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Ever since his daughter stormed off from home in anger, Huang Yaoshi has been filled with regret. He regrets not being able to speak properly, he regrets not taking better care of his daughter, he regrets not spending enough time with her, he regrets…

Oh! Heng, I've lost our precious daughter! I'm going to go find her, and when I find her, I'll bring her back so our family can be reunited!

Since Feng Heng's death, Huang Yaoshi has never set foot in the martial world again. It's a case of "I may be gone, but my legend lives on!" Huang Yaoshi wasn't narcissistic; rather, he was handsome and slender, tall and elegant, with a refined and aloof air, almost divine. If he were to walk the martial world without any disguise, let alone charm young women or wives, he wouldn't even be able to stand the small talk from those who knew him.

This time, Huang Yaoshi left Peach Blossom Island to find someone, which was a favor to ask, but he was too lazy to engage in pretense. Therefore, he wore an ugly, self-made mask, which could both block the prying eyes of women and shield him from the hypocrisy of worldly relationships.

Desperate to find his daughter, Huang Yaoshi searched the entire Peach Blossom Island after discovering she had run away from home, but to no avail. He then tortured the fake Taoist Zhou Botong with the "Azure Sea Tide Melody" to confirm that Huang Rong had indeed sailed to the mainland in a small boat. Huang Yaoshi took only his personal belongings and used his lightness skill to reach the seaside alone, where he sailed a small boat to the nearest coastline.

Huang Yaoshi truly lived up to his reputation as a martial arts prodigy who knew everything from astronomy to geography, and could see back five hundred years and into the future. In addition to posting a missing person mission at the Beggars' Sect, he also used his tracking skills to relentlessly pursue Huang Rong.

The Beggars' Sect needs no introduction; it was the largest sect during the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Beggars' Clan flourished because of its leader, Qiao Feng. Its members were spread all over the country, helping the court resist the invasion of the Liao and Western Xia dynasties. They risked their lives and shed blood. It was also a hub for information. Later, because Qiao Feng became Xiao Feng, the Beggars' Clan fell into silence.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, the Beggars' Sect gained great fame again thanks to Hong Qigong, one of the Five Greats, and achieved a revival. Although there was a dispute over clean clothes and dirty clothes, and although there were inevitably good and bad members, under the leadership of Hong Qigong, the Beggars' Sect still produced a group of chivalrous people who would shout for help when they saw injustice, and their information network was as good as that of the government agencies.

Hmm! Perhaps the government gets its information from the Beggars' Sect.

This is the Beggars' Sect. They have many beggars, strong fighting skills at the bottom, and powerful fighting skills at the top, which allows them to be arrogant and domineering, and they are full of confidence.

Huang Rong was new to the martial arts world. Although she was intelligent, she lacked experience and inevitably left her trail, which provided clues for Huang Yaoshi to track her down.

However, Huang Yaoshi wasn't too worried about Huang Rong's safety. His Peach Blossom Island faction was the only one in Linhai, and the royal guards in Lin'an wouldn't leave. Those high-ranking officials were also afraid of being beheaded by chivalrous江湖人士 (jianghu figures), so they wouldn't transfer their guards away. The Western Poison was at White Camel Mountain Manor in the Western Regions and wouldn't easily come to the Central Plains. The Northern Beggar's whereabouts were unpredictable, but he only punished evildoers. Although Rong'er was clever and mischievous, she was kind-hearted and had excellent cooking skills; Hong Qi wouldn't make things difficult for her. Although the Southern Emperor's current situation was unknown, he was certainly in Dali and wouldn't easily come to the Southern Song Dynasty. As for other江湖 figures, even if Rong'er couldn't defeat them, with her intelligence, who could stop her from escaping!

Yes! My daughter is indeed clever and quick-witted, able to roam the world unscathed even in her teens. However, her father will still be there to protect and guide her!

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At first, it was easy for Huang Yaoshi to track Huang Rong's whereabouts. However, as Huang Rong gained more experience in the martial arts world and disguised herself as a little beggar, the difficulty of tracking her increased dramatically. Huang Yaoshi had to slow down and search for Huang Rong's whereabouts more carefully.

Huang Yaoshi completely lost track of Huang Rong after she boarded a motorhome in Jiangnan halfway through the journey.

Huang Yaoshi searched the vicinity for a week but could not determine where Huang Rong had gone. He could only hope that Huang Rong would continue searching in the direction she had gone before she disappeared.

Huang Yaoshi knew his daughter had spent too much time in the secluded Peach Blossom Island and, once she entered the martial world, she'd become fond of joining in the excitement. Wherever there was excitement, she was likely to be there. So, along the way, wherever there was excitement, Huang Yaoshi would be there, secretly watching. Of course, no one else could spot him; his lightness skill was excellent. That's the advantage of high martial arts skills—you don't have to worry about being discovered while watching excitement, and you always get the best vantage point.

Unfortunately, after watching all the excitement, Huang Yaoshi grew impatient but still couldn't find his daughter, who seemed to have vanished into thin air.

