♪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 soulmate?♪
♪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 Jianghu 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 12]
Drink?
Sure, why not.
Leave me a drop.
Good wine.
Wen is three years old.
Zhou-shifu, congratulations for happily getting a beloved disciple.
Do you know why I accepted Chengling as my disciple?
I don't know.
Please tell me why this child,
who is very foolish, has a shockingly bad foundation,
and is well past the best age for martial arts,
is someone you care for so much.
When I was little,
my late teacher taught me people have two important qualities:
first, the capacity for compassion, second, the capacity for bravery.
The ancient sages considered the world's brave people
to be divided into the bravery of qi, bravery of blood, and bravery of bone.
All of these are the bravery of the young.
My master esteemed the bravery of loneliness.
What's the bravery of loneliness?
To know you can't do something, and do it anyway,
and to know people's hearts are unpredictable, and to trust them anyway.
Lao Wen.
you and I are old enough
that being truly kind to someone and exposing our inner hearts
is a very difficult thing.
I can't make myself go that far,
and it's unfair to ask you to.
So I decided to start with one single step.
I want to risk that
you are
the one I know … is the one for me.
That vile old woman has such cruel skills.
Wait until next time. If she doesn't watch out, I'll beat her to death!
I really hurt.
You!
Why are you here?
Ah Xiang, what happened to your arm?
And your complexion isn't good.
Ah Xiang, last night, where did you go?
Yueyang Sect was infiltrated by an assassin who took Chengling away with them.
What do you mean, where did I go last night?
Last night, weren't you not in your room?
How do you know I wasn't in my room last night? Did you see me?
You really weren't here.
Last night I heard an assassin infiltrated Yueyang Sect and the whole city was being searched.
I was worried you would be scared, so I ran off to your courtyard to look for you.
Who asked you to come look for me in the middle of the night? Did anyone see you?
No!
No one did. You can relax.
I certainly know how precious a woman's reputation and integrity are.
I came steathily.
They were all gone looking for the assassin.
You can relax. No one knows.
Ah Xiang, you went to look for Chengling!
That's so dangerous, ah!
It's our place to go.
You're an unmarried girl on your own.
I know.
Leave here now.
I'll talk to you later.
Anyway, Ah Xiang, don't worry.
Chengling is surely safe and sound.
Go away! Go away!
Are you waiting for someone to see us together so early in the morning?
Go! Go! Go!
They all said that the people in the Jianghu are trecherous and evil.
So how did I leave the valley
and meet Zhou Xu, followed by Chengling, followed by Cao-da-ge?
Each one is more foolish than the rest!
Who's there?
It's me, young sir.
Miss Gu, it's very early.
I'm doing my morning exercises!
You all seem so busy. I'll go now.
Miss Gu, wait a minute.
My shifu wants to see you.
Shifu.
Did a nap make you feel better?
I'm fine.
Shifu, where's Wen-shu?
You wake up and immediately look for Wen-shu.
You have a better heart than your master.
We should go.
Go where?
China is a big place.
Where can't we three go?
But before we leave,
we should look for a secluded place
to take that thing out of Chengling's body.
It's not good to have a foreign object inside the body for too long.
After we get it out, then what?
Toss it, bury it, smash it, who cares?
It's not a good thing to have.
But, shifu,
the whole reason Ghost Valley wanted to kill me and my whole family
was to get the Glazed Gadget.
That's just more proof that it's not a good thing.
My papa died for the Glazed Gadget.
The Assembly of Heroic Men is about to start.
If you want to know the history of the Glazed Gadget,
you don't need to wait for the Assembly of Heroic Men.
I'll tell you all about these bad debts.
No one in the world has a clearer understanding of it than I do.
Twenty years ago, an unknown master came out of nowhere
and rose to become a force to be reckoned with,
and quickly made a great name for himself.
This was Fengshan Sword, Rong Xuan. [Lit: Closed Mountain Sword]
This Rong fellow had a strange theory.
His theory was that all the world's martial arts
[The Death Sword, Rong Xuan] are connected back to a common source.
