Chapter Summaries

Yang Ling sold the Medicine Gang rare herbs in Dai Huaijin’s name and bought newly forged flying daggers. He learned that a retired blacksmith in Xiangfeng Prefecture might be able to forge his Kirin Iron into a Crane-Mouth Hoe, and placed an order for more weapons before returning to the Iron Clothes Department.

• Yang Ling sold the Medicine Gang rare herbs for forty thousand liang, and Wen Kongxuan said the gang would remember Dai Huaijin and support his family.
• Yang Ling collected ten Hundred Refined Red Gold Flying Daggers from the Master Craftsman and paid the remaining two hundred and fifty liang.
• Yang Ling showed the Master Craftsman his Kirin Iron, but the craftsman said he could not forge it and suggested seeking a retired blacksmith in Xiangfeng Prefecture.
• Yang Ling planned to ask Sect Master Liang about the blacksmith and said he would travel to Xiangfeng Prefecture after resting at the Red Gold Mine.
• Yang Ling paid the Master Craftsman ten thousand liang to arrange an order for one hundred and eighty Hundred Refined Red Gold Flying Daggers, and the craftsman asked for a Permit Letter.

Luo Yu used explosives to attack the Iron Clothes Department and warned Chen Guoqing, then made plans to expand the Immortal God Cult and prepare for Yang Ling. He recruited Zhang Wei and told him to lure Yang Ling into a meeting.

• Chen Guoqing found the Iron Clothes Department's shattered gate, injured constables, and one dead constable, while Luo Yu and his followers watched from nearby.
• Luo Yu told his subordinates that their explosives would let them defeat Yang Ling despite his higher level, and ordered them to gather more materials and believers.
• Luo Yu explained that the Immortal God Cult aimed to establish influence in the Divine Domain and said the higher-ups would send martial arts manuals for the group to cultivate.
• Luo Yu asked Zhang Wei to lead the Snake Gang into the cult and suggested that Yang Ling should die so Zhang Wei could take control.
• Zhang Wei agreed to join the Immortal God Cult, and Luo Yu told him to invite Yang Ling to meet once he returned.

Yang Ling learned that the Immortal God Cult had spread through the region and was tied to Rong Tribe spies, while Changhe Prefecture prepared a crackdown. After Liu Jitong claimed the cult’s Skyfire was divine punishment and resisted Yang Ling, Yang Ling revealed his new authority and sent Qin Mo to watch him.

• Chen Guoqing told Yang Ling that Luo Yu was a Protector of the Immortal God Cult and had learned to make explosives called Skyfire.
• Yang Ling said the cult worked with Rong Tribe spies and that Changhe Prefecture had planned a Special Crackdown Operation against it.
• Liu Jitong urged the constables not to oppose the cult, claiming its god had punished them with Skyfire.
• Yang Ling called the cult heretical, ordered Qin Mo to strip Liu Jitong of his uniform, and revealed his appointments in Changhe Prefecture and Qingshan City.
• Liu Jitong fled, and Yang Ling sent Qin Mo to follow him while warning him about the cult’s explosives.

After learning that the Immortal God Cult might be tied to Rong Tribe spies, Yang Ling ordered the constables to investigate quietly and went to the Red Gold Mine to check on its workers and Players. He left the mine under watch and entered the shafts, planning to wait until he could capture the cult members together.

• Yang Ling ordered the constables to monitor Immortal God Cult members and investigate their contacts and gathering places before beginning a purge.
• Yang Ling checked Wu Xiaochen, Chen Xu, Li Tianye, Wang Xudong, and the other miners, finding that they had gained levels while he was away.
• Chen Xu and the others told Yang Ling that some Players at the mine had been discussing the Immortal God Cult, and Yang Ling explained the events in Qingshan City.
• Yang Ling told the group to guard the mine and watch the suspicious Players while he stayed in the Mine Shaft until the time was right to take them down.
• Yang Ling checked Players’ Attribute Panels as he entered the mine, looking for the Cultist class.

Yang Ling's Mental Power exceeded 200, giving him microscopic control over his strength and greatly improving his cultivation speed. He began comprehending the Dragon Catching Saber Technique and raised its Proficiency to over 10,000 with Spirit Nurturing Pills.

• The Heavenly Will True Scripture reached Perfected Skill, raising Yang Ling's Mental Power to 200 and extending his perception miles along the Dark River.
• Yang Ling discovered he could precisely control his strength, tested the ability with a throwing knife, and resolved to ask Steward Lu about it.
• Yang Ling realized his increased cultivation speed and Experience Point limits would make him less dependent on Peiyuan Pills.
• Yang Ling comprehended the Dragon Catching Saber Technique and inherited half the Proficiency of the Tiger Catching Saber Technique.
• Yang Ling swallowed 11 Spirit Nurturing Pills, raising the Dragon Catching Saber Technique's Proficiency past 10,000.

