Recaps

At Jiang Fan’s welcoming banquet, Gu Mingxuan and the others tried to provoke a clash between him and Lin Qingxue, but Jiang Fan responded graciously and learned that Lin warned him to avoid them. As the banquet neared its end, Jiang Fan went to investigate a commotion involving Fan Chuan and the Law Enforcement Hall.

• Gu Mingxuan, Sun Xiaochuan, and Zhao Yue criticized Lin Qingxue and tried to provoke Jiang Fan into confronting her.
• Sun Xiaochuan and Zhao Yue challenged Lin Qingxue about not congratulating Jiang Fan, and she rejected their insinuations about Su Xin.
• Jiang Fan toasted Lin Qingxue respectfully, and she congratulated him before privately warning him that Gu Mingxuan and the others were not good people.
• Jiang Fan returned to his seat and said that fellow disciples should get along, embarrassing Gu Mingxuan and the others.
• Near the banquet’s end, Jiang Fan saw Fan Chuan arguing with disciples from the Law Enforcement Hall beside a fallen female disciple and spilled food, so he went over.

Jiang Fan intervened when Fan Chuan was accused of knocking over a maid’s banquet dish and challenged the Law Enforcement Hall to investigate before punishing him. He exposed the incident as a deliberate setup, though the maid could not identify who had paid her.

• Fan Chuan told Jiang Fan that he had collided with the maid accidentally, while she claimed he had knocked her down.
• Jiang Fan questioned the Law Enforcement Hall’s hasty judgment, while Gu Mingxuan urged Fan Chuan to apologize and accept responsibility.
• Jiang Fan noticed the shattered dish was ordinary White Jade Porcelain rather than the Cold Jade Plate used for Steamed Jade Scale Fish.
• A Holy Master Hall Deacon confirmed that the wrong plate had been used, and the maid confessed that someone had paid her one hundred high-grade Spirit Stones to frame Fan Chuan.
• Jiang Fan asked Gu Mingxuan how the setup should be punished, then called on the Law Enforcement Team to handle the matter according to the rules.

At his discipleship banquet, Jiang Fan warned the Holy Land’s factions against framing him or his followers, then discussed the Holy Land’s rivalries and the World Traveler with Zixiao Zhenren. Zixiao began explaining why the Holy Master and hall leaders had allowed the banquet’s schemes to unfold, pointing to the rules for selecting the Holy Son and Holy Daughter.

• After the Law Enforcement Hall took away the maid for questioning, Jiang Fan thanked Fan Chuan and publicly warned the disciples not to use dirty tricks against him or those around him.
• Holy Master Xuan Wuji praised Jiang Fan to Zixiao Zhenren, who said Jiang Fan had vigor and potential.
• After the banquet, Jiang Fan reassured Fan Chuan and the servant disciples that he would protect them, then went to Zixiao Hall at his master's summons.
• Jiang Fan told Zixiao Zhenren that the Holy Land’s factions were deeply divided and that avoiding the World Traveler dispute protected Zixiao Hall and himself.
• Zixiao Zhenren praised Jiang Fan’s judgment, then asked whether the Holy Master and hall leaders could have missed the schemes at the banquet.
• Zixiao Zhenren began explaining that the Holy Land’s rules for selecting the Holy Son and Holy Daughter lay behind the leaders’ response.

Zixiao Zhenren explained to Jiang Fan that the World Traveler trials begin a sanctioned period of competition for the Holy Son and Holy Daughter, and that he had delayed Jiang Fan’s entry to give him time to grow. Their conversation ended with Jiang Fan learning that Su Xin remained in prolonged seclusion, while questions about her past went unanswered.