If all the great experts could let go of their selfishness [The Death Sword, Rong Xuan]
If all the great experts could let go of their selfishness
and freely exchange ideas and teachings,
then they would be able to build one unified school unlike any heard of before.
This strange theory drew interest and attention
[Lu Taichong and Zhao Jing in youth] This strange theory drew interest and attention
from a group who didn't know how ignorant they were. [Lu Taichong and Zhao Jing in youth]
[Gao Chong and Shen Shen in youth] from a group who didn't know how ignorant they were.
Twenty years ago, the Jianghu wasn't a stagnant pool of so-so sorts the way it is now. [Zhang Yusen in youth]
Twenty years ago, the Jianghu wasn't a stagnant pool of so-so sorts the way it is now.
There were still people who got along at first sight,
and who worked hard together for common goals.
Gradually, Rong Xuan became the center of this group of "great experts",
and soon they started to get out of control.
Absurdly, they believed they would change the Central Plains martial arts social circles,
to get them to leave the martial arts traditions they'd had for a hundred thousand years
and instead participate in this new and untested scheme.
Rong Xuan fell deeper and deeper into this unrealistic dream,
and began using every trick he could to gather secret manuals [of martial arts],
by stealth, by strength, or by swindling.
This outstanding young person kept getting worse,
degenerating into a rat whom everyone in the Jianghu would shout at
and beat up if they met him in the street.
Luckily for Rong Xuan, he'd married someone
[Yue Feng Er] Luckily for Rong Xuan, he'd married someone
who was at the time the First Disciple of the Miraculous Medicine Valley, [Yue Feng Er]
who was at the time the First Disciple of the Miraculous Medicine Valley,
Herb Immortal Yue Feng'er.
Several times when he was ambushed and injured,
Yue Feng'er brought him back from the very gates of death.
The heavens are unfair.
After several years, eventually this group of arrogant, ignorant people gathered countless martial arts secret techniques. They created a secret place to store them, called China's Arsenal of Hidden Treasures.
Outside the Arsenal, he set up layer upon layer of defensive mechanisms, and divided the key to the arsenal into five pieces. Each of Rong Xuan's five closest friends with great martial arts skills had a piece for safekeeping.
In order to open the Arsenal, it's necessary to gather all five pieces. You can't do it without all of them.
What then?
After that?
Doesn't everyone know what happened after that?
At that point, the Five Lakes Alliance Leader called together
a general assembly of the martial arts community.
He called for all of the heroic men of the Jianghu
to surround and slay the out-of-control man.
Rong Xuan was desperate, with nowhere to go.
He was cornered right outside Mt Qingya
and forced to kill people without consideration.
In the end, with his strength exhausted,
he cut his own throat beside the boundary stone of Ghost Valley.
Everyone knows the story.
If it's well known, why did I hear a different story?
Because this is where Rong Xuan's story ends, but not where the Jianghu story ends.
Rong Xuan cut his throat after the ghosts of Mt Qingya turned out in full force.
They and the righteous martial artists fought a great battle outside Mt Qingya.
That battle was fierce enough to agitate heaven and desolate earth.
Both sides took heavy casualties and disastrous wounds.
More than half the righteous martial artists lost their lives.
Ghost Valley's strength was severely damaged.
Yet, it brought change to the Jianghu:
they've lived together in harmony for twenty years.
Everyone who survived, they all had friends and relatives
who died at the scene during that great battle.
What's more, the reason the fight started …
its nature wasn't glorious or laudable.
The ending wasn't glorious or laudable either.
So naturally everyone treated it like an unspeakable taboo subject.
You're saying that the reason so many people died was actually
that those great experts coveted the Arsenal and its stored treasures?
If the Five Lakes Alliance had opened the Arsenal
twenty years ago as they wanted to,
likely the Mirror Lake Sect would not have fallen.
The Glazed Gadget …
the Glazed Gadget is the secret key to the Arsenal.
My papa was one of Rong-bobo's five close friends.
Okay, okay, it's all in the past.
