♪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 snow storm 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 pugilist 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 8]
Gao-bobo.
Zhao-bobo. Shen-shishu. [Not a typo. He calls Shen "martial uncle"]
Chengling, are you getting used to things here?
From now on, you'll live at Yueyang Sect.
Chengling, does your body have some defect?
No, Gao-bobo. It doesn't.
Then why are your bones and body so frail?
Da-ge, he is still young.
It's not too late to train him now.
He's not young.
Everyone in the Jianghu speaks of Mirror Lake Sect as already extinct, that Mirror Lake Sect has been exterminated.
but as long as Chengling is still alive, that's not true.
Chengling, in the event that you can't take on your father's position,
your Zhang family will indeed have no one qualified to succeed. Chengling, in the event that you can't take on your father's position,
Hand over the Glazed Gadget to your bobo.
Come on.
Da-ge, Chengling has been traumatized and temporarily lost his memory.
The matter of the Glazed Gadget can wait for us to take our time.
Wait for us to take our time?
The Glazed Gadget was more important than Yusen's life,
more important than all of our lives put together.
Yusen struggled hard to let Chengling escape
so that he could bring us the information about the Glazed Gadget!
Chengling.
Do you want your father and your entire family to have died in vain?
How many times do you want me to repeat it?
I don't know anything about the Glazed Gadget!
Stop joking around!
Tell us where the Glazed Gadget is, now!
Chengling, don't be afraid.
Tell us now!
Chengling,
I know
for many years your dad hasn't been close with his Five Lakes Alliance brothers. You haven't met us, so you don't believe us.
But now, if you can't trust us, who can you trust?
You have no other choice, kid!
Da-ge, the child doesn't understand how the world works.
We can ease him into it slowly.
I don't have enough patience to cajole a child!
Every day you don't hand over the Glazed Gadget, more people in the Jianghu will suffer harm.
Do you understand that?
I don't know!
I ….
Da-ge! Da-ge! Da-ge!
Chengling.
Da-ge, let go of your anger.
Why don't we leave discussion of the Glazed Gadget for another day? Da-ge, let go of your anger.
Why don't we leave discussion of the Glazed Gadget for another day?
You may leave.
Hurry and go.
Go.
Da-ge, I know Yusen and you have had longstanding differences,
but this child doesn't understand that.
He can't tell the good guys from the bad guys yet.
Shut up! He can't tell the good guys from the bad guys yet.
Shut up!
Er-ge, you're muddle-headed!
The thing with Fourth Brother broke Da-ge's heart! Er-ge, you're muddle-headed!
The thing with Fourth Brother broke Da-ge's heart!
How dare you bring it up?
Quick, help me fix this. Fix this.
I just pity that child a lot.
After this is all done, what kind of life will he have here?
This is more muddle-headed nonsense!
Even if Da-ge is truly furious, you think he'd take out his anger on a child?
You think da-ge's heart is far smaller than it is.
Brothers, Weining was stuck in a difficult situation today.
We were strangers met by chance, but you spent money to relieve my embarrassment.
This one truly wishes it had not come to that.
I am staying at Yueyang Sect not far away.
Would it be possible for the brothers to wait here?
This humble one will hurry there and back.
We met by chance, no rhyme or reason,
and wealth is a mere worldly possesion.
If handing it over will make me one new honorable friend,
how could I do differently?
I'm Zhou Xu. May I ask the young hero's full name?
My surname is Cao. I'm Cao Weining.
I'm a disciple of Cleansing Wind Sword Sect.
I've always heard that Cleansing Wind Sword Sect is very strict in choosing their disciples.
All of its disciples are handsome and suave, well-educated in civil and military affairs. [implies disregard for etiquette]
Sure enough, its reputation is deserved.
Not at all, not at all.
I'm the scorn of my sect, unfit for anything useful.
Don't talk like that.
Happening across each other in this wide arena must be a fated meeting.
If you don't mind, come sit down. We can drink and have a proper chat.
—Come on. —Alright.
Zhou-xiong, forthright words, forthright man.
Makes one feel cleansed in a spring wind. [or: makes one feel bathed in a lustful lifestyle]
Zhou-xiong, let's drink! Let's drink!
Here.
Here. My respects to you!
