Recaps

Zhou Wuji sensed mutinous soldiers approaching Hidden Dragon Temple and prepared to defend it while Wuzheng set up a ritual altar. After advancing his Flowing Cloud Sword and Falling Goose Sword to sublime mastery, Zhou Wuji revealed himself and challenged the attackers, led by Wang Qi.

• Zhou Wuji detected an armed squad led by a powerful Seventh-Rank expert and woke Wuming, Wuye, and Wuzheng.
• Zhou Wuji sent Wuming and Wuye into the secret tunnel while Wuzheng went to the main hall to establish a ritual altar.
• Zhou Wuji judged that the mutineers would target the shrine and used fate weight to improve his Flowing Cloud Sword and Falling Goose Sword to sublime mastery.
• Zhou Wuji saw soldiers enter through the main gate and climb over the eastern wall, then announced himself and called for a fight.
• Wang Qi stopped concealing his squad's advance and vowed to offer Zhou Wuji's head to his brother's spirit.

Wang Qi’s marauders attacked Hidden Dragon Temple, but Wuzheng used the Northern Emperor’s power to defend the shrine hall while Zhou Wuji fought the advancing soldiers. The attackers pressed forward despite heavy losses, and the chapter ended with Zhou Wuji shattering their spear thrusts with the Heavenly Pivot Hand.

• Wang Qi led his elite marauders into the temple courtyard and ordered archers and crossbowmen to fire at Zhou Wuji.
• Zhou Wuji deflected the arrows and took cover from the heavy crossbow bolts, which Wuzheng stopped with Big Dipper Heavenly Gang.
• Wang Qi ordered armored spearmen to advance, and Wuzheng struck their formation with Tianpeng Ruler’s Yin Thunder.
• Wang Qi urged the surviving soldiers forward, and Wuzheng’s next lightning attack felled several more.
• Zhou Wuji killed three soldiers with White Eyebrow Needles, then blasted six spears aside with the Heavenly Pivot Hand and crushed the chests of two attackers.

Zhou Wuji and Wuzheng fought Wang Qi and the mutinous soldiers as the Seven Star Formation collapsed under Wang Qi’s Blood Baleful Intent Instruction. With the hall plunged into darkness, Wang Qi focused on killing Zhou Wuji, who faced his saber strike without retreating.

• Zhou Wuji killed two spear fighters with White Eyebrow Needles, but stopped when Wang Qi charged into the hall and soldiers attacked from the rear.
• Wuzheng struck Wang Qi with Yin Thunder, but Wang Qi shredded the lightning and burned his Qi and Blood to unleash a powerful roar that disrupted the Daoists and their formation.
• Zhou Wuji ignited flour with the Fire Bell Incantation, blasting the archers and breaking the azure light screen as the hall plunged into darkness and chaos.
• Wang Qi realized the Seven Star Formation had fallen and slashed at Zhou Wuji, who swept his sleeve toward the descending saber with surging True Qi.

Zhou Wuji killed Wang Qi but was gravely wounded when Wang Qi struck him with a hidden palm. Using the Northern Dipper Heavenly Gang Divine Talisman and the fate weight he gained from Wang Qi, Zhou Wuji awakened Sword Intent and turned to face the mutinous soldiers.

• Zhou Wuji used the Five Yin Pouch and a stored boulder to break Wang Qi’s saber, then trapped him in black gauze.
• Wang Qi pierced Zhou Wuji’s chest with a hidden palm before Zhou Wuji beheaded him with the Seven Star Sword.
• Zhou Wuji restored his True Qi and Divine Sense, then used White Eyebrow Needles to kill the eight blinded bowmen and crossbowmen.
• Zhou Wuji activated the Northern Dipper Heavenly Gang Divine Talisman to protect himself and draw the mutinous soldiers’ attention away from Wuzheng and the others.
• Zhou Wuji converted Wang Qi’s fate weight into origin profound spirit, perfected the Xiaoxiang Sword, and reached Sword Intent.
• Wuzheng struck the mutinous soldiers with Yin Thunder while Zhou Wuji swept through them with his sword.

After Zhou Wuji and Wuzheng defeated the marauding soldiers, Zhou Wuji tended to his injuries while Wuming cared for him and gave him an Origin Restoration Pill. The next morning, Wuming warned him that her father had arrived with officials and experts from the Ironclad Guard.

