Chapter Summaries

Yang Ling struggled against Mou Sen, a peak lower fourth-rank grandmaster whose cold poison and physical strength overwhelmed him. Trapped in an ice cavern, Yang Ling accepted the Diamond White Bone Buddha’s inheritance, which promised to advance his Vajra Mingwang Technique to Supernatural Skill.

• Mou Sen healed from Yang Ling’s Instant Slashes and relentlessly attacked him with Mysterious Yin Heart-Rending Palms.
• Yang Ling struck Mou Sen’s forehead with his hoe, then unleashed a barrage of attacks that failed to seriously injure him.
• Mou Sen struck Yang Ling into a Buddha statue and sent him crashing into an ice cavern, costing him three thousand health points.
• Yang Ling realized he could not defeat Mou Sen without far greater strength and received an offer to inherit the Diamond White Bone Buddha’s teachings.
• Yang Ling accepted the inheritance, and his Vajra Mingwang Technique changed into the Diamond White Bone Mingwang Technique.

Yang Ling received the Diamond White Bone Buddha's inheritance, advancing his technique and unlocking the White Bone Buddha Overlord Body and transcendent saint realm. He revealed his newfound strength by effortlessly overpowering Mou Sen, who had been threatening Hu Shuying.

• Yang Ling's Diamond White Bone Mingwang Technique advanced to supernatural skill, becoming a super first-rate technique and transforming his Vajra Mingwang Body into the White Bone Buddha Overlord Body.
• The inheritance poured warmth into Yang Ling's Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling, raising its progress by 100 points and restoring proficiency for his Lingxu Step and Wind God Vajra Leg.
• Hu Shuying told Mou Sen that the Divine Guard Office had found his 207 relatives and offered to trade his life for theirs, but Mou Sen dismissed the threat and moved to kill her.
• Yang Ling emerged from the Buddha statue and seized Mou Sen's wrist, then dodged his attacks and confirmed that the Overlord Body nullified the Mysterious Yin Heart-Rending Palm's icy effect.
• Yang Ling slammed Mou Sen into the ground hundreds of times, pinned him by the neck, and began punching his face.

Yang Ling defeated and beheaded Mou Sen despite being only an Upper Fifth Rank, while Hu Shuying recovered and arranged to take the chief credit for the mission. The two agreed that Yang Ling would receive the Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruits, and they waited for Hall Master Shi to arrive.

• Yang Ling overwhelmed Mou Sen, used eleven Instant Slashes to sever his head, and learned that the Fourth-Rank Grandmaster could survive for up to a month without it.
• Hu Shuying took a pill to recover enough to move and told Yang Ling they had to wait for Hall Master Shi before leaving the Great Underworld Temple with Mou Sen.
• Yang Ling said he was an Upper Fifth Rank, and Hu Shuying taunted Mou Sen over being defeated by someone of a lower rank.
• Hu Shuying offered Yang Ling the chief credit and Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruits in exchange for letting her claim the beheading credit.
• Yang Ling agreed to forgo the credit for the fruit and negotiated for three eight-hundred-year Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruits.
• Yang Ling dismissed his Heavenly Wolf Divine Weapon Armor and explained that its special spiritual property let him put it on easily.

Yang Ling waited with Hu Shuying for Shi Tianlong while considering his new attribute points, cultivation plans, and martial skill advancements. After monks and Beheading Hall guards entered the Vajra Martial Hall, Shi Tianlong saw Yang Ling and asked whether he was human or a ghost.

• Yang Ling reviewed the 200 free attribute points he had gained and planned to save them for improving the White Bone Origin Spirit Method.
• Yang Ling realized his life-or-death battle with Mou Sen had added two points to his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling.
• Yang Ling examined the Transcendent Saint advancements for Lingxu Step and Wind God Vajra Leg and weighed escape against damage improvements.
• More than a hundred monks and the Beheading Hall's Human Division Groups One and Two entered the Vajra Martial Hall and saw Mou Sen's severed head and body.
• Shi Tianlong arrived with a middle-aged monk, studied Yang Ling, and asked, "Are you human or a ghost!"

