Gordon Lam Ka-tung
Yun Sing-chi

The Holy Virgin of the Wu Du Sect HE HONG YAO has been appointed the new leader of the group. One day, an unexpected guest XIA XUE YI suddenly breaks in, trying to seize the Sect’s two treasured objects – a sword and an awl. There is a fight between YAO and XIA, and during which, YAO has developed a maze of feelings for XIA. XIA is bitten by a venomous snake before he flees away. YAO just follows him around, in the hope of fixing him up with the antidote. During the inauguration, YAO has not only refused to succeed to the title as the leader of the Wu Du Sect, but also helped XIA steal the Sect’s two treasured objects as well as the treasure map. But soon after that, XIA leaves her. Two years later on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, the WEN family are all in panic, fearing that XIA, who claims to be ‘Golden Snake’, would be coming back to exact revenge……
XIA sneaks into the WENS’ Castle by stratagem, and tricks the five elders into killing their youngest brother. The five elders are condemned for killing XIA’s family of totally ten people. And the six of them are soon in a brawl. XIA is unfortunately trapped and hurt. To escape danger, he has captured YI as a hostage. The five elders fly into a fury and claim that they will kill YI if she ever loses her virginity. XIA takes YI back to his hometown Lingjiang, and confides to her the murder of his family by the WENS. He swears to pay them back. YI feels so regretful about the sin of her family, and learns that it was YUAN CHONG HUAN, a noble general who helped to bury XIA’s family. XIA releases YI eventually. Looking at XIA’s shadow, YI gets somewhat confused.
HUAN has been defending the city of Ji against the Manchurian army. HUAN and his troops, however, are running out of food. HUAN is so preoccupied by this urgent matter that he hardly ever cares about his son CHENG ZHI, who is afflicted with a serious disease. One day, the food depot for the Manchurian army is mysteriously ignited, and their commander has been beheaded. The Manchurian army is thus in disarray. At the end of the day, they have no choice but to withdraw. HUAN is so grateful for XIA’s help and invites him home for a natter. The terminally ill ZHI is already on the verge of death. To pay a debt of gratitude, XIA saves ZHI’s life with his vital energy, promises to teach the lad kung fu, and gives HUAN the treasure map. HUAN gets betrayed by TANG XIAN, a trusted follower of his own, and is later on framed by the vicious official CAO HUA CHUN for treason. HUAN and his family are all arrested……
HUAN is sentenced to death. Having witnessed the execution, ZHI is struck dumb with fear. YAO has found XIA eventually. She mistakes ZHI for XIA’s son, and is burning with anger and jealousy. She assaults ZHI with force and poison, and compels XIA to marry her. She threatens that she will not provide the antidote if XIA rejects the marriage. ZHI does not want to cause XIA any more trouble. He slips away and is going to kill himself. Luckily XIA has stopped it in time. YAO once again forces XIA to marry her but XIA refuses. YAO throws the antidote away down below the cliff and then leaves. XIA brings ZHI to Mt. Huashan, and requests the master of the Hua Shan Sect CHING to rescue ZHI. CHING has put ZHI’s condition under control. As he finds out ZHI is the son of HUAN, he promises to try his very best to save ZHI. CHING’s dumb servant and his granddaughter HUI look after ZHI with scrupulous care. XIA has to depart from Mt……
The Mid-autumn Festival is approaching and XIA has been home to carry out a sacrificial rite for his ancestors. There he sees YI. He finds this girl very kind-hearted and becomes attracted to her. However due to the long bitter feud between the two families, XIA has to hide his affection and finally drives her off. At home, XIA is drinking himself into oblivion. Meanwhile, YI has just returned. Being obsessed with each other, they come to have sex. The next day, YI slides off, and on the way, she meets YAO who keeps pestering her for XIA’s whereabouts. Luckily XIA just appears in time and successfully repulses YAO. XIA then escorts YI back to her home but he knows for sure he is going to miss her so much. He then suggests travelling around first before they have to part and YI is thrilled to bits with this idea. The leader of the Iron Sword Sect, MU SANG, a Taoist priest has come to visit CHING while he is giving therapy to ZHI……
YI begs XIA not to kill the innocent from the WENS and XIA promises. YI feels sick and soon lapses into unconsciousness. She is found pregnant and XIA gives up taking revenge. The couple are astonished to see the five elders of the WENS who are actually coming for the treasure map that the Manchurian King has already secured. XIA pursues them and has finally captured the map. When he returns home, he finds YI has disappeared. She is kidnapped by her elders, who are using her as a tool to extort the map. XIA is much worried about YI and the baby’s safety, and for this reason, he just stays at the WENS’ Castle. CHING is out for something urgent, before he goes, he asks SANG to help oversee ZHI. SANG concentrates so much on the chess that he fails to notice that he has taken YAO’s potion. YAO has caught ZHI. On her way she meets YU, who gets struck by her beauty at first sight. YAO and YU have had a fight and ZANG soon arrives.
