found out and Dai is arrested too and sentenced to death with Song. Just when the two are about to be beheaded in public, Li Kui leaps down from a rooftop and hacks the executioners to death. The Liangshan chieftains who have surrounded the execution ground join the fight against the soldiers. They then flee the scene following Li Kui, who goes on a bloody rampage hacking every one who gets in his way. Chao Gai, the chief of Liangshan, manages to stop his indiscriminate killing. They are then stranded at a riverside temple wondering how to cross the waters. When a government force comes and besieges the temple, Li Kui charges out first to drive them away, followed by the others. Zhang Shun and other friends of Song Jiang from the Jieyang region arrive with boats on their way to rescue Song. Huang Wenbing, the minor official who reported Song's seditious poem to the authorities, is captured by the Liangshan men and subjected to dismemberment by Li Kui. Li follows the group to Liangshan, where he becomes a chieftain. Fetching his mother and slaying four tigers Li Kui leaves Liangshan for his hometown to fetch his mother. He runs into Li Gui, who impersonates him to rob lone travelers on a remote pathway. Li Kui beats Li Gui and wants to kill him for smearing his name. But when Li Gui lies that he has an aged mother to feed, Li Kui spares him and gives him some money to boot. Shortly afterwards, Li Kui comes to rest at Li Gui's house and overhears Li Gui discussing with his wife how to capture him and turn him in for a reward. Infuriated, Li Kui kills Li Gui but the wife gets away. Reaching home, Li Kui meets his elder brother Li Da, who, afraid of being implicated, rushes off to get men to arrest him. Li Kui flees with his mother, who has gone blind, carrying her on his back. They come to a hill, where his mother complains of thirst. So Li Kui goes off to search for water. When he returns, he is shocked to discover that his mother has been eaten up by tigers. Overwhelmed with grief, he follows the trail of his mother's blood to the lair, where he slays all the four tigers, two of which are cubs. He becomes famous in the local