Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming found Hong Qigong, Zhou Botong, Guo Jing, and Huang Rong in the imperial residence and learned that Wanyan Hong Lie planned to steal the military document Martial Mu's Legacy. Ye Weiming accepted the resulting eight-star mission and began organizing the group, prioritizing healing Hong Qigong so he could face Ouyang Feng.

• Ye Weiming led his team into the pavilion and found Hong Qigong, Zhou Botong, Guo Jing, and Huang Rong waiting upstairs.
• Huang Rong accused Wanyan Hong Lie and his allies of planning to steal Martial Mu's Legacy, and said they had also arranged the earlier Imperial Kitchen theft.
• Ye Weiming's team received the eight-star mission to stop Wanyan Hong Lie from stealing Martial Mu's Legacy.
• Ye Weiming took command of the operation and proposed healing Hong Qigong before the battle against Ouyang Feng.

Ye Weiming offered Hong Qigong two ways to heal his injuries, and Hong chose the slower Nine Yin Manual treatment so Ye would not have to sacrifice his internal energy. While Ye treated him, Guo Jing, Huang Rong, and the Old Urchin prepared to stall Wanyan Hong Lie’s forces and protect Martial Mu's Legacy.

• Ye Weiming explained that the Nine Yin Manual treatment would take three and a half shichen, while the One Yang Finger could heal Hong Qigong in a quarter-hour.
• Hong Qigong chose the slower treatment and instructed Guo Jing to delay Wanyan Hong Lie’s forces without confronting Ouyang Feng directly.
• Ye Weiming began treating Hong Qigong, and Hong explained that the Heavenly Dao’s rules limited how mission rewards could be distributed.
• After dusk, Guo Jing and Huang Rong left to gather information, while Ye Weiming sent his allies out and told them not to let the Imperial Kitchen thief escape.

Huang Rong and her allies ambushed Wanyan Hong Lie’s group at the waterfall hiding Martial Mu’s Legacy, but Ouyang Feng’s arrival forced them to retreat into the secret chamber. Youyou found the legacy sealed in an iron box that could not be opened or stored, while Wanyan Hong Lie entered and claimed the group could not stop him.

• Wanyan Hong Lie led his allies to the waterfall, where Sha Tong Tian found an Iron Gate behind it.
• Huang Rong’s group ambushed the Jin party; Yin Bukui crippled Sha Tong Tian, while Guo Jing and Dao Mei struck Ouyang Feng long enough for Yin Bukui to escape behind the waterfall.
• Ouyang Feng entered the waterfall and fought Guo Jing and Dao Mei as Youyou opened the corroded Iron Gate.
• Youyou found the iron box marked “Martial Mu’s Legacy,” but discovered it was sealed and could not be placed in her inventory.
• Wanyan Hong Lie, Ouyang Ke, Peng Lian Hu, and Master Lingzhi entered the secret chamber, and Wanyan Hong Lie challenged the group to stop him from claiming the legacy.

Xiao Qiao arrived at the secret chamber and killed Sha Tong Tian, while Ye Weiming used the Black Toad Token to summon Ouyang Feng away from the battle. Ye Weiming lured Ouyang Feng onto a liquor-filled ship rigged with lamp oil, and the chapter ended as one of his game pieces triggered an explosion.

• Xiao Qiao entered the secret chamber and announced that she had killed Sha Tong Tian and would show no mercy to Wanyan Hong Lie, Ouyang Ke, Master Lingzhi, and Peng Lian Hu.
• Ye Weiming summoned Ouyang Feng from the secret chamber by smashing the Black Toad Token, then fled through a window to draw him after him.
• Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Dao Mei, Xiao Qiao, Yin Bukui, and Youyou attacked Wanyan Hong Lie and his allies while Ouyang Feng was gone.
• Ye Weiming led Ouyang Feng into a cargo ship filled with liquor and surrounded by lamp oil, then threw wine jars and black game pieces to slow him down.
• Ouyang Feng deflected Ye Weiming's attacks, but the fifth game piece flew toward a wine jar and an explosion followed.

