In ancient China lived a young man in his early 20's name Yik Jun-Hei. He is tall, thin but strong. He has a thick eyebrow. Both of Jun-Hei's parents died when he was only 8 years old. He lived on his own in a small city near a mountain. Since his parents died, he worked in a rastaurant name 'Kwong Chun Lau' as a 'siu yi' (waiter).
On afternoon a girl name Wong Wai-Sum and her maid Siu-Chui went to 'Kwong Chun Lau' to eat. Wai-Sum has big eyes, small mouth and a small figure. She is considered as the beauty of the city. She is also the daughter of the wealthiest man in the city.
Wai-Sum and Siu-Chui sat as a table facing the balcany on the scond floor. One of the 'siu yi' walks up to Jun-Hei, who was at another table, and said, "Hey! Ah Hei your angel is here!" Like a lot of young guys in the city, Jun-Hei likes Wai-Sum. He likes her a lot.
Jun-Hei looks at the 'siu yi' and said, "Really!? Where?"
"Over there," The 'siu yi' points to the table that Wai-Sum is sitting.
Jun-Hei starts to go towards her table in a half walk half run motion and he said, "Take care of this table for me." When Jun-Hei got to Wai-Sum's table, he looks at Wai-Sum and said, " What do you want today?" With a big smile.
Siu-Chui said, "We want a dish of vegtable and Beijing Chicken. What vegtables are fresh today?"
Without looking at Siu-Chui, Jun-Hei said, "Today.....'choi sum' so pretty fresh."
Siu-Chui continues, "Ok then a 'choi sum' with beef."
"I'll go make it right away." Jun-Hei walks away. In the whole conversation Wai-Sum never looked at Jun-Hei.
After Jun-Hei left Siu-Chui looks at Wai-Sum and said, "This little 'siu yi' has something for you."
"So.There are a lot of guys who likes me in this city. Should I like them all."
"But this guy is pretty cute and I heard people say that he is a really nice guy."
Wai-Sum looks out the window into the street and said, "Too bad he's poor even if I like him.......Dad wouldn't let him like me."
Ten minutes later, Jun-Hei carrry out a dish of 'choi sum' with beef and put it on Wai-Sum's table and said, "Here!"
Suddenly therea are noises from the street. Jun-Hei, Wai-Sum and others look down on the street and saw two men fighting. One of the man is carry a sword, he is the young 'bou faai' of the city Chan Ka-Fei. The other one is holding a blade his face has berard and he is wearing rags. Jun-Hei said, " Who is Ka-Fei fighting against?"
One of the viewers turns to Jun-Hei and said, "It looks like Chou Heung-Dong. The most wanted in this area."
"I see."
The two fighters area almost equal ans suddenly the two of them jump on top of the roof of the building across from 'Kwong Chun Lau'. Then Ka-Fei throw out his sword towards Heung-Dong's heart area. Luckily Heung-Dong's blade was back in time to block the attack. Then Heung Dong kicks Ka-Fei in the stomach. Ka-Fei moves back two steps. Heung-Dong saw the chance and jumps up two feet in the air and swing his blade towards Ka-Fei's head. Ka-Fei uses his sword to move the attack to the left side and use a palm to hit Heung-Dong in the chest area. Heung-Dong flew back, but Ka-Fei did not attack as both try to caught their breathe.
At the same time, other 'bou faai' go here, there are about 10 of them all standing in the street below Ka-Fei and Heung-Dong. Heung-Dong thought, 'Fighting against this guy is already hard enough.....now add the people below. Have to think of a way to escape.' He looks over to 'Kwon Chun Lau' and thought 'Got it!' At this moment, Ka-Fei jumps towards Heung-Dong. Heung-Dong kicks up the 'a pin' (pieces in the roof) to block Ka-Fei, then he jumps across the street towards 'Kwong Chun Lau'. People in 'Kwong Chun Lau' quickly runs away from the balcany, except for Wai-Sum, who is slow to react.
Heung-Dong lands right beside Wai-Sum. He turns around to look at Wai-Sum and put his blade on her neck, "Looks like your the unlucky one!"
The this time Ka-Fei has also landed on 'Kwong Chun Lau', then he thought, 'No! Not Wai-Sum!'
Heung-Dong looks at Ka-Fei and said, "You're pretty good, but not as fast as me." He flashes an evil smile.
Ka-Fei said, "What do you want?"
"First, drop your weapon!"
Ka-Fei thought, 'Guess I can't disobey him or else Wong 'lou ye' would kill me if Wai-Sum gets injuried.' So he did what was told, throwing his sword into the corner.
