Chapter Summaries

Su Fei survived Zhou Cang and his brothers’ attempt to drug and kill him, then killed four of them and captured Zhou Cang. He began interrogating Zhou Cang about their faction, leaving the captive to decide whether to confess.

• Zhou Cang and his four brothers used Seven Severances Powder on Su Fei and the two Imperial Guards, but Su Fei resisted it while Zhang San and Li Si passed out.
• Zhou Cang and his brothers stormed into the room and accused Su Fei of deceiving them, but he confronted them over their crimes against the Imperial Guard.
• The five brothers activated the Five Qi Return to the Origin Formation, lending their true essence to Zhou Cang so he could attack Su Fei with icy palm force.
• Su Fei shattered Zhou Cang’s attack with Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Source and killed Zhou Lan, Zhou Jiang, Zhou He, and Zhou Hai with Sword Qi.
• Zhou Cang fell to his knees and begged for mercy, and Su Fei held Sword Qi at his brow while asking which faction the brothers belonged to.
• Zhou Cang hesitated, then chose to lower his defenses and seek survival by confessing.

Su Fei questioned Zhou Cang about the White Lotus Sect and learned that its headquarters was hidden in a small world with a shifting entrance. After disarming Zhou Cang and reviving Zhang San and Li Si, Su Fei ordered them to bring him and evidence of the sect back to the Thousand Households Office, leaving the search for Martial Saint Azure Cloud’s tomb unresolved.

• Zhou Cang confessed that he and his four brothers had joined the White Lotus Sect’s Water Division, built Watermoon Manor, and murdered Song and ambushed Fang on their Dharma King’s orders.
• Zhou Cang revealed that the White Lotus Sect had five divisions led by Dharma Kings, and that the Water Division’s Dharma King was at least a fifth-level martial saint.
• Zhou Cang said the Great Xuan White Lotus Sect’s headquarters was inside a small world whose entrance shifted and could only be found with a token and an escort.
• Su Fei spared Zhou Cang’s life but destroyed his dantian for his role in Song’s murder.
• Su Fei used the Nine Yang Divine Art to revive Zhang San and Li Si, then ordered them to bind Zhou Cang and search Watermoon Manor for evidence of the White Lotus Sect.
• Zhang San and Li Si found a chest of valuables containing silver notes and gold in Zhou Cang’s room.

Su Fei exposed the Five Heroes of Watermoon as White Lotus Sect agents, captured Zhou Cang, and helped Fang Pengfei regain his resolve instead of resigning. As martial artists gathered in Cloud Province over rumors of Martial Saint Azure Cloud’s tomb, Su Fei continued investigating the sect and tracing its supplies.

• Su Fei rewarded Zhang San and Li Si for recovering Watermoon Manor’s ledger and Water Division token, then kept watch over Zhou Cang while they rested.
• The next morning, Su Fei brought Zhou Cang and the evidence to the Thousand Households Office, where Fang Pengfei recognized him as the leader of the Five Heroes of Watermoon.
• Su Fei explained that the Five Heroes had killed Song and wounded Fang Pengfei while buying supplies for the White Lotus Sect, and that he had killed the other four.
• Fang Pengfei offered to resign, but Zhang San, Li Si, and Su Fei persuaded him to recover and help purge the White Lotus Sect from Cloud Province.
• Su Fei ordered Zhou Cang imprisoned and said he would remain in Cloud Province to investigate the sect and the truth about Martial Saint Azure Cloud’s tomb.
• More martial artists, including three more Martial Saints, arrived in Cloud Province seeking the tomb, while Su Fei pursued leads and traced the White Lotus Sect’s medicinal herb and ore purchases.

Wang Teng arrived in Cloud Province City and learned that Su Fei had killed Shangguan Xiong, so he threatened Su Fei and killed an inn attendant who asked him to pay the room fee. After Wang Teng’s disciples delivered the attendant’s corpse as a provocation, Su Fei rode to Fortune's Arrival Inn with Zhang San, Li Si, and twenty elite Imperial Guards to confront him.