It is in the past, right?
In the past?
Maybe not.
[Chongwu Palace]
Last night, an assassin appeared within the Five Lakes Alliance
and abducted my fourth brother Zhang Yusen's orphan Zhang Chengling.
This is a major incident,
and is hard to explain unless there is some devil providing support from inside.
Urgent affairs demand expedient action,
so please forgive this Gao for any rudeness.
According to the reports of the Five Lakes Alliance disciples,
during yesterday's events, all y'all were not in your rooms.
This Gao will boldly requests everyone here
to please explain clearly where they were,
in order to avoid further suspicions.
Shifu, I've thought it through. I have to go back to the Five Lakes Alliance.
Foolish child, did my explanation go in one ear and out the other? [Lit: playing the qin for a cow]
Now that you know the full story of the Glazed Gadget,
you know that group of people all have evil intentions,
so why do you want to go back?
Mainly, because I know that protecting the Glazed Gadget
was my father's mission, left to me.
I also know the people involved in this are widespread.
No matter how useless I am,
how can I stay out of it just to save my own skin?
Furthermore, the Assembly of Heroic Men is about to start,
and I'm the only person left from Mirror Lake Sect.
If I don't go, isn't that the same as the Mirror Lake Sect
being struck off the rolls of the Jianghu?
Chengling, you're a child taking a lot on yourself.
You're too good.
If you're firmly resolved about wanting to go back,
then listen to your shifu's words:
give the Glazed Gadget back to the Five Lakes Alliance.
Why?
My papa and the Five Lakes Alliance stay deadlocked for twenty years
because of the Glazed Gadget.
Chengling,
is your safety more important
or is the Glazed Gadget more important?
Obviously, the Glazed Gadget is more important.
Wrong.
Nothing is more important than the lives of real living people.
Nothing in the world causes more trouble
than average people getting themselves worked up.
Chengling,
Chengling, what's your opinion on your teacher's martial arts skills?
Shifu's martial arts skills are obviously the best.
My martial artists can't be called inferior,
and there aren't many in the Jianghu who would rank above me.
However, of my own sect's martial arts,
I've only studied maybe twenty or thirty percent.
My life has a limit, but knowledge has no limits.
An ordinary person could spend all their ability
for a lifetime on learning one sect's martial art,
and they still wouldn't be able to learn all of it.
Even if the Arsenal were open to everyone from all the sects, what would it matter?
It's all just people's greed leading to mischief.
But, Shifu, Papa told me—
Chengling,
Hero Zhang's dedication was not to the Arsenal itself, but rather the brotherhood.
If your papa had wanted to open the Arsenal, he could have done so twenty years ago. Why wait until now?
Rong Xuan-qianbei has already left this earth.
Your papa dedicated his life to him and died for the cause.
If they know about this in the underworld, would they want you to get yourself out of the middle of this old business of twenty years ago and go on to live your own life?
Or would they want you to carry this trouble with you, constantly encountering people greedily wanting to rob you?
Too many people get wound up in greed and trapped in its confines.
I can't control you,
but I will do everything I can to take care of you.
Listen to your teacher.
Hand over this trouble and leave.
Let them fight over it.
Young lady, this Gao will be blunt: where do you come from? What clan or sect are you a disciple of?
Me, ah?
I don't have a sect or clan.
I'm no one,
just a country servant girl come from the fields.
All of us there,
everyone tells stories about Hero Gao's unrivalled martial arts, how his qi shakes the mountains and rivers.
Today, one look is enough to see it's really true.
The reputation is a shadow of the real person!
Papa,
this Gu Xiang-guniang is Weining's friend.
Weining brought her to me
and asked me to find a place for her.
Oh, and she and Chengling are old friends.
She's not a bad person.
Xiaolian-jie, you are so sweet but foolish.
Why would you mention that sore spot now?
Miss Gu,
how did you and Chengling make each other's acquaintance?
Isn't it pretty obvious?
Young master Zhang
is handsome and good-hearted,
from a famous family,
doesn't everyone know him?
