The BEST episodes of Return of the Condor Heroes season 1

Every episode of Return of the Condor Heroes season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Return of the Condor Heroes season 1!

This is the second installment of a trilogy produced by Zhang Jizhong, preceded by The Legend of the Condor Heroes (2003) and followed by The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber (2009). The story concerns the adventures of Yang Guo, an orphaned boy in a mid-13th Century China. From his humble beginnings, the street wise Yang Guo gets passed around from one prestigious master to another but none of them will teach him any martial arts. While escaping from a tortured experience under Quan Zhen Sect's Zhao Zhi Jing, he meets Xiao Long Nu, the girl who will become his martial arts master and eventually the love of his life.

Last Updated: 9/14/2026Network: CCTVStatus: Ended
Episode 07
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#1 - Episode 07

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/17/2006

Yang Guo realizes that when Lu Wu Shuang get angry it reminded him of Xiao Long Nu, so he secretly rescue her by thrown projectiles at them. He acts dumb and harasses Lu Wu Shuang. The beggars and Quanzhen priest walk into town and encounter Li Mo Chou and she gives them a beating. In the cave, Yang Guo acts dumb and continue to harass Lu Wu Shuang. Lu Wu Shuang calls Yang Guo, Sha Dan (dumb egg). Lu Wu Shuang is injured around her chest area and Yang Guo attempts to set her bone with his eyes close. He successfully does so. Xiao Long Nu wanders the martial arts world aimlessly lost in her memory of Yang Guo. She takes the food away and do not even pay. She doesn’t even understand the concept of money. The owner demands money but she doesn’t have any so she returns it. She flies away from there and the people think she is a fairy from heaven and got down on their knees. Yang Guo and Lu Wu Shuang are on horses riding into town witnessing a marriage procession. Yang Guo messes up the wedding procession. Li Mo Chou appears. Yang Guo is now dressed as the groom and turn his face from her. Li Mo Chou’s disciple questions him but he hides his face from her. However, Li Mo Chou grows suspicious and decide to double check the marriage procession. But a bunch of beggar clan members shows up and try to stop her. A big fight begins. Yang Guo rides away while she’s distracted. Lu Wu Shuang shares a room with Yang Guo for the night. Yang Guo is shown sleeping on a rope. Lu Wu Shuang shows her surprise. Then they hear and see Li Mo Chou arriving. The 2 hide underneath the bed. Li Mo Chou opens up all the room in the hotel searching for them with one sweep of her whisk. Yang Guo and Lu Wu Shuang changes clothes and pretend to be Quanzhen priests. The ruse works and Li Mo Chou leaves the hotel. Yang Guo starts thinking of Xiao Long Nu and gets depressed. Xiao Long Nu is walking in the countryside thinking of Yang Guo. Yang Guo and Lu Wu Shuang is l

