Chapter Summaries

Ding Ling finished reading the collected martial arts manuals, maxed out several techniques, and considered how to complete his remaining mission before leaving the world. He continued preparing for his departure while strengthening Little Dragon Girl and establishing a lasting foundation for his people.

• Ding Ling finished reading the manuals, while Little Dragon Girl continued improving through medicinal baths and the Breathing Method.
• Ding Ling checked his missions and concluded that he might need to defeat Zhou Botong to complete the World's Finest mission.
• Ding Ling maxed out the manuals Guo Jing had provided, including Left-Right Hand Technique and Empty Fist.
• Ding Ling sent Huo Dou, Yuwen Chengdu, and troops to obtain the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill and other manuals from the Tantric Sect.
• Ding Ling arranged for Pusiqu Snakes to be raised and gave their gallbladders to Little Dragon Girl, whose strength increased greatly.
• Ding Ling left the empire's administration to Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Huang Yaoshi, and the others, intending to complete Mission 2 and then ascend from the world.

Ding Ling and Little Dragon Girl traveled to Unfeeling Valley after hearing that Zhou Botong had been spotted nearby. Lu Wushuang and Hong Lingbo guided them into the valley, where Ding Ling noticed Jade Bees and wondered how Zhou Botong had learned to raise them.

• Ding Ling flew north with Little Dragon Girl, whose cultivation had advanced after switching from the Jade Maiden Manual to the Nine Yin Manual.
• Players watched Ding Ling fly and grew excited to join sects and learn internal arts.
• Lu Wushuang and Hong Lingbo greeted Ding Ling and explained that they had joined the Great Ming Imperial Bodyguard and found traces of Zhou Botong.
• Ding Ling followed Lu Wushuang and Hong Lingbo into Unfeeling Valley, where he saw passion flowers and cautioned against touching them.
• Little Dragon Girl recognized the Jade Bees in the valley, and Ding Ling wondered how Zhou Botong had learned to raise them.

Ding Ling met Zhou Botong in the Unfeeling Valley and exchanged martial arts with him, completing his mission before leaving with his wife. Lu Wushuang and Hong Lingbo stayed behind to help Zhou Botong raise Jade Bees, while a rider approached Ding Ling and his wife outside the valley.

• Lu Wushuang brought Zhou Botong to meet Ding Ling, and reassured Zhou Botong that Ding Ling was not the murderous demon people claimed.
• Ding Ling sparred with Zhou Botong and impressed him with a range of spear, sword, and saber techniques.
• Ding Ling and Zhou Botong exchanged martial arts, and Ding Ling instantly mastered the techniques Zhou Botong taught him.
• Ding Ling taught Zhou Botong the Netherworld Spear Art and the Flying Bear Breathing Technique, then stayed in the valley for two days and completed mission 2.
• Lu Wushuang and Hong Lingbo stayed in the valley to help Zhou Botong raise Jade Bees as Ding Ling and his wife departed.
• A rider in a sapphire-blue robe charged toward Ding Ling and his wife at the entrance to the Unfeeling Valley.

Ding Ling left Unfeeling Valley after completing his task, but encountered Gongsun Zhi, who attacked him with the Fishing Net Formation after Ding Ling demanded compensation. Ding Ling swiftly defeated Gongsun Zhi and forced him to demonstrate and recite his martial arts, catching him as he tried to conceal the truth.

• Ding Ling completed Task 2, collected a passion flower plant and heartbreak grass, and left Unfeeling Valley with Little Dragon Girl.
• Gongsun Zhi charged at Ding Ling on horseback, then identified him and apologized after Ding Ling knocked him down.
• Ding Ling demanded Gongsun Zhi's family martial arts and weapons as compensation, but Gongsun Zhi trapped Ding Ling and Little Dragon Girl in the Fishing Net Formation.
• Ding Ling used the Yitian Sword and the Nine Swords of Dugu to cut apart the nets, kill dozens of disciples, and subdue Gongsun Zhi.
• Ding Ling ordered Gongsun Zhi to demonstrate his martial arts and recite their cultivation formulas, and Gongsun Zhi began teaching Iron Palm Skill while secretly altering a few words.

Ding Ling forced Gongsun Zhi to reveal several Unfeeling Valley martial arts and mastered them instantly, then followed him to the valley’s manor. There, Ding Ling encountered Qiu Qianchi and her allies, including Ma Guangzuo and Yin Kexi, who recognized him and bowed.

