Original subtitles

♪ Ask the sword and knife, and do away with resentment ♪

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

♪ Ask each tactic and move to see who is more skilled ♪

♪ Fate changes and cannot be predicted ♪

♪ Ask the road and journey ahead ♪

♪ Where is my soul mate? ♪

♪ Ask the rain and clear skies about the troubles on my mind ♪

♪ Face the moon every day and night ♪

♪ Ask the flowers and leaves, their colors are perfect ♪

♪ Happiness and pain are both short, how many springs are left? ♪

♪ Ask autumn and winter, the snowstorm continues ♪

♪ The rainbow scatters easily but the days are hard to endure ♪

♪ No one knows why the flowers blossomed early ♪

♪ Heaven doesn’t mock us, you’ve also grown old ♪

♪ The 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 28]

Your Highness,

Commander Han is here to see you.

Han Ying?

Let him in.

Yes.

Han Ying.

Greetings, Your Highness.

It’s okay, just lie down.

I can’t forget the formality.

Lie down.

What happened?

Why did you lose contact for so long?

Your Highness,

please forgive me.

My team was tracked

and attacked.

All my men died at their posts.

I’m the only one survived

from all kinds of hardships and dangers.

If it were not for my loyalty to Your Highness,

I wouldn’t have made it until now.

What!

Do you know who did this?

It’s the Scorpion.

It’s a gang that are specialized

in assassinating people for money.

Although they were masked,

this Scorpion tail thorn was pulled out from my wound.

I’ve asked someone.

It belongs to the Scorpion.

Unbelievable!

Good.

Fairly well.

Your Highness,

my men are always very careful.

How did others know our whereabouts?

There must be a catch in it.

I’m afraid that there are spies in the Window of Heaven.

And they might bring troubles to your plan, Your Highness.

So I was so nervous

that I came back as soon as I can move.

But Leader Duan is not in the city now.

Peng Ju is on the way to Jiangnan.

He hadn’t heard from you for a long time,

so he went there by himself.

It’s my fault.

Please punish me, Your Highness.

But you brought me a piece of the Glazed Armor back,

which is not easy.

Good job. It’s almost the end of the year.

Please go home and have a good rest.

I’ll award you later.

If you hadn’t told me the truth,

I wouldn’t have know the key is hidden

in the Ghost Valley all these years

even though I’ve searched every corner of the world.

Although I’m not very sure about it,

[Great Ambitions] I’ve thought over it carefully that

if Gao Chong did collude with the Ghost Valley,

then the three pieces of Glazed Armor he owns

were probably in the Ghost Valley.

And the one I lost must have been stolen

by the Ghost Valley in the chaos.

If that’s the case,

once I take down the Ghost Valley,

I can pay His Highness back.

Well, very good.

The Glazed Armor has long been hidden in the martial arts world.

The heroes in the martial arts world are much more well-informed.

Then,

I’ll wait for your good news.

I won’t let you down, Officer Duan.

By the way,

I have a request for you, Officer Duan.

Gao Chong was headstrong enough

and cut one’s own throat.

But could High Highness please show some mercy

and don’t blame the whole Five Lakes Alliance

because of the fault of Gao Chong?

Of course.

Let’s write off the past.

There are a lot of things in the future,

to count on your help in the martial arts world.

Or, if His Highness appreciates you,

maybe we will have a chance to

become colleagues in the court.

Don’t flatter me.

Officer Duan,

you’re one of the outstanding talents

and have a promising future.

I’m just a humble boor.

I dare not share the same footing with you.

Prince Jin is seeking genius now.

If you can show your talent,

not only Chief of the martial arts world,

but the title of Marquis or Grand Tutor

are all at your choice.

[To Prince Jin]

Scorpion,

you came at the right timing.

Have a drink with me.

Go and make a pot of tea for my foster-father to sober up.

Yes.

Scorpion,

guess

who has the piece of Glazed Armor of Long-tongued Ghost?

It’s in the Window of Heaven.

