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.

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







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

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

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

#11 - 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
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#12 - Episode 34
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 3/30/2006

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


#21 - 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
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#22 - Episode 04
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/15/2006
Xiao Long Nu is shown playing the zither. Yang Guo walks across the water really fast and he tries to distract her from playing. Yang Guo is seen practicing his martial arts and Xiao Long Nu seems interested in how he is performing his moves. His moves is very feminine and soft in nature. The 2 starts talking and Xiao Long Nu explains that her kung fu have not gone up anymore due to not knowing any of Quanzhen’s kung fu words. And that basically, the ancient tomb’s ultimate kung fu, Jade Heart Manual. Yang Guo reveals that he knows it and she performs new moves that is more powerful than what she have shown before hand. Yang Guo leaps happily away and go outside the tombs. While Xiao Long Nu practice the new moves based on the Quanzhen’s kung fu words that Yang Guo reveals to her. The Quanzhen’s students are washing their clothes by the river. Lu Qing Du is shown being scared by Yang Guo. Yang Guo makes lots of loud noise to scare Lu Qing Du. Lu Qing Du is shown to fall into the lake. Yang Guo calls the bees to attack Lu Qing Du. Lu Qing Du hides underwater from the bees while Yang Guo taunts him from the bank of the lake. Xiao Long Nu is seen to have made great progress with her kung fu with Yang Guo telling her more of Quanzhen’s kung fu words. (I believe the forms of Quanzhen swordplay is carved on the walls of the ancient tomb, but because Xiao Long Nu did not know the secrets words that goes with Quanzhen’s kung fu, she could not truly mastered it till now. Basically for thng Guoem to master Jade Maiden Heart manual, they need to mastered both ancient tomb and Quanzhen’s swordplay, then they can proceed on to the kung fu in Jade Maiden Heart manual.) Xiao Long Nu explains this to Yang Guo. She also explains that for them to learn Jade Maiden Heart manual, both people needs to be naked while practicing this or else they will server internal damage. Yang Guo ask if they can use the ice bed, but she say no due to some reason. Xiao Long Nu
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#23 - Episode 05
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/16/2006
Yang Guo and Xiao Long Nu tricks Li Mo Chou and flee into a hidden cavern. Xiao Long Nu lost a lot of blood and is very weak. Yang Guo bites his hand and feed her some of his blood to give her strength. The two faint. Li Mo Chou waits patiently outside the secret cavern for them to come out. Xiao Long Nu is more lucid and the 2 are shown hugging one another. She explains to him that there is a mechanism to lock the door to the ancient tomb that will lock Li Mo Chou inside the tomb. She tells him how to activate it and to leave without her. Yang Guo is resistant to this idea but Xiao Long Nu insist that this is the best solution. The 2 are very emotional about this. Li Mo Chou and her disciple wait outside for Xiao Long Nu and Yang Guo to appears. Xiao Long Nu appears and attacks Li Mo Chou. Yang Guo fights against Li Mo Chou’s disciple. Xiao Long Nu easily evades Li Mo Chou’s attack. She distracts Li Mo Chou’s disciple and take Yang Guo out of the ancient tomb. She then activate the lock mechanism to the tomb and block Li Mo Chou’s escape. Yang Guo runs back in with his sword pointing at Li Mo Chou to prevent her from escaping. The door is completely lock. The scenes fade out and Xiao Long Nu and Yang Guo is seen tied to a tree. Li Mo Chou then knocks the tree down into the water to drown one of them. So the 2 flip the tree back and forth so that they can each breathe. After a while, Yang Guo refuses to let Xiao Long Nu to flip the log around anymore so Yang Guo is underneath the water unable to breathe. He bites onto some leaves to try to breathe on it. Li Mo Chou free both of them and she tells them she will let one of them live, so who will die. Both of them say they will die for the other. Li Mo Chou congratulates her martial sister and say you can leave the ancient tomb now. You have found someone who is willing to die for you. You are luckier than I, Li Mo Chou says. She ask if Xiao Long Nu is still a virgin and Xiao Long Nu shows her red d
