Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming accepted Dao Mei’s wager, then entered the Ode to Gallantry chambers with his teammates and chose to tackle Tang Sancai’s challenge as a team. The group was transported to a narrow cliffside passage, where they had to protect Tianming from armies blocking both ends, and the first arrow launched the battle.

• Dao Mei demonstrated her life-saving move by kneeling and kowtowing, but Ye Weiming refused to imitate her and promised to host a feast after they left Hero’s Island.
• The players received the seven-star Ode to Gallantry quest, and Ye Weiming persuaded his teammates to challenge the chambers together.
• Tang Sancai activated the challenge for the “Zhao Ke Man Hu Ying” inscription, transporting the eight teammates into a battle instance with Tianming.
• Ye Weiming assigned Liuyun to defend Tang Sancai and Tianming while the others split up to attack the troops on either side.
• An archer accidentally released his arrow, beginning the battle against the armies surrounding the group.

Ye Weiming and his teammates completed the Zhao Ke Man Hu Ying trial, but Tang Sancai vanished when the group returned to the stone chambers. Liuyun activated the Silver Saddle Reflecting White Horse challenge, where the team had to rescue a swordsman and a young girl through persuasion rather than force, and Gongsun Linglong appeared to reject Ye Weiming’s offer.

• Ye Weiming and the others defeated the soldiers pursuing Tianming and completed the Zhao Ke Man Hu Ying challenge, earning experience and cultivation points.
• After the group returned to the stone chambers, they discovered Tang Sancai was missing and speculated that the system had teleported him away after he received an inheritance.
• The group passed through the Wu Gou Shuang Xue Ming chamber without activating its inheritance and entered the Silver Saddle Reflecting White Horse stage, which Liuyun had activated.
• Zhang Liang explained that the team had to save a wounded swordsman and a young girl from Emerald Tiger by persuading people, without using martial force or harming anyone.
• Liuyun asked Emerald Tiger to release the pair, and Emerald Tiger demanded that they find his missing white horse; Ye Weiming offered his Black Steed as a replacement.
• Gongsun Linglong stepped out from Emerald Tiger’s group and declared that Ye Weiming’s offer would not do.

Ye Weiming used Gongsun Linglong’s white-horse sophistry against Emerald Tiger and his men, passed the second inheritance challenge, and helped Jiang Jin Jiu defeat the Six Sword Slaves. The group then entered Sanyue’s inheritance trial, where Ye Weiming was shocked by the strength of their opponents.

• Gongsun Linglong argued that a white horse was not a horse, while Emerald Tiger revealed that he had bought every horse within a hundred li to prevent the team from finding one.
• Emerald Tiger called himself and his men bad people, so Ye Weiming used Gongsun Linglong’s logic to argue that they were not people and killed them without breaking the trial’s rules.
• Ye Weiming persuaded Zhang Liang to accept his argument, and the team passed the challenge and received their rewards before Liuyun departed from the inheritance mission.
• Jiang Jin Jiu activated the next inheritance challenge, and Ye Weiming and the other teammates defeated the Six Sword Slaves so Jiang Jin Jiu could claim the inheritance.
• After the team passed through three more chambers without triggering an inheritance, Sanyue activated her challenge, and Ye Weiming cried out in shock when he saw their opponents.

Ye Weiming and his team encountered Tian Yan and powerful Farmer School experts while challenging Sanyue’s inheritance stage. Tian Yan reserved the inheritance duel for Sanyue, and Ye Weiming accepted Sheng Qi’s challenge, triggering a quest centered on their matching Juque swords.

• Ye Weiming’s team arrived at Great Marsh Mountain and found Sheng Qi, Wu Kuang, Tian Hu, Tian Ci, Mei Sanniang, and four other Farmer School figures waiting beneath a Shennong Statue.
• Yun Mian speculated that the stage’s opponents were Lord Xinling’s retainers, while Ye Weiming questioned why the challenge seemed harder despite Sanyue’s high Chivalry Points.
• Tian Yan introduced herself as the Farmer School’s new Xia Kui and guardian of the “Leisurely Passing Xinling Yin” stage, explaining that only Sanyue could challenge her for the inheritance.
• Tian Yan offered the other four team members separate challenges against Farmer School experts, triggering the hidden quest “Each One’s Challenge,” which could end in a fight to the death.
• Ye Weiming’s Great Gate pointed toward Sheng Qi, so he challenged him; the two entered a challenge instance, and Sheng Qi revealed that his sword was also named Juque.
• The hidden quest changed to “Great Gate Contends” as Ye Weiming and Sheng Qi prepared to fight.