Those of us from Yuezhou all know him.
Miss Gu, where did you go last night?
Hero Gao,
no, Alliance Leader Gao,
please don't be so harsh!
I'm just someone from the country, and haven't seen much of life.
Your air of kingly hegemony
makes this little girl get a bit scared.
Papa.
Shut your mouth.
This female has an oily mouth and a slick tongue,
and acts like she's full of devilish energy,
not at all like a respectable family's daughter.
Why would you want her to stay here?
Why would you think I'm not a respectable family's daughter, huh?
Because I don't swallow my voice when I talk?
You—
Gao-bobo!
Gao-bobo, please don't blame Xiaolian-jie,
and stop embarrassing Ah Xiang.
It's all Weining's misconduct.
Weining, don't get involved in this business.
Tell me, last night, where did you go?
If you don't tell us the truth,
this Gao will stop treating you like a guest.
I—
Last night, Ah Xiang and I were together the whole time.
[Yueyang Sect]
Chengling, bear in mind [Yueyang Sect]
Chengling, bear in mind
that you must do everything you can to make others aware
that you have handed over the Glazed Gadget.
When the Assembly of Heroic Men is over,
Shifu will come find you.
Foolish child.
All of this has nothing to do with you.
You don't open your mouth to talk.
One question, you shake your head,
you know nothing about any of it.
Got it?
The Five Lakes Alliance are all experienced old devils.
Even if they get you all muddled inside with drugs,
you pretend to be deaf and mute.
All you have to do is show up at the martial arts assembly, and we'll find you soon after.
Wen-shu, thank you.
You'll come with us after, won't you?
We'll all set out together,
us and Xiang-jiejie too.
Alright, Chengling,
stop imitating your Wen-shu's maudlin ways.
If anything happens, find your Xiang-jiejie.
Don't be afraid. We're all here.
Go now.
Young master Zhang! You've finally returned!
We were all waiting quite a while for you.
You've come back.
If you don't come along, shifu will be angry, hurry!
[Yueyang Sect]
What's wrong?
The Five Lakes Alliance doesn't have a single good person,
and that silly disciple of yours insisted on going back.
I'm going to worry the whole time.
The note they used to lure out Chengling—
they wrote "Xu" on it.
How'd they learn about your relationship with Chengling
and that name?
I never mentioned it to the Window of Heaven,
or while fighting Poison Scorpion.
I haven't revealed this name.
The only time I gave this name was to you.
Could you have let it slip?
When we delivered Chengling to the Five Lakes Alliance,
you used the name Zhou Xu then.
Don't say it's my error.
Whatever.
The innocent man will be targeted for his jade ring.
The person who hired the Four Great Assassins
only wanted the Glazed Gadget.
Since Chengling is going to hand over the Glazed Gadget,
he'll be no more than an orphan.
Once the Assembly of Heroic Men is over,
I'll go fetch him, and leave for somewhere far away.
Let's go.
You're acting like a mama leaning on her gate sending her son away.
Where are you going?
To drink and to lie in the sun.
Got a problem with that?
[Yueyang Sect] [Blessed Timing]
Shifu!
Shifu! The Zhang family's son is back!
Not bad, heroic young Cao. I wouldn't have expected that.
I could tell you had a good opinion of this girl,
but you never said anything.
You moved quick!
[Highrise in the Cloud]
To know you can't and do it anyway.
To know people's hearts are unpredictable, and to trust them anyway.
Ah Xu,
why would you dare to bet that
I am the one you know is right for you, hm?
What do you know of what kind of person I am?
Am I a good person or a villain?
Stop running your mouth and run it around something better.
[Calligraphy and Paintings] Stop running your mouth and run it around something better.
[Calligraphy and Paintings]
Quick, satisfy my curiosity. [Calligraphy and Paintings]
Quick, satisfy my curiosity.
Other than it being obvious at a glance that I'm handsome,
what else do people see when they look at me?
A foolish appearance.
I've been a person with the heart of a evil spirit inside. I put seven in to die, seven to come out.