Ye Weiming's traps left Ouyang Feng vulnerable, but Hong Qigong spared him and began a fair fight instead. Before Ye Weiming could finish Ouyang Feng, he received an urgent message that Wanyan Hong Lie had gone berserk and Guo Jing was badly injured.

• Ye Weiming injured Ouyang Feng with explosives and wine, then forced him to escape the burning cabin through a liquor-soaked trap.
• Hong Qigong struck Ouyang Feng but pulled his blow and challenged him to a direct fight, frustrating Ye Weiming's plan to kill him.
• Ye Weiming dropped more chess pieces into the Wine Jar Formation, splashing liquor over Ouyang Feng while Hong Qigong remained protected by his special cloak.
• A message from One Saber Chop Chop Chop warned Ye Weiming that Wanyan Hong Lie had gone berserk, Guo Jing was seriously injured, and Huang Rong had taken him away.
• One Saber Chop Chop Chop reported that Martial Mu's Legacy remained in their hands and asked Ye Weiming for support.

Ye Weiming rushed to the Lin'an Imperial Palace to help his teammates protect the Martial Mu's Legacy and found them struggling against Wanyan Hong Lie and Ouyang Ke. After killing Ouyang Ke, he triggered a nine-star quest that fully unleashed Wanyan Hong Lie's strength.

• Ye Weiming left Hong Qigong to hold off Ouyang Feng and hurried toward the Lin'an Imperial Palace, trusting his preparations to keep Hong Qigong safe.
• Ye Weiming arrived at the secret chamber and found his teammates badly injured while Wanyan Hong Lie and Ouyang Ke still fought them.
• Ye Weiming ambushed Ouyang Ke with the Guo Jing dagger and killed him instantly.
• Wanyan Hong Lie turned toward Ye Weiming, and the system activated the unrefusable nine-star quest Fated Battle, warning that Wanyan Hong Lie's strength would be fully unleashed.

After Wanyan Hong Lie became a level 145 boss and the system assigned Ye Weiming a Fated Battle, Ye Weiming and his companions chose to fight him together. Their opening attack failed to harm him significantly, but Ye Weiming's Sutra of Rebirth activated a powerful new effect as the battle continued.

• Ye Weiming told Dao Mei, Xiao Qiao, Youyou, and Yin Bukui to leave with Martial Mu's Legacy, but the three women insisted on joining the fight.
• Youyou handed Martial Mu's Legacy to Yin Bukui and prepared to support the others with two guns.
• Wanyan Hong Lie used the Crane Control Skill to pull Yin Bukui and the iron box back toward the cave, but Ye Weiming interrupted him with an Ice Lotus Seed.
• Ye Weiming, Dao Mei, Xiao Qiao, and Youyou attacked Wanyan Hong Lie together, but his Marrow Cleansing Scripture deflected their attacks and forced them back.
• Ye Weiming told Dao Mei and Xiao Qiao to fall back and heal, then activated the Sutra of Rebirth's Great Sound is Silent effect, which raised his swordsmanship and Buddhist Dharma levels and gave vital point attacks a chance to instantly kill.

Ye Weiming and his allies battled Wanyan Hong Lie in the secret chamber, testing his purple protective qi and wearing down his defenses. As the fight settled into a stalemate, Ye Weiming unleashed a hidden attack with an invisible sword at Wanyan Hong Lie’s ankle.

• Ye Weiming used up to five flying swords to probe Wanyan Hong Lie’s purple defensive qi, but Wanyan Hong Lie identified the limits of his control and counterattacked.
• Dao Mei used the Soul Shifting Great Method to unleash nine blades, breaking through Wanyan Hong Lie’s purple qi and cutting his chest before Xiao Qiao intervened to help Dao Mei retreat.
• Ye Weiming resumed close combat with Wanyan Hong Lie, using boosted Sky Shaking Nine Swords attacks to deal damage while healing through the boss’s counterattacks.
• After the two fighters exchanged more than ten moves and briefly retreated, Ye Weiming sent an invisible sword across Wanyan Hong Lie’s left ankle.

