♪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 5]
—Shishu! —Shishu!
♪Bright clouds scatter, glazed glass breaks,♪
Shen child, just wait and see!
People will only come for the Glazed Gadget more and more.
You two come here.
Sect Leader Shen.
These two disciples have undertaken to join the Mt Tai sect.
Oh Honored Sir, if you have advice,
you can give it to this faulty Daoist.
Ao Laizi,
You've seized my Third Brother Lu's disciples and are refusing to deliver them.
What are your intentions?
Sect Leader Shen, that's not true.
As Sect Leader Lu was dying, he personally entrusted these two disciples to this faulty Daoist.
It's your Five Lakes Alliance that's using your power to oppress and take advantage of others.
This Shen respects you as a sect leader,
and will always render the courtesy deserved.
Don't cause yourself problems by refusing to be polite now.
Shen-shishu, when Shifu was dying, he really did instruct us to follow Ao Laizu-qianbei in the future.
Please, remember your friendship with your sworn brother, and respect his final wishes!
Please, don't stubbornly try to make us—
Ungrateful child!
Your shifu was sick and muddle-headed! [Lit: so sick he was writing with congee]
If you switch to Mt Tai Sect, the Danyang Sect tradition will be dead, and you'll be to blame!
Please don't make things even harder for these two children.
Do you care about the people, or do you care more about the item?
Tell us the truth.
What if I want both?
Think you can stop me?
Wu-di! [Fifth younger brother]
Shifu!
Shifu, are you okay?
Wu-di, how did you all meet here?
Why-? And Ao Laizi-daoxiong! [respectful term for daoist]
Qing Hua, this is Hero Shen.
Don't worry, your teacher hasn't been harmed.
Wu-di, you're injured.
Er-ge, it's lucky I happened by. [Second older brother]
I saw that wicked old couple, Pink Peach and Green Willow,
arrogantly facing off against Ao Laizi-daoxiong,
So I acted to help chase them away.
You came at the right time.
Daoxiong has had a tiring journey,
escorting our Danyang Sect children all this way.
We must properly thank him and his.
Daoxiong is an exemplar of righteousness.
How dare Pink Peach and Green Willow cause trouble for Mt Tai Sect?
But don't worry. Our Five Lakes Alliance will definitely help you reckon accounts.
Today you've had a hard day in a long journey.
Why not follow this Zhao back to Sanbai Manor, get some rest, and then we can talk more?
Hero Zhao, what if I don't want to?
If Daoxiong isn't willing to grace my humble home,
naturally it must be because this Zhao lacks the virtue and skills to interest him.
Perhaps we will meet again under better circumstances. We won't hold you up any longer.
Er-ge.
Wu-di, Daoxiong is highly respected.
Don't make a scene in front of everyone.
Since Daoxiong won't do us the honor,
this Shen can only see you off respectfully.
May your journey be easy.
However, Danyang Sect's two descendants ….
We are obedient to Shifu and want to go with Sect Leader Ao Laizi.
Then I'll ask Daoxiong to take very good care of them.
The two of you,
be smart and sensible in all things.
Don't disgrace the Five Lakes Alliance.
Daoxiong,
haven't you heard the idiom about the innocent man? Others' greed becomes your crime.
Just Pink Peach and Green Willow were enough to put you in difficulty.
Are you sure you want to cling to the path you've chosen?
Each of them have ulterior motives at heart.
Hero Shen, thank you for driving them off.
Everyone—see you again in the Jianghu.
Disciples, let's go.
Here, Chengling.
Meet your Fifth Uncle.
Fifth Uncle.
Er-ge,
this is Chengling?
That's right.
It was these two righteous bachelors
who escorted Chengling to Sanbai Manor.
This Zhao has been discourteous and hasn't even asked the two bachelors' family names or heroic titles.
Just a no-name guy. Nobody worth mentioning.
Anyway someone asked us to.
Since we're done here, I—
He's Zhou Xu and I'm Wen Kexing.
Hero Zhao, Hero Shen.
We escorted Chengling all the way here,
with remarkable difficulty, it could be said,
every pace a struggle.
[Jingrui Temple]
[poetic] Appealing flowers, appealing incense, appealing beauties,
Within, desire intoxicates a man.
Singing water, singing qins, singing orioles,
these sounds move a man. [poetic]
Hero Zhao is truly a personage of culture and sophistication.
This insignificant one lifts a cup to Hero Zhao.
Such unexpected literary talent!
Come come come, drink!
Two bachelor friends Zhou and Wen,
Shen shen also lifts his cup to you two.
