Faces of the Jianghu: Jianghu Folk
Three Fiends of Yan Pass
| Eldest Senior Brother's Outing | They were so afraid of Tang Buyi that they took a detour to rob people, and still ended up cornered by Tang Buyi and Zhao Huo. |
| Medicine Gift Event "Three Fiends of Yan Pass" | Notorious thugs of Zizhou. Coveting the rumored treasure map, they boarded Ye Yunzhou's boat. He bragged to A'Hua from the neighboring village that he would marry her once he passed the imperial exams, but his head ached the moment he opened a book, so he finally smashed his tutor to death with an inkstone and fled. He suffered badly at Tang Buyi's hands and kowtowed for mercy until he was injured. |
| Wulin Assembly "Golden-Silver Hook" the Seventh Elder | Seventh Master of Catch the Mountain, Catch the Wind Fort. As Greenwood bandits, they were not invited to the Wulin Assembly. Hearing that the Nangong Family Head had taken office as Wulin Alliance Leader, their Fort Master brought gifts to present tribute, but on the way they ran into the Mud Cult's Hell Path and Hungry Ghost Path, and hurried up Fengyu Mountain to ask for aid. |
| Eldest Senior Brother's Outing | They were so afraid of Tang Buyi that they took a detour to rob people, and still ended up cornered by Tang Buyi and Zhao Huo. |
| Medicine Gift Event "Three Fiends of Yan Pass" | Notorious thugs of Zizhou. Coveting the rumored treasure map, they boarded Ye Yunzhou's boat. He suffered badly at Tang Buyi's hands and kowtowed for mercy until he was injured. |
| Medicine Gift Event "Three Fiends of Yan Pass" | Notorious thugs of Zizhou. Coveting the rumored treasure map, they boarded Ye Yunzhou's boat. As a child he was ashamed of his family's poverty and lied that his father was a Notorious Bandit. He suffered badly at Tang Buyi's hands and kowtowed for mercy until he was injured. |
Renegade Monk
| Eldest Senior Brother Goes Down the Mountain | The Renegade Monk hunting the blacksmith whom you run into on the way back to the Tang Clan. Tough on the outside, hollow within: he was already poisoned without knowing it, yet his poisoned blood can still harm others. |
Fang Zhentian / Yi Fan
| Ye Siblings Go Up the Mountain | One of Brother Ye's friends met at the Inn. He professes deep devotion to Sister Ye, yet has never lacked for fair companions, and claims his feelings for every one of those women are sincere. |
| Ruined Temple Route | A disciple of the "Hardened-Shell Ascetic" Shui De. He appears after Zhao Huo learns that fake heroes plan to raid the Tang Clan and decides to flee, and attacks Zhao Huo judging by his appearance alone, taking him for a Bad Person. Losing to him unlocks the Book of Life and Death. He causes a great crowd of heroes to target Zhao Huo, chasing him everywhere, and is finally killed by Zhao Huo after being poisoned in his tea. |
| Eldest Senior Brother Goes Down the Mountain "Fang Zhentian" | A wandering hero of no sect or school. At the Inn on the way there, after Zhao Huo finishes off two Passerby Heroes who tried to ambush the Eldest Senior Brother, he appears and challenges Zhao Huo. If he defeats Zhao Huo, Long Xiang steps forward to challenge him; he means to take liberties with her, but the serious Long Xiang cuts him half to death instead. Moves: Blade Mountain and Sea of Fire Style, Pangu's Heaven-Opening Strike. |
| Wulin Assembly "Fang Zhentian" | He uses a blade. Nominated into the ranks by the Nine Lands Mountains and Waters Alliance of Jingjiang Prefecture, he spars with Shangguan Sun. Shangguan Sun says that if he can last ten moves against him, he will give him a resounding nickname. If Zhao Huo boasts that he will be Wulin Alliance Leader and then throws out a provocation, he comes out to challenge him. When the Mud Cult's Hell Path and Hungry Ghost Path set the mountain ablaze, he leads the charge down the mountain. |
| Western Wulin "Fang Zhentian" | First battle defending the courtyard, "A Young Hero who wishes to make a name for themselves and achieve great success." "How could an insignificant lackey like you beat me? I, young master Fang Zhentian, am a Favored Son of Heaven! By rights I shouldn't even need to practice martial arts—two months after I was born I had heaven-granted strength that could kill you! What gives you the right to beat me through hard work! You ought to be under my foot, rotting in the mud!" |
