Recaps

Su Fei uncovered a White Lotus Sect arms cache and evidence that Zhao Feiying had been supplying the sect, then joined Commander Feng’s group to arrest him. As they reached Long Teng’s tent, a muffled voice stopped them.

• The White Lotus Sect elder revealed that Zhao Feiying had smuggled weapons to a Qingzhou stronghold and was planning a major operation with sect experts.
• Su Fei and Captain Li found a cellar stocked with Qingzhou Army crossbows, armor, spears, and lances, then sent word to Commander Feng.
• Su Fei handed the elder and the weapons over to Imperial Guards and returned to the Thousand Households Office.
• Commander Feng praised Su Fei’s strength and led him, Captain Li, and several others to the Qingzhou Army camp to arrest Zhao Feiying.
• The group approached Long Teng’s tent at night when a muffled voice rang out.

Su Fei and the Imperial Guards arrived in time to interrupt Zhao Feiying and a White Lotus envoy's attempt to kill the poisoned Long Teng. After Su Fei rejected the envoy's recruitment, the envoy attacked Commander Feng while Zhao Feiying charged at Su Fei.

• Commander Feng and the Imperial Guards entered Long Teng's tent and caught Zhao Feiying and the White Lotus envoy in the middle of their attack.
• Zhao Feiying was shocked that the Imperial Guards had arrived so quickly, and Commander Feng introduced Su Fei as the case solver who had exposed the plot.
• The White Lotus envoy offered Su Fei high status and power if he joined the sect, while Zhao Feiying demanded the rewards he had been promised for helping them.
• Su Fei refused to join the White Lotus Sect and condemned its crimes, prompting Commander Feng to praise him and promise to make him a Hundred Household Commander.
• The White Lotus envoy attacked Commander Feng, and the two Grandmasters fought evenly as Zhao Feiying armed himself with Mysterious Iron Gauntlets and charged at Su Fei.

Su Fei defeated Zhao Feiying and healed Long Teng after the White Lotus Envoy escaped. Commander Feng returned without catching the envoy, while Zhao Feiying was left to be taken to the Imperial Guard Heavenly Prison.

• Captain Li warned Su Fei about Zhao Feiying, but Zhao knocked Captain Li aside when he tried to help.
• Su Fei overpowered Zhao Feiying with his palm techniques, destroyed his gauntlets, and crippled his cultivation.
• Zhao Feiying begged the White Lotus Envoy to rescue him, but the envoy refused and escaped after forcing Commander Feng back.
• Su Fei used his Nine Yang Divine Art to drive the poison from Long Teng, who thanked him and promised the Qingzhou Army's support.
• Su Fei ordered Zhao Feiying taken to the Imperial Guard Heavenly Prison after Commander Feng returned from his unsuccessful pursuit of the White Lotus Envoy.

After helping the Imperial Guards expose Zhao Feiying and cure Long Teng’s poison, Su Fei returned home and used his system rewards to improve his martial arts. He perfected the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and began advancing Fleeting Light Shadow, which reached Minor Accomplishment.

• Commander Feng learned that Su Fei had cured Long Teng’s poison, while Long Teng promised to credit the Imperial Guards and especially Su Fei in his memorial.
• Commander Feng arranged for Zhao Feiying to be taken to the Heavenly Prison and promised Long Teng evidence against corrupt Qingzhou Army officers and the return of the seized military equipment.
• At the Thousand Households Office, Commander Feng gave Su Fei three days off and assigned the other captains to interrogate Zhao Feiying and investigate the stolen arms.
• After returning home, Su Fei extracted Fleeting Light Shadow and sixty years of cultivation from the system.
• Su Fei spent twenty years of cultivation perfecting the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, then spent another twenty years improving Fleeting Light Shadow to Minor Accomplishment.

Su Fei advanced to the ninth layer of the Xiantian Realm, then spent his three days off listening to music at a pleasure house. In the capital, Lei Chongxiao received two memorials praising Su Fei’s role in exposing Zhao Feiying’s treason and began arranging a reward; Su Fei returned to the Thousand Households Office as colleagues anticipated his promotion.

• Su Fei perfected his Lightness Skill and advanced his Nine Yang Divine Art, reaching the ninth layer of the Xiantian Realm.
• Su Fei decided to spend his three days off at a pleasure house with Wang Meng and his other Strongmen.
• Lei Chongxiao read Feng Changqing’s urgent report, which praised Su Fei for exposing Zhao Feiying’s collusion with the White Lotus Sect.
• Chen Wu brought Lei Chongxiao Long Teng’s memorial and asked the Imperial Guard to reward Su Fei for saving Long Teng and helping stop Zhao Feiying.
• Lei Chongxiao agreed to seek a reward for Su Fei and took both memorials to the imperial palace.
• After his three days off, Su Fei returned to the Thousand Households Office, where colleagues greeted him and expected his promotion.

