Lu Zhishen

This episode mainly tells how, on his journey to Yan'an Prefecture, Shi Jin becomes acquainted with Lu Da and later meets Li Zhong, the Tiger-Fighting General, the martial arts instructor who first trained him. The three hear the tearful complaint of Jin Cuilian and her father, who earn their living by singing, in a wine house. After parting from Shi Jin and Li Zhong, Lu Da stands up for the oppressed and kills Zheng the Butcher, known as the Butcher of Guanxi, with three punches. He flees to Daizhou, where he meets Jin Cuilian and her father again. Because the authorities pursue him closely, he has his head shaved and becomes a monk at Wutai Mountain, taking the name Lu Zhishen. Unable to abide by the monastic rules, he gets drunk and causes a disturbance at the monastery, whereupon the abbot sends him to the Great Xiangguo Monastery in the Eastern Capital. Passing through Peach Blossom Village, he beats Zhou Tong the Little Bully and a chieftain of Peach Blossom Mountain, and meets Li Zhong again. After staying at Peach Blossom Mountain for a few days, Lu Zhishen arrives at the Great Xiangguo Monastery in the Eastern Capital to take charge of the monastery's vegetable garden. The translation of this book series was assisted by various AI tools, but the translator has manually reviewed the content sentence by sentence, with particular care given to correcting potentially confusing expressions. The result is fundamentally different from content directly generated and edited by AI.