Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming’s group encountered Demonized Tian Guinong in the Ancient Tomb Sect’s territory, where Mu Ran asked them to take the BOSS. Ye Weiming crippled Tian Guinong’s limbs and then let Xiao Qiao finish the fight in front of her junior sisters.

• Mu Ran led Demonized Tian Guinong toward Ye Weiming’s group and warned them that the BOSS had instantly killed two of her fellow disciples.
• Ye Weiming parried Demonized Tian Guinong’s greatsword and sent the Level 85 BOSS crashing to the ground with a crushing blow.
• Ye Weiming invited Mu Ran into the party so she could share the BOSS’s experience and cultivation while his team kept the drops.
• Ye Weiming used his sword techniques to cripple Demonized Tian Guinong’s right arm, left hand, and both legs.
• Ye Weiming returned to his teammates, asked Sanyue and Cang Xingyu to guard him, and urged Xiao Qiao to defeat the helpless BOSS before her junior sisters.

Xiao Qiao defeated the crippled demonic Tian Guinong and gained new equipment, while Ye Weiming’s party continued hunting ghosts around the Ancient Tomb Sect. The chapter left Ye Weiming considering Dao Mei’s request for help with a mission that offered the Chivalry Points he needed.

• Xiao Qiao used Twin Swords Fusion to kill demonic Tian Guinong, who dropped the Tianlong Heavy Sword.
• Ye Weiming traded the Tianlong Heavy Sword to Mu Ran for the Ice Silkworm Jade Belt and gave the belt to Xiao Qiao.
• Mu Ran left the party, and Ye Weiming, Cang Xingyu, Sanyue, and Xiao Qiao encountered separate ghost missions around the Ancient Tomb Sect.
• After Sanyue and Xiao Qiao left to complete their missions, Ye Weiming and Cang Xingyu stayed behind and waited for another encounter.
• Dao Mei sent Ye Weiming a request for help with the Jin Soldiers Defense Map, which could earn him 500 Chivalry Points.

Ye Weiming and Cang Xingyu met Dao Mei in Jingzhou to help with a mission from Mei Niansheng’s ghost. Dao Mei explained that they needed to save Ding Dian from the imprisonment and persecution that had led to his death.

• Ye Weiming agreed to help Dao Mei with her ghost-related mission and invited Cang Xingyu to come along.
• Ye Weiming and Cang Xingyu left the Ancient Tomb Sect’s territory and traveled to the Single Saber Wine House in Jingzhou City.
• Dao Mei told them that the ghost was Mei Niansheng, a martial artist betrayed by his three disciples and later rescued by Ding Dian.
• Dao Mei explained that Ding Dian inherited the Divine Illumination Skill and the secret behind Liancheng Swordplay, then became a target of treasure hunters.
• Dao Mei recounted how Ling Tuisi trapped and tortured Ding Dian in prison, where Ding Dian stayed so he could see Ling Shuanghua’s chrysanthemums.
• Mei Niansheng’s mission was for Dao Mei to save Ding Dian from the fate that had killed him.

Ye Weiming analyzed why Ding Dian would not leave prison and proposed proving that Ling Tuisi was not Ling Shuanghua’s real father. He left to research Ling Tuisi and the Dragon Sand Gang, while Dao Mei explained why she had decided to stop stalling this storyline and pursue its benefits.

• Dao Mei told Ye Weiming and Cang Xingyu that Ding Dian would not leave prison while Ling Shuanghua remained behind, and that Ding Dian was too powerful for them to confront.
• Ye Weiming argued that they needed to prevent Ling Shuanghua from pleading with Ding Dian to save Ling Tuisi, but Dao Mei said Ling Shuanghua’s character made that impossible.
• Cang Xingyu suggested proving Ling Tuisi was not Ling Shuanghua’s real father, and Ye Weiming praised him for identifying the breakthrough.
• Ye Weiming said he would handle Ding Dian and research Ling Tuisi and the Dragon Sand Gang at the Divine Constable Bureau, while Dao Mei and Cang Xingyu prepared for a fight.
• Dao Mei told Cang Xingyu she was shifting her strategy because repeated disruptions made the system harder to outmaneuver, and she wanted to profit from this plot node to prepare for a crucial one.
• Cang Xingyu asked whether Dao Mei believed Ye Weiming could prove Ling Tuisi was not Ling Shuanghua’s father, and she joked that Ye Weiming could even prove Cang Xingyu was her father.

