Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming persuaded Duan Lang to seek the Sword Master and learned that Mingyue and Dugu Ming were to marry and study Love of the City. After Duan Lang secretly set his own scheme in motion, Ye Weiming rushed to Ming Qiao and killed the injured Dugu Ming, leaving Wushuang City’s future uncertain.

• Ye Weiming gave Duan Lang documents identifying the current Dugu Yifang as an impostor and urged him to find the Sword Master to protect Wushuang City.
• Duan Lang agreed to investigate the documents and seek the Sword Master, then warned Ye Weiming that Mingyue and Dugu Ming would marry the next day and that Nie Feng might kill Dugu Ming.
• Ye Weiming confirmed Love of the City's existence with Xiao Qiao and asked Ming Qiao for her location so he could meet her and Dugu Ming.
• Duan Lang secretly headed toward the Sword Master's hiding place, planning to use the Sword Master against Ye Weiming, while a red bird tracked him from above.
• Dugu Ming, still badly injured, harassed Xiao Qiao in a forest outside Wushuang City until Ye Weiming ambushed him with Dragon's Palm and killed him.

After killing Dugu Ming, Ye Weiming triggered Wushuang City's pursuit and explained to Xiao Qiao that his sudden move would help draw out the fake Dugu Yifang while advancing their search for the Love of the City. He sent Xiao Qiao to pursue the Wushuang Yin Sword, but at the Ming Family ancestral shrine they found Nie Feng and Mingyue, and the two Peerless Swords flew toward Xiao Qiao.

• Ye Weiming killed Dugu Ming, claimed his equipment, and triggered the seven-star quest Pursuit in Wushuang City.
• Ye Weiming told Xiao Qiao that Dugu Ming deserved death, that the Sword Master’s early return forced him to accelerate his plan, and that he would ally with Nie Feng against the fake Dugu Yifang.
• Ye Weiming gave Xiao Qiao Dugu Ming’s corpse and instructed her to seek the Wushuang Yin Sword while they avoided contact during the pursuit.
• Ye Weiming revealed that Dugu Ming had dropped the Wushuang Yang Sword and urged Xiao Qiao to obtain its Yin counterpart so they could seek the Love of the City quest.
• Xiao Qiao led Ye Weiming to the Ming Family ancestral shrine, where they found an injured Nie Feng, Mingyue, and the Wushuang Yin Sword.
• Mingyue attacked Ye Weiming, but the Wushuang Yang Sword struck the Wushuang Yin Sword and both swords flew toward Xiao Qiao.

Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao formed an alliance with Mingyue and the recovering Nie Feng after Xiao Qiao received the Peerless Yin Yang Sword. When the next pursuer, the Ming Family Matriarch, arrived, Nie Feng declined to fight because of his injuries, leaving Ye Weiming to face her alone.

• Ye Weiming gave Xiao Qiao the Wushuang Yin Sword and Wushuang Yang Sword, which greatly strengthened her Jade Maiden Heart Swordplay.
• Xiao Qiao challenged Mingyue's accusation of betrayal, and Mingyue stopped pursuing Ye Weiming and agreed to cooperate after learning Dugu Yifang was an impostor.
• Ye Weiming treated Nie Feng's internal injuries, earning his gratitude, while Xiao Qiao explained the plan to Mingyue; the four formed a temporary alliance.
• After the half-hour respite, the Ming Family Matriarch arrived, and Nie Feng warned Ye Weiming about her strength and Invincible Overlord Hand but stayed behind to recover.
• Ye Weiming confronted the Ming Family Matriarch, launched five flying swords at her, and began fighting her after she knocked them aside.

Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao battled the Ming Family Matriarch, whose overwhelming palm force had nearly defeated them. Ye Weiming’s coffin-based finisher badly weakened her, but after learning Nie Feng was recovering in the ancestral hall, she rushed inside before they could kill her.

• The Ming Family Matriarch overwhelmed Ye Weiming’s attacks, and Xiao Qiao joined the fight with the Peerless Yin Yang Sword.
• Xiao Qiao enraged the Ming Family Matriarch by rejecting her family vows, drawing the old woman’s attacks away from Ye Weiming.
• Ye Weiming used Impure World Reincarnation to reveal Dugu Ming’s corpse, forcing the Ming Family Matriarch to withdraw her palm and suffer a severe backlash.
• Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao attacked Dugu Ming’s corpse, forcing the Matriarch to shield it while her health and combat strength fell.
• Ye Weiming revealed that Nie Feng was recovering in the Ming Family Ancestral Shrine, and the Matriarch broke through their encirclement and charged inside.