Yang Ling confronted Shi Tianlong over the Great Underworld Temple’s role in sheltering Mou Sen, then negotiated compensation rather than trying to arrest a Third-Rank Grandmaster. Shi Tianlong recognized Yang Ling as an old acquaintance who resembled him, and Shi Tianzun offered rare medicines and pills for Yang Ling and Hu Shuying’s injuries.

• Shi Tianlong claimed Mou Sen had hidden in the Vajra Martial Hall without the monks’ help, while Hu Shuying demanded that monks be questioned; Mou Sen accused Shi Tianlong of betraying him.
• Yang Ling argued that an expert from the Great Underworld Temple had helped Mou Sen and warned Shi Tianlong not to shield an accomplice, prompting Shi Tianzun to ask whether the matter could be kept off the scales.
• Yang Ling identified himself as commander of Human Division Group Three and mentioned Zong Heng, causing Shi Tianlong’s aura to surge before he regained control and acknowledged Yang Ling as an old acquaintance.
• Yang Ling described the damage Mou Sen had caused to his and Hu Shuying’s martial way kindling and internal energy, and Shi Tianzun offered two fifteen-hundred-year-old Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruits plus ten Great Underworld Formless Pills.

Yang Ling and Hu Shuying settled matters at the Great Underworld Temple, where Shi Tianzun gave Yang Ling valuable pills and spiritual fruits. After they returned to the Divine Guard Office with Mou Sen, Hu Shuying handed Yang Ling her share of the rewards, and he left Xia Heng regretting that Yang Ling had not told him about the mission sooner.

• Shi Tianzun gave Yang Ling ten Great Underworld Formless Pills and two Fifteen-Hundred-Year Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruits to settle the misunderstanding at the Great Underworld Temple.
• Yang Ling obtained another Fifteen-Hundred-Year Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit from Shi Tianlong for an old grievance, then left with Hu Shuying and Mou Sen.
• Yang Ling and Hu Shuying returned Mou Sen to the Divine Guard Office, where news of their capture of the fourth-rank grandmaster caused an uproar.
• Hu Shuying gave Yang Ling her mission reward and the three Eight-Hundred-Year Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruits she owed him, explaining that she would not accept rewards she had not earned.
• Yang Ling ran into Xia Heng and told him he had completed the mission with Hu Shuying, prompting Xia Heng to lament that Yang Ling had not told him sooner.

Yang Ling consumed Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruits and Great Underworld Formless Pills, advancing the Divine Ape Visualization to Supernatural Skill and unlocking the Divine Ape Spirit Body. After testing his new power, he learned that Li Shou and the others had been detained.

• Yang Ling used three Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruits to raise his Martial Way kindling progress from 158 to 182 points.
• Yang Ling swallowed ten Great Underworld Formless Pills, advancing the Divine Ape Visualization to Supernatural Skill and increasing his mental power to 660 points.
• Yang Ling assessed his boosted combat abilities and concluded he could fight lower fourth-rank grandmasters, potentially even Shi Tianlong, on even terms.
• Yang Ling activated the Divine Ape Spirit Body, tested its strength and ability to pass through the ground, and discovered it could travel only a hundred zhang from his body.
• Zhang Shendao hurried to Yang Ling and told him that Li Shou and the others had been detained.

Yang Ling and Hu Shuying went to the powerful Myriad Manifestations Office to learn why Lin Caiyi, Jiang Tian'ai, Li Shou, and other divine guards had been detained over missing pills. Hu Shuying’s uncle agreed to take them to the official handling the case, leaving Yang Ling hopeful they could get an explanation.

• Zhang Shendao explained that Lin Caiyi, Jiang Tian'ai, Li Shou, and veteran players had been detained after more than a hundred pills went missing during a confiscated-goods handover.
• Hu Shuying warned Yang Ling and Zhang Shendao that the Myriad Manifestations Office held great power, and said the divine guards could be freed if they proved their innocence but executed if guilty.
• Yang Ling learned that six First Rank Land Immortals oversaw the Myriad Manifestations Office and saw its clerks blacklist a sect for thirty years.
• Hu Shuying's uncle recognized Yang Ling and agreed to ask about the detained divine guards, while warning that influence would not help if they had embezzled the goods.
• Hu Shuying's uncle led Yang Ling, Hu Shuying, and Zhang Shendao to meet the official handling the case and told them to let him speak.

