Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming enhanced Moon Maiden Swordplay and used insight manuals to improve several skills. He left his remaining Aobai insights applied to a skill he had never dared imagine.

• Ye Weiming raised Moon Maiden Swordplay to perfected intermediate level, strengthening Shadow of the Sword God with faster sword-drawing speed and a 15% Strength amplification.
• Ye Weiming read Hai Dafu's Poison Arts Insights and raised Poison Arts from Level 8 to Level 9.
• Ye Weiming used Hai Dafu's Fist and Palm Insights to add proficiency to Ladder Cloud Ascending Technique.
• Ye Weiming used Six Harmonies Child's Internal Skill Insights on Ladder Cloud Ascending Technique, Tai Shan's Secret, and Deduction, though none leveled up.
• Ye Weiming applied Hong Antong's Internal Skill Insights to Ladder Cloud Ascending Technique and Hai Dafu's complete-form insights to Daoist Arts, raising it from Level 4 to Level 7.
• Ye Weiming applied Aobai's complete-form Internal Skill Insights to a skill he had never dared imagine.

Ye Weiming used Feng Xifan's insights to raise Tai Shan's Secret to Level 9, then delivered Zhang San and Li Si's order to Venerable Huang and secured a promise of another Sky Shaking Nine Swords mission after the Misty Rain Tower Tournament. As the tournament approached, Youyou arrived with a double bed to give him.

• Feng Xifan's complete Internal Skill Insights raised Ye Weiming's Grave Robbery skill to Level 9, and he used the resulting proficiency to raise Tai Shan's Secret to Level 9.
• Ye Weiming decided to save Dugu Jian's valuable insight manual and remembered that he still had outstanding deliveries to make.
• Ye Weiming returned Zhang San and Li Si's Reward Good Punish Evil Order to Venerable Huang at the Divine Constable Bureau.
• Ye Weiming persuaded Venerable Huang to offer him another Sky Shaking Nine Swords mission after the Misty Rain Tower Tournament.
• After a day passed, Youyou visited Ye Weiming and presented him with a double bed.

Ye Weiming and Youyou tested a double flying lounger on a trip toward Jiaxing, and Youyou tossed a useless pair of wooden clogs from the sky. The clogs struck Niu Zhichun below, so Ye Weiming and Youyou turned back to see what had happened.

• Youyou presented Ye Weiming with an upgraded flying lounger for two, and he summoned Ah Hong to carry them toward Jiaxing.
• Youyou explained that her crafting skill was too low to make most war machines from the Lu Gong Secret Record, then showed Ye Weiming a pair of wooden clogs he called trash.
• Youyou tossed the clogs from the flying lounger as a System Announcement reported that Niu Zhichun had cleared Black Wind Stockade solo and made it a new dungeon.
• Niu Zhichun celebrated his improved Innate Skill and imagined becoming invincible, unaware that Youyou's falling clogs were heading toward him.
• The clogs hit Niu Zhichun and interrupted his laughter with a cry of pain, prompting Ye Weiming and Youyou to descend and check on him.

Ye Weiming confronted Niu Zhichun over Tianyi City’s scheme, learned about Immortal Who Doesn't Stay Up Late’s Flower Play and the Heavenly Dipper Array, then discovered the Misty Rain Tower Tournament would be livestreamed. He authorized the broadcast and began reviewing the rules as he and Youyou headed toward Jiaxing.

• Ye Weiming arrived by flying recliner, teased Niu Zhichun about being struck by wooden clogs, and challenged him over Tianyi City’s scheme against him.
• Niu Zhichun explained that Immortal Who Doesn't Stay Up Late had bypassed him in an internal vote and received Flower Play as a quest reward.
• Ye Weiming and Youyou discussed the Heavenly Dipper Array, and Ye Weiming messaged Yin Bukui before deciding they needed to learn the tournament rules from the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan.
• The system announced a new live-streaming platform and said it would broadcast the Misty Rain Tower Tournament.
• Ye Weiming learned that participants had to authorize the livestream or forfeit their places, accepted the terms, and began reading the competition rules.

