Chapter Summaries

Yang Ling exchanged for the Crimson Wood Ghost Ginseng and learned that Divine Realm natives could practice internal skills by using a drop of blood. Military Officer Mo and Wang Yaozu arrived to confront the Lin Family over Lin Hua, just as an elder appeared offering compensation.

• Yang Ling closed away the Crimson Wood Ghost Ginseng, while Lin Zhen used a drop of blood to absorb the Iron Clothes Divine Armor Scripture.
• Yang Ling reconsidered his assumptions about how Divine Realm natives learned internal skills after watching Lin Zhen practice the technique.
• Military Officer Mo arrived with Wang Yaozu, a Lower Fifth Rank Minor Grandmaster from Star Gazing Academy, and Lin Baoshan treated them coldly.
• Wang Yaozu accused Lin Hua of severely injuring his disciple, while Military Officer Mo pressured the Lin Family to settle the matter.
• A White-Haired Elder arrived and told Military Officer Mo that the Lin Family would cooperate with compensating the victim, prompting Yang Ling to ask Lin Zhen who he was.

Lin Hai pressured Lin Baoshan to give Wang Yaozu the Crimson Wood Ghost Ginseng as compensation for Lin Hua's attack, but Yang Ling revealed that Lin Baoshan had sold it to him. Yang Ling then provoked Wang Yaozu by insulting his martial aptitude, leaving the confrontation on the brink of violence.

• Lin Zhen explained that Lin Hai's branch held considerable influence in the Lin family, and Yang Ling suspected it resented Lin Baoshan's main branch.
• Wang Yaozu demanded a rare healing flower or herb for his badly injured disciple and warned that his death would bring Star Gazing Academy's Research Hall into the dispute.
• Lin Hai urged Lin Baoshan to compensate Wang Yaozu with the Crimson Wood Ghost Ginseng, which Lin Baoshan had intended to use for Lin Zhen's training.
• Yang Ling stepped forward and said Lin Baoshan had sold the Crimson Wood Ghost Ginseng to him, then identified himself as Tun Tian Dao Palace's headmaster's personal disciple.
• Lin Baoshan said the herb had been bought with his branch's resources, while Wang Yaozu accused the Lin family of going too far.
• Yang Ling mocked Wang Yaozu's age and slow advancement, making Wang Yaozu fly into a rage.

Yang Ling dismissed Wang Yaozu’s demand for compensation with three hundred taels, then defeated him after Wang attacked. The witnesses confirmed Wang struck first, and Yang Ling remained in control as Wang’s students rushed to help him.

• Yang Ling gave Wang Yaozu three hundred taels for his student’s medical expenses and told him to leave.
• Wang Yaozu flew into a rage and attacked Yang Ling with his sword.
• Yang Ling overwhelmed Wang with a rapid series of kicks, leaving him badly injured against the courtyard wall.
• Military Officer Mo and Lin Hai confirmed that Wang had attacked first when Yang Ling asked them what they had seen.
• Wang Haoran’s scholars rushed to check on Wang Yaozu, and Yang Ling snapped the finger of one who pointed at him.

Yang Ling ended the conflict with Wang Yaozu and earned an S-rated quest reward, but he discovered that Extreme Flame Sword Mansion had maneuvered to steal the Crimson Wood Ghost Ginseng. Two masked attackers rushed him, and his master arrived to kill them.

• Yang Ling gave Wang Yaozu two hundred taels as medical compensation and warned him against scheming against the Lin Family; Wang Yaozu then withdrew with his disciples.
• Yang Ling revealed he was Upper Sixth Rank and only twenty-four, prompting Wang Yaozu and Military Officer Mo to leave.
• Yang Ling received an S-rated quest reward and chose ten free attribute points, raising his total to sixty-three.
• Yang Ling overheard two Lower Fifth Rank men plotting to kill him and steal the Crimson Wood Ghost Ginseng, then identified a young woman in Lin Hai's group as a likely informant for Extreme Flame Sword Mansion.
• Two masked attackers charged at Yang Ling, but his master descended and killed them with palm strikes.

The Headmaster of Tun Tian Dao Palace saved Yang Ling and the Lin Family from two assassins, then told Yang Ling to refine the Crimson Wood Ghost Ginseng before joining her on a long journey. As Yang Ling consumed the sacred medicine, his Internal Energy experience and Qi and Blood continued to surge.