Yang Ling confronted Ye Qingdong over the Myriad Manifestations Office’s continued detention of his subordinates, then learned Ye’s office was struggling with its own investigation. After Yang offered to help in exchange for assistance, Ye invited him to come along.

• Ye Qingdong told Yang Ling that his subordinates appeared to be telling the truth but would remain detained until the missing goods were accounted for.
• Yang Ling asked when the case would be resolved and insisted on seeing his subordinates, but Ye refused and directed him to investigate the Divine Guard Office.
• A young man reported that the suspects were uncooperative and that someone from the palace was waiting for an answer, prompting Ye to order him not to discuss the matter in front of outsiders.
• Yang Ling criticized Ye’s handling of the case and said he would investigate it himself, angering Ye before he asked whether Yang was confident in the field.
• Yang Ling offered to help if Ye would assist him in return, and Ye told him to come along.

Yang Ling joined Ye Qingdong’s investigation into a first-class internal skill stolen from the palace, pledging to solve the case within two hours or enter the palace to answer for failure. After learning the stakes and the potential reward, he prepared to interrogate three wounded clerks from the Myriad Manifestations Office.

• Hu Shuying ignored her uncle’s warnings and followed Yang Ling and Ye Qingdong to keep watch over the investigation.
• Ye Qingdong explained that Yang Ling and Hu Shuying had killed Mou Sen, a peak lower fourth-rank grandmaster, despite his immunity to poison.
• Seal-Holding Eunuch He told Yang Ling that a first-class internal skill had vanished after three Myriad Manifestations Office clerks entered the palace, and demanded the case be solved within two hours.
• Eunuch He warned Yang Ling that failure meant going to the palace with him, while Ye Qingdong brought the three injured clerks in for questioning.
• Ye Qingdong mentioned that solving the case would earn a grade A level 4 mission reward, and Yang Ling declared that he would not stand aside.

Yang Ling used the Insight Technique to discover that Guo Fan stole the Dongting Nine-Character True Scripture for Seal Keeper He Busu, who planned to sell it to the Heaven's Mandate Sect. He privately recruited Ye Qingdong to help expose the crime, then began a ritual that brought Guo Fan out of the interrogation room.

• Yang Ling used the Insight Technique on the three clerks and learned that Guo Fan had stolen the manual and given it to Seal Keeper He.
• Yang Ling used his final Insight Technique on He Busu and learned that He had ordered the theft, kept the manual on his person, and planned to trade it that day.
• Yang Ling privately asked Ye Qingdong whether a Land Immortal could hear them and secured his cooperation in solving the case.
• Yang Ling announced that he would perform a ritual to find the thief and directed Ye Qingdong to bring Guo Fan out.
• Ye Qingdong brought Guo Fan from the interrogation room and demanded that Yang Ling show evidence.

Yang Ling accused Keeper of the Seal He of stealing the Dongting Nine-Character True Scripture and trying to sell it to the Heaven's Mandate Sect, then insisted that Director Du search him. Keeper of the Seal He tried to flee, but Director Du caught and subdued him, leaving the officials stunned.

• Yang Ling publicly accused Keeper of the Seal He of taking the scripture and arranging its sale to the Heaven's Mandate Sect.
• Keeper of the Seal He denied the accusation and tried to take Guo Fan away, but Yang Ling stopped his young eunuch and declared that Keeper of the Seal He was not leaving.
• Director Du arrived and agreed to search Keeper of the Seal He after Yang Ling insisted the manual was on him.
• Keeper of the Seal He attempted to escape, but Director Du caught him and struck him until he could no longer move.

