Duel on Mount Hua: Nine Yin True Sutra Episode 6 Recap
> Duel on Mount Hua: Nine Yin True Sutra Recap
Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Chaofeng navigated Huang Yaoshi's intricate formations near Qingyin Cave. Chen Xuanfeng, using knowledge of the "Nine-Square Model" and "Tai Chi" principles, skillfully disarmed the traps, noting their limited time. Upon entering the cave, Mei Chaofeng, despite Huang Yaoshi's strict warning not to touch it, located the Nine Yin True Sutra.
With a heavy heart, she expressed her apologies to her Master and Madam, promising to return, before ultimately leaving Taohua Island with Chen Xuanfeng and the stolen sutra. Huang Yaoshi regained consciousness to find his other disciples incapacitated due to a sedative. His wife, Feng Heng, informed him that Chen Xuanfeng was responsible for putting her to sleep by attacking her acupoints.
Realizing that Mei Chaofeng and Chen Xuanfeng were missing, Huang Yaoshi immediately dispatched his senior disciple, Lingfeng, to locate them. Lingfeng later confessed that he had provided Mei Chaofeng with the sedative and had also repaired a boat, enabling Mei Chaofeng and Chen Xuanfeng to leave the island. He also revealed that he had given the formation-breaking diagram to Mei Chaofeng previously. As these unsettling truths emerged, Hong Gu, a maid, expressed a strong premonition of impending disaster.
During this turmoil, Xue Qingyi, whom Huang Yaoshi had believed to be dead, secretly infiltrated Taohua Island. She first drugged Feng Heng's maid and took Feng Heng hostage. Then, using her potent Emotions Powder, she gained control over Hong Gu and the other disciples, turning them into her puppets. Xue Qingyi then forced them to attack Huang Yaoshi, intending to make him kill his own disciples, creating a scene of master and disciples fighting each other.
She further provoked Huang Yaoshi, declaring that his disciples had ruined her great plans, and it was time for retribution. She unleashed the full effect of her Emotions Powder, a powerful concoction she had spent half her life perfecting, taunting that it would have been even stronger if his disciples hadn't destroyed her poison lab. She then attempted to force Huang Yaoshi to kill his own wife, Feng Heng, and their unborn child.
Xue Qingyi revealed that some of Huang Yaoshi's disciples, fearing his revenge, had betrayed him by providing Mei Chaofeng with the drug, the formation-breaking diagram, and the boat. She claimed they had even helped her infiltrate the island with the explicit goal of killing Huang Yaoshi, Feng Heng, and their unborn child, stating that even as the best martial artist, he was ultimately betrayed by those he trusted.
Feng Heng desperately pleaded with Huang Yaoshi to fight the mind control, even as he, under the powder's influence, nearly strangled her. Witnessing her distress, Huang Yaoshi, with immense willpower, forcefully reversed his meridians, pushing the poison from his system despite the risk of losing control. Now free from the Emotions Powder's effects, he swiftly subdued Xue Qingyi, who, in a desperate bid for survival, offered him the antidote. Huang Yaoshi, however, ended her life, eliminating the dire threat.
Following Xue Qingyi's demise, Huang Yaoshi administered an antidote, and his disciples gradually regained consciousness. They were immediately overwhelmed with guilt and sorrow for their actions against him while controlled. Lingfeng, as the senior disciple, was particularly distraught and attempted to take his own life out of shame, believing he had no right to live. However, a junior disciple intervened, preventing him, and redirected the blame, asserting that the fault lay entirely with Mei Chaofeng.
They accused Mei Chaofeng of tricking Lingfeng into providing the drug, stealing the Nine Yin True Sutra, and facilitating Xue Qingyi's infiltration of Taohua Island, which almost led to Huang Yaoshi's death. Huang Yaoshi, recovering from his ordeal, took time to meditate and heal.
Hong Gu, while checking on the stable Feng Heng and the recovering disciples, revealed that Huang Yaoshi had been expending great energy, using the Solar Mantra, to prolong Feng Heng's life ever since she suffered severe injuries from a fall years ago, which had shattered her meridians and bones.
She further explained that Feng Heng had painstakingly transcribed the Nine Yin True Sutra specifically to aid Huang Yaoshi's recovery, only for it to be stolen by Mei Chaofeng and Chen Xuanfeng. Despite this betrayal, Hong Gu also informed the disciples that Huang Yaoshi had actually been seeking a cure for Mei Chaofeng all this time.
Given the recent events and the remaining disciples' injuries, Huang Yaoshi instructed Hong Gu to allow them to leave Taohua Island and recover on the mainland. The disciples, including Lingfeng and Mofeng, departed, finding shelter with relatives or former military comrades, wondering if they would ever be able to return to the island. Having left Taohua Island, Mei Chaofeng and Chen Xuanfeng settled in a secluded house on the mainland.
They discussed their plans for recovery and eventual revenge, expressing hope for the success of General Zhang's northern expedition. Unbeknownst to them, Qiu Yunhai, from his Yunhai Manor, had received orders to suppress martial artists from aiding General Zhang's campaign. His informants soon discovered Mei Chaofeng's presence on the mainland and her surprising recovery, despite the severe injuries he previously inflicted upon her.
Believing Mei Chaofeng must have received help from a powerful master and was now seeking revenge against him, Qiu Yunhai issued a lucrative bounty of 100 taels of gold for her head, fabricating a story that she had broken into his manor, committed murder, and stolen. In their secluded retreat, Mei Chaofeng discovered that the stolen Nine Yin True Sutra was incomplete, containing only the second volume of techniques and lacking the vital first volume of internal mental methods.
She deduced that without the mental methods, cultivating the techniques was not only impossible but also highly dangerous, leading to a loss of control, and it would not help heal her injuries. She questioned whether Huang Yaoshi might have withheld the sutra because it was incomplete. Driven by her desire for revenge, Mei Chaofeng attempted to cultivate the partial sutra, quickly suffering a severe internal backlash and spitting blood, nearly losing control.
Chen Xuanfeng immediately intervened, stabilizing her and emphasizing the perilous nature of forced cultivation. He devised a plan to test the incomplete sutra himself, intending to find a safe way to practice it. He patiently worked on adapting Taohua Island's internal mental methods to complement the Nine Yin True Sutra, urging Mei Chaofeng to wait. However, Mei Chaofeng grew impatient, demanding to participate in the dangerous trials, which Chen Xuanfeng firmly refused.
Ultimately, Mei Chaofeng insisted on taking the sutra to find her own solution, but Chen Xuanfeng rejected again, telling her to leave him, as her involvement in his quest for revenge was unnecessary.
