Seven Swords
Episode 3 Seven Swords
This swordsman must have been a soldier once.
He is very familiar with military tactics.
He always has an escape route and a back up plan!
He will not be easy to defeat!
Your Highness is right. That is the truth!
Has their granary been blown up?
Yes!
Without food,
they cannot hold out for long!
Zhang Chengbin!
Your Highness!
You stay here!
Help General Nalan!
And bring that swordsman back to me!
Then send two platoons of soldiers back to help him.
Yes, sir!
This swordsman comes and goes mysteriously and he is very cunning.
It would be difficult to catch him by force.
You have to outsmart him, understand?
I understand!
It's on fire!
Your Highness!
I didn't catch the rebel!
Please punish me!
This swordsman doesn't look like someone who would shy away from danger.
Your Highness!
That's our granary!
General Nalan!
Don't you think that the martial arts used by this swordsman is very peculiar?
A blunt sword...
can defeat over a thousand soldiers.
If I have guessed correctly,
this person must be Swordsman Fu Qingzhu from the previous dynasty.
Fu Qingzhu, the executioner of the secret police?
Killer of millions of people in his lifetime.
Has suddenly stopped killing people.
But in the previous dynasty,
the people of the martial world that he killed...
way surpasses the number of people that you killed on the battlefield.
He has a lot of enemies in the martial world.
Why has he suddenly appeared in the Martial Village?
Why did he help these villagers?
His thoughts are difficult to figure out.
No matter how determined he is,
he will never beat the Qing horsemen.
Your Highness!
Please let me continue to kill these rebellious villagers.
I'll chop Fu's head off and bring it back to you.
General Nalan, you are really courageous!
But if you want to kill Fu,
we still need to plan for it.
I'll follow your advice.
I, Chengbin am willing to help with the Longqi battalion.
Your Highness!
Here's an imperial edict for Prince Yu!
The emperor orders...
Prince Yu, General Nalan!
Come back to the palace at once!
Yes!
Prince Yu, take the order!
Thank you, Your Highness!
Prince! What...
Go back to the palace!
Your Highness!
Tell your soldiers to guard all routes.
No one can be let out!
Wait for me to come back! I'll take them down!
Yes!
Master! We have the information that...
the soldiers have retreated...
to the periphery of the village.
Master, we should take this chance...
to fight back to the village and kill them all.
These soldiers are too crafty.
This time they might be pretending to retreat.
Perhaps they want to lure us back.
And then they will attack us again.
We have to be careful.
Zhang is right about this.
We have to be careful...
and wait for our chances.
And then we can fight back at them.
We should gather all our brothers here,
and then go south.
Then we can unite with the other sub-societies and plan for the future.
Master! Someone is coming! Be careful!
Master! It's Yuanyin and Zhibang!
Master! Master!
Master! What is this?
Master!
Zhibang is guilty!
I did not hold on to my position.
I did not watch the food closely.
It's all right. It's all right. It's good that you're back.
Get up!
Zhibang! Yuanyin! Get up quickly.
All the brothers are missing you.
Come! Sit down here!
Master, it was Missy that saved the seeds.
Master! This horse is very clever.
It came out only when...
it heard the voice of Zhibang!
Master went back to the village...
but he couldn't find the two of you.
He was worried about you.
We were caught by the soldiers.
However,
we were saved by an old swordsman.
This old swordsman is really powerful.
When he fought,
he defeated all the soldiers and their horses.
And, the prince of the Manchurians...
was also frightened of him.
If this swordsman is willing to help us,
then the Red Spear Society might still survive.
Where are Yufang and the kids?
Right!
They are not back yet.
I'll go to find them.
Stop there!
If you run around like this,
then we'll be exposed.
Don't talk anymore.
Wait for a while and then we'll look for them. Come on!
Xiaosan! I'm sorry! It was my fault.
I couldn't even protect the children.
It was my fault. I'm useless.
This sword alone cannot protect us,
we still need you to wield it.
Have you seen Swordsman Fu?
I have been watching constantly. I've seen no one.
Have you brought the books?
All of them.
It was because of your broken doll.
It's your fault. It's your fault.
Let's go. We don't want you.
We don't want you. We don't want you.
What going on? What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Xiaopi! It's you again!
