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[Opening OST: "Young Warriors"] [By Wang Sulong — Lyrics by Wang Sulong and Zuo Muxiu]

♫ The dark green sea is hazy ♫

♫ dissipating in a flash. ♫

♫ Rivers and lakes divide the world. ♫

♫ Ten thousands arrows are firing at once. ♫

♫ Who has time to worry? Who loves the color of blood? ♫

♫ At that time, spirits are high. ♫

♫ Who calls the world his home? Who dares let his horse freely run? ♫

♫ Silently, tears form in the death of night. ♫

♫ Heroes are cutting all ties, ♫

♫ giving up whether it's life or death, ♫

♫ never asking what the cost is. ♫

♫ Good and evil must be distinguished. ♫

♫ The wind blows off the snow. ♫

♫ On the body, etch multiple scars, ♫

♫ wandering all over the world, ♫

♫ only wish to ask for answers from this world. ♫

♫ A teenager doesn't have to be a hero. ♫

♫ There is no need for flowers in the dream. ♫

♫ Destiny need not be afraid. ♫

♫ Because you have him all the way, ♫

♫ experienced a handful of conquests, ♫

♫ overcame a number of challenges. ♫

♫ From now on, happy and free! ♫

♫ The only wish is, with the world, ♫

♫ would come along the willing of change. ♫

[Legend of Awakening]

[Episode 8]

Honorable guests?

Are those the honorable guests you mentioned?

No matter what, I want the private seats.

Wei Hu, throw them out!

Young Lord Wei, Master instructed us that we must keep a low profile in Kaifeng.

If you won't, I'll do it myself.

- Young Lord! - Move aside!

- Young Lord, don't smash anything. Young Lord! - Move!

Excuse me! This is your congee.

- Young Master! - Young Master!

- Young Master. - Young Master.

You...

Shop Keeper, I'm taking the congee.

Elder.

Thank you for standing up for us.

May I ask for your name?

Get lost!

Just tell me your name.

I can tell that you're highly skilled.

I would like to learn from you.

Anyone who keeps me from having congee deserves to be beaten up.

Anyone who stands in my way...

deserves to be beaten up even more.

Brother, did you see her stances?

No, she was too fast.

Not even Qin Sang could see clearly with her Pneuma of Vision.

What happened? We're just having congee, how did it end up like this?

How is it? Are you hurt?

Don't worry! I'll stand up for you. Who did it?

Master, you're really good at acting in hindsight.

What are you saying?

Wasn't I away getting things done for you?

So Master was actually away just now to get us a greeting gift.

Yet, you can't come with us to Shining Sky Academy.

I am after all the Head of Wind Taker Institute.

How would they see me, if I take my own disciples to Shining Sky Academy?

Present this greeting gift!

She will welcome you in person.

What gift is it?

It's fresh out of the oven, fresh and piping hot!

A snack? Is it sweet? Is it good?

Master, we don't even know what Chu Min looks like.

How are we to ask her to be our mentor?

Her?

She's highly skilled in martial arts.

Her beauty is unsurpassed.

We shared many years of friendship.

On top of that, you're bringing her favorite gift to meet her.

She will definitely see you.

I get it! Step out.

Miss, someone is going around the city scamming people with the Qin family's badge.

Someone is using the Qin family's gold badge to scam people in the city?

There is a woman and a few men among them, both young and old.

There is also someone with disabled legs.

I know who they are.

I'll deal with it personally.

I thought we would never meet again.

[Shining Sky Academy]

I heard the disciples of Shining Sky Academy are all from renowned families.

How is this about martial arts? It's more about family upbringing.

It's no wonder that old geezer refused to come here, just because he is afraid to look bad.

I think that it's pretty good at Wind Taker Institute.

For the first time in my life, I agree with Eldest Senior.

Brother, let's go in quickly.

Didn't Master say the greeting gift can't wait and we have to deliver it to Chu Min as soon as possible?

- All right! - Let's go!

I believe everyone already knows, that the Qin family has gone overboard this time.

They are actually causing disciples from aristocratic families

compete together with those common people in the world.

Master told us that we must win the Pneumatic Combat Convention.

It's also to take the Qin family down a peg.

- Do you understand? - Yes.

All of you who are present are all Master's disciples.

You're also peers who need a breakthrough in your Pneuma of Sound.

Today, you'll practice with me, Luo Ting.

We'll make a breakthrough together.

Noises are a hindrance, when making a breakthrough in Sound.

You must bear that in mind.

You must train your Pneuma of Sound to the highest level.

Thank you.