Yang Ling exposed He Busu’s scheme to steal the Dongting Nine-Character True Scripture and frame Myriad Manifestations Office clerks, earning promises of a reward. He then went to the Underground Prison, where Zhang Wei and the other Players were being held, and they spotted him arriving.

• Director Du questioned He Busu while the Myriad Manifestations Office officials gathered outside the Interrogation Room.
• Yang Ling told Hu Shuying that He Busu had used Guo Fan to steal the scripture and frame a clerk, then asked why the Cicada-Holding Directorate had its name.
• He Busu asked Yang Ling how he had solved the case, and Yang Ling credited his professional competence as a Divine Guard Commander.
• Director Du escorted He Busu toward the Palace and told Yang Ling to wait for his reward; Ye Qingdong agreed to take Yang Ling to see his innocent subordinates.
• In the Underground Prison, Zhang Wei cried that he was innocent until Yang Ling appeared, prompting him and the other Players to call out to Brother Yang.

Yang Ling secured the release of Zhang Wei and the other players and got their escort mission cleared, then received a reward choice for completing the White Bone Divine Lord’s hidden mission. The chapter ended with news that the Divine Guard Office Department Master had captured the White Bone Divine Lord and several White Bone Cave experts alive.

• Yang Ling asked Ye Qingdong to release Zhang Wei and the other players, and Ye Qingdong closed the case.
• Yang Ling persuaded Ye Qingdong to clear the players’ case completely so they could collect their mission rewards.
• Yang Ling asked about rewards for the group’s service and said he hoped to receive items that could strengthen his martial way kindling.
• Yang Ling received a reward choice for completing the SSS-rank hidden mission, including 50 Free Attribute Points, an Experience Points Treasure Chest for 20 levels, and three incomplete cultivation methods.
• Yang Ling decided to choose the 20-level Experience Points Treasure Chest but held off on claiming it.
• A subordinate told Ye Qingdong that the Divine Guard Office Department Master had arrived after capturing the White Bone Divine Lord and several White Bone Cave experts alive.

Yang Ling joined Director Du and Ye Qingdong as the Myriad Manifestations Office reviewed the White Bone Divine Lord’s capture and a palace conspiracy involving the Dongting Nine-Character True Scripture. Department Master Yao questioned Yang Ling about the case, then revealed that his Sworn Brother Ji Tianming had attacked colleagues and disappeared.

• Yang Ling and Ye Qingdong arrived at the Myriad Manifestations Office as officials gathered to hear about the Divine Guard Office’s capture of the White Bone Divine Lord.
• Ye Qingdong explained that finding the White Bone Divine Lord had been a long-standing Grade A Level 4 mission, while Yang Ling anticipated rewards for his role in the case.
• Director Du summoned Yang Ling and Ye Qingdong into the inner room, where they saw Zhu Xiu, Luo Wendao, the White Bone Elder, and the White Bone Divine Lord before eight Myriad Manifestations Office directors.
• Director Du told Department Master Yao that Yang Ling had stopped Heaven’s Mandate Sect from obtaining the Dongting Nine-Character True Scripture and had helped solve a major palace case.
• Yang Ling credited his suspicions about Seal-Holding Eunuch He to instructions from his Sworn Brother Ji Tianming, but Department Master Yao revealed that Ji had killed two colleagues and fled.

Yang Ling faced questioning from Department Master Yao and the directors over his ties to Ji Tianming and his role in exposing He Busu and finding the White Bone Divine Lord. He admitted he had provided Ji Tianming with the intelligence, but learned that the reward would be withheld unless Ji Tianming later confirmed his contribution.

• Department Master Yao questioned Yang Ling about his relationship with Ji Tianming and how he had exposed He Busu.
• Yang Ling admitted his earlier claim that Ji Tianming had directed him was a lie and said he had solved He Busu's case himself.
• Yang Ling revealed that he had given Ji Tianming the intelligence that led to the White Bone Divine Lord's capture.
• Department Master Yao said the reward could not go to Yang Ling because Ji Tianming had submitted the intelligence, but it might be reassigned if Ji Tianming later confirmed Yang Ling's role.

