Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming and the others reached Xuzhou and met Niu Zhichun, whom Ye had recruited to protect Susu, before planning how to approach the assassination of Yuwen Huaji. The Twin Dragons gave Niu a six-star protection quest, and Luo Yuan sent word that he had gathered intelligence on Xuzhou and hoped to meet them.

• Ye Weiming brought the group to Pengcheng Pavilion, where they met Niu Zhichun and learned that his intelligence covered only the strength of Xuzhou's officials.
• Ye Weiming, Kou Zhong, and Xu Ziling discussed the dangers of confronting Yuwen Huaji's army in the wilderness and the advantages of acting inside the Prefectural Governor's Mansion.
• Kou Zhong gave Niu Zhichun the six-star quest to protect Susu and cooperate with the Twin Dragons until the assassination was complete.
• Kou Zhong asked who would gather more intelligence, but Luo Yuan sent Ye Weiming a message saying he had learned Xuzhou's military deployment and the Prefectural Governor's Mansion's layout and wanted to meet the Twin Dragons.

Ye Weiming helped Luo Yuan defect to Kou Zhong by delivering military maps and explaining why Yuwen Huaji’s defeat made his position untenable. Luo Yuan accepted Kou Zhong’s demand to kill Yuwen Wudi, then joined Ye Weiming and the Twin Dragons in confronting Yuwen Huaji at Xuzhou.

• Luo Yuan arrived in disguise, apologized to Susu, and offered the Twin Dragons genuine maps of Xuzhou’s army and the Prefectural Governor’s Mansion patrols.
• Luo Yuan explained that he had betrayed Yuwen Huaji because the warlord’s defeat left him with no viable future, and declared that he chose Kou Zhong as his new lord.
• Kou Zhong gave Luo Yuan his first quest: kill Yuwen Wudi, and Luo Yuan accepted the order.
• Yuwen Huaji arrived in Xuzhou, while the Twin Dragons checked that Luo Yuan’s maps were accurate.
• Luo Yuan presented Yuwen Wudi’s severed head to Yuwen Huaji and revealed that he had killed him.
• Ye Weiming and the disguised Kou Zhong, Xu Ziling, Xiao Qiao, and Sanyue revealed themselves and surrounded Yuwen Huaji with Luo Yuan.

Ye Weiming and his companions overwhelmed Yuwen Huaji in battle, but Yuwen used a freezing technique to escape into the rear courtyard. The Twin Dragons stopped short of attacking him when they found him embracing a woman, and Ye Weiming launched a concealed weapon at him.

• Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling opened the fight with lethal attacks, but Yuwen Huaji broke their sabers and wounded them with his Ice Profound Strength.
• Xiao Qiao, Sanyue, and Luo Yuan joined the attack while Ye Weiming used the Imperial Void Sword to wound Yuwen Huaji and strike him with Soaring Dragon, Regret.
• Cornered by the group, Yuwen Huaji unleashed Ice Profound Frozen Time and Space, freezing his attackers before fleeing through a wall into the rear courtyard.
• Ye Weiming broke free and rescued Xiao Qiao, Sanyue, and Luo Yuan, while Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling escaped the ice and pursued Yuwen Huaji.
• The Twin Dragons found Yuwen Huaji sitting with a woman and hesitated to attack her; Ye Weiming then fired a concealed weapon at Yuwen Huaji's brow.

Ye Weiming and his companions confronted Yuwen Huaji, whose death and Madam Wei’s sacrifice left Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling grieving and indebted to Ye Weiming. After collecting Yuwen Huaji’s loot, Ye Weiming sent the Twin Dragons to take command of the leaderless soldiers in Xuzhou while he prepared to bury the dead.

• Luo Yuan identified Madam Wei as Yuwen Huaji’s favored wife, and Xiao Qiao and Sanyue tried to kill Yuwen Huaji to protect Ye Weiming’s quest opportunity.
• Ye Weiming stopped the women and declared that he would give up the opportunity for the Twin Dragons’ sake, but Yuwen Huaji died moments later, earning the team a system reward.
• Xu Ziling told Madam Wei that Yuwen Huaji had died, and she poisoned herself after singing a mournful song beside his body.
• Ye Weiming looted Yuwen Huaji’s corpse, collected skill insights, and placed Yuwen Huaji and Madam Wei together in a coffin.
• Ye Weiming urged Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling to take command of Yuwen Huaji’s fifty thousand soldiers and restore order in Xuzhou, while he and the women left to bury the dead.