• Wang Teng learned that Su Fei had killed Shangguan Xiong and punished Shangguan Hao, and he vowed to make Su Fei pay.
• Wang Teng summoned the Green Bamboo Sect leader and the Blazing Fire School master, slapped them, and berated them for failing to save Shangguan Xiong.
• Wang Teng killed an inn attendant who demanded the room fee, then sent his corpse to the Cloud Province Thousand Households Office with a challenge to Su Fei.
• Zhang San stopped the Imperial Guards from retaliating and reported Wang Teng’s actions to Su Fei.
• Su Fei said it was time to reestablish the rules, then rode with Zhang San, Li Si, and twenty elite Imperial Guards to Fortune's Arrival Inn.
• Su Fei arrived at the inn, where Wang Teng and his followers were waiting.

Su Fei confronted Wang Teng and the sect leaders for violating Cloud Province’s rules, then killed Wang Teng and ordered the Mystic Sword Sect disciples arrested. He spared the Green Bamboo Sect and Blazing Fire School leaders on the condition that they surrender their possessions and leave Cloud Province City.

• Su Fei reminded the Green Bamboo Sect leader that his rules still applied and challenged Wang Teng’s claim that the Mystic Sword Sect could ignore them.
• Wang Teng attacked Su Fei with Azure Heaven Sword Qi, but Su Fei shattered it with Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Source and wounded Wang Teng.
• Wang Teng ordered the Mystic Sword Sect disciples to attack, but Zhang San, Li Si, and the Imperial Guards quickly subdued them.
• The Green Bamboo Sect and Blazing Fire School leaders knelt and begged Su Fei for mercy, while Wang Teng offered compensation and protection in the Martial Saint Azure Cloud’s tomb.
• Su Fei killed Wang Teng for the inn attendant’s death, warned the gathered martial artists to obey Cloud Province’s rules, and ordered the Mystic Sword Sect disciples arrested.
• Su Fei ordered the Green Bamboo Sect and Blazing Fire School leaders to hand over their possessions and leave Cloud Province City with their followers.

Su Fei killed Wang Teng, drove off the Green Bamboo Sect and Blazing Fire School, and learned that Martial Saint Azure Cloud’s tomb might lie in Black Wind Valley. He set out with Zhang San and Li Si as more than a hundred martial artists headed toward the Cloudsky Mountain Range.

• Su Fei accepted over a hundred thousand taels from the Green Bamboo Sect and Blazing Fire School leaders, then sent them fleeing and shared silver notes with Zhang San and Li Si.
• Fang Pengfei learned that Su Fei had killed Wang Teng and driven off the two factions, then interrogated the detained Mystic Sword Sect disciples.
• The disciples revealed that Wang Teng had come seeking Martial Saint Azure Cloud’s tomb and that the sect might send more people.
• Fang Pengfei reported that several Martial Saint Realm experts had entered the Cloudsky Mountain Range and that a stone statue had been seen in Black Wind Valley, so Su Fei ordered preparations to investigate.
• Su Fei, Zhang San, and Li Si left Cloud Province City in plain clothes, while Su Fei suspected the rumors about the tomb had been deliberately spread.
• The three followed a growing crowd of martial artists toward Black Wind Valley, reaching the mountain’s foot among a procession of more than a hundred people.

Su Fei waited in Black Wind Valley for the entrance to Martial Saint Azure Cloud’s tomb to open, then led Zhang San and Li Si inside while avoiding a hidden trap. In the first hall, the crowd searched for treasures as synchronized footsteps sounded from the surrounding passages.

• Su Fei and Zhang San and Li Si camped in Black Wind Valley and waited while Su Fei used the God-tier Insight Technique to monitor the area.
• After several days, a tremor shook the valley, and the gathered martial artists rushed toward the newly opened tomb entrance.
• Su Fei spotted a trigger wire in the passage, warned Zhang San and Li Si, and avoided the trap that crushed several martial artists behind them.
• Su Fei led Zhang San and Li Si into a brightly lit hall containing murals and a half-collapsed statue of Martial Saint Azure Cloud.
• As a martial artist moved to push the statue aside, synchronized footsteps sounded from the passages around the hall.

