Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming killed a hidden player wielding the Sacred Fire Command Divine Skill, while Landscape and Foodie defeated the remaining rebel players. As they prepared to attack more bosses, the Reward and Punishment Envoys of Hero's Island burst into the hall.

• Ye Weiming killed the white-clad player with an Ice Lotus Seed and obtained his Cat's Eye Necklace, which boosted the Sacred Fire Command Divine Skill.
• Foodie used a poisonous pet to make I'm Looking For Something retreat, allowing Landscape and Foodie to defeat him and then Dugu Xingyun.
• Landscape and Foodie cleared out the remaining rebel players and offered Ye Weiming his borrowed weapons back.
• Ye Weiming urged Landscape and Foodie to attack more bosses among the fighting Snow Mountain Sect NPCs.
• The Reward and Punishment Envoys of Hero's Island blasted open the hall doors and appeared before the fighters.

The Reward and Punishment Envoys arrived at the Snow Mountain Sect amid its struggle over the sect leadership, and their presence triggered a challenge quest for the players. Ye Weiming chose to face Zhang San and Li Si together with Mountains and Rivers Meet and Foodie Little Fairy, and the fight began inside a challenge dungeon.

• Zhang San and Li Si demanded to meet the Snow Mountain Sect's sect leader, prompting the sect members to point at one another and avoid being chosen.
• Shi Xiaocui arrived, denounced the rebels, and claimed the leadership before A Zhong intervened to protect her from the envoys.
• Bai Wanjian appeared and contradicted Shi Xiaocui, while a hidden quest let players challenge Snow Mountain Sect experts for experience rewards.
• Ye Weiming invited Mountains and Rivers Meet and Foodie Little Fairy to team up, then selected Zhang San and Li Si as their opponents.
• Ye Weiming confirmed that the challenge carried no death penalty or consequences outside the dungeon, then attacked Zhang San as Li Si launched a coordinated palm strike.

Ye Weiming and his teammates passed the Reward and Punishment Envoys’ trial, then sought the Snow Mountain Sect’s Thousand-Year Cold Iron. He found the chained sect leader Bai Zizai and opened their meeting with an unexpected insult.

• Ye Weiming’s group fought the Reward and Punishment Envoys until Li Si ended the trial after a hundred moves, and the system awarded the three teammates experience and rewards.
• Granny Shi took the Snow Mountain Sect leadership and bronze plaque from A Zhong, then thanked Ye Weiming and directed him to ask the imprisoned sect leader about the Thousand-Year Cold Iron.
• Mountains and Rivers Meet warned Ye Weiming to flatter the sect leader Bai Zizai to gain his favor.
• Ye Weiming entered the stone chamber, saw the chained Bai Zizai, and asked, “Are you fucking Bai Zizai!?”

Ye Weiming challenged Bai Zizai to prove that he was not the greatest in every martial art, defeating him in palm techniques and swordsmanship. After Bai conceded those titles, Ye Weiming prepared to test his hidden weapons next.

• Ye Weiming provoked Bai Zizai into attacking, and their first palm exchange ended in a draw before Ye Weiming’s stronger follow-up sent Bai flying.
• Ye Weiming demonstrated his swordsmanship by fixing the Golden Light Sword in the floor with remote sword control, then defeated Bai Zizai’s Snow Mountain Swordplay in three moves.
• Bai Zizai admitted that Ye Weiming surpassed him in internal energy, palm techniques, and swordsmanship, relinquishing three of his four vaunted titles.
• Ye Weiming shattered the stone tiles, gathered fragments as hidden weapons, and challenged Bai Zizai to compete in hidden-weapon techniques.

Ye Weiming defeated Bai Zizai in a hidden-weapon duel and endured a poisoned wine cup, prompting Bai Zizai to give him the Thousand-Year Cold Iron. Ye Weiming brought the ore to Wu Jincao to forge a divine weapon and chose the Heaven Reliant Sword as its model.

