Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming and his teammates farmed ghosts in the Ancient Tomb Sect until dawn, then went to inspect their new house in Bianjing. When Yin Bukui asked to borrow Ye Weiming’s Dugu Stone Bed, black qi rose from it and Ye Weiming warned everyone to flee.

• Ye Weiming kept the Bojun Golden Sword after his teammates recognized its dangerous pain-amplifying effect, while Niu Zhichun left the party to farm Chivalry Points.
• Ye Weiming’s group challenged the Ancient Tomb Sect’s gatekeeping bosses, then spent the day and night fighting ghosts and gaining experience.
• As the ghost rewards dwindled, Dao Mei and Yin Bukui urged the group to stop farming, and Ye Weiming decided he could now seek Song Bingyi in Dali as a Hero Saint.
• Sanyue suggested visiting the group’s new house in Bianjing, and Ye Weiming brought the Dugu Stone Bed there from his Divine Constable Bureau apartment.
• Yin Bukui asked to borrow the stone bed for his inner cultivation training, but black qi surged from it and Ye Weiming shouted for everyone to run.

Black mist transported Ye Weiming and his teammates into the Dugu Secret Realm, where Dugu Qiubai revealed a dangerous trial tied to their Ghost Festival quest. He challenged the group to fulfill his lifelong wish by defeating him.

• Black mist swept over Ye Weiming and his teammates and transported them to a mountain valley beside a thatched cottage.
• Dugu Qiubai emerged from the cottage, identified the place as the Dugu Secret Realm, and explained that death there would cost a level and reduce a martial art by one realm.
• Ye Weiming recognized Dugu Qiubai and explained that the secret realm was connected to their Ghost Festival quest and their earlier gains.
• Ye Weiming asked Dugu Qiubai to release his teammates and test only him, but Dugu Qiubai refused and said the group had activated a high-difficulty trial.
• Dugu Qiubai asked all seven heroes to fulfill his lifelong wish by granting him a defeat.

Ye Weiming accepted the hidden quest to defeat Dugu Qiubai, learning that one victory would secure rewards and safety for all seven teammates. Dao Mei volunteered to challenge Dugu Qiubai first and opened with three powerful saber strikes.

• Ye Weiming chose the near-certain-death option and accepted the eight-star quest "Sword Master Seeks Defeat."
• Dugu Qiubai explained that one of the seven players had to defeat him for everyone to survive and receive rewards, and that the group could challenge him together.
• Dao Mei volunteered to go first so her teammates could observe Dugu Qiubai's methods.
• Dao Mei took a position with the sun behind her, gathered her strength, and launched Yin Wind Rises, Crescent Moon Rises, and Beautiful Figure Binds the Spirit at Dugu Qiubai.

Dao Mei unleashed her Demon Blade against Dugu Qiubai but was defeated and left badly weakened. Cang Xingyu then challenged Dugu Qiubai to a Dao Discussion Chess Game, where his Way of the Spear manifested as a charging army.

• Dao Mei combined three streams of blade force into a powerful slash, but Dugu Qiubai broke it with a single strike and dealt her Crushing Damage.
• Dao Mei took a healing pill and began recovering, while Dugu Qiubai explained that the Demon Blade had severely strained her mind and would keep her from recovering fully for three days.
• Cang Xingyu admitted he could not defeat Dugu Qiubai by strength and asked to discuss the Dao with him, and Dugu Qiubai agreed.
• Yin Bukui explained that the Dao Discussion Chess Game manifested each player's understanding of Daoist Arts and said Cang Xingyu was highly skilled at it.
• Cang Xingyu declared that his Dao was the Way of the Spear, summoning a vast army of spear-wielding cavalry that charged across the board toward Dugu Qiubai.

Dugu Qiubai defeated Cang Xingyu by using his sword dao to shatter the Dao Discussion Chess Game and collapse the Heaven Shaking Spear Formation. Sanyue then challenged Dugu Qiubai to a game of Truth or Dare, leaving the team confident that Ye Weiming had arranged a favorable contest.

• Yin Bukui explained that the Dao Discussion Chess Game manifested a player's will and that Cang Xingyu's Heaven Shaking Spear Formation was his strongest move.
• Dugu Qiubai declared that his dao was the sword dao and manifested a divine sword that destroyed the chess game and Cang Xingyu's formation.
• Cang Xingyu conceded defeat, and Dugu Qiubai encouraged him to learn from their shared principles and keep developing his spear dao.
• Sanyue stepped forward and proposed competing with Dugu Qiubai in knowing oneself and one's enemy.
• Ye Weiming admitted that he had coached Sanyue, who challenged Dugu Qiubai to play Truth or Dare, and Dugu Qiubai agreed.

