Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming refined the Bright Sacred Fire, transforming Blazing Sun Sacred Qi into a peerless divine skill, then slept through two days and woke to discover his body had shed its skin. He postponed Li Qiushui's Ultimate Skill Quest to bathe with Dao Mei, who suggested a place where they could undress and soak.

• Ye Weiming used Fire Control Marvel to endure the Bright Sacred Fire's scorching pain and refine it into Blazing Sun Sacred Qi.
• The system announced that Blazing Sun Sacred Qi had transformed into a peerless internal skill, and Ye Weiming collapsed into an exhausted sleep.
• Dao Mei woke Ye Weiming and told him he had slept since returning from Bright Summit two days earlier.
• Ye Weiming discovered that his body had shed dead skin and checked the system interface to find Blazing Sun Sacred Qi had become a peerless divine skill.
• Ye Weiming postponed finding Li Guishou and proposed bathing after Dao Mei revealed she knew a place where they could undress and soak.

Ye Weiming went with Dao Mei to a hot spring bathhouse in Conch Gully, where he cleaned himself up and encountered Niu Zhichun. After Dao Mei agreed to leave so they could find Li Guishou, a Japanese player tried to bully customers and claim a painting awarded to a female player, then drew his katana as Ye Weiming watched.

• Dao Mei brought Ye Weiming to the Conch Gully hot spring bathhouse, where they washed in separate bathing areas.
• Ye Weiming cleaned himself thoroughly, changed back into his clothes, and recognized Niu Zhichun, who invited him to the water park.
• Ye Weiming messaged Dao Mei that they should leave to find Li Guishou, and she agreed to meet him shortly.
• A Japanese player shoved a female customer aside to cut in line, then ordered Ye Weiming to give up his seat; Ye Weiming told him to get lost in several languages.
• The attendant awarded the female player a painting scroll for being the bathhouse's one-millionth paying customer, and she refused to hand it over when the Japanese player demanded it.
• The Japanese player drew his katana, and Ye Weiming admired the blade.

Ye Weiming helped Pencil fight Jue Tian by controlling the Imperial Void Sword, but Dao Mei stole the final blow and killed him. As Jue Tian’s furious ally launched a powerful attack at Dao Mei, the confrontation continued.

• The bathhouse attendant warned Pencil that Jue Tian and his companions were waiting outside, so she left to avoid facing them all at once.
• Jue Tian attacked Pencil outside the bathhouse, and Ye Weiming intervened, invited her to his team, and lent her the Imperial Void Sword.
• Ye Weiming used Parting Sword Style to guide Pencil’s swordsmanship, and she covered her eyes so she would not disrupt his control.
• Ye Weiming’s swordplay weakened Jue Tian, but Dao Mei suddenly appeared and beheaded him, taking the kill.
• Dao Mei refused to hand over Jue Tian’s drops, and an enraged man attacked her with a powerful fist force.

Dao Mei killed Jue Tian, but Jue Wushen arrived to demand the Vast Sea of Qi Diagram. Xue Qianxun intervened, traded Pencil a safe Ultimate Skill quest for the diagram, and arranged a wager between Jue Wushen and Ye Weiming, who proposed a three-on-one fight inside a circle.

• Dao Mei killed Jue Tian, and a silver streak shattered Jue Wushen's punch before it could strike her.
• Xue Qianxun confronted Jue Wushen and warned that Pencil's Vast Sea of Qi Diagram contained a dangerous Ultimate Internal Skill.
• Xue Qianxun offered Pencil a low-difficulty quest for a complete Ultimate Skill without side effects, and Pencil handed over the diagram after hearing Ye Weiming's explanation of the risks.
• Xue Qianxun proposed wagering the diagram on whether Jue Wushen could defeat Ye Weiming, and Ye Weiming agreed when he learned there would be a quest reward.
• Ye Weiming drew a thirty-zhang circle with the Imperial Void Sword and proposed that he, Dao Mei, and Pencil fight Jue Wushen inside it, with whoever left the circle losing.

Ye Weiming, Dao Mei, and Niu Zhichun entered a wagered battle against Jue Wushen, with manuals and Pufferfish Poison at stake. As the fight began, Niu Zhichun revealed the foul weapon Ye Weiming had prepared to exploit Jue Wushen’s disgust.

