The Nuo Opera can expel the pestilence.
Can it relieve me from anxiety?
Assassin!
Get out of the way!
Protect His Majesty!
=Legend of Fei: The Unbeatable=
(Adapted from Legend of Fei on JJWXC Written by Priest)
Hyah!
(Three Days Ago)
Hyah!
Hyah! After him!
Big... Big Dippers are coming.
Shoot... Shoot the whistling arrow
to warn the Fortress of the Forty-Eight.
Sir, sir, look.
The stars are on fire.
Your Majesty,
the Fortress of the Forty-Eight is suddenly besieged by the North.
For your information,
the head of Big Dippers Shen Tianshu came to the border with his armies,
trying to exterminate us.
As the head of our Fortress,
I’m at daggers drawn with the North.
I’ll fight them to the death.
Sadly, we have poor weapons
and less than ten thousand soldiers.
Besides, we have thousands of women, children, and old people.
I’m afraid they’ll be dead innocently
if enemies break in.
Now, I asked my daughter Jinrong to send you a letter.
Please send troops to us
and help us out.
My men and I will collaborate with you
to have a desperate fight against them.
Your Majesty, please made a decision.
From Li Zheng.
Regards.
Jinrong, what are you rushing for?
Jinrong!
My Lady, calm down. Amiability attracts riches.
I have no amiability. I have anger only.
Your father is...
Father, I broke his arm.
But he still wanted to carve it for me.
(Li Jinrong, Li Zheng’s Daughter)
You... Look at you.
He loves you.
(Li Zheng, Head of the Fortress) It’s okay when you don’t want his love.
But why did you break his arm?
What if you fall in love with someone?
It wasn’t my first time to break people’s arms.
You’re kicking me out for this?
And with such losers?
With a teacher, you will know how far you should go.
With enemies, you will know how capable you are.
Now, you know neither of them.
I can no longer instruct you.
Take this letter to Jinling.
Yitang will instruct you
for me.
I’m not going!
If you win, you can stay.
Otherwise,
leave and send the letter.
The grit used to be the mountain.
Your present used to be our past.
Ordinary people live in this world.
Why can’t you believe
your blade is all-conquering?
Everyone starts his life
from standing up.
No one can be better.
This time, I asked you to leave
so that you can see how the grit becomes the mountain
and how the mountain becomes the grit.
Why did Father ask us to take pathways
instead of main roads?
Stop.
Go.
(Qiu Tianji, General of Big Dippers)
Today, we’ll have a sure catch.
Where is this place?
Where are we going?
Jinrong, no roads are available now.
That’s why your father asked you to leave the Fortress
and send the letter.
-Doomed. Dragon Armor. -They’re with Big Dippers.
Be very careful!
Stop them!
Gather up and protect Jinrong!
Protect Miss Jinrong!
Hurry!
Hurry! Gather up!
Hurry!
Jinrong.
I know you don’t like it.
-Take her away. I’ll bring up the rear! -But I’m afraid
I don’t have time to make a better one for you.
Take this one.
Song Xiaofei!
Xiaofei!
Mr. Song, leave!
Jinrong, leave!
Go!
Run! Send the letter!
Mr. Song!
There’s no way out.
You’re Shen Tianshu, the head of Big Dippers?
(Shen Tianshu, Head of Big Dippers)
Your father told you about me?
What did he say?
He said you were a good man, but insisted on being a bandit!
Li Zheng is wrong!
In this world,
I’m an official while he’s the bandit.
Yellow and Green Palm, Duan Jiuniang?
Silly girl, why are you rude to me?
Kill the North Demons if you dare.
We’ve been in harmony with the rest of the world.
Why did the North Demons suddenly come?
Was it you?
Nonsense!
(Duan Jiuniang, Yellow and Green Palm) Instead of killing Shen Tianshu,
(Duan Jiuniang, Yellow and Green Palm) your father kept him alive.
Now, Cao Zhongkun is in power.
Then Shen Tianshu comes to beat you.
What does it concern me?
You mustn’t ask like that again.
Got it?
Where’s your father?
Pull out your blade!
What are you looking at?
Show me.
I’m going to Jinling.
Shut up!
Why are you going to Jinling?
North Demons are everywhere.
Don’t you know?
Let me take you to see your father
and kill them all.