White-robed figures attacked the martial artists in the hall, and Master Pure Land, Jiang Yetian, and other Martial Saints led the defense. Su Fei recognized the attackers as White Lotus Dao Soldiers but concealed his strength as the battle ended with heavy casualties.

• White-robed figures emerged from a passage and began slaughtering the martial artists, whose attacks struggled to stop them.
• Master Pure Land and Jiang Yetian sheltered groups of martial artists and used their Martial Saint techniques to kill the attackers.
• Su Fei spotted a lotus mark on a white-robed figure and suspected the stiff-moving fighters were White Lotus Dao Soldiers controlled like puppets.
• Su Fei kept his cultivation hidden while Zhang San and Li Si fought alongside him, and the Martial Saints gradually overwhelmed the white-robed figures.
• After the last attacker was killed, only a little over a hundred of the several hundred martial artists remained, and Master Pure Land began chanting the Rebirth Mantra over the dead.

After surviving the white-robed attackers, the martial artists chose to continue into Martial Saint Azure Cloud’s tomb in pursuit of his manuals. In the next hall, they found martial arts carved into the walls, while Su Fei noticed a faint fragrance drifting down from the ceiling.

• Master Pure Land asked the survivors whether they wished to proceed, and all but those gravely injured chose to stay for the manuals.
• Master Pure Land, Jiang Yetian, and the other martial artists led the group through the opening behind the stone statue after everyone rested.
• The group entered a large hall covered in carved martial arts manuals, and the martial artists rushed to study and copy them.
• Su Fei judged the manuals weak and suspected their placement was deliberate, then noticed a faint fragrance coming from the ceiling.
• A young Xiantian Realm martial artist pointed out the scent, but a Mortal Transformation Realm martial artist shoved him for interrupting his study.

A mind-bewitching fragrance drove the weaker martial artists in Martial Saint Azure Cloud’s tomb to slaughter one another, while Su Fei protected Zhang San and Li Si. After the survivors discovered a passage deeper into the tomb, Jiang Yetian and the others decided to explore it.

• A strange fragrance filled the hall and caused Mortal Transformation Realm, Xiantian Realm, and Houtian Realm martial artists to attack one another over the secret manuals.
• Su Fei used the Nine Yang Divine Art to resist the fragrance and helped Zhang San and Li Si recover.
• Master Pure Land tried to stop the fighting, while Jiang Yetian injured attackers without killing them, but neither could end the slaughter.
• The fragrance faded after more than half the martial artists had died or been wounded, and the survivors gradually came to their senses.
• A Grandmaster Realm martial artist found a stone passage and claimed it led to Martial Saint Azure Cloud’s main burial chamber.
• Jiang Yetian proposed entering the passage, and Su Fei followed the group toward it.

Su Fei and the others discovered that the wooden boxes in Martial Saint Azure Cloud's tomb were trapped, then fought the White Lotus Sect's Dao soldiers. After the exhausted martial artists defeated most of them, five White Lotus Sect Dharma Kings appeared, leaving the group facing a powerful ambush.

• Su Fei noticed the boxes carried a sinister White Lotus Sect aura and warned that touching them would trigger traps.
• A grandmaster martial artist touched a box, was struck by poisoned needles, and lost the use of his arm.
• Ten powerful White Lotus Sect Dao soldiers emerged from the pedestals and attacked the gathered martial artists.
• Su Fei, Zhang San, and Li Si joined the fight against a Dao soldier while the others expended their true essence battling the rest.
• After the martial artists destroyed most of the Dao soldiers, five White Lotus Sect Dharma Kings appeared and confronted Master Pure Land.

The White Lotus Sect revealed that Martial Saint Azure Cloud’s tomb was a trap to weaken martial artists and turn them into Dao soldiers, while Jiang Yetian exposed himself as the Shadow Division Dharma King. Su Fei revealed his fifth-level Martial Saint cultivation and confronted the Water Division Dharma King over attacks on Imperial Guard officers.

