Recaps

The sects announced lavish prizes for an upcoming competition, including rare pills and access to Extreme Flame Cave with a chance to learn the Extreme Flame Sword Mansion’s inner cultivation method. Master Jie Hai began responding to the offerings, but the chapter ended before he finished.

• The Nine Immortal Dao Palace offered one hundred Spirit Nurturing Pills and ten Peiyuan Pills as prizes.
• Li Ruhai announced that the Divine Sect would award two Divine Soul Great Return Pills, which Yun Ruo explained could improve talent and martial training.
• Pei Ran offered a place in Extreme Flame Cave and the Extreme Flame Sword Mansion’s inner cultivation method to a winner who joined as an outer disciple.
• The Western Prince approved Pei Ran’s prize, while Li Ruhai questioned whether Divine Sect Disciples would want to join the Extreme Flame Sword Mansion.
• Yang Ling grew more eager for the competition, and Master Jie Hai began to speak about the sects’ prize offerings.

The Western Prince persuaded Lu Yunchen to let the Iron Clothes Department join a martial arts contest against disciples of the Western Great First-rate Sects, offering the Seven Inch Sword as a prize. The gathered fighters agreed to a voluntary platform-defense format, with three successful matches needed to advance.

• Master Jie Hai challenged Lu Yunchen over the Iron Clothes Department's refusal to join the contest, while Li Ruhai and Pei Ran argued that the young fighters could benefit from competing.
• The Western Prince offered to provide the prize and take responsibility, and Lu Yunchen agreed to let the Iron Clothes Department participate.
• The Western Prince announced the Seven Inch Sword, a rare Second-rate Martial Skill that condensed Qi and Blood into a sword, as his prize.
• Yang Ling assessed the strongest sect disciples and concluded that his superior Internal Skills gave him an advantage against their greater strength and agility.
• The Western Prince proposed voluntary platform challenges, and Li Ruhai suggested that fighters who defended the platform for three matches would advance; Master Jie Hai and the others agreed.

Yang Ling watched Dongfang Haojie defeat Li Huaiyi and reflected on the role of martial skill mastery, attributes, and momentum in their fight. After Li Huaiyi fell, Yang Ling decided he would claim the reward, even if he had to use his free attribute points to challenge the Seventh Rank prodigies.

• Yang Ling observed Dongfang Haojie and Li Huaiyi trade blows, and Li Huaiyi used poison before launching the Tiger Catching Saber Technique with Saber Momentum.
• Yang Ling wondered whether relying on Spirit Nurturing Pills had kept him from grasping momentum and compared his attributes with Dongfang Haojie's.
• Yang Ling resolved to claim the reward and considered putting all 23 Free Attribute Points into Agility to overcome the Seventh Rank prodigies.
• Dongfang Haojie overwhelmed Li Huaiyi with the Divine Path Heart Sutra, Divine Sense Palm, and Flowing Light Movement Technique, then struck him down and sent his Eighth Rank Official Saber to Yang Ling's feet.
• Li Ruhai praised Li Huaiyi's performance, Lu Yunchen credited Dongfang Haojie with going easy, and Li Huaiyi thanked Dongfang Haojie.

The Iron Clothes Department struggled against the Western Sect’s fighters, prompting Master Jie Hai and the Western Prince to mock their lack of martial prowess. Yun Ruo defended her position and advanced, while Yang Ling remained on the sidelines as the chapter ended.

• Lin Caiyi and Jiang Tian'ai both lost to Li Shou, who successfully defended his position for Arhat Temple.
• Several Western Sect Disciples defended their positions while every Iron Clothes Department fighter who entered the contest lost in the first match.
• Master Jie Hai and the Western Prince mocked the Iron Clothes Department, whose remaining Seventh Rank disciples were Yun Ruo and Yang Ling.
• Yun Ruo defeated an Arhat Temple Disciple in fifty moves, then beat opponents from the Divine Sect and Extreme Flame Sword Mansion to advance.
• Li Huaiyi felt relieved that Yun Ruo had salvaged some honor for the Iron Clothes Department and disdained Yang Ling for not entering the contest.