| Western Wulin "Fang Zhentian" | After falling back from the Outer Fort to defend the Tang Clan, you learn that the Painting Immortal, who had returned to the Tang Clan ahead of you, had just dealt with a Jianghu Young Hero named Fang Zhentian. Seeing his handsome face, she could not bear to kill him, so she struck his acupoints and tossed him in the Kitchen, intending to keep him as a consort and savor him when she had the time. |
| Junior Martial Sister's Wedding "Yi Fan" | A suitor, of no sect or school, his martial arts passed down in a single line. At the Battle of Jiangling he took down two Beggar Sect Seven-Bag Elders. During the martial test Yunshang disrupted him. He was furious at first, but then turned his designs on Yunshang, and she gave him a Thunder Fire Bomb, claiming it was food. |
| Wulin Assembly "Ye Chen" | Because there can only be one Ye Chen in this world, he comes to blows with the other Ye Chens. "What's going on, is it the Ye Chen Clan Association? Is Ye Chen actually not a name but a compound surname?" |
| Wulin Assembly | A Wulin man who speaks up for the Imperial Court. He feels the Court has already shown goodwill, and that opposing it for opposition's sake may earn one a charge of treason. He proposes deciding the Wulin Alliance Leader by martial arts. |
| Confessing to Long Xiang "This Fang" | Appears in Long Xiang's Log. Before he can even finish his words of affection for Long Xiang, she draws her sword and cuts him down. |
Qi Ren
| Ye Siblings Go Up the Mountain | One of Brother Ye's friends met at the Inn. The moment he hears Brother Ye owes money, he gives Zhao Huo 5500. Another of Ye Yunzhou's friends describes him as "never touching meat or fish, and fancying himself a cold-blooded expert." |
| Junior Martial Sister's Wedding "Qi Ren" | A suitor from Hongzhou, known as the "Heaven-Slaying Black Wing Twin Dragon Sword." "I won't say it a second time. Woman, come with me." He nearly angers Third Senior Brother to death, and later loses the martial test to Xie Wuchen. |
| Wulin Assembly "Qi Ren" | He blocks the road to demand an invitation from the Tang Clan, but is cowed by Long Xiang, who has come looking for Zhao Huo, and flees after throwing out a threat. |
| Wulin Assembly "Qi Ren" | He defeats Shi Gongyuan and carries on as before even with the crowd cursing him. He calls out the Twin Swords of Diancang, thinking it means one man wielding two swords. He is then defeated in a single stroke by Ting Haisheng's Breakthrough of Cloud Pass. Ting Haisheng judges his talent not bad and tells him to come to Diancang for further training if interested. "Fine, Ting Haisheng of Diancang, you're worthy. But where are your twin swords?" |
| Wulin Assembly "Ye Chen" | Because there can only be one Ye Chen in this world, he comes to blows with the other Ye Chens. |
| Wulin Assembly | If Zhao Huo boasts that he will be Wulin Alliance Leader and then throws out a provocation, he comes out to challenge him. |
Passerby Hero
| Ye Siblings Go Up the Mountain | He goes upstairs at the Inn and challenges Ye Yunzhou. Having heard of Ye Yunzhou's good name, he bullies the weak and fears the strong, and is very cocky. He never sees Ye Yunzhou draw his sword and still tries to follow him into the room; only then does his head leave his shoulders, and he dies without even noticing. |
| Nangong's Birthday Banquet "Twin Heroes of Daiyue of Mount Tai" | A Guest at Nangong's Birthday Banquet. |
| Wulin Assembly "Bronze Snake Whip" | A Wulin man who speaks up for the Imperial Court. |
| Wulin Assembly | Hearing from Ting Haisheng and Ye Yunzhou's conversation that there is no treasure map, he regrets why he let Ye Yunshang toy with him over it. |
| Wulin Assembly "Brother Xu" | He dies in the Free-for-All against Jinxiang Palace, and his face is used by the Painting Immortal for Face-Changing. He even boasts that he will burn someone's wife to keep him company. |