Ye Weiming and his allies fought Wanyan Hong Lie in a secret chamber, using teamwork and a calculated ultimate attack to turn the battle around. After restoring himself with a Wisdom Fruit, Ye Weiming faced Wanyan Hong Lie again and asked whether he had ever been buried alive.

• Ye Weiming discovered that Wanyan Hong Lie concentrated his protective true qi around his joints and exploited the limits of his attacks to buy time.
• Dao Mei and Xiao Qiao held off Wanyan Hong Lie while Ye Weiming completed his calculations, and Youyou struck him with her twin guns before retreating with the injured women.
• Ye Weiming activated Tai Shan's Secret and unleashed Heavenly Demon Disintegration, forcing Wanyan Hong Lie to evade a sword strike that carved deeply into the stone wall.
• Ye Weiming swallowed a Wisdom Fruit, restoring his condition and gaining a level, while Wanyan Hong Lie taunted him about wasting the pill.
• Ye Weiming drew the Blood-Draining Sunset Sword and asked Wanyan Hong Lie whether he had ever been buried alive.

Ye Weiming trapped Wanyan Hong Lie in the secret chamber as he triggered the artificial hill’s collapse, then hid in the only safe spot. His companions waited through the night, and at dawn a dusty hand emerged from the rubble.

• Ye Weiming blocked Wanyan Hong Lie’s escape and attacked him with sword and palm techniques as cracks spread through the chamber wall.
• Ye Weiming hurled two Thunderclap Fire Bombs at the walls, triggering the artificial hill’s collapse, then hid behind the bookshelf containing Martial Mu’s Legacy.
• Wanyan Hong Lie was buried under the falling rubble after barely receiving Ye Weiming’s Shocking the Hundred Li.
• Dao Mei, Xiao Qiao, Youyou, and Yin Bukui waited outside for three hours while guarding the ruins and keeping others away.
• At dawn, a large dust-covered hand reached out from beneath the rubble.

Ye Weiming escaped the ruins through a secret tunnel, then ambushed and captured Wanyan Hong Lie as he emerged. After learning that he could extract Wanyan Hong Lie’s drops without killing him, Ye Weiming chose to take him alive and collected several valuable items.

• Ye Weiming dug a tunnel out of the collapsed ruins and hid while Wanyan Hong Lie struggled free.
• Ye Weiming sealed thirteen of Wanyan Hong Lie’s major acupoints and bound him until the system confirmed their team’s victory.
• Ye Weiming learned that the Fated Battle reward had changed to the sealed Marrow Cleansing Scripture and that he could extract Wanyan Hong Lie’s drops without killing him.
• Ye Weiming took Wanyan Hong Lie alive, dismissed the cheering palace guards, and extracted a palm technique, several treasures, mysterious ore, and 24,000 gold.

After defeating Wanyan Hong Lie, Ye Weiming let Dao Mei drain his internal energy and divided the spoils among the team. The group prepared for their next fight, against Western Venom Ouyang Feng.

• Ye Weiming collected Wanyan Hong Lie's drops and offered him Path-Cutting Powder, but Dao Mei instead drained all his internal energy with the Great Law of Star Absorption.
• Dao Mei took responsibility for escorting Wanyan Hong Lie back to the Divine Constable Bureau after claiming the greatest benefit.
• Ye Weiming distributed the loot, giving the Ice Snow Night Pearl to Xiao Qiao, the Zhuge Divine Arrow to Youyou, and the Battle Intent Cloak to Yin Bukui.
• Ye Weiming kept Purple Smoke Palm and the Mysterious Ore, then told the team to prepare for their next battle against Western Venom, Ouyang Feng.

Ye Weiming and his teammates returned Wanyan Hong Lie and “Martial Mu’s Legacy” to the Divine Constable Bureau, where they discovered the book contained Yue Fei’s martial arts insights and received mission rewards. The teammates gained attribute boosts and offers to upgrade their martial arts, while Ye Weiming was given another mission before he could receive his upgrade.

