Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming and his companions battled the Level 199 Crimson Python, but it absorbed the life force of its snake minions and began transforming into a flood dragon. Ye Weiming welcomed the change, declaring that they would kill the Level 200 flood dragon for a better reward.

• Dao Mei struck the Crimson Python but was badly injured by its tail, while Jiang Jin Jiu and Decadent Dragon attacked and Niu Zhichun protected Decadent Dragon from a counterattack.
• Ye Weiming drew the Crimson Python's attention and attacked it with Myriad Swords Return to One, then dodged its bite and flicked a crimson pill into its mouth.
• More snakes emerged from the ground, so Ye Weiming assigned Dao Mei and Jiang Jin Jiu to clear the smaller enemies while the others fought the Crimson Python.
• After about ten minutes of fighting, the Crimson Python drained the life force and blood qi of its snake minions to fuel its transformation.
• As the Crimson Python began turning into a flood dragon, Ye Weiming told the group to slay it and claim the greater reward.

Ye Weiming explained that the Crimson Python’s habit of swallowing things indiscriminately gave him confidence, then faced it after its transformation into a level 200 Crimson Flood Dragon. He used a Three Corpses Brain God Pill and demon-suppressing music to gain an advantage, but the flood dragon swallowed him and claimed its inner flames would consume him.

• Ye Weiming told Dao Mei that the Crimson Python’s indiscriminate eating was the weakness behind his plan to let it transform before attacking.
• The Crimson Python completed its transformation into a Crimson Flood Dragon and threatened to devour the Monster Hunting team.
• Ye Weiming summoned Yu Chi Yan Hong and Shan Xiaoxiao to play “A Wave for the Rest of My Life,” activating a special combat effect against demons.
• The Crimson Flood Dragon lunged for the two musicians, but Ye Weiming struck its nose and revealed that he had fed it a Three Corpses Brain God Pill.
• The Crimson Flood Dragon sprang upward and swallowed Ye Weiming, then claimed its pill flame would burn him into energy, though its final words came out in Ye Weiming’s voice.

Ye Weiming killed the Level 200 Crimson Phosphor Flood Dragon from inside its belly, clearing the hidden instance and earning the first-kill rewards. As the party rushed to influence which item the system upgraded into an artifact, Ye Weiming realized he had forgotten to exclude his own unwanted equipment.

• Ye Weiming endured the flood dragon’s demon-core flames and struck it repeatedly from inside its belly while his companions watched.
• The Crimson Flood Dragon pleaded for mercy, but Dao Mei warned Ye Weiming not to trust it, and he continued attacking.
• Ye Weiming’s ultimate move made the flood dragon swell and explode, killing the Level 200 boss and clearing the hidden instance.
• The system awarded the party experience, cultivation points, a level each, and a first-kill reward, while the Body-Protecting Golden Light prepared to upgrade one treasure-grade item.
• Ye Weiming ordered Jiang Jin Jiu to keep Niu Zhichun away from the corpse and asked Dao Mei to loot it, then explained his sword formation was meant to restrict the upgrade’s choices.
• With only seconds left on the upgrade countdown, the companions hurriedly tossed extra treasure-grade equipment onto the ground.

After their equipment was upgraded, the Flood Dragon Slaying Squad showed off their divine artifacts and discussed how perfectly most suited their owners. Sanyue was disappointed with her Twin Fish Pendant until Ye Weiming hinted that it could be used to gain greater benefits.

• The teammates hurriedly selected equipment for the system to upgrade, then gathered to share their rewards.
• Jiang Jin Jiu teased Niu Dachun about his former names and Dharma name before revealing his Dragon's Eye of Poison, a ring suited to his poison-based martial arts.
• Decadent Dragon showed off his Scorching Sun Soul Severing Scale, while Niu Dachun presented his defensive Great Luo Kasaya.
• Dao Mei shared her Baoqing Jade Hairpin, and Sanyue revealed a Twin Fish Pendant with nine chances to avoid death penalties that she considered unimpressive.
• Ye Weiming told Sanyue that the pendant could be used to obtain greater benefits, leaving her eager to hear how.