Thank you both for bringing Chengling here.
The Five Lakes Alliance, young and old, are touched by your great virtue.
Oh, I haven't made introductions!
This person is my fifth [younger] brother, Shěn Shèn, sect leader of Mt Dagu Sect.
Now I've met Sect Leader Shen!
It's an honor to meet you at last.
As expected, seeing for oneself is better than hearing from others. The real person's elegant manners surpass the reputation.
It is the utmost honor, ah.
The two of you, excuse me a moment.
Everyone,
Many thanks for your immediate support of the Five Lakes Alliance in this manner.
This Zhao guy really likes to enjoy his pleasures.
My missing nephew Zhang Chengling has returned today.
This Zhao couldn't be more happy!
Ah Xu, this shrimp isn't bad. Come, taste a piece. [note: shrimp supposedly make people "happy and relaxed", possibly, aphrodisiac?]
The Window of Heaven files only had one line:
"Hero Sanbai, Zhao Jing, married into the family
of West Zhejiang's First Civilian Envoy via his daughter, an only child. and is the richest in the region."
Didn't expect him to be this grandly rich.
No wonder people call him Meng Chang Plus. [A rich man famous for generosity]
Shifu.
Come, take a break.
Qianbei.
Shifu! Shifu!
Are you okay?
It's nothing, it's nothing.
The Five Lakes Alliance is prestigious and reputable, after all.
Although Shen Shen keeps clucking and butting at us,
we are in the right here.
He won't dare to publicly slaughter fellow Jianghu people.
Kid.
Won't dare publicly slaughter, ah?
What about privately, hm?
Even if Shen Shen doesn't do it,
didn't you hear what Pink Peach and Green Willow said?
Now that news about the Glazed Gadget has leaked,
the Jianghu won't have another peaceful day.
The storm has begun, and the Jianghu will be in turmoil.
In this sort of situation, everyone suffers.
Life and death are less important than keeping promises.
This is the duty of my generation.
The path is more important than one faulty Daoist.
Children,
you all must do your best to survive.
Please don't let Mt Tai Sect and Danyang Sect go extinct.
Good kids like you will bring splendor back to the sects.
This shifu and Sect Leader Lu
will smile at that down in the underworld.
Shifu! How can you talk like that?
—Shifu! —Qianbei!
Who—?
Help me, ah! Help me, ah!
Help me, ah!
All you children, take care here.
Help me, ah!
Help me, ah! Help me, ah!
[Young Leader of Broken Sword Manor, Mu Yunge]
Help me! [Young Leader of Broken Sword Manor, Mu Yunge]
Move back.
Help me, ah!
Help me!
Hero, help me. Help me!
You? You're from Broken Sword Manor.
There's—there's a lady ghost chasing me!
Lady ghost?
There's a lady ghost chasing me!
What lady ghost?
Those who cause heartbreak Will one day end in heartbreak.
In the Heaven of Lovesickness's
Register of the Heartless,
your name is written down as unfaithful,
Mu Yunge.
Your lifespan is at its end.
Let's go.
Where are the ghosts and goblins?
Quickly show yourself!
The Master of the Register of the Heartless asks:
you old bull-headed Daoist,
you have no debts of passion. Why kick up a fuss?
If you want to live, hurry up and get lost.
Master of the Register of the Heartless, Joyful Funeral Ghost!
Luo Fumeng! Qing Bai!
Here!
Lead all your shidi away from here for now.
Hurry! Go!
—Shifu, take care! —Qianbei!
Shifu! Qianbei! Shifu!
Then, perhaps maybe, I could leave now?
No way, no way, no way.
You have to stay with us.
Stay with us and learn … learn how to handle these events.
Wu-di, he is still a child.
Who didn't start drinking as a child?
Come!
Shen-shushu, I really haven't learned to drink.
You have to drink!
Wu-di!
Your dad could do a thousand shots and keep his feet.
How'd he get a son who doesn't know how to drink?
Huairen, take your shishu back.
Will do.
Er-ge!
Shishu, let's go back to the rooms and rest.
Not drunk!
Shishu, let's go now. Shishu.
Then you teach Chengling, ah!
He's only wild like this when he's drunk.
Let's go. I'll walk you back.
Have a really good bath and a solid sleep.
Hero Zhao.
That young master just now had a very attractive appearance.
He's my da-ge's favorite disciple, Song Huairen. [da-ge: eldest brother]
[Disciple of Yueyang Sect, Song Huairen]
Zhao-da-ge.
This here is the great and famous Mt Hua Sect Leader,
Yu Qiufeng.
