Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming accepted Ci Hang Jing Zhai’s challenge and faced its master, Fan Qinghui, at Tianjin Bridge. After their mismatched exchange over her story, he summoned Shan Xiaoxiao and Yu Chi Yan Hong to provide battle music as the duel was about to begin.

• Ye Weiming hesitated to accept the challenge until Shi Feixuan explained that refusing would trigger a hunt with weakened pursuers and no rewards for defeating them.
• Ye Weiming accepted the quest and entered an instance where he met Fan Qinghui, Shi Feixuan’s master and the current master of Ci Hang Jing Zhai.
• Fan Qinghui offered to double Ye Weiming’s rewards if he listened to her story before fighting, so he agreed.
• Fan Qinghui told Ye Weiming a tale of a seeker who endured nine silent reincarnations and finally spoke to protect her child, but Ye Weiming answered with a comic theory about illness and exhaustion.
• Ye Weiming summoned Shan Xiaoxiao and Yu Chi Yan Hong to provide music, activating the Crown of Sound and Image’s attack-power effect as the duel began.

Ye Weiming battled Fan Qinghui, whose Sword Qi Yangtze River nearly crippled him before a change of music helped him perceive its flaw and counterattack. As their fight continued at Tianjin Bridge, Zhu Yuyan approached by boat, intending to ambush Fan Qinghui and weaken Ci Hang Jing Zhai.

• Fan Qinghui’s Sword Qi Yangtze River overwhelmed Ye Weiming’s defense, inflicted severe damage, and left him severely wounded.
• Ye Weiming ordered the two spirits to replace the Gambling God music with the Buddhist Defeat Song, whose effect revealed Buddhist martial arts’ strengths, weaknesses, and flaws.
• Fan Qinghui launched a powerful sword attack fused with Buddhist Dharma, trapping Ye Weiming between immense waves of sword qi.
• Ye Weiming used his Yin Yang Demonic Eyes and the music’s effect to find the escaping one in Fan Qinghui’s attack, then countered with Quanzhen Swordsmanship and Sweeping Sword Stance.
• Zhu Yuyan approached the battlefield by covered boat and prepared to ambush Fan Qinghui, hoping her death would weaken Ci Hang Jing Zhai.

Ye Weiming defeated Fan Qinghui, then killed her and Zhu Yuyan with Jade and Stone Burn Together, destroying Tianjin Bridge and leveling up. After returning from the trial dungeon, he received Shi Feixuan's handwritten guarantee and a hidden quest requiring him to go into seclusion at Ci Hang Jing Zhai.

• Ye Weiming broke Fan Qinghui's Cihang Sword Canon techniques, but she called for a halt before he kicked her into a bridge pillar.
• Zhu Yuyan attacked the injured Fan Qinghui, and the two women grievously wounded each other before Ye Weiming intervened.
• Ye Weiming used Jade and Stone Burn Together to kill Fan Qinghui and Zhu Yuyan, collapsing Tianjin Bridge and reaching level 89.
• Ye Weiming returned from the trial dungeon and heard Kou Zhong explain how Xu Ziling fought Shi Feixuan while Wanwan's ambush was stopped by Hou Xibai.
• Shi Feixuan gave Ye Weiming her handwritten guarantee, triggering the Jing Zhai Seclusion quest to deliver it to Ci Hang Jing Zhai within ten days.

Ye Weiming negotiated the terms of Shi Feixuan’s seclusion quest, then spent a final morning with Youyou and the Twin Dragons in Luoyang. As he prepared to leave, he offered to disguise Kou Zhong, Xu Ziling, and Ba Fenghan so they could escape the city unnoticed.

• Ye Weiming negotiated a revised seclusion quest that restricted his use of True Dragon Qi and accepted it, receiving a ten-day deadline and a map marker for Ci Hang Jing Zhai.
• The Twin Dragons killed Shangguan Long to avenge their fallen subordinates while Ye Weiming and Youyou watched through the night.
• Youyou explained how she passed Shi Feixuan’s test, then returned the items she had borrowed to learn and master the Heavenly Demon Secret, adding compensation.
• Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling finished paying their respects, and everyone shared a breakfast the Twin Dragons had prepared.
• Ye Weiming offered to disguise Kou Zhong, Xu Ziling, and Ba Fenghan and help them leave Luoyang City without alerting their enemies.