• The White Lotus Sect’s Water, Wood, and Earth Division Dharma Kings explained that the tomb and its traps had been designed to exhaust visitors and provide bodies for White Lotus Dao Soldiers.
• Jiang Yetian stabbed Master Pure Land from behind, then revealed he had been the White Lotus Sect’s Shadow Division Dharma King all along.
• The other five Dharma Kings welcomed Jiang Yetian, leaving the exhausted martial artists facing six powerful opponents while Master Pure Land lay severely wounded.
• Su Fei revealed his fifth-level Martial Saint cultivation and summoned the Crimson Firmament Sword, surprising the crowd and giving Master Pure Land a glimmer of hope.
• The Water Division Dharma King recognized Su Fei and admitted ordering attacks on Imperial Guard officers before flying toward him to fight.

Su Fei killed the Water Division Dharma King with a single sword technique, then challenged the remaining five White Lotus Sect Dharma Kings to attack him together. They surrounded him and launched their supreme arts, leaving him facing their combined assault.

• The Water Division Dharma King attacked Su Fei with Frost Palm, but Su Fei shattered it with Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Source and killed him with the remaining Sword Qi.
• The surviving Dharma Kings and martial artists reacted with shock and renewed hope as Su Fei demanded to know who would attack next.
• The Earth Division Dharma King warned that the five could join forces, but Su Fei dared them all to attack at once.
• The Metal Division Dharma King urged the others to use their supreme arts, and the five surrounded Su Fei in the air.
• The Metal, Wood, Fire, and Earth Division Dharma Kings attacked with their supreme arts, while Jiang Yetian unleashed Benevolence and Righteousness Sword Qi.

Su Fei used Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Source to defeat the White Lotus Sect’s five Dharma Kings and save the martial artists in the burial chamber. Master Pure Land invited him to Pure Emptiness Temple as a fellow disciple, and Su Fei politely left the possibility open while citing his duties.

• The White Lotus Sect’s five Dharma Kings attacked Su Fei with their supreme techniques, but he met them with Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Source.
• Su Fei’s river of Sword Qi destroyed the five attacks and killed the Metal Division Dharma King, Fire Division Dharma King, Wood Division Dharma King, Earth Division Dharma King, and Jiang Yetian.
• The surviving martial artists thanked Su Fei for saving them, and he said he had acted to carry out justice.
• Master Pure Land praised Su Fei and invited him to visit Pure Emptiness Temple and become his fellow disciple.
• Su Fei concealed his reluctance to discuss Buddhist teachings and politely said he might visit when his duties allowed.

After exposing the White Lotus Sect’s trap at the Tomb of Martial Saint Azure Cloud, Su Fei returned to Cloud Province and reported the plot to Fang Pengfei. When his mission reward failed to arrive, he realized someone may have leaked Hundred Households Officer Song’s route and summoned Zhou Cang to question him.

• Su Fei declined Master Pure Land’s invitation to join Pure Emptiness Temple, and the surviving martial artists thanked him before leaving the tomb.
• Su Fei told Fang Pengfei that the White Lotus Sect had used the tomb as a trap and that Jiang Yetian was its Dark Division Dharma King, then had Fang Pengfei prepare a memorial for the court.
• Su Fei waited for his mission reward, reviewed the requirements, and realized someone may have leaked Song’s route to the White Lotus Sect.
• Su Fei ordered the Imperial Guards to bring Zhou Cang from the Heavenly Prison and offered him a chance to answer questions honestly in exchange for relief from his suffering.

Su Fei learned from Zhou Cang that a spy inside the Cloud Province Thousand Households Office had leaked Hundred Households Officer Song’s route to the White Lotus Sect. After deciding Fang Pengfei was trustworthy, Su Fei told him about the spy and prepared a plan to lure the traitor out.

• Su Fei pressured Zhou Cang into revealing that the White Lotus Sect had received Song’s departure time and route from a spy in the Cloud Province Thousand Households Office.
• Zhou Cang could provide no details about the spy, and Su Fei ordered the Imperial Guards to keep him safely under strict guard.
• Su Fei questioned Fang Pengfei over breakfast about who knew Song’s plans and judged him trustworthy.
• Su Fei informed Fang Pengfei about the suspected White Lotus Sect spy and whispered a plan to draw the traitor out.

