Sword Dynasty
Episode 27
Paintings! Have a look!
I like this one.
Paintings! Have a look!
Ma'am, have a look.
I'll have a look myself.
Sir, have a look at these paintings.
Fine texture, new paper.
Look at the strokes.
The lines are smooth.
And this one.
Sir.
Sir, have a look at these.
Sir,
I'll take this.
OK.
Here you are.
OK.
Thank you, sir.
See you. Look forward to seeing you again.
OK. OK.
Buddy,
is this tavern the one
that is said to be owned by a beautiful landlady?
Yes.
But it has been closed for several days.
I used to look forward to seeing
the beautiful landlady every day.
But now, bad,
it's closed down.
Do you know what crime they committed?
It's decided by the court.
How can we know that?
Actually,
Miss Zhangsun and Ding Ning
are both honest people who behave well.
You just mentioned Miss Zhangsun?
Yes.
Do you know her name?
Zhangsun Qianxue.
Yes.
Zhangsun Qianxue.
The name alone indicates that she is a beauty.
Of course.
What a pity!
I wonder
when we can see her again.
Yeah.
Who are you?
You should know
that I lag much behind you in practice.
To save you,
this is the only choice.
Do you think they're from master?
I know you hate him.
It's not because I hate him.
I know it because no one else knows that
the sweet Osmanthus flower is my favorite.
You tried so hard to join the Minshan Sword Sect,
just to learn the Life-sustaining Magic Art?
Yes.
If I can't learn the Life-sustaining Magic Art,
maybe
I'll die very young.
In fact, he has known well enough that
the Life-sustaining Magic Art
only helps the practice of the internal force.
It doesn't help
in making breakthroughs or upgrading the practice level.
But combined with the primordial qi of the heaven and the earth,
it is an extremely helpful method
for restoring health.
I told him
about this years ago.
You mean Ding Ning?
No.
I mean Liang Jingmeng.
There is no difference among practitioners that have not reached the fourth realm.
Only he dares to say that.
I didn't intend to rely on you for anything.
I just hope that you are well.
If one day
I become like Yuan Wu,
I hope you are the one
that kills me.
Have you heard about the case of Song Shenshu in Fengming?
It was Ding Ning.
But I clearly remember
that the Nine-death Silkworm doesn't have an inheritor.
Take care of my master.
Go!
Ye Celeng!
-Ye Celeng! -Go!
Go!
Ye Celeng!
Greetings, I, Lin Zhujiu...
Greetings...
Please don't.
Ding Ning has looked everywhere else for you.
Unexpectedly,
you are here alone.
Ding Ning.
You are quite clever.
You know this place that has been searched by the government
is the safest.
Baili Suxue.
Tell me the truth.
What if
I refuse to answer it?
So I've guessed it right.
He is Liang Jingmeng.
Answer me!
You've known each other for so many years.
Regardless of the past,
I think Ding Ning is doing the right thing now.
He didn't
want to hide anything from you.
Don't speak for him.
If he were sincere,
he should have told me the truth.
He thought it was good for me to keep it away from me.
But after all,
it's because he doesn't trust me.
I indeed know nothing
about relationship.
But
it's really not easy for him
with that identity.
You once told me
that you met coincidentally.
I think
maybe before this,
Ding Ning didn't want to disturb you.
He said that it's by no means easy to take revenge.
He hopes that in the future
the two of you
can live on without the past burdens.
So I was a burden to him.
You can go now.
I want to be alone.
Including the jade tablet of Mr. Zhao Si,
we've got all the three jade tablets
of the Gushan Sword Manual here.
You said
that we need to wait for the right time.
Does it have anything to do
with the moonlight?
The Gushan Sword Manual
consists of three jade tablets.
But there isn't
any real thing in them.
So I guess
it should be a map.
We tried to
put the three jade tablets together,
but except for the weird patterns,
there isn't anything special.
The moonlight is dim tonight.
I'm afraid that it may affect our decoding the patterns.
What I want to make use of isn't the moonlight,
but the starry sky.
That day, Ye Zhen's Sparkling Comet-tail Sword
shocked people in Fengming.
In the daytime, meteors flashed throughout the sky.
I was inspired by that.
Ordinarily we
obtain vitality
from the primordial qi of the heaven and the earth.
Ye Zhen is very clever.
Ordinary people
take vitality from the spirit vein
on the earth.
But she wisely empowers herself by making use of the heavens.
So I thought
since the secret of the Gushan Sword Manual
can't be decoded in ordinary ways,
maybe it has something to do with the primordial qi in the heavens.
Look.
This is the North Star,
and correspondingly, the brightest ones
are the Big Dipper.
