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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]
[Episode 1]
[Autumn of the Eleventh Year of the Reign of Yuan Wu] [Eastern Fish Market, Fengming City]
[Ding Ning: Born with the Irreversible Fiery Yang, exposing him to the risk of dying prematurely. Together with Zhangsun Qianxue, they disguised themselves as "Auntie" and "Nephew." Their aim is to seek revenge on the King of Heng.]
[Fish Market]
Boatman, ferry me out of here, please.
All right.
[Song Shenshu, Third Realm: Treasurer of the Library of Classics and Historical Records; traitor of the Ba Mountain Sword Academy; current official of the Heng Kingdom]
Could it be due to the water level that
the route taken today is slightly different from the usual one?
It is different.
But it is not because of the water level.
Song Shenshu, are government officials not banned from entering the fish market?
You know me?
What are you trying to do?
Ten years ago, you were present at the Great Palace Hall, were you not?
I am just a creditor of yours.
I have come to collect from you the old debt from ten years ago.
I will enter the Fourth Realm very soon.
You have overestimated your own capabilities,
and are striking the stone with an egg.
You are scared now?
You know the Nine-Death Silkworm?!
How does it feel betraying your master for glory and power?
If I were to tell you things that are even more important than my life,
would you let me off?
Speak.
Lin Zhujiu... of Ba Mountain Sword Academy is still alive.
What did you say?
He is being imprisoned in a cell in the deepest part of the Great Floating Water Prison.
Heng King wants to get hold of certain secrets of cultivation from him
and has not killed him all this while. Everyone else thinks that he was dead.
Even Minister Li does not know about this secret!
You should be satisfied this time, right?
Very good.
Then, you can go die now!
You have paid the debt you owed that person.
But you owe Ba Mountain Sword Academy so many lives.
You will not be able to repay them all.
I will definitely kill whosoever dares to stop me from taking revenge on the Heng King!
[Ten Years Ago]
[Liang Jingmeng, Seventh Realm: Head of the World's No. 1 Sword Clan, Ba Mountain Sword Academy]
[Yangming City, Lie Kingdom]
[Yuan Wu, Ruler of Heng Kingdom, Seventh Realm: Determined to rule the world and give the common people a peaceful life free from the hardships of wars]
Report! Your Majesty King of Lie, the Heng King has been shot by an arrow and has fallen from his horse!
[King of Lie] Kill the Heng King! Destroy the Heng Kingdom!
Kill!
Ba Mountain Sword Academy is here to provide reinforcement!
[Ye Zhen, Sixth Realm, Ba Mountain Sword Academy: Successor of Xiaozhong Commandery in Heng Kingdom; Fiancée of Liang Jingmeng]
I thought that I would be defeated here in Yangming City today.
While I am alive, you will never be defeated.
Followers of Heng Kingdom will be victorious!
- Long live Great Heng! - Long live Great Heng!
In a time when the Four Kingdoms are impeding one another, battles are fought left and right.
When will the end come?
The Lie Kingdom has been destroyed. In less than ten years,
Ba Mountain will help Great Heng take down the remaining three kingdoms.
It is timely for Your Majesty to make an unprecedented move of [Royal Palace of Great Heng]
building your "Great Heng Empire."
The world in peace. The common people in good health.
This world belongs to you, too.
I just want Ba Mountain Sword Academy...
and Ye Zhen. These are enough for me.
It was really satisfying this time.
That's right. Not only did we save the king,
we even helped Great Heng take down the Kingdom of Lie. [Liang Lian, Ba Mountain Sword Academy] [Song Shenshu, Ba Mountain Sword Academy]
Why do I keep feeling that something is not quite right today? [Lin Zhujiu, Military Advisor of Ba Mountain Sword Academy, Liang Jingmeng's close friend]
The king invites the disciples of Ba Mountain Sword Academy to go into the palace to receive their reward.
- Rewards! - Rewards? Sure. After you.
Let's go!
Come, Brothers!
Let's all drink a toast together to Liang Jingmeng, the head of the Ba Mountain Sword Academy!
Without him in this battle,
Great Heng would most certainly have been defeated by the Kingdom of Lie!
Come, let's drink up!
- Drink up! - Drink up!
- Come! - Brother Jingmeng.
I want to drink a toast to you, too.
Now, everyone in the world knows about Liang Jingmeng.
Without Liang Jingmeng, there would not be a Kingdom of Heng.
Without the Kingdom of Heng, how would there be a king of Heng?
