Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming defeated Niu Zhichun with One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones, while Wei Xiaobao bet Wang Yuyan that Ye would break the Heavenly Dipper Array in the final. As the teams prepared for tomorrow’s battle, Jiang Jin Jiu proposed another bet to Ye Weiming and Zang.

• Ye Weiming used One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones to overwhelm Niu Zhichun and win the day’s arena match.
• Qiu Chuji explained that only his late master had mastered Quanzhen Swordsmanship to that level.
• Wei Xiaobao bet Wang Yuyan one million taels of silver that Ye Weiming would break the Heavenly Dipper Array and win the championship.
• Wang Yuyan accepted a wager in which she would teach Wei Xiaobao a martial art suited to him if she lost, while he would pay her one million taels if Ye failed.
• Jiang Jin Jiu proposed a bet to Ye Weiming and Zang about their upcoming battle against the Heavenly Dipper Array.

Jiang Jin Jiu proposed a bet that whoever broke the Quanzhen Sect’s Heavenly Dipper Array would claim the tournament championship, and Youyou joined the wager. As the contestants prepared for the decisive match, Jiang Jin Jiu sought out Dai Yuping to discuss a deal, while Ye Weiming returned to find Wang Yuyan waiting at his home.

• Jiang Jin Jiu challenged Ye Weiming and Cang Xingyu to compete to break the Heavenly Dipper Array, with the winner taking the championship title and rewards; Youyou joined by offering to yield her ranking spot if she broke it first.
• Dai Yuping headed to Gloomwind Forest to grind and improve his cultivation technique before the tournament, hoping to increase the value of his rewards.
• Jiang Jin Jiu intercepted Dai Yuping at the forest entrance and said he wanted to discuss a business deal rather than harm him.
• Youyou told Ye Weiming she possessed a devastating area attack that could kill everyone in the arena except herself and Ye Weiming, but he said he had his own way to handle the array.
• Ye Weiming returned to his residence in Bianjing and found Wang Yuyan waiting outside the gate.

Shen Rong approached Ye Weiming about selling footage of his tournament match against Sarutobi Nichigetsu, and he postponed negotiations until after the final. The Misty Rain Tower Tournament final began with the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan facing the Quanzhen Seven, but Ye Weiming’s reaction to the broadcast music immediately put the Quanzhen team on guard.

• Shen Rong mistook Ye Weiming’s address as an insult before he recognized her as Shen Wansan’s daughter and heard her business proposal.
• Shen Rong offered to negotiate over footage of Ye Weiming’s fight with Sarutobi Nichigetsu, explaining that its value depended on his tournament result.
• Ye Weiming agreed to discuss the sale after the final, and Shen Rong left.
• Wei Xiaobao announced the final and explained that a player’s suggestion to add background music to tournament broadcasts had earned a Twin Dragons Fetching Water manual.
• The Seven Freaks of Jiangnan and the Quanzhen Seven appeared on the battlefield as the Cantonese song played, prompting Ye Weiming to gather palm force and the Quanzhen Seven to form the Heavenly Dipper Array.
• Ye Weiming withdrew his palm force and joked with Jiang Jin Jiu that the song made him want to use the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.

Youyou and Xiao Bai used a falling stone as a signal for Ye Weiming’s group to attack the Quanzhen seven’s Heavenly Dipper Array. Ye Weiming launched the assault with the Bloodless Sword, while Jiang Jin Jiu’s plan to break the formation and win their match remained underway.

• Youyou flew Xiao Bai high above the battlefield and dropped a massive stone, forcing the Quanzhen seven to retreat without disrupting their formation.
• Ye Weiming’s group used the falling stone as a signal to begin their attack, while Jiang Jin Jiu fixed his killing intent on Ding Ding as part of his secret plan with Dai Yuping.
• Jiang Jin Jiu’s plan called for him to attack Ding Ding while Dai Yuping abandoned the formation to protect her and was defeated, making the arrangement appear convincing to the livestream audience.
• When the stone struck the ground, Ye Weiming charged the formation with Xiao Qiao’s Bloodless Sword and activated Jade Shatters Kunlun Peak.
• Ye Weiming stepped onto the cracked stone and activated Heavenly Demon Disintegration, causing his aura to surge more than tenfold.