Ye Weiming consulted the Divine Constable Bureau archives for records on the Dragon Sand Gang and Ling Tuisi, then prepared to confront the Jingzhou magistrate. He gathered Dao Mei and Cang Xingyu outside Jingzhou Prefecture and led them toward the government office to rescue Ding Dian.

• Ye Weiming obtained authorization from You Jin and asked archivist Xiao Wu for files on the Dragon Sand Gang and Ling Tuisi.
• Ye Weiming compiled the case records, embellishing them with invented details, and told Xiao Wu that jianghu cases did not require strict adherence to the process if the evidence and outcome were sound.
• Inspired by Ye Weiming's account, Xiao Wu decided that he wanted to write novels instead of becoming a constable or official.
• Ye Weiming returned You Jin's token and sent Dao Mei a message to bring Cang Xingyu to Jingzhou Prefecture prepared for a major battle.
• Ye Weiming met Dao Mei and Cang Xingyu outside Jingzhou Prefecture, announced that they would kill Ling Tuisi and rescue Ding Dian, and told them to watch his cues.

Ye Weiming confronted Prefect Ling Tuisi in the Jingzhou yamen with the Imperial Sword and accused him of stealing the identity of the real prefect after murdering him. Ling Tuisi denied the charges, but when Ye Weiming ordered him to face the Divine Constable Bureau, he called for an attack.

• Ye Weiming entered the Jingzhou yamen with Dao Mei and Cang Xingyu, displayed the Imperial Sword, and took the magistrate’s seat.
• Ye Weiming questioned Ling Tuisi about his long tenure as Jingzhou Prefect and challenged his remarks about Cao Cao with a palace examination essay.
• Ye Weiming revealed that Ling Tuisi was actually Liu Hong, leader of the Dragon Sand Gang, who had murdered the real prefect and taken his identity with Li Biao.
• Ling Tuisi denied the accusations and refused to go with Ye Weiming to the Divine Constable Bureau.
• Ling Tuisi shouted for his men to attack.

Ye Weiming, Dao Mei, and Cang Xingyu attacked Ling Tuisi and discovered that he was an impostor named Liu Hong, the former leader of the Dragon Sand Gang. Ye Weiming battered him nearly to death and fired a Seven-Colored Glazed Bead at his forehead before Ding Dian appeared.

• Ling Tuisi ordered his Dragon Sand Gang subordinates, disguised as constables and yamen runners, to attack Ye Weiming.
• Dao Mei and Cang Xingyu cut down the charging subordinates while Ye Weiming leaped at Ling Tuisi with Falling Sword Stance.
• Ye Weiming's attacks revealed that Ling Tuisi was Liu Hong, an impostor who had murdered the real official, and reduced his health by more than half.
• Dao Mei blocked Ling Tuisi's adviser, and Cang Xingyu swept aside the lackeys trying to help as Ye Weiming struck Ling Tuisi with a palm that left him near death.
• With Ding Dian still absent, Ye Weiming launched a Seven-Colored Glazed Bead at Ling Tuisi's forehead using Finger Flicking Divine Power.

Ye Weiming, Dao Mei, and Cang Xingyu killed Ling Tuisi with unexpected ease, but Ding Dian arrived to claim the corpse. Ye Weiming warned that granting Ding Dian’s request could leave him trapped in the same tragedy and lower the mission reward, then challenged Cang Xingyu’s assumption about what the system announcements meant.

• Ye Weiming, Dao Mei, and Cang Xingyu slew Ling Tuisi and the enemies in the hall, then looted the corpses and found a Guild Founding Token and the Indigo Robe.
• Ding Dian appeared and asked the group to let him take Ling Tuisi’s body away for Ling Shuanghua’s sake.
• Dao Mei pressed Ye Weiming to explain how accepting Ding Dian’s request would affect the mission’s completion rating and rewards.
• Ye Weiming said Ding Dian would return to prison and suffer Ling Tuisi’s persecution again, while Cang Xingyu questioned how that could happen after Ling Tuisi’s death.
• Ye Weiming asked whether the system had actually said Ling Tuisi would never exist in the game again.

