Recaps

After leaving the Sacred Mountain, Su Fei and his companions headed back to the guesthouse with the Yan Kingdom envoy following them. Ji Yuyan shared Su Fei’s horse, and the party rode away together as evening fell.

• The Yan Kingdom envoy hurried after Su Fei to escape the hostile Fusang nobles.
• At the foot of the Sacred Mountain, Ji Yuyan refused the envoy’s offer of a horse and asked Su Fei to share his mount.
• Su Fei lifted Ji Yuyan onto his horse, and she settled in front of him.
• Helian Qingfeng and the Barbarian Tribe's fifth elder remarked on Su Fei riding with Ji Yuyan.
• Su Fei and his companions rode toward the guesthouse as Ji Yuyan chatted with him.

Su Fei brought Ji Yuyan to Great Xuan’s guesthouse, where she chose to stay with him and the two became intimate. Afterward, Su Fei claimed a reward and used his cultivation to perfect Indestructible Golden Body, then resumed their night together.

• Ji Yuyan followed Su Fei into Great Xuan’s guesthouse, leaving the Yan Kingdom’s envoy astonished and unable to stop her.
• Su Fei took Ji Yuyan to his room, where she willingly undressed and embraced him.
• Su Fei and Ji Yuyan spent the night together, and Ji Yuyan fell asleep in his arms.
• Su Fei claimed Indestructible Golden Body and three hundred and fifty years of cultivation from the system.
• Su Fei used one hundred and fifty years of cultivation to raise Indestructible Golden Body to the Perfection Realm.
• Su Fei woke Ji Yuyan and resumed their intimate encounter before she fell asleep again.

Su Fei advanced to the fifth level of the celestial person realm and persuaded Ji Yuyan to leave the Yan Kingdom and return to Great Xuan with him. Ji Yuyan rejected her homeland and declared she would follow Su Fei for the rest of her life.

• Su Fei used his accumulated cultivation to break through to the sixth layer of the Sacred Heart Formula, raising his cultivation to the fifth level of the celestial person realm and extending his lifespan to 3,500 years.
• Ji Yuyan woke beside Su Fei and recalled their intimacy from the previous night.
• Su Fei told Ji Yuyan that the Yan Kingdom had treated her as a pawn and promised to protect her if she returned to Great Xuan with him.
• Ji Yuyan agreed to follow Su Fei and packed her belongings.
• Ji Yuyan confronted the Yan Kingdom envoy and told him to inform the King of Yan that she would not return and would have nothing more to do with the Yan Kingdom.

Ji Yuyan rejected the Yan Kingdom and left Fusang with Su Fei, while news of Su Fei’s victory and Celestial Person Realm strength reached Great Xuan. Su Fei and Ji Yuyan sailed home as Emperor Xuan and the people celebrated his achievement.

• Ji Yuyan told the Yan Kingdom’s envoy that her debt to the King of Yan was repaid and walked away with Su Fei.
• Ji Yuyan boarded Great Xuan’s dragon ship with Su Fei and left Fusang for Great Xuan.
• Emperor Xuan learned that Su Fei had killed Takeda and reached the Celestial Person Realm, Fifth Level, and praised him as a pillar of the nation.
• Great Xuan’s officials and citizens celebrated Su Fei’s victory and new status.

Su Fei returned to Great Xuan with Ji Yuyan and received extraordinary honors from Emperor Xuan, who appointed him commander of the Imperial Guard and granted Ji Yuyan the status of Princess Yanran. The chapter ended with Su Fei and Ji Yuyan arriving at her newly prepared residence in the imperial city.

• Su Fei and Ji Yuyan arrived at Great Xuan's harbor, where Emperor Xuan and the court welcomed them.
• Emperor Xuan declared that he and Su Fei would associate as equals and appointed Su Fei commander of the Imperial Guard, based at the Southern Commandery Investigation Department.
• Emperor Xuan granted Ji Yuyan the title of Princess Yanran and promised her a residence and princess's treatment in Great Xuan.
• Su Fei and Ji Yuyan attended a victory banquet with Emperor Xuan and the officials, then left the palace together after nightfall.
• Su Fei and Ji Yuyan reached Number Twelve, Vermilion Bird Street, where guards and maids welcomed them at Princess Yanran's Residence.