Get rid of him for me.
He can help me infiltrate Yueyang Sect.
Whatever you waht, ah! Eat what you want! Drink what you want!
Ah Xiang.
Go handle finding Fang Buzhi for me. Get him to show up.
Fang Bu Zhi?
Fang Bu Zhi's martial arts are quite good.
Ah Xiang is one girl.
Are you looking down on girls?
Girls are—girls are great. Girls are great!
How about...
How about I go with you? It's a boundless sea of people out there.
Zhou-xiong, please excuse me. I have to go.
May I know where the two gentlemen are staying?
I'm determined to visit and take you out in return.
A friendly peer becomes a friend if fate makes them compatible.
It's fine.
We are invited by Hero Zhao Jing.
Once we're done with our task,
we will definitely go to visit Yueyang Sect to call on him.
If you can't find my purse,
don't come back.
When you need something, it's me. Otherwise, you only have eyes for beauty!
Young Hero Cao.
Please report this incident to Yueyang Sect, if you would.
I hope that you find your purse soon.
No problem!
Until we meet again!
What kind of ghost are you, to haunt my steps like this? ["What kind" = "Cao", his last name]
Cao... Cao Weining.
Whoever you are.
Am I in charge of you? Why are you following me?
Don't have money for food and want to ask a girl for a loan, is that it?
You can!
At 3.2% interest per day! Deal or no deal?
I'm sorry about before.
I was very discourteous.
Gu-guniang, how about I bring you to Yueyang Sect?
Your young master's things that were lost,
you can turn the matter over to the Five Lakes Alliance and feel at ease.
You come to Yueyang all the time?
Then, you must know where to find good food and good fun around here.
I know them very well!
If the young lady gives me a chance,
This one will be your servant,
I'll take you to eat everywhere in Yunmeng!
I really want to bring you back to them.
They always say that I'm a rice tub who only knows how to eat.
Today I met you, and hey!
Turns out there's someone who loves eating more than I do!
Let's go.
Miss, over here.
The sect leader of Cleansing Wind Sword Sect
is a clever, skillful old fox.
How's a fox's den give rise to such a complete rabbit?
Live long enough, what strange thing won't you see?
It's lot like a certain person, ah!
Toward his own people, he's an icicle, not a casual word or smile,
Toward a newly-met young hero from a prestigious sect,
all smiles and sunshine! Like being cleansed by the spring wind! [Again: "like bathing in a lustful lifestyle"]
I know that you wanted to get that big rabbit to ask around about that cheap disciple of yours and bring you some news.
I saw that kid spewing foolishness at Ah Xiang
and I got angry.
Don't worry.
I already told Ah Xiang to play his game and get him to get her into Yueyang Sect.
While she's there, she'll keep an eye on that foolish disciple for you.
How about that? Aren't I considerate?
You're peddling Ah Xiang's sex appeal.
Either way, a grown woman can't be locked away inside. Trying will only make her an enemy.
Shameless.
I'm doing it for the sake of your disciple, heartless master.
Why do I think Wen-xiong's actual purpose is something totally different?
Don't you know?
The reason why I'm called Wen the Great Philanthropist
is because, if I don't do good works and accumulate merits for a few days,
I get distressed from head to toe. Long enough, it's so bad I fall ill.
As a result, I'm a cloud wandering the four seas. [implying a priest walking the land]
looking for some small benevolences to do.
Wen-xiong is claiming he's here to do good works and accumulate merits?
"Until hell is vacant, I vow not to become a Buddha." [Boddhisatva oath, promising to work for the salvation of all]
But right now Yueyang's full of people from prestigious and respectable sects, outstanding men and grand heroes.
Wen-xiong, where will you find these denizens of hell?
Every bright place has shadows. [Reversal of actual quote from Sima Li]
The worst and fiercest ghosts often drape a human skin over their shoulders [like a monk's stole] and hide in the vast sea of humans.
I'm here to tear off their pretty skins and turn them into ashes scattered in the wind.
Ah Xu, tell me, do you think this counts as doing good works and accumulating merit?
Wouldn't have expected Wen-xiong to really be a monster hunter defending the traditional values.
An upstanding person and noble son.
It's nothing. It's all because of the example of my fellow traveler. [Or: It's all to fuck together and feel you against my skin]
Zhang-shidi.
