Chapter Summaries

Ye Weiming chose the Pragmatic challenge for the Supreme Sword Dao title and fought a flawless avatar of Zhuo Bufan in a system instance. He killed Zhuo Bufan with a string of powerful attacks, won the title’s bonus attributes for his own title, “Middle Sword Person,” and was about to return to the original map.

• Ye Weiming chose the Pragmatic challenge to claim the attributes of the Sword God title without risking Zhuo Bufan’s main body.
• The system transported Ye Weiming and Zhuo Bufan into a duel instance and made Zhuo Bufan immune to weaknesses and distractions.
• Ye Weiming used Blunting Sword Stance and Intercepting Sword Stance to exhaust Zhuo Bufan and interrupt his attacks.
• Ye Weiming impaled Zhuo Bufan with the Peerless Divine Sword, struck him with Hidden Dragon, Do Not Act, and pinned him to a rock wall with Man and Sword as One.
• Ye Weiming prepared Myriad Swords Return to One, but the Burning effect from his earlier attacks dealt enough damage to kill Zhuo Bufan’s avatar.
• The system awarded Ye Weiming experience and cultivation points, transferred the Sword God title’s bonus attributes to “Middle Sword Person,” and began returning him to his original map.

Ye Weiming defeated Zhuo Bufan’s challenge clone and gained the Sword God title’s attributes for his own title, then watched Xu Zhu take control of Lingjiu Palace’s hall. He recruited Wu Zhou and Dugu Qiupiao to advise Xu Zhu on subduing the rebels, explaining that his government position made the matter inconvenient for him to handle.

• Ye Weiming recalled his flying daggers, and Zhuo Bufan conceded defeat before colliding with Xu Zhu at the hall entrance and attacking him.
• Ye Weiming inspected his upgraded Middle Sword Person title, which gained a stronger sword attack boost and the ability to extend his sword’s reach with sword light.
• Xu Zhu defeated Zhuo Bufan and rescued the captured Lingjiu Palace disciples while Granny Yu’s followers demanded that the rebels be exterminated.
• Ye Weiming examined Zhuo Bufan’s meager drops and noticed that Xu Zhu was struggling to persuade the Lingjiu Palace disciples to spare the rebels.
• Ye Weiming recruited Wu Zhou and Dugu Qiupiao into his team and asked them to advise Xu Zhu so the Thirty-Six Caves and Seventy-Two Islands would submit to Lingjiu Palace.
• Ye Weiming told Wu Zhou that his government position made it inconvenient for him to handle the persuasion himself.

Ye Weiming helped Xu Zhu settle the Thirty-Six Caves and Seventy-Two Islands’ submission to Lingjiu Palace, then chose and learned the Life and Death Talisman. Just as he struggled to decide how to use a huge stockpile of hidden-weapon proficiency, Dao Mei became the Sun Moon Holy Cult’s leader and unlocked a martial arts evolution for him.

• Ye Weiming had Wu Zhou and Dugu Qiupiao advise Xu Zhu on terms that secured Lingjiu Palace’s authority without imposing real losses on the Thirty-Six Caves and Seventy-Two Islands, and Xu Zhu became the palace’s next Sovereign Lord.
• Ye Weiming chose the Life and Death Talisman from the Misty Secret Tome, studied its manual, and learned the ultimate hidden weapon art.
• Ye Weiming read Hidden Weapon Insights and gained 225 million hidden-weapon proficiency, but worried that applying it to Life and Death Talisman would waste much of it.
• The system announced that Dongfang Bubai had handed the Sun Moon Holy Cult leadership to Dao Mei, who became its new leader.
• The Divine Constable Bureau rewarded Ye Weiming for Dao Mei’s success by unlocking a Martial Arts Evolution option for Life and Death Talisman.

Ye Weiming perfected the Life and Death Talisman and met Xiao Qiao, who offered to join his planned raid on Tianyi City. After learning how durable Niu Dachun had become, Ye Weiming considered him for the team’s final spot and prepared to seek him out.

