Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming and Ren Woxing were left unable to fight after their exchange, and Ren expected to recover first and kill Ye. Ye summoned Ah Huang and Ah Hong, and Ah Huang killed Ren Woxing, securing the team’s victory and rewards.

• Ren Woxing recovered enough to taunt Ye Weiming and predicted he would regain his mobility before Ye could recover.
• Ye Weiming regained a trace of internal energy and summoned Ah Hong and Ah Huang with his Pet Capture Bracelet.
• Ye ordered Ah Huang to attack Ren Woxing while Ah Hong remained unable to move freely in the cramped cell.
• Ah Huang bit Ren Woxing to death, and Ye Weiming’s team received 28 million experience points and 2.8 million cultivation points.

After Ah Huang killed Ren Woxing, Ye Weiming and his teammates leveled up and found that the imprisoned boss had dropped only a few martial arts and tokens. Suspecting Ren Woxing’s signature Great Law of Star Absorption might be hidden elsewhere, Ye Weiming sent the group to inspect the stone bed.

• Ren Woxing’s death gave Ye Weiming two levels, raised his teammates by two to four levels, and brought Ah Huang to Level 65.
• Ah Huang returned to Ye Weiming’s side as the prison-door restriction disappeared and the teammates entered.
• Ye Weiming urged the group to loot Ren Woxing’s corpse, and Dao Mei persuaded Sheng Tian Banzi to do it.
• Sheng Tian Banzi revealed drops of Lion’s Roar Skill, Unfettered Swordplay, Sun Moon Divine Palm, and five Blackwood Tokens, with no equipment or money.
• Ye Weiming reasoned that Ren Woxing’s imprisonment explained the poor drops, then told the group to search the stone bed for the missing Great Law of Star Absorption.

Dao Mei discovered Ren Woxing's Great Law of Star Absorption, and she chose to cultivate it after trading Ye Weiming a Life Creation Pill for the opportunity. Ye Weiming recovered, collected Ren Woxing's rewards, and set up a life-sized puppet in his place to preserve the appearance of the scene.

• Dao Mei found the Great Law of Star Absorption on the stone couch, and Ye Weiming pointed out that its harsh requirements made Sheng Tian Banzi the only suitable candidate among them.
• Sheng Tian Banzi refused to learn the technique, so Dao Mei traded Ye Weiming a Life Creation Pill for the chance to cultivate it and dispersed her cultivation.
• Ye Weiming swallowed the pill, stored Ah Hong and Ah Huang, collected Ren Woxing's drops, and told his teammates to take the remaining Blackwood Tokens.
• Ye Weiming placed Ren Woxing's body in a white jade coffin and received Internal Skill Insights, Fist and Palm Insights, and Swordsmanship Insights.
• Ye Weiming dressed a life-sized puppet to resemble Ren Woxing and arranged it on the stone couch beneath the reeds.

After Ren Woxing’s death, Dao Mei revealed that she had learned the Great Law of Star Absorption and asked Ye Weiming to help choose her first target. They agreed to pursue a Seven-Star quest that might lead them to a suitable BOSS, then went their separate ways to collect rewards and prepare.

• Ye Weiming and the others left Ren Woxing’s underground prison without announcing his death and departed Lone Mountain Plum Manor.
• Dao Mei showed Ye Weiming her Level 9 Great Law of Star Absorption, whose power came with low vitality and increased damage from internal-energy attacks.
• Dao Mei proposed targeting a powerful disciple of a righteous sect, but Ye Weiming warned that such NPCs might have many internal skills, making the random absorption unreliable.
• Dao Mei shared a Seven-Star quest to help Thunderclap Hall suppress Japanese Pirates, and Ye Weiming accepted it so they could search for a suitable BOSS together.
• Ye Weiming headed to Huashan Sect to claim a reward from Feng Qingyang while Dao Mei returned to Black Wood Cliff to collect her reward and continue their plan.

