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♫ 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 16]

I tried hard my entire life,

and did not do anything to disappoint the heavens or brothers of the pugilist world!

Now,

I’ve fallen into a deeply calculated trap and cannot explain for myself.

My conscience... is clear!

Believe me if you will.

If you don’t, I have nothing else to say!

That’s right! My eldest brother has nothing to hide.

If you don’t believe him,

let’s discuss it with our swords!

Come on!

My head is right here.

Come get it!

[Empty, the World Remains]

Today, my eldest brother and I will live and die together!

I don’t believe that this motley crowd of yours

can beat the Five Lakes Alliance!

Live and die with Alliance Leader!

Live and die with Alliance Leader!

Great!

Let’s use our swords to discuss it!

You want to suppress us with force?

Haven’t you heard that evil never suppresses good?

We have thousands of heroes here.

Would we really fear the Five Lakes Alliance?

My son was cruelly killed by the hands of Ghost Valley.

What’s the point of living any longer?

Gao Chong, you ruthless and sinister monster!

I’m going to kill you!

[Five Lakes World Alliance]

Eldest Senior Brother!

Martial Uncle, are we really not going to stop this?

Martial Uncle, this matter is highly suspicious.

I think Alliance Leader Gao is truly being framed.

Father isn’t here as well.

Shouldn’t we...

[Pugilist World Nurtures All Heroes]

Go!

Let’s go.

Martial Uncle!

Isn’t Gao Chong a close friend of the Gentle Wind Sword Sect?

Who would’ve expected that they would be the first ones to scramble away?

Why is Gao Chong still not fighting back?

Things have already gotten so bad. What’s the point in continuing to fake it?

No, I can’t be wrong.

Gao Chong definitely has evil tricks.

Everyone, attack!

Attack!

Revenge for our master! Kill!

Kill!

Master.

Come with me.

Let him go!

[Lone Taiyue and Danyang Sects]

[Empty, the world remains]

Who are you?

If you are not close with Gao Chong, I will help you rescue Young Master Zhang.

I am your father!

You!

Attack!

Chengling, be careful!

Are you okay?

Eldest Brother!

Uncle Gao!

Uncle Gao!

Chengling.

Take Chengling away!

Let’s take Chengling and go.

[Tai Lake Sect]

[Five Lakes World Alliance] [Mirror Lake Sect]

No!

Shan’er!

Everyone, stop fighting!

Stop, everyone!

Stop!

Eldest Brother, surrender. We lost.

I’m begging you.

Please give them the Glazed Armor.

Second Brother! What are you saying?

Fifth Brother!

Do you still not understand?

Are you helping him?

You’re going to get him killed!

Gao Chong!

You did too much evil and brought on your own demise.

The Five Lakes Alliance was implicated by you which caused its thousands of years of good reputation to go to ruin!

Do you still want this many people

to die because of your crimes?

Give us the Glazed Armor!

Give us the Glazed Armor!

Everyone, shut up!

What right does a bastard like you have to question my eldest brother?

The evidence is clear.

Who here doesn’t have the right to question his crimes?

Elder Huang.

The Beggar Gangs have always kept their promises.

I hope that you can bear witness today.

As long as my eldest brother hands over the Glazed Armor,

you must let him live.

I’m willing to give up all my wealth, become a monk with him,

and never get involved in matters of the pugilist world again.

Elder Huang, I’m begging you!

Second Brother!

Don’t kneel to such a conniving man!

Get up!

Eldest Brother.

The Five Lakes Monument has already fallen.

The Five Lakes Alliance is about to break.

Don’t continue being so stubborn!

Think about Xiaolian.

Do you want her

to live while shouldering our crimes?

Second Brother.

Get up.

I will listen to you.

The Glazed Armor...

I will give it to them!

Eldest Brother, you can’t!

Fifth Brother, take good care of my daughter.

Let her...

Let her live a normal life.

Eldest Brother!

You can’t do that!

Fifth Brother!

You bastards!

You used these despicable methods

just to force me to hand over the Glazed Armor.

Right?

I was framed by a treacherous person and have no way to defend myself.

Today, I, Gao Chong, break my ties with the Five Lakes Alliance

to prove my innocence.

The Glazed Armor has threatened the pugilist world.

In order to prevent future danger,

today, I will...

destroy it today!

Don’t!

No!

[Gao Chong]

Master! Master!

Master! Master!

[Yueyang Sect]

No, Master!

Uncle Gao!

Uncle Gao!

Master!

Chengling!

