Sun Yixie, Huang Donglai, Jiang Muchan, Xiao Wuji, and Wenyu—these five "folk heroes" in Jining City began to gain popularity under the strategic promotion of certain influential powers.
Evidently, Eunuch Wei hoped that the public would focus on these "swordsman" rather than contemplate matters that they shouldn't—even though, in Eunuch Wei's view, the actions of these individuals were just frosting on the cake; the outcome would not change even without them.
...
On the night of the Cold Clothes Festival, outside Jining City.
Beside a fire, five people sat or stood, each wearing a different expression.
For they had just heard from Wenyu about Xiao Zhun's plot to refine the "Blood Sword Embryo" and his plan to storm Wujian Mountain Villa using the "Sword and Saber Seven Absolute Formation."