• Bai Zizai challenged Ye Weiming to a hidden-weapon duel, but Ye Weiming struck him by redirecting a slower stone shard with One Yang Finger.
• After Ye Weiming mocked Bai Zizai's boasts, Bai Zizai offered him a choice among three cups, one of which contained Golden Silkworm Gu Poison; Ye Weiming drank all three and revealed that he was immune to poison.
• Bai Zizai gave Ye Weiming the Thousand-Year Cold Iron and reconsidered his arrogance after Ye Weiming warned him that arrogance was a danger in the martial world.
• Ye Weiming left the Snow Mountain Sect and traveled to Bright Summit, where he showed Wu Jincao the Thousand-Year Cold Iron, Mysterious Ore, and Iron Flame Token.
• When Wu Jincao asked about the sword's design, Ye Weiming offered a wooden Heaven Reliant Sword as the model.

Ye Weiming left his divine sword materials with Wu Jincao and met Pei Tuhou and the assassin Wumingzhi at a restaurant, where they negotiated over Guangmu Wubian and the Cat's Eye Necklace. He obtained Guangmu Wubian and Wumingzhi's contact, then left Bright Summit after learning how Wumingzhi acquired his martial arts.

• Ye Weiming agreed to Wu Jincao's forging adjustments and left his materials behind so Wu Jincao could make a divine weapon over three days.
• Pei Tuhou led Ye Weiming to Sacred Fire Pavilion, where Wumingzhi revealed himself and praised Ye Weiming for deducing the meeting had been arranged.
• Wumingzhi showed Ye Weiming Guangmu Wubian, and Ye Weiming traded him the Cat's Eye Necklace after Pei Tuhou helped broker the deal.
• Wumingzhi explained that he had learned the Sacred Fire Command Divine Skill and part of Heaven and Earth Great Shift through an inheritance from Huo Shan, the old man of the mountain.
• As Ye Weiming departed, Wumingzhi offered discounted assassin services for dirty work, and Ye Weiming accepted.

Ye Weiming maxed out Zhongchong Sword and tested how its sword qi could curve while leveling at Yellow Grass Ridge. After receiving word that Foodie Little Fairy and Landscape had arranged a meeting with the Qingcheng Sect, he rested and headed to the post station for the noon gathering.

• Ye Weiming spent his accumulated insight manuals and Cultivation Points to raise Zhongchong Sword to Level 10, gaining the ability to alter the path of its sword qi.
• Ye Weiming tested Zhongchong Sword against barbarian troops at Yellow Grass Ridge and discovered that its curved trajectory could deviate by up to ninety degrees over its maximum range.
• Foodie Little Fairy told Ye Weiming that she and Landscape had arranged a noon meeting with the Qingcheng Sect at Suzhen Wine House.
• Ye Weiming returned to Bright Summit, ate breakfast, and meditated until he fell asleep while preparing for his negotiation with Immortal Yunhua.
• Ye Weiming woke refreshed, paid the inn attendant to keep his room, and headed for the Bright Summit post station.

Ye Weiming questioned Immortal Yunhua about his experience in the Nine Yang Secret Realm and traded two Great Returning Pills for the details. Immortal Yunhua revealed the secret quest’s conditions and explained how Yu Lianzhou had caused him to fail, while Ye Weiming’s consolation only made him feel worse.

• Ye Weiming bluffed that Zhang Sanfeng had identified Immortal Yunhua as the Wudang disciple who entered the Nine Yang Secret Realm, and Immortal Yunhua admitted it was true.
• Ye Weiming negotiated with Immortal Yunhua, using Sanyue’s Insightful Observation to help settle the price at two Great Returning Pills.
• Immortal Yunhua explained that Fire Worker Monk offered two quest paths, both requiring him to defeat the Wudang Seven Heroes before the Heaven Reliant Sword storyline ended.
• Immortal Yunhua revealed that he had betrayed Wudang and learned the Nine Yang Divine Manual, but Yu Lianzhou confronted him as soon as he left the secret realm, causing his quest to fail.
• Ye Weiming handed over the pills and tried to console Immortal Yunhua, whose spirits collapsed when Ye Weiming reminded him that he no longer had a bird.

Ye Weiming received the newly forged divine weapon from Wu Jincao and examined its powerful but dangerous properties. After leaving the smithy, he received an urgent message from Han Xiaoying and accepted a quest to meet the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan in Jiaxing.