• Ye Weiming triggered the hidden quest Ultimate Skill Gamble after Jue Wushen accepted his challenge to fight within a circle.
• Ye Weiming summoned Niu Zhichun to join the battle, while Pencil Girl stayed outside to cheer them on.
• Jue Wushen wagered his Indestructible Golden Body manual against Xue Qianxun’s Vast Sea of Qi Diagram, then raised the stakes with the Wolf Kill manual against Dao Mei’s Pufferfish Poison.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei met Jue Wushen’s opening attack with Blazing Sun Sacred Qi and Heavenly Inquiry, while Pencil Girl began drawing under Xue Qianxun’s protection.
• After Dao Mei was driven back, Niu Zhichun charged Jue Wushen with a mop covered in feces, making Jue Wushen recoil in alarm.

Ye Weiming, Dao Mei, and Niu Zhichun used dung-smeared mop pieces and coordinated attacks against Jue Wushen, eventually breaking his Indestructible Golden Body defense. Ye Weiming then unleashed Jade and Stone Burn Together, enveloping Jue Wushen in a contracting fireball.

• Jue Wushen punched apart Niu Zhichun’s dung-smeared mop, but the scattered filth splattered across both of them.
• Dao Mei attacked Jue Wushen with Heavenly Tyrant God Sealing Slash while Ye Weiming used broken sword fragments to smear him with more dung.
• Jue Wushen blocked Dao Mei’s nine slashes, but Ye Weiming struck him with Heavenly Demon Disintegration and shattered his protective qi, driving him near the edge of the battle circle.
• Ye Weiming lunged at Jue Wushen and activated Jade and Stone Burn Together, surrounding him with a vast force field that became a fireball and began contracting inward.

Ye Weiming defeated Jue Wushen in a duel, earning mission rewards and access to Xue Qianxun’s exchange list. After learning that the Vast Sea of Qi Diagram conflicted with his Fire-aligned cultivation, he spent his mission points on pills.

• Jue Wushen escaped Ye Weiming’s Jade and Stone Burn Together, but the explosion left him battered and outside the arena, so he conceded defeat and handed over the manuals he had wagered.
• Ye Weiming’s team received 300 million experience points and 30 million cultivation points for defeating Jue Wushen, and Xue Qianxun awarded them mission points for completing the hidden mission.
• Xue Qianxun showed the team an exchange list and offered them a chance to earn an ultimate skill manual through another mission if they spent their points toward it.
• Xue Qianxun explained that the Vast Sea of Qi Diagram’s Water-element essence would conflict with Ye Weiming’s Fire-aligned cultivation, so he abandoned the idea of exchanging for it.
• Ye Weiming spent his 1,000 mission points on three Three Corpses Brain God Pills, three antidotes, and four Heavenly King Life-Saving Pills.

After spending all his quest points on pills, Ye Weiming watched Dao Mei and Niu Zhichun accept quests for powerful martial arts, while Pencil Girl earned a chance to obtain an Ultimate Skill by painting for Xue Qianxun. Ye Weiming and Dao Mei reached Demon Mountain Grass Hut, where the Flying Demoness Long Yunfeng attacked them and then challenged him to take her life if he could.

• Ye Weiming bought Three Corpses Brain God Pills, their complete antidotes, and Heavenly King Life-Saving Pills, exhausting his quest points.
• Dao Mei accepted the quest for the Vast Sea of Qi Diagram, and Niu Zhichun accepted the quest for the Indestructible Golden Body.
• Pencil Girl finished a painting of the battle against Jue Wushen, gave it to Xue Qianxun, and agreed to paint ten more pictures in exchange for an orthodox Daoist Ultimate Skill.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei traveled to Demon Mountain and were ambushed by sword attacks at the Demon Mountain Grass Hut.
• Ye Weiming fought Long Yunfeng, disrupted her sword technique, and asked her to explain herself before they continued fighting.
• Long Yunfeng blocked the entrance to the grass hut and told Ye Weiming to take her life if he could.

Ye Weiming and Dao Mei found Li Guishou, who agreed to travel to Western Xia after healing Long Yunfeng, but her pursuers arrived before they could leave. Ye Weiming and Dao Mei incapacitated Long Yunfeng and Li Guishou, then prepared to deal with the pursuers and take the physician with them.

• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei convinced Long Yunfeng they meant no harm, and she led them to Li Guishou inside the cottage.
• Li Guishou agreed to change someone’s appearance for 10,000 gold but refused to leave until Long Yunfeng’s injuries were healed.
• Li Guishou revealed that Xia Suliang, Guo Changda, and Gu Yue had attacked Long Yunfeng to seize her lifesaving antidote, and the three arrived with a young player.
• Long Yunfeng told Ye Weiming and Dao Mei to escape with Li Guishou, but she knocked Li Guishou unconscious and Ye Weiming knocked her out in turn.
• Dao Mei imitated Long Yunfeng’s voice and bluffed the pursuers with a made-up poison, while Ye Weiming learned more about their group and decided to eliminate them.

Ye Weiming disguised himself as Long Yunfeng and fought Xia Suliang and his allies with the Moon Shading Sword, while Dao Mei infiltrated the cottage to deal with the real Long Yunfeng. After Gu Yue was killed, Ye Weiming struck Xia Suliang with a powerful palm and sent him flying.

• Guo Changda returned with Gu Yue and a player carrying firewood, and Xia Suliang stopped questioning the supposed Long Yunfeng.
• Ye Weiming revealed himself in disguise, wielded the Moon Shading Sword, and fought Xia Suliang while Guo Changda joined the attack.
• Gu Yue and the player entered the cottage to find and kill the real Long Yunfeng, leaving Guo Changda to support Xia Suliang.
• Ye Weiming noticed signs that Dao Mei's party had killed Gu Yue, then let Xia Suliang seize a false opening in his swordplay.
• Ye Weiming struck Xia Suliang with a fire-dragon palm, dealing heavy damage and sending him flying with his weapons.

Ye Weiming used Jade and Stone Burn Together to kill Xia Suliang and Guo Changda, but the explosion destroyed their corpses and most of their loot. After Dao Mei explained how a calculation-focused player had wounded her with Tai Shan's Secret, Ye Weiming healed Long Yunfeng and unexpectedly completed the hidden quest "Trouble Solving" for major rewards, including a Moon Shading Sword.

• Ye Weiming trapped Xia Suliang and Guo Changda in a fire black hole and killed them with Jade and Stone Burn Together.
• The explosion destroyed both BOSSes' corpses, leaving Ye Weiming with their treasured weapons; Dao Mei looted Guyue's blades, technique, and money.
• Dao Mei told Ye Weiming that a player had injured her with Tai Shan's Secret before escaping, and Ye Weiming assessed the player's strengths and weaknesses.
• Ye Weiming collected Guyue's corpse and healed Long Yunfeng after waking him and Li Guishou.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei completed the hidden quest "Trouble Solving" and received 300 million experience, 30 million cultivation points, and a Moon Shading Sword.

Ye Weiming and Dao Mei delivered Li Guishou and the seven medicinal ingredients to Li Qiushui in Western Xia, where she asked them to protect her friend during the treatment. When Li Qiushui revealed that the Heavenly Mountain Child Elder might attack, Ye Weiming negotiated for palace troops and other support before accepting the hidden quest to resist her.

• Ye Weiming received 300 million experience points, 30 million Cultivation Points, and the Moon Shading Sword, while Dao Mei received a Golden Silk Ring Saber.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei discussed how the earlier quest’s difficulty had been balanced by potential reinforcements, then escorted Li Guishou to Western Xia’s imperial palace.
• Li Qiushui received all seven medicinal ingredients and sent Li Guishou to prepare for her friend’s appearance-restoration treatment.
• Li Qiushui asked Ye Weiming and Dao Mei to protect the treatment from the Heavenly Mountain Child Elder, prompting Ye Weiming to demand more support.
• Li Qiushui agreed to provide thirty Iron Hawks and follow Ye Weiming’s other arrangements, and Ye Weiming accepted the eight-star quest to resist Tonglao.

Dao Mei stalled the Heavenly Mountain Child Elder while Ye Weiming prepared a bizarre ambush with Helian Tieshu and the Iron Hawks. Ye Weiming drew the Child Elder out of the chamber, where an unseen blade intent struck her and left her reliving memories of her youth.

