Chapter Summaries

After Ye Weiming’s team completed the Myriad Tribulation Valley quest, they prepared to return to Dali and collect their rewards. Meanwhile, Jiang Jin Jiu’s group moved ahead with a backup plan, and a player rerouted toward West Hill Village to pursue a side quest.

• Ye Weiming explained that he had forced Jiumozhi to retreat by triggering the monk’s hidden ailment, then planned to return to Dali and collect the quest rewards.
• Sanyue offered to ask Ba Tianshi about Hua Hegen’s corpse so Ye Weiming could arrange a burial.
• Jiang Jin Jiu, Dugu Xingyun, and I'm Looking For Something discussed Jiumozhi’s injury and decided to activate their sixth backup plan.
• Duan Xiyang Wuyu said Jiumozhi had killed him with a finger strike after he approached the monk to ask about his condition.
• A strangely dressed player changed course from Myriad Tribulation Valley and headed for West Hill Village to complete a side quest.

Ye Weiming and Sanyue received their mission rewards from Song Bingyi, who revealed that he had watched their encounter with Jiumozhi. Ye Weiming learned Soaring Dragon, Regret, but Song Bingyi began showing him another sequence in the manual before he could inspect the skill.

• Song Bingyi praised Ye Weiming and Sanyue for rescuing Duan Yu, killing Yun Zhonghe, and resolving the conflict between the Dali Duan Clan and Duan Yanqing.
• Sanyue exposed Song Bingyi's lie about not witnessing their mission, and he admitted he had been there but had not helped them fight Jiumozhi.
• Song Bingyi gave Sanyue the Divine Dragon Maiden Skill and a set of Dragon Locking Nails as her mission rewards.
• Song Bingyi demanded Ye Weiming hand over the Soaring Dragon, Regret manual, then used palm wind to flip through it as Ye Weiming watched.
• Ye Weiming comprehended Soaring Dragon, Regret, and the system merged his four Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms forms into a fragmentary peerless art.
• Song Bingyi told Ye Weiming to keep watching and began flipping the manual from back to front.

Song Bingyi rewarded Ye Weiming with three moves of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, then left with his family. At the Dali Imperial Palace, Ye Weiming studied his spoils and perfected Soaring Dragon, Regret, merging his palm techniques into the incomplete Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.

• Song Bingyi demonstrated two more ways to comprehend the secret manual and taught Ye Weiming three moves of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms as a mission reward.
• Song Bingyi warned that casually flipping the manual would not teach Ye Weiming anything, then left to beg in the marketplace with his wives and children.
• Sanyue questioned Song Bingyi's claim that he could defeat Jiumozhi in three moves, and Ye Weiming reasoned that Song Bingyi's level had to be high to survive among players.
• Ye Weiming and the other mission participants went to the Dali Imperial Palace, where Duan Zhengming arranged private rooms for them before the celebration banquet.
• Ye Weiming learned the grave-robbing life skill from Hua Hegen's Dragon Seeking Art and used insights and Cultivation Points to perfect Soaring Dragon, Regret.
• Ye Weiming's palm techniques merged into Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms (Twelve Palms Missing), with each move requiring separate training.

Ye Weiming improved his martial arts and joined the Dali Duan Clan’s banquet, where Zhong Ling was revealed as Duan Zhengchun’s daughter and Duan Yu’s sister. After the gathering broke up, Ye Weiming realized Duan Yu might still owe him a special mission reward.

• Ye Weiming used Hua Hegen’s insight manuals to raise Deduction to level 7, while the Internal Skill Insights did little for Quanzhen Swordsmanship.
• At the banquet, Duan Yanqing recommended Zhong Ling as a match for Duan Yu, and Duan Yu produced the pouch containing her birth date and hour.
• Duan Zhengchun recognized Zhong Ling’s birth details and revealed that she was his daughter and Duan Yu and Mu Wanqing’s younger sister.
• Mu Wanqing stormed away, Duan Yu followed her, and the banquet ended; later, he returned alone and told the players she would not see him.
• Ye Weiming jokingly comforted Duan Yu by suggesting Duan Zhengchun might not be his biological father, and Duan Yu warned that his mission reward could be just as unpleasant.
• Ye Weiming reconsidered Song Bingyi’s earlier words and suspected that Duan Yu still had to deliver the special reward for the “Restore Order” mission.

