Four Directions City was a small border city of the Great Yue Dynasty.
The ruler of the Great Yue Dynasty had eighteen sons.
As the ruler had grown old, all the princes coveted the throne, deceiving and scheming against one another, each with their own designs.
A year ago, a handsome young man with delicate features and a slender build arrived in Little Yu Village accompanied by two white-haired elders.
He claimed to have fled here from the northern border. The villagers were honest and kindhearted, so they gave him shelter without thinking much of it.
But a year later, a group of guards claiming to be from the Third Prince's Residence arrived in the village, saying they were investigating rebels.
Disaster descended upon Little Yu Village.
They were supposedly government soldiers, so the villagers cooperated fully, seeing nothing wrong with it.
Yet these guards were beasts in human skin.
Whenever they saw a somewhat pretty woman in the village, they seized her and swarmed over her.
They found no rebels, but they ravaged Little Yu Village from end to end.
At last, the villagers grew enraged and rose up in resistance.
But how could these honest villagers wielding farm tools stand against such well-trained guards?
Cries of misery filled the land as the massacre began.
When Lu Bing returned to the village from Four Directions City and saw this scene, he drew his blade and fought back. Yet he lacked the strength and was severely wounded.
Suddenly recalling Yang Yi, who cultivated in the Dao, he turned and fled the village, enduring the agonizing pain as he raced toward Secluded Wind Forest.
Fortunately, he had gone there once on business and knew its exact location.
Luckily, those demons did not pursue him, and Lu Bing successfully entered Secluded Wind