Recaps

Pei Ye and Qiu Jizi examined the Sword Ladder Ming Qitian had designed for him, tracing a demanding path from studying the myriad forms of nature toward the Snowy Night Sword and its Dao Sword. The ladder depended on an unknown sword art created by Yue Muzhou, and Pei Ye chose to pursue that path rather than bypass the missing step.

• Qiu Jizi showed Pei Ye Ming Qitian’s letter and studied the Sword Ladder she had designed, identifying the Snowy Night Sword as its final Dao Sword.
• Qiu Jizi explained that Pei Ye needed to master Stillness of Snowy Night through quiet cultivation and settled understanding, not Spiritual Enlightenment alone.
• Qiu Jizi set out the first three stages: Cicada-Fish Contemplation, Order of Forms, and Life and Death Cycle, with numerous sword arts for Pei Ye to learn.
• Pei Ye and Qiu Jizi recognized that the Life and Death Cycle stage lacked a sword art that could let the swordsman transcend the laws of the myriad forms.
• Qiu Jizi explained that the missing sword art belonged to Yue Muzhou and led to The Self in the Mirror; Pei Ye refused to bypass it.

Pei Ye received the final step of his Sword Ladder, wrote to Ming Qitian, and began Sword Theory lectures at the academy. He met academy director Xu Chuo again, who asked about his friendship with Ming Qitian and taught him about etiquette among the Divine Capital’s nobles.

• Qiu Jizi gave Pei Ye the jade booklet for the final Sword Ladder step, [Parinirvana], and explained how the Sword Ladder advanced a swordsman’s Dao.
• Pei Ye returned to the courtyard, spoke with Yang Zhenbing and Yan Feiqing, and wrote a letter thanking Ming Qitian for her help and wishing her safety.
• Pei Ye attended his first Sword Theory lecture, studied Qingcheng swordsmanship, and filled five pages with notes.
• After the lecture, Pei Ye canceled lunch with Wang Shousi, Ning Shuhong, and Zhu Shishi when he saw Xu Chuo waiting in a carriage.
• Xu Chuo asked Pei Ye how close he was to Ming Qitian, then explained that courtesy and etiquette mattered when meeting the Divine Capital’s nobles.
• Xu Chuo asked whether Pei Ye had other friends he would entrust his life to, and he admitted that he had a few.

Pei Ye learned that the investigation into the Wilderness People's attempt to assassinate him had stalled, and Xu Chuo gave him a Wild Goose Inspector token to pursue the King of Yan's involvement. He began studying at the Imperial College, where a lesson on The Analects left Fang Jidao reflecting on the position of common-born students.

• Xu Chuo told Pei Ye that the Court of Judicial Review had not replied to inquiries about the Wilderness People's case and suspected the King of Yan's power was obstructing the investigation.
• Xu Chuo gave Pei Ye a Wild Goose Inspector token, and he agreed to investigate the King of Yan's role.
• Xu Chuo brought Pei Ye to the Four Gates Academy for his first Imperial College lesson and gave him a copy of The Analects.
• Pei Ye met Fang Jidao in class, and Fang explained a passage about Confucius and Zilu.
• When Xu Chuo taught a passage about ministers who merely filled their posts, Fang Jidao told Pei Ye that the Four Gates Academy had eight hundred outstanding sons of commoners.

Pei Ye studied under Xu Chuo, learned to integrate his sword arts into his sword ladder, and received a rare rain sword manual from Qiu Jizi. He began studying the Xiao Ma Sword and left Qiu Jizi speechless by asking about Confucius’s Way of ruler and minister.

• Xu Chuo gave Pei Ye permission to attend the academy and lent him books, then offered to ask the Libationer about the Four Qi Jade Candle Sword and named Ying Suyu as someone who might know Yue’s intent sword.
• Pei Ye integrated Wind Yao and Tree-Washing Bronze Shadow into his sword ladder, where they appeared as a cicada and a yellow bird.
• Qiu Jizi told Pei Ye how the twenty-four swords should usually be learned, then chose the Xiao Ma Sword for him and gave him seven manuals on its rain sword.
• Pei Ye began reading the Xiao Ma Sword manuals in the Hidden Sword Tower and asked Qiu Jizi what he thought of Confucius’s Way of ruler and minister.
• Qiu Jizi left without answering, and Pei Ye continued reading through the morning.

