Previously
前情
Previously: Duan Yu, heir of the Prince of Zhennan of Dali — a scholar who refused to learn any martial arts at all — had been force-fed Gut-Rending Powder by the Shennong Gang. It would kill him in seven days, and he had orders to run an errand to the Valley of Ten Thousand Calamities. On the road he fell into a cave, the Blessed Land of Langhuan, where he found a silk scroll left by a "fairy sister" — and from the whole scroll he learned only one thing: Lingbo Weibu, the Rippling Step, a footwork good for nothing but running away.
话说上一回，大理镇南王世子段誉——一个连武功都不肯学的书生——被神农帮灌下断肠散，七天之后就要毒发，还奉命要去万劫谷办一件事。赶路途中他跌进一个山洞，在琅嬛福地得了神仙姊姊留下的一卷帛卷，翻来翻去，只学会了"凌波微步"——一门专门用来逃命的步法。
Chapter 1: A Toad for Breakfast
第一回 误吞朱蛤毒自解 急行山道信难迟
Duan Yu tucked the scroll away and hurried on. Then something strange happened: the Gut-Rending Powder never acted up. And why was that? Soon after leaving the cave, he had stumbled upon a monstrous fight — a great centipede, locked in battle with a small, scarlet-red toad. The centipede crushed; the toad bit; both were lords among venomous creatures. Duan Yu could not dodge in time — the centipede coiled around him, and the pain nearly killed him.
段誉揣好帛卷，出洞赶路。怪事来了：断肠散的毒，竟一直没发作。你道是什么缘故？原来就在出洞后不久，他在山边撞见了一场恶斗——一条大蜈蚣，正和一只通体朱红的小蛤蟆厮杀。蜈蚣缠人，蛤蟆咬蛇，两样都是毒物里的祖宗；段誉躲闪不及，被那蜈蚣缠绕上来，痛得死去活来。
In the confusion, the little toad made a sudden leap. And by the time Duan Yu came to his senses, there was a gulp in his throat — the king of all venoms, the Mangu Scarlet Toad, had gone into his stomach.
混乱中，那小蛤蟆猛地纵身一跃。等段誉回过神来，喉咙里咕嘟一声——那"万毒之王"，莽牯朱蛤，已经进了他的肚子。
"What was that toad called? Ah yes — this is the 'Mangu Scarlet Toad,' the bane of all snakes under heaven."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, serialized edition 「叫做什么朱蛤？对啦，这是“莽牯朱蛤”，乃是天下万蛇的克星。」
——《天龙八部》（连载版） One toad down the hatch, and calamity turned into blessing: from then on the Gut-Rending Powder could not touch him — and no poison under heaven could. But poison or no, the errand stood: he still had to make his trip to the Valley of Ten Thousand Calamities for the Shennong Gang. And one person weighed on his mind: Zhong Ling, the girl he had met on Mount Wuliang. When he set out she was still in Sikong Xuan's keeping, and what became of her after that he had no way of knowing. Duan Yu knew no martial arts — only how to run. Off he went on Lingbo Weibu, straight for the valley.
一只下肚，因祸得福：从此断肠散奈何不了他，天底下的毒，也再奈何不了他。毒虽解了，差事可还挂着：他得去万劫谷替神农帮走一趟。心里还挂着一个人——无量山上结识的小姑娘钟灵：他动身那会儿，这丫头还扣在司空玄手里，后来怎样，他并不知道。段誉不会武功只会跑，当下迈开凌波微步，直奔万劫谷。
Chapter 2: Arrows on the Mountain Road
第二回 山道混战逢箭雨 一骑双影脱重围
On a mountain road, Duan Yu walked straight into a killing: four veterans of the blade — two women, two men — were closing in on a girl on horseback.
行到一处山道，段誉迎面撞上一场厮杀：四个使刀的老手——二女二男——正围攻一个骑马的姑娘。
The girl was dressed all in black, a black gauze veil hanging from her head to her chest, hiding her face completely. She said little, but her sword was lightning:
那姑娘一身黑衣，一幅黑纱面幕从头顶垂到胸口，把一张脸遮得严严实实。她话不多，剑却极快：
"Mu Wanqing's sword flashed as she wove in and out among the four attackers."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, new revised edition 「木婉清剑光霍霍，在四人围攻下穿插来去。」
——《天龙八部》（新修版） Why was this band hunting her? When Duan Yu later asked, she would say only this much: her master had sent her out on an errand.