| Wulin Assembly "This Zhuang" | Once a friend of Ye Yunzhou. When Yunshang's baozi are eaten and she asks for help, he makes excuses that his friendship with Ye Yunzhou ended when Ye Yunzhou joined the Tang Clan. He thinks Yunshang hid the treasure map in the baozi. |
| Clan Extermination route "Great Hero Lu" | One of the Wulin heroes who arrives after Zhao Huo defeats Rui Sheng. When he learns of the Western Xia invasion, he makes the excuse that national affairs should be handled by troops sent by the Imperial Court, and that Jianghu heroes seek only to settle their own grudges, and refuses Song Bei's orders, unwilling to take the battlefield. |
| Ye Siblings Go Up the Mountain "Cotton-Wrapped Embroidered Spring" Feng Shi | Rolled "The most renowned and skilled in martial arts." He wields the Embroidered Spring Blade well. He once spoke ill of the Tang Clan and was hunted far and wide by the Sect Leader. Only the Nangong Family stepped in to mediate, and since he had no other misdeeds to his name and did not deserve death, the Sect Leader did not strike the fatal blow, only gave him a beating as a warning: if he were ever seen again, he would be hacked to pieces. Hot-headed, he barged into the Tang Clan and was pushed forward by the juniors to talk; he saved his life by admitting defeat. |
| Three Experts "Lingnan Great Hero" | The Incurable Route, when the dice roll three experts attacking. Together with another "Xiangyang Great Hero," he supports the attacking Tan Badao, launching a medium Attack every Round and a major Attack every five Rounds. |
| Nangong's Birthday Banquet "Twin Heroes of Daiyue of Mount Tai" | A Guest at Nangong's Birthday Banquet. |
| Qingcheng Study "Breaking Boulders on the Chest" | A customer at the Tea Shop on the way back, discussing King Yue's Treasure with his tablemates, a believer in the treasure rumors. |
| Wulin Assembly "Ye Chen" | Because there can only be one Ye Chen in this world, he comes to blows with the other Ye Chens. |
| Wulin Assembly "Lu Renxia" | Master of Renxia Manor. After Shangguan Sun and Zhao Huo trade blows, he enters the ranks for ten taels of gold to spar with Fang Zhentian, and loses to him. |
| Wulin Assembly "Thousand-Catty Live-in Son-in-Law" Feng Bixue | From Guangdong. If Zhao Huo boasts that he will be Wulin Alliance Leader and then throws out a provocation, he comes out to challenge him. |
| Western Wulin "This He" | A Wulin Alliance member who charges the courtyard. Though he sees the Military Strategist Nangong Shen captured and the Wulin Alliance faltering, his elder brother and parents who joined with him were all killed by the Western Wulin Alliance, and when he signed up to go up the mountain he never meant to come back alive. |
Young Lord Hero
| Long Xiang Ruined Temple Event "Chen Xu" | One of the Four Young Lords of Flower City in Lin'an, specializing in luring decent women astray. Sheltering from the rain, he and a beautiful Young Lady who eloped with him meet Zhao Huo warming himself at the Ruined Temple; he pretends to offer food but has poisoned it. If Zhao Huo helps him drive off the young Quanzhen Disciple who comes for revenge, he gives him the Dragon's Cry Skill as thanks and presses money on him to hunt down the fleeing young Daoist priest. But when Zhao Huo returns from an unsuccessful search, both Chen Xu and the Young Lady have been killed. If you help the Daoist priest attack him, he is forced to go all out and quickly defeats the two of them, but is no match at all for Long Xiang, who has come to avenge her Senior Sister. Years ago he failed the imperial exams, went over to the Jin Kingdom, and served Pusan Anzhen, the Shandong Pacification Commissioner, lying low in the Central Plains to recruit and persuade the Song Kingdom's Wulin folk, and also hoping to recruit Long Xiang. He hides it behind fan techniques, but his true inherited martial art is the Cloud-Overturning Hand of the Jin Kingdom's Dragon Nurturing Courtyard. He says he will end his own life, but ambushes Long Xiang with Lime Powder, and is cut down by her sword on the spot. He is the one who named the Four Young Lords of Flower City. |
| Wulin Assembly "Four Young Lords of Flower City" Cheng Xi | From Yangzhou. If Zhao Huo boasts that he will be Wulin Alliance Leader and then throws out a provocation, he comes out to challenge him. |
