After receiving several letters from Yue Lingshan, Yue Buqun learned that his daughter and his sixth disciple, Lu Dayou, had made quite a name for themselves after descending the mountain. The pair had even earned titles such as "Twin Swords Soaring," "Fairy Soaring," "Mount Hua's Jade Maiden," and "White Cloud Swordsman." Filled with pride, Yue Buqun could no longer sit still.
So, three days ago, Yue Buqun had set off for Fuzhou with his wife, Ning Zhongze, his eldest disciple, Linghu Chong, his second disciple, Lao Denuo, and more than a dozen other Mount Hua disciples. The group had made a grand departure, intending to meet up with his daughter.
However...
What Yue Buqun could never have expected was that they had barely left Xi'an Prefecture when they received another astonishing piece of news:
His daughter, Yue Lingshan, and his sixth disciple, Lu Dayou—the "Jade Maiden of Mount Hua" and the "White Cloud Swordsman"—had been selling copies of the Evil-Resisting Sword Manual in Fuzhou's Drunken Immortal Pavilion under the name of the Mount Hua Sect. Each copy cost a mere five taels of silver, and as a result, every martial artist who had arrived in Fuzhou over those few days had obtained one. Some had even bought several?
According to reliable reports, his daughter and sixth disciple had done this because the original sword manual—the cassock—had been stolen by the "Ten-Thousand-Mile Wanderer," Tian Boguang. Outraged, the two had relied on their ability to remember anything at a glance to reproduce the manual, then printed and sold it in large quantities so Tian Boguang wouldn't be the only one to possess it.
Yue Buqun had naturally scoffed at this report. No one knew his daughter and disciple better than he did, and there was no way they had the ability to