Trapped in the Mine Shaft, Li Jun revealed that his father, Li Fengxian, led the Immortal God Cult and planned to kill Yang Ling with explosives. Yang Ling confronted Li Jun and learned how he had connected with his father, then asked how many cultists were at the Red Gold Mine.

• After two days without food or water, Li Jun blamed Zhang Yan for getting them trapped and claimed Yang Ling would soon be killed by the Immortal God Cult.
• Li Jun revealed that the Immortal God Cult Master was his father, Li Fengxian, a chemistry professor who had joined forces with the Rong Tribe.
• Yang Ling arrived and pierced Li Jun's knee with his hoe, then demanded his father's name and questioned him about the cult.
• Li Jun explained that his father had told him to contact Players promoting the Immortal God Cult, and Yang Ling realized Li Jun's class was cultist.
• Yang Ling asked Li Jun how many cultists were at the Red Gold Mine.

Yang Ling learned that the Immortal God Cult had a vast following and brought its leader’s son, Li Jun, to the Iron Clothes Department in Qingshan City. He left Li Jun in Qin Mo’s custody while the prisoner recognized Qin Mo from the Divine Realm Rank List.

• Li Jun explained that cultists’ Life and Death Brand marked anyone who killed them for about half a month, and revealed that the Immortal God Cult had eighty thousand followers outside the Divine Domain.
• Yang Ling warned Zhang Yan to keep Li Jun’s capture secret and said he would turn Li Jun over to Zhao State authorities rather than kill him.
• Yang Ling took Li Jun to the Iron Clothes Department’s prison in Qingshan City and told Qin Mo that Li Jun was the Immortal God Cult Master’s son.
• Qin Mo was delighted to be involved in capturing such an important prisoner and promised Li Jun he would not escape.

Yang Ling tracked Luo Yu to a courtyard and overheard him planning to take control of Qingshan City and threaten the Iron Clothes Department with attacks at twelve locations. When Luo Yu prepared to leave early, he discovered that Yang Ling had silently killed all his subordinates.

• Chen Guoqing feared Luo Yu would target twelve crowded locations, while Yang Ling said he had enough time to act.
• Yang Ling searched Qingshan City and found Luo Yu gathered with Emergency Department subordinates and Immortal God Cult members.
• Yang Ling overheard Luo Yu explain that he planned to meet at the Iron Clothes Department and seize Yang Ling's position as Constable of Qingshan City.
• Luo Yu's subordinate confirmed that twelve locations were ready to act if anything happened to him.
• Luo Yu decided to leave for the Iron Clothes Department early, then found throwing knives embedded in the foreheads of his subordinates.

Yang Ling interrogated Luo Yu about the Immortal God Cult and killed him after learning the location of the last explosives bundle. He then approached the Player waiting in a restaurant to detonate it, leaving the young man unaware that Yang Ling knew explosives were hidden in his clothes.

• Yang Ling pressured Luo Yu into revealing how he joined the Immortal God Cult and that a powerful Martial Market boss in Changhe Prefecture had supplied him with explosives.
• Luo Yu admitted he had planted one bundle in a restaurant across from the Iron Clothes Department Yamen and had lied about having twelve bundles to protect his position as Protector.
• Yang Ling declared Luo Yu guilty of resisting the law and killed him with the Hundred Refined Red Gold Crane Beak Hoe.
• Yang Ling found a young Player in the restaurant, who believed Luo Yu had sent him to help and wondered whether he should detonate the explosives if Luo Yu did not leave the yamen.
• The young Player said he thought the people killed by the explosives were only NPCs, while Yang Ling knew the explosives were hidden in the young man's clothes.

Yang Ling organized a sweeping arrest of the Immortal God Cult’s followers in Qingshan City and ordered them held until the Iron Clothes Department issued its directives. He planned to take Li Jun to Changhe Prefecture and recruit more constables, while Lin Guoliang and Wu Meng joined the imprisoned heretics.

• Yang Ling explained that Luo Yu had bombed the Iron Clothes Department to intimidate people and strengthen his standing in the Immortal God Cult, then ordered Chen Guoqing to identify the cult’s members.
• Chen Guoqing gave Yang Ling a list of seventy or eighty cult members, and Yang Ling assigned constables to arrest them while he and Qin Mo ate hot pot in the jail.
• Chen Guoqing brought in Lin Guoliang and Wu Meng, who had joined the cult to change classes, and Yang Ling ordered them detained pending an investigation and official directives.
• By evening, the constables had arrested nearly everyone on the list, and Yang Ling told Chen Guoqing to keep searching for cultists and guarding the prisoners.
• Yang Ling decided to take Li Jun to Changhe Prefecture and said he would seek funding to recruit more constables, including qualified Level 10 Players.