Ye Weiming reached Ci Hang Jing Zhai on Zhongnan Mountain, collected the Wind and Water Scrolls, and gained permission to study its scriptures. Fan Qinghui then asked him what happened during her lost-memory trial, and he claimed that Zhu Yuyan had ambushed her and that he had killed Zhu Yuyan.

• Ye Weiming and Youyou left Luoyang in disguise, then Youyou flew away with Fu Junyu while Ye Weiming traveled toward Zhongnan Mountain.
• Ye Weiming arrived at Di Ta Peak and discovered that the mountain’s environment greatly accelerated his Internal Skill Proficiency.
• Fan Qinghui welcomed Ye Weiming to Ci Hang Jing Zhai, where he observed the strength of its disciples and joked that Shi Feixuan was the generation’s courtesan champion.
• Fan Qinghui gave Ye Weiming the Wind and Water Scrolls and allowed him to read the books in the Scripture Repository, including the Cihang Sword Canon.
• Fan Qinghui asked Ye Weiming about her trial memories, and Ye Weiming said Zhu Yuyan had ambushed her before he killed Zhu Yuyan.

Ye Weiming read the Cihang Sword Canon in Ci Hang Jing Zhai’s Scripture Repository and found its Mind Cultivation Chapter difficult to understand despite his Buddhist Dharma knowledge. Qin Chuan agreed to spar with him in exchange for helping him, then hinted that the obstacle was his body and that the monastery’s female-only tradition had a deeper reason.

• Fan Qinghui declined Ye Weiming’s offer to swear a Heavenly Dao oath, and he left her meditation chamber to find the Scripture Repository.
• Ye Weiming met Qin Chuan, who guided him to the Scripture Repository and warned him that Ning Daoqi had vomited blood after reading the Cihang Sword Canon.
• Ye Weiming discovered that the Sword Canon required female gender to cultivate and read its Mind Cultivation Chapter while drinking tea.
• Ye Weiming found the chapter’s teachings familiar yet unsettling, and he could not identify what felt wrong.
• Qin Chuan brought Ye Weiming food and said the difficulty lay with his body, then asked him to spar with her.
• Ye Weiming agreed, and Qin Chuan asked whether he thought Ci Hang Jing Zhai accepted only female disciples merely because of worldly distinctions between men and women.

Ye Weiming studied the Cihang Sword Canon with Qin Chuan, exchanged insights, and sparred with her, deepening his understanding of swordsmanship and earning substantial proficiency. After reading the final Tea Art Chapter on his own, he comprehended the Tea Art skill.

• Ye Weiming realized the Sword Canon's Mind Cultivation Chapter was unsuited to him and sampled Ci Hang Jing Zhai's bland vegetarian food.
• Qin Chuan explained her habit of watching the stars, and she and Ye Weiming exchanged insights about the Sword Canon under the night sky.
• Qin Chuan summoned her True Body and sparred with Ye Weiming using her divine sword, Lu Lu Slices Iron Like Mud, until midnight.
• Ye Weiming studied the Martial Cultivation Chapter and sparred with Qin Chuan again, raising his Myriad Sword Foundation proficiency to 30.5 million points.
• Ye Weiming read the Tea Art Chapter and comprehended the Tea Art skill, gaining 1,000 proficiency.

Ye Weiming studied at Ci Hang Jing Zhai, improving his cultivation and helping Qin Chuan develop her swordsmanship. After refining all his True Dragon Qi, he fused the Dragon Subduing Divine Skill and True Dragon Qi Returning Art into a new Peerless Divine Skill and named it Azure Dragon Divine Skill.

• Ye Weiming comprehended Tea Art and Feng Shui, then read martial arts texts in Ci Hang Jing Zhai’s Scripture Repository.
• Qin Chuan brought Ye Weiming various green teas, and they spent the following days studying, discussing swordsmanship, and sparring together.
• By the tenth day, Ye Weiming had read every scripture and improved several skills, while Qin Chuan’s level rose from 160 to 165 as she found her own path of the sword.
• Ye Weiming used the True Dragon Qi Returning Art to refine all the True Dragon Qi in his body into pure yang internal energy.
• Ye Weiming accepted the system’s offer to fuse the Dragon Subduing Divine Skill and True Dragon Qi Returning Art, then named the resulting Peerless Divine Skill Azure Dragon Divine Skill.

Ye Weiming fused his arts into the Azure Dragon Divine Skill, consumed the True Dragon Qi within him, and decided to leave Ci Hang Jing Zhai. After Fan Qinghui failed to stop him, Shi Feixuan appeared beyond Di Ta Peak to confront him.

