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♫ Gazing homewards, my tears fall and I break up inside ♫

♫ Dust seals the past and carves past wounds in my memory ♫

♫ The sky darkens and the night is endless, searching for a ray of light ♫

♫ I craft a medallion to shine a light on the way ahead ♫

♫ Flying against the wind, my ruthlessness grows wild ♫

♫ I will protect my beliefs ♫

♫ Listen as the past fades like smoke ♫

♫ Past wrongs have not been resolved ♫

♫ Once my sword leaves its scabbard, the earth will move and the mountains will shake ♫

♫ The flame of rage burns, the spirit roars ♫

♫ I will return to glory and rise above the clouds ♫

[Sword Dynasty]

From this day on, you are a disciple of White Goat Cave.

[Sword Dynasty]

[Episode 4]

Say, do you think this will really work?

This test is different from the rest.

But...

[Nangong Caishu, Green Vine Sword School]

This...

[Sun Xing, White Goat Cave]

I know this youth is a little extraordinary.

But I didn't know that he was so extraordinary.

This person has cultivated?

[Xue Wangxu, Cave Master of White Goat Cave]

- I spent several hours with him.

If even I did not detect any abnormality about his body,

then he must be a Grandmaster, just like Fourth Master Zhao and Bai Shanshui.

But there is indeed something very wrong about his body.

What problem?

Irreversible Fiery Yang.

His five energies are too strong.

Then, arrange for Jiang Li and Sun Xing

to practice cultivation with him using the Spirit Vein.

Senior Brother, are you not afraid that

we are paying too high a price which might all go to waste?

For someone with such competency, even if he suffers the Irreversible Fiery Yang,

it is not impossible to be healed in the future.

It is far better than having the Spirit Vein fall into the hands of the empress.

That's right.

This child is unlucky.

It is also fate that led him to meet us at this time.

If we could provide for him, we should be more generous.

It is ultimately better than making things too easy for that woman.

Fellow senior brothers and sisters,

can you bring me now to meet and pay my respect to the teachers?

Little Junior Brother, please.

Why are you all still hanging around here?

Junior Uncle.

Jiang Li, have you forgotten the matter which Cave Master entrusted to you? [Li Daoji, White Goat Cave]

I've overlooked it.

I have really overlooked it.

Today, I've been instructed to bring all of you

to study in the Scriptures Cave of White Goat Cave.

We have received His Majesty's decree.

White Goat Cave has been placed under the command of Green Vine Sword School.

So from today onwards, the disciples of Green Vine Sword School

has the right to study in the Scripture Cave of White Goat Cave.

Cave Master has instructed that

Ding Ning, like the rest of you, can enter the Scripture Cave

to choose classics to research and is not given any limitations.

Why?

The Scripture Cave holds all the mental cultivation methods and mnemonic chants of White Goat Cave.

Even a regular disciple of this sect must train for at least half a year

before he is given the opportunity to enter the cave to study. But—

This is a special case that is handled in a special way.

Yes, Junior Uncle.

Junior Brother Ding Ning, this way, please.

Please.

This way.

Food and drinks are strictly not allowed inside the Scripture Cave.

When it is mealtime, someone will deliver lunch boxes and place them outside the cave.

As Teacher instructed, every batch of disciples from Green Vine Sword School is given a day limit to enter the cave to research and study each time.

But as for you, Junior Brother Ding Ning,

you have unlimited time.

- Senior Brother, I— - In addition,

the area ahead where the ropeways are

will require special permission before we can go in there.

First Senior Brother!

Junior Brother, speak.

Since I am a special case that is handled in a special way,

then I would like to return to Wutong Falls Tavern every now and then.

This is because my young aunt is the only person there now, and it is a little cold and cheerless.

I can help out if I go back.

If it were someone else, then he definitely couldn't go back.

Junior Brother, it's just that

I might still have to find someone to ask Teacher or Junior Uncle about it before any decision can be made.

Come, this way, please.

[Scripture Cave]

- Junior Uncle. - Junior Uncle!

You all are allowed to choose any ancient book or record inside this Scripture Cave

to study and research.

As for your cultivation from now on

and your dwelling, Cave Master will observe your performance in these coming days

and make the necessary adjustment and arrangements.

- Yes. - Yes!

Go.

Let's go.

- Not bad. - Right.