Duan Yu rewarded the rescuers with gifts and gave Sanyue an invitation to Liu Zhengfeng’s Golden Basin Hand-Washing ceremony. He offered Ye Weiming a Mang Gu Zhu Ha instead of the Bei Ming Divine Skill, then revealed Ye could still trade it for the manual by apologizing.

• Duan Yu gave Sheng Tian Banzi a chess manual, Mountains and Rivers Meet and Foodie Little Fairy treasured weapons, and Liuyun the Colorless Zen manual.
• Duan Yu gave Sanyue an invitation to the Golden Basin Hand-Washing ceremony, and Sanyue passed it to Ye Weiming to inspect.
• Ye Weiming returned the invitation to Sanyue, recommended she attend with help from Xiao Qiao and Fei Yu, and said he would send her a guide.
• Duan Yu explained that he could adjust Ye Weiming’s quest reward and gave him a box containing the Mang Gu Zhu Ha instead of the Bei Ming Divine Skill.
• Ye Weiming accepted the toad without frustration, prompting Duan Yu to offer him the chance to exchange it for the Bei Ming Divine Skill if he apologized.

Ye Weiming chose the poison-immune toad over Duan Yu’s incomplete Bei Ming Divine Skill, then watched Duan Yu’s uncontrolled absorption technique draw a crowd into a chain of trembling bodies. As the group decided whether to pursue the Tianlong Temple quest, a system announcement revealed that Jiang Jin Jiu, Dugu Xingyun, and I'm Looking For Something had killed Duan Zhengchun.

• Ye Weiming rejected Duan Yu’s incomplete martial arts reward and chose the toad that granted immunity to all poisons.
• Mu Wanqing chased Duan Yu and demanded marriage, but their contact triggered his uncontrolled Bei Ming Divine Skill and drew Qin Hongmian and others into the absorption chain.
• Duan Zhengming freed himself and separated the ten people connected by Duan Yu’s technique, while Ye Weiming’s group discussed the Tianlong Temple quest.
• Ye Weiming declined to pursue the quest, and Liuyun chose to visit Tianlong Temple to hear its monks’ Buddhist teachings.
• The System announced that Jiang Jin Jiu, Dugu Xingyun, and I'm Looking For Something had killed Duan Zhengchun and claimed the first kill.

After Duan Zhengchun’s death, Ye Weiming’s party rested while Liuyun pursued a mission at Tianlong Temple. Niu Zhichun then ambushed Duan Zhengchun’s killers, stole the corpse, and headed for Dali City, hoping to improve his mission reward.

• Ye Weiming said he had not predicted Duan Zhengchun’s appearance, and Liuyun set out to seek a mission at Tianlong Temple.
• Jiang Jin Jiu, I'm Looking For Something, and Dugu Xingyun discussed how they had lured out and killed Duan Zhengchun, and agreed to reserve one additional drop for Brother Sunset.
• I'm Looking For Something and Dugu Xingyun began breaking Duan Zhengchun’s acupoint seals, but Niu Zhichun ambushed and killed them.
• Jiang Jin Jiu broke free and escaped Niu Zhichun, who took Duan Zhengchun’s corpse and ran toward Dali City.
• Niu Zhichun looted Duan Zhengchun’s corpse for the One Yang Finger and then carried it onward, hoping it would increase his reward for delivering a letter to Duan Zhengming.

Ye Weiming prepared and consumed a medicinal meal made from the Mang Gu Zhu Ha, greatly increasing his Poison Resistance and improving his Cooking, Medicine, and Poison Arts skills. The next morning, Zuo Zimu arrived to trade two treasures for the IOU Ye Weiming held.

