Original subtitles

In the early Ching Dynasty,

Emperor "Ti-chao" suddenly fell ill,

And would die any time

It is believed that there is a strange flower on Mount "Shin Fung"

It blooms every twenty years

This flower can bring a dying man back to life,

change white hair into black

The court decided to send people to the mountain to look for this flower

Mount "Shin Fung"

I, Chief Yeh Li Nieh Tang of Ching, have come specially

to visit you Mr Cho of Wu Tang

His majesty is now indisposed

They say your flower can bring...

a dying man back to life

What time is it now?

Still 4 hours before the blossom

I mean the year?

It's now exactly 1 0 years since the foundation of Ching

Ten years

You may leave!

Sir, only if your flower can revive His Majesty,

the Court will reward you handsomely

This flower is not for you

Cho Yi-hang, hear what our General said?

Who ranks higher than His Majesty?

A woman, in my eyes

I waited for her for a decade

I wonder if she knew

my master was the Chief of the 8 clans in Chung Yuan,

and Priest Tzu Yang of Wu Tang

He often told me...

about the underworld love-hate relationship

In his words, all the clans are bad

except the 8 big clans

Yi-hang, remember

there's always controversy between good and evil

Yes, master

I answered him the same always

Have you mastered Moon-Breaking sword...

I taught you?

Yes, completely

Yi-hang

Concentrate by combining heart and sword into one

Draw!

The sword protects the body from being soiled by petals

Heart-piercing stab!

Master, I've already come up to such a level

Can I have a few days' rest now?

Learning is unlimited

Continue if you wish to become the future Chief of the swordplay world

In fact, I've never cherished such an ambition

But, occasionally...

I resort to chivalrous acts!

I should've let you be captured by those rascals

To save you,

I don't now even know where I am

Oh, no, Master will reprimand me for sure

I've been afraid of 2 things since childhood

Thunderbolt and...

Hsiao Yang, time for you to repay a favor now

I'm leaving. Take care!

Help...

Master, help, master...

Sister, brother, help!

Uncle Pai Yun, help!

Desperate!

Help! I don't want to die! Help...

Master, help me...master, help me...

I can't believe it There're really miracles in this world

At that moment, I really wanted to get to her and say "thanks"

Have a clearer look at her face

But...

I was really too tired

When I knew him,

he was only an ordinary officer

Unexpectedly, he later became Gen Wu San-kuei

who changed the history of Chung Yuan

This time you're lucky

Next time I'm not sure if you'd be as lucky

I'm sober while the others are all drunk Come on!

Come again if you've the nerve!

I enjoy company with him

because I can do anything prohibited by Master

Come on!

Yi-hang

Fear not accusations from a thousand fingers

if you're innocent

A life under others' influence

means no life

It's as good as dead!

Have you grasped what I said?

Never knew a furious man...

could be so kind-hearted

Sometimes I doubt if he was nice to me

only because...

I'm an orphan!

Cho Yi-hang

You stole a sheep from farmer Ho Tor-niu's home 1 -1 7

Do you plead guilty or not?

He stole my sheep and

gave me a swollen face. Look

I meant to save it...

from getting butchered

Master told us to be chivalrous

And they wouldn't even let go a small sheep

Do you plead guilty to hurting Tor-niu?

He called me beast and creep

I should've fed him with dog shit

What's so funny?

Chief, as a disciple of Wu Tang and

an heir to Chief, what Cho Yi-hang did

is a disgrace to the clan and

Wu Tang's reputation

In fact, Uncle Pai Yun is not bad,

but he's overambitious

He wants to have his daughter succeed...

as the Chief against tradition

So I'm his eyesore

Calligraphy like swordplay

calls for stamina

He's my brother Lu Hsing-cheng

For any clans...

stamina comes from the brush and strength

Practice energy with spirit

Practice energy with spirit

Move the brush with energy

Move the brush with energy

Waist more erect than brush

Waist more erect than brush

Raise wrist

Raise wrist

Arm like a dragon

Arm like a dragon

Sister is late

Sorry, dad!

Sit down now!

Practice calligraphy now

Cho Yi-hang, copy 500 times to atone for your mistake

I already knew it

Never be perverted by poverty

She's my sister Ho Lu-hua

Didn't you notice she often smiled at me

And she passed food for me to eat to cheer me

It means however rich you're,

you must restrain yourself

Yield not to prowess

It means no submission to powerful influence

Understand?