Ye Weiming and Youyou reviewed the Misty Rain Tower Tournament rules, arrived in Jiaxing to register, and joined their teammates for a pre-tournament gathering. There, Ye Weiming met Jianghu Xiaoyao and asked whether practicing the Seven Injuries Fist had harmed him.

• Ye Weiming explained how the tournament’s scoring rules could let an individual claim the championship even if their team lost.
• Ye Weiming and Youyou traveled to Jiaxing, registered with Han Baoju and Han Xiaoying, and encountered Jiang Jin Jiu.
• Jiang Jin Jiu invited Ye Weiming and Youyou to a team gathering at the Righteousness Tavern because Misty Rain Tower’s prices had soared.
• Jianghu Xiaoyao introduced himself as a Kongtong Sect disciple who specialized in the Seven Injuries Fist.
• Ye Weiming asked Jianghu Xiaoyao whether practicing the fist had caused him bodily harm.

Jianghu Xiaoyao explained how powerful internal cultivation could suppress the Seven Injuries Fist’s side effects, and the group introduced their martial arts before the Misty Rain Tower Tournament began. Ye Weiming and his teammates gathered in a private meeting room, where they waited to learn which instance dungeon their first-round team challenge would use.

• Jianghu Xiaoyao explained that an Advanced Internal Skill at least one level higher than the Seven Injuries Fist could prevent its backlash, and that two maxed Advanced Internal Skills could support the fist at perfection.
• Jiang Jin Jiu compared internal cultivation supporting the Seven Injuries Fist to computer hardware running software, while Wang Yan introduced himself as a Huashan Sect disciple specializing in Three Peaks of Mount Tai Swordplay.
• Ye Weiming and the others finished their introductions and shared a meal with their hosts.
• Players crowded the streets of Jiaxing City to watch the tournament as Ye Weiming and his teammates entered a separate pre-battle meeting room.
• Jianghu Xiaoyao asked what instance dungeon the first-round team challenge would use, and Jiang Jin Jiu replied that they had not learned it in advance.

Ye Weiming and his teammates learned that the tournament’s first stage was a newly created Ronin Camp instance, where teams had to eliminate every enemy as quickly as possible. After all fourteen contestants entered their separate instances, Ye Weiming ordered his team to move out.

• Ye Weiming predicted that the tournament instance would not be tied to the original plot, and Jiang Jin Jiu opened the livestream.
• Wei Xiaobao and Wang Yuyan introduced the Ronin Camp map, its enemy groups, and the rule that teams had to eliminate every ronin to clear it.
• The livestream revealed the camp’s three bosses: Hirakawa Isshin, Kamimura Ni'i, and Hojo Soku.
• All fourteen contestants selected that they were ready and were teleported into their respective instances.
• Ye Weiming’s team arrived in the forest, and he ordered them to advance immediately and finish the challenge quickly.

Ye Weiming’s team and the Quanzhen Sect raced through their dungeons while Wei Xiaobao and Wang Yuyan commentated on the match. After the Quanzhen team used the Heavenly Dipper Array to overwhelm the enemies, Ye Weiming and Youyou flew past an outpost, revealing a split-push strategy.

• Ye Weiming led his team against fifteen enemies at the Ronin Camp while the Quanzhen Sect’s team attacked its own dungeon.
• Wei Xiaobao praised Ye Weiming on the livestream until Wang Yuyan reminded him to commentate fairly.
• The Quanzhen Sect’s seven contestants used the Heavenly Dipper Array to defeat the first wave and advance through the camp.
• Wang Yuyan explained that the formation linked the team’s movements and true qi, strengthening their attacks and defense.
• Ye Weiming and Youyou summoned flying pets and flew deeper into the forest, leaving their teammates behind.
• The Quanzhen team fought through an outpost as Ye Weiming and Youyou flew over it; Wang Yuyan recognized their five-two split-push strategy.