[Leader of Mount Hua Sect, Yu Qiufeng]
This is his son, Yu Tianjie, [Leader of Mount Hua Sect, Yu Qiufeng]
This is his son, Yu Tianjie,
a blossoming young man.
[Yu Qiu Feng's son, Yu Tianjie] a blossoming young man.
[Yu Qiu Feng's son, Yu Tianjie]
This is my new friend,
Wen Kexing, Hero Wen.
Hero Wen, accept my courtesy.
It is truly the great Sect Leader Yu and his noble son.
It's an honor to meet you.
As expected, seeing for oneself is better than hearing from others. The real person's elegant manners surpass the reputation.
[Jingrui Temple]
Hero, would you like to use the toilet?
Don't worry about me.
I'm looking for somewhere to vomit—gonna spew any second—
The Five Lakes Alliance is full of infighting, layer on layer like heavy mists.
That Yu Tianjie, what's his game here?
So much excitement, ah.
If you live peacefully, without debts or regrets,
No need to fear a ghost will knock on your door at midnight.
Five Lakes Alliance, y'all have made many debts and regrets!
and now the ghosts are knocking!
Help me, ah! Help! [Jingrui Temple]
Help me, ah! Help me!
What happened?
Try to calm down. There's no need for panic.
What happened?
What's the matter?
The main gate...
There's been an incident at the main gate!
[Sanbai Manor]
Manor Lord, look! Manor Lord!
Ao Lai-shixiong!
Ao Laizi-daoxiong!
Shixiong! … Shixiong!
Shixiong!
Laughing Ghost?
This is the mark of Laughing Ghost.
Ghost Valley!
Laughing Ghost from the Ten Devils of the Ghost Valley.
First Mirror Lake, then Tai Lake.
Moreover, after killing, they disgrace the corpses.
It seems like this time, the Ghost Valley
is emerging to target the Five Lakes Alliance.
Shifu!
Shixiong!
Chengling?
It's a trap! They're creating a diversion!
[Joyful Moon Pavillion]
Chengling!
Chengling, you haven't been hurt, right?
Young Zhang-gongzi,
Just now, were they from the Ghost Valley?
I don't know.
You … you don't know?
What did their leader look like?
I don't know. I'm scared they'll hurt me.
Shifu.
You—you—
Calm, calm.
How would he know about the Ghost Valley?
Hero Yu.
Just now it was only a few males wearing ghost masks who wanted to take Zhang-gongzi away in the chaos.
Their martial arts were not worth mentioning.
They scampered the moment I showed up.
Sure enough, it's Ghost Valley.
If you say so, then it must be so.
It's only, the people who came were complete wastes of space.
So then it's clear that Ghost Valley might have a great reputation, but they're not worthy of it,
and after meeting all of you,
My heart is convinced of the heroes' elegance, so unlike them.
So different.
Hero Wen, you saved Chengling again.
This Zhao truly does not know how to thank you enough.
[Autumn's Echos]
Who is it?
Young Mu.
Ghost...
Ghost, ah!
That's right,
I've become a ghost.
One burial, two lives.
While pregnant with our unborn child,
I was strangled to death with a hemp rope at the foot of Broken Sword Manor.
Oh, by the way, Young Mu,
Don't you want to meet
our unborn child?
Yan … Yan Wan—
It's all my fault.
It's all my fault!
I—I'll arrange for a whole month of Water & Land Liberation Rites for your benefit! [extremely expensive ritual to liberate the dead from suffering, usually 7 days]
You … you let me go …
No way.
We already pledged,
while in the sky, we'd fly wing to wing like birds, [or, make my cunt the target for your cock]
and underground, we'd twine together like roots.
Now that I'm under the ground,
you have to
come down and join us!
[Happiness]
[Ten Devils of the Ghost Valley, Beauty Ghost, Liu Qianqiao]
Scare to death this king turtle who first misled and then discarded her!
Liu-jiejie, you're so amazing.
Let's see if he ever dares raise debts and worry like that again!
Silly girl, he's not going to get the chance in this life.
If he's reincarnated into a human baby, then we can talk about it!
Liu-jiejjie, your disguise techniques are godlike!
It's really nothing.
If you want to learn,
I can try to teach all of you.
Good good good, we all want to learn!
We want to learn!
But … it's easy to learn and difficult to master.
[Sanbai Manor]
Can't sleep?
Shifu.
Chengling,
in the future, you must not call me that.
I have fulfilled my promise
and delivered you to Sanbai Manor safe and sound.
