Recaps

Yang Ling endured the corpse’s deadly radiation and reached the rare herbs growing around it. While the assembled martial artists watched, he secretly began collecting everything for his own advancement.

• Lu Yunshuang disparaged the Iron Clothes Department and said Yang Ling’s ties to the court would hinder his Martial Way, prompting Yun Buchuan to defend him.
• The martial artists watched Yang Ling’s skin repeatedly decay and regenerate as he approached the colossal corpse, and Zhao Zheng recognized him as an upper-fifth-rank minor grandmaster.
• River Elder suggested Zhao State had concealed Yang Ling’s rank, drawing suspicion from Hua Jinsong and the others until Li Ting ordered him to stop talking.
• Yang Ling reached the rare flowers and herbs beside the corpse and decided they could help advance his internal energy and martial skills.
• Yang Ling removed his upper garment and filled it with rare flowers and herbs while the other martial artists watched.

Yang Ling gathered rare herbs while enduring the Fire Flood Dragon Corpse’s radiation, then secretly chiseled free one of its scales. After inspecting the scale, he began to suspect the corpse might truly belong to the Old Flood Dragon.

• Yang Ling selectively gathered rare flowers and herbs as the radiation ate away at his arms, while the watching martial artists estimated the damage to his vitality and foundations.
• Li Zhong asked Xie Jinjia to compensate Yang Ling for his sacrifice, and Xie Jinjia agreed to report his contributions but refused to promise divine weapon armor.
• Nangong Fengge told Yang Ling to bring back the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect’s inheritance method intact, and Yang Ling waved to acknowledge her.
• Out of sight of the third-rank grandmasters, Yang Ling used his Hundred Refined Qilin Crane-Mouth Hoe to free a door-sized scale and stored it in the Green Dragon Ring.
• After reading the scale’s details and continuing to search the corpse, Yang Ling sensed something was wrong and wondered whether it was truly the Old Flood Dragon.

Yang Ling collected rare flowers and herbs from the Fire Flood Dragon’s corpse while hiding the valuable items he had found, then joined the others as Fire Cloud Cave began to collapse. The martial artists fled with the enormous corpse, and the group raced through the flooding cave toward safety.

• Yang Ling chipped two scales from the second Fire Flood Dragon’s corpse, gathered nearby herbs, and returned before his radiation damage became too severe.
• Nangong Fengge and Xie Jinjia divided the herbs between their groups, while Chen Quan suspected a larger jadeblood fleeceflower was missing; Qi Chunqiu searched Yang Ling but found nothing.
• Zhao Zheng checked on Yang Ling, who claimed his injuries would take six months to a year to heal.
• Fire Cloud Cave began trembling and cracking, prompting the four Third-Rank Grandmasters to evacuate everyone while carrying the Fire Flood Dragon’s corpse.
• Li Zhong carried Yang Ling and Zhao Zheng as the group fled through the collapsing, flooding cave, while Xie Jinjia and the other Grandmasters surged ahead with the corpse.

Zhao State and the Rong Tribe prepared to divide Fire Flood Dragon Island, with the Rong Tribe offering to give up a fishing village in exchange for Yang Ling. When the Fire Flood Dragon’s corpse emerged from Fire Cloud Cave, its radiation harmed the gathered martial artists, and the missing scales prompted accusations against Zhao State as Xie Jinjia waited for Yang Ling.

• The refined old man and the middle-aged lay scholar discussed Zhao State’s coming occupation of Fire Flood Dragon Island and its agreement to divide the island and fishing villages with the Rong Tribe.
• The refined old man revealed that the Rong Tribe had offered to surrender a fishing village if Zhao State handed over Yang Ling, and the middle-aged lay scholar questioned whether officials would accept the deal.
• The martial artists returned to the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect as the island and surrounding waters shook, while Zhang Wei assured them that Yang Ling was safe.
• A huge creature erupted from the earth, and the martial artists discovered it was the Fire Flood Dragon’s corpse, whose radiation began corroding their bodies until the Third-Rank Grandmasters carried it away.
• Li Ting noticed two scales missing from the corpse, and Nangong Fengge and Chen Quan said Zhao State must bear the loss as Xie Jinjia waited for Li Zhong to bring Yang Ling out.

