=Generation to Generation=
=Episode 17=
If my guess is right,
you should be Han Yisu.
Elder Han, right?
(Li Sect Elder, Han Yisu)
How did you find me?
The Li Sect folks are useless.
I heard Nie Hengcheng's third disciple
is a master of Gu poison and traps.
There is no other who can
call forth Erosion Ants.
If your father and grandfather
had your courage and wits back then,
things would not be as they are today.
You're just a pawn
Nie Zhe left here.
What right do you have to judge the Mu clan?
You lost to my aunt back then.
These legs of yours
were cut off by her blade, right?
The 21st Form of the Sunshine Blade.
Sundering Heaven, Slaying Sun.
You're Cai Pingshu's niece.
Yes.
Thank heavens.
Cai Pingshu took my master's life.
And crippled my legs.
She made me live like a walking corpse for fifteen years.
Today,
I can finally avenge my master!
You think these tiny ants
can really trap me?
You won't make it out alive.
You'll die for sure!
What if I don't?
- Zhao! - Mr. Mu!
- Zhao!
Zhao!
Hurry! Move the iron cage away!
Zhao.
Are you alright?
I'm fine.
Where are we?
Beneath the Bliss Palace,
an underground palace indeed.
Tomb of the Mu Couple.
My father told me that
beneath the Bliss Palace
lies an underground palace built by
Mu Donglie, the 5th Chief of Li Sect.
But I never knew he was married.
Why would your ancestor
build an underground palace for no reason?
His reign was short.
According to sect records,
before he turned twenty,
he handed the Chief's seat
to his nephew.
Then he left and vanished
without a trace.
Seems that ancestor was quite carefree.
Let's go.
Let's check out the Mu ancestor's underground palace.
(Tomb of the Mu Couple)
Shangguan!
How is the Young Master?
The trap's destroyed.
We can only dig it open manually now.
Have you found Nie Zhe?
Not yet.
We swept the whole palace area.
It's surrounded tight as a iron fortress.
Where else could he go?
How's the Xuanwu Altar?
Yu Huiyin fled as soon as
she heard the Bliss Palace fell.
The other followers were forced to join.
Once their leader ran,
they surrendered too.
Hurry, dig faster.
Your ancestor's underground palace is amazing.
It loops endlessly, seamless in design.
We've walked for a long time and can't get out.
I think this person
was trapped here
and took his own life in despair.
Why did your ancestor
go to
all this trouble?
Did the Demon Sect
have too much money to burn?
Sect records don't say
why Chief Mu Donglie
built the underground palace.
But word in the sect has it
that he left secret manuals here,
along with treasure.
So
these bones are from a treasure hunter.
Forget it.
We're doomed anyway.
Let's sit and rest.
Do you fear death?
Of course I do.
But life is life.
Birth and death are inevitable.
Just accept it.
What about you?
Do you fear death?
I was already a dead man walking anyway.
As long as I kill Nie Zhe
and take back the Li Sect
before I die,
even if we perish together,
I'll never regret it.
I just never thought
you'd actually come.
Now that you're in this world,
I don't want to die anymore.
My ancestor once came here.
Look at this peach blossom.
It has three layers of petals, from inside to out.
The innermost layer has just two petals.
A signal?
No.
To be precise,
it's a guide from Luoying Valley.
Qian position, three.
Yao position, two.
Follow me.
It's been fifteen years.
Fifteen years, and it hasn't changed a bit.
I'm truly glad.
It's been so well preserved.
Good, very good.
Elder Yan.
Elder Yan!
We invited you here to help the Young Master.
The trap closed.
No way to dig it open.
Do you know where it leads?
Any other entrances?
It should be
Chief Mu Donglie's
underground palace.
Underground palace?
What was it for?
I've forgotten.
I need to drink the Bliss Palace's special wine to remember.
The mechanism's here.
To carve out such an underground world.
That must have cost countless resources.
Was your ancestor idle?
He was far from idle.
He took over the Li Sect at 13,
fought all the way to Thousandfold Cliff,
nearly wiped out the Six Sects.
Probably just Li Sect bragging.
The carvings on this screen wall
look like storybooks.
It's the story of our founding ancestor,
Mu Xiujue.