• Ding Ling exposed Gongsun Zhi’s false cultivation formula, cut off his ear, and made him demonstrate Iron Palm, which Ding Ling mastered at once.
• Gongsun Zhi revealed the Yin Yang Reversal Blade Technique, Meridian Blocking Skill, and Unfeeling Internal Energy Method, and Ding Ling brought all three to max level as the Martial Furnace’s lid became solid.
• Ding Ling ordered Gongsun Zhi to lead him to the Unfeeling Valley’s martial arts collection, while an achievement notice warned that Gongsun Zhi might use Passion Flowers against Ding Ling and Little Dragon Girl.
• Gongsun Zhi explained that outsiders and martial experts had driven him from the valley after rescuing Qiu Qianchi, then killed several armed men guarding a manor with his saber-and-sword technique.
• Qiu Qianchi appeared in a wheelchair with a young woman and a group of allies; Ma Guangzuo and Yin Kexi recognized Ding Ling, dropped to their knees, and paid their respects.

Ding Ling was recognized as the Ming prince and War God in Unfeeling Valley, where Qiu Qianchi secretly plotted against him. After reading the valley’s manuals, he obtained the Gentleman and Lady Swords and left with Little Dragon Girl.

• The beautiful young woman identified Ding Ling as the Ming Dynasty’s War God, and Qiu Qianchi and the others paid their respects to him.
• Qiu Qianchi learned that Huang Rong was the Ming empress and grew murderous toward Ding Ling, but her daughter refused to help her plot against him.
• Ding Ling spent a day and night reading Unfeeling Valley’s secret manuals, increasing the Martial Furnace’s progress by about one percent.
• Gongsun Zhi presented Ding Ling with the Gentleman and Lady Swords, and Ding Ling gave the Lady Sword to Little Dragon Girl.
• Ding Ling left Unfeeling Valley with Little Dragon Girl after collecting what he wanted.

Ding Ling escaped Qiu Qianchi’s poisoned ambush with Little Dragon Girl, killed Qiu Qianchi and the attacking disciples, and left Gongsun Lve'e to mourn her parents. Gongsun Lve'e became master of Unfeeling Valley and chose to withdraw from the martial world, while Ding Ling returned to Xiangyang.

• Ding Ling cut through the passion flowers blocking the Book Vault exit and shielded Little Dragon Girl from the poisoned needles as Unfeeling Valley disciples attacked.
• Gongsun Zhi died from the poison, and Gongsun Lve'e realized that Qiu Qianchi had killed her father.
• Ding Ling killed the attacking disciples and hurled his sword through Qiu Qianchi's heart.
• Gongsun Lve'e grieved over her parents, took charge of Unfeeling Valley, and decided to seal it off and live in seclusion.
• Ding Ling left Unfeeling Valley with Little Dragon Girl and sped back to Xiangyang.

Ding Ling cured himself and Little Dragon Girl of the Love Flower Poison, then welcomed Yang Guo and gave him martial arts manuals to study at the Wang Residence. At Guo Xiang’s hundred-day banquet, Guo Jing and Huang Rong raised the possibility of Yang Guo and Guo Fu marrying, while Guo Fu’s feelings toward Ding Ling left her uncertain.

• Ding Ling created an Unrequited Love Pill with Heartbreak Grass and cured himself and Little Dragon Girl of the Love Flower Poison.
• Ding Ling declined to advance to a higher-level Martial Arts World because he still wanted to obtain the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill.
• Yang Guo arrived at the Wang Residence, learned that Ding Ling had become his relative and helped bring Guo Jing to the throne, and agreed to stay and cultivate.
• Ding Ling gave Yang Guo two Breathing Methods and the Nine Yin Manual, and Yang Guo quickly showed his talent for mastering martial arts.
• Ding Ling brought Little Dragon Girl and Yang Guo to Guo Xiang’s hundred-day banquet, where Guo Jing and Huang Rong discussed pairing Yang Guo with Guo Fu.
• Guo Fu struggled to understand her feelings as she compared Yang Guo with Ding Ling, whose presence had increasingly captured her attention.

Ding Ling mastered the Tantric techniques he received, though the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill remained unlearned, and decided it was time to leave the world. He opened the Path of Glory outside Chang'an, but Little Dragon Girl could not follow him onto the Sky Ladder.

• Guo Jing arranged for Yang Guo and Guo Fu to marry, while Guo Fu remained resentful that Ding Ling ignored her.
• Huo Dou brought Ding Ling Tantric secret manuals after Yuwen Chengdu and his army crushed the Tantric Sect and occupied the western plateau.
• Ding Ling mastered the manuals, including the Flame Blade, but the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill only appeared in his Library without reaching maximum level.
• Ding Ling explained his departure to Little Dragon Girl and took her, Yang Guo, and the others to an ancient pavilion outside Chang'an.
• Ding Ling redeemed nine Glory Medals and opened the Path of Glory, summoning the Sky Ladder.
• Little Dragon Girl tried to follow Ding Ling but was repelled by the Sky Ladder's power.