她为什么被这一伙人追杀？后来段誉问起，她只肯说这么多——是师父叫她出来办事的。
Before the errand was done, this band had caught her trail. Duan Yu tried to slip around, but it was too late: the path was narrow, and a frightened horse came crashing across it, pitching him flat into the middle of the fight. And in the confusion, an arrow struck him.
事还没办完，先被这伙人缠上了。段誉想绕路，却已经迟了：山路窄，乱军里一匹受惊的马横撞过来，把他直挺挺掀进战团。混乱之中，他还中了一箭。
Seeing him tumble in, the girl in black tightened her sword-play and drove the four back a few paces. She hauled him up onto her own mount, Black Rose, lashed the whip, and the two galloped several li.
那黑衣姑娘见他摔进来，剑光一紧，把四人逼退数步。她一把将他拽上自己的黑玫瑰，扬鞭抽下去，两人一路驰出数里。
The pursuers far behind, the two finally reined in. The horse, for all the ground it had covered, seemed none the worse, and wandered off to one side to graze:
追兵远了，两人才收缰停下。那匹马跑了这许多路，倒像没事一般，径自踱到一旁啃草去了：
"Black Rose stood to one side grazing, perfectly docile."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, serialized edition 「黑玫瑰站在一旁吃草，甚是驯顺。」
——《天龙八部》（连载版） And so: a scholar hurrying along his road walked straight into a thicket of blades — and came out with a strange fate attached.
这正是：书生赶路赶进了刀丛里，倒结下一段奇缘。
Chapter 3: The Cliff Cave; the Veil
第三回 崖下洞中疗箭伤 面幕一掀误终身
The two kept off the high road, picking their way along the cliffs. Duan Yu's arrow wound was no trifle, but the girl was hurt too — a blade wound, and she had gritted her teeth all the way, until at a stone cave beneath the cliff she finally went black before the eyes. Duan Yu carried her inside.
两人不敢走大路，拣山崖僻径而行。段誉的箭伤不轻，那姑娘也挂了彩——一处刀伤，一路咬牙硬撑，撑到崖下一处石洞前，终于眼前一黑。段誉把她扶进洞里。
She lay in a daze, the veil still in place. Duan Yu tore strips from his robe to bind her wounds — his fingertips touched the wound.
她昏昏沉沉，面幕还遮着。段誉撕了衣襟给她裹伤——指尖碰到了伤口。
Now, a thought did flicker through his mind: she was deep in her swoon; he need only lift the veil, and she would never know—
他心里其实闪过一个念头：她昏沉沉的，只要揭开面幕，她决不会知道——
He did not do it. But her wound could not be dressed with the veil in the way, so he lifted its corner — gently, just a little. And at that very moment, she woke. Eyes met. And he saw her face.
他到底没有动手。可要处理她身上的伤，那幅面幕终归碍事，他轻轻地把它掀起一角——就在这时，她醒了。四目相对，他不偏不倚，看见了她的脸。
The girl stared at him, and said, word by word: he was the first man in the world to see her face.
那姑娘盯着他，一字一字地说，他是世上第一个见到她容貌的男子。
She had sworn a deadly oath: the first man to see her face must either die by her hand, or — marry her. She snatched up a short arrow; raised it, lowered it; lowered it, raised it again. To kill him — she could not. Which left only the other half.
她立过一条毒誓：第一个看见她容貌的男子，她要么杀了他，要么——嫁给他。她抓起短箭，举起又放下，放下又举起。杀，杀不了；剩下的，就只剩另一半。
Before Duan Yu could get a word of protest in, he had acquired a "wife" out of thin air. He was already worrying on her behalf. And Mu Wanqing, troubled by the same thing, spoke first:
段誉连辩白的工夫都没有，凭空多出一位"媳妇"。他自己倒先替她发起愁来。木婉清也正为这事犯难，先开了口：
"Mu Wanqing said, 'When my master asks later — what then?'"
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, revised edition 「木婉清道：“日后师父问起来，那怎么办？”」
——《天龙八部》（修订版） She feared her master's questions; he had no answers. But worry or no, the road called: Mu Wanqing said she was bound for the Valley of Ten Thousand Calamities to see her sworn-aunt, Gan Baobao — her master's junior sister, married into that valley.