(I lived at Thousandfold Cliff as a child.)
(The world was peaceful.)
(Father raised me strictly.)
(I trained day and night.)
(Demons descended, harming the innocent.)
(I marched with Father and fellow disciples from Beichen.)
(Yet the demons were too powerful.)
(We suffered heavy losses.)
(To avenge them,)
(I used forbidden technique to control demons and fight back.)
(Father was furious, scolding me severely.)
(We argued for months.)
(Which made him fall ill.)
(I knew I was unfilial.)
(But I didn't think I was wrong.)
(So I left Beichen and went to Hanhai Mountains alone.)
Oh my god!
He was Beichen Founder's son.
He left in a huff after
a father-son falling-out
and founded the Li Sect.
And our Six Sects' founders
were just six servants.
I told you.
There's no strict line between good and evil.
It's all made-up stories by descendants
with schemes.
Who's good? Who's evil?
No one knows.
Let's check over there.
Did Mu Donglie build this
just to hide a woman?
The tombstone says
"Tomb of the Mu Couple."
Could
they have lived here their whole lives?
Why build a wedding chamber underground?
Does the Li Sect always marry in secret?
Don't worry.
When I marry someday,
I'll announce it to the whole world.
Shiyun.
Luo Shiyun?
This sword belonged to Luo Shiyun.
You know her?
The second-generation demoness of Luoying Valley.
Extremely talented.
The best swordsman among the Six Sects back then.
She was supposed to marry the Lord of Qingque Sect,
but she was tempted by a demon
and ran away with him.
Because of that, she was branded a demoness.
So that demon was Mu Donglie.
All you Mu clan's are jerks!
Did your clan lock up my Luoying Valley ancestor here?
What does something 100 years ago
have to do with me?
Can one "Mu" erase another?
Who else am I gonna blame for your ancestor's dirty deeds?
A marriage contract between Luo Shiyun and Mu Donglie.
Written by Luo Shiyun.
If they truly loved each other,
why did Mu Donglie lock her up?
If you wish to know the answer,
we'll have to read Luo Shiyun's handbook.
July 11th.
Mu Donglie has been stationed at the cliff base for months.
The five sects are too busy to help.
Rescue is hardly possible.
Thousandfold Cliff could fall any day.
So the records were true,
Chief Mu Donglie
almost wiped out the Six Sects.
The Six Sects stood on the brink of ruin.
Killing the leader Mu Donglie
will save them.
But during the battle,
his men ambushed me.
I slipped and fell off the cliff.
In that perilous moment,
I pulled him down with a silver chain.
(Luoying Valley, Luo Shiyun)
Why?
(Chief of Li Sect, Mu Donglie)
Why didn't you kill me?
This isn't how you should die.
When both our wounds have healed,
we'll duel again.
It's a promise.
♪In days gone by♪
♪Willows swayed gently♪
♪I first saw you in the dimness♪
♪Amid the vast crowd♪
♪A fleeting glance♪
♪And then♪
♪Love consumed me♪
♪Now I think of you♪
♪Snow and rain fall thickly♪
♪Alas, we parted♪
♪Longing for your return♪
♪Moon waxes and wanes♪
♪Letters can't convey my thoughts♪
♪Scattered petals♪
♪Cover the ground♪
♪Such should be our meeting♪
♪Golden wind brushes the jade dew♪
♪Half shy, half joyful♪
♪Wanting to leave yet lingering♪
♪Such should be our meeting♪
♪Across the Magpie Bridge♪
♪Alas, peach blossoms have fallen♪
♪Tears are like pearls♪
♪Things stay, yet you're away♪
♪Who will hear the broken strings♪
♪Across the starry skies♪
♪I see your shadow there♪
♪Such should be our meeting♪
♪Golden wind brushes the jade dew♪
♪Half shy, half joyful♪
What's wrong with you?
It's so cold.
♪Such should be our meeting♪
♪Across the Magpie Bridge♪
♪Alas, peach blossoms have fallen♪
Don't leave me.
Alright.
♪Such should be our meeting♪
♪Across the Magpie Bridge♪
♪Such should be♪
♪Our reunion♪
Shiyun!
Yin.