As Fire Cloud Cave collapsed, the martial artists escaped, and the three princes were rescued by Grandmasters. Yang Ling denied taking two missing Fire Flood Dragon Scales, while the factions agreed to leave the mystery unresolved; the chapter ended with everyone wondering why Nangong Fengge and the Divine Guard Office experts had emerged from the cave.

• The ground continued sinking, and Xu Wuji discovered the three princes were missing after he and the other senior eunuchs had explored deeper into the cave.
• Li Zhong emerged carrying Yang Ling and Zhao Zheng, while Lu Yunshuang and an Arhat Temple Grandmaster brought out the Fifth and Sixth Princes.
• Xie Jinjia questioned Yang Ling about two missing Fire Flood Dragon Scales, and Yang Ling claimed someone else had removed them.
• Xie Jinjia and the other Grandmasters agreed to leave the missing scales unexplained and divide the remaining scales among their factions.
• Ji Kongliu, Xu Wenjun, Yun Buchuan, and other Fifth-Rank Experts escaped, and the martial artists noticed that Nangong Fengge and Divine Guard Office experts had come out of Fire Cloud Cave.

Nangong Fengge declared that the Great Dream Dynasty would claim the waters around Fire Flood Dragon Island, but Xie Jinjia and Chen Quan revealed that the Zhao State and Rong State planned to divide the territory between them. The Star Sea Fishing Alliance faced pressure to choose a side as Zhao State fighters realized the strategic stakes and Chen Quan urged Li Ting not to cooperate with the Dynasty.

• Nangong Fengge introduced herself and announced that the Great Dream Dynasty would establish a border around Fire Flood Dragon Island and control access to its waters.
• Hua Jinsong and River Elder told their followers to accept the Star Sea Fishing Alliance's decisions, while River Elder argued that the Dynasty was a stronger ally than the Zhao State or Rong State.
• Li Ting suggested discussing the territory after dividing the Fire Flood Dragon Corpse, but Nangong Fengge warned that the Dynasty would take over even without the Alliance's cooperation.
• Xie Jinjia challenged the Dynasty's claim by recounting its past defeat on Fire Flood Dragon Island, and Chen Quan declared that the Zhao State and Rong State had agreed to divide the waters between them.
• Zhao Yingying recognized the strategic importance of the plan, while Yang Ling and Zhang Wei anticipated rewards and battle as the Zhao State's fighters rallied.
• Chen Quan urged Li Ting to side with the Zhao State and Rong State, warning him that the Great Dream Dynasty had destroyed the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect.

Nangong Fengge tried to force the Star Sea Fishing Alliance to submit to the Great Dream Dynasty, while Zhao State and Rong Tribe forces threatened the alliance’s fishing villages. A Human Immortal arrived to overwhelm the factions, but a colossal crimson divine ape emerged from the sea and struck him down, prompting him to flee.

• Star Sea Fishing Alliance martial artists rejected joining the Great Dream Dynasty because of their ancestral blood feud, and Li Ting told Nangong Fengge to leave after they divided the fire flood dragon’s corpse.
• Nangong Fengge threatened to devastate the alliance’s fishing villages, while Xie Jinjia revealed that Zhao State and Rong Tribe forces had reached them first.
• A thousand-zhang wave approached Fire Flood Dragon Island with a middle-aged Human Immortal standing atop it, and Nangong Fengge said the Great Dream Dynasty would kill the alliance if it refused to cooperate.
• A crimson divine ape rose from the sea and shattered the wave with one punch, reducing the Human Immortal to a skeleton.
• The Human Immortal shouted, “You're not dead yet!” and fled as his body began to regenerate.

