With a reputation of 70,000, one leader travels across countless worlds with his adventure team.

A few days later, all the forces and heroes summoned by Shaolin Temple arrived one by one. Shaolin Temple erected a high platform in front of the mountain gate and invited the powerful figures from all sides to sit on the platform. The leader of the Beggars' Sect who stepped forward was none other than Quan Guanqing!

Quan Guanqing, using his opportunistic and manipulative skills, seized the opportunity presented by Bai Shijing's exposure of Ma Dayuan's murder to successfully ascend to the position of Beggar Clan leader. His presence at the Shaolin Assembly was also intended to demonstrate his status and pave the way for leading the Beggar Clan to become the leader of the martial arts world.

Therefore, almost all the masters of the Beggars' Sect were mobilized this time. The elders of various branch sects and the elders of the main altar were all tricked into coming by Quan Guanqing with his words, all in order to destroy the remaining prestige of Qiao Feng left in the Beggars' Sect in one fell swoop.

Bai Ze also sent a message to his women, asking them to arrive near Shaolin Temple ahead of time. Now, the women, disguised by A Zhu, have successfully reunited with Bai Ze and Qiao Feng.

Bai Ze and Qiao Feng, disguised and standing on a high platform in the distance, both saw the Beggars' Clan members taking the stage. Qiao Feng, in particular, looked incredulous and said:

"Quan Guanqing? Is the Beggars' Sect out of people? Why would they choose him as their leader?"

Bai Ze shook his head. After Qiao Feng left, the Beggars' Sect's strength plummeted. Although the sect's legacy remained, there was really no one within the sect whose merits and reputation could compare to Qiao Feng's.

Bai Ze smiled and said:

"If someone of this caliber can become a gang leader, the Beggars' Sect has truly fallen on hard times. Brother, you've really taken away and used up all the heroic spirit of the Beggars' Sect!"

Qiao Feng sighed helplessly, "e=(′o｀))) Sigh~" and said nothing more.

Then an unexpected figure walked onto the stage. Duan Zhengchun, the Prince Duan, who should have been on his way home, appeared on the high platform.

Bai Ze looked puzzled, and said with a wry smile:

"Why did Prince Duan go there?"

Qiao Feng was also puzzled and said:

"They probably received the news on their way back and were abducted!"

The next person to take the stage was someone we all knew; it was the 'famous' Murong Fu of the South!

Several retainers of the Murong family—Bao Butong, Feng Bo'e, Gongzhi Qian, and Deng Baichuan—stood around their young master, acting very arrogantly.

Because of the Beggars' Sect's previous act of saving them, which spread the word, and combined with their own reputation in southern Song Dynasty, the Murong family has now successfully made their mark in the martial arts world.

Standing next to Bai Ze, Wang Yuyan saw that it was Murong Fu and whispered:

"cousin!"

Bai Ze looked at Wang Yuyan, who had spoken, and quietly took her hand, saying:

"Junior Uncle, standing here thinking about other men, do you want a spanking?!"

As he spoke, he squeezed Wang Yuyan's soft little hand. Wang Yuyan blushed and lowered her head. Recently, Bai Ze and Wang Yuyan's relationship has developed very quickly.

During this time, Li Qiushui, whose face had been healed after returning to the Xiaoyao Sect, also met her daughter Li Qingluo and granddaughter Wang Yuyan. Li Qingluo did not give Li Qiushui a good look, but Wang Yuyan was not so distant.

Li Qiushui also shifted all her apologies onto Wang Yuyan, and together with Bai Ze, Wang Yuyan, and the other women who wanted to learn new kung fu, they practiced the "White Rainbow Palm Force".

Previously, Wang Yuyan had no talent for martial arts and had only learned a little bit of the Northern Darkness Divine Skill and the Lesser Formless Skill. Unexpectedly, this time she practiced the White Rainbow Palm Force with her grandmother and it had a miraculous effect.

Yu Yan combined the "Northern Darkness Divine Skill" and "White Rainbow Palm Force" she had learned to cultivate a unique palm force that was very similar to Tai Chi Chuan plus the Ming Cult's "Great Shift of Heaven and Earth" from The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber!

When Yu Yan unleashed her "White Rainbow Palm Force," she could forcibly pull, absorb, and guide the direction of the enemy's attack. She could also use her own power to redirect the enemy's attacks towards her. After mastering this skill, she showed off her abilities during her first fight with the girls.

Wang Yuyan, who deliberately kept the effects of her cultivation technique from others, was tickled by the women for quite some time before finally revealing the results she had achieved. Even Wu Yazi, Wu Xingyun, and Li Qiushui were astonished.