Ye Weiming unleashed Heavenly Demon Disintegration to shatter the Heavenly Dipper Array and kill four Quanzhen players with one sword strike. As the spectators reeled from the display, Flying Man from Beyond the Heavens launched a desperate attack, and Ye Weiming stood his ground.

• Immortal Who Doesn't Stay Up Late ordered the seven Quanzhen players to shift into the Kui Star Kicks the Dipper formation and concentrate their strength in Niu Zhichun.
• Ye Weiming combined Jade Shatters Kunlun Peak with Heavenly Demon Disintegration and struck Niu Zhichun head-on, knocking away his staff and killing him instantly.
• Ye Weiming's uncontrolled sword qi swept onward, instantly killing Xuehai Gushi, Immortal Who Doesn't Stay Up Late, and Ding Ding before blasting through the wall of Misty Rain Tower.
• The remaining Quanzhen players and the spectators, including Wei Xiaobao and Wang Yuyan, were stunned as Quanzhen Sect's defeat became certain.
• Flying Man from Beyond the Heavens recovered first and thrust his sword at Ye Weiming's throat, while Ye Weiming held his pose without dodging or blocking.

Ye Weiming’s team defeated the Quanzhen Sect, and Jiang Jin Jiu and Cang Xingyu conceded their ranking matches so Ye Weiming could claim the tournament championship. After the tournament rewards were distributed and Jiang Jin Jiu and Cang Xingyu revealed their special prizes, Ye Weiming silently shared his own mysterious reward with the team.

• Cang Xingyu interrupted the Flying Man from Beyond the Heavens and led the remaining teammates in defeating the Quanzhen Sect’s last three players.
• After the battle, Cang Xingyu’s light push caused Ye Weiming to spit blood and collapse from the backlash of his powerful sword strike.
• Jiang Jin Jiu honored his wager by conceding to Ye Weiming, and Cang Xingyu also withdrew from his match against him, giving Ye Weiming the championship.
• Jiang Jin Jiu narrowly defeated Cang Xingyu in their duel for second place, leaving Cang Xingyu in third as the tournament ended.
• Cang Xingyu revealed a Great Sage Figurine that offered an inheritance quest, while Jiang Jin Jiu revealed a Blackwood Token granting an audience with Dongfang Bubai.
• As the team watched him expectantly, Ye Weiming posted a link to his own reward without explaining it.

Ye Weiming received the Heavenly Dipper Array manual and examined the upgraded skills he had earned, then spent three days recovering from his severe injuries. He left the temporary conference room and reopened chat, where carrier pigeons flew toward him displaying “Please Vote.”

• Ye Weiming explained that the Heavenly Dipper Array was a cooperative ultimate art and offered to sell its manual, prompting Jiang Jin Jiu and Cang Xingyu to leave the team.
• Youyou stayed behind out of concern for Ye Weiming, but left after he assured her he only needed quiet to recover.
• Ye Weiming reviewed his upgraded Tai Shan's Secret, Literary Talent, and Cooking skills, noting their combat, favorability, and food-related benefits.
• Ye Weiming used healing pills and spent three days recovering from his severe injuries, then regretted not letting the Flying Man from Beyond the Heavens kill him during the match.
• Ye Weiming left the pre-battle conference room and reopened chat to find carrier pigeons forming the words “Please Vote.”

Ye Weiming entered Hidden Border Snow Valley after learning Dao Mei had gone ahead to advance the Liancheng Secret plot and might need his help killing Blood Saber Ancestor. He found the plot already unfolding and discovered Cang Xingyu and Dao Mei locked in a fierce duel.

• Xiao Qiao agreed to exchange one sword with Ye Weiming, and he sent her Contending Edge in return for the Bloodless Sword.
• Dao Mei warned Ye Weiming that the Liancheng Secret plot had reached its decisive moment and gave him coordinates for Hidden Border Snow Valley.
• Ye Weiming traveled to Tashi Pass, flew into the snow valley with Ah Hong, and received warnings that his mission could become impossible if he delayed.
• Ye Weiming recalled how Blood Saber Ancestor abducted Shui Sheng and fought the Southern Four Wonders, then searched the valley for signs of the unfolding plot.
• Ye Weiming followed the sounds of combat and found Cang Xingyu and Dao Mei fighting each other.