Pei Ye investigated how She Shi entered the Southern Office’s High-Security Prison and learned that Yu Ziliang had ordered his cell changed, though the Court of Judicial Review could not pursue him further. Pei Ye then examined She Shi’s earlier killing of Constable Ding Yukang and went to see Ding’s body after finding that the constable had recently handled no significant cases.

• Pei Ye met Court Vice Director Li Zhao, who said She Shi’s restraints had been tampered with and that Yu Ziliang had ordered him moved to Prison Cell Yi-7.
• Yu Ziliang admitted ordering the cell change, then left to go fox hunting with the Third Highness.
• Pei Ye and Xu Chuo agreed that investigating Yu Ziliang was unlikely to help, so Pei Ye went to the Chang'an County Office to investigate She Shi’s killing of a constable.
• Registrar Zhang and Zhao Yi told Pei Ye that She Shi had killed Ding Yukang with three punches after they bumped into each other in Pingkang Ward.
• Pei Ye read Ding Yukang’s file and learned that he had no recent cases and that his body remained unclaimed, then asked Xu Liu to take him to see it.

Pei Ye investigated Ding Yukang’s murder and uncovered the constable’s covert investigation into the Taiping Transport Gang through Pingkang Ward’s brothel supply records. He identified Carp Hall as a likely center of the gang’s influence and approached the establishment.

• Pei Ye examined Ding Yukang’s body and learned that he had stopped drinking and talking much in the days before his death.
• Pei Ye searched Ding Yukang’s home and found that he had been eating steamed buns and pickles while recording brothels’ food purchases.
• Pei Ye compared Ding Yukang’s notes with Pingkang Ward’s layout and realized the constable had been tracing rice deliveries by mapping routes around a storehouse.
• Pei Ye found that Carp Hall bought unusually large amounts of rice and flour for its stated population and learned from Xu Chuo that the Taiping Transport Gang controlled it.
• Pei Ye concluded that the Wilderness man had killed Ding Yukang to stop his investigation, then approached Carp Hall.

Pei Ye watched the Dragon Martial Army raid Carp Hall and uncover a hidden chamber of mutilated captives. He learned the captives were being turned into “Human Pens” for the Taiping Transport Gang’s amusement.

• Pei Ye and Xu Chuo discussed Carp Hall, the Taiping Transport Gang, and their plan to purge the King of Yan's Residence from the Divine Capital.
• The Dragon Martial Army surrounded Carp Hall, broke through its gates, and began searching it for concealed military arms.
• Pei Ye entered the raided hall and joined Shang Lang as soldiers dismantled a concealed wall.
• Pei Ye and Shang Lang found dozens of shackled, mutilated captives hidden in cages.
• A black-armored man explained that the captives were made into “Human Pens” and kept mostly for amusement.

Pei Ye joined Di Jiu and Li Zhao to investigate Carp Hall’s human trafficking case, but they faced official obstruction and a Taiping Transport Gang too widespread to search. After finding almost no useful records, they learned that the suspects and victims who might have provided leads were beyond their reach.

• Xu Chuo ordered the imperial guard to raid Carp Hall and declared that the human trafficking case would be pursued under the law.
• After several days of political clashes, Di Jiu took charge of the Three Offices investigation at Jingzhao Prefecture despite Prefect Lu Yugu’s objections.
• Di Jiu and Pei Ye identified Carp Hall as a way station and suspected the Taiping Transport Gang had a higher-level distribution point.
• Di Jiu, Li Zhao, and Pei Ye searched Jingzhao Prefecture’s files but found only seventy-eight minor cases involving the gang and no useful records of its larger operations.
• Di Jiu explained that Carp Hall’s suspects had retracted their confessions after being transferred to the Southern Office, while the Dragon Martial Army had killed the core members who knew more.

Pei Ye questioned the rescued captives and learned that many had been abducted from the Divine Capital along with their parents, while Di Jiu vowed to correct Jingzhao Prefecture’s wrongful convictions. At the Imperial College, Pei Ye confronted Lin Wen Yuan over his father’s carriage and heard fellow students discussing the reopened trafficking case and Di Jiu’s ten-day pledge.

