Recaps

Sikong Jing defeated Soul Devourer and captured him after the Steel Bone Flying Vulture stopped his escape. Soul Devourer offered secret methods to save his life, but Sikong Jing quickly deciphered the Beast Blood Secret Method, leaving Soul Devourer stunned.

• Sikong Jing fought Soul Devourer until the bandit chief fled on a fifth-level demonic beast mount.
• The Steel Bone Flying Vulture knocked Soul Devourer and his mount back to Sikong Jing, who claimed the mount and subdued it.
• Ning Jingjing reported that the Long Night Black Burn Army had slain all the Soulfall Bandits without suffering losses.
• Soul Devourer offered the Soul Battle Secret Method, the Beast Blood Secret Method, and Iron Mountain Sect techniques in exchange for his life.
• Sikong Jing reordered the Beast Blood Secret Method's jumbled characters, astonishing Soul Devourer with his knowledge of demonic beast and human meridians.

Sikong Jing discovered that Soul Devourer’s War Soul secret art was a corrupted, dangerous experiment, then had Soul Devourer killed and took his place as chief of the Soulfall Bandits. After learning Iron Mountain Sect martial arts and devising a way to use battle souls to help the Sixty-Sixth Legion cultivate, Sikong Jing returned to the stronghold as Gongyang Ying prepared an early encirclement operation.

• Sikong Jing determined that the War Soul secret art was an evil, incomplete experiment and destroyed it.
• Sikong Jing ordered Sui Yu and the Sixty-Sixth Legion to kill Soul Devourer, then declared that he would impersonate him as chief of the Soulfall Bandits.
• Ning Jingjing reported that Gongyang Ying planned to launch her encirclement operation ahead of schedule, so Sikong Jing headed back toward Soulfall Road.
• Sikong Jing told Ning Jingjing he could adapt the secret art’s methods to help the Sixty-Sixth Legion master the Black Flame Lion Wing Art, then learned three Iron Mountain Sect martial arts from Soul Devourer’s storage ring.
• At the Soulfall Road stronghold, Xia Dielian reported that Gongyang Ying had killed the bandits’ scouts in Martial Hope City, while one surviving scout had escaped without learning when she would strike.

Sikong Jing anticipated Gongyang Ying’s deception and arranged a trap-capture drill while advising the martial artists to prepare for hidden dangers. The coalition set out for Soulfall Road, with Sikong Jing leading a force toward the bandits’ lair as several secret groups followed him.

• Sikong Jing ordered Xia Dielian’s troops to stage a panicked retreat and told Lian Guang and Sui Yu to restore traps and capture the wandering martial artists alive for training.
• Sikong Jing and Ning Jingjing returned to Moon-Viewing Tower, where Sikong Jing warned that the Soulfall Bandits might have prepared traps and advised forming a secret reserve unit.
• Gongyang Ying approved Sikong Jing’s proposal and organized a thousand Dao Martial Realm experts to follow the main forces and report dangers.
• After scouts reported the Soulfall Bandits’ movements, Gongyang Ying ordered three hundred thousand martial artists to attack in the darkest hour before dawn.
• Yan Benxing and Sikong Jing led one hundred thousand martial artists toward the bandits’ lair, while a five-hundred-person unit and Gongyang Ying’s hundred-person Moon Soul Group secretly followed them.

Yan Qihuan and Gongyang Ying led two hundred thousand martial world fighters into a series of traps set by the Soulfall Bandits. By the time the cliff collapsed beneath them, they had lost thirty thousand fighters, while the Sixty-Sixth Legion began capturing the fallen alive.

• Gongyang Ying led the fighters toward campfires that turned out to be surrounded by grass decoys, and she realized the Soulfall Bandits were not there.
• The fighters discovered that twenty thousand men had vanished during their attack, and Gongyang Ying ordered everyone to search for clues without splitting up.
• Gongyang Ying followed traces to a steep cliff, then ordered the force to retreat when she suspected the cliff was dangerous.
• The cliff split apart and swallowed another ten thousand fighters, whom the Sixty-Sixth Legion's deputy general ordered his men to capture alive.

Gongyang Ying’s forces were repeatedly outmaneuvered by the Soulfall Bandits, who used false intelligence and traps to inflict heavy losses and nearly capture Aunt Mian. The bandits escaped on flying beasts, leaving Gongyang Ying without a single captive.