• Zhou Wuji confirmed that he and Wuzheng had survived the battle, then accepted a Purple Gold Pill from Wuzheng for his broken ribs.
• Wuzheng checked the others, found two seriously injured, and organized help while Zhou Wuji was taken back to his room.
• Wuming brought Zhou Wuji an Origin Restoration Pill, then fetched hot water and wiped the blood from his face while he rested.
• Zhou Wuji secretly left his room and dealt with the servant who had tipped off the enemy.
• The next morning, Wuming told Zhou Wuji that people from the lower monastery and the Ironclad Guard had arrived, including her father, and warned him to be careful.

At Hidden Dragon Temple, Daoist Yizhen and local officials assessed the defeat of Wang Qi’s rebel force and Zhou Wuji’s severe injuries. Yang Shuling set Zhou Wuji’s broken chest bones, while Yizhen confronted Zhang Xinhu over the judgment involving his son.

• Zhang Yunfeng praised Daoist Yizhen and the temple after examining the corpses of more than fifty slain rebels.
• Wuzheng credited Zhou Wuji with killing the bandit leader and told Yizhen that Zhou’s chest bones were shattered.
• Yang Shuling offered to treat Zhou Wuji, and Yizhen agreed to let him set the bones.
• Yang Shuling reset Zhou Wuji’s broken bones as Zhou endured the pain without a sound.
• Zhang Xinhu watched Zhou Wuji with concealed murderous intent, and Yizhen challenged him over the lower court’s verdict in his son’s case.

After Daoist Yizhen negotiated a settlement with Zhang Yunfeng over Zhang Xinhu’s attacks, he warned Wuming to keep her distance from Zhou Wuji. Yizhen then offered Zhou Wuji a path to a Daoist register and higher cultivation, urging him to prepare for next year’s scripture debate with Golden Leaf Temple.

• Daoist Yizhen rebuked Zhang Xinhu, who left without retaliating, and then negotiated with Zhang Yunfeng to end the dispute in exchange for Zhang Xinhu paying ten thousand taels and repenting.
• Yang Shuling set Zhou Wuji’s broken bones, and Daoist Yizhen thanked him before attending to the temple’s aftermath.
• Daoist Yizhen questioned Wuming about her closeness to Zhou Wuji, cautioned her, and ordered her to accompany him and Wuye into the mountains the next day.
• Daoist Yizhen visited Zhou Wuji and offered to help him receive his Daoist register if he opened all seven apertures before next July.
• Daoist Yizhen urged Zhou Wuji to reach seventh rank before next August’s scripture debate with Golden Leaf Temple and said exceptional performance could earn him a recommendation to the upper monastery.

After Daoist Yizhen urged Zhou Wuji to pursue greater cultivation, Zhou Wuji improved his techniques and prepared to deal with Zhang Xinhu while recovering from his injuries. Wuming left with her father for the Lower Court, and Zhou Wuji played a remarkable farewell tune that unsettled Yizhen with its killing intent.

• Daoist Yizhen advised Zhou Wuji to look beyond his rivalry with Zhang Xinhu and focus on advancing his cultivation.
• Zhou Wuji raised the Five Yin Pouch to greater attainment and the Seven Stars Demon-Slaying Sword to lesser attainment, then resolved to wait for a chance to deal with Zhang Xinhu.
• Wuming told Zhou Wuji she was leaving with Yizhen to eliminate rebel troops and would return to the Lower Court afterward; she left him her flute and a book of flute techniques.
• Zhou Wuji used fate weight to master flute playing and played a farewell tune as Wuming's group rode away from Hidden Dragon Temple.
• Yizhen asked whether Wuming had taught Zhou Wuji the tune, and Wuming praised his skill; Yizhen then remarked on the music's intense killing intent.

While recovering from his injuries, Zhou Wuji received gifts from the Li and Fang Households and learned that Zhang Xinhu was shielded by ties to the powerful Zhang Household of Chunan. After healing himself with the tiger demon’s essence, Zhou Wuji armed himself in disguise and left the temple to kill Zhang Xinhu.

