Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming and his companions lured Hong Antong into a battle, where Ye Weiming wounded him and Hong Antong tried to escape with Su Quan. Dao Mei, disguised as Su Quan, crippled Hong Antong’s hamstrings and revealed herself, leaving him unable to flee.

• Ye Weiming told Su Quan he had noticed her leaving clues for Hong Antong and kept her and Fang Yi’s acupoints sealed before heading out with Yin Bukui to confront Hong Antong.
• Hong Antong followed Su Quan’s clues to the shore and attacked Xiao Qiao, only to be ambushed by Ye Weiming’s Falling Sword Stance.
• Ye Weiming and Hong Antong exchanged fierce attacks, and Ye Weiming’s palm strike inflicted a severe injury on Hong Antong.
• Hong Antong drove Xiao Qiao back, grabbed the wounded Su Quan, and tried to escape into the dense forest while using dirt and gravel to hinder Ye Weiming.
• The apparent Su Quan struck Hong Antong’s hamstrings with Nine Yin White Bone Claw, then revealed herself as Dao Mei, who said she was a fake.

Dao Mei, Xiao Qiao, and Ye Weiming fought the crippled Hong Antong while waiting for their allies to strike. A bomber attack shattered the Divine Dragon Cult’s reinforcements, and Yin Bukui ambushed Wugen Daoren, leaving him truly castrated.

• Dao Mei revealed herself and joined Xiao Qiao in attacking Hong Antong, but he forced Dao Mei back and drove Xiao Qiao away with his desperate counterattacks.
• Ye Weiming blocked Hong Antong’s assault, then became locked with him in a contest of inner strength after both seized each other’s wrist points.
• Ye Weiming taunted Hong Antong about Madam Hong and Wei Xiaobao, upsetting Hong Antong just as the Divine Dragon Cult’s experts arrived to help him.
• The hidden You-20 bomber dropped logs, boulders, gunpowder bombs, and poison jars on the Divine Dragon Cult’s gathered disciples, killing and injuring many and scattering the formation.
• Yin Bukui ambushed Wugen Daoren from behind and used the Tiger Claw Absolute Guard Hand to castrate him.

Ye Weiming and his companions killed Hong Antong and routed the Divine Dragon Cult, then collected an impressive haul from the boss. Dao Mei did not find the Divine Dragon Maiden Skill among the drops, so Ye Weiming pointed her toward another source that required 5,000 Chivalry Points and the Hero Saint title.

• Yin Bukui battered Wugen Daoren while Xiao Qiao and Dao Mei fought the Divine Dragon Cult experts, and Ye Weiming killed Hong Antong with a flying-kick combo and an Ice Lotus Seed.
• Hong Antong's death shattered the Divine Dragon Cult's morale, and its experts fled as the five players defeated the remaining cult members.
• Ye Weiming looted Hong Antong's corpse and found several martial arts manuals, pills, artifacts, and 5,000 gold, but no Divine Dragon Maiden Skill.
• Dao Mei insisted that Ye Weiming help her find the Divine Dragon Maiden Skill, and he told her to seek a quest from Song Bingyi after earning 5,000 Chivalry Points and the Hero Saint title.
• Dao Mei reacted with disbelief to the requirements and accused Ye Weiming of messing with her.

Ye Weiming proposed ways for Dao Mei to obtain the Divine Dragon Maiden Skill without jeopardizing her undercover role, then the party divided Hong Antong’s spoils. After encoffining Hong Antong, Ye Weiming found an Immortal Ginseng Map marked with places in Niu Family Village and decided to ask Su Quan about it while reporting to Wei Xiaobao.

• Ye Weiming suggested Dao Mei either arrange for a Hero Saint player to complete the Divine Dragon Maiden Skill quest for her or ask Su Quan whether she knew the skill.
• The party distributed Hong Antong’s loot: Ye Weiming took two manuals, Xiao Qiao took Xingyi Movement Technique, Youyou took Hero’s Three Styles, and Yin Bukui took two treasures.
• Ye Weiming warned the party to wait for Venerable Huang’s advice before taking the Leopard Fetus Tendon-Changing Pills, and Dao Mei offered her pill as her share of their quest contributions.
• Ye Weiming encoffined Hong Antong and Wugen Daoren, receiving several insight manuals and an Immortal Ginseng Map that showed landmarks in Niu Family Village.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei prepared to report to Wei Xiaobao and ask Su Quan about the Divine Dragon Maiden Skill and the map.