• Soulfall Bandits emerged from underground and dragged away ten thousand people before disappearing when the Extraordinary Realm experts attacked.
• Yan Qihuan and Gongyang Ying received matching reports of a Soulfall Bandit hideout and led their forces toward it.
• Gongyang Ying sent thirty thousand people to attack the supposed hideout, but the ground collapsed beneath them as the bandits revealed their ambush.
• Aunt Mian charged the bandits and was caught in a poisoned net, but the Moon Soul Group appeared and rescued her.
• Gongyang Ying ordered her people to capture bandits, but the Soulfall Bandits mounted flying beasts and escaped.

Gongyang Ying’s force discovered that the Soulfall Bandits had abducted the people lost in the pit, and panic drove nearly thirty thousand martial artists to leave. Meanwhile, Sikong Jing helped Yan Benxing locate the bandits’ nest, but Yan Benxing turned on him and ordered his hidden forces to attack.

• Gongyang Ying examined Aunt Mian and confirmed she had been given an anesthetic, while Yan Qihuan reported that the people who fell into the pit had vanished into tunnels.
• Yan Qihuan revealed that the apparent bandits killed by the group had only been small animals, prompting the martial artists to lose hope and nearly thirty thousand to abandon the force.
• Gongyang Ying ordered the remaining martial artists to proceed through the forest and await news from Sikong Jing’s group, with retreat planned if that force failed.
• Sikong Jing identified a gorge as the Soulfall Bandits’ nest, and a scout confirmed that few bandits remained there while their main force fought Moon Soul Fairy.
• Yan Benxing ordered more than a hundred hidden Dao Martial Realm cultivators, including several Extraordinary Realm experts, to surround Sikong Jing and Ning Jingjing and kill Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing revealed that he had orchestrated the Soulfall Bandits’ emergence after Yan Benxing tried to kill him. He left Yan Benxing and the gathered martial artists stunned by declaring himself the bandits’ First Boss, Soul Devourer.

• Yan Benxing ordered his forces to kill Sikong Jing and Ning Jingjing while the surrounding martial artists refused to help them.
• The Moon Soul Group arrived and tried to stop Yan Benxing, but he defied Gongyang Ying’s orders and prepared to fight them.
• Sikong Jing stopped the Moon Soul Group’s leader and called the Soulfall Bandits out of the forest, revealing that they had surrounded the crowd.
• Sui Yu greeted Sikong Jing and Ning Jingjing as the bandits’ First and Second Bosses.
• Sikong Jing told everyone that he was the Soulfall Bandits’ First Boss, Soul Devourer.

Sikong Jing revealed himself as Soul Devourer, chief of the Soulfall Bandits, and defeated the forces sent to hunt him. He led the captives toward the bandits’ lair after tricking the Moon Soul Group into summoning Gongyang Ying, while Ning Jingjing questioned how cruel his plan was.

• Sikong Jing introduced Ning Jingjing and Lian Guang as the Soulfall Bandits’ second- and third-in-command, then confirmed that Gongyang Ying was safe for now.
• Lian Guang and the Eternal Night Wolf Guards captured all one hundred Moon Soul Group members, while Ning Jingjing led the Sixty-Sixth Legion against the martial artists; Yan Benxing was taken alive, and everyone from Phantom Soaring Manor was killed.
• Sikong Jing taunted the captured martial artists and told Yan Benxing he might send him to the Iron Mountain Sect, the Horizontal Blade Sect’s mortal enemy.
• Sikong Jing accused the Moon Soul Group of monitoring him, seized their communication tools, and sent Gongyang Ying a false message claiming that Sikong Yi and Yan Benxing had captured the Soulfall Bandits’ lair and families.
• The Sixty-Sixth Legion dragged the captives toward the lair, and Ning Jingjing asked Sikong Jing whether his actions were too wicked.

Gongyang Ying discovered that Sikong Yi had deceived her and was actually Soul Devourer, chief of the Soulfall Bandits. She entered the bandits’ den to protect the captives, while the Sixty-Sixth Legion surrounded the force outside.

• Gongyang Ying received a message claiming Sikong Yi and Yan Qihuan had captured the Soulfall Bandits’ lair and hurried there with her forces.
• Phantom Soaring Manor’s corpses fell from the sky, revealing that the Soulfall Bandits had set a trap and killed Yan Qihuan’s hidden unit.
• Ning Jingjing appeared as the Soulfall Bandits’ second-in-command and revealed that Sikong Yi was Soul Devourer, their chief.
• Ning Jingjing pressured Gongyang Ying to enter the den by warning that refusing would abandon the captives and damage her and her grandfather’s reputations.
• Gongyang Ying agreed to go inside, and the Sixty-Sixth Legion surrounded the force outside as she saw the captives bound in the den.

