Sword Dynasty
Episode 30
Sacred Maiden,
just endure the pain.
Use her blood as the guide
and the dagger as the key.
Insert it into the stone table
to remove the barrier.
To me,
you're just like my own daughter.
For this sacred moment,
how can I
reap the honor for myself?
Thank you, Teacher of the Nation.
Teacher of the Nation?
I won't let anyone else
know the whereabouts of me and the relic.
I'm absolutely loyal to you.
I don't covet the relic,
let alone telling anyone else about any of this.
I've kept you around all these years
just for this day.
I'll miss you.
Marquis Liang.
It seems
they must be right in this Wuchou Town.
They are...
Zhan Mohe's men.
What?
Zhan Mohe is here?
No!
Lianzi is in danger.
Your Royal Highness,
think about it.
If Zhan Mohe has caught Lianzi,
where will they go next?
The relic.
I'm
finally here.
Tell me.
Where is the relic?
Where's the Great Torture Sword?
Canglang!
Ding Ning!
Xie Rou!
As long as I'm here,
I won't let anyone hurt you.
Canglang!
One step forward,
and I'll kill her.
Lianzi!
In that case,
I'll end my own life.
Lianzi!
Xie Rou!
Don't underestimate me.
Ding Ning.
Xie Rou!
Stop talking.
Hang in there.
Ding Ning!
You can deny
our engagement,
but I have never
seen it as a joke.
Believe me!
Sis!
Ding Ning!
It's okay, Sis.
Lianzi!
This is the sanctuary of the holy land.
It's the sanctuary.
Lianzi!
I'll never forget
what you've done for me, Miss Xie.
Sis!
Your Royal Highness,
you must live on.
The people of Fengwu
are waiting for you.
Lianzi,
you must live on, too.
It's all right.
Lianzi.
You came to rescue me.
I'm really
very happy.
What to do now?
Lianzi.
Lianzi!
Wait here for me.
She's fine now.
Tuoba Wuchou?
The Great Torture Sword?
Once someone killed
many innocent people to gain the Great Torture Sword.
I had no choice back then,
so I sealed it here.
Back then,
I used my body as the intermediary
to seal this Great Torture Sword
in this Giant Ziyu Tree.
Right now,
having separated from the big tree,
my days are numbered.
Being back to the world,
I should find a new master
for the Great Torture Sword.
This Great Torture Sword
has extreme pride.
Only a king
can wield it.
Who is there?
I'm Tuoba Wuchou
from the Lingxu Sword Sect.
Tuoba Wuchou?
I am the King of Heng.
I came to take the Great Torture Sword.
Good.
The Great Torture Sword?
If you want it,
just draw it out.
Please be cautious, Your Majesty.
I must get
the Great Torture Sword.
There is another person here
who has the charisma of a king.
Tuoba Wuchou,
are you fooling me?
Yuan Wu?
Liang Jingmeng?
It's really you.
You are already a dead man.
Why did you come to bother me?
Yuan Wu,
you went astray.
For the prosperity of the kingdom,
I must make my choices.
I did everything for the Kingdom of Heng.
Yuan Wu,
you betrayed me,
you betrayed the kingly way you and I agreed on,
and you betrayed the people!
As you can see, all the people are living and working in peace and contentment.
You call it betrayal?
Liang Jingmeng,
listen.
The world is mine.
I have to make my choices.
What you and I agreed on
back then were
merely some naïve ideals.
Today,
only war can stop chaos!
Absurd!
Haven't you seen the blood that stained the seas
and the bodies of people who died of starvation everywhere?
How dare you call this purgatory
in the mortal world your pacification of chaos?
In your ambitious conquest,
you only left the people in unrest.
How could people like you
understand what I have achieved today?
What I have done will be sung to by the posterity.
Liang Jingmeng,
a sparrow cannot understand the ambition of a swan.
For the sake that the people can live and work in peace and contentment
and that the country can enjoy long peace and stability,
how trivial it is to bleed thousands of people!
How trivial it is to bleed thousands of people?
With your violent and unscrupulous governance,
how many more Bashan Sword Fields have to perish?
How many more Liang Jingmengs have to sacrifice?
For the prosperity of the Kingdom of Heng,
Bashan must perish.
Liang Jingmeng,
for my great cause,
I won't show mercy.
To get the supreme power, you became a tyrant
and betrayed your original intentions.
Aren't you afraid that when you achieve your cause
and turn around, there'll be no one standing with you?