Ji Yuyan settled into the residence beside Su Fei’s and spent the night with him. The next morning, she cooked beef noodles and side dishes for Su Fei herself and carried breakfast toward his room.

• Su Fei and Ji Yuyan discovered that their residences at numbers twelve and thirteen on Vermilion Bird Street stood next door to each other.
• Su Fei accompanied Ji Yuyan into her residence, where they spent the night together.
• Ji Yuyan woke early, left Su Fei sleeping, and told the maids she would prepare breakfast for him herself.
• Ji Yuyan cooked beef noodles and several side dishes, then carried the meal toward Su Fei’s room.

Su Fei enjoyed breakfast cooked by Ji Yuyan, then took her to explore the imperial city’s busy streets. Their carefree day of eating snacks and browsing stalls brought them closer, and Ji Yuyan felt certain that staying with Su Fei was the right choice.

• Ji Yuyan served Su Fei her first homemade breakfast, and he praised the food and ate it all.
• Su Fei invited Ji Yuyan to stroll through the imperial city, and she eagerly accepted the chance to explore freely.
• Su Fei and Ji Yuyan wandered the market hand in hand, where he bought her a clay figurine, candied hawthorn, and other treats.
• Su Fei and Ji Yuyan returned home at evening, promising more outings and feeling closer after their happy day.
• Ji Yuyan continued taking leisurely outings around the imperial city and grew more cheerful and lively.

Su Fei and Ji Yuyan agreed to marry in a month, and Ji Yuyan rejected the King of Yan’s belated attempt to win her favor with a lavish dowry. On their wedding day, Great Xuan’s capital celebrated as preparations at Su Fei’s residence continued.

• Su Fei agreed to marry Ji Yuyan on the auspicious date chosen by Emperor Xuan, one month later.
• An envoy from the King of Yan brought Ji Yuyan dozens of dowry chests, but she accepted them and declared that she and the Yan Kingdom had nothing more to do with each other.
• Su Fei comforted Ji Yuyan, who let go of her resentment toward her former family and turned away from the dowry’s wealth.
• Su Fei and Ji Yuyan spent the following weeks preparing for their wedding, while Great Xuan’s capital was decorated for the celebration.
• On the wedding morning, servants prepared Su Fei’s residence as the city celebrated the marriage of Marquis Su and Princess Yanran.

Su Fei and Ji Yuyan celebrated their wedding with a grand procession and banquet before spending their wedding night together. After Ji Yuyan fell asleep, Su Fei remembered the bronze key that could take him to the White Lotus Sect's hidden small world.

• Su Fei led Lei Chongxiao and the Imperial Guard procession to Princess Yanran's Residence to fetch Ji Yuyan.
• Su Fei and Ji Yuyan completed their wedding ceremony at the Marquis of Martial Peace's Residence, with Crown Prince Zhao Yan representing Emperor Xuan.
• Su Fei and Lei Chongxiao toasted the gathered officials at the wedding banquet, which ended around midnight.
• Su Fei cleared the wine from his body, returned to Ji Yuyan, and spent their wedding night with her.
• After Ji Yuyan fell asleep, Su Fei recalled the bronze key that granted entry to the White Lotus Sect's small world.

Su Fei entered the White Lotus Sect's small world through a bronze key and discovered a lush, energy-rich realm. After overpowering five sect followers, he learned that the sect's central stronghold was in White Lotus City and that three Celestial Person Realm experts were there.

• Su Fei used the bronze key and the power of heaven and earth to open a doorway, then entered the White Lotus Sect's small world.
• Su Fei emerged from a guard hut on a mountain and sensed that the small world's vital energy was more than ten times richer than the outside world's.
• Five White Lotus Sect followers confronted Su Fei and demanded his token.
• Su Fei released a fraction of his Celestial Person Realm, Fifth Level aura, forcing the five followers to collapse and beg for mercy.
• Su Fei questioned the square-faced follower, who identified White Lotus City as the sect's central stronghold and named its leader and two deputy leaders as the three Celestial Person Realm experts.

Su Fei entered White Lotus City and made his way through the sect-controlled streets to the city lord’s residence. He located the White Lotus Sect’s three Celestial Person Realm ancestors inside and faced the guards at the entrance.