"Then..." Heung-Dong uses all of his might and kicks Ka-Fei in the stomach. The force was so strong that Ka-Fei flew right off the belcany and into the street.
When Ka-Fei lands on the street, the other 10 'bou faai' wanted to charge in but Ka-Fei said, "Stop!!He got Wai-Sum!"
Back in 'Kwong Chun Lau', Heung-Dong looks at the other people in 'Kwong Chung Lau' second floor and said, "Move to the lower floor!!" All the people did what they were told. When they got to the first floor, Heung-Dong said, "Kneed down!!" And that was also done. Heung-Dong and Wai-Sum slowly walk towards the door.
Suddenly a guy stands up beside Heung-Dong. It's Jun-Hei! Jun-Hei looks at Heung-Dong and said, "Let her go. I'll be your hostage."
Heung-Dong looks at Jun-Hei with curious eyes, slowly examining him, then said, "Why?"
Jun-Hei walks in front of Heung-Dong and said, "It's for your good. Look at her, she'll just slow you down. I'll be different I'll co-operate."
Heung-Dong smiles then kicks Jun-Hei's stomach. Jun-Hei moves back 5 steps and fall on his knees. Heung-Dong said, "How can I trust you? What if you know kung-fu? I'm not that stupid!" Heung-Dong continues to move forward.
"Wait..." Jun-Hei said, still recovering for the kick. As he get up slowly.
Heung-Dong stops, turns around and said, "Now what!?"
There is a die silence that went though the room, everyone is waiting for Jun-Hei, what is he going to do? Then Jun-Hei yells, "AHH!!!" Then he lift up his right arm and slam his elbow into the corner of a table. A loud bone cracking noise went though everyone's ears. Jun-Hei broke his own arm. Jun-Hei uses his left arm to hold on to his broken right elbow and looks at Heung-Dong, "Now.....even if I know kung-fu I can't harm you. Unless you can't beat a handicap man."
Heung-Dong said, "Why are you doing this?"
Jun-Hei looks at Wai-Sum then took a deep breathe, "I don't want her to get hurt."
"Come here." Jun-Hei slowly walks towards Heung-Dong. The Heung-Dong let Wai-Sum go and said, "You're so lucky!" He pushes aside and look at Jun-Hei, put his blade on his neck and said, " Let's go!!"
When Jun-Hei and Heung-Dong got out of 'Kwong Chun Lau', Ka-Fei and the other 10 has got the entrance of 'Kwong Chun Lau' surrounded. Ka-Fei thought, 'Not Wai-Sum then even if the kid dies no one would care.' So he said, "Charge!!"
Heung-Dong said, "If you come close I'll kill the kid!!"
Ka-Fei and the other 10 did not response but continue to charge. When they are about two feet from Jun-Hei and Heung-Dong, a shadow of a man went in between them. The guy has a hat on, shorter than Jun-Hei and his left arm is missing. THe man uses his left sleeve to hit Ka-Hei's 11 men. The man's move was so fast that not even Jun-Hei or Heung-Dong knew what happen. The 10 men flew back about 10 feet, only getting hit with a sleeve. Ka-Fei flew back 6 steps, but the man follow him and hit him one more time. Ka-Fei flew right into the building across fo 'Kwong Chun Lau', he spit out some blood and faints
The man said, "How dare you not caring for other people's life! You're not qualify to be a 'bou faai'!!" The man's voice is coarse and old.
Heung-Dong said, "Thanks!"
Without turning around to face Heung-Dong, the man said, "No need, you weren't the one I want to save." As he kicks Heung-Dong in the stomach. Heung-Dong flew back into 'Kwong Chun Lau', spit out some blood and faints.
Then the man use his his left sleeve to wrap around Jun-Hei's waist and said, "Come with me." As they jump up to a building and jump away.
The old man took Jun-Hei to the mountainside, then he let Jun-Hei go. Jun-Hei asks, "Who are you?"
The old man took off his hat and finally show his face. Ha has long white hair which is tie up and long white berard that reaches to his chest. His face gives off a very kind feeling. The man is at least 70 years old. The old man walks up Jun-Hei and took his right arm and said, "Let me fix this first." The old man helps Jun-Hei put his arm back into place.
Then the old man said, "Let me tell you a story...."
"30 years ago in 'gong woo' there are three fighters that were considered as invincible. Weapon Invincible Bing Lan, leader of Ice Mountain Palace. His '36th Ice Cold Chop' is fact and fierce. An expert in all kinds of weapons. He is well respected because of his fight for righteous."