Zhang-shidi, slow a moment.
I remember how to get back to my room.
I can go on my own. I don't need Shixiong to trouble himself to escort me.
No way.
Shifu has said that you're an important guest
and must have an escort coming and going.
That so?
Am I a guest or a prisoner?
You...
What's going on?
Xie Wuyang, what's the quarrel?
[Xie Wuyang - Disciple of Yueyang Sect]
Shijie, I was about to take Zhang-shidi to the courtyard for the younger male disciples, [Xie Wuyang - Disciple of Yueyang Sect]
Shijie, I was about to take Zhang-shidi to the courtyard for the younger male disciples,
but he's refusing to let anyone accompany him.
I understand. You may leave.
Leave Chengling to me.
Will do.
Chengling-didi.
Recently, there's been unrest in Yueyang City.
Daddy is afraid something might happen to you.
I'm not even allowed past the gate.
Did Daddy speak too fiercely and make you scared?
My daddy, ah,
after you've known him a while, you'll know
he's actually someone with a sharp tongue but a soft heart.
It's really because he loves us so deeply.
Chengling.
Our Yueyang Sect is used to being thrifty and plain.
Probably when you compare it to your home, it's not as refined.
So, we've arranged for you to live here. [Pine Hall]
If there's any concern, don't hesitate to tell your jiejie.
Alright. It's jiejie's mistake.
Our Chengling really isn't a little baby,
he's an adult now.
Shijie, Cao Weining-dage is looking for you.
Alright, I understand.
Very well.
These martial brothers and you are all about the same age.
From now on, they'll help you train your martial arts properly.
Everyone, please come here.
This is Chengling-didi.
From now on, we're entrusting him to you all. Take good care of him.
Alright, Shijie.
Train hard here from now on, okay?
I think he's the kind who can't even take a single punch.
Absolutely.
Give him a few, and he'll collapse.
So, catching Fang Buzhi might take a little while,
and recently Yueyang City hasn't been particularly safe.
Gu Xiang-guniang is a girl, and it wouldn't be appropriate for her to be out there all alone.
Moreover, Zhou and Wen, the two gongzi, are Hero Zhao's friends.
They will come to the gathering at Yueyang Sect soon.
So...
I think...
If Xiaolian-jie doesn't mind too much,
can you let Miss Gu Xiang stay here where it's better?
Since she's Weining's friend,
naturally it's not a problem.
Miss Gu, do you mind
staying in my courtyard?
Thank you, Xiaolian-jie.
Thank you.
My good meimei [little sister], don't stand on ceremony.
Weining's friend is my friend.
Shijie. Shifu wants you to prepare the stuff for offering sacrifice [to the ancestors].
It'll be dark soon.
Why go make a sacrifice now?
What sort of sacrifice should I prepare?
Shifu wants the Zhang family's little shidi to go offer sacrifice at the Five Lakes monument.
Alright.
First, help me bring Gu-guniang to my courtyard, to the west side room, and get her settled in.
Will do.
My good meimei, I have to take my leave.
Don't hesitate to tell my shimei if there's any concerns.
Alright.
Or you can tell Weining too, okay?
Tanghulu for sale!
Come, Official. We'll be with you in a moment. Please, come in.
Wen-xiong, take care of yourself.
What's going on?
I have another matter that I need to go attend to.
Thus, we must part here.
Another time …
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you and go too.
Wen-xiong, weren't you needing to eliminate devils, defend traditional values, and empty Hell of its inhabitants?
The inhabitants of Hell have been enjoying themselves this long. A little longer won't hurt.
In that case, Wen-xiong, I'm unclear: why do you follow me everywhere?
Don't you want me to follow you everywhere?
It's important to listen carefully to the desires and passions of the heart.
Where are all these questions coming from?
I should ask you:
Why do you keep following Chengling everywhere?
It's true. I've been sticking close to him.
I know that you're anxious about Chengling's fate
in the Five Lakes Alliance.
Didn't I send Ah Xiang to follow him?
This pack of old foxes are too clever to show their tails so quickly.
I'm worried about more than the Five Lakes Alliance.
At the moment, too many of the powers in the Jianghu are watching Chengling's every move.
