01x03 - Episode 3

[bunniefuu]

♫ Ask the sword, the knife, to cast away resentment ♫

♫ I fear that new and old grudges will add to my troubles ♫

♫ Ask each tactic, each trick, to test who is more skilled ♫

♫ The ups and downs of life are difficult to predict ♫

♫ Ask the road and journey across remote lands ♫

♫ Where is my soulmate? I'm so lonely ♫

♫ 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 fleeting; how many springs remain? ♫

♫ 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 laugh, for it has 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 for it has grown old ♫

♫ The heroes have died and little time is left ♫

♫ I've forgotten those who are gone ♫

[Word of Honor]

[Episode 3]

Master Wen.

I've been helping you k*ll and bury bodies all night,

why are you still calling me Master Wen nonstop?

Aren't you being a bit too formal?

You shouldn't drink cold liquor with that injury.

A'Xiang, warm it up.

I can tolerate serving you,

but must I also serve these two idiots?

Sister Xiang, let me do it.

Take it.

Master Wen.

How strange.

It feels like skin and flesh to the touch,

but why does it feel like you grew it yourself?

Indeed. I worked hard to grow it myself, despite the fact that I am untalented.

Who is this man?

How was he able to recognize the Passing Clouds Steps

and also see through my disguise?

In all my years of life, I have never judged anyone's character incorrectly.

Your figure speaks of honesty and righteousness,

so you must be extraordinary.

How come...?

Master!

Last time, you pointed at the back of a village girl,

praised her for being born with fair shoulder blades,

and then insisted that she must be a beauty.

The result was that when she turned around, the way she batted her eyes was even greasier than a pig's head!

What do you know?

That girl was inherently beautiful,

but her poor environment gave her an obscene temperament.

We cannot consider it my mistake.

As for Brother Zhou...

Uncle Zhou.

I can't find a breakthrough yet,

but I'm sure you've changed your appearance.

Is it pretty?

Perfect.

Master Zhang, the masks worn by the group who was chasing you

had symbols of Mount Qingya's Ghost Valley.

This group of evil spirits had disappeared from Jianghu for many years.

How did the Mirror Lake Sect provoke them?

I don't know.

You don't know?

Then, Brother Zhou, surely you know how strong the Ghost Valley is?

You got involved in such a major issue for no reason,

don't you want to know the causes and effects?

I don't know, and I'm not interested in knowing.

However, I can get a good idea of it just by guessing.

Uncle Zhou.

Matters of the martial arts world

are only ever about three things: greed, hatred, and ignorance.

Ghost Valley disappeared for many years, so there's no hatred to speak of.

Qiu Yuejian has always preserved moral integrity and been at peace with all,

meaning that there isn't any ignorance to speak of, either.

That means that the only thing left is greed.

The ghosts on Mount Qingya must have destroyed the Mirror Lake Sect

because they were greedy for something.

I wonder whether or not you have heard this nursery rhyme, Brother Zhou.

"The water of the Five Lakes converges throughout our lands."

"If not me, who deserves to become the Martial Arts Supreme Leader?"

That's right.

This nursery rhyme has spread throughout the martial arts world in these past few months.

Everyone knows this was created to be used as the Five Lakes Alliance's campaign to compete for leadership of the martial arts world.

However, a few days ago,

a strange second half of the rhyme spread from Yuezhou city.

Master! What is it?

"The Iridescent Clouds have scattered, and the Glaze has shattered."

"Who will cry with the Ghosts on Mount Qingya?"

What's so sad about the Ghosts on Mount Qingya?

Aren't they all filled with evil

and only ended up in the Ghost Valley because they had nowhere else to run to?

You're right, Brother Zhou,

but the words "the Ghosts on Mount Qingya"

don't stand for a group of ghosts.

Rather, they stand for Rong Xuan, the great demon who was ex*cuted

at Mount Qingya twenty years ago.

Rumor has it that this demon with the surname of Rong

left behind a martial arts treasure called World's Armory.