Yang Ling received his Seventh Rank Iron Clothes and Official Saber, then arranged for Zhang Hu to escort Li Jun to the Capital. Yun Ruo briefed him on the Immortal God Cult investigation, which was closing in on the wealthy Changhe Prefecture Helm Master.

• Zhang Hu arrived from Yunwen Provincial Capital with Yang Ling’s Seventh Rank Iron Clothes and Official Saber, and Yang Ling’s constable profession upgrade gave him another daily use of Insight Technique.
• Yang Ling asked Zhang Hu to escort Li Jun to the Capital, and Zhang Hu agreed before departing with him by carriage.
• Yun Ruo gave Yang Ling a list of roughly three or four hundred suspected Immortal God Cult heretics and said the Anti-Theft Division was waiting for the Helm Master to appear.
• Yun Ruo explained that the cult’s followers had never met the Helm Master, who sent subordinates in his place, but that he was wealthy.

Yun Ruo and Yang Ling agreed to investigate Lan Yue and the Immortal God Cult separately, while Yang Ling went undercover near the Changhe Prefecture government office. There, he overheard a meeting about restarting the Mine Gang’s operations and plans to kill him.

• Yun Ruo explained that the Iron Clothes Department could investigate Lan Yue only if they gathered conclusive evidence linking him to the Immortal God Cult and the Rong Tribe.
• Yun Ruo assigned Yang Ling to investigate Lan Yue, while she and Qin Mo took charge of the Immortal God Cult case.
• Yang Ling changed into plain clothes, left his weapons with Yun Ruo, and watched the Changhe Prefecture government office from a teahouse.
• Yang Ling used his heightened perception to overhear men discussing the Mine Gang’s need for ore and a promised Second-rate Internal Skill.
• The men identified Yang Ling as the Iron Clothes responsible for the Heavenly Wolf Guard’s losses and ordered that he be killed.

Yang Ling bought Spirit Nurturing Pills from Chu Huatian and learned about a Thousand Year Fire Ginseng reserved by the Prefect. Back at the Public Security Division, Lan Jiao reported that the Anti-Theft Division had found a lead to the Immortal God Cult’s hidden wealth, but the Helm Master’s identity remained unknown.

• Yang Ling learned that the Chen Family Medicine Store had sold a Thousand Year Fire Ginseng to the Prefect, and decided he would take it if it had not yet been consumed.
• Yang Ling bought 100 Spirit Nurturing Pills from Chu Huatian for fifty thousand liang and claimed his silver came from selling Rare Flowers and Herbs found in Water Qilin Cave.
• Yang Ling returned to the Public Security Division and found Lü Zhan talking with Lan Jiao.
• Lan Jiao told Yang Ling that the Anti-Theft Division had not identified the Immortal God Cult’s Helm Master but had found a lead to the cult’s hidden wealth, estimated at no less than fifty thousand liang.

Yang Ling used Spirit Nurturing Pills and practice to advance his Twelve-Style Vajra Leg, then traveled to Tingjiang City to seek a Thousand Year Fire Ginseng. Chen Family Medicine Store had reserved it for Prefect Lan, leaving Yang Ling to consider how to obtain it.

• Chu Huatian delivered the Spirit Nurturing Pills, and Yang Ling asked the Chu Family Medicine Store to set more aside for him.
• Yang Ling consumed 177 pills and practiced until his Twelve-Style Vajra Leg advanced to Entering the Hall and Room.
• Yang Ling traveled to Tingjiang City and asked to speak with the person in charge of Chen Family Medicine Store.
• The store manager told Yang Ling that Prefect Lan had reserved the Thousand Year Fire Ginseng, though he had not yet paid for it.
• Yang Ling learned that Chen Family Medicine Store had promised the ginseng to Prefect Lan and judged that acquiring it would not be easy.

Yang Ling revealed himself as an Iron Clothes officer, defeated and killed Yu Chi Hu, then agreed to help Chen Qi Zheng protect his family. At the Chen Family Mansion, he found the family held captive by another Black List expert and her companion.

• Yang Ling identified Yu Chi Hu as a Black List fugitive and subdued him when he attacked.
• Yang Ling tortured Yu Chi Hu for information, then beheaded him and cleaned his Seventh Rank Official Saber.
• Chen Qi Zheng asked Yang Ling to rescue the others at the Chen Family Mansion, and Yang Ling agreed to go with him.
• At the mansion, a woman terrorized the Chen family while a scholar watched, and a servant worried that the Black List experts had killed the hired guards.

