Recaps

Yang Ling grew stronger through mining and martial arts while navigating the mine’s violence and the search for a missing Buddhist Sutra. After reaching Level 10 and mastering Collapse Mountain Fist, he faced a mob preparing to attack newcomers over Fire Crystal Rock.

• Yang Ling mined long hours, leveled up, bought a Fine Steel Pickaxe, and fought off Fifth Brother’s subordinates.
• Yang Ling rescued Zhang Wei, met Chen Xu, Lin Guoliang, and Wu Meng, and entered the deep mines, where he killed a bandit and found a hidden ore vein.
• Yang Ling lured a swarm of Mine Worms into boulders, uncovered the Vajra Mingwang Technique, and began cultivating it while miners searched for the missing Buddhist Sutra.
• Zhang Wei revealed the Collapse Mountain Fist manual, and Yang Ling trained it until he gained Strength and reached First Glimpse of the Door.
• After the mine closed, Yang Ling identified Fifth Brother’s body and returned to Mine Tunnel No. 1, where Xu Qing investigated the missing Sutra and offered him work overseeing an Ore Vein of Red Gold Mine.
• Yang Ling reached Level 10, received a White Treasure Chest, and discovered that he needed a Class Transfer to progress further, while his increased Mental boosted his training gains.
• Yang Ling advanced Collapse Mountain Fist to Mastery Through Practice and checked Wu Que’s attributes before Chen Xu summoned him to a dispute at the mine.
• Yang Ling found Officer Chen trying to protect Lin Guoliang, Wu Meng, and four newcomers from an angry crowd, while a wiry miner urged the miners to bury them.

Yang Ling became a Constable and then supervisor of the Red Gold Mine, where he used Players and his own strength to raise production. After Wang Er caused a deadly mantis attack, Yang Ling exposed him and Fang Qingyang, then prepared to face Wu Man while an official investigated Wu Que’s theft.

• Yang Ling killed Wu Que and his men after Wu Que framed him for stealing ore, then buried the slain miners and found silver notes on Wu Que.
• Yang Ling became a Constable, learned the Thief-Catching Saber Technique, and later accepted Xu Qing’s appointment as supervisor of the Red Gold Mine.
• Yang Ling recruited Players and miners to increase production, leading them into the tunnels to mine Red Gold and fight Mine Rats.
• Wang Er lured Red Gold Mantises into the mine with Red Gold Ore Essence and pig’s blood, killing ten miners before Yang Ling uncovered his plot with Insight.
• Yang Ling used Wang Er’s blood to draw the mantises into a tunnel and killed them, while Little White, a newly hatched Great Mother Red Gold Mantis, helped him locate ore.
• Yang Ling accused Fang Qingyang and Wang Er before Captain Lin, who imprisoned them and told Yang Ling that Wu Que had sold the stolen ore to the Rong Tribe.
• After Yang Ling paused mining and practiced his martial arts, Wu Man confronted him outside the Prefectural Office, and Yang Ling attacked him with his hoe.

Yang Ling rose from Ninth-Rank Iron Clothes Constable to the head of the Qingshan City yamen while expanding the Red Gold Mine and strengthening his techniques. The arc ended with him confronting the Snake Gang, killing Tie Xinghu, and finding twelve Spirit Nurturing Pills on the man’s body.

• Yang Ling killed Wu Man with Little White’s help, earned a promotion to Ninth-Rank Iron Clothes Constable, and helped expose the people involved in Wu Que’s smuggling operation.
• Yang Ling reached level 20, learned Lingxu Step, and later fought Giant Spirit Sect Martial Artists while protecting a Red Gold Mine shipment.
• Lin Yan secured Yang Ling’s appointment as Constable of Qingshan City, and Yang Ling accepted Liang Yue’s Peiyuan Pill, advancing his Vajra Mingwang Technique to its Second Layer.
• Yang Ling took charge of the Red Gold Mine’s stewards, welcomed refugees and Players, and killed the Overlord Ghost Spider after it trapped him underground.
• Yang Ling succeeded Lin Yan as head of the Iron Clothes Department Yamen and bought defective Spirit Nurturing Pills from Huang Xihai to improve Lingxu Step.
• Qi Dalong invited Yang Ling to dinner, where Tie Xinghu revealed his interest in Wu Que and Qi’s Blade Hands surrounded the hall.
• Yang Ling killed Tie Xinghu and the Blade Hands, then confronted Qi Dalong, who offered silver to settle matters.
• Yang Ling ordered Zhang Wei to search Tie Xinghu’s body, and Zhang Wei found a pouch of silver and a copper tube containing twelve Spirit Nurturing Pills.

Yang Ling advanced his martial arts, investigated the Chu Family Medicine Store, and defended the Red Gold Mine while dealing with the Players and Ku Jue Temple monks. Wen You told him about the Water Qilin Cave and invited him to join the Shizi Gang, leaving Yang Ling to consider the cave’s coming opening.

• Yang Ling exposed the Snake Gang’s ties to the Rong Tribe, helped secure its leaders’ arrest, and earned promotion to Upper Eighth Rank in Changhe Prefecture.
• Yang Ling rejected Chu Huatian’s initial offer, then helped uncover the Chu Family Medicine Store’s missing herbs and the corpse of Shopkeeper Qian before returning to Qingshan City with ten Peiyuan Pills.
• Yang Ling ordered Luo Yu and the Players to leave the Red Gold Mine, then killed an Overlord Ghost Spider and obtained a Divine Ape Visualization picture and a Hundred-Year Fire Ginseng.
• Yang Ling used the Fire Ginseng and Peiyuan Pills to strengthen himself, then killed Hui Wu and three other Ku Jue Temple monks who demanded his leveling secret.
• Yang Ling hid the monks’ bodies in Mine Tunnel 36 and continued mining and practicing his martial skills, while Chen Guoqing and Wen You came to the mine looking for him.
• Yang Ling sold 273 jin, 6 liang, and 5 qian of ore, and Wen You told him about the Iron Clothes Art and the Water Qilin Cave’s ten-day opening.
• Wen You gave Yang Ling five Peiyuan Pills on behalf of Wen Kongxuan and invited him to become the Shizi Gang’s Supreme Elder, but Yang Ling refused as Wen You urged him to prepare for the Water Qilin Cave.