Just now, when I was chatting with the waiter, I asked him
I asked him if he'd encountered any martial artists who weren't playing by the rules.
He said there's a batch dressed like government officials camped outside the city right now.
The day's still bright. Who's releasing sky lanterns?
[The Window of Heaven is deploying an operation nearby.]
[The ones dressing like officials are their people.]
First, I'm going to Yueyang Sect to take a look around.
Master!
Master, it's lucky that you haven't gone far.
Girl, why are you back so soon?
It's fine. Say it anyway.
I infiltrated Yueyang Sect.
Good girl. How's the silly kid?
Aren't I here with an urgent message?
That Gao Chong said he wants to take the silly kid to go sacrifice something at the Five Lakes Monument.
I really don't get it.
It'll be dark soon.
What sacrifice is there that's a night—
Go back now.
[Five Lakes World Alliance]
[Lake of the Five Continents]
A century ago,
our ancestors went to a bamboo forest and took the oath of the three heroes of the peach garden.
They became five sworn brothers.
They worked together as one, rendering mutual aid and assistance.
They established their sects and accepted disciples far and wide.
Because of them, we have the Five Lakes Alliance today.
[Mirror Lake Sect]
They built this monument to remind their descendants
that first the Five Lakes upheld justice, and the world alliance came later.
Kid.
If you inherit your father's position as the sect leader,
in the future, your name will also be carved on this monument.
[Zhang Yusen]
Generation after generation will offer sacrifices out of respect.
Someone told me that you don't have what it takes to become sect leader.
Someone also told me you aren't able to shoulder this heavy burden.
They hope that I'll look for an outstanding disciple among the Five Lakes Alliance,
and adopt him into the Zhang family
to take on your duty as heir.
This Gao couldn't agree.
No matter what, you're the only direct blood descendant of the Zhang family.
Gao-bobo, you're the leader of the whole alliance.
I wholeheartedly trust your decision.
Shan!
Yao Zhi!
Shifu! Shifu! Shifu!
Alliance Leader Gao, we meet again.
Commander Han.
You're actually going to use such a despicable strategy?
Are you trying to force this Gao to submit?
Alliance Leader Gao, I would prefer to set down weapons for jade and silk. [turn hostility into friendship]
Hand over the orphan of the Zhang family to me.
They'll be free to go.
Otherwise ….
Otherwise what?
Crossbows are instruments of national defense!
No one is allowed to own them privately!
Can Prince Jin be planning to revolt?
Alliance Leader Gao.
You really should worry less about those above your station.
Hand over the child. He can still live.
If you refuse,
next year, this will be your death anniversary.
If you want to carry Chengling off,
you can do it over my dead body!
Alliance Leader Gao.
Don't think I'm trying to bluff you with empty words and won't dare strike a blow.
The Window of Heaven has nothing we don't know.
Even if I snuff out every one of your lights,
I will still find a way to shed light on the truth about the Glazed Gadget.
Why are these devils out here? Who does Jin want to kill?
What are you doing? Are you insane?
Don't try to stop me.
The crossbows need time to reload.
I'll draw their first volley.
While they're loading new bolts,
you use that time to capture that one in the lead.
No way.
Crossbow bolts are too powerful.
No human is capable of withstanding them,
no matter how good one's martial arts are.
A gentleman is willing to die for his soulmate.
For you, I'll face this danger and more.
I'll draw their arrows. You grab the guy.
Stop!
Still won't let them go?
Let them go.
You two brothers are …?
Alliance Leader Gao, don't think this is about you.
You're still not leaving?
Are you waiting for someone to bring a palanquin to carry you?
I owe you too much for words. Hope we meet again.
Go.
Young Sir, please walk this way with us.
Let our superior go!
Withdraw!
All of you, withdraw!
They won't hurt me.
You're right. I'd find you difficult to deal with.
In a little while, we'll be sure to send this sir back to his owner.
Hurry up and go! Take care of the crossbows and wait for me.
Go.
Ah Xu.
Now you owe me a really big favor.
Young Sir, mind where you're looking!
The one who abducted you is me.
What are you doing staring at him?
Manor Lord!
Manor Lord, it's really you.
I saw the Flowing-Clouds-Nine-Palace Steps, but I thought I was seeing things.
