♪Ask the sword and knife, and do away with resentment♪
♪I fear that new and old grudges will add to my troubles♪
♪Ask each tactic and move to see who is more skilled♪
♪Fate changes and cannot be predicted♪
♪Ask the road and journey ahead♪
♪Where is my soul mate?♪
♪Ask the rain and clear skies about the troubles on my mind♪
♪Face the moon every day and night♪
♪Ask the flowers and leaves, their colors are perfect♪
♪Happiness and pain are both short, how many springs are left?♪
♪Ask autumn and winter, the snowstorm continues♪
♪The rainbow scatters easily but the days are hard to endure♪
♪No one knows why the flowers blossomed early♪
♪Heaven doesn't mock us, you've also grown old♪
♪The martial arts world is small, but the rest of the world is vast♪
♪I've forgotten those who are gone♪
♪No one knows why the flowers withered early♪
♪Heaven feels no sorrow, you've also grown old♪
♪The heroes have died and little time is left♪
♪I've forgotten those who are gone♪
[Word of Honor]
[Episode 4]
[Tianya Inn]
[Yong'an Street]
You woke up?
Would you like some amber walnuts?
Thanks, Wen-gongzi.
Ah Xu.
Together, you and I have faced good and bad, life and death,
had dinner together,
and spent the night together in a dilapidated temple.
Why do you still call me Wen-gongzi?
Am I too much of an outsider?
These two horses are for you to ride.
Hurry as fast as you can to Lake Tai,
to avoid any more nightmares.
Wen-gongzi. Thank you!
You and us were strangers met by chance—
Haven't you ever heard "White hair good as new"? [Friendship is the same no matter how long]
Your Zhou-shu and I
were really friends at first sight.
The depth of friendship
does not depend on the length of time.
Your dad stayed in the Five Lakes World Alliance his whole life—
Zhang-gongzi.
Are you Zhang Chengling-gongzi?
[Vice Captain of Dazhi Branch of Beggar Guild, Crippled Beggar]
Friends, don't misunderstand. [Vice Captain of Dazhi Branch of Beggar Guild, Crippled Beggar]
We're not bad guys. [Vice Captain of Dazhi Branch of Beggar Guild, Crippled Beggar]
We're not bad guys.
I am the deputy leader of the Dazhi branch of the Beggars' Guild.
We were ordered by the law enforcement elder of our guild, Huang He,
and entrusted by Five Lakes World Alliance
to look everywhere for the Mirror Lake Sect's orphan
Zhang Chengling-gongzi.
Yesterday, a disciple saw that the young master's appearance
is remarkably like the portrait we were given.
So we came here today to make sure.
Do you know him?
He doesn't know you.
Make sure?
Just to confirm it, why bring so many thugs?
If he's not, no matter, but if he is the right one,
are you going to carry him off by force?
Not at all, not at all.
Young Zhang-gongzi.
It was Shen Shen, Leader of Mount Dagu Sect,
who asked us to find you.
Sect Leader Shen, you must know him, right?
He's your father's sworn brother.
I don't know him. I'll stay with Zhou-shu.
I'm sorry, I don't know him, either.
I think Young Master Zhang must have had such a fright
he seems to have lost his wits.
Could it be
the person who kidnapped him also drugged him?
This fellow's reversing black and white
with really exceptional skill.
Being a beggar is the wrong path for you.
You'd be better served getting your law degree.
Into formation!
[Prosperous][East Gate]
Hand over Young Master Zhang,
I'll let you two leave on your own.
Keep an eye on him.
Come.
Up!
Stop him!
Ah Xu must have been working on that waist since childhood.
Wen-gongzi. Hurry and help him!
Silly boy.
This bunch of stinky beggars can't hope to match him.
Come, eat a walnut.
Grows the intellect and repairs the brain!
Young Master Zhang.
Come with us.
Let's go!
[West Market]
Wen Kexing!