Ye Weiming killed the Ming Family Matriarch to save Nie Feng, then kept Mingyue from turning against him and helped bury her grandmother. After Mingyue explained the origins of Love of the City, the system stopped Ye Weiming from probing the story’s contradictions, and he raised the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms to Max Level, discovering a startling change in its attributes.

• The Ming Family Matriarch attacked Nie Feng, but Ye Weiming killed her with Invisible Sword Qi just before her blow landed.
• Mingyue threatened Ye Weiming, then lowered her sword after he explained his actions and Nie Feng pleaded with her; the alliance held.
• Ye Weiming and the others buried the Matriarch, and Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao divided her dropped items, including the Invincible Overlord Hand and Love of Seven Lifetimes.
• Mingyue described the origins of Love of the City, but the Peerless Yin Yang Sword warned Ye Weiming not to ask about the story’s apparent inconsistencies.
• Ye Weiming used the Matriarch’s insights and his Cultivation Points to raise the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms to level 10, then saw a major surprise in its attributes.

After completing the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, Ye Weiming faced Dugu Yifang’s forces outside the Ming Family Ancestral Hall as the final battle over Wushuang City loomed. Meanwhile, the Sword Master learned of the plot and raced toward the city, prompting Erhu Lu Xun to follow.

• Ye Weiming discovered the completed Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms gained power against evil enemies and realized Wushuang City’s final pursuers were late.
• Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao found Dugu Yifang’s elite forces assembled outside the ancestral hall, with the Ming Family Matriarch’s corpse displayed on a cart.
• Mingyue and Nie Feng confronted Dugu Yifang over his treatment of the Ming Family Matriarch, and Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao drew their swords as battle became imminent.
• The Sword Master confronted Duan Lang by a river, read the documents Duan Lang brought, destroyed them, and sped toward Wushuang City in a streak of Sword Light.
• Erhu Lu Xun sensed the Sword Master’s departure, told Chen'er to return to Zhonghua Pavilion, and followed toward Wushuang City.

Ye Weiming and his companions battled fake Dugu Yifang, whose Invincible Overlord Hand overwhelmed them until Nie Feng and Mingyue awakened the power of Love of the City. After fake Dugu Yifang destroyed the Ming Family Matriarch’s corpse, Mingyue fell from the cliff, and the chapter ended with Nie Feng grabbing Ye Weiming by the throat.

• Ye Weiming clashed palms with fake Dugu Yifang and was blasted back, while fake Dugu Yifang also repelled and injured Nie Feng, Mingyue, and Xiao Qiao.
• The Peerless Yin Yang Swords hovered in the air, and Nie Feng and Mingyue took them up and unleashed Love of the City against the Wushuang City followers.
• Fake Dugu Yifang hurled the Ming Family Matriarch’s corpse into the sword attack, and Mingyue stopped the technique to save it, but fake Dugu Yifang destroyed the corpse.
• Mingyue charged fake Dugu Yifang, who blasted her off the cliff; Nie Feng failed to catch her, and Mingyue warned him not to follow unless he saw her corpse.
• Ye Weiming sent Ah Hong to rescue Mingyue and the Wushuang Yin Sword, but Nie Feng seized Ye Weiming by the throat.

Ye Weiming used the Soul Shifting Great Method to enter Nie Feng’s consciousness and found him struggling against the Fire Qilin within his Mad Blood. Nie Feng asked Ye Weiming to take over his body and kill the fake Dugu Yifang, and Ye Weiming prepared to face the enemy as “Ye Feng.”

