Recaps

After transmigrating into the Great Xuan Imperial Court, Su Fei worried about the Imperial Guard assessment he had to take the next day and his weak martial arts. The God-tier Martial Arts Mission System activated and granted him the Nine Yang Divine Art, God-tier Insight Technique, and twenty years of cultivation, leaving him at the fifth level of the Body Tempering Realm.

• Su Fei awakened in the body of an eighteen-year-old namesake and learned that he had registered for the Qingzhou Imperial Guard assessment.
• Su Fei weighed the dangers of joining the Imperial Guard against the consequences of fleeing, then decided he needed to practice martial arts to protect himself.
• Su Fei discovered that his body had poor martial arts talent and little cultivation, despite the assessment being scheduled for the next day.
• The God-tier Martial Arts Mission System activated and offered Su Fei a beginner reward, which he claimed immediately.
• Su Fei received the Nine Yang Divine Art, God-tier Insight Technique, and twenty years of cultivation, reaching the fifth level of the Body Tempering Realm.

Su Fei poured twenty years of cultivation into the Nine Yang Divine Art, reaching the fifth level of the True Qi Realm and discovering the technique replenished his strength. After receiving a mission to pass the Qingzhou Prefecture Imperial Guard entry assessment, he went to the Thousand Households Office and presented his letter of recommendation.

• Su Fei used all twenty years of cultivation to advance the Nine Yang Divine Art to its second level and break through to the fifth level of the True Qi Realm.
• Su Fei tested his new strength by punching an old locust tree in half, then watched his Nine Yang True Qi replenish itself.
• The system gave Su Fei a mission to pass the Imperial Guard entry assessment, with the Rushing Thunder Saber Art and thirty years of cultivation as the reward.
• Su Fei went to the Qingzhou Prefecture Imperial Guard Thousand Households Office and handed his letter of recommendation to the gate guard.

Su Fei went to the Thousand Households Office to take the Imperial Guard recruitment assessment, where Chen Hu mocked him and boasted of his own True Qi Realm cultivation. The chapter left Su Fei registered for the assessment as Chen Hu received special attention at the registration desk.

• Su Fei toured the Thousand Households Office with a tall strongman, who explained how Body Tempering Realm guards trained and urged him toward the strength test.
• At the recruitment ground, Chen Hu mocked Su Fei for his lack of martial training and told him to leave before embarrassing himself.
• Su Fei used the God-tier Insight Technique to see that Chen Hu had reached the initial True Qi Realm with help from medicinal pills, but his true qi was unstable.
• Su Fei ignored Chen Hu, registered for the assessment, and gave his name to the strongman at the desk.
• Chen Hu announced that he was a first-level True Qi Realm martial artist, prompting the strongman to record his details with noticeably greater care.

Su Fei astonished the Imperial Guards by lifting a thousand-jin stone lock and easily passing the background check, overshadowing Chen Hu. The third round began with the combat draw, and Su Fei faced Chen Hu in the arena.

• Chen Hu lifted an eight-hundred-jin stone lock, earning praise while the onlookers mocked Su Fei’s strength.
• Su Fei lifted a nine-hundred-jin stone lock and then a thousand-jin stone lock, stunning the crowd and leaving Chen Hu jealous and resentful.
• Su Fei passed the family-background verification without difficulty.
• Captain Li announced that the third round would be one-on-one combat, and the martial artists drew lots.
• Chen Hu challenged Su Fei on Arena Four, and Su Fei calmly accepted.

Su Fei defeated Chen Hu in the recruitment examination after Chen Hu attacked with poison-coated needles, leaving Chen Hu crippled. Captain Li intervened to stop Chen Zhenyu, and Su Fei accepted Li's offer to serve as a Banner Officer, revealing that he had reached the fifth level of the True Qi Realm.

• Chen Hu attacked Su Fei, but Su Fei's Nine Yang True Qi overwhelmed him and drove him to the edge of the arena.
• Chen Hu launched three poison-coated needles at Su Fei, who deflected them with a wall of True Qi.
• Su Fei struck Chen Hu in the chest and abdomen, shattering his ribs and leaving him helpless.
• Chen Zhenyu attacked Su Fei, but Li Chengfeng blocked him and warned that the matter would be reported to the Thousand-Household Commander.
• Chen Zhenyu withdrew with Chen Hu, and Li Chengfeng confirmed that Su Fei had passed the third round and offered him a Banner Officer position.
• Su Fei accepted Li Chengfeng's offer and revealed that his cultivation had reached the fifth level of the True Qi Realm.