I'm here!
Ah Xu told me to watch him.
I'm watching him really carefully.
Even though he's not as pretty as you,
on the whole, he won't hurt my eyes.
You wanted me to do something?
If you want me to come and help, you need to say that.
If you don't say it, how should I know?
Your soft sword is a little too soft.
Ah Xu.
Zhang-gongzi.
This gang of people really aren't good people.
Don't let your soft heart make you too lenient!
Get out your weapon.
—Come with me. —Zhou-shu!
—Come with me.
Zhou-shu!
Zhou-shu. Are you okay?
Zhou-shu.
Get out,
or get dead.
[Yueyang Freight Depot]
Zhou-shu.
I really am turning into a useless waste.
Zhou-shu. What happened to you?
It's okay. I'm not dead yet.
Master.
In broad daylight, you …?
I let them choose.
They wholeheartedly wanted to be ghosts, not people.
Your master enthusiastically helped them.
To refuse would be impolite.
But, Great Philanthropist Wen,
you said you'd kill, so you killed,
but why'd you have to make the alley so disgusting?
It's the best way to announce your presence.
[Yue]
My two little darlings,
I'm going to untie you.
But there's one thing.
You mustn't cry.
I'm usually
a decent gentleman,
but I just can't stand hearing women cry.
If a woman sheds a tear,
[Ten Devils of the Ghost Valley, Horny Ghost] If a woman sheds a tear,
[Ten Devils of the Ghost Valley, Horny Ghost]
I forget all about [Ten Devils of the Ghost Valley, Horny Ghost]
minding feelings and courtesy. [Ten Devils of the Ghost Valley, Horny Ghost]
minding feelings and courtesy.
You cried!
You provoked me first!
Damned sex fiend! You wanna die?
Stinky girl, you're spoiling my fun again!
Aunt Luo said, no more flower-picking! [raping women]
You dare to do it again?
I'm not picking flowers!
I bought these two ladies from a brothel with genuine money.
If you don't believe me, I'll show you the body sale contract!
I don't care if you kidnapped or bought.
If I tell Aunt Luo that you were bullying girls again,
will she look at your body sale contract,
or just scoop out your eyes?
Dear A-Xiang.
Don't report your wicked gege's misdeeds!
This pair of beautiful sisters
can be a present, to provide for you!
Just pretend nothing happened today.
You bought them to serve you.
Help your gege hide his secrets!
I might help you,
if you owe me a favor.
You have to do three things for me.
Stinky girl, don't push me too far.
I'll bully you as much as I want.
Master has an order:
You're to gather everyone who's outside,
and go to Sanbai Manor in Lake Tai to wait for orders.
Why haven't you left yet?
Are my superior lightness skills just for running your errands?
I'll go, I'll go.
Now I just have to get Master to let me keep them.
Here.
Waiting till you're hungry?
Try it, try it.
Still not cooked, huh?
This time it's cooked, but it's really bitter.
Come on, give it here.
Forget eating.
This fish, ah,
maybe it's just inherently bitter.
Oh my god, a pair of big and little fools.
Don't y'all know that before you grill the fish, you have to clean out the belly?
If the guts burst, of course it'll be bitter!
I'm really impressed with you guys.
You've had people waiting on you your whole long lives, huh?
Your master around?
People learn bad habits so fast.
Ah Xu, ah.
Such stars, such a night.
Perfect for making merry while we can. [Lit: matching wine to a song]
How can you eat this barbarian coarse food? Let me give you a meal.
Tai Lake is famous for its fish.
On my boat, I happen to have a famous chef.
Why not ask him to prepare some delicious dishes for us to go with the wine?
Young Master Zhang, I haven't seen you for just one day,
and you seem
to have grown taller.
Ah Xiang, ah,
When you're free, you should study harder with those two sisters, how to serve people.
This is also a discipline of knowledge.
Look at how your master came out and performed today.
