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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 24]

[Four Seasons Mountain Villa]

Our mountain villa has splendid views throughout all four seasons of the year.

Each view is outstanding.

In spring, the Indian azaleas bloom like a sea of flowers. In summer, the phoenix blossoms bloom.

In autumn, the orange osmanthus fragrance is spread.

In winter, you will find plums in the snow.

Four Seasons Mountain Villa is full of exotic flowers and plants.

It truly soothes the heart.

A bunny!

If you call me “Nice Uncle Wen” three times,

I will catch the bunny for you to play with.

Could I call you “Nice Martial Uncle Wen”?

You two, stop being naughty.

The majority of the rabbits living in the mountain are the offspring

of the brood that your grandmaster’s mother raised.

For her sake,

spare her rabbits’ grandsons.

Grandmaster’s mother was like my mother.

Both of them liked to raise little animals.

Yes.

Your grandmaster’s mother and Elder Sister Bi were the kindest people.

If there were any injured animals in the mountains,

they would heal their wounds and release them into the mountains.

If anyone dared to hunt and eat it,

and got found out by your grandmaster’s mother,

that would be terrible.

One time, Master and Uncle Zhang made a bet.

They caught a deer to eat with their wine.

I couldn’t bear it, so I told your grandmaster’s mother.

She followed your grandmaster all across the mountainside, beating him up.

My father was the same way. In front of others, he was mighty and prestigious,

but in private, my mother would chase him and beat him often as well.

We are almost there. Let’s go.

Let’s go.

Look.

That cliff stone was carved

[Linger On and Forget to Return]

by my master

on my Junior Brother Qin Jiuxiao’s full moon banquet. It was the last thing Master carved. (T/N: Full moon banquet is celebrated on the one-month old birthday of a person).

[Reluctant to Return]

[Four Seasons Mountain Villa]

Master, your disciple has returned.

[Brief Wind, Light Clouds]

In the past... it wasn’t like this.

The courtyard must have been uninhabited for too long,

so it’s become desolate.

It’s okay.

It will be fine after some cleaning.

Of course! It will be fine after some cleaning.

The yard will naturally grow wild if no one is living in it.

Aren’t we back?

Right?

What’s the use in having such an idiotic disciple? Say something!

Master, don’t worry.

If anything ever happens, the disciple will take care of things. I’m here!

Martial Uncle and I

will definitely clean this place up beautifully.

You sure know how to drag able-bodied men into your business!

It’s not a bother.

I’ll give you guys a tour first.

Once we finish going down the mountain to buy some things, we can come back and clean.

Okay.

Chengling, look.

Chengling,

don’t underestimate any tree or rock in this yard.

They all have something to them.

Outside this yard, there’s a 28 Star Resting Array.

If enemies attack, we only need to stay here and keep them out.

All these were designed by your Master Long.

Don’t touch!

These traps are old and haven’t been repaired.

They might have formed rust.

Once I’ve repaired them, I’ll demonstrate them to you both.

This is the meeting room.

When I was young, Master would sit there

and test us on our homework.

During the holidays,

everyone would gather together

surrounding the fireplace to celebrate New Year.

“The flowers of four seasons never wither, there is nothing we are unaware of.”

Master,

did Grandmaster also draw this drawing?

A’Xu...

Yes.

The 81 plum blossoms on here

represent our Four Seasons Mountain Villa’s

generation of 81 people.

Ninety-nine becomes one.

They all died in my hands.

A’Xiang, are you hungry?

Should we go eat something?

I don’t have an appetite.

You don’t have an appetite...

Then, I’ll make some sour and spicy dishes for you

to help you get an appetite?

All you know is to eat, eat, eat!

You are so annoying!

A’Xiang, where are you going?

I’m going to find somewhere quiet!

What about me?

Don’t they all say that girls like it when guys admit their feelings?

But how come ever since I confessed my love to her,

she’s never given me a pleasant expression again?

Was I really too abrupt?

Big Idiot Cao...

It must be nice to be an idiot,

ignorant of everything.