• Ye Weiming used his Hidden Weapon Technique Proficiency to raise the Life and Death Talisman to Level 10, unlocking the abilities to bypass physical defense and protective true qi.
• Ye Weiming tested the technique by forming an ice shard, but stopped when he realized the person sneaking up on him was Xiao Qiao.
• Xiao Qiao told Ye Weiming that she had evolved the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra after helping hold off Li Chi Mei during the Xiangyang Defense Battle.
• Xiao Qiao offered to help infiltrate Tianyi City, and Ye Weiming explained that the operation would be limited to five people, with one team member still undecided.
• Xiao Qiao recommended Niu Dachun as the final member, describing his near-unbreakable defense and his frequent arena draws with stronger attackers.
• Ye Weiming reacted eagerly to Xiao Qiao’s account of Niu Dachun’s defense and asked whether he was challenging opponents in Chengdu’s arena.

Ye Weiming and his team infiltrated Tianyi City's Luoyang headquarters beneath Little Shrimp's statue, with Dao Mei impersonating Xuan Li Gong. Their cover held until an assassin triggered a trap that divided them behind heavy iron bars.

• Ye Weiming recalled how he had tested Niu Dachun's Indestructible Vajra Divine Skill and defeated him with a defense-piercing palm strike.
• The team opened a hidden entrance beneath Little Shrimp's statue and descended into Tianyi City's underground headquarters.
• Dao Mei posed as Xuan Li Gong and convinced two guards to guide the team deeper into the base.
• Dao Mei revealed that the real Xuan Li Gong was imprisoned at Black Wood Cliff after attempting to incite a rebellion.
• The leading assassin triggered a mechanism, causing iron bars to divide Ye Weiming from Dao Mei and the others.

Ye Weiming and his companions were exposed inside Tianyi City and trapped behind iron bars, where they fought Jin Xifeng and several hidden masters. As the four Goryeo Great Masters gathered and their strength surged, Jin Xifeng seized Ye Weiming’s recovery window and attacked his back.

• Ye Weiming discovered that the captured assassin had swallowed poison and killed himself, then hurled the corpse through a stone door to reveal Jin Xifeng.
• Jin Xifeng explained that the group had been exposed because Xuan Li Gong’s unusual appearance and attendants raised suspicion, and they failed Tianyi City’s code-signal test.
• Ye Weiming fought Jin Xifeng while Xiao Qiao and Jiang Jin Jiu supported him with concealed weapons, and Dao Mei and Niu Dachun guarded against an ambusher.
• Dao Mei and Niu Dachun confronted the hidden attacker, while Ye Weiming’s Brilliant Sun struck three masters emerging from another secret chamber: Yin Shiyun, Ye Gu, and Hua Jiushe.
• The four Goryeo Great Masters amplified one another’s power, allowing Jin Xifeng to clear the concealed weapons and launch a finger attack at Ye Weiming’s back.

Ye Weiming broke through Jin Xifeng’s control and fought Goryeo’s Four Great Experts while his companions battled the Tianyi City Lord. He poisoned and defeated the four experts, then slipped through the iron bars to join the fight on the other side.

• Ye Weiming shattered his Heavenly Dragon Flying Daggers against Jin Xifeng, then used Heaven and Earth Together to break free of Jin Xifeng’s acupoint seals and stab him with the Peerless Divine Sword.
• Ye Weiming fought off the four experts’ coordinated attacks as they formed the Tianyi Four Symbols Array, while Xiao Qiao, Dao Mei, Old Niu, and Jiang Jin Jiu fought the Tianyi City Lord.
• Jin Xifeng’s wounds from Ye Weiming’s poisoned sword triggered Blood Absolute, weakening him and disrupting the array; Ye Weiming then wounded Hua Jiushe, blasted Yin Shiyun away, and crippled Ye Gu’s sword arm.
• Ye Weiming killed Yin Shiyun, Hua Jiushe, Jin Xifeng, and Ye Gu, earning his party experience and Cultivation Points while he and Old Niu each gained a level.
• Ye Weiming used the Muscle Contraction and Bone Shifting Technique to slip between the iron bars and join his companions’ battle against the Tianyi City Lord.

Ye Weiming and his teammates pursued the retreating Tianyi City Lord through the underground chambers, only for Huangfu Dengyun to appear and kill Niu Dachun with two punches. Ye Weiming faced Huangfu Dengyun and ordered the others to flee while he held him off.

• Ye Weiming blocked the Tianyi City Lord's escape and fought him while Xiao Qiao, Dao Mei, and Jiang Jin Jiu joined the attack.
• The Tianyi City Lord wounded Ye Weiming in a counterattack and escaped through several walls, calling for the Holy Lord to save him.
• Ye Weiming sensed danger and warned his teammates, but a gray-clad man emerged and killed Niu Dachun with two punches.
• Ye Weiming recognized the attacker as Huangfu Dengyun and prepared a sword formation while telling Xiao Qiao, Dao Mei, and Jiang Jin Jiu to leave.