You must be hungry!
Hwazhao, share this with everybody!
Go!
Xiaopi, come here!
Xiaopi, this is for you!
I'm not hungry!
Someone is coming! Go quickly! Go!
Swordsman!
Swordsman! Swordsman!
I have borrowed some food from the soldiers!
Let the children fill their stomachs!
Are any of you hurt?
No!
Swordsman! You've been hit by a poisonous arrow!
It's not serious! I'm all right!
Come down! I'll help you to apply some remedy.
All right.
Swordsman! It's done.
Thank you.
How come the people in your village...
like to call me swordsman so much?
Call me Senior, Miss Liu!
Senior!
How did you know who I am?
Your Dad must be Liu Jingyi,
the leader of the sub-society of Red Spear Society!
How did you steal the food...
from the Qing soldiers!
I didn't steal it.
I took it by force.
Don't you believe me?
Senior! If not for you,
the children of my village...
would not be alive today.
Miss Liu, you have kept your promise...
and brought all the children out of the village.
You have done well!
How can I say something bad?
Get up quickly!
This is what my Dad told me to do!
I have to finish it.
Good! But it's dangerous here!
Go and eat with the children now.
We have to hurry.
Thank you, Senior!
Go on!
Yufang and the children are not back yet!
Do you think they're in trouble?
Hey!
How come you don't seem concerned?
Don't you care about them anymore?
Stop chattering. They'll be all right.
They must be all right.
Catch him! Catch him!
Gather together! Gather together!
Go on!
Catch him quickly!
Zhibang!
Yufang!
Yufang! Are you all right?
I'm all right. How about you?
I'm all right.
Zhibang!
Have you seen a cloaked man riding a horse?
I've seen him.
Our master is trying to catch him.
Damn it.
Dad! - Master!
Master!
Tell me! Who are you? What do you want?
Tell me! Kill him!
Dad! Don't misunderstood Senior Fu!
He is the one that saved our village!
That's right, master!
He also saved the lives...
of Yuanyin and I.
And he gave us some food.
Right!
Master!
My name is Liu Jingyi!
the leader of the sub-society of Red Spear Society in Shanxi!
I will never forget what you have done for us!
Get up quickly!
Master Liu! Don't mention it.
Master Liu!
Where do you plan to go now?
I'm planning to go south to find shelter.
Everywhere is guarded by the soldiers now.
It would be very easy to fall into their traps now.
In my opinion,
we should go in the direction...
of the capital city. That would be safer.
What? Go to the capital city?
Go to where the emperor is?
Are you trying to put us in a perilous position?
About 300 miles outside the capital city,
there's a place called Boye!
The place is isolated and people there are poor.
And they are suffering from dysentery now.
The soldiers will not guard that place as carefully.
I think you should separate your people...
into three groups and go there.
The first group can pretend to be doctors.
These prescriptions are good for curing dysentery.
You can take these prescriptions...
and go to help the villagers there.
The second and third group of people can pretend to be sufferers.
You can go there and ask for help.
The soldiers would be afraid to examine you.
That's why it would be easy. What do you think, Master Liu?
You are right.
However, taking shelter in Boye...
is not a long-term solution.
You can go to Boye...
and settle down for now.
I will bring the swordsmen from Mount Heaven to come and help you very soon.
Then you can leave Boye and go south!
That is your best option.
Thank you Swordsman.
May I ask your name?
I am nobody. It's not important.
You are the saviour of our village!
All the people of this village will never forget your kindness to us.
You must tell me...
My name is Fu Qingzhu!
Your name is...
Fu Qingzhu?
The executioner of the previous dynasty!
The second highest level of government official... Fu Qingzhu?
That's me!
You monster!
You killed so many of our martial brothers!
You are going to die...
under my sword today!
Dad!
Fu Qingzhu is the person
that killed over 300 people in the martial world during one day.
Yufang! Don't believe in that monster!
Kill him!
Don't kill Senior Fu!
Step aside! All of you step aside!
He is a monster! Don't believe him.
Stop it!
Fu Qingzhu!
You were an enemy of the whole martial world in the previous dynasty,
why have you come to help our village today?
I was blinded by my official career.
I killed so many people. Then I saw what I had become.
