[Temujin]

Book 2

Zhang Sanfeng and Zhang Wuji descended the mountain and took a boat to go gallivanting along the river. Suddenly, they spotted some passengers on another boat being attacked by Mongolian soldiers. The heroic Zhang Sanfeng immediately jumped over and killed all the Mongolian soldiers. After docking the boat, he found that the boatman was dead, and the boatman's daughter, named Zhou Zhiruo, had been left all alone in the world. Their passenger was a Ming Sect disciple known as Chang Yuchun. Chang Yuchun then volunteered to bring Zhang Wuji to seek a cure for his deadly sickness at the Ming Sect's God of Doctors Hu Qingniu. Zhang Sanfeng agreed, but only on the condition that Zhang Wuji did not join the Ming Sect. They parted ways, Zhang Wuji following Chang Yuchun and Zhou Zhiruo following Zhang Sanfeng.

Chang Yuchun brought Zhang Wuji to the Butterfly Valley to seek help. There, Hu Qingniu refused to help Zhang Wuji unless he joined the MingSect. He would only heal Chang Yuchun. Chang Yuchun wanted to exchange his own life for Zhang Wuji's and refused any medication. Hu Qingniu reminded Chang Yuchun that he had only 7 days in which to cure him, but Chang Yuchun was willing to give his life for Zhang Wuji and collapsed outside. However, the stubborn Hu Qingniu still remained adamant. Later in the day, Hu Qingniu tested Zhang Wuji's pulse, and realised that this sickness was extremely unique and queer, one worthy of pitting his own medical skills against. He decided to test his own medical skills to the limt and prove that he was indeed the God of Doctors by healing Zhang Wuji. After that, he would still keep to his promise of not healing anyone who did not belong to Ming Sect by killing Zhang Wuji.

6 days passed, and Zhang Wuji had been reading all of Hu Qingniu's medical books in search of a cure for Chang Yuchun. He finally decided to give it a shot and managed to heal Chang Yuchun. However, as Hu Qingniu revealed later, the medicine given to Chang Yuchun by Zhang Wuji had been a severe overdose, and this would shorten Chang Yuchun's life by 40 years. With a laugh, Chang Yuchun shrugged it off, and promised to visit Zhang Wuji often. This great friend of Zhang Wuji's thus departed Butterfly Valley.

A couple of years passed and Zhang Wuji's illness had spread to his vital organs. Even the God of Doctors could not help him now. All Hu Qingniu could do was attempt to slow down the process. One good point was that Zhang Wuji had picked up much valuable medical knowledge from Hu Qingniu, and he now possessed medical skills beyond any other doctor (besides Hu Qingniu of course). Hu Qingniu then told Zhang Wuji about his sister. Hu Qingniu had met a person dying of a very deadly poison which would cause so much pain the person would scratch the flesh off his own skin gladly. He had healed this person, Xian Yutong, and even betrothed his own sister to him. However, Xian Yutong instead married the daughter of Huashan Sect's leader, and forced Hu Qingniu's sister to death. This Xian Yutong was now the leader of Huashan Sect.

At this point, many people from the orthodox sects came to seek Hu Qingniu's medical assistance. They had various weird illnesses that Zhang Wuji had never seen before. Furthermore, they all bore a little golden flower. Sadly for them, Hu Qingniu was down with smallpox and could not help them. Even if he was not sick, he refused to help anyone not from the Ming Sect. Suddenly, Zhang Wuji spotted a familiar face. It was Ji Xiaofu with a little girl. Ji Xiaofu was an Emei disciple and had been betrothed to Wudang's Sixth Hero Yin Liting, and had been present at Mt. Wudang on the day his parents commited suicide. He ushered Ji Xiaofu to one side where he helped to test her pulse and used acupuncture to ease her pain. Then, she introduced the little girl, her daughter Yang Buhui (meaning no regrets).

