The chapter opens with the main Mount Hua Sect, facing financial ruin, recalling its external branches from across the land. The sect demands the branches either financially support them or forfeit the Mount Hua martial arts they learned, effectively severing ties. This leads to outrage and disbelief among the external disciples, who question the sect's motives and the validity of the summons. A few disciples, including a martial arts master known by the alias "Black Panther", reluctantly decide to investigate, sensing something is amiss.