• Zixiao Zhenren explained that the holy land allows its successors to scheme and compete during the selection period, so Gu Mingxuan and the others had faced no immediate punishment for their banquet trap.
• Jiang Fan understood the purpose of the competition and said that strength mattered more to him than the title of Holy Son or Holy Daughter.
• Zixiao Zhenren said he had delayed Jiang Fan’s participation in the World Traveler trials to secure him a calmer period to cultivate.
• Zixiao Zhenren told Jiang Fan that Lin Qingxue was trustworthy and had warned him about Gu Mingxuan’s plot at the banquet.
• Jiang Fan asked about Su Xin, and Zixiao Zhenren said she was in prolonged seclusion and would meet him when she next emerged.
• Zixiao Zhenren ended the conversation, and Jiang Fan left to cultivate.

After a year of secluded cultivation, Jiang Fan had strengthened his grasp of several laws and prepared to leave seclusion. Lin Qingxue visited to tell him she would depart as a World Traveler the next morning and asked him to visit Su Xin at Cold Silence Cliff in her place.

• Jiang Fan reassured Fan Chuan that the banquet incident was not his fault, instructed the disciples to register and store the gifts, and entered seclusion.
• Over the following year, Jiang Fan stabilized his realm, advanced his understanding of the Space, Time, and Life and Death Laws, and condensed an unstable Law of Thunder.
• Lin Qingxue visited Jiang Fan and announced that she would leave the next morning to begin her journey as a World Traveler.
• Lin Qingxue asked Jiang Fan to visit Su Xin at Cold Silence Cliff three days later and relay that she would visit Su Xin after returning.
• Jiang Fan agreed to pass along Lin Qingxue's message.

Jiang Fan visited Su Xin at Cold Silence Cliff, where he met Holy Land senior brother Dongfang Zhaixing and learned Su Xin had expected Lin Qingxue to visit. The chapter ended with Su Xin fearing something might have happened to Qingxue.

• Jiang Fan warned Lin Qingxue to be careful during her World Traveler mission, and she said she understood.
• Jiang Fan went to Cold Silence Cliff to visit Su Xin and found her leaving her cave with two maidservants and Dongfang Zhaixing.
• Su Xin introduced Dongfang Zhaixing as the Holy Land's eldest senior brother and the Holy Master's personal disciple, and he departed after greeting Jiang Fan.
• Su Xin welcomed Jiang Fan to the pavilion, where he said he had come to pay his respects and pass along a message from Lin Qingxue.
• Su Xin said Lin Qingxue had promised to visit but had not arrived, then worried that something had happened to her.

Jiang Fan learned that Lin Qingxue had joined the Holy Land’s World Traveler selection and heard more about Su Xin’s incurable injuries and the battle that left her comrades dead. Zixiao Zhenren then appointed Jiang Fan to serve as a Patrol Envoy in Yunlan City for three years.

• Jiang Fan told Su Xin that Lin Qingxue had gone down the mountain to take part in the World Traveler selection, and Su Xin worried about her safety.
• Jiang Fan asked about Su Xin’s injuries, and she explained that the Fire Poison could only be suppressed; she refused to discuss the battle that had wounded her and killed more than a dozen Zixiao Hall disciples.
• Jiang Fan left after Su Xin thanked him for bringing the message, and Zixiao Zhenren later summoned him to Zixiao Hall.
• Zixiao Zhenren gave Jiang Fan a Patrol Envoy token and jade slip, appointing him to the vacant Yunlan City post in Tianpeng Domain for three years.

Jiang Fan received instructions from Zixiao Zhenren before taking up his three-year post as Patrol Envoy of Yunlan City, where he was to investigate the previous envoy’s suspicious death and keep the region stable. He traveled there by Cloud Shuttle, wary of hidden political motives, and arrived at the prosperous city.

• Zixiao Zhenren explained Yunlan City’s strategic location and warned Jiang Fan that Canglan Holy Land might have caused the former Patrol Envoy’s death.
• Zixiao Zhenren told Jiang Fan to establish himself, investigate the death, maintain stability, and stay alert to possible attacks connected to the World Traveler plan.
• After seven days, Jiang Fan said farewell to Su Xin and the others, then departed for Tianpeng Domain aboard the Cloud Shuttle.
• During the journey, Jiang Fan questioned why he had been chosen and considered whether Xuan Wuji or Dongfang Zhaixing had hidden motives.
• Jiang Fan arrived at Yunlan City and saw its towering walls, busy waterways, and dense buildings.