Ye Weiming fought Sheng Qi in a high-stakes Juque duel, adapting his attacks to break through Sheng Qi’s defenses and exploit the pauses in his techniques. After inflicting severe injuries and weakening Sheng Qi, Ye Weiming pressed his attack with another sword strike.

• The system announced that Ye Weiming had to defeat Sheng Qi in a seven-star quest, with death and the loss of a Juque attribute as the penalty for failure.
• Sheng Qi’s sword-qi-enhanced overhead slash clashed with Ye Weiming’s Sweep Across Eight Directions, but the attack dealt little damage.
• Sheng Qi spun his heavy Juque into a Sword Qi Tornado, and Ye Weiming broke through it with Sun Day Long Sky combined with the Sweeping Sword Stance.
• Ye Weiming avoided a mutual strike, countered Sheng Qi’s punch with Hidden Dragon, Do Not Act, then kicked him with Soaring Dragon, Regret and inflicted a serious internal injury.
• Ye Weiming exploited Sheng Qi’s recovery pauses, landing Sky Wolf Swift Flash and Five Organs Like Burning to worsen his injuries and reduce his attributes.
• Ye Weiming evaded Sheng Qi’s desperate counterattack and returned with Xi Shi Holding Heart.

Ye Weiming defeated Sheng Qi in the Juque Showdown, gained a new effect for Great Gate, and returned to find Sanyue struggling against Tian Yan. After Sanyue won her challenge, the group continued through the inheritance chambers until Yun Mian activated a trial that began with a mysterious woman’s voice.

• Ye Weiming killed Sheng Qi, completed the Juque Showdown, and gained the Crushing Damage effect for Great Gate.
• Ye Weiming looted Sheng Qi’s corpse, obtained several insights and a poison-resistance broth, then returned to Sanyue’s trial instance.
• Ye Weiming advised Sanyue to stop worrying about Tian Yan reading her moves and unleash her strongest attacks; Sanyue turned the fight around, and Tian Yan surrendered.
• Ye Weiming and his teammates continued through six chambers without triggering a challenge, then Yun Mian activated the inheritance trial in the chamber marked “Yi Qi Su Ni Sheng.”
• The group appeared in a moonlit bamboo forest, where an unseen woman recited a passage about the brief lives of creatures and the vast age of Great Chun.

Ye Weiming and his teammates met Xiaomeng, guardian of the Yi Qi Su Ni Sheng inheritance stage, and learned that they had to pass a Dao Discussion rather than fight her. Yun Mian began the contest, but Ye Weiming discovered that his Sword Dao could interfere with the game, and his attacks began pressuring Xiaomeng’s side.

• Xiaomeng appeared amid a black-and-white transformation of the world and introduced herself as the inheritance stage’s guardian.
• Xiaomeng explained that the test was a Dao Discussion chess game, and Dao Mei asked what a teammate without Daoist Arts could do.
• Yun Mian challenged Xiaomeng’s view of the Dao, and the two sides’ visions of humanity and nature clashed across the chessboard.
• Ye Weiming learned that his Dao could bypass the game’s rules, then sent Sword Lights to attack Xiaomeng’s camp alongside Yun Mian.
• Xiaomeng accepted Ye Weiming’s intervention and strengthened her defenses, but Ye Weiming changed his Sword Lights into flames to continue attacking.

Ye Weiming and his companions defeated Xiaomeng and Dian Qing as they advanced through Hero's Island, with Yun Mian and Dao Mei each receiving an inheritance. In the final chamber, Ye Weiming translated the White-Haired Grand Xuan Scripture, gaining part of its inheritance and earning rewards from Dragon Island Master and Wood Island Master.