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#24 - Episode 06
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/16/2006
Yang Guo and Xiao Long Nu is seen practicing in the countryside outside their new home. It looks like they have mastered Jade Maiden Heart manual. Yang Guo wants to go show her the fun of the outside world, but Xiao Long Nu is unwilling to leave their peaceful existence. She tells him there are still more to learn. Yang Guo realizes she doesn’t want to leave so he agrees to stay. Night came and Xiao Long Nu is sleeping outside, an old man attacks her demanding to know where his son is. The old man is Ou Yang Feng and he have been crazy for the last 18 years due to learning a corrupted version of the Art of 9 Negation. Xiao Long Nu and Ou Yang Feng fights and Yang Guo then joins in but is quickly beaten. Yang Guo then yell father to Ou Yang Feng. Ou Yang Feng does not recognize him. Yang Guo shows off his toad stance and Ou Yang Feng recognizes him and the two rolls around rejoicing that they have found one another. Ou Yang Feng takes Yang Guo aside and asks him who the girl is. Yang Guo reply tire tmehat she is his master. Ou Yang Feng distrust her and press her acupressure point and paralyzes Xiao Long Nu and goes off to teach Yang Guo more martial arts. During the entire time, Yin Zhi Pin is hiding in the woods watching. Yin Zhi Pin stares at the inert Xiao Long Nu and unable to control himself, he covers her eyes and rape her. Xiao Long Nu believes the whole time that this was Yang Guo so she did not let out a scream. Zhao Zhi Jing witness this event. Meanwhile, Ou Yang Feng is showing Yang Guo the corrupted version of the Art of 9 Negation. Yang Guo tells his dad that the version he is telling him is different the one he was taught by Xiao Long Nu. Ou Yang Feng attempt Yang guo’s stule and realizes there is a dfferences. He’s goes all insane again not knowing which version is real and which version is false. Yin Zhi Ping sneaks away from his heinous act. Yang Guo catch him sneaking off but thinks nothing of it and tell him to leave immediat
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#25 - Episode 10
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/18/2006
Yang Guo is lying in his room and Guo Fu comes to his room bring fresh clothes. He hides from her but she still finds him. The Wu brothers come looking for Guo Fu. Guo Jing and Huang Rong talks. He wants to honor the last generation wish and marries Yang Guo to Guo Fu. Huang Rong doesn’t want to but she tells him it’s too early, why don’t they talk abut it later. Guo Fu, the Wu Brothers, and Yang Guo have a horse race. Yang Guo and the horse do not move but let them have a headstart. After a few minutes, Yang Guo race forward with his horse easily beating the 3. After the race, Guo Fu happily talks to Yang Guo. The Wu brothers stares from afar jealous and unsure if Yang Guo is another contender for her heart. The Wu brothers come down and join the conversation but they just argue among themselves. The four of them spot Huang Rong and Elder Lu riding off in the distance where she will impart to him the Dog Beating Stick Technique. The Wu brothers leave. Yang Guo and Guo Fu continue talking. The four of them is hiding up in the trees watching Huang Rong teaching Elder Lu the Dog Beating Stick Technque. (Hong Qi Cong only taught Yang Guo the external form, but not the martial arts words that goes with it) Huang Rong tells Elder Lu to go on without her. She calls the 4 eavesdropper down from the tree. Yang Guo still pretending to know no kung fu climbs clumsily down from the tree. After talking to Huang Rong awhile, Guo Fu and the Wu brothers leave. Leaving Yang Guo and Huang Rong alone with each other. Huang Rong tells Yang Guo she don’t really understands him, but she will do her best to help him if she can. Syhe told him in the past she treated him unfairly because she did not like his dad. However, in the future she will treat him better. She tells him to never disappoint Guo Jing who have a lot of faith in him. Yang Guo breaks out crying realizing the sincerity in Huang Rong’s voice and tell her he won’t hide any secrets from her.
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