Season 1

E1 - The Bride Prince

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[03:33] ---
    Wh-What is happening?
[03:35] ---
    --What a commotion!
    --Who is ascending to heaven?
[03:37] ---
    Who is the lucky man?
[03:39] ---
    What a spectacle!
[03:40] ---
    --My... My temple!
    --Normally it's just a tremor or two.
    But look at this!
[03:44] ---
    The sky has almost fallen upon us!
[03:47] ---
    He must be a man of extraordinary talent.
    Certainly well-cultivated!
[03:50] ---
    Heaven helps the virtuous!
    Fortune has smiled upon him!
[03:52] ---
    Extraordinary! Amazing!
[03:55] ---
    It's just like when the prince of Xian Le
    ascended hundreds of years ago!
[03:57] ---
    --Don't even mention his name,
    it's bad luck!
    --Let's go and see who it is!
[04:02] ---
    Let's go!
[04:20] ---
    Huh?! Not him again!
[04:39] ---
    Congratulations, Your Royal Highness!
[04:42] ---
    On winning first place and becoming
    "Most likely to be cast out of Heaven"!
[04:49] ---
    Although it's first place...
    It's not much to be proud of!
[04:52] ---
    The winner is awarded 100 merit points.
[04:54] ---
    Great! Count me in
    next time there's a contest.
[04:58] ---
    Do you know who came in second?
[04:59] ---
    It's hard to say--I'm so popular
    that I should win the top three spots!
[05:03] ---
    That's right, no one came in second.
[05:06] ---
    You are head and shoulders above the rest.
[05:09] ---
    So, who won last time?
[05:12] ---
    No one: the ranking only
    started this year. Today, actually.
[05:18] ---
    Oh, all right. I suppose I'm lucky.
    I made it just in time.
[05:24] ---
    Do you realize why you won?
[05:26] ---
    Thanks to public support?
[05:27] ---
    Your Royal Highness,
    take a look at the bell over there.
[05:32] ---
    Where?
[05:33] ---
    You're right, the bell is gone.
[05:37] ---
    While you were ascending, it collapsed
    onto a heavenly official passing by.
[05:42] ---
    And what now?
[05:44] ---
    It's still being repaired.
[05:45] ---
    I mean, the heavenly official.
[05:47] ---
    Being a martial god,
[05:48] ---
    he sliced right through the bell
    with a flick of the wrist.
[05:51] ---
    Uh...
[05:52] ---
    Take a look at that golden palace.
[05:55] ---
    --Ah, this time I see it!
    --You're not supposed to see it.
[05:59] ---
    There's actually nothing there.
[06:00] ---
    Several palaces collapsed
    in the earthquake when you ascended.
[06:04] ---
    There was no time for repairs--
    we've set up some temporary palaces.
[06:07] ---
    This means it's my fault?
[06:09] ---
    Yes, it does.
[06:12] ---
    Have I offended many officials
    right after ascending?
[06:15] ---
    Nothing that can't be fixed.
[06:16] ---
    How can I fix it?
[06:17] ---
    That's easy--it will just take
    8.88 million merit points.
[06:22] ---
    I know, you don't
    even have a tenth of that.
[06:25] ---
    Or even a thousandth, to be honest.
[06:29] ---
    Don't worry.
    If there is a will, there is a way.
[06:32] ---
    The way for me
    never seems to lead anywhere.
[06:35] ---
    I have an idea. Do you still remember
    the password for the Telepathic Matrix?
[06:39] ---
    Hmmm...
[06:50] ---
    Hello. Has everyone arrived?
[06:53] ---
    The emperor had to tend to a
    matter in the north. He needs men.
[06:56] ---
    Could any of you
    dispatch two military officials?
[07:03] ---
    Rumor has it the emperor
    is not in the north.
[07:05] ---
    Perhaps you are recruiting
    on someone else's behalf?
[07:08] ---
    Your Highness, there is a way
    to earn merit points quickly.
[07:15] ---
    There have recently been countless
    worshippers in the north
[07:18] ---
    pleading for heavenly officials to come
    and vanquish the evil ghosts.
[07:22] ---
    The emperor has no time for the north.
    General Ming Guang is also busy.
[07:28] ---
    If Your Highness goes in his stead,
[07:31] ---
    you'll be offered countless merit points.
[07:36] ---
    Huh? Isn't this His Highness
    the Crown Prince?
[07:39] ---
    --Why did he ascend again...?
    --Come on, it's the third time already.
[07:41] ---
    Is Your Highness back?
[07:43] ---
    --I bet he won’t last a year!
    --A year, no way!
[07:47] ---
    I bet three days.
[07:54] ---
    Was Ling Wen just trying to recruit
    on behalf of the Crown Prince?
[07:58] ---
    Of course! Xie Lian
    needs people more than anyone!
[08:02] ---
    --No incense, no palace, no believers...
    --Hah, he's empty-handed,
    the laughingstock of the Three Realms!
[08:07] ---
    I told you no one
    would be willing to help.
[08:12] ---
    Hello everyone, here I am again.
[08:14] ---
    What a scene Your Highness
    caused when you ascended!