Episode 32
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#2 - Episode 32

Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 3/29/2006

Episode 23
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#3 - Episode 23

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/25/2006

Episode 24
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#4 - Episode 24

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/25/2006

Episode 25
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#5 - Episode 25

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/26/2006

Episode 26
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#6 - Episode 26

Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/26/2006

Episode 27
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#7 - Episode 27

Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/27/2006

Episode 28
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#8 - Episode 28

Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/27/2006

Episode 29
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#9 - Episode 29

Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/28/2006

Episode 30
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#10 - Episode 30

Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 3/28/2006

Episode 31
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#11 - Episode 31

Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 3/29/2006

Episode 21
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#12 - Episode 21

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/24/2006

Episode 33
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#13 - Episode 33

Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 3/30/2006

Episode 34
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#14 - Episode 34

Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 3/30/2006

Episode 35
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#15 - Episode 35

Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 3/31/2006

Episode 36
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#16 - Episode 36

Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 3/31/2006

Episode 37
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#17 - Episode 37

Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 4/1/2006

Episode 38
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#18 - Episode 38

Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 4/1/2006

Episode 39
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#19 - Episode 39

Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 4/2/2006

Episode 40
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#20 - Episode 40

Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 4/2/2006

Episode 41
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#21 - Episode 41

Season 1 - Episode 41 - Aired 4/3/2006

Episode 11
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#22 - Episode 11

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/19/2006

Episode 01
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#23 - Episode 01

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/14/2006

The story starts out with "Scarlett Immortal" Li Mo Chou attacking and leaving 9 palm prints on the wall of the Lu Manorhouse. Mistress Lu and a servant attempt to clean it up, but Master Lu stops them. Master Lu tells his wife and the servants that Li Mo Chou is coming to take her revenge and that that she normally leaves 'x' amount of palm prints for the amount of people in the house she will kill. Mistress Lu tells her husband there are only 7 people in the household. Master Lu responds by saying she is also counting his brother and his wife who are both deceased and that she will not spared the children lives either. Li Mo Chou is taking her revenge because in the past, Li Mo Chou used to be interested in Master Lu's brother but because of her cruel nature, he lost interest in her and marry someone else. Li Mo Chou swore revenge on them. Later, inside the manor, Master Lu attempts to give his niece, Cheng Ying, a hankerchief that Li Mo Chou once gave his brother, Cheng Ying's dad, as protection for her. Husband and wife argue concerning why he didn't give this to his own daughter, Lu Wu Shuang. The hankerchief ends up being torn and given to each of the 2 girls. Master Lu then sends his servant to take the 2 girls away from the manor house leaving him and his wife alone to face Li Mo Chou. Li Mo Chou arrives and light up all the candles in the room. You can clearly see that she is now a Taoist nun. Master Lu and his wife attacks Li Mo Chou. Li Mo Chou is clearly superior in her martial arts skills and easily defeats and kill Master and Mistress Lu. The husband and wife try to hold each other hands as they lay dying, but Li Mo Chou, cruelly, steps on their hands preventing them from doing this. She then proceeds to burn down their mansion with Master Lu telling her that her brother have never loved her and that burning down the mansion will not changed that fact. Li Mo Chou quickly leaves the mansion and chased after the girls. A young boy, Yang Gu

Episode 02
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#24 - Episode 02

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/14/2006

Yang Guo is caught skipping class by his master. He is given a lecture by his teacher and is punished with a beating and a spanking. Yang Guo attacks his master and his master acts in reflex and knocks Yang Guo out. Some of the other students witness this, but the master quickly shoo them away. Yang Guo is punished and Lu Qing Du brings food to him, but Yang Guo plays a prank on him Lu Qing Du becomes angry and toss the food to the ground and rub the food into Yang Guo’s face. Lu Qing Du is next seen practicing sword playing with is master. They discuss what they should do about Yang Guo. Basically, Zhao Zhi Jing says he will teach Yang Guo only the words to the martial arts but no actual martial arts skills. The next scene shows the semi annual martial art fighting to test the skills of the students. Lu Qing Du is pulling Yang Guo to the event. Zhao Zhi Jing congratulate the winner of the current fight and pull Yang Guo out to fight in the next round. Zhao Zhi Jing quizzes Yang Guo in front of everybody and Yang Guo answers it correctly. Zhao Zhi Jing then inform Yang Guo to use those phrases as martial arts and fight in the next competition. Yang Guo attacks wildly with no martial arts skills at all and is beaten up terribly. Yang Guo claims he was not taught any martial arts. Lu Qing Du comes out to teach Yang Guo a lesson and beat him up terribly. Yang Guo gets knock down. However, suddenly Yang Guo rises up with energy in his palm and using the Toad Stance attacks Lu Qing Du and knocks him out completely. Yang Guo runs into the forest to escape his master and fellow students from Quanzhen. Yang Guo escapes into forbidden land by crossing over a narrow log across a chasm. Yang Guo makes it to the ancient tomb and the bees come out and attack everyone. The Quanzhen runs for safety. Yang Guo also runs off and fall into the river. The bees returns back to the ancient tomb. An old lady is seen treating Yang Guo of his wounds from the bees. Yang Guo

Episode 03
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#25 - Episode 03

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/15/2006

Yang Guo is wide eyed shock when he sees this. Yang Guo tries to sneak off his ice bed but she stops him. He is freezing on the bed laying there but he does not complain anymore. He gets off the bed and she gets off her rope bed and give him a spanking for disobeying her. She put him back on the bed. Yang Guo sputters out a bunch of stuff and ask her tons of stuff trying to avoid sleeping on the ice bed. Xiao Long Nu explains to him that those who sleep on this bed gain intense amount of internal power if they slept on this daily. Once he heard the explanation, he quickly went back on the bed and eagerly agree to sleep on it. Qui Chu Ji and his disciple, Yin Zhi Pin, stand at the outskirt of the ancient tomb waiting for them to leave. Yin Zhi Pin convinces his master that he can wait alone and that his master can go back to Quanzhen school. Qui Chu Ji agrees. Xiao Long Nu points to a picture of her grandmaster and told him to kow-tow her picture. She then tells him to spit on the picture of Quanzhen Grandmaster, Wang Chong Yang. Yang Guo happily do so. Yang Guo accepts Xiao Long Nu as his master but makes a strange request to never call her master but to call her Auntie instead. She ask him why and he tells her that whenever he say the words master he thinks of his despicable Quanzhen master and just want to curse and he didn’t want to accidentally do that to her. So she agrees for him to call her Auntie. Xiao Long Nu discovers Yin Zhi Pin outside the tomb. She basically tells him to go away and that she will now take care of Yang Guo and will not return him to Quanzhen. Xiao Long Nu hands Yin Zhi Pin medicine for the Quanzhen students who were harmed by the bees and tell him to leave. Yang Guo is seen wandering lost within the ancient tomb of the living crying out for Xiao Long Nu. Xiao Long Nu finds him crying pathetically on the floor. She leads him back to the main area where they talk about various stuff. Yin Zhi Pin keeps the medicine bottle