• The Headmaster of Tun Tian Dao Palace killed two Extreme Flame Sword Mansion elders who had attacked Yang Ling and instructed the Lin Family to notify the Heavenly Wolf Guard.
• The Headmaster explained that she had followed Yang Ling because Lin Zhen's sudden request seemed suspicious, then told him to refine the Crimson Wood Ghost Ginseng and meet her in ten hours for a long journey.
• Lin Zhen arranged a quiet room for Yang Ling, while Lin Hai realized that Yang Ling's connection to Tun Tian Dao Palace secured the main branch's position in the Lin Family.
• The Heavenly Wolf Guard collected the elders' bodies and briefly met the Headmaster before leaving.
• Yang Ling consumed the Crimson Wood Ghost Ginseng, gaining 20,000 experience in each of his four Internal Energy methods and raising his Qi and Blood to 18,800 as the medicine continued to take effect.

Yang Ling used the Crimson Wood Ghost Ginseng to gain a huge amount of experience across four internal energy techniques and raise his qi and blood to 19,999, where it stopped increasing. After he joined the Lin Family’s reception, the Headmaster of Tun Tian Dao Palace said he had reached Qi and Blood Minor Perfection, leaving Yang Ling uncertain whether she was right.

• Yang Ling watched the Crimson Wood Ghost Ginseng’s effects fade as his internal energy experience and qi and blood increased.
• After the ginseng’s effects ended, Yang Ling found that he had gained 140,000 internal energy experience points and that his qi and blood had stopped at 19,999.
• Yang Ling left the meditation room and went to the Lin Family’s reception hall, where Lin Zhen, Lin Baoshan, and his wife were hosting the Headmaster of Tun Tian Dao Palace.
• The Headmaster of Tun Tian Dao Palace noticed Yang Ling and said his qi and blood had reached Minor Perfection, surprising Lin Zhen and Lin Baoshan.
• Yang Ling questioned whether he had reached Minor Perfection and told his master that his qi and blood had stopped rising after reaching a certain point.

Yang Ling learned how qi and blood minor perfection differed from perfection and how the distinction affected vitality after advancing to the Lower Fifth Rank. The headmaster of Tun Tian Dao Palace then invited him to challenge the Heavenly Will Sect in a long-promised contest, triggering a main quest.

• The headmaster of Tun Tian Dao Palace explained that qi and blood perfection granted a greater vitality increase than minor perfection, while minor perfection added only twenty percent.
• Lin Zhen and Lin Baoshan learned that external aids could not raise qi and blood beyond minor perfection, and Lin Zhen reconsidered rushing his advancement.
• Yang Ling asked how to reach perfection, and the headmaster told him to cultivate the Swallowing Heaven Heart Sutra until his qi and blood transformed.
• The headmaster of Tun Tian Dao Palace invited Yang Ling to accompany him to the Heavenly Will Sect for a contest between their disciples.
• Yang Ling accepted the main quest and promised not to disgrace his master.

Yang Ling learned that the Headmaster of Tun Tian Dao Palace had brought him to meet the Heavenly Will Sect, one of Rong State’s seven great first-rate sects. After hearing about the sect’s strongest disciple and its famed martial arts, Yang Ling gained confidence in his chances, but the Headmaster warned him to flee if he ever faced a practitioner of the Heavenly Will Divine Fist who had grasped its fist momentum.

• Yang Ling learned that the Headmaster’s fully grown Xuantie Falcon was Tun Tian Dao Palace’s second-strongest fighter and had cost three Martial Way Sacred Medicines.
• The Headmaster told Yang Ling that the Heavenly Will Sect was one of Rong State’s seven great first-rate sects and said Yang Ling’s upper sixth-rank strength gave him a strong chance against its leading disciple.
• The Headmaster explained that the Heavenly Will Sect followed the Heavenly Will Divine Fist and Heavenly Will Divine Saber, and that its fist art was considered Rong State’s greatest.
• The Headmaster warned Yang Ling to run if he ever encountered a Heavenly Will Sect disciple who had comprehended the Heavenly Will Divine Fist’s fist momentum.

