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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 28]

Your Highness,

Commander Han beg your audience.

Han Ying?

Let him in immediately!

Yes.

Han Ying!

Greetings, Your Highness.

Forego the formalities and just lie down.

I don’t dare be so impolite.

Lie down!

What happened?

Why was there no news for so long?

Your Highness,

please forgive me.

My subgroup was followed

and ambushed.

My brothers all died in the line of duty.

Only I was able to keep my life through surviving numerous brushes with death.

If it were not for my loyalty to Your Highness,

I fear that I would not have made it either.

How dare they!

Do you know who did it?

It was the Venomous Scorpions!

The Venomous Scorpions are a powerful assassin force who primarily kill for money.

Although the enemies all had masks,

this Scorpion Tail Thorn was taken out from my wound.

I have asked around.

This is a weapon of the Venomous Scorpions!

Such a thing has happened?

Good.

Very good.

Your Highness,

we have always been careful in carrying out our tasks.

How would outsiders learn of our whereabouts?

This is very odd.

I am afraid there is a spy within the Window of Heaven.

In fear that it would ruin Your Highness’ plans,

I became extremely anxious

and immediately rushed back as soon as I could move.

But Leader Duan is currently not in the capital.

Pengju is currently heading to Jiangnan.

Because no matter how long he waited, he could not get any news from you,

he had no choice but to go in person.

It’s my fault.

Please punish me, Your Highness!

But you helped me find a piece of Glazed Armor.

It must’ve been difficult.

It is almost the end of the year. You have worked hard.

Go back and rest well.

I will award you appropriately.

If you hadn’t told us the truth,

I could’ve looked all over the world

and still never guessed that for all of these years,

the key has always been hidden in Ghost Valley.

Although I am not completely sure,

[Great Ambitions]

but thinking back carefully,

if Gao Chong was actually allied with Ghost Valley,

his three pieces of Glazed Armor

are most likely in Ghost Valley.

And the one I lost must’ve also been taken

by Ghost Valley amidst the confusion.

In that case,

once I take down Ghost Valley,

I will definitely be able to repay His Highness.

Good. Very good.

The Glazed Armor has been hidden in the pugilist world for many years.

It is the great men of the pugilist world who know most.

That being said,

I...will look forward to your good news.

I definitely won’t let you down!

However Officer Duan,

I have one more favor to ask.

Gao Chong was headstrong and ruined himself.

But could you ask His Highness to take pity on us

and not drag the entire Five Lakes Alliance over his individual actions?

Of course.

Things of the past stay in the past.

In the future,

I will have many areas in which I need your help.

There’s also the possibility that His Highness will recognize your worth

and we can become imperial officials under him.

Who knows?

How could I? How could I?

Officer Duan,

you are outstanding among men.

There is no limit to your potential.

I am just a normal civilian.

How could I have such ambition?

Prince Jin currently needs useful people.

If you can prove your own worth,

then not only could you become a supreme leader of the pugilist world,

obtaining the title of Marquis or a respectable State Preceptor

wouldn’t be out of the question.

[To Prince Jin]

Xie’er!

You came just in time.

Come drink with me.

Go prepare some warm tea for my foster-father to sober up.

Yes.

Xie’er,

guess...

who has the Long-Tongued Ghost’s Glazed Armor?

It’s with the Window of Heaven!

What a great coincidence!

The Window of Heaven and Prince Jin want to ally with me right now, too.

Isn’t that even better?

Prince Jin is completely dominating the Northwest region right now.

He has strong forces.

When I attack Ghost Valley,

he’ll be a great support!

Xie’er,

are you still angry with me?

Just look at your stubborn temper.

Fine.

I’ll apologize to you.

I was wrong.

I’ll pour you some tea!

Foster-Father, saved my life, and your education has made me into a talented person.

Hitting me is fine.

Even if you want to kill me or cut me,

I won’t speak a word of complaint.

I would just like to know.

last time, you said

if I did something wrong,

you wouldn’t consider our father-son relationship.

Those were just words of anger!

Let me tell you.

The closer the relationship,

like the one between father and son or husband and wife,

the easier it is to say such hurtful words.