• Ye Weiming and Yun Mian overcame Xiaomeng in the Dao Discussion, and Yun Mian received his inheritance before leaving the party.
• Dao Mei activated the inheritance in the chamber engraved with "Even in Death, Fragrant Bones," and the party defeated Dian Qing; Dao Mei then received her inheritance and left.
• Ye Weiming reassured Xiao Qiao that he did not need an inheritance and entered the final stone chamber with her.
• Ye Weiming read the Tadpole Script on the wall and translated the White-Haired Grand Xuan Scripture for Dragon Island Master and Wood Island Master.
• Ye Weiming comprehended the scripture's cultivation formula but could not cultivate it without its true qi circulation routes, then received a Laba Porridge Recipe and ten Heart-Devouring Bone-Corrupting Grass from the Island Masters.

Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao left the Grand Xuan Scripture chamber and unexpectedly activated the next inheritance quest. Gao Jianli and Xue Nu assigned them to rescue Big Iron Hammer from a sinister forest, explaining that both players could receive rewards from the stage.

• Hero's Island's two masters gave Ye Weiming the Laba Porridge recipe and Heart-Devouring Bone-Corrupting Grass as quest rewards.
• Ye Weiming gave Xiao Qiao Shen Nong Bai Cao Tang, permanently raising her poison resistance by 5,000 points.
• Xiao Qiao activated the inheritance quest in the chamber bearing The Two Heroes of a Thousand Autumns carvings, and she and Ye Weiming were transported to a corridor.
• Xiao Qiao triggered a crossbow trap, but the bolts struck the floor without harming either of them.
• Gao Jianli and Xue Nu appeared, changed the corridor into a sinister hillside forest, and tasked Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao with rescuing Big Iron Hammer.

Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao rescued Big Iron Hammer from Hidden Bat, healed him, and killed the assassin in the forest. They returned him safely to Gao Jianli and Xue Nu, completing Xiao Qiao’s inheritance trial as the instance prepared to eject them.

• Gao Jianli explained that the inheritance stage required a team of exactly two, and Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao set out to rescue Big Iron Hammer.
• Ye Weiming and Xiao Qiao found Hidden Bat overpowering Big Iron Hammer, and Ye Weiming drove the assassin into the woods with a Golden Lotus Seed attack.
• Ye Weiming dispelled Hidden Bat’s frigid energy from Big Iron Hammer and began healing him while Xiao Qiao guarded them.
• Ye Weiming used firelight and a hidden Han Guang Divine Sword to trap and injure Hidden Bat, then Xiao Qiao killed the weakened assassin.
• Ye Weiming healed Big Iron Hammer completely and returned with him to Gao Jianli and Xue Nu, completing the quest and earning its rewards.

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Ye Weiming and his teammates compared the inheritances they had gained on Hero's Island before the Island Masters summoned the gathered guests and announced the island's imminent destruction. A system announcement revealed that the Ode to Gallantry had triggered an upgrade of the main world, and the players received a timed quest to escape Hero's Island.

• Ye Weiming inspected the Ju Zi Token and Mohist Master Album, then searched the stone chambers for another inheritance quest but found none.
• Sanyue showed Ye Weiming how her Insightful Observation had been strengthened by Leisurely Passing Xinling Yin, and the teammates shared their new martial arts and skills.
• Zhang San and Li Si summoned the players to the main hall, where the Dragon Island Master announced that their gathering had ended.
• Explosions shook Hero's Island, and the Dragon Island Master revealed that its volcano was about to erupt and sink the island.
• The system announced that the Ode to Gallantry's inheritance had triggered a world upgrade, then gave players on the island a timed Escape Hero's Island quest.

Hero's Island sank after the NPCs and players escaped, and Ye Weiming warned his companions that NPCs were growing stronger as the world upgraded. On the voyage home, he identified the date as the deadline for saving Granny Shi and Bai A Xiu, triggering a temporary quest; as they leapt from a cliff into the sea, a yellow-clad stranger on a White Eagle reached them first.