Master, this maid child is very silly by nature.
you know that.
If you think those two sisters serve you so well, then go back to them!
[quote] In the heavens, the clouds drape like white clothes.
A moment later, they turn into grey dogs.
Since time immemorial, all of life
happens the same way without end. [Du Fu, "Lamentable"]
An old rumor claims the old magic crafter Rong Changqing
worked his whole life to create three masterworks.
One called the Great Uncultivated.
One called the Dragon's Back.
One called White Clothes.
Once upon a time, the last manor lord of Four Seasons Manor, Qin Huaizhang,
went galloping around the Jianghu wearing the sword White Clothes.
Four Seasons Manor disappeared after that,
and the famous sword vanished without a trace.
Ah Xu. Let me tell you.
I saw your sword and White Clothes were very similar.
Originally I thought the stinky beggars of the Beggars Guild had bad martial skills and would collapse at the first blow.
I just waited for you to dispose of them and confirm it.
But I never imagined you'd rather take
you'd rather take so many risks rather than pull out your sword.
Could it be you couldn't bear to kill the Beggars Guild? A few stinky beggars?
Then I thought and thought.
There are only two possible reasons.
First:
This sword isn't yours.
Without doubt,
Our Ah Xu would never do such a despicable thing.
Then there is only the second explanation.
Why are you afraid
of revealing your whereabouts?
Wen-gongzi.
Us two, our relationship
is a lot like this fish.
You know why?
Not ready yet.
From the moment we met,
who I am,
where I'm coming from,
where I'm going,
I don't know any of it.
Who are you?
Where do you come from?
Where are you going?
I'm not interesting or interested.
You've shown up many times to lend a helping hand.
I offer respect for that.
If you're not satisfied with a little and want a lot,
If you want to meet the white clothes sword …
then you're wasting your mouth and tongue.
Ah Xu.
Why are you so grumpy today?
It's all my mistake.
I shouldn't have deliberately tested you
and worsened your internal injuries.
My heart is sore too.
Please forgive my humble self this one time.
I won't act like that again.
If I wanted to know something,
I should have asked you directly.
Our Ah Xu wouldn't deceive me, right?
Yun Cai! Hong Lu!
The magic music of Qin Song.
One of the Four Great Assassins.
Who'd be able to send that evildoer after us?
You've got more skill than I expected.
Whoever's behind this,
that one deserves the backlash.
Ah Xu. I find
you are more and more suited to my temper.
Sorry for the inconvenience. I defiled your xiao.
Another day, I'll put up a new one for your benefit.
No harm done.
It's only, Ah Xu, you have great martial skills,
but you can't play all the notes.
When I have time, I'll be sure and teach you.
No need.
Feel a little better?
Go. Sit down for a while.
Zhou-shu. I still don't feel very good.
Chengling. How old are you?
14 years old.
The martial arts aristocratic families start teaching their kids at five to seven.
Even if you only started inner work at age seven,
you've been practicing for seven years.
What practice yields only this?
Don't cry.
There, there.
What young person doesn't just want to have fun?
In my childhood, my parents made me study hard,
I also tried all sorts of sneaky tricks to get out of it.
Why don't I feel like playing around?
Silly boy.
Haven't you ever heard it said,
People only complain because they care?
Your Zhou-shu scolds you for not working hard
because he wants to give you advice.
You're a drop smarter now.
Zhou-shu.
Shifu, please accept me as a disciple.
I will pay you back by working really really hard!
I will absolutely never let down my shifu for saving and teaching me!
You, get up.
You are the Mirror Lake Sect's orphan.
You bear the heavy responsibility of continuing your sect.
How can I teach you?
I hadn't entered the sect yet.
My eldest brother had outstanding martial arts.
Second Brother's book learning was amazing.
I thought my life's duty
was to be responsible for my parents and be perfectly filial.
So I never really learned martial arts.