What a great coincidence!

The Window of Heaven and Prince Jin are going to collaborate with me.

Isn’t that a bonus?

Prince Jin now has the power in the Northwest

where he owns mighty armies and excellent equipment.

That will be a big advantage

when I wipe out the Ghost Valley.

Scorpion,

are you still angry at me now?

You’re so stubborn.

Alright,

I’ll apologize.

I was wrong.

Let me pour a cup of tea for you.

Foster-Father, you saved me and educated me.

You can either hit

or even kill me.

I won’t have any complaints.

I just want to know that

last time, you said

is I did something wrong,

you wouldn’t consider our father-son relationship.

Those were just angry words.

You know what,

the closer people are,

like father and son, wife and husband,

the more likely they would say such words to hurt each other.

Those words are not true.

I just want to know

that is one day,

I really made a mistake and got you in trouble,

what would you do, Foster-Father?

Come here,

you little barbarian.

Since I picked you up back then,

we have depended on each other.

We have stuck together as one.

So,

whatever you meet in the future,

I’ll face it with you

and handle it with you.

Foster-Father,

are you serious and not lying?

Of course.

You got me.

Don’t worry.

By the way, Foster-Father,

you just said

Prince Jin would collaborate with you.

This is a good thing.

All you want is to change your fate,

and this is a perfect opportunity.

It’s a high-stake gamble.

There’s not much chance of winning so far.

We should keep negotiating with Duan Peng Ju first.

As for the collaboration,

we’ll have a further discussion.

But Duan Peng Ju said

that is we choose the right side,

you can be the Grand Tutor in the future.

But what if we back the wrong horse?

Prince Jin is plotting a treason.

Once it’s revealed,

the entire family of those involved will be exterminated.

It’s unlike the fights in the martial arts world.

But I’m not afraid of that.

Foster-Father,

fortune comes from the danger.

If one day you become a prince

or the Grand Master,

no one in the martial arts world

would dare to say anything about us.

You’re so like me, Scorpion.

I...

If I am still a poor and ignorant youngster,

I’ll bet with him.

But I’m one step to the top.

Isn’t this bet too big?

Don’t act rashly.

Now all I want is stability.

I’m gonna maintain the current state of the Window of Heaven first,

and then take action at the right time.

If Prince Jin is really going to succeed,

it’s not late for us to join him.

But at that time,

Prince Jin won’t lack people who run to him.

Foster-Father,

I know you don’t want to take the consequences,

and fear that this will destroy your lifetime career.

But I’m not afraid.

I have nothing to lose.

I’d like to provide a plan

to make sure no worries bother you.

Say it.

You’ve never told the public

your relationship with the Scorpion.

People in the martial arts world think

we’re strangers to each other.

How about I pledge my loyalty to Prince Jin,

and gathering all pieces of Glazed Armor?

If we make it,

all the rewards will be yours, Foster-Father.

If not,

no matter what kind of penalty it is,

I’ll bear it alone.

And I won’t get you in trouble.

Your Highness, you really have wonderful foresight.

[Noble Line] Han Ying has the intention to betray you.

He sneaked into your study room last night

and left after a long time of searching.

I sent someone to follow him secretly

as you order,

and found that he went to the place of former leader, Zhou Zi Shu.

And he hasn’t come back yet.

Very good.

Your Highness,

should I arrest this traitor?

No,

keep following him closely.

With such a good fish bait,

there will be a lot of big fishes rising to the bait.

You can leave now.

Yes.

Zi Shu, that’s the way you are.

Although you have left for so long,

there are still people working for you.

I’d like to see

how many alternative plans you’ve prepared against me.

Leader.

I know why His Highness wants the Glazed Armor.

[Knowing everything in the world] Your wound can be cured.

I’ll find all the Glazed Armors for you,

even risking my own life.

Old Duan,

you really deserve a spanking.

Coming to Jiangnan,

you didn’t come to meet me first,

but drunk with the Chief of the Five Lakes Alliance instead.