Jiang Fan secretly entered Yunlan City three days before taking office, intending to investigate the previous Patrol Envoy’s death before drawing attention. At an inn, he learned that the Saint Sect was holding a sermon and asked the innkeeper to explain the group.

• Jiang Fan disguised himself, entered Yunlan City, and decided to observe the city before beginning his investigation.
• Jiang Fan booked a premium room for three days and ordered every specialty dish at the inn.
• Jiang Fan asked the innkeeper about places to visit, but a crowd rushed out when they heard that the Saint Sect was giving a sermon.
• Jiang Fan offered to cover the innkeeper’s losses if she told him about the Saint Sect, and she began explaining that it had arrived in Yunlan City ten years earlier to preach and convert people.

Jiang Fan learned how the Saint Sect had won followers in Yunlan City through healing, charity, and Wuchen’s sermons and baptisms. He watched Wuchen preach and bestow golden lights on the crowd, then spotted something suspicious about them.

• Jiang Fan questioned the innkeeper about the Saint Sect’s healing methods and baptisms, learning that many people in Yunlan City believed in them.
• The innkeeper explained that ordinary people cared more about the help the Saint Sect provided than its relationship to the Holy Land.
• Jiang Fan gave the innkeeper two top-grade Spirit Stones and left to investigate the gathering in the eastern city.
• Jiang Fan found Wuchen preaching to a crowd of more than ten thousand and noticed that his voice had a strange, soothing rhythm.
• Wuchen summoned golden lights that fell over the crowd, and Jiang Fan detected a hidden trick in them.

Jiang Fan investigated the Saint Sect in Yunlan City and discovered that its healing baptisms left spiritual marks and depleted recipients’ innate potential. His observations led him to suspect the sect was using charity and rituals to control the city, and the chapter ended with a hungry man condemned to be burned for accidentally knocking over an incense burner.

• Jiang Fan noticed that the baptism drained recipients’ innate potential and left them with faint spiritual marks, while Wuchen briefly met his gaze.
• Jiang Fan watched the Saint Sect’s activities over two days and found that it controlled its rapidly growing following while withholding aid from nonbelievers.
• Jiang Fan followed a strange fragrance to a shantytown, where the Saint Sect distributed porridge only after people knelt and prayed before an incense burner.
• Jiang Fan sensed a featureless statue inside a hut and recognized its altar as resembling a scene from Holy Land texts.
• A starving man accidentally knocked over the incense burner, and a gray-robed man sentenced him to be burned as his daughter and the crowd pleaded and shouted for punishment.

A woman in blue intervened when the Saint Sect tried to burn a beggar for blasphemy, defeating several gray-robed men and freeing him and his daughter. Wuchen arrived with reinforcements, let the family leave, and asked the woman which sect she belonged to.

• Jiang Fan watched as the woman in blue challenged the Saint Sect’s execution and refused to leave when its men threatened her.
• Several gray-robed men attacked the woman in blue, but she wounded them with a single sword strike and cut the beggar free.
• The beggar and his daughter thanked the woman in blue, then urged her to escape when the Saint Sect called for reinforcements.
• A squad of gray-robed men surrounded the woman in blue, and Wuchen arrived to hear what had happened.
• The woman in blue sent the beggar and his daughter away, and Wuchen allowed them to go before asking her which sect she came from.

Jiang Fan watched Wuchen defuse a confrontation with a woman in blue, then secretly attached his divine sense to her. Wuchen reported her to the Masked Man, who ordered her eliminated and warned his followers to guard their plans in Yunlan City as the newly appointed Patrol Envoy approached.

• Wuchen ordered the gray-robed men to clean the holy temple and repent, and the woman in blue warned him not to act under the Saint Sect’s banner before leaving.
• Jiang Fan judged that Wuchen had handled the woman carefully and secretly attached his divine sense to her.
• Wuchen descended into the temple’s underground chamber and told the Masked Man that the woman might be a disciple of a major sect or Holy Land.
• The Masked Man ordered Wuchen to eliminate the woman and to watch for unusual people as Holy Land disciples arrived in Yunlan City.
• The Masked Man told the plump old man to prepare for the newly appointed Patrol Envoy, warning that another death could alert the Holy Land.