一个怕师父问，一个不知怎么答。愁归愁，路得走：木婉清说，她要去万劫谷，见她师叔甘宝宝——她师父的师妹，嫁在谷中。
Hearing this, Duan Yu groaned and rejoiced at once: he was bound for the same valley — his Shennong Gang errand was there, and so were Zhong Ling's parents. Two people who had nothing to do with each other, heading for the same place. And so they travelled together, toward the Valley of Ten Thousand Calamities.
段誉一听，心里叫苦又叫巧：他正好也要去万劫谷——神农帮的差事在那里，钟灵的爹娘也在那里。两个本来不搭界的人，倒奔着同一处去。于是两人同行，往万劫谷来。
Chapter 4: "Any Duan Who Enters This Valley Dies"
第四回 谷口漆字惊来客 闺中旧誓起风雷
And so one day, they reached the mouth of the valley.
这一日，到了谷口。
At the entrance stood a great tree. It bore no flowers and no fruit — only characters lacquered on its trunk, stinging the eye from afar. Nine characters they were: any man named Duan who enters this valley is to be killed without mercy.
谷口立着一株大树，树上不见花果，只见树身漆着字，远远便扎人眼睛。漆的是九个字：姓段者入此谷，杀无赦。
Duan Yu's surname was Duan. Every one of those nine characters was aimed straight at him. The master of the valley, Zhong Wanchou, was none other than Zhong Ling's father.
段誉姓段。这九个字，字字冲他而来。这谷主钟万仇，正是钟灵的爹爹。
And why did he hate the name Duan so bitterly? That story begins with the two people inside the valley. Zhong Wanchou doted on his wife beyond life itself, and was jealous even more deeply.
他为什么这么恨姓段的？这话要从谷里那两口子说起。钟万仇这人，对妻子爱逾性命，醋劲更大。
His wife, Gan Baobao, had once, long ago, had an old romance in Dali — a thorn in Zhong Wanchou's heart that he could not stop pulling at, again and again, until his wife swore to heaven:
他的夫人甘宝宝，当年在大理有过一段旧情——这是钟万仇心里一根拔不掉的刺，隔三差五就要拔出来问一问，问得太太指天起誓：
"If I have done him the least wrong, then let me, Gan Baobao, be struck down by heaven and earth, and never find release through ten thousand kalpas."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, new revised edition 「我如有半分对不起他，叫我甘宝宝天诛地灭，万劫不得超生。」
——《天龙八部》（新修版） Such venomous oaths she had sworn more times than anyone could count. Duan Yu braced himself and went in — his errand had to be run, and news of Zhong Ling had to be sought. Little did he know that the girl had set out before him, and was even now on the road home.
毒誓发了不知多少回，日子还得过。段誉硬着头皮进谷——他那桩差事要办，钟灵的消息也要打听。他哪里知道，那丫头比他还先动身，这会儿正在往家赶的路上。
Inside the valley the first man he met was the master, Zhong Wanchou — high-cheeked, long-faced, anger smoldering under every word. The moment he heard Duan Yu give his surname as Duan, his face changed: those nine lacquered characters at the valley mouth had been waiting for exactly such a man. He asked one question — the surname — and then he struck. He did not ask what Duan Yu had come for, or why; he asked only what he was called.
进了谷，先撞见的是谷主钟万仇。这人颧骨高、脸膛长，一开口就是一肚子的火气；他一见段誉自报姓段，脸色当场就变了。九个大字漆在谷口，等的就是他这样的人。他先问了一句姓什么，问完就动手——不问他来做什么、为什么来，只问一句姓什么。
Duan Yu never got a word of his errand out — he was seized before he could speak.
段誉这一趟差事，连开口的工夫都没有，人已经被拿住了。
The one who saved him was the master's wife, Gan Baobao. She came out, looked at the young man, and stopped short; then she stepped in front of her husband and said this one could not be killed. Why not? She did not say. But everyone in the valley could see there was something odd in the way she blocked the blow — the lady's face was not the face of a woman shielding a stranger.
救他的是谷主的夫人甘宝宝。她出来一看这年轻人，愣了一下，随即拦在丈夫前头，说这人杀不得。为什么杀不得？她没说。可谷里的人都看得出，这一拦拦得蹊跷——谷主夫人的神色，不像是在护一个素不相识的过路人。
So Duan Yu was locked away. His errand went undone, and he himself became a prisoner first; the poison in his body was cured, but his life still hung by a thread.