Yang Ling defeated one Arhat Temple disciple with his speed, then faced Hui Shi, whose perfected Golden Bell Shield withstood his attacks. Yang Ling used his red-gold crane beak hoe to exhaust Hui Shi’s Qi and Blood and dent his head, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Yang Ling kicked Jue Ming out of the ring with a rapid flurry, impressing the onlookers with his speed.
• Hui Shi stepped forward and endured Yang Ling’s kicks thanks to his perfected Golden Bell Shield.
• Yang Ling attacked Hui Shi with his saber and kicks, but Hui Shi remained standing and Master Jie Hai refused to call the bout a draw.
• Yang Ling activated his Berserk State and struck Hui Shi’s head with the Hundred Refined Red Gold Crane Beak Hoe.
• Yang Ling depleted Hui Shi’s Qi and Blood and chiseled more than a dozen holes in his head, shocking the crowd.

Yang Ling watched Arhat Temple challenge the Iron Clothes Department for the Seven Inch Sword, while the other sects hoped the fight would wear down Hui Kong. Yun Ruo battled Hui Kong fiercely, and the chapter left the other sects studying him for weaknesses.

• Yang Ling kicked an Arhat Temple disciple away in fewer than thirty moves and defended his place in the next round.
• Master Jie Hai arranged for Arhat Temple to challenge the Iron Clothes Department first, seeking the Seven Inch Sword.
• Hui Kong entered the arena and challenged Yun Ruo as the sects watched for a chance to exhaust him.
• Yang Ling checked Hui Kong's attributes and judged him an exceptionally strong Upper Seventh-rank fighter.
• Yun Ruo and Hui Kong fought with their martial skills, and the other sects closely watched for weaknesses they could exploit.

Yang Ling used his boosted Agility to defeat Arhat Temple’s second-round fighters one after another, leaving only Hui Kong. Hui Kong entered the arena, revealed his enhanced attributes, and struck at Yang Ling with Gecko Wall-Crawling Technique.

• Yang Ling spent all 23 Free Attribute Points on Agility and swiftly defeated his first opponent in the second round.
• Yang Ling challenged Arhat Temple for the Vajra Bodhi and defeated several of its disciples in quick succession.
• Li Shou entered the arena as Hui Shu, asked Yang Ling to send him out, and was defeated.
• With only Hui Kong left, Hui Kong entered the arena, raised his Strength and Agility, and attacked Yang Ling with a red-glowing arm.

Yang Ling won Arhat Temple’s prize, a defective Vajra Bodhi, and gained a major boost to his attributes and cultivation. After he confirmed he could keep fighting, rival sect leaders tried to bar him from further matches, but the Western Prince and Jie Hai supported him.

• Li Ruhai, Pei Ran, and the Nine Immortal Dao Palace representative regretted that Yang Ling had won the prize, while Iron Clothes Department stewards praised his skill and potential.
• Jie Hai handed Lu Yunchen the Vajra Bodhi, and Lu Yunchen awarded it to Yang Ling.
• Yang Ling swallowed the Vajra Bodhi and gained Health Points, Qi and Blood, internal cultivation experience, and Strength.
• Lu Yunchen asked whether Yang Ling could keep fighting, and Yang Ling said he could.
• Li Ruhai and Pei Ran objected to Yang Ling competing again, but Jie Hai and the Western Prince pointed out that no rule barred him, and the objection was dropped.

Yang Ling defeated the Divine Sect’s Seventh-rank disciples while using their fights to master Saber Momentum, then claimed the first Divine Soul Great Return Pill. He planned to trade the second pill for Peiyuan Pills and use them to raise his mental power and advance his cultivation.

• Li Ruhai urged Pei Ran and the Nine Immortal Dao Palace representative to have their disciples challenge Yang Ling, but they left the choice to their juniors.
• Yang Ling fought a Divine Sect senior sister with his saber and forced her to concede after tempering his Saber Momentum for two hundred moves.
• Yang Ling defeated the remaining Divine Sect disciples, becoming adept at Saber Momentum and increasing his combat power by at least thirty or forty percent.
• Lu Yunchen gave Yang Ling the Divine Sect’s first Divine Soul Great Return Pill and said the second could be traded for at least thirty Peiyuan Pills.
• Yang Ling calculated how to use the Peiyuan Pills to improve his Divine Ape Visualization and Vajra Mingwang Technique.