• Dao Mei confronted the Heavenly Mountain Child Elder outside Li Qiushui’s secret chamber and used her saber techniques to delay her.
• The Heavenly Mountain Child Elder entered the chamber and was stunned by Helian Tieshu and thirty Iron Hawks shouting that they loved her.
• Ye Weiming emerged from the Iron Hawks, clashed with the Child Elder, and kept her distracted as their crude spectacle disrupted her concentration.
• The Child Elder tried to withdraw from the chamber, but Ye Weiming forced her outside with Slay Dragon Seek the Way.
• An unseen blade intent enveloped the Child Elder and made her experience the decline of her vitality and memories of her youth.

Ye Weiming abandoned his pursuit of the wounded Heavenly Mountain Child Elder to save Princess Yinchuan, who had been struck with the Life and Death Talisman. After Li Qiushui’s surgery was complete, she revealed that she did not know how to remove it.

• Heavenly Mountain Child Elder escaped Ye Weiming and Dao Mei’s coordinated attack by breaking through Dao Mei’s saber net, then Ye Weiming chased after her alone.
• Heavenly Mountain Child Elder threw Princess Yinchuan through a doorway, and Ye Weiming caught her instead of continuing the pursuit.
• Yinchuan began clawing at herself under the Life and Death Talisman’s effects, so Ye Weiming sealed her pain nerves and carried her to safety.
• Ye Weiming and Dao Mei waited outside the secret chamber while Li Qiushui and Li Guishou operated; Heavenly Mountain Child Elder did not return.
• After the surgery, Li Qiushui told Ye Weiming that she did not know how to remove the Life and Death Talisman.

Ye Weiming negotiated with Li Qiushui to change his quest into saving Princess Yinchuan from the Life and Death Talisman, with no deadline or penalty. He assembled a team of renowned physicians and specialists to find a cure, leaving Yinchuan in their care as they began their consultation.

• Li Qiushui explained the Free and Unfettered Sect’s martial arts and revealed that only Heavenly Mountain Child Elder knew how to resolve the Life and Death Talisman; Ye Weiming chose Lingbo Weibu as his reward for completing Restore Appearance.
• Ye Weiming accepted a negotiated change from Resist Tonglao to Save Yinchuan, with a random supreme art inheritance as the reward and no quest deadline or penalty.
• Ye Weiming brought Princess Yinchuan and Li Guishou to Bianjing City and arranged for Yinchuan to rest in Sanyue’s chamber while Li Guishou cared for her.
• Ye Weiming recruited Hu Qingniu and Wang Nangu by obtaining Zhang Wuji’s letter recognizing Yinchuan as an honorary Ming Cult member.
• Ye Weiming recruited Ping Yizhi by killing the Flower-Picking Thief Yin Liang, and Song Ci agreed to join the consultation.
• Ye Weiming finalized a consultation team of himself, Hu Qingniu, Wang Nangu, Ping Yizhi, and Song Ci to seek a cure for Yinchuan.

The physicians developed a year-long suppressant for Yinchuan’s Life and Death Talisman, and Song Ci rewarded Ye Weiming with a mysterious inner skill manual. Venerable Huang assigned Ye Weiming to guide Yinchuan around the Central Plains for five days, and Ye Weiming secured a chance to raise Lingbo Weibu by cooking for her.

• Four medical and poison experts created pills that would suppress Yinchuan’s Life and Death Talisman for one year, and she recovered.
• Song Ci gave Ye Weiming the Mysterious Mind Method secret manual before returning to the Divine Constable Bureau.
• Ye Weiming tried to send Yinchuan back to Western Xia, but Venerable Huang assigned him to guide her for up to five days and offered 1,000 gold in salary per day.
• Ye Weiming recruited Dao Mei, Xiao Qiao, Sanyue, and Mu Ran to accompany Yinchuan, while the women asked him to cook for them.
• Yinchuan admired Ye Weiming’s cooking, triggering a mission that would raise his Lingbo Weibu by one level if he prepared dinner for her each evening for five days.

