Previously
前情
Previously: Duan Yu, heir of the Prince of Zhennan, had come through a strange turn of events at the Valley of Ten Thousand Calamities. The "wife" he had only lately claimed, Mu Wanqing, turned out to be his own sister; and at his side was a new disciple — the killer Old Yue the Third. Dazed and unsettled, he left the valley with his father and journeyed back to the city of Dali. Home lay just ahead, and yet a great matter hung over the house: Jiumozhi, State Preceptor of Tubo, had come knocking, to "borrow" the Duan clan's treasured secret art.
话说上一回，镇南王世子段誉在万劫谷里走了一遭：认来的"媳妇"木婉清，转眼成了他的亲妹妹；身边还多出一个杀人不眨眼的恶人徒弟岳老三。他恍恍惚惚，跟着父亲出了谷，一路往大理城去。家就在眼前，可家里还压着一件大事——吐蕃国师鸠摩智登门，要"借"段氏的镇寺绝学。
Chapter 1: Homecoming — and a Warning
第一回 归京见驾，警讯随到
Back in Dali, Duan Yu followed his father straight to Tianlong Temple. This kingdom of Dali lay in the southwest, roughly the land of today's Yunnan — high mountains and long rivers, a corner of the world all its own, and a realm that had been Buddhist for age upon age, its ancient temples standing thick as trees. This temple was the Duan family's own ancestral shrine; most of its eminent monks were elders of the Duan clan, and it was common for sons of the house to visit, burn incense, and hear the sutras.
且说段誉随父回到大理，脚不着地，先进天龙寺。这大理国地处西南，大约在今天云南一带，山高水长，自成一隅，国中世代崇佛，古刹林立。此寺是段氏的家庙，寺中高僧多是段家的前辈，段氏子弟进庙随喜、听经，是家常便饭。
The uncle Duan Yu was to see, Duan Zhengming, was no less than the emperor of the kingdom of Dali —
段誉这一回要见的伯父，名叫段正明。他正是大理国的皇帝——
"The present emperor, Duan Zhengming, bore the imperial title of Emperor Baoding."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, serialized edition 「当今皇帝段正明，帝号称为保定帝」
——《天龙八部》（连载版） This Emperor Baoding was a man of generous heart and deep faith in the Buddha. The Duan clan of Dali had been Buddhist for generations, and its princely sons often gave themselves up to the temple to become monks. Meeting his nephew, the uncle stepped back two paces and called him "Yu'er"; the abbot of Tianlong Temple in this generation was named Benyin, and between him and Emperor Baoding there was the proper courtesy of senior and junior. As for this Duan Yu: though he was heir of the Prince of Zhennan, raised in silks and fine fare, he was a scholar to the bone, and from childhood had no love for martial arts, caring only for books and the talk of Buddha. On ordinary days it mattered little; but now, with a great enemy at the door and the temple full of masters of martial art, a prince who knew no fighting, caught in their midst, felt himself all the more of no use at all.
这位保定帝为人宽厚，笃信佛法——大理段氏世代信佛，皇族子弟常常舍身入寺，出家为僧。伯父见了他，退后两步，唤他"誉儿"；这一代天龙寺的方丈名叫本因，与保定帝之间自有长幼尊卑的礼数。说到这位段誉，他虽是镇南王世子，锦衣玉食，人却一派书生气，从小就不喜武功，只爱读书谈佛；平日倒也罢了，如今大敌临门，满寺都是武学高人，他一个不会武功的王子夹在中间，更觉自己百无一用。
Then there were the Duan clan's two treasured arts. One was the "One Yang Finger" — the finger-pointing art of sealing acupoints that the Duan family counted its own, all its force gathered at a single fingertip. The other was the "Six Meridians Sword." These two skills were the Duan family's very foundation, and by custom they were never taught to outsiders.
再说段家的两门看家绝学：一门叫"一阳指"——段氏看家的点穴指法，一点之力凝于指尖；一门叫"六脉神剑"。这两门功夫是段氏安身的家底，寻常绝不外传。
Scarcely had Duan Yu settled in when word reached the temple: the State Preceptor of Tubo — a powerful kingdom to the southwest — Jiumozhi, announced that he would come to Tianlong Temple to "borrow scriptures." A foreign state preceptor, from across a thousand mountains and rivers, naming the scriptures of the Duan family shrine as what he wished to borrow — the words sounded courteous, but a chill ran beneath them.
