The Mount Heng Sect Is in Danger
It was only after Linghu Chong and Lu Dayou turned their horses around and rode closer that the two of them realized in shock that the person being hunted by several masked men, covered in blood and riddled with wounds, was none other than Yilin, their junior sister from the Mount Heng Sect.
Needless to say, neither Linghu Chong nor Lu Dayou held back. They attacked in a fury and swiftly cut down every last one of the pursuers!
Afterward, Yilin—or rather, the young nun Yilin—was escorted to Mount Hua's leader, Yue Buqun, under the protection of Linghu Chong and Lu Dayou.
Looking utterly bedraggled, gravely wounded, and exhausted after staying awake for a full day and two nights, Yilin clutched Yue Buqun's hand and gave him a rough account of what had happened.
It turned out that after bidding farewell to the Mount Hua Sect outside Luoyang, Master Dingyi had immediately led more than thirty Mount Heng disciples north.
They had spent the first night at an inn by the Luoyang docks. The next morning, they crossed the river by boat from the Pingyin ferry. By dusk, the group from Mount Heng had traveled more than thirty li from the ferry and was preparing to rest in an abandoned shrine to the mountain god when more than twenty masked men in black suddenly ambushed them.
Several of the attackers were first-rate fighters, and they all wore clothes embroidered with the mark of the Sun Moon Holy Cult. They shouted the name of the Demon Cult as they charged the Mount Heng disciples, their blades flashing like streaks of light. Several disciples fell in pools of blood at once.
Seeing this, Master Dingyi immediately drew her sword and led her disciples in a