于是段誉被关了起来。差事没办成，人先成了阶下囚；身上的毒解了，命却还悬着。
Chapter 5: Villains at the Gate
第五回 恶客临门皆不速 刀光剑影一锅粥
And that was not the only trouble. Before the words had faded, three sets of uninvited guests reached the door.
乱子还不止这一桩。话音未落，门外到了三拨恶客。
The first was the Shennong Gang — who had chased all the way to the valley to demand people of their own.
头一拨，是神农帮——他们竟也追到万劫谷来要人。
The second was the fourth of the "Four Great Villains," the "Utterly Vicious" Yun Zhonghe, who had come all this way chasing Mu Wanqing.
第二拨，是"四大恶人"里的老四、"穷凶极恶"云中鹤，专程追着木婉清来的。
And the third was the help Old Fourth had brought along — the third in rank, the "Crocodile Deity of the Southern Seas," Old Yue the Third.
第三拨，是老四搬来的帮手、排行第三的"南海鳄神"岳老三。
Just a moment — wasn't Zhong Ling being held by the Shennong Gang? What was she doing in the valley? It turned out the girl had long since freed herself. Back on Mount Wuliang, she dried her tears and struck a bargain with Sikong Xuan: release her, and she would beg her parents to come and cure the men the Lightning Marten had bitten.
咦——钟灵不是被神农帮扣着吗？怎么会在谷里？原来这丫头早脱了身。当日无量山上，她抹干眼泪，跟司空玄谈了个条件：放她回家，她求爹娘出面，给神农帮挨了貂咬的人治毒。
Sikong Xuan's men had tried snake medicine, applied to the outside of the wound — treating the symptom, not the cause. And the true antidote was something only the Zhong family could produce. Sikong Xuan weighed it over again and again — and let her go. The girl hurried home as fast as she could, and arrived right in the middle of the great uproar.
司空玄手下拿蛇药外敷，治标不治本。这解药，天底下还真只有钟家拿得出来。司空玄掂量再三，当真放了她。小姑娘一路紧赶慢赶往家跑，正好赶上这一场大乱。
The valley was already one great pot of porridge: the Shennong Gang shouted their challenge outside, and two of the Four Great Villains chased their quarries within. Seeing how bad it looked, Mu Wanqing first shouted the little girl away so she would not get in the way.
谷里已经乱成一锅粥：神农帮在谷外叫阵，四大恶人的两位又追着人打。木婉清一见势头不对，先把小丫头喝走，免得碍手。
Shouted away or not, Zhong Ling could not sit still. She paced the valley, one ear cocked the whole time toward the sounds outside.
被喝走的钟灵哪里坐得住，在谷里团团转，耳朵一直竖着听谷外的动静。
Note: The Four Great Villains
旁注 · "四大恶人"
Chapter 6: A Master Won by a Bet
第六回 赌约三步凌波微步 浑人认输拜书生
In the thick of it, Old Yue the Third fixed his eyes on Duan Yu — a bookworm who knew no martial arts, standing amid flashing blades with more pluck than sense. The more Old Third looked, the more he felt the young man was "fated" to be his, and he simply insisted on taking him as a disciple. Duan Yu would have none of it. One refusal after another, until at last the two settled it with a bet.
混战之中，岳老三盯上了段誉——一个不会武功的书生，站在刀光剑影里，胆子倒不小。岳老三越看越觉得这后生"有缘"，非要收他做徒弟不可。段誉哪里肯？推来挡去，最后讲了个条件：赌一场。
A flash of inspiration — he dared take the bet on one thing he knew: the little trick his feet possessed had come from the fairy sister's scroll.
段誉灵机一动——他敢立这个赌约，是因为心里有底：自己脚下那点本事，是神仙姊姊的帛卷给的。
The wager was set, both sides agreed: if Duan Yu could walk three steps of Lingbo Weibu without stumbling or falling, Old Yue the Third must yield.
