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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 30]

The tea is quite fine.

Qianqiao,

send them all away.

Regardless of how foolish Mo Huaiyang is,

he wouldn’t have hidden the Glazed Armor here.

Why are they acting like they’re doing their absolute best to find it here?

Yes.

We’ll leave!

King,

how long are we going to stay at a stalemate?

How about...

I set a fire and force those bastards to come out?

What’s the rush?

Mo Huaiyang can run now, but he can’t run forever. (T/N: Idiom, “a monk can run, but his monastery cannot run with him”)

As long his disciples are still here,

we’ll wait for him to come back. (T/N: Idiom: To guard idly for the rabbit by the tree trunk)

But the longer we wait, the higher the chances that things could change.

We deployed so many Drug Men this time.

What if one of those useless bastards

becomes uncontrollable and runs off?

Then, the consequences will be unimaginable.

What if...

Mo Huaiyang comes back with reinforcements?

In that case, we’ll kill

anyone in our way. (T/N: Literally means, “If a god or Buddha blocks us, we will kill it.”)

Eat it.

Fool.

Is there nothing that you want to ask me?

I...

I...

Of course, I must ask!

Gu Xiang, who are you exactly?

Why didn’t you ask this question

in front of your martial uncle and senior brother?

If I asked in front of them...

then,

then what would happen to you?

Do you care so much about me?

Obviously!

I’ve already sworn an oath to Brother Wen!

This Wen Kexing.

How could this Wen Kexing be the leader of Ghost Valley?

He was clearly...

on such good terms with Brother Zhou and Chengling.

Right.

Isn’t he the son of Great Warrior Zhen Ruyu?

A’Xiang,

could there be some misunderstanding in the midst of all of this?

Was Brother Wen framed by someone,

which made him have to do this?

Is that right?

What if it’s true?

And what if it’s not?

If it’s a misunderstanding,

then even if I had to give my life,

I would still give it up to cleanse you of unjust guilt.

♪ It’s matters of the heart that torments me, don’t miss hate and love ♪

♪ Only wish that you will not say goodbye ♪

Then, what if it was true?

What if I’m truly a little lonely ghost from Mount Qingya

♪ The only thing on my mind is to spend the rest of my life ♪

who accidentally came into the mortal world,

met you,

♪ Embroiled in this mortal love ♪

and deceived you?

♪ Destiny gathers mortal love, there’s nothing we can do ♪

Brother Cao, would you kill me?

♪ But infatuation walked through the wrong door ♪

Where I grew up,

it was either I killed them or they killed me.

Even if it’s a one-in-one-hundred possibility,

♪ You and I are both destined to meet ♪

I’d rather mistakenly kill innocents than let them off.

If I didn’t do this, I couldn’t have survived till today.

♪ But our involvement in the pugilist world forsake us of our wishes ♪

♪ Wish to be with you in the corners of the world ♪

If...

If you really are a spy for Ghost Valley

♪ That we never have to step foot in the pugilist world again ♪

who deceived me on purpose

to join Gentle Wind Sword Sect

and brought in allies

♪ If there is another life, I will not let you down again ♪

to kill my sect brothers

to destroy my mountain,

♪ After the bloody storm, I hope dusk will fall again ♪

I absolutely would kill you.

Okay.

But A’Xiang,

did you know?

♪ How much grudges and resentment are there? ♪

I’ve sworn an oath.

I, Cao Weining, from birth to death,

♪ You and I both cannot escape from it ♪

will never do anything to fail you, even for a second.

But this matter...

♪ Just the phrase pugilist world made us lose our spirits, love had taken root ♪

I don’t know whether it counts as failing you.

♪ It’s a cruel world ♪

But don’t worry, A’Xiang.

After I kill you, I won’t live alone.

♪ Destiny gathers mortal love, there’s nothing we can do ♪

I will definitely cut my own throat to be with you.

We can walk the path to the netherworld together.

♪ But infatuation walked through the wrong door ♪

We will hold hands and enter our next life together.

A’Xiang, trust me.

♪ You and I are both destined to meet ♪

The next life, I will definitely grow up with you.

I won’t let you learn bad things

♪ But our involvement in the pugilist world forsake us of our wishes ♪

or suffer one bit!