If I'm not clear on the distinction between a good person and a bad person,
then wouldn't it be a waste of my life?
So you think that …
I'm a good person?
A bad person who puts down his butcher's knife
can attain enlightenment on the spot.
A good person can do a bad deed.
Don't tell me that a life is forever one thing
and cannot grow into something else.
That's unreasonable.
I can be a good person?
No, that's wrong, you made a mistake.
How could I not be a good person?
I'm Wen the Great Philanthropist!
Stop making a fuss, Wen the Great Philanthropist.
Ah Xu.
What?
♪Warblers sing by the river while men are speechless♪ What?
♪Warblers sing by the river while men are speechless♪
♪The mist blurred my vision♪
Ah Xu. ♪The mist blurred my vision♪
Ah Xu.
♪The mist blurred my vision♪ Ah Xu.
♪The mist blurred my vision♪
Trying to steal my soul?
♪I'm nameless in this world♪ Trying to steal my soul?
♪I'm nameless in this world♪
Ah Xu.
♪My days are calm and tranquil♪ Ah Xu.
♪My days are calm and tranquil♪
Okay, Wen the Great Philanthropist,
you shut up. Stop calling.
You'll get me all shivery and flustered.
♪I rode into the bustling town, but I have no way to g♪
♪It was uneasy, even the moon is dull♪
I just think that … ♪It was uneasy, even the moon is dull♪
I just think that …
being alive,
in the sunshine …
with someone here whose name I can call,
that's really good. [Or: I'm really erect now]
♪But I'm feared of my truth self♪ that's really good. [Or: I'm really erect now]
♪But I'm feared of my truth self♪
♪The world is big and we're forced apart♪
♪I lost you and myself♪
It is good [or erect].
♪I blame my fate on my past life♪ It is good [or erect].
♪I blame my fate on my past life♪
Lao Wen. ♪I blame my fate on my past life♪
Lao Wen.
♪Our dreams are short, so are our lives♪ Lao Wen.
♪Our dreams are short, so are our lives♪
Lao Wen. ♪Our dreams are short, so are our lives♪
Lao Wen.
♪I lost myself♪ Lao Wen.
♪I lost myself♪
Uh-huh?
♪If a bird is heartless, I'd better return♪ Uh-huh?
♪If a bird is heartless, I'd better return♪
Lao Wen.
What now?
Finish your wine.
Drink!
Ah Xu,
when you've got nothing to do, what do you like to do for amusement?
What amusement?
Even the Chief of the Window of Heaven
must have some leisure time.
Lower your voice a little.
Is this something I shouldn't ask,
great Chief Zhou?
Call me that again and I'll break your teeth.
You still haven't answered my question.
When you have some leisure time, what do you like to do?
Leisure with nothing to do …
does practicing martial arts count?
Are you joking with me? This is what you see as amusement?
It's all pretty much the same to me.
You're the paragon everyone's wife uses to scold their children.
When I was a child, ah,
I wasn't willing to be good and practice my martial arts.
I don't know how many times my parents got angry at me.
Ah well, ah well.
My shifu, he always taught me that
children ought to concern themselves with childish things,
so every day he would take me to go fishing or catching birds.
In spring we'd gather grass, in the winter we'd play on the ice.
When I was little, I just wanted to train at martial arts so badly.
There were times when Shifu would pressure me too hard,
and I would go find my master's wife.
My master's wife would stop what she was doing and come help me.
My shifu would get chewed out without a pause.
Case solved.
What?
I was thinking that
there couldn't really be such an easy shifu.
Isn't it obvious?
Your shifu wanted to go and play himself,
but was afraid his wife would scold him.
He only took you along as an excuse.
Why didn't I ever see that?
It makes sense.
So I'm not the only one in this world like this, out of step with my situation.
When I was a child, I wasn't able to play and have fun the way I wanted to.
When I wanted to study literature and practice martial arts,
then I had no one to teach me.
Ah Xu, it turns out, you really are my sort of person.
Presumably Chengling is all safe and sound for now, so we don't need to worry about him.
