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Master.

The repairs for the Five Lakes Monument are going well.

When the Heroes Conference begins here,

the Five Lakes Monument will witness you

become the chief of the martial arts world again.

It's true that "there's a legend in the martial arts world."

Chief of the martial arts world?

I put in all this effort

just to protect what our ancestors left us.

I don't care about what I gained or lost.

Yes.

Wen Kexing.

Why are you going crazy again?

I'm always crazy.

You're probably

more scared when I'm not.

Why did you suddenly kill

White Grim Reaper?

Why did you ask my girls

to spread half of the song about Mount Qingya's Ghosts?

What are you planning actually?

Don't take tolerance as forgiveness.

Wen Kexing!

Chief, please don't be angry.

Master is mad because she cares.

We all care about you

and want to do our work better for you.

Qianqiao, get up.

You're scared of him, right?

I'm not!

Tragicomic Ghost, leave.

I have orders to give Beauty Ghost in private.

Wen Kexing.

Do you think you're powerful now?

Master.

Get up.

Chief.

I'd like to ask you to forgive my master's rudeness.

All of your actions have deeper intentions.

We just need to follow orders.

"Deeper intentions"?

I just suddenly wanted to kill someone.

What deeper intentions do I have?

Changing Ghost was unsatisfied and was planning to revolt.

Killing his trusted subordinate, White Grim Reaper,

is a warning to him.

Beauty Ghost.

Do you know the outcome

of trying to guess your master's intentions?

One only guesses a master's intentions for one's own gain.

I am loyal

and only want to work for you and my master.

I have nothing to hide.

Don't worry.

Everything is in my control.

I have something else for you to do.

Yes, please go ahead.

Did you learn your transformation skills from the Four Seasons Manor?

Yes.

Have you been there?

Never.

When I was little, I had an opportunity

to meet a martial arts master

and did him a little favor.

The senior pitied me for being disfigured,

so he taught me transformation skills.

That's all.

That senior must've been the leader of the Four Seasons Manor, Qin Huaizhang.

It was.

I heard that the Four Seasons Manor has flowers that blossom year-round

and is very beautiful.

Since you and Qin Huaizhang knew each other,

why didn't you go visit?

Since I am now part of the ghosts,

I won't reminisce about the prosperity of the living world anymore.

I only want to be loyal to Ghost Valley

and you.

That's right.

We are ghosts.

Ghosts disappear in the light.

YUEYANG SECT

The world is so vast.

I am now all alone

and can go anywhere.

Why would I stay here

and watch these fools put on an act?

Have I not seen enough before?

What did I spend

all these years for?

AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT, COME TO THE NORTHERN GARDEN. FROM XU

Why are you sneaking around?

I…

I was hungry and couldn't sleep,

so I went to look for food.

Is that not all right?

Yes, of course it is.

When you become the chief of the Yueyang Sect,

you can do whatever you want.

But that's for the future.

What would you like to eat?

I'll tell the kitchen,

and you just wait in your room.

Don't trouble yourself.

I'll go and find some leftovers in the kitchen.

If you don't go back,

I'll have to tell Master.

Gu Xiang? You are here too?

Why are you out in the middle of the night?

Where are my master and Mr. Wen?

Didn't Master ask you to come to get me?

Get you?

Gu Xiang, I've seen him before.

He's an internal servant.

So he works for my master!

I'm here. Where is my master?

-How are you related to Beauty Ghost? -None of your business!

Little idiot, hurry up and leave!

-Gu Xiang. -Leave!

You little brat.

Gu Xiang!

DIECUI PAVILION

Chengling!

Qin Song, cover me!

CHONGWU PALACE

After all this time, I ended up with nothing.

Zhou Zishu.

You always thought you were smart.

Did you try everything to leave the Window of Heaven

just to drown to death in wine?

There are so many morons in this world.

Who could be more foolish than you?

Let go of me!

Chengling?

-How did it go? Find anything? -No.

-Search over there. -All right.

-You guys, go over there. -The rest over here.

All right!

Mr. Wen.

I'm sorry.

We are searching for a thief.

Have you seen a man

holding a pi-pa?

He might not be holding it either.

You mean Phantom Musician Qin Song?

Great! You know him.

This is what happened.

He and another thief

kidnapped our Young Master Zhang Chengling.

We have asked the castellan to lock the city.

Mr. Wen, please help us.

I advise you to read the situation

and tell me where the Glazed Armor is,

so you can stop getting tortured.

You tomboy.

Why can't you be more tender?

If a cute little boy like him

gets tortured,

he won't be handsome anymore.

Little boy, does it hurt?

Do you want me to blow on it?

