Synopsis

The chapter begins with the ascetic dealing with the thugs who ambushed him, learning they are part of a gang from Danjiangkou. The thugs reveal their orders were to capture three ascetics and that they are under the command of Lee Palryong. The ascetic, now covered in blood, decides that the thugs are useless for information and decides he must go and confront Lee Palryong himself, as he was the one who hired the thugs to capture him and the other ascetics.