Wang Yuyan explained how a five-two split push could improve the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan team’s efficiency, though Zhuge Wanjun’s analysis still predicted they would finish a minute behind the Quanzhen Sect. As both teams attacked the Ronin Camp’s transfer station, the Quanzhen Sect gained an advantage by using a firework tube dropped by Hirakawa Isshin.

• Wang Yuyan relayed Zhuge Wanjun’s analysis that Ye Weiming and Youyou splitting from the others would reduce wasted combat output but likely would not overcome the Quanzhen Sect’s speed.
• The Quanzhen Sect defeated Hirakawa Isshin with the Heavenly Dipper Array and moved on to the Ronin Camp’s transfer station.
• Ye Weiming and Youyou attacked the transfer station, with Youyou breaking apart the enemy formation using boulders and poison while Ye Weiming wounded Kamimura Ni'i from the air.
• A Quanzhen Sect fighter fired a firework tube into a packed group of ronin, setting them ablaze and disrupting their formation.
• Wang Yuyan explained that the firework tube was a guaranteed drop from Hirakawa Isshin and that its main benefit was making the enemies easier to clear.

After the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan lost the race to clear the instance, Ye Weiming used the powder tube as a signal and revealed a hidden BOSS at the Ronin Camp outpost. The newly arrived Sarutobi Nichigetsu appeared before the group, leaving them facing an unexpected fight.

• Wang Yuyan relayed Zhuge Wanjun's calculations, which predicted the Quanzhen Sect would clear the instance about two minutes before the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan.
• The Quanzhen Sect cleared the instance first while Ye Weiming's team was about to enter the final BOSS's tent.
• Ye Weiming stopped Cang Xingyu from approaching the BOSS and asked Jiang Jin Jiu for the powder tube dropped by Hirakawa Isshin.
• Ye Weiming led the team back to the outpost and ignited the powder tube, which burst into blue sparks like a signal flare.
• Ye Weiming explained that the powder tube was likely meant to transmit a signal, and a hidden BOSS named Sarutobi Nichigetsu appeared nearby.

Ye Weiming and his teammates fought the hidden BOSS Sarutobi Nichigetsu, whose Smoke Escape Technique let him vanish and launch surprise attacks. As the battle continued, Ye Weiming spotted a pattern in the technique, while Youyou attacked Sarutobi Nichigetsu from the air before he could reappear.

• Ye Weiming explained that he had pursued Sarutobi Nichigetsu for the hidden BOSS rewards, and Cang Xingyu accepted the need to fight despite caring more about the tournament itself.
• Ye Weiming engaged Sarutobi Nichigetsu and told his teammates that the BOSS’s strength lay in hidden methods rather than raw power.
• Sarutobi Nichigetsu used smoke bombs to disappear, then wounded Jianghu Xiaoyao, who countered with a combination of Man-Ghost Path and Seven Injuries Fist.
• Sarutobi Nichigetsu attacked Jianghu Xiaoyao again, but Ye Weiming blocked the slash and Jiang Jin Jiu struck the BOSS.
• Ye Weiming noticed Sarutobi Nichigetsu used Smoke Escape Technique after taking damage and warned the team.
• Youyou mounted her condor, located Sarutobi Nichigetsu inside a smoke cloud, and fired a series of shots at him.

Youyou exposed Sarutobi Nichigetsu’s misdirection from above, allowing Ye Weiming’s team to defeat the level 100 hidden BOSS. After the hosts announced that viewers could buy footage of the secret fight, the criticism faded, and Wang Yan began looting the corpse.

• Youyou explained that Sarutobi Nichigetsu’s Shifting Form and Changing Shadow relied on misdirection and used her aerial view to guide the team’s attacks.
• Wei Xiaobao praised Ye Weiming’s discovery of the hidden BOSS, while Wang Yuyan noted that the team had already lost the race against time.
• Wei Xiaobao announced that viewers could download match footage, including a paid recording of the hidden BOSS fight, and that critics and insulting commenters would lose access to it.
• Ye Weiming and the others killed Sarutobi Nichigetsu, earning 5,000,000 experience points and 150,000 cultivation points.
• Ye Weiming asked Wang Yan to loot the corpse, and Wang Yan eagerly began searching it as a list of dropped items appeared.