Uncle Gao!

Master! Master!

Master! Master!

Master! Master!

Master! Master!

Uncle Gao!

Uncle Gao!

Master, are you sure we’re not going to the Heroes Conference

and going straight home instead?

The heroes in the world are gathering at the Conference today.

This is a great opportunity to make a name for ourselves.

How could you be absent at such an exciting event?

Besides, you and Alliance Leader Gao are close.

Shouldn’t we...

Shut up!

I said we’re going back to the mountain.

[Mo Huaiyang - Sect Leader of the Gentle Wind Sword Sect]

Chengling, eat something first.

Thank you, Master.

Right, Master, where’s Uncle Wen?

You eat first.

He’s just outside.

I’m going to find him.

A’Xu.

Aren’t I an evil person?

If your heart is kind,

you cannot be considered evil.

Are you the only one allowed to trick others?

If you react so terribly after others trick you just once, then you are a good-for-nothing.

You’re even worse than my disciple.

I made a big mistake this time.

I went to gleefully watch a disaster unfold at someone else’s act,

but didn’t expect

to be one of the actors myself.

Tell me.

Did I fall victim to my own ingenuity?

You really know how to compliment yourself.

This is called falling victim to your own idiocy.

Officer Zhou, you’re smart.

Did you understand what happened?

This scheme progressed seamlessly.

There must be someone controlling it from behind the scenes.

Maybe even more than one.

As of right now,

I cannot tell what this person’s end goal is.

Is it not for the Glazed Armor?

Not just that.

No matter what, Gao Chong’s reputation is ruined

and the Five Lakes Alliance cannot be recovered.

Not necessarily.

Compared to Gao Chong,

Zhao Jing took a step back at the most important moment.

He pretended he was weak

and moved the blame off of himself completely.

I remember in the Window of Heaven’s records,

aside from his nickname Sai Mengchang, (T/N: Historical figure, known for bounty)

he had another one called Zhao Xuande. (T/N: Historical figure, driven to be a hero)

I didn’t care much about it at the time,

but now that I think about it,

his act of crying and using morals

to win everyone over was truly spectacular.

Zhao Xuande?

Who gave him that nickname?

What a bad person.

Almost as bad as you.

I’m bad?

Philanthropist Wen.

I’ve always been kind to you.

Really?

How come I didn’t know?

The truth is hard to find, and a scheme is hard to plan.

No matter how hard a person tries

to balance each step,

they can’t outsmart the heavens.

Breaking a carefully planned scheme is very easy.

It might be because of one person’s betrayal,

or unexpected rain.

No matter how deep the scheme is,

there will be a day when the truth is revealed.

As long as you have patience to peel back the layers,

you will eventually...

find the missing key.

That means a perfect scheme

changes and adapts to the situation.

What the person in control needs to do

is to clearly assess the situation,

and push things along at the right moment.

It’s hard to read someone’s heart

but easy to control human nature.

Endless greed

is human nature.

This is an unarguable truth.

Lao Wen.

Don’t keep thinking that you can see through human nature.

First, it was the matter of Four Sages of Anji, and now Gao Chong.

Have you still not made enough mistakes?

Your radical stubbornness will only harm yourself.

It’s true that human nature can be greedy,

but hasn’t righteousness and loyalty also always existed?

What do you actually want?

If I told you, would you help me?

I can only help you if you tell me.

I want...

I want the demons and monsters that don’t belong to this world

to all scram back to their eighteen layers of Hell!

Judging from Gao Chong’s martial arts skills,

he absolutely could’ve escaped and found a way out,

but who knew?

As soon as the Five Lakes Monument collapsed,

he had a complete breakdown and used death as an apology.

He’s already dead,

so doesn’t it mean that he’s lost everything?

Foster-Father, you really anticipated everything

and read him correctly.

A strong person is easily broken, an innocent person is easily tainted.

The baggage that Gao Chong carried

had burdened him for too many years.

I’ve also played this game with him for twenty years.

It only took one last straw to squash him to death.

Now, things are good.

I, Zhao Jing, have accomplished everything I needed to.

It’s just a pity

that it didn’t go perfectly.

What didn’t go perfectly?

I made so many calculations,

but I didn’t expect that Elder Huang would come out and fool me.

He had Tao Hong and Lǜ Liu kidnap Gao Xiaolian away.

I’ve already sent people after them.

Foster-Father, should we kill Gao Xiaolian to silence her?

Absolutely not.

I want her to live and to live well.

She is currently my living mascot.