After ascending from the Return of the Condor Heroes world, Ding Ling reviewed his rewards, chose Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils as his next world, and entered it with his two Ferghana Horses. Before departure, he increased his Root Bone to 5 with a pill and bought a Storage Bag.

• Ding Ling said goodbye to Little Dragon Girl and Yang Guo before ascending alone.
• At the Gate of Glory, Ding Ling claimed his rewards, selected four weapons, clothing, and two Ferghana Horses, and saved his one-time personal world for possible use as an escape route.
• Ding Ling chose Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils from the three available third-layer worlds and opened its Gate of Glory.
• Ding Ling spent five Glory Medals on a Genuine Rank 2 Pill, raising his Root Bone by two points to 5.
• Ding Ling bought a Rank 4 Storage Bag and entered the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world with his two Ferghana Horses.

After Ding Ling ascended, people across the Nine Provinces and the real world reacted to his departure and fame. Ding Ling remained unaware of the attention as he entered a new Game World and found himself alone on a remote mountain road.

• Little Dragon Girl watched the sky until nightfall, and Yang Guo reassured her that Ding Ling would keep his promise and return to see them.
• Guo Jing and Huang Rong worried about the Great Ming Dynasty without Ding Ling, while Huang Yaoshi resolved to pursue the Martial Dao after the dynasty was secure.
• People across the Nine Provinces prepared to follow Ding Ling up the Sky Ladder, while Players anticipated choosing new worlds and discussed his ascension.
• Businesses flooded the forums with advertisements seeking Ding Ling as an endorser, and Players remarked on the scale of his worldwide fame.
• Ding Ling reflected that strength mattered more to him than money, then entered a new Game World and used Serpentine Movement to reach the tip of a tree above a remote road.

Ding Ling activated the Path of Glory in the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils World, mastered the Overlord Breathing Technique, and encountered Zhong Ling while traveling through the mountains. The chapter left him asking whether he had reached Wuliang Mountain.

• Ding Ling activated the Path of Glory and learned its rules for defeating powerful experts.
• Ding Ling resolved to use the strength of the Nine Provinces to seize the world's secret manuals and sensed that this world had a higher upper limit and denser energy.
• Ding Ling brought the Overlord Breathing Technique to max level, increasing his Charisma and strengthening his fused power.
• Ding Ling meditated on his horse until Zhong Ling approached and asked whether he was lost.
• Ding Ling introduced himself as a traveler from the Central Plains and asked Zhong Ling whether the mountain was Wuliang Mountain.

Ding Ling met Zhong Ling in the Wuliang Mountain wilderness and offered to help her find her missing Lightning Mink. They rode off together to search nearby ravines, growing friendly as they traveled.

• Ding Ling recognized Zhong Ling and deduced that she had likely become separated from Duan Yu and Mu Wanqing.
• Zhong Ling warned Ding Ling about the mountain’s poisonous creatures, offered to guide him out, and asked whether he had seen her missing Lightning Mink.
• Ding Ling asked Zhong Ling about deep ravines, hoping to find the Manggu Zhu Toad, and suggested her mink might be searching there for food.
• Zhong Ling agreed to search two ravines with Ding Ling, and he summoned a Ferghana Horse for her.
• Ding Ling and Zhong Ling rode along dangerous mountain paths and became friends while talking on the way.

Ding Ling and Zhong Ling encountered a wounded woman and Yun Zhonghe in the mountain wilderness. Ding Ling defeated and immobilized Yun Zhonghe, then found his Hongfei Internal Cultivation Manual and considered keeping him alive to learn his qinggong.

• Zhong Ling stopped her horse to help a wounded, unnamed woman, who warned her and Ding Ling not to breathe the strange scent and urged them to run.
• Yun Zhonghe appeared, revealed that he had drugged the area, and attacked Ding Ling with his Iron-Claw Steel Staff.
• Zhong Ling leaped in front of the attack to protect Ding Ling, and Ding Ling used One Finger Shooting Zen to knock away the staff and wound Yun Zhonghe.
• Ding Ling sealed Yun Zhonghe's acupoints, leaving him unable to move, speak, or escape his itching and pain.
• Ding Ling searched Yun Zhonghe and found bottles, jars, and the Hongfei Internal Cultivation Manual, then reconsidered killing him because he wanted to learn Yun Zhonghe's qinggong.

Ding Ling subdued Yun Zhonghe and used antidotes to save Zhong Ling and Ling Yanqiu from poison. Ling Yanqiu explained how she had reached the gloomy forest, while Ding Ling realized she had followed someone up the Sky Ladder.

• Ding Ling identified two poisons affecting him and found an antidote that let Zhong Ling recover.
• Ding Ling gave Zhong Ling an antidote for Ling Yanqiu, who regained her strength.
• Zhong Ling introduced herself and Ding Ling to Ling Yanqiu, who thanked them for saving her.
• Ling Yanqiu said she had climbed the Sky Ladder while pursuing someone and had fought Yun Zhonghe after finding him attacking a woman.
• Ding Ling realized Ling Yanqiu and the person she pursued had likely climbed the Sky Ladder near Chang'an around the time he activated it.