[08:19] ---
    It wasn't so bad.
[08:20] ---
    Maybe not for you, but it was for me.
[08:23] ---
    Your Highness, the bell.
[08:27] ---
    I've heard about the bell.
    I am terribly sorry that it struck you.
[08:30] ---
    Hm!
[08:31] ---
    Sir... what shall I call you?
[08:36] ---
    --Wow, he's forgotten!
    --Must be memory loss!
[08:39] ---
    Your Highness, this is Xuan Zhen.
[08:41] ---
    Xuan Zhen? I thought it was Mu Qing!
[08:46] ---
    Who has torn down my palace?
[08:50] ---
    Show your face!
[08:52] ---
    It was you? Fine. I'll show you.
[08:55] ---
    The guilty party is right here.
    Ask him yourself.
[09:02] ---
    It was me, I'm very sorry.
[09:06] ---
    Your Highness, that's Nan Yang.
[09:07] ---
    I know, but I think
    he didn't recognize me.
[09:11] ---
    No, he just spends most of
    his time in the mortal realms
[09:13] ---
    and didn't know you had ascended.
[09:15] ---
    I wanted to apologize to all of you.
[09:17] ---
    I will compensate you for your losses.
    Just give me some time.
[09:22] ---
    Hm! I hope Your Highness
    will keep your word.
[09:26] ---
    I still have business to attend to.
    Please excuse me.
[09:31] ---
    --I still have things to do.
    --Goodbye.
    --Goodbye.
[09:40] ---
    I'm so sorry.
[09:41] ---
    If Xuan Zhen hadn't spoken up,
    we would have recruited someone.
[09:45] ---
    Don't worry, I'm used to being on my own.
[09:47] ---
    Do you need a magic weapon?
[09:49] ---
    Thanks, I'm fine. I didn't have much
    magic after being banished twice,
[09:52] ---
    and I couldn't use magical weapons
    in the mortal realms anyway.
[09:55] ---
    Very well.
    This task is of the utmost importance.
[09:57] ---
    Your Highness, please be careful.
    Let me know if you run into any trouble.
[10:04] ---
    I will try to help if I can.
[10:08] ---
    This has the details of your task.
    Do you have any questions?
[10:14] ---
    Ling Wen, I really have to thank you.
[10:19] ---
    I'm just doing my job. You can
    thank the Emperor when he's back.
[10:25] ---
    All right.
[10:32] ---
    Your Highness, I wish you luck.
    May the blessings of heaven be with you.
[10:42] ---
    I will do my best.
[10:58] ---
    Have you heard?
    Something is up on Mt. Yujun again.
[11:00] ---
    Really? Someone went missing again?
[11:02] ---
    That's right...
[11:03] ---
    When will this end?
    Another girl has gone missing.
[11:17] ---
    Come in, take a seat.
[11:27] ---
    --Could I please have a pot of tea?
    --Got it.
[11:30] ---
    Just wondering, has there recently
    been anything out of the ordinary?
[11:33] ---
    Well, I just mind my own business...
[11:54] ---
    Your Highness! Your Highness!
[11:58] ---
    --Ling Wen?
    --Good news!
[12:01] ---
    Two junior officials from
    Middle Heaven are coming to help.
[12:06] ---
    They should be there by now.
[12:08] ---
    Junior officials?
[12:14] ---
    Ling Wen, they don't look
    like they're here to help.
[12:17] ---
    They look more like executioners.
    Did you trick them into coming?
[12:21] ---
    Ling Wen? Ling Wen?
[12:36] ---
    Just wondering--you are...?
[12:38] ---
    Nan Feng.
[12:39] ---
    --Fu Yao.
    --I didn't mean your names.
[12:41] ---
    I appreciate you coming to help me.
[12:43] ---
    Could you tell me who you're working for?
[12:46] ---
    General Nan Yang.
[12:47] ---
    General Xuan Zhen.
[12:50] ---
    Y-You mean... the two Generals sent you?
[12:54] ---
    My General doesn't know about this.
[12:56] ---
    Mine doesn't, either.
[13:00] ---
    Do you know who I am then?
[13:03] ---
    You are the Crown Prince!
[13:06] ---
    You are the true path,
    the center of Heaven and Earth!
[13:09] ---
    Did he just roll his eyes?
[13:11] ---
    Yeah, just kick him out.
[13:13] ---
    Hey, you're the one
    who should be kicked out!
[13:20] ---
    Wait, wait! Did you really
    come here of your own accord?
[13:23] ---
    There's no need to force things!
[13:25] ---
    I - WANTED - TO - COME - HERE!
[13:30] ---
    Let's cut to the chase.
    There is a legend about Mt. Yujun.
[13:34] ---
    Legend has it, there is a ghost
    bridegroom living in the mountains.
[13:37] ---
    He is hideous and stealthy
    and preys on brides.
[13:40] ---
    --♬ Bride, bride,
    in her sedan chair... ♬
[13:41] ---
    --Seventeen brides have gone
    missing over the past century.
    --♬ Bride, bride,
    in her sedan chair... ♬
[13:45] ---
    --And over 100 people in bridal
    processions have been killed.
