At five years old, young Junbao watched Mongol soldiers slaughter his entire family. Clutching a bloodstained black iron sword, he narrowly escaped death.
At Shaolin Temple, Master Jueyuan stroked his head and sighed. “There is too much malice in this child's eyes. Buddhist teachings must help him overcome it.”
As a middle-aged man, he traveled the world and saw the evil White Lotus sect use promises of immortality to beguile the masses, abducting children to make elixirs. Zhang Sanfeng took action in a fury.
When he was a hundred, the Demon Cult launched an all-out assault, plunging the martial world into bloodshed.
Atop Wudang's Golden Summit, a white-haired Daoist stood as still as a pine tree. With a gentle push of his cloud hands, he dispelled the overwhelming demonic flames. “The sixty-year cycle has come around. Today, I purge the demons.”
> When the Yongle Emperor visited him three times to seek the secret of immortality, he pointed toward the Forbidden City. “The Son of Heaven guards the nation's borders, and the ruler dies with the state. That is true immortality.”