Bai Ze naturally tried out Wang Yuyan's new technique. Unexpectedly, even without using the dungeon's forced invincibility skill, he was sometimes affected by Wang Yuyan's attacks, and his attacks aimed at Yuyan would always be unnaturally deflected regardless of the attack strength, making them difficult to defend against.

Bai Ze shamelessly pestered his beautiful junior nephew to teach him this special technique, and their relationship also warmed up greatly during this time.

 …

Returning to Shaolin, after some martial arts practitioners whom Bai Ze didn't recognize came up on stage, Abbot Xuanci of Shaolin convened a meeting. Looking at the martial arts practitioners below the stage, Abbot Xuanci loudly proclaimed:

"The purpose of this conference is to eliminate the former leader of the Beggars' Sect, 'Xiao Feng the Khitan,' who has been wreaking havoc on the martial arts world of the Song Dynasty!"

When Xuan Ci shouted, he amplified his Lion's Roar with internal energy, and his voice was very loud, so that even martial artists in the distance could hear him clearly.

Xuan Ci then distorted the facts and recounted the events at Yanmen Pass to the assembled martial arts practitioners.

"Back then, the father of Benefactor Murong wrote to me, saying that he had received definite news that a Khitan master from the Liao Kingdom was coming south to Shaolin to seize the Seventy-Two Arts."

The people present were taken aback by the fact that there was such a premise to Qiao Feng's story, and they were all in an uproar, clearly believing what Xuan Ci said.

"At that time, I led more than twenty martial arts masters to Yanmen Pass to intercept the invaders and nip the danger in the bud. After waiting at Yanmen Pass for several days, we were indeed met with Khitans coming from the south."

Upon hearing Xuan Ci's words, Qiao Feng's expression immediately became tense and indignant, and he clenched his fists. Bai Ze looked at Qiao Feng and said:

"Brother, no need to rush. Let's see what this bald monk is up to today!"

Upon hearing Bai Ze's words, Qiao Feng loosened his fist and nodded to Bai Ze.

Xuanci continued:

"We fought fiercely, losing several heroes, before finally subduing the intruders. We ambushed and killed one of the Khitan experts, and a man who jumped off a cliff is now missing and his fate is unknown. Just then, we found an infant in the intruders' carriage!"

Everyone was astonished. The newcomer's skills were so high that he was able to kill several heroes of the Song Dynasty even when surrounded by a group of people.

Bai Ze listened to Xuan Ci's words and said irritably:

"Hmph~ Even without your Shaolin Seventy-Two Arts, they would have slaughtered you all in a panic, what use are your Shaolin arts then!"

Upon hearing Xuan Ci's words, Qiao Feng knew that things back then were definitely not like that. He frowned, but when he heard Bai Ze's complaint, he raised an eyebrow, chuckled, and patted his brother's arm.

The women laughed out loud when they heard Bai Ze's words, but they covered their mouths with their sleeves for fear of being discovered by the surrounding martial arts practitioners.

Xuanci continued:

"At that time, I was moved with compassion. As a monk, I am bound by compassion. The child was innocent, so I took the baby back and entrusted him to the Qiao family, a woodcutter couple in the mountains, to raise. He was named 'Qiao Feng'!"

Upon hearing Xuan Ci's words, everyone present began to chatter and murmur amongst themselves, never expecting that Qiao Feng had come to the Song Dynasty in this way.

Xuanci continued:

"I asked my junior brother Xuanku to take Qiao Feng as my disciple and teach him martial arts. Later, seeing that he had a lot of talent in martial arts, I recommended him to Chief Wang of the Beggars' Clan. Later, Qiao Feng made great contributions to the Beggars' Clan, which led to Qiao Feng becoming the chief of the Beggars' Clan after Chief Wang passed away."

This humble monk thought that Qiao Feng, living in the Song Dynasty, eating Song Dynasty food, drinking Song Dynasty water, and learning Song Dynasty martial arts, would be able to eliminate the tyranny of the Khitan people in his bones. Unexpectedly, after learning his true identity, he still failed to eliminate the evil desires of the Khitan people in his bones, and subsequently committed many of the previous atrocities in the Song Dynasty!

If this man were to escape the Song Dynasty and return to the Liao Dynasty, the Liao Dynasty would then have another highly skilled martial artist in charge. If he were to gain the Liao emperor's favor and lead troops to attack the Song Dynasty, it would be a tremendous disaster for the Song Dynasty. Fellow martial artists, what do you say? Should 'Xiao Feng' be killed?