ZANG is hurt by YU, and is robbed of his Iron Sword when he is trying to save ZHI. YU is ZANG’s junior but is taken as a betrayer of the Iron Sword Sect. CHING thinks highly of ZHI and decides to teach him kung fu. ZANG offers ZHI a special suit of armour. YI has just given birth to a baby girl named QING QING. Her elders make her stay home with a number of excuses. On the day when QING is just one-month old, YAO and YU come to the WENS’ Castle making loads of trouble, but are ultimately driven off by XIA. YAO claims that some day she will make them suffer. XIA is carelessly trapped by the elders while YI is locked up. Though his arms have already become paralysed, XIA still refuses to say a word about where the map is. In the meantime, the Gangsters have come, searching for XIA.
As soon as YAO discovers that XIA has been kept imprisoned and in irons, she risks stealing the Golden-snake Sword in order to free XIA’s hands and legs. YI has been trying to rescue XIA and as a result, she is buried alive inside an old well. This is all sighted by YI’s younger sister QIAN, who, however, is too scared to tell anyone about the incident. The five elders mean to let YAO bring XIA away, hoping this would help expel the Gangsters at the same time. The five elders have caught XIA again from the hands of YAO. XIA lures the elders to Mt. Huashan. As YAO attempts to save him, he just manages to flee away and later on meets up with ZHI. The son of the oldest of the WENS cares about nothing but the treasures. And XIA is going to exploit him to pass the treasure map as well as the kung fu book on to ZHI somehow. YAO keeps pestering XIA for marriage but XIA refuses again……
CHING and ZANG are both very fond of ZHI, an extremely talented lad. They have made a deal and based on their agreement, ZANG will have to teach ZHI some kung fu every time he loses a game of chess. Time passes away, and ZHI has already grown up and inherited much of ZANG’s kung fu. ZANG intends to depart from Mt. Huashan to recover the Iron Sword from YU while CHING has started to teach ZHI another kind of kung fu. CHING learns that the whole country is in chaos and decides to save his fellow countrymen who are all suffering. ZHI has finished studying ZANG’s kung fu and is leaving Mt. Huashan to offer CHING support. HUI misses him very much. ZHI enters a cave and finds the Golden-snake Sword. There he also discovers ZHENG’s body that he mistakes for XIA’s. He believes that XIA has died already. As he is burying the corpse, he finds XIA’s treasure map and kung fu book. He is immensely interested in the kung fu book.
ZHI keeps practising night and day, and when he has finished learning all that recorded in the kung fu book, he gets to look for YI, as instructed by XIA. ZHI encounters DUO ER GUN who uses an assumed name ‘JIN ER WEN’. They appreciate each other. ZHI has noticed that all the colonels look up to GUN so much and he can hardly understand why. QING, who is disguised as a man, has kidnapped GUN for money. She goes to GUN’s home to get the ransom in person. QING is robbed of the ransom by JUN, a follower of the Hua Shan Sect, but has got it back later on. JUN and his senior HE have soon chased QING up and ZHI who passes by has repulsed them, just by chance. ZHI tells QING that he is looking for YI and QING just brings him home. The five elders of the WENS deceive QING, saying that it was XIA who made her mother YI suffer. QING thus hates XIA dreadfully……
QIAN’s heart is torn into pieces when she comes to know that XIA is dead already. She then tells ZHI all the sin of the five elders. QING, however, does not believe it, and worse than that, is going to assist the five elders in extorting the map. In the meantime, HE and JUN arrive at the WENS’ Castle, and soon start a fight with ZHI. ZHI’s senior HUANG ZHEN has come in time, and makes the five elders release GUN. QING refuses to return the ransom and ZHI vows to get it back. QING wants to get some news of XIA from ZHI, but at last has mistakenly got ZHI trapped. ZHI is so scared and in a split second, he grabs QING’s hand making her fall onto the trap as well. By then, ZHI comes to discover QING is a girl. In order to get the map, the five elders again fight with ZHI but ZHI, with the Golden-snake Sword, has successfully escaped danger.
