and high defense made the fight difficult.

• Ye Weiming, Cang Xingyu, Sanyue, and Xiao Qiao agreed to oppose Feng Tiannan, and Cang Xingyu selected the option to help Elder Peng.
• Black energy transformed Feng Tiannan into a level 85 demon, frightening nearby players and ghosts away.
• Ye Weiming and Cang Xingyu took the front line while Sanyue and Xiao Qiao prepared to support them.
• Demonized Feng Tiannan knocked Cang Xingyu back with a staff strike that dealt 5,630 damage.
• Ye Weiming struck Feng Tiannan several times, but his strongest attacks dealt limited damage and failed to disable the demon.

Ye Weiming and his team struggled against Demonized Feng Tiannan, whose defenses drastically reduced their attacks. Ye Weiming suspected a hidden weakness and, after comparing damage with Cang Xingyu, concluded Feng Tiannan might have a damage-reduction ability beyond ordinary defense.

• Ye Weiming rejoined the battle while Cang Xingyu, Sanyue, and Xiao Qiao held off Demonized Feng Tiannan, whose defense blunted their strongest attacks.
• Xiao Qiao remarked that Demonized Feng Tiannan was tougher than the level 85 Mei Chaofeng they had faced before.
• Ye Weiming reasoned that Feng Tiannan’s apparent strength might conceal a fatal weakness and noticed Cang Xingyu could still deal substantial damage.
• Ye Weiming asked Cang Xingyu to compare his attacks’ theoretical power with their actual damage against Feng Tiannan.
• Cang Xingyu estimated that his attacks lost about thirty percent of their power before defense reduced the remainder, suggesting Feng Tiannan had a separate damage-reduction ability.

Ye Weiming and his teammates tested attacks against Demonized Feng Tiannan, discovered that Daoist Arts helped overcome his damage reduction, and watched the demon restore his health and internal energy every three minutes. After calculating the enemy’s characteristics, Ye Weiming realized how to defeat him and prepared to test his method against the fully healed boss.

• Cang Xingyu analyzed how much damage the group’s attacks retained, and Ye Weiming found his own attacks were reduced to about fifty percent of their power.
• Demonized Feng Tiannan used Yin Feng Xie Wu to restore twenty percent of his health and internal energy, while Cang Xingyu noted that 180 seconds had passed since the fight began.
• Ye Weiming struck Demonized Feng Tiannan with Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms for 70,585 damage, and Cang Xingyu concluded that Daoist Arts explained the damage the fighters retained.
• Ye Weiming asked the group to test their attack methods for information, then revealed that his level-five Daoist Arts came from his level-four skill and a Daoist robe.
• Ye Weiming calculated the demon’s characteristics while Sanyue, Xiao Qiao, and Cang Xingyu held it off, then realized how to kill it as Yin Feng Xie Wu restored it to full health again.

Ye Weiming used the Golden Light Sword to exploit Demonized Feng Tiannan’s weakness and defeat the Level 85 boss. He and his team escaped the crowd gathering for the boss’s drop, and Ye Weiming identified the Asura Golden Cudgel as a weapon that might suit Niu Zhichun.

• Ye Weiming dodged Demonized Feng Tiannan’s Mountain Splitting Force and battered him with Dragon Subduing Palm before drawing the Golden Light Sword.
• Ye Weiming’s Golden Light Sword strikes devastated Demonized Feng Tiannan, and the team of Ye Weiming, Sanyue, Transparent Sky Bridge, and Cang Xingyu slew the boss.
• Sanyue and Xiao Qiao praised Ye Weiming, while Cang Xingyu noticed players gathering greedily around the boss’s golden staff.
• Cang Xingyu urged the team to leave, and Ye Weiming collected the staff before the four players raced toward Junshan Post Station.
• Ye Weiming inspected the Asura Golden Cudgel and thought it might suit Niu Zhichun.

After defeating Demonized Feng Tiannan, Ye Weiming explained how the team could cooperate on missions and shared the ways to damage demonic creatures. The group returned to the Divine Constable Bureau, where Ye Weiming asked Sanyue to find equipment that could improve their demon-fighting ability.

• Cang Xingyu gained 1,000 Chivalry Points for defeating Demonized Feng Tiannan, and Ye Weiming proposed that the group team up to hunt ghosts while handling individual errands separately.
• Ye Weiming retrieved the Soul Gathering Bead from You Jin and explained his plan for sharing work and maximizing mission rewards.
• Ye Weiming told the team that demonic creatures resisted ordinary physical and internal-energy attacks, but elemental attacks and Daoist or Buddhist arts could still harm them.
• Ye Weiming explained that his Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms gained a fifty percent attack boost against demons and that his Golden Light Sword could deal five times his usual damage.
• Ye Weiming mentioned that the Wudang True Martial Sword might be especially effective against demons, then asked Sanyue to check the Chief Equipment Shop for demon-subduing or elemental equipment.

Ye Weiming encountered the ghosts Miao Fu and Wang Sheng, who said they had come to repay his kindness rather than seek revenge. They transformed his copy of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, but had not yet explained what they wanted in return.

• Sanyue told Ye Weiming that the equipment shop had two Gold-grade swords suitable for Xiao Qiao’s Twin Swords Fusion.
• Miao Fu and Wang Sheng appeared before Ye Weiming and his companions as ghosts and introduced themselves.
• Ye Weiming told the sisters that Tian Boguang had been killed and urged them to reincarnate in peace, but they said they had come to repay kindness.
• Miao Fu sensed that Ye Weiming carried their copies of the Classic of Mountains and Seas and asked him to take out the book.
• Miao Fu and Wang Sheng breathed black mist onto the book, changing it into a deluxe edition with a strange battle scene on its cover.

Ye Weiming received the upgraded Classic of Mountains and Seas as a reward, then led his group to the Ancient Tomb Sect to find ghosts. After Cang Xingyu killed Sun Buer at the entrance, they reached the sect and found its disciples treating a demonized BOSS’s chase as a thrilling game.

• Miao Fu and Wang Sheng thanked Ye Weiming with the upgraded Classic of Mountains and Seas and 500 Chivalry Points before departing.
• Ye Weiming and his companions searched Bianjing for ghosts, then headed to the Ancient Tomb Sect after Xiao Qiao reported that ghosts appeared there frequently.
• Ye Weiming removed Cang Xingyu from the team to avoid triggering the entrance checkpoint, but Cang Xingyu fought and killed Sun Buer, losing 100 Chivalry Points and collecting her dropped insights.
• Ye Weiming invited Cang Xingyu back into the team, and the four entered the Ancient Tomb Sect’s territory.
• The group found Ancient Tomb Sect girls fleeing and drawing a demonized BOSS after them, apparently enjoying the chase like a haunted-house attraction.