Ye Weiming negotiated with Su Quan for the Divine Dragon Maiden Skill and learned how the Immortal Ginseng Map led to Dream Shattering Ginseng held by Huang Shang. After he and Wei Xiaobao struck a deal over the surviving Divine Dragon Cult, the group buried the dead and left the instance, where Wei Xiaobao reunited with his wives and prepared to distribute quest rewards.

• Su Quan admitted that she possessed the Divine Dragon Maiden Skill and asked Ye Weiming to let her bury Hong Antong.
• Ye Weiming produced Hong Antong's corpse and offered to perform rites in exchange for Su Quan explaining the Immortal Ginseng Map.
• Su Quan explained that the map required Dream Shattering Ginseng and revealed that Huang Shang possessed it.
• Wei Xiaobao asked Ye Weiming to stop hunting the surviving Divine Dragon Cult members, promising to reward the group for sparing them.
• Ye Weiming and his teammates buried Hong Antong, Wugen Daoren, Lu Gaoxuan, Fat Monk, and the other fallen cult members, earning Chivalry Points and merit.
• After the instance ended, Wei Xiaobao greeted Ye Weiming with his seven wives and invited the group to a banquet where he would give out quest rewards.

Wei Xiaobao hosted Ye Weiming and his teammates, distributing tailored mission rewards before Ye Weiming received seven language dictionaries chosen by Huang Shang. After striking a deal with Wei Xiaobao over a pill formula, Ye Weiming returned home to spend his manuals and Cultivation Points on upgrading two skills.

• Wei Xiaobao gave Xiao Qiao the paired swords Ink Jade Flying Snow and Ink Jade Lotus, which strengthened dual-sword martial arts.
• Wei Xiaobao presented Yin Bukui with the Great Luo Dharma Spell prayer beads and Youyou with the Sacred Silver Crossbow Bolts quiver.
• Su Quan handed Dao Mei the Divine Dragon Maiden Skill manual, while Wei Xiaobao gave Ye Weiming seven language dictionaries selected by Huang Shang.
• Ye Weiming showed Wei Xiaobao a pill formula that could strengthen the body, and Wei Xiaobao agreed to supply ingredients in exchange for pills that enhanced virility.
• After the meal, Ye Weiming returned home, planning to use his manuals and Cultivation Points to upgrade Marrow Cleansing Scripture and Sky Shaking Nine Swords.

Ye Weiming consulted Venerable Huang about the Divine Dragon Grand Skill, the Leopard Fetus Tendon-Changing Pill, and the Immortal Ginseng Map, then accepted a quest to rescue the wounded Zhan Zhao. He prepared to set off with the player who had reported Zhan Zhao’s condition, whom he recognized as a familiar figure.

• Ye Weiming upgraded the Marrow Cleansing Scripture and Sky Shaking Nine Swords, trained in the Green Bamboo Secret Realm, and gained proficiency in the Myriad Sword Foundation.
• Venerable Huang explained that the Divine Dragon Grand Skill could only become a top-tier ultimate skill through a cruel method involving three women, so Ye Weiming destroyed its manual.
• Venerable Huang revealed that the Leopard Fetus Tendon-Changing Pill could grant double its listed attributes to someone who mastered three ultimate internal skills or nine high-level internal skills, and Ye Weiming swallowed one.
• Venerable Huang said the Immortal Ginseng Map led to a divine weapon and agreed to give Ye Weiming its key in exchange for rescuing Zhan Zhao.
• Ye Weiming accepted the seven-star quest to save Zhan Zhao at Cold Mountain Temple and learned that he would be accompanied by the player who had reported the attack.
• The reporting player arrived, and Ye Weiming recognized the tall figure in monk’s robes and a bamboo hat as a Daoist.

Ye Weiming and Niu Zhichun reached Cold Mountain Temple to aid the wounded Zhan Zhao, where they uncovered two murders connected to the investigation. When Yanyuan prepared to disguise himself as Zhan Zhao to draw out the killer, Ye Weiming took the uniform and volunteered to face the murderer himself.

• Niu Zhichun told Ye Weiming how he had found the injured Zhan Zhao and brought him to Cold Mountain Temple.
• Ye Weiming and Niu Zhichun arrived as the monks cremated Jie Xiang, who had been killed with a technique resembling his own Minor Hand-Catching Technique.
• Yanyuan led Ye Weiming and Niu Zhichun to Zhan Zhao, whom Ye Weiming treated while they discussed the murders and Zhan Zhao's attacker.
• Yanyuan reported that Jie Fa had also been murdered, prompting Zhan Zhao to offer himself as bait for the killer.
• Yanyuan knocked Zhan Zhao unconscious and offered to impersonate him, but Ye Weiming took Zhan Zhao's uniform and volunteered to lure out and kill the murderer.