A masked man and an old man discussed their plans to control the new Patrol Envoy, while the woman in blue learned from Li Liu and Xiao Lian that the Saint Sect terrorized Yunlan City. She gave Li Liu money to leave with his daughter, while the masked man remained committed to his secret plan.

• The old man reassured the Masked Man that they could keep the new Patrol Envoy in Xiliu Manor and believed Mystic Heaven Holy Land did not suspect the previous envoy's death.
• After the old man left, the Masked Man conjured Dark Red Flame and vowed that the Holy Master would soon make the Holy Lands and Patrol Envoys kneel.
• The woman in blue reunited with Li Liu and Xiao Lian after leaving the porridge site, and Li Liu warned her that the Saint Sect had become dangerous.
• Li Liu and Xiao Lian described the Saint Sect's coercive demands, suspicious deaths, and disappearances in Yunlan City.
• The woman in blue realized the Saint Sect's punishments were a means of intimidation and control, and Li Liu said he planned to flee the city with Xiao Lian.
• The woman in blue gave Li Liu a pouch of silver so he and Xiao Lian could leave Yunlan City and start over elsewhere.

After helping Li Liu and Xiao Lian escape Yunlan City, the woman in blue was ambushed by six black-clad Saint Sect cultivators and defeated their attackers. Wuchen revealed his power and nearly killed her, but a young man’s arrival interrupted him.

• The woman in blue gave Li Liu and Xiao Lian silver and urged them to leave Yunlan City, then suspected the Saint Sect would come after her.
• Six black-clad cultivators ambushed the woman in blue, and she killed all of them.
• Wuchen emerged from hiding, admitted the men were his subordinates, and said he could not let the woman in blue live.
• The woman in blue attacked Wuchen, but his mid-stage Emperor realm cultivation overwhelmed her and he broke through her Tianqing Sword Art.
• As Wuchen prepared to kill the woman in blue, a young man arrived with an overturned wooden cart and asked whether he had seen something he should not have.

Jiang Fan confronted Wuchen after the woman in blue exposed the Saint Sect’s crimes and mistakenly asked him to help fight. Jiang Fan defeated Wuchen effortlessly and began questioning him about the sect’s purpose in Yunlan City, leaving Wuchen unconscious before he could answer.

• Wuchen recognized Jiang Fan from the Saint Sect’s public gatherings and suspected he was hiding his identity.
• The injured woman in blue accused the Saint Sect of disappearances and draining believers’ Life Origin, then urged Jiang Fan to help kill Wuchen.
• Jiang Fan told the woman to stand down and recover, then dismissed Wuchen as a cult rat.
• Wuchen attacked Jiang Fan with a lethal light sword, but Jiang Fan dodged and seized him by the throat without using spiritual power.
• Jiang Fan demanded to know the Saint Sect’s goal in Yunlan City, and when Wuchen refused to answer, Jiang Fan touched his brow and knocked him unconscious.

Jiang Fan killed Wuchen and learned that the Saint Sect’s local operation was connected to a mysterious Hall Master, while Su Ying insisted on investigating the cult herself. After returning to the inn, Jiang Fan prepared to leave Yunlan City, but heavy footsteps suddenly surrounded the entrance.

• Jiang Fan searched Wuchen’s memories, learned that Wuchen had few secrets beyond his connection to a Hall Master, and killed him.
• Su Ying thanked Jiang Fan and introduced herself as a World Traveler of Tianqing Holy Land, then urged him to help investigate the Saint Sect.
• Jiang Fan warned Su Ying that the Saint Sect might send another killer, refused to help, and left her behind.
• Su Ying decided to investigate the Saint Sect in Yunlan City on her own and erased traces of the fight before leaving.
• Jiang Fan paid his inn bill, planned to check out the next day, and returned to his room to prepare for taking up his post.
• Heavy footsteps approached the inn and surrounded its entrance.

