Emperor MAN LIK of Ming Dynasty is enjoying an acrobatic performance when the commander of the Pacification Bureau YUEMAN FUNG leads his team of Brocade Guards and warns the emperor of an assassination attempt. No sooner, the assassin…
While the Mongolian general FUT YEE TO is engaging FUNG and PIK in a combat inside the barge compartment, CHUI TSEUK, commander of the Eastern Depot, arrives to capture KEI but finds himself confronted by the Brocade Guards stationed…
FUNG gives his superior CHEUNG SHING credits for the capture of the head assassin KEI. The emperor summons SHING to the capital. PO is indignant of the favoritism shown to SHING. KEI is about to disclose the identity of the real culprit…
KWAN insists to crack open the coffin to prove HOP’s death by PIK’s poisoning. As soon as the coffin is opened, KWAN takes out HOP’s will and reads it out loud. KWAN’s shrewd scheme reinstates PIK as the grand master. PIK announces that…
SANG and others beat off the bandits with the aid of LUI. When LUI tells the company that he is seeking treatment from TSUN CHING FOOK, the finest doctor in Wenzhou, for his paralyzed mother, HO tells him that FUK has already passed away…
FUNG chances on SZEMA YEE and KAU on a ship, but his revengeful air triggers off the alert device of SZEMA YEE’s sword. KAU loses no time to take him away. The forging of the first sword marks the grand opening of the Celestial Sword…
PIK gives LUI money to treat MANG’s injury but LUI refuses to take it. PIK admires his integrity. She believes that the series of setbacks is a blessing in disguise that bonds the mother and son closer together. SANG blames himself for…
SHING heaps verbal abuse on KWONG at his welcome banquet, but KWONG just shrugs it off. FUNG spies on the WONGs by night. His heart races when he hears WONG YEE addressing PIK as mother. Using a sword forged by Celestial Sword Foundry,…
TING and YIU chance on FEI in a horse market. Again, an argument ensues. The entrance of a white horse causes chaos among the pack of horses and throws the horse traders into a panic. WONG YEE learns of MANG’s worsening condition, but LUI…
FUNG puts WAI behind bars. He suspects that SZEMA YEE is hiding out at the SZEMA mansion. After conducting a postmortem on the bodies of the seven members of the Censor-in-chief CHOW WAI ON, he leads his men to the SZEMA’s residence to…
SZEMA YEE tries to strangle PIK, but FUNG’s sudden appearance steers her from present danger. PIK’s guess is that SZEMA YEE is possessed by his inner devil. She is struck by the sense of familiarity with the stranger who has saved her…
The monks of Hongfa Temple have evacuated after the recurrence of SZEMA YEE’s illness. BLIND MONK strikes a conversation with KAU deliberately outside SZEMA YEE’s room and suggests that his swordsmanship is inferior to the title “Sword…
SZEMA YEE is amazed by TING’s wickedness as he falls into her trap. SHUN immediately pronounces SZEMA YEE the sword master of the clan. PIK knows well that SHUN is trying to make her withdraw by exposing her shortcomings. Unrelenting, she…
WAI notices that MANG didn’t take her medicine. MANG asks her to keep it confidential. WONG YEE brings cakes and pastries to Celestial Sword Foundry. Her feeding of LUI with the sweet treats fills FEI with fury. FEI calls LUI an inferior…
WONG YEE criticizes LUI’s evasiveness. LUI musters up his courage to see PIK, but PIK says that the lovers will only have her blessing if LUI proves himself at the sword contest. LEUNG chances on SZEMA YEE again. He reveals his real…
SANG realizes from the dialogues between FONG and MANG that LUI is in fact PIK’s long-lost son. While SZEMA YEE and LUI are contending for the throne at the sword contest, SANG hurries the news to PIK. PIK bawls out and suspends the…
KWAN uses the death of an escort master to imply PIK’s incapability as the family’s grand master. He sends out secret letters to the heads of other escort carrier branches. FEI is furious to see LUI practicing the WONG’s swordplay…
FUNG hears a dying Wudang discipline muttering the motto “Accomplishing the impossible makes a Wudang disciple.” The words strike a cord with him. FUNG ambushes SZEMA YEE in a restaurant, but SZEMA YEE senses danger and mounts his guard.…
SHING turns down SHUN’s suggestion to entrust half of the weaponry business to the SZEMAs. WAI arranges a rendezvous between LUI and WONG YEE in a desolate temple and urges them to elope. SANG and PIK interrogate WAI and presses her to…
SHING mocks FUNG at his lack of tact in shifting the blame. He decides to hand over the case to the Justice Department. FUNG is relieved to have the task lifted off his shoulders. He leads his men to arrest SHUN at the SZEMA’s residence.…
FUNG lays out a plan to capture SZEMA YEE in Boding. SHING will personally oversee the operation but FUNG knows that SHING is driven by the fear that he will leave him once the task has been accomplished. SHUN is exiled to the frontier.…