The Divine Ape Spirit Body revealed himself as Ji Tianming, the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect’s Old Ancestor, and drove Nangong Fengge’s forces from Fire Flood Dragon Island. After he vanished, Li Ting began negotiations over the island’s waters and exposed Hua Jinsong as a Zhao State spy.

• The Divine Ape Spirit Body identified himself as Ji Tianming, and Yang Ling realized that his sworn brother had been presiding over Fire Cloud Cave as the Fire Flood Dragon.
• The Star Sea Fishing Alliance’s martial artists knelt to honor their Old Ancestor, while Nangong Fengge challenged his survival and then fled with Qi Chunqiu and her subordinates after he ordered them to leave.
• Ji Tianming asked Zhao State and the Rong Tribe to arrange governance of the waters around Fire Flood Dragon Island, then vanished in a display that left Xie Jinjia and Chen Quan unsure whether he had truly died.
• Li Ting led the Alliance in mourning for the Old Ancestor and proposed negotiating the waters’ administration aboard his ship, asking Zhao State and the Rong Tribe to recall their spies.
• Li Zhong agreed to recall Zhao State’s people, and Hua Jinsong revealed himself as the Command Department’s Second Branch Master, prompting shock among the fishing villages and officials.

Hua Jinsong and Old Tu revealed their covert roles, and the Star Sea Fishing Alliance agreed to cooperate with Zhao State and Rong State over Fire Flood Dragon Island. As powerful officials arrived aboard giant ships, Yang Ling discovered that even inspecting a high-ranking figure’s attributes could overwhelm him.

• Hua Jinsong revealed himself as the Iron Clothes Department's Second Branch Master, while River Elder was exposed as a Great Dream Dynasty spy.
• Old Tu revealed that he was the Lone Wolf General, one of Rong State's Twelve Wolf Generals, and explained that his joking persona had helped conceal his identity.
• Li Ting agreed that the Star Sea Fishing Alliance would ally with Zhao State and Rong State, but the parties began negotiating over the Fire Flood Dragon Corpse and compensation.
• The experts boarded the Alliance's warship while Hua Zhuo, Qin Kunlun, and other lower-ranked martial artists returned to their fleets in small boats.
• Yang Ling and Zhang Wei watched Zhao State and Rong Tribe ships approach; trying to inspect a powerful official's attribute panel nearly knocked them both unconscious.
• Yang Ling looked toward the Rong Tribe's ship and met the gaze of someone staring back at him.

Yang Ling attended negotiations over Fire Flood Dragon Island, where the Rong Tribe demanded him in exchange for a fishing village. After his martial way kindling and actions beneath Fire Cloud Cave were revealed, Zhao State refused to hand him over and the talks turned to dividing the island’s waters and treasures.

• Li Ting met with Zhao State and Rong Tribe officials and said his Old Ancestor had ordered the waters around Fire Flood Dragon Island placed under joint administration.
• The Rong Tribe's Minister of War demanded that Yang Ling return with them, offering an additional fishing village in exchange.
• Minister Kong and the other officials learned that Yang Ling had condensed martial way kindling, and Li Zhong described how he had retrieved rare flowers and herbs and probed the Fire Flood Dragon Corpse beneath Fire Cloud Cave.
• Minister Kong rejected the Rong Tribe's demand and proposed discussing the division of the waters, the Fire Flood Dragon Corpse, and its Fire Spirit Pearls.
• The Rong Tribe and Zhao State began discussing a preliminary division plan, and Yang Ling was relieved that Zhao State would not send him away.

Yang Ling watched Zhao State, the Rong Tribe, and the Star Sea Fishing Alliance quickly settle the division of Fire Flood Dragon Island and its surrounding waters in response to the threat of the Great Dream Dynasty. With the island’s temperature falling, tens of thousands of martial artists returned to explore it under a neutral-territory truce, while Yang Ling planned to search for the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect’s Inheritance.