I've asked around.

No one here knows Chu Min.

They also assume that we're here as helpers.

What on earth did that old geezer say?

An unsurpassed beauty with great martial arts skills?

Did he lie to us again?

I knew it! Whenever Master sounds so certain, nothing good ever happens.

Let's head back to the inn first.

Whose servants are you?

Are you here to deliver gifts to Headmaster Xia?

Or are you applying to get trained at Shining Sky Academy?

Leave the gift!

You can go after giving me a name.

A gift from Guo Youdao!

Don't touch it!

Who is it? Get him!

Senior Luo Ting, they are here to make a scene.

Who are you? How dare you barge into Shining Sky Academy?

Our apologies! We're here to see someone.

We didn't know this would happen.

Tell us! Who are you looking for?

We are here to seek out Elder Chu Min as our mentor.

Please take us to her.

Can't you even tell better lies?

Here at Shining Sky Academy, we don't have any Master called Chu Min.

Judging by their scrubby looks,

I bet they are thieves who want to sneak into Shining Sky Academy.

Our peers nearly made a breakthrough in our Pneuma of Sound today to master two pneumatic powers.

Now, look at what happened! You've sabotaged it.

Master has fooled us again.

Take a good look at this! We're from the Qin family.

Do we need to steal anything?

Qin family and I are best friends.

They even found their way here! I would have to check you out.

Mo Lin, harmony is prized.

Eldest Senior, it is pointless to reason with them now.

Mo Lin, where is the safest spot?

What are you still waiting for?

Let's go! That's the quietest spot.

Disciples of Shining Sky Academy, listen up!

Seal the doors and arrest the thieves!

Yes!

[Tripitaka Sutra Pavilion]

People rarely come here, we should be able to hide for a while.

Didn't the people at the inn say Lu Ping and the others went to Shining Sky Academy?

What is going on?

Hurry up! Don't let them get away!

Senior, what happened?

Some people with the Qin family's gold badge have offended Luo Ting.

All disciples in the academy are out to capture them.

- Where are they? - The backyard! They went towards the backyard.

There's a crowd in the backyard.

I'm afraid it's just a diversion.

We're doomed! We're trapped in here.

Won't we get surrounded?

What are you guys doing?

[Tripitaka Sutra Pavilion]

I tell you, Miss Qin, we're here to seek a mentor.

Yet the disciples of Shining Sky Academy insisted that we're thieves, how is it reasonable?

You've been scamming with my gold badge in the city, how are you not thieves?

Junior Qin, what a coincidence!

It seems that you are always losing something.

These people are indeed thieves.

- Capture them! - Hold on!

Luo Ting, wait a moment! They are my friends.

I believe they are telling the truth.

If there's any misunderstanding between you and them,

please let them off for my sake.

So, they are actually your friends?

That's fine! Since they wish to join Shining Sky Academy,

why don't I examine their abilities first according to the regulations?

Junior, you won't mind, will you?

Lu Ping, watch out!

All you have is Strength! You didn't even master one pneumatic power.

It might be fine in the countryside, but here in Kaifeng, this is nothing.

Today, I intend to show great kindness to teach you a thing or two.

It's you?

Who is that beggar?

Do you know I'm Master Xia's top disciple?

Don't act disrespectfully!

- Master. - Master.

Master Chu Min, my disciples have offended you, please don't take it to heart!

Chu Min? [Chu Min - Shining Sky Academy]

- You're that Chu Min, the one our master told us? - Do not be rude!

Although Master Chu Min is a librarian in our Tripitaka Sutra Pavilion,

she's the most powerful warrior in Shining Sky Academy.

Elder Xia, we're here to see Elder Chu Min.

We didn't expect to offend your disciples.

Please don't take it to heart.

You can take your disciplines with you and get lost.

The four of you and those two lasses at the back, let's talk inside.

This time, Guo Youdao finally did something worthy.

He has got us a powerful figure. Let's go!

We were referred by the Head of Wind Taker Institute, Guo Youdao.

We hope Elder Chu Min can take us in as your disciples.

Someone else is here!

Minmin.

I'm in pain. Look!

It hurts so much.

Master, what are you doing here?

Guo Youdao, do you really think that by tricking them into offending the entire Shining Sky Academy,

I'd feel bad enough to take them as my disciples?

No, Minmin...

Master, you wanted to fool us from the start, right?

I...

Wasn't I trying to get you started in seeking a mentor?

Minmin... You've been alone all these years.

If you take in a few disciples now, isn't that pretty nice?

It will get lively, right? What do you say?