But...

♪ Wish to be with you in the corners of the world ♪

A’Xiang, I don’t think you are.

I know you’re a wonderful girl!

♪ If there is another life, I will not let you down again ♪

So A’Xiang, tell me.

What exactly is going on?

♪ After the bloody storm, I hope dusk will fall again ♪

♪ Destiny gathers mortal love, there’s nothing we can do ♪

If I tell you,

will you believe me?

♪ But infatuation walked through the wrong door ♪

I trust you.

♪ You and I are both destined to meet ♪

♪ But our involvement in the pugilist world forsake us of our wishes ♪

A’Xiang.

A’Xiang.

♪ If there is another life, I will not let you down again ♪

A’Xiang, don’t cry.

I trust you. I told you that I would believe you.

You just have to tell me!

♪ After the bloody storm, I hope dusk will fall again ♪

A’Xiang, don’t cry anymore.

I’ll tell you. I’ll tell it all.

Come here.

Sit. I’ll tell you.

My master, Wen Kexing,

is truly the Ghost Valley Chief.

But he had already decided to become a good person.

No. That’s not right.

He was a good person originally.

His main goal was just revenge.

Moreover, he-he doesn’t want the Glazed Armor

and he won’t make himself an enemy to your Gentle Wind Sword Sect either!

A’Xiang. Talk slower, I don’t understand.

Okay, then...

then I’ll start from the beginning.

From when I grew up in the Ghost Valley.

From...

Ever since I could remember, I was in the Ghost Valley.

At that time,

even Master himself was just a young boy.

He served by the old Valley Chief’s side.

He said I was a baby he fished up from the river.

That’s why he named me “Xiang”. (T/N: Xiangjiang is a river in the Hunan Province)

I believed it for many years.

Only after growing up did I realize

the old Valley Chief had kidnapped a group of children

to help him master demon arts.

All of the other children died.

Only I remained. Because Master begged,

I was gifted to him as if I were an object.

That was how my small life was spared.

Children who grow up in Ghost Valley,

learn how to kill as soon as they learn how to walk.

Everyone assumed the rules of the world were that the strong lived while the weak died. You die and I live.

But Master told me that it wasn’t so.

There’s a place outside called the mortal world.

I...

was only a small ghost that entered the dark world accidentally.

He said he would send me back one day.

Once I grew up, I realized

Master protected me from many troubles.

Finally, one day,

Master initiated a bloody rebellion throughout Ghost Valley.

He killed the old Valley Chief and replaced him.

In the following years,

Master killed all the original Top Ten Evil Ghosts.

They were all replaced by new people,

and he received the nickname Lunatic Wen.

At the time, I didn’t think anything of it.

With Master as the new Valley Chief,

I could do anything I wanted to in Ghost Valley. I was really happy.

That was until one day,

Master said his plans are finally complete.

He was going to take me to the mortal world.

Give my order to all 3,000 ghosts in Mount Qingya.

From now on, I request all of you to go out

and kill the traitors in the worse way possible.

Whichever one of you monsters who can get the Glazed Armor back for me

will be appointed as the head of the Ten Ghosts!

So you all left the valley

to capture Hanging Ghost and take back the Glazed Armor!

So stupid! I have been telling you for so long.

That was only an excuse! Master was doing that for revenge.

Then after the Zhen couple died,

Brother Wen was captured by Ghost Valley?

No wonder Brother Wen was so melancholy when he saw Great Warrior Shen.

But our poor A’Xiang.

That’s not right.

You said the Ghost Valley killed his parents

but raised Brother Wen by their side?

Didn’t they fear that Brother Wen would take revenge after growing up?

People who enter the valley have to drink a medicine called Water of Oblivion.

Once you drink it, you will forget what you most care about.

The old evil ghosts from back then all thought Master had forgotten about his parents’ tragic deaths.

Actually, Master was abnormally strong-willed

and buried all his hatred deep within his heart.

Martial Uncle.

Martial Uncle! Martial Uncle!

You’re finally awake.

I was so scared when you remained unconscious these few days.

Right!

Martial Uncle, this is...

Master Wen, I am Jing Beiyuan, the seventh generation of my family.

This is Great Shaman of Nanjiang.