It’s fake!

I just want to know.

If one day,

I really did do something wrong and you got dragged down because of it,

what would you do, Foster-Father?

Come here.

You little barbarian...

Ever since I brought you home,

we’ve depended on each other for survival.

Us father and son have long been of the same mind.

Therefore,

no matter what you encounter in the future,

I will face it with you.

We will face the consequences together.

Foster-Father...

you’re telling the truth? You aren’t deceiving me?

Of course it’s the truth.

As long as I am here,

don’t be scared.

Right, Foster-Father,

you just said

that Prince Jin wants to collaborate with you.

That’s great news.

Didn’t you want to change your status your whole life?

Isn’t this a great chance?

Yes. It’s a great gamble.

Currently, the chances of winning aren’t high.

We still have to maintain control of Duan Pengju.

As to whether we make an alliance or not,

that requires further planning.

But didn’t Duan Pengju already say

that as long as we bet correctly,

you could be the State Preceptor in the future?

What if we bet wrong?

What that Prince Jin is doing is planning treason.

As soon as it is exposed,

the whole clan of those involved will be killed and nine generations of their families will be wiped out. (T/N: In Imperial China, when a crime was truly terrible, entire families of the perpetrator would be killed, even very distant relatives and people who married into the family)

This isn’t just some battle in the pugilist world.

But I am not afraid.

Foster-Father,

fortune should be sought in danger.

If one day you become a prince

or a state receptor,

no one in the pugilist world

would dare to criticize us.

My Xie’er is certainly like me.

I...

If I was still a poor stupid boy,

I would take the gamble with him!

But I am about to rise to the top,

isn’t this gamble a little too risky?

Don’t be in such a hurry.

All I care about right now is stability.

First, stabilize the Window of Heaven,

then move when the time is right.

If it really does look like Prince Jin will succeed,

expressing our support at that time wouldn’t be too late.

But at that time,

Prince Jin isn’t going to be needing our support because he’ll have others.

Foster-Father,

you are afraid of the consequences,

afraid of ruining all your achievements,

but I am not.

I didn’t have anything, to begin with.

I am willing to present an idea to you.

You will not need to worry about the consequences.

Let’s hear it.

You’ve never announced your relationship with the Venomous Scorpions.

In the eyes of the pugilist world,

we are unfamiliar with each other.

How about if I came forward to express loyalty to Prince Jin

and gather all the Glazed Armor?

If things succeed,

the award we receive will be presented to you, Foster-Father.

If we fail,

then even if the punishment is death by a thousand cuts or being pulled five directions by horse carts,

I will bear it alone.

It will be no harm to you.

Wonderful scheme, Your Highness.

[Noble Line]

Han Ying is indeed traitorous.

He visited your book room at night for a long length of time before leaving.

I followed your orders and had someone follow him.

We realized he went to former Leader Zhou Zishu’s residence.

He has not come back yet.

Very good.

Your Highness,

would you like for me to go capture the traitor?

No.

Continue following him closely.

How many big fish

will this great bait bring me?

Leave now.

Yes.

Zishu, just as expected of you.

You’ve been gone for so long,

yet you still have people risking their lives for you nonetheless.

I would like to see

how many other backup plans you’ve left here.

Sect Leader.

I now know why His Highness wants to find the Glazed Armor.

[Knowing everything in the world]

Your illness can be cured!

Even if I must risk my life,

I will still gather the Glazed Armor for you.

Old Duan,

you’ve gotten bold recently.

You’ve come to Jiangnan

but didn’t even come to catch up with me first.

Instead, you went drinking with the Alliance Leader of the Five Lakes Alliance?

Say...

how should I punish you?

My Bodhisattva,

I really didn’t know that you were also in Yueyang.

I originally thought that after all business was dealt with,

I could go visit you and the Scorpion King in Huzhou.

Prince Jin heard that the Scorpion King’s thaumaturgy has some new improvements.

He was greatly interested.

Bullshit!

Your Highness only cares about

having the Drug Men Army help him fight.

Yes, yes, yes.