Sikong Jing negotiated with Gongyang Ying for the Millennial White Ginseng to save his injured friend, offering increasingly valuable concessions. Gongyang Ying rejected his proposals, and the bargaining continued with Sikong Jing offering to become her guard.

• Ning Jingjing brought Gongyang Ying to meet Sikong Jing alone in the bandits' courtyard.
• Gongyang Ying asked whether Sikong Jing intended to take her as his bandit wife, and he said he already loved someone else.
• Sikong Jing told Gongyang Ying that he needed the Millennial White Ginseng from her grandfather to save an injured friend.
• Gongyang Ying warned that using her as a hostage would bring Gongyang Ren and the War Soul Dynasty down on the Soulfall Bandits.
• Sikong Jing offered to disband the Soulfall Bandits and reform himself, but Gongyang Ying refused his offers.
• Sikong Jing added that he would serve as Gongyang Ying's guard.

Sikong Jing raised the stakes in his negotiation with Gongyang Ying, threatening to conquer Soulwatch Prefecture to obtain the thousand-year white velvet ginseng for his friend. He captured Yan Qihuan and the Moon Soul Group, then ordered Sui Yu to march on Martial Hope City while Gongyang Ying remained his prisoner.

• Gongyang Ying rejected Sikong Jing's initial offer but said her grandfather might treat his friend if he met all the terms.
• Sikong Jing refused her medical offer and threatened to conquer Soulwatch Prefecture and throw the War Soul Dynasty into chaos.
• Sikong Jing ordered Ning Jingjing to capture Yan Qihuan and the hundred thousand jianghu people and take their weapons and treasures.
• Ning Jingjing reported that Yan Qihuan and the Moon Soul Group had been captured, and Sikong Jing ordered Sui Yu to take fifty thousand men to capture the Martial Hope City Lord alive.
• Sikong Jing confined Gongyang Ying to a room without maidservants, while she remained unconvinced that the bandits could take Martial Hope City.

Sikong Jing revealed that the Soulfall Bandits had captured Martial Hope City and its leaders, then ordered an attack on Mo Hope City. Gongyang Ying tried to escape and was defeated by the Eternal Night Wolf Guard, leaving her trapped and wondering how Sikong Jing had gained command of elite beast-blood soldiers.

• Sikong Jing told Gongyang Ying that the tofu came from Martial Hope City's lord and had the captured lord and city officials brought before her.
• Martial Hope City's lord announced that the Soulfall Bandits had taken the city in a nighttime raid and captured its leaders.
• Sikong Jing ordered the prisoners sent to work on a farm and told Ning Jingjing to have Sui Yu attack Mo Hope City next.
• Gongyang Ying accused Sikong Jing of rebellion, then tried to leave the courtyard after he departed.
• Lian Guang and the Eternal Night Wolf Guard stopped Gongyang Ying, defeated her attack, and forced her back into the courtyard.
• Lian Guang warned Gongyang Ying that Sikong Jing would kill a thousand people if she tried to escape again, and she wondered how he had obtained elite beast-blood soldiers.

Sikong Jing completed a Soul Battle Field that boosted the Sixty-Sixth Legion, then faced Zeng Youhan’s three-million-strong army at Soulfall Road. He killed Zeng Yuanxi to provoke the enemy into battle, leaving Gongyang Ying shocked by his choice to cut off any chance of retreat.

• Sikong Jing studied how to build a Soul Battle Field using the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle and Skyfire Blazing Lion without killing them.
• Over seven days, Sikong Jing had city lords brought to Gongyang Ying and warned that Soulwatch Prefecture’s forces would attack Soulfall Road.
• Sikong Jing completed the Soul Battle Field, allowing the Sixty-Sixth Legion soldiers at the stronghold to enter the Mystic Heaven Realm.
• Zeng Youhan arrived at Soulfall Road with three million troops as Sikong Jing returned with one hundred thousand soldiers and Sui Yu brought back another fifty thousand.
• Sikong Jing presented Zeng Yuanxi to Zeng Youhan, then beheaded him and declared that his death would serve as the war horn.
• Zeng Youhan ordered his army to attack, and Gongyang Ying accused Sikong Jing of cutting off his own retreat.