• Ye Weiming gained the Azure Dragon Divine Skill, which strengthened his attributes and could grow by absorbing True Dragon Qi and accumulating Chivalry Points and Merit Points.
• Qin Chuan brought Ye Weiming a meal with hidden meat and realized he planned to leave; they discussed their swordsmanship and agreed they might someday become enemies.
• Ye Weiming told Fan Qinghui he intended to leave, arguing that he no longer held any True Dragon Qi and therefore no longer affected the balance of power under heaven.
• Fan Qinghui claimed Ci Hang Jing Zhai had the right to interpret the agreement and warned that Shi Feixuan would confront him if he left, but Ye Weiming departed anyway.
• When Ye Weiming crossed the stone stele at Di Ta Peak, the mountain vanished behind him and Shi Feixuan appeared three zhang ahead.

Ye Weiming’s dispute with Shi Feixuan escalated into a deadly quest requiring him to survive ten days and kill her true body. He wounded her quest-mode clone but faced Hou Xibai and the monk Zhenyan as her allies intervened.

• Shi Feixuan rejected Ye Weiming’s interpretation of their agreement and changed his quest into a ten-day hunt, with death as the failure condition.
• Ye Weiming attacked Shi Feixuan, wounded her, and discovered that the opponent was only her level 155 quest-mode clone.
• Hou Xibai intervened and joined Shi Feixuan in using the Beauty Fan to halt Ye Weiming’s next attack.
• Zhenyan appeared, disrupted Ye Weiming’s killing intent with a Buddhist chant, and said he would not interfere as long as Ye Weiming did not target Shi Feixuan.

Ye Weiming accepted Shaolin Guardian Master Zhenyan’s wager and defeated him in a fierce martial arts duel, earning a large reward and reaching Level 90. With Zhenyan gone and no longer standing in his way against Shi Feixuan, Ye Weiming turned to spending his new Cultivation Points on the Ghost Valley Swordsmanship Fragment.

• Zhenyan challenged Ye Weiming to a duel, wagering that he would stop interfering with Shi Feixuan if Ye Weiming won and that Ye Weiming would abandon his killing intent if he lost.
• Ye Weiming accepted the wager, put away the Imperial Void Sword, and fought Zhenyan using the Azure Dragon Divine Skill and his fist and kick techniques.
• Ye Weiming gradually gained the advantage, then wounded Zhenyan with a hidden flying knife and forced him to concede.
• Ye Weiming received 450 million experience and 60 million Cultivation Points, reached Level 90, and fully restored his resources.
• Zhenyan departed, promising not to interfere in Ye Weiming’s affairs with Shi Feixuan, and Ye Weiming chose to spend Cultivation Points on the Ghost Valley Swordsmanship Fragment.

Ye Weiming upgraded Ghost Valley Swordsmanship: Horizontal to Max Level and improved Lingbo Weibu before pursuing Shi Feixuan and Hou Xibai. At the Wei River, he met Ning Daoqi, received guidance that strengthened his movement technique, and prepared to fight him while Yu Chi Yan Hong and Shan Xiaoxiao provided musical support.

• Ye Weiming spent more than half his Cultivation Points to raise Ghost Valley Swordsmanship: Horizontal to Level 10, then upgraded Lingbo Weibu to Level 9.
• Ye Weiming followed Shi Feixuan and Hou Xibai to the Wei River, where Ning Daoqi waited on a boat that stayed fixed in the rushing current.
• Ning Daoqi demonstrated his uncanny fishing technique and explained how martial arts could unite illusion and reality, granting Ye Weiming five million Lingbo Weibu Proficiency.
• Ning Daoqi revealed that Shi Feixuan had asked him to stop Ye Weiming from leaving Ci Hang Jing Zhai, but offered to fight him at his best.
• Ye Weiming thanked Ning Daoqi, drew the Juque Divine Sword, and called on Yu Chi Yan Hong and Shan Xiaoxiao to begin their music and dance.

Ye Weiming battled Ning Daoqi, using rapid, deceptive sword techniques before destroying their boat and landing a powerful strike that Ning Daoqi evaded. Ning Daoqi then admitted defeat, and the system recognized Ye Weiming as the victor, leaving Ye Weiming stunned to learn he had fought Ning Daoqi’s level 185 true body.