Su Fei received an imperial promotion and lavish rewards for solving the Arms case and fighting the White Lotus Sect, becoming a Hundred Households Officer and Dragon Tiger Imperial Guard. After the envoy departed, Commander Feng explained the title’s benefits and hinted that Su Fei might one day serve in the Great Xuan Imperial City.

• Su Fei left the records office with Commander Feng and the others to receive an imperial envoy bearing a decree.
• The envoy promoted Su Fei to Hundred Households Officer, granted him the Dragon Tiger Imperial Guard title and substantial rewards, and presented the Emperor’s inscription, “Pillar of the State.”
• Su Fei accepted the decree and rewards, then answered the envoy’s questions about the case during a tea reception.
• After the envoy departed, Commander Feng praised Su Fei and described the privileges and resources attached to his new title.
• Commander Feng told Su Fei that the Imperial City had difficult cases involving powerful people and suggested Su Fei might eventually be transferred there.

Su Fei refused Commander Feng’s offer of leave so he could keep solving cases, earning the commander’s support and helping Wang Meng get promoted. Wang Meng then took Su Fei to several entertainment venues, delaying Su Fei’s visit to his new residence until he finally resolved to go the next day.

• Commander Feng offered Su Fei leave to pursue a breakthrough into the Grandmaster Realm, but Su Fei refused and said he wanted to solve cases for the Imperial Guard.
• Commander Feng promised Su Fei full support at the Qingzhou Thousand Households Office and promoted Wang Meng to Banner Officer so he could continue serving under Su Fei.
• Su Fei returned to the case file management office and read case files until the end of his shift, when Wang Meng told him about the promotion and invited him to hear music at Spring Snow Tower.
• Su Fei accepted Wang Meng’s invitation, and the two drank and listened to the top courtesan play the pipa.
• Over the next two days, Wang Meng took Su Fei to Listen to the Wind Pavilion and Misty Rain Tower, postponing Su Fei’s visit to his new residence.
• After leaving Misty Rain Tower, Su Fei remembered he had not visited his residence and told Wang Meng he would go there the next day.

Su Fei moved into the imperial-bestowed Su Manor, then received a case from Commander Feng: capture the vicious Flower Thief Plum Blossom, who had just massacred the Zhang family in Qingzhou. Su Fei accepted the assignment, and the system offered him a mission to capture Plum Blossom.

• Su Fei inspected Su Manor, moved his belongings there, and settled into his new residence.
• Captain Li told Su Fei that Commander Feng wanted to see him at the Thousand Households Office.
• Commander Feng gave Su Fei Plum Blossom’s case file and explained the wanted criminal’s history of rape, murder, and poison attacks.
• Su Fei read that Plum Blossom had killed thirty-three members of the Zhang family the previous night and learned that Commander Feng believed Su Fei’s Nine Yang Divine Art could protect him from the criminal’s poisons.
• The system triggered a mission requiring Su Fei to capture Plum Blossom, with Finger Flicking Divine Ability and eighty years of cultivation as the reward.
• Su Fei accepted the case and requested all records of Plum Blossom’s crimes and the investigation of the Zhang family crime scene.

Su Fei reviewed Plum Blossom’s case files and realized that the killer could be using household registration records to identify young women and their homes. He investigated Qingzhou’s Household Registration Office and left expecting Plum Blossom to return there if he planned another crime.

• Commander Feng supplied Su Fei with Plum Blossom’s case files and the records from the Zhang family massacre.
• Su Fei noticed that every victim was between sixteen and twenty years old and reasoned that Plum Blossom might be finding their ages and addresses in household registrations.
• Su Fei rode to the Qingzhou Prefecture Yamen and asked a constable to take him to the Household Registration Office.
• Su Fei found that the office was lightly guarded and that its records included women’s portraits, addresses, ages, and family details.
• Su Fei concluded that Plum Blossom had likely used the records to identify Miss Zhang and would return if he intended to commit more crimes in Qingzhou.

Su Fei kept watch over the Household Registration Office and caught Plum Blossom breaking in to inspect the household registration books. After defeating him in a chase and fight, Su Fei used the captured criminal's own sword to mutilate him.