Dugu Qiubai tested the group with a wager, and Sanyue lost after admitting that her Insightful Observation could not match his ability to expose lies. Ye Weiming then outmaneuvered Dugu Qiubai by turning his own shamelessness challenge into a declared victory, leaving the group expecting their quest rewards.

• Dugu Qiubai asked Sanyue whether his claim of never losing was true, and she correctly answered that he had lied because his father had beaten him.
• Dugu Qiubai made Sanyue lose by showing that she could not lie under his gaze, and she explained that the system had judged her defeat.
• Ye Weiming ruled out Yin Bukui and Fei Yu, then sent Xiao Qiao to challenge Dugu Qiubai by comparing the length of their hair.
• Dugu Qiubai rejected Ye Weiming's hair-length contest and challenged him to compete over who was more shameless.
• Ye Weiming accepted Dugu Qiubai's challenge, declared that Dugu Qiubai had conceded, and demanded the promised quest rewards.

Ye Weiming forced Dugu Qiubai to concede their contest over who was more shameless, completing the eight-star quest and earning the unique title Sword Person. The title’s powerful sword-related attributes impressed Ye Weiming, though he disliked how it sounded, while his teammates waited to hear about Dugu Qiubai’s other rewards.

• Ye Weiming seized on Dugu Qiubai’s challenge to compete over shamelessness and used Dugu’s concern for his dignity to claim victory.
• Dugu Qiubai admitted defeat and called Ye Weiming “Sword Person,” completing the quest and granting the team experience and cultivation along with Ye Weiming’s unique title.
• Ye Weiming and his teammates leveled up, though Dao Mei remained drained from the backlash of her earlier slash.
• System announcements repeatedly broadcast Ye Weiming’s victory over Dugu Qiubai and his new title across the world channel.
• Ye Weiming inspected the title’s powerful sword-enhancing attributes but disliked the name displayed beside his own.
• Ye Weiming’s teammates turned their attention to Dugu Qiubai, awaiting the remaining quest rewards.

Dugu Qiubai sent Ye Weiming’s six teammates out of the secret realm after granting each a sword-qi reward, then upgraded Ye Weiming’s “Sky Shaking Nine Swords.” The chapter ended with Dugu Qiubai about to explain a problem with the technique.

• Dugu Qiubai gave each of Ye Weiming’s six teammates sword qi that could raise one martial art by a realm, then teleported them out of the secret realm.
• Dugu Qiubai told Ye Weiming that his shameless approach had helped fulfill a wish and awarded him guidance, despite refusing to change the “Sword Person” title.
• Ye Weiming argued that Dugu Qiubai still owed him a reward and described how he had respectfully handled Dugu Qiubai’s remains and belongings.
• Dugu Qiubai tapped Ye Weiming between the brows, slightly improving the quality of “Sky Shaking Nine Swords” and adding the Skill Break effect.
• Dugu Qiubai praised the technique’s combination of his and Huang Shang’s martial arts, then began to point out a problem with it.

Dugu Qiubai explained that Huang Shang had created the Sky Shaking Nine Swords specifically for Ye Weiming, who was its ideal wielder, and that Huang Shang would reveal how to advance it after Ye learned all its moves. Ye Weiming returned from the Dugu Secret Realm to his teammates and invited them to a meal and to divide their quest spoils.

• Dugu Qiubai told Ye Weiming that the Sky Shaking Nine Swords could eventually become a Peerless Divine Skill and that Huang Shang had tailored it to Ye Weiming.
• Dugu Qiubai said Huang Shang would explain the next steps after Ye Weiming learned all the moves he had created.
• Dugu Qiubai refused to offer Ye Weiming another quest for the Dugu Nine Swords, explaining that the rewards for the eight-star quest had already been combined.
• Ye Weiming told Dugu Qiubai that Feng Qingyang and Linghu Chong were unlikely to help him because he had offended them.
• Dugu Qiubai sent Ye Weiming back to his home, where his six teammates had protected him.
• Ye Weiming proposed cooking a meal for his teammates and dividing the items dropped by the boss they had killed.

After dividing the festival bosses’ loot, Ye Weiming paid his teammates for the Indigo Robe and arranged to auction his third Guild Founding Token through Shen Wansan. He revealed how to obtain the tokens, claimed his free use of the Treasure Gathering Basin, and placed his Pet Silver Bracelet inside to upgrade it.

• Ye Weiming received the Bojun Golden Sword and Indigo Robe, then paid Dao Mei and Cang Xingyu their shares of the robe’s value.
• The group entrusted Ye Weiming with auctioning the Guild Founding Token, and Shen Wansan praised him for obtaining three in quick succession.
• Ye Weiming told Shen Wansan that faction leaders could drop Guild Founding Tokens, especially on a first kill or when killed in their normal state.
• Shen Wansan completed their agreement by granting Ye Weiming one free use of the Treasure Gathering Basin.
• Ye Weiming examined the basin, learned it was bound to Shen Wansan, and placed his Pet Silver Bracelet inside.