As the word "monarch"
shows you,
one deserves
the prefix "mon" for a reason!
You've been blinded by hegemony.
You're not the man I used to know anymore.
Liang Jingmeng,
when have you ever known me well?
One day,
I will use the sword in my hand
to end your reign!
Yuan Wu?
Ding Ning?
Liang Jingmeng?
You've lied to me for so long!
Liang Jingmeng!
Where are you?
Ding Ning!
Liang Jingmeng!
Ding Ning!
Where are you?
Why don't you show up?
Your Majesty!
Your Majesty, take it easy.
Liang Jingmeng...
Liang Jingmeng is dead.
Tuoba Wuchou,
give Liang Jingmeng to me.
The Great Torture Sword
didn't choose your kingly way.
Ding Ning!
He's not here.
Wherever the sky reaches
belongs to the Kingdom of Heng,
and I am the only King of Heng!
The Great Torture Sword must belong to me.
Liang Jingmeng,
Ding Ning,
I will surely chop you
into pieces.
But what just happened
didn't seem fake.
You really saw him,
and he's really not here.
You came for the Great Torture Sword,
and now,
this Great Torture Sword
belongs to you.
The Great Torture Sword chose you.
So Yuan Wu saw me,
and I really saw Yuan Wu?
Yes.
This is impossible.
All this
is originated from the relic of the Wu clan,
the Great Torture Sword.
This sword
and the Life-sustaining Magic Art
make up the Gushan Sword Manual.
What's the mystery behind it?
This sword
can gather spiritual energy from the universe.
If a practitioner gains it,
it'd be as good as owning
a spirit vein that never runs out.
Then is it going to be easy for him to reach the ninth realm?
That's exactly why
in the year this sword descended,
the Wu clan
experienced
a genocidal calamity.
The spiritual energy
the Great Torture Sword gathers
can help people advance to the ninth realm of immortality.
But as it gathers more spiritual energy
to the point that a practitioner can't handle,
it will blow up and bring death to the practitioner.
Besides,
once this Great Torture Sword falls into the wrong hands,
it'll make an invincible demon to the world,
and the world
will only end up in endless massacres.
Then you should have destroyed
this destructive thing.
You can actually see through this at this point.
But I couldn't
back then.
With such a divine weapon descending to me,
I knew it would be harmful,
but I couldn't destroy it out right.
My indecision
put Lianzi in harm's way.
Stop fighting!
Stop!
Lianzi!
Zhan Mohe's ancestors
were the culprits who started the genocide of the Wu clan.
They coveted the Great Torture Sword,
so they gathered most people of the clan for an uprising.
As the Sacred Maiden of the Wu clan,
Lianzi fought with everything she could do but couldn't fight off the enemy.
I killed all the traitors with the sword,
but Lianzi still ended up in dying breaths.
After the war,
only some babies in swaddling clothes
survived.
I used all the skills I've developed to save Lianzi
and then merged myself into the Giant Ziyu Tree with the Great Torture Sword,
turned this into a magic array to protect the Wu clan.
That's why there are two Wuchou Towns
as you see.
Greetings, Patriarch.
Take good care of her.
Mr. Tuoba!
You've seen me,
and I've given you the sword.
I'm satisfied with this.
Use your sword well
and cherish the people around you.
Life is too short.
Don't leave too many regrets.
Have you all heard
my conversation with Yuan Wu?
Yes.
Your Majesty!
Have you gotten me the Life-sustaining Magic Art, Mr. Chen?
I have not let Your Majesty down.
You don't trust me!
I never doubt Your Majesty's promise.
But
my position is too low
and I'm in danger.
I'd like to ask you
when will my promotion to the position of Central Punishment Director
be confirmed?
Nonsense!
You just haven't gotten the Life-sustaining Magic Art
and are trying to make an excuse.
To gather vitality from the universe
to compensate the living being's congenital insufficiency
is to practice.
The practice is consisted of three parts:
Exercise the body and refine qi to store the heavenly primordial vitality,
draw vitality from earthly veins to merge with that within the body,
and refine the qi within the body in correlation to nature.
These are the ways of practice.
That's enough.
Do you trust me now?
You're over-worried.
I will put in effect your promotion to the position
of Central Punishment Director tomorrow.
Thank you, Your Majesty.
Where is Ding Ning?
Your Majesty,
after getting the Life-sustaining Magic Art by applying hypnosis,
there was no point to keep him.