If you want to learn martial arts,
Zhao Jing, Gao Chong, Shen Shen,
these heroes are all able to teach you.
You and I, our fate together ends here.
A Han man … doesn't let himself sob.
I'm not sobbing, I'm a man.
Men shed blood, not tears.
[Young Qin Jiuxiao]
You mustn't sob.
A Han man, ah, must not sob.
I know that. I'm not sobbing.
None of you sob, so I won't sob either.
You said over and over that it was absolutely secure!
so how did the Glazed Gadget get stolen?!
I was negligent.
We got caught by the second trap inside the first. They lured us out.
I thought they were about to snatch Zhang Chengling,
but instead they surprised me. They opened the door to my hidden chamber
and went straight for the Glazed Gadget.
So who do you think has the skill to break into your secret room?
The door to the hidden room uses a secret kind of lock.
Only insiders know how it works. An outsider wouldn't know.
No one could break through it.
That means the thief is inside, colluding with an enemy outside.
But how did they finesse the timing so perfectly and precisely?
You're saying …
my manor has a traitor among us?
The person Yu Tianjie was chasing must have stolen the Glazed Gadget.
That masked man, who could he be?
Er-ge, why are you so muddled?
Danyang Sect has no more descendants.
Mirror Lake Sect was exterminated.
Quick as that, Mt Tai Sect's old boss man's life is over.
Ghost Valley obviously seeks the Glazed Gadget.
Now out of five, three are gone!
The Glazed Gadget had five pieces to it.
Apparently the five brothers of the Five Lakes Alliance each had one for safekeeping.
Twenty years.
What have you been doing for the last twenty years, er-ge?
Have riches rotted out your spine?
In this one night,
The enemy assaulted people, and they stole the thing from you!
The defenses of your Sanbai Manor are no better than a tavern or teahouse!
Da-ge wasn't wrong.
You think these people actually admire you, Hero Sanbai, huh?
All of them just want your riches and glory.
The whole great Tai Lake Sect, what kind of state has it gotten into under your management?
A hundred years of the Five Lakes Alliance prestige!
Do you know how many people worked to build that up?
And now, with its fortunes in your hands,
It's being walked on! Turned into a bad cariacature!
Agreed.
You speak the truth.
Outsiders all say
The Five Lakes Alliance has such great, awe-inspiring might!
I, Hero Sanbai, live so honorably and gloriously!
In reality it's untrue. I only have a few ill-gotten gains.
All I bring to the Five Lakes Alliance is humiliation!
Want to know what I truly desire?
I want the Zhang family all home safe,
us five brothers all happy and well, Rong-da-ge happy and well … That would be more than enough.
If I'd known it would go like this ….
Why did we ever set up that Arsenal?
Why did we commission the Glazed Gadget?
Wu-di, you still have a piece of the Glazed Gadget.
Bring it out,
and let's melt it down.
All five pieces of the Glazed Gadget are necessary.
Once it's melted down,
no one can open the Arsenal,
and the world will have peace and security.
Er-ge, are you having a qi deviation?
We brothers
to preserve the secrets of the Arsenal, how many people did we sacrifice like animals?
If you throw the Glazed Gadget into the fire,
all of them, every one of them, died in vain!
—Who is it? —Who is it?
Who's got concealment skills so good they can keep me in the dark?
Where'd that little thief go?
♪Willows are everywhere in the town, but I don't see a catkin♪
Come down?
♪My heart is closed without seeing your returning horse♪
Thank you, Ah Xu, for stopping those two honorable friends.
Ah Xu usually loves to bully me,
but who knew? When outsiders are involved,
you do know how to distinguish close friends from casual ones.
Wen-xiong doesn't want the seat of honor,
and would rather be a thief in the rafters.
What are you really after?
You're doing the same thing. We're equally at fault.
I know, I know. Most of the time, we don't let it pass our lips,
but our hearts, inside them, ah, we're like mirrors together [know each other and/or the situation]
Seems like, this Five Lakes Alliance, it's very deep waters, so deep.
and our little Chengling, he's so silly.
So then, I say, ah, we need to get involved
enough to understand the whole story of the Glazed Gadget,
and who's responsible for all this.
Otherwise, this den of tigers and wolves sooner or later, will devour him whole.
Don't you think
tonight was a little bit out of the ordinary?
I saw Yu Tianjie chasing after someone with their face completely masked.
This person was presumably the inside agent Zhao Jing mentioned.
The whole way here I saw marks from fighting,
until they stopped near here.
Be careful!
A cluster of Soul-Tangling Thread.
This time it's the genuine Hanging Ghost.