I decided to shut myself away and repent my sins.
I didn't want to come out again.
I had never thought that by changing dynasty...
another massacre would begin.
I have no choice.
I just want to use my own life...
to save those that I can,
hoping that this could be my atonement.
Don't talk about the past anymore.
Today, you are the saviour of our village. We are indebted to you.
But your hands are soaked with the blood of our martial brothers.
You and I have different paths to take.
Go away! Please!
Children! Don't cry!
Here is some food for you.
Senior!
Yufang!
Senior!
Don't go, Swordsman Fu!
Senior Fu! - Senior!
Senior! I'm sorry!
Children, they are right.
I was an executioner in the previous dynasty.
I was young and ruthless then. I killed a lot of people.
I want to repent.
But no one is willing to believe me.
Senior!
I don't care what you did in the past!
I only know that...
a person who is willing to save other people must be a good person.
Senior Fu! Don't go yet!
I'll go back and talk to my master now.
Right! If my master doesn't believe me,
we will vouch for you with our lives.
It's good that you believe in me. That is enough for me.
But we cannot become emotional right now.
You should go back and try to convince your master.
Convince him to go to Boye and settle down.
I'll bring the swordsmen from Mount Heaven to help you...
as soon as possible.
Are the swordsmen from Mount Heaven really so powerful?
The Swordsmen from Mount Heaven are unbeatable!
Go back now! Go!
Yufang! Where are you going?
I'm going to tell Dad that I want to go to Mount Heaven.
Master!
We are short of food now.
And most of our men are injured.
Our enemies are very near.
I don't think it's good for us to stay here any longer.
But to go south...
is also very dangerous.
Senior Fu.
It's really Senior Fu.
We have caught up with Senior Fu.
Senior Fu! - Senior Fu!
Senior Fu! How are your injuries?
The poison has come out. Don't worry.
Senior Fu.
You are going to find saviours for us.
Let us go with you!
The mountain is very far away.
Are you really prepared for it?
Yes, I have already made a promise with Yufang.
If I go to Mount Heaven, Yufang will come too.
And we are already engaged.
So I have to keep my promise.
Miss Liu, please return.
I can take care of these two children.
Yufang, wait for me to come back.
Cut it short.
You can marry her when you return.
Let's go.
I am alone and helpless.
I cannot stop this massacre on my own.
That's why I came to Mount Heaven.
Please allow your four disciples...
to come and help the villagers with me.
Take the sword.
This sword was yours.
It's fixed now.
Zhaonan, take them outside now.
Yes.
Please.
I swear that I won't kill again.
That's why I'm using a blunt sword now.
Master!
The sword represents your heart.
If you can say that,
it means that you are free from your demons.
It doesn't matter how blunt or sharp your sword is.
Thank you for your encouragement.
However,
why do you destroy those swords?
Yes, I isolated myself in the mountains...
because I wanted to enlighten myself with my sword.
But after all these years,
I only came to realize the emptiness.
The heart is empty, the sword is empty.
Empty means empty.
If everything is empty, then why do I have to practice swordsmanship?
Why do I have to hide the swords?
Right!
Life is empty, and death is empty!
To you,
this only exists in a blink of time.
But to those people in the village, who are about to face their own death,
their lives depend on the thoughts of others.
Master, is this empty also?
You survived through the hardships of the desert.
You should know that all the emotions in the world,
all the passions and craziness,
will finally come to...
an emptiness.
I have already...
isolated myself and destroyed the swords.
I don't want my disciples...
to go back to the martial world either.
If all your disciples...
practice swordsmanship up in the mountains their whole life,
and never return to the martial world,
then they would know nothing about temptation.
If they have not encountered temptation, how can they understand emptiness?
The world is huge.
You cannot save everyone on earth.
Take your sword and return.
My disciples have been here for so long.
They wouldn't want to return.
Senior Fu, can we go now?
What is it?
Senior, what should we do?
Wait!
Wait! We can wait!
The Martial Village cannot wait!
I'll go!
Zhibang!
Let me go to see him!
Zhibang!
Zhibang, don't be rude!
Go! Quickly!
Master Shadow-glow! - Go!
Master Shadow-glow!
Monks are very compassionate.
Saving people is the most important thing in the world.