• Minister Kong and the Rong Tribe’s minister of war agreed on dividing Fire Flood Dragon Island, sharing its Fire Spirit Pearls, restricting trade, and exchanging refugees and younger people among the three sides.
• Yang Ling suspected Li Fengxian was aboard the Giant Ship and sent him private messages, but received no response or sign that anyone had taken out silver.
• The Rong Tribe’s minister of war proposed a friendly competition, but Minister Kong declined and proposed dividing the Fire Flood Dragon Corpse instead.
• Minister Kong and the Rong Tribe’s minister of war allowed the martial artists to stay on Fire Flood Dragon Island for several months as its temperature fell.
• Minister Kong declared the island neutral territory, forbidding the parties from killing one another, and Yang Ling planned to absorb his rare flowers and herbs before searching for the sect’s inheritance.

The Iron Clothes Department settled into the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect’s courtyard while its masters speculated that Yang Ling was being groomed for leadership and discussed the risks of condensing Martial Way Kindling. The middle-aged layman then questioned Yang Ling about his cultivation and began explaining the four grades of Martial Way Kindling, ending with the legendary stellar fire.

• The middle-aged layman assigned the groups lodging, and Zhao Xun and Yun Buchuan speculated that Yang Ling was being secretly prepared to succeed the Iron Clothes Department’s master.
• Xu Wenjun explained that condensing Martial Way Kindling could endanger the cultivator’s life and that it had to become a Martial Way Furnace within three years.
• Wei Xing noted that Yang Ling’s foundation had been damaged, and Xu Wenjun described possible fuels for turning kindling into a furnace.
• The middle-aged layman ordered Li Zhong and the other masters to search Fire Flood Dragon Island for remnants of the Great Dream Dynasty and the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect’s inheritance.
• Yang Ling told the middle-aged layman that he had condensed his Martial Way Kindling on Fire Flood Dragon Island.
• The middle-aged layman explained that Martial Way Kindling had four grades—spirit fire, mystic fire, tribulation fire, and the legendary stellar fire.

Yang Ling learned how Martial Way Kindling developed and discovered that his weakened foundation would make his path to Fourth Rank more difficult. He left determined to fuel his Sacred Kirin Kindling, with Hua Jinsong offering to guide his cultivation.

• The middle-aged layman explained the rarity of Mystic Fire and Tribulation Fire and said Yang Ling's Kindling seemed to be Spirit Fire.
• Yang Ling learned that Martial Way Kindling could not ordinarily be inspected by others, and he felt relieved that his Sacred Kirin Kindling would remain concealed.
• The middle-aged layman warned that the Fire Flood Dragon's power had damaged Yang Ling's foundation, leaving him three years to turn his Kindling into a furnace and requiring time for recovery.
• Yang Ling learned that internal-skill advancement and medicines could fuel his Kindling, and resolved to use his five first-class internal skills to reach Fourth Rank.
• The middle-aged layman invited Yang Ling to seek cultivation advice from him or the Iron Clothes Department's Fourth-Rank chiefs, while Hua Jinsong asked Yang Ling to come to him first.

Yang Ling ate an Ironback Thorn Fish King deep in the abandoned Red Fire Iron Ore mine and discovered that strengthening his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling advanced a new progress bar. He then ate an eight-hundred-year-old Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit, raising the progress to 3/500.

• Yang Ling met Zhao State's Mine Gang prospecting for ore veins on Fire Flood Dragon Island and encouraged them to find deposits that could strengthen Zhao State.
• Yang Ling reached the mine's depths, took out the Ironback Thorn Fish King, and ate it to gain 1,000 Health Points.
• Yang Ling sensed that the fish had slightly strengthened his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling, and his Attribute Panel revealed a new 1/500 progress bar.
• Yang Ling rested and ate the Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit, increasing his Martial Way Kindling progress to 3/500.

