A rumor spread through the martial world:
The Qingfeng Daoist of the Qingfeng Mountain Temple and Gu Beifeng, who lived in the imperial capital, were the two greatest masters of their age.
The Qingfeng Daoist had taken nine disciples, known throughout the world as the Nine Disciples of Qingfeng.
Some held positions at court.
Some healed the sick and helped the needy.
Some roamed the martial world.
Every one of them was famous and influential.
But one day, the two greatest masters admitted that they weren't the world's two strongest. That title belonged to the Qingfeng Daoist's junior fellow apprentice, the junior uncle of the Qingfeng Mountain Temple.
The Nine Disciples of Qingfeng had also said that most of their skills came from their junior uncle's guidance.
And so, the junior uncle of the Qingfeng Mountain Temple became famous throughout the world before anyone had even seen him.
Until that year, when the temple's junior uncle descended the mountain…