Mirror Lake Sect's martial arts …
I haven't learned any of them.
The tree wants to be still, but the wind keeps blowing.
A son wants to support his parents, but they died.
Most things in the world are like this.
Even so,
you should join the Five Lakes Alliance.
No, shifu, I want to be your disciple.
Please accept me as a disciple.
Get up.
I'll say it one last time.
For my benefit, get up!
You've already missed the best time to learn the basics.
I'm afraid, even if you spend your whole life, you won't have very good martial arts.
Stop that nonsense.
Silly boy, you have to understand what your Zhou-shu meant.
When he says "very good martial arts",
he means like the martial arts of Bodhidharma and Changming Sword Immortal.
It's not something most people can reach.
If you start working hard now
it won't be too hard to be as good as me.
Though you're not wrong,
there are two ways to learn martial arts well.
One is to practice from childhood.
Another is to practice really hard from today on.
Every day you practice, you'll get stronger.
Today you were bewitched by the devil-music
and received some internal injuries.
I'll teach you some basic core skills.
If you follow this method and regulate your breath, it'll treat those injuries.
Ah Xu. I already knew that
you have the sharpest tongue and the softest heart.
Come.
Are you okay?
Wen-xiong, shouldn't you go look?
No need, no need.
Ah Xiang can handle it herself.
This Zhou can also handle it myself.
Don't bother yourself, Wen-xiong.
Forgive me for not seeing you off.
No, no.
[Four Scorpion Assassins, Pretty Arhat]
[Four Scorpion Assassins, Evil Bodhisattva]
[Four Scorpion Assassins, Blond Monster Jiang]
Little gege,
What are you afraid of?
Could it be …
you're afraid I'll eat you?
You're right to be afraid.
Little brother,
this sister really does eat people.
Better be careful.
What? Old Devil Jiang.
You want this lady here to eat you, huh?
This lady thinks you'd be all gritty.
Evil Bodhisattva. Can't you go one hour and three minutes without getting a man's pole up? You can't, can you.
I'm telling you,
this is my prey.
Don't even think about it.
Of course I'm going to think about it.
I want
to have a little fun with you.
Don't! Don't!
No. No.
No. No. No.
Don't! Don't!
Annoying. Die already.
I wasn't done playing!
[Four Scorpion Assassins, Phantom Musician Qin Song]
Who hurt you like this?
Magic music backfire.
Who?
Someone who could turn your music back on you,
must have power much greater than yours.
This little kid has such a master just hanging around him?
Don't know.
I couldn't risk fighting him face to face.
Cheap jizz.
You fall down, you get up again,
but you don't even know who tripped you.
I wonder,
where will the Lord's blame fall?
What do you all say?
I'll go deal with him.
Master ordered us to hurry back to Yueyang.
Qin Song made a mistake.
Master can handle punishing him.
Pretty Arhat, don't add any more problems.
First I'll go deal with whoever injured Qin Song, then go to Yueyang. What's the problem?
You!
Anyway, you all know the Lord's orders.
I'd like to see
whether you have the skills to survive disobeying him.
I will be very happy to substitute for our Lord
and kill you.
Meditate, meditate!
Didn't anyone teach you how to meditate?
Eye looks over the nose, Nose looks over the heart.
Five cores rise to heaven. Qi converges in the pubic area.
It's normal to feel cold at first.
Remember, everything that appears is illusory.
Don't let worry into your heart.
Focus only on the breath inside you.
Use the force of your qi
to melt away the yin of the injury.
This is the Clear Heart Enlightenment Song.
This song helps with inner work and turns small gains into big ones.
The music is clear and proper, resolute and tenacious. So many twists, but no mistakes.
Only a nature free of guilt could manage it.
I didn't expect this man could get such a melody from blowing a xiao.
Ever since I was a child, if I wanted you to play the flute for me,
I couldn't just ask, I had to act so cute and obedient.