"Second is Single Arm Invincible Lau Chin-San, which is myself. My kung-fu was learnt from my dad and in later life I create some kung-fu. I never have the heart of a 'gong woo' person. Never wanted fame or fortune, don't want to fight for righteous or conquer the world. I only want to learn kung-fu, study kung-fu and the way of life."
"The was World Invincible, Chou Gau-Tin, he was the best fighter out of the three of us. His attitude is very unique, and unpredictable. Not righteous nor evil. He will help people that he considered friends, and these people can back a broad in between a sholin monk to a leader of an evil clan. So many people in 'gong woo' as a righteous fighter, but the three of us are considered friends."
"10 years ago, Gau-Tin came to visit me. He told me taht he was going to died in about a year. In his whole life he had never done a thing that he regret, but there was one thing that he promised to do but regret of not doing it."
"17 years ago an unknown man set Gau-Tin up and forced him to fight against the 7 best Lama in Tibet. After fight for a day and a night, Gau-Tin finally killed all of them, but he was badly injuried himself. He was dying, but luckily a guy found him and took him home to cure him."
"Gau-Tin stayed at this man's house to recover for about a half of year. Gau-Tin promised that he'll pay back by teaching his son kung-fu, since the man's son's bone structure is very unique and is prefect to be a fighter. But too he never got to it."
Jun-Hei intrupted by asking, "Excuse me. Does Cho 'chin bui' has long eye brow?"
"Yes."
"Is he long eyebrow 'ba ba'!?"
Chin-San said, "The man's son's name is Yik Jun-Hei!" He reach into his shirt and take out a white, big pill, "Gau-Tin, then give me this pill and said that in transfer 70% of his inner kung-fu inside this pill. He ask me to find you and give it to you." Chin-San hands the pill to Jun-Hei, "It's up to you what you want to do with it." Jun-Hei took the pill and thought for for a moment before putting it into his mouth. Once Jun-Hei swallow the pill, he feels that all the organs inside him is burning is it is full of energy.
Chin-San said, "It's very hard for a normal person to accept this big amount of inner kung-fu at once. I'll help guide you so you open your 'yam duk yi mut'." Chin-San make Jun-Hei sits down then he sits down behind him. He put one of his hands on his head, and the other one his head to help Jun-Hei guide the inner kung-fu.
Ten minutes later, Chin-San and Jun-Hei 'yuen gung' and they stand up. Jun-Hei looks at Chin-San and said, "Thank you, Lau 'chin bui'."
Chin-San nods his head and said, "Now that you have inner kung-fu of a great fighter, it's still useless without the apparent of outer kung-fu. I can't teach all my outer kung-fu, but I'll teach 10 moves from 'Tiger Crane Punch Style'. Now pay attention!" Chin-San stars to show the 10 moves and they are:
1) Hungry Crane Search For Shrimp
2) Tiger Heads Down The Mountain
3) Crane Caught Pearls
4) Tiger Leap On Rabbit
5) Two Crane Make Dent
6) Tiger Return To Forest
7) Tiger Washes Face
8) Tiger Tail Kick
9) Crane Lift To The Air
10) Tiger Crane Celebrite Together
After Chin-San finished showing Jun-Hei the 10 moves, Chin-San said, "Now I have to go, you don't have to enter the 'gong woo'. I just have to fulfill an old friend's dying wish. I'm not you teacher so I can't force to do anything. Anything you do after this is all up to you."
Jun-Hei knee down and said, "Thank you."
Chin-San walks up to him and said, "Get up." He hands Jun-Hei a piece of grass, "If you ever need my help go to the North Mountains and blow on this. I'll be able to help you." Jun-Hei took the piece of grass then Chin-San walks to the edge of the cliff and said, "Jun-Hei...bye." He jumps off the cliff. Jun-Hei runs up to the cliff and saw Chin-San down in the cliff stepping on the blowing leaves to get to the other side of the cliff.
By the time Jun-Hei got back to the city, it is already dark, the wind starts to pick up, a rain storm seems to be coming. Jun-Hei did not went home right away. He went to Wai-Sum's house. He wants to know what happened after he left and most importantly if Wai-Sum was ok.
When Jun-Hei got to the main door of Wai-Sum's house rain finally starts to fall. Jun-Hei walks up to the door and knock. A man opens the door and asks, "What is it?"
"My name if Yik Jun-Hei, I want to see your miss."
"At this day of the time?"
"Tell her, I'm the 'siu yi' in 'Kwong Chun Lau', then she'll know who I am."
"Wait here!" The man closes the door and went to ask.
Five minutes later the man opens the door again and said, "Please follow me." The man took Jun-Hei to the backyard of the house.