Ye Weiming rushed to help Niu Zhichun and Susu escape an attack by the Yin Gui Sect, then took the group outside Xuzhou City to awaken his Special Limb. The chapter ended with Ye Weiming writhing in pain as the activation began.

• Luo Yuan helped Twin Dragons absorb Yuwen Huaji's surrendered forces, while Ye Weiming explained to Sanyue and Xiao Qiao that he had used Three Laughs Carefree Powder to kill Yuwen Huaji.
• Niu Zhichun sent Ye Weiming a message saying the Yin Gui Sect was pursuing him and Susu, so Ye Weiming hurried to their hideout and sent him the Fire Quenching Divine Needle.
• Ye Weiming found Niu Zhichun and Susu safe in the grain warehouse; Niu Zhichun said he had ambushed and killed Ye Weiyang and Survivor of Calamity.
• Ye Weiming spotted a Sword Mark that suggested an unknown swordsmanship expert had secretly helped them, then decided to leave Xuzhou City and find a quiet place to cultivate.
• Ye Weiming took the Ding Sui Sword into a forest outside the city and activated his Special Limb, collapsing in pain as the sword disintegrated.

Ye Weiming awakened the Yin Yang Demonic Eyes, whose extraordinary abilities let him equip two cultivation methods and two main combat internal skills at once. After improving his skills through the night, he led the others to bury the dead in the morning, where Niu Zhichun became transfixed by Sanyue.

• Ye Weiming's eyes changed color as the Yin Yang Demonic Eyes activated, granting him two cultivation method slots and two internal skill slots.
• Ye Weiming selected the Total Decision Style as his second cultivation method and equipped the Blazing Sun Marvelous Skill as his second main combat internal skill.
• Ye Weiming used the Internal Skill Insights book and Cultivation Points to raise the Marrow Cleansing Scripture to level 10, but its merger with the Yi Jin Jing did not occur.
• Ye Weiming waited through the night while thinking about the Six Great Sects Siege of Bright Summit, then met Xiao Qiao, Sanyue, Niu Zhichun, and Susu in the morning.
• Ye Weiming led the group to bury Yang Guang, Yuwen Shang, Yuwen Huaji and his wife, and Yuwen Zhi Ji, while Niu Zhichun stared at Sanyue and recited a lovestruck verse.

Ye Weiming confronted Shi Feixuan after her charm arts affected his companions, then rejected her attempt to speak on behalf of all living beings. Shi Feixuan departed after warning him that Martial Venerable was heading south to confront him.

• Shi Feixuan appeared in the forest and her charm arts left Niu Zhichun, Xiao Qiao, Sanyue, and Susu spellbound until Ye Weiming restored their senses with the Sutra of Rebirth.
• Ye Weiming attacked Shi Feixuan with the Parting Sword Style, but she countered with her sword and broke Great Gate’s edge.
• Ye Weiming pressed close to Shi Feixuan, identified her as the successor of Ci Hang Jing Zhai, and exchanged teasing remarks with her.
• Shi Feixuan asked Ye Weiming about the state of the world and began explaining how Yang Guang’s True Dragon Qi had changed his role in Great Sui.
• Ye Weiming interrupted Shi Feixuan when she tried to represent all living beings, and she offered him two pieces of free information instead.
• Shi Feixuan warned Ye Weiming that Martial Venerable was heading south and coming for him.

Ye Weiming followed Shi Feixuan’s funeral advice and discovered that proper burial methods increased his rewards, while cremating Yuwen Shang produced a rare Ice Soul. He left the chapter with the treasure in hand and Shi Feixuan’s Wind and Water Scrolls as a tempting bargaining chip.

• Shi Feixuan told Ye Weiming that Yuwen Huaji and his wife should be buried south of a pine tree, Yuwen Zhi Ji given a sky burial, Yuwen Shang cremated, and Yang Guang placed in his imperial mausoleum.
• The Twin Dragons and Luo Yuan arrived, and Ye Weiming explained Shi Feixuan’s intervention at the granary and his suspicions about her motives.
• Ye Weiming buried Yuwen Huaji and his wife at Shi Feixuan’s recommended site, earning an extra 50 percent in Chivalry Points and Cultivation Points.
• Ye Weiming gave Yuwen Zhi Ji a sky burial, then cremated Yuwen Shang using his Blazing Sun Marvelous Skill and gained Chivalry Points and merit from the proceedings.
• Yuwen Shang’s Glazed Coffin shattered, revealing an Ice Soul that could empower ice-element martial arts but carried a nine-in-ten chance of death if refined.