Cho Yi-hang, don't abandon yourself

only because the Chief spoils you

Look at them, writing without eating

You eating buns here?

Follow your sister: still as a virgin, crafty as a rabbit

You're carefree and an idle eater

I know sister is clever

The brothers are all at puberty

You, an elder brother, are naughty yourself

You frolicked while learning

Do you admit guilty?

And in Feb you came personally down...

to kill Kaifeng constable Fang Tien-cheng

Do you plead guilty or not?

No

Uncle Pai Yun, I stabbed him once only

Why call it "Kill"?

What manner is that?

Right

What's the penalty for a Wu Tang disciple?

Isn't it agains propriety?

You admit everything then?

I admitted I killed a lackey, but...

With the proof here, don't argue any more

I have nothing to say now

But that lousy mandarin's folks do!

Uncle

Ladies and gentlemen, don't misunderstand swordsman Cho

My son was to blame and he deserved it

Yes! Yes! Luckily swordsman Cho helped me

Otherwise, that bastard would've raped me

He even tried to kill my daughter!

Thank you swordsman Cho for your help Thanks...

Get up...

Silence in the palace

Thank you...

Pai Yun, what wrong did my pupil do

to have troubled the presence of you 8 elders?

In the name of the Chief's adopted pupil

Cho ran rougshod and bullied other clans' pupils

With proof and the witnesses here, he can't deny it

Yi-hang, what have you to say?

Chief, they're the descendants of the 6 big clans

If I alone could beat them all 6,

it means Wu Tang's more powerful in martial arts

On this score I admit!

Shut up!

Brother has hit the nail on the head!

Quiet!

Ma Yu of Kung Tung,

did Cho injure you?

No, overexercise brought me this

And you, Liu Cheng of Tien Chuang?

How did you get your wound?

I injured myself while playing!

How do you explain your wounds?

I dropped into the well getting water out of it!

I was pursued by a tiger!

I was only joking

Get down! All stuff and nonsense!

You!

I wounded him because he wouldn't pay at Wan Chun brothel

You

You hogged others' farmland in conspiracy with bureaucracy, didn't you?

And you

You bullied a scholar with your martial arts...

Cho Yi-hang!

Yes!

You came down without the master's permission

Now face the Buddha (in the palace) and repent

without drinking for 3 days

Yes!

Aren't you tired of this?

Always putting on airs!

You see me whenever you think of me, right?

Hungry? Let me get you something to eat

Thank you

So you don't mind even such coarse food as buns!

They're nice! Eat!

Cho...

Cho,

we didn't mean to testify against you this morning

Priest Pai Yun forced us to!

Yes...

Would you bear us grudge?

No, I forgot everything already!

Thank you...

Next time remember to pay at the brothel

Yes...

Cho, try red kaoliang of Shansi

Good

Cut it out!

Can't you see...

he's carrying sister's 2 big buns?

Don't you know this is the palace of Wu Tang?

Wine and meat, you may ruin me! Get out!

Get out quick!

What about me?

You, too!

I'll go back to retire

You stay to sleep with brother

What are you doing?

This jade heirloom came from my dad

Keep it and

promise not to break it

Stay!

What are you doing?

I need it

Help me to hold on first

Brother!

Right, it's now time for us to

serve our country

Kill rascals and remove evils! Kill!

Yes!

Brother!

Stealing military supplies is a serious crime. You may get beheaded!

People in our tribe get beheaded for plucking the weed only!

Dying of struggle is better than starving to death

Come here. There's something to eat

Don't fight! Everybody has a share!

Let me do it if you can't

How dare you lay hands on the Ming Court's provisions?

Kill!

Darling, are you alright?

I can't hold on. I must deliver

Don't...!

Darling, come out quick!

Kill these beggars!

I'll kill you, demon

I'll chop you to 8 pieces

Exactly 8 pieces

Run quick!

Darling, bear with it

Darling, it hurts badly!

Darling, bear with it

I must deliver

There's light in front Let's go and seek help. Come quick!

No one is around

It hurts badly!

Swordsman, we didn't steal! Don't kill us!

I didn't steal! Don't kill us!

Darling...

Darling, are you alright?

Swordsman, can you deliver?

Please help us

To help you deliver?

