Soul-Reaping Valley controls people’s spirits with soul-capturing arts and commits every kind of evil. Yue Bingfeng of Xiuwu County has a complicated past. He studies under Elder Beichen at Yunhai Temple on Mount Gushe, then comes down from the mountain and solves bizarre cases alongside his junior brother Huzi. He rescues the courtesan Wu Qian’ge and takes in two disciples, Sanqiu and Jiuyue. For Qian’ge, a woman who is neither wholly righteous nor wholly wicked, Bingfeng is willing to make an enemy of the Kunlun Sect. The Snow Ridge Goddess and her fellow disciple are also enamored with Yue Bingfeng. Along the way, he encounters the Snow Ridge’s two strange beings, the white ape and the snow leopard, and studies under a strange old man from overseas for a second time. How strong are the many martial-world masters, including the Five Sacred Peaks Heavenly Demon, the strange old man from overseas, the Heavenly Fiend, the Earth Immortal, the Pavilion Master of Heavenly Waters, Iron Brush, Black and White Impermanence, and Iron Buddha? Can Zhang Sanfeng of Wudang outshine them all? With Yue Bingshuang’s arrival, can the forces behind Soul-Reaping Valley be exposed? What is the truth, and what secret does Qian’ge conceal? Where will Yue Bingfeng’s tangled relationships with the women in his life ultimately lead? Only when life and death are on the line can one discover whose love is truly worth entrusting oneself to. The final act reveals a kind of love called letting go. But will things really turn out the way you expect? Let’s wait and see.