But in my heart,

I only truly care about the most beautiful

female Bodhisattva—

Don’t even think about it!

You haven’t taken your punishment yet.

I accept the punishment.

Female Bodhisattva, what do you plan to do?

I heard you had fun drinking with the Alliance Leader of the Five Lakes Alliance.

Old Duan, don’t blame me.

I’ll say one thing and leave.

I won’t distract you old lovers from catching up.

Scorpion King, this—

The prince wants to find the Glazed Armor.

He didn’t come to find me?

Why would he ignore the easy ally but go for the difficult one?

[Brief Wind, Light Clouds]

Move it to the left a bit!

Farther left!

It’s crooked.

Hey, to the right a bit!

Yes, yes, yes.

Yes, yes, yes. It’s good.

Don’t listen to him.

He has poor sight.

If I had bad eyesight,

I wouldn’t be here now.

Stick it on just like that!

Master, I’ve stuck it on!

Master,

it looks more like a home now.

Stinking brat, look at how happy it has made you.

If you like putting those up, then do it slowly.

There’s a whole pail of adhesive.

We need some put up in every room!

Your martial uncle saw

that the girl selling paper cut patterns was a young beauty

and almost bought the whole basket of them!

Master, this many?

Chengling,

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

I can’t do anything.

Chengling,

don’t learn from your master.

Gluttonous and lazy.

On the first day of the New Year,

we must make the house fully cleaned

for the start of the new year.

Okay!

Just eat your sunflower seeds!

You just talk non-stop.

Well, I sure can’t be carefree and rich like a certain someone.

Chengling!

[Five Lakes World Alliance]

Good! Good! Good!

[Five Lakes World Alliance]

Stinking brat, come here!

Get the knife and kill the chicken.

Martial Uncle, you want me to kill that?

You think it should kill you instead?

Hurry up!

The chicken is more flavorful when it’s cooked for longer.

Martial Uncle,

assign me a different task.

I really don’t dare.

You don’t even dare to kill a chicken?

You pair of lazy master and apprentice leech off the hard work of others and do nothing but eat the produce of others!

You tricked me here to be a servant, didn’t you?

I don’t care!

For today’s New Year Eve’s meal, you people must help out! (T/N: He literally says “you people must move your hands”)

I can’t move my hands though.

Only my disciple can work on my behalf.

If you can’t move them, forget about eating!

Master.

Believe in yourself.

You! Don’t move!

Don’t come over here!

Master! Save me!

A’Xu,

what a good disciple you have. He’s never even killed a chicken.

How can people be so different?

That’s his blessing.

I, as his master, am a very distinguished and high accomplishing man,

but the only thing I lack is luck.

We happen to complement each other.

People... are so weird.

Isn’t it good to live day by day?

Everything is fine, so why did they have to establish festivals each year?

Is it to make themselves look bored?

Lonely?

But being alone is so peaceful.

I wonder if Master has someone with him.

A’Xiang, open the door!

- Happy New Year, A’Xiang! - A’Xiang, Happy New Year. Happy New Year.

What are you people doing here?

Of course, we need to come.

It’s the New Year.

How could we leave a young lady here alone?

- Hurry, hurry, hurry! - All right.

Let me tell you...

Our Weining had been worrying about you all day.

After sending our prayers,

we came to see you even before eating.

A’Xiang,

I don’t know what you eat in your hometown,

so we brought a variety of food here.

There’s jujube cake, pumpkin pie

and freshly fried lotus with stuffing, which is fresh and hot.

Right!

Martial Uncle made the dumplings for you.

Although they’re uncooked,

I’ll cook them for you to eat later.

So much delicious food! Why cook dumplings?

Do you take me as a big eater?

I’m sorry, Martial Uncle.

I, A’Xiang, am just a wild girl.

No one has ever treated me so well.

I’m j-just...

I don’t know what I should say.

Some sand has gotten into my eyes.

Girl.

Arriving at Gentle Wind Sword Sect is the same as arriving at your own home.

In the future, take this place as your home.

If this kid bullies you,

I’ll vent your frustrations on him on your behalf.

All right! All right! Vent at me!