In the backyard there ware two fields of flower and a walk path in the middle. At the end of the path there is a 'ting' and behind it there is two big trees. Wai-Sum is sitting in the 'ting' and Siu-Chui is standing behind her. The man said, "Miss..."
Siu-Chui said, "It's ok." She looks at Jun-Hei, "Yik 'gung zi' please site down." As her hands leads to the empty sit across from Wai-Sum. Jun-Hei walks up to the 'ting' and sat in the chair.
Wai-Sum said, "Yik 'gung zi' why are you here so later?"
"I want to know what happed in 'Kwong Chun Lau' after I left."
"Heung-Dong was captured by the 10 'bou faai' and Ka-Fei was injuried pretty badly too."
"I see......how about you? Are you ok?"
"I'm fine......perhaps I should ask you that question."
"I'm ok......the man fixed my arm and....."
Jun-Hei was cut short by a man's deep voice, "And what!? You skum!!"
Jun-Hei and Wai-Sum look at the direction of the voice and saw the man that opened the door with another older man. He's Wai-Sum's dad, Wong Choi-Tin.
Jun-Hei stands up and said, "Good evening, Wong 'sai bat'."
Choi-Tin said, "What do you want!? I know you saved my daughter today, so if you want money you can come and ask me!!"
"No! I don't want money."
"Ha! Then you want to get closes to my daughter!?"
Jun-Hei did not answer the question. Choi-Tin had said what he really want but he just don't know how to say it out.
"Answer me!!" Choi-Tin said, "What on earth do you think you can have my daughter, you begger! Let me tell you something. You are not even qualifty to marry our maid! Wai-Sum get back inside! Ah *** if he comes here again beat him to death!"
"Yes master."
Wai-Sum can't disobey her dad, so she stands up and starts to walk away. Just before she left the 'ting' Jun-Hei said, "Wai-Sum, I want to hear it from you. Can you accept me?"
Wai-Sum stops, without turning around to look at Jun-Hei. She thought for a while then said, "You very good, really good. I kow you love me a lot. The minute you were willing to break your arm for me, I know not toehr man on earth would do the same for me. But too bad. I can only blame the sky, we are born into two different world. I was born silk, and you were born under rags. Everything I wear and eat are top class. Ask yourself can you give me those stuff. Love is important but I can't just in love. Love can't feed me. Jun-Hei be more realistic." Then Wai-Sum starts to walk again.
Suddenly a lightning his one of the trees behind Jun-Hei. Even though the lightning missed Jun-Hei be a few feet, but his heart is hurt 10 times more than the tree that is burnt. Then Jun-Hei yells, "AHHH!!!!" The noise causeght everyone's ear, they all turn around to look at Jun-Hei.
Everyone saw it. Jun-Hei's tears starts to drop. His tears slowly move down his face to his chin and finally it left his face. Jun-Hei lift up his hand and sue his inner kung-fu to force the tear to stay in the chest area. The rain starts to fall heavier. The tear of Jun-Hei seems to have become the gravity of rain as it sucks all the rain drops within two feet of Jun-Hei. Then Jun-Hei's tears starts to spin causing the rain drops surrounding it to spin also. Soon it form a ball shape, then an oval. The spinning starts to go fasting and the oval starts to become longer and longer.
Five minute later the spinning stops and in front of Jun-Hei's chest.....is a sword. The sword is about five feet long wiht a long handle and on the tip of handle there is something that looks like a crystal in a shape of a tear....Jun-Hei's tear.
Jung-Hei lift the sword up pointing it to the sky, "This sword.....made from my tears and the sky's tears is call Love Sword. This sword represent all my love. Represent my love to Wong Wai-Sum." Then the sky strike down another lightning as if the sky has accepted what Jun-Hei said. The rain suddenly stops, Jun-Hei turns around and slowly making his way out the house, wiht Love Sword in his hand.
The next day, two miles outside of the city there is a grassland. In the middle of the grassland there is a tree. Jun-Hei is sitting on one of the larger branch. Along with him is a big bottle of liquer. And Love Sword is stab on the ground in front of the tree.
Jun-Hei took a sip of the liquer, and starts to think about Wai-Sum. He starts to think about the first he saw her.
"It was 12 years ago, Jun-Hei's dad just died and he became an orphan. One day he was being bullied by other kids. He was laying on the ground in pain, bleeding. Then a person walked up to him and handed him a handerchief, it was Wai-Sum. Jun-Hei slowly get back on his knees. He looks at Wai-Sum. Wai-Sum showed Jun-Hei a big smile, the warmest smile that he had ever saw. Jun-Hei took Wai-Sum's handerchief. Suddenly a person call for Wai-Sum. Wai-Sum flashed another smile before she turned and skipped away. It was then Jun-Hei already has the feelings for her."