• Su Fei sealed the five White Lotus Sect followers’ meridians and hid them in a mountain cave.
• Su Fei descended the mountain and entered White Lotus City without encountering any guards.
• Su Fei observed the city’s devoted followers and numerous martial artists as he asked an old man for directions to the city lord’s residence.
• Su Fei reached the residence and was stopped by four Grandmaster Realm guards.
• Su Fei spread his soul power over the residence and detected the three Celestial Person Realm ancestors in separate locations.

Su Fei forced his way into the White Lotus City Lord's Residence and confronted Deputy Sect Leader Xuan Chenzi. Xuan Chenzi mistook Su Fei's concealed cultivation for a treasure and offered to spare him if he became his disciple, but Su Fei mocked his presumption.

• Su Fei released his Celestial Person Realm, Fifth Level aura, forcing the four Grandmaster Realm guards to their knees.
• Su Fei destroyed the City Lord's Residence gates with a blade ray, alarming White Lotus City and drawing Xuan Chenzi from his secluded chamber.
• Xuan Chenzi confronted Su Fei and released his Celestial Person Realm, Third Level pressure.
• Xuan Chenzi failed to see through Su Fei's cultivation and assumed he carried a concealment treasure.
• Xuan Chenzi offered to take Su Fei as his disciple in exchange for kneeling and begging for mercy, and Su Fei laughed and questioned whether Xuan Chenzi was qualified.

Su Fei overwhelmed Xuan Chenzi with Buddha's Palm, forcing him to summon the White Lotus Sect leader and Daoist Crimson Fire. As the three Celestial Person Realm experts gathered, Daoist Crimson Fire attacked Su Fei, who raised a barrier of Buddhist light to meet his strike.

• Su Fei unleashed Buddha Moves Mountains and Rivers, and its golden Buddha apparition dispersed Xuan Chenzi's pressure and broke apart his White Lotus Thousand-Thread Sword.
• Xuan Chenzi realized Su Fei was far stronger than him and called for the White Lotus Sect leader and Daoist Crimson Fire to help.
• The White Lotus Sect leader, a Fifth Level Celestial Person, and Daoist Crimson Fire, a Fourth Level Celestial Person, arrived at the city lord's residence.
• Daoist Crimson Fire attacked Su Fei with his Crimson Flood Dragon Heaven-Burning Dagger-Axe, summoning two fiery flood dragons.
• Su Fei directed the golden Buddha apparition to press down and form a barrier of Buddhist light against the incoming flood dragons.

Su Fei killed Daoist Crimson Fire with golden Buddhist light, then faced the White Lotus Sect leader, who used the White Lotus Heavenly Pearl to counterattack. The pearl’s white light caused Su Fei a surprising prickling pain.

• Su Fei’s Buddhist light dissolved Daoist Crimson Fire’s crimson flood dragons and burned him to ash.
• Xuan Chenzi and the White Lotus Sect leader were shocked by Su Fei’s strength, and Su Fei said he attacked because he simply could not stand the White Lotus Sect.
• The White Lotus Sect leader summoned the White Lotus Heavenly Pearl and used its white light to hold back the golden Buddhist light.
• The White Lotus Sect leader sent half of the white light at Su Fei, whose Indestructible Golden Body felt a prickling pain from the attack.

Su Fei overpowered the White Lotus Sect leader, broke through her White Lotus Heavenly Pearl’s defenses, and killed her as she tried to flee. Xuan Chenzi witnessed the sect leader’s death and was left terrified.

• Su Fei blocked the White Lotus Heavenly Pearl’s corrosive white light with his Indestructible Golden Body, shocking the White Lotus Sect leader.
• Su Fei unleashed Buddha Questions the Monastery and overwhelmed the leader’s white light, shattering her barrier and knocking her backward.
• The attack broke the leader’s mask, revealing that she was a woman, while Xuan Chenzi collapsed in fear.
• The injured leader tried to escape, but Su Fei pierced her with his Flame Blade and killed her.
• Xuan Chenzi watched the White Lotus Sect leader die and realized that Su Fei had also killed Daoist Crimson Fire.

Su Fei killed Xuan Chenzi, the White Lotus Sect's last Celestial Person Realm expert, and looted the sect's city lord residence. Realizing the small world's spiritual vein could nurture new enemies, he found its core beneath the residence and headed underground to destroy it.