Yang Ling continued the martial arts matches after receiving the Divine Soul Great Return Pill and winning two top prizes. He faced Chi Qingyao of the Nine Immortal Dao Palace, whose speed nearly matched his, and their fierce duel remained unresolved.

• Steward Lu confirmed that Yang Ling’s mind and Martial Way talent had improved after taking the Divine Soul Great Return Pill.
• Pei Ran and the Nine Immortal Dao Palace representative questioned whether Yang Ling should receive more chances, but Yang Ling said he could keep fighting.
• The Western Prince upheld the rules and promised Yang Ling his Seven Inch Sword if he defeated both the Nine Immortal Dao Palace and the Extreme Flame Sword Mansion.
• Yang Ling challenged the Nine Immortal Dao Palace, and Chi Qingyao stepped forward to fight him.
• Yang Ling and Chi Qingyao unleashed their techniques and traded rapid saber strikes, leaving the Seventh-rank Experts unsure whether she could end his winning streak.

Yang Ling defeated every second-round contestant from the Nine Immortal Dao Palace and the Extreme Flame Sword Mansion, winning the competition’s prizes and completing a Grand Slam. Afterward, leaders from several sects tried to recruit him, and the Western Prince awarded him the Seven Inch Sword manual.

• Chi Qingyao admitted defeat, and the Nine Immortal Dao Palace’s second-round disciples challenged Yang Ling one after another and all lost.
• Yang Hong gave Yang Ling ten Peiyuan Pills and a hundred Spirit Nurturing Pills, then invited him to join the Nine Immortal Dao Palace.
• Li Ruhai invited Yang Ling to join the Divine Sect, while Pei Ran said Yang Ling could become an outer disciple of the Extreme Flame Sword Mansion if he won.
• Yang Ling defeated Chen Zuo and then beat every remaining second-round contestant from the Extreme Flame Sword Mansion, completing the Grand Slam.
• The Western Prince handed Yang Ling the Seven Inch Sword manual as his prize.

Yang Ling met with Qin Mo, Li Shou, Zhang Shendao, Lin Caiyi, and Jiang Tian'ai over a late-night meal to introduce themselves and share information about the Divine Domain. They learned that Players were still arriving, that cults and mass disappearances had surfaced, and that Lin Caiyi's Azure Flood Dragon Technique was worth an immense amount in the real world.

• Yang Ling agreed to find a place to eat and exchange information with the others, while Qin Mo refused to return Li Shou's silver.
• At a donkey meat hot pot stall, Zhang Shendao, Lin Caiyi, Jiang Tian'ai, Li Shou, Qin Mo, and Yang Ling introduced themselves and shared details about their lives in the real world.
• Jiang Tian'ai said she had encountered Players claiming to be disciples of the Immortal God Cult, and Zhang Shendao said he had also heard of the Heavenly God Cult.
• Qin Mo said Players in Yunwen Provincial Capital had reported hundreds of thousands of people missing in the real world and widespread chaos.
• Lin Caiyi said the group had a good start in the Divine Domain and that her Second-rate Azure Flood Dragon Technique could be worth ten billion in the real world.

Zhang Ning, a Star Gazing Academy disciple and the lowest-ranked player on the Divine Realm Rank List, provoked the Iron Clothes Department Constables after starting a fight in Yunwen Provincial Capital. He resisted arrest and was brutally cut down, while Yang Ling and the others watched.

• Yang Ling examined Zhang Ning and realized he had not reached Ninth Rank despite his tenth-place ranking.
• Zhang Ning demanded that the men he had beaten kneel and kowtow, then told the Constables to arrest them instead.
• The lead Constable ordered Zhang Ning to come with them for fighting in the city, but Zhang Ning slapped him and tried to leave.
• Zhang Ning attacked the Constables when they drew their sabers, and they fought him with disciplined coordination.
• The Constables cut Zhang Ning's shoulder, severed his raised hand, and continued striking him with their sabers.