Today,
my father suddenly summoned me
and wanted to compete with me.
I thought he wanted to teach me a lesson.
Turns out
he was entrusting me.
He deliberately made me defeat him,
so that I could build prestige.
In this way, our young talents
would leave with me without concern.
Father.
I won.
Funny.
I thought I succeeded in blade artistry.
Entrusting what? Give me the letter.
I underestimated the enemies.
They died, protecting me.
I made a mistake.
I can’t make another one!
Why must I listen to you?
Come back.
The Fortress of the Forty-Eight is easy to hold but hard to attack.
Even if all the seven Big Dippers come,
they can’t break in within a short time.
Stay with my father.
I will come back with reinforcements in two months!
She’s just as ungrateful as her father.
You’re too impatient. You still need to be tempered.
(The West)
Hyah!
How do you know someone is coming?
Tun, the sixth divination.
Four horses are coming with tears of blood.
Here comes an old friend and we may meet.
But Shen Tianshu
isn’t a kind man.
If he’s stuck in your Eight-trigram Formation
for a long time,
I’m afraid he’ll burn the bamboo forest.
Looks like it’s going to rain.
He can’t burn the forest.
Go pick her up.
I’ll go get the rain.
(As recorded in the book, burn the wood on dry days.)
(Push the ashes off the cliff and it will rain.)
My Lord, look at the stone.
Every time I pass it,
I nick it.
Here are already twelve nicks.
Mr. Gantang is said
to have an ability to rule the country
and mysterious skills.
This is where he lives.
My Lord, we...
Light the fire.
Whoever breaks in will be dead!
Mr. Shen.
There are black and white chessmen in sharp contrast.
(Zhou Yitang, Mr. Gantang) You play chess best in the world.
(Zhou Yitang, Mr. Gantang) Why do you pass off black as white
and regard the other place as your hometown?
Do you think black and white chessmen
refer to right and wrong?
No.
They refer to my enemies and me.
Mr. Shen,
you’re going to destroy the Fortress of the Forty-Eight
and make yourself the strongest in the world.
But in chess,
sometimes we win, sometimes we lose.
When you’re so eager for victory,
you’re far from being a real master.
Shut up!
Fire the forest.
Aye.
Take the firebrands.
Report! It suddenly rains in the forest.
We can’t fire the wet bamboo or earth.
Don’t worry.
When I count down three, he’ll retreat.
Three, two, one.
Report!
His Majesty asked you to go back to the capital
for something urgent.
You mustn’t delay.
Go.
You got her back?
Yes.
It’s Jinrong.
(Zhou Yitang’s Residence)
(Liang Shao, Prime Minister of the West)
Since we moved to the west,
there have been over a hundred wars on the border
within three years, big or small.
His Majesty is still young.
With an unstable foundation, our people live a hard life.
We have to arrange large armies along the Yangtze River,
in case the North armies come west.
Cao Zhongkun asked Big Dippers to attack your Fortress,
trying to destroy our foundation.
We can hardly handle ourselves.
Once we care for our relationship
and send troops to help you,
the North armies will break in.
By then,
the world will be ruined.
We can’t help.
The essence of the West doesn’t lie in its soldiers,
but in its legitimism.
Now, people are suffering.
If the West turns a blind eye, they’ll be ungrateful.
If they do nothing to help the Fortress of the Forty-Eight,
they’ll be disloyal.
Ungrateful men will arouse people’s scorn.
They won’t have legitimism anymore!
We share a common lot.
You know it better than me.
Jinrong.
Be patient.
My teacher will keep your people alive.
(The North Army came to the border. The Fortress of the Forty-Eight...)
Only alive?
The North Army besieged my home and killed our people.
You’ll let it go
just by keeping the others safe?
What do you want?
We always
pay a debt of gratitude
and take revenge on our enemies!
I’ll kill him!
Before the Fortress of the Forty-Eight is eradicated,
the North will not be in peace.
You won’t feel satisfied,
unless Li Zheng and his daughter die.
But being enemies against the Fortress of the Forty-Eight
means being enemies against all heroes.
His Majesty didn’t ask you to do nothing.
He asked you not to take rash action.
But there’s no turning back for me!
For ten years,
the sharp-edged hasn’t been used yet.
Each weapon
has its own destiny.
Go.
(Huxin Hall)
(Gengwu)
The North palace is heavily guarded.