Stop it!

Zhu Yaozhi,

I know you were tricked by Gao Chong.

But considering the fact that you respect your elders,

I won’t hold that grudge against you.

If you remain blinded and continue to defend your monster of a master,

I’ll assume you’ve fallen to evil.

My master wasn’t a devil!

He’s been framed!

How could he ally with Ghost Valley?

How dare you object when the evidence is clear as day!

During the Heroes Conference, someone saw

Ghost Valley Chief, Wen Kexing, aiding Gao Chong against enemies!

He also took the Zhang orphan with him!

Nonsense!

Master Wen saved Chengling!

He saved Chengling and escorted him all the way to Lake Tai.

He’s not even thirty years old.

How could he be the Ghost Valley Chief?

He’s knowledgeable in evil arts,

of course he could look young.

How is that odd?

Wen Kexing was the one who led the massacre of the Mirror Lake Sword Sect.

He then used his identity as a savior to mix with Five Lakes Alliance.

How arrogant!

Gao Chong and that devil Wen worked together to hide it from everyone.

They thought they could trick everyone,

but could they trick us forever?

Alliance Leader Zhao has already ordered people to draw portraits

of the Top Ten Evil Ghosts under Wen Kexing

and announce them to the pugilist world!

Master’s identity has been exposed?

Zhu Yaozhi, in consideration of your age and inexperience,

as long as you say that

Gao Chong is a wicked, treacherous devil who deceived the world,

you will still be a good friend of the Five Lake Alliance.

If you still defend that devil,

then even if I kill you,

Alliance Leader Zhao wouldn’t blame me for it.

You won’t have your way!

Say it!

Gao Chong is a wicked, treacherous devil who deceived the world.

He will never be forgiven and will be no better than swine in his next life.

If you continue insulting my master,

I’ll fight to the death against you!

I’ll kill you, you son of a devil!

Stop!

Great Warrior Shen?

Martial Uncle!

Martial Uncle!

Who dares to hurt my nephew disciple!

My god,

this idiot has finally done something useful.

[Sincerity in Work Brings Riches]

A’Xiang! You’re back?

Why are you still standing here like an idiot?

I was waiting for you.

I was worried you wouldn’t see me when you came back

and that you’d get worried.

Let’s go, let’s go.

Let’s not linger here in this town.

We... aren’t going to eat?

Let’s travel first, all right?

Once we’re back to Gentle Wind Sword Sect, I’ll personally cook for you

and feed you to death, silly!

All right. All right.

Cao Weining!

Do you truly want to marry me?

No doubt about it!

A’Xiang, why are you still asking that question?

I’ve already sworn it to Brother Wen.

Well, what if your master doesn’t like me?

He won’t! He will definitely like you!

You’re so wonderful.

What if... he looks down on me

because I’m a wild girl with no parents?

What should I do?

He won’t. Martial Uncle Fan is the most soft-hearted.

If Master doesn’t agree,

I’ll go beg Martial Uncle Fan.

I’m not talking about that!

Cao Weining,

if both your master and junior master don’t let you marry me, what are you going to do?

Then you can kidnap me, and we’ll elope!

Who wants to kidnap you?

Even if you offered, I still wouldn’t care for it.

I meant the opposite!

I’ll kidnap you! I’ll abduct you!

♪ A light red mark left by the rubbing of fingers ♪

A-Any way works.

I want to be with you no matter what.

♪ It’s remembered by the heart ♪

A’Xiang, if I can’t be with you this life,

♪ Yearning is a barely detectable way to pass time ♪

then I won’t be happy no matter what.

♪ Fall in a drunken stupor before the flowers ♪

Even if the sky falls down, I won’t be stopped.

Besides, they wouldn’t stop me anyway.

♪ Searching for hundred of ways to try understanding it ♪

♪ Still struggle to comprehend it ♪

Martial Uncle Fan will definitely like you.

♪ The blushing pale jade face, the stoic powdered face ♪

♪ Silently watches (it) endearingly ♪

♪ Love and reunion occurs among the beauty of the water and mountains ♪

Let’s go.