• Ye Weiming learned that Ouyang Feng had escaped after Hong Qigong refused to use his own hand to kill one of the Five Greats, and the group discovered that Zhou Botong had wandered off.
• Ye Weiming’s group looted and buried Ouyang Ke and the other villains, then brought Wanyan Hong Lie and “Martial Mu’s Legacy” to the Divine Constable Bureau.
• Venerable Huang revealed that the recovered “Martial Mu’s Legacy” recorded Yue Fei’s martial arts insights, and each of the five gained 100 points in four basic attributes after reading it.
• Venerable Huang offered Ye Weiming’s teammates a personal martial-art upgrade, but told Ye Weiming he would need to complete another mission first.

Ye Weiming persuaded Venerable Huang to use the Ming Cult against the Yuan Mongols rather than attack it directly, then received a mission to plant moles in the Ming Cult. He summoned four companions to help carry out the plan.

• Yin Bukui, Youyou, Xiao Qiao, and Dao Mei upgraded their chosen martial arts with Venerable Huang's guidance.
• Venerable Huang asked Ye Weiming which sects threatened the imperial court, and Ye Weiming named the Sun Moon Holy Cult, the Iron Palm Gang, and the Ming Cult.
• Venerable Huang explained that the Ming Cult was a major threat, but Ye Weiming argued that it should be used against the Yuan Mongols first.
• Ye Weiming proposed planting moles in the Ming Cult and provoking a war between it and the Yuan Mongols, then eliminating the Ming Cult if it survived.
• Venerable Huang approved Ye Weiming's plan and issued the seven-star mission "Plant a Mole," allowing up to five players to participate.
• Ye Weiming accepted the mission and sent pigeons to summon Sanyue, Fei Yu, Liuyun, and Niu Zhichun.

Ye Weiming assembled a team to find Zhang Sanfeng and discovered him treating Zhang Wuji, whose cold poison could only be suppressed temporarily without the Nine Yang Divine Skill. When Mongolian soldiers attacked a carriage carrying two children, Ye Weiming killed the first group and faced a stronger wave of reinforcements.

• Ye Weiming recruited Sanyue, Fei Yu, Liuyun, and Jiang Jin Jiu after Niu Zhichun declined, then asked Fei Yu to locate Zhang Sanfeng.
• Fei Yu tracked Zhang Sanfeng to a riverside spot near Chunfeng Crossing, where Ye Weiming found him healing Zhang Wuji behind a boulder.
• Ye Weiming explained that he could suppress Zhang Wuji's cold poison for half a month at a time, but could not cure it without the Nine Yang Divine Skill.
• Ye Weiming's group saw Mongolian officers pursuing a carriage, and Ye Weiming used a flying sword to save a boy from an arrow and kill all eight pursuers.
• Twelve more Mongolian officers arrived, including two elite level 60 enemies, as Fei Yu complained that Ye Weiming had finished the first fight before the others could join.

Ye Weiming and his teammates fought successive waves of Mongolian enemies in a hidden instance, rescued four people, and completed the quest perfectly. After Zhang Sanfeng and Zhang Wuji reappeared, the driver suddenly collapsed, leaving the rescue’s aftermath uncertain.

• Ye Weiming summoned Ah Huang and Ah Hong while Fei Yu defeated the second wave of Mongolian officers, and Liuyun recited the Sutra of Rebirth.
• Ye Weiming explained that the quest had remained undiscovered because its location was hard to find, taking it was risky, and its enemies grew more dangerous; the team recognized they were in an instance after Zhang Sanfeng and Zhang Wuji disappeared.
• Sanyue and Fei Yu defeated a stronger wave, then Jiang Jin Jiu joined them to kill six level 90 Foreign Monks.
• A San and the Eight Divine Archers shot at the boy and driver, but Ye Weiming blocked their arrows; the nine enemies then retreated from the instance.
• The team received a perfect-completion reward for rescuing all four people, and Zhang Sanfeng and Zhang Wuji returned to praise them.
• The rescued driver suddenly clutched his chest, collapsed, and foamed at the mouth.

Ye Weiming saved Zhou Zhiruo’s father twice and learned how Chang Yuchun and Zhou Teng came to be pursued by Yuan soldiers. The group planned to rest at Chunfeng Crossing, while Zhang Sanfeng privately asked Ye Weiming about objects connected to the Qingcheng Sect.

