Twin Evils of Dark Wind

Twin Evils of Dark Wind

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The Twin Evils of Dark Wind (simplified: 黑风双煞, traditional: 黑風雙煞, pinyin: Hēi Fēng Shuāng Shà, jyutping: Hak1 Fung1 Soeng1 Saat3), also called the Copper Corpse and the Iron Corpse (铜尸铁尸), were Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Chaofeng, husband and wife and renegade disciples of Huang Yaoshi. Having fled Peach Blossom Island with the lower volume of the Nine Yin Manual, they became notorious for their cruelty and for the arts they taught themselves from it.

History

Flight from Peach Blossom Island

Chen Xuanfeng was Huang Yaoshi’s second disciple and Mei Chaofeng his third. They became lovers in secret, and when the first disciple, Qu Lingfeng, discovered them, they feared what their shifu would do. Chen Xuanfeng stole Huang Yaoshi’s copy of the lower volume of the Nine Yin Manual, written out in his wife’s hand, and the two fled the island that night, hiding first on Putuo and then in Jiangnan. In his rage Huang Yaoshi broke the legs of his remaining disciples, among them Lu Chengfeng and Feng Mofeng, and drove them from the island.

The Twin Evils

The lower volume held only fighting methods, without the neigong foundations taught in the upper volume. Chen Xuanfeng therefore chose the arts that could be forced without them, the Nine Yin White Bone Claw, the Heart-Crushing Palm and the White Python Whip, and the two also trained external toughening arts. Under the name of the Twin Evils of Dark Wind they roamed the jianghu. Lu Chengfeng, resentful at being crippled on their account, once surrounded them in a ruined temple with dozens of fighters; they killed several and broke out, and around this time they killed Ke Pixie, Ke Zhen’e’s elder brother. When they found Quanzhen Daoists on their trail as well, they left the Central Plains for the Mongolian steppe.

The fight in Mongolia

In Mongolia they practised on living men and left piles of skulls behind them. The Seven Eccentrics of Jiangnan lay in wait for them on a barren hilltop. Ke Zhen’e blinded Mei Chaofeng with poisoned caltrops, and Chen Xuanfeng killed Zhang Asheng, who threw himself over Han Xiaoying to take a claw strike meant for her. In the darkness Chen Xuanfeng caught up the child Guo Jing, who stabbed him with a short jian in the navel, the one weak point of his toughened body, and killed him. Mei Chaofeng escaped.

Mei Chaofeng alone

Mei Chaofeng went on alone, blind, still training from the manual. She later returned to her shifu’s school, and died at Niu Family Village taking a blow from Ouyang Feng that was aimed at Huang Yaoshi’s back.

Members

  • Chen Xuanfeng, the Copper Corpse (铜尸) — So called for his sallow, coppery face, which never showed joy or anger, like a corpse’s.
  • Mei Chaofeng, the Iron Corpse (铁尸) — So called for her dark complexion.

Martial arts

  • Nine Yin White Bone Claw (九阴白骨爪) — A clawing art that drove the five fingers into the skull.
  • Heart-Crushing Palm (摧心掌) — A palm art that shattered the internal organs while leaving the bones unbroken.
  • White Python Whip (白蟒鞭) — A whip art from the same volume, later Mei Chaofeng’s weapon.

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