Yang Ling consumed rare treasures to strengthen his martial way kindling and improve his skills. The Divine Ape Spirit Body appeared and asked who had given Yang Ling the map, leaving him struggling to answer honestly.

• Yang Ling ate Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit and Bixue He Shouwu, raising his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling progress to 4/500 and improving his Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual.
• Yang Ling used other rare herbs to raise Divine Ape Visualization and Candle Dragon Seven-Star Sword Technique, while saving the Black Thunder Tortoise-Shell Lingzhi for Heavenly Will Divine Saber.
• Yang Ling reviewed his gains and noted that Little White had not yet shown signs of evolving.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body revealed it had one last breath left and asked Yang Ling who had given him the map.
• Yang Ling feared the answer might get him killed and asked the Divine Ape Spirit Body to promise not to take his explanation seriously or slap him to death.

Yang Ling told the Divine Ape Spirit Body about memories he believed were dreams, including receiving the map from Ji Tianming, and the Divine Ape Spirit Body accepted that they might have been sworn brothers. He refused to give Yang Ling fuel for his supreme martial way kindling but offered to direct him to a place with ancient herbs.

• Yang Ling claimed Ji Tianming had given him the map, then described a dream in which he joined the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect and fought the Divine Guard Office.
• Yang Ling recounted another dream involving Zhao De, the Jingxiao Bandits, and a secret vault on Wuheng Mountain, prompting the Divine Ape Spirit Body to suspect he believed the events were real.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body recognized that Yang Ling was sincere about the map and his supreme martial way kindling, and realized Yang Ling had meant him when he said “sworn brother.”
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body agreed to treat their dreamed brotherhood as real, but said he had no fuel to spare for Yang Ling’s kindling.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body offered to guide Yang Ling to a place where rare flowers and herbs at least a thousand years old might still grow, and Yang Ling eagerly welcomed the prospect.

The Divine Ape Spirit Body told Yang Ling how White Bone Cave fell and gave him a map to its hidden medicinal herb garden, while warning him about the dangers surrounding the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect. Yang Ling resolved to keep the garden secret and visit it discreetly.

• The Divine Ape Spirit Body explained that the Great Dream Dynasty destroyed White Bone Cave after its Land Immortal died, with other Martial Alliance factions benefiting from the sect's fall.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body gave Yang Ling a map to White Bone Cave's hidden island medicinal herb garden near Fire Flood Dragon Island and said its herbs might be a thousand years old.
• Yang Ling asked about White Bone Cave's Flying Sword Technique, and the Divine Ape Spirit Body said the Divine Guard Office had acquired it and suspected White Bone Cave came from the Shura Path.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body warned Yang Ling that he might lose his human mind if he left Fire Flood Dragon Island and fully transformed into a flood dragon.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body urged Yang Ling to visit the medicinal herb garden quietly, and Yang Ling resolved to keep its existence to himself.

Yang Ling learned from the Divine Ape Spirit Body about the dangerous Abyssal Beast Cavern, where he might find the purple thunderstone needed to master Lightning Saber. After the spirit vanished, Immortal God Cult disciples approached Yang Ling with an offer of support in exchange for his secret help.

• The Divine Ape Spirit Body explained that his strength was limited and advised Yang Ling that the Abyssal Beast Cavern contained purple thunderstone and lightning-controlling beasts, though it was extremely dangerous.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body said the Great Dream Dynasty's cavern held at least ten divine beasts as powerful as Water Qilin or the Old Ancestor, and Yang Ling imagined it as a place to level up.
• Three Rong Tribe players entered the abandoned mine and told Yang Ling they had come to discuss cooperation on behalf of Cult Master Li Fengxian.
• Yang Ling inferred that Li Fengxian was communicating through the disciples and challenged the Cult Master's claims about his standing and wealth among the Rong Tribe.
• The disciples said Li Fengxian could make powerful radiation bombs from the Fire Flood Dragon's corpse and offered rare herbs and funding until Yang Ling reached Fourth-Rank Grandmaster if he secretly supported the Immortal God Cult.