• Nie Feng’s Mad Blood flared, and he grabbed Ye Weiming by the throat while Xiao Qiao held back from attacking.
• Ye Weiming recalled receiving the Soul Shifting Great Method from Venerable Huang and used it to reach Nie Feng’s consciousness.
• Inside Nie Feng’s mind, Ye Weiming saw Nie Feng suppressing the Fire Qilin and learned that killing the fake Dugu Yifang could weaken the demon born from Nie Feng’s hatred.
• Nie Feng asked Ye Weiming to control his body and kill the fake Dugu Yifang, triggering the hidden quest “Demon Heart Crossing.”
• Ye Weiming took over Nie Feng’s body, told Xiao Qiao to protect his own body, and named his fused persona “Ye Feng.”
• Ye Feng took up the Sword of Swords, confronted the fake Dugu Yifang, and declared that he had seen through the impostor.

Ye Feng exposed Xia Zuo as the fake Dugu Yifang and, controlling Nie Feng under Demon Heart Crossing, defeated the city lord’s forces and grievously wounded him. Mingyue’s survival ended the state early, and Ye Weiming charged at the weakened impostor with a Dragon’s Roar gathering in his palms.

• Ye Feng called the fake Dugu Yifang Xia Zuo, prompting him to order his forces to attack and triggering a mandatory mission for five Wushuang City players.
• Ye Feng killed the charging players, expert fighters, and Wushuang City disciples, then used his flying sword to stop Hell and Ghost Envoy from reaching Ye Weiming’s true body.
• Ye Feng blocked Dugu Yifang’s palm attacks and struck him with a gigantic flaming dragon, leaving him near death and shattering the Invincible Overlord Hand.
• Ah Hong brought Mingyue up from below the cliff, and her call to Nie Feng ended Ye Feng’s Demon Heart Crossing state.
• Ye Weiming returned to his own body and immediately charged the wounded fake Dugu Yifang with a Dragon’s Roar gathering between his palms.

Ye Weiming defeated the fake Dugu Yifang, reclaimed rewards for himself and Xiao Qiao, and reunited Nie Feng with Mingyue. The Sword Master arrived and challenged Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao, triggering a hidden quest with four possible difficulty levels.

• Ye Weiming killed the weakened fake Dugu Yifang and returned the Wushuang Yin Sword to Xiao Qiao, restoring her Peerless Yin Yang Sword.
• Ye Weiming received the Dragon Subduing Divine Leg manual and an eight-star quest reward to receive martial arts instruction in the imperial city, then stored Dugu Yifang's corpse for later.
• The Sword Master appeared and confronted Ye Weiming, while Xiao Qiao's Peerless Yin Yang Sword trembled in his presence.
• Ye Weiming redirected the Sword Master's interest toward Nie Feng and Mingyue's Love of the City, but the Sword Master insisted on fighting Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao first.
• A hidden quest, "Dual Saints Shine," appeared, offering four challenge options; Ye Weiming began to explain himself before agreeing that the Sword Master's interpretation was what he meant.

Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao challenged the Sword Master, who unleashed Heaven Extinguishing Earth Shattering Sword Twenty-Three and killed them both. Ye Weiming revived and tried to claim the Sword Master's body with a Glazed Coffin, but the instance expelled him before he could reach it.

• Wuming appeared and warned Ye Weiming against fighting the Sword Master, but Ye Weiming accepted the challenge anyway.
• The challenge instance began, and Xiao Qiao fought the Sword Master with Jade Maiden Heart Swordplay while Ye Weiming watched.
• The Sword Master unleashed Heaven Extinguishing Earth Shattering Sword Twenty-Three, freezing the space around Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao before killing them.
• Wuming explained to Nie Feng and Mingyue that using Sword Twenty-Three cost the Sword Master his life and his understanding of the move.
• Ye Weiming revived, recalled his Invisible Sword, and rushed toward the Sword Master's corpse with a Glazed Coffin, but the system removed him from the instance.

After defeating the Sword Master, Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao claimed their quest rewards from Wuming. Xiao Qiao gained the peerless Love of the City art, while Ye Weiming received Myriad Sword Foundation and learned of its connection to Myriad Swords Return to One.

• Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao emerged from the challenge after defeating the Sword Master, and Ye Weiming mocked the Sword Master while claiming victory.
• Wuming guided Xiao Qiao to integrate her sword inheritances into the new Love of the City divine skill, replacing several of her former arts.
• Wuming gave Ye Weiming the five-volume Myriad Sword Foundation, which he first dismissed as an inadequate reward.
• Wuming explained that Myriad Sword Foundation could strengthen any sword art and warned Ye Weiming against using Myriad Swords Reincarnation to advance it at the cost of its ultimate potential.
• Ye Weiming learned that Myriad Sword Foundation was linked to the Sword Sect's strongest art, Myriad Swords Return to One, as Wuming departed.

