Tan Badao
Tan Badao, the Great Hero of Kuizhou, famed for his weapon the Broken Mountain Slash. He rights wrongs around Kuizhou and drove the Salt Gang, which once barred the Yangtze River, out of his territory. His most famous battle was cleaving Tuoba Bao, wielder of Xixia's Golden Blade, clean in two.
In truth, he was the real culprit behind The Robbery of Grain on the Official Road in Jiangling Prefecture over ten years ago. The Broken Mountain Slash was a gift in return for selling official silver to Tuoba Bao, and he split the man in two to silence him. If you choose the Eldest Senior Brother's gift at Nangong's Birthday Banquet, you have a chance to capture him and bring him to justice. After his ruin, he licked Nangong Yuan's shoes all over and then begged Chan Master Shi Ming before he escaped the death penalty.
To clear his name, he joins the assault on the Tang Clan, whether on the Clan Extermination route or the Western Wulin route.
Notes
Also known as Wangba Blade- His Broken Mountain Slash, Shangguan Sun's Golden-Backed Dragon King Blade, and the Dream-Cutting Blade of the exiled wanderer from Guangzhou are known together as the Jianghu's Three Blades.
- If he is not exposed at the birthday banquet, his greed for drink and lust leads him one day to feign drunken madness and violate a respectable woman; Song Bei puts a bounty on him and his name is ruined.
- He is of Western Xia.