• Ye Weiming decided to postpone entering the Nine Yang Secret Realm while he searched for a way to obtain the Nine Yang Divine Manual without damaging his relationship with the Wudang Sect.
• Wu Jincao gave Ye Weiming the Sword of Swords, whose immense power came with a severe vitality penalty unless its wielder had supremely yang true qi.
• Ye Weiming tested the sword’s concealed child blade and used Unity of Heart and Sword to make it return to the hilt.
• Ye Weiming objected to Wu Jincao’s choice of name, but left the smithy with the Sword of Swords after demonstrating his sword control.
• Han Xiaoying sent Ye Weiming a message asking him to meet the six remaining Seven Freaks of Jiangnan at Misty Rain Tower in Jiaxing three days later, triggering the Final Journey quest.

Ye Weiming accepted Han Xiaoying's quest to investigate a fake Daoist's warning that the Jiangnan Six Freaks would die on Peach Blossom Island. After tracing the fortune stick's scent out of Jiaxing, he heard a familiar woman crying for help in a forest.

• Han Xiaoying told Ye Weiming that the Six Freaks planned to mediate the conflict between Huang Yaoshi and the Quanzhen Seven, but a fake Daoist had warned them of a deadly calamity.
• Han Xiaoying gave Ye Weiming the fortune stick as a clue, and he accepted the quest to investigate the warning.
• Ye Weiming learned from Niu Zhichun that all seven members of the Quanzhen Seven had survived the earlier fight and that Mei Chaofeng had died protecting Huang Yaoshi from Ouyang Feng.
• Ye Weiming sent Ah Huang to follow the fortune stick's scent out of Jiaxing and into a forest.
• Ye Weiming heard a familiar woman cry for help as a familiar man threatened her over a snake.

Ye Weiming rescued Qin Nanqin from Ouyang Ke, learned that Ouyang Feng and his nephew planned to frame Huang Yaoshi and provoke a deadly conflict, and rushed to warn the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan. They had already left for Peach Blossom Island, and Ye Weiming received the eight-star mission “Defy Fate” to stop the trap.

• Ye Weiming killed Ouyang Ke after rescuing Qin Nanqin from him and learned that Ouyang Ke had been plotting to abduct her.
• Qin Nanqin told Ye Weiming that Ouyang Feng and Ouyang Ke planned to kill the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan and frame Huang Yaoshi, weakening their rivals and giving Ouyang Ke a chance with Huang Rong.
• Ye Weiming urged Qin Nanqin to hide and hurried to Misty Rain Tower to warn the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan.
• Ye Weiming discovered that the Seven Freaks had already left for Peach Blossom Island and read Han Xiaoying’s letter confirming their departure.
• Ye Weiming completed “Investigate the Truth” and received the eight-star mission “Defy Fate,” which tasked him with thwarting the trap.

Ye Weiming reached Peach Blossom Island and persuaded Mirror Lake Bright Moon that Huang Yaoshi might be Ouyang Feng in disguise, then hurried to Flick Finger Peak to stop an ambush on the Jiangnan Six Freaks. The chapter left Ye Weiming approaching the Six Freaks as a white-clad figure crept toward them from behind, while Mirror Lake Bright Moon and Dugu Xingyun began fighting below.

• Ye Weiming flew to Peach Blossom Island and threatened to use the Flying Flower Sword Token until Mirror Lake Bright Moon came out to escort him through the formation.
• Ye Weiming showed Mirror Lake Bright Moon his quest and explained why the island's Huang Yaoshi might be Ouyang Feng in disguise, convincing him to help protect the Jiangnan Six Freaks.
• Mirror Lake Bright Moon told Ye Weiming that the Jiangnan Six Freaks had been invited to Flick Finger Peak, and Ye Weiming rushed there ahead of him.
• Dugu Xingyun ambushed Ye Weiming with a hidden weapon, but Ye Weiming blocked it and Mirror Lake Bright Moon volunteered to fight Dugu Xingyun.
• Ye Weiming reached Flick Finger Peak and saw the Jiangnan Six Freaks bowing to a blue-robed man as a white-clad figure crept toward them from behind.

Ye Weiming interrupted Ouyang Feng’s trap with a fabricated Sanskrit recitation, then used a lethal sword strike against Ouyang Ke to force Ouyang Feng to intervene. The chapter ended with Ouyang Feng meeting Ye Weiming’s attack head-on with his snake staff.