Zhang Wuji then helped to heal the rest of the orthodox sect disciples. After doing so, he heard about how Ji Xiaofu was injured. She had been called by a message from Emei to meet at an inn. There, she had met the rest of the injured people, who had also been called in the same way. Suddenly, a coughing old woman, known as Granny Jinhua, had come up and knocked them off their feet and out of breath. She then tied them up and used different ways of injuring them. They were then told to go to Butterfly Valley to seek a cure.

Then, Hu Qingniu summoned Zhang Wuji into his room. He introduced Zhang Wuji to his wife, where he explained the whole situation.

Hu Qingniu explained why he refused to cure anyone not belonging to Ming Sect. All along, his wife was labelled the Goddess of Poison. She had always been competing with him to find out whether the God of Doctors or the Goddess of Poison was better. At first, he had incurred her wrath by curing some of the people she had poisoned. As both of them were from Ming Sect, he knew she would not hurt anyone from Ming Sect. Thus, in order to give way to his wife whom he so dearly loved, he refused to heal anyone not from Ming Sect.

A few years later, Granny Jinhua had come to him to seek help for her husband. However, he refused to heal them as they were not from Ming Sect. The Granny smirked and left, swearing revenge. Now, these people had come to test whether he really kept to his promise of not curing non-Ming Sect disciples. This signalled her intent of coming to kill him. As such, he had decided to run away with his wife in a caravan, and asked Zhang Wuji to make two fake graves, and claim that he had killed himself. He then gave Zhang Wuji a medical book he had compiled himself, hoping that Zhang Wuji would be able to find a cure from there. Hu Qingniu's wife also gave him a book of poisons that she hoped might be useful in the future.

After they left, the Granny and her little female disciple Yin Li appeared. They discovered that Zhang Wuji was Xie Xun's god son, and wanted to bring Zhang Wuji with them and force him to reveal the whereabouts of the Dragon Sabre. However, Zhang Wuji refused and bit Yin Li's hand. Ji Xiaofu tried to help Zhang Wuji, but the Granny was highly skilled and defeated Ji Xiaofu easily. At this moment, the Emei Sect leader Priestess Miejue appeared. Miejue managed to defeat the Granny by a couple of strokes, and the Granny left with Yin Li. Then Miejue brought Ji Xiaofu to a side where she questioned her disciple about her daughter.

Ji Xiaofu then revealed that she had actually been followed by a man. This man had extremely good martial arts skills, but had not forced her to do anything. After many months of being followed, she finally gave in to him. She then found herself pregnant and had not dared to return to Emei Sect in fear of being punished severely. She then revealed that this man was actualy the Left Envoy of Ming Sect, Yang Xiao. Miejue was horrified, as she hated the Ming Sect and all other "evil" sects. She ordered Ji Xiaofu to kill Yang Xiao, but she refused, and Miejue was forced to kill her.

After Emei left, Ji Xiaofu entrusted Zhang Wuji with Yang Buhui, asking him to bring her to her father, Yang Xiao, somewhere in the Kunlun Mountains, all the way across China in the west. Zhang Wuji agreed, and actually took Yang Buhui all the way across China. There he left Yang Buhui with Yang Xiao and journeyed off on his own.

Floundering in the snowy peaks of the Kunlun Mountain Range, he was attacked by some dogs and lost consciousness. When he awoke, he discovered that he had been saved by a pretty lady known as Zhu Jiuzhen. Zhang Wuji fell in love with her at first sight. He discovered that there had been an incident where her family had been surrounded by robbers, defenceless. Zhang Cuishan had saved their entire family from death and humiliation by Zhang Cuishan, and revealed that he was Zhang Wuji. Zhu Jiuzhen's father, Zhu Changling, then declared that he would rescue Xie Xun from Icy Fire Island and bring him back safely. However, Zhang Wuji soon discovered that this was actually been a ploy to trick him into leading them to the Dragon Sabre. He ran away, followed closely by Zhu Changling. They dropped onto a plateau, and Zhang Wuji escaped by squeezing into a small crevice.

The crevice turned out to be a tunnel into a little paradise, with fruits, fish, goats and monkeys all around. There, he found a monkey with a large tumour in its stomach. He found out that it was actually a little gunny sack sewn into the monkey's stomach. He removed it and discovered that it was actually Jiuyang Zhenjing.