Ye Weiming joined Cang Xingyu and Dao Mei in Snow Valley and learned that Dao Mei planned to kill Blood Saber Ancestor to take over the Blood Saber Sect. He and Dao Mei continued their staged duel while plotting how to use Hua Tiegan against Blood Saber Ancestor, who then moved to ambush Ye Weiming.

• Ye Weiming arrived to find Cang Xingyu and Dao Mei apparently fighting while Blood Saber Ancestor and Hua Tiegan watched warily.
• Ye Weiming stopped Dao Mei from striking down Cang Xingyu, then chased after her as she and Blood Saber Ancestor withdrew.
• While exchanging attacks, Dao Mei explained that the Blood Saber Sect allowed a disciple who defeated their master to become sect leader and change its rules.
• Dao Mei told Ye Weiming that she and Cang Xingyu had delayed the fight for three days, but Hua Tiegan could not be relied on and Blood Saber Ancestor had regained strength.
• Ye Weiming devised a plan involving Hua Tiegan, and Dao Mei warned him that Blood Saber Ancestor was sneaking up behind him to launch an ambush.

Ye Weiming and Dao Mei staged an opening to draw out the Blood Saber Ancestor, and Ye Weiming escaped after showing enough skill to make the Ancestor wary. The Blood Saber Ancestor then proposed using a beauty trap to deal with Ye Weiming, Hua Tiegan, and Cang Xingyu.

• Ye Weiming told Dao Mei to reveal a slight opening so he could expose the Blood Saber Ancestor's planned ambush.
• Dao Mei and the Blood Saber Ancestor attacked Ye Weiming from the front and rear with Thunder Plow Blood Saber, but he evaded them and countered with his sword.
• Ye Weiming used the clash to retreat beyond their reach, then departed with Thousand Miles in an Instant.
• The Blood Saber Ancestor warned Dao Mei that Ye Weiming had held back before and questioned why he kept opposing her.
• Dao Mei described Ye Weiming as an annoying Stinky Constable, and the Blood Saber Ancestor claimed he had lovesickness for her.
• The Blood Saber Ancestor offered a beauty trap to defeat Hua Tiegan, Cang Xingyu, and Ye Weiming, and Dao Mei asked to hear his plan.

Dao Mei listened as Blood Saber Ancestor devised a plan to use her apparent cooperation with Ye Weiming to eliminate Hua Tiegan, unaware that Ye Weiming had already anticipated the scheme and arranged for Blood Saber Ancestor to invent it himself. After preparing a hidden snow shelter, Ye Weiming reached Hua Tiegan and Cang Xingyu, where Dao Mei arrived and asked to speak with him privately.

• Blood Saber Ancestor instructed Dao Mei to feign interest in cooperating with Ye Weiming, secretly help him kill Hua Tiegan, and then join forces with Blood Saber Ancestor against Ye Weiming.
• Dao Mei realized Blood Saber Ancestor’s plan matched Ye Weiming’s prediction and recalled how Ye Weiming had coached her to make Blood Saber Ancestor believe the scheme was his own idea.
• Ye Weiming dug and prepared a concealed snow cave, then followed footprints through Snow Valley to a cabin where Hua Tiegan and Cang Xingyu were staying.
• Hua Tiegan questioned how Ye Weiming had entered the isolated valley, and Ye Weiming claimed he had been there in seclusion to break through to a new realm.
• Dao Mei arrived, dismissed Cang Xingyu’s suspicions, and asked Ye Weiming to speak with her somewhere private.

Ye Weiming and Dao Mei pretended to negotiate with Hua Tiegan and Blood Saber Ancestor, each feeding them a story that would send them to inspect a deadly trap. Ye Weiming and Cang Xingyu watched Hua Tiegan leave, expecting Blood Saber Ancestor to head there too, and prepared to spring their plan.

• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei secretly agreed to manipulate Hua Tiegan and Blood Saber Ancestor into approaching the trap beneath the snow between two stone lions.
• Ye Weiming told Hua Tiegan that Dao Mei wanted to betray Blood Saber Ancestor and asked for an answer the next night; Hua Tiegan agreed to consider it.
• Dao Mei returned to the cave and told Blood Saber Ancestor that Ye Weiming had revealed the trap and its location, prompting Blood Saber Ancestor to go inspect it himself.
• Ye Weiming and Cang Xingyu pretended to search for another exit, then hid and watched Hua Tiegan sneak toward the snow hut to verify Ye Weiming's story.
• Ye Weiming concluded that both Hua Tiegan and Blood Saber Ancestor were heading toward the trap and said they could cast their net.