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling handed out quest rewards, including Longevity Scripture fragments and a pill, while Luo Yuan chose to keep helping the Twin Dragons for a chance at the complete scripture. Ye Weiming translated the fragments and explained how the scripture’s seven diagrams worked, leaving Kou Zhong to concede that Ye’s teasing description of his and Xu Ziling’s qi was accurate.

• Ye Weiming called Sanyue back to inspect Ice Soul, then Kou Zhong rewarded her with the Longevity Scripture Fragment Ice, which Ye offered to translate before she tried to fuse it with another art.
• Kou Zhong gave Niu Zhichun the Moon in the Well manual, explaining that its reward would be revoked if Niu failed to protect Susu until the secret realm deadline.
• Kou Zhong gave Xiao Qiao a Longevity Pill that could raise one martial art by a level, and she planned to use it to advance Love of the City to Level 8.
• Kou Zhong offered Luo Yuan either Moon in the Well or a chance to earn a Longevity Scripture fragment by continuing to contribute, and Luo Yuan chose to stay and help.
• Xu Ziling gave Ye Weiming the Longevity Scripture Fragment Fire, and Ye translated both it and Sanyue’s fragment with help from his lexicon.
• Ye Weiming explained that the scripture’s seven diagrams represented one innate qi, with Xu Ziling’s fire qi strengthening spirit and soul while Kou Zhong’s water qi strengthened physique and inner strength.

Ye Weiming recruited the Twin Dragons and Niu Zhichun for a coming fight against Bi Xuan, then fused the Longevity Scripture Fragment Fire with his Blazing Sun Marvelous Skill to create Blazing Sun Sacred Qi. The chapter ended with Sanyue asking him to aid her cultivation.

• Ye Weiming asked Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling to spread word that he would challenge Bi Xuan at the Eastern Suburbs Imperial Mausoleum in three days, and they returned to Xuzhou City with Luo Yuan.
• Ye Weiming gave Luo Yuan the Kirin Ice Crystal along with the Ice Profound Strength manual, while Niu Zhichun agreed to join the fight against Bi Xuan in exchange for borrowing the Fire Quenching Divine Needle.
• Ye Weiming and his companions traveled toward Chang'an with Susu and stopped at an inn for the night.
• Ye Weiming studied the Longevity Scripture Fragment Fire and fused it with Blazing Sun Marvelous Skill, creating the stronger Blazing Sun Sacred Qi and greatly increasing his attributes.
• Sanyue visited Ye Weiming's room and asked him to aid her cultivation.

Sanyue refined Ice Soul with Ye Weiming’s help, but its freezing power trapped her body, thoughts, and internal energy. Ye Weiming used One Yang Finger to break through the crisis and help her finish refining it, then raised Blazing Sun Sacred Qi to Level 7 as Sanyue’s Profound Ice Sacred Qi advanced.

• Sanyue began refining Ice Soul while Ye Weiming guarded her, but the cold froze her body and made her health fall rapidly.
• Ye Weiming healed Sanyue with a critical Healing Aura, briefly restoring her consciousness and learning that Ice Soul had frozen her thoughts and internal energy.
• Ye Weiming stimulated Sanyue’s acupoints and circulated her cultivation method, then used One Yang Finger to awaken her and accelerate the refinement.
• Sanyue followed Ye Weiming’s instructions and completed the Ice Soul refinement after roughly two hours of his assistance.
• Ye Weiming used his Cultivation Points to raise Blazing Sun Sacred Qi to Level 7, and Sanyue awoke with Profound Ice Sacred Qi advanced and a blue plum blossom mark between her brows.

Sanyue showcased her newly refined Plum Blossom Sacred Qi and tested its freezing power outside the city. As she asked Ye Weiming to spar, he revealed that Wanwan had arrived and suggested she would be a better opponent.

• Sanyue shared the attributes of Plum Blossom Sacred Qi, a new martial art fused from ice techniques and the Ice Soul.
• Sanyue asked Ye Weiming to accompany her outside the city to test her martial art.
• Sanyue unleashed ice-plum petals that froze a large willow tree solid.
• Sanyue invited Ye Weiming to spar, but he declined, saying their strength difference was too great.
• Ye Weiming spotted Wanwan sitting barefoot on a bluestone and joked that he was wondering whether killing her would make her drop shoes.

Ye Weiming, Sanyue, Xiao Qiao, and Wanwan fought as Sanyue and Xiao Qiao trained their coordination for the coming battle against Bi Xuan. Wanwan broke off the fight after revealing that Susu might be in danger from Bian Bufu and the two elders.