Yang Ling learned that the Heavenly Will Divine Fist’s fist momentum could make its attacks impossible to evade, then accompanied Yun Tianqing to the Heavenly Will Sect to settle an old score with Xie Huichen. Their arrival was complicated by the presence of the Zhao Heavenly King, a distinguished guest of the sect.

• The headmaster of the Tun Tian Dao Palace explained to Yang Ling that the Heavenly Will Divine Fist’s fist momentum guaranteed a hit within its attack range and was considered super first-rate.
• Yang Ling resolved to prioritize improving his Vajra Mingwang Technique and raising his qi and blood before pursuing a breakthrough to the lower fifth rank.
• After flying for three days and two nights, Yang Ling and Yun Tianqing reached the snow-covered Heavenly Will Sect in the northern Rong State.
• Yun Tianqing introduced herself to the sect’s disciples and announced that she had come to settle an old score with Xie Huichen.
• When Yun Tianqing demanded to go directly to Xie Huichen, the disciples said she was hosting the Zhao Heavenly King, leaving Yun Tianqing grim and Yang Ling alarmed.

Yun Tianqing brought Yang Ling to Phoenix Dance Mountain to confront Xie Huichen over an old agreement for their disciples to spar, but Xie Huichen rejected the wager. Zhao De offered a Nourishing Breath Essence Pill as a prize, leaving the match stakes unsettled.

• Yun Tianqing and Yang Ling arrived at the Heavenly Will Sect and met Xie Huichen, Zhao De, and Xie Huichen's disciples, including Yao Chunman.
• Yang Ling recognized Xie Huichen as a fourth-rank grandmaster and noticed Yao Chunman's exceptional martial skills and minor perfection in qi and blood.
• Yun Tianqing introduced Yang Ling as her personal disciple and reminded Xie Huichen of their agreement for their disciples to spar, with the loser’s disciple joining the winner’s side.
• Xie Huichen argued that their youthful wager could not stand and that she could not decide whether a disciple could leave the Heavenly Will Sect.
• Zhao De proposed that both sides put up prizes for the match and offered a Nourishing Breath Essence Pill as the first stake.

Xie Huichen, Yun Tianqing, and Zhao De assembled valuable pills and Snow Spirit Marrow as prizes for a disciple sparring match. Xie Huichen chose Zhang Daochu instead of Yao Chunman to fight, and Yang Ling realized Zhang was a level 72 Player from somewhere beyond Rong State.

• Zhao De offered a Nourishing Breath Essence Pill as a prize, and Yun Tianqing matched it with a Great Tun Tian Restoration Pill.
• Xie Huichen offered one tael of Snow Spirit Marrow, and Yun Tianqing added a second Great Tun Tian Restoration Pill to match its value.
• Yang Ling calculated that the prizes could bring his Vajra Mingwang Technique close to advancing and looked forward to returning at a higher rank.
• Yao Chunman volunteered to fight, but Xie Huichen told her someone else would take her place.
• Zhang Daochu arrived and addressed Xie Huichen as his master, while Yang Ling checked his attributes and discovered he was a level 72 Player.

Yang Ling realized Zhang Daochu was a powerful player who might have cultivated skills outside the exclusive instance, while Xie Huichen chose him over Yao Chunman to face Yang Ling. Zhang Daochu’s Lightning Saber and Absolute Focus both failed to hit Yang Ling, and Xie Huichen urged him not to hold back.

• Yang Ling inspected Zhang Daochu’s skills and wondered whether top players in other regions had surpassed level 80.
• Xie Huichen named Zhang Daochu her final disciple and chose him to fight Yang Ling instead of Yao Chunman, leaving Yao Chunman resentful.
• Zhang Daochu activated the Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual and threw a Lightning Saber, but Yang Ling dodged it.
• Zhang Daochu used Absolute Focus to lock onto Yang Ling with another Lightning Saber, but Yang Ling subtly redirected it with Object Control.
• Xie Huichen told Zhang Daochu not to hold back, and he began taking Yang Ling seriously.

Yang Ling endured Zhang Daochu’s Heavenly Will Divine Fist and then unveiled a powerful new kicking technique. He knocked Zhang Daochu unconscious, leaving the martial artists at Phoenix Dance Mountain stunned.