Master!
Please! Please save the Martial Village.
Master!
I am not a very intelligent man!
I was raised in the Martial Village!
They are all my family!
Who would want to witness...
their families being killed?
Master! Please help us!
If you don't agree to help us,
then we will not get up!
Go!
Master! Master!
Sandao! Are there any soldiers following us?
No!
We have escaped from the soldiers!
You're injured!
It's not serious! I'm all right!
Deputy and Laifu!
What have you found out?
Master!
Within 100 miles,
there are a lot of soldiers...
guarding the area.
I'm afraid we cannot go south.
Look!
There is only one route for us now.
We should go to Boye!
No way! It was Fu who suggested that we go to Boye!
Who knows what he was planning!
Deputy!
If Fu had wanted to harm us,
we would all have been killed...
in the Martial Village.
Yes. Yufang is right!
And look at the children!
The children have been following us for days. They must be very tired.
We should let them rest.
Master! You make the decision.
If we cannot go south,
and there is no way we can get past the soldiers,
then maybe we should go to Boye and then figure out what to do.
Sandao! What do you think?
I dare not disobey what my master said.
Then we'll do what Fu said.
We shouldn't delay anymore.
Let's move!
All right! Go!
Where... Where is Senior Fu?
What's taking him so long?
Has he returned to the village already?
Don't speculate.
Senior Fu must have some other plans...
to convince Master Shadow-glow.
Zhi... Zhibang!
I'm afraid... the two of us... will be frozen to death...
before we can convince Master Shadow-glow.
Our determination will convince him.
All the lives of the villagers...
depend on us!
We have to hold on!
We should not give up.
Delicious! A red hot wild rabbit!
This is nice!
Have you lost your mind to coldness?
How can you enjoy your rabbit...
at this critical moment?
We have been kneeling here for one whole day already.
Our bodies are stiff.
If we don't imagine some food,
I'm afraid that I cannot go on.
Does it really work?
Try it out!
Delicious!
Where did you find the wild rabbit?
You can eat these rabbits if you want!
But after eating them, you have to return!
Yuanyin!
If you have integrity, don't eat it.
The storm will be stronger tonight!
If you keep on kneeling here,
I'm afraid that your feet...
will become frost-bitten.
You can come with us to save the villagers.
Or else you can just let us die here.
We will definitely be killed if we go back to the village.
I'm... I'm not... afraid of dying!
If you insist on kneeling, there's nothing I can do about it!
If my master doesn't approve of this,
we will not go anywhere!
As a swordsman, if you have greater ability,
then you'll have greater responsibilities.
As you let us eat the wild rabbits,
it proves that you are not cold-hearted and will save other people's lives.
That's right!
There are things that swordsmen should do!
If you insist on going to the village,
your master might not stop you.
Save us or not,
the choice lies with you.
It's stormy out there.
Can they hold out?
Even we would not be able to hold out in this weather.
What do you say? Should we save them or not?
We tried to persuade them to leave,
but they didn't want to leave.
They deserve to die in the snow storm.
What I mean is...
should we go to the village to save the people?
Our master told us to withdraw from the world...
and practice swordsmanship...
because he wants us to stay away from the world.
However,
Master has always taught us that...
we should be righteous in what we do.
Help the poor and the injured.
We are very well-trained in martial arts,
but we don't use it to help people,
isn't that a waste?
Everything in life is controlled by fate.
We don't have to worry about them!
I'm just worried about those two fools!
If we don't save them,
then after the snow storm,
they would either be dead...
or paralysed!
That's true!
We shouldn't just stand aside!
There are thousands of people...
who are waiting to be saved.
We'll ask our eldest brother...
if we should go to save them or not!
Yufang! You have to hold on!
I will bring the swordsmen from Mount Heaven to save you.
Wait for me!
Have you already saved the two guys and put them in the cave?
Yes.
Fortunately, they were saved in time.
They are all right now.
Why did you save them?
They had been kneeling there for two days.
I couldn't just watch them die.
It's not just them that you want to save,
you also want to save those people down the mountain!
Save them or not...
we'll follow what you say Master.
I will take them back in a while.
Is that what you're really thinking?
Master!
You don't have to answer me!
You have already made your decisions!