Ye Weiming revealed that the Classic of Mountains and Seas had transformed into a Kirin Demon Diagram that boosted all martial arts levels, then his party looted the Crimson Flood Dragon and gave him its Spirit Beast Treasure Chest. The chest produced two pet eggs, and Ye Weiming was prompted to choose one.

• Ye Weiming showed the party the Kirin Demon Diagram, which had evolved from his Classic of Mountains and Seas and granted all martial arts levels +1 while carried.
• Dao Mei looted the Crimson Flood Dragon and found a Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom and a Spirit Beast Treasure Chest as its only drops.
• Ye Weiming explained that the party's earlier equipment upgrades and rewards accounted for the boss's sparse loot, then claimed the quest item.
• The party agreed that Ye Weiming deserved the treasure chest because he had dealt with most of the Crimson Flood Dragon himself.
• Ye Weiming opened the chest, revealing two pet eggs and a system prompt asking him to choose one.

Ye Weiming chose the green pet egg, hatched Little Green, and learned that its skill could boost cultivation gains as it grew. After completing the Snake Demon mission and receiving a costly evolution opportunity for the Divine Illumination Scripture, Ye Weiming discussed the search for a way to revive You Jin and planned to prepare before confronting the demon guarding the treasure.

• Ye Weiming chose the green egg, and Little Green hatched, ate its shell, and coiled around his arm; its Aid My Cultivation skill increased experience and Cultivation Points from monster kills by 1%.
• The group emerged outside Leifeng Pagoda, where Ye Weiming reported to Venerable Huang that they had killed the Snake Demon and retrieved the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom.
• Venerable Huang let Ye Weiming keep the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom, and the team received the Martial Arts Evolution reward; Ye Weiming's Divine Illumination Scripture required 400 million proficiency to evolve.
• Dao Mei reported finding no method to revive the dead in the Twin Dragons Secret Realm, while Ye Weiming said Nie Feng had confirmed that a treasure in the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm could bring someone back to life, though a demon guarded it.
• Ye Weiming proposed delaying the treasure expedition until Heaven's Wrath Ten Directions was finished and his teammates broke through level 100; Venerable Huang approved his plan and told him to meet Bai Zhanji at Tianfu Inn in Chengdu about Tianyi City.

After a night of drinking with his teammates, Ye Weiming went to Chengdu to find Bai Zhanji and discovered a poisoned letter that led to an ambush. He captured four attackers, but they died mysteriously, and he identified a second poison that suggested someone had silenced them.

• Ye Weiming shared a roasted lamb meal and an all-night conversation with his teammates before leaving for Chengdu at dawn.
• At Tianfu Inn, Ye Weiming learned Bai Zhanji had gone out and received the letter he had left behind.
• Ye Weiming identified the venomous-snake painting as Crimson Viper Venom Ink and treated the poisoned waiter.
• Eat, Drink, Whore, and Gamble surrounded Ye Weiming, but he quickly subdued them with One Yang Finger.
• The four attackers died despite Ye Weiming only sealing their acupoints, and he identified Meridian-Severing Soul-Shattering Powder in Eat's blood.

Ye Weiming investigated the poison attack at Tianfu Inn, saved the waiter, and found the innkeeper murdered by a snake. After demonstrating that a snake could have escaped through a hole in the window, he uncovered a letter hidden beneath the innkeeper’s pillow and prepared to continue investigating.

• Ye Weiming identified the poison that killed the Four Evildoers, then treated the poisoned waiter and questioned him about the letter supposedly from Bai Zhanji.
• The waiter led Ye Weiming to the innkeeper, whom they found dead from a venomous snakebite.
• Shi Gang arrived with constables, and Ye Weiming explained the Four Evildoers’ deaths and warned him that a skilled poison expert was involved.
• Ye Weiming deduced that a snake had killed the innkeeper and escaped through a hole in the window, then used Little Green to demonstrate how it could have happened.
• Ye Weiming found the real letter from Bai Zhanji beneath the innkeeper’s pillow and asked Shi Gang to handle the scene while he continued the investigation.