Yang Ling confronted the scholar and woman who had targeted the Chen family, revealed his authority as Master of the Changhe Prefecture Public Security Division First Branch, and demanded they answer for their victims. The Chen family offered him the Thousand Year Fire Ginseng, but the woman threatened that killing her and her big brother would cost him his position.

• Yang Ling recognized the scholar and woman as powerful experts and identified himself as an Iron Clothes of the Iron Clothes Department.
• Yang Ling announced that Yu Chi Hu was dead, then revealed he was Yang Ling, Master of the Changhe Prefecture Public Security Division First Branch.
• The scholar and woman tried to leave, while Chen Qi Zheng warned that they might return to take revenge on the Chen family.
• The Chen family's Old Master offered Yang Ling the Thousand Year Fire Ginseng, and Chen Qi Zheng went to fetch it.
• Yang Ling demanded that the scholar and woman answer for the Chen family's dead guards and the medicine-shop errand boy Yu Chi Hu had killed.
• The woman threatened that killing her and her big brother would jeopardize Yang Ling's position, and the scholar ordered her to be quiet.

Yang Ling acquired an 800 Year Fire Ginseng from the Chen family and considered using its Flame Immunity skill to train his Heavenly Will Divine Saber toward Fire Saber. After exchanging ten Peiyuan Pills for the ginseng, he collected the heads of two Black List criminals.

• Yang Ling identified the Fire Ginseng as an 800 Year specimen that granted Flame Immunity for one minute and considered using the skill to train Fire Saber.
• Old Master Chen thanked Yang Ling for saving the Chen family and offered him the Fire Ginseng.
• Yang Ling proposed trading Peiyuan Pills for the ginseng rather than accepting it as a gift.
• Old Master Chen valued the 800 Year Fire Ginseng at ten Peiyuan Pills, and Yang Ling paid him on the spot.
• Yang Ling cut off the heads of the scholar and the woman and placed them in Black Cloth Bags from Chen Qi Zheng.

Yang Ling warned Wei Ran that Divine Domain was a real world where death was permanent, then gave him a cultivation technique and offered to take him to the Red Gold Mine. Their plans paused when Iron Clothes Constables hurried down the street.

• Yang Ling told Wei Ran to treat Divine Domain's inhabitants as living people and warned that Players who died there did not return to reality.
• Yang Ling gave Wei Ran the Eight Trigrams Skill, and Wei Ran practiced it, changing his profession from servant to Martial Artist.
• Yang Ling planned to take Wei Ran to the Red Gold Mine to mine, level up, and practice.
• Wei Ran told Yang Ling about the Azure Dragon Guild and other Players in Tingjiang City, including the guild's demand for half his monthly income.
• Yang Ling and Wei Ran noticed a group of Iron Clothes Constables hurrying down the street.

Yang Ling and Wei Ran watched Constable Wang use a coercive pledge to identify suspected Immortal God Cult members during Changhe Prefecture’s crackdown. Yang Ling explained the cult’s real-world origins and links to Rong Tribe spies just as Constable Wang ordered him and Wei Ran to sign.

• Constable Wang told the gathered locals to sign a pledge denying membership in the Immortal God Cult, then had those who refused dragged away.
• Constable Wang threatened suspected cultists with Autumn Execution, prompting the crowd, including Cao Yifei, to rush to sign.
• Yang Ling told Wei Ran that the Immortal God Cult existed in the real world, had entered the Divine Domain, and colluded with Rong Tribe spies.
• Constable Wang called Yang Ling and Wei Ran forward to sign, and Cao Yifei and the cultist Players stared at Yang Ling.

Yang Ling interrogated Cao Yifei and other Immortal God Cult members, uncovering a list of cultists in Tingjiang City and identifying one man who had belonged to the cult before entering the city. The chapter ended with Yang Ling testing the man’s claim that the cult’s gods made him immune to disease by cutting off his arm.

• Yang Ling questioned Cao Yifei about the Immortal God Cult’s ties to Rong Tribe spies, and Cao Yifei and the others denied being spies and begged for leniency.
• Yang Ling interrogated Cao Yifei and more than ten cultists, who named twenty-seven Immortal God Cult members in Tingjiang City and said they had joined after arriving there.
• Yang Ling sent the list to Constable Wang and offered those who had not been cultists before a chance to reform.
• Yang Ling sensed that one man was hiding something and revealed that he had been an Immortal God Cult member before coming to Tingjiang City.
• The man defended the cult and claimed its gods granted immunity to disease and a hundred years of life, so Yang Ling cut off his arm.