Recaps

Zhang Teng improved rapidly while sparring with Lin Bei, deepening his Tai Chi understanding enough to trigger its second limit break. Lin Bei discovered that the art could draw on Heaven-and-Earth Spiritual Power, while Tieniu considered asking Lin Bei how he could learn the Breath-Absorbing Art without Tai Chi.

• Zhang Teng sparred with Lin Bei, and Tieniu explained to the other apprentices that Lin Bei was feeding Zhang Teng moves as his fighting improved.
• After another hundred exchanges, Zhang Teng withstood Lin Bei’s attack for the first time, and Lin Bei stopped the spar, recognizing his talent.
• Lin Bei realized Zhang Teng had nearly pushed him to lose, then received a notification that Zhang Teng’s deeper Tai Chi understanding had caused Tai Chi’s second limit break.
• Lin Bei discovered that his newly profound Tai Chi could draw on Heaven-and-Earth Spiritual Power.
• Tieniu congratulated Zhang Teng on breaking Tai Chi’s limits and asked whether he might learn the Breath-Absorbing Art another way; Zhang Teng advised him to ask Lin Bei.

Lin Bei discovered that Tai Chi’s second Limit-Breaking had strengthened the Breath-Absorbing Art and sought Zhang Teng’s comprehension to combine them. He tested Tieniu’s unusual strength by giving him a cryptic Tai Chi exercise, then approached Zhang Teng to discuss the Breath-Absorbing Art.

• Lin Bei realized his Body Tempering had accelerated because Tai Chi’s second Limit-Breaking had enhanced the Breath-Absorbing Art, but his attempt to combine them failed without Zhang Teng’s comprehension.
• Tieniu asked Lin Bei to help him begin immortal cultivation, and Lin Bei suspected his natural strength might indicate a hidden talent.
• Lin Bei watched Tieniu perform Tai Chi and noticed that his movements showed only hardness and yang, with no softness or yin.
• Lin Bei wrote “Tai Chi” on paper, gave Tieniu a brush, and told him to think about his fists and return the paper the next day.
• Lin Bei arrived at Zhang Teng’s Quiet Chamber and asked whether he had been practicing the Breath-Absorbing Art; Zhang Teng said he had questions and asked Lin Bei to show him the way.

Lin Bei helped Zhang Teng comprehend the Tai Chi Breath-Absorbing Art, gaining major insights and a clearer direction for Dao-method wielding before both disciples pursued their cultivation. Meanwhile, Zhang Tao had Zhang Xiaoxiao seized and ordered his attendants to surround the Martial Arts Grounds to capture Zhang Teng.

• Lin Bei demonstrated Tai Chi and guided Zhang Teng to combine its principles with the Breath-Absorbing Art, helping him comprehend the Tai Chi Breath-Absorbing Art.
• Zhang Teng gained enlightenment, and Lin Bei’s Breath-Absorbing Art advanced to its second limit-breaking, giving him a clearer foundation for Dao-method wielding.
• Zhang Teng left for the Quiet Chamber to enter seclusion, while Lin Bei hoped Tieniu could understand the lesson he had set before him.
• Zhang Tao’s attendants dragged Zhang Xiaoxiao to the Prosperous Fortune Inn, where Zhang Tao accused her of warning Zhang Teng and slapped her.
• Zhang Tao ordered his attendants to seal the roads around the Martial Arts Grounds and prevent Zhang Teng from escaping.

After completing his fourth body refinement, Lin Bei encouraged Tieniu to pursue cultivation through his own natural strengths rather than force himself to understand Tai Chi. As Lin Bei prepared to teach him, a group carrying Zhang Xiaoxiao barged into the Martial Arts Grounds.

• Lin Bei completed his fourth refinement and estimated that his strength had reached at least the Dantian Sea Realm.
• Tieniu asked Lin Bei whether he lacked comprehension, and Lin Bei urged him to keep his mind unfettered.
• Tieniu crossed out the character for “Tai” in Tai Chi, explaining that he intended to push his natural strength and physique to their limits.
• Lin Bei praised Tieniu’s resolve and explained that the Dao had to be comprehended rather than simply taught.
• A group entered the Martial Arts Grounds carrying Zhang Xiaoxiao.

Zhang Tao stormed the Martial Arts Grounds and confronted Zhang Teng, mocking his master and threatening the school. Zhang Teng struck first and badly wounded Zhang Tao, then declared that they would settle the matter with their lives.