(Wuchen)
Common girls
(Guimao) can’t approach the Emperor
unless they join beauty-selecting.
If you’re scared, I’ll go for you.
If Jinrong dies,
our dynasty will disappoint all heroes.
How will we still have legitimism?
Ask Wen Yu to go to the Fortress of the Forty-Eight
with my soldiers
and keep Li Zheng safe.
You shall go and get Jinrong back.
When you enter the palace,
your body no longer belongs to yourself.
(Wuzi)
There’s killing intent in your eyes.
But I like it.
Come to my room after the banquet.
Beat the drum to bury the pestilence.
The Nuo Opera is performed
to expel the ballsy stuff.
In 49 days,
it’ll bring health and longevity
to Your Majesty.
(Cao Zhongkun) The Nuo Opera can expel the pestilence.
Can it relieve me from anxiety?
Assassin!
Get out of the way!
Protect His Majesty!
Traitor!
Don’t pull it. If you do,
I’ll die.
Look out there. I come to save you.
It’s fun.
My boat is parked at the dock in the back.
When I came,
I cut their mooring ropes.
They can’t catch up soon.
What about you?
Leave without me.
No way.
We always pay a debt of gratitude
and take revenge on our enemies.
You saved my life.
I must pay you back.
I’m wounded and I can’t run fast.
Leave. You don’t need to pay me back.
Yitang.
Don’t forget.
I hate it most when I’m in debt!
I must
pay you back!
Here! Catch them!
Go.
-Stop running! -Hurry!
The boat is over there.
Here we are!
This way.
-Hurry! Hurry! -Stop running!
Catch them!
Tell me. Why must she kill me?
What health or longevity?
Zhao Yuan of the West is only ten years old.
He’s done nothing, but everyone supports him.
I...
I put down civil strives and resist foreign aggressions.
I solve the flood problem and placate refugees.
I suppress the North by myself.
In the end, they call me North Demon.
North Demon!
Your Majesty, you make achievements to go down in history.
Such folks
will not understand.
You don’t need to blame yourself.
I hear
a country is ruled well with strict laws
and it is in chaos without strict laws.
Your Majesty, she assassinated you.
All her families should be killed.
Their heads should be hung on city gate as a warning to people.
Your Majesty, don’t show any mercy,
or our laws will be neglected.
Investigate.
Investigate!
I said I would pay you back.
Now you’re safe.
I’ve got something else to do.
No one can save you again.
You needn’t have saved me.
When I was little, Mr. Li needn’t have saved me, either.
We’re even, then.
Stop bothering with my problem.
I don’t want to get your people involved.
See you.
The war lasted for years on the border.
Now Cao Zhongkun is sick.
We finally have the chance to take a break.
No one wants to continue the war.
Now,
Shen Tianshu halts his troops down the Fortress of the Forty-Eight.
Let’s go back and discuss about it.
There will be a turn for the better.
I haven’t read too many books.
But my father told me a story.
I always remember it.
He said he had met a county magistrate,
who loved to raise fierce dogs.
Once one of his fierce dogs
nearly bit a scholar to death.
A butcher passed by.
He killed the fierce dog and saved the scholar.
Theoretically, the county magistrate was in the wrong.
But he loved his dog.
Then he threatened and bribed the scholar
so that he said
he was a friend of the dog
and was just having fun with it.
The butcher killed the dog without a reason.
He was then executed.
Do you know
how my father commented on that?
People at the bottom are usually loyal
while scholars are usually ungrateful.
Leave as you wish.
Since when were you so nagging?
When I was little, your father saved me.
I just paid you back.
You shall just leave.
I’m a student of the Prime Minister.
If people see me stay with you,
my teacher will be humiliated.
I said I would pay you back.
I wouldn’t leave halfway.
Your Majesty.
This is the unique wrought iron from Fortress of the Forty-Eight.
Since ancient times,
scholars break laws with literature while martial artists use martial arts.
Now all martial artists
follow the lead of the Fortress of the Forty-Eight.
Before it’s annihilated,
assassins will never stop.
Your Majesty, we must destroy them completely.
Please let me dispatch troops
to annihilate the Fortress of the Forty-Eight!
Annihilate the Fortress of the Forty-Eight?
You want me to make an enemy of all martial artists?