• Pei Ye read the brief case file about Liu Dao and his accomplices, while Di Jiu told him that many Jingzhao Prefecture cases appeared wrongful or forced through despite gaps in evidence.
• Pei Ye questioned the rescued captives, and Cheng Xiaozhu told him that men claiming her father had committed a crime took her parents away after showing a waist token.
• Pei Ye learned that many captives came from the Divine Capital and that their families had also been taken, then reported his findings to Di Jiu.
• Di Jiu vowed to Tongjun that he would set every wrongful conviction in Jingzhao Prefecture right, while Pei Ye left to attend class at the Imperial College.
• Pei Ye told Lin Wen Yuan that his father would not need his carriage for the next two days, then entered the classroom with the case file.
• Pei Ye overheard students discussing the trafficking case, the Taiping Transport Gang, and Di Jiu’s pledge to solve the case within ten days with only Li Zhao and Pei Ye named as his aides.

Pei Ye uncovered suspicious inconsistencies in the Zhang Mengyuan murder file and suspected Zhang Mingqin’s body had been dumped inside the Divine Capital, prompting him to confront Jingzhao Prefecture head constable Lü Dingwu. After Pei Ye subdued Lü with his sword and threatened him with the Immortal Platform’s High-Security Prison, Black Cat teased him, while Lü remained afraid to move.

• Pei Ye noticed vague autopsy reports and mismatched dates in the Zhang family murder file, then considered that the victims might have died or been found at different times.
• Pei Ye traced Dragon Head Canal through wards inhabited by imperial relatives and powerful officials, suspected the case was not a simple robbery-murder, and hurried to Jingzhao Prefecture.
• Pei Ye confronted head constable Lü Dingwu about how the Zhang Mengyuan case had been handled, but Lü gave a cursory account and invoked his status as an official.
• Pei Ye struck Lü with his sword, held the blade to his throat, and offered him the choice of speaking or being taken to the Immortal Platform’s High-Security Prison.
• Black Cat joked that Lü had touched a sore spot, while Lü stayed frozen, afraid of Pei Ye’s sword.

Pei Ye uncovered how Lü Dingwu had helped cover up Zhang Mingqin’s murder and learned that constable Xie Chuantang had pursued the case before being imprisoned. He arranged for her release, while Guan Zhiyi overturned her death sentence at the Ministry of Justice despite Zheng Yufeng’s objections.

• Pei Ye confronted Lü Dingwu, who admitted tipping off the Taiping Transport Gang and covering up the investigation into Zhang Mingqin’s murder.
• Lü Dingwu revealed that Xie Chuantang had been imprisoned after investigating the case and being accused of attempting to assassinate a noble.
• Pei Ye asked Xu Chuo to get Xie Chuantang out of the Southern Office’s High-Security Prison, and Xu Chuo promised to transfer her before dawn.
• Pei Ye remembered meeting Xie Chuantang in prison, where she vowed to investigate the case to the end.
• Zheng Yufeng learned Xie Chuantang had been transferred and hurried to the Ministry of Justice to stop her release.
• Guan Zhiyi argued that the trafficking evidence overturned Xie Chuantang’s assassination charge and ordered her returned to Jingzhao Prefecture.

Xie Chuantang recounted how she had been sold as a child, rescued by a Chang'an constable, and later pursued justice for a murdered fourteen-year-old girl. After her release from prison, Linghu Qu followed her to kill her, but a mysterious middle-aged man stopped him and invited her to eat noodles.

• Xie Chuantang remembered being sold, rescued by a Chang'an constable, and raised with his guidance before corruption drove him to retire from field work.
• Xie Chuantang befriended a fourteen-year-old neighbor, who later left the capital and was found murdered beside the Yinma River.
• Xie Chuantang investigated the girl's murder, traced the order to the Phantom Tower, and was imprisoned after entering it; she later learned that the constable who had raised her had died.
• Officials released Xie Chuantang, but a crimson-robed man warned her that she had only half a street left to live, while Linghu Qu followed her with his sword ready.
• A middle-aged man at a noodle stall invited Xie Chuantang to eat, and she sat down as Linghu Qu stood frozen behind her.

After Xie Chuantang was freed, she joined Pei Ye and Di Jiu in connecting the Taiping Transport Gang’s trafficking operation to the seizure of victims’ property and the Golden Guards’ authority. The investigation pointed toward a hidden prison called the Winter Prison, which they needed to find as evidence against the gang and its protectors.