And now for some beggar,
you blow and blow half the night.
You're not at a critical moment of bottleneck,
and you're not hurt internally.
Your internal force is shallower than the water in this cup.
and you still want me to play you a song?
I'll use more internal energy than you'll gain, by far.
Foolish, huh?
Stop talking nonsense. Meditate more.
You saved that pair of sisters.
What are you going to do with them?
About that …
Do you remember, when you were younger,
you brought back a scrawny little puppy?
I tried everything to get you to get rid of it, but you wouldn't.
Then the dog got stewed and eaten.
You cried for three entire months.
I still have the same attitude.
Don't make a committment to it
if you can't keep it for the rest of its life.
It would be better for it to do it now and make the pain quick.
How can it be the same?
They're two real grown living people.
Master, you, uh … you said you followed the Zhang family's son because you thought there was something odd about his body.
Now you wear your inner strength down for someone else, blowing for him.
I wonder if the beggar is grateful for this.
Since when is it your place to point at me and criticize?
Can't I just like his face,
and want to make friends with him?
Once you enter the world of men, cause and effect take hold.
I haven't slept so well for a long time.
You're awake, Ah Xu?
Did you sleep well?
After blowing all night,
Working my internal breath, getting it up is suprisingly a bit slow.
My poor performance, ah, I'll be mocked.
No one asked you to blow all night.
I deliberately tested you yesterday
and caused your internal injuries.
After last night, your injury should feel much better.
Have I atoned for my crime?
Don't be mad at me [lit: don't reject my qi]
Let me feel the pulse in your veins.
Shifu.
Please teach me martial arts.
Who are you calling shifu?
Yesterday, I just taught you some core skills
to help your internal injuries.
It's not my sect's martial arts.
A master and disciple relationship is out of the question.
Once I deliver you to Sanbai Manor, after that
any destiny you and I have will end there.
If you want to learn martial arts, find someone else.
Silly boy,
did that scare you?
Don't you know that
your shifu has the sharpest tongue and the softest heart of any master's son?
Wind yourself around him.
Haven't you heard that fierce women can't resist clingy men?
Or, uh … where there's a will, there's a way!
Keep going!
Shifu. Please accept me as a disciple.
Are you leaving or not?
What are you doing?
Ah Xu, you have a ruthless heart.
You wouldn't leave me all alone in the desolate countryside?
Experiencing a shortage of servants?
Who is there who still cares about me?
Ah Xiang has her heart set on finding a young man to marry.
She found me a nuisance and drove me off the boat.
I don't believe you.
Ah Xiang actually got angry that I wasn't taking care of my body.
through the night, working hard at blowing the xiao.
That's why she drove me off the boat.
Right now, I feel a hidden discomfort in my pubic region.
Could I actually have injured my vital qi?
Ah Xu. Won't you let me pair up with you to ride?
You, stay steady.
Uncle Zhou. Lie down properly.
The cart drove well.
Ah Xu, you are good at everything,
except you really don't know how to live.
Eating and drinking are the happiest things in life.
How can you treat them so casually?
Eat or don't eat.
Huzhou is just ahead.
If Wen-xiong is dissatisfied, he's more than able to please himself.
How could I not be satisfied with you?
This really makes my heart sore.
My heart hurts for Chengling, ah!
these days he's not eating well, he's not sleeping well,
Look how thin his little face is!
When he was a young sir, he was so fair and tender.
Only a few days and ….
Huzhou is just around the corner.
When we get there, we'll find a restaurant,
and immediately eat a good meal.
I'll host you. How about it?
Since you and the Beggars Guild clashed face to face,
and they have eyes and ears everywhere,
there must be many people looking for you.
To avoid any new trouble,
it's best if you can hold on
until you're safe at Zhao Jing's residence.
Shifu. Please accept me as a disciple.
Little Chengling, ah,
I didn't expect
you to be so extraordinarily tenacious!