After joining the Imperial Guard as a Squad Leader, Su Fei received the Thunderous Saber Art and thirty years of cultivation from the system. He perfected the saber art at home, leaving him ready to use its full power with a saber in hand.

• Su Fei's strength was revealed as the fifth level of the True Qi Realm, impressing the Imperial Guards and silencing those who had mocked him.
• Captain Li appointed Su Fei an Imperial Guard Squad Leader, and Su Fei accepted the position.
• Captain Li hosted a feast at Ronghua Tower, where Su Fei met the other Squad Leaders and heard their grievances about Captain Chen.
• After returning home, Su Fei extracted the Thunderous Saber Art and thirty years of cultivation from the system.
• Su Fei used the cultivation to reach the Perfection Realm in the Thunderous Saber Art.

Su Fei strengthened his Thunderous Saber Art, received his Imperial Guard uniform and saber, and took charge of ten Strongmen. Hundred-Household Commander Li assigned him his first case: finding seven children who had disappeared in western Qingzhou Prefecture City.

• Su Fei reached Perfection in the Thunderous Saber Art and tested its power by cutting a tree in half.
• Su Fei collected his Flying Fish Robe and Spring Embroidered Saber, then met the ten Strongmen assigned to him and appointed Wang Meng their captain.
• Hundred-Household Commander Li praised Su Fei's handling of Chen Hu and gave him his first mission.
• Su Fei read the case file about seven children, aged five to ten, who had vanished near the acrobat market around dusk, and learned the prefecture yamen had found no clues.

Su Fei investigated the disappearances of children near Three Saints Temple and uncovered clues pointing to a lame shadow puppet performer. He and Wang Meng went undercover to watch him, and the chapter ended as the performer handed sweets to a group of children.

• Captain Li assigned Su Fei to investigate the missing children and warned him to report any dangerous martial-world involvement.
• Su Fei gathered Wang Meng and ten Strongmen, then went to Three Saints Temple to inspect the disappearance sites.
• Su Fei found traces of Soul-confusing Powder and wrappers inside the temple, while Wang Meng learned that an outsider lame shadow puppet performer often rested there and gave candy to children.
• Su Fei identified the performer as a suspect and chose Wang Meng to stay with him in plain clothes while the other Strongmen returned to the office.
• Su Fei and Wang Meng waited at Welcoming Guest Tower and saw the lame performer set up his stage and hand candy to the children.

Su Fei followed a shadow-puppet performer to Boulder Village and discovered the Golden Saber Society had abducted children to make Qi and Blood Pills. He attacked when Old Seven was about to draw blood from the children, leaving the Society members surrounding him as he tried to protect the captives.

• Su Fei and Wang Meng tailed the shadow-puppet performer to Boulder Village after Su Fei suspected the man was no cripple and the missing children were there.
• Su Fei saw the performer reveal himself as Old Seven and recognized the Golden Saber Society’s emblem on a bearded member’s sleeve.
• Su Fei overheard the Society members discuss refining Qi and Blood Pills from children’s vital blood and found more than twenty captives in a woodshed, including seven children missing from Qingzhou Prefecture.
• A guard reported that the General Association wanted an update, and the bearded man sent Old Seven to draw blood from the children.
• Su Fei struck Old Seven from behind, opened the woodshed, told the children to hide, and faced the Golden Saber Society members who rushed to surround him.

Su Fei confronted the Golden Saber Society members responsible for abducting children and refining medicine from their blood essence. He killed the entire group and showed Wang Meng the bodies.

• Su Fei announced that he would arrest the Golden Saber Society members and fought the Bearded Man and his armed followers.
• Su Fei used the Thunderbolt Saber Art and Nine Yang Divine Art to kill the Bearded Man and more than twenty Golden Saber Society members.
• Su Fei searched the corpses and collected their silver.
• Su Fei called Wang Meng to the courtyard and showed him the dead Golden Saber Society members.
• Wang Meng confirmed the Golden Saber insignias and asked if Su Fei had killed them all by himself.

Su Fei rescued the missing children from a Golden Saber Society stronghold and presented evidence that the society had abducted them to refine Qi and Blood Pills. Captain Li assembled the Imperial Guard to confront the society, and they arrived at its headquarters ready to act.