• Xie Chuantang told Pei Ye that Zhang Mengyuan and his wife had been killed after Zhang Mingqin’s body was found, suggesting they had been held rather than killed during the original abduction.
• Di Jiu compared the victims’ cases and concluded that Carp Hall’s people might have been gathered through a broader scheme rather than ordinary trafficking.
• Pei Ye and Xie Chuantang investigated the victims’ former homes and businesses, finding that the Taiping Transport Gang had taken their property.
• Di Jiu concluded that the Golden Guards backed the Taiping Transport Gang as it framed and dispossessed households and isolated residents.
• Di Jiu identified a nine-year-old record authorizing the Golden Guards to establish a secret Winter Prison outside the Southern Office, which could hold evidence of the crimes.

Pei Ye returned to the Sword Cultivation Academy after helping Xie Chuantang and Di Jiu investigate the Taiping Transport Gang, then spent the day practicing sword forms with Yang Zhenbing. As rumors about the case spread, Wang Shousi asked whether Pei Ye was prepared for the upcoming Sword Competition Trial.

• Xie Chuantang returned to Jingzhao Prefecture for treatment while Pei Ye went back to the Sword Cultivation Academy, trusting Di Jiu to find the gang’s private prison.
• Pei Ye discussed their Sword Ladder progress with Yang Zhenbing and asked him to help refine a Jadeite sword form.
• Pei Ye combined [Clear Cry] and [Broken Leaf Returning Tide] against Yang Zhenbing’s defense, but failed to break through and kept practicing.
• Pei Ye sparred with Yang Zhenbing until Sword Theory class, then ran into Wang Shousi, Ning Shuhong, and Zhu Shishi.
• Wang Shousi told Pei Ye that the Taiping Transport Gang case had become widely known and asked whether he was ready for the Sword Competition Trial.

Pei Ye practiced with Wang Shousi and Ning Shuhong, then learned the Spring Sword technique First-Month Northern Rain and broadened his understanding of swordsmanship. Meanwhile, Di Jiu and Li Zhao traced the Taiping Transport Gang’s rise to Golden Guards official Yang Juhu but could not yet uncover his connection to the gang.

• Wang Shousi told Pei Ye that famed Sword Reviewer Cui Zhaoye would attend the Sword Talents’ first match, but Pei Ye said he probably would not be there.
• Pei Ye sparred with Wang Shousi after Ning Shuhong took Zhu Shishi away, and learned that Shishi had recently reached Sixth Growth.
• Wang Shousi told Pei Ye about the upcoming Chang'an Jade Winter Sword Gathering, where Ning Shuhong planned to make his mark.
• Pei Ye practiced the Spring Sword move Cloud Chill and learned three moves from the First-Month Northern Rain Sword Manual.
• Li Zhao found Yang Juhu’s old appointment records, and Di Jiu linked his return from the Northern Frontier to the period when the Taiping Transport Gang rose.

Di Jiu linked Qiu Tianyu to the Northern Frontier Army through the identity Wang Biehe and began searching for the location of the Winter Prison. At the Imperial College, Pei Ye discovered that he had misunderstood Xu Chuo’s essay assignment, and Changsun explained the question’s intended meaning.

• Di Jiu noticed a three-year gap in Qiu Tianyu’s history that matched the rotation between the Imperial Guard and the Frontier Army.
• Di Jiu and Li Zhao searched the Ministry of War archives and found that Wang Biehe had left the Northern Frontier Army under suspicious circumstances.
• Di Jiu concluded that Qiu Tianyu and the Golden Guards had been comrades-in-arms and proposed guessing where the Winter Prison was located.
• Yan Feiqing questioned Pei Ye about his writing and sleep habits before Pei Ye left for Xu Chuo’s lecture at the Imperial College.
• Pei Ye heard students praise Qiu Tianyu and mock Di Jiu’s investigation, then learned from Changsun that the stack of essays already submitted answered Xu Chuo’s assignment.
• Changsun explained that Confucius’s phrases about ministerial loyalty and serving a ruler according to the Way expressed the same principle.

Pei Ye struggled with an essay on Confucius’s Way of serving a sovereign, and Xu Chuo briefly praised his writing before deciding to assign him copies as punishment. Later, Pei Ye helped his classmates plan a poetry-and-sword gathering and offered to invite another swordsman, while news of the Carp Hall case continued to spread.