Suddenly, noises across the grassfield disacted Jun-Hei's thought. He look across the field and saw two young swordman are surrounded by 10 men, all arm with weapons.
Jun-Hei jumps down from the tree, put the liquer on the ground. He pull Love Sword out of the ground. Not knowning if it is because he wanted to take his anger out of the people or if he just don't want the people to fight in front of him, Jun-Hei jumps five feet into the air swing Love-Sword down towards the ground with all his inner kung-fu. Jun-Hei's inner kung-fu creates 'sword wave' that strikes the ground, that causes the ground to have a line three feet deep. The 'sword wave' line went right up to the 12 men that are fighting, causing them to stop to look at Jun-Hei.
One of the men from the 10 men walks out and said, "Who are you?"
"I'm just a pass by , but I can't bare to see 10 big men bully around two person." Taking a deeper look, the 10 men are all big and strong while the two swordmen are small in figure and are in their early 20's, just like Jun-Hei.
One of the swordmen said, "This 'hing dai', this thing has nothing to do wiht you. We don't want you to get involve. We know that you're kind-hearted, but this might be too big for you to handle.
Jun-Hei put a little smile on his face, it's the first smile he showed since Love Sword is made. He said, "Since I got my head wet. It doesn't matter." He looks at the 10 men, "If you 10 want to continue to fight, then fight all three of us!"
"You ask for it." As four of them jump towards Jun-Hei, and the other 6 surrounds the two swordmen. Jun-Hei lift up his sword to try to stab the leading of the four, but the guy use his swift moving kung-fu to move to the left side and claws Jun-Hei in the arm and shoulder. Jun-Hei gathers his inner kung-fu and force the guy back. At the sametime, another man punches Jun-Hei in the stomach. Jun-Hei use 'Tiger Heads Down The Mountain' and hit him. The other two are charging in with a kick and a chop. Jun-Hei gather his inner kung-fu into Love Sword and starts to swing to wildly, to force the two back.
The first one that attacked Jun-Hei thought, 'This kid has no fighting experience or great outer kung-fu, but his iner kung-fu....one of his hits equals to about 10 of my blow. Even if we combine all our inner kung-fu it might now even beat him. The other two are hard to tackle as well. Our chance of winning is less than 50%.' He turns around to face his men and said, "Stop!" All the people stop fighting, "We'll let you guys go this time." He looks at the two swordmen, "You two wouldn't be this lucky next time. Let's go!" As the 10 of them walk away.
One of the two swordman wants to go up and chase them, but the other one stops him and said, "Ah Yi, we have more important things to do." The two of them looks at Jun-Hei, "Thanks or else...."
"No need to thanks."
"What is your name?"
"Yik Jun-Hei."
"My name is Cheng Chung-Hau, this is my younger brother Cheng Chung-Yi. We are both students of San Gim Mun(Mighty Sword Clan) leader, Cheung Chiu-Tin. Where did you learn your kung-fu?"
"Single Arm Invincible, Lau 'chin bui' give me a pill with Cho Gau-Tin 'chin bui's' inner kung-fu."
"So you can be consider as Cho 'chin bui's' student."
"I guess....Why were those guys after you?"
"Those are the people of San Lung Bong(Mighty Dragon Group) a 'bong' that is invading China from Ancient Russia. They are consider as the biggest clan right now, but they are also a biggest threat in 'gong woo' right now. Recently Bing Lan, Bing 'chin bui' created a very powerful weapon Cold Flame Blade to go along with his '36th Ice Cold Chop'. San Gim Mun heard that San Lung Bong was afriad that Bing 'chin bui' would use it again them, so they want to steal it. So San Gim Mun is going to inform Bing 'chin bui' about this. Since we expected San Lung Bong's men to attack us to we're going up to Ice Mountain Palace in different route."
"I see." Jun-Hei looks at the city in the distance, "Can I come with you guys?"
Chung-Hau and Chung-Yi look at each other than Chung-Yi said, "Sure since you're Cho 'chin bui's' student. I think Bing 'chin bui' would love to meet you."
So Jun-Hei is heading towards Ice Mountain Palace, this also is the biggest decision of his life, stepping into 'gong woo'. Not knowing if he really wanted to this parth or if he just don't want to stay in the city.....and see Wai-Sum. Whatever is the really reason, one thing is sure, 'gong woo' path is a path with no return.