段誉才安顿下来，风声就传到了寺里：吐蕃——西南的一个强国——的国师鸠摩智，扬言要上天龙寺来"借经"。一个外邦的国师，隔着千山万水，指名要借大理段氏家庙的经卷——这话听着客气，里头却透着一股凉气。
Chapter 2: The State Preceptor Calls
第二回 国师登门，礼数周全
And what sort of figure was this Jiumozhi? Tubo sat upon the southwestern plateau, cut off from Dali by range upon range of mountains and rivers — one on the high plateau, the other among the mountains — two places that had never troubled each other's wells. He was the State Preceptor of the kingdom of Tubo, honored with the title "the Great Wheel Ming King," and the monastery he presided over was called the Great Wheel Monastery. In martial skill he stood among the very first of his day.
你道这鸠摩智是何等人物？吐蕃坐落在西南高原之上，与大理隔着重重山水——一个在高原上，一个在群山里，原本井水不犯河水。他是吐蕃国的国师，封号"大轮明王"，他住持的寺院叫大轮寺；武功之高，在当世数一数二。
That day he came to the door with a full retinue, flawless in courtesy and refined in speech, and announced but one purpose — an exchange of martial-arts texts. Arrived at the temple, Abbot Benyin led him to the seat of honor —
他那日登门，带了一队仪仗，礼数周全，谈吐儒雅，开口只说一件事——交流武学典籍。到了寺中，本因方丈引他上座——
"Abbot Benyin said, 'Be seated, Bright King.'"
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, revised edition 「本因方丈道："明王请坐"」
——《天龙八部》（修订版） The words were courteous; the matter was anything but. A foreign state preceptor from across a thousand mountains and rivers had named the Duan family shrine as his destination — no good could come of it, and every monk knew it. And indeed, before ever he came to the door, word had reached the temple: the top masters of the Duan clan had already gathered at Tianlong Temple:
话说得客气，事却半点不客气：一个外邦国师隔着千山万水，点名要登段氏家庙的门——来者不善，众僧心里都有数。原来在他登门之前，风声一到，段氏的绝顶高手就已尽数聚到了天龙寺：
"The top masters of the Duan clan had all gathered at Tianlong Temple."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, new revised edition 「段氏的绝顶高手，尽皆聚于天龙寺」
——《天龙八部》（新修版） In the temple they drilled the Six Meridians Sword day and night; and every man knew it in his heart: this battle could not be avoided.
寺里日夜操演六脉神剑，人人心里都清楚：这一仗，躲不过去。
The one who could truly hold the ground was the long-retired Master Kurong — the eldest monk in the temple by seniority — and his intent, for the moment, no one could guess.
真正压得住场面的，是那位久不出面的枯荣大师——寺中辈分最高的老僧，他的用意，旁人一时猜不透。
Chapter 3: The Dagger Revealed
第三回 图穷匕见，宝经当门
Let us speak plainly of Jiumozhi's true aim. After much circling, it finally showed itself: what he wanted was the Duan clan's temple treasure — the Six Meridians Sword Manual. This manual the sons of Duan also called the diagrams, or the sword classic; it was a secret never meant to be passed on.
单说鸠摩智的真意。他绕来绕去，终于露了出来——他要的，是大理段氏的镇寺之宝《六脉神剑剑谱》。这卷剑谱，段氏子弟口里也叫图谱、剑经，本是不传之秘。
But hold — we must make clear what this martial art actually was. Its name says "sword," yet it was no true sword. It used the fingers as a sword, sending sword-qi out from the fingertips, and it made up six sets of sword technique, each with its own name. This art did not spring from nothing; it took the One Yang Finger as its foundation. And more to the point, to set it in motion at all, one had to possess exceedingly deep internal power.
且慢，这门武功究竟是什么，得说清楚。它的名字里带"剑"，却不是真剑；它是以指为剑，剑气从指尖发出，一共六路剑法，每路各有名目。这门功夫并非凭空而来，它以一阳指为根基；更要紧的是，要使得动它，非得有极深厚的内力不可。
Why did Jiumozhi set his eye on the Duan clan's manual? The pretext he laid upon the table was a man. In those years he had come to know an elder of the Murong house of Gusu in Jiangnan — a famed martial clan of the realm — and this is how their acquaintance began —
鸠摩智为什么盯上段氏的剑谱？他搬上台面的由头，就是一个人。当年他跟江南姑苏慕容家——江湖上赫赫有名的一门武林世家——的一位前辈，就是这样结识的——
"Years ago, in the land of Tianzhu, this humble monk and he met by chance, and we talked of arms and discoursed on the sword."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, serialized edition 「昔年小僧与彼在天竺国邂逅相逢，讲武论剑。」
——《天龙八部》（连载版） Who was this "him"? He was an elder of the house of Murong — his surname Murong, his given name the single character "Bo." Murong Bo, an elder of the "Murong of Gusu," and some years ago he had passed away.