Ye Weiming reclaimed the Sword Sect inheritance and watched the Sword Master take the fused Peerless Sword, then returned to the Imperial City while studying Dragon Subduing Divine Leg. There, he completed his wager against Bushi and received Little Dragon Spring, a new divine weapon.

• Ye Weiming learned that inheriting Myriad Sword Foundation qualified him to compete for Myriad Swords Return to One, and he planned to seek the sword art in a future visit to the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm.
• The Sword Master took the Peerless Yin and Yang Swords, merged them into the Peerless Sword, and left; Ye Weiming told him he would help Ming Qiao reclaim it.
• Ye Weiming helped bury the Wushuang City dead, advised Nie Feng to protect Mingyue from Xiong Ba, and warned Xiao Qiao about Duan Lang before leaving for the Imperial City.
• During the flight, Ye Weiming learned Dragon Subduing Divine Leg and used his insight manuals to raise it to Level 7.
• Ye Weiming arrived at the Imperial City and learned that Bushi had caught the Bu Family Manor killer; his consecutive wager victories earned him Identity Influence Level +1 and Little Dragon Spring.

Ye Weiming received Little Dragon Spring and met the Imperial Palace’s greatest expert, who guided him in finger techniques through three days of sparring. The guidance culminated in the fusion of Finger Flicking Divine Power and Zhongchong Sword into Finger Flicking Divine Sword.

• Ye Weiming assessed Little Dragon Spring as a useful backup weapon but kept the Sword of Swords as his primary weapon.
• The man in yellow arrived to deliver Ye Weiming’s quest reward and offered guidance in one of ten martial arts categories.
• After demonstrating his martial arts, Ye Weiming chose to receive guidance in finger techniques.
• The man in yellow sparred with Ye Weiming for three days, and Ye Weiming gradually lasted longer against his powerful finger techniques.
• Ye Weiming completed the fusion of Finger Flicking Divine Power and Zhongchong Sword, creating Finger Flicking Divine Sword.

Ye Weiming returned from the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm with Finger Flicking Divine Sword, a fusion of Finger Flicking Divine Power and Zhongchong Sword. Venerable Huang assigned him a mission to investigate Guo Jing’s loyalty and bring him back to the Central Plains if possible.

• After three days of instruction from the man in yellow, Ye Weiming gained the fused Finger Flicking Divine Sword and appreciated its power, flexibility, and freed Skill Panel slot.
• The man in yellow vanished, and Ye Weiming returned from the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm to the Divine Constable Bureau courtyard, where You Jin directed him to Venerable Huang.
• Venerable Huang told Ye Weiming that Guo Jing had used strategies from Martial Mu's Legacy to help the Yuan Mongol army win battles against Khwarazm.
• Venerable Huang ordered Ye Weiming to assemble a team of no more than seven people and travel to the Yuan Mongols after the second day of the second lunar month to bring Guo Jing back or kill him if he insisted on treason.
• Ye Weiming received the seven-star story mission Save Private Guo Jing, with rewards of experience, Cultivation Points, a skill level, and an official-rank increase.

Ye Weiming accepted the rules for the quest to rescue Guo Jing, assembled a small team, and spent three days studying the Myriad Sword Foundation manual. He learned the powerful sword technique but discovered he could not raise its level with Cultivation Points, leaving him to face the daunting task of training it through proficiency.

• Venerable Huang told Ye Weiming to wait until the third day of the second lunar month to depart, collect the court’s letter for Guo Jing, and avoid attacking Temujin, whose death could avert war.
• Ye Weiming asked Yin Bukui for plot details and assembled a quest team with Sanyue, Fei Yu, Dao Mei, and Liuyun.
• Ye Weiming studied the Myriad Sword Foundation manual for three days, pausing to earn experience and Cultivation Points during the Lantern Festival gala.
• Ye Weiming finished the manual and learned the advanced Myriad Sword Foundation technique, which greatly increased his combat attributes and sword-arts power.
• Ye Weiming discovered that he could not use Cultivation Points to upgrade Myriad Sword Foundation and needed 100,000 proficiency to reach its next level.

