Hunting Down Ding Bandit

As the secular dynasty closest to Empty Mountain Sect, the Qingque Kingdom could be said to lie entirely within the sect's sphere of influence.

Although refraining from interfering in mortal affairs was an unwritten rule of the Chenping Continent's cultivation world,

the entire court and royal family of the Qingque Kingdom were still completely under the control of Empty Mountain Sect's Outer Court.

Or rather, it would have been difficult for Empty Mountain Sect not to control them.

And yet, right within the Qingque Kingdom, there had appeared a man named Ding Bandit who specialized in hunting down lone disciples of Empty Mountain Sect.

What enraged the sect most was that Ding Bandit had managed to operate right under its nose for over a decade.

According to Cautionary Hall's intelligence, the Spirit 통 Realm cultivator known to Empty Mountain Sect as "Ding Bandit" was originally named Ding Qiu. He had once been the manager of the Immortal Gambling House in Taiyun City, Qingque Kingdom.

After the Dao Discussion Conference on Chenping Continent ended, that gambling house in Taiyun City was destroyed by several mysterious Qi Sea Realm cultivators.

An investigation revealed that those Qi Sea Realm cultivators had all come from Qingchan Peak's Martial Suppression branch.

If all the clues were connected, Ding Qiu was likely connected in some way to the Outer Court Calamity.

It was very possible that Ding Qiu had been discarded by Fu Qian, and that everything he had done after the gambling house was destroyed had been an act of revenge against Empty Mountain Sect.

Chen Yan didn't care about the reason.

The sect's order was for him to hunt down and kill Ding Bandit, who had slaughtered many of Empty Mountain Sect's disciples over the past decade or so.

So there was only one