To help us deliver, we beg you!

Darling bear with it

Darling, what now?

Can you deliver? Please do us a favor

Darling, we've got help!

Darling, harder!

Harder, harder, darling!

Darling!

Darling...

Darling, we have gone through the most difficult times,

why do you leave us at this moment?

Don't be sad!

A son has hope

Keep it to run a small business. Come

Get out of here!

Swordsman! Thank you, swordsman!

Who are you?

Why are you following me?

Miss,

you bring us closer yourself

Right! It's better to keep a distance between us

Whoever sees me shall be blinded!

Do I have to perish having seen your whole body?

Miss, control your temper!

Oh, I forgot to tell you I'm Cho Yi-hang

Chief of the cult, killing ensures peace

Today

Our chief bodyguard sent an Army to wipe out many lackeys

We want to let them know

that our tribesmen are not ants... under their soles

The chief bodyguard frightens demons through blood practice

Those old people of Chung Yuan's 8 clans

are too old even to hold a sword

All they know is to pay lip service only

They pay lip service to bewitch the masses

They not only plan to unite Chung Yuan

but to dig out our ancestors' graves

What a nuisance

Only if...

we wipe out those old leaders,

the 8 clans of Chung Yuan will be dissolved

Wipe out the beasts! lncrease my longevity

Why is it so icy the whole night?

We've been hiding 20 years waiting for this day!

Now is the time to return a favor

Kill them for me!

Your heart's beating hard!

Let me feel it

Have you finished ordering?

What's so funny?

Buddy, you look so pitiable!

Having hardened her wings, you've no right to touch them!

True love is mutual

I'll wait for you!

Right, compulsory love has no happiness

Right, compulsory love has no happiness

Priest Tzu Yang,

the cult is getting more powerful in Manchuria

It may menace the safety of the people of Ming

As the Chief of 8 clans,

you should contribute some effort!

Chi Wu-shuang appears again

The underworld is again rife with witchcraft

We must wipe out the cult

before it come to power

They're not so easy to wipe out!

I hear they're quite powerful in martial arts

Chief,

we shouldn't have let that traitor go that year

No point mentioning the past!

We must decide immediately which clan will lead the expedition

What's your opinion?

As the Chief of 8 clans,

Wu Tang should do!

Right

Right you are

Hsin Cheng

Why, master?

Where's Yi-hang?

Where have you been?

Master is meeting with the 7 clans on how to cope with the cult

Halt! What about the jade I gave you?

Why ask me about it now?

Where's the jade?

Why did you give it to someone else?

I feel he needs it more than I do

I'll kill him. So you don't need him

Brother, master wants you

Sorry, Chief, I'm late!

Yi-hang, the 8 clans have decided to send troops to suppress the cult

and you'll be in command

Chief, this is a herculean task

I'm afraid I'm not equal to it

Wu Tang is full of personalities

Why have you only him in mind, Chief?

Have you got a better choice?

I venture to suggest

my daughter Lu-hua...

as the best choice

Right

Sister is brilliant and a fast swordswoman

None's better suited than her as the commander

Oh, no, it's against the rule

Do you agree?

Right!

What's your opinion?

Chief,

how can a female undertake such a heavy assignment?

Yi-hang

A military order is as rigid as a mountain and you can't go against rules

You command the 8 clans' pupils...

with Lu-hua as your side

Set out by night

Your order is understood

Yi-hang, I've covered you up in the presence of the 8 clans

Why go against me?

Master, master!

Listen

I spent years' efforts teaching you kung fu,

hoping you may succeed me...

as the Chief of the 8 clans...

after my death

I know that as the Chief to lead the masses

I must do many things against my will

Right!

So a kind heart is a defect

Kind heart?

Listen, if some day

Chi Wu-shuang wants to suppress Wu Tang,

can you ask her to spare us?

And if some day

we unite Chung Yuan and must kill all hans,

can you use your heart to move them?

This is the so-called underworld rule

So you have no choice

Yes, I do

I may quit the underworld

Quit the underworld?

Easily said than done

Listen,

what else can you do besides kung fu?

Returning home to till the land?

The Chief himself has promised to

relinquish his post to you

All the 8 clans have been eyeing this post

You take no interest, but I do

Child,

take a longer sight

If you really become the Chief,

we can join forces

Quite possibly we may even change Ming's territory

General, we've again caught some foreign spies

Chop!