After the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan team defeated Sarutobi Nichigetsu and Hojo Soku, Ye Weiming’s team lost the match to the Quanzhen Sect team but gained valuable loot. Back in the conference room, they divided the spoils and debated what to do with the mysterious Black-Iron Chest and Black-Iron Key.

• Sarutobi Nichigetsu dropped two intermediate manuals, two treasures, equipment, money, and a mysterious Black-Iron Key, which Ye Weiming collected before the team continued to the Ronin Camp headquarters.
• Ye Weiming’s team defeated Hojo Soku, but the Quanzhen Sect team won the first match and earned more points.
• After returning to the conference room, Ye Weiming proposed dividing the loot according to the team’s contribution ratios, and no one objected.
• Jiang Jin Jiu obtained the Smoke Escape Technique manual and Sarutobi Divine Robe, while Bookworm claimed Mikazuki Munechika.
• Ye Weiming found that the Black-Iron Key and Hojo Soku’s locked Black-Iron Chest remained unclaimed, and offered the team a choice between opening the chest or auctioning both items.

Ye Weiming and Youyou opened a jointly purchased chest and found half of a mysterious map scroll, then the group prepared for the Misty Rain Tower Tournament. The first arena match began with Ye Weiming unexpectedly facing Ding Ding of the Quanzhen Sect.

• Ye Weiming and Youyou each paid 500 gold for the chest and opened it together, finding a Half Map Scroll that Ye Weiming kept.
• Ye Weiming used Sarutobi Nichigetsu’s insight manuals to improve his martial arts, though his Ladder Cloud Ascending Technique remained short of Max Level.
• The group arrived at Misty Rain Tower for the tournament, where Wei Xiaobao and Wang Yuyan hosted the broadcast and the system prepared the first match.
• Ye Weiming reassured his teammates before the countdown teleported him to the arena as the first randomly selected fighter.
• Ding Ding introduced herself as a Quanzhen Sect disciple, and Ye Weiming formally introduced himself as her opponent.

Ye Weiming swept Ding Ding off the arena with three powerful sword strikes, and Cang Xingyu defeated Dai Yuping to give their side two consecutive wins. As the third match began, Jiang Jin Jiu grew concerned about Bookworm’s opponent, asking Ye Weiming if he remembered the person who had learned Pushing Mountain Hand.

• Ye Weiming defeated Ding Ding by using three consecutive Sweeping Snow and Brewing Tea strikes to drive her off the arena.
• Zhu Cong asked Qiu Chuji about Ye Weiming’s swordsmanship, and Qiu Chuji praised him while Ke Zhen'e showed his displeasure.
• A Quanzhen player comforted Ding Ding and vowed to win his own match, but Cang Xingyu knocked Dai Yuping off the arena in fewer than ten moves.
• Ye Weiming’s side won two matches in a row, and Jiang Jin Jiu grew serious when Bookworm’s third match began.
• Jiang Jin Jiu asked Ye Weiming whether he remembered the person who had learned Pushing Mountain Hand.

Bookworm and Jianghu Xiaoyao lost their matches against stronger opponents, while Ye Weiming studied the tournament’s match order and prepared tactics for Youyou. The chapter ended as Youyou faced Flying Man from Beyond the Heavens in the fifth arena match.

• Jiang Jin Jiu identified Xuehai Gushi as the wielder of Pushing Mountain Hand, and Xuehai Gushi defeated Bookworm with a series of palm techniques.
• Ye Weiming explained that Bookworm had lost because of weaker fundamentals rather than inferior martial arts.
• Immortal Who Doesn't Stay Up Late defeated Jianghu Xiaoyao after overcoming his Seven Injuries Fist assault.
• Ye Weiming advised Youyou to summon Xiao Bai and fight from the air at maximum range.
• Ye Weiming predicted Youyou would be next, and Wei Xiaobao announced her match against Flying Man from Beyond the Heavens.

