Chapter Summaries

Nangong Feixue left Huang Shaojie’s room while he bathed and met Gao Chao, a Wudang Sect disciple who invited her to visit Wudang Mountain. Gao Chao secretly planned to abduct her, and he and his companions also discussed targeting women at local inns.

• Nangong Feixue left Huang Shaojie to bathe and watched the sunset from the corridor.
• Gao Chao introduced himself as a Wudang Sect disciple and offered to take Nangong Feixue to meet True Person Zhang.
• Nangong Feixue declined Gao Chao’s invitation to visit his room and said she would see him the next day.
• Gao Chao and Third Brother discussed abducting Nangong Feixue when Huang Shaojie was away, and Gao Chao planned to target women at Yuelai Inn.

Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue shared a room at the inn, where Nangong Feixue bathed and struggled with her attraction to Huang Shaojie's physique. Guo Lanlan became infatuated with Nangong Feixue's clothes, while the pair went to sleep upstairs.

• Guo Lanlan replaced the bathwater, and Huang Shaojie left the room so Nangong Feixue could bathe in private.
• Guo Lanlan offered to wash Nangong Feixue's clothes, and Huang Shaojie got her to wash his clothes too after Nangong Feixue paid her.
• Huang Shaojie slept on the bed while Nangong Feixue made a bedroll on the floor and secretly admired his body before falling asleep.
• Guo Lanlan sniffed Nangong Feixue's clothes downstairs, and Bai Tang teased her for acting like a lovesick fool.

Guo Lanlan and Mao Yuxi fawned over Nangong Feixue and teased Bai Tang, while Nangong Feixue woke beside Huang Shaojie and grew embarrassed by his morning condition. The two later explored Seven Heroes Town, where a bearded martial artist kicked over a tent and provoked a fight.

• Guo Lanlan admired Nangong Feixue’s scent, while Mao Yuxi praised Bai Tang and tried to make him jealous.
• Nangong Feixue woke early, mistook Huang Shaojie’s morning condition for a strange dream, and blushed when he noticed her watching.
• Huang Shaojie told Nangong Feixue that he had reached about the Fifth Rank Grandmaster level.
• Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue left the inn after breakfast and wandered through crowded Seven Heroes Town ahead of the Seven Peaks Alliance Meeting.
• A bearded burly man kicked over a shaking tent, exposing a naked couple, and the man inside attacked him with a saber.
• The bearded burly man dodged the saber and kicked the naked man more than a zhang away.

Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue witnessed the dangers of the martial world in Seven Heroes Town, where Emei disciples had disappeared overnight. As the sects searched for them, Huang told Nangong about the Imperial Guard and offered to help her through his friend in the Capital City.

• A bearded brute abducted a man's wife in front of the crowd, and Huang Shaojie told Nangong Feixue that such cruelty was part of the martial world.
• Huang asked Nangong about her father, and she claimed he was an experienced escort master while hiding that he was Nangong Tian, a Ninth Rank Grandmaster.
• Abbess Jueqing discovered that Yun Chen and another Emei disciple had vanished from Yuelai Inn, then sent her disciples to search in groups.
• The other five major sects joined the search for the missing Emei disciples around Seven Heroes Town.
• Huang told Nangong that the Imperial Guard had formidable experts and said his Commander friend in the Capital City could help her if she encountered trouble.

Ding Qiang was lured into the forest by a beautiful village woman, who drained his vitality and tore out his heart. Abbess Jueqing found two murdered Emei disciples, while Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue heard news of their deaths at an inn.

• Ding Qiang followed a village woman into the forest after she claimed to know where two injured women lay.
• The village woman seduced Ding Qiang, used the Yang Absorption Technique to weaken him, and pulled out his heart.
• Abbess Jueqing discovered the bodies of Yun Chen and Yun Ni and vowed to punish the Lecherous Thief.
• Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue returned to Fulai Inn and heard people discussing the previous night's killings and the murdered Emei disciples.

Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue encountered the Huashan Sect’s arrival at the inn, where rumors spread about Abbess Jueqing’s hunt for the Lecherous Thief. Huang Shaojie questioned the self-proclaimed Wudang disciple Gao Chao and discovered that he was disguised.