• Ouyang Feng and Ouyang Ke prepared to ambush the Jiangnan Six Freaks while Ye Weiming was too far away to reach them in time.
• Ye Weiming recited a Sanskrit version of the Nine Yin Manual’s general outline, briefly startling Ouyang Feng and disrupting the ambush.
• Ye Weiming threw a fiery lotus seed at Ouyang Ke, forcing him to dodge and giving up his chance to attack the Six Freaks.
• Ye Weiming activated Heavenly Demon Disintegration and launched a fatal sword strike at Ouyang Ke, who could not evade it.
• Ouyang Feng rushed in to save Ouyang Ke and swept his snake staff against Ye Weiming’s sword qi, causing a tremendous collision.

Ye Weiming used a suicidal attack to injure Ouyang Ke and force Ouyang Feng to focus on protecting him. After resurrecting and taking to the air on a red bird, Ye Weiming held Ouyang Feng at bay by threatening Ouyang Ke, leaving the Jiangnan Six Freaks alive while Ouyang Feng had to consider treating his son.

• Ye Weiming struck Ouyang Feng with Heavenly Demon Disintegration, then hit Ouyang Ke with the Guo Jing Dagger’s Plot Kill effect before Ouyang Feng killed him with a palm strike.
• Ouyang Feng prepared to kill the Jiangnan Six Freaks after Han Baoju recognized him, but the Six Freaks stood their ground rather than flee.
• Ye Weiming resurrected, mounted a red bird, and threatened Ouyang Ke with long-range attacks, preventing Ouyang Feng from attacking the Six Freaks.
• Ye Weiming taunted Ouyang Feng about his missing eyebrows and demonstrated that his sword qi could reach him from the air.
• Ye Weiming told Ouyang Feng to use the Nine Yin Manual’s Healing Chapter on Ouyang Ke and warned that further delay or injury could prove fatal.

Ye Weiming drove Ouyang Feng and Ouyang Ke from Peach Blossom Island while ensuring the Guo Jing Dagger remained behind, then completed the quest to save the Jiangnan Six Freaks and unlocked the full set of Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms. Guo Jing thanked him and asked whether he could keep a dagger that Seventh Master had meant for Ye Weiming.

• Ouyang Feng took Ouyang Ke away after Ye Weiming demanded the Guo Jing Dagger, and Ouyang Feng removed it from Ouyang Ke before leaving.
• Ye Weiming had Ah Hong follow Ouyang Feng, Ouyang Ke, and Dugu Xingyun until they sailed away from Peach Blossom Island, then returned to the island.
• Guo Jing greeted Ye Weiming and thanked him for saving the Jiangnan Six Freaks.
• Ye Weiming received a perfect rating for the quest "Defy Fate" and unlocked nine new moves, completing his Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.
• Ye Weiming told Guo Jing that Wanyan Hong Lie had been captured, crippled, and handed over to the Divine Constable Bureau.
• Guo Jing explained that Seventh Master had given him a dagger to pass to Ye Weiming, but asked if he could keep it because it had belonged to Brother Kang.

Ye Weiming kept Guo Jing’s dagger by turning the exchange into a gift-giving ceremony, then learned his Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms inheritance could yield a special benefit at Level 10. He left Peach Blossom Island to pursue Ouyang Feng, but failed to find his ship, while Ouyang Feng began suspecting Guo Jing had altered the Nine Yin Manual.

• Ye Weiming returned Guo Jing’s named dagger, accepted it back as a friendship memento, and gave Guo Jing a wooden sword in exchange.
• Huang Rong told Ye Weiming that his combined inheritance of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms had exceptional potential and would reveal a benefit when every move reached Level 10.
• Ye Weiming flew after Ouyang Feng’s ship, hoping to cause trouble, but reached the mainland without finding it and began studying Song Bingyi’s manual for Soaring Dragon, Regret.
• On Mingxia Island, Ouyang Feng treated Ouyang Ke and explained that he had gone there to avoid Ye Weiming while completing the seven-day healing.
• Ouyang Feng suspected Guo Jing had withheld or altered part of the Nine Yin Manual and puzzled over the phrasing of its strange text.