Sikong Jing led the Soulfall Bandits to defeat Zeng Youhan’s three-million-strong army, then pressed Gongyang Ying to accept his terms. Gongyang Ying refused, counting on reinforcements from nearby prefectures and the War Soul Dynasty, while Sikong Jing hinted he could act before they arrived.

• Sikong Jing revealed that the Soulfall Bandits had grown to five hundred thousand and ordered them to ambush Soulwatch Prefecture’s army on Soulfall Road.
• Sikong Jing’s command and the bandits’ advantageous position turned the battle against Zeng Youhan’s troops, who fled after an hour of fighting.
• Sikong Jing halted the pursuit and asked Gongyang Ying to reconsider his bargaining chip, but she insisted it was still insufficient.
• Sikong Jing warned Gongyang Ying that retreat would not save Zeng Youhan’s troops and said reinforcements would take five days to arrive.
• Gongyang Ying refused to yield, declaring that nearby prefectures would send aid and that the Soulfall Bandits had to be wiped out.

Sikong Jing led the Soulfall Bandits to sweep through Soulwatch Prefecture and capture Soulwatch City, using each victory to raise the stakes in his dispute with Gongyang Ying. He then planned to abandon the city and invade the Twelve Prefectures of the Gloom Plains with the Long Night Empire, while Gongyang Ying finally tried to stop him.

• Sikong Jing led the Soulfall Bandits to defeat reinforcements from three prefectures and grow their ranks to one million.
• Sikong Jing's flying riders stormed Soulwatch City, capturing Zeng Youhan and replacing the city's War Soul banner with the Soulfall banner.
• Gongyang Ying and three hundred thousand martial-world people were brought to Soulwatch City, where Gongyang Ying realized Sikong Jing had used his conquests to increase his bargaining power.
• Sikong Jing told Ning Jingjing and the others that they would abandon Soulwatch City and invade the Twelve Prefectures of the Gloom Plains to help the Long Night Empire.
• Gongyang Ying cried out to stop Sikong Jing as he ordered the bandits to depart.

Sikong Jing rejected Gongyang Ying’s offer of medicine and challenged her to a duel, using the fight to keep her from interfering with the Soulfall Bandits’ plans. Gongyang Ying pressed him for his true background, while Sikong Jing revealed his Iron Mountain Fist and accepted her scorn without concern.

• Sikong Jing refused Gongyang Ying’s offer of medicine, ordered the bandits to abandon the city, and said he wanted to kill Lu Lingun.
• Gongyang Ying tried to take Sikong Jing hostage, but he knocked her back and stopped his bandits from surrounding her.
• Sikong Jing challenged Gongyang Ying, promising to let her send a letter and protect the Twelve Prefectures of the Gloom Plains if she defeated him.
• Sikong Jing and Gongyang Ying fought evenly as Sui Yu convinced the new bandit leaders that Sikong Jing’s strength explained the rumors about his realm.
• Sikong Jing used Iron Mountain Fist, leading Gongyang Ying to identify him as an outcast disciple of the Iron Mountain Sect and condemn his character.

Sikong Jing and Gongyang Ying ended their battle after she revealed her Moon Soul Battle Body and offered to protect him and the Soulfall Bandits. Five days later, an imperial decree pardoned the bandits, ordered them to disband, and appointed Sikong Jing as a guard in Gongyang Ren’s residence, leaving the million bandits outraged.

• Sikong Jing and Gongyang Ying fought to a standstill, and Gongyang Ying revealed her Moon Soul Battle Body to persuade him to abandon his plans for the Twelve Prefectures of the Gloom Plains.
• Gongyang Ying offered to protect Sikong Jing and the Soulfall Bandits if he returned with her to the Imperial Capital, and Sikong Jing agreed after securing her promise to keep his plans against Lu Lingun secret.
• Gongyang Ying wrote to Gongyang Ren about her revealed Battle Body and Sikong Jing’s demands, then sent the letter.
• Sikong Jing told the Soulfall Bandits that they would hold Soulwatch City, while Gongyang Ying persuaded the arriving War Soul Dynasty forces to wait outside for orders.
• Five days later, a young eunuch delivered an imperial decree pardoning the Soulfall Bandits, ordering them to disband, and appointing Sikong Jing as a guard at the National Preceptor’s Residence.
• The million Soulfall Bandits erupted in outrage at the decree and stared at Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing secured the Soulfall Bandits’ safe departure and took up his role as a guard, while Fei Chian revealed that War Soul Dynasty agents were following the bandits. The bandits learned the dynasty planned to kill them despite the apparent amnesty.