• Ye Weiming cooked Spicy Zhu Ha with Xiangshui Rice and combined Zhu Ha Bone Wine with a Zhu Ha Bone Pill, boosting the wine's effects.
• Ye Weiming ate and drank the meal, raising his Poison Resistance to over 12,000 and his Cooking and Medicine skills to Level 9 and Poison Arts to Level 8.
• After sleeping, Ye Weiming met Sanyue and Zuo Zimu, who had been waiting outside the palace for half an hour.
• Zuo Zimu offered Ye Weiming two treasures in exchange for the IOU he had left with him.

Ye Weiming exchanged Zuo Zimu’s courtroom evidence for the Dragon Mark Sword and Glazed Sarira, then split the artifacts with Sanyue. Their reunion with Niu Zhichun was cut short when Dali’s guards captured him as an assassin and Duan Zhengchun ordered his execution.

• Ye Weiming inspected the Dragon Mark Sword and Glazed Sarira, then returned Zuo Zimu’s courtroom evidence in exchange for the artifacts.
• Ye Weiming gave Sanyue the Glazed Sarira and kept the Dragon Mark Sword.
• Ye Weiming and Sanyue heard an alarm and saw Niu Zhichun leap into their courtyard while fleeing pursuers.
• Ba Tianshi struck Niu Zhichun down, and the four palace guards bound him.
• Duan Zhengchun ordered Niu Zhichun executed, and Niu Zhichun begged Ye Weiming to help him.

Ye Weiming tried to save Niu Zhichun after Duan Zhengchun accused him of attempting an assassination. After hearing how Niu Zhichun had brought back Duan Zhengchun’s corpse and publicly exposed his affair, Ye Weiming said he could still keep him alive and earn extra mission rewards.

• Ye Weiming intervened when Duan Zhengchun’s guards captured Niu Zhichun and agreed to hear the evidence at the Imperial Study.
• Ye Weiming invited Niu Zhichun into the Team Channel, where Niu Zhichun explained that he had learned the Innate Skill and taken a letter-delivery mission to Dali.
• Niu Zhichun described witnessing Duan Zhengchun’s death after an affair and carrying his corpse to the palace for mission credit.
• Ye Weiming realized Niu Zhichun had embarrassed Duan Zhengchun in front of Dao Baifeng and said the accusation was understandable.
• Ye Weiming promised to help keep Niu Zhichun alive and improve his mission rewards, then asked whether he had spare rare pills or medicinal herbs.

Ye Weiming and Duan Zhengchun improvised a story to explain Niu Zhichun’s actions and win Dao Baifeng’s trust. Duan Zhengchun apologized to Niu Zhichun and offered him a gift for bringing back the Heaven-Reaching Grass and news of Master Xuanbei.

• Duan Zhengchun told Dao Baifeng that Niu Zhichun had killed his avatar and tried to attack him, while Ye Weiming pretended to be shocked and asked to hear Niu Zhichun’s side.
• Niu Zhichun claimed he had found the Heaven-Reaching Grass clutched in Duan Zhengchun’s corpse and brought it back to the Dali Imperial Palace.
• Ye Weiming fabricated a story that Duan Zhengchun had sought the herb to cure Duan Yu, and Duan Zhengchun joined the act by claiming he remembered making that plan.
• Dao Baifeng was moved by Duan Zhengchun’s supposed devotion to Duan Yu, and Duan Zhengchun embraced her.
• Ye Weiming reminded Duan Zhengchun to compensate Niu Zhichun, so Duan Zhengchun apologized and presented him with a hat.

Ye Weiming accepted quests from Duan Zhengchun to return Master Xuanbei’s ashes to Shaolin and bury Duan Zhengchun’s corpse, collecting insight manuals from both. He began cremating Xuanbei and studied a swordsmanship manual while waiting for the ashes.

• Niu Zhichun accepted the Earth Store Crown from Duan Zhengchun and put it on, looking like a monk.
• Duan Zhengchun asked Ye Weiming to cremate Master Xuanbei and deliver his ashes to Shaolin, and Ye Weiming accepted the five-star quest.
• Duan Zhengchun asked Ye Weiming to bury his corpse, and Ye Weiming accepted the quest and collected four insight manuals from the body.
• Niu Zhichun helped Ye Weiming bury Duan Zhengchun, then led him to Shenjie Temple to encoffin Master Xuanbei’s corpse.
• Ye Weiming cremated Master Xuanbei and took out a swordsmanship insight manual to study while he waited for the ashes.