Ye Weiming followed Bai Zhanji’s trail to a group of Western Regions monks who had lured him into a poisonous cave as bait for the Divine Constable Bureau. After evolving the Divine Illumination Scripture, Ye Weiming launched a surprise attack on the monks, leaving the rescue of Bai Zhanji and the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Ye Weiming read Bai Zhanji’s letter and concluded that Tianyi City’s agents had exposed and trapped the constable; he sent Shi Gang to secure the clues at a ruined temple while he went to rescue Bai Zhanji.
• Shi Gang organized the constables, ordered the temple and inn secured, and requested reinforcements from Lord Zhou.
• Ye Weiming followed Ah Huang’s nose north and spent 400 million Cultivation Points evolving the Divine Illumination Scripture, gaining stronger attributes and a new healing effect.
• Ye Weiming found Heta, Buddha Mother, and more than thirty monks guarding a poisonous cave, then overheard that they had used Bai Zhanji as bait for the Divine Constable Bureau’s reinforcements.
• Ye Weiming unleashed Dragon Wings of Heaven and attacked the monks with Myriad Swords Return to One.

Ye Weiming crippled Buddha Mother and Heta, but their bloodburn secret arts let them revive and grow stronger. He drained their internal energy to stop them from using the arts again, then entered the poisonous cave to rescue Bai Zhanji.

• Ye Weiming killed the Foreign Monks’ underlings and sealed Buddha Mother and Heta’s acupoints after severely injuring them.
• Buddha Mother and Heta forcibly broke their sealed acupoints, then used a bloodburn secret art to restore their health and temporarily rise to level 170.
• Ye Weiming attacked Buddha Mother, killed her with Swordless Style, and watched her revive through another secret art.
• Ye Weiming used Qi Blast Waste Acupoint to drain Buddha Mother and Heta’s internal energy, then sealed their acupoints again.
• Ye Weiming left the weakened monks behind and entered the cave filled with poisonous creatures to rescue Bai Zhanji.

Ye Weiming rescued Bai Zhanji from the venom-filled cave and questioned the captured Buddha Mother about Tianyi City, but a mysterious voice interrupted before she could identify the Sovereign Lord. The voice belonged to Li Canglong, leader of the Heavenly Dragon Cult, who arrived and launched an attack on Ye Weiming.

• Ye Weiming found Bai Zhanji poisoned and unconscious in the cave, carried him out, and treated his wounds and snake venom.
• Bai Zhanji awoke and admitted he had fallen into an enemy trap, but Ye Weiming chose to question the critically injured Heta and Buddha Mother first.
• Ye Weiming controlled Buddha Mother with the Soul Shifting Great Method and asked her to identify the Sovereign Lord, but a powerful voice broke his control before she could answer.
• Bai Zhanji recognized the voice and warned Ye Weiming to run as Li Canglong emerged from hiding and confronted them.
• Bai Zhanji identified Li Canglong as the Dragon King and leader of the Heavenly Dragon Cult, who had once crippled his martial arts.
• Ye Weiming matched Li Canglong's domineering aura, and Li Canglong gathered the surrounding primordial energy before striking down at him.

Ye Weiming and Li Canglong traded powerful attacks, and Li tried to recruit Ye before using Bai Zhanji as leverage. When Li turned his killing strikes on Heta and Buddha Mother to silence them, Ye Weiming killed them first with Finger Flicking Divine Sword.

• Ye Weiming spotted a flaw in Li Canglong's Dragon Grasp Style and broke the attack, but Li used its follow-up variation to trap the Peerless Divine Sword and counterattack.
• Ye Weiming and Li Canglong exchanged blows, and Li offered Ye the position of vice cult leader in the Heavenly Dragon Cult; Ye rejected him.
• Li Canglong prepared the Sole Dragon King Seal and locked its killing intent onto Bai Zhanji, forcing Ye to meet the attack head-on with Sweep Across Eight Directions.
• Li Canglong secretly targeted Heta and Buddha Mother with two palm strikes, but Ye Weiming killed both with Finger Flicking Divine Sword before the strikes arrived.

Ye Weiming killed Heta and Buddha Mother, then drove Li Canglong away while protecting Bai Zhanji. His reward upgraded the Golden Light Sword into the divine Zhang Ling Sword, and he looted the monks’ remains before the chapter ended.

