Notes

The Imperial Court Enjoys as Many Benefits as the Turbulence Experienced in the Wulin

That’s right. Even though I’ve got good connections, possess great martial prowess, look handsome, and…

In any case, I’m sticking with my decision to retire.

My reason?

Simple, life in the pugilistic world is too boring and tough.

What? You want to know why I don’t go and leisurely enjoy what the world has to offer when I’m such a skilled martial artist?



You’re thinking too much.

The prerequisite for enjoying what the world has to offer isn’t about how good your martial arts skills are. It’s about how much money you have!

Let’s say you’re so pathetic you can’t kill an ant. As long as you’re rich, you’d still be able to leisurely enjoy what the world has to offer. Even if you go about your business free and unfettered, no one will say anything.

Earn money in the pugilistic world?

Keep dreaming.

You think it’s easy to make money in the pugilistic world?


Famous Sects are always fighting over fame and benefits. The burden I feel when dealing with them is a pain. The more famous they are, the heavier the burden. Altogether there are over one-hundred disciples, all gathered together on one mountain. You need money for accommodation, money for weapons and money for clothes. And yet they try to feed that many people with a meagre income.

Big sects like Shaolin, Wudang and Emei get by with donations and by appointing the position of a poor landlord as the landlord to just barely get by on the daily. Other smaller sects live in poor conditions.

My shifu had his own ways of making money, but it was nothing compared to what an elderly earned in the countryside. After he found about this, he got angry and went to steal the donations at the Shaolin temple. According to the wulin rules, big sects are not allowed to bully smaller ones, so my shifu was always stealing from the bigger sects. Apparently, that didn’t count as him breaking the wulin’s rules… Unless he was caught.

He really never got caught. In fact, he always brought back a bunch of who-knows-what secret manuals for me. As such, we’ve been rejected by the bigger sects, and as a result, we’ve never been allowed to attend any big wulin meetings, hero meetings and other similar money-making opportunities.

What? You think we’re an evil sect?

True, unorthodox sects to make easy-money.

But haven’t you heard?

A few years ago, Ximen ChuiDeng, the leader of the Demon Sect self-proclaimed that he was invincible and wanted to annihilate the wulin, but he still wasn’t satisfied with that. As a result, the imperial court declared that people could go after him.

Both sides of the wulin responded to the call. The Seven Major Sects of Jiangnan, the Thirteenth Black Wind Village, the Twenty-eight Red Flames of the Caves, Qinling of the Thirty-Six Holes, Shaolin, Wudang, Emei all banded together and went to purge the Demon Sect.

Ximen ChuiDeng’s boasting and lies didn’t work, and they fucked him up. After the Demon Sect was destroyed, there was no news from them for a while. They might be running street stalls selling salted duck eggs now for all we know.