Ye Weiming persuaded Ding Dian that Ling Tuisi was an impostor who had murdered Ling Shuanghua’s real father, using a partly fabricated account of Madam Ling’s past. Ding Dian left to fetch Shuanghua and meet Old Mr. Mei’s ghost, while Ye Weiming revealed that the story could not be checked because Master Xuanbei had died.

• Ye Weiming explained that Ding Dian’s Divine Illumination Scripture might revive Ling Tuisi, then urged Ding Dian to consider the consequences of saving the man who murdered Ling Shuanghua’s father.
• Ye Weiming gave Ding Dian a dossier claiming Liu Hong had killed the real Ling Tuisi, seized Madam Ling, and concealed the truth; Ding Dian read it and learned that Ye Weiming had investigated the case.
• Ding Dian checked Ling Tuisi’s body and the adviser and discovered Dragon Sand Gang tattoos, which convinced him that much of Ye Weiming’s account was true.
• Ding Dian asked to see Madam Ling’s alleged blood letter, but Ye Weiming said it had decayed; Ding Dian then went to fetch Ling Shuanghua and accompany Ye Weiming to meet Old Mr. Mei’s ghost.
• Ye Weiming admitted to Dao Mei and Cang Xingyu that he had invented much of Madam Ling’s story and explained how he had used it to persuade Ding Dian.
• Ye Weiming said Master Xuanbei could not expose the fabricated account because he had died three days earlier at Shenjie Temple in Dali.

Mei Niansheng rewarded Ye Weiming, Dao Mei, and Cang Xingyu for rescuing Ding Dian, then vanished after advising Ding Dian to live in anonymity with Ling Shuanghua. After Ye Weiming instantly killed a player who attacked him, Ding Dian asked him to help clear Di Yun's name, and Ye Weiming promised to pursue the case through official channels.

• Ding Dian reunited with Mei Niansheng, who praised the players for completing the rescue quest and distributed their rewards before disappearing.
• Dao Mei, Cang Xingyu, and Ye Weiming criticized Mei Niansheng's choices, while Ye Weiming warned that the public reward announcement had attracted greedy onlookers.
• A player attacked Ye Weiming from behind, and Ye Weiming turned and killed him with a single palm strike, frightening the other onlookers into backing off.
• Ding Dian asked Ye Weiming to help free Di Yun, who had been wrongly imprisoned, and Ye Weiming promised to seek a retrial through the incoming prefect.
• Ding Dian and Ling Shuanghua left together, and Dao Mei suggested that the players compare their quest rewards.

Ye Weiming and his teammates compared the rewards from Mei Niansheng’s quest, while Ye Weiming concealed the target of his new eight-star quest. A message from Fei Yu asked for help against the Crimson Serpent Fairy, and clerk Little Wu began writing a fantastical story before realizing something had gone wrong.

• Dao Mei revealed that she had gained 1,000 Chivalry Points and an internal skill level, then gave Ye Weiming the promised Jin Soldiers Defense Map.
• Cang Xingyu said his advanced Pure Yang Wuji Gong had risen from Level 9 to perfected Level 10, and he envied Dao Mei’s Chivalry Points.
• Ye Weiming showed his teammates the screenshot for his unknown-reward, eight-star quest, but kept its target concealed.
• Fei Yu sent Ye Weiming a message asking for help because he could not defeat the Crimson Serpent Fairy.
• Little Wu finished reading Great Tang Records on the Western Regions and began writing a story, then stopped after noticing something strange in it.

Fei Yu asked Ye Weiming and their friends to help with his event task after Li Mochou killed him and left the task unresolved. The group discussed her strength and her history with Lu Zhanyuan, then Ye Weiming proposed negotiating with her and offering Lu Zhanyuan’s ghost in exchange for sparing his family.