Ye Weiming and his companions searched for Guo Jing after learning he had left Temujin's camp, and Fei Yu tracked him to an abandoned inn where Ouyang Feng was likely waiting. As the group looked to Ye Weiming for their next move, he turned toward something approaching from another direction.

• Ye Weiming trained the Myriad Sword Foundation for half a month and finally raised it to Level 2, while advancing his other skills and levels.
• Ye Weiming sent Dao Mei, disguised as Han Xiaoying, into Temujin's camp to find Guo Jing, but she learned that Guo Jing was not there.
• Dao Mei brought back Guo Jing's quilt, and Fei Yu followed its scent to an abandoned inn south of Dadu.
• Fei Yu concluded that Guo Jing and a powerful martial artist, likely Ouyang Feng, were inside the inn, and Ye Weiming turned toward another direction.

Ye Weiming’s party joined forces with You Want My Life Three Thousand’s group and followed them to meet Dugu Xingyun’s allies, where Ye Weiming uncovered their plan to kill Guo Jing and seize the Nine Yin Manual and Martial Mu’s Legacy. The enemies poisoned the firewood and attacked, leaving Ye Weiming facing fourteen opponents as his teammates collapsed.

• You Want My Life Three Thousand invited Ye Weiming’s party to join his supposed alliance against Ouyang Feng, and Sanyue warned that the Emei group intended to ambush them.
• You Want My Life Three Thousand led the group to a ruin, where Dugu Xingyun and six other old acquaintances were roasting lamb and waiting.
• Ye Weiming pointed out that the gathered players had arrived too early and concluded that Dugu Xingyun’s group was working for Ouyang Feng and planned to kill Guo Jing for the mission rewards.
• You Want My Life Three Thousand admitted the deception and revealed that Dugu Xingyun had poisoned the firewood.
• Ye Weiming’s four teammates collapsed from the poison as fourteen opponents attacked him at once.

Ye Weiming used an afterimage to make fourteen attackers strike one another, then joined his Divine Constable Bureau teammates in turning the battle around. The fight ended with five enemies dead and You Want My Life Three Thousand escaping toward Ouyang Feng and Guo Jing.

• Fourteen opponents unleashed their strongest attacks on Ye Weiming, but his afterimage made their attacks collide, killing one Emei disciple and disrupting both groups.
• Ye Weiming's four teammates, who had pretended to be poisoned, rose and ambushed the off-balance fighters, killing five and cornering six others.
• Ye Weiming attacked the six cornered opponents from above with a new variation of Falling Sword Stance, while Sanyue, Fei Yu, and Dao Mei closed in from the sides.
• Liuyun blocked Mortal Commoner's route to the trapped fighters, and the Divine Constable Bureau team killed Dugu Xingyun, the ethereal Emei female disciple, Immortal Yunhua, Duan Xiyang Wuyu, and Dugu Qiupiao.
• You Want My Life Three Thousand fought through the surrounding attacks, smashed through a wall, and fled toward the abandoned inn where Ouyang Feng was holding Guo Jing.

Ye Weiming and his companions eliminated You Want My Life Three Thousand's team, while Dao Mei faced her former senior, Mortal Commoner, in a duel. After killing him with the first level of Heaven's Will is Like a Saber, Dao Mei urged Ye Weiming to focus on Ouyang Feng, and Ye Weiming revealed he had a plan.

• Ye Weiming caught You Want My Life Three Thousand before he could reach Ouyang Feng, and killed him with Finger Flicking Divine Power, eliminating the White Camel Mountain and Emei Sect teams from the mission.
• Dao Mei questioned Mortal Commoner about secretly giving her the antidote, and he explained that he had switched sides to avoid being hunted by her after the mission.
• Ye Weiming explained that his team had resisted Dugu Xingyun's Red-Phosphorus Camphorwood poison with pills that raised their poison resistance.
• Mortal Commoner challenged Dao Mei and used three slashes from his new blade technique, but Dao Mei countered the first two and killed him with the first level of Heaven's Will is Like a Saber.
• Dao Mei told Ye Weiming that her saber technique came from Heavenly Saber Song Que's inheritance, then asked how he planned to deal with Ouyang Feng; Ye Weiming said he had a plan based on The Art of War.