You disgusting woman, don't touch me!

But I want to touch you.

Damn it. Those dogs are following so closely.

Why aren't the three of them coming to my aid?

Where did your friends take him?

Are you going to tell me,

or do you want me to squeeze the answer out of you?

Little boy, can you tell us now?

Just kill me!

You want to die before telling us where the Glazed Armor is?

Baby, killing you would be doing you a favor.

I have over 100 ways

to make you feel worse than death.

Are you done?

You frivolous woman.

Master doesn't have the patience

for you to use all 100 methods.

This boy looks weak,

but he's quite stubborn.

Are you forcing me to use my real powers?

He's such a little brat.

If you accidentally kill him, we're both going to die.

Leave him.

Let me do it.

Go and see why it's taking so long for Monster Jiang

to meet with Qin Song.

I'm not going.

I don't care what happens to those two.

I want to see

what kind of skills you have.

Bring me a pail of water

and a stack of Xuan paper.

Your hand for playing pi-pa

is now destroyed.

I met another tough man before

and asked him the same question.

He also wouldn't answer.

I had no choice,

but to crush

his bones inch by inch

and slowly squeeze the answer out of him.

My father told me

that the human body contains 206 bones.

When I got to the 80th bone,

that tough man answered.

Qin Song.

Tell me right now

where your friends took the boy!

How is it?

I don't need your delicate and weak torture skills.

A pail of water and a stack of paper.

I have yet to meet a man

who can withstand this water torture!

I admire you,

Tomboy.

No wonder one has to be cruel to be successful.

Compared to you,

I'm truly not as skilled.

Do you want to tell us now?

I'll tell you.

The Glazed Armor…

The Glazed Armor…

What did you say?

Use all of your other torture methods.

Let's see if I can bear them.

My father is the Hero of Mirror Lake, Zhang Yusen.

None of his sons is a coward!

Who are you?

How dare you attack the Four Assassins?

A bunch of stinky scorpions doesn't deserve to know my name.

You know about the Scorpion Sect?

I do.

I am your ancestor!

Master!

Why did you come back alone? Where is Qin Song?

I couldn't find Qin Song!

These stupid nail wounds.

I can't drag out this battle.

I need to finish it fast.

-Why is this bastard here? -Stop talking. Kill him first!

Master!

Who are you?

Since you know about the Scorpion Sect,

you must also know

that no one can stop the Scorpion King from killing whoever he wants

and getting whatever he wants.

What a coincidence.

No one can stop me from killing who I want

and getting what I want either.

Monster Jiang!

Master!

Don't worry, I'm here.

He is almost tired out.

Let's attack together!

Capture him alive.

I'm going to get my sweet revenge

for Qin Song and Monster Jiang.

Handsome boy.

Let me show you

what it feels like to want to die more than to live.

Mr. Wen!

Who hurt you?

Mr. Wen, they kidnapped me

and hurt my master.

Don't follow them.

-We have to get Chengling out of here. -No.

I will destroy whoever hurt you!

Let's go.

Master.

What are those?

Don't be scared.

Take Chengling and go.

It's fine if you don't go.

Dying together with you

is also a fine ending.

Who wants to die with you?

In life and death will you never part.

What a touching moment.

I'm glad to have you.

I'm sorry for not welcoming you earlier.

These two bastards

were the ones that killed Monster Jiang and Qin Song!

You lost and disgraced me,

yet you're not embarrassed to complain?

Chief Zhou.

Are you not going to introduce

your best friend?

Who are you?

Why did you kidnap Chengling?

I can tell you

who I am,

but you have to tell me who you are first.

Let's wager a bet.

The person who loses should tell the person who wins

his true identity.

He's even more talkative than you.

Your Majesty, who are they?

A leader of the Window of Heaven

and a leader of the Devils.

Ghost Chief?

How did those two devils

end up together?

PROFOUND EXPECTATIONS

Gao Chong.

Everything's fine. Don't be too anxious.

The Four Assassins

definitely took a risk to kidnap Chengling

in order to find out where the Glazed Armor is.

As long as he keeps quiet,

his life won't be in danger.

Enough.

Master and Mr. Wen.

You both came to save me.

Gu Xiang was right.

You didn't leave me behind!

Little idiot.

You call me Mr. Wen

and him Master.

You make it sound like I'm younger than him.

Am I not older than you?

The Four Assassins tortured you, but you didn't even cry.

Why are you crying after seeing us?

All right, act like a man.

They tortured me, but I'd rather die than give in.

Only when I saw you, I…

Master. Mr. Wen.

I have so many things to tell you.

It smells delicious.

Zhou Xu.