Tell me.

How should I punish you?

My Bodhisattva,

I really didn’t know that you had come to Yueyang as well.

I was thinking about going to Hu Prefecture

to visit you and Scorpion King after finishing my work.

Prince Jin heard that Scorpion King’s thaumaturgy has a new development.

He cares about that very much.

What your master really cares about is

that the Drug Men can help him to fight.

Yes, yes.

But my only concern is

the beautiful and charming

Bodhisattva.

Don’t think about it.

You haven’t been punished yet.

I deserve it.

How would you like to punish me, Bodhisattva?

I heard

that you’re getting along quite well with Chief of the Five Lakes Alliance lately.

Old Duan, pardon me.

I’d like to have just a few words.

I won’t interrupt you two old lovers catching up.

Scorpion King, this...

His Highness wants to find the Glazed Armor.

Why didn’t he ask me for help,

but turn to others instead?

[Easy and Breezy]

To the left a little bit.

To the left a little bit.

A little slanting.

To the right a little bit.

Yes, yes.

Yes, that’s okay.

Don’t listen to him.

He has poor sight.

If so,

I wouldn’t have been here now.

Paste it just like this.

It’s done, Master.

Master,

it’s more like a home now.

Little idiot, look at your happy face.

If you like doing it, just paste it slowly.

There is a full tub of paste.

They should be pasted in every room.

Your martial uncle found

that the girl who sold the window paper-cut was a beauty,

so he almost bought all the paper-cuts from her.

Master, so many?

Cheng Ling,

it’s not that I don’t want to help you.

But there’s nothing I can do.

Cheng Ling,

don’t be gluttonous and lazy

like your master.

The beginning of a new year,

we need to do a thorough cleaning

to embrace the new year.

Okay.

Just eat your melon seeds.

You are so wordy.

I just can’t have a carefree life like someone.

Cheng Ling.

[Five Lakes World Alliance]

Good, good.

Little brat, come here.

Get a knife and kill this chicken.

Martial Uncle, you want me to kill it?

Or you want it to kill you?

Hurry up.

The chicken needs longer time to be cooked.

Martial Uncle,

please give me another task.

I don’t dare to do it.

You don’t even dare to kill a chicken?

Both of you two are just slackers,

being gluttonous and lazy every day.

So you tricked me here to be your servant?

I don’t care.

This is New Year’s Eve dinner, and you must participate in cooking.

I can’t move my hands.

My disciple will have to do it for me.

If you can’t, just don’t eat.

Master.

Believe in yourself.

Don’t move.

Don’t come here.

Master, help.

Ah Xu.

What a good disciple you’ve got! He has never killed a chicken!

It’s real that everyone has his own fate.

That is luck.

His master takes all advantages in this world,

but only without luck,

which is complementary.

Humans are very strange.

They wouldn’t live their lives normally day by day.

Why did they set all those festivals?

Just showing they’re boring

and lonely, right?

But it’s quite serene when you’re alone.

I don’t know if there’s anybody around Master now.

Ah Xiang, open the door.

Happy New Year, Miss Ah Xiang.

Ah Xiang, Happy New Year.

Why are you guys here?

Of course we should.

It’s the Chinese New Year.

How could we leave a young girl like you

alone here?

- Hurry. - Okay.

I should tell you that

Our Wei Ning is restless

for you all day long.

After worshipping the ancestors,

he comes here to see you without having dinner.

Ah Xiang.

I don’t know the eating custom of your hometown,

so I brought many kinds of food here.

There are jujube cakes and pumpkin pie,

and fried lotus root with stuffing which is fresh and hot.

By the way,

the dumpling were made by Martial Uncle for you.

Though they’re raw,

I’ll cook them for you later.

There is so much food already. There’s no need to cook the dumplings.

Do you think I am a glutton?

Sorry, Martial Uncle.

I’m just a hoyden,

and there’s no one who has treated me so well.

I just...

I just don’t know what to say.

It’s just some sands coming into my eyes.

