Episode 3 recap: Huo Xing Chen outwits human traffickers
A day has passed, and everyone is extremely anxious because there is no news of Huo Xing Chen's whereabouts. At this moment, Huo Xing Chen is wandering the streets like a headless fly, looking around in search of Chaxia, a superhero. An old lady deliberately falls in front of him, and everyone knows that the old lady is a scammer. Despite realizing the trick, Huo Xing Chen still helps the old lady up, gives her some silver coins, and accompanies her back home, wanting to see what she is up to. As expected, the old lady leads Huo Xing Chen to a den of human traffickers, where a group of strong men surround her. However, Huo Xing Chen was prepared and quickly uses a handful of sleeping powder to knock out the villains. She then informs the authorities and destroys their hideout, rescuing the abducted children. Since she has no money, she gives all the silver coins on her to the children.
Jiang Bu Ting realizes that Huo Xing Chen lacks social experience and will have a hard time surviving in society. When she is starving, he buys buns for her and takes the opportunity to persuade her to return to the Wuyue Sect. When he learns the real reason behind Huo Xing Chen's hunger, which is not what he had assumed, he starts to see her in a different light. In order to convince Huo Xing Chen to return to the Wuyue Sect, Jiang Bu Ting tells her about a group of black-clad individuals who have abducted many skilled martial artists. He initially wanted to scare her away, but to his surprise, Huo Xing Chen becomes deeply interested and sees it as an opportunity to demonstrate her righteousness and chivalry by searching for the missing martial artists.
Huo Xing Chen wants to use herself as bait to lure out the black-clad individuals, but Jiang Bu Ting believes it is too dangerous. Huo Xing Chen considers herself the future of the martial arts world and feels responsible for saving those martial artists. Jiang Bu Ying offers to be the bait, but Huo Xing Chen believes her martial arts skills are superior. Jiang Bu Ying disagrees, and they engage in a sparring match. After just one move, Jiang Bu Ying realizes that Huo Xing Chen has no real skills and decides not to continue the fight. However, Huo Xing Chen mistakenly thinks that Jiang Bu Ying has admitted defeat and naively believes that even though she has taken the Bi Gong Pill, her martial prowess remains strong.
Jiang Bu Ying wanted Jiang Bu Ting to tell Huo Xing Chen that she didn't possess real martial arts skills and advised her not to venture into the martial world. However, Jiang Bu Ting believed that this matter was of great significance. If the martial arts sects were to discover that Huo Xing Chen had no inner strength yet aspired to govern the martial world, it could lead to a catastrophic upheaval. The power struggle among the Five Peaks Sect leaders would undoubtedly bring disaster to the Huo family. Therefore, he decided to continue hiding the truth from Huo Xing Chen while secretly assisting her.
To capture the person in black, Huo Xing Chen deliberately spread the word that there was an unparalleled expert at the Wenzhu Inn. She anticipated that the person in black would come to the inn that night upon hearing this news. However, she waited all night at the inn and saw no sign of the person in black. Jiang Bu Ting, fearing for her safety, stayed awake the entire night. It was only after daybreak that he discovered two knights at the inn who were taken away by the person in black. Jiang Bu Ting instructed Huo Xing Chen to hide while he went to apprehend the person in black. However, Huo Xing Chen believed herself to be strong and Jiang Bu Ting weak. She wanted to protect Jiang Bu Ting since the strong should protect the weak, which was the chivalrous way she followed as she roamed the martial world. Jiang Bu Ting agreed with her perspective.
At night, the person in black came again to abduct people. Huo Xing Chen intervened, but she was no match for the person in black. With Jiang Bu Ting secretly assisting her, she managed to defeat the person in black. However, due to inhaling the poison powder released by the person in black, she started experiencing hallucinations and clung to Jiang Bu Ting, not allowing him to leave, while simultaneously desiring to ride him and be close to him. The next morning, Jiang Bu Ting pretended that Huo Xing Chen had taken advantage of him, making Huo Xing Chen feel responsible for him and take him back to the Five Peaks Sect, giving him a proper status. Huo Xing Chen vaguely remembered the incident with the male protagonist from the previous night and ran away in embarrassment. Jiang Bu Ting left some medicine powder left by the person in black and asked Jiang Bu Ying to seek an experienced physician who could identify the formula of this poisonous powder, hoping it would provide clues about the person in black.
After contemplating the situation, Huo Xing Chen believed that she should take responsibility for Jiang Bu Ting. She allowed him to be her secret lover and assured him that she would take care of him. Jiang Bu Ting wanted to return to the Five Peaks Sect with Huo Xing Chen, but she did not agree. Jiang Bu Ting wanted to know about the incident when she was young and was being bullied, and the masked Fork Hero descended from the sky to save her.
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