Chengling, you're hungry, right?

You should eat first.

Master, I know

that only you guys are sincerely kind to me.

Little idiot.

Don't your uncles treat you well too?

I heard that Gao Chong even wanted to betroth his only daughter to you.

I don't have any daughters,

just Gu Xiang.

I don't really care,

but I'm afraid you won't be able to handle her.

They just want the Glazed Armor,

and never actually cared about me

or my family's revenge.

In the beginning,

I thought they truly saw me as their nephew.

But I realized later

that they never even treated my father as a real brother,

much less me.

Little idiot, what do you mean?

Mr. Gao isn't worried about getting revenge at all.

Instead, he's using that as an excuse to carry on with his Heroes Conference.

Ever since I came to the Yueyang Sect,

nobody has truly cared about me

or asked what I wanted.

What do you want then?

I want to learn martial arts.

I want to get revenge.

I don't want to be a useless child anymore,

waiting for others to sacrifice themselves to protect me.

I also want to continue the Mirror Lake Sect's heritage.

That is the wish of my father and brothers.

Chengling,

did something happen that caused

your strong suspicions of the Five Lakes Alliance?

Do you want to tell us?

Eat first. There's no rush to tell us.

No.

Master and Mr. Wen.

The day my family was killed,

my father didn't have time to tell me much

except for one thing.

"Never trust anyone,

no one is trustworthy."

But Master and Mr. Wen,

I trust you.

Foolish child.

Don't rush to trust anyone.

Master, I should've trusted you from the beginning.

Back then, the fisherman didn't know

what happened between my father and the alliance,

so he wanted to take me to Mr. Zhao.

I didn't know what to do and whom to believe.

Master, I'm sorry.

I should've trusted you from the beginning.

I have the Glazed Armor with me.

My father was in a rush,

and thus he cut my stomach

to hide it in there.

The wound healed

and it has been with me since.

I'll take it out for you now!

Little idiot.

Did I say I wanted it?

Little idiot, why are you in a rush?

You should talk slower and take time to get to know someone.

Your father must've been careful

because he guessed

that even if Mr. Li brought you safely

to his brothers in the Five Lakes Alliance,

they would still carefully search you.

It seems like

he lost trust in his brothers a long time ago.

Yes.

Other people don't know,

but they've been at odds for many years.

Do you know why their relationship turned sour?

I know. He gave me a letter.

Where is the letter?

I hid it under the Buddha statue in the abandoned temple.

I thought you were an idiot,

but who knew you're quite crafty?

You even managed to hide it in that situation?

My father said

that besides the receiver,

no one else can have the letter.

I didn't know what to do,

so I hid it when I went to the restroom.

I figured

that worst comes to worst,

I can at least tell the receiver in person.

Who is the receiver?

Do you remember what it said?

The letter is for the Changming Sword Immortal.

The letter mostly said

that the Five Lakes brothers, Gao, Zhao, Lu, Zhang, and Shen

were all friends with Mr. Rong Xuan.

Mr. Rong became evil

because of a mistake the five of them made.

Once, the six of them had a sword battle after arguing over

the Combined Six Cultivation Method.

Mr. Rong won the battle, but was heavily poisoned

and went crazy.

Someone had put poison on the sword.

And then?

Mr. Rong became possessed and went crazy.

The five of them should have been responsible,

but no one stood up for Mr. Rong

when he was attacked by other martial artists.

My father was going to go to Mount Qingya and fight to the death with Mr. Rong,

but his master broke his legs

and locked him up

until it was too late.

He could only regret living.

Who was the one that put poison on his sword?

I don't know.

But the sword belonged to Mr. Gao.

MEMORIAL TABLET OF ZHANG YUSEN

MEMORIAL TABLETS OF ZHEN RUYU AND HIS WIFE

Yusen, I'm sorry.

I lost your son.

I waited for 20 years

to uncover the truth,

but I only heard

about death after death.

MEMORIAL TABLETS OF RONG XUAN AND HIS WIFE

All of my close friends have passed away one by one.

Chief of the Five Lakes Alliance, Supreme Chief of the Martial Arts World?

Those are just titles!

I explained to them,

but who truly understands

what I'm thinking?

It's fine if they don't believe me,

but why didn't you believe me?

MEMORIAL TABLET OF ZHANG YUSEN

Our descendants are as old

as we were when we first met.

I'm old now,

but you are all dead.

My brother Rong Xuan.

My biggest regret in life

is meeting you!

MEMORIAL TABLET OF RONG XUAN

Yusen.

MEMORIAL TABLET OF LU TAICHONG

Taichong.

You must've met again

in the netherworld by now.