• Su Fei hid on an inn roof for three nights and watched the Household Registration Office.
• Plum Blossom broke into the office at night and examined a household registration book, but Su Fei confronted him as he tried to escape.
• Plum Blossom attacked Su Fei with poison smoke, but Su Fei drew it away with the Dragon Catching Skill.
• Plum Blossom fled through the streets, but Su Fei caught up and defeated him with his palm techniques.
• Su Fei retrieved Plum Blossom's soft sword with the Dragon Catching Skill and mutilated him with it.

Su Fei captured Plum Blossom, sold the bandit’s movement manual and sword, then used his system reward to break through to the Grandmaster Realm Second Layer. He ended the chapter with his strength greatly increased.

• Su Fei looted Plum Blossom’s money, movement manual, and soft sword, then summoned the Imperial Guards to take the bandit to the Heavenly Prison.
• Wang Meng recognized Plum Blossom and was astonished that Su Fei had captured the notorious Flower Picking Bandit.
• After receiving a system reward for completing the mission, Su Fei sold the manual and sword at the Black Market for thirteen thousand taels.
• Su Fei extracted the Finger Flicking Divine Ability and eighty years of cultivation, then spent the cultivation on the Nine Yang Divine Art.
• Su Fei broke through the Grandmaster Realm barrier and reached the Grandmaster Realm Second Layer.

Su Fei perfected the Finger Flicking Divine Ability and tested its ability to pierce refined iron from twenty zhang away. At the Thousand Households Office, Commander Feng praised him for capturing Plum Blossom and asked how he had solved the case.

• Su Fei spent twenty years of cultivation improving the Finger Flicking Divine Ability until it reached Perfection.
• Su Fei pierced a refined-iron target from twenty zhang away with a nearly invisible strike.
• Su Fei went to the Thousand Households Office, where the Strongmen praised him for capturing Plum Blossom.
• Commander Feng confirmed Plum Blossom's identity and congratulated Su Fei for catching the fugitive after years on the run.
• Su Fei explained how he studied the case files, identified a pattern in the victims' ages, and waited near the suspected location until he caught Plum Blossom.
• Commander Feng admired Su Fei's investigative skill and told him that many others had failed to capture Plum Blossom.

Su Fei watched Plum Blossom’s execution, then joined Commander Feng in questioning Zhao Feiying about White Lotus Sect strongholds. Zhao Feiying revealed that the sect had taken over Lijia Village and begged Su Fei to spare his family.

• Plum Blossom threatened that his master, the Vagrant Cloud Hermit, would avenge him before the executioner beheaded him.
• Commander Feng summoned Su Fei to the Heavenly Prison, where Captain Li was torturing Zhao Feiying for information.
• Zhao Feiying named an abandoned kiln and the Mountain God Temple as White Lotus Sect strongholds, but Su Fei exposed his lie about the temple.
• Su Fei promised to spare Zhao Feiying’s family from execution if he revealed the sect’s real stronghold, and Commander Feng backed the offer.
• Zhao Feiying identified Lijia Village as a White Lotus Sect territory and pleaded for his family to be spared.

Su Fei, Commander Feng, and Captain Li confirmed that Lijia Village was a heavily guarded White Lotus Sect stronghold and planned an assault with the Qingzhou Army. The Imperial Guards attacked the village at dusk, and the fighting began.

• Zhao Feiying told Commander Feng and Su Fei that about two hundred people lived in Lijia Village, which was led by the Grandmaster White Lotus Envoy.
• Captain Li reported that armed guards had turned away his escorts and that the village was ringed with guarded wicker fences.
• Commander Feng and Su Fei agreed to block the village entrances with Qingzhou Army troops while the Imperial Guards attacked, and Su Fei received a mission to exterminate the stronghold.
• Three days later, Commander Feng led four hundred Imperial Guards toward Lijia Village as Long Teng and the Qingzhou Army secured its entrances.
• The Imperial Guards stormed the village, killed its entrance guards, and triggered a battle as the disguised villagers grabbed weapons.

Su Fei and the Imperial Guard fought White Lotus Sect followers in a village while Commander Feng battled the envoy Qin Wushang. When the Four Demons of the Northern Region slaughtered Imperial Guards, Su Fei intervened and killed Club Demon with his Finger Flicking Divine Ability.

• Su Fei and the Imperial Guard cut down the disguised White Lotus Sect followers as Commander Feng confronted their envoy.
• Commander Feng recognized the envoy as Qin Wushang, and the two fought across the rooftops.
• The Four Demons of the Northern Region emerged and attacked the Imperial Guard, killing more than ten guards in moments.
• Centurion Zhang charged Club Demon but was driven back by the demon's overwhelming strength.
• Su Fei used his Finger Flicking Divine Ability to blow up Club Demon's head.