What did Chen Xuan say about what happened in the water dungeon?
He didn't ask for forgiveness.
I think
he knows that he committed a crime.
I remember
you once said that every practitioner
is a treasure of Heng.
Chen Xuan is a grandmaster.
I want to plead for mercy
on Chen Xuan.
You keep what I've said in your mind.
What Your Majesty has said is right for the governance of the country.
Of course I should keep it in my mind.
In that case,
I can consider giving him a light sentence.
Thank you, Your Majesty.
What do you mean by doing this?
I
have another presumptuous request.
You are my wife. There is no need to stand on ceremony.
Come here.
Your Majesty,
after Rong died,
I don't even have anyone around me to talk with.
Please issue an order
to summon Ye Xinhe of Xiaozhong Prefecture
into the palace,
so that I can enjoy her company.
Just this matter?
It's not any big deal.
Your Majesty is perturbed,
and I shouldn't have bothered you with that.
I heard about
Ye Xinhe.
She seems
to be your successor in Xiaozhong Prefecture, right?
Yes.
When she was younger, she was mischievous.
She defeated Mo Shoucheng right after she came out.
You didn't like her aggressiveness,
so you sent her back to Xiaozhong Prefecture.
Now several years have passed,
and she has grown up.
She can come and accompany you,
but I transferred Huang Zhenwei
to serve as the head of the Jiantian Bureau.
You know,
he is Mo Shoucheng's disciple.
I understand it.
Tell Ye Xinhe to restrain herself,
or when they meet and have a fight,
I don't know
which side I should take.
Your Majesty,
Huang Zhenwei has arrived.
It's so late.
I summoned him.
I'm leaving.
Greetings, Your Majesty.
Long live Your Majesty!
Long live the great Kingdom of Heng!
Stand up.
Thank you.
Have you heard about what happened
in Dafu Water Dungeon?
I had been away from Fengming for a long time.
In the daytime I specially visited many streets and alleys.
I heard that
Her Majesty amazed the people
with the Sparkling Comet-tail Sword that day.
Did they just talk about
the strange phenomenon in the sky?
Didn't they
mention the breaking of the water dungeon?
The breaking of the water dungeon is a secret of the court.
I asked around on the streets.
I think
even if the people know something about it,
they wouldn't talk about it in broad daylight.
You are quite frank.
You once told me
that you like my frankness the best.
I've always remembered that.
I sent you out of Fengming
to search for
clues to the Gushan Sword Manual.
Now Ye Celeng died.
Come back
and be the head of the Jiantian Bureau.
Thank you.
Your Majesty has reached the eighth realm,
thus having no rivals in the world.
So the Gushan Sword Manual
isn't that important to you.
But Lin Zhujiu was taken away by those people,
and Bai Shanshui was one of them.
So I think
instead of letting the Gushan Sword Manual be found by enemies,
we should make preparations early.
You've got clues to the Gushan Sword Manual?
These years I have traveled around, but found nothing.
But recently
I got some reliable information.
The Gushan Sword Manual is closely related to the Lingxu Sword Sect.
The Lingxu Sword Sect?
It disappeared years ago.
That's right.
But I was really curious
about why such a big sect suddenly disappeared,
so I looked into it.
What did you find?
It seems to have something to do with the royal family of Fengwu.
Fengwu?
Yes.
The clues I got
end here.
It's said that Fengwu has been haunted by ghosts for ten years,
but I don't believe the existence of ghosts.
So I think I can't find anything
according to these rumors and legends.
Originally I intended to look into it myself.
Xian has been colluding with Fengwu.
I wanted to occupy Fengwu long ago.
Since the Gushan Sword Manual is in Fengwu,
it just goes consistently
with my idea.
I don't know much about astrology.
I only know that this is the North Star,
and these are the Big Dipper.
But what do they stand for?
Unexpectedly,
the Gushan Sword Manual
has something to do with our Minshan Sword Sect.
You mean that
the Gushan Sword Manual is in Minshan?
This is just a part of it.
From this drawing, I can see
that the Life-sustaining Magic Art that Ding Ning practices
is a part of the Gushan Sword Manual.
Please go on.
In fact,
this is a secret that
only the heads
of the Minshan Sword Sect know.
Please look at the drawing.
This star in the middle of the handle
is Mizar,
also known as Wuqu Star.
It represents our Minshan Sword Sect.
Beside it
is a very beautiful star
and companion,
which is just like its brother.
Look at the Big Dipper on the drawing.
In fact, it's the family emblem of the first head
of the Minshan Sword Sect.
But you just introduced Mizar.
What about the other star?
The founder of the Minshan Sword Sect
actually had a younger brother.
