Kung Fu

Have nothing to discuss with you.

Not even the forge?

I assume that's why you came here,

to protect it from people like me.

Good guess.

You can feel it, can't you,

the energy of the 8 weapons.

Hmm.

Credit to the original architects,

building a monastery on top of the forge, clever.

The night I raided this place, I had no idea

that I was so close to a source of biange.

Well, that's as close as you'll ever get.

- Oh, is that so? - Yes.

You're outnumbered, zhilan.

These women were ready for you.

Hmm. Oh, I'm not here for them.

I'm here for you to enter the forge.

"Warrior and guardian must cross together"--

words from the scroll.

Turns out, you're my key inside.

Why would I help you?

Because you're weak.

Your attachments make you weak.

They make you vulnerable, lucky for me.

I warned you, you're not cut out for this.

It looks like a very special event

at 219 astor street, a wedding?

How did you get these?

My men are parked outside your family's home,

and... rest assured... they're armed

with much worse than Spears and swords.

Hmm. Some salmons and corals slipped through.

Uh, yeah. This one's a no.

This one, too.

This one's borderline.

Mm, better safe than sorry.

Uh, great. Thank you.

Catering, come on in.

Go straight back. Come on. Come on. Come on.

Catering, in the kitchen, please.

Baba, the silk cushions for the tea ceremony.

What?

Well, Nicky was storing them in your bedroom closet.

Look. I raced out of there.

Mama was singing so out of tune.

Ha ha ha.

It's still early,

and I haven't warmed up.

Ma, you weren't practicing for the reception, were you?

Althea said no karaoke tonight.

We'll see what she says after the baijiu comes out.

- Oh! You... - shh shh shh shh shh shh.

Dahongpao, lungching... Where's the tieguanyin?

What do you mean, "where's the tieguanyin?"

Uh...oh, you look great.

Thank you, but please don't tell me

we're missing Dennis' Nai Nai's favorite tea.

His aunt hand-carried that

all the way from Hong Kong.

Ok. Um...

Uh, po po's been slamming tea all morning.

I didn't think it was that tea.

- Oh, god. - Oh, no. No.

Hey, don't freak out. I got this.

Nicky's playbook.

In case of emergency, appendix 6c.

Extra tea is in the cabinet above the fridge.

Oh...

Nicky shen saves the day.

Huh. A puzzle. Charming.

16 panels...

8 guardians, 8 warriors.

I don't know what you want me to do.

I have no idea how to open this.

It takes two.

All you have to do is start.

It's not science, Harvard.

It's instinct, and you know that,

so stop stalling unless you want to add

a fresh shade of red to your sister's dress.

Now you.

"Only warrior and guardian may cross."

Call off your men.

I did what you asked. I opened the door.

Come. The forge...

Where the weapons were made,

where the sorcerers enchanted them

1,500 years ago.

What?

I don't feel anything.

Do you?

No.

Huh. It's gone. The energy is gone.

*KUNG FU (2021)* Season 01 Episode 13

Episode Title: "Transformation" Aired on: July 21, 2021.

The energy is missing.

Ah.

Did you have something to do with this?

How could I?

I just found out this place exists.

A bed? Of course.

A sorcerer lived here, protecting the forge.

A sorcerer like the original monk

who enhanced the 8 weapons?

I read about that in ancient texts.

They had students, disciples.

They lived monastic lives,

learning how to draw biange energy from the earth,

how to infuse it into vessels like the forge

and from the forge into the weapons.

I assumed that they died out,

but, apparently, the line lived on,

and one of them was living here underground...

ziqi, the last of her kind.

Only she would have the skill

to take the energy from the forge to hold it.

What do you know?

I saw her one night

two years ago in the courtyard.

I thought I was imagining things,

but she...

I saw a green glow.

Huh.

Biange energy.

Ha ha! Pei-ling.

My sister paid me a visit two years ago.

She knew I had designs on the sword,

on biange.

When she returned here, she must have raised the alarm.

That's why ziqi packed up the forge.

That's why she fled.

How? One woman, all that energy.

That's part of the sorcerer's art.

Only they have the focus and training.

She has practiced her whole life

cultivating this rare ability to hold a universe

of biange energy inside of herself.

She would need to find a place to hide,

like this chamber, a place that was peaceful,

undisturbed, silent.

I need to find Pei-Ling's little stowaway.

One of your sisters must know more.

Only one way to find out.

Ok. If ziqi needed a quiet place,

a sanctuary to keep the energy safe,

I might know where she went.

Pei-ling used to tell me of a place,

the quietest,

most tranquil place she knew...

the ruins of an ancient temple

in hengduan mountains.

That sounds like a guess at best.

She mentioned the eastern side

of the range near a quarry.

- Hardly narrows it down. - I can find it.

I just... I need your phone.

Ah. Heh heh heh.

Oh, they, um...

Speaks Chinese...

Xie xie.

Baba, mama.

- Speaks Chinese... - Speaks Chinese...

- Mm. - Mm.

- Speaks Chinese... - Ha ha ha!

Hello?

Ryan, it's Nicky.

What's this number? Are you ok?

I'm fine. I just need althea's help.

It's a computer thing.

Uh, it's Saturday.

Althea's tea ceremony is happening right now.

Ryan, please.

I need her help, like, hella bad.

Just have her sneak away and call me back

on this number, ok?

Althea...

Hey, who was it?

- Uh, Nicky. - Right.

Althea told me... food poisoning.

Sucks she's missing the wedding.

Yeah. Yeah.

She's desperate to talk to althea,

but I have no idea how to pull her away from that.

Look. I owe Nicky big time.

If she really needs to talk to althea,

- if it's an emergency... - it is.

Ok. I got this.

Pissing off my mom, kind of my specialty.

Are you sure?

Oh, my goodness! I'm so sorry!

I'm so sorry.

Oh, does anybody have a towel?

It was an accident. I'm so, so sorry.

Oh, my goodness.

- Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry, - don't worry.

Hey, Nicky called. She needs your help.

She's in trouble.

That was on purpose? Are you crazy?

Po po is gonna think our marriage is cursed.