♪ Lovers will have a good ending one day ♪

♪ Wait for another year when the crescent moon becomes a semi circle ♪

It’s not possible. Paper can’t entrap fire.

♪ To be reunited on the bridge of magpies ♪

One day, you will eventually find out who I am.

♪ That sickly, shy face that stares back in the mirror ♪

But… But…

♪ Falls in a drunken stupor for the one I love ♪

There’s no time more precious

than the time spent with the person you love.

♪ Look at this touching poem ♪

Every passing day counts.

♪ It’s been passed down for 1,000 years already ♪

Every extra day is a treasure.

Nothing else is worth paying attention to.

Uncle Wen, what’s in here?

Why is it so heavy?

It’s wine for your master.

Give it to me!

No need, Uncle Wen.

I’ll treat it like practicing my martial arts.

[Linger On and Forget to Return]

Uncle Wen, Master said Four Seasons Mountain Villa went from ninety-nine to one.

Everyone died due to him.

Didn’t I already tell you to stop asking?

Aren’t I asking you?

Uncle Wen, hurry and make things clear to me.

Seeing Master so sad upsets me.

No matter what happened in this time,

this is his personal business and his own major sorrow.

If he’s not ready to tell us,

or if he doesn’t want to bring it up ever again,

I hope you don’t force him to tell us.

I understand.

Uncle Wen, you’re very compatible with Master.

He’s also told me the same thing before.

He said that poking at someone else’s scars is not what a righteous person would do.

He told to me never—

Just, to ask about your parents...

their situation.

I didn’t say it on purpose.

Martial Uncle, don’t take it to heart.

What did you call me?

I’m supposed to call you Martial Uncle anyways.

Why can’t we be straightforward about it?

Why do we have to be so subtle?

Master already said before.

Even if you don’t think of him that way,

he still considers you to be his junior brother.

But he’s also told me

to wait until you’ve made up your mind

and are ready to come back to our sect before calling you that.

It absolutely cannot be forced.

See, your hearts are the same,

so what’s with all the beating around the bush?

[Linger On and Forget to Return]

Martial Uncle!

[Four Seasons Mountain Villa]

Valley Chief! Wen Ruyu bit his own tongue and killed himself!

The clues have ended again.

Father.

Mother.

Kill him!

Kill me! I don’t want to live anymore!

Hurry and kill me!

Why aren’t you killing me!

Hurry and tell me.

Have you seen a key within your parent’s hands?

I don’t want to live!

Hurry up and kill me!

I-I’ll turn into the most savage devil

and come for all your lives!

Valley Chief, this child is so young

yet has an odd temperament.

From the looks of it, he’s a natural-born ghost.

Why don’t we all grant his wish?

All right. Then let’s grant his wish!

Child,

since you’ve already come to Ghost Valley,

you must accept your fate.

Your father was a good doctor.

It’s too bad. I couldn’t save his life.

But fortunately, I saved you.

Drink this

and you’ll forget everything.

I can’t forget! I can’t forget!

Junior Brother.

Junior Brother.

Sit still!

That’s enough, Lao Wen.

Don’t move!

That’s enough, Lao Wen.

I’ve made it past this night.

Stop wasting your energy.

You’ve made it past tonight, but what about tomorrow night?

We can talk about tomorrow night when the time comes.

These seven nails are grown into my body

and will act up every night.

But sometimes, they’re fiercer

and other times, it’s more gentle.

What’s with Ye Baiyi?

Is he a thousand-year-old turtle?

Why is he crawling so slowly?

Why haven’t we heard from him yet?

Philanthropist Wen, he’s helping us with good intentions,

yet you’re insulting him behind his back?

I’d say the same thing to his face!

That old monster does things without explanation.

You’re the one without a conscience!

They all say those with a thin upper lip are cold and unemotional.

From what I see, that’s extremely accurate.

They say that

I’m the most cold-hearted and clear-headed person in this world.