As soon as he finished speaking, most of the people present shouted:

"He deserves to die! He deserves to die!"

Xuan Ci pressed his hands down on the people present, preparing to continue distorting the truth and manipulating public opinion, when...

"Hahaha! He truly deserves to die. Abbot Xuanci, why don't you lead us north to the Liao Kingdom right now? Let's go and kill Yelü Hongji together, plunging the Liao Kingdom into internal strife. That way, even if Xiao Feng escapes back to the Liao Kingdom, he'll just be one of its subjects. Let him help us eliminate the Liao Kingdom's upper-class nobles, and the crisis of the Song Dynasty will be resolved!"

Upon hearing this, some of the people present pondered for a moment, then their eyes lit up – what a great idea!

Hearing the voice that interrupted his speech, Xuan Ci said:

"Hehe~ I wonder whose boastful words these are. Our purpose today is to deal with Xiao Feng, who is threatening the martial arts world of the Song Dynasty. Killing the ruler of Liao is a matter of state. If we were to attack the Liao emperor and provoke a conflict between the two countries, then this humble monk would be committing a grave sin!"

"Wouldn't the killing of the chief instructor of the Shushan Imperial Guard, who was deeply trusted by the Empress Dowager of Liao, have caused a conflict between the two countries?"

Voices continued to rise from the crowd, everyone searching for the speaker. Xuan Ci, thoroughly annoyed by the rebuke, shouted:

"Would you dare to show yourself? What is the reason for hiding your face?"

Just then, a man dressed in black robes flew out of the Shaolin Temple carrying a young monk, landed in front of the stands, and threw the young monk onto the stands.

The little monk didn't move at all when he was thrown onto the stands, clearly because his pressure points had been acupunctured. Before Xuan Ci could even see which Shaolin academy the disciple was from, he heard the man in black ask him:

"Xuanci, can you explain to me why a Liao master came to Song to steal a martial arts manual, and why you 'mercifully' gave the baby away for adoption!"

Xuan Ci was stumped by the question, and everyone present realized what was going on. Why would a master come to Song to steal martial arts manuals with an infant?

Duan Zhengchun also clapped his hands and said:

"That's right, Master Xuanci, since you said the people who came were here to steal the Shaolin secret manuals, why bring an infant along? Isn't that redundant and just getting in the way?"

Xuan Ci broke out in a cold sweat, unsure how to plug the hole. Then, after a moment's thought, he said:

"Perhaps the thief kidnapped the infant along the way and used it for coercion after arriving in the Song Dynasty!"

Upon hearing Xuan Ci's words, the man in black burst into laughter and said:

"Xuanci, Xuanci, you are supposed to be a high-ranking Buddhist monk, yet you have repeatedly broken the precepts to cover up what happened back then, and you still haven't revealed the truth. Well then, let me tell you a story, and everyone here can hear which one is true and which one is false!"

The man in black recounted the events at Yanmen Pass to the crowd. Back then, Xiao Yuanshan was traveling south from Yanmen Pass with his wife and children to visit relatives when they were ambushed and killed by twenty-one martial arts masters from the Central Plains.

Although Xiao Yuanshan fought valiantly to protect his wife and children, killing seventeen martial arts masters in succession, including "Wansheng Dao" Wang Weiyi, "Dijue Jian" Huangshan Heyun Daoist, "Iron Pagoda" Fang Daxiong from Datong Prefecture, Shanxi, and the "Du Family Three Heroes" from Jiangxi, he ultimately ran out of strength and was defeated, and his wife and children were also killed.

In despair, Xiao Yuanshan carved words on the cliff face with his knife:

"When Feng'er turned one year old, my wife and I went to my maternal grandmother's house for a banquet. On the way, we suddenly encountered a notorious bandit from the Southern Dynasty. Due to the suddenness of the event, my wife and child were killed by the bandit, and I no longer wished to live in this world."

My esteemed teacher was a Han Chinese from the Southern Dynasties. I swore before him that I would never kill Han Chinese, but today I have killed more than ten of them. I am filled with shame and pain, and I will have no face to meet my teacher after I die.

Xiao Yuanshan's last words!

Immediately, Xiao Yuanshan, holding his wife and child, attempted to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff. However, the child in his wife's arms started crying, and as he fell, Xiao Yuanshan threw the child up the cliff. This is how the later Beggar Clan leader, 'Northern Qiao Feng,' who became famous throughout the Song Dynasty came to be!