They each established a sect.
The companion I mentioned just now
just represents his younger brother's sect,
which is known as the Lingxu Sword Sect.
Are you referring to
the Lingxu Sword Sect that is known
for the making of weapons?
Though they were from the same family,
they practiced in different ways.
The elder one's sect
pays attention to qi,
and mainly cultivates vitality,
while the younger one's sect
studies weapons,
including the making of weapons and the research on charms and runes.
It can be said that they are supreme masters in this regard.
As
the Life-sustaining Magic Art
is the treasure of Minshan,
and the other half of the Gushan Sword Manual
should be the treasure of the Lingxu Sword Sect.
What is the treasure
of the Lingxu Sword Sect?
It's a sword.
You're right.
The treasure of the Lingxu Sword Sect
is the Great Torture Sword, a sword of ultimate yang
that has been lost in the martial art world for a long time.
But the Lingxu Sword Sect
has been in seclusion for so many years.
How can we find them?
Can we find them
with the family emblem?
You may not know
that the owner of this family emblem
used to be a member of the royal family of Fengwu.
According to the information from Miss Shang,
It seems Yuan Wu
wants to attack Fengwu.
Though he doesn't know
the secret of the Gushan Sword Manual,
the history of Minshan
can be easily investigated.
Once Yuan Wu sends troops to attack Fengwu,
we can't guarantee
what they will
hear or see on the way.
Now he doesn't have the intention to get the manual,
but one day,
if he is interested in the Great Torture Sword,
you'll be in a disadvantageous position.
If the King of Heng wants to get the Great Torture Sword,
even risking my life,
I'll stop him from getting the manual.
You are already seriously wounded.
I'm afraid
that now you can't defeat Yuan Wu.
Miss Zhangsun has come.
Where is she?
At the mountain gate.
She doesn't want to come in.
Aunt!
Why are you standing here?
Why don't you get in?
I don't like you calling me aunt.
OK.
I won't call you that way.
It's dangerous outside.
Let's get in and then talk.
Ding Ning.
When we met,
I knew
that you were not like ordinary people.
You had too many things on your mind.
Most of the time,
you looked irresponsible,
but you actually pretended it.
Right?
Au...
Qianxue.
Did anything happen?
We've stayed together for so many years.
So we know
each other very well.
I don't care about external things,
and I'm not curious about what dangers you were in.
I think you should know it.
That's right.
If you are particular about life,
how could it be possible that you made those awful wine?
Qianxue.
Just what happened?
Don't you want to say anything to me?
What should I say?
Whatever,
I just want to hear something from your heart.
I think it's not the right time to talk about this.
The secret of the Gushan Sword Manual has been decoded.
Come with me to have a look.
Do you only care about that?
What about Ye Celeng?
Don't you want to avenge her death?
Of course I want to,
but not now.
Now we have nothing.
If we do it recklessly,
more people will die for it.
I don't want to lose anyone else.
You always want to
be prepared before you do anything,
and you're always afraid of loss.
But do you know
that when you are afraid
and when you are making preparations,
many people have left you?
What do you mean?
Do you know what last words
Ye Celeng said to me
in the water dungeon?
What did she say?
She said:
"Take care of my master."
Qianxue.
I...
Liang Jingmeng.
You are a coward.
Chancellor Li.
Your Majesty.
What are you worried about?
Your Majesty is wise.
His Highness Han
is scheming,
while His Royal Highness Chu is benevolent.
This time on the expedition,
I worry that they
will have secret fights.
I knew
Han is ambitious.
This time if Han takes action,
it's not out of my expectations.
In that case,
should we send people to protect His Royal Highness Chu secretly?
Born to the royal family,
they should stand things that ordinary people can't.
Zichu is wise,
but he is too benevolent.
Zihan is cruel and aggressive,
but he doesn't conceal it.
These are taboos to rulers.
Now the world hasn't been stabilized.
The Kingdom of Heng
needs a tyrant.
Zichu...
Mother.
There is no need to comfort me.
Since Father appointed me as the General of the Vanguard,
he naturally had his own reasons.
Besides,
I'm not unhappy about it.
I didn't say anything,
but you already said
what I wanted to say.
You always worry about me.
That day after the debate at the court,
I thought it over after I got back,
and I felt
that what Zihan said made some sense.
You changed your mind?
No.
I still
don't want to see warfare.
We can indeed
get benefits through fueling wars by warfare.
But once we get used to killing,
the people will suffer at last.
I'm quite surprised
by your idea.
Mother, don't you agree?
That's not the case.
Actually, I think highly of it.
A ruler
should have his own thinking.
He can't be too cruelly aggressive
or stupidly kind.