A’Xu,

in your dreams just now, you kept calling for Junior Brother.

What did you dream about?

If you won’t say, pretend I didn’t ask.

Lao Wen,

between you and I,

there’s nothing we can’t say or ask.

Sect Leader,

if you want me to risk my life for

the villa and for righteousness,

I will never object!

But you want me to kill loyal subjects.

I can’t do it!

Senior Brother, Officer Jiang has already retired.

Why won’t His Highness let him go?

He’s such a good person...

Senior Brother, even if it’s for Little Xue’s sake,

please beg His Highness.

Don’t you hold Little Xue very dear in your heart?

Jiuxiao,

how can the matters of the court

be spoken of as simply as good or bad?

His Highness wants him dead,

so he must die. There’s no other way.

There doesn’t have to be a reason.

The three of us are all indebted to Officer Jiang.

We don’t understand the matters of the court and we aren’t cut out to understand,

but the people of the pugilist world understand that kindness must be paid back.

After we bid farewell to you,

we’ll chase after Officer Jiang

and protect him to the Northwest.

If Duan Pengju still wants to hurt Officer Jiang,

he has to do that over our dead bodies.

Your actions are futile. (T/N: Literally, “you’re trying to break a rock by using an egg”)

Even if it’s futile,

we’re still going to try!

I, Luo Haoning, would rather die to pay back his kindness

than live pitifully!

Senior Brother!

Fine.

I’ll go with you.

All of you, get up!

Drink this for courage,

and we’ll chase after Officer Jiang together!

All right!

Sect Leader, you’re finally back!

At the time, he wanted to risk his life to rescue,

so I made him drink

wine mixed with Drunk Life Dream Death.

He slept in a coma for five days and five nights.

When he woke up, everything was already decided.

He hated me deeply

and left without notice.

When I last saw him,

he was laying in a coffin.

He mistakenly thought I was trapped within a lonely city,

and risked his life to come and rescue me.

He ended up dying in a battle below the city walls.

His lover went through so much difficulty

to deliver his corpse to me.

At the time, I didn’t know that girl’s relationship

with Jiuxiao.

But once I found out,

I had already forced her

to drink a poison that sealed her throat with blood.

If there’s a parallel world,

they must all be together,

cursing their evil senior brother.

They wouldn’t curse you.

They...

They would naturally understand you.

You’re wrong.

The only reason why they ended up in misfortune

was because they never truly understood their senior brother.

Jiuxiao worshiped me ever since he was young.

Master...

also treated me as he would a biological son.

Everyone within the villa, young and old,

treated me like family; a senior brother.

They respected and loved me.

As a result they were blinded

and never knew that the real Zhou Zishu

was actually a coward, a deserter.

A’Xu...

Sit down first.

Master died of illness.

Before he passed away,

he entrusted me with Four Seasons Mountain Villa.

A youthful sect leader, young and easy to bully.

Countless people from good and bad sects

came to cause trouble.

I held out for two years.

I watched as my junior masters

passed away one after another to protect the Four Seasons Mountain Villa.

I couldn’t hold on anymore,

so I ran away.

Don’t blame yourself like that.

What happened after that?

I really ran!

You wouldn’t!

You must have had your own difficulties.

Difficulties?

They were just some pretty-sounding excuses, that’s all.

My father was deceased Prince Jin’s closest supporter.

The current Prince Jin is my cousin.

He was worried that he didn’t have anyone to trust by his side,

so he wrote a letter begging me for help.

Eldest Prince.

What are you saying? Call me Cousin.

Cousin, what’s wrong?

Your complexion looks terrible.

How is His Highness’s health? Is he doing well?

It’s Master.

He’s passed away.

Master was still young. How did he—

Royal Father believed in rumors

and tortured Master in the dungeons for an answer.

The rumors weren’t even true.

How would Master submit to that?

He committed suicide in the dungeons.

Do you know what Master did before he died?

He covered the ground and wall with poems of death.

“Slowly do the rivers flow,

the Window of Heaven brings enlightenment.”