I knew you would still be alive.
Go check inside.
Let's go back,
Yin.
(Qingque Sect, Yin)
Alright.
Soon after,
Yin and I fulfilled our marriage vow.
But unexpectedly,
Mu Donglie came to steal me away.
During the fight,
he ambushed Yin with Chaos Needle.
You've been hit by my Chaos Needle.
Stop struggling.
I hate people who break their promises the most.
You agreed to stay with me,
but betrayed me by marrying someone else.
It is you who betrayed me.
Don't!
If you agree to stay,
I'll let him go.
I agree.
Don't harm him.
Die!
I never thought
the ancestors' love
was so thrilling
and touching.
So Zhao,
you like this intense stuff?
Do you think my ancestor
stayed with Mu Donglie
willingly?
Undo it.
This is the underground palace
with a maze outside.
No guide,
no way out.
I'm not leaving.
Stay and eat with me.
I searched for a path in the underground palace.
Leaving behind the peach blossom mark.
After great hardship,
I finally returned to Thousandfold Cliff.
But Qingque Sect turned on me,
accusing me of eloping with the demon Mu Donglie.
Even Yin suspected
I was involved with Mu Donglie.
I was heartbroken,
unable to defend myself.
To prove my innocence,
I jumped off the cliff.
How dare they slander my ancestor!
Typical of them.
But
Mu Donglie saved me.
Why save me?
You already died for them.
You owe them nothing.
Stay here.
Live with me.
If we, like our ancestors,
spent a lifetime here,
wouldn't that be joyful?
Don't you feel
this place is like a cage?
Even if it is a cage,
if I can be with the one I love,
it would still be sweet as honey.
The daughters of Luoying Valley love the bustle.
Living underground
away from relatives.
How lonely that would be.
Even if she agreed at first,
she'd regret it later.
Mu Qingyan,
remember.
Joy inside a cage
is never true joy.
Where love begins,
it runs deep.
Never bending to setbacks.
If you regret and back out later,
what am I supposed to do?
All I know is,
if we can't find our way out,
we'll starve to death here.
Smells good.
I remember now.
This underground palace
has no exit at all.
I've served as Elder Zhibi
for all these years,
never heard of anyone escaping alive.
For now,
seal all news and
watch Nie Zhe's men.
They're still alive.
Elder Yan,
can you find all historical records of
the underground palace's construction?
You're thinking...
Even a Tomb Chamber
has secret passageways,
let alone an underground palace.
Yes, exactly.
So there must be another exit.
Mu Donglie claimed he sealed the underground palace,
but I believe
there's definitely another way out.
Otherwise, my ancestral grandmother
wouldn't have left the guide to Luoying Valley.
There's another guide hidden here.
Now I believe
those two elders
must have left early
and lived happily ever after.
Watch out!
Mr. Mu, are you alright?
Glad to hear you're fine.
His swordsmanship is weird.
I've never seen this style.
No one in the Li Sect has moves like this.
Could Nie Zhe have brought the helper outside?
We're finally alive.
Zhao and Mr. Mu
were trapped in the underground palace so long.
Did anything happen?
It was just a big maze
Wandered around and got out.
And you?
How did you find the exit?
When Shangguan and I studied old records,
we found a legend about the Underground Palace construction.
They said the mountain's fengshui was strange.
The water source dried up suddenly.
And ghosts were said to wander the woods.
I suspected digging the secret passageways
cut off the underground water.
So we followed the mountain's terrain,
deduced the palace's layout,
and finally locked onto the location.
If you weren't a young hero,
you could've become a detective instead.
By the way, found Nie Zhe?
We set up checkpoints all over Hanhai Mountains.
No sign of him.
Mr. Dai,
Shangguan just opened the Bliss Palace's treasury.
He invites you to find the Jade Sunflower together.
Thank you.
How is it?
How's the wonton?
Do you think Nie Zhe
dug a secret passageways and ran?
Mu Donglie already turned
the Bliss Palace's underground into a palace.
Where would he dig another?
Good point.
But I told You Guanyue
to seal all checkpoints.
Even if Nie Zhe could fly,
he can't get out.
So where is he hiding?
From reading
800 storybooks,
people hide in only three places.