GUN gives the ransom to Prince CHUANG, hoping this will help win ZHI’s trust and support. Out of his friendship with ZHI, GUN gets to know CHUANG as well. Prince CHUANG does not mind getting punishment for a soldier who has breached the protocol. ZHI is therefore so respectful to him. GUN and ZHI have become sworn brothers. GUN means to do this as he can make a lot of advantages out of such a relationship. SHU, a senior of ZHI’s has misunderstood ZHI and the two of them soon have a fight. SHU is defeated and is so unhappy about that. ZHI wants to help CHUANG out and decides to travel to Nanjing to look for the treasures. Along his way he meets QING again. QING pesters him for the treasure map and is again rejected. She then decides to go along with ZHI. They encounter the ‘Fabulous Thief’ NAN who is brawling with a monk named HAN. ZHI reconciles them and NAN gives him the Ice Toad in return as a token of thanks.
ZHI has been on the road with QING, HAN and NAN. The impulsive, rude QING has made lots of enemies along the way but all that ZHI can do is to put up with her. A senior member of the Qing Zhu Sect ZHU finds out that ZHI is XIA’s disciple and thus takes ZHI as the object of revenge. Fortunately with his wit, ZHI successfully makes a getaway. QING, HAN and NAN have been caught by the Qing Zhu members midway through the journey. ZHU is killed and his daughter JIU reckons it is done by ZHI. For the purpose of protecting ZHU’s reputation, ZHI just conceals the truth, which makes JIU even more strongly believe that ZHI is the killer of his father. JIU knows that she will not be able to beat ZHI and therefore chooses to poison him. Though having got poisoned, ZHI can still defeat her. However, he is already seriously hurt and death is expected at any moment.
ZHI is saved by the Ice Toad but the Golden-snake Awl is lost. Everywhere ZHI goes, there are members of the Gangsters who get killed by the Golden-snake Awl. Loads of rumours are going around saying that it is done by ZHI. ZHI wants to find out the treasures as soon as can be, so he just ignored the rumours and carry on with his journey to Nanjing. ZHI, QING, HAN and NAN are again attacked by the Gangsters. Meanwhile, the master of the Wu Du Sect SHOU comes along and helps drive the Gangsters off. SHOU compels ZHI to return the three treasured objects of the Sect. QING means to cause confusion by seducing SHOU. SHOU is determined to take ZHI’s life. ZHI has finally saved QING by stratagem and SHOU swears to recover the three treasured objects. To find out who the real killer is, ZHI decides to venture into the base of the Gangsters to see how the denunciation of himself is going.