• Sikong Jing handed maps to the bandit leaders and sent the Soulfall Bandits out of Soulwatch City in separate batches, with Ning Jingjing leading the Sixty-Sixth Legion.
• After message birds confirmed every group had reached its destination, Sikong Jing released Gongyang Ying and reminded her to deliver the Millennial White Ginseng.
• Gongyang Ying announced that the turmoil in Soulwatch Prefecture had been resolved, while the scattered bandits cursed Sikong Jing and discussed returning to their lairs.
• Fei Chian killed a bandit leader and identified himself as deputy commander of the Soulfall Bandits, then used Sikong Jing’s marks to expose and kill War Soul Dynasty followers.
• An old bandit concluded that the War Soul Dynasty intended to kill all the Soulfall Bandits, and Fei Chian confirmed it.

Sikong Jing brought the bandit groups under the Sixty-Sixth Legion’s control and prepared to ambush the War Soul Dynasty’s elite soldiers in the Soul Piercing Mountain Range. After Gongyang Ying freed the martial world people, Yan Benxing mocked Sikong Jing for becoming a mere guard to gain a respectable background.

• Fei Chian led his bandits toward the Soul Piercing Mountain Range, while Sixty-Sixth Legion members took control of other bands and killed their trackers.
• Xia Dielian confirmed that the million bandits had entered the Soul Piercing Mountain Range, and Ning Jingjing revealed Sikong Jing’s plan to attack the War Soul Dynasty’s elite soldiers and teach the State Preceptor a lesson.
• Ning Jingjing explained that Sikong Jing had marked the trackers and maps with his spirit platform sea of consciousness, allowing him to locate the trackers when the maps were torn.
• Gongyang Ying released the three hundred thousand martial world people and set out for the imperial capital with Sikong Jing and the Moon Soul Group.
• Yan Benxing asked whether Gongyang Ying had accepted a condition from Sikong Jing, and she clarified that he only wanted to become a guard and gain a respectable background.
• Yan Benxing laughed at Sikong Jing for seeking a respectable background despite already having one, and the martial world people joined in mocking him.

Sikong Jing arranged for Iron Mountain Sect to capture Yan Benxing, earning a chance to return to the sect and securing Gongyang Ying’s protection as they traveled toward the imperial capital. After their ship left Soulwatch Prefecture, the War Soul Dynasty’s army began a secret operation to annihilate the Soulfall Bandits, unaware of the danger awaiting them.

• Sikong Jing revealed that he had reported Yan Benxing to Iron Mountain Sect, whose expert arrived, captured Yan Benxing, and struck down Yan Qihuan.
• The Iron Mountain Sect expert took Yan Benxing away and promised to reconsider restoring Sikong Jing’s sect membership.
• Sikong Jing explained to Gongyang Ying that returning to Iron Mountain Sect would help protect him, and she took him and her people aboard a Divine Void Ship bound for the imperial capital.
• Sikong Jing watched the ship leave Soulwatch Prefecture while the Moon Soul Group stayed with him, and he thought of his wife, Su Yuexi.
• After the ship crossed the prefecture’s border, the commander of the War Soul Dynasty’s 1.5 million troops ordered a secret assault to exterminate the Soulfall Bandits.

Sikong Jing arrived at the War Soul Imperial Capital with Gongyang Ying, who recounted to Gongyang Ren how Soul Devourer had forced her to reveal the secret of her Moon Soul Battle Body. After approving her decision and promising to deal with Sikong Jing, Gongyang Ren summoned him, and Sikong Jing immediately asked for the Millennial White Ginseng.

• Sikong Jing and Gongyang Ying arrived at the War Soul Imperial Capital and were received at the Imperial Preceptor's Residence.
• Gongyang Ying reunited with Gongyang Ren and tearfully told him how Soul Devourer had captured and bullied her.
• Gongyang Ying explained that she revealed the Moon Soul Battle Body secret to stop Soul Devourer from helping the Long Night Empire seize the Twelve Prefectures of the Gloom Plains.
• Gongyang Ren assured Gongyang Ying that she had made the only possible choice and promised to deal with Soul Devourer over the ginseng and her mistreatment.
• Gongyang Ying summoned Sikong Jing to meet Gongyang Ren, and Sikong Jing asked where the Millennial White Ginseng was.