| Wulin Assembly | Hearing from Ting Haisheng and Ye Yunzhou's conversation that there is no treasure map, he regrets why he risked challenging Ye Yunzhou, losing two fingers and having to switch to left-handed Blade Technique. |
| Wulin Assembly | His original intent in attacking Jinxiang Palace was only to seize people for questioning, and when Jinxiang Palace sets itself ablaze he feels the response has gone too far. |
| Confessing to Long Xiang | He pesters a woman he admires at the Outer Fort and brings a matchmaker to propose, and is refused. The two once loved each other, but his philandering chilled her heart. Spurned, he flies into a rage and tries to take her by force, and is casually cut down by Long Xiang as she passes by. |
Ruined Temple Route
| Ruined Temple Route "White Snake" Ding Kan | A native of Jiahe whose ancestors were salt workers; for the sake of the Shangguan Family, he took to the Greenwood as a bandit at Changtan, Meizhou. Though wanted for private salt, he once tore up a debt note for a widow and orphan who could not repay what they owed on credit, and his Reputation is not bad. Disguised as a Quanzhen Disciple, he hears Zhao Huo's code phrase and takes him for one of his own. He speaks for the bandits with Nangong Xiu and greases Nangong Ji's palm with money. He raids the Alchemy Room, meaning to set fires and loot the Spirit Pills and wonder drugs. "Don't panic, brothers. We took the Coptis Detoxifying Pill we bought at the Apothecary beforehand. Even if it's not the right remedy, it should still have some Effect, I figure!" |
| Ruined Temple Route "Wolf" Lai Yuting | Leader of the Jin Kingdom's mounted bandits at Hezhong Prefecture. He often leads his men in raids, harassing the Jin Kingdom's border defenses. Disguised as an Emei Disciple, he brought twenty men with him, and so feels the bounty should be split by heads. He has an old grudge against Tang Buyi. He breaks into the Scripture Pavilion. Second Senior Brother gives him one year to settle his family, and he decides to disband his brothers and travel the mountains and rivers with his wife. He is also willing to wipe clean his bad blood with Tang Buyi. |
| Ruined Temple route "Curly-Bearded Pig" Cao Jianjun | A notorious woman-snatcher who holds sway over Bijia Mountain. He claims that the women he seized as wives and the sons he took as godchildren were all unwilling, and that his three clans are wiped out, leaving him with nothing to lose. His ancestors served three generations under King Yue, and were dragged down for standing up against injustice. Old General Yang Cunzhong racked his brains and only just managed to save him. He used his family fortune to open a private school. Calls himself "this humble monk" and poses as a Songshan Disciple, though he is no true monk; the hair on his head simply will not grow, and he refuses to split the money per head. His newly wed wife of the bandit leader was carried off by Tang Buyi. He breaks into the Tang Clan Kitchen intending to set it on fire. Second Senior Brother gives him one year to settle down, and he gladly accepts. |
| Ruined Temple route "Big Parrot" Quan Shengli | A traitor of the Fire Mountain Sword Pavilion who stole and sold gold and iron to foreigners. He once held an important post at the Fire Mountain Sword Pavilion, but could not bear that his master meant to sacrifice a child to the sword. He secretly set the child free, which enraged the sect and got him framed. Claims his surname is Cai. A thief posing as an Iron Fist Disciple, and he refuses to split the money per head. Mentions that his uncle was caught by the Constable and was about to be beheaded, yet the Tang Clan men slipped into the jail and killed him anyway. Cheated by Fourth Senior Brother with fake Mechanical Fox and Wooden-Armor Dog. Attacks the Forge and means to loot the Tang Clan Hidden Weapons. After his defeat he tries to let his brothers go first and hold the rear himself, and in the chaos of the explosion he throws the Fire Mountain Forging Manual at the Tang Clan Disciples to escape. Second Senior Brother gives him one year to settle down; he decides to return to the Jiange and join the Divine Weapons Assembly, vowing to forge a divine weapon and leave his name in the history books. |