• Dragon Island Master and Wood Island Master died after their disciples found the stone chambers destroyed, and the survivors fled as Hero's Island erupted and sank.
• Ye Weiming told his companions that NPCs had begun growing stronger and urged them to finish urgent quests before their targets improved.
• Sanyue returned from confirming the ship's route and said Youyou was coming to meet them, while Ye Weiming prepared to visit Bear Ear Mountain to fulfill his promise to A Zhong.
• A Zhong feared that Granny Shi and Bai A Xiu had jumped into the sea, but Ye Weiming calculated that it was still the eighth day of the third month and triggered the temporary quest to save them.
• Players hurried the ship toward shore, but Granny Shi and Bai A Xiu leapt from a cliff before it arrived; Ye Weiming and Dao Mei launched after them as a yellow-clad stranger rode a White Eagle down and reached them first.

Youyou rescued Granny Shi and A Xiu, while Ye Weiming reunited them with Bai Zizai and A Zhong and guided the group to Bear Ear Mountain to find A Zhong’s mother. After A Zhong found Mei Fanggu and completed the hidden mission, Ye Weiming refused to claim its reward, believing the mission held more possibilities.

• Youyou saved Granny Shi and A Xiu from the sea, and Ye Weiming and Dao Mei told her she deserved the divine art reward.
• Ye Weiming pointed out that Granny Shi had wrongly assumed Bai Zizai and A Zhong were dead, and A Zhong shouted that they had returned safely.
• Bai Zizai and Granny Shi promised to help Ye Weiming investigate A Zhong’s origins at Bear Ear Mountain, and Shi Qing and Min Rou joined them after hearing Mei Fanggu’s name.
• Ye Weiming led the group to Bear Ear Mountain, where Ah Huang guided them to Mei Fanggu’s huts.
• A Zhong recognized the place and reunited with Mei Fanggu, completing the hidden mission; Ye Weiming declined to submit it for a reward.

Ye Weiming uncovered that A Zhong was Shi Qing and Min Rou’s son, not Mei Fanggu’s biological child, after stopping their fight and investigating the family’s past. Mei Fanggu confessed and killed herself, and A Zhong rewarded Ye Weiming with the Grand Xuan Scripture Meridian Circulation Diagram.

• Min Rou attacked Mei Fanggu, and Shi Qing joined the fight when Min Rou was overpowered; Ye Weiming swiftly subdued everyone.
• Sanyue hypnotized Mei Fanggu to question her, but her Insightful Observation began evolving and temporarily blinded her, so Ye Weiming sent her to safety with Ah Hong.
• Ye Weiming compared A Zhong’s and Shi Qing’s blood, then revealed Mei Fanggu’s chastity mark and explained how she had abducted and raised A Zhong as Dog Bastard.
• After Ye Weiming freed everyone, Mei Fanggu confessed that A Zhong was Shi Qing and Min Rou’s child, then slit her wrists and died.
• After Mei Fanggu’s funeral, A Zhong thanked Ye Weiming and gave him the Grand Xuan Scripture Meridian Circulation Diagram secret manual as the hidden quest reward.

Ye Weiming studied A Zhong’s Grand Xuan Scripture meridian diagrams and combined them with the circulation mnemonic he had learned on Hero’s Island to master the ultimate internal skill. After raising it to Level 9, he discovered its effects and was offered the chance to fuse three of his internal skills, leaving him to decide whether to use the one-time opportunity.

• A Zhong gave Ye Weiming the Grand Xuan Scripture meridian diagrams and explained that he could not provide the cultivation mnemonic in writing.
• Ye Weiming warned A Zhong to keep his Ode to Gallantry Divine Skill secret, and A Zhong agreed to stay low-profile to protect himself and A Xiu.
• Ye Weiming and Sanyue returned to the Divine Constable Bureau, where Venerable Huang described the changes in heaven and earth and said they might create new possibilities for treating You Jin.
• Ye Weiming studied the diagrams, combined them with the mnemonic he had learned on Hero’s Island, and comprehended the Grand Xuan Scripture.
• Ye Weiming raised the Grand Xuan Scripture to Level 9 and found that As You Wish had removed the side effects from Jade Shatters Kunlun Peak.
• Ye Weiming activated Purify and Select and learned that it could fuse Nine Yin Divine Skill, Nine Yang Divine Skill, and Primal Chaos Skill; the system asked him to confirm.