Ye Weiming disguised himself as Zhan Zhao and lured Murong Fu away from Cold Mountain Temple, then fought him with Juque and several powerful techniques. The chapter ended as Murong Fu reflected Ye Weiming’s Soaring Dragon, Regret with Star Shifting, only for Ye Weiming to launch an even stronger version immediately afterward.

• Ye Weiming switched Zhan Zhao’s constable token to make his official uniform appear red, then took Juque from Zhan Zhao and left Cold Mountain Temple disguised as him.
• Li Yanzong followed Ye Weiming beyond the temple and attacked, but Ye Weiming wounded him and identified him as Murong Fu.
• Ye Weiming pressed Murong Fu with the Sky Shaking Nine Swords, Finger Flicking Divine Power, and One Yang Finger, forcing him to retreat.
• Niu Zhichun ambushed Murong Fu with Demon Subduing Staff Technique, driving him back toward Ye Weiming.
• Murong Fu reflected Ye Weiming’s Soaring Dragon, Regret with Star Shifting, but Ye Weiming immediately sent another, even stronger palm strike.

Ye Weiming and Niu Zhichun defeated Murong Fu, who was registered by the system as Li Yanzong, then investigated whether they could prove his family's ties to past murders. They found Murong Bo's grave empty and uncovered a special coffin, but an old man confronted them and demanded their discoveries.

• Ye Weiming and Niu Zhichun crippled Murong Fu in battle and killed him, earning a First Kill announcement under the name Li Yanzong.
• Niu Zhichun looted Murong Fu's corpse, and Ye Weiming made him take responsibility for selling the drops; they then discussed how to raise Zhan Zhao's mission rating by proving the Murong family's involvement in serial murders.
• Niu Zhichun proposed searching Murong Bo's grave for evidence, and Ye Weiming agreed to dig while Niu Zhichun found the grave's location.
• Niu Zhichun obtained the location from Bao Buliang, and Ye Weiming killed Bao Butong before digging a tunnel into Murong Bo's tomb.
• Ye Weiming took Murong Bo's portrait, and he and Niu Zhichun discovered the empty coffin was a Star Shifting Coffin with a special corpse-encoffining effect.
• An old man appeared and demanded that Ye Weiming hand over the portrait and stone coffin.

Ye Weiming and Niu Zhichun were ambushed in Murong Bo’s tomb by a masked elder calling himself Yan Longyuan. After Ye Weiming survived a deadly clash and buried the elder beneath an explosion, Yan Longyuan emerged alive and asked Ye Weiming to return the painting and coffin in exchange for payment.

• A masked elder attacked Ye Weiming and Niu Zhichun, but Ye Weiming forced him to redirect his strike and helped Niu Zhichun escape.
• Ye Weiming fought the elder, who called himself Yan Longyuan, and retreated into the narrow passage after receiving Niu Zhichun’s signal that he was safe.
• Ye Weiming unleashed Jade Shatters Kunlun Peak, Heavenly Demon Disintegration, and a Youyou-20 Fire Bomb, killing himself in the blast and collapsing the passage around Yan Longyuan.
• Ye Weiming revived above the collapsed passage and avoided a second explosion as Yan Longyuan burst out of the ground with an internal injury.
• Ye Weiming chose not to continue fighting, but Yan Longyuan stopped him and asked for the painting and coffin in exchange for a price.

Ye Weiming traded Murong Bo’s portrait to Yan Longyuan for the Star Shifting Coffin Manufacturing Blueprint, then survived their post-transaction ambush while Yan Longyuan escaped. After Ye Weiming and Niu Zhichun returned to the Divine Constable Bureau with Zhan Zhao’s sword, Zhan Zhao asked whether Ye Weiming wanted to keep it.

• Ye Weiming negotiated with Yan Longyuan and exchanged Murong Bo’s portrait for the Star Shifting Coffin Manufacturing Blueprint under an oath to Heaven.
• As soon as the oath ended, Ye Weiming and Yan Longyuan attacked each other with killing moves; Ye Weiming severely injured Yan Longyuan but died from his own backlash and hidden sword.
• Yan Longyuan fled when Niu Zhichun emerged from hiding, and Ye Weiming resurrected four seconds later.
• Ye Weiming explained to Niu Zhichun why surrendering the portrait would not endanger the Murong Family, then they headed back with Zhan Zhao’s Juque Divine Sword.
• Zhan Zhao asked Ye Weiming whether he wanted to keep the sword and make it his own.