Ye Weiming explained that the tournament match order followed the rankings of the competitors’ masters, then watched Youyou face a difficult fight against Flying Man from Beyond the Heavens. Youyou turned the battle around with Dragon Rises and a six-shot finisher, winning the match and leaving the team celebrating, though Wang Yan did not join them.

• Ye Weiming explained that the system had ordered competitors according to their masters’ rankings.
• Youyou followed Ye Weiming’s strategy, but Flying Man from Beyond the Heavens caught her and drove her health below one-fifth.
• Youyou shattered a poison jar to release a smoke screen, and both fighters were poisoned inside it.
• Youyou used Dragon Rises to seal Flying Man from Beyond the Heavens’s acupoints, then fired six shots with Mad Dragon Spin and defeated him.
• Wei Xiaobao replayed and praised Youyou’s comeback, while Ye Weiming congratulated her and the team celebrated; Wang Yan remained an exception.

Ye Weiming’s team took a one-point lead after the first round, then entered the second round, where Jiang Jin Jiu’s weakness in base attributes put him behind Immortal Who Doesn't Stay Up Late. Ye Weiming remained confident that Jiang Jin Jiu would win as their battle continued.

• Wang Yan faced Niu Zhichun and lost in fewer than ten moves despite having concealed a secret technique.
• Jiang Jin Jiu defeated his first-round opponent without injury, and Ye Weiming explained how he had predicted the match results.
• The first round ended with Ye Weiming’s team winning four of seven matches and gaining a one-point lead.
• In the second round, Cang Xingyu defeated Xuehai Gushi while Youyou lost to Niu Zhichun.
• Jiang Jin Jiu battled Immortal Who Doesn't Stay Up Late, but his lower health and weaker base attributes left him badly behind.
• Ye Weiming bet Cang Xingyu one gold that Jiang Jin Jiu would still win.

Jiang Jin Jiu used Smoke Bombs to defeat Immortal Who Doesn't Stay Up Late and secure the final victory of the second round. Ye Weiming then faced Quanzhen Sect’s last fighter, Niu Zhichun, whose Innate Skill and martial arts gave him the edge in their opening clash as their final match began.

• Jiang Jin Jiu used Smoke Bombs to disrupt Immortal Who Doesn't Stay Up Late’s reactions and repeatedly attack him.
• Ye Weiming explained how the Smoke Escape Technique complemented Jiang Jin Jiu’s Bixie Swordplay, and Jiang Jin Jiu won the match.
• The second round ended with Jiang Jin Jiu, Cang Xingyu, and Ye Weiming undefeated for the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan, while Niu Zhichun was Quanzhen Sect’s sole remaining fighter.
• Ye Weiming was selected to face Niu Zhichun, and the two exchanged boasts before charging into their opening clash.
• Niu Zhichun’s staff and Ye Weiming’s sword collided, sending Ye Weiming back five steps and Niu Zhichun back three.
• Niu Zhichun claimed Ye Weiming’s breadth of learning would cost him, and they charged into their next exchange.

Ye Weiming tested Niu Zhichun’s greatly enhanced strength in a fierce duel, then revealed the highest realm of Quanzhen Swordsmanship. The Quanzhen masters recognized his One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones and were left in awe.

• Ye Weiming circled Niu Zhichun with Quanzhen Swordsmanship and realized Niu had focused nearly all his training and equipment on strength.
• Ye Weiming and Niu Zhichun fought evenly as Wei Xiaobao and Wang Yuyan discussed their martial arts and Niu’s monk-like appearance.
• Qiu Chuji and the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan debated which fighter and martial art would prevail.
• Ye Weiming told Niu Zhichun he would end the match, prompting Qiu Chuji to question his confidence.
• Ye Weiming displayed One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones, and Qiu Chuji, Ma Yu, and Wang Chuyi recognized the supreme realm of Quanzhen Swordsmanship.