  

Huang Yaoshi was anxious, and the more he couldn't find his daughter, the more anxious he became. But in the end, his anxiety subsided and he calmed down.

Originally, Huang Yaoshi had prepared to commit suicide to accompany his deceased wife in the afterlife. However, because of the daughter that Aheng gave birth to with her life, he kept waiting for his daughter to come of age and get married so that he could leave without any worries and have the face to go down to see his wife.

However, if his daughter really did go to see his wife first, then Huang Yaoshi can also go to the underworld to be reunited with his family. Hopefully, Aheng won't blame him for not taking good care of his daughter!

Upon arriving in Zhangjiakou, Huang Yaoshi saw the White Camel Manor's forces and thought that his daughter might also be attracted by these white camels that rarely appeared in the Central Plains. So he followed the White Camel Manor's forces to Zhongdu.

After searching the entire capital of the Jin Kingdom without finding any trace of Huang Rong, Huang Yaoshi felt that he might have overlooked something, so he returned to the place where he lost his daughter and carefully searched for anything unusual.

Persistence pays off. Huang Yaoshi finally connected the strange oxcart that appeared in Zhangjiakou with this place. He thought it was a clue and followed the oxcart to search for it.

Unfortunately, the time gap was quite long, and Jiangnan would occasionally hide in his RV to explore the local scenery and sample the local cuisine, causing Huang Yaoshi's tracking to be intermittent. Of course, this was also because after Jiangnan's tracking skills reached their maximum level during the hunt, he unconsciously used anti-tracking techniques in his daily life, resulting in Huang Yaoshi's tracking being intermittent.

Huang Yaoshi tracked the oxcart and discovered that if Huang Rong was on it, she would have turned back. Later, Huang Yaoshi tracked her all the way to Mount Huang and finally confirmed that one of the people on the cart must be his beloved daughter who had run away from home. Who else could possess such a mischievous, clever, and cunning nature?!

Although Huang Yaoshi was overjoyed to have found his daughter again, he was also heartbroken to see her with a strange man. The doting father had finally found someone to steal his daughter's heart; his little darling was truly distressed! Was his little darling about to be exposed?

Huang Yaoshi recalled the days when he first met Feng Heng. Although those days were somewhat chaotic, the sweetness of those times was gone, leaving only the sweet taste of memories; the details were no longer clear. After all, almost twenty years had passed, his temples were graying, and his daughter was of marriageable age!

Huang Yaoshi followed the trail of the RV and traveled around the south for a long time. He sailed a small boat on Taihu Lake and searched day and night for a week. He also searched the local strongman Lu Family Village and met Lu Chengfeng, a disciple who had been expelled from the sect. He also encountered Mei Chaofeng who came to Lu Family Village to rescue Yang Guo.

Although Huang Yaoshi was self-centered, his feelings toward his disciples were quite complicated: he was angry at Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Chaofeng for their betrayal, and he felt somewhat guilty toward Lu Chengfeng and other disciples, which caused him to take his guilt out on them, resulting in their inability to walk properly.

However, when Huang Yaoshi saw that his two disciples had believed the charlatan Qiu Qianzhang's nonsense and concluded that he had been ambushed and killed, he was furious at their lack of self-respect. Seeing that the two were prepared to risk their lives to avenge him, Huang Yaoshi felt that although his two disciples were a bit slow-witted, their filial piety was commendable. He thought that he could still give them a chance to repent and return to his sect, so that the Peach Blossom Island lineage would not be lost after his death. If they passed the test, then the martial arts of Peach Blossom Island could be passed down again.

Then, Huang Yaoshi made a mysterious appearance and taught the swindler Qiu Qianzhang a lesson. Huang Yaoshi didn't kill him, but complained that his hands were dirty.

Huang Yaoshi then tested Lu Chengfeng's son, Lu Guanying's, martial arts skills and found that Lu Chengfeng had indeed kept the oath of Peach Blossom Island, not passing on the island's martial arts to anyone else, including his own son, without his approval. Huang Yaoshi was very satisfied with this and told Lu Chengfeng that after finding his junior sister, he could return to Peach Blossom Island. He also gave Lu Chengfeng the martial art he had created over the years for his four wrongly accused disciples, the "Whirlwind Falling Leaf Kick."

In the eyes of Huang Yaoshi, one of the Five Greats, Lu Chengfeng's son Lu Guanying's martial arts skills were utterly terrible. He thought that the withered tree was just a branch of Shaolin, and his martial arts skills were so-so and not worth mentioning.

Huang Yaoshi allowed Lu Chengfeng to return to his sect and also permitted him to teach Peach Blossom Island martial arts to Lu Guanying.

Lu Chengfeng was naturally grateful and extremely excited. Although Huang Yaoshi felt that he was being a bit girlish, he was quite pleased with him.

However, Huang Yaoshi was not so gentle with Mei Chaofeng. Although he was heartbroken and angry to learn from Mei Chaofeng that Chen Xuanfeng was dead, Mei Chaofeng still had to be punished. He implanted three bone-attaching needles into Mei Chaofeng.