Before the martial arts assembly, we'll have to find some other form of pleasure.
Surely we can do better than just staring at each other wide-eyed.
Lao Wen, have you ever suffered a loss?
Why do you ask?
This untalented Zhou often suffers losses,
but after losing the first time,
I'll make sure to return it the next time.
This is the first time I've lost again and again
without returning it back once.
Poison Scorpion, ah?
Yes, he's always kept his nest well-hidden, but how did you find it before me?
That's not his real nest, just one branch office.
Back in the day, when the Window of Heaven expanded operations into Jiangnan,
we crossed paths with the Poison Scorpion seveal times.
First was at our friend's cemetary,
then again last night.
We're not going to find a way to return the loss here.
Lao Wen,
want to come with me to the Poison Scorpion branch leader and make a big scene?
Ah Xu, in case you haven't noticed,
my whole body is always ready
for causing a scene. [Lit: have chaos written head to toe]
Let's go!
The only thing better than looking for pleasure
is playing with someone I like.
[Chongwu Palace]
Chengling.
Xiaolian-jie, why are you here?
Are you okay?
Xiaolian-jie, don't cry,
I'm fine.
Does it hurt?
Not anymore.
It's just a skin wound.
Surely it must hurt badly.
Going around with the Glazed Gadget plugging up a wound,
and still going on that sort of long journey, a thousand miles of rushing about!
It wasn't that bad.
Actually it healed quickly and easily,
and after that, it didn't hurt at all.
Chengling, thank you on behalf of my papa,
truly and sincerely.
My papa has a hard and uncompromising temperament, and isn't good at expressing himself,
but as his daughter, I can read what's inside him.
Over the years, he's worried himself to exhaustion thinking over and over
about how to mend the split between his five brothers
and uphold the Five Lakes Alliance's honor.
Thank you for being willing to trust us.
Xiaolian-jiejie—
I know what you want to say.
I don't blame you for thinking that way.
I'd rather have you as my little brother, so it would be proper for me
to forever protect you and help you with everything.
But this matter between you and I,
it's something papa needs in order to repair the Five Lakes Alliance.
Without it
How can he show everyone in the Jianghu his determination?
Xiaolian-jiejie,
how can you use an event of lifelong import
like a pawn in a chess game?
But I don't have any other way
to help papa with his worries.
Let's leave behind the misunderstandings and grudges
of the previous generations and let our generation end them, okay?
From now on, Yueyang Sect really is your home.
She's so sweet but foolish.
Her mind's as solid as a river.
Xiang-jiejie, very good!
Are you alright?
You heard what we were speaking of, just now?
As I was coming up, unfortunately, yes, I heard.
How are things? Are you okay?
Was it my master who rescued you?
Whatever did you come back to this devilish place for?
It was shifu and Wen-shu who persuaded me to come back.
Shifu!
So Zhou Xu accepted you as a disciple?
Congratulations to you!
Finally, clinging to Zhou Xu's thick old tree-trunk thighs paid off!
Oh, there's so much stuff!
Gao Chong is really pouring it on, huh?
All this, just for that little bit of Glazed Gadget?
Anyone would think that you gave birth to a child for the Five Lakes Alliance!
Xiang-jiejie, please stop making fun of me.
In fact, if you want any of these tonics,
I'll set them aside for you.
That night, you were beaten up by the villains who abducted me.
Are you alright now?
Thank you so much for defending me.
Great! You still owe me!
I'm fine. I'm all good now.
[Xiangzhu Hall]
What is Master planning now?
He told us very plainly that we were going to look for the Glazed Gadget.
So why'd he stop caring about it after he ran into that sick old devil?
[Pine Hall] So why'd he stop caring about it after he ran into that sick old devil?
After that, he just wanted to travel with him and mix their things together.
Could that Zhou fellow maybe have given him some sort of drug?
He even threw me away into this lousy place
and quit caring.
I'd be better off with that foolish Cao kid.
Why'd I think of him?