Yang Ling advised the sect disciples preparing for the Water Qilin Cave Expedition to stay together and support their senior disciples rather than compete recklessly for rewards. He trained the Lingxu Step with Spirit Nurturing Pills and prepared his equipment for the journey, which was set to begin the next day.

• Qin Mo warned Li Shou that joining the Iron Clothes Department could cost him standing and rewards within his sect, making him hesitate.
• Yang Ling told Lin Caiyi and the others that their First-rate Sect backing would let them benefit from the expedition by protecting themselves and supporting their senior disciples.
• Yang Ling explained that boss fights might yield unreliable Experience Points and said mining was safer; the group then agreed to meet again the next day.
• Back in his room, Yang Ling saved twenty-two Spirit Nurturing Pills for the Heavenly Will Divine Saber and used seventy-eight to raise the Lingxu Step's Proficiency to 54,706/100,000.
• At dawn, Yang Ling finished cultivating the Divine Ape Visualization and checked his weapons, healing supplies, armor, and other preparations for the trip.

Gu Weizhou challenged the Iron Clothes Department over Zhang Ning’s death, but witnesses from the Western Great First-rate Sects backed the constables’ account before the Western Prince. Gu Weizhou was left speechless, while Players at the harbor had already been tracking the sect experts.

• Gu Weizhou accused Lu Yunchen and the Iron Clothes Department of wrongfully killing Zhang Ning, and Lu Yunchen insisted the constables had acted according to the law.
• Gu Weizhou appealed to the Western Prince, who asked Lu Yunchen to present the eyewitnesses; Qin Mo testified that Zhang Ning had attacked a constable.
• Yang Ling confirmed he had been with Qin Mo and witnessed Zhang Ning’s actions, prompting Gu Weizhou to question his credibility.
• Li Shou, Zhang Shendao, Lin Caiyi, and Jiang Tian’ai each testified that they had been with Yang Ling and agreed Zhang Ning deserved to die.
• Gu Weizhou was left speechless as the harbor crowd learned that witnesses included members of the Iron Clothes Department and four Western Great First-rate Sects.
• Players at the harbor were revealed to have spent several days tracking ranked experts, including Lin Caiyi, Jiang Tian’ai, Li Shou, and Zhang Shendao.

Yang Ling considered selling the Seven Inch Sword Martial Skill and learned that he would need the Western Prince’s approval. As the group prepared to enter the Water Qilin Cave, Yang Ling received a Water Repelling Pill and reflected on how cultivation methods affected martial artists’ attributes.

• Yang Ling asked Yun Ruo whether selling the Seven Inch Sword might offend the Western Prince, and Yun Ruo advised him to ask first.
• Lu Yunchen explained the Seven Inch Sword’s power, offered to buy the skill if the Western Prince agreed, and brought Yang Ling to meet him.
• Cao Junxiong praised Yang Ling and tried to recruit him into the Cao Gang, but the Western Prince said Yang Ling had already refused the Nine Immortal Dao Palace and might be kept by the Department Master in the Capital.
• Xu Wuji distributed Water Repelling Pills to the selected Seventh Rank talents before the Water Qilin Cave expedition.
• Yang Ling inspected Xu Wuji’s Attribute Panel and concluded that the grade of an Internal Skill determined a martial artist’s attribute ceiling.

Yang Ling agreed to sell the Seven Inch Sword to the Cao Gang for 150 Peiyuan Pills after Lu Yunchen yielded to their higher offer. The expedition fleet reached the Water Qilin Cave’s marked location on the Tianyuan River, where the Western Prince gathered the participating experts and disciples.

• Yang Ling asked the Western Prince for permission to sell the Seven Inch Sword, and Lu Yunchen offered 100 Peiyuan Pills for it.
• Cao Junxiong offered 150 Peiyuan Pills, and Lu Yunchen urged Yang Ling to accept the higher bid; the Western Prince approved the sale after the expedition.
• The next day, Yang Ling watched the fleet slow as it approached the Water Qilin Cave’s location on the Tianyuan River.
• More than a dozen Giant Ships linked together with chains, and the Western Prince gathered the Sixth-Rank Experts and Seventh Rank talents aboard his ship.
• Yang Ling inspected the gathered participants, including representatives from the Medicine Gang, Mine Gang, Cao Gang, Great Evolution Sword Sect, Valley of the Dead, and Ku Jue Temple.

