Northern Shaolin.
Fang Zheng was discussing joining forces with the Wudang Sect to rally the righteous factions under heaven and suppress the Golden Coin Gang with Fang Sheng when a disciple suddenly ran to the door.
"Abbot, bad news! Someone is forcing his way up the mountain!"
Fang Sheng flew into a rage. "Who dares run wild at Northern Shaolin?!"
As the head of Arhat Hall, protecting Northern Shaolin was his duty.
The disciple knelt on the ground. "He said his name was Guihai Yidao, and he came to take revenge on Liao Kong for killing his father. He'll kill anyone who gets in his way!"
Fang Zheng frowned slightly. Before he could speak, Fang Sheng headed outside. "Senior Brother Abbot, I'll deal with this man. We can discuss the rest later."
When Fang Sheng reached the mountain gate, he saw that many of Arhat Hall's guardian monks had already been injured by Guihai Yidao. Many disciples could not even withstand a single exchange with him.
"You insolent madman! You dare run wild at Northern Shaolin? Lay down your butcher's blade now and chant scriptures at Northern Shaolin for ten years, and your sins may be absolved."
People said all martial arts under heaven originated from Shaolin, but that was not simply because Shaolin possessed the Seventy-Two Supreme Skills, abundant in both number and variety.
It was also because Northern Shaolin often captured "fiends of the martial world," imprisoned them in the temple, and sought ways to "redeem" them and bring them into the Buddhist Sect.
Once those fiends had been redeemed, everything they had learned naturally remained at Northern Shaolin.
Furthermore, Northern Shaolin was a Pillar of the Martial World. When someone in Jianghu used the same martial arts, many who knew no better assumed they had learned them