Ye Weiming acquired Niu Zhichun’s advanced internal cultivation skill, Colorless Zen, and prepared to return Xuan Bei’s remains to Shaolin. A system announcement launched a large-scale hunt for the Six Meridian Divine Sword manuals, and Ye Weiming immediately encountered and attacked one of Jiumozhi’s fleeing disciples.

• Niu Zhichun asked what Ye Weiming needed, then offered to sell him the advanced internal cultivation skill Colorless Zen for 2,000 gold.
• After Xuan Bei’s cremation, Ye Weiming collected Xuan Bei’s Ashes and a Sarira, which he planned to return to Shaolin Sect.
• A system announcement revealed that Jiumozhi had taken Tianlong Temple’s Six Meridian Divine Sword manual and sent six disciples fleeing with its portions.
• Ye Weiming spotted a level 60 Foreign Monk near Shenjie Temple and pulled him close with Thousand Miles in an Instant.
• Ye Weiming struck the Foreign Monk with Soaring Dragon, Regret, breaking his stance and protective true qi, then followed with Dragon’s Might attacks.

Ye Weiming traveled toward Tianlong Temple, fighting foreign monks and learning that most were weak, poor-dropping decoys while stronger ones offered better loot. Near Dali City, he met Fei Yu, and a system announcement revealed that Dugu Xingyun had obtained the first Shangyang Sword manual.

• Ye Weiming killed a level 60 foreign monk with Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and found only medicine and money.
• Ye Weiming headed south toward Tianlong Temple, fighting foreign monks and concluding that the common level 60 monks had weak drops while rarer, stronger ones offered better equipment.
• Ye Weiming encountered Fei Yu near Dali City and learned that Fei Yu's tracking search had produced an overwhelming stream of useless coordinates.
• A system announcement declared that Dugu Xingyun had obtained the Shangyang Sword manual from the incomplete Six Meridian Divine Sword.

Ye Weiming analyzed how Jiumozhi and the players had obtained the Six Meridian Divine Sword manuals, then used a mind map to predict where another manual might be. He set off to investigate alone and advised Fei Yu to track Jiang Jin Jiu, whose likely destination was Jingmai Mountain.

• Ye Weiming told Fei Yu that Jiang Jin Jiu, Dugu Xingyun, and I'm Looking For Something had likely helped Jiumozhi obtain the manuals, while Duan Xiyang Wuyu was unlikely to betray the Dali Duan Clan.
• Ye Weiming spread out his mind map and reasoned that the four players cooperating with Jiumozhi would become rivals for the manuals once they left Heavenly Dragon Monastery.
• Ye Weiming concluded that a particular location might hold a manual and decided to investigate it alone, giving Fei Yu a Great Wheel Saber and asking him to stand guard.
• Ye Weiming urged Fei Yu to track the players most likely to find the manuals, then departed to test his own theory.
• Fei Yu used his Myriad-Mile Ultimate Art to track Jiang Jin Jiu and learned that he was traveling toward Mangzhi Mountain, likely bound for Jingmai Mountain.

Ye Weiming infiltrated Myriad Tribulation Valley to find a foreign monk carrying a sword manual, reasoning that one might be hiding there. He cornered a monk inside a sealed stone prison and met the monk’s sneak attack head-on.

• Ye Weiming used his movement technique to enter Myriad Tribulation Valley and checked the tunnel leading to the pharmacy, where he overheard Zhong Wanchou and Gan Baobao arguing.
• After confirming the foreign monk was not in the tunnel, Ye Weiming went to a nearby stone prison and sealed its entrance with a granite block.
• A hidden attacker struck Ye Weiming from behind, confirming that a foreign monk carrying a sword manual was concealed inside.
• Ye Weiming turned and met the attacker’s palm strike with Soaring Dragon, Regret, forcing the monk back three steps.
• Ye Weiming saw that his opponent was a level 90 foreign monk and one of Jiumozhi’s Six Direct Disciples.

