The court eunuch Xu Shixun wanted to seize the Zifeng family’s treasured manual, the Heavenly Wolf Art, and the Shangguan family’s treasured manual, the Ninefold Mysterious Twin Blades. Under the pretext that the Zifeng and Shangguan families had rebelled, he devised a ruthless extermination plot, accusing them of a crime that had never occurred.
Zifeng Lingtian, the fourth son of the Zifeng family serving at court, sent word of the plot back to his clan. Upon hearing the news, family head Zifeng Batian consulted with his in-law Shangguan Boyu. They agreed that members of both families would jointly protect the Zifeng family’s Heavenly Wolf Art and the Shangguan family’s Profound Darkness Twin Blades. With the powerful support of three heroes, the Maoshan Staffmaster Ouyang Chen, the Liangshan Gentleman Murong Feng, and the East Sea Swordsman Dugu Wudi, they forced the court’s campaign of oppression to a halt, preventing the baseless accusation from being carried out.
Twenty years later, Xu Shixun was determined to obtain the two families’ manuals, the Heavenly Wolf Art and the Profound Darkness Twin Blades, as quickly as possible. At any cost, and without Tang Taizong Li Shimin’s knowledge, he ordered his trusted aide Wei Fu to raise a Wolfshade Army and launch a devastating attack on the Shangguan and Zifeng estates.
The Maoshan Staffmaster Ouyang Chen, the Liangshan Gentleman Murong Feng, and the East Sea Swordsman Dugu Wudi agreed to protect the two families’ manuals, keeping them out of the hands of Xu Shixun and the ill-intentioned factions of the martial world.
And so began a struggle between the court seeking treasure, outlaws trying to seize it, and clans fighting to protect it...