It’s New Year!

Not returning to the hometown when wealthy is like adorning fine clothes in the dark.

Today, I’ve come to visit you all, Brothers.

Let’s drink together!

[Memorial tablets of his brothers]

Eldest Brother, I must toast to you first.

Here... Third Brother, here.

Have a drink with Second Brother.

[Memorial Tablet of Brother Zhang Yusen]

Who else?

Who else?

You, come and have a drink.

Here! Drink heavily!

[Memorial Tablet of Rong Xuan]

Brother Rong,

didn’t you like drinking the most?

Then, go and drink over there!

You only deserve to drink over there!

Master.

I need to toast you, Master.

Back then, you looked down on me the most.

But the ones you did respect

are all here accompanying you.

I’m the only disciple of yours that you’re delighted about, aren’t I?

Li Yao!

You’re merely just a bitch!

Didn’t you say that I would die of misfortune?

I think I’m living a decent life.

I have wine,

meat,

and women.

The one coming here next year

won’t be the Alliance Leader of Five Lakes Alliance!

Next year...

I will be the supreme leader of the pugilist world, Zhao Jing!

I will make you all watch

how I climb up one step at a time

to the very top!

You can’t see anymore!

You’re all dead!

You’re all—

You’re still tripping me!

You’re still in my way, even in death!

Everyone loved you, didn’t they?

All right.

He wants to drink wine.

All of you,

watch carefully.

I’ll toast to him, right now!

Come,

and drink the wine toasted by me.

Drink it.

My wine is the sweetest and most delicious!

Foster-Father...

Get out!

Who let you in?

Foster-Father!

[Memorial Tablet of Brother Rong Xuan]

Don’t be angry, Foster-Father.

I saw that you drank too much and came with soup to sober you up.

Get out!

Don’t be angry, Foster-Father.

I’ll kill whoever comes in.

Foster-Father!

Get out!

[Memorial Tablets of Wife Li Yao and Master Zhao Wenyuan]

I can think of are his master’s thumb ring

and the poisoned sword that killed Rong Xuan.

For every great plot of his,

he will save for himself a trophy.

Foster-Father.

Get out!

- Foster-Father. - Didn’t you hear me?

- Foster-Father. - Get out!

Get out!

Get out of my sight!

Look at what’s hanging in front of your chest.

I let you safeguard my most precious object.

Here it comes!

Thanks for waiting, A’Xu.

Master, it smells so good!

That tired me to death.

Martial Uncle, is there more?

There’s still a pot of chicken soup on the stove.

- Go ahead. - Okay!

- Careful, it’s hot! - Okay!

Here, A’Xu.

Try this thing I made.

The edible fungus is freshly picked.

Here, here, here! I’ll toast the chef first!

You’ve worked hard.

Here.

I’ll drink it all first to show my respect.

So hot!

Here, it’s good wine.

Eat some food, you drunkard.

Master, Martial Uncle. It smells so good!

- Here! - Here.

Here, eat some vegetables, Chengling.

Chengling,

this period of your life is the period in which you’re still growing.

Drink a bowl of chicken soup.

Here.

And eat some vegetables!

What’s wrong?

You’re dropping gold beans during New Year’s Eve?

Don’t cry!

If you cry, you’ll have bad luck the whole year.

Push those tears back.

I’m not crying.

I’m so happy!

I thought

I wouldn’t have a family for the rest of my life.

Who knew that I could still have such a great New Year?

Actually, the Heavens are pretty good to me!

Right.

This is also the most proper New Year’s

I’ve ever had.

What New Year’s is there to celebrate without a family?

It’s just self-punishment.

Now that I think about it,

I sure was a mediocre person in the past.

Scheming against this person, scheming against that person.

Fighting back and forth, fighting others to the death.

Where’s the fun in that?

What’s the fun in mastering top martial arts

and becoming the strongest person

in the world?

In the end,

I’m still a homeless and lonely-souled wild ghost.

No one to drink with under the moonlight,

and no one to worry for me.

That’s because you’ve already mastered top martial arts

and right now, you do have someone to drink with.

- Here! A toast! - A toast!