Ye Weiming fought Huangfu Dengyun beneath Luoyang City, using a devastating technique that destroyed Tianyi City's underground passage and left him to revive in the city. He prevented the Little Shrimp Hero Statue from crushing a shop, took charge of the operation, and reunited with his teammates, who brought four corpses and a mysterious treasure chest.

• Jiang Jin Jiu, Xiao Qiao, and Dao Mei withdrew with the spoils while Ye Weiming faced Huangfu Dengyun alone.
• Huangfu Dengyun used Star Shifting to redirect Ye Weiming's Myriad Swords Return to One, then attacked with Baseball Fist; Ye Weiming answered with Heavenly Demon Disintegration and gained the upper hand in their clash.
• Ye Weiming unleashed a more destructive technique, causing a massive explosion in the underground passage and dying in the blast before reviving in Luoyang City.
• Ye Weiming cut the tilting Little Shrimp Hero Statue in half, redirected its fall to protect an incense-and-candle shop, and smashed its face.
• Ye Weiming showed his Divine Constable Bureau token to Luoyang's constables and ordered them to seal off the area and reassure local vendors.
• Xiao Qiao, Dao Mei, and Jiang Jin Jiu arrived with the corpses of Goryeo's four great experts, and Xiao Qiao shared the Tianyi Four Symbols Box's four choices.

Ye Weiming and his teammates divided the spoils from defeating Goryeo’s four great experts, and he claimed the Tianyi Four Symbols Box. He chose the White Cloud Sword Manual inheritance of Ye Gucheng and returned to the Divine Constabulary, where Venerable Huang promised him a great reward for his report on Tianyi City.

• Xiao Qiao looted the four bosses, and Ye Weiming encoffined their corpses and selected several martial arts insight manuals.
• Niu Zhichun bought the Millennium Snow Ginseng Pill for 5,000 gold, Ye Weiming took the Tianyi Four Symbols Box, and the team agreed to auction the remaining loot and give Ye Weiming seventy percent of the proceeds.
• After receiving no useful advice from Yin Bukui or Fushiqianxunmo, Ye Weiming chose the box option about commanding Myriad Blades City and piercing the Seven Stars with one sword.
• The box became a White Cloud Sword Manual, an ultimate art left by Ye Gucheng, and Yin Bukui explained that its inheritance was on par with Ximen Chuixue’s swordsmanship.
• Ye Weiming and his teammates returned to the Divine Constabulary, where Venerable Huang praised their damage to Tianyi City and promised Ye Weiming a great reward.

Venerable Huang rewarded Ye Weiming and his companions for their mission, giving Ye Weiming the broken divine sword Reverse Scale and Dao Mei the General Outline of the Nine Yin Manual. After planning a trip to the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm to save You Jin, Ye Weiming mastered White Cloud Swordplay and discovered it could be merged with Sky Shaking Nine Swords.

• Venerable Huang awarded Xiao Qiao, Old Niu, and Jiang Jin Jiu experience and Cultivation Points, then gave Dao Mei the General Outline of the Nine Yin Manual.
• Venerable Huang presented Ye Weiming with the shattered divine sword Reverse Scale, whose powers impressed him and complemented Myriad Swords Return to One.
• Ye Weiming promised to enter the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm the next morning to retrieve the treasure that could save Commander You Jin.
• Ye Weiming invited his teammates, Sanyue, and Fei Yu to join the expedition, then returned to Heavenly Sword Manor to study the White Cloud Sword Manual.
• Ye Weiming comprehended White Cloud Swordplay, raised it to Level 10, and received the option to merge it with Sky Shaking Nine Swords.

Ye Weiming returned to the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm with his companions and toured the flourishing Night City, where Leng Yan had managed its affairs in his absence. As the group ate at a restaurant, an unfamiliar elderly man appeared on their windowsill.

• Ye Weiming put off fusing his sword arts because he lacked both the required Cultivation Points and Swordsmanship Insights.
• Ye Weiming entered the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm with Xiao Qiao, Old Niu, and Jiang Jin Jiu, where Leng Yan welcomed him at the City Lord's Manor.
• Leng Yan explained that she had overseen Night City for Ye Weiming and showed the group its prosperous streets and Jian Chen hosting the Bandit-Busting Lottery.
• Leng Yan took the group to her favorite Sichuan restaurant, where they tried its bobo chicken.
• Ye Weiming noticed an elderly man with a dry tobacco pipe sitting on the restaurant windowsill and smiling at them.