• Xuan Chenzi begged Su Fei for mercy and offered to serve him, but Su Fei refused and killed him with Sword Qi.
• Su Fei entered the White Lotus Sect's city lord residence and emptied its treasury and leaders' quarters into his storage space.
• Su Fei searched the entire residence and gathered its valuables, including cultivation treasures, fire-attribute materials, and the sect's core teachings.
• Su Fei realized the small world's abundant vital energy could allow the White Lotus Sect to raise new Celestial Person Realm experts.
• Su Fei used his soul power to locate the spiritual vein beneath the city lord's residence, then broke through the earth toward its core.

Su Fei severed the White Lotus Sect Small World's spirit vein, cutting off its source of vital energy, then returned to Ji Yuyan with the wealth he had collected. He concealed the White Lotus Sect conflict from her, and they looked forward to a peaceful life together.

• Su Fei severed the spirit vein, causing the small world to shake as its vital energy began to dissipate.
• The White Lotus Sect's followers blamed the changes on the Mother of Wusheng and begged for mercy.
• Su Fei returned to Ji Yuyan after leaving the small world and apologized for making her worry.
• Su Fei displayed chests of gold, silver, jewels, and jade, telling Ji Yuyan he had collected a debt.
• Ji Yuyan said they should stay in their residence and live peaceful, settled lives.

The White Lotus Sect learned that three of its Celestial Person Realm disciples had been killed and sent Dugu Fengming to investigate and retaliate on the Southwestern Lesser Continent. Meanwhile, Su Fei and Ji Yuyan enjoyed a peaceful reunion in Great Xuan, but counterfeit copper coins appeared in the imperial city.

• The White Lotus Sect’s master learned that three disciples stationed on the Southwestern Lesser Continent had been killed.
• The White Lotus Sect’s master ordered Dugu Fengming to investigate, punish the killer, and reestablish the sect’s lineage there.
• Su Fei spent several peaceful days with Ji Yuyan, strolling through the imperial city and enjoying its food and sights.
• A waiter at the Drunken Immortal Tower showed the proprietor counterfeit copper coins received from a customer.
• The proprietor examined the coins and found they closely resembled genuine copper coins despite their poor material and rough edges.

Counterfeit copper coins spread throughout the imperial capital, overwhelming the prefectural office and disrupting trade. The Imperial Guard restored order but had made no progress tracing the coins or those distributing them.

• Shopkeepers and street vendors discovered counterfeit coins in their earnings and hurried to report them to the prefectural office.
• A prefectural official sent constables to investigate, but their searches across the capital and its outskirts uncovered no useful clues.
• As reports mounted and merchants grew afraid to trade, the prefectural office referred the case to the Imperial Guard.
• Lei Chongxiao ordered Imperial Guards to calm the people and investigate the source of the counterfeit coins.
• The Imperial Guards brought the chaos under control, but their investigation also stalled because the coins were expertly made and their distributors left no trace.

Lei Chongxiao asked Su Fei to take over the counterfeit copper coin case, and Su Fei accepted after receiving a system mission to solve it and arrest those responsible. Ji Yuyan worried the investigation would take Su Fei away from her, so he promised to finish quickly and presented her with a jade hairpin.

• Lei Chongxiao visited Su Fei at his residence and described how counterfeit copper coins had spread through the capital despite days of investigation.
• Su Fei received a system mission to solve the case, apprehend the masterminds, and send them to the Heavenly Prison for a reward of one hundred and fifty years of cultivation.
• Su Fei agreed to take the case and told Lei Chongxiao to prepare the files and counterfeit coin samples at the Pacification Office.
• Ji Yuyan grew upset that Su Fei would have less time for her, and Su Fei comforted her by promising to investigate quickly and giving her a white magnolia jade hairpin.

Su Fei examined the counterfeit copper coins and concluded that their near-perfect resemblance to genuine coins pointed to a problem inside the Ministry of Works Mint Bureau. He led Lei Chongxiao and an Imperial Guard party to investigate, where Lei ordered the Mint Bureau guards to notify their supervising official.