• Wandering heroes at the inn discussed Abbess Jueqing’s plans to capture the Lecherous Thief and mocked his crimes against Emei Sect disciples.
• Yue Liangjun arrived with Yue Shaoqun, Ning Zezhong, and Huashan Sect disciples, while Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue stayed seated.
• Gao Chao and his companion joined Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue at their table, and Huang Shaojie introduced himself as Yang Wei.
• Huang Shaojie questioned Gao Chao about the Wudang Sect and noticed that some answers conflicted with the information in the Imperial Guard’s archives.
• Huang Shaojie used the Insight Technique and discovered that Gao Chao was disguised.

Huang Shaojie followed the investigation into the murders of two Emei Sect disciples and insisted on joining the Seven Peaks Sect leaders’ discussion. He revealed his Imperial Guard token, leaving the assembled martial artists astonished to learn he was a Commander.

• A Songshan Sect disciple told Yue Liangjun that two Emei Sect disciples had been murdered and that Alliance Leader Zuo had summoned the sect leaders to meet.
• Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue followed Yue Liangjun’s party to Yuelai Inn, where Huang Shaojie ordered a waiter to take them to the meeting.
• Yue Shaoqun and the other disciples tried to drive Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue away from the leaders’ discussion.
• Huang Shaojie displayed his Imperial Guard token and announced that he was investigating a case.
• Zuo Xiu verified that the token belonged to an Imperial Guard Commander and respectfully greeted Huang Shaojie, shocking the gathered disciples and Nangong Feixue.

Huang Shaojie revealed his status as an Imperial Guard Commander and agreed to investigate the murders of two Emei Sect disciples. At the inn, he examined the room and asked the sect leaders to let him inspect their shoe soles for clues to the Lecherous Thief.

• Zuo Xiu identified Huang Shaojie as an Imperial Guard Commander, and the Seven Peaks sect leaders bowed to him.
• Huang Shaojie told the sect leaders he had come to investigate the rape and murder of two Emei Sect disciples.
• Abbess Jueqing described how the disciples had vanished from their inn room and were later found dead in the wilderness.
• Huang Shaojie examined the room and reasoned that the Lecherous Thief had entered through the door and escaped through the window with the victims one at a time.
• Huang Shaojie compared the shoeprints near the window and asked the sect leaders to remove their shoes so he could inspect their soles.

Huang Shaojie investigated the murders in Seven Heroes Town and identified the Four Great Evils of Guanzhong as the likely culprits. The sect leaders realized all four villains had come to town, but their next move remained undecided.

• Huang Shaojie compared the sect leaders' shoes with the footprints and found that one pair of soft-soled boot prints did not match.
• A Mount Heng Sect disciple reported that Ding Qiang had been found naked and murdered in the western woods, his heart removed.
• Huang Shaojie inspected Ding Qiang's body and identified Black Widow He Qingqing as his killer.
• Alliance Leader Zuo agreed that He Qingqing was responsible, while Yue Liangjun suspected Flying Lecherous Wolf Miao Renfeng had killed the Emei disciples.
• Daoist Master Dongling and Lu Kongji linked the recent robberies to Greedy Scoundrel Hu Lai, and the sect leaders concluded that all four villains were in Seven Heroes Town.

Huang Shaojie told the Seven Peaks sect leaders he was confident he could capture Flying Lecherous Wolf and Black Widow, though he kept his plan secret. He left with Nangong Feixue, whose embarrassment grew when he stopped to relieve himself, and the chapter ended with her hurrying away while fighting her curiosity.

• Mo Kexin proposed searching every inn in Seven Heroes Town, but Zuo Xiu and the other sect leaders rejected the idea as likely to alert the Four Great Villains.
• Yue Liangjun suggested strengthening defenses and luring Flying Lecherous Wolf and Black Widow into committing another crime, while Huang Shaojie said the plan was unlikely to work but claimed he could capture them.
• Huang Shaojie privately planned to use his Insight Technique to find disguised suspects, narrow them down, and use beauty to test them.
• The sect leaders flattered Huang Shaojie and agreed to keep his Imperial Guard identity secret as he instructed them to strengthen their defenses.
• Nangong Feixue praised Huang Shaojie as unlike the Imperial Guard's usual image, and he teased her about being a woman by proposing they compete to see who could piss farther.
• Huang Shaojie began relieving himself, and Nangong Feixue hurried away, embarrassed and tempted to sneak a glance.

Huang Shaojie suspected Gao Chao was the Flying Lecherous Wolf and planned to test him by using Nangong Feixue as bait. The chapter ended with Nangong Feixue asking to join his stakeout, while Huang Shaojie intended to leave her in their room to lure the thief.