The world was conquered by Liang Jingmeng and his Ba Mountain disciples.
Of course, I must drink this toast to you.
Your Majesty, you must be joking.
Without Your Majesty, how would Great Heng be powerful and formidable?
And how would there be a Liang Jingmeng of Ba Mountain Sword Academy?
I and Jingmeng will drink a toast to you.
Jingmeng.
Long live, My King! Long live Great Heng!
Ye Zhen!
Only if you die can the disciples of Ba Mountain live.
Liang Jingmeng, you have shown great disrespect to His Majesty.
Do you admit to your crime?
There is poison in the wine!
Protect His Majesty!
If you want to kill His Majesty, you'll have to kill me first!
I have said before that
I will never harm you.
But why?
The divine skills of the Nine-Death Silkworm?!
Attack!
Let go.
Quickly let go.
- Head! - Head!
[Hall of Preserving Harmony]
Liang Jingmeng attempted to assassinate His Majesty
and has been executed. Disciples of Ba Mountain,
those who will submit to My King will be promoted to the ranks of nobility.
Those who oppose him will be killed without being pardoned!
Yuan Wu... Ye Zhen...
as well as those who had betrayed the Ba Mountain Sword Academy,
I want all of you to repay this blood debt with your blood!
[Fengming City, the capital of the Kingdom of Heng]
As a top swordsman of your generation, although you have passed away for many years,
your name still remains in the heart of every commoner.
It is just that no one dares to bring it up again. [Wutong Falls]
We could only use that person as a reference for the words, "Liang Jingmeng."
Ten years ago, the entire Gongsun family was exterminated because it was being implicated by you.
I could only change my name to Zhangsun Qianxue and hide in Fengming City.
But what could replace
the yearning and hatred I felt for you?
[Zhangsun Qianxue: Keeper of the Wutong Falls Tavern;
the daughter of the late Marquis Gongsun, and was taught the Nine-Phantom Sword skills by Liang Jingmeng]
This must be the work of that fellow Ding Ning again.
Since the two of us have remained in Fengming City, we must be careful not to do anything to alert our enemy.
The Eleventh Marquis is the greatest stumbling block in our quest to kill the Heng King.
Even though Marquis Dugu has the least cultivation, he is not someone I can defeat at this moment.
We definitely must not act hastily before I reach the Seventh Realm.
We have been waiting for ten whole years.
This old debt of Ba Mountain can't be rushed.
Since you have already planned to take action, your plot must inflict real damage to areas of vital importance.
Marquis Dugu is the person behind the Two-Story Tower.
If he dies, both the royal court and the world of martial arts would surely be shaken.
When that time comes, we can then reap the gains from this pandemonium.
Who were those people who rode past us just now?
Government officials of the Bureau of Heavenly Supervision. I heard that the queen summoned Bureau Chief Ye back today.
Fengming City has enjoyed peace and quiet for ten years. [Marquis Dugu, Sixth Realm: Eleventh Marquis of the Kingdom of Heng; has illustrious military achievements]
Or perhaps, a storm will rise soon.
The king has given a command! Zhao Zhan, the great traitor of the Kingdom of Lie, has been sighted.
He has ordered Ye Celeng, Chief of the Bureau of Heavenly Supervision,
to quickly return to Fengming City to apprehend the criminal.
[Ye Celeng, Seventh Realm: Chief of the Bureau of Heavenly Supervision]
[She is in charge of the major case investigations in Fengming City, and has not been put in any important positions for years because of her status as a Ba Mountain disciple.]
The Bureau of Heavenly Supervision welcomes Chief Ye with respect. [Wei River Dock, outside Fengming City]
The queen understands that Chief Ye has labored to travel this far
and especially sent us to welcome you here.
[Zhao Zhan of Lie Kingdom's Sword Furnace]
[The seventh disciple of Sword Furnace, the top sword sect of the former Lie Kingdom. He hid in Fengming City, planning vengeance for his fallen nation.]
I, Ye Celeng, greet Seventh Master Zhao.
I dare not presume to be called master. [Benevolent Master Zhao Renliang]
I am just a floating leaf of a dead nation.
Please enter and have a seat.
No, thank you.
Then, please wait for a moment.
I also lit one for your master.
Meeting Chief Ye today has cast a sudden light before my eyes.
It seems unsuited to Fengming City.
You dare!
Zhao Zhan, you remnant of the Lie Kingdom! Chief Ye is here in person.
Not only do you not give yourself up, but you dare to speak such words of provocation?