“Evil whispers destroy justice,

Floating clouds block the sun.”

I looked at the bloody poems covering the ground and wall.

What sort of world is this?

Master was noble and honorable his whole life for the nation and its people.

Cousin, don’t be too sad.

In the future, we—

Royal Father... Royal Father was furious.

He even threw Master’s body into the wild

and sent soldiers to guard it against attempts to take it back.

He let the wild dogs feast on it.

I’m the useless one.

I’m the useless one!

I...

I couldn’t even grant Master peace after death.

Cousin, don’t worry.

I’ll go steal Master’s body back.

I’ll bury him properly.

Good.

Zishu, if only you can find a time to leave the mountain and help me.

So I brought all the brothers in the Four Seasons Mountain Villa

to support Prince Jin.

Who would’ve thought

I was only lying to myself?

Once you enter the political swamp,

there’s no easy way out.

I could only watch as my brothers

died in front of me, one after another.

In the end,

even Jiuxiao died.

After Jiuxiao’s death,

I had nothing to live for.

Afterward,

guess what happened?

I ran away again!

In the end,

I’m only left with seven nails.

The people I wanted to protect,

the things I wanted to achieve,

were like sand in my palm.

The harder I grasped, the more it flowed away.

The only good thing is, the heavens took pity

and gave me a chance to turn things around.

I can pass down my abilities.

I just don’t know...

whether I can see this child grow up into a man.

Why can’t you?

Ye Baiyi promised me.

That old freak has seen many things.

If he said you can be healed, then you can!

Not all things in the world can be solved absolutely.

I don’t care.

This thing must be.

No matter what the ending is,

I want to tell you

that I am truly happy that you could come back with me.

Junior Brother.

The sun’s almost up. Hurry and rest.

I’ll go out to get some fresh air.

Lao Wen,

even though you were accepted as a disciple by Master,

you did not actually grow up as one.

You don’t want to accept Four Seasons Mountain Villa as your sect,

so I can’t force you.

The child of the Wen family has returned to Four Seasons Mountain Villa.

If Master got this news in the underworld,

I’m sure he would be incredibly happy.

[Four Seasons Mountain Villa]

Master, you’re awake?

Did I wake you when I was sweeping?

It’s no problem.

What time is it?

Why did I sleep so deeply?

It’s almost noon.

Uncle Wen said you didn’t sleep well last night,

and he told me not to wake you and to let you sleep some more.

Where is he?

Martial Uncle!

A’Xu, you’re awake.

I took a careful look,

and this drawing isn’t seriously damaged.

We just need to reattach it and it will be good.

I’m almost done mending the drawing.

All that’s left is filling in color.

At least once we reattach it, the drawing won’t curl anymore.

[The flowers blossom in all four seasons, knowing everything in the world.]

When I go down the mountain, I’ll go find a highly skilled artist

to fill in the rest with your master’s strokes.

It will be the same as the original.

[Pingan Bank]

Have a good day, Sir!

When will my letter arrive in Kunzhou?

Don’t worry, sir!

You’re a VIP guest with a token ring.

We wouldn’t dare delay your business.

The pigeons from our bank are well trained.

They’ll arrive with the letter at Kunzhou in less than two days.

All right. Go back inside.

All right, have a nice day!

That Devil Wen looks the same age as us.

How did he become the Ghost Valley Chief?

You guys don’t know now, do you?

That Ghost Valley has a bunch of demon tricks that can maintain youthful visages.

That Wen Kexing only looks young in the portrait.

Who knows? He might be an old man of 70.

- Right. - He’s relying on trickery to maintain his youthful look.

Who is the Ghost Valley Chief you were talking about earlier?

Where did you come from, bastard? Don’t you know how to ask politely?

You can’t just come up and ask like that! Don’t you understand etiquette?

Who are you to that Devil Wen?

Who let you spread rumors here?

We aren’t lying!

The Five Lake Alliance already sent all of the sects

the portraits of the Ghost Valley Devils.

That’s right!

If you don’t believe me, go look for yourself!

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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 ♫