Thank you two, friends, for coming all this way for my brother.

Allow me to thank you.

Master Wen,

don’t be so polite.

I owe Zishu... my life.

Beiyuan, we can catch up slowly later on.

Master Wen has been unconscious for many days,

and we have lost the most crucial moments.

I’m afraid right now, Sect Leader Zhou has already been brought to Jinzhou.

Our first priority is to save him first.

But the Window of Heaven’s security is high.

With just us, I’m afraid we will not be capable of much.

For this trip from Nanjiang,

we only brought a few personal guards.

Far water cannot save near fires. (T/N: Chinese saying meaning that problems at hand cannot be solved by distant solutions)

What happened to A’Xu?

[Lichun Hall]

[White Clothes]

[White Clothes]

Master Zhou, please.

I’ve already inhaled muscle relaxants.

Is there a need for this?

Please forgive us.

Let’s go.

[Moral Purity]

Your Highness.

I know.

Pengju, good work.

Go and rest.

Your Highness!

Leave now.

Yes.

Let’s go.

Zishu, aren’t you going to come in and see me?

[Moral Purity]

Quite an attitude.

You have to make me come welcome you personally?

Your Highness.

My home has already been destroyed.

There is no need to keep past persons

or swords either.

Good sword.

It should return to its owner’s side.

Come with me.

I’ve prepared some good wine for you.

[White Clothes]

This is the wine from Qingluan Courtyard.

It’s become viscous after so long.

There’s not enough for two pots.

Didn’t we make a promise at the time?

It would last for ten years.

After ten years, with the same people

in the same yard,

we’d open this jar of wine and drink it.

Same people...

Are there any of them now?

Yunxing has left for the border,

Qingluan committed suicide,

Lord Seventh was poisoned by you,

and Jiuxiao died in the battle at Lu City.

In that courtyard...

only you and I remain.

Many times I have dreamt of the past,

and revisited that yard full of flowers.

Beiyuan plays his guqin (zither),

Jiuxiao plays his xiao (flute),

Yunxing wields his sword,

and Qingluan sings songs.

When I look behind me,

you are standing by my side.

You are right.

Zishu.

Our old friends have fallen,

and only the two of us remain.

For us,

our bonds of favor and resentment can’t be counted clearly.

I don’t want to think about it anymore.

Come back and help me.

Let’s wipe the slate from past years clean,

and start over.

Okay?

[Moral Purity]

Good wine.

Wine grows fine with time,

as people grow closer.

I used to believe

it was fine that you died.

If one wants to be king,

he must walk a lonely path.

But ever since I found out you reappeared outside Yueyang City,

with your martial arts intact and living well,

I was clearly ecstatic at the time.

Come on.

Tell me.

What did you do to the Nails of Seven Orifices and Three Autumns

so that you even managed to deceive Pengju?

There is nothing to be done to the Nails of Seven Orifices and Three Autumns.

I just changed methods.

There are seven nails.

Every three months, I would insert one

and allow it to gradually grow into my flesh, merging with my blood vessels.

This way, I can gradually get used to the excruciating pain of breaking tendons and veins.

Even if I finish with the last nail right now,

I wouldn’t become a piece of meat that can’t move or talk.

My martial arts...would still remain to some degree.

18 months.

You let yourself suffer such excruciating pain for 18 months.

Why?

If you wanted to betray me,

you could’ve silently left my range of control.

Why?

Why did you have to do this?

The Nails of Seven Orifices and Three Autumns is a rule I placed.

The brothers that fought beside me also obeyed this rule!

If I made myself an exception,

how could I face anyone in the netherworld?

Jiuxiao’s death was an accident.

Do you think I’m not sad?

What’s the meaning of torturing yourself like this?

If Jiuxiao could see you from the heavens,

he would be more distraught than I!

Jiuxiao’s death was an accident.

Then, how about my 79 comrades in Four Seasons Mountain Villa?

Was all of that also just an accident?

A water-fetching jar eventually breaks on the well.

The general is fated to die on the front lines.

Swords do not have eyes. Living depends on your fate.

You’ve pushed the responsibility too cleanly away from yourself.

Zhou Zishu,

don’t forget.

You’re the one who came up with the name, Window of Heaven.