Little girl,

It’s already your home already once you’re at Gentle Wind Sword Sect.

From now on, just take here as your home.

If he bullies you in the future,

I’ll take it out on him for you.

Fine, just take it out on me.

It’s Chinese New Year now.

Not returning home when one’s rich is like dressing in a shining costume in the dark.

Today, I come to visit you guys

and have a drink with you.

[Memorial Tablets of his brothers]

Big Brother, I must toast you first.

Here, Third Brother.

Have a drink with me.

Who else?

Who else?

You, come and have a drink.

Here, drink more.

[Memorial Tablet of Rong Xuan] Brother Rong,

don’t you love drinking most?

You should drink over there

and it’s the only place for you.

Master.

Master, I must toast you.

You looked down upon me the most in those years.

But the ones you liked are all here

accompanying you.

Am I the only disciple

who is your most proudest?

Li Yao,

what a bitch you are!

Didn’t you say that I wouldn’t have any good results?

I think my results are not bad.

I have liquor,

meat,

and women.

When I come here next year,

I won’t be Chief of Five Lakes Alliance.

Next year,

I’ll be the supreme leader of the martial arts world.

I’ll let you guys see clearly that

how I reach the top of the world

step by step.

Unfortunately, you won’t see it.

You are all dead

but you still...

You still trip me?

You still trip me even when you’re dead.

You’re the person everyone likes, right?

Fine.

He wants to drink.

Fine.

You guys have a look.

I’ll toast him now.

Come,

and drink the wine toasted by me.

Drink it.

The wine I toasted is the best.

Foster-Father.

Get out.

Who let you in?

Foster-Father.

Foster-Father, please don’t be angry.

It’s just that I think you’re drunk.

So I come to send the soup for you to sober up.

Get out!

Foster-Father, please don’t be angry.

I’ll kill anyone who comes in.

Foster-Father.

Get me now!

[Memorial Tablets of Master Zhao and his wife]

There should be thumb ring of his master,

and the poisoned sword which killed Rong Xuan.

He would leave one trophy

of each scheme he had planned.

Foster-Father.

Out!

- Foster-Father. - Do you hear me?

- Foster-Father. - Get out.

Get out.

You, get out.

Look what’s hanging on your chest.

I left my most precious things in your custody.

Dinner is ready.

Sorry for the wait, Ah Xu.

Master, it smells so good.

I’m so tired.

Martial Uncle, are there any other dishes?

There is a pot of chicken soup simmering on the fire.

Go get it.

Okay.

Be careful, it’s hot.

Come, Ah Xu.

Try these dishes cooked by me.

The edible fungus is picked in fresh.

Now, let me toast the cook hero first.

Thanks for your cooking.

Here.

I’ll drink first to show my respect.

It’s so hot.

Good wine.

Eat something first, you alcoholic.

Master, it smells so good.

Here.

Cheng Ling, have some more vegetables.

Cheng Ling,

you’re still in the growth period.

Have some chicken soup.

Here.

Have more vegetables.

What?

You want to cry even on Chinese New Year?

Don’t cry.

If tears come out,

bad luck will follow you all year round.

Hold the tears back.

I didn’t cry.

I am happy.

I just thought that

I wouldn’t have a home in my life.

Who would know that I can celebrate the Chinese New Year like this?

God doesn’t treat me so bad actually.

That’s right.

This is the warmest Chinese New Year I’ve ever had

in those years.

I thought there was no need to celebrate the Chinese New Year without a home.

And I thought it was just the fool’s action.

Now thinking of it,

I used to be a mediocre person.

Setting up this and that,

fighting with others regardless of death.

What’s the meaning of that?

Mastering the top martial arts

and being the most powerful person in the world

doesn’t mean anything.

In the end,

I would still be a lonely ghost without anyone to rely on,

without anyone to drink with at night

and without anyone to reassure the worries in the mind.

That’s because you’ve mastered top martial arts

and had someone to drink with at night.

Cheers.

Cheers.