• Shangxin brought Zhou Wuji his meal, and Li Cheng'an and Li Ruyi visited to give him gold in gratitude for saving Old Cang Village.
• Li Ruyi warned Zhou Wuji that Zhang Xinhu had not gone into the mountains, and Wuzheng explained that the Zhang Household of Chunan made it difficult for his master to act against him.
• Fang Yue apologized for Fang Wuzhen and gave Zhou Wuji a hundred taels of gold, which Zhou Wuji accepted.
• Zhou Wuji used the Rejuvenation Technique and the tiger demon’s essence to heal his broken bones and strengthen his body.
• Zhou Wuji changed into a disguise, chose a different sword, and left the Daoist temple under dark clouds with killing intent toward Zhang Xinhu.

Zhou Wuji infiltrated the Zhang Household disguised as a Yin Yang Dao fiend and killed Zhang Xinhu before he could reach his saber. As Zhang Xinhu died, Zhou Wuji declared his vengeance fulfilled and recited a poem about the night’s rain and swords.

• Zhang Xinhu brooded over his inability to reach the Sixth Rank and sensed danger during a torrential autumn rain.
• Zhou Wuji entered Zhang Xinhu’s sealed training room in disguise, and Zhang Xinhu recognized him and reached for the Tiger Wing Saber.
• Zhou Wuji used the Five Yin Pouch to envelop Zhang Xinhu and cut off his senses.
• Zhou Wuji’s Evening Bell Sword disrupted Zhang Xinhu’s Tiger Roar Thunder Sound, then his Night Rain Sword pierced Zhang Xinhu’s chest, throat, and head.
• Zhou Wuji told Zhang Xinhu to wipe away their past grievances and said his vengeance against Zhang Xinhu and his son was complete.
• As Zhang Xinhu died, Zhou Wuji recited a poem about killing intent, night rain, and the swordsman’s solitary journey.

After killing Zhang Xinhu, Zhou Wuji concealed his death and took his Five Tigers treasures. Back at Hidden Dragon Temple, he studied the martial art and decided to cultivate the Five Tigers Fist alongside his Daoist arts.

• Zhou Wuji put Zhang Xinhu’s body in the Five Yin Pouch and took the Five Tigers Diagram, Tiger Wing saber, fist manual, and two True Yang Pearls.
• Zhou Wuji returned to Hidden Dragon Temple, then burned Zhang Xinhu’s body in a pit deep in Mount Siming and discovered gold foil containing annotations to the Five Tigers Fist Manual.
• Zhou Wuji buried the remains, returned to the temple, changed clothes, and replaced his bamboo splint while Shangxin slept nearby.
• Zhou Wuji memorized the fist manual and gold foil, then studied the Five Tigers Diagram and considered practicing the Five Tigers Fist.
• Zhou Wuji decided to cultivate the Five Tigers Fist to Seventh-Rank Transforming Force using his Origin Profound Spirit, believing it would strengthen his body and complement his Daoist arts.

Zhang Huai and Zhang Yunfeng investigated Zhang Xinhu’s unexplained disappearance and suspected powerful outsiders, while the Zhang Household’s wealth and influence began to shift. Zhou Wuji recovered in secret, received alchemical instruction and pills, then used Zhang Xinhu’s fate to improve his Iron Tiger Fist.

• Zhang Huai inspected Zhang Xinhu’s training room, found no signs of a struggle, and ordered Zhang En to hide the disappearance while keeping him informed.
• Zhang Yunfeng and Wu Di inspected the room, blamed a Northern Pole Sect expert, and ordered Wu Di to watch for a chance to kill Zhou Wuji.
• Daoist Yizhen suspected Zhou Wuji might be involved but chose not to investigate, while Wuzheng celebrated Zhang Xinhu’s disappearance and brought Zhou Wuji two alchemy books.
• The lower court rewarded Zhou Wuji with Three Revolutions Purple Gold Pills, and after more than a month he claimed to have recovered and stopped pretending to be badly injured.
• Zhou Wuji opened the Northern Emperor's Book of Heavenly Punishment, used two low-level fates to train in the Iron Tiger Fist, and reached the proficient level.

Zhou Wuji improved his Five Tigers Fist but remained at Hidden Force, so he planned to hunt monsters once his injuries healed. While Wuzheng kept him from entering the mountains, Zhou Wuji learned pill refining and quickly proved remarkably talented, leaving the chapter with him producing excellent Golden Flower Pills.