This bone-attaching needle was originally a treacherous hidden weapon developed by Huang Yaoshi, the Eastern Heretic, to torture enemies. It is infused with a slow-acting, potent poison that does not cause immediate death but rather inflicts prolonged torment. Those struck by it experience six daily attacks, the pain traveling through the bloodstream, piercing to the very marrow, making life unbearable. If one tries to suppress the poison with internal energy, the pain intensifies, and the next attack becomes even more excruciating and severe. Those struck by this weapon will not die from the poison for 1-2 years!

Mei Chaofeng knew the power of this hidden weapon. After being hit by the bone-piercing needle, she only wished for a quick death. Unfortunately, Huang Yaoshi refused, saying that she could only get rid of the bone-piercing needle if she found the true scriptures and the few innocent disciples who had been expelled from the sect.

They gave her the antidote to alleviate her symptoms and then sent her out to run errands!

Huang Yaoshi stayed at Lu Family Village for a few days, waiting for Lu Chengfeng to gather intelligence. When he learned that the RV had already left the vicinity of Taihu Lake and headed towards Lin'an, he did not delay and went directly to Lin'an.

Huang Yaoshi searched for Huang Rong's whereabouts in Lin'an City, but unfortunately, he found nothing. There was nothing he could do, as Huang Rong had never even entered Lin'an City.

Unwilling to give up, Huang Yaoshi searched the palace again, but did not find Huang Rong. Instead, he encountered Jiang Nan stealing books from the library. However, Jiang Nan was fast and, although his lightness skill was not particularly advanced, it was of a high level. Huang Yaoshi was too far away to catch up. Of course, Huang Yaoshi did not chase after him seriously, and it is hard to say whether he could have caught up if he had.

Later, Huang Yaoshi expanded his search to the villages outside Lin'an City, searching one by one and eliminating possibilities one by one using a laborious method...

After searching for more than a month, Huang Yaoshi finally found his beloved daughter in Niujia Village, which had been abandoned for a long time.

It's been a year since my daughter Huang Rong ran away from home! My dear daughter has grown taller, but she looks a bit thinner. I wonder if she's not eating or sleeping well, or if she's in a bad mood! However, she's still as clever and mischievous as ever. She truly is Huang Yaoshi's daughter, and she truly is his wife Aheng's daughter!

Huang Yaoshi didn't rush out to reunite with his daughter. No matter what, his daughter wasn't alone anymore. He wanted to observe her carefully and investigate her further!

Huang Yaoshi's secret observation did not alert Jiang Nan. Jiang Nan simply did not expect that someone would be secretly observing them. Moreover, Jiang Nan was at a crucial moment in creating Xingyi Quan and was completely absorbed in it. Since there was no external threat to them, his intuition ignored it.

Until the day Guo Jing, Yang Tiexin, and Mu Nianci arrived at Niujia Village, Huang Yaoshi decided to stop hiding.

Under the gentle moonlight, amidst the dappled shadows of the pines, Huang Yaoshi, playing his jade flute, slowly walked towards where Huang Rong and her group were.

He was spotted by Jiangnan the moment he appeared, especially since Huang Yaoshi made a high-profile entrance playing the flute. Jiangnan saw the man in a blue robe with a square scarf covering his hair, sitting steadily on the treetop swaying in the wind at the village entrance, as if he were rooted to the spot.

A closer look reveals a tall, slender, and upright figure with slightly hunched shoulders, yet without the slightest hint of stoop, exuding an air of solitary elegance and detachment from worldly affairs. He wears a simple, dark blue robe, its material substantial and its color serene, unembroidered and undyed, with only extremely fine, subtle patterns on the collar and cuffs—a detail easily overlooked by those with keen eyesight from Jiangnan. Its understated elegance is nonetheless imbued with a unique spirit. A loose black silk sash cinches his waist, adding to his carefree and otherworldly air. A matching blue cloth headscarf adorns his head, binding his jet-black hair, with a few silver strands falling gently in the breeze. He possesses none of the roughness of a martial arts master, resembling instead a reclusive scholar.

The most striking feature was his human skin mask: his face was ashen and lifeless, his muscles, nose, and mouth completely still, except for his two bright, slightly shifting eyes, which shone with a chilling light, like the head of a dead man placed on a living body—eerie and terrifying, sending shivers down one's spine at first sight. He moved without a sound, his figure ethereal and ghostly, his feet never touching the ground, slowly approaching, revealing him to be a master of exceptional lightness skills. In his hand, he held a jade flute, its warm and simple texture complementing his blue robes, further emphasizing his unfathomable elegance.

Under the clear glow of the full moon tonight, he was like a ghost when still, and invisible when moving; beneath the mask was unfathomable arrogance, and beyond the blue robe was a coldness that seemed to be isolated from the world.

Jiangnan recognized the person at a glance; it was none other than Huang Yaoshi, the Master of Peach Blossom Island and the Eastern Heretic.

This outfit is so classic that it's unforgettable!