The Hanging Ghost that A-Xiang killed was a fake.
Xue Fang made his name some thirty years ago.
If one little servant girl could flatten him and pack him away,
the people killed at that devil's hands would be turning in their graves and beating on the coffin lids.
Ah Xu,
"Don't gossip about people in daytime, Don't talk about ghosts in nighttime."
You're really not afraid of anything!
Oh, I've got it!
You've never had sex with a woman, so you're not afraid of ghosts! Is that it?
Ah Xu. You don't have a problem with blood, do you?
It just disgusts me.
You're a master with killing aura rocketing to the heavens, but you have a problem with blood?
I am going to die laughing. It's so funny!
Don't be angry! Don't be angry!
I'll fix it up clean for you.
This will make it easier.
The mantis stalks the cicada, but there's an oriole behind.
Want to make a bet with me?
Let's guess who that honored brother hanging up there is.
No cheating.
Boring.
If you don't guess soon, I'll consider it forfeiting!
I'm going to guess.
I guess … he's the son of the leader of Mt Hua Sect
Yu Tianjie.
And the answer is …
First game: my win.
Ah Xu! Where are you going, ah?
It's past midnight! Wait for me!
Today Sanbai Manor is lousy with people coming and going, lots of furor and noise.
Ah Xu, here we go again! Our second game!
You guess who this masked man is.
Leave me a little space.
I know, guessing who is too hard.
You might find it easier to guess
who was his killer?
Song Huairen.
The disciple that Gao Chong sent to Sanbai Manor.
So then he's the inside agent.
You didn't even try to guess who killed him.
Yu Tianjie.
I saw them crossing hands. [fighting]
His father-in-law's Three Green Peaks Sword Technique. [Easter egg ref. to "Water of Canglang"]
Wrong, the sword technique wasn't the fatal blow.
what weapon caused this injury?
This wound did it.
But then,
This wound looks like it was caused by an iron hook.
But I don't know anything about this kind of martial arts.
Ah Xu,
do you hear owls laughing?
As the saying goes, don't fear an owl's call,
but fear an owl's laugh,
because after it laughs, someone will die.
Tonight hasn't lacked for dead people.
There's still not enough.
I heard, a while ago,
there was a child who heard an owl laugh.
Then, in his village,
one after another, dozens of people died.
These people are all cicadas,
so who is the oriole? Who's the mantis?
The world is like chess.
Every wild child who think's he's cunning and has mastered all the tricks
believes he has the game in hand.
Everyone thinks themselves the oriole,
and can't imagine they're all just tiny cicadas.
If you want to say you're the oriole, say it frankly.
Ah Xu, where are you going?
It's past midnight!
I'm a tiny cicada who's afraid of ghosts!
[Zhao Coffin Home]
Be careful!
How irregular!
A truly ruthless arrangement.
The first but not last. They've upped the ante.
A beautiful appearance and great martial skills,
and also wide experience.
The Jianghu is full of mediocrity, more than the river is full of perch,
and then there's you, bursting with talent.
Why have I never heard this name Zhou Xu?
Ah Xu, who are you at bottom?
Putting the same question to Wen-xiong
is even more fitting.
Again: who are you?
A good person.
Even though it doesn't look that way, I truly am a good person.
Where I come from, everyone all calls me "Wen the Great Philanthropist".
Walk where I walk, then, Wen the Great Philanthropist.
How lucky I am!
[Zhao Ancestral Hall]
[Memorial tablets of Zhao Family]
Brother, how genuinely filial,
keeping vigil here in the middle of the night,
lighting incense so late.
Aren't you afraid you'll attract wandering spirits and feral ghosts?
Or are you trying to play tricks? I'm versatile, but,
brother, today you've met someone far above you.
Dad?
It's good.
Shixiong, quick, come help me!
If your shixiong comes, of course he will help me.
[Leader of Four Seasons Manor, Qin Huaizhang]
Come come come, Zishu! [Leader of Four Seasons Manor, Qin Huaizhang]
Come come come, Zishu!
The three of us can build a really huge snowman, what about it?
Come on.
Zishu.
Hallucination.
Don't touch him! I won't let anyone bully him!
Lao Wen! Hurry and wake up!
It's a hallucination!
I'm here.
Tonic-men?
Damn it.
That hallucinogenic incense is Lush's Languor
You've got a problem with blood!
I'll die laughing!
Drink all of this.
What is it?
Syrup? Is it sweet?
Zhou Zishu! You cheated me!
I'm going to go tell my mom!
Mom!
What did he just call me?
When did he learn my name?
♪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♪