Well done.
You've worked hard.
Have some rest.
Yes!
See you, Your Majesty.
You may leave as well.
Yes!
Director Chen, why are you in Fengwu
instead of Fengming?
Ye Zhen wants the Life-sustaining Magic Art
and sent me to kill you.
In that case,
why do you go against her order?
Ye...
Celeng!
You're so love-struck.
But how can you be sure
I will help you?
Ye Celeng died for the Bashan Sword Field.
You're the inheritor of the Nine-death Silkworm.
I believe
you will help.
You're pretty well informed.
Then, Director Chen,
what's your plan?
As a reward for this mission,
Ye Zhen promised me
a promotion to the position of Central Punishment Director.
When I go back to Fengming,
I'll cooperate with you from the inside.
And we'll certainly take Ye Zhen down.
Ye Zhen actually promised to promote you to the position of Central Punishment Director?
It seems the Life-sustaining Magic Art
is very important to her.
I don't care about
what will happen to the world.
For Ye Celeng's death,
Ye Zhen must pay with her life.
Ye Zhen must not get the Life-sustaining Magic Art.
Don't worry.
I certainly won't give her the real Life-sustaining Magic Art.
You mean...
I'll have
the real Life-sustaining Magic Art
copied in reversed order.
Then it'll still be an authentic article but not the original.
And she definitely can't tell.
If she follows it,
she'll certainly reverse her meridian circulation
and destroy her own power.
You're so insidious.
I admire you so much.
Same here.
Report!
General,
the Heng army has reached Guangu Stronghold.
Our army has lost the entire frontline.
What?
Where is the Teacher of the Nation?
I've had all corners searched.
But the Teacher of the Nation is not found yet.
Give out my order.
Send a team
to evacuate the people.
You must guard the city entrance
and find the Teacher of the Nation at all costs!
Yes!
Sis,
do you miss home?
I'll take you home.
Changsheng!
Ding Ning!
He's very sad now.
And Miss Xie
needs to be buried.
It's really inappropriate to have him go with us.
But Xie Rou died because of me.
If he wanted to,
he would hit you, yell at you, or do whatever.
But he didn't.
He needs time to take it in.
OK.
When I get to Fengming,
I'll go to him myself to apologize.
Please forgive me
for not being able to reveal my real identity.
Thank you for trusting me.
Please accept my thanks.
I've said it.
I only know Ding Ning of Baiyang Cave.
Also, we followed Ding Ning of Baiyang Cave here.
And it will never change.
Sorry!
I'm a rebel of the Bashan Sword Field.
I have only one question.
Have you ever used me?
Before Your Royal Highness
came to me as Su Mu,
I hadn't.
I did come to you because of your reputation.
And you did give me choices every time.
Father will definitely still be looking for you out there.
I'll go back the way I came.
Let's go our separate ways.
Judging from your Father's personality,
you'd better go with us.
He's my father after all.
He won't give me a hard time.
Besides, I ended up here,
all because of my brother!
Sometimes, rather than a brother,
I'd prefer someone like you
who used to be my friend!
There's no more place for you in Fengming.
You've come out, so don't go back.
You and I are on different sides.
When we meet next time,
I won't show mercy on you.
I hope you'll be the same.
Your Majesty,
are you sure Liang Jingmeng will show up here?
I have just fought with him,
unless this ghost town
has another exit.
There's someone there!
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?
Zichu!
Father!
Zichu!
Where is Ding Ning?
Ding Ning?
Ding Ning is here?
You haven't seen him
in the town?
No.
Marquis Liang
was murdered by Bai Shanshui.
The rebels came very aggressively.
I had to hide in this fog
to avoid this disaster.
Are you sure you haven't seen anything?
Yes, I'm sure.
Father?
Your Majesty,
why do you insist on practicing the Life-sustaining Magic Art now?
While His Majesty isn't in the court,
why don't we grab more substantial power?
When His Majesty comes back,
we'll have no more chance.
Is that
what the elders taught you?
Ten years ago,
you came here for Xiaozhong Prefecture.
You are the chosen heir
and our example.
And we have only one mission,
that is, to rely on Heng
to achieve more power for the clan.
What Xiaozhong Prefecture has achieved now
has already surpassed the elders' expectations.
Besides,
His Majesty has been kind to me for the decade.
I don't want to betray him
or fight for power.
At your age,
you should learn to withhold yourself
instead of indulging your greed.
I'm sorry.