JIU is so eager to seek revenge that she pretends to have been kidnapped by a stranger, by which she hopes to seize an opportunity. JIU has got the chance but at last she lets him off. QING finds that there are some strange goings-on between ZHI and JIU and she really feels so upset about that. NAN points out that she is jealous of JIU. The next day, a senior member of the Qing Zhu Sect WU is killed at midnight. JIU knows for sure ZHI is not the murderer and insists that he is innocent. They are soon reconciled. SHOU studies kung fu industriously in order to defeat ZHI. She knows the Gangsters have been hoping to wipe out the Wu Du Sect. She dares not counter-attack, nevertheless. The leader of a branch of the Wu Du Sect is killed by the Gangsters. Members of the Wu Du Sect are all in a fury. They believe that it is done by the real ‘Golden Snake’, XIA, and that he is still alive. SHOU goes to ask YAO about XIA’s whereabouts……
QING happens to discover that ZHI is going out with JIU. As she is about to ask ZHI for explanation, she gets hit by the Gangsters. ZHI has no choice but to capture JIU as a hostage. They are all safe then. ZHI guesses that the real murderer should be someone from the Gangsters, whose aim is to secure the treasure map. ZHI supposes QING is the betrayer and for that matter, he gives her a slap. Being so angry, QING leaves immediately. ZHI learns from JIU that he has misunderstood QING. He decides to look for her to make an apology. QING reckons ZHI has never given a shit about her. She is so depressed that she has carelessly trespassed on Wu Du Sect’s ‘Poison Zone’. She gets trapped and poisoned. SHOU requests the four seniors of the Sect to rescue the girl. ZHI knows QING is in danger and is trying to save her. The Gangsters’ consistent attacks against the Wu Du Sect have immensely sapped their own strength.
The Gangsters are recuperating, down the hill. ZHI wants QING back while the four seniors want the treasured objects. Nonetheless, QING is being too unreasonable. ZHI has little choice but to stay with the Qing Zhu Sect for the time being. QING knows that SHOU has mistaken her for a lad and that SHOU is attracted to her. She thus tries every way to please SHOU. ZHI doubts if XIA has died already. He then goes to YAO trying to find out the truth. YAO again insists that XIA has been killed by herself. SHOU suspects YAO is just lying. She gets to where XIA used to stay at and comes to be aware of something. The Gangsters again fight against the Wu Du Sect. ZHI wants to stop it but is strongly rejected by SHOU. The Gangsters blame the Wu Du Sect for shielding XIA and ZHI. ZHI has successfully settled the dispute by taking a big gamble.
ZHI is afraid that the war between the Sect and the Gangsters would be killing thousands of innocent people and thus decides to alone face a fight with a group of seven people. He wins and has got one month’s time to find out who the real murderer is. SHOU believes that YAO has been imprisoning XIA and so urges YAO to release him. In the meantime, YAO blames SHOU for falling in love with QING, which is definitely a breach of the doctrines. The two ladies are no longer on speaking terms. The Gangsters discover that JIU has been going out with ZHI. They then make her swear not to see ZHI any more in the future. JIU keeps pursuing YAO in order to find out where XIA is, but ends up getting hurt by YAO. Luckily she is saved by ZHI in time. ZHI and JIU hide themselves inside a cave, during which ZHI has given therapy to JIU. QING somehow knows an assassin has come……
ZHI and JIU flee away but QING herself is caught. ZHI has saved JIU just in time with the help of the Ice Toad. Their relationship is getting more and more amicable. SHOU attempts to shield QING in every possible way, which gradually makes the whole Sect split up into two main groups, one supporting YAO and the other, a senior member named QI. YAO suggests holding a meeting in which all members are going to discuss whether to recall SHOU or not. It is found that all sorts of disputes are planned by QI and the new leader of the Qing Zhu Sect CHENG, a spy sent from the Emperor CHONG ZHEN. At the meeting, the two groups among the Wu Du Sect cannot reach a consensus and consequently a fight breaks out. In the confusion, SHOU asks QI to bring QING away from the place. ZHI somehow knows about the split in the Sect. He is much worried about QING’s safety and so immediately goes back to see what is happening……
ZHI convinces XIA to explain everything to the public. XIA’s sudden appearance has eventually patched up all the disputes between the Wu Du Sect and the Gangsters. QING points out QI’s sin of all sorts. CHENG fears that QI will sooner or later reveal their secrets, and just cannot wait to kill him. ZHI stays a bit longer so that he can help cure those who have got poisoned, with the Ice Toad as well as his own kung fu. It is ZHI’s kindliness that has touched the people. QING denies XIA as she believes that he has killed her mother. SHOU comes to realise QING is in fact a girl. She feels heart-broken and extremely regretful, and is going to commit suicide. Thankfully ZHI has stopped her in time. XIA wonders if YI is still alive. He hopes he can go back to the WENS’ Castle some day to have a reunion with her. Thus he is willing to receive ZHI’s therapy.