• Su Fei and Wang Meng brought more than twenty rescued children, an alchemy furnace, and medicinal dregs back to the Qingzhou Prefecture Thousand Households Office.
• Su Fei told Captain Li that the Golden Saber Society had abducted the children and showed him the Hall Master Token taken from their leader.
• Zhao San and Qian Liu confirmed that Boulder Village was a Golden Saber Society stronghold and identified the dead leader as Hall Master Li.
• Captain Li ordered his men to assemble and set out for the Golden Saber Society headquarters, bringing Su Fei along.
• Captain Li revealed the society's crimes at its headquarters, and more than two hundred Imperial Guards dismounted and formed ranks.

The Imperial Guard stormed the Golden Saber Society's headquarters and confronted its master, Wan Mengchang, over his use of children’s blood to make pills. Wan Mengchang fought Captain Li, but learned that Captain Li had reached the Third Level of Xiantian Realm and was forced back.

• Captain Li ordered the Golden Saber Society to surrender, then led the Imperial Guard in breaking down its gates.
• Su Fei and the Imperial Guard fought the Society members, with Su Fei cutting through their defensive line as Wang Meng and the other Strongmen joined the battle.
• Wan Mengchang stopped the fighting and admitted he had used children’s blood essence to refine Qi and Blood Pills, which he sold to the Blood Sea Cult to fund his attempt to buy Longevity Pills.
• Wan Mengchang attacked Captain Li with his golden saber, but Captain Li revealed his Third Level of Xiantian Realm cultivation and drove him back.

Su Fei helped Captain Li capture Wan Mengchang and expose the Golden Saber Society’s child abductions, completing the West City Child Disappearance Case mission. The Imperial Guard returned to Qingzhou with the captives and evidence as the townspeople learned the truth and praised Su Fei and the guards.

• Wan Mengchang took a Blood Burst Pill and tried to escape by attacking Su Fei, but Su Fei held his ground and stopped him with the Thunderous Saber Art.
• The pill’s effects faded, allowing Captain Li to sever Wan Mengchang’s arm and capture him; the remaining Golden Saber Society members surrendered.
• Su Fei completed the West City Child Disappearance Case mission and received the Dragon Catching Skill and fifty years of cultivation as a reward.
• Captain Li ordered the captured society members and evidence brought back to the Qingzhou Thousand Households Office, where townspeople watched and questioned Wan Mengchang’s arrest.
• Captain Li revealed that Wan Mengchang had abducted children to refine Qi and Blood Pills, and the crowd turned against Wan Mengchang and praised Su Fei and the Imperial Guard.

After resolving the Missing Children Case and helping capture Wan Mengchang, Su Fei used his stored cultivation to perfect the Dragon Catching Skill and advance the Nine Yang Divine Art, reaching the Fifth Level of the Xiantian Realm. The next morning, Thousand Households Commander Feng Changqing summoned him and praised his achievements, preparing to reward him.

• Captain Li praised Su Fei for earning merit and promised to report his accomplishments to the Thousand Households Commander.
• Su Fei extracted the Dragon Catching Skill and fifty years of cultivation, then used twenty years to advance the skill to Perfection.
• Su Fei spent his remaining thirty years of cultivation on the Nine Yang Divine Art, which reached the fourth layer and raised his realm to the Fifth Level of Xiantian Realm.
• The next morning, Wang Meng told Su Fei that Commander Feng Changqing wanted to see him, and Su Fei went to the commander's office.
• Feng Changqing praised Su Fei for solving the Missing Children Case and assisting in capturing Wan Mengchang, saying his merit deserved a reward.

Su Fei was promoted to General Banner Officer and celebrated with his subordinates, while the Chen family debated how to retaliate against him. The chapter ended with Chen Zhenyu proposing they use a deadly secret weapon to kill Su Fei despite Commander Feng’s warning.

• Commander Feng promoted Su Fei to General Banner Officer, awarded him silver and pills, and warned the Chen family not to trouble him.
• Su Fei changed into his new Flying Fish Robe, then shared his reward with Wang Meng and treated his subordinates at the Drunken Flower Pavilion.
• Chen Zhenyu told Chen Zhenfeng that Commander Feng had warned the Chen family to leave Su Fei alone.
• Chen Hu complained that Su Fei’s rapid promotion was undeserved, while Chen Zhenfeng worried about opposing Commander Feng and Su Fei’s growing reputation.
• Chen Zhenyu proposed using a secret weapon to kill Su Fei, and Chen Zhenfeng warned that discovery could bring execution for the entire family.