It contains the long-lost supreme techniques of various martial arts sects.

It can make any ordinary man invincible.

Additionally, the key to opening this armory

is called the Glazed Armor.

A treasure that makes people invincible?

You can only trick an ignorant rustic into believing this kind of foolish talk.

Master Wen, do you believe it, too?

Why? Don't you believe it?

Treasures, divine weapons,

secret martial arts scrolls, elixirs.

Every few years, something of this kind gets made up

and causes the people of the martial arts world

to scramble for it, leading to countless deaths.

Only then will everyone be happy.

Ridiculous.

How is it ridiculous?

Isn't it?

All of these treasures have one shared name.

They're called the "Genius Way of Reaping without Sowing."

Simply put,

it's just greed.

I didn't expect that our viewpoints would be the same.

Although peace reigns over the land,

ignorant people create trouble for themselves.

I finally figured out what you just said!

Correct. According to logic, those people who fight over it

must know that their martial arts skills are bad, and that's why they're trying to reap without sowing!

However, they already know that they're weak but still fight with others over these things.

Don't they just have a death wish?

Master, it looks like there are loads of people who are dumber than I am!

Miss Gu is quite smart.

What do you think, Master Zhang?

We should take a nap. It's almost dawn.

Dawn... is indeed coming.

Bring them in here.

Over here.

[Mirror Lake Mountain Villa]

[Mirror Lake Mountain Villa]

[Leader of Mount Dagu Sect, Five Lakes Alliance, Shen Shen]

Cover the bodies. Don't expose them to the sun.

Put it here.

Okay.

Kuan'er!

- Junior Master Shen.
- Greetings, Leader of Mount Dagu Sect.

What happened?

- Junior Master Shen...
- Where is Junior Master Zhang?

Junior Master Shen!

By the time we were able to rush over here last night,

every single member of the Mirror Lake Sect had already been k*lled.

These are the remains of Junior Master Zhang and our two juniors.

Fourth Brother...

- Junior Master Shen!
- Step aside.

- Junior Master Shen!
- Step aside!

Junior Master Shen!

You'd better not look.

Junior Master Zhang and the two juniors were tortured before they died.

Their remains are in a poor state.

Junior Master Shen! Junior Master Shen!

- Warrior Shen! Warrior Shen!
- Junior Master Shen, you...

It's all my fault for being useless!

I failed to find out something was amiss fast enough and couldn't save them!

As the first disciple of the Yueyang Sect, I am to blame!

Please punish me, Junior Master!

Weren't you ordered here to hand over the invitation?

Why weren't you here in time to rescue them, either?

When we saw the fire from Yuezhou city last night,

we rushed to the lake to save them immediately,

but someone destroyed all the boats early in that morning!

What a cruel scheme!

If I find them,

I will force them to pay us back by a hundredfold!

In all my years, I'd never heard anyone boast so outrageously,

talking so big without any sense of shame.

Tao Hong. Lv Liu. What do you mean?

Warrior Shen,
[Grandma Tao Hong, Grandpa Lv Liu]

when you became sworn brothers,

didn't you swear to die at the exact same time?

Now that your sworn brother died such a cruel death,

why don't you end your life and follow him?

Are you just going to get over it after shedding a few tears?

Nonsense!

Old Woman, this, you don't understand.

The Five Lakes Alliance's understanding of honor has always been unique among others.

When they were alive, they wouldn't meet up at all for decades.

Once one of them died, the other would scurry over as soon as possible, crying so hard that it's as if it were his own mother who died.

This kind of deep friendship is quite special!

You insult the friendship between us five brothers.

Are you deliberately trying to provoke me?

Brothers?

[Jinghu Mountain Villa]

Warrior Shen, aren't you tooting your horn too much?

Who even knows whether or not Zhang Yusen would even claim you as his brother?

Anyone with sharp eyes can clearly discern whether you, Leader Shen,

are a brother or a lackey.

