If all you do is knock their teeth out and you don't kill them, the wolves are bound to regroup and attack again soon as they recover.
10 seconds sound clip from the The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:48:30 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- After all, a wolf with no teeth can hardly kill. Worked well for us in the past.
- Master, that just isn't good enough.
- How many monks are you gonna need to cope with them if they attack at once?
- Master Yang, nothing's gonna change your fierce nature.
- Reverend, I simply want to become a guardian monk like them.
- Can't take a student like you.
- Reverend, seems to me you already have taken me on. So why don't you let me practice with them?
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