这"彼"是谁？这位前辈复姓慕容，单名一个"博"字——慕容博，"姑苏慕容"的老一辈人物，前些年已经去世了。
Jiumozhi said that in his lifetime Murong Bo could never put this sword art from his mind —
鸠摩智说，慕容博生前对这路剑法念念不忘——
"Master Murong, in the things he said, was full of praise for your temple's 'Six Meridians Sword' — and he deeply regretted that he never saw it with his own eyes."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, revised edition 「慕容先生言下对贵寺'六脉神剑'备致推崇，深以未得拜观为憾。」
——《天龙八部》（修订版） For this he had come west — to make good on a word given long ago —
他此番西来，为的就是这句话——
"I mean to beg this classic from your temple, and burn it before Master Murong's grave."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, serialized edition 「拟向贵寺讨求该经，焚化于慕容先生墓前」
——《天龙八部》（连载版） To take the classic and burn it at his dead friend's grave, so keeping his old promise — this, he said, was to be true to the dead.
取经，焚在亡友坟前，以践旧诺——他说，这叫不失信于亡人。
The words were earnest, the reasoning askew: to keep faith with a dead friend, he would take another house's temple treasure. The Duan clan's secret art was never taught to outsiders; burning it was out of the question — they would not give it even the face of a loan. This was no request — it was a matter of pressing them with a fine pretext.
话说得恳切，道理却拧着：替亡友践诺，要的却是别人家的镇寺之宝。段氏的绝学，从不外传；莫说焚，连借都不给面子。这哪里是求——是拿话头压人。
One pressed hard, the other held fast. Three rounds of talk, and the more they spoke the stiffer it grew; once the fire behind the courteous words showed, there was nothing left to talk of. Then several old monks of Tianlong Temple gave their answer, clean and plain —
一个讨得紧，一个守得死。话过三轮，越说越僵，客气话里的火气一冒，就再没什么可谈的了。天龙寺几位老僧一句话递出去，干干净净——
"Then let us, with the Six Meridians Sword, learn a few moves of the Bright King."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, new revised edition 「我们便以六脉神剑，领教明王几手」
——《天龙八部》（新修版） — the courteous speech of scholarly men, spoken here, became nothing less than a duelist's invitation to fight.
——读书人的客气话，说到这儿，就成了武林的开打请帖。
Chapter 4: The Emperor Becomes a Monk
第四回 为敌剃度，法名本尘
Now, to face this great enemy, Emperor Baoding made his decision on the spot: he would shave his head and become a monk. Only a disciple who had taken the precepts in the temple could be let in on the family shrine's esoteric arts; and since as a son of the Duan clan he would share the temple's fate, he simply took the tonsure and entered. For this battle —
却说为了迎这一场大敌，保定帝当场做了一个决断：落发为僧。寺中受戒的弟子，方能与闻家寺的绝学；他既以段氏子弟的身份要与寺共存亡，便索性剃度入庙。为了这一战——
"Emperor Baoding stepped forward and knelt behind him."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, serialized edition 「保定帝走上前去，跪在他身后。」
——《天龙八部》（新修版） — and after the tonsure he became a man of the temple, with the dharma name "Benchen."
——剃度之后，他成了寺里的人，法名"本尘"。
Duan Yu watched from one side, a taste in his heart he could not name.
段誉在一旁看着，心里说不出的滋味。
After the tonsure, the abbot and the assembled monks studied the Six Meridians Sword together. But here stood a threshold none could cross: the art demanded exceedingly deep internal power. The old monks had each advanced in their own way, yet not one of them could wield it through and through. As for the deep internal power in Duan Yu's own body, which even he could not account for — it was of no use here yet: the two had never once come together.