Su Fei led the confiscation of Wan Mengchang’s estate, uncovering a fortune and evidence of his dealings with the Blood Sea Cult. He returned to the Thousand Households Office with the seized goods, account books, and household members for further investigation.

• Captain Li assigned Su Fei to confiscate Wan Mengchang’s residence and search for evidence tied to the Blood Sea Cult.
• Su Fei gathered Wang Meng and the Strongmen, then searched Wan Mengchang’s home and ordered Lady Liu to hand over her brocade box.
• Su Fei’s men discovered silver, gold, valuables, medicinal supplies, pills, martial arts manuals, and account books documenting Wan Mengchang’s transactions with the Blood Sea Cult.
• Su Fei ordered the property registered and sent to the Thousand Households Office, while the household members and evidence were taken back for interrogation.

After the rescued children’s families honored Su Fei, Wan Mengchang was executed for his crimes. Su Fei then investigated reports of the Four Demons of the Northern Region, but an armed ambush interrupted his return to Qingzhou.

• The rescued children’s families presented Su Fei with a plaque and gifts, and he accepted their goodwill while crediting the Imperial Guard.
• Three days later, Wan Mengchang was executed, and the crowd cheered as Su Fei left the execution ground.
• Captain Li assigned Su Fei to verify reports that the Four Demons of the Northern Region had been seen outside the city.
• Su Fei found signs of recent activity on the barren mountain but discovered that its occupants had already left.
• More than twenty masked attackers ambushed Su Fei with standard-issue Gale Crossbows, and he answered by unleashing his Xiantian True Essence and Perfection Realm Dragon Catching Skill.

Su Fei uncovered that Chen Zhenyu had arranged the ambush and framing attempt, then received a system mission to destroy the Chen family. He infiltrated the Chen residence and attacked Chen Zhenyu, but Chen Zhenfeng mistook him for an assassin sent by someone else.

• Su Fei captured surviving attackers and tortured one into revealing that Chen Zhenyu had supplied the ambush location and Gale Crossbows, planning to blame the Four Demons of the Northern Region.
• The system issued Su Fei a mission to destroy the Chen family, and he gathered the crossbows before heading to Qingzhou City.
• Su Fei entered the Chen residence in disguise, killed two guards, and discovered Chen Zhenyu, Chen Zhenfeng, and the injured Chen Hu discussing the failed plan.
• Su Fei burst into the main hall and slashed at Chen Zhenyu, who used a table to shield himself.
• Chen Zhenfeng threw a chair at Su Fei, but Su Fei shattered it with his palm, revealing his Xiantian Realm strength.

Su Fei exterminated the Chen family after confronting them over their attempt to have him killed, then returned home and claimed the system reward for completing his revenge mission. He received the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and forty years of cultivation.

• Su Fei revealed himself to Chen Zhenyu, Chen Zhenfeng, and Chen Hu, then killed the guards who rushed into the hall.
• Su Fei defeated Chen Zhenyu’s Mountain-Splitting Saber Art, severed his arms, and killed him after refusing his plea for mercy.
• Su Fei killed Chen Zhenfeng and Chen Hu, then slaughtered the remaining resistant guards throughout the Chen residence.
• Su Fei left the Gale Crossbow and a blood-written message accusing the Chen family of secretly trading military equipment with the Qingzhou Army.
• Su Fei collected money from the Chen men, returned home with food and wine, and claimed the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and forty years of cultivation.

Su Fei used twenty years of cultivation to raise the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms to Major Accomplishment and the Nine Yang Divine Art to its Fifth Layer, reaching the Xiantian Realm Eighth Layer. At the Thousand Households Office, he learned that the Chen family had been wiped out and was assigned to investigate its alleged military equipment trafficking.

• Su Fei spent twenty years improving the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and demonstrated its destructive power in the courtyard.
• Su Fei used his remaining twenty years of cultivation to advance the Nine Yang Divine Art to the Fifth Layer and reach the Xiantian Realm Eighth Layer.
• Su Fei went to the Thousand Households Office and heard that Captain Chen and the Chen family had been killed.
• Imperial Guards discussed evidence that the Chen family had trafficked military equipment, including Gale Crossbows, and colluded with the Qingzhou Army.
• Commander Feng ordered Captain Zhang to investigate the Chen family's extermination and assigned Captain Li and Su Fei to investigate the alleged trafficking and secure the military equipment as evidence.

