Murong family's Returning you with your own move
Demi-Gods and Semi-DevilsMurong family's Returning you with your own move is the renowned martial skill associated with the Gusu Murong family. In these episodes its power lies not only in what it can do, but in what others believe it can do: the art’s fearsome reputation fuels suspicion around unexplained deaths, draws Feng BoE toward a public contest, and supplies Bao BuTong with an extravagant joke about its capacity to save a life.
Reputation and the Shaolin Invitation
The art appears prominently in the wording of the Heroes Invitation Card issued by Shaolin Temple’s abbot, XuanCi. The invitation calls heroes to gather at Shaolin Temple on the Chongyang Festival, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, to challenge the reputation of the Gusu Murong family’s signature skill. The wording makes the technique more than a private martial inheritance: it is the focus of a public test staged before the wider martial world.
When the red card is read aloud, the invitation immediately becomes a confrontation. Feng BoE, a subordinate of the Gusu Murong family, declares that the family is not responsible for the deaths attributed to its divine skill, while acknowledging that others are unlikely to accept his denial. Since the matter cannot be fully explained, he proposes settling it through martial arts. He intends to go to Shaolin on the festival and fight the challengers one by one, even anticipating that after seventeen or eighteen bouts he may be too badly injured to face XuanCi. His response shows how the art’s reputation has become entangled with both the family’s defense of its honor and the public’s unresolved suspicions.
A Name Used as Proof and Boast
The technique’s prestige also surfaces in Bao BuTong’s exchange with XuanNan. As the group seeks help for men suffering from frost poison, XuanNan proposes bringing them to Xue MuHua, the celebrated physician. Bao answers that Xue may not be gratified by meeting the party, since everyone fears his young master’s Returning you with your own move. He then jokes that if the physician is dying, he need only find the young master, whose skill could save his life. The boast is deliberately comic; it conveys the reach of the art’s fame without establishing that the technique can actually treat illness.
Bao returns to the same claim while disputing Fan BaiLing’s use of a magnetic chessboard as a weapon. Even after Xue explains that the board was developed for practical chess study and only later used in combat, Bao continues to argue that the object is unnecessary: Fan could use a wooden board and embed the metal pieces by striking them into it. Bao’s challenge turns on the same habit of invoking the young master’s signature skill as a measure of exceptional martial ability. In these scenes, the technique functions as a celebrated standard and a conversational weapon, its reputation repeatedly called upon to make a point about honor, prowess, or practical ingenuity.
Narrative Significance
The episodes distinguish the art’s actual workings from its social force. They do not demonstrate its techniques in combat; instead, they show characters arguing over responsibility, reputation, and what can be proven. Feng BoE’s willingness to fight cannot settle the mystery by itself, but it gives the controversy a public arena. Bao’s boasts, meanwhile, reveal how the name has entered everyday talk among martial artists. Returning you with your own move thus operates in the narrative as both a reputed family art and a charged emblem of the Gusu Murong family’s standing.