Su Fei and Fang Pengfei used a false White Lotus Sect raid plan to expose a spy within the Cloud Province Thousand Households Office. The spy, Hundred Households Officer Liu, tried to sneak out after midnight, but Su Fei confronted him on the wall.

• Su Fei told Fang Pengfei to inform the officers that the office would raid a White Lotus Sect stronghold the next morning, keeping the plan secret from their subordinates.
• Fang Pengfei briefed Officer Zhang, Officer Ding, Officer Xiang, and Hundred Households Officer Liu, urging them to prepare without leaking the mission details.
• The officers agreed to follow orders, though Officer Xiang questioned whether the intelligence was accurate and Liu responded indifferently.
• After midnight, Hundred Households Officer Liu sneaked out of the office to relay information.
• Su Fei appeared before Liu on the wall and demanded to know where he was going, pointing out that he had been ordered to stay inside.

Su Fei caught Hundred Households Officer Liu trying to sneak out and exposed him as a spy for the White Lotus Sect, then ordered him taken to the Heavenly Prison. The next morning, Fang Pengfei reported Liu’s confession, revealing how gambling debts drew him into passing increasingly important intelligence to the sect, including details that led to Hundred Households Officer Song’s death.

• Su Fei confronted Hundred Households Officer Liu about leaking information to the White Lotus Sect and severed his leg when he tried to flee.
• Fang Pengfei and the Imperial Guards subdued Liu, and Su Fei ordered him interrogated in the Heavenly Prison for information about the sect and other traitors.
• Fang Pengfei went to the Heavenly Prison to punish Liu through the night while Su Fei and the others returned to rest.
• The next morning, Fang Pengfei told Su Fei that Liu confessed he had become a spy after gambling debts left him vulnerable to the Wealth Gathering Casino’s proprietor, a White Lotus Sect Grandmaster.
• Fang Pengfei explained that Liu had passed the casino intelligence about the Thousand Households Office, including Song’s departure time, route, and party size.

After learning that the Wealth Gathering Casino had helped the White Lotus Sect and was tied to Hundred Households Officer Song’s murder, Su Fei raided it and pursued its fleeing manager. He broke free of the manager’s binding palm technique and confronted him at close range.

• Fang Pengfei told Su Fei that Hundred Households Officer Liu had betrayed the Imperial Guard and that the Wealth Gathering Casino was involved in Song’s murder.
• Su Fei led Zhang San, Li Si, and Imperial Guards to surround and raid the Wealth Gathering Casino.
• Li Si captured a servant who revealed that the manager was supposed to be sleeping in the inner room, but Su Fei found the bed empty and still warm.
• Su Fei spotted the brocade-robed manager fleeing across the rooftops with a bundle and caught up with him outside the casino.
• The manager attacked Su Fei with the Profound Nether Heaven-Binding Palm, but Su Fei shattered its restraints and closed in on him.

Su Fei defeated and interrogated Qian Kun, uncovering White Lotus Sect bases and a plot against the Cloud Province Imperial Guard tied to the Tomb of Martial Saint Azure Cloud. After taking Qian Kun’s money, Su Fei asked where his uncle Qian Tong was hiding.

• Su Fei broke Qian Kun’s binding palm technique and wounded him when he attacked again.
• Su Fei threatened to cripple Qian Kun, then forced him to reveal that he was a White Lotus Sect liaison envoy running the Wealth Gathering Casino.
• Qian Kun identified the Joyful Arrival Inn and World Relief Hall Pharmacy as White Lotus Sect contact points and named his uncle Qian Tong as his superior.
• Qian Kun explained that he had relayed intelligence about Hundred Households Officer Song to Qian Tong, who ordered an ambush to destabilize the Cloud Province Imperial Guard and aid the Tomb of Martial Saint Azure Cloud plan.
• Su Fei took Qian Kun’s bundle of money and asked where Qian Tong was hiding.