• Zhang Daochu unleashed Heavenly Will Fist Momentum and struck Yang Ling with more than a hundred punches, while Yun Tianqing and Yao Chunman realized he cultivated the Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual.
• Yang Ling’s defenses reduced the damage from Zhang Daochu’s punches, and he remained standing after Zhang Daochu exhausted his qi and blood.
• Zhang Daochu urged Yang Ling to spit out blood, while Yun Tianqing offered him healing pills, but Yang Ling said he wanted to test a new move.
• Yang Ling used Treading the Void and Azure Dragon Force to land more than a hundred kicks on Zhang Daochu, knocking him unconscious as he spat blood.
• The martial artists at Phoenix Dance Mountain fell silent at the sight of Zhang Daochu lying unconscious.

Yang Ling defeated Zhang Daochu and claimed the Snow Spirit Marrow, while the system rewarded him by stealing Zhang Daochu’s Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual. He left with Yun Tianqing, realizing that players who control exclusive instances could become targets for one another.

• Yang Ling told Yun Tianqing that Zhang Daochu’s fist technique was powerful but depended on its user, and Zhao De gave him the Nourishing Breath Essence Pill while Yun Tianqing handed him two wooden boxes.
• Xie Huichen recognized Yang Ling’s extraordinary strength and gave him the Snow Spirit Marrow after Zhang Daochu lost the spar.
• The system awarded Yang Ling an S+ rating and robbed Zhang Daochu of the Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual, which appeared before Yang Ling as Zhang Daochu saw the loss and spat blood.
• Yun Tianqing criticized Zhang Daochu’s response to defeat, but Xie Huichen rebuked her and ordered her and Yang Ling to leave.
• Yang Ling learned the stolen manual as he departed, then considered how players with exclusive instances might hunt one another for their abilities.

Yang Ling learned more about the Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual and discovered he could circulate three internal energy techniques at once because he had mastered subtlety. After returning to Tun Tian Dao Palace to cultivate, he left the awakened Zhang Daochu convinced that Yang Ling had stolen his technique and determined to take revenge.

• Yang Ling compared the Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual with the Vajra Mingwang Technique and wondered whether the latter had a hidden fifth level.
• Yun Tianqing told Yang Ling to cultivate in seclusion after they returned, then explained her history with Xie Huichen and why she had never fought her.
• Yun Tianqing warned Yang Ling against using multiple internal energy techniques, explaining that only martial artists who comprehended subtlety could circulate three, though they usually sacrificed further advancement.
• Yang Ling realized his mastery of subtlety let him circulate three internal energy techniques, then returned to Tun Tian Dao Palace and entered a secluded chamber.
• Zhang Daochu woke at the Heavenly Will Sect, saw that the Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual was gone, and swore that Yang Ling was his sworn enemy.

After Yang Ling defeated Zhang Daochu and took his Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual, the two players discovered they came from different regions of Divine Domain and began discussing how the instance worked. Zhang Daochu lost access to the instance, while Yang Ling suspected his level let him control when others entered and proposed trading information and items.

• Zhang Daochu calmed down after losing the Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual and learned from his subordinate that Yang Ling was a player who had defeated him.
• Zhang Daochu told his subordinate that he had lost eligibility to enter the instance and resolved to settle the score with Yang Ling when he returned.
• Yang Ling took the Nourishing Breath Essence Pill and received Zhang Daochu's private message demanding the manual back.
• Yang Ling and Zhang Daochu realized they were ranked first in different regions and confirmed they had entered the instance at the same time.
• Yang Ling inferred that Divine Domain might time other players' instance entries according to the highest-level player, and Zhang Daochu offered to buy back the manual.
• Yang Ling proposed that they exchange information and trade items, and Zhang Daochu asked what Yang Ling had to offer.

Yang Ling perfected the Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual, gaining free attribute points and the Fierce Heart skill, then tried to trade with Zhang Daochu for the Heavenly Will Divine Fist. As the instance ended, Zhang Daochu vowed to take back what Yang Ling had robbed from him when they met again.