Ye Weiming visited Feng Qingyang at Siguo Cliff and proved he had defeated Ren Woxing by showing him the corpse. Feng Qingyang reluctantly gave Ye Weiming the Dugu Nine Swords manual, and Ye Weiming flew away eager to study it.

• Ye Weiming arrived at Siguo Cliff and called for Feng Qingyang.
• Feng Qingyang questioned whether Ye Weiming had defeated Ren Woxing, so Ye Weiming showed him Ren Woxing’s corpse in a white jade coffin.
• Feng Qingyang threw Ye Weiming the Dugu Nine Swords manual, then angrily ordered him to leave.
• Ye Weiming departed on his flying chair carried by Ah Hong and began reading the manual in the sky.

Ye Weiming used Dugu Qiubai’s Swordsmanship Insights to fuse Dugu Nine Swords with Sky Shaking Nine Swords, creating a far more powerful but still incomplete ultimate sword art. Venerable Huang appeared and told him there was nothing more he could teach him about swordsmanship.

• Ye Weiming learned that Dugu Nine Swords and Sky Shaking Nine Swords could be fused for 60 million Swordsmanship Proficiency, but he initially lacked enough points.
• Ye Weiming returned to the Divine Constable Bureau and studied Dugu Qiubai’s Swordsmanship Insights, gaining 60 million Swordsmanship Proficiency.
• Ye Weiming fused the two sword arts into Sky Shaking Nine Swords, which gained Insight, Armor Break, and Skill Break but dropped to Level 5.
• Ye Weiming wondered whether Sky Shaking Nine Swords could evolve further and took out another set of Swordsmanship Insights to raise its level.
• Venerable Huang appeared, praised Ye Weiming’s acquisition of Dugu Nine Swords and his comprehension of Sword Breaking Style, and said he had nothing more to teach him about swordsmanship.

Venerable Huang told Ye Weiming that he had to perfect the Sky Shaking Nine Swords himself if he wanted to turn it into a Peerless Divine Skill. After burying Ren Woxing and using his insights to strengthen several skills, Ye Weiming brought the Sky Shaking Nine Swords to level 6 and maxed out the Healing Chapter.

• Ye Weiming questioned Venerable Huang about the missing ninth move, and Huang explained that he had created only six moves and that Ye Weiming had to refine the entire sword art himself.
• Ye Weiming accepted Huang's explanation, left the city, and buried Ren Woxing beside the Clear Water River.
• Ye Weiming studied Ren Woxing's Swordsmanship Insights and applied the proficiency to the Sky Shaking Nine Swords.
• Ye Weiming used Ren Woxing's Internal Skill Insights to advance the Healing Chapter and his Fist and Palm Insights to improve One Yang Finger through Cross-Discipline Comprehension.
• Ye Weiming spent Cultivation Points to raise the Sky Shaking Nine Swords to level 6, then raised the Healing Chapter to Max Level.

Ye Weiming upgraded his healing abilities and Zhongchong Sword, then received a business offer from old enemy Dai Qiu Shang Lan for the Riverside Landscape Painting. He realized Dai was involved in the mission to rescue Ren Woxing and began considering how to profit from him.

• Ye Weiming upgraded the Healing Chapter and Zhongchong Sword, gaining a healing aura and leaving himself with just over 700,000 Cultivation Points.
• Ye Weiming saw his Chivalry Points exceed 7,000, then arranged with Dao Mei to meet at Lou Wai Lou the next morning.
• While admiring the sunset outside Bianjing, Ye Weiming accepted a friend request from Dai Qiu Shang Lan.
• Dai Qiu Shang Lan asked to buy the Riverside Landscape Painting, and Ye Weiming inferred that he was participating in the mission to rescue Ren Woxing.
• Ye Weiming pictured Dai Qiu Shang Lan reaching the mission’s final prison cell and began plotting to take advantage of him.