• Huang Shaojie checked the people in Seven Heroes Town for disguises but found none.
• At Fulin Inn, Huang Shaojie matched Gao Chao’s height and boots to the thief’s clues and suspected he was Miao Renfeng, the Flying Lecherous Wolf.
• Huang Shaojie told Gao Chao that the sects would guard female disciples’ rooms and said he planned to help catch the thief at night.
• Huang Shaojie told Nangong Feixue not to join the night watch, and she pretended she preferred to sleep in their room.
• Back in their room, Nangong Feixue asked to accompany Huang Shaojie to Yuelai Inn, while he planned to leave her behind as bait.

Miao Renfeng and Hu Lai broke into the inn room, subdued Nangong Feixue, and forced her to swallow an aphrodisiac while Huang Shaojie was away. Just as they prepared to take her, an unknown figure entered through the window.

• Huang Shaojie left the inn room after the third watch, and Miao Renfeng and Hu Lai followed him from the neighboring room.
• Miao Renfeng discovered Nangong Feixue sleeping on the floor and realized she was the woman disguised as a boy.
• Miao Renfeng sealed Nangong Feixue's acupoints, and Hu Lai joined him in the room.
• Miao Renfeng forced Nangong Feixue to swallow an aphrodisiac pill, and she began to feel its effects.
• Hu Lai urged Miao Renfeng to leave before Huang Shaojie returned, but a figure entered through the window after a cold laugh.

Huang Shaojie rescued Nangong Feixue from Miao Renfeng and Hu Lai, then learned that the medicine they had given her had taken effect. Afterward, Nangong Feixue revealed her true identity and feelings for him, while the two captured men realized they had fallen into the hands of an Imperial Guard officer.

• Huang Shaojie returned, swiftly sealed Miao Renfeng's and Hu Lai's acupoints, and freed Nangong Feixue.
• Nangong Feixue, overcome by the pill's effects, kissed Huang Shaojie, and they were together before the room grew quiet.
• Nangong Feixue noticed Huang Shaojie's false mustache was gone, and he admitted he had seen through her disguise as a man.
• Huang Shaojie revealed he was a Thousand Household Officer of the Imperial Guard, leaving Miao Renfeng and Hu Lai terrified of their fate.
• Nangong Feixue told Huang Shaojie her real name and said Nangong Tian was her father, then joked that Huang Shaojie would have to take responsibility for her.

Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue captured two of the Four Great Villains, crippled them, and interrogated them for information. Miao Renfeng revealed where He Qingqing stayed, but neither villain knew Bloodthirsty Fiend Tu Ren’s whereabouts; Huang Shaojie learned where Hu Lai had hidden his stolen treasure.

• Huang Shaojie told Nangong Feixue that Miao Renfeng and Hu Lai would be handed over to the Seven Peaks Sects before their heads were claimed for the bounty.
• After dawn, Nangong Feixue kicked Miao Renfeng and Hu Lai, and Huang Shaojie shattered their dantians and crippled their martial arts.
• Huang Shaojie exposed Miao Renfeng’s disguise and tortured him until he revealed that He Qingqing stayed at the Hero Inn but often went searching for prey.
• Miao Renfeng and Hu Lai both said they did not know where Bloodthirsty Fiend Tu Ren was.
• Huang Shaojie searched Hu Lai’s soul, learned where he had hidden more than ten chests of stolen treasure, and left Hu Lai vacant and drooling.

Nangong Feixue revealed her disguise to Guo Lanlan, who angrily called her a liar after discovering she had been deceived. After the inn’s staff and guests learned Nangong Feixue was a woman, she and Huang Shaojie came downstairs for breakfast, where Guo Lanlan remained hostile.

• Nangong Feixue opened the door and revealed she was a woman who had been disguised as a man, prompting Guo Lanlan to call her a liar.
• Guo Lanlan found bloodstains on the bedsheet and hurried away with it, while Bai Tang realized Nangong Feixue’s secret and gossiped with Mao Yuxi.
• Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue washed up and left their room, leaving Miao Renfeng and Hu Lai imprisoned with their martial arts crippled.
• Nangong Feixue appeared in women’s clothing downstairs, drawing the inn guests’ attention and making them envy Huang Shaojie.
• Guo Lanlan served Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue breakfast with an unpleasant attitude, and Nangong Feixue asked why she was upset.

Huang Shaojie revealed his standing by capturing Miao Renfeng and Hu Lai, then handed the villains over to Yue Liangjun and the Seven Peaks Sects. He left Nangong Feixue behind and headed to Hero Inn to find Black Widow He Qingqing.