Martial Uncle.

I’ll drink tea instead of liquor

to toast you.

Cheng Ling.

You’re on the way to learn the top martial arts now.

Cheers.

Cheers.

Happy New Year!

[Qiyang Teahouse]

Three of the three points, four of the four points, six of the six points.

You lose.

Look how flustered you are.

You’re just thinking about the fireworks.

You’re distracted so much.

Go and play.

Martial Uncle.

Breaking things make the next year auspicious.* (* Lit: A Chinese homophonic pun)

Your master and I will take care of this.

Just go.

Out of the depth of misfortune comes bliss.

This year must be a good year.

Drink the liquor you owed me first.

I’ll drink with you.

Cheers.

I don’t want to leave all the liquor to you.

Here.

Master!

Master!

Master!

Master!

Cheng Ling, what’s wrong?

Master.

This man just jumped in across the wall.

Han Ying.

Han Ying!

Martial Uncle, here.

Here, Brother Han.

Cheng Ling, go and bring more braziers.

Ah Xu, come and help me.

Leader.

I’ve taken

the Glazed Armor back.

What do I need this for?

Didn’t I tell you

don’t take risks to do anything?

I’ve investigated that

the Yin Yang Book of the Healer Valley

can cure all the intractable diseases in the world

by changing life with life and converting Yin and Yang.

Forget it.

How did you find this place?

What happened since we separated in Yueyang?

In the Window of Heaven,

someone recognized you at the Heroes Conference in Yueyang.

And I intercepted this.

After that,

at the moment it was about to be disclosed,

I killed them all and

framed it to the Scorpion.

It was a pity that it could only

be hidden from Prince Jin temporarily.

And I was thinking to find something useful

for you before my escape.

Then, I sneaked into the study of Prince Jin

and found the secret of the Glazed Armor.

It’s a pity that

I only found one piece with all my efforts

when I was discovered by the Window of Heaven.

It was lucky that Xing Ming covered me,

so that I could escape from Jin Province.

Leader,

though we didn’t have the luck to join Four Seasons Manor,

I’m willing to risk my life to do anything for you

like all the seniors.

Who needs you to do that?

I just need you to live well.

The loyal servant wouldn’t have two master in his life.

I’m your loyalist.

I ought to serve you when alive

and die for you when you die.

If you’re gone one day, Leader,

how could I live alone?

Leader,

there’s another thing I need to tell you.

In Prince Jin’s study,

I found a secret letter.

Your father was killed secretly for

the charge of treason by

the former Prince Jin.

That’s impossible.

My father died of illness.

But that’s what it said in the letter.

Impossible.

My father was the best friend of the former Prince Jin

and the trusted subordinate as well.

Where did you find that letter?

It was just on the desk of Prince Jin.

Ah Xu,

we can discuss this further.

Leader,

Young Master Wen,

if we find all the five pieces of the Glazed Armor,

we can open the World’s Armory

and find the Yin Yang Book

of the Healer Valley.

Han Ying! Han Ying!

Hold on.

Let’s find all the Glazed Armor together,

so that we can open the Armory

and find the Yin Yang Book.

Hold on.

I didn’t expect

the first scene I see

when I come to Four Seasons Manor is this.

Leader,

there is no regret for me that

I can die for you.

Leader,

take this.

It’s all my fault.

If I knew the Glazed Armor could heal your earlier,

I’m willing to take whatever to collect them all.

It’s a pity...

Han Ying!

Ah Xu, have you forgotten that

the Grand Wizard of South Xinjiang is coming?

Wu Xi is on the way with Bei Yuan now.

Han Ying, hold on longer.

They will heal you definitely when they arrive.

Lao Wen,

I’ll go down the mountain and find Ping An,

and try to bring the Grand Wizard back at the earliest.

Take care of Han Ying.

I’ll try my best to keep Brother Han alive.

Brother Han, don’t worry.

No one can take your life away,

even if the Guardians of the Netherworld come.

♪ 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 ♪