Ye Weiming and Dao Mei joined Qin Hongshang of Thunderclap Hall to attack a Japanese pirate stronghold on an island. Ye Weiming raced ahead and slaughtered much of the ronin vanguard before an unexpected event interrupted his advance.

• Ye Weiming arranged to meet Dai Qiu Shang Lan in Bianjing City to trade for the Riverside Landscape Painting, then spent the night cultivating the Divine Illumination Scripture.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei met Qin Hongshang at the docks, where she explained that over three hundred Japanese Pirates led by the level 90 Inoue Chacha had been attacking coastal towns and capturing women.
• Ye Weiming agreed to confront Inoue Chacha while Thunderclap Hall's fighters supported them, and Qin Hongshang ordered the ship to set sail.
• The group arrived at the special map Ronin Gathering Place, where Ye Weiming told Dao Mei to fight alongside Thunderclap Hall's people and went ahead to scout.
• Ye Weiming used the Sky Shaking Nine Swords to slaughter nearly half of a patrolling group of Japanese Pirates before an unexpected event occurred.

Ye Weiming, Dao Mei, and Qin Hongshang’s Thunderclap Hall force defeated sixty-nine Japanese Pirates without casualties, thanks to Qin Hongshang’s Thunderclap Fire Bomb. Qin Hongshang then proposed using the bombs to breach the alerted Ronin Camp, leaving the group poised to attack.

• Qin Hongshang hurled a Thunderclap Fire Bomb into a cluster of Japanese Pirates, severely injuring them despite missing her target.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei led Thunderclap Hall’s fighters in defeating all sixty-nine enemies without losing anyone.
• Dao Mei explained that her Great Law of Star Absorption had reached level nine, though she was saving Cultivation Points until she could restore her former power.
• Qin Hongshang gave Ye Weiming and Dao Mei three Thunderclap Fire Bombs each and placed Thunderclap Hall’s fighters under their command.
• Qin Hongshang proposed that the three of them breach the alerted Ronin Camp’s gates with the bombs before the force charged inside.

Ye Weiming rejected Qin Hongshang’s plan to storm the Ronin Camp gate and instead took the Thunderclap Fire Bombs to attack from above. After bombing the camp and killing its archers, he plunged inside alone, intending to defeat the entire camp while Qin Hongshang and Dao Mei waited for his signal.

• Ye Weiming refused to let Qin Hongshang and Dao Mei charge the gate, collected all eight Thunderclap Fire Bombs, and told them to wait for his signal.
• Ye Weiming flew above the Ronin Camp with his pet Ah Hong and dropped bombs on the Japanese Pirates, throwing the camp into chaos.
• Dao Mei explained to Qin Hongshang that Ye Weiming’s shots were accurate and guessed that he was not trying to blow open the gate.
• Ye Weiming dropped a large wine jar into the camp, blasted it apart with a Thunderclap Fire Bomb, and picked off several archers with hidden weapons.
• Ah Hong vanished as Ye Weiming dived into the camp, where his Dragon’s Roar and battle cries signaled that he had begun fighting alone.
• Dao Mei told Qin Hongshang that Ye Weiming planned to take on the entire Ronin Camp to earn the reward for keeping the Thunderclap Hall brothers’ casualties at zero.

Ye Weiming cleared the Ronin Camp and weakened Inoue Chacha with poison, while Dao Mei waited to drain the boss’s inner power. Before they could claim him, Hattori Senjun appeared from a cave and killed Inoue Chacha, leaving Ye Weiming and Dao Mei facing a level 122 boss.

• Ye Weiming lured the Ronin Camp’s Japanese Pirates into Youyou’s poisonous mist and killed them while avoiding Inoue Chacha.
• Ye Weiming summoned Dao Mei after poison had weakened Inoue Chacha, and Dao Mei severed the boss’s right arm with her Blood Saber.
• Ye Weiming stopped Dao Mei from rushing after Inoue Chacha and warned her that absorbing his poisoned inner power could harm her.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei followed the fleeing Inoue Chacha and waited for his poison to wear off, but a blade of qi shot from a cave and killed him.
• Hattori Senjun emerged from the cave, and Ye Weiming told Dao Mei the level 122 boss was a better target.