• Wanwan challenged Ye Weiming about whether she or Shi Feixuan was more charming, and he chose Shi Feixuan because he wanted her Se Kong Sword.
• Sanyue attacked Wanwan with Plum Blossom Sacred Qi, but Wanwan countered with her Heavenly Demon Field and twin blades until Ye Weiming intervened.
• Xiao Qiao joined Sanyue, and the two women fought Wanwan together while Ye Weiming watched and urged them to claim Wanwan's swords.
• Wanwan struggled to escape as Sanyue and Xiao Qiao improved their coordination, then warned them that Susu was left with only Niu Zhichun to defend her.
• Wanwan claimed Bian Bufu and the elders Dan Mei and Wen Cailing had likely captured Susu, and threatened what Bian Bufu might do if she could not return in time.

Ye Weiming’s group defeated Bian Bufu’s plans, reunited with Dao Mei and Susu, and faced Zhu Yuyan after Wanwan’s attempt to escape failed. Zhu Yuyan offered to extract Ye Weiming’s True Dragon Qi in exchange for his terms, and he asked her to help them win their upcoming fight against Bi Xuan.

• Ye Weiming sent Xiao Qiao and Sanyue to capture Wanwan, while Dao Mei and Niu Zhichun arrived with Susu and Bian Bufu’s corpse.
• Ye Weiming looted Bian Bufu’s corpse and gained 8.5 million swordsmanship proficiency by transferring the insights into a single manual.
• Wanwan tried to bargain for her life, but Ye Weiming demanded that she leave the Heavenly Demon Twin Blades behind.
• Zhu Yuyan appeared, revealed that she had been nearby, and proposed cooperation instead of avenging Bian Bufu.
• Zhu Yuyan offered to extract the True Dragon Qi from Ye Weiming without harming him, and he asked her to bring his group along to fight Bi Xuan in two days.

Ye Weiming tried to recruit Zhu Yuyan into a bargain involving his True Dragon Qi, but she rejected the deal and left with Wanwan. He and his companions reached An City before the battle with Bi Xuan, where Yun Mian, Yin Bukui, and Cang Xingyu arrived with a Li Clan cavalry force.

• Ye Weiming proposed that Zhu Yuyan sacrifice herself to help him defeat Bi Xuan, then offered the Yin Gui Sect a share of his True Dragon Qi in exchange for a Heavenly Dao oath protecting his martial foundation.
• Zhu Yuyan refused, explaining that Ye Weiming’s True Dragon Qi was too weak to justify her sacrifice, and departed with Wanwan.
• Ye Weiming told Dao Mei and Niu Zhichun that Zhu Yuyan had no safe way to extract True Dragon Qi, then the group continued traveling; he used Bian Bufu’s Swordsmanship Insights to raise his Myriad Sword Foundation proficiency by 1.275 million.
• Ye Weiming and his companions arrived at An City, where several hundred cavalry rode out to meet them, prompting the group to prepare for a possible attack.
• Yun Mian, Yin Bukui, and Cang Xingyu approached with the cavalry, and Yin Bukui told Ye Weiming that the three Wudang disciples had gained influence and rewards through their ties to the Li Clan.

After Yang Guang was buried at the Eastern Suburbs Imperial Mausoleum, Ye Weiming prepared to challenge Bi Xuan with four teammates. The nine-star challenge began when Bi Xuan attacked Dao Mei, who met him head-on with her saber.

• Yun Mian and Cang Xingyu welcomed Ye Weiming's group and explained how the Li Clan had arranged for them to receive Yang Guang's remains.
• Ye Weiming left Susu in Yin Bukui and Cang Xingyu's care while Yun Mian organized Yang Guang's elaborate funeral, earning Ye Weiming 5,000 Chivalry Points and 5,000 merit points.
• The next morning, Ye Weiming's group waited outside the mausoleum, and Bi Xuan emerged from the woods to face them.
• Bi Xuan proposed a wager involving the Blazing Sun Marvelous Skill and the Yang Kang dagger, triggering a nine-star challenge quest that Ye Weiming accepted.
• Dao Mei taunted Bi Xuan and attacked him with Pufferfish Poison, and Bi Xuan leaped at her with flames blazing in his hands.

Ye Weiming and his allies launched a coordinated ambush on Bi Xuan, injuring him but failing to finish him off. After Dao Mei killed Ye Weiming at his request, he resurrected and moved to attack Bi Xuan again when their discussion of the Blazing Sun Marvelous Skill became a distraction.

