Recaps

Su Fei returned from Fusang, married Ji Yuyan, and destroyed the White Lotus Sect’s leaders and spiritual vein. After settling into married life, he took charge of a counterfeit coin investigation that led him to missing coin molds and the Marquis of the Bright Firmament’s Residence.

• Su Fei brought Ji Yuyan back to Great Xuan, where Emperor Xuan welcomed them, appointed Su Fei commander of the Imperial Guard, and granted Ji Yuyan the title of Princess Yanran.
• Su Fei and Ji Yuyan married, and Su Fei used the bronze key to enter the White Lotus Sect’s small world, where he killed its three Celestial Person Realm leaders and seized its treasures.
• Su Fei severed the small world’s spiritual vein and returned to Ji Yuyan, while the White Lotus Sect’s master ordered Dugu Fengming to investigate the deaths of three disciples.
• Counterfeit copper coins spread through the capital, and Lei Chongxiao asked Su Fei to take over the stalled investigation.
• Su Fei suspected the Mint Bureau and discovered that wooden box number seven in its mold storeroom was empty.
• Hu Qiuyu revealed that the Marquis of the Radiant Cosmos had visited the die storeroom, and Su Fei decided to question the marquis’s steward.
• At the Marquis of the Bright Firmament’s Residence, the gate guards defied Lei Chongxiao, but Su Fei overwhelmed them with his aura and summoned Steward Chen.
• Chen Ping came out to meet Su Fei with a slight, haughty salute.

Su Fei exposed a counterfeit coin conspiracy reaching from Li Zhong to the Marquis of the Radiant Cosmos and Cao An, then defeated the Prince Who Pacifies the South. After months with Ji Yuyan, Su Fei joined Great Xuan’s expedition against the White Lotus Sect and reached Upper Valley Commandery with Du Tianwu’s army.

• Su Fei found the stolen coin mold and counterfeit coins at Great Thoroughfare Bank, then arrested Li Zhong and forced him to confess his partnership with the Marquis of the Radiant Cosmos.
• Su Fei arrested Chen Haoyu despite the Empress Dowager’s intervention, and Chen Haoyu implicated Cao An in distributing counterfeit coins and disrupting the court’s finances.
• Su Fei arrested Cao An at the Palace Guard camp and defeated the Prince Who Pacifies the South when he tried to force Cao An’s release.
• Su Fei gained new cultivation and spent several peaceful months with Ji Yuyan as the White Lotus Sect rebellion spread through Yan and defeated Yan’s forces.
• Emperor Xuan sent Du Tianwu and one hundred thousand soldiers to aid Yan, and Su Fei joined the campaign to face the sect’s suspected Celestial Person Realm expert.
• Du Tianwu and Su Fei crossed into Yan, treated refugees, and marched to Upper Valley Commandery, where Ji Xunjiang welcomed them and arranged supplies and lodging.

Su Fei and Du Tianwu defended Upper Valley Commandery, defeated Dugu Fengming’s massive White Lotus Sect army, and hunted down the remaining rebels. With the commanderies secured, Su Fei and Du Tianwu traveled to Yan Capital to claim the three commanderies promised by Emperor Yan.

• Ji Xunjiang strengthened Upper Valley Commandery’s defenses, but a White Lotus Sect assassin killed him before the sect’s first assault, which Su Fei and Du Tianwu repelled.
• Dugu Fengming led nearly three hundred thousand rebels to the city and challenged Su Fei, who defeated him with a saber strike and helped rout his army.
• Su Fei ordered Dugu Fengming interrogated about the White Lotus Sect and the Profound Origin Divine Dynasty, while Du Tianwu’s army captured or scattered the surviving rebels.
• Wang Huai'an visited Su Fei with lavish gifts and pledged to manage Upper Valley Commandery and follow the army’s orders.
• Du Tianwu led eighty thousand soldiers to destroy White Lotus Sect strongholds and return with captured devotees and surrendered rebels.
• Su Fei and Du Tianwu agreed to demand the three commanderies promised by Emperor Yan, then left Upper Valley Commandery with an elite escort.
• Su Fei’s party reached Yan Capital City, where Zheng Donglin greeted Su Fei and Du Tianwu on the court’s behalf.

Su Fei secured Yan Kingdom’s three-commandery cession, broke through to the Nirvana Realm, and returned triumphantly to Great Xuan. Meanwhile, the White Lotus Sect sent two Nirvana Realm brothers to kill him, and they reached Yan Kingdom just after he had left.

• Su Fei refused Emperor Yan’s offer of a hereditary fief, and Emperor Yan ceded Black Mountain, Fishing Sun, and Clear River commanderies to Great Xuan.
• Su Fei claimed his mission reward, survived nine bolts of heavenly tribulation lightning, and broke through to the Nirvana Realm.
• Emperor Yan and his officials bowed to Su Fei, celebrated his breakthrough, and delivered the sealed cession edict.
• Su Fei led the army back to Great Xuan, presented the edict to Emperor Xuan, and returned home to Ji Yuyan.
• Xuan Ling told Chen Tianjun that Su Fei had killed Dugu Fengming, and Chen Tianjun ordered two Nirvana Realm protectors to avenge his disciple.
• Feng Xingkong and Feng Riyue accepted the mission, gathered supplies, and traveled by spirit boat toward Yan Kingdom.
• The brothers confronted Emperor Yan, learned Su Fei had left for Great Xuan three days earlier, and decided to stay in Yan Kingdom briefly before pursuing him.