Everything in this world
goes wrong without a right reason.
It can’t succeed when it goes wrong.
Li Zheng has a great reputation.
You want to kill him in the name of a hairpin?
Without a right reason,
how can I rule the world?
Report!
We found something in the side hall.
It might be from the assassin.
I saw this woman before.
I’m serious. I saw her in the kitchen.
I also saw this
in the cave on the mountain
behind the Fortress of the Forty-Eight.
It belonged to Li Jinrong.
Your Majesty.
She is Li Jinrong,
the daughter of Li Zheng, head of the Fortress of the Forty-Eight.
Yitang?
Yitang!
Your Majesty, please make a final decision!
During the year of Yongping
when I didn’t take the throne yet,
I killed some traitors.
Some supported me and some didn’t.
Assassins broke in.
You stood in front of me
and warded them off.
If I didn’t kill those traitors...
With loyalty to me,
you’re my capable assistant.
This time,
don’t let me down.
Girl.
Do me a favor.
I’m here.
Come and bury my head.
Did you see a sick scholar?
Where has he gone?
Bury my head and I’ll tell you.
How can you tell me when you’re buried?
If I tell you,
what if you don’t bury me?
Don’t bother.
If you want to die, I can knock you to death.
Don’t! If you kill me,
my sister will kill you.
Psychopath!
Don’t go!
(Duan Dalang, Yellow and Green Palm)
Yellow and Green Palm?
South Blade?
Stop!
Mr. Duan beached me
and brought me to the village.
He’s the senior brother of Miss Duan Jiuniang.
He’s also your father’s friend.
Yellow and Green Palm
has yellow and green ways
which repel and attract each other.
Mr. Duan uses the Green way.
Because of the Yellow martial art,
his heart was wounded and he went crazy.
He then stayed in the village.
He saved us by chance.
If you want to take revenge, I won’t stop you.
If you know how to go after profit and avoid harm
or find an easier way to survive,
you won’t be Li Jinrong.
But Mr. Duan wants you to give Miss Duan Jiuniang
something very urgent.
He’s determined to die in the village.
It’s the last wish of a hero.
You shouldn’t let him down.
Now you’re safe. See you.
Girl, don’t rush to go.
I won’t bury you.
Fine, then. I’ve killed so many people.
I can bury myself.
Girl, take it!
It’s Yangsui Bead.
It’s glass, but looks like crystal.
At noon, the bead will have a shadow.
Carry it with mugwort and there will be fire.
When you see my junior sister Duan Jiuniang,
give it to her.
Tell her it’s from your father.
Why don’t you give it to her personally?
This village is where I should be buried.
I can’t leave.
Why are you rushing to die?
I’m staying here to keep my friends company.
And Jiuniang. I’ll wait until she comes back.
I don’t want to kill myself.
But you do.
I have my duty to do.
I won’t regret as long as I die a worthy death.
What a pity on Mr. Zhou’s love
for you!
What do you mean?
And your father Li Zheng.
He spent his life studying on blade.
But his son and daughter
are both stupid.
What a waste!
Nonsense!
Do you know what hatred means?
Your Fortress is besieged
and you’re hating them. Ridiculous!
I don’t mean to kill him!
But he’s trying to destroy my home!
My father devoted his life to the Fortress of the Forty-Eight!
It shouldn’t be destroyed like that!
Yellow and Green Palm is unparalleled in the world!
It shouldn’t disappear
like this!
Didn’t your father tell you
out of every crisis comes opportunity?
You haven’t had perfect blade artistry yet.
I don’t care.
I just want to kill Cao Zhongkun!
Do you know how many graves are there in the village?
413!
I counted them every day.
They all died because of me.
One year ago, I came south, looking for my junior sister.
When I passed the village,
I saw the harsh government of the North!
Then I killed the official
and expelled all guards in the village.
One month later
when I came back,
I found that the village was sacked by bandits
and all villagers were killed
because all guards were gone!
From then on, I swore
I would never kill anyone.
Girl.
I only killed the chief of a village.
If you kill the emperor of a dynasty,
what will the world suffer?
It’s been years and you’ve never changed.
Do you remember
there’s a wolf’s den on the mountain?
I was only eight years old
when my parents were killed.
The demons made their scapula
into a bone comb.
When I picked up their dead bodies,
I couldn’t find even a complete piece of bone.