剃度之后，方丈与众僧合力研习六脉神剑。可这里有一道过不去的门槛：这门剑法要极深的内力；几位老僧各自都有精进，却谁也使它不周全。段誉身上那身自己都说不清的深厚内力，此刻还派不上用场——两样东西偏偏一直凑不到一处去。
The source of that internal power was strange as well. Back on Mount Wuliang he had refused to learn the art that drew in others' internal force — yet that very art had taken root in him without his learning it, piling up all along, until even he could not say what it was.
他这一身内力，来路也怪。当初在无量山，他是不肯学那吸人内力的功夫的；可那门功夫偏在他身上不学自成，一路积攒，连他自己也说不清。
Chapter 5: The Battle — and the Memorizing
第五回 一战方酣，强记成谱
The words had been spoken to the end; when the soft way failed, nothing was left but the hard. Jiumozhi brought his palms together, and the old monks in the hall rose as one — and so it came to blows. Jiumozhi took on the assembled monks alone, his palm force and blade technique fierce beyond measure; his tongue gave no quarter either, now touching on Master Kurong's Zen powers, now praising the skills of Tianlong Temple's monks.
话已说绝，软的不成，就只剩硬的。鸠摩智双掌一合，殿上老僧齐齐离座——这便动了手。鸠摩智以一人对众僧，掌力刀法，凌厉非常；他口上也不松劲，先点枯荣大师的禅功，再夸天龙寺诸僧的手段。
In the thick of the fight, Kurong — highest of them all in seniority — made his move. It came without warning.
战到酣处，辈分最高的枯荣大师出手了。这一手突如其来。
In the confusion, Jiumozhi turned his blade suddenly upon Duan Yu — he was holding Duan Yu himself as a hostage, to force the temple to yield. That stroke came down swift and hard, and would have taken Duan Yu's right shoulder clean off; at the last instant, Emperor Baoding and one old monk thrust out their fingers together, and only so were they able to fend the move off.
混乱之中，鸠摩智的刀锋忽然转向段誉——他是拿段誉这个人做押，逼寺里让步。那一刀来得又急又狠，眼看就要卸下段誉一条右肩；千钧一发，保定帝与一位老僧双指齐出，才把这一招架了开去。
Yet the monks were like one who dares not strike a rat for fear of the vase, and every blow they made kept three parts in reserve. Duan Yu was heir of the Prince of Zhennan and true blood of the Duan clan; his uncle, Emperor Baoding, had just taken the tonsure to share the temple's fate, and which of all the monks and laymen there would stand by and watch him wounded on the spot? Jiumozhi had reckoned on exactly that, and aimed his every move at Duan Yu. And when the monks saw the point of the blade fixed on this youth who knew no martial art at all, their hands, as if by one accord, each slowed a little and held back a little. It was thus, and only thus, that his single "Flame Blade" found its way in — not that the move was so divine, but that the monks had opened the gap for it. An enemy who holds a man as his hostage has already half won before the fight begins; and this scruple every monk understood in his heart, yet not one was willing to speak it aloud.
只是众僧投鼠忌器，出手之间总留着三分。段誉是镇南王世子，又是段氏嫡亲骨血，伯父保定帝刚刚剃度入庙、要与寺共存亡，满寺僧俗，谁肯眼睁睁看他伤在当场？鸠摩智偏偏看准了这一点，出手专往段誉身上招呼。众僧一见剑锋所指是这个全然不会武功的少年，手上便不约而同地慢了一慢、收了一收。他那一记"火焰刀"，正是这么才递得进去的——不是招式有多神，是众僧让出来的空当。对手以人为质，未战已先胜了半分；这一层顾忌，众僧心里都明白，只是谁也不肯说破。
And in that very confusion, Master Kurong saw through the day's affair: this manual, likely, could not be kept. Better to burn it than let an outsider have it. Yet once burned, the six sets of sword technique had to live in someone's memory — and this youth before him, with a memory beyond compare and a deep internal power of his own that he could neither account for nor exhaust, was the one man for the task. With that thought, he gave Duan Yu a low word of prompting —
就在这一片混乱里，枯荣大师看破了今日之局：这卷剑谱，怕是保不住了。与其落进外人手里，不如一把火烧了。可烧了之后，这六路剑法总得有人记得住——眼前这少年记性绝顶，又有一身自家都说不清、用不尽的内力，正是唯一的人选。想到这一层，他冲段誉低声提点——
"'Waste not the good chance; fix your mind on the sword.'"