• Ye Weiming expelled poison from Zhou Zhiruo’s father and gave him an antidote, then revived him when he suffered a heart attack.
• Zhou Zhiruo thanked Ye Weiming for saving her father and revealed her name.
• Zhang Sanfeng learned that Chang Yuchun was protecting Zhou Teng, the son of Zhou Ziwang, who had been killed by the Yuan army.
• The group decided to go to Chunfeng Crossing for the night, where Zhou Zhiruo fed a disheartened Zhang Wuji.
• Zhang Sanfeng took Ye Weiming aside and asked whether he had anything related to the Qingcheng Sect; Ye Weiming showed him the Eight Trigrams Robe and Qingcheng Divine Sword Token.

Ye Weiming exchanged the Qingcheng Divine Sword Token and Zhang Sanfeng’s beard hairs for a promise of a clue about an ultimate internal skill, but Zhou Zhiruo’s father died before he could give a quest reward. Ye Weiming then accepted a quest to escort Chang Yuchun and Zhang Wuji to Butterfly Valley, where the journey ahead would test their plans.

• Zhang Sanfeng recognized the Qingcheng Divine Sword Token, learned Ye Weiming had killed Hundred Losses, and thanked him for avenging Shuang Jun.
• Ye Weiming gave Zhang Sanfeng the token and collected beard hairs for the Six Yang Snow Melting Pill, prompting Zhang Sanfeng to offer a clue about an ultimate internal skill in exchange for a special pill.
• Zhou Zhiruo’s father died after laughing himself breathless, and Ye Weiming concluded that saving an NPC destined to die was difficult, deepening his concern about saving A Zhu and Qiao Feng.
• Chang Yuchun planned to take Zhang Wuji to Hu Qingniu in Butterfly Valley, while Zhang Sanfeng decided to escort Zhou Zhiruo back to Wudang Sect.
• Ye Weiming accepted the three-star Escort Along the Way quest to bring Chang Yuchun and Zhang Wuji safely to Butterfly Valley without system transportation, then told Sanyue and Brother Liuyun the road ahead was critical.

Ye Weiming and the other players took Zhang Wuji to Butterfly Valley while manipulating his desire for revenge and teaching him to seek power and influence. At the valley, Ye Weiming treated an injured woman, then attacked a black-clad player who had ambushed him, only for a white-clad figure to intervene.

• Ye Weiming and the others spent the journey teaching Zhang Wuji to blame Cheng Kun and value strength and influence, while Chang Yuchun overheard their arguments.
• The group reached Butterfly Valley and forced their way past injured martial artists who had tried to block them.
• Zhang Wuji supported an injured woman, and Ye Weiming used silver needles to ease her pain and promised prescriptions for her recovery.
• A black-clad player attacked Ye Weiming with golden metal petals, but he shattered them with finger force and launched Soaring Dragon in the Sky at her.
• A white-clad figure rushed in and used an invisible vortex of internal energy to meet Ye Weiming's attack.

Ye Weiming fought three Ming Cult players, then let them leave after they gave him the antidote to Soul Severing Powder. As Ye Weiming suspected a connection between Qi Ye’s techniques and Wang Nangu, Zhang Wuji’s Xuanming Divine Palm cold poison flared up.

• Ye Weiming clashed with Pei Tuhou, while Wu Zhou and Qi Ye attacked him from the sides before Pei Tuhou called for a deal.
• Qi Ye revealed she had poisoned the group with Soul Severing Powder hidden in a Golden Flower, and Pei Tuhou gave Ye Weiming the antidote after learning Yang Buhui’s identity.
• Ye Weiming had Sanyue mix the antidote into water, curing the poisoned players and NPCs, then allowed Pei Tuhou, Wu Zhou, and Qi Ye to leave.
• Ye Weiming told Sanyue that Qi Ye’s techniques and poison suggested a possible link to Wang Nangu.
• Chang Yuchun cried out as Zhang Wuji trembled, showing that the cold poison from the Xuanming Divine Palm had flared up.