• Ye Weiming killed Heta and Buddha Mother, earning first-kill announcements that said neither monk would respawn.
• Ye Weiming prepared his sword formation and flying daggers, then provoked Li Canglong into fighting him.
• Li Canglong refused to fight while Ye Weiming had to protect Bai Zhanji and flew away.
• Ye Weiming completed the hidden quest “Saving a Colleague,” and the reward upgraded his Golden Light Sword into the Zhang Ling Sword.
• Ye Weiming looted the monks’ corpses and found the Moro Blood Curse, a fragment of the Great Shavara Secret Mantra, and Heta’s Yi Jin Jing Fragment.

Ye Weiming turned the Moro Blood Curse into a special skill, then concluded that the Heavenly Dragon Cult’s leaders might know Tianyi City’s secrets and began planning an investigation. After returning the Yi Jin Jing Fragment to Shaolin Temple, he received permission to browse and copy its Buddhist scriptures for a day.

• Ye Weiming learned the Moro Blood Curse and sent his teammates details about upgrading the Golden Light Sword into the Zhang Ling Sword.
• Ye Weiming and Bai Zhanji discovered that Shi Gang’s arrests had caught only Tianyi City’s lowest-ranking members, though the operation had exposed the link between Tianyi City and the Heavenly Dragon Cult.
• Ye Weiming proposed investigating the Heavenly Dragon Cult’s leaders and Eight Legions, and asked Shi Gang and Bai Zhanji to gather intelligence.
• Venerable Huang gave Ye Weiming authority to lead the investigation, and Ye Weiming assigned Zhan Zhao to collect information about the Heavenly Dragon Cult.
• Ye Weiming returned the Yi Jin Jing Fragment to Master Xuan Ci, who gave him an Abbot’s Token allowing him to browse and copy Buddhist scriptures in the Scripture Repository for one day.

After returning the Yi Jin Jing, Ye Weiming accepted the Sweeping Monk’s nine-star quest to find and reform the person bearing the Yaksa fate. He received conflicting clues, then was invited to the Precious Dragon Chess Game at Drumbeat Mountain, which strengthened his suspicion that Xu Zhu was the Yaksa and began another quest.

• The Sweeping Monk rewarded Ye Weiming for returning the Yi Jin Jing and offered him three choices, so Ye Weiming chose a hidden quest.
• The Sweeping Monk assigned Ye Weiming the task of finding the Yaksa and guiding them toward good, hinting that the reward involved Tendon Transformation and Marrow Cleansing.
• Ye Weiming asked Yin Bukui and Fushiqianxunmo who the Yaksa might be; they suggested Xu Zhu, the Four Great Evils, a Heavenly Dragon Cult general, and Duan Lang.
• Two men stopped Ye Weiming near the Shaolin post station and handed him Su Xinghe’s invitation to the Precious Dragon Chess Game.
• The invitation triggered an eight-star quest requiring Ye Weiming to reach Drumbeat Mountain in ten days, and he suspected Xu Zhu was the Yaksa.

Ye Weiming retrieved the newly forged Heaven's Wrath Ten Directions, then gathered with his teammates at the sealed path to Drumbeat Mountain as the Precious Dragon Chess Game quest approached. Xiao Qiao surprised him with an embroidered handkerchief bearing the Sunshine Sky ultimate skill, while the mountain’s seal still stood in their way.

• Ye Weiming accepted the Precious Dragon Chess Game quest and learned that ten days remained before it began.
• Ye Weiming let his pets grind monsters while Little Green rose from level 1 to level 63 and Ah Hong and Ah Huang reached their level caps.
• Ye Weiming visited Zhuge Kongming at Five Dragons Ridge and retrieved Heaven's Wrath Ten Directions, whose Divine Energy Circulation effect let him unleash Soaring Dragon, Regret much faster.
• Ye Weiming chose to postpone the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm expedition so his teammates would not miss the Precious Dragon Chess Game opportunity.
• As the quest countdown neared its end, Ye Weiming met Dao Mei, Xiao Qiao, and Yun Mian at Drumbeat Mountain, where the seal still blocked the path upward.
• Xiao Qiao traded Ye Weiming an embroidered handkerchief containing the Sunshine Sky ultimate skill.