Xiao Sanxiao told Ye Weiming that he was essential to a simpler way of resolving the Great Tribulation of a Thousand Autumns, but first had to survive an undisclosed trial. Ye Weiming reunited with his teammates at Conch Gully to open the World-Ending Guide Map’s treasure, which released a powerful demon from the ice.

• Xiao Sanxiao visited Ye Weiming’s group, explained that Ye Weiming was indispensable to resolving the Great Tribulation of a Thousand Autumns, and warned him of an upcoming trial.
• After Xiao Sanxiao left, Ye Weiming learned that Fei Yu, Sanyue, and Dao Mei had entered the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm, then arranged to meet them near Conch Gully.
• Ye Weiming met his teammates at the inn and led them to the treasure location, where Sanyue’s Insightful Observation detected no unusual energy.
• Ye Weiming opened the World-Ending Guide Map, triggering a violent eruption beneath the Glacier that forced the team to retreat.
• A powerful, two-toned-haired man emerged from the shattered ice and counted the seven teammates, eager to eat their brains.

Ye Weiming and his companions discovered that the treasure capable of breaking the limits of life and death was the World-Ending Demonic Body cultivated by Divine General, who challenged them to a fight. The battle left Divine General facing Ye Weiming’s close-range attack after his powerful strike hit only an afterimage.

• Divine General revealed that his World-Ending Demonic Body true essence could revive someone and pass on his power, and Ye Weiming explained that the revelation was meant to force them to fight him.
• Ye Weiming, Dao Mei, and Xiao Qiao attacked Divine General, but his defense reduced most of their damage to one point while his Fire Thunder Qi severely wounded Ye Weiming.
• Old Niu blocked Divine General’s attack aimed at Xiao Qiao with Vajra Pagoda Bow, and Ye Weiming later intercepted another Fire Thunder Qi strike aimed at Old Niu.
• Ye Weiming judged that Divine General’s attacks consumed substantial true qi and that he lacked the skill to wield his power effectively.
• Ye Weiming baited Divine General into firing a ten-finger barrage at his afterimage, then appeared at close range and struck Divine General’s vital points with both palms.

Ye Weiming and his teammates killed Divine General after Ye Weiming's devastating attacks left him barely alive. A powerful newcomer, Di Shitian, appeared and demanded Ye Weiming join Tianmen, but Ye Weiming challenged his authority and prepared to face him.

• Ye Weiming blasted Divine General into the glacier with Wolf Extinction Double Strike, then trapped him in Jade and Stone Burn Together, leaving him gravely wounded but alive.
• Dao Mei warned the team that Divine General had not died, so the teammates launched their strongest attacks to finish him before Ye Weiming revived.
• A mysterious expert formed a giant hand of ice and snow to sweep the teammates away and stop their attacks, but Ye Weiming revived and pierced the hand to kill Divine General.
• The team received the kill rewards and began upgrading their martial arts, while Ye Weiming returned from the lake and faced the mysterious expert, who appeared as a giant ice sculpture.
• The expert introduced himself as Di Shitian and offered Ye Weiming a place in Tianmen; Ye Weiming rejected his claim to authority and confronted him.

After killing the Divine General, Ye Weiming raised Myriad Swords Return to One to its complete level and faced Di Shitian, confident he could survive the encounter. Their clash revealed that Di Shitian had mastered the same art and held the Sword Emperor title, and Ye Weiming began another attack rather than submit to Tianmen.

• Ye Weiming used five hundred million Cultivation Points to max out Myriad Swords Return to One and gained powerful sword-qi defenses and the ability to wield nearby objects as swords.
• Di Shitian challenged Ye Weiming to prove his strength, and Ye Weiming sent his companions away so they would not hinder his escape.
• Ye Weiming provoked Di Shitian into revealing his true body's location, then attacked with his Heavenly Dragon Flying Daggers as Di Shitian countered with ice swords.
• Ye Weiming shattered Di Shitian's ice-sword wall with Reverse Scale, and the two matched each other in Myriad Swords Return to One.
• Di Shitian revealed that he had earned the Sword Emperor title at the Sword Sect and again demanded Ye Weiming submit to Tianmen.
• Ye Weiming refused to concede and launched Sweep Across Eight Directions at Di Shitian.