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, revised edition 「"良机莫失，凝神观剑。"」
——《天龙八部》（修订版） The monks took the meaning and, one by one, unfolded the six sword diagrams before Duan Yu, bidding him fix them in memory while the confusion held —
众僧会意，把六路剑法的图谱一一展开在段誉面前，教他趁乱强记——
"Duan Yu looked first upon the Guanchong Sword, then upon the Shaochong Sword."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, new revised edition 「段誉先瞧关冲剑，再瞧少冲剑」
——《天龙八部》（新修版） And someone spoke the point plain —
有人一句话点破——
"The young benefactor holds the Six Meridians Sword's diagrams in his heart."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, revised edition 「小施主心中记得六脉神剑的图谱」
——《天龙八部》（修订版） Chapter 6: The Manual Burns
第六回 剑气化烟，剑谱成灰
The thought turned over in his mind but once, and on the spot it was made. Seeing the manual scarce could be protected, Master Kurong burned it away with his inner power. In his opponent's eyes, the stroke was as ruthless as it was cunning:
纸上的剑谱若落到外人手里，段氏这门绝学便算连根被人拔起；一把火烧了，反倒断得干净利落——火是外人抢不走的。这个念头，他心里只翻了一个来回，当场便定了。眼看剑谱难保，枯荣大师以内力将它焚去。在对手眼里，这一手又狠又绝：
"The old monk Kurong — cunning and resourceful — burned the sword manual with his inner power at the critical moment."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, revised edition 「枯荣老僧狡诈多智，竟在紧要关头将剑谱以内力焚毁。」
——《天龙八部》（修订版） When the fire came up, the whole temple fell silent. The monks watched with their own eyes as that manual, handed down through generations, curled inch by inch and blackened within Master Kurong's palm force, then scattered into thread upon thread of thin smoke; every man pressed his palms together and stood mute, and not one made a sound. To stop it was beyond them; to lament would have been of no use. This art had risen from the Duan clan, and now it must be ended at the hands of the Duan clan's own — such a taste as that, only those who stood there could swallow. And this fire burned not a scroll of paper alone, but the lifeblood of several generations of the Duan; whether the art could be passed on at all would now rest on whether the youth before them could hold it in memory fast.
火一起，满寺寂然。众僧眼睁睁看着那卷传了几代的剑谱，在枯荣大师的掌力中一寸寸蜷起、发黑，又散作缕缕轻烟；人人合十默立，却无一人出声。拦，是拦不住了；叹，也无济于事。这功夫起于段氏，如今也要在段氏自家人手里了断——这般滋味，只有当事人自己咽得下。这一炉火，烧的不只是一卷纸，是段氏几代人的心血；往后这门功夫能不能传下去，就看眼前这个少年记得牢不牢了。
Yet in that instant, while the smoke hung not-yet-scattered, Duan Yu's eyes never left it for a moment: even as he watched the smoke, he traced each curving stroke of the diagrams over in his heart, and so read the last of the six sword techniques through and fixed it in memory — the diagrams burned into smoke, and yet the manual lived on within the smoke. The drifting smoke was nothing other than the smoke of the burning — and the last stretch of his desperate memorizing.
可就在这烟将散未散的一刻，段誉的眼却一刻也没离开过：他一面看烟，一面在心底把那弯曲的笔画一一摹下，把最后一路剑法看完、记熟——图谱烧成了烟，烟里却留着谱——那缕缕轻烟，就是焚谱的烟，也是他强记的最后一程。
Jiumozhi saw that this journey of "keeping his word" had come to nothing — the manual he had sworn to burn at Master Murong's grave had first turned to ash in the Duan clan's own hands. He said no more, and his gaze shifted from the ashes to Duan Yu.
鸠摩智眼看这趟"践诺"落了空——说好要在慕容先生墓前焚化的剑谱，先在段氏自己人手里成了灰。他没再多说，目光从灰烬移到了段誉身上。
A sword manual is paper, and paper burns; what Duan Yu had memorized lay beyond the diagrams, in a human heart — and that cannot be burned.
剑谱是纸，烧得掉；段誉记下的在图谱之外，在人心——那是烧不掉的。
Note: The One Yang Finger and the Six Meridians Sword
旁注 · 一阳指与六脉神剑
Chapter 7: The Living Manual Is Taken
第七回 纸谱已毁，活谱被掳
Enough of side talk. The manual was ash, but Jiumozhi's calculation simply turned: the manual on paper was gone — so the man became the manual.
闲话少叙。剑谱成了灰，鸠摩智的算盘却转了个方向：纸上的谱没了，人就成谱。
"Jiumozhi heard Duan Yu call Emperor Baoding 'uncle.'"