赌约立下，双方说定：段誉若能连走三步"凌波微步"而不跌不倒，岳老三便得认输。
"If you can walk three steps of the 'Lingbo Weibu,' then Old Yue the Second will yield to you."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, new revised edition 「如能走得三步‘凌波微步’，岳老二便服了你。」
——《天龙八部》（新修版） Now, this "Old Yue the Third" had called himself "Old Yue the Second" all his life — ranked third among the Four Great Villains, he refused the number, insisting on standing level with the second:
原来这位"岳老三"，一辈子自称"岳老二"——四大恶人里排第三，他不认，非要跟老二平起平坐：
"The eldest can keep being the eldest; I'll just be the second."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, new revised edition 「老大仍是他做，我做老二便了。」
——《天龙八部》（新修版） The bet was real. Three steps — only three. Duan Yu stepped out — his feet blossomed, gliding through three steps steady as flat ground. Old Third's eyes glazed over. He scratched his scalp.
赌约当真。三步，就三步。段誉踏出去——脚下生花，飘飘然连走三步，稳如平地。岳老三直着眼，搔了搔头皮。
He could not make heads or tails of it, but he honored the deal. The good thing about a muddlehead is that he honors his bets. Duan Yu read him like a book:
他看不懂，但认账。浑人有浑人的好处——认赌服输。段誉看得分明：
"Duan Yu thought: this man is proud and competitive, and loves to be flattered."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, new revised edition 「段誉心想此人要强好胜，爱戴高帽。」
——《天龙八部》（新修版） In front of the whole valley, this killer who never blinked dropped to his knees, knocked his head to the ground, and called the bookworm master — a man who never welshed on a bet, all for the sake of his pride. And so the greatest muddlehead under heaven took the greatest bookworm under heaven as his master. Which is to say: a man who knew no martial arts had acquired a disciple who killed without blinking.
当着满谷的人，这位杀人不眨眼的恶人“扑通”一跪，磕头叫师。输了不赖账，全凭一口气。就这么着，天下头一号的浑人，拜了天下头一号的书生当师父。这正是：不会武功的人，收了杀人不眨眼的徒。
Chapter 7: A Thunderclap in the Stone Hut
第七回 石屋惊雷揭身世 兄妹相称下大理
Now, the trouble was not yet over. A strange man in a blue-green robe, seizing the moment when the whole valley was busy with itself, carried Duan Yu and Mu Wanqing off and locked them in a stone hut. There the two were given something to drink — the "Yin-Yang Harmony Powder." Its nature was fierce indeed; it was not poison, but it was worse than poison.
且说乱事还没完。一个穿青袍的怪客，趁着一谷的人自顾不暇，把段誉和木婉清掳走，关进了一座石屋。屋中还给两人喝了些东西——那"阴阳和合散"药性甚是厉害；它不是毒药，却比毒药更损。
The blue-robed stranger's design was crueler than any poison: he meant to make this newly-wedded "couple" do something that heaven and earth alike abhor — for he had seen through them, and knew these two young people were brother and sister by blood. And how could he tell? Because he had carried a death-grudge against the Duan family of Dali for decades, and every one of Duan Zhengchun's old loves had been marked down in his ledger. With this one stroke he meant to drag the Duan clan of Dali through the mud. And who was this man in the blue robe? He was none other than the chief of the Four Great Villains — Duan Yanqing, known as the "evilest man under heaven."
青袍客的用心，毒过鹤顶红：他要叫这对刚认下的"夫妻"做出天理不容的事——原来他早已看出，这两个年轻人，是亲兄妹。他凭什么看得出？因为他跟大理段家结了几十年的死仇，段正淳当年在外头的那些风流账，他一笔一笔都记着。他要用这一招，叫大理段氏蒙羞。这青袍客是谁？他便是"四大恶人"之首，号称"天下第一恶人"的段延庆。
"The chief of the 'Four Great Villains' — of course his hand was ruthless."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, serialized edition 「“四大恶人”之首，自然出手毒辣。」
——《天龙八部》（连载版） Old Yue the Third and Yun Zhonghe, who had raised such havoc in the valley, were his confederates — for among the Four Great Villains, he stood at the head. While Third and Fourth turned the valley upside down, the eldest had kept to the shadows, aiming at something greater: not at any one man, but at the whole Duan family of Dali. What old grudge lay beneath this, a later chapter will slowly tell.