Ye Weiming entered the Nine Yang Secret Realm to seek Fire Worker Monk’s inheritance and faced a dangerous landing challenge beneath the Wudang cliff. After surviving an ambush by powerful vines, he landed safely but saw a gigantic stone ball rolling toward him.

• Ye Weiming completed the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and used Fist and Palm Insights to max out Twin Dragons Fetching Water and Riding the Six Dragons while raising Wild Geese Gradually Alight on Land to Level 7.
• Ye Weiming traveled to Wudang Sect and leaped from the cliff into the Nine Yang Secret Realm, where the system assigned him the five-star Land Safely challenge.
• Ye Weiming summoned Ah Hong and descended toward the ground, but a powerful vine attacked them from beneath the cliff.
• Ye Weiming recalled Ah Hong, dodged three more vines, and landed safely after they smashed deep pits into the cliff wall.
• A huge stone ball appeared and rolled toward Ye Weiming as he reached the ground.

Ye Weiming met the Fire Worker Monk in the Nine Yang Secret Realm and accepted a quest to defeat the Wudang Seven Heroes in exchange for unsealing the Nine Yang Divine Manual. The Fire Worker Monk then demanded that Ye Weiming prove himself by fighting him.

• Ye Weiming encountered the Fire Worker Monk, who was fused into a rolling stone sphere and had been presumed dead by Zhang Sanfeng.
• The Fire Worker Monk offered to teach Ye Weiming the Nine Yang Divine Manual if he betrayed his sect and defeated Zhang Sanfeng's disciples, but Ye Weiming refused to betray his sect.
• Ye Weiming asked whether killing the Fire Worker Monk would grant him an immediately usable manual, and learned that doing so would yield only experience and cultivation.
• Ye Weiming accepted the hidden quest without agreeing to betray his sect, receiving a sealed Nine Yang Divine Manual and a task to defeat the eligible Wudang Seven Heroes.
• The Fire Worker Monk told Ye Weiming he had to pass a test before setting out and attacked him with several vines.

Ye Weiming fought Fire Worker Monk by damaging the stone sphere that supported his paralyzed body, then paused the battle to cook chicken soup and draw out the monk’s memories of cooking at Shaolin Temple. He finished the soup by adding Soul Scattering Three-Step Fatal Powder and invited Fire Worker Monk to eat.

• Fire Worker Monk attacked Ye Weiming with vines infused with Nine Yang True Qi, but Ye Weiming avoided them and struck the stone sphere supporting him.
• Ye Weiming used sword strikes to weaken the sphere, then battered it with palm techniques until Fire Worker Monk spun uncontrollably and became dizzy.
• Ye Weiming stopped attacking to recover his internal energy, and Fire Worker Monk asked why he had not taken the chance to ambush him.
• Ye Weiming cooked chicken soup and persuaded Fire Worker Monk to describe the food and cooking tricks from his time at Shaolin Temple.
• Ye Weiming added Soul Scattering Three-Step Fatal Powder to the soup and told Fire Worker Monk it was ready to eat.

Ye Weiming drugged Fire Worker Monk with chicken soup, learned that he was badly injured, and offered to seek medicine for him in exchange for permission to return to the Nine Yang Secret Realm. After triggering a quest to heal him, Ye Weiming returned to the Divine Constable Bureau, where Venerable Huang offered to teach him the Nine Yin Manual if he recruited Fire Worker Monk into the bureau.

• Fire Worker Monk ignored Ye Weiming's warning, devoured the poisoned chicken soup, and fell unconscious from the anesthetic.
• Ye Weiming told Fire Worker Monk that his broken bones could not be healed without more Black Jade Bone-Setting Paste, then offered to seek medicine for him.
• Fire Worker Monk admitted he could not defeat Ye Weiming and let him leave after Ye Weiming provided a roasted lamb and requested permission to return.
• Ye Weiming triggered the hidden quest to heal Fire Worker Monk and left the Nine Yang Secret Realm on Ah Hong.
• Ye Weiming reported the situation to Venerable Huang, who promised to teach him the Nine Yin Manual if he recruited Fire Worker Monk into the Divine Constable Bureau.