The better her life is,

the more it can demonstrate my righteousness and nobility.

Okay, I will listen to you.

You made a huge contribution this time.

If you didn’t use sorcery to completely muddle Deng Kuan’s brain,

defeating Gao Chong definitely would not have been so easy.

However, you see, Gao Chong’s disciples are each completely loyal.

Especially that Song Huairen.

I treated him with so much dedication,

but I didn’t expect him to turn out to be a double agent.

I said long ago that that man by the surname of Song wasn’t a good person.

Foster-Father, you didn’t believe me.

You even took him as your godchild.

You also had a huge fight with me and got mad at me for that.

How about it? Do you see now?

Wasn’t I correct?

Scorpion King, it’s you? You scared me.

Did Foster-Father tell you to come?

Yes.

Give me the Glazed Armor.

Wait.

Do you have Foster-Father’s verbal order or official seal?

I already came in person.

What official seal would you need?

This is an extremely important matter, and we can’t overlook anything.

Foster-Father only told me to steal this at night,

but he never told me to transfer it to you.

What did you say?

Without the official seal,

I won’t give this to you.

We are both Foster-Father’s trusted confidantes.

Naturally...

Never mind, go.

Naturally, you must die

while I live.

How could I let my plans

get ruined by others?

I can achieve the goals on my own.

Wasn’t I right?

Good thing I killed Song Huairen.

Otherwise, Foster-Father,

your Glazed Armor and plans would’ve all been ruined.

All right, all right! I was wrong.

Xie’er, I’m sorry. (T/N: Xie means Scorpion)

From now on,

you are my only good son.

Where is the Glazed Armor?

This is your trust in me.

I always keep it with me.

Xie’er.

My life and all that I have are in your hands.

You are the only person I trust in this world.

There is one more thing I need you to do.

Foster-Father, order me however you wish.

We still need to appease that idiot, Mu Siyuan.

We have places we will need to use him for in the future.

That idiotic mule Mu Siyuan

is below average at martial arts, dumb like a cow, and ugly.

What use is it to keep him around?

Xie’er.

Imagine a sheep herd.

A herd of sheep can do nothing but stupidly crowd together.

As long as one head sheep takes the lead,

the rest of the idiotic sheep will scramble after,

even if the lead sheep is going into the wolves’ den.

The Five Lakes Alliance is the sheep herd

and Mu Siyuan

is my chosen lead sheep.

I’m never able to be as farsighted as you are, Foster-Father.

Anyway, I will always listen to you from now on.

As long as our motives are aligned,

the pugilist world, the lands,

and the rest of the world

will be in our posession sooner or later.

Qin Huaizhang’s disciple,

I didn’t expect that although your martial arts are bad, you’re a fast runner.

It made it hard for me to find you.

Elder, we meet again.

What do you mean, “again”?

I’ve been following you all this time.

Except this person was too much of a nuisance.

He held me up, so I lost you.

Master!

Chengling, this is Ye Baiyi, Elder Ye.

Elder, this is my disciple. Chengling.

Seems dumb.

Each generation is getting worse and worse.

No matter how dumb my child is,

he’s still much better than those old monsters who open their mouths but don’t speak humanely.

Your child?

What? Are you also from the Four Seasons Mountain Villa?

Let me go!

Who’s in there?

Who do you want to be in there?

You.

Then it’s definitely not whom you’re hoping for.

Drop it.

You weaker-than-a-pretty-boy old toad monster—

Who do you think you are,

daring to fight against me? Let’s fight outside.

A’Xu, don’t stop me!

Wait!

Let’s go!

Let it go.

Elder Ye, look! It’s raining outside.

Can you two pick a clearer day to fight?

Lao Wen.

Let me go!

Let me go!

Little idiot, who did you think was in there?

I thought it was Senior Sister Xiaolian.

Chengling,

they need to use Miss Gao to find the Glazed Armor.

As long as that holds true,

they won’t harm her.

We have time to rescue her.

I had almost forgotten.

A’Xu still has a disciple-in-law lost out there.

Of course, we will rescue her.

Young Cabinet Master Long.

Brother Huang.

How did it go?

We went through all of that trouble for nothing.

At least we still have that damned girl.

Let me think about whether we should first use her to negotiate with Zhao Jing

or first trick that idiot Shen Shen.

Who exactly has the Glazed Armor?

No one.

No one?

Before that bastard died,

he said that he had already destroyed the Glazed Armor.

I don’t believe that!

However, he really didn’t have it on him.