You wanted to shine a ray of light upon this dark world.

To pray for the world,

to bring peace to everyone!

You don’t understand why these people were sacrificed?

Now,

I am about to burn down this rusted, chaotic world!

How can you be absent from it?

Then, what about Han Ying?

Han Ying?

I’m talking about people of the world! The righteous path in the world!

You talk to me about Han Ying?

What the hell is he?

A lowly, orphaned slave!

How dare he try to show off before me?

That’s right.

If it weren’t for that idiotic bastard

who threw himself into my trap, I couldn’t have found you so quickly.

You’re actually questioning me over this person?

Hilarious.

Is he not part of this world?

He was only 22 years old.

Zishu,

you are too funny!

Absolutely hilarious!

It’s been ten years.

How many people have died for your righteous path?

Those who did and did not deserve death.

Your Highness.

I am no longer a youth of 16.

I cannot see the peaceful

and glorious world you speak of.

I only see a living human who has died because of me.

Their resentment weighs down on my back every day and every night!

If there is no bloodshed, how can there be peace and glory?

They sacrificed their bodies for the greater good!

Did they die for the greater good

or did they die for your ambitions?

Such good wine,

but you ruined it.

Zishu...

Don’t be so agitated.

You used muscle relaxants for so many days.

You could die

if you use too much force.

You destroyed Four Seasons Mountain Villa.

I originally destroyed Four Seasons Mountain Villa

to give you a chance.

Your home is Jinzhou!

If you can’t bear to make a decision,

I will make one for you!

I originally thought

you could correct your mistake and return to my side.

Then I could forgive your past actions.

Hilarious.

I had always thought

you were my soulmate.

It turns out

that you’re just a mediocre person.

My soulmate...

Are you qualified?

What did you say?

Guards! Guards!

Your Highness!

Zhou Zishu, you...

You traitor!

If you dare touch even one hair on me,

don’t even think about leaving Jinzhou alive!

No one move!

Your Highness.

Since I dared to come,

I didn’t think about leaving alive.

You did something to the muscle relaxants.

Very good. You still have other spies within Window of Heaven!

Your Highness.

You are wrong.

Listen to my order!

Today, if I lose my life here,

I want everyone in Window of Heaven to be buried alongside me!

Yes!

Your Highness.

After all these years,

you didn’t change at all.

The only reason why I allowed Duan Pengju so much authority

was because I hoped he could take control of everything smoothly.

If Window of Heaven still has my subordinates,

how could I just leave like that?

Didn’t I tell you before?

I just changed how I inserted the Nails of Seven Orifices and Three Autumns.

I slowed its progression,

but I cannot change the result.

I’ve lost my sense of taste and smell.

No sort of inhalant has any effect on me.

Ridiculous.

You were just betting that I wouldn’t kill you.

You would.

But you would meet me first.

As long as you were willing to see me,

and we were in the same room,

there would be thousands of ways to kill you.

I think...

Your Highness has forgotten

what our master once said.

The emperor’s fury results in a sea of blood.

A commoner’s fury will only result in the death of one person,

yet the whole world will mourn.

I...

I didn’t care that you were the son of a traitor

and trusted you wholeheartedly with my life!

After Jiuxiao died, you grew more and more dejected.

In the end, you left me and I even forgave that!

Even...

Even after finding out you lied and betrayed me,

I still wasn’t willing to hurt your life.

Where’s your conscience?

Was it eaten by a dog?

Your Highness.

The entanglements between us

can’t be counted clearly.

You tricked me, used me, and tried to kill me.

I don’t care anymore.

But I have already become the sinner of the Four Seasons Mountain Villa.

I refuse to be the sinner of the world!

[Moral Purity]

Very funny.

It seems like we met for nothing.

Zhou Zishu,

since when were you a Bodhisattva?

In the past, you...

Enough!

Kill me!

Kill me...

and there will still be a successor to fulfill my wishes!

Your Highness!

Your Highness!

No.

Your Highness!

No.

No.

Don’t kill him.

- Your Highness! - Your Highness!

What’s that noise?

Hurry!

Brother Cao.

A’Xiang, you’re not afraid?

Why would I be afraid?

Don’t be angry with me,

but when we were fleeing up the mountain,

I was pretty happy.