Ye Weiming upgraded his Pet Capture Bracelet to treasure-grade and traveled with Sanyue to Dali to seek Song Bingyi and learn martial arts. After Sanyue failed to find anyone who knew Song Bingyi in the western market, Ye Weiming appeared beside her, and she asked whether he had found him.

• Ye Weiming spent 11,000 gold to upgrade his Pet Capture Bracelet, explaining to Sanyue that it was his rarest and most useful equipment to improve for Ah Hong and future pets.
• Ye Weiming and Sanyue set off for Dali because they had both earned the Hero Saint title and hoped to receive martial arts instruction from Song Bingyi.
• Ye Weiming and Sanyue traveled toward the Hangzhou post station while joking about Ye Weiming's interest in learning Soaring Dragon, Regret from the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.
• Sanyue asked more than a dozen people in Dali's western market about Song Bingyi, but none knew who he was.
• Ye Weiming appeared beside Sanyue in his treasure-grade Indigo Long Gown, and Sanyue asked whether he had found Song Bingyi.

Ye Weiming and Sanyue searched West Market for Song Bingyi and found him begging with his unusually well-dressed family and a pure-gold bowl. After Ye Weiming gave the family Beggar's Chicken, Song Bingyi revealed that he was a former Beggar's Sect elder and asked whether they had come to find him.

• Ye Weiming told Sanyue that Song Bingyi was active in West Market, then explained how he had bribed and intimidated a beggar into sharing what he knew.
• Ye Weiming described Song Bingyi as an ordinary-looking beggar who brought his beautiful wife and lively children along to beg.
• Sanyue and Ye Weiming spotted a young-looking beggar approaching with his family, matching Ye Weiming's description.
• The beggar held out a spotless pure-gold bowl, and Ye Weiming placed a steaming Beggar's Chicken in it.
• The beggar shared the chicken with his wives and children, then introduced himself as Song, a former Beggar's Sect elder, and asked whether they had come to find him.

Ye Weiming and Sanyue met Song Bingyi, who offered them quests in exchange for the martial arts they wanted to learn. They accepted separate six-star quests involving Dali’s ruler and a prince’s consort, and prepared to travel to the imperial palace.

• Ye Weiming confirmed Song Bingyi’s identity and explained that Hong Qigong had sent him to learn Soaring Dragon, Regret.
• Song Bingyi mocked Ye Weiming and Sanyue’s professions, but agreed to offer them quests after Ye Weiming answered him bluntly.
• Sanyue asked for an internal cultivation technique, and Song Bingyi offered her the Divine Dragon Maiden Skill through a quest.
• Song Bingyi revealed that Duan Zhengming held the Soaring Dragon, Regret manual and asked the pair to help resolve troubles in Dali.
• Ye Weiming accepted the six-star quest to help Duan Zhengming, while Sanyue accepted a separate six-star quest to help Dao Baifeng.

Ye Weiming and Sanyue entered Dali's imperial palace to investigate a quest from Song Bingyi and meet Duan Zhengming. After Duan Zhengming began explaining the trouble that had befallen his household, the chapter ended before he revealed the details.

• Ye Weiming and Sanyue learned that Hero Saints could enter certain martial-world places, including Dali's imperial palace, without introductions.
• Ye Weiming warned Sanyue that Song Bingyi's quest seemed suspicious and told her to use Insightful Observation once they met the quest giver.
• A palace guard invited Ye Weiming and Sanyue into the palace, addressing Ye Weiming with the awkward title "Young Hero Sword Person."
• Duan Zhengming recalled Song Bingyi's words about how peaceful, prosperous rule could reduce the number of beggars.
• Ye Weiming asked Duan Zhengming about the trouble Song Bingyi had mentioned and the promised Soaring Dragon, Regret manual, and Duan Zhengming began recounting his household's misfortune.

Duan Zhengming hired Ye Weiming and Sanyue to investigate Myriad Tribulation Valley and the Four Great Evils after Duan Yu was kidnapped. As they reached the valley, Yun Zhonghe ambushed Sanyue, forcing them to confront him before they could infiltrate.

• Duan Zhengming explained how Duan Yu had been kidnapped by Yue Lao San and Yun Zhonghe and changed Ye Weiming and Sanyue’s mission to investigate Myriad Tribulation Valley and the Four Great Evils.
• Ye Weiming and Sanyue left the palace, discussed the tangled Duan family affairs, and headed toward Myriad Tribulation Valley.
• Yin Bukui replied that the history of the Four Great Evils and the Dali Duan Clan was too complicated to explain briefly, while Liuyun could not be reached.
• At the entrance to Myriad Tribulation Valley, Yun Zhonghe silently approached and reached for the back of Sanyue’s neck.
• Ye Weiming recognized Yun Zhonghe and prepared to kill him again so they could continue their infiltration.