I used to study when I was little.
I never saw martial artists like you
who could fight.
I can’t join you.
Every day, I missed my parents.
Until one day,
they tricked me to the wolf’s den in the mountain.
In the darkness,
I saw the comb again made of my parents’ bone.
Are you an idiot?
Come up!
What are you scared of?
I’ll practice the Snow-breaking Blade
a million times
so that I’ll skin them for you!
When you turned up,
I realized I saw nothing, but terror.
At that time,
I found you very different.
You were never scared of anything
as if you had no sense of fear.
But when I see you this time,
I feel you have scruples.
What am I scared of?
Shall we
bet?
Hyah!
The cliff is right ahead.
If you’re scared, ask me to stop
and go back to Jinling with me.
What if I’m not scared?
Pretend you didn’t see me
and do whatever you want to!
Stop!
You lose.
You’re scared.
Scared of falling into pieces.
I could dodge and get off the horse.
Then what are you scared of?
You!
Why didn’t you dodge?
Seems like Li Jinrong is around.
A great man died and couldn’t come back again!
He died on the battle field and would go to heaven!
Farewell to Master Li!
When I was little, my father said
I couldn’t have perfect blade artistry
until I visited the whole world
and cared for everything.
A great man died and couldn’t come back again!
He died on the battle field and would go to heaven!
Farewell to Master Li!
When I got down the mountain,
I saw people suffering everywhere.
I want to kill Cao Zhongkun and end everything.
But all of you told me
this wasn’t as easy as I imagined.
My father died in the political struggle.
Before your father took me back to Fortress of the Forty-Eight,
he had taken me to watch the tide.
Then I realized people would die
and everything would wither.
Cao Zhongkun or the legal emperor
are just as transient as fleeting clouds in history.
Only the people
can be immortal.
Miss Duan, Big Dippers are down the mountain.
You’ll get yourself killed!
Miss Duan!
I’m alone.
I’ll kill as many enemies I can.
Jinrong is down the mountain. Shoot the whistling arrow
and tell that her father is dead. Ask her to come back for revenge!
Miss Duan, don’t go!
When I was home,
I thought I was unbeatable.
When I left home,
I realized I had a narrow view.
I’ll go back home
and practice Snow-breaking Blade a million times!
You lost.
Go. Let’s go home.
A great man died and couldn’t come back again!
He died on the battle field and would go to heaven!
Farewell to Master Li!
Shoot the whistling arrow.
Jinrong, go back with me.
Let’s have a further discussion.
Give the Bead to Duan Jiuniang.
Let’s go give it to her together.
You care for the people.
But I only have the hatred.
I know I can’t stop you.
Promise me the last thing.
Take the Bead with you
and give it to Jiuniang someday.
When we part,
we’ll never see each other again!
Girl, here we meet again.
Seems like I must kill you now.
Last time, Duan Jiuniang saved you.
Who else can save you this time?
Me!
-Don’t let him run away! -Stop!
Stop!
Stop running after them!
Damn the North Demons.
What happened?
Damn the man!
He had thorns all over him.
A couple of months ago,
I heard Jiuniang would marry Li Zheng.
But she needed one button for her wedding dress.
I went to the north
and fought the North Blade.
I took the Yangsui Bead
off his blade.
I’ll go get the antidote!
She will not like the bead
I found for her.
Tell her
your father found it for her.
She often cursed me for being confused.
Don’t tell her you met me
so that she will think
I’m still living a free life in the west.
I can’t decide what a life I live.
But I can at lease choose how to die.
North Demons,
how dare you disturb us!
Give her the Bead
if you want her to have it!
The North Blade and the South Blade.
The Mountain Sword.
Yellow and Green Palm in the West.
Immortal on Penglai Island.
The North Blade traveled far away.
Immortal on Penglai Island lived in seclusion.
The Mountain Sword, Yellow and Green Palm and South Blade
have all died.
We, Big Dippers,
will take charge of the world.
I would no longer kill anyone.
I kept my promise.
Today is the last day of the Nuo Opera.
A living person should be killed as sacrifice to Heaven
as blessing for His Majesty.
The female assassin of the Fortress of the Forty-Eight
can be the best sacrifice.
We’ll use her blood
-to cover the place in the main hall -Kneel!
to keep His Majesty safe.