Ye Weiming fused his Nine Yin Divine Skill, Nine Yang Divine Skill, and Primal Chaos Skill into the Nine Revolutions Yin Yang Divine Skill, then distributed rare Laba Porridge among allies and Yang Guo. After discovering Yang Guo had secretly learned Toad Stance from Ouyang Feng, Ye Weiming received a quest to send him to the Quanzhen Sect.

• Ye Weiming used the Grand Xuan Scripture’s Purify and Select trait to fuse three internal skills into the Nine Revolutions Yin Yang Divine Skill, then equipped it and tested his improved abilities.
• Ye Weiming’s teammates brought an enormous supply of ingredients, so he planned a feast and promised three days of meals after they revived You Jin.
• Ye Weiming distributed his remaining bowls of Laba Porridge to teammates, Venerable Huang, and Yang Guo.
• While testing Yang Guo’s martial arts, Ye Weiming recognized that Yang Guo had learned Toad Stance and warned him not to reveal it unnecessarily.
• Li Mochou recommended that Yang Guo join an orthodox sect, triggering a five-star quest for Ye Weiming to send him to the Quanzhen Sect immediately.

Ye Weiming took Yang Guo to Zhongnan Mountain to join the Quanzhen Sect and revealed the truth about Yang Guo’s parents along the way. After Zhao Zhijing and six Quanzhen Daoists accused him of damaging Qiu Chuji’s stele, Ye Weiming defeated them and asked if they were ready to talk properly.

• Ye Weiming agreed to take Yang Guo to the Quanzhen Sect and set out with him the next morning.
• On the way up Zhongnan Mountain, Ye Weiming admitted that he had killed Yang Kang and explained Yang Kang’s crimes and how he had rescued Qin Nanqin and found Yang Guo.
• Ye Weiming told Yang Guo to remember the Yang family’s honorable lineage and said that learning books and martial arts would help him decide whether to seek revenge.
• Yang Guo read the poem on Qiu Chuji’s stele, and Ye Weiming accidentally broke off a corner while touching it.
• Zhao Zhijing and six Quanzhen Daoists surrounded Ye Weiming and Yang Guo, but Ye Weiming evaded their formation and knocked all seven down.

Ye Weiming encountered Guo Jing while taking Yang Guo to Zhongnan Mountain, and a revised quest gave Yang Guo the option of learning martial arts on Peach Blossom Island. Ye Weiming agreed to consider Guo Jing’s offer after setting three conditions, which he was about to explain.

• Ye Weiming defeated the seven Quanzhen disciples, hypnotized Zhao Zhijing, and secretly planted hidden force in his body.
• Guo Jing arrived, reunited warmly with Ye Weiming, and learned that Yang Guo was Yang Kang’s son.
• Guo Jing offered to take Yang Guo to Peach Blossom Island and teach him martial arts, prompting the system to revise Ye Weiming’s quest and rewards.
• Ye Weiming decided Yang Guo could go with Guo Jing if Guo Jing accepted three conditions.
• Ye Weiming healed the Quanzhen disciples and sent them toward the mountaintop before preparing to state his conditions to Guo Jing.

Ye Weiming secured Guo Jing’s promises to train Yang Guo properly, then was summoned to the Divine Constable Bureau to examine a treasure map. The map pointed to the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm, and Venerable Huang sent Ye Weiming, Fei Yu, and Sanyue to seek a way to revive You Jin.

• Ye Weiming made Guo Jing promise to personally supervise Yang Guo, teach him according to his talents, and teach him the Yijin Duangu Bone Chapter; Guo Jing agreed and began instructing Yang Guo.
• Ye Weiming completed the hidden quest, raised Toad Stance to level 10, and headed toward Chongyang Palace to confront Zhao Zhijing before Huang Shang summoned him back to the Divine Constable Bureau.
• Ye Weiming joined Fei Yu and Sanyue at the bureau, where Venerable Huang showed him a worn map that Sanyue had obtained through hidden quests.
• Ye Weiming identified the map as depicting the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm, and Sanyue explained that its treasure was said to reveal the secret of transcending life and death.
• Venerable Huang sent Ye Weiming, Fei Yu, and Sanyue to the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm to search for the treasure and a way to revive You Jin.