Then, Junior Uncle,

may I return to Wutong Falls

after I have practiced cultivation each day?

Only you...

Cave Master has said that only you will be treated special because you are a special case.

But we still need to observe the realm of your cultivation.

We want to see if you indeed have this qualification.

Junior Uncle, do you mean that

if I can cultivate sufficiently and quickly, I'll be allowed to return to Wutong Falls?

Thank you, Junior Uncle!

Little Junior Brother.

Senior Brother.

Did I not tell you just now that

I would have to ask Teacher about it first before we discuss further?

But it is all right.

You have already mentioned it to Junior Uncle yourself.

Oh right, Junior Brother.

This Scripture Cave contains many books on core energy art and technique.

Many of these profound arts are very powerful and unique.

But at the root of all these, you still need to assess whether they are suited to you individually.

Therefore, Little Junior Brother, you must be cautious and consider everything carefully.

Thank you, Senior Brother, for pointing this out to me.

You're welcome.

Please.

Who exactly is this fellow Ding Ning?

How is it possible that he is allowed to challenge the rules of White Goat Cave time and again?

At the start, when you did the Flowing Stone Disk Test,

you got one beat wrong out of the five.

Was it intentional?

I just didn't want to waste too much time.

So from the start, you already knew you would pass?

Also, Cave Master Xue even made such an exception for you.

He let you enter the Scripture Cave to choose classic scrolls without any constraint.

Are you perhaps Cave Master Xue's illegitimate son?

Young Mistress Nangong,

aren't your thought association skills too creative?

Someone like you

is very suited to enter the Bureau of Heavenly Supervision to investigate cases.

So you really only depended on natural talent?

But with your talent,

you could enter an even better sect.

She may not be the only with such doubts.

I must eliminate all these doubts.

Cultivation is not for anyone.

At first, I wasn't sure

that I had the quality to become a cultivator,

because my body has a big problem.

Until one day, Wang Taixu told me

that if I could enter Min Mountain Sword Sect,

I can cultivate the kind of method that will solve the problem in my body.

What problem does your body have?

My body will exhaust early due to an overly high level of the five energies.

If there isn't any special encounter, once I start cultivation,

I will die quickly.

Die?

How fast?

Maybe, possibly,

I won't live past thirty.

You're still so young,

Then, Cave Master Xue...

I already told you. I'm not Cave Master Xue's illegitimate son.

He gave me an exception

probably because he feels that

there isn't any use regardless of how I cultivate.

There's another possibility.

Maybe he wants to examine my judgment,

because cultivation is something very personal.

Perhaps, I can find a cultivation method that suits me

and live a few more years.

Some people cultivate to obtain more vanities.

Others cultivate

because cultivation is their life.

What cultivation method will Ding Ning eventually choose?

Masqueraded as an ordinary cultivation book,

how did this "Chopping Three Corpses Anatta Lifesource Primordial Energy Sutra"

end up in this cave?

But this cultivation method is very powerful.

It should be fast to cultivate it.

I'm also sure that

there isn't a more powerful method in this entire Scripture Cave.

Wildfire Sword Sutra?

So after looking around, you ended up choosing these two classic scriptures?

Are you really choosing just these two scrolls?

That's right.

How much do you really understand about cultivation?

Any problem?

Any problem?

You really do not know what kind of scrolls these are.

Do you know that "Explaining the Way to Spiritual Source"

is only a rudimentary method of core energy cultivation.

It has nothing very special.

Also, this method came from the Lie Kingdom.

As a Heng person who cultivates this method,

not only will you not obtain any beneficial advantages,

you will also lead many elites to dislike you.

As for this Wildfire Sword Sutra, its power isn't very strong

but the sword chant is particularly complicated. Not only are the sword stances difficult to learn,

the coordination of the primary energy and core energy are also complicated.

We also have this sword art at Green Vine Sword School,

but none of my senior brothers and sisters

would ever choose this style of sword technique to study.

You mean the cultivation method that I chose

and this sword style, when coordinated together,

will have poor outcomes?

Not poor outcomes,

but the worst kind of outcomes.

Since you're different from us,

you have no time limits to study here,

why don't you spend more time to take a good look at the content of the books?

You should know that not every White Goat Cave's disciple

has the opportunity to enter the Scripture Cave to choose classic scrolls from the beginning.

Your starting point is higher than theirs. Why don't you cherish it?