When I caught her,
we found Yangsui Bead accidentally.
The Bead can keep a balance of body
and regulate muscles and veins.
It’s the origin of energy.
Your Majesty, you have great luck.
With it, you’ll certainly be healthy
and live a long life.
Time is up.
Get it started.
Assassin! Protect His Majesty.
You?
Silly girl.
You really think we killed your father?
Why don’t you ask her?
They’re right.
I became famous at a young age and offended many people.
When I was besieged, your father saved me.
I should have called him senior.
But he took care of me so carefully.
I love him, but he thought I was just kidding.
He told me he couldn’t forget his dead wife.
Bah.
Later I heard he had enmity with Big Dippers.
I had planned to catch a Big Dipper
and made him happy.
Unexpectedly, I met him.
When he couldn’t defeat me, he poisoned me!
I fell in his trap.
Your father came in time
and forced the poison out of me.
Later I knew
the poison couldn’t be forced out.
Your father transfused the poison to himself.
Damn the North Demons!
Knowing your father was poisoned,
they dared to besiege the Fortress of the Forty-Eight.
Today, I’ll make you pay with your life!
No, psychopath!
Didn’t you say
you needed a button for your wedding dress?
My father got it for you.
Don’t you want it?
To make him look at me,
I wholeheartedly studied his blade artistry.
I wanted to create some martial art to defeat his.
It would be better if I could get him back forcibly.
Every now and then, I visited your home.
Every time I was defeated.
I still went there after that.
I wanted to spend my whole life there.
It’s hard to estimate people’s heart. Even a strong player loses.
Shen, I win this game.
It’s wise of you, Your Majesty. I lose.
I’ll go announce the decree.
Did I allow you to go?
Today, I bet with Shen.
I bet he couldn’t kill you.
If I win, he’ll go announce the decree.
Aren’t you curious about its content?
(Retreat and keep the pass in peace...)
Retreat from our Fortress?
People support the Fortress of the Forty-Eight.
However heavily my palace is guarded,
we can’t stop all heroes in the world.
Besides, your men
are all loyal.
I respect you.
How will I kill you?
Leave.
Take my decree
and go home.
So, you never planned to kill me.
You just wanted to catch me
and let me go safely
so that all heroes in this world will see
how you requite evil with good!
No wonder people call you North Demon!
You’re not only a hypocrite,
but also a brute!
How dare you!
There’re three modes and nine moves of Snow-breaking Blade.
You asked me what mode you took.
I didn’t want to tell you,
because I didn’t want you
to always fight battles.
The trick of the martial world isn’t complicated.
In the martial world, people kill each other.
When you’re in a corner
and you have nothing to rely on
but your blade,
you will
have the perfect blade artistry.
My father is dead. Yitang left, too.
Mr. Song, Xiaofei and Mr. Duan are all dead.
After all this, I finally realized that.
The essence of Snow-breaking Blade
doesn’t lie in being all-conquering.
Instead, when no one is around me,
I can only brandish my blade forward!
You no longer care
for the Fortress of the Forty-Eight?
To fall back safely
or to die with me?
Make your own choice.
But later,
when heroes see us,
they’ll only think of your mercy on me.
I prefer to die with you!
Girl.
Look, this is Yangsui Bead on the North Blade.
Your father always knew what I liked.
He cared for me.
Congratulations. Your Snow-breaking Blade has succeeded.
Cao Zhongkun, to leave safely
or to die with us?
Make your own choice.
Your Majesty, the West army came to the border!
They’ve crossed the river. Your Majesty, make a decision soon!
I had a senior brother.
He told me
loving each other could be the hardest thing.
Staying with the each other could be even harder.
Jinrong, he didn’t release you.
I won you back personally.
Stay safe. I’m your stepmother.
I’ll avenge your father!
I didn’t tell her the truth.
In such a big world, where is my home?
You’re not going back?
Before I came, I stole my teacher’s commander’s tally
and took fifty thousand elite soldiers to help the Fortress.
For this, I disabled myself of my martial arts
and betrayed my teacher
to prove it had nothing to do with the West.
Now I’m homeless.
Please take me in, My Lady.
We never support a useless man.
Now you’ve succeeded in your blade.
I wonder
if I’m honored
to be your scabbard.
We must go home, however long the trip is.
Let’s go home.