Manor Lord, why have you come here now?
Why aren't you disguising yourself?
How's your injury?
I've told half-truths for years. No more.
Ying-er, I'm sorry.
I knew you would recognize me.
I acted hastily
to give you an explanation for sending away your subordinates.
Han Ying owes his life to you.
For you, Manor Lord, one word and Han Ying will brave boiling water and raging fire without hesitation.
Ah Xu, shall I leave for a while?
First, there was the Window of Heaven's Mechanical Sparrow and Lush's Languor.
Then, I saw disciples of Yueyang Sect using the Window of Heaven's codes to pass information.
I thought it was all aimed at me.
I didn't expect the Window of Heaven to be seeking the Glazed Gadget.
That's right. After the news about the extermination of Mirror Lake Manor got to Jinzhou,
I was dispatched to Jiangnan
to investigate the song and find out the facts.
It's just a tall tale of the martial arts world.
Why is the Window of Heaven taking action?
Forgive Han Ying for not knowing.
I only know that Duan Pengju cares about the Glazed Gadget very much.
He is utterly determined to win it.
Manor Lord, if you want to know, I can try and investigate it secretly.
Don't.
Since I took the risk and showed up just now,
I've dragged you into danger already.
That is my last resort.
Few of those who joined the Window of Heaven because of me are alive now.
Living well is the way to show me the greatest loyalty you can.
Young Sir.
Sir, you're a friend of the Manor Lord.
You may call me Han Ying.
Young Sir.
Why did you demand the orphan of the Zhang family from Gao Chong?
Mirror Lake Sword Sect was razed by Hanging Ghost.
The Glazed Gadget must be with the Ghost Valley.
Why cause so much difficulty over the Zhang family's little child?
Sir, you must not know
the Window of Heaven had an agent in Mirror Lake Sect.
The agent saw with their own eyes
people from Ghost Valley sadistically killing the Zhang family father and sons
to force them to hand over the Glazed Gadget.
Zhang Yusen died without yielding,
so surely the escaped youngest son must have carried the Glazed Gadget out on his body somehow.
That bunch of old foxes in the Jianghu must be watching where the wind is blowing and sniffing for gossip.
Even if they don't know about this part,
when the Ghost Valley tried to abduct Zhang Chengling in Sanbai Manor,
that also hinted they had unfinished business with Mirror Lake Sect.
Manor Lord, what are your orders?
Actually, Zhang Chengling
belongs to your Manor Lord.
Lao Wen.
Manor Lord, you know Zhang Chengling?
Please forgive Han Ying's crime of ignorance.
I will try to...
Don't.
After you return,
act as if you didn't see me. Behave as usual.
But don't rush to take action.
If my guess is correct, the Five Lakes Alliance will definitely force Zhang Chengling to hand over the Glazed Gadget.
Moreover they will do that before the Assembly of Heroic Men.
"Bright clouds scatter, glazed glass breaks."
Could this really be the legendary Glazed Gadget?
But, that guy was wearing it dangling out and parading it around town.
Maybe he was just foolish?
It's like I'm seeing ghosts!
What's going on?
Both the Window of Heaven and a Manor Lord.
Who knew the one I'm following was such a personage?
Just now... thank you very much.
First, answer my question:
If you're a personage with a high position in the Window of Heaven,
why would such a person run away to Yuezhou to bask in the sunshine and enjoy the people?
I'd already quit the Window of Heaven.
Lao Wen, I owe you a favor.
You don't owe me a favor.
Instead, you owe me an explanation.
Ah Xu. Ah Xu.
Do you want me to believe
that you would do go to all this trouble because of three silver coins?
What's your relationship with Zhang Chengling?
I made a promise an old fisherman from Yuezhou. When I'd completed it …
I saw this child with his life on the line, and danger on all four sides.
I couldn't handle standing by and watching and pretending I didn't see. Call it a good deed.
Maybe all kinds of ….
Maybe, when the Prince of Hell sentences me,
he'll take off a few rounds of tendon-pulling and skin-flaying.
Generations of friendship, and we swindle each other;
Strangers met by chance put their lives in each others' hands.
Worth thinking about.
Only, Ah Xu.
You're not even the least bit related to the Five Lakes Alliance?
Right?