Yang Ling and Yun Ruo escorted the Western Prince underwater toward Water Qilin Cave, where the group reached a blue-lit passage. Yang Ling noticed Jiang Tian'ai and Zhang Shendao were missing and turned back to look for them while Yun Ruo continued with the prince.

• Yang Ling and Yun Ruo checked the water before the Western Prince and the other martial artists began descending.
• Yang Ling used the Water Repelling Pill to breathe underwater and relied on the currents to sense those around him in the darkness.
• Yang Ling grabbed Yun Ruo and wrote in her palm to calm her as the group descended through the pitch-black water.
• The group reached the blue-lit passage to Water Qilin Cave, and the Western Prince gestured for everyone to follow him inside.
• Yang Ling realized Jiang Tian'ai and Zhang Shendao were missing, signaled Lin Caiyi and Li Shou, and turned back while Yun Ruo caught up with the Western Prince.

Yang Ling rescued Zhang Shendao and Jiang Tian'ai from a gigantic mudfish, then led the group through the freezing underwater passage into Water Qilin Cave. As the others recovered and learned of the danger, the Western Prince asked Yang Ling whether he had turned back to save the disciples.

• Yang Ling found Zhang Shendao and Jiang Tian'ai underwater and brought them away from the gigantic mudfish pursuing them.
• Lin Caiyi and Li Shou met the group at the passage entrance, and Yang Ling helped everyone catch up with the Martial Artists ahead.
• The group traveled through the increasingly cold waterway and emerged into the ice-filled Water Qilin Cave.
• Yang Ling swallowed two Spirit Nurturing Pills and advanced his Heavenly Will Divine Saber to Mastery Through Practice, gaining the Ice Blade skill.
• Zhang Shendao and Jiang Tian'ai thanked Yang Ling, while Dongfang Haojie, Chen Zuo, Chi Qingyao, and Hui Kong learned about the mudfish ambush.
• The Western Prince asked Yang Ling whether he had turned back to rescue the disciples from the Divine Sect and Extreme Flame Sword Mansion.

The Western Prince led the Zhao State Martial Artists toward the Ice Cave, while a Heavenly Wolf Guard force entered the wilderness with orders to kill Yang Ling and seize their treasures. Yang Ling discovered a swarm of Snowfield Carnivorous Worms closing in, but the Western Prince’s group had not yet realized how many there were.

• The Western Prince said the three Water Bodhi would be his, while his companions could divide nearby Rare Flowers and Herbs.
• More than a hundred Heavenly Wolf Guard members emerged from the Cold Pond and set out to seize treasures and kill Yang Ling, while being forbidden to attack Old Xi of Zhao State.
• The Western Prince led the group through the Ice and Snow Wilderness, using icicles as landmarks on the way to the Ice Cave.
• Yang Ling sensed movement beneath the snow and unearthed a Snowfield Carnivorous Worm beside the Western Prince.
• The Western Prince warned the group that Snowfield Carnivorous Worms hunted in families and carried deadly Cold Poison.
• Yang Ling sensed hundreds of worms surrounding them and urged the group to break through, but the Western Prince questioned whether there were many.

Yang Ling and the Western Prince led the surviving Iron Clothes Department members through the Water Qilin Cave Expedition’s blizzard and reached the maze-like Ice Mountain cave. As the group searched for the Water Bodhi, Yun Ruo offered to take Yang Ling to another possible location afterward and split any treasure they found.

• The Western Prince rallied the group after a Seventh Rank member died, and the others thanked Yang Ling for warning them about the Snowfield Carnivorous Worms.
• Yang Ling used his heightened senses and Mental Power to guide the Western Prince through a blizzard until the group reached the Ice Mountain.
• Yang Ling checked the Divine Realm Ranking and saw that Lin Caiyi and the other listed Players were still alive.
• The Western Prince warned that the cave was a maze and led the group inside, with Yang Ling and Yun Ruo assigned to lead the way.
• Yun Ruo quietly told Yang Ling he knew another place that might contain a Water Bodhi and offered to split what they found.