Ding Ling forced Yun Zhonghe to reveal that he had poisoned Zhong Ling and Ling Yanqiu with Bei Su Qing Feng and Yin Yang Harmonizing Powder. With no antidote available and the aphrodisiac taking effect, Ding Ling faced the urgent problem of saving them.

• Ding Ling released Yun Zhonghe's sealed inner force, tortured him with acupoint techniques, and frightened him into answering questions.
• Yun Zhonghe admitted that he had used Bei Su Qing Feng and Yin Yang Harmonizing Powder on Zhong Ling and Ling Yanqiu.
• Ling Yanqiu learned what the aphrodisiac would do and tried to kill herself, but Ding Ling knocked the sword from her hand.
• Ding Ling asked Yun Zhonghe for an antidote, but Yun Zhonghe said he had none and claimed that he himself was the antidote.
• Ding Ling sealed Yun Zhonghe's acupoints, put him on a horse, and began seeking a way to neutralize the poison.

Ding Ling restrained Zhong Ling and Ling Yanqiu, forced Yun Zhonghe to reveal the herbs in his aphrodisiac, and found a way to prepare an antidote. He gathered the ingredients and returned to the cave, where the women were near death, then cooled the freshly boiled medicine for Zhong Ling.

• Ding Ling knocked out Zhong Ling and Ling Yanqiu to keep them from harming themselves, then left the cave to confront Yun Zhonghe.
• Ding Ling tortured Yun Zhonghe until he revealed the herbs used in the aphrodisiac, and deduced an antidote from his medical knowledge.
• Ding Ling gathered three sets of herbs and supplies, then returned to find Zhong Ling and Ling Yanqiu dangerously ill.
• Ding Ling woke Zhong Ling and prepared the medicine with his skills, then used Mystic Heaven Finger to cool the boiling medicinal liquid.

Ding Ling cured Zhong Ling and Ling Yanqiu of their poison, then treated himself and extracted Yun Zhonghe’s lightness skill. Zhong Ling’s feelings for Ding Ling deepened, while Ding Ling learned the Cloudscape Flight Evasion Technique.

• Ding Ling gave Zhong Ling the antidote and used his qi to help it take effect, restoring her clarity.
• Zhong Ling recalled her actions while poisoned, then helped Ding Ling administer medicine to Ling Yanqiu, who awoke and thanked him.
• Ding Ling brewed and took medicine for himself, and Ling Yanqiu and Zhong Ling praised his medical skill.
• Ding Ling interrogated Yun Zhonghe, who revealed and demonstrated his lightness skill before attempting to escape and being stopped by Ding Ling.
• Ding Ling reviewed Yun Zhonghe’s technique and learned the max-level Cloudscape Flight Evasion Technique.

Ding Ling mastered Yun Zhonghe’s martial arts instantly, killed him, and left with Zhong Ling and Ling Yanqiu to search for a suitable mountain ravine. The group reached Thorny Ridge, where Ding Ling carried Zhong Ling forward through the air as Ling Yanqiu followed.

• Ding Ling instantly maxed out Cloudscape Flight Evasion Technique and Crane Snake Eight Strikes, leaving Yun Zhonghe stunned.
• Ding Ling mastered Hongfei Internal Cultivation Method by reading it once and absorbed the resulting inner force.
• Ding Ling killed Yun Zhonghe with One Finger Shooting Zen after granting his request not to be tormented.
• Ding Ling, Zhong Ling, and Ling Yanqiu rode away on two horses, with Zhong Ling sharing Ding Ling’s horse and guiding the group.
• Zhong Ling led them to Thorny Ridge after their first ravine proved unsuitable.
• Ding Ling dismounted and flew forward with Zhong Ling, while Ling Yanqiu followed on foot.

Ding Ling helped Zhong Ling descend into a poisonous valley to find the Lightning Mink, while Ling Yanqiu stayed above to guard the Ferghana Horse. After Zhong Ling caught the mink, a strange bellow from the deep pool revealed the Manggu Vermilion Toad.

• Ding Ling carried Zhong Ling across the ravine and down the sheer cliff as Ling Yanqiu chose to stay above and guard the Ferghana Horse.
• Ding Ling used Fused Strength to protect Zhong Ling from the valley's poisonous miasma as they followed the Lightning Mink's trail.
• Ding Ling and Zhong Ling reached a poisonous pool, where Zhong Ling whistled and caught the Lightning Mink.
• The Lightning Mink froze when a strange bellow sounded, and Ding Ling spotted the Manggu Vermilion Toad on the pool.