Xiao Qiao gave Ye Weiming the supreme inner cultivation manual "Sunshine Sky," then the players gathered on Drumbeat Mountain to begin the Precious Dragon Chess Game challenge. After Ye Weiming entered through the system’s individual scan, he found himself alone in a bamboo forest.

• Xiao Qiao explained that Lang Fanyun had prepared "Sunshine Sky" for Ye Weiming, and he accepted the manual in exchange for ending their dispute over the Se Kong Sword.
• Dao Mei told Ye Weiming that Xiao Qiao had defeated the Golden Wheel Dharma King and resolved the Great Victory Pass Hero Convention crisis three days earlier.
• The players reached the summit, where Duan Yu admitted defeat to Su Xinghe in the Precious Dragon Chess Game.
• The system announced that invited players had to scan the chessboard on the rock wall individually to enter the challenge, and Ye Weiming warned that they would likely be unable to tackle it as a team.
• Ye Weiming chose to enter the challenge and found himself alone in a bamboo forest after the surrounding people and NPCs disappeared.

Ye Weiming entered the Precious Dragon Chess Game’s challenge and chose its most difficult branch, which promised to evolve one of his pets. After Su Xinghe sent him into the game, Ye Weiming fought a monstrous demon in a burning village and was surprised when a young monk intervened.

• Ye Weiming met Su Xinghe in the illusion and learned he could play the chess game or enter it as a piece to break it from within.
• Ye Weiming rejected the rewards for the Yin-Yang Pendant and Haotian Sword, then chose the Demon-Refining Pot despite Su Xinghe’s warning about the Primordial-difficulty trial.
• Su Xinghe sent Ye Weiming into a burning village, where Hell Dang Kang was slaughtering villagers.
• Ye Weiming rescued a little girl and struck Hell Dang Kang, then drew the demon away from the village to protect the remaining people.
• A young monk bound Hell Dang Kang with a long whisk, and Ye Weiming recognized him and exclaimed, “Nie Feng, where’s your hair?”

Ye Weiming helped Fahai defeat the Hell Dang Kang, then treated the villagers and took a poisoned girl to Hangzhou, where Madam Xu removed the demonic aura afflicting her. After returning the girl home, Ye Weiming still did not know how to escape the Precious Dragon Chess Game, and Madam Xu and her younger sister suddenly flew toward him with a swaddled infant.

• Fahai burned the Hell Dang Kang to ashes with a Buddhist attack and introduced himself to Ye Weiming.
• Ye Weiming helped Fahai treat the villagers, then took the poisoned girl and her mother to Hangzhou for medicine.
• At Baoan Hall, Madam Xu removed the demonic aura from the girl after Ye Weiming's attempts to cure her poison failed.
• Ye Weiming stayed overnight with Boss Xu, then flew the mother and daughter back to their village the next morning.
• As Ye Weiming wondered how to break the Precious Dragon Chess Game, Madam Xu and her younger sister arrived in the air, furious and carrying an infant.

Ye Weiming learned that Bai Suzhen and Little Green needed help rescuing Xu Xian from Fahai, and chose to aid them rather than stay behind to raise their child. His plan brought the prefect, constables, soldiers, and townspeople to Jinshan Temple, where Fahai faced accusations of kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment.

• Bai Suzhen explained that Fahai had abducted Xu Xian and asked Ye Weiming to help rescue him, offering the White Dragon Sword in return.
• Ye Weiming chose the rescue quest and persuaded Bai Suzhen and Little Green not to attack Jinshan Temple rashly.
• Ye Weiming devised a plan to use the authorities and the townspeople to confront Fahai over Xu Xian's imprisonment.
• Three days later, Fahai prepared to face the two snake spirits, but Ye Weiming instead brought the prefect, constables, soldiers, and a crowd to the temple gates.
• The prefect asked Fahai whether Xu Xian was inside, and Fahai admitted that he had captured him; the chief constable and prefect then listed accusations against Fahai.