LUI and WAI return home to find MANG in a coma and that she has vomited blood. The doctor tells them than MANG will not survive the first day of autumn. Only then LUI realizes that WAI knows nothing about medicine. As her condition…
PIK explains to MANG that she will not recognize LUI for fear that the incestuous love between him and WONG YEE will break his heart. MANG makes LUI work in Celestial Sword Foundry in lieu of the debts he owes the family. WONG YEE asks to…
PIK reactivates the vital point wielding her martial artistry and stops FUNG from killing LUI. She finally reveals the truth about being the mother to LUI. TING chances on WONG YEE on her way to see LUI. Overwhelmed by the trauma of the…
LUI blames himself for WONG YEE’s death, but TING tells him that it was PIK’s fault. LUI chastises PIK’s revengeful nature, which has compelled her to fawn on the rich and influential and betray her daughter that ultimately causes her…
WAI practices hard on noodle making. Her fingers are scarred by cuts. FUNG brings TING to see SHUN one last time. SHUN urges TING to put old feuds and hatred behind her to lead a tranquil, peaceful life, but TING will not rest her case…
SHING praises TING’s ruthlessness. TING asks to work for SHING and reveals to him the relationship between PIK, FUNG and LUI. SHING summons PIK and instigates her to seize the chance when Celestial Sword Foundry presents CHING the sword…
SHING lobbies for LUI’s alliance inside the Pacification Bureau’s prison, but a hysterical LUI tires to strangle SHING. Outraged by his insanity, SHING orders the prisoner’s tattoo on LUI. KAU reports to SZEMA YEE on his surveillance on…
PIK pays a nocturnal obeisance to LUI when she meets BLIND MONK. The teachings of the monk linger in her mind during the entire night. The following day, PIK decides to pay the monk a visit at Qingxin Temple, where she chances on FUNG who…
FUNG takes PIK to hide out in the Wudang headquarters. FUNG laments that the Wudang Sect has gone into a decline due to its revengeful disciples. He digs up the sword that he wielded against SZEMA YEE before the emperor at the royal sword…
FUNG follows the sound of the zither to LEUNG. LEUNG recalls the day when SZEMA YEE saved her life and agreed to challenge FUNG to a duel as she requested. She also promised SZEMA YEE that she would forfeit her life if FUNG were defeated,…
WAI wakes up and finds herself in the wilderness. Suspecting the black-garbed assassin to be LUI, she travels to the capital to seek confirmation, but to no avail. An exhausted WAI loses consciousness on the hilltop, aided in time by YIU…
TING orders KAU to kill WAI. YIU strikes a deal with TING by exchanging FUNG’s whereabouts for WAI’s safety. TING tells SHING of FUNG’s hiding place, but SHING rebuts her faulty intelligence. While YIU is forcing the unwilling WAI to…
LUI learns the true causes of WAI’s rashes from a doctor and realizes he has wrongly blamed TING. TING carries a drunken LUI back to his room. She takes off her clothes and sleeps with him. LUI wakes up to the unsettling realization that…
FUNG questions TSEUK’s role in the assassination. TSEUK admits to his defection to a more capable man. PO reports CHING’s murder to the emperor with TSEUK testifying against FUNG as the assassin. FUNG wonders why LUI struggles to live on…
TING loses her nerve when she sees WAI, who is in her poisoned state, has gone missing. WAI flees and meets KAU. She complains of a split headache but KAU believes that she suffers from amnesia. TING makes up her mind to kill her but WAI…
SZEMA YEE loses the flimsy faith he has in TING as he finds out that he has downed her poisonous wine. He returns and chastises her ruthlessness. He draws his sword and is about to slash her when KAU intercepts. SZEMA YEE falls down,…
LUI returns to the magistrate’s office and is met by a wounded TING, who lies that her injury is inflicted by FUNG. FUNG urges LUI to leave the rank of the Brocade Guards, but LUI blames him for injuring TING and shoots him with his…
LUI penetrates the prison cell and redeems SANG, leaving behind SHAN’s body. FUNG seeks to find out if LUI has forgiven PIK. LUI blames himself for his stupidity and inability to discern good from evil. PIK appears to embrace him. SHING…
TING has fled to a morgue where the Brocade Guards almost catch her. Again, KAU comes to her rescue. TING has made up her mind when seeing her heroic benefactor. The rescue plan and intrusion of FUNG and PIK fill SHING with fury. He even…
FUNG fights his way to the hall of SHING’s residence. SHING begs him to spare his life but FUNG insists that he will not go against the emperor’s will. Just then, the emperor arrives with his guards and reveals the discords sown between…
PIK feels concern over TING who nearly miscarries and pleads her to spare the new life from the curse of vendetta. TING intends to abort KAU’s bastard once she has her revenge exacted. Her merciless speech breaks KAU’s heart. LUI arrives…