• Ye Weiming activated the Crown of Sound and Image’s sword-speed effect and attacked Ning Daoqi with the invisible Light Concealment sword.
• Ye Weiming chained together several sword styles, keeping Ning Daoqi on the defensive while learning to apply his techniques more fluently.
• Ye Weiming switched to Moon Shading Radiance, destroyed the boat with Coiling Dragon Turn, and followed with Sky Wolf Swift Flash, which struck Ning Daoqi’s afterimage.
• Ning Daoqi evaded the attack, and Ye Weiming prepared Ghost Valley Swordsmanship’s final killing move before Ning Daoqi admitted defeat.
• The system awarded Ye Weiming experience and cultivation points, raised his level to 91, and identified Ning Daoqi as his level 185 true body.
• Ning Daoqi explained that he had come in his true body to meet Ye Weiming and praised him as the martial world’s rising grandmaster.

Ye Weiming earned Ning Daoqi’s recognition and the title “Rear Wave,” then rejected Shi Feixuan’s attempt to dictate their final battlefield. After the Four Great Monks surrounded him, Shi Feixuan asked him to abandon the contest and return to Ci Hang Jing Zhai, but Ye Weiming saw through her negotiating tactic and refused to be pressured.

• Ning Daoqi recognized Ye Weiming as a grandmaster-level expert and awarded him the title “Rear Wave,” then told him Shi Feixuan awaited him at Pure Thought Zen Monastery.
• Ye Weiming ignored the invitation to Pure Thought Zen Monastery and traveled to a secluded valley, where he prepared to face his pursuers.
• The Four Great Monks—Daoxin, Zhihui, Jiaxiang, and Dixin—arrived and surrounded Ye Weiming with their combined force.
• Shi Feixuan asked the Four Great Monks to let her speak with Ye Weiming, then urged him to give up the contest and return with her to Ci Hang Jing Zhai.
• Ye Weiming accused Shi Feixuan of using the Four Great Monks to pressure him before presenting an excessive offer disguised as a choice.

Ye Weiming rejected Shi Feixuan’s offer and sprang a trap against her and the Four Great Monks, badly injuring her before fighting the monks. His airborne allies then began playing “Daughter’s Love,” whose effects weakened everyone’s killing power and disrupted the monks’ composure as the battle continued.

• Ye Weiming refused to agree to Shi Feixuan’s proposal and attacked her when she asked what he meant by taking the final step.
• The Four Great Monks rushed in to protect Shi Feixuan, but Ye Weiming unleashed Sweep Across Eight Directions against them all.
• The Four Great Monks blocked the sword qi with their combined barrier, while Shi Feixuan was blasted away and suffered a severe internal injury.
• The Four Great Monks resumed their attack, and Ah Hong carried Shan Xiaoxiao and Yu Chi Yan Hong above the battlefield on Ye Weiming’s Two-Person Flying Chair.
• Shan Xiaoxiao and Yu Chi Yan Hong performed “Daughter’s Love,” reducing damage and eliminating instant kills while disrupting the Four Great Monks’ composure.

Ye Weiming endured the Four Great Monks’ assault while “Daughter’s Love” disrupted their meditative minds, then tried to kill Shi Feixuan as she fell. The monks trapped him in their Boundless Demon Locking Array, but his power suddenly erupted and began tearing the formation apart.

• Ye Weiming used the music’s defensive boost and the Four Great Monks’ distraction to keep fighting and threaten Shi Feixuan, while she relied on Hou Xibai for protection.
• Shi Feixuan and Hou Xibai tried to attack Ah Hong from above, but the two little demons blasted Shi Feixuan out of the air.
• Ye Weiming broke through the monks’ blockade and threw a fatal Flying Knife at Shi Feixuan, which Hou Xibai took, leaving her unprotected.
• Ye Weiming charged at Shi Feixuan despite taking Master Zhihui’s One Finger Zen, but the Four Great Monks restrained him with their Boundless Demon Locking Array.
• The music drove the monks’ meditative minds into chaos as the array tightened around Ye Weiming, and Shi Feixuan warned them not to approach him.
• Ye Weiming unleashed a terrifying force that collapsed space and began tearing apart the Boundless Demon Locking Array.

Ye Weiming survived the Four Great Monks’ counterattack, ambushed Hou Xibai, and maneuvered Shi Feixuan into descending with her true body. The chapter ended as Ye Weiming restored himself with a life-saving pill and unleashed Heavenly Demon Disintegration against her.