Yang Ling killed three Immortal God Cult players who confronted him, then asked the Divine Ape Spirit Body about the Great Dream Dynasty’s Abyssal Beast Cavern and the martial rankings it produced. He learned more about the cavern’s influence and revealed that he had eaten the Flesh-and-Blood Ginseng Fruit in a dream.

• Yang Ling rejected the Immortal God Cult’s offer and killed its three players despite their warnings about the neutral zone.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body explained that the Great Dream Dynasty used the Abyssal Beast Cavern to develop generations of experts and maintain its influence over the Martial Alliance.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body described the Heaven Ranking and said the Iron Clothes Department Master and the Heavenly Wolf Guard Wei Lord qualified for the Lower Third Rank.
• Yang Ling asked about Vice Minister Hua’s martial way sacred medicine, and the Divine Ape Spirit Body identified it as the Flesh-and-Blood Ginseng Fruit.
• Yang Ling said he had eaten the Flesh-and-Blood Ginseng Fruit in a dream, recognizing that his sworn brother had been testing him.

Yang Ling asked the Divine Ape Spirit Body to preserve his Sky Wolf Battle Armor, but his Sworn Brother infused it with Fire Flood Dragon Blood and turned it into a divine weapon. The Heavenly Wolf Divine Weapon Armor remained usable at Yang Ling's level and granted powerful boosts.

• The Divine Ape Spirit Body recognized Yang Ling's Sky Wolf Battle Armor as an ancient standard armor from Rong State's Heavenly Wolf Guard and identified its maker as Zhou Bingyi.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body identified Yang Ling's Fire Flood Dragon Blood as coming from the Abyssal Beast Cavern and decided to use it to infuse spirituality into the armor.
• Yang Ling worried that an upgrade would make the armor unusable, but the Divine Ape Spirit Body dismissed his concern and began the infusion.
• After two hours, the armor transformed into Heavenly Wolf Divine Weapon Armor, with a level 100 equip requirement, 400-point dual-attribute boosts, and the Giantification skill.

The Divine Ape Spirit Body finished refining Yang Ling’s Sky Wolf Battle Armor into the Heavenly Wolf Divine Weapon Armor, and Yang Ling tested its powerful attribute boosts and rare Gigantification ability. The Divine Ape Spirit Body warned that the armor would drain his qi and blood and suggested he find weapons suited to its enormous form.

• The Divine Ape Spirit Body explained that Yang Ling’s Fire Flood Dragon Blood had helped the Sky Wolf Battle Armor become a lower fourth-rank divine weapon.
• Yang Ling equipped the Heavenly Wolf Divine Weapon Armor and saw his strength and agility rise to 799 points before his internal skills and weapons boosted them further.
• Yang Ling told the Divine Ape Spirit Body he thought he could challenge a Lower Fourth-Rank Grandmaster, but the Divine Ape Spirit Body warned that he lacked the qi and blood to sustain the armor.
• Yang Ling activated the armor’s Gigantification ability, and it grew until it towered four meters tall.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body praised the rare spiritual ability and recommended that Yang Ling acquire suitable weapons, preferably a saber, instead of relying on his sword and crane-mouth hoe.

Yang Ling asked the Divine Ape Spirit Body to forge a giant Crane-Mouth Hoe and improve his sword, and watched him reshape both weapons with hundred refined blazing gold. The new weapons boosted Yang Ling’s strength and attributes, and he ended by asking his sworn brother to forge oversized flying daggers.