Am I right, Minmin?

Minmin, why did you hit me?

What I hate the most is to be manipulated.

You people... Get out of the Tripitaka Sutra Pavilion!

[Tripitaka Sutra Pavilion]

Brother, what do we do now?

What now? I need to get treatment!

I... My head is really swelling up!

She's so vicious, I can't stand it. It's too scary!

- Hold on to him. - This is so scary.

Got it...

I sort of saved them.

They didn't even thank me.

How rude!

Miss, Young Master Lu came here for nothing, he must be upset.

You shouldn't take it to heart.

I didn't do anything wrong at all.

Why do I feel so uneasy?

Ziyan, go with them.

Take a look at their inn.

If they need anything, you'll see to it.

I don't want to owe him a favor.

Yes, Miss.

- Don't move... - It hurts.

- What is this? It's hot and round. - It's working if it's hot.

How will the swelling go down if it's not hot?

This is the de-swelling device I invented.

If he were caught by Luo Ting today, I'd make you suffer.

Perhaps your face might swell much worse than now.

You're right.

This is quite comfortable.

It's very warm.

I actually meant well.

Otherwise,

you wouldn't even get to see Minmin's face.

So what if we saw her?

I thought that it's already outstanding to master one pneumatic power.

Who knew that it's not worth mentioning at all in Kaifeng?

Su Tang, anyway, Chu Min refused to accept us as her disciples.

I think that with your brother's standard, he won't even get through the first round.

Why don't you come with me to make a living in the pugilist world?

Young lass, what's with you?

Did you get up on the wrong side of bed?

Without your threats, it seems as if something is off.

Since we returned from Shining Sky Academy,

brother hasn't said a word.

It's obvious that there's a disparity in their skills.

Why don't I go and tell him a joke?

In terms of that, you're both too late.

Someone already went.

Lu Ping, we didn't get accepted today.

It's fine to go again another day, faith can even move mountains.

You're really optimistic.

Haven't you wondered why someone who lived in such seclusion

would run into us so coincidentally at the congee restaurant?

I've asked around, Chu Min has been in Shining Sky Academy for about ten years.

At this time of the year, she would always buy crab congee there.

She kept such a persistent habit, she must have an obsession.

It's just that the owner of the congee place was so startled,

so he closed the place and headed back to his hometown.

The crab congee that will break the ice is left to us.

Eldest Senior, you're right!

But you should be able to stand up first, before you can cook.

Wait here!

You left your crutch in Chenqiao Town.

You can't be in a wheelchair all the time so I made you a new one.

It's a thank you gift for you for warning me today.

Speaking of which, Eldest Senior, I bully you all the time,

why did you help me?

Whatever danger we are in, you always whine about it, but you have never failed to protect us.

I'm not just helping you.

When I saw a lot of them at Shining Sky Academy looking down on Wind Taker Institute,

I thought to myself, I'll have to keep leading Wind Taker Institute.

We mustn't get bullied again.

My dear disciple, will you give me a hand?

I can even defeat Xing Luo,

not to mention a few crabs.

My dear disciple, you're so good at this.

When we were on the run, my brother made me do this very often.

I'm used to doing this.

Here, hold them!

We should get going.

Little disciple... What are you doing?

I'm going to set them free.

♫ Wait for a gust of wind to blow through the youngster's sleeves ♫

♫ Time drifts by, stopping at the dock. ♫

♫ If there hadn't been an encounter, there wouldn't evoke a sense of nostalgia. ♫

This young lass... She's actually quite pretty.

♫ A streamer is chasing after the moonlight. ♫

♫ Those eyes that move me, ♫

♫ float above the clouds, walk into my heart, and stay there for a while. ♫

♫ The sky, the land, the flowers, the birds, and the pavilion, they are always waiting on their own. ♫

♫ Passing through the world, we meet by chance, dreading the parting time. ♫

If you really wish to help, stop sending me money secretly.

Stay and start the fire.

Who wants to help you? I'm worried you'll go around with the Qin family's gold badge without a penny to pay.

It will ruin the Qin family's reputation.

You can't do it or are you afraid?

Do you think I'll be prodded into helping?

Watch out!

Is this how you help me? Ms. Qin is starting a fire?

Aren't you afraid to look bad?

It's my fault that you didn't get accepted as disciples today.

When anyone in Qin family is in the wrong, we have to take responsibility.

Talk after you have cleaned your face.

Silly girl!

Master Guo's trick didn't work on Chu Min.

But we used your gold badge... I'm sorry.