Yang Ling discovered that Xiao Chen had secretly scattered Tracking Powder in the Water Qilin Cave and exposed his betrayal to the Western Prince. Xiao Chen confessed that the Medicine Gang had paid him to leave the powder, though he claimed the deal was only for Rare Flowers and Herbs.

• The Western Prince warned the group that an adult Frost Power Bear was a Lower Sixth Rank expert, and the group passed it without waking it.
• Yang Ling noticed a strange scent and found white Tracking Powder on the ground behind the group.
• Li Huaiyi identified the powder, and Yang Ling accused Xiao Chen of scattering it.
• Yang Ling urged the Western Prince to take precautions, while Xiao Chen denied the accusation and the others grew suspicious.
• Xiao Chen confessed that he had taken Fifty Thousand Taels of Silver and Three Peiyuan Pills from the Medicine Gang to leave Tracking Powder in the cave.
• The Western Prince questioned why the Medicine Gang had not simply asked Xiao Chen to collect Rare Flowers and Herbs and offered to buy them.

The Western Prince and Yang Ling found no Water Bodhi in the cave and encountered Nangong Yue, who revealed that he and his men belonged to the Rong Tribe’s Heavenly Wolf Guard. Nangong Yue demanded Yang Ling’s head on the Wei Lord’s orders, and the standoff escalated when the Western Prince revealed his Divine Machine Crossbow.

• The Western Prince led Yang Ling and the others to the cave’s end, where they found no Water Bodhi or other rare herbs.
• Yang Ling recognized Nangong Yue’s Zhao State martial arts, and Li Huaiyi identified him as a Seventh Rank Iron Clothes from the Iron Clothes Department.
• Nangong Yue admitted that he and his men were Heavenly Wolf Guard spies and said the Wei Lord wanted Yang Ling dead.
• The Western Prince refused to hand Yang Ling over, and Nangong Yue challenged Yang Ling to surrender in exchange for the others’ lives.
• The Western Prince aimed his Divine Machine Crossbow at Nangong Yue, the Iron Clothes Constables raised their Hand Crossbows, and Yang Ling handed his crossbow to Yun Ruo.

Yang Ling used the Heavenly Will Divine Saber’s Ice Blade skill to turn the battle in the Ice Chamber against Nangong Yue and the Rong Tribe spies. Nangong Yue escaped into the snowy wilderness, weakened by Yang Ling’s daggers.

• Yang Ling’s flying dagger froze a Rong Tribe spy, revealing that he had mastered the Heavenly Will Divine Saber and startling Nangong Yue and the Western Prince.
• Yang Ling repeatedly threw daggers at the Rong Tribe fighters, while the Western Prince, Yun Ruo, and the other Iron Clothes Constables joined the attack.
• Nangong Yue ordered a retreat as the Rong Tribe spies suffered heavy casualties from Yang Ling, the Iron Clothes Constables, and the Frost Power Bear.
• Yang Ling pursued the fleeing spies, and only Nangong Yue and about a dozen others escaped the cave.
• Nangong Yue tried to redirect his surviving men toward Zhao State Martial Artists, but Yang Ling’s daggers struck him and forced him to flee into the snowy wilderness.

After defeating the Rong Tribe Spies, Yang Ling received a three-hundred-year-old Frost Spirit Ganoderma from the Western Prince and gained major improvements by eating it. Reaching level 40 granted him a Treasure Chest Fusion Slot, but its low success rate made him doubt that fusing treasure chests was worthwhile.

• The Western Prince thanked Yang Ling for helping defeat the Rong Tribe Spies and awarded him the Frost Spirit Ganoderma.
• Yang Ling collected thirty-three usable flying daggers, returned to the Ice Chamber, and ate the Frost Spirit Ganoderma.
• The Ganoderma gave Yang Ling 500 Experience Points for each of his two internal cultivation techniques, 500 Proficiency for four martial skills, and raised his Qi and Blood limit from 300 to 500.
• Yang Ling leveled up twice and became the first expert among the Ten Million Players in Divine Domain to reach level 40, earning a Random Treasure Chest and a Treasure Chest Fusion Slot.
• Yang Ling learned that chest fusion started at a 10% success rate and could rise to only 40% after repeated attempts, so he judged the process a losing deal.