Hua Tiegan investigated Ye Weiming’s snow hut and became distracted by apparent clues to the Liancheng Treasure. Blood Saber Ancestor arrived, and Ye Weiming launched a surprise attack as he called for Hua Tiegan to join forces.

• Hua Tiegan followed Ye Weiming’s footprints to the snow hut and examined the sword-carved writing, smudging some of it before realizing it mentioned the Liancheng Secret.
• Hua Tiegan found a wine jar labeled as unrelated to the treasure but hesitated to leave it unopened in case it held a real clue.
• Blood Saber Ancestor entered the snow hut and came face-to-face with Hua Tiegan.
• Ye Weiming appeared behind Blood Saber Ancestor, called on Hua Tiegan to help defeat him, and thrust the Blood-Draining Sunset Sword toward his heart with Flick Sword Stance.

Ye Weiming forced Hua Tiegan and Blood Saber Ancestor into a desperate fight by poisoning them and blocking the snow hut’s exit. The hut collapsed over all three fighters, burying them beneath several yards of snow as the battle entered a more dangerous stage.

• Ye Weiming attacked Blood Saber Ancestor, driving him into range of Hua Tiegan’s short spears.
• Hua Tiegan threw the vial at Blood Saber Ancestor, then stabbed at him with both spears when Blood Saber Ancestor destroyed it.
• Ye Weiming wounded Blood Saber Ancestor and blocked Hua Tiegan from escaping, urging him to keep fighting in exchange for the antidote.
• Hua Tiegan attacked Blood Saber Ancestor alongside Ye Weiming, and their fighting shook the snow hut apart.
• The collapsing hut buried Ye Weiming, Hua Tiegan, and Blood Saber Ancestor beneath several yards of snow.

Ye Weiming lured Blood Saber Ancestor into a trap beneath the collapsed snow hut and crippled him with a planned sword strike. Blood Saber Ancestor tried to flee, but Dao Mei cut his legs and called to Ye Weiming to invite her to the party.

• After the snow hut collapsed, Hua Tiegan escaped the snow and claimed he would hold the line while he secretly tried to purge the poison Ye Weiming had planted.
• Ye Weiming and Blood Saber Ancestor fought blindly beneath the snow, and Ye Weiming baited Blood Saber Ancestor into striking him.
• Ye Weiming trapped Blood Saber Ancestor’s saber with Man-Ghost Path and unleashed Heavenly Demon Disintegration, severing his arm and badly injuring him.
• Blood Saber Ancestor fled while Cang Xingyu gave chase, but Dao Mei appeared and cut the tendons in both his legs.
• Dao Mei explained that she had anticipated Blood Saber Ancestor’s escape route and called to Ye Weiming to invite her to the party.

Ye Weiming and his allies killed the Blood Saber Ancestor, completing their quest, but Hua Tiegan immediately attacked Ye Weiming. Cang Xingyu and Dao Mei intercepted him, and Ye Weiming urged them to question Hua Tiegan before fighting.

• Ye Weiming recovered in the snow while Dao Mei revealed that she had planned to kill the Blood Saber Ancestor and take over the Blood Saber Sect.
• At Ye Weiming’s urging, Dao Mei and Cang Xingyu attacked the helpless Blood Saber Ancestor and killed him.
• Ye Weiming’s team received rewards for killing the Blood Saber Ancestor and completing the eight-star quest.
• Hua Tiegan recovered from the poison and lunged at Ye Weiming, but Cang Xingyu deflected his thrust and Dao Mei forced him back.
• Ye Weiming advised Cang Xingyu and Dao Mei to question Hua Tiegan and establish their moral justification before fighting him.

Hua Tiegan tried to withhold Cang Xingyu’s quest reward and attacked Ye Weiming to silence witnesses, so Ye Weiming planned a trap with Cang Xingyu and Dao Mei. Hua Tiegan took the bait and grabbed Ye Weiming’s wrist, but the chapter ended with a wolfish howl.