But on what scroll I choose,

what does it have to do with you?

It's true that it doesn't involve me.

I followed you to see which scrolls you'd choose out of curiosity.

I was angry this afternoon because I wanted to see a fantastic show,

but I ended up seeing a substandard performance. I am very disappointed.

How I should cultivate

is something that is very clear in my mind.

I also know that you have good intentions toward me.

However, different scrolls have different uses and effects for different people.

I'm very certain

that these two are very suitable.

- You're certain? - I'm certain.

You should hurry and find what you need.

Don't waste your precious time on me.

That youngster has selected a cultivation scroll and sword art book.

What did he pick?

"Explaining the Way to Spiritual Source" and "Wildfire Sword Sutra."

Totally incompatible.

I agree.

[Scripture Cave]

- Awesome! - He has reached Profound Connection Realm.

This is so awesome!

This is Vipassana meditation (insight),

sensing the five energies and opening the Ocean of Pneuma (qihai acupoint).

Senior Brother!

Senior Brother, Ding Ning has opened his Ocean of Pneuma!

He has entered the advanced stage of the first realm of Profound Connection.

Half a day to Profound Connection?

What an oddity.

Excuse me!

How did he do it?

So awesome!

Little Junior Brother, you have really opened up your Ocean of Pneuma!

This is impossible. Profound Connection Realm in half a day.

According to legend, from the first year of Yuanwu up to now,

only those two strange fellows, An Baoshi of Spirit Void Sword Sect and Jing Liuli of Min Mountain Sword Sect, had done it before.

Even sword fanatic, Fang Xiumu, spent more than ten days before he entered the Profound Connection Realm.

The fastest person among us used up an entire seven months!

From selecting the scripture, to beginning comprehending them,

and to opening up your Ocean of Pneuma, Little Junior Brother, you only spent half a day.

It's already been half a day?

How did he do it so quickly?

I must return to Wutong Falls.

Little Junior Brother!

If you are really in the Profound Connection Realm and have opened up your Ocean of Pneuma,

do you know how long regular cultivators have to spend to reach that?

My lifespan is shorter than that of an ordinary person in the first place.

So, I must be faster.

That is why you chose a core energy cultivation technique like the "Explaining the Way to Spiritual Source,"

because this cultivation technique is the easiest for you to understand.

It can allow you to progress to higher cultivation realms faster.

You are indeed the same as those people from the Min Mountain Sword Sect and Spirit Void Sword Sect.

You are a real freak!

Sorry, I'm a bit hungry.

I'm going to go eat outside first.

I shouldn't have doubted you from the start.

Sorry.

Have you encountered certain problems during your cultivation?

Do you want to help me?

Everybody's cultivation is different.

I can only offer you my perspective.

Who knows if it will help you?

I have problems with my ability to perceive and understand.

Are you having problems with perceiving and understanding the vitality of Heaven and Earth?

You absolutely can't feel the presence of Heaven and Earth's vitality,

or you can't feel the difference between the vitality of Heaven and that of Earth? It's all in a chaotic mess?

I can feel the presence of the vitality of Heaven and Earth.

I can also feel the difference between each stream of vital energy.

But in my awareness,

I feel as if every stream of vital energy

is resisting me greatly.

I feel that all of these streams of vital energy are not close to me at all.

Recorded in these two notebooks are some unique viewpoints.

Look through them carefully, they may help you.

- Thank you— - No need.

Junior Uncle!

Come with me.

I haven't eaten yet.

There are things more important than eating.

What is this about, Junior Uncle?

This is the place where you will practice your cultivation in the future.

You don't have to be like other students, taking classes every day.

Should you encounter any doubts or questions during your cultivation,

you can come directly to look for me or Jiang Li.

Junior Uncle.

Let's go in before talking.

This is the legendary Spirit Vein.

The spiritual energy that flows out from the Spirit Vein

can accompany the breath of the cultivator and enter into his body.

It is greatly beneficial, and can also greatly increase the progress of the cultivation.

This is the Spirit Vein?

But the Spirit Vein is different from the one in the legend.

Why is it so small?

Junior Uncle?

The reason why White Goat Cave was merged with Green Vine Sword School

is because we had offended the empress.

How was she offended?

The empress had wanted to use our Spirit Vein

to plant a Spiritual Lotus.

Using it to concoct a medicinal pill which can help breakthrough the next realm.