Ye Weiming and Sanyue silently killed Yun Zhonghe, then entered Myriad Tribulation Valley through a hidden passage. Inside, they met a hulking man wielding giant scissors, who tried to recruit Sanyue as his disciple.

• Sanyue countered Yun Zhonghe’s ambush with Heart Shattering Palm and Cinnabar Palm, but Ye Weiming attacked to prevent him from escaping and exposing their infiltration.
• Ye Weiming struck Yun Zhonghe with his sword and a Steel Bullet, while Sanyue helped silence and finish him; they collected his drops and stored his body in a coffin.
• Ye Weiming and Sanyue found the warning sign at the valley entrance and inferred that Yun Zhonghe’s note meant they had to knock three times on the character “Duan.”
• Ye Weiming knocked on the sign, opening a hidden passage into Myriad Tribulation Valley, where the map changed and their communication with the outside world was cut off.
• In a clearing inside the valley, a hulking man carrying giant scissors appeared, remarked that Yun Zhonghe had fallen, and asked Sanyue to become his disciple.

Sanyue discovered that Yue Lao San had triggered an apprenticeship quest and asked Ye Weiming for advice on choosing its difficulty. After lending her three pieces of equipment, Ye Weiming watched as she challenged the Level 70 version of Yue Lao San.

• Sanyue angrily confronted the foolish Yue Lao San while Ye Weiming watched and offered to support her.
• Sanyue showed Ye Weiming the quest, which let her choose between fighting Yue Lao San at different levels or becoming his disciple.
• Ye Weiming advised Sanyue to challenge a difficulty she could handle and promised to kill Yue Lao San if she lost.
• Sanyue said she was certain she could beat the Level 60 opponent and had only a thirty-percent chance against the Level 70 one.
• Ye Weiming lent Sanyue three pieces of equipment, and she chose to challenge the Level 70 Yue Lao San.
• Sanyue equipped two of the items and struck Yue Lao San from behind with a palm.

Sanyue defeated Yue Lao San with help from her equipment and Ah Hong, then accepted his apprenticeship. Ye Weiming stopped Yue Lao San from leaving until he had given Sanyue an apprenticeship gift, and Sanyue revealed an item link to the team.

• Sanyue used her enhanced gear and Ah Hong to beat Yue Lao San and make him acknowledge her as his master.
• Ye Weiming challenged Yue Lao San when he tried to attack after the apprenticeship quest, striking him with a sword, palm techniques, and Sword Summon.
• Yue Lao San fled in pain, but Ye Weiming blocked him and demanded an apprenticeship gift.
• Yue Lao San gave Sanyue a tiny pair of black scissors and tried to leave, but Ye Weiming stopped him again.
• Sanyue smiled and posted an item link in the Team Channel.

Ye Weiming and Sanyue continued through Myriad Tribulation Valley after defeating Yue Lao San, discussing their recent gains and Sanyue’s enhanced Insightful Observation. They encountered Ye Erniang and a man seeking his son, but the man turned against them when Ye Erniang demanded that Sanyue’s eyes be dug out.

• Sanyue returned the Crocodile Snippers and other items to Ye Weiming, who inspected his newly perfected Yijin Duangu Bone Chapter and its increased attributes.
• Ye Weiming and Sanyue continued deeper into Myriad Tribulation Valley and agreed to face the next Boss quickly rather than worry about stealth.
• Ye Erniang appeared with an infant and warned them not to make noise; Sanyue reported that her upgraded Insightful Observation detected shifting truths, emotions, and killing intent.
• Sanyue explained that Dugu Qiubai’s sword qi had enhanced her Insightful Observation with improved dynamic tracking and weak-point detection.
• Zuo Zimu arrived and begged Ye Erniang to return his son, offering to kidnap other children in exchange.
• Ye Erniang demanded that Zuo Zimu gouge out Sanyue’s eyes, and he turned his sword toward Ye Weiming and Sanyue.

Ye Weiming and Sanyue confronted Ye Erniang and Zuo Zimu over the kidnapped infant, but Ye Erniang escaped after throwing the child to Ye Weiming. Ye Weiming refused to return the infant to Zuo Zimu without compensation and proposed that he write an IOU.

• Ye Weiming identified Ye Erniang as the more dangerous opponent and told Sanyue to handle Zuo Zimu.
• Ye Weiming wounded Ye Erniang, who threw the infant toward him and fled into the forest.
• Ye Weiming caught the infant while Sanyue stopped pursuing Zuo Zimu and kept him at a distance.
• Zuo Zimu tried to take the child back and claimed he had acted under Ye Erniang's threat, but Ye Weiming refused to hand the infant over without payment.
• Ye Weiming told Zuo Zimu that he could write an IOU if he had brought nothing valuable.