• Zhou Wuji trained the Five Tigers Fist, gaining strength but realizing he still lacked the technique and physical foundation to reach Transforming Force.
• Zhou Wuji decided he needed to kill monsters for Origin Mystic Essence and asked Wuzheng to let him gather medicinal ingredients in the mountains, but Wuzheng refused because he had not recovered from his injuries.
• Wuzheng taught Zhou Wuji pharmacology and pill refining, and Zhou Wuji memorized the Pill Scripture Pharmacology and Compendium of a Hundred Herbs.
• Zhou Wuji refined Grain Avoidance Pills and used Origin Profound Spirit to raise his Grain Avoidance Pill Technique to proficiency.
• Zhou Wuji assisted Wuzheng in refining Golden Flower Pills, controlled the furnace heat, and produced several dozen excellent pills.

Zhou Wuji learned Wuzheng’s seven pill recipes and then entered the Siming Mountains to hunt monsters. Meanwhile, Wu Di arranged to lure Zhou Wuji into a trap and ordered Jin Chuan to seize a cave abode discovered by tomb robbers.

• Wuzheng refined seven kinds of pills, and Zhou Wuji mastered their recipes with the help of Origin Profound Spirit, becoming able to consistently produce second-revolution pills.
• As the temple grew busy with New Year rituals, Zhou Wuji refused to accompany Wuzheng and left for the Siming Mountains to hunt monsters.
• Wu Di learned that Zhou Wuji had entered the mountains and, fearing their feud and Zhou’s strength, sought a way to have someone else kill him.
• Jin Chuan suggested telling Fang Boxiong that Zhou Wuji had taken the Yin-Yang Hundred Spirits Banner and luring him to White Bamboo Village during the New Year.
• Jin Chuan reported that tomb robbers had found a former cultivator’s cave abode, and Wu Di ordered him to force the villagers to open it and seize its treasures.

Zhou Wuji received New Year gifts from Wuming, prepared a thoughtful reply, and celebrated at Hidden Dragon Temple. Meanwhile, an excavation cave collapsed, and Jin Chuan secretly took a strange bronze figurine before ordering his agents to leave no survivors.

• Zhou Wuji returned to Hidden Dragon Temple and received Wuming’s letter and a chest of fine clothing from Wuzheng.
• Zhou Wuji mastered Slender Gold script, wrote Wuming a New Year letter with a poem, and sent Shangxin to deliver it.
• Zhou Wuji bought ingredients to make Fine Jade Paste, then joined Wuzheng and the temple residents in New Year ceremonies and celebrations.
• Jin Chuan and several agents spent New Year’s Eve guarding an excavation when a cave-in killed two workers and trapped another.
• Jin Chuan secretly took a bronze figurine from a dead worker and ordered his agents to kill the trapped man and leave no survivors.

Zhou Wuji refined Two-Turn Fine Jade Paste, learned about powerful figures and political customs in Yunyang Prefecture, and assessed his wealth ahead of his move to the Lower Court. The chapter ended when a villager from White Bamboo Village begged him to deal with another powerful monster.

• Zhou Wuji successfully refined Two-Turn Fine Jade Paste with Wuzheng's help, impressing his senior brother with his talent.
• Wuzheng warned Zhou Wuji about the Four Great Vajra of Golden Leaf Temple and named several powerful figures in Yunyang Prefecture.
• Wuzheng explained that seventh-rank register conferral required an assessment by the Heavenly Master's Manor and hinted that Zhou Wuji would need to offer the assessors benefits.
• Zhou Wuji inventoried his money and valuables, decided to recover and sell monster remains in the future, and concluded that he could afford the costs ahead.
• A villager from White Bamboo Village rushed in and begged Zhou Wuji to save the village from another powerful monster.

Zhou Wuji rode toward White Bamboo Village after Zhang Laoyao reported a bear demon had killed two households. At the village, Zhou Wuji killed the bear demon with a single sword strike, while Jin Chuan and Fang Boxiong watched their scheme unfold.

• Zhang Laoyao told Zhou Wuji that a bear demon had attacked White Bamboo Village, and Zhou Wuji set out to investigate with a Yin Thunder Pearl from Wuzheng.
• Zhou Wuji left Zhang Laoyao at Old Cang Village and continued alone toward White Bamboo Village through the night.
• Jin Chuan and Fang Boxiong lured the bear demon into a pit, where villagers tried to kill it with spears and burning oil.
• The bear demon escaped the pit and badly injured the villagers who attacked it.
• Zhou Wuji arrived and pierced the bear demon's eye with his sword, killing it instantly.
• Fang Boxiong praised Zhou Wuji's swordsmanship but dismissed it as less important than cultivation and Law Techniques.

