In the first year of the Xiande era, when the Dawn-to-Dusk Plague ravaged Kaifeng, the refugee villages of Pla…
In the first year of the Xiande era, when the Dawn-to-Dusk Plague ravaged Kaifeng, the refugee villages of Plainfield were still under the rule of He Yuezhi, former second-in-command of the rogue bandits. Later, his iron-fisted methods provoked the third leader, Xie Yuanting, to exile him from the town. Cast out, He Yuezhi and his followers returned to banditry, coalescing into the Grudge Blade in the wild hills beyond the settlements, biding their time to take vengeance on those "ungrateful wretches."