• Yang Ling decided to have his Crane-Mouth Hoe enlarged and strengthened with kirin iron, then learned the Divine Ape Spirit Body was a master blacksmith.
• Yang Ling gave the Divine Ape Spirit Body hundred refined blazing gold and asked for a Crane-Mouth Hoe to match his Heavenly Wolf Divine Weapon Armor.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body reforged the Heaven Swallowing Golden Sword and Crane-Mouth Hoe into a Heaven Swallowing Divine Blade and a giant Hundred Refined Qilin Crane-Mouth Hoe.
• Yang Ling equipped the new weapons and noticed their improved boosts and the Divine Blade’s new Instant Slash skill.
• Yang Ling took out more than a thousand Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Daggers and asked the Divine Ape Spirit Body to forge them into enormous daggers weighing no more than eight jin each.

Yang Ling had the Divine Ape Spirit Body forge eight hundred Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Daggers into Giant Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Daggers, then escaped the fleets around Fire Flood Dragon Island to follow a map toward a spiritual medicine garden. At the island, he tested Instant Slash on a Water King Crab and discovered the skill could carry him at least fifty meters in an instant and cut the crab in two.

• The Divine Ape Spirit Body forged eight hundred flying daggers into Giant Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Daggers with 3,000 attack power, but told Yang Ling to keep the Fire Flood Dragon Scales as shields.
• Yang Ling decided to save the scales for a future deal and planned to wait until he reached Tun Tian Dao Palace or returned to the Divine Guard Office Instance before trading one.
• Yang Ling observed the fleets around Fire Flood Dragon Island, slipped away through the sea, and swam for seven days while following the White Bone Cave Spiritual Medicine Garden Route Map.
• A level 180 Water King Crab attacked Yang Ling near the island, but he dodged its Water King Cannon and lured it ashore.
• Yang Ling equipped the Heavenly Wolf Divine Weapon Armor and used Instant Slash to appear behind the retreating crab, splitting it in two and marveling at the skill's speed and power.

Yang Ling found a patch of twelve-hundred-year-old Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit in White Bone Cave’s abandoned spirit herb garden, then encountered martial artists from Yellow Sea Fishing Village. He discovered they had defected to the Great Dream Dynasty, but their village chief Pan Hui was only an Upper Fifth Rank.

• Yang Ling finished eating crab, considered the cost of replenishing his Qi and Blood, and followed Ji Tianming’s map to the spirit herb garden.
• Yang Ling found whole patches of twelve-hundred-year-old Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit that could significantly strengthen his Martial Way Kindling.
• A group of martial artists from Yellow Sea Fishing Village arrived and challenged Yang Ling’s presence on their territory.
• Yang Ling claimed he was from the Zhao State’s Iron Clothes Department and proposed splitting the herbs, while the villagers suspected he had come to hunt them down.
• Pan Hui arrived and revealed that Yellow Sea Fishing Village had defected to the Great Dream Dynasty; Yang Ling inspected his Attribute Panel and found he was only an Upper Fifth Rank.

Yang Ling learned that Pan Hui and the Yellow Sea Fishing Village had come to the island after being misled about their alleged defection, then killed Pan Hui and his men when they threatened him over the spirit herbs. He collected the garden’s plants and discovered that each twelve-hundred-year-old Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit advanced his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling by four points.

• Yang Ling questioned Pan Hui about how the Iron Clothes Department found the island, and learned that Pan Hui believed the Star Sea Fishing Alliance’s claim that Yellow Sea Fishing Village had defected to the Great Dream Dynasty.
• Pan Hui spotted thirteen twelve-hundred-year-old Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruits and planned to use them to advance to Fourth Rank and secure influence in the Great Dream Dynasty.
• Yang Ling admitted that he had come to the island alone to claim the spirit herb garden, which he identified as a remnant of White Bone Cave.
• Yang Ling killed Pan Hui’s Sixth-Rank followers with flying daggers, then overwhelmed Pan Hui with a flurry of kicks and finished him with another dagger strike.
• Yang Ling gathered the garden’s rare herbs and found that one Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit raised his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling progress from four to eight out of five hundred.