After killing a bear demon, Zhou Wuji was trapped in a spell domain by Fang Boxiong and Jin Chuan, who had set an ambush for him. Fang Boxiong summoned a Sixth-Rank Ghost Soldier, and Zhou Wuji resolved to kill the Devil Cultivator.

• Zhou Wuji killed the bear demon and noticed a powerful presence concealed in the white bamboo grove.
• Jin Chuan fired a heavy crossbow at Zhou Wuji while Fang Boxiong’s demonic art hid the surroundings and restricted Zhou Wuji’s senses.
• Zhou Wuji used his Six Yang Dharma Eye to detect Fang Boxiong and Jin Chuan, and assessed the strength of the Devil Cultivator.
• Fang Boxiong summoned a Sixth-Rank Ghost Soldier from the Mystic Yin Mirror after revealing that the lost Hundred Spirits Banner had once been intended as its food.
• Zhou Wuji recognized the Ghost Soldier as a grave threat and decided to kill Fang Boxiong.

Zhou Wuji used the Northern Emperor's Book of Heavenly Punishment to strengthen his body and master the Five Tigers Fist, then defeated the Sixth-Rank Devil Cultivator Fang Boxiong by breaking through his Law Techniques with swordsmanship and Qi and Blood. After killing Fang Boxiong, Zhou Wuji spared the unconscious Jin Chuan, who awoke and begged for his life.

• Zhou Wuji resisted the Sixth-Rank Ghost Soldier's attack and rushed toward Fang Boxiong while Jin Chuan fired a crossbow bolt at him.
• Zhou Wuji converted the bear demon into Origin Mystic Essence, raising his body’s strength, then used Origin Profound Spirit to bring the Five Tigers Fist to great mastery.
• Zhou Wuji destroyed the Ghost Soldier twice with the Seven Star Sword, while Fang Boxiong strengthened it and then summoned the Great Darkness Heavenly Mother to engulf Zhou Wuji in darkness.
• Zhou Wuji threw the Seven Star Sword to cut the Yin Yang Dharma King Banner, then destroyed the Ghost Soldier with the Heart Tiger Thunder Sound and stunned Jin Chuan and Fang Boxiong.
• Zhou Wuji drew the Tiger Wing Saber and killed Fang Boxiong with a slash through the Mystic Yin Mirror, then struck him again to ensure he was dead.
• Zhou Wuji recovered the Mystic Yin Mirror and questioned Jin Chuan, who woke, saw Fang Boxiong’s body, and kowtowed as he begged Zhou Wuji to spare him.

Zhou Wuji interrogated and knocked out Jin Chuan, then used his healing arts to save several wounded villagers. After returning to his room, he examined Jin Chuan’s bronze figurine, which sprang to life and wrapped itself around his arm.

• Jin Chuan blamed Wu Di and Zhang Yunfeng for ordering the ambush, then offered Zhou Wuji the bronze figurine to spare his life.
• Zhou Wuji took the figurine from Jin Chuan’s pack and knocked him unconscious before returning to White Bamboo Village.
• Zhou Wuji treated five badly injured villagers by setting their broken bones, using the Rejuvenation Technique, and giving them Purple Gold Pills.
• Zhou Wuji arranged for the bear demon’s remains to compensate the families of villagers who had died.
• Zhou Wuji probed the bronze figurine with his Sword Intent, but it split into tendrils and clamped around his hand and arm.

Zhou Wuji destroyed the evil spirit inside the bronze figurine, learned the Heavenly Puppet Technique, and gained control of the Heavenly Puppet. He used it to possess the unconscious Jin Chuan and planned to target Wu Di while investigating Zhang Yunfeng; when Jin Chuan woke, Zhou Wuji gently demanded to know where he had found the figurine.

• Zhou Wuji used the Seven Stars Demon-Slaying Sword to destroy the evil spirit inside the bronze centipede and discovered that the bronze book contained the Heavenly Puppet Technique.
• Zhou Wuji spent fate weight cultivating the technique until he could control the Heavenly Puppet and make it transform, though maintaining it consumed True Qi and Divine Sense.
• Zhou Wuji made the Heavenly Puppet possess the unconscious Jin Chuan and tested his control over Jin Chuan's body.
• Zhou Wuji decided that Wu Di had to die and resolved to investigate whether Zhang Yunfeng was also targeting him.
• Jin Chuan woke at dawn, and Zhou Wuji asked him where he had obtained the bronze figurine while Jin Chuan worried that telling the truth might get him killed.

