In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed since the Night Watch Palace rebellion that had shaken the entire Great Qian.
Over those half months, the Demon Suppression Division had operated like a war machine running at full throttle, spinning at high speed and keeping everyone frantically busy.
Purge rebel remnants, track down leads, interrogate captured suspects, sort through every infiltrated link...
Orders streamed from headquarters one after another, while batches of Demon Queller Envoys rushed to every corner of the land. The entire power center of Great Qian underwent a swift and ruthless top-to-bottom purge.
The air was thick with a grim, murderous tension. Beneath Kyoto's usual prosperity and clamor, currents of unease surged in the dark.
As the commander of the Demon Suppression Division, Su Bai had naturally been assigned an important task.
Over these days, he had personally led several operations. Relying on his formidable strength and precise intelligence, he had successfully apprehended—or slain on the spot—multiple core rebel members who had been deeply hidden and attempted to resist or flee.
Among them were officials and cultivators at Nascent Soul Late Stage and even the Deity Transformation Stage.
Every operation had been clean and decisive, further cementing his image within the Demon Suppression Division as someone with outstanding combat power and resolute execution.
On this day, Su Bai led a squad of elite Demon Queller Envoys in a surprise assault on an important fortified city near Kyoto.
Their target was a cultivator at the initial Deity Transformation Stage who had been lurking in this city's Night Watch Palace branch as a Night Envoy.
This man appeared low-key on the surface, but in secret, he had managed a vital channel of materials and intelligence for the former Crown Prince Yan Feng, participating in numerous acts