You've gone too far!

Leader Shen!

Elder Huang?

[Elder of Beggar Gangs, Huang He]

Leader Shen,

I specifically invited Tao Hong and Lv Liu here to help us.

Virtuous Couple, I hope you will consider my position and provoke him less.

We should stick together when faced with a formidable enemy.

Let us set down our past grievances for now.

Set them down.

Leader Shen, is it more important to avenge Mirror Lake Sect

or to hold this momentary argument?

But Elder Huang, who... who did this?

Follow me.

[Luohan Temple]

Have you stared long enough?

I'm just wondering...

what kind of countenance lies beneath your disguise.

It's already dawn. Thank you both.

Our meeting was fated.

Fate will reunite us.

Brother Zhou, honestly, what's the point in reuniting another day?

You want to send this child to Tai Lake.

It's a long journey,

and I happen to have a decorated boat.

I'd also like to appreciate the scenery of Tai Lake.

We might as well take the water route together. Wouldn't that be a comfort?

I've always hated to see the fated people brave harsh weather

on their journeys.

Interesting.

I'd love to see who you really are.

Fated people?

Master, that diseased ghoul is yellow-faced and skinny, and he breathes out more air than he takes in.

He may keel over and die at any moment on our journey!

Why would you take him with you?

Do you find your life too comfortable?

How many people with a full face have you ever seen before?

That person's voice sounds as mellifluous as a phoenix’s song, and his appearance is beautiful in a dignified manner.

Especially those shoulder blades.

They are one-of-a-kind.

You make it sound as if you're speaking of a flower.

He's just a man, isn't he?

Of course.

Do you think I don't know he is a man?

What I mean is...

this person's appearance and physiognomy are completely inconsistent.

Yet I can't see any trace of disguise.

How skillful must he be to be able to pull this kind of little trick?

Even I can't find a breakthrough.

There's also that flexible sword of his...

Master, why were those people pretending to be so mysterious last night?

That leader even called himself the Hanged Ghost.

Did he take us for idiots?

Master, where are you going?

Fate... will reunite us.

[Luohan Temple]
[Smile to difficulties of life]

Junior Master Shen, the only remains we haven't found are Chengling's.

And the others?

I found the remains in this yard.

Warrior Shen, be careful.

What an insidious trap!

Junior Master, these materials are extremely sharp.

You can hardly see them with the naked eye.

We only cleaned them roughly one time, and they are not cleaned up yet.

This yellow paper...

Ghost Valley?

Yes.

All of us from the older generation know

the Ghost Valley always creates a scene before it carries out its evil deeds.

I was worried that someone would do evil under the guise of Ghost Valley.

That was why I asked my two old friends, Tao Hong and Lu Liu, to come here.

Now, there is no one left in this world...

Yes.

There is no one in this world who understands these damn things better than we do.

It was these things that caused the two of us to become the way we are today!

These are Soul Winding Threads of the Hanged Ghost.

The Ten Devils of Ghost Valley.

We should've gotten rid of this evil long ago!

I'm going to utterly annihilate the Ghost Valley!

Leader Shen, don't you overestimate yourself! Who exactly will annihilate who?

It's Ghost Valley that will annihilate your Five Lakes Alliance.

Stop boasting!

Grandma Tao Hong!

You repeatedly provoke me!

Do you think I wouldn't dare to k*ll you?

"The water of the Five Lakes converges throughout our lands."

"If not me, who deserves to become the Martial Arts Supreme Leader?"

"The Iridescent Clouds have scattered, and the Glaze has shattered."

"Who will cry with the Ghosts on Mount Qingya?"

What nonsense is that?

Who says this is nonsense, Leader Shen?

If you are enlightened and do not do evil,

then you needn't fear that the ghosts will knock on your door at night.

The Ghost Valley has already knocked on the door of Mirror Lake Sect.

Who can be sure that they won't knock on your door tonight?

Hurry up.