The way you ask that … don't tell me you have a grudge against the Five Lakes Alliance.
And, while we're on the topic,
there's a question I have for you.
The day when Mirror Lake Manor was exterminated,
did you come out to the island purely by chance?
It wasn't really by chance.
Wasn't I following after you?
Didn't you tell me that fate would bring us together in the Jianghu?
Sitting and waiting for fate to bestow that on me—naturally, I took the initiative.
I'm treating you like my friend. That's why I asked you directly.
You're treating me like a friend?
We've been risked life and limb so many times
And you're still only treating me like a friend.
Oh Wen Kexing, ah, Wen Kexing.
Seems you still
haven't done enough.
Why don't you ask me what you are to me?
Whatever I am to you ….
I'm leaving. Going down the mountain. [Euph: I'm dying, and I'll leave you widowed]
You're
my soulmate.
Search everything, okay?
He died from poison.
Everyone, be careful!
Don't touch things haphazardly. Some poison might be left.
-Yes. -Yes.
Gao-shixiong, look.
Are the things on this table the things he stole?
Fang Buzhi is very cunning.
Who's good enough to find him before us?
Come again.
Watermelon on sale! Big and sweet watermelon!
Watermelon on sale!
Watermelon! Big and sweet!
Sir, taste it. Big and sweet watermelon.
Which is the sweetest?
Here. This. This is sweet.
Take the bigger one.
Ah Xu.
It's so sweet.
Sir... You haven't paid.
This one.
Alright. Thank you.
Do you want some?
Thank you.
Take care!
Have you eaten enough yet?
Why are you acting like a sheltered child on his first market trip?
Don't you want to find
your purse and your jade amulet?
If I don't get them back, I don't get them back. It's not worth worrying.
Ah Xu, don't you want to try this sweet soup?
I even asked him to add two more spoons of syrup.
It's not your money you're splashing around.
You're pouring out someone else's generosity.
Don't be so stingy.
I helped you rescue your silly diciple, didn't I?
It's not a real loss. [Lit: spending your life force]
Who'd exchange life force with you?
Pay me back.
Ah Xu.
Just let me spend your money.
You won't go into debt.
You risked your life for the old man
because of three silver coins.
I only spent a little bit.
If you really insist, later I'll let you use me however you want. Alright?
Alright.
In that case … please suavely leave. [Walk your lubricated full moon away from here.]
Alright. Anywhere you go, I'll go.
Come and have a look!
A troupe from the Western Regions!
It's an extremely rare chance!
Ah Xu, have you seen Western Regions' supernatural arts?
Why cut a beautiful woman with a saw?
Transformation of living persons! 100 cash to enter!
Guaranteed value!
Let's go and watch! I've never seen
a Western Regions theatrical troupe.
Maybe Fang Buzhi is inside!
Let's go.
Come, you pair of grampas! Please come inside!
Passionate moves from foreign lands! There's such a unique style!
This guqin music ….
Look! they're showing off the inside of the container.
Good!
Congratulations on the upcoming Assembly of Heroic Men of the Five Lakes Alliance. Good luck and succes to the Five Lakes Alliance with the upcoming Assembly of Heroic Men!
We respectfully offer ten human heads to demonstrate Ghost Valley's regards.
Hurry up! Capture them!
Wei-shidi?
Everyone, elders, fellow countrymen!
Everyone, please don't become agitated!
Our Yueyang Sect will definitely investigate and the truth will come to light!
Under Alliance Leader Gao's leadership,
we will definitely bring the bad guys to justice.
Don't be afraid.
Yueyang Sect seems more powerful than the government authorities here.
Bless and protect the region?
Alliance Leader Gao is safe and sound, hasn't died upright or flown to heaven.
so why are they talking like he's an immortal?
Yueyang Sect has had strict security and constant street patrols,
and there's so many martial arts figures in town too.
I didn't expect the Ghost Valley would be able to cause this much fuss.
This time it gave a big noisy slap right on the face.
Alliance Leader Gao has lost a lot of social prestige.
The Ghost Valley put a lot of time and labor just to
humiliate Yueyang Sect.
Do you believe that this is just the start?
Stand back, ah! Stand back! Stand back!
Are you worried about your discount-store disciple?
How could I have a disciple?