Su Fei slaughtered the Four Demons of the Northern Region and turned the battle against the White Lotus Sect. Qin Wushang took a Life-Sacrificing Pill to rescue his followers, but Su Fei blocked his path as Qin unleashed the White Lotus Annihilation Palm.

• Su Fei killed the Four Demons of the Northern Region with blasts of true essence, causing the Imperial Guards to rally and overwhelm the White Lotus Sect followers.
• The White Lotus Sect followers found their escape routes blocked by the Qingzhou Army, and many surrendered as the remaining fighters were surrounded.
• Qin Wushang swallowed a Life-Sacrificing Pill, raised his strength to the Grandmaster Realm fifth level, and struck Feng Changqing aside before moving to rescue his followers.
• Su Fei blocked Qin Wushang, refusing to let the mastermind or his followers escape.
• Qin Wushang mocked Su Fei and unleashed the White Lotus Annihilation Palm, sending a massive gray palm crashing toward him.

Su Fei killed Qin Wushang with one palm strike, then realized another White Lotus Sect leader might still be hiding in Lijia Village. After inspecting the captured cultists without finding a clue, he ordered their Dantians crippled, leaving their identities and the mission unresolved.

• Su Fei destroyed Qin Wushang with Dragon Ascending to Heaven, and the White Lotus Cultists surrendered.
• Su Fei ordered the Imperial Guards to bind the cultists and clear the battlefield, but his mission did not register as complete.
• Su Fei told Commander Feng that another leader likely managed the Lijia Village stronghold while Qin Wushang was away.
• Su Fei ordered Commander Ling to gather every captured and wounded cultist for inspection.
• After his Insight Technique revealed no obvious flaw among the cultists, Su Fei ordered their Dantians crippled, prompting them to plead for mercy.

Su Fei exposed and captured a White Lotus Sect true disciple during the raid on the Lijia Village stronghold, earning the mission reward of God of Slaughter's Blade Slash and one hundred years of cultivation. Back at Su Manor, he perfected the blade art and used the remaining cultivation to advance to the Grandmaster Realm Fourth Layer.

• Su Fei ordered the Imperial Guards to cripple the cultists’ dantians, drawing out a hidden White Lotus Sect true disciple who tried to flee.
• Su Fei caught the man with Dragon Appears in the Field, and Commander Feng identified his White Lotus Moon-Treading Steps before the Imperial Guards bound him.
• Su Fei ordered the captured disciple taken to the Heavenly Prison and received the system reward for eradicating the stronghold.
• At Su Manor, Su Fei spent thirty years of cultivation to raise God of Slaughter's Blade Slash to Perfection.
• Su Fei spent the remaining seventy years of cultivation to advance the Nine Yang Divine Art to its seventh level and stabilize his Grandmaster Realm Fourth Layer.

Su Fei advanced to the Grandmaster Realm Fourth Layer before Commander Feng ordered him to arrest Ling Dingfan for colluding with the White Lotus Sect. Su Fei stormed Ling’s residence, but Ling challenged his authority as the arrest began.

• Su Fei’s martial realm rose to the Grandmaster Realm Fourth Layer, and his Nine Yang Divine Art reached the seventh layer.
• Commander Feng told Su Fei that a captured White Lotus Sect disciple had implicated Ling Dingfan and several other Qingzhou officials in aiding the sect.
• Commander Feng ordered Su Fei to arrest Ling Dingfan and confiscate his household, while other Imperial Guards moved against the remaining officials.
• Su Fei gathered Wang Meng and his subordinates and rode to Ling Dingfan’s residence.
• When the gatekeeper refused to open the residence, Su Fei cut through the gate and led the Imperial Guards inside.
• Su Fei confronted Ling Dingfan in his garden and announced his arrest, but Ling protested that Su Fei had no authority to seize a fifth-rank official.

Su Fei arrested Qingzhou Prefectural Judge Li Dingfan for colluding with the White Lotus Sect and uncovered a vast hoard of illicit wealth. After Lei Chongxiao reviewed the report, he decided to seek an audience with the emperor about Su Fei.