先前在谷里露面的岳老三、云中鹤，都是他的同伙——四大恶人，便以他为首。老三、老四在谷里闹得天翻地覆，老大却一直隐在暗处，所图更大：他不是冲哪一个人来的，是冲着大理段家整个儿来的。这一层旧怨从何而起，后文书里慢慢分说。
Duan Yu and Mu Wanqing held on desperately in the stone hut — and just then, hooves drummed outside the valley: Emperor Baoding of Dali and his party had reached the Valley of Ten Thousand Calamities. And how had they found the place? Duan Yu had been gone a long while without a word, and his uncle could not rest; he had followed one clue to Mount Wuliang, and from there another to this valley. An emperor had left his palace to look for a nephew, and he had brought the ablest of his household officers. Among them was Hua Hegen, an old hand whose skills had been dug — quite literally — out of his tomb-raiding youth. Now his turn had come.
段誉与木婉清在石屋中苦苦撑持——就在这当口，谷外马蹄声急，大理保定帝一行赶到了万劫谷。他们怎么找来的？段誉离家已久，一去没了音讯，做伯父的放心不下，一路循着线索探到无量山，又探到万劫谷来。皇帝亲自出宫寻一个侄子，带的是家臣里最得力的一批人。其中有一位华赫艮，当年是掘墓掘出一身本事的行家，此刻派上了大用场。
Hua Hegen dug a tunnel through the earth, straight to the stone hut. No sooner were Duan Yu and Mu Wanqing pulled out than Zhong Ling too was seized into the tunnel, and away they all went.
华赫艮从地下挖了一条地道，直通石屋。段誉和木婉清前脚被救出，后脚又把钟灵也一把拽进地道，携走脱身。
Out of the stone hut, the valley was full of people. Duan Yu's father, Duan Zhengchun, had arrived — and so had Mu Wanqing's master, Qin Hongmian, nicknamed "Asura Blade." Mu Wanqing looked at her master, looked at Duan Zhengchun: both wore strange expressions.
出得石屋，谷中已站满了人。段誉的父亲段正淳到了，木婉清的师父、外号"修罗刀"的秦红棉也到了。木婉清看看师父，看看段正淳，两人神情都不对。
"Mu Wanqing said, 'You said Red Cotton again.'"
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, serialized edition 「木婉清道：“你又说‘红棉’了。”」
——《天龙八部》（连载版） "Red Cotton" on his lips, again and again, and in their eyes two decades of old accounts. And the truth came down.
一口一个"红棉"，眼神里全是二十年前的旧账。真相，就这么落了下来。
"Seeing how little she understood of the world, Duan Zhengchun grew even more sorrowful."
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, new revised edition 「段正淳见她不明世事，更加难过。」
——《天龙八部》（新修版） Mu Wanqing was Duan Zhengchun's daughter. The "wife" Duan Yu had just acquired was his own flesh-and-blood sister.
木婉清，是段正淳的女儿。段誉刚认下的"媳妇"，竟是他的亲妹妹。
Their father, eyes red, said that whatever lay within his power to make up for, he would do. And to his daughter he said one thing more:
当爹的红着眼说，只要他做得到的，都愿意补偿。他还对女儿说了这样一句话：
"From now on, don't wear that veil again — all right?"
— Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, serialized edition 「“以后你不要再戴面幕了，好不好？”」
——《天龙八部》（连载版） No more veil — not to kill, not to marry: the deadly oath she had carried for all these years was, as of today, void.
不必再戴面幕了——杀人也好，嫁人也好，那条跟了她十几年的毒誓，到今天，作废了。
And so the party left the Valley of Ten Thousand Calamities and returned to Dali. Duan Yu, dazed and hollow, followed his father home — one trip out had won him a sister, a villain for a disciple, and a look at half of the jianghu. Little did he know that an even greater storm awaited him at home: Tianlong Temple had received a visitor — an Imperial Preceptor of Tubo named Jiumozhi — who had come to "borrow" the most treasured secret art of the Duan clan of Dali: the sword manual of the Six Meridians Sword. Called borrowing; in truth, robbery. To know what happens next, hear the next chapter.
一行人离了万劫谷，回转大理。段誉恍恍惚惚，跟着父亲走——他这一趟出门，认了一个妹妹，多了一个恶人徒弟，见识了半部江湖。他哪里知道，家里等着他的，是一场更大的风波：天龙寺来了一位吐蕃国师，法号鸠摩智，开口要"借"大理段氏的镇寺绝学——六脉神剑剑谱。名为借，实为抢。欲知后事如何，且听下回分解。