Legend of the Fox

Hu Fei and his sick, adopted uncle take shelter from heavy rain in a large private residence.

Since Hu Fei’s kung fu is incomplete to be able to defeat Yan Chi, uncle wants him to lie low.

Uncle tells Hu Fei that Nan Lan is Miao Renfeng’s ex-wife and the mother of his daughter (who she willfully ignores).

Miao Renfeng and Tian Guinong arrive at the inn preparing to challenge Hu Yidao but once they hear a baby, they decide to leave.

Tian Guinong intercepts the letter, tells Yan Chi (now a co-conspirator) that “it’s been delivered”, and for him to prepare 3 coffins, “two big, one small”.

This leads to a lust for revenge becoming a series of friendly spars in which neither man wants to kill the other, but to learn each other’s sword skills.

Eventually, he bribes Yan Chi to put poison on Miao Renfeng’s sword without his knowledge.

Hu Yidao’s wife, who suspects foul play from outsiders, asks Miao Renfeng to take care of her son, then commits suicide.

Tian Guinong orders Yan Chi to kill the child and steal Hu Yidao’s kung fu manual, but Yan is knocked unconscious by uncle, who ends up raising Hu Fei after he escapes Tian Guinong.

When we return to present day, uncle gives Hu Fei the kung fu pages given back to him by Yan Chi.

Hu Fei steps in to assist the blinded Miao Renfeng once multiples of Tian Guinong’s men come to kill him.

Hu Fei arrives at the village and is greeted by a young woman tending her flowers, whom he asks for assistance.

A mysterious individual (Murong Jingyue) appears and tries to destroy the young womans’ flowers but he is rendered unconscious by sleeping gas.

When there’s no response, a mysterious couple appears as he goes back to the young woman, who invites him for dinner and tells him that her name is Cheng Lingsu.

Cheng asks Hu Fei to pick up a basket and accompany her on a task, directing him not to speak or fight with anyone, and not to take more than three steps away from her.

Miao takes him to a shrine for the Hu family, telling him that their spars were friendly, and he didn’t know someone poisoned his blade and that the wife committed suicide.

Cheng Lingsu sacrifices her life for Hu Fei by sucking the poison out of his arm since itis the only way to remove it from the body.

Hu Fei visits his parents graves when Nan Lan comes (followed by Tian Guinong) and inquiries about her daughter and ex-husband are doing.

A sympathetic Nan Lan (who ends up leaving Tian) helps Hu Fei find a sword buried behind his fathers headstone.

With (vision restored) Miao Renfeng’s help, Hu Fei attempts to take revenge on Tian Guinong and Shi Wancheng for his parents deaths.