Ye Weiming faced Hattori Senjun alone while Dao Mei watched from a safe distance. Using his fused sword techniques and the insight of Total Decision Style, Ye Weiming countered Hattori Senjun’s attacks and left him wounded, with the duel still underway.

• Ye Weiming told Dao Mei that Hattori Senjun was not strong enough to require provocation, then threw her out of the fight to protect her.
• Hattori Senjun hurled his katana at Ye Weiming, who deflected it with a white Go stone.
• Hattori Senjun used Whirlwind Slash, but Ye Weiming’s Parting Sword Style knocked his katana to the ground and left Ye Weiming temporarily unarmed.
• Hattori Senjun attacked with Chain Slash, and Ye Weiming used Total Decision Style’s insight and the Golden Light Sword to counter with Blunting Sword Stance and Intercepting Sword Stance.
• Ye Weiming struck Hattori Senjun’s throat with Flick Sword Stance and then pierced his chest with Sword Breaking Style.

Ye Weiming used poison and hidden weapons to counter Hattori Senjun’s tricks and steadily cripple him. Hattori Senjun’s sword arm was shattered by the Black-and-White Go Stones’ Five Qi Towards Origin effect.

• Hattori Senjun used a clone and an underground attack to ambush Ye Weiming, but Ye Weiming blasted him out of the ground with a poisoned palm strike.
• Ye Weiming struck Hattori Senjun’s calf with the Blood-Draining Sunset Sword and poisoned him through the wound, slowing his movement.
• Hattori Senjun deflected Ye Weiming’s white go stones and returned his fallen katana, but Ye Weiming knocked it away and fired a black bead.
• Hattori Senjun mistook the black bead for an ordinary hidden weapon and was blasted backward by a Thunderclap Fire Bomb.
• Ye Weiming struck Hattori Senjun’s sword-wielding wrist with a white go stone, triggering Five Qi Towards Origin and shattering his arm.

Ye Weiming blocked Hattori Senjun’s desperate Rashomon attack and pursued the wounded ninja, while Dao Mei prepared to absorb his internal energy. The chapter ended with Dao Mei restraining Hattori Senjun and activating the Great Law of Star Absorption.

• Hattori Senjun sacrificed his right arm to create a blood-mist screen and launched his chained blade wheel, Rashomon, at Ye Weiming.
• Ye Weiming used Dragon Subduing Palm techniques and four swords to disrupt and neutralize Rashomon.
• Ye Weiming chased the one-armed Hattori Senjun toward a cave and warned Dao Mei to be ready to harvest his internal energy.
• An Invisible Sword injured Hattori Senjun’s leg, and Ye Weiming struck him with Soaring Dragon, Regret, leaving him severely wounded.
• Dao Mei used Nine Yin White Bone Claw to restrain Hattori Senjun and activated the Great Law of Star Absorption.

Dao Mei drained Hattori Senjun’s internal energy and recovered most of her lost strength before Ye Weiming killed the one-of-a-kind BOSS. As Ye Weiming and Dao Mei prepared to loot the corpse, a group of frightened women appeared at the cave entrance, including a composed woman in red who caught Ye Weiming’s attention.

• Dao Mei used the Great Law of Star Absorption to drain Hattori Senjun, rapidly restoring her internal skill proficiency and attributes.
• Dao Mei showed Ye Weiming the Great Law of Star Absorption’s new “fangs” trait, which let her spend internal energy to enhance bladed-weapon damage.
• Ye Weiming killed the weakened Hattori Senjun, earned rewards, and received a level increase; the system announced that the permanent BOSS would never respawn.
• A group of women gathered at the cave entrance, and Sister Pomegranate stepped forward to shield the frightened girl who had screamed at the sight of the corpse.
• Ye Weiming noticed a red-clad woman among the group who remained unusually composed.