Send your master a message immediately.

Be sure to tell him the second half of the nursery rhyme.

I'm giving you the Alliance's Leadership Token.

With this token, it's as if the leader is present.

Gather your men and do whatever it takes

to help me find Chengling's whereabouts.

Yes.

Warrior Shen.

If the child of your alliance's Zhang family survived,

I will do my part

and take on the great responsibility of assisting your alliance in finding the orphan.

You can count on me.

Thank you, Elder Huang.

Don't mention it.

It is all the duty of righteous people.

Every member of the Five Lakes Alliance is indebted to you for what you did today.

You are very welcome.

I'm tired.

Kid, let's find a shady place up ahead and take a rest.

Master.

Brother Zhou! I didn't expect that we'd be fated to meet again!

Let's drink some tea to cool down on this hot day.

That Wen Kexing just won't leave us.

He must also be after the Glazed Armor.

Why are you leaving?

There is a lake here.

Drink some water and quench your thirst.

"If the Canglang River is clean,

I can wash my ribbon in it.

If the Canglang River is dirty,

I can wash my foot in it".
[T/N: Lines from a classical Chinese Poem]

Brother Zhou, we really meet everywhere.

Did this person put some tracking item on us?

Is there really a tracking technique I do not know about it?

Let's go.

Where are you going, Brother Zhou?

Aren't you going to rest a bit longer?

Seeing that man by the name of Shen frightened out of his wits,

was truly satisfying.

Five Lakes Alliance has been unbridled for so many years.

Someone can finally put them in their place.

Grandma Tao Hong, you should restrain yourself a bit.

If the Ghost Valley appears,

it will not just be the Five Lakes Alliance that suffers.

I don't care.

I'm almost dead anyway.

As long as I can watch the fall of the Five Lakes Alliance,

I can die in peace.

Lv Liu, what do you think?

So many people were driven to death

for that damned Glazed Armor back then.

In the end,

the Five Lakes Alliance got all the benefits.

Now, the Danyang Sect's bloodline was cut first,

and then the Mirror Lake Sect was destroyed.

I feel like the time has come for Five Lakes Alliance's retribution.

Lu Taichong left behind two young disciples.

They ran over to Ao Laizi's Mount Tai Sect.

He must have obtained Lu Taichong's Glazed Armor.

We have to find Ao Laizi quickly.

We can't let another piece of the Glazed Armor fall into the hands of the Ghost Valley.

[Tianya Inn]

A single room would be enough, too.

Please, can't you work something out?

If we had a room, we'd let you stay here.

A gentleman reserved the entire place.

Please forgive me.

Why don't you go and look elsewhere?

Are there other inns elsewhere?

I'm sorry, there aren't.

If that's the case, where do you expect us to go?

It's none of my business where you go once you leave our inn.

You—

What about your woodshed? That will do.

We are tired from our journey.

We'd like to ask you for a place to stay overnight.

Isn't this Brother Zhou?

What woodshed?

How can we let our Brother Zhou sleep in a woodshed?

Innkeeper, have my first-class room cleaned up

for this beautiful...

this gallant man.

Of course. Lad, go and clean it up!

All right!

Brother Zhou, I gave you my own room,

and I even prepared two new outfits for you.

Are you just going to take over my room so brusquely?

You should at least invite me inside to sit for a while.

Seems to me that there are many empty rooms here.

Just find another room to relax in.

But there's only one first-class room.

Brother Zhou.

Brother Zhou!

Uncle Zhou, what are you doing?

We must always be on guard.

Master Wen doesn't look like a bad person.

You think everyone is a good person.

You stayed up all night. Come here and take a nap.

Uncle Zhou, you stayed up all night, too. I'll just take a nap in the chair.

You should use the bed.

Just do what I say.

Yes.

You brat. You don't even take off your clothes when you sleep?

My presence is inconvenient for you, isn't it?

Fine.

By the way, is your injury serious?

You don't have to tell me if you don't want to.