Zhou Wuji used Jin Chuan to lure Wu Di into an ambush at the Ironclad Guard station. He killed Wu Di with the Heavenly Puppet’s controlled attack and left Jin Chuan staring at the aftermath.

• The villagers thanked Zhou Wuji for defeating the bear demon, and the village head gave him the demon’s gallbladder.
• Zhou Wuji met Jin Chuan and ordered him to lure Wu Di out, promising him a chance to take over the Ironclad Guard in Siming County.
• Zhou Wuji and Jin Chuan traveled to the county city, where Jin Chuan entered Wu Di’s courtyard while Zhou Wuji followed unseen.
• At Zhou Wuji’s command, the Heavenly Puppet forced Jin Chuan to present the Seven Star Sword to Wu Di and attack him.
• The Heavenly Puppet struck Wu Di, and Jin Chuan’s sword cut off his head; Jin Chuan stared in shock at the body and bloodied hanging scroll.

Zhou Wuji killed Wu Di by controlling Jin Chuan with the Heavenly Puppet, then killed Jin Chuan as he fled and returned to Hidden Dragon Temple. As news of Wu Di’s death spread, Zhang Yunfeng decided to investigate Siming County, while Zhang Banshan urged him to kill Zhou Wuji if he got the chance.

• The guards found Wu Di dead and Jin Chuan bloodied, and they sounded the alarm as Jin Chuan stole Wu Di’s money and Purple Blood Ginseng before escaping the station.
• Zhou Wuji killed Jin Chuan with the Night Rain Sword’s Sword Intent, buried his body in the mountains, and took the Heavenly Puppet Scripture, the Heavenly Puppet, and Wu Di’s valuables.
• Zhou Wuji returned to Hidden Dragon Temple and told Wuzheng that he had dealt with the bear demon, while Wuzheng later learned in town that Jin Chuan had supposedly killed Wu Di.
• Zhang Yunfeng received news of Wu Di’s death and planned to investigate Siming County, while Zhang Banshan urged him to kill Zhou Wuji if an opportunity arose.

Zhou Wuji destroyed the Mystic Yin Mirror and its Ghost Soldier, then learned why Zhang Yunfeng wanted him dead. When Zhang Yunfeng arrived to investigate Wu Di’s murder, Chen Dagou accused Zhou Wuji and unleashed a Gu attack on him.

• Zhou Wuji shattered the Mystic Yin Mirror, killed its sixth-rank Ghost Soldier, and saved the resulting Origin Profound Qi for a future register conferral.
• Wuzheng warned Zhou Wuji that Zhang Yunfeng would come and explained the growing conflict between the Northern Pole Sect’s lower court and the Zhang Household.
• Zhang Yunfeng arrived in Siming County with Chen Dagou, who examined Wu Di’s corpse and determined that the killer had used seventh-rank martial skill.
• Zhou Wuji and Wuzheng joined the gathering at the guard station, where Zhang Yunfeng introduced Chen Dagou as someone who could identify the murderer.
• Chen Dagou pointed at Zhou Wuji and accused him of killing Wu Di, then unleashed a misty-white snake made of tiny insects that lunged at him.

Chen Dagou attacked Zhou Wuji with the White Dragon Gu, but Zhou Wuji and Wuzheng turned the assault against him, and the Gu killed Chen Dagou before Zhou Wuji destroyed it. Zhang Yunfeng left after accusing them, while Wuzheng appealed to the county magistrate to uphold justice.

• Chen Dagou released his seventh-rank White Dragon Gu at Zhou Wuji, while Wuzheng prepared a thunder technique to intervene.
• Zhou Wuji used the Five Yin Pouch to trap the Gu and Chen Dagou, then struck Chen Dagou’s Divine Sense with the Night Rain Sword’s intent.
• Wuzheng’s Demon-Subduing Thunder Sound knocked Chen Dagou unconscious and wounded the White Dragon Mother Gu, which escaped his chest and killed him.
• Zhou Wuji trapped the mother Gu again and destroyed it with the Seven Star Sword as the people in the hall retreated.
• Zhang Yunfeng accused Wuzheng and Zhou Wuji but left without pursuing the matter, and Wuzheng asked the county magistrate to uphold justice.