Ye Weiming looted Hattori Senjun and Inoue Chacha, then discussed a mysterious map half with Dao Mei. Qin Hongshang arrived and identified Hattori Senjun as the man who had once badly wounded her father, while Ye Weiming collected both corpses.

• Ye Weiming looted Hattori Senjun and divided the drops with Dao Mei, who bought Dawn's Guard and Kikuichi Monji from him.
• Ye Weiming showed Dao Mei the half map scroll and said its matching half was stored in his private warehouse at the Divine Constable Bureau.
• Dao Mei asked to join Ye Weiming on a treasure hunt, but Qin Hongshang arrived before he answered.
• Qin Hongshang recognized Hattori Senjun and explained that he had severely wounded her father in a battle against Japanese Pirates.
• Ye Weiming placed Inoue Chacha and Hattori Senjun in separate coffins and received only two Blade Technique Insights.

After returning from the Japanese Pirates’ island, Ye Weiming and Dao Mei spotted Guo Jing fighting Prince Zhao’s Estate’s four great experts aboard a Jin Kingdom ship. They flew to help, where they also found Tianwang Gaidihu struggling against Dugu Xingyun.

• Ye Weiming reviewed his battle with Hattori Senjun while Thunderclap Hall’s people recorded the rescued women’s home addresses.
• Dao Mei spotted a ship ahead where people were fighting, and Qin Hongshang identified it as belonging to the Jin Kingdom.
• Ye Weiming recognized Guo Jing fighting Peng Lian Hu, Sha Tong Tian, Master Lingzhi, and Ouyang Ke, then agreed to go help him.
• Dao Mei joined Ye Weiming on the Two-Person Flying Chair, and Ah Hong carried them to Guo Jing’s ship.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei saw Tianwang Gaidihu fighting Dugu Xingyun and struggling despite drinking wine to boost his combat power.

Ye Weiming and Dao Mei turned the battle aboard the pirate ship against Prince Zhao's Estate's experts, and Dao Mei killed Sha Tong Tian. Huang Rong then offered Ye Weiming the delayed reward from their previous cooperation and asked for his help rescuing her and Hong Qigong.

• Ye Weiming coordinated with Dao Mei, who ambushed Sha Tong Tian and drained his internal energy while Ye Weiming's Soaring Dragon in the Sky knocked Peng Lian Hu, Master Lingzhi, and Ouyang Ke through the deck.
• Peng Lian Hu and Master Lingzhi returned to the deck by the cabin stairs, and Dao Mei killed Sha Tong Tian and gave his corpse to Ye Weiming to encoffin.
• Tianwang Gaidihu and Dugu Xingyun stopped fighting and traded taunts about their earlier clashes and quest advantages.
• Huang Rong, supporting a weakened Hong Qigong, told Ye Weiming that Ouyang Feng had poisoned her master and left him without martial arts.
• Huang Rong gave Ye Weiming the overdue reward from their previous cooperation and asked him to help them.

Ye Weiming accepted Huang Rong’s offer of all three lotus seeds if he safely got the group off the ship, then confronted Wanyan Hong Lie and demanded a boat. Ouyang Feng attacked, but Ye Weiming checked his advance with a Thunderclap Fire Bomb and threatened to destroy the ship with the three bombs he had left.

• Ye Weiming examined the Ice, Fire, and Golden Lotus Seeds and learned their powerful effects.
• Huang Rong offered Ye Weiming all three seeds if he got her group safely out of their predicament.
• Ye Weiming demanded that Wanyan Hong Lie prepare a reliable small boat so he could leave with Hong Qigong, Guo Jing, Huang Rong, and Tianwang Gaidihu.
• Wanyan Hong Lie refused to be ordered around, and Ye Weiming threatened to kill everyone aboard and take the ship.
• Ouyang Feng lunged at Ye Weiming, who blasted a crater into the deck with a Thunderclap Fire Bomb and warned that he could blow up the ship.