This is the hemostatic.

Apply it yourself.

Uncle Zhou, thank you.

Brother Zhou, our fate is deeply interconnected.

Were we perhaps connected in our past three lives?

It feels more as though you're a wretched soul who keeps haunting me.

I wonder why you keep following me all this time.

It wouldn't hurt to tell me your motive.

What I want is very simple.

Show me your true face and I'll tell you.

Why not let me see your true face first?

Your true face must be very handsome.

As for my true face...

It may not necessarily be that appealing.

Perhaps it's covered in scars.

Perhaps it's a terrifying appearance.

I have no interest, no matter what it is.

However, I will give you a piece of advice.

Don't be so interested in things that don't concern you.

Then tell me, Brother Zhou,

what is your relationship with that Master Zhang upstairs?

Are you really willing to get sucked into this trouble

without truly knowing what it is?

I do my best to accomplish what was entrusted to me.

I only need to bring Master Zhang to Zhao Jing safely.

Anything else has nothing to do with me.

Master! Why didn't you invite me to drink with you?

A'Xiang, let me ask you.

What kind of person is the second cutest person in the world?

What kind of person? Someone who treats me to dinner.

It's a person who is tough on the surface but soft at heart.

Then who is the cutest person in the world?

A person with a slim waist, long legs, who is tough on the surface but soft at heart.

This child is the descendant of an eminent family.

We shall spare no efforts to find the child!

Yes!

We will follow Law Enforcement Elder's orders.

Then, what should we do after we find his whereabouts?

Bring the child directly to me, no matter what it costs.

Don't let anyone know that the child was brought to us.

Yes!

Uncle Zhou.

Young Master Zhang, you finally woke up.

We've been waiting for you.

Your Uncle Zhou wouldn't start eating without you.

That made us unable to start.

Wash your hands and eat.

I'm hungry!

Why wash your hands? It's not like you're going to eat with your bare hands!

Wild Girl, since we are traveling the martial arts world, can't you be more disciplined?

Look at how the other girls conduct themselves.

[Tianya Inn]

Sirs, please have mercy on us.

Is that him?

Have mercy on us, sir!

Young Master Zhang, why don't you start eating?

Is the food not to your taste?

No, that's not it.

Thank you for the hospitality, Master Wen.

You know to thank others for treating you to a meal,

so why don't you eat properly?

Don't you know that having someone like you at the table is really affecting our appetite?

But... I really don't have an appetite.

I really dislike spoiled people like you who never experienced any hardships!

You're neither versed in literacy nor in martial arts.

When something happens, your world falls apart!

If you don't eat, you'll be starved to death!

Do you think that the Heavens would be so touched by your actions that all of your enemies would magically get struck by lightning?

A'Xiang, don't bully him. Just eat.

Master, am I wrong?

Look at that silly boy, his head is only there for decoration!

Listen. If you don't eat to gain strength and skills,

are you really just counting on us outsiders to avenge you?

Yes.

At home, you rely on your parents, outside you rely on friends,

but that's just wishful thinking. Even this Sick—

Master Zhou won't let his generosity get taken advantage of this much.

Take your time to eat, no one is trying to steal it from you.

Be careful not to choke, you idiot.

Why did you start crying?

A'Xiang!

It's as if I bullied you.

[Chongwu Hall]

[Five Lakes World Alliance]

Everybody, during my time as the leader
[Leaders of Haisha Gangs and Water Transport Gangs]

of the world's highest alliance,
[Leaders of Angry Waves, Changle, Wild Gusts, and Iron Anchor gangs and dockmasters of Zilang and Senluo]

Ghost Valley attacked the
[Disciples of Yueyang Sect, Zhu Yaozhi, Gao Shan]

Five Lakes Alliance's Mirror Lake Sect in cruel ways.
[Leader of Five Lakes Alliance, Gao Chong]

They annihilated my Fourth Brother, Zhang Yusen's whole family.