I, Sword Furnace's seventh disciple Zhao Zhan, [Memorial Tablet of Zhao Zhan]
would like to experience Chief Ye's Autumn-Water Sword Technique.
- What is it? - Someone is blocking the way, My Lord.
- Kill with no mercy! - Yes, My Lord.
I apologize.
Have a good journey.
Bury him with honor.
Yes.
As the years pass, the martial arts world sees the addition of masters that achieve the seventh realm.
However, nobody has yet crossed the threshold into the eighth realm.
Not to mention the strongest realm, the ninth.
For this reason, the Heng king secluded himself in cultivation.
All affairs of state were handed to his queen, Ye Zhen, to handle in his stead.
Your Majesty, Chief Ye was unexpectedly able to kill Zhao Zhan on her own.
This means she must have entered the middle level of the seventh realm at the least.
But I don't understand.
At this moment in Fengming City, aside from Chief Ye,
there should be others who can handle Zhao Zhan alone. [Ye Zhen, queen of the Heng kingdom, beloved of the Heng king; In charge of affairs while he is in seclusion.]
Why must we summon back Chief Ye who was cultivating far beyond the country? [Minister Li, responsible for assisting the queen while the Heng king is in seclusion.]
You should know.
This city is the only one that has no outer walls.
The reason why we have no outer walls
is because each sword in the hand of a Heng person is a wall.
Summoning Chief Ye back has two purposes.
The first, Chief Ye killing Zhao Zhan with her lone sword
is no doubt the loudest thunder this autumn season.
And Fengming City's invisible wall is made thicker by an inch.
The second, Chief Ye has cultivated for many years outside the country.
Many have thought of her as in exile. [Chen Xuan, Superintendent of the Holy Capital Surveillance, responsible for investigating court officials at all levels and guardian of the Great Floating Water Prison]
Her return and removal of evil elements
prove her relationship with His Majesty
is very close.
Such rumors will then be dispersed without effort.
You and Chief Ye have my king's trust.
So you should work together and wipe away all obstacles for Great Heng.
I, your subject, will obey.
So pretty.
Uncle, oil please.
Aunt!
Aunt? Aunt!
Can't you scrub the mud off your shoes outside? Do you have to scrape it on the door sill?
You're not planning on doing business properly anyway.
Even the many steps involved in the process of making wine
have been casually tossed out by you.
So, why do you care that there's some mud on the door sill?
If I'd known that opening a wine shop would invite so many idlers,
I would never have listened to your idea.
Besides, whether the doorway has dirt on it or not,
concerns my subjective feelings. It has nothing to do with doing business.
For the personal feelings part,
I can apologize.
But the wine shop's business being too good and having too many idlers
has nothing to do with me.
It's all because you're so pretty.
Besides, opening a wine shop is still better than your original plan
of putting yourself in some red light district to look for information.
Have you ever heard of any girl from a decent family
who would willingly put herself in a brothel?
Unless they were a loose woman or a lewd girl.
But a loose woman or a lewd girl who only sells entertainment but not their body
is too unusual.
You think the Bureau of Heavenly Supervision and Holy Capital Surveillance are a bunch of idiots?
Zhao Zhan is dead. Ye Celeng killed him.
- She did it alone? - Yes.
But she's injured as well.
How do you know?
Even though I don't know how badly, I am sure she is injured.
Ye Celeng is from the Ba Mountain Sword Academy.
She mainly cultivates the Water Separating Sacred Technique. (T/N: water related)
In stormy weather like this,
she must have been much stronger than usual.
Even though she killed Zhao Zhan by herself,
she was injured after all.
Therefore, I suspect that her cultivation
should be quite close to Zhao Zhan's.
That would be the middle level of the seventh realm.
Go and take a bath, then wait for me in bed.
I will close the shop door.
Right now—?
Isn't it a little soon?
We don't have much time left.
We hasten our cultivation.
Why is her core energy source so unstable?
The Lone Mountain Sword Trove of the legends should actually exist!
And, in fact, most of the clues
may be in the hands of Bai Shanshui of Cloud Water Palace.
What you mean is I only need to find Bai Shanshui
and I will be able to get the Lone Mountain Sword Trove?
The weather is arid as things are dry. Watch your fires and candles!
She must have fought with someone
for this chill to be penetrating her body.
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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 ♫
♫ My smitten heart flows to the east ♫
♫ Love, hate, dust, and dirt ♫
♫ Laughingly talking about joys and sorrows ♫