Ye Weiming accepted Zhan Zhao’s Juque Sword, learning that he would have to overcome a future weapon calamity during a quest. After returning to the Divine Constable Bureau, he rejected Ye Weiyang’s offer to buy the Guo Jing Dagger and reported the mission to Venerable Huang, who praised the team and promised increased rewards.

• Zhan Zhao offered Ye Weiming Juque as thanks for saving his life, explaining that Ni Pusa had predicted a weapon calamity and that accepting the sword would trigger a harder future quest.
• Ye Weiming accepted Juque and escorted Zhan Zhao and Niu Zhichun back to the Divine Constable Bureau.
• Ye Weiyang offered Ye Weiming up to 10,000 gold for the Guo Jing Dagger, but Ye Weiming refused and later revealed that Ye Weiyang had once taken the character name he wanted.
• Ye Weiming told Venerable Huang that Yan Longyuan was behind the murders using martial artists’ signature techniques and was powerful enough to rival the Five Greats of the Central Plains.
• Ye Weiming reported his suspicions about Murong Bo and the Murong Family, and Venerable Huang said martial-world matters did not always require irrefutable evidence.
• Venerable Huang praised Ye Weiming and Zhan Zhao for completing the mission and said their quest rewards would increase.

After completing the rescue quest, Ye Weiming used Murong Fu’s manuals to advance his sword foundation and perfect his lightness technique, then raised Poison Arts to its maximum level and gained the ability to identify poisons by tasting them. He uncovered the Immortal Ginseng Map’s secret and learned he had three days to clear the Red Flower Pavilion dungeon or face a harsher future Juque Weapon Calamity.

• Venerable Huang awarded Ye Weiming and Niu Zhichun their quest rewards, including the Dream Shattering Ginseng, and Ye Weiming returned home to study Murong Fu’s manuals.
• Ye Weiming used Swordsmanship Insights to trigger Cross-Discipline Comprehension and raise Myriad Sword Foundation to Level 4.
• Ye Weiming raised Serpent Coil and Weasel Flip to Level 10, gaining the Shifting Form and Changing Shadow illusion effect.
• Ye Weiming studied Hong Antong’s Poison Arts materials and reached Level 10, gaining the ability to identify a poison’s formula by tasting it.
• Ye Weiming placed the Dream Shattering Ginseng on the Immortal Ginseng Map and discovered that the divine weapon dungeon was at Red Flower Pavilion.
• The system activated Juque Weapon Calamity and gave Ye Weiming three days to clear the Red Flower Pavilion dungeon to keep permanent ownership of Juque Sword.

Ye Weiming assembled Dao Mei, Tang Sancai, Cang Xingyu, and Jiang Jin Jiu to enter the Red Flower Pavilion instance before his three-day deadline expired. They arrived in a ruined version of Niu Family Village, where Hong Xiguan and his companions appeared, leaving the team unsure whether he was their first minor boss.

• Ye Weiming recruited Dao Mei, Tang Sancai, Cang Xingyu, and Jiang Jin Jiu after Xiao Qiao, Sanyue, and Youyou were busy with their own quests.
• Ye Weiming received two portions of Corpse Dissolving Powder from Youyou and trained against the Agile Monkey in the Green Bamboo Secret Realm.
• Dao Mei, Tang Sancai, Jiang Jin Jiu, and Cang Xingyu gathered at Red Flower Pavilion, and Ye Weiming made a dramatic arrival on flying swords.
• Ye Weiming warned his teammates about the instance's danger, formed the team, and activated the Immortal Ginseng Map.
• The team found themselves in a ruined Niu Family Village, where the injured Hong Xiguan arrived with Hong Dou, Zhu Xiaoqian, and six children.
• Dao Mei noticed Hong Xiguan's level 125 attributes and wondered whether he was the instance's first minor boss.

Ye Weiming’s party accepted Hong Xiguan’s quest to escort the Shaolin Five Ancestors to Master Chicken Granny and claim the divine weapon Tiger Severer. They fought off a shield formation and destroyed the iron cart, but the poison man emerged with a Blood Saber Technique strike as powerful as Dao Mei’s.

