The Four Gentlemen of Beishan

A Biography of the Four Scholars of Northern Mountain in Jinhua: In the late Southern Song, the Four Scholars of Northern Mountain lived in seclusion at the foot of the mountain, studying, cultivating their character and virtue, keeping watch on the shifting affairs of Jin, Yuan, and the Southern Song, and experimenting with defensive and offensive weapons. News of war kept arriving from the Sichuan, Xiangfan, and Jianghuai fronts. Fang La's uprising resisted the Flower-Stone Convoys. The local Taoist Bao Daoyi of Jinhua Mountain could use the Profound Origin Chaos-Splitting Sword to take a man's head from a hundred paces. His disciple Zheng Biao, a constable in Lanxi County of Wuzhou, was a skilled martial artist who could summon clouds to shield himself and call on divine beings to aid him in battle. He was known as the Demon Lord Zheng. At Fangyan Mountain, Chen Shisi faced Tong Guan's army of suppression at the Thousand-Person Pit. Qiong Ying fought Tong Guan's forces, while Han Shizhong's twin swords, one called Little Green, left members of Song Jiang's band, including Wu Song, without arms. The great battle at Dongyuan in Hangzhou.