Jiang Fan was escorted by Zhao Qianjun and the Yunlan Guard to the Patrol Office, where he questioned the commander about the previous Patrol Envoy, Song Yu. Zhao Qianjun revealed that he and Song Yu had been close friends before Song Yu died suddenly in seclusion, and they arrived at Xiliu Manor before Jiang Fan could ask more.

• Zhao Qianjun led the Yunlan Guard into the inn and formally welcomed Jiang Fan as the Patrol Envoy.
• Jiang Fan challenged Zhao Qianjun about discovering his whereabouts so quickly, then agreed to go with him to the Patrol Office.
• The innkeeper realized Jiang Fan was a Holy Land Patrol Envoy and decided to advertise the inn’s connection to him.
• Jiang Fan rode with Zhao Qianjun through Yunlan City toward Xiliu Manor and learned that Zhao had once been an Inner Sect disciple of Mystic Heaven Holy Land.
• Zhao Qianjun said he and Song Yu had been close friends and that Song Yu had died suddenly while cultivating in seclusion.
• Zhao Qianjun announced that Xiliu Manor was just ahead as Jiang Fan began asking more about Song Yu’s death.

Jiang Fan arrived at the Mystic Heaven Holy Land’s stronghold in Yunlan City and met the city’s major faction leaders, who assured him the Saint Sect posed no threat. After they left, he confronted Zhao Qianjun about allowing Lin Yuanshan to use Xiliu Manor for the welcoming banquet.

• Jiang Fan arrived at the stronghold and was greeted by leaders from Yunlan City’s major families, sects, and forces.
• Jiang Fan declined their welcoming banquet, saying he was tired and would host them another day.
• Jiang Fan asked the leaders about the Saint Sect, and Lin Yuanshan and Liu Wangchuan described it as a harmless group that helped commoners.
• Jiang Fan dismissed the leaders after hearing their assurances about the Saint Sect.
• Jiang Fan asked Zhao Qianjun who had arranged the banquet and accused him of letting Lin Yuanshan treat Xiliu Manor as the Lin family’s property.

Jiang Fan imposed new rules on the Yunlan City Patrol Office, ordered information on the city’s factions, and reopened the investigation into Song Yu’s death. After reviewing the files, he suspected the faction records had been altered and questioned whether Song Yu’s dossier could be trusted.

• Jiang Fan confronted Zhao Qianjun about the factions’ control over Yunlan City and ordered outsiders barred from Xiliu Manor, detailed faction records compiled, and Song Yu’s files gathered.
• Jiang Fan told Zhao Qianjun that he would investigate Song Yu’s unclear death, while privately suspecting Zhao Qianjun’s motives and recognizing that Yunlan City’s factions made it difficult to find trustworthy allies.
• Zhao Qianjun delivered the requested dossiers and records that evening, reporting that the factions had verbally supported Jiang Fan’s ban on entering Xiliu Manor.
• Jiang Fan read through records on the Lin family and Qingxia Sect, then concluded that the faction files seemed too perfect and might have been altered.
• Jiang Fan turned his attention to Song Yu’s dossier and wondered whether it had been doctored as well.

Jiang Fan uncovered hidden evidence that Song Yu’s death may have involved the Lin Family and the Saint Sect, while the medical officer who recorded it had disappeared. He hosted a banquet for Yunlan City’s factions, leaving their true loyalties unresolved.

• Jiang Fan found concealed testimony in Song Yu’s records alleging that Song Yu had investigated the Lin Family’s ties to the Saint Sect and suspected them of causing his death.
• Jiang Fan reviewed Yunlan City’s factions and found that over seventy percent appeared aligned with the Saint Sect, with no forces clearly loyal to Mystic Heaven Holy Land.
• Jiang Fan ordered Zhao Qianjun to invite every clan and sect in Yunlan City to an inauguration banquet, then learned that Li Zhuanggao had vanished after Song Yu’s death.
• Jiang Fan told Zhao Qianjun not to continue searching for Li Zhuanggao, but privately suspected that someone had silenced him.
• Three days later, Jiang Fan welcomed Yunlan City’s faction leaders to a banquet at Xiliu Manor, where Lin Yuanshan publicly pledged cooperation.