• Guo Lanlan grew angry when the inn's patrons laughed at her, while Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue ordered breakfast.
• Yue Liangjun and the Huashan Sect disciples respectfully greeted Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue, leaving the other martial artists astonished by Huang Shaojie's status.
• After breakfast, Huang Shaojie told Yue Liangjun that he had captured Miao Renfeng and Hu Lai and asked the Seven Peaks Sects to deal with them while keeping their heads intact for the Imperial Guard.
• Yue Liangjun escorted Miao Renfeng and Hu Lai toward Yuelai Inn, while Nangong Feixue went with the Huashan Sect members.
• Huang Shaojie declined Nangong Feixue's offer to accompany him and went to Hero Inn to find Black Widow He Qingqing.

Huang Shaojie waited at the Hero Inn for Black Widow He Qingqing, then used his handsome appearance to draw a disguised woman in red into following him. After she tried to lead him toward a grove, she discovered something about him that made her exclaim in surprise.

• Huang Shaojie removed his mustaches and went to the Hero Inn, hoping to lure He Qingqing out by posing as a handsome young gentleman.
• While Huang Shaojie waited, martial artists discussed the crimes of Flying Lecherous Wolf and Black Widow He Qingqing.
• A disguised woman in red noticed Huang Shaojie, flirted with him at the inn, and followed him outside after he left.
• The woman in red invited Huang Shaojie to a nearby grove, but he stopped her and asked to act where they stood.
• The woman in red reached to grope Huang Shaojie, then widened her eyes and exclaimed, "Holy shit!"

Huang Shaojie captured Black Widow He Qingqing alive and brought her to Yuelai Inn, where the Seven Peaks Sects were punishing two other villains. His success earned the sect leaders’ sincere gratitude and admiration, while Yue Shaoqun noticed Ning Zezhong’s interest in him.

• Huang Shaojie defeated He Qingqing, sealed her acupoints, and learned from her that Bloodthirsty Fiend Tu Ren was in Seven Heroes Town.
• Huang Shaojie briefly searched He Qingqing’s soul, removed her disguise mask, and carried her back to town.
• At Yuelai Inn, the Seven Peaks Sects tortured Flying Lecherous Wolf Miao Renfeng and Greedy Scoundrel Hu Lai for their crimes.
• Huang Shaojie arrived with He Qingqing and told the Seven Peaks Sects they could take their revenge on Black Widow.
• The seven sect leaders and their disciples thanked Huang Shaojie, while Nangong Feixue praised him and Ning Zezhong admired him.
• Yue Shaoqun noticed Ning Zezhong looking at Huang Shaojie and concealed his displeasure.

Huang Shaojie arranged for Miao Renfeng, He Qingqing, and Hu Lai to be publicly executed in hopes of drawing out Bloodthirsty Fiend Tu Ren. He lured the hidden Tu Ren out of town with Nangong Feixue, but Tu Ren attacked them with a poisoned flying dagger.

• Huang Shaojie ordered the three captured villains bound and publicly executed to provoke Tu Ren into revealing himself.
• Zuo Xiu denounced the Four Great Villains as the execution began, while Tu Ren watched Huang Shaojie from the crowd.
• Huang Shaojie led Nangong Feixue out of Seven Heroes Town, realizing that someone was following them.
• Tu Ren followed Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue into a grove, intending to kill them.
• While Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue embraced, Tu Ren threw a blue-glowing flying dagger at Huang Shaojie's back.

Huang Shaojie captured Bloodthirsty Fiend Tu Ren after defeating him with one palm, then brought him back to Seven Heroes Town. The Seven Great Sect Leaders confirmed Tu Ren’s identity and praised Huang Shaojie.

• Huang Shaojie caught Tu Ren’s poisoned Flying Dagger and challenged him after Tu Ren tried to attack him by surprise.
• Tu Ren used the Black Fiend Demonic Palm, but Huang Shaojie shattered his attack and knocked him unconscious with the Cloud Dispelling Palm.
• Huang Shaojie and Nangong Feixue spent an hour together before he sealed Tu Ren’s acupoints and dragged him to Seven Heroes Town.
• Huang Shaojie presented Tu Ren to the Seven Great Sect Leaders, and Zuo Xiu pulled off Tu Ren’s false beard to confirm who he was.
• The Seven Great Sect Leaders and the gathered martial artists marveled at Huang Shaojie’s capture and praised him.