• Pei Ye handed in his incomplete essay to Changsun Jue and admitted to Xu Chuo that he found the classics difficult.
• Xu Chuo read Pei Ye’s essay, praised its opening and closing lines, then noticed his signature addressed the paper to her as his teacher and ordered him to make ten copies as punishment.
• Pei Ye advised Tinghua, Fu Zhiyun, Lin Yuxian, and their classmates to invite several swordsmen to their poetry gathering instead of relying on a single performer.
• Pei Ye agreed to introduce a swordsman who had mentioned wanting to attend, but said he could not promise to come himself.
• Pei Ye heard that discussion of the Carp Hall case was spreading, while Changsun Jue gave Fu Zhiyun a folded sheet of paper and pointed toward the back of the classroom.

Pei Ye defended Fang Jidao and declared that the Taiping Transport Gang would not survive the tenth day. Di Jiu and Li Zhao identified the gang’s wharf as the likely site of its private prison and prepared a search, but a powerful dignitary arrived at the Prefectural Office to meet Di Jiu.

• Changsun Jue sent Pei Ye a note praising his essay and instructing him to copy the Biography of Xu Chu ten times, while apologizing for reminding him to add his name.
• Fang Jidao argued with Zheng Zhiyi over the Carp Hall case and the Taiping Transport Gang, and Pei Ye publicly vowed to bring the gang down before the tenth day.
• Di Jiu and Li Zhao marked the Taiping Transport Gang’s wharf as the likely location of Winter Prison and arranged for the Gate Guard and Court of Judicial Review to assist with a search.
• A procession of carriages and palace soldiers arrived at the Prefectural Office, and Di Jiu went alone to meet the unidentified dignitary seated in the main hall.

Di Jiu defied Yu Sicheng’s warning and ordered Jingzhao Prefecture to hear public cases against the Taiping Transport Gang. Meanwhile, Changsun Jue visited the Sword Cultivation Academy with Cui Zhaoye to watch the Sword Talents compete, where he saw Zhang Chao and Wen Li duel.

• Yu Sicheng pressured Di Jiu to leave the Taiping Transport Gang alone, promising to imprison Qiu Tianyu instead.
• Di Jiu deliberately dropped Yu Sicheng’s offered tea, then ordered an open court hearing for anyone abused by the Taiping Transport Gang.
• Changsun Jue joined Cui Zhaoye at the Sword Cultivation Academy and studied the list of Sword Talents.
• Zhang Chao and Wen Li fought a sword bout that ended with Wen Li’s blade at Zhang Chao’s neck.
• Cui Zhaoye explained the swordsmen’s backgrounds and techniques to Changsun Jue as they watched the academy’s trials.

Cui Zhaoye watched the Sword Cultivation Academy bouts and judged the competitors, while Changsun Jue asked about the absent Pei Ye. Pei Ye spent the night studying a new sword art before riding with Xie Chuantang to West Pool to observe Qiu Tianyu’s banquet ahead of a planned search.

• Cui Zhaoye assessed the sword bouts, praising Ning Shuhong’s union with his sword and criticizing other competitors for lacking spirit.
• Zuo Qiu Longhua defeated the black-clad Yang Zhenbing, and Cui Zhaoye lamented that White Deer Palace had directed him toward the Six Bans instead of the Dao Sword.
• Changsun Jue told Cui Zhaoye that Pei Ye had not attended the Academy, and Cui prepared to leave without pursuing the matter.
• Pei Ye practiced the First-Month Northern Rain sword art at the Yi Four Sword Field and briefly touched the true intent of the Jadeite Sword’s third move.
• Xie Chuantang told Pei Ye that Di had located Winter Prison near Taiping Wharf and that a garrison would search the area later that morning.
• Pei Ye and Xie Chuantang rode to West Pool to watch Qiu Tianyu’s banquet at Flying Mirror Tower as an advance party.

Pei Ye and Xie Chuantang investigated the Taiping Transport Gang and prepared for the Gate Guards to raid its hidden Winter Prison. The chapter left Di Jiu openly inviting complaints against the gang while Pei Ye and Xie Chuantang watched Qiu Tianyu’s stronghold for signs of the coming confrontation.

• Xie Chuantang told Pei Ye that the Winter Prison was likely underground at Taiping Wharf and that the gang’s leaders had gathered in Flying Mirror Tower.
• Xie Chuantang explained Qiu Tianyu’s battlefield record and the power of the gang’s senior cultivators, as well as the Divine Capital’s restrictions on Profound Qi.
• Xie Chuantang said the Gate Guards were ready to move with Profound Gate cultivators and five hundred armored soldiers, but Grand Eunuch Yu Sicheng had pressured Di Jiu to end the investigation.
• Pei Ye and Xie Chuantang watched the tower and waited for the hour of the Snake, when Di Jiu had promised to hold out.
• Di Jiu sat outside Jingzhao Prefecture in vermilion robes and invited anyone wronged by the Taiping Transport Gang to bring him a complaint, drawing attention across the Divine Capital.
• Obstruction arose after Di Jiu had been receiving complaints for just over half an hour.