Many years ago, two evildoers had stolen the Jiuyang Zhenjing from Shaolin Temple and hid it in a monkey when escaping from the monk Jueyuan and the Condor Hero Yang Guo. They ran away to Western China and fought over the manual, killing each other in the process. The monkey had found its way to this little cave where Zhang Wuji was.

As such, Zhang Wuji took five years to learn the Jiuyang Shengong, constantly flinging fruits to his enemy outside the cave. When he had completed his learning process he buried the Jiuyang Zhenjing, along with both He Qingniu's and his wife's books in the cave. He felt almost invincible with his superior internal energy and with his illness totally cured. Thus, he exited the cave in order to visit Zhang Sanfeng and his other uncles at Wudang. However, he was tricked by Zhu Changling, who pushed him down a cliff. Zhang Wuji dropped into a pile of hay, miraculously surviving the huge fall and only broke his legs. There he met a disfigured girl who called herself Zhu'er. Zhang Wuji did not want to reveal his identity in case more people questioned him about Xie Xun, and gave himself the name Zeng Ahniu.

After a few days of talking, Zhang Wuji realised that Zhu'er was actually Yin Li, the Golden Flower Granny's disciple. Both of them exchanged their life stories (with Zhang Wuji's being fake to a large extent naturally), and Zhang Wuji discovered that Yin Li had fallen in love with him ever since the day they first met. However, Yin Li could not recognise him, and probably would never have. She only loved the little stubborn strong-willed 14-year old Zhang Wuji, not the grown-up one. Zhang Wuji then revealed that he had been tricked by Zhu Jiuzhen and forced into his present state.

A few days later, Yin Li returned, and revealed that she had killed Zhu Jiuzhen in order to seek revenge for Zhang Wuji. The Zhu family then came and surrounded her. Yin Li fought bravely but she was no match for 5 of her opponents. Suddenly, Zhang Wuji stepped up and defeated all of them. Yin Li and Zhang Wuji escaped, and were caught by Miejue, who was heading towards Bright Peak, where the Ming Sect was. Emei and the other orthodox sects were going to wipe out the Ming Sect together. Miejue then encountered a gang of Ming Sect disciples, and they engaged in a bloody battle. Zhang Wuji was shocked by the cruelty of Miejue, and pleaded with her to spare their lives. In return, he would allow Miejue to hit him 3 times. The first two blows caught Zhang Wuji heavily, but at the same time gave him new insights into Jiuyang Shengong. On the third blow, he managed to use his internal energies and launch a counter-blow, almost knocking Miejue off her feet.

He discovered later that Yin Li was actually the daughter of Yin Yewang, meaning that she was actually his cousin. However, he was caught in a gunny sack and taken to a mountaintop. There he met the Five Separatists, comprising of Zhou Dian, Priest Tieguan, Leng Qian, his captor the monk Shuo Bu De, and the Green Winged Bat King, Wei Yixiao. They brought him to meet Yang Xiao too. However, they were ambushed by Cheng Kun and all 7 were paralysed in their melee. In the meantime, Zhang Wuji's Jiuyang internal energies had been seeping out of his body and were being trapped in the gunny sack. With a bang, the gunny sack exploded and Zhang Wuji had finally crossed the last hurdle in learning Jiuyang Shengong.

Cheng Kun recovered quickly and ran, with Zhang Wuji chasing fiercely after him. He met Yang Buhui and her servant Xiaozhao. Xiaozhao led Zhang Wuji to the Ming Sect's secret tunnel to look for Cheng Kun, but Cheng Kun let down an avalanche of rocks to trap them in the tunnel. There, Zhang Wuji discovered the manuscript for the Great Reversal Skill, which then allowed him to use his Jiuyang Shengong properly to remove the rocks.

He then proceeded to Bright Peak, where he offered to defend the Ming Sect and save them from certain extermination. There was no one else to help him, as Yang Xiao and the Five Separatists had been severely injured by Cheng Kun earlier. There was only White Eagle King Yin Tianzheng, but he was one man against an entire army.