Here we go again. You're still being sharp-tongued about it?
Why don't we take this opportunity to call on Zhao Jing for a chat about old times?
If we get lucky,
maybe on the way we can admire
the regional blessings and protection of the Iron Judge, Gao Chong.
Shifu!
Wei-shidi … you ….
Yunge, my son! Your dad will surely avenge you!
May Heaven smite Ghost Valley!
The hearts of those evil fiends have rotted!
I, Old Sha, declare eternal enmity on you!
How is this possible? Daring such savagery and violence!
I think the Ghost Valley is overestimating itself!
How can those Mt Qingya evil demons be so fierce and vicious they dare to make enemies of the entire world of martial artists?
Well, they have.
Da-ge, don't get anxious.
Ghost Valley has gone too far. The injustice will naturally cause them to collapse.
Da-ge, don't get so angry you hurt yourself.
This little brother vows to make Ghost Valley pay back tenfold!
Tenfold?
This is such an extreme humiliation.
If this Gao can't raze Ghost Valley to the ground,
how can I live in the world with such indignity?
RIght! Right! The Alliance Leader is right!
Blood debt, blood repayment! Raze Ghost Valley to the ground!
Honorable pair of young heroes, please wait a moment.
Thank you.
Wen-xiongdi. Zhou-xiongdi. generic "brother"]
Hero Zhao.
I trust you've been well, yes?
Sorry for not welcoming you earlier.
Hero Shen.
We were looking for you guys.
And you just walk in the front door.
Hero Shen, you were looking for me?
This Wen is indeed overwhelmed by his superior's favor.
Stop putting on a show.
The incident of Sanbai Manor happened unexpectedly.
and then you all left without a word? What were you doing?
I'm so sorry, so sorry.
I saw your precious Alliance had so many accidents,
obviously it wasn't convenient to be entertaining guests.
So we discreetly took our leave.
We did depart quietly, but I left a note.
Hero Shen, why take such offense?
Such pretty words.
The night when you left,
Er-ge's manor was robbed.
Have anything to say about that?
No words appropriate to say.
Hero Zhao, you also think the misfortunes
of your fabulous manor
were the fault of this Wen?
Naturally not. It's all just a misunderstanding.
These people have done a great favor for the Five Lakes Alliance.
You can't just suspect anyone at random!
A favor?
Da-ge.
This Wen-gongzi rescued Chengling from Mirror Lake Sect`
and spared no effort to bring him to my residence.
Indeed, not a shallow kindness at all.
Wen-gongzi, you recognize this Gao?
Iron Judge, Gao Chong, is so famous. It's not at all surprising that I recognize you.
The honor is if Sect Leader Gao is able to recognize this one.
This Gao does not recognize Wen-gongzi,
Wen-gongzi.
How did you know my fourth brother, Zhang Yusen?
Thank you and also Zhou-xiansheng for your long escort.
The Five Lakes Alliance will remember your kindness.
[Why is Lao Wen looking strange?]
[Do he and Gao Chong have some sort of history?]
This one didn't have the privilege of knowing Hero Zhang.
We saw righteousness and acted bravely. The rest was fate.
We two came here today to call on Chengling.
In my ignorance, it seems we've accidentally arrived at a bad time.
Is Chengling doing well?
Chengling is indisposed. He's resting and recuperating, so it's unsuitable for you to visit.
Chengling is sick?
Is it serious?
Or, how about we go examine him?
Wen-gongzi, your full name is...
I'm Wen Kexing.
Wen-gongzi.
I forgot to ask who your master is, what sect. I'd like to speak to him.
No sect, no teacher.
Just my father teaching me a few rough skills, and I've practiced them some on my own.
Then, may I know who your father is?
He's taught such a heroic young man.
My father was just an ordinary commoner, unsophisticated,
Not at all above average as a person [pun on Gao, "high"]
He wasn't even considered to be a clever man.
It's been many years now since he passed away.
You Heros have so many concerns of important people,
why would you take note of someone like him?
Shifu! It's bad, shifu!
Shifu, another murder—
Can't you see we have guests? Why are you losing your head?
Shifu.
During Gao-shixiong's street patrol, he discovered another corpse.
The body was carried there deliberately.
Understood.
♪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♪