• Fei Yu encountered Lu Zhanyuan’s ghost and accepted the task of telling Li Mochou about his death and persuading her to spare Lu Zhanyuan’s family.
• Fei Yu tracked down level 90 Li Mochou, who attacked and poisoned him, but his task remained active after he revived.
• Ye Weiming gathered Dao Mei, Cang Xingyu, Sanyue, Xiao Qiao, and Yin Bukui with Fei Yu to discuss completing the task.
• Yin Bukui explained Li Mochou’s background and her history of being betrayed and abandoned by Lu Zhanyuan.
• Dao Mei, Sanyue, and Xiao Qiao blamed Lu Zhanyuan for Li Mochou’s suffering, while Fei Yu explained that task rules prevented players from attacking him.
• Ye Weiming suggested bargaining with Li Mochou by promising she could deal with Lu Zhanyuan’s ghost if she agreed to leave his family alone.

Ye Weiming and his temporary quest team confronted Li Mochou after she tried to kill two geese, and he tested her martial arts in a one-on-one fight. As Li Mochou pressed her attack, Ye Weiming decided he wanted to kill her and obtain her Three No, Three Not Hand technique.

• Li Mochou attacked two wild geese with poisoned needles, but Xiao Qiao deflected them and a hidden ally fired a Steel Bullet at Li Mochou.
• Ye Weiming and the other members of the quest team emerged from the woods and provoked Li Mochou over her attempt to kill the geese.
• Ye Weiming joked that the geese would be better roasted, and Li Mochou attacked him with Infiltrating Every Opening.
• Ye Weiming told his teammates to hold back while he tested Li Mochou, then dodged her attacks as she used Reaching Everywhere.
• Ye Weiming admired Li Mochou's Three No, Three Not Hand technique and resolved to kill her, partly because he wanted to claim the skill.

Ye Weiming fought Li Mochou, using a hidden weapon to cripple her left hand after she overwhelmed him with her poison palm. Li Mochou refused his invitation to continue the fight with weapons and offered to hear what he had to say about his mission.

• Ye Weiming changed his attack to drive Li Mochou back when she countered his Hidden Dragon, Do Not Act with a dangerous strike at his vital point.
• Ye Weiming and Li Mochou exchanged palms, and Li Mochou dealt him more damage and poisoned him.
• Ye Weiming flicked a Seven-Colored Glazed Bead into Li Mochou’s palm, badly injuring her hand and triggering poison backlash.
• Ye Weiming and Li Mochou took antidotes, then faced each other with weapons as Ye Weiming proposed a weapon contest.
• Li Mochou declined to take the bait and told Ye Weiming he could speak because he had proved himself by injuring her.

Ye Weiming tried to negotiate with Li Mochou over Lu Zhanyuan’s family, but she refused and left. With Fei Yu’s quest stalled, Cang Xingyu suggested asking someone who might understand Li Mochou’s thoughts.

• Ye Weiming realized Li Mochou would only take them seriously if they proved they could withstand her strength, and abandoned his plan to kill her for her secret manual.
• Ye Weiming offered to take Li Mochou to Lu Zhanyuan’s ghost if she would spare his family after the ten-year pledge expired.
• Li Mochou rejected the proposal, declared she would keep her word, and fled on foot, leaving her donkey behind.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei discussed whether Li Mochou was bound by her oath or still intended to take revenge on Lu Zhanyuan’s family.
• Cang Xingyu said he knew someone who might see through Li Mochou’s thoughts, prompting Dao Mei to joke that his friend must be a lunatic.

Cang Xingyu invited his psychologist friend Liuyun to help the group with their Li Mochou quest, while Ye Weiming prepared a donkey-meat feast as they waited. Liuyun arrived and revealed that his Level 9 Buddhist teachings came from a Nameless Old Monk in Shaolin Temple’s Scripture Repository.

• Cang Xingyu contacted his friend Liuyun and arranged for him to meet the group at their location.
• Ye Weiming cooked a large variety of donkey-meat dishes with Fei Yu’s help while everyone waited for Liuyun.
• Ye Weiming told Dao Mei about Niu Zhichun’s suggestion that she eliminate Lu Zhanyuan’s family to leave Li Mochou without anyone to target, but Dao Mei refused to harm ordinary people.
• Liuyun arrived, introduced himself as a Shaolin disciple, and declined the feast because he was observing a fast.
• Liuyun explained that his Level 9 Buddhist teachings could advance only after he cleared the karmic burden from breaking precepts, and said his master was a Nameless Old Monk who swept the Scripture Repository.