• Su Fei slapped Li Dingfan, ordered him arrested, and had the Imperial Guards search Li Mansion.
• The Imperial Guards found chests of silver, gold, jewels, valuables, and property deeds, then sealed Li Mansion and escorted Li Dingfan and the seized goods away.
• Qingzhou residents condemned Li Dingfan for corruption, and he spat blood before the Imperial Guards continued taking him to the Thousand Households Office.
• Commander Feng ordered Li Dingfan placed in the Heavenly Prison and the illicit goods registered, while Su Fei later treated Wang Meng and the others at an entertainment house.
• Lei Chongxiao reviewed the Qingzhou report, praised Su Fei's record and boldness, and ordered his horse prepared so he could enter the palace and meet His Majesty.

After the Qingzhou officials and White Lotus Sect members were executed, Su Fei received an imperial decree promoting him to Vice Thousand Households Commander of the Southern Commandery Investigation Department. He was ordered to report to the imperial city within a month, with gold and brocade awarded to him.

• The Emperor approved Lei Chongxiao’s recommendation to promote Su Fei and summon him to the imperial city.
• Su Fei and his companions spent five days visiting brothels before the court’s sentences arrived.
• Ling Dingfan, eight other Qingzhou officials, and more than thirty White Lotus Sect members were executed before a cheering crowd.
• Su Fei watched the executions and left when no White Lotus Sect members came to attack the grounds.
• A eunuch delivered the imperial decree promoting Su Fei to fifth-rank Vice Thousand Households Commander and awarding him five hundred taels of gold and two hundred bolts of brocade.
• Su Fei accepted the decree and gave the eunuch a packet of silver before the eunuch departed.

After Su Fei was promoted and set out for the imperial city, the White Lotus Sect ordered the Shadow Kill Tower to assassinate him on the road. Su Fei reached a roadside tea stall, where he encountered several armed jianghu men and a young nobleman.

• Commander Feng congratulated Su Fei on his promotion and warned him to be cautious in the imperial city.
• The White Lotus Sect learned that Su Fei had destroyed its Qingzhou base and ordered the Shadow Kill Tower to kill him during his journey.
• Su Fei sold his valuables, kept his father’s house, and departed Qingzhou for the imperial city.
• Su Fei received a mission to reach the Southern Commandery Investigation Department while avoiding danger along the way.
• Su Fei stopped at the Chen Family Tea Stall, where several armed men and a young nobleman in white were already seated.

Su Fei killed five martial men who tried to seize his horse at a roadside tea stall. The elderly stall owners then revealed themselves as Black Rank killers from the Shadow Kill Tower and attacked him by surprise.

• A scar-faced martial man demanded to buy Su Fei's horse, then attacked him when Su Fei refused.
• Su Fei killed the scar-faced man and his four companions with effortless strikes, leaving the tea stall in shock.
• Su Fei offered the elderly stall owners silver for the damage and calmly dismissed the dead men as highway robbers.
• The old woman revealed herself as Heavenly Cripple, a Black Rank Killer, while the old man identified himself as Earthly Defect and attacked Su Fei alongside her.
• The white-clad young master recognized the pair as Shadow Kill Tower assassins, while Su Fei remained calm as their weapons closed in.

Su Fei killed the Shadow Kill Tower assassins who attacked him at a teahouse, then continued to a market town, where another group ambushed him. He slaughtered the attackers with his God of Slaughter's Blade Slash, leaving only the monk alive.

• Su Fei killed Heavenly Cripple and Earthly Mute with his Spring Embroidered Saber after they attacked him at the teahouse.
• The Young Master in White admitted she was not an assassin, then told Xiao Tao to leave Qingzhou because Su Fei made her feel insignificant.
• Su Fei rode to a market town by nightfall and noticed the crowded, peaceful street.
• More than ten disguised Shadow Kill Tower assassins attacked Su Fei from stalls and carts throughout the market.
• Su Fei unleashed God of Slaughter's Blade Slash, killing the attackers and leaving the wounded monk as the sole survivor.

Su Fei killed Xuan Zhen and forced the White Lotus Sect to raise its Shadow Kill Tower bounty, then encountered a larger ambush while seeking a river crossing. Three Grandmaster killers attacked him, and the chapter ended as their strikes closed in.

• Xuan Zhen warned Su Fei that Shadow Kill Tower would keep pursuing him before Su Fei killed him.
• Shadow Kill Tower’s killers reported Xuan Zhen’s death and demanded that the White Lotus Sect raise Su Fei’s bounty to 150,000 taels; the sect master agreed.
• Su Fei continued on his journey, killing roadside robbers with his Finger Flicking Divine Ability.
• At a broad river, Su Fei was surrounded by thirty-four Shadow Kill Tower killers led by the Grandmasters Spear Demon, Blade Ghost, and Whip Girl.
• Spear Demon, Blade Ghost, and Whip Girl launched a coordinated attack on Su Fei.