• Zhang Tao arrived with thirteen attendants, and one of them knocked a Martial Arts Grounds apprentice unconscious.
• Zhang Teng confronted Zhang Tao, while Zhang Xiaoxiao denied betraying her brother; Lin Bei gave Zhang Teng permission to settle their grudge.
• Zhang Tao tried to provoke Zhang Teng and ordered his attendants to surround Lin Bei and the apprentices.
• Zhang Teng used Tai Chi Steps to feint and strike Zhang Tao, sending him crashing into a wall and making him cough blood.
• Zhang Teng told Zhang Tao that they would settle not only victory and defeat but life and death.

Zhang Teng fought Zhang Tao in the Martial Arts Grounds, using his defensive skills to survive Zhang Tao’s overwhelming attacks. When Zhang Teng began to falter, Lin Bei called out guidance that showed him how to turn the fight around and defeat his stronger opponent with one blow.

• Zhang Tao armed himself with spiked brass knuckles and charged at Zhang Teng, ignoring Zhang Xiaoxiao’s warning to bring him back alive.
• Zhang Teng dodged Zhang Tao’s attacks and landed three counterstrikes, drawing blood and provoking Zhang Tao to unleash more of his true qi.
• Zhang Tao accelerated into a relentless assault, forcing Zhang Teng to rely on Tai Chi Steps and wait for his opponent to tire.
• As Zhang Teng began to lose strength, Lin Bei called out instructions about Tai Chi and Bagua, prompting Zhang Teng to recognize a way to defeat Zhang Tao with a single blow.

Zhang Teng followed Lin Bei’s guidance to defeat Zhang Tao and destroy his dantian, then rejected Zhang Tao’s offer to confess and clear his name. Convinced that Lin Bei would protect him from any consequences, Zhang Teng killed Zhang Tao at the Martial Arts Grounds.

• Zhang Teng used Tai Chi footwork and the Supreme Ultimate Pushing Palm to redirect Zhang Tao’s attack and expose his dantian.
• Zhang Teng struck Zhang Tao’s dantian with both bright and hidden force, destroying it and winning the fight.
• Zhang Tao’s attendants refused to intervene because they feared Lin Bei, while Zhang Teng confronted Zhang Tao over his past crimes.
• Zhang Tao begged for his life and offered to confess to framing Zhang Teng, but Zhang Teng dismissed his warnings about the Zhang Household and Nanyang Zhou Clan.
• Zhang Teng told Zhang Tao that their debts were settled and snapped his neck.

After killing Zhang Tao, Zhang Teng secured Zhang Xiaoxiao and Zhang Tao’s attendants while discussing the danger of the Zhang Clan’s retaliation with Lin Bei. Zhang Teng prepared to use mediation to buy time, and Lin Bei chose to stay and face the threat as he began teaching Tieniu.

• Zhang Teng freed Zhang Xiaoxiao but told her to stay because he feared she might alert the Lineage, and she agreed.
• Zhang Tao’s attendants surrendered after realizing they could not resist Zhang Teng and feared Lin Bei’s power; Zhang Teng had them bound and locked in the woodshed.
• Zhang Teng told Lin Bei that the Central Hall’s mediation was unlikely to succeed and that the Zhang Clan might send an Intent Gathering elder to capture him.
• Zhang Teng warned that Zhang Conglong, Zhang Tao’s great-grandfather and a peak True Intent expert, could return from the Frontier Battlefield to avenge Zhang Tao.
• Lin Bei encouraged Zhang Teng to face danger and decided not to flee, then praised Tieniu and promised to teach him the Immortal Cultivation Method.

Lin Bei taught Tieniu an aperture-opening method for cultivating through physical training and encouraged him to pursue the Dao. He rejected Zhang Xiaoxiao’s request to intervene in Zhang Teng’s conflicts with the Zhang Household and Zhou Clan, and Zhang Teng warned her not to offend his master again.

• Lin Bei explained the risks of pursuing the ultimate way, and Tieniu resolved to cultivate despite the possibility of failure.
• Lin Bei taught Tieniu to train his body until its apertures could sense and absorb Heaven-and-Earth Spiritual Power.
• Zhang Teng asked to study the aperture method, and Lin Bei told him to test it through practice.
• Zhang Xiaoxiao asked Lin Bei to persuade the Zhang Household and Nanyang Zhou Clan to stop targeting Zhang Teng, but Lin Bei rejected her request.
• Lin Bei warned Zhang Xiaoxiao not to interfere in Zhang Teng’s affairs, and Zhang Teng threatened to disown her if she offended Lin Bei again.

