Slaying Karma, Suppressing Evil

After killing the adulteress Pan Jinlian and her adulterous lover Ximen Qing in March, Wu Song was escorted to Mengzhou City at the beginning of May.

By June, when he reached the Mengzhou route, he had met the husband-and-wife pair Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang.

Afterward, he helped Shi En defeat Jiang the Gate God. Another month later, Prefect Zhang invited him to his residence and treated him with great hospitality.

Then, on the Mid-Autumn Festival of the fifteenth day of the eighth month, Prefect Zhang revealed his true colors and framed Wu Song, throwing him into prison.

Once locked in jail, his life and death were no longer in his own hands. More than two months passed before he was once again exiled to Xiangzhou.

It was also on that very day that Prefect Zhang and the others, unwilling to let him go, sent men to kill him.

Instead, he wreaked havoc at Flying Cloud Ford and splashed blood across Mandarin Duck Pavilion, killing Prefect Zhang's entire household—young and old alike—along with Commandant Zhang and Jiang the Gate God.

Now, to evade the government's pursuit, he had donned the garb of a wandering ascetic and headed for Two Dragons Mountain to become an outlaw.

Over this past year, Wu Song could truly be said to have endured one calamity after another, his emotions rising and falling like waves.

Let us not speak of Wu Song's journey to Two Dragons Mountain to become an outlaw.

Over this year, Ling Qing spent his days either expounding the Dharma to Zhao Ji, helping him accelerate the gathering of the dragon veins of the realm in order to reclaim the Fate Dragon Pillar.

Or he preached at the Divine Firmament Longevity Palace, raising the strength of the Divine Firmament Sect's disciples.

Or he