If I had your skills at annoying people, what deeds …!
Wen-shu, I don't want to leave any of you.
Don't worry.
This Wen person watched the heaven's appearance
pinching and figuring.
Our destined affinity
is still growing hard.
Shifu!
Ao Laizi. Stop running away!
You've lived so long and you still understand so little!
Lu Taichong didn't have good intentions!
He's kicked the bucket, but he's still dragging you down to hell with him!
I'm telling you, don't wade into muddy water!
You can't afford to wade in!
Don't tell me you can afford to wade in either!
What a joke.
No matter how weak our Mt Tai Sect is,
this poor Daoist will never fear people like you!
Children, don't delay
in finding Hero Zhao.
Senior, you got drawn into this quarrel because of our Danyang Sect.
We cannot abandon Senior and go!
Disciple and shifu advance or retreat together!
Together!
Ao Laizi.
You've used up your inner breath. Now you're spent. [Lit: an arrow at the end of its flight]
What are you still hoping to do?
This old couple are bound to win the Glazed Gadget piece.
You'd be better off making the best of things!
Pink Peach, Green Willow.
You're still at it? Old foes are sure to meet, ha!
Shen-shishu!
I thought Ao Laizi is also an expert.
Why'd he spend the whole journey jumping and startling like a scared rabbit?
So it turns out, the one chasing and attacking Mt Tai Sect
was you, Sect Leader of Mt Dagu Sect!
Hero Shen, If today's business gets spread around,
I don't think your Five Lakes Alliance will have the face to show yourselves.
Only if you get out alive to spread it.
—Qing Bai, let's go. —Good.
[Sanbai Manor]
I heard a long time ago that Hero Sanbai is the richest in the world.
As expected, it's quite magnificent, extraordinary.
and unexpectedly, a little sophisticated.
Shishu, these two bachelor friends, they found Chengling-shidi.
[Tai Lake Sect of Five Lakes Alliance, Zhao Jing] Shishu, these two bachelor friends, they found Chengling-shidi.
[Tai Lake Sect of Five Lakes Alliance, Zhao Jing]
You're so big now!
Chengling.
I'm your dad's favorite brother.
I am Zhao Jing.
You just call me Zhao-bobo, okay? [father's older brother]
You … you're Zhao-bobo?
Child, you've suffered hardship.
From now on, you should treat this place as your own home.
Do you want something to eat? Something to drink?
Anything, just come and ask Zhao-bobo.
Honored two bachelor friends, I have been discourteous.
Thank you two honored heroes for escorting Chengling here.
Great favor, great virtue! My undying gratitude!
Please accept Zhao Jing's bow.
No need, no need.
It's an honor to finally meet the elegant Hero Sanbai.
It really is better to see for oneself than hear it from others.
Hero Zhao! Hero Zhao! Hero Zhao!
My teacher, the sect leader of Mount Tai Sect, is being pursued and attacked! [Disciple of Mount Tai Sect, Qing Hua]
My teacher, the sect leader of Mount Tai Sect, is being pursued and attacked!
I beg you, please come quickly and rescue them!
♪The sky was gray as I crossed the cold river♪
♪The moon in my cup at night reflects the sadness in my smile♪
♪Who allowed me to roam around the world on horseback?♪
♪Who is drunk in their dreams but can't find home when they wake?♪
♪The cold rain kisses my windows♪
♪I don't mind hate and slander, but my melancholy persists♪
♪The spring breeze brings greenery along the river♪
♪But can't warm my cold heart♪
♪Is that our light out of nowhere?♪
♪I regret not meeting you earlier, but we've finally met now♪
♪Don't let the seasons pass in vain♪
♪Give up the adventures on horseback for a peaceful quiet life♪
♪The lights of ten thousand families light up the world♪
♪The past disappears like smoke in a sandstorm♪
♪I will spend the rest of my days enjoying my life with you♪
♪I will be with you forever♪