Lin Bei completed his fifth refinement as Zhang Teng broke the Tai Chi Breath-Absorbing Art’s limits a second time and reached his fourth refinement. After Mu Qingyue reported that mediation with the Nanyang Zhou Clan had failed, she offered the Martial Arts Grounds protection beside the Central Hall, but Zhang Teng refused to move.

• Zhang Teng cut off Zhang Xiaoxiao’s defense of Lin Bei and ordered her to be quiet or go to the woodshed.
• During Lin Bei’s fifth refinement, he learned that Zhang Teng had gained insight into the Zhou Tian Acupoints and broken the Tai Chi Breath-Absorbing Art’s limits a second time.
• Lin Bei completed his fifth refinement and found Tieniu practicing punches after pushing himself through the night; he told the apprentices not to disturb him.
• Zhang Teng told Lin Bei that he had reached the fourth refinement and broken the Breath-Absorbing Art’s limits a second time, and Lin Bei encouraged him to keep working hard.
• Mu Qingyue reported that the Nanyang Zhou Clan had rejected mediation and offered to move the Martial Arts Grounds beside the Central Hall for protection.
• Zhang Teng refused Mu Qingyue’s offer and insisted that the Martial Arts Grounds would stay where they were.

Mu Qingyue failed to persuade Lin Bei and Zhang Teng to move the Martial Arts Grounds to the Central Hall, leaving Zhang Teng to face his troubles alone. After learning Zhang Xiaoxiao had secretly contacted their grandfather, Zhang Teng severed their sibling bond and vowed to show no mercy if the Zhang Household came to capture him.

• Mu Qingyue asked Lin Bei to move the Martial Arts Grounds to the Central Hall, but Lin Bei and Zhang Teng refused.
• Zhang Teng told Mu Qingyue that the Martial Arts Grounds had its own way of dealing with the situation, and she left.
• Zhang Xiaoxiao secretly sent a message by pigeon to their grandfather, and Xiao Liuzi told Zhang Teng what he had seen.
• Zhang Teng confronted Zhang Xiaoxiao and accused her of betraying him by contacting their grandfather.
• Zhang Xiaoxiao explained that she had hoped their grandfather would help, but Zhang Teng reminded her that he had abandoned him and declared their bond severed.
• Zhang Teng said he owed neither Zhang Xiaoxiao nor the Zhang Household anything and vowed to show no mercy if their grandfather came to capture him.

Zhang Teng shut Zhang Xiaoxiao in her room, then took Tieniu’s advice to heart and found renewed resolve. He proposed Heavenly Gate Opening to help the other disciples sense spiritual power, and Lin Bei judged the method feasible.

• Zhang Teng shut Zhang Xiaoxiao inside her room and ordered Xiao Liuzi to seal the doors and windows.
• Tieniu told Zhang Teng that strength could resolve the problems troubling him, helping Zhang Teng move past his doubts.
• Zhang Teng advised Tieniu to focus on breaking through a single aperture point, and Tieniu returned to training with new confidence.
• Zhang Teng reassured Xiao Liuzi that he might be able to help the junior brothers awaken their potential through Heavenly Gate Opening.
• Zhang Teng proposed forcibly channeling spiritual power into the disciples to activate their aperture points, and Lin Bei thought the plan could work.

Lin Bei completed the sixth refinement and discovered that the seventh refined the spirit, revealing a path toward dao-method wielding. At the Martial Arts Grounds, Zhang Teng’s grandfather arrived seeking him and was surprised by the ordinary-looking disciples.

• Lin Bei criticized Zhang Teng’s plan to open his junior brothers’ Heavenly Gates but agreed to teach him dao-method wielding once his cultivation was sufficient.
• Zhang Teng told the apprentices that Lin Bei had approved his idea and urged them to practice the Breath-Absorbing Art diligently.
• Lin Bei completed the sixth refinement and found that the seventh refinement tempered his spirit and sharpened his perception, thinking, and reflexes.
• Two days later, Lin Bei saw signs that Tieniu was nearing cultivation, while Xiao Liuzi reported that Zhang Teng had reached the fifth refinement.
• Zhang Teng’s grandfather arrived at the Martial Arts Grounds, asked for Zhang Teng, and left Xiao Liuzi stunned by his arrival.