Awful, awful, awful! [Pine Hall]
[Five Lakes World Alliance]
Da-ge, [Five Lakes World Alliance]
Da-ge,
in any case you've got the Zhang family's Glazed Gadget piece back.
Why is your face still covered in worry?
I'm wondering
who saved Chengling.
Was it an enemy or a friend?
Why not come along and meet me?
Whoever it was sent Chengling and the Glazed Gadget back,
so surely they're not an enemy.
Er-di's and Taichong's
two pieces of Glazed Gadget
are in all likelihood already in the hands of Ghost Valley.
Wu-di, what about your piece of Glazed Gadget?
I've been studiously following Da-ge's instructions, and always carry it on my body. Wu-di, what about your piece of Glazed Gadget?
I've been studiously following Da-ge's instructions, and always carry it on my body.
From now on, let it come to Da-ge for safekeeping.
What's the problem?
No problem.
I'm only thinking that then,
my older brother would be one person holding three pieces of the Glazed Gadget.
Wouldn't it be dangerous if someone found out?
Better for the danger to fall on your da-ge
than on you.
I can handle it.
Da-ge. Wu-di.
Second Brother.
You're back.
Thank you for your hard work.
I'm sorry I made da-ge worry,
but the matter is handled without a hitch.
Although Long-da-ge wouldn't agree to come meet with me,
he agreed to send someone from his sect to the Assembly of Heroic Men
to explain to everyone the origin of the Glazed Gadget.
Dragon-Deep Pavilion agreed to come? That's good.
Er-di went to a lot of trouble.
Wu-di, take a good look at yourself.
If you had been managed to ask the Changming Mountain Sword Immortal to come,
there wouldn't have been a need for Er-di to exhaust himself looking for the Dragon-Deep Pavilion.
Da-ge!
I took the Mountains and Rivers Token to Changming Mountain Sword Hall.
I looked around front to back and shouted for several days!
I saw absolutely no signs of people on that mountain.
I didn't even catch a whiff of a cooking fire from anyone living there.
I think that sword immortal must have harnessed his crane and gone into the West long ago.
Think about it, if Rong Xuan were still alive, how old would he be?
if he were still alive?
Er-di, ah,
some good news for you.
The Zhang family's Glazed Gadget has been found.
That must make da-ge happy!
Truly, good things come in pairs.
[Lichun Palace]
[Look at the world]
Destroyed?
Destroyed.
Was it the work of the Five Lakes Alliance, or Ghost Valley?
You're giving them too much credit.
You and I weren't far away, and we got here in a few hours.
How could the Five Lakes Alliance or Ghost Valley be able
to destroy a whole division of Poison Scorpion so quickly?
It looks like someone was quite afraid
that Poison Scorpion's real base might be uncovered,
so that very night they burnt its corpse themselves to hide their tracks.
Burn the body to hide the tracks?
Old Changing Ghost doesn't have a thought in his head most of the time,
but his wild schemes aren't very small at all.
All these years he's been right where I can see him,
but he still managed to surreptitously hook up with Poison Scorpion.
This flock of squirmy worms thinks they're going to get rid of their boss,
but they have no idea that the more awful their rampage around Yue,
the closer I get to my goal instead.
[Qingyun Restaurant]
Ah Xu.
Master!
Master! Are you looking for me?
Sick old devil! You and Master are still together?
Why?
Do you have a problem
with him and me being together?
It's
fine! How could there be a problem?
It's recklessly good, straight up good! [or: bullying is a good way to get [him] erect]
Last time that Poison Scorpion woman hit you.
How's the injury?
It's nothing, no big deal!
That little Chengling boy was really considerate
and gave me the tonics that Gao Chong gave him.
Ah Xiang really has no worries! After a little rest I'll be great!
I didn't expect Poison Scorpion to be so daring as to venture out in broad daylight [idiom],
run over the roofs of Yueyang Sect and abduct people.
There's something odd about this whole set of events.
It's like there's someone inside their guard working with them, but I don't have anything definite.
Fortunately, now Chengling has given them the Glazed Gadget he was carrying in his body,
the danger will move on.