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, serialized edition 「鸠摩智听段誉叫保定帝为伯父」
——《天龙八部》（连载版） He had understood it long since — this youth was a son of the Duan clan.
他早听明白了——这少年是段氏子弟。
"I will take you to Master Murong's grave and burn you there."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, new revised edition 「将你带到慕容先生墓前焚化」
——《天龙八部》（新修版） He laid it plain before Duan Yu: he would take him to Master Murong's grave and "burn" him there — the manual on paper could be burned, but there was still a "living manual." The rest he left unsaid; but those two words, "burn you," were colder than any finished sentence.
他冲段誉把话挑明：要带他去慕容先生墓前"焚化"——纸谱烧得掉，还有一卷"活谱"。剩下的话他没再说；可"焚化"两个字，比说尽了还冷。
Duan Yu had committed this most profound of arts to memory — yet the art would not obey —
段誉记熟了这门最高深的武学，那功夫却迟迟不肯听话——
"The 'Six Meridians Sword' works now and then — it cannot be sent out or recalled at will."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, new revised edition 「"六脉神剑"时灵时不灵，不能收发」
——《天龙八部》（新修版） Pressed to the wall with no way out, Duan Yu found that — without his meaning it — a formless sword-qi shot from his fingertips. It was none other than the Shaoshang Sword of the diagrams — one of the six — and it startled even him.
被逼到绝处，正没奈何，无意之中，一道无形剑气自他指尖激射而出。那正是图谱上的少商剑——六路中的一路。他自己也唬了一跳。
The internal power and the sword art that had never once come together had, at this brink of life and death, come together at last — but only halfway.
方才还凑不到一处的内力和剑法，偏在这生死一线凑到了一处——可惜只凑了一半。
Jiumozhi saw through it too: this youth could not wield it through and through. With a cold laugh, he simply seized the man and made off.
鸠摩智也看穿了：这少年使不周全。他冷笑一声，索性挟了人便走。
The monks would have blocked him, yet could not. For one thing, Jiumozhi's own skill stood above them all; for another, he held Duan Yu beneath his arm, and the monks, fearing to strike lest they harm the hostage, had bound their own hands the moment they moved. Duan Yu, tucked under his arm, had no say over his own body; and as he was dragged out of the temple gate, he still had time for one look behind him — and saw, on the stone steps before the hall, his uncle standing with palms pressed together before the company of monks, and the whole crowd gazing dumbstruck toward him, and not a soul moving to give chase. He knew no martial art, and could not wrench himself free; to cry out was of no use; he could only let the monk carry him farther and farther away. Eastward the whole way, the mountain colors changed stage by stage, and that same unaccountable daze rose in his heart again; he felt himself a bit of duckweed, caught up by the wind and carried off to the ends of the earth. And behind him, the bell of Tianlong Temple tolled on, faint and slow, and grew far away.
众僧欲拦，偏偏拦他不住。一来鸠摩智的身手本就在众人之上，二来他胁下攥着段誉，众僧投鼠忌器，一动手便先自缚了手脚。段誉被他挟在胁下，身不由己，被拖出寺门时，还来得及回头望一眼——只见殿前石阶上，伯父合十立在众僧之前，一干僧俗都怔怔望向他，竟没有一人追上前来。他不通武功，挣不脱，喊也无用，只由着那僧人将他越带越远。一路东下，山色一程一程地换，他心头又是那一阵说不清的恍惚，只觉得自己身如浮萍，被风一卷，就飘去了天涯。身后的天龙寺，钟声悠悠，渐渐远了。
Where he meant to take Duan Yu was Canhe Manor at Yanziwu in Jiangnan (Swallow's Dock) — the home of the "Murong of Gusu" in the south. He knew the way; his road ran to Jiangnan.
他要带段誉去的地方，是江南燕子坞参合庄——江南"姑苏慕容"的家。他认得这条路，此去正是江南。
Duan Yu was carried eastward the whole way. In Jiangnan stood a manor planted all over with camellias, called Mantuo Manor; and in the manor was a girl who looked exactly like the jade statue in the cave of Mount Wuliang.
段誉被挟着一路东下。江南有一座山庄，种满山茶花，名叫曼陀山庄；庄里有个姑娘，长得和无量山洞里的玉像一模一样。
To know what happened next, listen to the next instalment.
欲知后事如何，且听下回分解。