Ye Weiming used the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms to disorient and injure the foreign monk, then filled their sealed stone chamber with Scented Sleep Inducing Powder. He exploited the monk’s weakened state by drawing his Golden Light Sword and thrusting at the monk’s throat.

• Ye Weiming exchanged palm strikes with the foreign monk and used Shocking the Hundred Li to stagger him and leave him dizzy from the dragon’s roar.
• Ye Weiming pressed the attack with successive Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, forcing the foreign monk back and inflicting a slight internal injury.
• Ye Weiming fired porcelain bottles of Scented Sleep Inducing Powder at the foreign monk, who smashed or dodged them and filled the chamber with powder.
• Ye Weiming shattered all his remaining bottles, drew the Golden Light Sword, and thrust toward the foreign monk’s throat with Flick Sword Stance.

Ye Weiming killed the foreign monk and obtained the Zhongchong Sword Manual, a fragment of the Six Meridian Divine Sword. As Zhong Wanchou attacked him for disrupting his private moment with Gan Baobao, an unknown ally intervened and knocked him backward.

• Ye Weiming killed the level 90 foreign monk and looted Duowen Wushuang and the Zhongchong Sword Manual.
• Ye Weiming equipped Duowen Wushuang, collected the System Announcement confirming he had obtained the second sword manual, and stored the monk’s corpse in a straw mat.
• Zhong Wanchou confronted Ye Weiming, furious that he had disrupted his time with Gan Baobao, and blocked his attempt to leave.
• Zhong Wanchou swung his Ghost-head Great Saber at Ye Weiming, who leaped onto the stone chamber to evade him.
• An unknown figure struck Zhong Wanchou’s saber with a blazing Blade Light and sent him stumbling backward onto the ground.

Ye Weiming learned the Zhongchong Sword manual before Jiumozhi and the monks of Tianlong Temple could recover it, triggering a loss of favor with the Dali Duan Clan and Tianlong Temple. Jiumozhi kidnapped him and demanded he write out the technique, leaving Ye Weiming to decide whether to surrender it or resist.

• Ye Weiming learned the incomplete Zhongchong Sword as Jiumozhi arrived, then Jiumozhi sealed his acupoints and seized him.
• Master Kurong, Duan Zhengming, and four other Tianlong Temple monks arrived, but Jiumozhi escaped with Ye Weiming and the system reduced Ye Weiming’s faction favorability by 20 points.
• Ye Weiming realized that learning the manual had triggered a difficult third quest option, and that the sealed technique required attributes or One Yang Finger training he could not readily obtain.
• Jiumozhi carried Ye Weiming beyond Dali’s borders, tied him to a tree, and offered a choice of high-level martial arts in exchange for Ye Weiming writing out the manual and losing the skill.
• Ye Weiming asked what would happen if he refused, and Jiumozhi threatened to trade him to Murong Bo as a living sword manual.

Jiumozhi took Ye Weiming toward Gusu to offer him as a sword manual to Murong Bo, while Ye Weiming learned that obtaining a Six Meridian Divine Sword manual triggered a quest. The chapter ended with Jiumozhi bringing him to a lake, where A Bi approached in a boat and Ye Weiming recognized the quest-mode setup.

• Ye Weiming questioned Jiumozhi about why he pursued him for the Zhongchong Sword manual, and Jiumozhi revealed that obtaining a manual activated a quest to bring its holder to Murong Bo.
• Jiumozhi told Ye Weiming that he planned to burn him as an offering and that Ye Weiming would lose the Zhongchong Sword skill after reviving.
• A system announcement reported that Dali Duan Clan player Duan Xiyang Wuyu had obtained the Shaochong Sword manual after a foreign monk carrying it was killed.
• Ye Weiming gave Jiumozhi a joke drawing in place of a sword manual and used Qiling Coffin Shop to prepare coffins, frustrating the monk.
• Jiumozhi took Ye Weiming to the water, where A Bi rowed toward them singing, and Ye Weiming mocked the quest's convenient timing.