• Dao Mei and Xiao Qiao attacked Bi Xuan while Niu Zhichun threw the Fire Quenching Divine Needle, breaking through Bi Xuan's flaming defense and striking his back.
• Ye Weiming, Dao Mei, Xiao Qiao, and Sanyue pressed Bi Xuan with killing moves, but Bi Xuan evaded Ye Weiming's strongest attack and nearly killed Xiao Qiao before Sanyue froze him long enough for her to escape.
• Dao Mei killed Ye Weiming, then joined Niu Zhichun, Xiao Qiao, and Sanyue in surrounding Bi Xuan.
• Ye Weiming resurrected at full strength, and Bi Xuan questioned him about how the Fire Quenching Divine Needle countered his Blazing Sun Marvelous Skill.
• Ye Weiming began explaining the skill, then abruptly attacked Bi Xuan with the Juque Divine Sword to stop him from stealing his teachings.

Ye Weiming and his teammates fought Bi Xuan while he stalled for Divine Illumination's Protection to recover, and his Persian-sounding phrases distracted Bi Xuan long enough for his sword skill to gain proficiency. After Ye Weiming accidentally activated Lucky Three Treasures’ Three Qi Merged with Xiao Qiao and Dao Mei, the three began planning a coordinated attack that could exploit Dao Mei’s powerful saber technique.

• Bi Xuan misinterpreted Ye Weiming’s phrases as ancient Persian scripture and intensified his assault after realizing he wanted the translated text.
• Ye Weiming stalled with the Myriad Sword Foundation until Bi Xuan attacked in earnest, then fought alongside his teammates as they struggled to withstand him.
• Ye Weiming connected his inner strength to Xiao Qiao and Dao Mei while healing them, activating Lucky Three Treasures’ Three Qi Merged and raising all three players’ attributes.
• Ye Weiming used Xiao Qiao’s Ice Silkworm Jade Belt to maintain their connection and attacked Bi Xuan from a distance with the Imperial Void Sword.
• Dao Mei revealed that she knew a devastating saber technique and began explaining how Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao could help her use it against Bi Xuan.

Ye Weiming, Dao Mei, and Xiao Qiao coordinated a combined attack against Bi Xuan after Ye Weiming fought him head-on and helped set up Dao Mei’s killing move. Their assault badly wounded Bi Xuan, crippled his right arm, and left him with a severe internal injury just as Ye Weiming’s Divine Illumination’s Protection finished cooling down.

• Ye Weiming used the Lucky Three Treasures’ boosted attributes to fight Bi Xuan with the Dragon Subduing Divine Skill, then clashed with his Sun Day Long Sky using Dragon Slaying Way and suffered an internal injury.
• Sanyue healed Ye Weiming’s damaged meridians while he recovered, and Dao Mei explained how she would use the Ice Silkworm Jade Belt with Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao to deliver her killing move.
• Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao stretched the Ice Silkworm Jade Belt as Dao Mei hooked it around her ankle, while Niu Zhichun withdrew with the Fire Quenching Divine Needle.
• Bi Xuan formed his Brilliant Sun killing move, but Ye Weiming distracted him with the Soul Shifting Great Method as Dao Mei attacked with a Hou Yi-like Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow.
• Dao Mei’s strike shattered Bi Xuan’s Brilliant Sun and wounded his shoulder, after which Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao landed follow-up attacks that crippled his right arm and worsened his internal injury.
• Ye Weiming’s Divine Illumination’s Protection finished cooling down.

After defeating Bi Xuan and earning powerful rewards in the Twin Dragons Secret Realm, Ye Weiming returned to the main world and sought Venerable Huang’s help. Venerable Huang sensed the True Dragon Qi within him and warned that others might have discovered it first.

• Bi Xuan escaped after admitting defeat, and the system rewarded Ye Weiming’s party for defeating him and completing the challenge quest.
• Ye Weiming opened the Mysterious Secret Manual, learned Jade and Stone Burn Together, and fused it with Wolf Extinction Four Oaths to create Wolf Extinction Five Oaths.
• Ye Weiming reviewed his improved Blazing Sun Sacred Qi and attributes before leading his companions back to Chang’an and returning to the main world.
• Ye Weiming went to see Venerable Huang, who sensed that something unnatural was inside him.
• Ye Weiming confessed that Yang Guang had infused him with True Dragon Qi, and Venerable Huang warned that he might not have been able to protect Ye Weiming if someone else had noticed it first.