| Ruined Temple route | People posing as Ghost Soldiers and as members of the Beast Path and Hungry Ghost Path of the Mud Cult. If Zhao Huo fights them, he sees through the Ghost Soldier's martial arts, which do not look like a long halberd's, and knows that true Ghost Soldiers swear never to enter a temple. The one playing the Hungry Ghost Path has a wife. All are death squads; when escape looks hopeless they cut their own throats or take poison. |
Golden Light Divine Fist
| Street Performance | Sees Zhao Huo's impressive acrobatic skill and is full of Admiration. Starts thinking of joining the Tang Clan himself one day. |
| Qingcheng study at another sect "Golden Light Divine Fist" Chen Yuguang | In the incident where Shentu Long is pestered by a woman, he steps forward because the woman cries that Zhao Huo molested her. If he loses the fight, he is sent to jail. |
| Wulin Assembly | Learns from the conversation between Ting Haisheng and Ye Yunzhou that there is no treasure map, and regrets ever having called Ye Yunzhou his brother over it. |
| Wulin Assembly | Cannot stand to watch when Jinxiang Palace sets itself ablaze, and decides not to join the Wulin Alliance. |
Tianwu Sect
| Rushing to Jiangling "Huang Jinlong" | The night before reaching Jiangling, he urges his fellow disciples to drill against the Tianwu Sect's Sect Leader. In his youth he spent some time in the Nangong Family, and after Tang Zhongling's guidance he took his leave of the Nangong family and founded his own sect. Though he is the Sect Leader, he cannot sway his eccentric Disciples, and his authority hangs by a thread. If the Destiny wheel turns up Admiration as his attitude, he leads his disciples to join the Tang Clan. An old friend of Zhu Wuhua, Incense Master of Jiuxiantang of the Cang Gang. When the two first set out, they swore to make a name for themselves in the Jianghu and meet again twenty years later atop Songshan. |
Wood Immortal Maiden
| Kidnapping the Junior Martial Sister (removed) | After Zhao Huo is struck dead by heavenly lightning, he visits the Immortal Maiden of the Apricot Blossom Forest. |
| Qingcheng study at another sect "Wood Immortal Maiden" | Met by chance on the road home. She cannot see, but smells a woman and thinks the Tang Clan men have kidnapped a decent woman, so she attacks. If you lose, you get your head smashed in with the Book of Life and Death, which is very brutal. If you drag it out for enough Rounds, Tang Fang clears up the misunderstanding and gives Zhao Huo a Pill as an apology. Because their scents are alike, she mistakes Tang Fang for Liang Youshi. She knows Medicine, but not as well as Tang Fang and Liang Youshi. |
| Clan Extermination route "Wood Immortal Maiden" | One of the three experts who come to attack. |
Golden-Winged Blade
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| Wulin Assembly "Golden-Winged Blade" Zuo Si | A Wulin man who speaks up for the Imperial Court, saying he is willing to take the vanguard and serve the Court. |
Quanzhou Haoran Blade
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| Wulin Assembly "Quanzhou Haoran Blade" Sima Ji | When Lady Wen threatens the Wulin people with the antidote, he is the first to speak up and submit. |
Ascetic Jiunan
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| Wulin Assembly Ascetic Gang "Ascetic Jiunan" | When Lady Wen threatens the Wulin people with the antidote, he speaks up and submits. |
Whip Heroine
| Wulin Assembly | Wife of a certain Zhuang. When Ye Yunshang asks that Zhuang for help, she calls her a shameless little fox and shoves her. She thinks Yunshang hid the treasure map in a baozi. |
| Wulin Assembly "Merry Whip" Lu Lingling | From Jizhou. If Zhao Huo boasts that he will be the Wulin Alliance Leader and then provokes her, she comes out and challenges him. |
| Clan Extermination route "Lady Hao" | One of the Wulin heroes who arrive after Zhao Huo defeats Rui Sheng. She never imagined the siege of the Tang Clan would kill so many. When she learns Western Xia is invading, she makes excuses against Song Bei's orders and refuses to take the field. |