You... You rascal... You actually apologized to me?

What did you say? Say it again! I didn't hear you clearly.

I said...

The fire died, put more wood in.

Right! Yes.

Who lit the stove? Is this meant for cooking or burning the house down?

Are you trying to burn the house down?

Who was here? Step aside! I'll help you.

Sure, I'll leave you to it! I'm off.

Brother!

Su Tang, I've lost this bag of money for some time, where did you find it?

Brother, was Ms. Qin here?

You're still acting? I've checked them! These are all government taels.

Well done! Your observation skills have improved.

She is worried that we'll keep putting expenses on a tab and make the Qin family look bad.

She came specially to bring us money.

With this rich sponsor, I can even reserve the entire Osmanthus Candy Shop for you.

Has Ms. Qin... fallen for you?

Have you also fallen for her?

Brother, are you not going to get a mentor?

Are you using her to meet Wen Gecheng?

Su Tang.

The path I choose...

it can't be changed.

The Qin family's young lady and us might seem to be on a similar path,

but in the end, it won't be the same.

Do you understand?

♫ In the vacancy between heaven and earth, ♫

♫ everything is hazy. ♫

Look at you! You're also very pitiful. [Friend of the Past: Liu Song - symbolic tomb] (TN: An empty tomb where no body was in it.)

♫ cherish ourselves amidst the joys and sorrows. ♫

I'm sorry! [Friend of the Past: Liu Song - symbolic tomb]

I didn't bring you crab congee this year.

You always said the congee was made for me.

But I knew, you actually missed the flavors of your hometown.

You just want to satisfy your craving.

♫ yet, there’s no trace after waking up. ♫

♫ This passing time, it has feinted my life. ♫

♫ We’ve exchanged our promises. ♫

♫ The continuous rain and rustling wind ♫ [Friend of the Past: Liu Song - symbolic tomb] (TN: An empty tomb where no body was in it.)

♫ stirred thousands layers of waves. ♫

♫ Every teardrop is a star! ♫

♫ Every teardrop is a star! ♫

Everyone says that

as you age, your wisdom grows.

But now that we've both aged,

there's still a lot we can't comprehend.

For instance,

the dead are gone.

You should move on.

Guo Youdao.

These past few years, you have been drinking...

no less than I did.

I drink to forget the past.

You drink...

to live in the past.

There are thousands of philosophies on life in this world.

I don't have to understand them all.

Stop trying to talk me around! It has been ten years...

I no longer hold any aspirations.

My heart is dead.

How can I have the heart to take in disciples?

Don't be in a rush to leave!

You've drunk so much wine.

It's time to eat.

Have another bowl of crab congee.

I can't... If I keep eating, I'll die from overeating before I get a mentor.

You've used up your pneumatic power?

Listen! I...

Brother, we've tried so many times.

It still doesn't taste like the congee from the restaurant.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Why don't we pick another mentor?

I don't want to change the path I've chosen, do you want to see Master Guo bullied?

Every year, Master Guo comes to Kaifeng, he always ends up getting bruised.

Yet, he still keeps coming, Elder Chu Min must mean a lot to him.

Let's keep going!

Here, come...

Hurry up! Come.

Look!

Look at these kids! They are so serious.

Aren't they like our younger selves?

I've got it! Mo Lin! Don't you have all sorts of poisons?

Is there a colorless and odorless one we can put in the congee that will make Chu Min let us...

Minmin...

Elder Chu Min, we've made you crab congee. Please try some!

Please!

No... Don't!

That's enough, Minmin!

This crab congee is a token of these youngsters' sincerity.

Are you going to waste it?

What's going on?

She's not responding.

Did you really poison her?

Meet me at Tripitaka Sutra Pavilion tomorrow.

Quick-quick-quickly address your Master!

- Mast— - I'm not your Master.

Nor am I some deity.

It's only a few days away from the Pneuma Combat Convention.

If you wish to enhance your pneumatic powers rapidly,

I know of a method that isn't really a method.

Think it through and then come to me.

Minmin.

Minmin, does it taste like it once did?

Your disciples, none of them can cook.

But the boiling temperature of the freshly made congee,

it's still quite interesting.

Luo Ting, it seems you're holding it against me?

I just feel bad for you.

You are a high-ranking official of Shuo State, so His Majesty should rely on you the most.

But Qin Qi made a name for himself at the Pneuma Combat Convention.

I also have no choice, but to show Qin Sang respect.

Those scoundrels even made a racket in Shining Sky Academy, this really is...

It made you look bad.

Do you still remember what it is that I often taught you?