You're scolding me now, right?

Go ahead

and scold me then.

Zhou Xu.

Let me have some wine.

Give it to him.

Master.

Mr. Wen.

Did both of you argue?

Don't be mad anymore.

There's nothing that friends can't resolve.

Mr. Wen, hurry up and comfort my master.

He looks cold on the surface,

but his heart is softer than others.

He'll be fine after you comfort him.

Didn't you teach me,

-"Tough women can't resist clingy men"? -Shut up.

What nonsense did you teach him?

Who's softhearted?

You brat. You are speaking nonsense.

Master, I know.

You are the most softhearted.

Tell me. How did Mr. Wen upset you?

I'll apologize on his behalf. Don't be mad at each other anymore.

All right.

Yueyang Sect is heavily guarded.

How did the Four Assassins kidnap you?

I…

I received a letter telling me

to go for a chat at the lotus pond at midnight.

Gu Xiang helped me avoid the guards along the way.

Master.

The letter was signed with "Xu," so I believed it.

Was it not from you?

Of course not.

The world is dangerous right now.

The Yueyang Sect is the safest place for you to stay.

Is your internal injury acting up again?

Internal injury? What injury?

Master, what's wrong?

Right.

If it wasn't for this internal injury, how would I get a chance

to help a master like Zhou Xu?

Chengling.

Did you know that when I first saw your master,

I could tell he had transformed his appearance

by his exceptional build?

There must be a world-class master

under the mask of a sick man.

Stop boasting.

How am I boasting?

My skill at recognizing people by their build

is truly amazing.

Mr. Wen, you're so cool.

I never knew that Master transformed his appearance.

In my entire life,

I've never made a mistake.

Many years ago,

I saw a dead body.

The hair was a mess

and the face was covered in blood.

A long spear was stuck from the front of its chest to its back.

By looking

at the shoulder blades in detail,

I realized that this person was a rare beauty when she was alive.

Guess what happened after?

We should let the past stay in the past.

My condolences.

Wen Kexing,

who are you actually?

Who am I?

I am Philanthropist Wen,

doing kind deeds for good karma, and helping the poor and the weak.

I'm kind and wealthy, with many beauties around

which I shall never reject.

Master.

Please drink some.

Chengling.

Do you sincerely want me to be your master?

Yes, Master.

You and I barely know each other,

but you trust me fully.

I can only repay you with sincerity.

But let me tell you who I really am first,

and then you can decide.

My real name is Zhou Zishu.

I am the current leader of the Four Seasons Manor,

and also the last.

The previous leader, Qin Huaizhang,

was my beloved master.

Our clan used to be well-known

for our flowers that blossomed in all seasons

and knowing everything in the world.

But now, there are not many left in the martial arts world

that know about Four Seasons Manor.

It's all because of my one mistake

and helplessness.

When I was 16,

my master suddenly passed away.

I couldn't save the reputation of the Four Seasons Manor,

so I took the skilled disciples of our clan

to follow Jin's Military Governor,

whom the Zhou family had served for generations

and founded the Window of Heaven.

I didn't expect

that all of the fellow disciples from the Manor

would become slaves to power.

All 81 previous followers of the Manor

slowly died one by one,

until I was the only one left.

So "Chief Zhou" refers to the leader of the Window of Heaven?

Yes.

This is why the Scorpion Sect knows me

and how I know where their base is.

Master.

Scorpion Sect?

What's the Scorpion Sect?

It's an assassin organization.

They are rooted in Jiangnan

and are highly secretive.

The Four Assassins that kidnapped you

are one of Scorpion Sect's trump cards.

But they have much more power than that.

Previously, the Window of Heaven wanted to spread our presence to Jiangnan

and had a few conflicts with them.

The Scorpion Sect's power in Jiangnan is no less

than the Window of Heaven's power in the Northwest.

So is your Window of Heaven also an assassin organization?

It's not my Window of Heaven anymore.

Right now,

I am just a normal person.

I spent half of my life alone,

doing things against my will

and killing people I didn't want to.

I wanted to wander the world until I die,

but it seems like the heavens have other plans

for my destiny.

Now that you know who I am,

do you still want me as your master?

I do. Of course I do!

Master, regardless of whether or not you accept me,

I've thought of you as my master since long ago.

Little idiot.

Since you have decided, hurry up and finish the formalities.

Kowtow. Hurry up.

Master, please accept my bow.

All right.

Now that you are in the clan,

you are the first disciple of the sixth generation.

With a superb disciple like you,

the Manor's heritage will live on.

I…

I am very happy.

Thank you, Master.

Master, I'm very happy too.

I'm extremely happy.