Ye Weiming learned Yi Bo Shu and Lingbo Weibu, then trained Lingbo Weibu with Yinchuan until it reached Level 6. He returned Yinchuan to Li Qiushui with a chest of antidotes and the recipe for treating her Life and Death Talisman, leaving Li Qiushui to decide whether he had fulfilled the quest.

• Ye Weiming studied Song Ci’s manual and comprehended Yi Bo Shu, then learned Lingbo Weibu and used insight manuals to gain proficiency.
• Ye Weiming buried the remaining corpses, earning 5,600 Chivalry Points and 5,600 Merit Points, including 5,000 of each for Cheng Kun.
• Ye Weiming practiced Lingbo Weibu for five days, then had Yinchuan guide him through an all-night session until he reached Level 6.
• Ye Weiming sent the exhausted Yinchuan to the hot springs and returned her to the Western Xia Imperial Palace the next morning.
• Li Qiushui questioned Ye Weiming because he had not dissolved Yinchuan’s Life and Death Talisman, and Ye Weiming showed her two hundred antidotes and their recipe.

Ye Weiming completed the mission to save Yinchuan but received a bound Northern Darkness Divine Skill manual that required him to disperse his cultivation. After returning to Bianjing, he raised Lingbo Weibu to Level 7 and devised a way to hide himself among its afterimages; a carrier pigeon then arrived.

• Li Qiushui accepted that Ye Weiming had completed the mission, and the system awarded him the bound Northern Darkness Divine Skill manual.
• Ye Weiming rejected Li Qiushui's invitation to develop himself in Western Xia and left the imperial palace.
• Li Qiushui told the Emperor of Western Xia that Ye Weiming was unlikely to serve the kingdom, though the Emperor remained unconvinced.
• Ye Weiming returned to Bianjing and spent Cultivation Points to raise Lingbo Weibu to Level 7, unlocking the Silk Stockings Generate Dust afterimage effect.
• Ye Weiming tested his movement technique and concealed his real body among nine realistic afterimages around a jujube tree.
• A snow-white carrier pigeon landed on the shoulder of one of Ye Weiming's afterimages and disappeared.

Ye Weiming chose Li Fei, the hidden heir of the Iron Palm Gang, as his candidate to replace Qiu Qianren and found him preparing a desperate attack. They agreed to cooperate, with Ye Weiming claiming Qiu Qianren’s life and Li Fei set to inherit the gang afterward; Ye Weiming then sent out more than ten carrier pigeons.

• After reviewing Jiang Jin Jiu’s seven candidate profiles, Ye Weiming selected Li Fei and checked the Divine Constable Bureau’s archives to verify his identity.
• In the Shanxi forest, Li Fei killed an Iron Palm Gang squad that had been hunting him, and Ye Weiming arrived to propose cooperation.
• Ye Weiming revealed that Li Fei was actually Shangguan Fei’s foster brother, Li Gousheng, and warned him that his explosives would not kill Qiu Qianren.
• Li Fei agreed to help take over the Iron Palm Gang after Qiu Qianren’s death, while Ye Weiming insisted that Qiu Qianren was his to kill.
• Ye Weiming arranged for Li Fei to take refuge at the Divine Constable Bureau, failed to reach Youyou by carrier pigeon, and sent more than ten pigeons in different directions.

Ye Weiming and his allies infiltrated Iron Palm Peak and attacked Qiu Qianren after Sanyue confirmed he had been poisoned with Power Dissipation Powder. They killed an apparent Qiu Qianren, but the real one ambushed the group and escaped through a hidden passage into the Mountain Belly Cave, with Ye Weiming pursuing him alone.

• Sanyue reported that Qiu Qianren had eaten the poisoned food, and Ye Weiming led his allies to the cave where Qiu Qianren was secluded.
• Jiang Jin Jiu threw Smoke Bombs into the cave, and Ye Weiming struck down the Qiu Qianren inside with a single blow.
• The group realized the corpse was not a real kill when there was no reward, and a hidden attacker ambushed them, killing Tang Sancai before Ye Weiming drove him back.
• Ye Weiming identified the attacker as the real Qiu Qianren, who escaped through a secret door into a hidden cave.
• Ye Weiming smashed through the secret door and pursued Qiu Qianren into the labyrinthine Mountain Belly Cave, while Jiang Jin Jiu explained its many routes to the others.