• Yang Ling used pills and cultivation to raise the Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual to perfected skill, gaining 113 free attribute points and Fierce Heart.
• Yang Ling considered how reaching Fifth Rank might improve his cultivation speed and make his excess mental power more useful.
• Yang Ling messaged Zhang Daochu, offering Hundred Refined Blazing Gold in exchange for the Heavenly Will Divine Fist.
• Zhang Daochu rejected Yang Ling's proposed method of obtaining the manual and threatened him, then stopped replying.
• At the Heavenly Will Sect, Zhang Daochu vowed to reclaim what Yang Ling had taken before the instance timer reached zero and its remaining players vanished.

Yang Ling and Lu Yunchen traveled by boat toward the Capital, where they discussed the case against Luo Kai and the mysterious Divine Guard Office. Yang Ling suspected that remnants of the Heavenly Will Sect had fled overseas, and Xu Wenjun summoned him to his cabin.

• Yang Ling followed Lu Yunchen aboard the Cao Gang's boat, and Lu Yunchen warned him to endure the reprimand awaiting them in the Capital.
• Lu Yunchen explained the Capital's powerful clans and Grandmasters, then said the evidence against Luo Kai was too weak to justify pursuing him.
• Yang Ling asked Lu Yunchen about the Divine Guard Office, and Lu Yunchen recalled seeing the name among intelligence about distant nations across the sea.
• Yang Ling connected the Divine Guard Office to Zhang Daochu's region and suspected surviving Heavenly Will Sect members had fled overseas with their martial legacy.
• Lu Yunchen left to practice, and after Yang Ling returned to his cabin, Xu Wenjun sent Hong Ruohai to invite him over.

Yang Ling met with Xu Wenjun, who explained that the Sixth Rank Top Hundred Battle would take place on the dangerous Fire Flood Dragon Island and asked Yang Ling to help his son, Xu Qingnian. Xu Wenjun revealed that a Fire Spirit Pearl might soon emerge there, but even Fourth-Rank Grandmasters had been weakened by the island’s suppressive force.

• Xu Wenjun asked Yang Ling why He Dongqing had testified against Wang Zhi, and Yang Ling said he had uncovered evidence of He Dongqing’s crimes during his investigation into the refugees’ deaths.
• Xu Wenjun told Yang Ling that his son, Xu Qingnian, would join the Sixth Rank Top Hundred Battle and proposed that they support each other on Fire Flood Dragon Island in exchange for backing Yang Ling within the Iron Clothes Department.
• Xu Wenjun explained that Fire Flood Dragon Island had once yielded three Fire Spirit Pearls, claimed respectively by the Zhao State, the Rong Tribe, and an overseas sect.
• Xu Wenjun revealed that the island’s rising temperature might signal another Fire Spirit Pearl’s emergence, prompting the Zhao State and the Rong Tribe to hold the battle there.
• Xu Wenjun said two Zhao State Fourth-Rank Grandmasters had retreated from the island because its force suppressed them and reduced their recovery abilities to the level of the sixth rank.

Yang Ling learned the dangers and rewards of the Sixth Rank Top Hundred Battle on Fire Flood Dragon Island, then trained to circulate three Internal Energy techniques at once while traveling to the Capital. The chapter ended as he reached the Capital’s bustling harbor and received Zhang Wei’s message that he had become a Ninth-Rank junior eunuch in the Directorate of Ceremonial.

• Xu Wenjun warned Yang Ling and the Iron Clothes officers that Fire Flood Dragon Island suppressed powerful regeneration and ordered them to focus on killing the Rong Tribe’s Sixth Ranks while surviving.
• Xu Wenjun revealed the three first-place rewards: Qi and Blood Tai Sui, Vajra Bodhi, and Water Bodhi, and said the Upper Sixth Ranks would likely target the Lower Sixth Ranks first.
• Yang Ling returned to his quiet room and tried to circulate the Vajra Mingwang Technique, Great Grade Azure Dragon Force, and Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual simultaneously, but his Qi and Blood became chaotic.
• Yang Ling gradually increased the time he could circulate all three techniques, reaching twenty minutes on the seventh day.
• Yang Ling reached the Capital by ship and saw its enormous harbor filled with porters and vessels.
• Zhang Wei messaged Yang Ling that he had established himself in the Capital as a Ninth-Rank junior eunuch in the Directorate of Ceremonial and found many players there.