Yes! Chop!

We're innocent...

Uncle Kuei, why did you...

Given present circumstances,

killing 1 00 wrongly is better than letting one go

The cult tries to cover the eyes and ears of the world and

the Manchus are getting increasingly rampant

Our duty as military men is to protect the territory

and kill them all

Yi-hang, remember, heroes make the times!

Why is brother still not here?

Let's not wait for Yi-hang any more

Better plan how to deploy...

to cope with the cult

But Chi Wu-shuang's advance in martial arts

and we're in the dark about the cult's surroundings

Such a move is too dangerous

Let Kung Tung clan back out...

if it prefers

I don't think our 7-clan coalition...

can't cope with Wu-shuang

And the wolf girl?

And we have Wu Tang's 72 cyclical swords

And Hua Shan clan's...

7 Fatal Arrays

Shut up, I know

And O-Mei clan's dragon-tiger conquering skills

And Kun Lun's fantastic King Kong swordplay

If we stab her unawares

Let alone a wolf girl, even a dragon girl

may be chopped by us...into minces

Elders

Let me ask you a question

Foreign tribes bear us on grudge

Why kill them?

Brother

You want to kill?

Let me ask you

Have you heard of the sounds of a sword

chopped on human body or bones?

Cho Yi-hang, as the commander of the 8 clans

you speak baldy to disrupt the Army morale

You were ambitious to spread your name

So you're most suited...

for the commander post

Patrolling at this late hour? It's freezing!

Something in front must be wrong

Nobody!

Are you drunk? Only a tree!

Brother...

Wake up, brother

Sister, isn't it against the rule?

He's against the rule

He got drunk in defiance of discipline

and even forsook his emblem

How is he to answer to master on return to Wu Tang?

Men of the cult are here!

Where are they?

Here

Be alert!

Form an array

Bleeding, I'll die for sure

Only a bruise!

Stop!

Are you crazy? I'm not an enemy

Miss

Know me?

In the ancient city,

I must kill you, a Chung Yuan native

Come on

Cho Yi-hang

Don't move

Don't blame me

It would be too late if I didn't help you now

In my view

he may have been bewitched by that witch

I don't think it's as simple as that

That witch even spared his life

and followed him

They exchanged glances and

might have been intimate

Shut up!

How can one bewitched by a wolf girl

command Chung Yuan to fight foreigners?

Brother, you'd better reconsider...

a more suitable candidate

Shut up! Bring him back quickly

and let him explain to me personally

Brother, don't! Retire now!

Girls? I can give you 1 00...

much better than she?

No, I want her!

Are you out of your mind?

That bitch helped us kill so many Chung Yuan men

Can she get away?

I must let her know...

she brought me the agony

Any agony can't compare to our expulsion...

by that old Tzu Yang traitor 20 years ago

Chi Wu-shuang

You two got twisted...

by the cult

and brought mess to the Chung Yuan swordplay world

Expelling your family without killing you...

you're lucky

Kill them...

Quiet, chiefs!

These 2 rats are much condemned for their crime

But as an orthodox clan, we mustn't go too far

Chi Wu-shuang, we'll give you a chance

As of today, don't ever set foot on Chung Yuan

Brother, we shouldn't cherish any feeling for anyone

We must hate him, control him

We adopted the wolf girl to

utilize her to kill...

all Chung Yuan scoundrels only

She's merely our killing instrument

Remember that, understand?

Only we've friends you can't afford to lose

Get out!

You're the most despicable

Why follow me? I don't want you

You don't want me? You must!

I want wolf girl...

No one would want you...

the way you look

How come there's a word 'Lien' on you?

I only know it's my surname

I have no name

Everybody should have a name

I've been living with wolves from childhood!

Chi Wu-shuang adopted me and brought me to the cult

She taught me kung fu and

made me her killing instrument

Let me give you a name

Lien...

Lien Wu-kung (practice martial arts)?

Lien Wu-kung?

I remember now,

when I first saw you,

you were standing...

on the mountain-top

and glittered with your dress reflected by the moonlight

You should be named Lien Ni-chang

Lien Ni-chang?

Let's get out of the underworld together

Don't you begrudge Wu Tang?

Don't you begrudge the post of Chief?