Su Fei joined Captain Li’s investigation into Gale Crossbows leaked from the Qingzhou Army and entered its garrison under a search warrant. Commander Long Teng directed Deputy Commander Zhao Feiying to take them to the armory and check the inventory.

• Commander Feng assigned Captain Li to investigate the arms case, and Captain Li ordered Su Fei to accompany him to the Qingzhou Army garrison.
• Su Fei appointed Wang Meng squad leader after learning he had reached the True Qi Realm, then led his men to the garrison.
• Captain Li presented Commander Feng’s search warrant and showed the guards Gale Crossbows seized from the Chen Family.
• A Deputy General allowed Captain Li and a small party, including Su Fei, into the camp with the crossbows.
• Commander Long Teng received Captain Li and ordered Zhao Feiying to take the group to the armory to verify the inventory.

After Arms Office Clerk Li Yan was found poisoned, Su Fei investigated the suspicious death and uncovered clues suggesting he had met someone outside the camp. Su Fei and Captain Li headed to Li Yan’s home to continue the Arms case, which Su Fei believed involved accomplices.

• A soldier reported that Arms Office Clerk Li Yan had committed suicide, and Long Teng’s group found him dead from Crane’s Crest Red poison in his tent.
• Captain Li discovered altered Arms Office accounts and suspicious reports of damaged Gale Crossbows, prompting Long Teng to hold Deputy Commander Zhao Feiying responsible and leave the investigation to the Imperial Guard.
• Su Fei found mountain soil beneath Li Yan’s fingernails and on a locked chest, suggesting Li Yan had left camp and met someone before his death.
• Zhao Feiying objected when Su Fei proposed searching Li Yan’s home, but Captain Li led the Imperial Guard there after Long Teng’s order gave them authority to investigate.
• Su Fei told Captain Li that Li Yan could not have smuggled military equipment alone, and the system’s lack of a completed-mission prompt confirmed that the true mastermind remained at large.

Su Fei and Captain Li investigated Clerk Li Yan’s death and found an address Li Yan had hidden beneath a rosebush. The address led them to a mourning hall, where an old keeper reacted tensely to their Imperial Guard uniforms.

• Madam Zhang told Su Fei and Captain Li that Li Yan had been troubled for months and often drank with Deputy Commander Zhao Feiying.
• Su Fei noticed Zhao Feiying’s gift of a landscape painting and agreed with Captain Li that Zhao was connected to Li Yan’s death.
• Su Fei found a hidden note beneath a rosebush in Li Yan’s garden that read “Number Sixty-Three, Fufang Street.”
• Su Fei and Captain Li went to the address and found the Bai Family Mourning Hall.
• The old mourning hall keeper opened the door and showed tension when he saw Su Fei and Captain Li’s Flying Fish Robes.

Su Fei uncovered a concealed threat at the charity burial house, defeated its Xiantian caretaker, and cured Captain Li after the man was poisoned. He then demanded to know what was inside the suspicious black coffin and whether it contained military weapons.

• Su Fei used Li Yan's name to test the caretaker, then insisted on opening the unusually large black coffin despite the caretaker's objections.
• The caretaker revealed himself as a Xiantian martial artist and attacked Su Fei with a blade and the White Lotus Extinguishing Life Palm.
• Su Fei disarmed the caretaker and defeated him with Dragon Fights in the Wild.
• Captain Li collapsed after inhaling Bone Corrosion Powder from the incense, but Su Fei used Nine Yang True Qi to expel the poison.
• Su Fei confronted the caretaker and demanded to know what the black coffin contained and whether it held military weapons.

Su Fei defeated the White Lotus Sect elder’s supposedly invincible Dao Soldier and confronted the elder for information about the sect. The elder was left terrified, facing Su Fei’s demand to tell the truth.

• Commander Ling approached the coffin, and a White Lotus Sect elder awakened the Dao Soldier inside and ordered it to kill.
• The Dao Soldier resisted Commander Ling’s saber and badly injured Captain Li before turning toward Su Fei.
• Su Fei struck the Dao Soldier with the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and destroyed its head with a final blow.
• Captain Li asked when Su Fei had reached the Xiantian Realm, and Su Fei modestly credited luck and diligence.
• Su Fei demanded that the terrified White Lotus Sect elder explain the sect’s affairs or be killed.