Zhang Yong came to the Martial Arts Grounds to take Zhang Teng home, but Lin Bei defended his disciple and dispelled Zhang Yong’s martial intent. After Zhang Yong warned that the Nanyang Zhou Clan and the Nanyang Commandery Prince would pursue them, Zhang Teng declared that Zhang Yong would not leave.

• Xiao Liuzi and Tieniu challenged Zhang Yong’s arrival, and Lin Bei allowed him to approach.
• Zhang Yong said he had come to bring Zhang Teng home, but Lin Bei argued that Zhang Teng had repaid the Zhang Household and ordered Zhang Yong to leave.
• Zhang Yong released his martial intent, and Lin Bei swept it away with the Tai Chi Breath-Absorbing Art.
• Zhang Teng arrived and rejected Zhang Yong as his grandfather, while Zhang Yong offered to take Zhang Xiaoxiao away and report that Lin Bei would protect Zhang Teng.
• Zhang Yong warned that the Nanyang Zhou Clan and the Nanyang Commandery Prince could hunt them down, and Zhang Teng angrily declared that Zhang Yong would not leave.

Zhang Teng fought Zhang Yong at the Martial Arts Grounds and overcame his superior martial intent by sealing his aperture points. He knocked Zhang Yong down and prepared to strike his skull as Lin Bei watched.

• Zhang Teng blocked Zhang Yong from leaving and challenged him to a fight, with Lin Bei allowing the match to proceed.
• Zhang Yong used martial intent to rush Zhang Teng and cut his chin, but Zhang Teng recovered and charged at him.
• Zhang Teng anticipated Zhang Yong’s attacks and struck his aperture points, disrupting the flow of his true qi and martial intent.
• Zhang Teng gradually gained the advantage, landing nine consecutive Tai Chi Eight Trigrams Palm strikes and knocking Zhang Yong down.
• Zhang Yong looked up as Zhang Teng’s palm hurtled toward his skull.

Lin Bei stopped Zhang Teng from killing Zhang Yong and guided him to focus on overcoming the Zhang Household and the Nanyang Zhou Clan through cultivation. Zhang Teng issued the Zhang Household a challenge for a life-and-death fight in ten days, and Zhang Xiaoxiao arrived to find her grandfather wounded.

• Zhang Yong expected Zhang Teng to kill him, but Lin Bei caught Zhang Teng's palm and urged him not to stain his Dao heart with revenge.
• Lin Bei asked Zhang Teng what had caused his suffering and encouraged him to grow strong enough to smash the Zhang Household's and the Nanyang Zhou Clan's shackles.
• Zhang Teng wrote a challenge to the Zhang Household, setting a visit in ten days and declaring that he would bring a Life-and-Death Writ.
• Zhang Teng told Zhang Yong that, if he defeated the Zhang Household, he would challenge the Nanyang Zhou Clan and use the six-month recovery period to prepare.
• Zhang Teng sent Xiao Liuzi to bring Zhang Xiaoxiao out, and she was stunned to see Zhang Yong lying wounded on the ground.

After Zhang Teng defeated Zhang Yong, Zhang Xiaoxiao learned that her brother’s challenge letter warned her not to oppose him, while Zhang Yong admitted he did not know whether he could bring himself to attack Zhang Teng. Zhang Teng explained his plan to settle the feud with the Nanyang Zhou Clan through an officially sanctioned duel, leaving him ten days to prepare as Xiao Liuzi delivered the challenge letter to the Central Hall.

• Zhang Yong admitted defeat to Zhang Teng, and Zhang Xiaoxiao discovered that Zhang Teng’s challenge letter warned her not to stand in his way.
• Zhang Xiaoxiao asked whether Zhang Yong would attack Zhang Teng if he went to the duel, but Zhang Yong said he did not know.
• Zhang Teng explained that he issued a challenge letter to settle the feud with the Zhang Household and the Nanyang Zhou Clan while gaining time and protection from the Central Hall.
• Lin Bei sent Xiao Liuzi to deliver Zhang Teng’s challenge letter to the Central Hall in Azure Cloud City, and Zhang Teng said ten days would give him a chance to grow stronger.
• Mu Qingyue learned that Xiao Liuzi had arrived from the Martial Arts Grounds and went to meet him, while discussing the Central Hall’s support against the Nanyang Zhou Clan.