How could he not have had it?

What did we do all this for?

Where is Gao Chong’s corpse?

Did the Five Lakes Alliance take it back?

Corpse?

How could there be any corpse left?

All of those crazy dogs tore it apart.

But the Glazed Armor really wasn’t there.

[Chongwu Hall]

Fifth Brother!

Fifth Brother!

Fifth Brother!

Fifth Brother, where are you going?

Eldest Brother just died.

Are you going to leave this mess for me?

Why should I stay?

How could I have the dignity to remain?

If I hadn’t created all of the trouble,

Eldest Brother wouldn’t have—

Fifth Brother, among the five brothers,

we are the only two left now.

If you leave,

the Five Lakes Alliance will really be dispersed!

Xiaolian is still lost out there.

Before he died, Eldest Brother told me

I must bring Xiaolian back safely.

Everyone in the Alliance will do their best to look for her.

Yaozhi went to search as well.

Listen to me. Don’t go.

The Five Lakes Alliance can’t be without a leader.

Stay!

My departure...

would be better than my staying here!

If I can find Xiaolian,

I will bring her to the bamboo forest on Mount Dagu

and never come back to this place of sorrow.

Second Brother.

The Five Lakes Alliance...

rests upon your shoulders.

I’m useless.

I’m sorry.

Foster-Father.

You’re going to just let him go?

The Glazed Armor...

Gao Chong was smart and conniving.

He anticipated a rebellion at the Heroes Conference

and was afraid that Shen Shen would be unable to protect himself,

so he protected the Glazed Armor himself.

Who cares whether that’s true or not?

Let me catch up and kill him.

Absolutely not!

I need Shen Shen to stay alive.

If you act on your own impulse,

don’t blame me for being heartless.

Yes.

You need to understand my intentions.

I patiently endured for half of my life.

I’m finally about to be successful.

If I don’t have an old friend to witness it,

then this journey I’ve been on

would’ve been walked in the dark.

I can bear witness for you, Foster-Father.

You don’t count.

You and I are family. We are one.

You are not an outsider.

Here.

Everyone on this list needs to be killed.

Use a cruel method,

and don’t leave anyone alive.

Xie’er, I want you to understand

that what enslaves the heart is not just greed.

Then what else?

Foster-Father, please teach me.

Fear.

Qin Huaizhang’s disciple, do you have food?

Elder, I have a name.

I’ll call you whatever I want.

Stop saying nonsense.

You’re right, Elder.

I’m right?

Where’s the food?

What’s this?

Is this for humans?

Chengling,

did your family have the 40th scroll of the Shuowen Jiezi? (T/N: An ancient Chinese dictionary that analyzed the structure of Chinese characters)

What? Y-Yes, I think.

Then, was the illustration next to the phrase, “hated by demons and gods”

of this dignified face?

I heard earlier

that someone who was boldly saying he wanted the truth

got badly tricked by others,

and even helped them in their scheme.

How are you shameless enough to boast here?

Hey, boy.

On your family’s Shuowen Jiezi,

the word “laughingstock”

must be paired with this dignified face, right?

You want to find the truth?

Do you think the truth is a rabbit (T/N: A story about a rabbit that crashed into a farmer’s tree stump, dying. The farmer stood by the stump every day after, hoping for the same luck)

and that as long as you guard a tree stump, it will smash its head next to you? (T/N: A story about a rabbit that crashed into a farmer’s tree stump, dying. The farmer stood by the stump every day after, hoping for the same luck)

If you want the truth, go find it. (T/N: A story about a rabbit that crashed into a farmer’s tree stump, dying. The farmer stood by the stump every day after, hoping for the same luck)

Do you know where to find it?

Can you even find it?

You!

Elder, please teach us.

Do you think Gao Chong tried so hard to invite this boy

just so he could say a few pointless words at the Heroes Conference?

The Dragon Pool Cabinet is in the hands of his old man.

They’re basically a theater troupe.

But the “Leader of the Dragon Pool Cabinet” is a title worth nothing now.

What use does this brat have?

Old Monster, stop with the suspense.

Why did you capture him?

Shut up, you little idiot.

He’s the key.

Key?

Don’t you want to know what happened

to Rong Xuan and the Glazed Armor 20 years ago?

The Dragon Pool Cabinet is the key to opening the past.

Why would I...

want to know about Rong Xuan and the Glazed Armor?

When you’re as old as me, you’ll know why.

Sometimes, finding out what someone else wants

isn’t so hard.

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♫ 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 ♫