The Five Lakes Alliance has experienced unprecedented shame and humiliation!

This debt of blood must be paid back with blood!

Leader is right! This debt of blood must be paid back with blood!

This debt of blood must be paid back in blood!

Everybody!

Since the Battle of Mount Qingya,

the martial arts world and the Ghost Valley have been in peace for more than twenty years.

It's because the righteous people back then

made an agreement with the masters who developed Ghost Valley.

As long as the Ghost Valley does not harm the people of the martial arts world,

the righteous people will not step inside Ghost Valley!

However, now it's the Ghost Valley who did harm to our world first!

Therefore, I will hold a Heroes Conference on July 15th!

It's time for us to attack Mount Qingya together

and eradicate this cancerous evil!

A debt of blood must be paid back with blood! Eradicate the cancerous evil!

A debt of blood must be paid back with blood! Eradicate the cancerous evil!

[Leader of Mount Tai Sect, Ao Laizi]

Master, how is it?

Fortunately, we didn't find anyone suspicious.

How is Qing Hua?

He only caught a cold.
[Disciple of Mount Tai Sect, Qing Bai]

He has a small fever from time to time.

Master, can we set a fire?

Endure it a bit longer.

It will be all right once we get to Mount Wudang.

Let me keep watch. You are tired from the journey, please rest.

I'm fine.

If there hadn't been a fire at Mirror Lake Mountain Villa,

then Shen Shen wouldn't have let us go temporarily.

However, if he catches up with us again,

how could your children beat them?

We'll just have a battle to the death. Master!

You're too reckless!

Master Ao Laizi, how about...

you... you just hand us over?

After all, Master Shen is my uncle's sworn brother.

We are Danyang Sect's last two descendants.

I think Five Lakes Alliance won't do anything to us.

Silly child.

Shen Shen is chasing after you relentlessly to steal

the Glazed Armor that your master left.

But don't worry.

Since I promised to fulfill your master's last wish,

I will do anything in my power

to prevent the Glazed Armor

from falling into the hands of the Five Lakes Alliance.

Save me! Save me!

Save me!

Save me! Save me!

Dad!

Dad...

Uncle Zhou?

It's fine now.

Get some sleep.

[Bright and Blessed]

Brother Zhou, are you looking for these two people?

I've already handled everything for you. Go back to sleep.

It's the Ghost Valley again.

They followed me quite closely.

It's difficult to tell a ghost from a human.

Someone wearing a ghost mask is not necessarily a ghost.

Someone with a human face may not necessarily be a human.

Who knows?

You're a true connoisseur.

This is the old yellow seal liquor of 30 years.

Can I call you A'Xu?
[T/N: "A" in front of a name is used to express endearment]

Your ability to judge wine, A'Xu,

is on par with my ability to judge people.

How about a sip of it?

With that judgment of yours? Just forget it.

My judgment of people is perfect.

I'm willing to bet that there's a very big surprise

lying underneath your outermost skin.

You might as well rip it off and take a look.

I'm in no hurry. It's just a matter of time.


♫ The sky is gray as I cross the cold river,
my duties taken care of ♫

♫ Smiling at the absurdity of the moon's reflection in my cup ♫

♫ Who allowed me to roam around the world on horseback? ♫

♫ Who is drunk in their dreams but can't find
the homeland when they wake? ♫

♫ The cold rain of Autumn 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 ice in my heart ♫

♫ Is that our light that appeared out of nowhere? ♫

♫ I resent being unable to meet you earlier, but it is not too late ♫

♫ Don't let the flowers of the seasons down ♫

♫ Give up the adventures on horseback for a peaceful,
quiet life by the stream ♫

♫ The lights of thousands of families light up thousands of hills ♫

♫ The past disappears like smoke waves in a sandstorm ♫

♫ I will clear away my cold past and happily spend the rest
of my life making wine and tea with you ♫

♫ No matter the height of the mountains or distance of the sea,
I will be with you ♫