Bide your time, gear up for the moment!

Those kids from Wind Taker Institute, they are but mediocre in martial arts.

They came to seek a mentor just to participate in the Pneuma Combat Convention.

If you're Chu Min, and had a short time to enhance your powers,

what would you do?

Master, you mean... Lu Ping and his peers will take a risk in using that banned skill?

Who humbled herself to speak up for Lu Ping?

Do you remember?

Get up!

There are some matters that I have to handle on my own.

But you must remember that schemes can kill better than weapons.

Politics is way more complicated than what in the pugilist world.

How difficult can it be to kill someone?

Minmin, please enjoy!

This is... Soul Splitting Technique?

Exactly!

There's not much time left.

Judging by your current skills, you're seeking your doom by participating in the convention.

The only solution is to split your pneumatic power.

What is Soul Splitting?

Soul Splitting Technique uses an external Pneuma to bear the pneumatic power down and enhance it in a short time.

It is to aid in mastering one pneumatic power or even mastering many at a time.

It can promise instant results but it's also very risky.

This is an officially banned skill.

How risky can it be?

The least impact is losing all five senses.

The worst is...

losing your life.

Do you still wish to gamble?

Then place your bets.

Getting killed in the convention or here, what difference does it make?

I'll take the risk.

I'll go along with my brother.

Eldest Senior, are you going along with this crazy plan?

The methodology in martial arts is like an instrument.

As long as you bear no ill will, then all restriction is off.

You're just trying to make me join you.

I'm not a fool.

You talk too much.

You call yourself the best assassin in the world?

Miss, you should practice your swordplay.

Got it!

Are you worried about Young Master Lu and the others?

Why don't you plead on their behalf?

Why should I help him?

Did he ask me for help?

Luo Ting? He never gets up early to practice swordplay.

Why is he acting differently today?

Miss, he is going towards the Tripitaka Sutra Pavilion.

Not good! Luo Ting is narrow-minded and vengeful.

I fear that he might harm Lu Ping.

Let's follow him!

Where is he?

[Tripitaka Sutra Pavilion]

What is that sound?

Ms. Qin, what are you doing here?

Lu Ping, do you know what you're doing?

Soul Splitting is banned! It can kill you.

Fine! You'd risk your life for the convention?

I'll report this to my brother right now.

-This... - Once the Soul Splitting begins,

you'll get a backlash if it's stopped halfway.

Ms. Qin, right now, you can only join them.

Moreover, you'll be marked with an imprint of blocked meridians.

If you can't make a breakthrough within a day, you'll live with that mark for life.

The Soul Splitting has begun.

Life and death are now in the hands of fate.

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[Ending OST: "The Paper Boat"] [by Zhiqian Xue — Singers: Zhiqian Xue and Kewei Yu]

♫ Waiting to be buried by the lake in the town, ♫

♫ the White Paper Boat drifting with sorrow. ♫

♫ Lights on the other side of the sea ♫

♫ punched fingertips in the red water tower. ♫

♫ Watch the little boat churning, laughing at the ordinariness. ♫

♫ Like a kite being pulled into a low altitude, ♫

♫ I smiled to the leaving person. ♫

♫ The more spotlight, the more vivid the story. ♫

♫ Laughing like the moon, ♫

♫ regretting the lighthouse broke in the waves, ♫

♫ I call the Milky Way that isolates us all, blue. ♫

♫ Like a moat built under the sea, ♫

♫ waiting for the words on the paper boat to disappear, ♫

♫ there must always be someone who doesn’t remember listening to the other. ♫

♫ Anyone who is correctly guessed will end in disfavor. ♫

♫ You are particularly touched but others consider it ordinary. ♫

♫ Like the author, roughly put down with a weak stroke, ♫

♫ the writing boat on the lake was just like a paper crane in the air. ♫

♫ Laughing like the moon, ♫

♫ regretting the lighthouse broke in the waves, ♫

♫ I call the Milky Way that isolates us all, blue. ♫

♫ Can a moat be built on the seabed? ♫

♫ Wipe all the words on the paper boat! ♫

♫ Please let someone not remember and don't tell another! ♫

♫ Hide the reluctance between words ♫

♫ Unfortunately, I (you) are an average author ♫

♫ No matter how you (I) describe the rest, it's unnecessary! ♫

♫ Don't describe my unfulfilled promise! ♫

♫ Don't interpret my hidden fire-smoke! ♫

♫ Don't let the paper boat in the rough wave chasing me! ♫

♫ Don't wait until it over to know there are you and me! ♫