The forbidden grounds.
The ancestral shrine.
And under the bed.
This is where my father lived as a child,
the Mu clan's old residence.
After my grandfather passed,
Father wanted to avoid power struggles,
so he moved to Huanglao Peak's Carefree Chamber.
Nie Hengcheng refused to live on Mu Clan lands,
so he built a new palace at the Bliss Palace.
This became Li Sect's forbidden ground.
The Mu clan is a thorn in the Nie clan's side
I suppose no one dares come here
to avoid suspicion.
Zhao.
Those 800 storybooks weren't for nothing.
How dare you hit me?
Uncle Nie, hurry and tell me.
Why did you slaughter Chang Fort?
Why
kill my father?
What's the point of knowing?
What's the point of winning?
You'll be dead soon enough.
True.
So I'll do anything.
Uncle Nie, best you cooperate.
Save yourself the pain.
I'll tell you nothing.
I'll make you die in the dark.
I learned a new martial art.
It's super brutal.
If I channel my inner power into someone's meridians,
this person will
be unable to live,
nor find release in death.
How does it feel, Uncle Nie?
Speak...
or
not?
Just kill me.
This power will stay in your body.
The pain will get worse
every Chou hour
and Mao hour.
How could Mu Zhengming
have a son so twisted?
I am not like my father.
I can wait with you
till Chou hour.
Mr. Mu.
What is it?
Madam, she...
Qingyan!
Please forgive your mother.
I was born timid by nature.
It's all that scoundrel Nie Zhe.
He pushed me into a corner.
I had no choice
but to do those stupid things.
I regret it so much, my son.
I was afraid of losing you.
Don't joke, Madam.
You're a spy trained by the Demonic Camp.
You're not this cowardly.
Even if Nie Zhe
threatened you,
if you really wanted to warn me,
one glance,
one sentence,
you could have found a way.
But you didn't.
If you'd only poisoned me,
I might have let it go.
But
why poison my father?
If you don't tell the truth,
I'll make you taste
the Suzi Fragrance Poison.
Qingyan.
I am your mother.
And I was once your son.
My father was once your husband.
It was Nie Zhe.
He ordered me to kill your father.
Nie Zhe was jealous.
He just became Chief,
yet his skills and reputation were no match for your father's.
He knew I cared about your father.
Jealousy clouded his mind.
And he kept forcing me into it.
If I didn't poison your father,
he'd have me violated.
I was truly terrified.
I only thought of saving myself.
Qingyan.
I know I was wrong.
I truly know my mistake.
Shangguan.
Chief Nie.
I didn't expect you to be so petty.
Even worse than a woman.
Uncle Nie.
Do you have something to say?
It was your greed for vanity.
You threw yourself into my arms.
If you hadn't shamelessly clung to me,
I'd never have looked twice at
a promiscuous old hag like you.
Liar!
You seduced me first!
Bah!
Who'd seduce you?
You hated Mu Zhengming
for being indifferent to power and fame.
And kept urging me to eliminate him.
Someone like you, who harms her own son
without a trace of mercy,
doesn't deserve to be loved.
What do you mean I urged you?
It was the Man in Black who ordered you.
He told you to attack the Chang Fort
and find something.
Shut up!
Man in Black,
who is he?
There is no Man in Black.
I fought him myself.
Why would he order you to attack the Chang Fort?
What is he looking for?
If the Man in Black is really pulling the strings,
I might spare you.
Since he stays silent, I'll speak.
=Generation to Generation=
♪The breeze is gentle, and spring is fair♪
♪I roam the rivers and hills in the martial world♪
♪With a shining cup, I drink with delight tonight♪
♪Free to wander in the world♪
♪I drink with the breeze, lost in my dreams♪
♪I rest beneath the stars' soft gleam♪
♪The night is calm, still as a stream♪
♪It washes away all judgment and scheme♪
♪I drink with the breeze, lost in my dreams♪
♪I hold the bright moon as I return home♪
♪I freely roam in the world♪
♪All I ask is that you go with me♪
♪I drink with the breeze, lost in my dreams♪
♪I hold the bright moon as I return home♪
♪I freely roam in the world♪
♪All I ask is that you go with me♪