Ye Weiming fought Di Shitian’s ice sculpture, tricked Di Shitian’s true body into a duel in the Dugu Secret Realm, and escaped with his trial complete. He gained a fusion of Sky Shaking Nine Swords and White Cloud Swordplay, then reunited with his teammates to divide Divine General’s spoils and prepare for Xiao Sanxiao’s ten-star quest.

• Ye Weiming tested his attacks against Di Shitian’s ice sculpture, then used Myriad Blades Piercing Clouds and a concealed Parting Sword Style to crack its chest.
• Di Shitian offered to recruit Ye Weiming into Tianmen, but Ye Weiming attacked with the Dugu Wooden Sword, which Di Shitian crushed and thereby triggered the secret-realm challenge.
• Ye Weiming absorbed the ice sculpture’s true qi, smashed it, carved an insulting message into a turtle-shaped arrangement of its pieces, and fled on Ah Hong.
• The system announced that Ye Weiming had completed Xiao Sanxiao’s trial and fused Sky Shaking Nine Swords with White Cloud Swordplay; he inspected the upgraded skill and its new effects.
• At Night City’s City Lord’s Manor, Ye Weiming reassured Xiao Qiao about provoking Di Shitian and summoned Divine General’s spoils for his teammates to divide before their ten-star quest.

After the Divine General’s treasures were divided, Xiao Sanxiao proposed a ten-star quest to merge the Divine Continent with the main world and avert the Great Tribulation of a Thousand Autumns. Ye Weiming took the decision scroll and prepared to consult Venerable Huang while his team strengthened itself for a possible battle with Di Shitian.

• Ye Weiming and his teammates divided the Divine General’s loot, with Ye Weiming taking the World-Ending Demonic Body manual, Old Niu receiving the Heavenly God Armor, Dao Mei winning the Ice Fire Demonic Robe, and Jiang Jin Jiu buying Fire Thunder Qi.
• Xiao Sanxiao arrived and explained that merging the two worlds could break the Divine Continent’s destined calamity.
• Xiao Sanxiao offered Ye Weiming a ten-star quest scroll and said the team would have to confront a true, merciless Di Shitian if they accepted.
• Ye Weiming decided to seek Venerable Huang’s opinion, sent Sanyue to contact him, and told the others to prepare for a possible fight.
• Ye Weiming wondered who had won the decisive battle between Dugu Qiubai and Di Shitian.

Ye Weiming prepared for the coming battle with Di Shitian and was ambushed in his room by the masked Luo Xian. He wounded her with a concealed Myriad Swords Return to One, then asked what grievance she had against Di Shitian.

• Ye Weiming explained that Dugu Qiubai winning their title contest could leave a lasting Sword Mark in Di Shitian's mind and improve the team's odds.
• Fei Yu left to notify Venerable Huang, while Sanyue chose to spend the evening eating with Ye Weiming and the others.
• Ye Weiming returned to his room, where Leng Yan brought him an agarwood censer that improved concentration while studying or cultivating.
• Sensing a hostile intruder approaching, Ye Weiming secretly prepared Reverse Scale and unleashed Myriad Swords Return to One when a masked woman attacked him.
• The woman blocked part of the attack with an ice wall but suffered heavy damage; Ye Weiming recognized her as Luo Xian and asked what grudge she had against Di Shitian.

Ye Weiming drove off Luo Xian and concluded that she had attacked him on her own, then perfected the World-Ending Demonic Body and discovered its powerful defense and in-game immortality effect. He suspected that the martial art’s immortality might also apply in reality.

• Luo Xian questioned how Ye Weiming knew her identity, and he explained that Di Shitian had told him while trying to arrange their marriage.
• Ye Weiming deduced that Di Shitian might have sent Luo Xian to die by his hand, while Luo Xian insisted she had come on her own and warned him about Ice Emperor before leaving.
• Ye Weiming told Dao Mei, Xiao Qiao, and Sanyue that Luo Xian had revealed Di Shitian’s limited forces and that he had planned to delay her until his teammates arrived.
• Ye Weiming read the World-Ending Demonic Body manual, used Internal Skill Insights and Cultivation Points to perfect it, and gained immense physical defense and immunity to natural aging.
• Ye Weiming realized the perfected art’s immortality might carry over into reality and became excited by the possibility.