You accept the point of view of fueling wars by warfare,
and you have your own attitude.
That is big progress.
But don't
tell your father about it now.
Doesn't Father like admonitions from his officials and sons?
Your father is the ruler.
He has his own thinking and worries.
To him,
the world is the most important.
He has his own way to rule it.
That's not something that we can discuss.
I see.
Zichu, come and sit.
Back then you were made Crown Prince
instead of your elder brother.
You know Zihan well.
So this time
you must be careful on the expedition.
I once promised you
that I will protect you in my life.
So
I'll come back for sure.
When you are in the palace,
please take care of your health.
Father said that from today on,
you are my mother.
Yeah.
Did anything happen to you?
Did someone treat you badly?
Nothing.
Sand went into my eyes.
It's not windy in the hall.
Why did sand go into your eyes?
My mother used to be
treated badly.
But don't worry.
I'm the Crown Prince now.
In the future,
I'll protect you.
You've grown up,
but you always remember that.
I feel very happy about it.
I'll set out tomorrow.
So I need to leave now.
OK.
Your Majesty,
Ye Xinhe has gotten to Fengming.
She'll come later.
She doesn't need to come hastily.
Tell her
to do something for me first.
Tell her to send the thing I prepared.
Yes.
You
didn't tell me before you came back.
I did it at His Majesty's order.
If I could have a choice,
I would rather not come back.
Whether he is suspicious or not,
you know it very clearly.
Did you do it for the case,
or for That Man?
You are Chen Xuan?
Who sent you?
Out of politeness,
you should ask my name first.
If you are polite,
I can give the sword to you.
What's your name?
Ye Xinhe.
Her Majesty sent me here.
Her Majesty said
that after you get the sword,
you'd naturally know what she means.
You have the say.
After you think it over, go visit her.
You people of Fengming are really boring.
She is also annoying.
But
it's good that you can't see her now.
I stay in the Shendu Bureau
to wait for you.
If it's fine for you,
we can immediately leave Fengming,
and stay away from the conflicts.
OK?
Your master has been dead for ten years.
Your persistence
won't get you anywhere.
I just can't let go.
Master had been loyal to Heng all his life,
but in the end,
no one shall even mention his name.
The safety and stability of Heng in so many years
are achieved with his and his disciples' blood.
I've fulfilled my wish
and I have no regret.
If there's another life,
I hope we won't meet again.
Do you only care about that?
What about Ye Celeng?
Don't you want to avenge her death?
You always want to be prepared before you do anything,
and you're always afraid of loss.
But do you know
that when you are afraid
and when you are making preparations,
many people have left you?
Liang Jingmeng.
You are a coward.
Do you know what last words
Ye Celeng said to me
in the water dungeon?
"Take care of my master."
Where are you going?
Of course to look for her.
You still don't get it.
Since she wants to stay away from you,
she doesn't want to be found by you.
After you've looked for her for such a long time,
you still don't understand this?
You didn't remind me of it.
No. Wait.
I need to talk about something serious with you.
Considering his health condition, Mr. Lin can't take long journeys.
Tomorrow the army will set out to attack Fengwu.
Just what's your plan?
I also plan to set out tomorrow.
Don't tell Jiang Li and the others.
If you leak it out,
you won't be my friend anymore.
I didn't say that I wanted to be your friend.
So
you are deeply attached to Ye Celeng.
Yes.
We agreed to leave Fengming
after breaking into the dungeon.
No wonder I found
that you helped us during the dungeon breaking.
Instead of being sad here alone,
you should avenge her death.
You mean, Liang Lian?
He indeed deserves death,
but the one that I hate more
is Ye Zhen.
You mean the Gushan Sword Manual is related to the Lingxu Sword Sect?
Yes.
I followed Huang Zhenwei as he investigated.
The clues he found before he came back to the court pointed to Fengwu.
Fengwu?
In this case,
His Majesty launches the war against Fengwu
for something else.
I guess
he wants to kill two birds with one stone.
Only Liang Lian and the two princes
will lead the army to Fengwu.
His Majesty must want to
delay the arrangements until the war ends.
Since he doesn't do anything,
we can take our time.
I think
Your Majesty wants Chen Xuan to work for you
because you want
the Gushan Sword Manual in Fengwu.
The Life-sustaining Magic Art is the treasure of Minshan.
His Majesty has advanced to the eighth realm.
Of course he doesn't think much of it.
But it's different for me.
All the chosen heirs of Xiaozhong Prefecture
were selected through the poison spirit training.
So we got some unknown diseases.
Even if it can't help with my making breakthroughs,
it can help me recuperate.
You believe that Chen Xuan will come?