It's just that Cave Master was unwilling to grant her request.

The reason is that this type of Spiritual Lotus will absorb a vast amount of spiritual energy from the Spirit Vein,

resulting in the Spirit Vein to eventually dry up.

So, when he became aware of her intention,

Teacher separated the Spirit Vein into three small parts.

This is a self-destructive act. That way, each individual part of the Spirit Vein

will be unable to sustain the growth of the Spiritual Lotus.

You're correct. But I must tell you,

we, the disciples of White Goat Cave, will only do things which we consider as right and just.

Although this Spirit Vein is small, at least it can

still be used by our disciples.

Junior Uncle, I want to go home.

I know your cultivation is progressing very quickly.

But do you really think that being in a place like Wutong Falls

is better than sitting on the Spirit Vein to practice your cultivation?

I do understand, but I can practice my cultivation here during the day.

I can sleep better at night only if I am back home.

Junior Uncle! Junior Uncle!

You did not object, which means you have tacitly consented!

The master of these two essays had adopted a very humble attitude in their treatment of the vital energy of Heaven and Earth.

The vital energy of Heaven and Earth, the boundless clouds and rain, reaching to as high as the ninth sphere of Heaven,

falling continuously to the ground, gathering to form rivers, and finally flowing through this place.

The shallow pool of water in a pond

is not drawn from the well,

but is bestowed by Heaven and Earth.

I can now actually accommodate the vital energy of Heaven and Earth!

How did Ding Ning know that those two books could help me break through the Energy Core Realm?

What kind of person is he really?

[Green Vine Sword School]

[Di Qingmei, headmaster of Green Vine Sword School]

Now that White Goat Cave is under our Green Vine Sword School,

it's within our rights that our disciples enter their Scripture Cave to read and study.

That old fox Xue Wangxu actually said that since both sects are combined into one, their disciples

should also participate in our Sword Trial Festival.

The reason why Xue Wangxi raised this request

must be because he is eyeing the reward for the Sword Trial Festival,

the green suet jade. Master, will you agree to his request?

Of course, I will. If I don't,

how could I covet his Spirit Vein?

Spirit Vein?

Go to Xue Wangxu with my reply.

Tell him that I've agreed to his request.

But... the three streams of Spirit Vein at White Goat Cove

should also be shared by both Green Vine and White Goat.

Only the qualified ones can use them. When the time comes,

use it as a reward for the Sword Trial Festival,

to be given to the winner of the trial.

In the present White Goat Cave, only Jiang Li and Sun Xing are not to be belittled.

Whether by age or entrance time to the sect,

they meet the qualification for the Sword Trial Festival.

Since we are concerned that our own disciples cannot handle them,

let's think of a way to turn them into our people.

I understand..

First Senior Brother, I have no objection about you being qualified to enter the White Goat Hut to cultivate.

But Ding Ning has entered our sect for only one day.

We have no idea what his temperament and character are like at all.

That's true.

Are we not acting too carelessly this way?

Teacher has already decided about this matter.

Junior Brother, Teacher has placed you in the midst of three people.

That means you have already gained the qualification to practice cultivation in the Spirit Vein.

Why still mind the other people who were chosen?

- Senior Brother is right. - After all, you could only practice cultivation through one Spirit Vein.

Right?

This is not a question of using how many Spirit Veins to practice cultivation.

You should know that using a Spirit Vein to cultivate

is the highest form of reward of our White Goat Cave.

If it is so casually bestowed to a disciple who had only just entered the sect,

if he should harbor evil intentions in his heart in the future and chose to be a traitor,

would it not cause all of us to be bitterly disappointed?

Second Senior Brother is right.

It is meaningless at this point to discuss who should be bestowed the Spirit Vein.

- Junior Uncle. - Junior Uncle.

Headmaster Di of the Green Vine Sword School has already made the following decision.

Disciples of White Goat Cave

are also allowed to participate in the Sword Trial Festival.

The winner will be bestowed the green suet jade.

But in the same way, the three Spirit Veins of the White Goat Cave

will also be the reward for the final winner.

Cave Master has already decided on this.

If any one of you still harbors any resentment in your heart,

or perhaps... do not wish White Goat Cave to suffer any loss,

then using the sword in your hand,

take them back!

Enough. Everyone stop arguing.

Let's not waste any more time and go back cultivating.

