Recaps

Su Fei rose through the Imperial Guard by solving the child abduction case, then uncovered the Chen family’s ambush and an arms-smuggling conspiracy tied to the Qingzhou Army. After destroying the Dao Soldier hidden in a mourning hall, he confronted a White Lotus Sect elder who could explain the conspiracy.

• Su Fei claimed the system’s rewards, gained martial arts and cultivation, passed the Imperial Guard assessment, and became a Squad Leader.
• Su Fei investigated the missing children, found them captive at a Golden Saber Society stronghold, and helped the Imperial Guard defeat the society and capture Wan Mengchang.
• Su Fei received a promotion from Feng Changqing and searched Wan Mengchang’s residence, finding records of dealings with the Blood Sea Cult.
• After masked attackers ambushed him with Gale Crossbows, Su Fei learned Chen Zhenyu had arranged the attack and killed the Chen family.
• Su Fei left evidence accusing the Chen family of trading military equipment, and Feng Changqing assigned him and Captain Li to investigate the alleged arms trafficking.
• At the Qingzhou Army garrison, Su Fei and Captain Li found altered accounts and evidence linking Deputy Commander Zhao Feiying to the death of Arms Office Clerk Li Yan.
• Su Fei and Captain Li followed a hidden note to a mourning hall, where a caretaker attacked them and a White Lotus Sect elder released a Dao Soldier from a black coffin.
• Su Fei destroyed the Dao Soldier, then demanded that the White Lotus Sect elder reveal the sect’s affairs.

Su Fei exposed the White Lotus Sect’s Qingzhou network, captured its leaders, and earned a promotion to the imperial city. As he began his journey, the sect hired Shadow Kill Tower assassins to kill him, and he faced a new attack at a river.

• Su Fei helped Commander Feng arrest Zhao Feiying and defeat the White Lotus envoy, then cured Long Teng of poison and received a promotion to Hundred Households Officer.
• Su Fei tracked down Plum Blossom by studying the ages of his victims and the household registration records, then captured him and broke through to the Grandmaster Realm.
• Under interrogation, Zhao Feiying revealed the sect’s stronghold at Lijia Village, where Su Fei and Commander Feng led an assault that killed Qin Wushang and uncovered a hidden disciple.
• Su Fei captured corrupt Qingzhou official Ling Dingfan, and the court later executed him, other officials, and White Lotus Sect members before Su Fei received an imperial promotion and orders to report to the imperial city.
• The White Lotus Sect hired Shadow Kill Tower to assassinate Su Fei, but he killed attackers at a teahouse and in a market town while continuing his journey.
• After Su Fei killed Xuan Zhen, the White Lotus Sect raised his bounty to 150,000 taels, and Spear Demon, Blade Ghost, and Whip Girl led thirty-four killers in an attack at a river.

Su Fei solved the Vajra Temple massacre, recovered the Gilded Sarira, and earned promotion before taking on the theft of more than five million taels in tax silver. In Guangling, he rejected attempts to bribe and poison him, killed three Grandmasters, and moved against the Canal Transport Gang’s fleeing boats.

• Su Fei investigated the Vajra Temple massacre, traced the crescent mark to Moon Wheel Temple, and discovered Jia Lun and Zhen Ding’s role in poisoning and killing the monks.
• Su Fei defeated Kong Hai and the other attackers, captured Jia Lun, Zhen Ding, and three monks, and returned the Gilded Sarira and suspects to Lei Chongxiao.
• After the prisoners confessed to massacres across multiple sects, Su Fei received a promotion to fifth rank Thousand Households Commander, a Flying Fish Robe, and ten thousand taels of gold.
• Su Fei volunteered to investigate the disappearance of government ships carrying more than five million taels in tax silver and traveled to Guangling Commandery.
• At Liang Yuanzhi’s banquet, Su Fei refused an offer of silver and salt-business dividends to abandon the case, then learned Liang had been paid by the Canal Transport Gang to sway him.
• Su Fei rejected Jing Chucai’s bribe at the Literary Flourishing Pavilion and burned away the poison in the incense after it slowed his true essence.
• Jing Chucai, Li Changfeng, and Kong Hai attacked Su Fei, who killed Jing Chucai and Kong Hai, then killed the badly wounded Li Changfeng after refusing his offer to lead him to the Heavenly Mystery Sect.
• Su Fei confronted the Canal Transport Gang’s core members as they fled by boat and destroyed one of their fast boats with Dragon Fights in the Wild.

Su Fei recovered the stolen tax silver, destroyed the Canal Transport Gang, and earned an imperial title and residence. He then investigated Fang Wenhan’s death in Heaven-Answering Prefecture and uncovered suspicious evidence linking Liu Niang to the Hai Family fire.

• Su Fei learned from Jiang Botian that Ren Daowei backed the Canal Transport Gang and that the gang had hidden the stolen tax silver and government ships at Wind Ridge Ferry.
• Su Fei led Imperial Guards to seize the hidden silver, then joined Miao Tianqi’s navy in attacking Lakeheart Island and killed Pang Wanchun and captured Pang Feilong.
• Su Fei arrested Ren Daowei, recovered the five million taels of tax silver, and returned to the imperial capital with the prisoners and seized valuables.
• Su Fei reported his investigation, received Flame Blade and cultivation from the system, and advanced his martial arts before winning the emperor’s title of Viscount of Eternal Peace County.
• Su Fei moved into his residence on Vermilion Bird Street, then accepted Lei Chongxiao’s request to investigate Fang Wenhan’s death and the disappearance of Liu Niang.
• Su Fei traveled to Heaven-Answering Prefecture, examined Fang Wenhan’s separate residence, and learned that Liu Niang had once been bought from the Sleeping Fragrance Pavilion.
• Su Fei questioned the pavilion’s madam and learned that the Hai Family had died in a suspicious fire after Eldest Young Master Hai pursued Liu Niang.
• Su Fei reviewed the Hai Family fire case files, confronted Yang Yinglong over the locked bedrooms and other suspicious evidence, and forced him to promise a confession.