The underworld doesn't belong to us Let them fight for it

What would you do if

I should grow old with silver hair years later?

Don't worry

Have you heard of a fabulous flower

blossoming each 2 decades that,

once taken can bring eternal life?

If you should go silver-haired,

I'll bring the elixir to you by any means

Promise me, promise me

What?

Don't ever distrust me

I hate people who do

I swear

I swear under Heaven I would be condemned

if I should ever let Lien Ni-chang down

Why? Why let me down?

Speak up

Don't get excited!

Adopt another wild one...

from a wolf lair

and woo her when she grows up

The only worry is your kung fu would've been disabled then

Shut up!

I expended so much effort on you

Can this be done away with?

Once I decide on the course to take,

I won't turn back

Is this your excuse...

for leaving the cult?

What do you want?

You knew what my brother wants

Only if you let me leave the cult

you may do anything you like

Brother, no point licking all over her

Her heart is already somebody else's

You picked a junk

I've been your twin for such a long time

and you don't even know a female's normal reaction

You're getting out of your mind

Have you given it to others?

Did you follow that Wu Tang scoundrel when you last disappeared?

He's not a scoundrel! He's Cho Yi-hang

What has he given you?

A name

I'm now Lien Ni-chang, not a wolf girl

Everybody should've a name on birth

Brother, what a common name

So she wants only to be a common person

Lien Ni-chang

You want to be a common person

Now leave the cult like a commoner

Uncle Kuei then became...

a General he dreamt of

Only then did I sense the meaning of

what he said to me in Shanhaikwan

Never expected that a hero that claimed to wipe out foreign tribesmen

would've let the Ching troops in at this juncture

Undress

Go

Hell with you!

Remember,

don't use your martial arts

Love, thy spell is irresistible

Shut up!

Stop!

As I said, none can pass this

Can I leave now?

Yes

Sister, your bridal dress

Cho Yi-hang

Traitor Wu San-kuei led the Ching troops into the pass

At a time when the Ming empire is critical

and needs men to defend its territory

you're having a tryst...

with a rival

Ni-chang and I have both decided to quit the underworld

Yi-hang, so you'd rather let your name stink in history...

because of that witch

You may leave

Goddamn disciple

You betray the one closest to you!

Brother, in any case,

considering the master's upbringing,

you should return to explain everything to him

Hold it!

Since you left, the Chief seldom spoke

I think he's really peevish this time

Think carefully how to explain to him

What's wrong?

The master's body...

Where's the master's body?

Find it! Find it now!

Yes

Uncle...Uncle

Brother

Chief

Hsin Cheng! Hsin Cheng

Brother

Hsin Cheng

Hsin Cheng

Brother

It hurts badly

Hsin Cheng, tell me who did it?

Who did it? Tell me!

Tell me now. Hsin Cheng! Who did it?

While you were away, the wolf girl brought men to kill us

Never thought Wu Tang would end up this way!

She didn't do it!

What?

She was brought up by a wolf, she must be brutal

You brought rack and

tuin to Wu Tang

Why don't you wake up?

Cho Yi-hang, wake up

I've come to see Cho Yi-chang

Witch, to see him after resorting to killing?

What?

Lu-hua

Damn witch

Let's go

We only want to ask you one question

Did you do it?

Their death is not linked to me

All I want to know now is

will you follow me?

Why did you do that?

Why?

Don't let her get away!

Kill this witch!

Why don't you trust me?

Don't ever distrust me

I hate people who do

I swear

I swear under Heaven I would be condemned

if I should ever let Lien Ni-chang down

The witch is possessed. Kill her!

Ni-chang

She's dead

Ni-chang

Yi-hang

Come here, come here

Master

Yi-hang, why didn't you take...

my advice all these years

but go against me in every way?

Yi-hang, you're doing me an injustice

for bringing Wu Tang to such a state

Master, l...

Idiot

Congratulations on your match May you have a long and happy union

You may die tragically

Come out

Come out

Come out!

Brother, why take such an attitude towards me?

Watch out!

What have you got to take away my girl?

You want to know?

Brother, gouge out that bitch's heart for me

Come out

What are you waiting for? Kill her! Kill her!

Kill her!

Hear me? Kill her!

Come on quick!

Why don't you kill her? Kill her!

Brother! Never knew...

you'd be stung by your own conscience

So it's great sleeping this way

Ni-chang