Jiang Fan warned Yunlan City's factions that the Patrol Office's rules must be obeyed and arranged for them to supply its guard with personnel. When Su Ying arrived with a warning about the Saint Sect, Jiang Fan dismissed her and ordered her thrown out.

• Jiang Fan told the faction leaders that Xiliu Manor was off-limits to outsiders and warned them not to undermine the Patrol Office as they had during Song Yu's tenure.
• Lin Yuanshan and the other leaders pledged to obey the rules and cooperate with the Patrol Office.
• Jiang Fan asked the factions to provide personnel for the Patrol Office's guard, and they promised more than a thousand people in total.
• Su Ying forced her way toward the banquet, identifying herself as a World Traveler of Tianqing Holy Land with urgent news about Yunlan City's safety.
• Su Ying accused the Patrol Office of ignoring the Saint Sect's harm to the people, and Jiang Fan ordered the guards to throw her out.

Jiang Fan feigned arrogance and indifference at a banquet while secretly investigating the forces behind Yunlan City’s Saint Sect. After Su Ying left determined to expose the corruption herself, Jiang Fan decided to use her as a public distraction while he investigated from the shadows.

• Jiang Fan dismissed Su Ying’s accusations at the banquet, and Lin Yuanshan helped portray her as a fame-seeking World Traveler.
• Su Ying was driven out of Xiliu Manor and vowed to expose the Saint Sect and Jiang Fan, relying on herself.
• After leaving the banquet, local powers agreed to cooperate with Jiang Fan for now and arranged to kill Su Ying because she knew too much.
• Jiang Fan told Zhao Qianjun not to investigate Su Ying’s claims and ordered him to manage the handover with the major factions.
• Alone in his quarters, Jiang Fan revealed that his aggressive act was meant to lower the factions’ guard and decided Su Ying could draw out their enemies while he investigated secretly.

Su Ying realized she could not expose the Saint Sect alone and contacted Senior Brother Wang for help. Meanwhile, the Saint Sect learned she was still alive and prepared to deal with her, while also keeping watch on the new Patrol Envoy.

• Jiang Fan's three Mental Imprints entered Su Ying's arm and left a faint lotus-shaped mark, which she failed to notice.
• The Masked Man and an old man discovered that Su Ying had survived and appeared at the Patrol Office, and they arranged for someone to deal with her.
• The old man dismissed the new Patrol Envoy as an arrogant young man, but the Masked Man insisted that the Saint Sect keep watching him.
• Su Ying concluded she could not investigate the Saint Sect alone and contacted Senior Brother Wang through a cyan jade token.
• Su Ying told Senior Brother Wang about the Saint Sect's abuses and the Patrol Envoy's refusal to help, and he warned that Yunlan City's forces might have colluded with the Saint Sect.

Su Ying called on Wang Shouyi to help root out the Saint Sect’s influence in Yunlan City, but seven black-clad attackers ambushed her before aid could arrive. As the attackers prepared to kill her, a petal protected Su Ying and slew them all.

• Su Ying persuaded Wang Shouyi to gather nearby World Travelers and join her in a crusade against the Saint Sect in Yunlan City.
• After Su Ying ended the communication, an attacker’s strike tore through the wall, and three Emperor-realm men in black assaulted her.
• Su Ying struggled against the three attackers while still injured from her battle with Wuchen.
• Four more masked men entered, surrounded Su Ying, and revealed that they served the Saint Sect alongside Yunlan City’s major clans and sects.
• The middle-aged leader explained that they backed the Saint Sect’s plan to make the Holy Land and Patrol Envoys kneel before the Holy Master, then tried to kill Su Ying.
• A petal produced a golden barrier that repelled the leader and a streak of sword energy that killed all seven attackers.