Xiao Liuzi delivered Zhang Teng’s challenge to the Zhang Clan to the Central Hall, which agreed to arbitrate the potentially deadly fight scheduled for ten days later. At the Martial Arts Grounds, Tieniu comprehended a cultivation method, triggering four limit breaks for Lin Bei’s Tai Chi Breath-Absorbing Art, and proposed creating a new fist technique.

• Xiao Liuzi gave Mu Qingyue Zhang Teng’s challenge letter and a sword-shaped hairpin as proof of its authenticity.
• Mu Qingyue showed the challenge letter to Mu Qingyun, who agreed to arbitrate and sent her to the fight with a certificate confirming the Martial Arts Grounds had joined the martial hall’s forces.
• Mu Qingyue volunteered to serve as arbiter because she wanted to see why Zhang Teng believed he could challenge the entire Zhang Clan.
• Tieniu’s Tai Chi stirred spiritual power, and he comprehended the Zhou Tian Acupoints Breathing Method.
• Lin Bei’s Tai Chi Breathing Method underwent four limit breaks, allowing his acupoints to absorb and release energy on their own.
• Tieniu told Lin Bei he could cultivate and proposed using Tai Chi as the foundation for an entirely new fist technique.

Lin Bei approved Tieniu’s plans for the Extreme Yang Fist Technique and the Nine Yang Dao Art, which could store spiritual power in nine acupoint circuits and multiply combat strength. On the road to the Martial Arts Grounds, Mu Qingyue learned how far Zhang Teng had advanced and remained stunned by his growth as he prepared to challenge the Zhang Clan.

• Tieniu explained that he wanted to combine Tai Chi’s softness with an extremely hard, yang-focused fist technique, and Lin Bei encouraged him.
• Tieniu proposed storing spiritual power in nine acupoint circuits and releasing it through a special method to multiply his combat strength, naming the technique the Nine Yang Dao Art.
• Mu Qingyue asked Xiao Liuzi why Lin Bei had encouraged Zhang Teng to challenge the Zhang Clan, and Xiao Liuzi explained that Zhang Teng intended to settle his grudge through a formal Challenge Letter.
• Xiao Liuzi told Mu Qingyue that Zhang Teng had defeated Zhang Tao and Zhang Yong, a manifestation-level martial intent expert, after reaching the fifth tempering of the Dao Body.
• Mu Qingyue learned that Zhang Teng had only reached the first tempering when he fought her, leaving her astonished by his progress.

Zhang Teng reached the sixth tempering and explained that the seventh required refining the spirit, while Lin Bei and his disciples discussed their cultivation. Mu Qingyue arrived with news that the Central Hall had accepted Zhang Teng’s challenge application, and she would serve as notary.

• Zhang Teng finished practicing and told Tieniu that he had reached the sixth tempering and that the seventh required his spirit to resonate with Heaven-and-Earth Spiritual Power.
• Zhang Teng said he could control spiritual power and promised to perform Heavenly Gate Opening for the disciples once he reached the ninth tempering.
• Tieniu admitted that his Zhou Tian Acupoints Breathing Method let him absorb spiritual power instinctively, and Zhang Teng reassured him that Master Lin Bei was on a far higher level.
• Lin Bei privately reflected that Zhang Teng’s progress could help him finish developing Dao-method wielding before Zhang Teng challenged the Zhang Clan.
• Xiao Liuzi arrived with Mu Qingyue, who was startled by Tieniu’s powerful aura and told Lin Bei that the Central Hall had accepted Zhang Teng’s application and appointed her as notary.

Mu Qingyue delivered the Central Hall’s certificate recognizing the Martial Arts Grounds as a second-rate force and asked to test Zhang Teng’s strength. Their full-power spar began, and Zhang Teng shattered her manifested sword intent, but Mu Qingyue pressed her attack as they neared their clash.