Liuyun joined Ye Weiming’s group, realized they had little experience with love, and concluded that Li Mochou still loved Lu Zhanyuan. He offered to negotiate with her, but she insisted that he prove his strength by injuring her first.

• Liuyun questioned the group about their romantic experience and told Ye Weiming that loving himself did not count.
• Liuyun deduced that Li Mochou still had feelings for Lu Zhanyuan and might accept the group’s proposal if they could reunite them.
• Liuyun volunteered to negotiate with Li Mochou, and Fei Yu tracked her down outside a willow grove.
• Liuyun asked Li Mochou if she would see Lu Zhanyuan again, leaving her visibly shaken.
• Li Mochou regained her composure and demanded that Liuyun injure her before she would discuss terms.

Liuyun persuaded Li Mochou to meet Lu Zhanyuan and then forced Lu Zhanyuan’s ghost to confront the harm he had caused. The group brought him to the Yuelai Inn in Xiangyang, where he knelt at Li Mochou’s door and apologized.

• Liuyun declined to spar with Li Mochou and persuaded her to wait for Lu Zhanyuan at the Yuelai Inn in Xiangyang.
• Sanyue agreed to Liuyun’s plan to persuade Lu Zhanyuan to meet Li Mochou.
• Lu Zhanyuan’s ghost refused to go, fearing Li Mochou would retaliate against his family, but Liuyun berated him until he agreed.
• Liuyun coached Lu Zhanyuan on how to ease Li Mochou’s hostility, and the group brought him toward Xiangyang.
• Lu Zhanyuan’s ghost knelt outside Li Mochou’s room and apologized to her.

After Li Mochou spared Lu Zhanyuan’s family, she returned to secular life and joined Sanyue’s equipment shop as a manager and shareholder. Ye Weiming’s group headed to Zhongnan Mountain to catch ghosts, where they met Niu Zhichun and prepared to negotiate over the Asura Golden Cudgel.

• Li Mochou refused to forgive Lu Zhanyuan but agreed to spare his family, earning the party mission rewards.
• Li Mochou returned to secular life and accepted Sanyue’s invitation to manage the Chief Equipment Shop for a 10% stake.
• Ye Weiming dismissed the Ancient Tomb Sect’s potential grievance as a manageable family matter.
• Liuyun left the party to deliver departed souls, while Ye Weiming led the remaining players toward Zhongnan Mountain to catch ghosts.
• Niu Zhichun complained that he had waited too long and tried to lower the Asura Golden Cudgel’s price, but Sanyue called out his lies.
• Dao Mei confronted Niu Zhichun about allegedly calling her the Blood Saber Sect’s little demoness.

After selling the Asura Golden Cudgel, Ye Weiming invited Niu Zhichun to join the group’s ghost hunt, but Niu refused to enter the Ancient Tomb Sect’s forbidden ground. Ling Tuisi’s ghost then appeared, and the party killed him after he transformed into a demon, earning rewards and a precious-tier demonic sword.

• Niu Zhichun bought the Asura Golden Cudgel for 2,500 gold, and the four battle participants divided the sale proceeds according to their contributions.
• Ye Weiming invited Niu Zhichun to join the group’s ghost hunt, and Niu accepted before learning the route passed through a Quanzhen Sect forbidden ground.
• Niu Zhichun refused to trespass into the forbidden ground because he was a Quanzhen Sect disciple.
• Ling Tuisi’s ghost appeared and offered Ye Weiming a choice between defeating him and helping him find Emperor Yuan of Liang’s treasure.
• Ye Weiming chose to fight, and Ling Tuisi transformed into a level 85 demon before the party killed him.
• The party received experience and cultivation rewards, while Ye Weiming gained 1,000 Chivalry Points and Ling Tuisi dropped a precious-tier demonic sword.