Yang Ling secured a transfer to the Myriad Manifestations Office after the directors praised his achievements and confirmed that he had defeated Mou Sen alone. The directors named him head of the Patrol Division’s Eighth Division, then began outlining his reward for capturing He Busu.

• Department Master Yao refused to give Yang Ling the White Bone Dao Palace case reward until Ji Tianming was caught, then left to pursue him.
• The White Bone Divine Lord was taken into the Myriad Manifestations Office’s custody, where the directors said she might live if she reached an agreement with the dynasty.
• Director Du offered Yang Ling a transfer to the Myriad Manifestations Office, and Yang Ling accepted after learning his trusted subordinates would join him.
• Director Du asked whether Yang Ling had beheaded Mou Sen alone, and Yang Ling confirmed it, explaining that he had traded the credit for a Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit.
• The directors appointed Yang Ling head of the Patrol Division’s Eighth Division as a Fourth Rank official and began listing three reward options, starting with a three-thousand-year Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit.

Yang Ling consumed rare rewards from the Myriad Manifestations Office to test and strengthen his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling, impressing the supervisors with his apparent superior Mystic Fire grade. He accepted purified Flame Dragon Essence Blood despite believing it would not be enough to form a furnace, and its effects began surging through him.

• Director Du gave Yang Ling a Three-Thousand-Year Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit to test his Martial Way Kindling, and Yang Ling gained sixty points of progress without forming a furnace.
• The supervisors concluded that Yang Ling's kindling was Mystic Fire grade, and Director Du gave him a Dragonheart Profound Illumination Pill.
• Yang Ling consumed the pill and gained another fifty points of progress, bringing his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling to 292/500.
• Director Du told Yang Ling he could compete for a Lower Fourth Rank Heaven Ranking place once he formed a furnace, then offered him purified Flame Dragon Essence Blood to help him advance.
• Yang Ling drank the Flame Dragon Essence Blood, and his Martial Way Kindling progress began soaring.

Yang Ling consumed the Flame Dragon Essence Blood but still did not form a furnace, leading Director Du to identify his kindling as tribulation fire. After moving into the Patrol Division Eighth Office, Yang Ling prepared to open an Experience Chest, but an emergency announcement changed the Divine Guard Office Instance’s schedule.

• Yang Ling gained 60 points of kindling progress from the Flame Dragon Essence Blood but still fell short of forming a furnace.
• Ye Qingdong suspected Yang Ling had waste kindling, but Director Du declared that Yang Ling had condensed tribulation fire.
• Director Du arranged for Yang Ling’s subordinates to join the Myriad Manifestations Office and assigned Ye Qingdong to the Third Branch.
• Yang Ling settled into the Patrol Division Eighth Office and claimed an Experience Chest from his Attribute Panel.
• The Divine Domain announced that the Divine Guard Office Instance’s monthly reset was canceled, its duration would be extended to six months, and it would go offline temporarily after ending.

After Divine Domain extended the Divine Guard Office Instance to six months, players across the regions tried to determine who had disrupted its balance. Yang Ling suspected the update targeted him, then opened an experience chest and reached level 151, becoming the first player to pass level 150.

• Lin Caiyi and her companions collected their rewards and learned that the Divine Guard Office Instance had been extended to six months, while Chen Guoqing blamed the disruption on Li Fengxian of the Immortal God Cult.
• Chen Guoqing and the others discussed how the reset mechanic might have been exploited, and Qin Mo argued that Yang Ling's decapitation mission did not fit the announcement.
• In the prison, Immortal God Cult members suspected their Cult Master had disrupted the game and beat Luo Kai after accusing him of stealing a Peiyuan Pill and spying for Yang Ling.
• Luo Kai concealed his strength while wondering whether Yang Ling had found a way to disrupt the game's balance that he could copy.
• Yang Ling concluded that the update had changed the instance's timeline, decided to pursue its side quests, and opened an experience chest that raised him from level 131 to 151.
• Divine Domain announced that Yang Ling was its first player to pass level 150, and he chose a Jadeite-Level Treasure Chest as his reward.