Martial Uncle.

I’ll also toast with tea instead of wine!

Chengling,

you’re also on the way to mastering top martial arts!

- Here! Here, here, here! - Here.

Happy New Year!

[Qiyang Teahouse]

Three threes, four fours, six sixes—

You lose.

So clumsy.

You’re thinking about your fireworks, aren’t you?

Your heart’s not even here.

Go play!

Martial Uncle?

I wish you peace and good fortune! (Lit: A Chinese homophonic pun)

You have me and your master here.

Go ahead.

Out of misfortune comes blessings,

this year will definitely be a good year.

Here. Drink the wine you owe me.

I’ll drink one as well.

Here!

I couldn’t bear to give you all of it.

Here.

Master!

Master!

Master!

Master!

Chengling, what’s wrong?

Master.

This person jumped over the wall!

Han Ying?

Han Ying?

Martial Uncle, here.

Here, Brother Han.

Chengling, go get some more fire pots.

A’Xu, give me a hand.

Sect Leader.

I’ve stolen...

the Glazed Armor back.

What do I want this for?

Didn’t I tell you

not to take any risks?

I’ve already investigated it.

The Yin Yang Book of Miracle Healer Valley

can cure all illnesses within the world.

One life for another to change one’s destiny.

Don’t talk about these things right now!

How did you find this place?

What happened after our farewell in Yueyang?

Someone in the Window of Heaven

recognized you at the Heroes Conference in Yueyang.

I blocked this piece of information.

Later,

when the news was about to be leaked,

I killed them all

and blamed it on Venomous Scorpions.

Unfortunately, this method can only trick His Highness for a time.

So I was thinking, before I escaped,

I must help you find something useful.

I snuck into His Highness’s study

and luckily found the Glazed Armor’s secret!

Too bad, I did my best.

I was only able to find one piece of Glazed Armor

and then was discovered by the Window of Heaven.

Fortunately, Xingming covered for me

which allowed me to escape from Jinzhou.

Sect Leader,

although we never had the honor of joining Four Seasons Mountain Villa,

like all the elders before me, I’m willing to risk everything for you!

Who wanted you to risk everything?

I want you to live well!

A loyal servant never recognizes a second master.

I am your loyal servant till death.

I ought to serve you when alive

and die for you when needed.

If you die, Sect Leader,

how could I live alone?

Sect Leader,

there is something else I must tell you.

In His Highness’s study,

I discovered a secret letter.

That year, your father, Great Elder Zhou, suddenly passed away

because the former Prince Jin accused him of treason

and killed him secretly.

That can’t be.

My father passed away from sickness.

But... that’s what the letter said.

That can’t be.

My father was former Prince Jin’s lifetime friend

and most trusted advisor.

Where did you see this letter?

This letter... was on His Highness’s table.

A’Xu,

it’s not too late to plan this further.

Sect Leader.

Master Wen...

If you gather the five pieces of the Glazed Armor,

you can open the World’s Armory.

You can find the Miracle Healer Valley’s—

Yin Yang Book.

Han Ying! Han Ying!

You have to hold on!

We’ll find the Glazed Armor together,

open the Armory,

and find Yin Yang Book.

Hold on! All right?

Who would’ve thought,

the first time I visited Four Seasons Mountain Villa

would be in such a situation.

Sect Leader,

to be able to die for you

leaves me no regrets in this life.

Sect Leader,

take it.

It’s all my fault.

If I knew earlier that Glazed Armor could cure your injuries,

I would’ve been willing to risk everything to gather it.

Too bad—

Han Ying!

A’Xu, have you forgotten?

Great Shaman of South Xinjiang is coming?

Wu Xi and Beiyuan are on their way!

Han Ying, hold on for a bit longer!

Once they’re here, they can definitely heal you!

Lao Wen,

I’ll go down the mountain to find Ping An immediately.

We’ll try to bring Great Shaman back quickly.

Take care of Han Ying.

I’ll definitely find a way to protect Brother Han’s life.

Don’t worry, Brother Han.

Not even the guardians of the underworld

can take your soul.

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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 ♫