Time flew like an arrow.
In the blink of an eye, over a month had passed since Gu Chenfeng returned from Azure Cloud Market.
During that time, the Blood-Seeking Hall, which dominated its territory and was known as one of Xilin Commandery's Three Bandit Groups, had suffered a run of truly rotten luck.
First, shocking news spread from within the hall.
Mo Qianji, the Third Boss who had recently led a group to plunder merchant caravans in the Southwestern Borderlands, had suddenly perished, slain by someone.
Before the Blood-Seeking Hall could identify the killer, something else happened.
Xilin Commandery's Commandery City suddenly organized the largest bandit-suppression army in its history to encircle and eradicate the Blood-Seeking Hall.
Several Saint Warrior experts led elite troops and formidable commanders straight into the Blood-Seeking Hall's lair.
The Blood-Seeking Hall lost soldiers and commanders, including two more of its bosses.
In the end, the Blood-Seeking Hall's First Boss and Second Boss led the hall's elite members and barely escaped by relying on an unusual treasure to cut a path out.
After that battle, the Blood-Seeking Hall's vitality was gravely damaged, and it went completely to ground within Xilin Commandery.
The two events had occurred so coincidentally that everyone began speculating about their connection.
Most guessed that the Blood-Seeking Hall had provoked some great figure in the Commandery City, or that the goods it had plundered were far from ordinary, bringing this calamity upon itself.
While enjoying the spectacle, people once again witnessed the terrifying reserves of power of the Commandery City.
And just as Xilin Commandery's cultivation world was heatedly discussing the matter, something else was happening.
Few knew that Black Iron City in the Southwestern Borderlands was undergoing a great upheaval.
Outside Black Iron City, dust billowed.
In the distance, three forces