• Su Fei reassured Ji Yuyan with a jade hairpin and promised to take her to the theater and snack street after completing his investigation.
• Su Fei arrived at the Pacification Office, where Lei Chongxiao presented the counterfeit coins and case files.
• After studying the evidence, Su Fei told Lei Chongxiao that the investigation had likely gone in the wrong direction and proposed examining the Mint Bureau.
• Su Fei and Lei Chongxiao rode with several dozen Imperial Guards to the Ministry of Works Mint Bureau.
• At the Mint Bureau entrance, Lei Chongxiao identified Su Fei as commander of the Imperial Guard and ordered a guard to notify the supervising official.

Su Fei and Lei Chongxiao went to the Mint Bureau to investigate whether its workers were connected to the counterfeit copper coins. Hu Qiuyu summoned the clerks and craftsmen, and Su Fei began questioning the clerks, who denied any wrongdoing.

• The guard captain learned Su Fei was commander of the Imperial Guard and hurried inside to announce his arrival.
• Hu Qiuyu welcomed Su Fei and Lei Chongxiao into the Mint Bureau, where Su Fei said he suspected the bureau might be connected to the counterfeit coins.
• Hu Qiuyu defended the bureau's security and staff, but agreed to summon the clerks and craftsmen responsible for minting.
• Four clerks and several dozen craftsmen gathered in the meeting hall, where Su Fei asked the clerks if they had leaked minting secrets or helped cast counterfeit coins.
• The four clerks denied colluding with outsiders or taking part in illicit coin casting.

Su Fei inspected the Mint Bureau’s mold storeroom and discovered that the molds in wooden box number seven had vanished. He promised Hu Qiuyu he would investigate and asked which outsiders had entered the storeroom in the past six months.

• Su Fei questioned four clerks and found no signs that they knew about the missing molds.
• Su Fei asked Hu Qiuyu to take him to the mold storeroom, and they passed through three guarded checkpoints.
• Hu Qiuyu opened boxes one through six and found their coin molds intact.
• Hu Qiuyu discovered that wooden box number seven was empty, while boxes eight through ten still held their molds.
• Hu Qiuyu pleaded with Su Fei to find the thief, and Su Fei promised to investigate because the missing molds were connected to his counterfeit coin case.
• Su Fei asked Hu Qiuyu which outsiders had entered the mold storeroom during the past six months.

Su Fei suspected the Marquis of the Radiant Cosmos of plotting to steal the coin dies after learning he had visited the Mint Bureau’s die storeroom. He set out to investigate the marquis’s residence without waiting for evidence and planned to question the marquis’s steward first.

• Hu Qiuyu revealed that the Marquis of the Radiant Cosmos had visited the die storeroom with his steward about a month earlier to view the coin dies.
• Lei Chongxiao described the marquis as a powerful, greedy imperial relative, while Hu Qiuyu said he had watched the visitors and seen them touch nothing.
• Su Fei argued that the marquis’s unusual curiosity suggested he had designs on the dies and could have arranged a theft through others.
• Hu Qiuyu worried that the marquis’s status made investigating him dangerous, but Su Fei reassured him that he would go to the marquis’s residence himself.
• Lei Chongxiao urged Su Fei to gather evidence first, but Su Fei insisted the Imperial Guard did not need evidence to investigate, and Lei agreed to follow his orders.
• Su Fei told Lei Chongxiao they would question the marquis’s trusted steward first.

Su Fei arrived at the Marquis of the Bright Firmament's Residence with Lei Chongxiao and Imperial Guard attendants to summon its steward for an investigation. After Su Fei cowed the arrogant gate guards with his aura, Chen Ping came out and greeted him with a haughty salute.

• Su Fei and Lei Chongxiao rode to the Marquis of the Bright Firmament's Residence with dozens of Imperial Guard attendants.
• Lei Chongxiao told the gate guards to summon their steward, but they dismissed him and claimed the residence's status put them above the Imperial Guard.
• Lei Chongxiao confronted the guards, who surrounded him and threatened to throw him out.
• Su Fei stopped Lei Chongxiao and used his Celestial Person Realm aura to overwhelm the guards, then identified himself as the Imperial Guard Commander.
• The frightened guards ran inside and called for Steward Chen, and Chen Ping came out to meet Su Fei with a slight, haughty salute.