Ah Xiang,
I think you shouldn't take the risk of staying at Yueyang Sect any longer.
Look for an excuse to depart, okay?
Master, you want me to come back and serve you?
Ah Xu,
do you mind
if Ah Xiang follows us around?
Of course I don't mind.
Having a young beautiful woman along,
that's exactly what I've been wanting.
I mind.
Ah Xiang.
I'll give you a vacation.
Go somewhere nice and cool, play around somewhere else.
I don't want to go anywhere.
I … I don't want to play, Master.
I just want to stay at Yueyang Sect and protect Chengling.
You all said that after the Assembly of Heroic Men,
you'd take Chengling away, right?
Then, just in case,
I'll stay at Yueyang Sect and protect him.
That kid is foolish.
Who's there?
Come out.
Zhou-xiong,
it's me,
Cleansing Wind Sect's Cao Weining.
You...
Ah Xiang,
someone right behind you following on your tail,
and you didn't realize it?
How can you handle anything?
Cao Weining, you were following me?
I wasn't, I wasn't! How could I dare to follow you?
I heard from Zhu Yaozhi [Yueyang disciple]
that someone wrote to you and asked you to meet them here.
I thought this must surely be Wen-gongzi,
but I was nervous about it,
so I hurried here.
My master was looking for me, what's got you nervous?
I was afraid you were leaving.
So this is Ah Xiang's reason for not wanting to leave Yueyang Sect
right here.
Ah Xiang, you wanted to stay for my sake?
She has no say in this.
My family's girl will go or leave as I decide.
Zhou—Zhou-xiong,
Ah Xiang mentioned when we were talking that you suffer from a serious illness
and Wen-gongzi has been searching everywhere for skilled doctors for you.
My shishu knows many people, and there must be some good doctors among them.
He'll be arriving for the Assembly of Heroic Men in a few days,
and when he does, I can introduce you to him.
He is a man of experience in the world who has seen and done much.
He'll know someone who will have a good treatment plan.
Ah Xu's injury is mine to handle.
Don't bother yourself over it.
Thank you very much, Cao-xiongdi [little brother].
It seems I can't hide this from Cao-xiongdi, ah.
This body suffers from a terminal illness and I won't live much longer.
Cao-xiongdi's intentions are good and I appreciate the kind thought.
Zhou-xiong, your illness is that serious?
Heaven is unfair, heaven is unfair, ah.
Zhou-xiong, there's always a way. [lit: heaven terminates no paths—same as "no paths are bound" from TGCF]
My own shifu and Alliance Leader Gao are best friends.
I heard that Alliance Leader Gao
and the Miraculous Medicine Valley's three heroes are good friends.
When he arrives, I'll ask my shifu
to take you to the Miraculous Medicine Valley.
Maybe they'll have a treatment that will work.
Cao-xiongdi is truly following the ancient way of warm caring
and deserves to be called a righteous hero of the people.
I am deeply touched.
It's only, my temperament is stubborn,
and rather than wasting time searching for doctors and asking about medicine,
I would rather take advantage of what health I still have.
To be together with my soulmate,
to wander the waves on the shores of the world with song and wine,
to walk free and easily around the Jianghu and circle back again—
then, this life will have been worth it.
It's only, Ah Xiang is one unmarried girl,
and having her tagging along after
our two rough old selves as we roam the world,
that wouldn't be very appropriate.
Today, I and Wen-xiong,
we were here discussing
if we might be able to find someone for Ah Xiang,
someone to be a partner she can trust.
If Ah Xiang could find a place and settle down properly, that would be good.
Zhou … Zhou-xiong … Wen-gongzi …
you all … what do you think …
… about me?
♪The skies are gray as I cross 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 the cold in my heart♪
♪Is that our light out of nowhere?♪
♪I regret not meeting earlier, but we've finally met now♪
♪Don't let the seasons past 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 the sandstorm♪
♪I will spend the rest of my days tasting wine and tea with you♪
♪I will be with you no matter how high the peaks or how far the rivers♪