I was thinking, if we both die here,

you would never know.

Am I the only one who smells this?

Why do I smell grilled meat?

I smell it, too.

The wind direction isn’t quite right.

You all! Bring me some large cattail leaf fans

and disperse the smell!

Yes!

You bastards.

The hunger in your stomachs

should be burning uncontrollably right now.

Scorpion King, bad news!

Mo Huaiyang is back!

He also brought someone!

Did Mo Huaiyang bring the Emperor in Heaven or your father?

What could be bad enough to make you into such a coward?

Useless.

Where are my disciples?

Foster-Father.

Evil creature!

Traitorous son!

Answer Sect Leader Mo.

Are you all deaf?

Answer Sect Leader Mo!

Open the door! I am back!

Brother Zhao.

take a look.

Look at this.

That person...

Your adopted son sure is capable.

With just his own power,

he almost made my Gentle Wind Sword Sect

disappear from the martial arts world!

Don’t worry, Brother Mo.

I will definitely make it up to you.

“If My Lord does not betray me,

I will not betray My Lord.”

Today, I finally understand.

Master.

Grant forgiveness.

This is our sect’s pure and quiet area.

It’s not too late to figure out your family’s personal business after going home.

Can you let your son remove the people outside immediately?

Did you hear Sect Leader Mo’s words?

Tell your disgusting monsters to disappear immediately!

And then I’ll get even with you.

Traitorous son! Barbarian!

Get lost!

Brother Cao.

Brother Cao.

Come here.

Please be appeased, Brother Mo.

I, Zhao Jing, swear upon the heavens

that I had no knowledge of this event.

And I ordered my son to stay far away from your sect.

I am to blame for not telling him we are allies now.

That’s because I didn’t want to create more trouble.

But don’t worry.

Once things are done,

I will have him beg for forgiveness.

That won’t be necessary.

If the lives of more than twenty Gentle Wind Sword Sect disciples

were only worth a few whippings,

isn’t that too disappointing?

Brother Mo, you are right.

I didn’t teach my son correctly.

I really have no shame standing here.

I...am willing to bring out these three pieces of Glazed Armor

while risking losing all of my fame and status.

Let’s speak clearly.

If you really value the agreement between us,

you should know what to do.

I understand what you mean.

But Brother Mo,

this son is very important to me.

I have many places where I need him.

How about this?

I have always kept my promises.

I will pay you back double.

I will give you a satisfactory explanation.

What happened today was all because of your son!

In front of all my sect members,

I stood on the same side as you, Scorpion King, and Ghost Valley!

How can I teach my disciples from now on?

I understand.

Once everything’s over,

I will personally bring my son’s head to you.

Traitor! What did you do to the Prince?

Zhou Zishu!

The Prince valued you so much

and still isn’t willing to hurt your life.

Yet you pay his kindness back with hatred?

The Prince’s internal wounds

are my sect’s unique, secret arts.

Freezing Aroma Palm.

After you are hit, your heart meridians are seriously damaged.

You remain sickly for the rest of your life.

Only my sect’s martial arts can treat it.

But these martial arts...

only have one successor in this world.

Guess who it is?

Stop talking nonsense.

Under what terms will you heal the Prince’s injuries?

Say it!

Pengju.

You can’t possibly believe

that I only hit him once

because I was soft-hearted right at that moment?

You followed me for so many years,

but you still don’t know anything about me.

You sadden me greatly.

Zhou Zishu!

Don’t think that even though the Prince is like this, he won’t kill you!

If you aren’t willing to heal him,

there’s plenty of miracle healers in the world!

Even if I risk my life for going against my ruler’s wishes,

this time I will have the Prince cut you into thousands of pieces

and give you death of agony!

Pengju,

you are really scaring me like this.

Kill me!

Kill me

would be like killing the prince.

Worst comes to worst, I’ll go on my way first

and wait for him in the netherworld.

You...

Shameless!

You can’t possibly think

I commanded Window of Heaven

by relying on my integrity to win others over, did you?

Okay.

Okay!

Sect Leader Zhou, then we’ll wait it out!

Let’s see who can last longer!

All right, we’ll wait then.

I...don’t have long to live anyway.

I’m not losing anything.

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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 ♫