• Cang Xingyu demanded the Zhongping Spear Technique, but Hua Tiegan claimed the quest was unfinished and used the reward to pressure him into protecting him.
• Ye Weiming explained that the reward could be settled when they divided the loot, then asked Cang Xingyu why Hua Tiegan had attacked him.
• Hua Tiegan admitted he wanted to prevent the group from exposing his misconduct and boasted that their reputations could not challenge his.
• Ye Weiming told Cang Xingyu and Dao Mei to leave him an opening so Hua Tiegan would attack him, and Dao Mei eagerly agreed.
• Dao Mei and Cang Xingyu fought Hua Tiegan until he forced Dao Mei back and thrust at Ye Weiming, who narrowly evaded the spear before Hua Tiegan grabbed for his wrist.
• Ye Weiming showed apparent fear and reached out as Hua Tiegan seized his wrist, prompting a wolfish howl.

Ye Weiming, Dao Mei, and Cang Xingyu killed Hua Tiegan after Ye Weiming revealed that his apparent weakness had been an act. The party then began collecting the loot from the defeated bosses, and Dao Mei uncovered Blood Saber Ancestor’s drops.

• Ye Weiming revealed that he had healed himself with a Life Creation Pill and tricked Hua Tiegan into dropping his guard.
• Ye Weiming knocked Hua Tiegan backward, and Dao Mei and Cang Xingyu attacked him from behind, with Dao Mei severing his left arm’s muscles.
• Ye Weiming and his teammates surrounded Hua Tiegan and wore down his combat strength until they killed him.
• Ye Weiming let Dao Mei and Cang Xingyu inspect the bosses’ drops, and Dao Mei revealed Blood Saber Ancestor’s loot, including the Blood Saber Scripture, several treasures, and 3,214 gold.

Ye Weiming, Cang Xingyu, and Dao Mei divided the treasures dropped by the Blood Saber Ancestor and Hua Tiegan, then encountered Di Yun and Shui Sheng in Snow Valley. Ye Weiming agreed to use his best coffins for Shui Sheng’s father and uncles after she gave him a movement manual, leaving the two villains to be wrapped in straw mats.

• The Blood Saber Ancestor and Hua Tiegan dropped valuable manuals and equipment, and the three players compared the quality of their loot.
• Dao Mei took the Blood Saber Scripture, the Blood Saber, and the Blood-Red Setting Sun, while Ye Weiming received the Eagle Feather Cloak and Cang Xingyu claimed the Zhongping Spear Technique and a set of silver gear.
• Ye Weiming, Cang Xingyu, and Dao Mei agreed to keep the remaining treasures for a private auction among their friends after leaving the valley.
• Di Yun and Shui Sheng approached the players, and Di Yun explained his connection to Ding Dian.
• Shui Sheng asked Ye Weiming to use his best coffins for her father and uncles, then gave him the Ascend Duckweed Crossing Water manual as thanks for killing the Blood Saber Ancestor.
• Ye Weiming agreed to bury Shui Sheng’s father in the nanmu coffin and her uncles in the birch coffins, while leaving the Blood Saber Ancestor and Hua Tiegan for straw mats.

Ye Weiming finished evacuating Snow Valley and received the Divine Illumination Scripture from Di Yun as the story quest advanced. After leaving the sealed map, he learned that Blood Saber Ancestor and Hua Tiegan had been permanently killed and then comprehended the manual on his way to meet his friends.

• Ye Weiming discovered that the system had advanced the timeline, leaving Di Yun healed, newly skilled, and close to Shui Sheng.
• Di Yun gave Ye Weiming the Divine Illumination Scripture manual to thank him for killing Blood Saber Ancestor and saving them.
• Ye Weiming left Di Yun and Shui Sheng in Snow Valley and departed with Ah Hong, triggering announcements that Blood Saber Ancestor and Hua Tiegan had been permanently killed and One Saber Chop Chop Chop had become Blood Saber Sect leader.
• One Saber Chop Chop Chop invited Ye Weiming and their friends to an equipment auction and dinner at Suzhen Wine House beneath Qingcheng Mountain.
• Ye Weiming studied the Divine Illumination Scripture during the flight and comprehended the Ultimate Internal Skill, gaining 25,000 proficiency.