• Hong Xiguan asked Ye Weiming’s party to escort the Shaolin Five Ancestors and the Immortal Ginseng Map to Master Chicken Granny, and the party accepted the quest.
• Hong Xiguan warned the party about a powerful poison man before he and his family vanished, leaving the five children behind.
• Two enormous iron-ball formations attacked, and Ye Weiming sent Cang Xingyu and Tang Sancai away with the children while he, Dao Mei, and Jiang Jin Jiu fought.
• Ye Weiming broke apart the iron-ball formation and destroyed the iron cart with the Juque Divine Sword and his palm technique.
• A saber wielder attacked Ye Weiming from the smoke with Blood Abuse, Horizontal Slash, revealing mastery of the Blood Saber Technique comparable to Dao Mei’s.

Dao Mei summoned Mortal Commoner and ordered him to promote her book, Who Moved My Leeks, throughout the Blood Saber Sect, including enforcing official subscriptions. Mortal Commoner loved the book and agreed to the task, tempted by Dao Mei’s offer of the sect’s treasured Blood Saber.

• Mortal Commoner waited in a snowy pavilion for Dao Mei, who arrived by gliding along a silk thread.
• Dao Mei gave Mortal Commoner her book, Who Moved My Leeks, and instructed him to promote it to every Blood Saber Sect disciple and discourage piracy.
• Mortal Commoner read the book’s premise about Yang Xiaoyi using cultivation techniques to draw humanity into his vegetable-garden trap, and praised it enthusiastically.
• Dao Mei threatened Mortal Commoner with Pufferfish Poison until he demonstrated his enthusiasm, then promised him the Blood Saber if he promoted the book well.
• Dao Mei departed by flying along her silk thread, while Mortal Commoner realized her reward was irresistible despite her ulterior motive.

Ye Weiming and Dao Mei confronted the resurrected Blood Saber Ancestor, now a nearly invulnerable poison corpse, during the battle at Red Flower Pavilion. They shattered his weapons and drove him back, with Dao Mei launching a nine-slash attack that sent him flying.

• Ye Weiming parried the Blood Saber Ancestor’s surprise attack and discovered that his strikes barely damaged the poison corpse.
• The Blood Saber Ancestor explained that Demon Monk Kebar had revived him with thirty-six Puppet Gu and vowed revenge on Ye Weiming and Dao Mei.
• Ye Weiming shattered the Blood Saber Ancestor’s saber with Juque and attacked him, but failed to trigger an instant kill.
• Dao Mei left Jiang Jin Jiu to fight the shield-and-saber fighters and used red thread to pull herself through the enemy line toward the Blood Saber Ancestor.
• Dao Mei broke the Blood Saber Ancestor’s replacement saber and struck him nine times with Pufferfish Poison, then launched him high into the air with Heavenly Hegemon Seals God.

Ye Weiming, Dao Mei, and Jiang Jin Jiu fought off Blood Saber Ancestor's followers, but the BOSS escaped. As they planned to regroup and continue the main quest, Cang Xingyu reported an enemy attack at the Chen Family Courtyard.

• Dao Mei's modified Ghost Saber failed to overcome Blood Saber Ancestor's defense, and the shield-and-saber wielders rushed the group at his command.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei slaughtered the attackers while Jiang Jin Jiu dealt with the fighters on the other side, but Blood Saber Ancestor fled.
• Ye Weiming criticized the openings in Dao Mei's unfinished saber technique, and she admitted she had relied on him to protect her during the attack.
• Ye Weiming reasoned that Blood Saber Ancestor could not leave the isolated instance and proposed regrouping with Tang and Cang before finding Master Busybody.
• Cang Xingyu sent an urgent party-channel message warning that enemies had attacked the Chen Family Courtyard.

Cang Xingyu defended the Shaolin Five Ancestors from Demon Monk Kebar and a force of Jin soldiers, awakening to the true meaning of his spear technique as he fought. Ye Weiming arrived to protect the children while Cang Xingyu continued his duel, and he killed a Jin soldier who tried to approach the house.

• After learning Cang Xingyu was under attack at the Chen Family Courtyard, Ye Weiming flew there while Tang Sancai rushed back and encountered a hundred Jin soldiers blocking his way.
• Cang Xingyu sent the five children to hide under a bed, then charged out to draw the Jin soldiers and Kebar away from them.
• Cang Xingyu awakened to the meaning of his spear technique and held off Kebar and the Jin soldiers until Kebar struck him with a poisoned palm and ordered his troops to search the house.
• Ye Weiming arrived and blasted the Jin soldiers’ vanguard with Soaring Dragon in the Sky, but Cang Xingyu chose to continue fighting Kebar to develop his spear technique.
• As Ye Weiming watched the duel, he killed a Jin soldier with a flying sword when the man came within three meters of the house, warning the others to stay back.