• Ye Weiming detonated Jade and Stone Burn Together, severely injuring the Four Great Monks, while Shi Feixuan wounded him with a prepared sword strike after his revival.
• Ye Weiming used hidden gunpowder and smoke to escape, then stayed concealed nearby with a Breath-Concealing Pill as the Four Great Monks left to search toward Chang'an.
• Ye Weiming ambushed Shi Feixuan and Hou Xibai, killed Hou Xibai, and fled toward Ah Hong as Shi Feixuan pursued him.
• Shi Feixuan descended with her true body and attacked Ye Weiming with Heart Light Wisdom Sword, Slay Demons and Eliminate Evil.
• Ye Weiming swallowed the Heavenly King Life-Saving Pill, recovered completely, trapped Shi Feixuan's sword with Man-Ghost Path, and began Heavenly Demon Disintegration.

Ye Weiming killed Shi Feixuan and looted her divine equipment and rare insights, then collected Hou Xibai’s belongings and left the Twin Dragons Secret Realm. After recovering from Heavenly Demon Disintegration at home, he prepared to review his gains and strengthen himself.

• Ye Weiming killed Shi Feixuan with Heavenly Demon Disintegration, ending Ci Hang Jing Zhai’s pursuit but earning the Buddhist sect’s enmity.
• Ye Weiming looted Shi Feixuan’s Se Kong Sword, two Cihang Sword Canon supreme arts, divine artifacts, and other rewards, then used Flower Transplant to concentrate the corpse insights into Tea Ceremony Insights.
• Ye Weiming looted Hou Xibai’s Flower Play manual and belongings, used his coffin to combine the insights into Painting and Calligraphy Insights, and had Ah Huang retrieve Hou Xibai’s head.
• Ye Weiming disguised himself as Hou Xibai, left the Twin Dragons Secret Realm through Yangzhou, and returned home without encountering trouble.
• Ye Weiming treated Heavenly Demon Disintegration’s backlash on his Sword Intent Stone Bed, recovered to peak condition, and invited his teammates to dinner before preparing to assess his gains.

After claiming his mission rewards, Ye Weiming fused Ascend Duckweed Crossing Water into Lingbo Weibu and gained improved movement skills. Dao Mei then revealed that she had become the Sun Moon Holy Cult’s Left Emissary of Light and brought Ye Weiming a mission reward for helping her as her liaison.

• Ye Weiming equipped the Heart Light Sword Ring and found that the insight manuals from Shi Feixuan and Hou Xibai added no proficiency to his already capped Tea Ceremony and Painting skills.
• Ye Weiming used his Random Martial Arts Fusion Opportunity to merge Ascend Duckweed Crossing Water into Lingbo Weibu, improving its attributes and freeing a skill slot.
• Dao Mei arrived at Ye Weiming’s home and explained that her Sun Moon Holy Cult missions could earn rewards for him as her liaison.
• Dao Mei revealed that she had become the Left Emissary of Light after killing Xiang Wentian during a rebellion against Dongfang Bubai, while Linghu Chong and Ren Yingying escaped with a mysterious rescuer.
• Dao Mei placed a deed-like item on the table as Ye Weiming’s mission reward.

Ye Weiming claimed the manor awarded by the Divine Constable Bureau, named it Heavenly Sword Manor, and hosted a feast and auction there with his teammates. The next morning, Venerable Huang hinted that he could arrange teleportation transport for the manor, and Ye Weiming realized this offer came with a task.

• Dao Mei brought ingredients to the newly built manor and accompanied Ye Weiming as he claimed ownership and named it Heavenly Sword Manor.
• Ye Weiming granted Dao Mei, Xiao Qiao, Sanyue, and Youyou permanent access, invited his other teammates for the evening, and sent Dao Mei to buy vegetables and notify them.
• Ye Weiming hosted a feast and auctioned treasures and martial arts manuals; Yin Bukui bought Hou Xibai's Ink Bamboo Long Robe and Flower Play for Teammate Xuan Xiaobi, while Ye Weiming gave Shi Feixuan's Treading Snow to Find Plum Blossoms shoes to Sanyue.
• After the feast, Ye Weiming and the others decided to use his old courtyard as a dormitory for the chief equipment shop's employees, and several teammates settled into Heavenly Sword Manor.
• Ye Weiming visited Venerable Huang the next morning to thank him for the manor, and Venerable Huang offered a teleportation carriage before Ye Weiming volunteered to handle the task behind it.