Sikong Jing obtained the Millennial White Ginseng, but Gongyang Ren demanded it back after claiming his forces would destroy the Soulfall Bandits. Sikong Jing revealed that he had prepared traps in the Soul Piercing Mountain Range, and a report confirmed that nearly all 1.5 million elite troops had been wiped out.

• Gongyang Ren handed Sikong Jing the Millennial White Ginseng, and Sikong Jing verified that it was genuine.
• Gongyang Ren demanded the ginseng back, claiming his forces had surrounded the Soulfall Bandits and would leave none alive.
• Sikong Jing refused and revealed that the 1.5 million elite troops would be wiped out in the Soul Piercing Mountain Range.
• A messenger reported that nearly all of Gongyang Ren's elite troops had been annihilated while the Soulfall Bandits taunted the surrounding forces.
• Sikong Jing explained that he had laid traps throughout the mountain range while sweeping through Soulwatch Prefecture.

Sikong Jing revealed how he orchestrated the Soulfall Bandits’ victory and refused to disband them after Gongyang Ren’s forces broke their agreement. After reviewing the battle reports, Gongyang Ren recognized Sikong Jing as a disciplined, brilliant commander, while Gongyang Ying still saw him as a villain and planned to keep him from rising in rank.

• Sikong Jing explained how he used ambushes, false intelligence, and loyal men within the Soulfall Bandits to defeat Gongyang Ren’s 1.5 million elite soldiers and keep the bandits under his control.
• Sikong Jing refused Gongyang Ying’s demand to disband the bandits, pointing out that her side had broken its promise to keep them safe.
• Gongyang Ren threatened Sikong Jing unless he remained loyal to Gongyang Ying, but Sikong Jing left, and Gongyang Ying broke down in tears over the defeat.
• Gongyang Ren comforted Gongyang Ying, then studied the battle reports and recognized Sikong Jing as a commander of marshal caliber who had restrained his forces and spared ordinary civilians.
• Gongyang Ren ordered a letter sent to Lu Lingun demanding an explanation for expelling Sikong Jing, while Gongyang Ying planned to assign him a lowly guard post and prevent him from clearing his name.

Gongyang Ying reluctantly made Sikong Jing her personal guard while Gongyang Ren kept him under surveillance. After three days of waiting and scouting the residence, Sikong Jing finally went out with Gongyang Ying, giving him a chance to pursue his plan to lure Mo Ci into an ambush.

• Gongyang Ren ordered Gongyang Ying to keep Sikong Jing close and secretly have him watched, and she agreed despite distrusting him.
• Gongyang Ying appointed Sikong Jing her personal guard, but he protested because he wanted to conceal himself and avoid suspicion.
• Sikong Jing realized Gongyang Ren might uncover his false identity and resolved to draw Mo Ci to the Imperial Preceptor's residence before it was exposed.
• Sikong Jing spent three days studying the residence's arrangements while Gongyang Ren's watchers monitored him.
• On the fourth day, Sikong Jing accompanied Gongyang Ying outside with Aunt Mian, members of the Moon Soul Group, and two watchers following them.

Gongyang Ying arrived at the War Soul Star Luo Palace with Sikong Jing as her guard, while rumors about her defeat and capture spread through the capital. At the palace gates, she learned she ranked thirtieth on the Eastern Plains Thousand Tyrants Ranking, before War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace members arrived and mocked Dou Youchuan’s ranking.

• Sikong Jing rode with the Moon Soul Group and learned from a female guard that Gongyang Ying’s destination was none of his concern.
• Citizens spread rumors that Gongyang Ying had been defeated and captured by bandits, and she heard them from inside her carriage.
• Gongyang Ying refused Aunt Mian’s offer to kill the rumor-spreaders, fearing that a public confrontation would make the rumors seem true.
• Gongyang Ying arrived at the War Soul Star Luo Palace and greeted its chief, Dou Youchuan.
• Dou Youchuan told Gongyang Ying she ranked thirtieth on the Eastern Plains Thousand Tyrants Ranking, and Sikong Jing wondered about his own and Sikong Ling’s rankings.
• War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace members arrived, and one of them mocked Dou Youchuan for ranking in the nine hundreds.