The weather is dry and things are parched! Be careful with flames and candles!

The weather is dry and things are parched! Be careful with flames and candles!

Young Aunt, I'm back!

Why are you back?

Because I missed you.

White Goat Cave is such a big sect.

Do you not have enough to eat there?

I came back specifically to see you. I didn't even eat on the way here.

This is the first day you entered the sect. How could they have allowed you to come back?

I already solved it.

The Cave Master of White Goat Cave has agreed to let me come back anytime I wish to.

Look at you.

Junior Uncle, are... you joking?

You had told me only yesterday that I could use that Spirit Vein to cultivate.

It's only been one night,

and now, you are telling me this Spirit Vein belongs to the winner of the Sword Trial Festival.

Didn't things change too fast?

There is still at least a period of time before the Sword Trial Festival.

This Spirit Vein still belongs to you.

If you dislike the fact that the change has occurred too fast,

you should have listened to me yesterday

and make good use of all the time you had to use the Spirit Vein to cultivate,

instead of wasting your precious time on your way back and forth!

Actually, I did not idle along my way back and forth.

I did study the Wildfire Sword Sutra.

In such little time,

you could understand the contents of the Wildfire Sword Sutra?

That's right.

Okay. If so,

then show me.

Okay.

It looks like

I have no choice but to acknowledge your cultivation method.

But starting today,

if you want to leave this place,

I will provide an even faster horse carriage.

Thank you, Junior Uncle!

There is hope at last for my White Goat Cave.

Ding Ning, you are so extraordinarily gifted and have worked so hard.

I have decided to gift you the Last Flower Remnant Sword that belongs to the close friend of that person.

This sword is very compatible with you.

I hope you will practice with much diligence in the future

and become the pride of White Goat Cave soon.

A sword works the same way as the cultivation methods.

The most important thing is that it should be suited to you.

Since you are already studying the Wildfire Sword Sutra, then

you will need this sword.

Of course, if you find it unsuitable,

you don't have to use it.

Thank you, Junior Uncle.

Cave Master is the person who gifted this sword to you.

If you want to thank someone, thank him.

This sword is named "Last Flower."

Every time it is wielded, it will appear that it is the last time the sword will be used.

Each time it is wielded, it seems its final end of the road has come.

Every foil made by the sword is like a flower that will not live to see the next day.

It is really so similar to who I am now.

We like to learn how to wield a sword.

I have lived for ten years on the ice-cold lake.

One day, I beheaded the scaly dragon.

The blue water turned red for three months.

A sword was forged when I perfected my skill,

but a thousand carriages were hard to stop.

I escaped and changed my name.

And feasted on the wind and dew of the mountains. [Bai Shanshui, Seventh Realm: Cloud Water Palace of Qian Kingdom]

- You are here. - Someone wants to purchase that secret of yours. [First Miss, Shang family]

Please name a price.

All right. I know the rules of this fish market.

But this time, I'll have to make an exception.

I need to know who the buyer is.

Fourth Master Zhao.

Lie Kingdom has been destroyed for ten years.

With just these few remnant swords,

what kind of storm is she even thinking of stirring up?

You don't mind this anyway, so why not give her what she wants?

After all, according to legends, hidden in the Lone Mountain Sword Trove

is a mythical army capable of destroying a kingdom.

Even the Heng king is searching for it.

Do you know that if this news spreads,

how many kingdoms would be wiped out because of this?

I am just a middle-man trying to broker a business deal.

I do not wish to question the matters of the martial arts universe.

You can take your time deciding.

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♫ The wind silently looks back ♫

♫The hero's sword enters the throat ♫

♫ Viewing the world with arrogance ♫

♫ Striding across the seasons ♫

♫ A cup of hero's wine ♫

♫ One cycle of reincarnation ♫

♫ With no debts or regrets ♫

♫ Old friends hardly return ♫

♫ Looking back at the martial world ♫

♫ My hair has turned white ♫

♫ I don't demand a chance to start over ♫

♫ One song, two tracks of tears ♫

♫ Dancing my sword while raising a cup of leftover wine ♫

♫ The past has turned to ash ♫

♫ A hero's destiny is hard to defy ♫

♫ I've traveled through spring and autumn ♫

♫ A smitten heart flows to the east ♫

♫ Love, hate, dust, and dirt ♫

♫ Laughingly talking about joys and sorrows ♫