• Mu Qingyue gave Lin Bei the certificate classifying the Martial Arts Grounds as a second-rate force, exciting Xiao Liuzi, Tieniu, and the others with the prospect of recruiting settlers.
• Mu Qingyue explained that the grounds were safe but lacked roads, commerce, and supplies, making it difficult to attract settlers.
• Mu Qingyue asked to spar with Zhang Teng and offered to have the Martial Arts Grounds nominated as a candidate for first-rate status if he defeated her.
• Mu Qingyue attacked Zhang Teng with three manifested swords, striking from above, the left, and the right.
• Zhang Teng roared and shattered Mu Qingyue’s manifested sword qi, after which she intensified her attack and the two prepared to clash.

Zhang Teng defeated Mu Qingyue in a spar after using Acupoint Sealing to disrupt her true qi and martial intent, though Lin Bei stopped him before she was hurt. Impressed by Zhang Teng’s rapid growth and the Immortal Cultivator path, Mu Qingyue asked Lin Bei if she could cultivate it.

• Zhang Teng disarmed Mu Qingyue and gradually gained the upper hand with his Tai Chi techniques.
• Zhang Teng sealed Mu Qingyue’s aperture points, leaving her unable to recover her rhythm and convinced she had lost.
• Lin Bei stopped the spar, and Mu Qingyue thanked Zhang Teng and Lin Bei as they preserved her dignity.
• Mu Qingyue learned Zhang Teng had reached the sixth tempering and would reach the seventh before the Ten-Day Pact.
• Mu Qingyue asked Lin Bei whether she could cultivate the Immortal Cultivator path, shocking the disciples nearby.

Lin Bei tested Mu Qingyue’s aptitude for the Immortal Cultivation Method, but her dedication to martial arts prevented her from grasping its essence. Tieniu and Xiao Liuzi then received permission to recruit in Qingyun Town, where Tieniu proposed taking advantage of the Six Harmonies Martial Hall’s weakness to destroy it.

• Lin Bei explained that Mu Qingyue’s martial intent would obstruct her Immortal Cultivation and that she lacked a destined connection to the Martial Arts Grounds.
• Xiao Liuzi told Mu Qingyue why she could not learn the Immortal Cultivation Method, and she accepted that her path lay in martial arts.
• Tieniu and Xiao Liuzi asked Lin Bei for permission to go to Qingyun Town and recruit residents, and Lin Bei approved their plan.
• Tieniu proposed targeting the weakened Six Harmonies Martial Hall, whose Hall Master Cheng had been crippled, and said they should tear it out by the roots.

Lin Bei advised Zhang Teng to rest, then discussed Mu Qingyue’s lack of affinity for immortal cultivation and the challenge letter sent to the Zhang Household. The Zhang Clan debated Zhang Teng’s return, and Zhang Zhong offered him one final chance before declaring that he should die if he refused.

• Lin Bei told Tieniu and Xiao Liuzi to carry out their plan, then urged Zhang Teng to balance punch practice with rest and meditation.
• Mu Qingyue asked Lin Bei whether he had prompted Xiao Liuzi to discourage her from immortal cultivation, and Lin Bei said her focus on the martial path made her unsuitable for it.
• Mu Qingyue asked how the Zhang Household would react to the challenge letter, and Lin Bei replied that it did not matter.
• The Zhang Clan elders accused Zhang Yong of protecting Zhang Teng, but Zhang Yong showed them the notarized challenge letter.
• Zhang Zhong asked whether the clan would accept Zhang Teng if he had regained his strength, and the clan leader admitted its mistreatment had broken Zhang Teng’s ties to the family.
• Zhang Zhong ordered the clan to give Zhang Teng one last chance to return and said they would have to let him die if he refused.

Tieniu and Xiao Liuzi went to Qingyun Town to recruit merchants from the Six Harmonies Martial Hall’s territory, starting with the Chen Family Cloth Shop. After Tieniu offered to help recover shops seized by the Exquisite Silk Shop, the shopkeeper summoned the family head to consider opening a branch in their village.

• Tieniu explained to Xiao Liuzi that they would recruit merchants by helping businesses harmed by the Six Harmonies Martial Hall.
• Tieniu and Xiao Liuzi chose the Chen Family Cloth Shop as their first target and met with its shopkeeper.
• Tieniu offered to help the Chen Family Cloth Shop recover its seized shops and seek compensation through the Central Hall if it had evidence.
• The shopkeeper offered thirty percent of the shops’ net profits, but Tieniu refused the reward and Xiao Liuzi proposed that the shop open a village branch with reduced taxes.
• The shopkeeper recognized the opportunity and hurried to fetch the family head to decide.