Di Jiu exposed the Taiping Transport Gang’s crimes in public despite political retaliation, then collapsed after an apparent poisoning. Pei Ye and Xie Chuantang learned that Di Jiu had been attacked and rode to find the Gate Guard, while Hong Xingping considered joining Li Zhao’s effort against the powerful families.

• Di Jiu and Li Zhao publicly exposed suppressed cases and arrested twenty-seven Taiping Transport Gang members, drawing a large crowd and warnings from Jingzhao Prefecture and the Southern Office.
• Di Jiu continued hearing victims’ accounts despite an edict ordering him to stop, then collapsed after becoming dizzy and losing consciousness.
• A clerk told Pei Ye and Xie Chuantang that Di Jiu had been poisoned and that Li Zhao had ordered the Gate Guard to make arrests.
• Pei Ye and Xie Chuantang rode toward the imperial city, but found no Gate Guard troops on the avenue.
• Hong Xingping recalled how connections and political favors had carried him to the rank of General of the Household, and how Li Zhao had offered him a chance to act independently.

Hong Xingping abandoned the planned attack on the Taiping Transport Gang when Yu Sicheng confronted him, leaving Xie Chuantang and Pei Ye without troops while Di Jiu lay poisoned. Pei Ye resolved to solve the case within three days, then returned to the Sword Cultivation Academy and tested a new strike against Yang Zhenbing.

• Hong Xingping prepared five hundred guards to attack the Taiping Transport Gang but faltered after receiving an order from Qi Wen and then faced Yu Sicheng at the garrison.
• Hong Xingping surrendered his command token, and Pei Ye and Xie Chuantang left without the troops they had hoped to bring.
• Pei Ye promised Xie Chuantang he would solve the case within three days despite their lack of soldiers.
• Xing Zhi stabilized Di Jiu and said the Mount Tai Medicine Lodge could wake him, while suggesting that appointing him Jingzhao Prefect might eliminate the threat completely.
• Pei Ye returned to the Sword Cultivation Academy, asked Yang Zhenbing to test another strike, and realized he had strayed by focusing only on defeating the Sealing Sword.

Pei Ye prepared to confront the Taiping Transport Gang, while his classmate’s poetry gathering welcomed the renowned swordsman Wang Shousi. In the rain, Pei Ye and Yan Feiqing arrived at the gang’s West Hall, where its guards recognized that the pair were no ordinary visitors.

• Pei Ye defeated Yang Zhenbing’s sword strike with the third form of Flying Feather Immortal, White Dew, and asked Yan Feiqing to help him fight someone in three days.
• At Green Splendor Terrace, Tinghua and Fu Zhiyun worried that the swordsman Pei Ye had promised to send might not arrive for their poetry and sword gathering.
• Wang Shousi arrived, and Bian Weiji gave up his seat and introduced him as a celebrated senior brother from the southern Golden Crow.
• After three days in the Sword Field, Pei Ye took down his door plaque and left in the winter rain with Yan Feiqing.
• Pei Ye and Yan Feiqing reached the Taiping Transport Gang’s West Hall, where two guards challenged them and realized their clothes remained untouched by the rain.

Pei Ye and Yan Feiqing attacked the Taiping Transport Gang during its public celebration at West Pool. After Yan Feiqing defeated Si Lianwen, Pei Ye killed him with Sword Washes Water and faced Qiu Tianyu atop Flying Mirror Tower.

• Pei Ye fought through the Taiping Transport Gang's street forces and stopped Zhao Qianqu from escaping to warn the Grand Dragon Head.
• Pei Ye ordered Little Cat to search for registers connected to Taiping Wharf while the Ten-Day Feast continued at West Pool.
• Qiu Tianyu announced the Taiping Transport Gang's celebration, and Si Lianwen flew toward the Blessing Ship to set it alight.
• Yan Feiqing emerged from the rain and broke Si Lianwen's attack with a sword strike and a sea of fire.
• Pei Ye used Sword Washes Water to pierce Si Lianwen's throat, then advanced across the lake toward Qiu Tianyu.