    --♬ Bride, bride,
    in her sedan chair... ♬
[13:48] ---
    --News of this hadn't reached Heaven.
    --♬ Bride, bride,
    in her sedan chair... ♬
[13:50] ---
    --Then, the 17th bride's father
    turned out to be a senior official.
    --♬ Bride, bride,
    in her sedan chair... ♬
[13:54] ---
    --When he heard of the legend,
    he picked 40 valiant attendants,
    --♬ Bride, bride,
    in her sedan chair... ♬
[13:55] ---
    --When he heard of the legend,
    he picked 40 valiant attendants,
    --♬ Weeping as she
    goes over the mountain ♬
[13:56] ---
    --who were to guard the bridal procession,
    yet his daughter still disappeared.
    --♬ Weeping as she
    goes over the mountain ♬
[14:02] ---
    --The official loved his daughter dearly,
    and, enraged, he and his powerful friends
    --♬ Weeping as she
    goes over the mountain ♬
[14:03] ---
    --The official loved his daughter dearly,
    and, enraged, he and his powerful friends
    --♬ She veils her head,
    never to smile again.... ♬
[14:07] ---
    --Prayed and made offerings
    with all their energy.
    --♬ She veils her head,
    never to smile again.... ♬
[14:09] ---
    They put a big bounty on the Ghost Groom,
    people in the entire North were worried.
[14:13] ---
    This is when the heavenly officials
    learned about the matter.
[14:16] ---
    Our goal is to capture the Ghost Groom.
[14:20] ---
    Do the missing brides
    share anything in common?
[14:23] ---
    There are poor ones, rich ones,
    pretty ones and plain ones.
[14:25] ---
    Some were to be wives, others concubines.
    In short, they're all different.
[14:30] ---
    Has anyone seen this Ghost Groom?
[14:32] ---
    No.
[14:35] ---
    Since no one has seen him,
    how do we know it's the Ghost Groom?
[14:39] ---
    That's just what we call him.
    But you have a point.
[14:43] ---
    The sun is about to set.
    Let's get settled in, and then we'll talk.
[14:53] ---
    What's going on?
[14:58] ---
    These people have no fear!
    Perfect time to send off a bride!
[15:14] ---
    Something is off about these people.
[15:16] ---
    --Let's check it out.
    --Stop! Stop!
[15:19] ---
    Who's this?
[15:22] ---
    Get out of our way!
[15:24] ---
    Miss, they just want to use you
    as bait for the Ghost Groom.
[15:27] ---
    Don't fall for it!
[15:28] ---
    Out of our way!
[15:34] ---
    It looks fake!
[15:36] ---
    Humph, it's you again!
[15:39] ---
    You witch, always getting in my way!
[15:43] ---
    If you had agreed to dress up as a bride,
    I could have spared this piece of wood!
[15:48] ---
    What a hideous girl.
[15:50] ---
    Fu Yao, it's not nice
    to say things like that.
[15:52] ---
    Isn't that Pengtou and Miss Ying?
[15:54] ---
    It's them!
[15:55] ---
    Oh this Pengtou, always leading his gang
    into all kinds of shady business.
[16:00] ---
    He's set his sights on the bounty and
    decided to hunt down the Ghost Groom.
[16:04] ---
    Don't listen to them.
    Mt. Yujun is too dangerous; don't go!
[16:08] ---
    All he cares about is the bounty.
[16:10] ---
    What's wrong with making some cash?
[16:11] ---
    We'd also rid everyone of this scoundrel.
[16:15] ---
    That's right!
    And it's not even that much money!
[16:17] ---
    But this is suicide!
[16:19] ---
    I had asked you to dress up
    as a bride, and you refused.
[16:21] ---
    And now you're blocking our way
    once we've set out to get him!
[16:24] ---
    What do you want?
[16:25] ---
    Yeah, tell us, what do you want?
[16:26] ---
    You are so set on not letting us go--
    could you have fallen for the Ghost Groom?
[16:30] ---
    Nonsense!
[16:31] ---
    Every few days, you run off to
    Mt. Yujun. Everyone has seen it!
[16:35] ---
    That's right!
[16:37] ---
    Now tell me, where's your boyfriend?
[16:38] ---
    I don't know... Stay away from me!
[16:50] ---
    What a bully!
[16:54] ---
    I've heard the Ghost Groom's face
    is completely covered in bandages.
[16:56] ---
    You two would make a perfect couple!
[17:06] ---
    Who... Who the hell are you?
[17:12] ---
    He has evil powers! Get him!
[17:31] ---
    So, are we done here?
[17:34] ---
    Fine, I'll let you win today.
    But watch your back, I'll show you!
[17:45] ---
    Don't forget to compensate
    them for the post!
[17:47] ---
    Got it.
[17:50] ---
    Are you hurt?
[17:55] ---
    What... What are you doing?
[18:00] ---
    --Miss, your...
    --Ah! You pervert!
[18:06] ---
    Your dress is torn...
[18:11] ---
    This is why we should
    mind our own business!
[18:14] ---
    You helped her,
    and in return you got a beating.
[18:16] ---
    This is so typical of you.
[18:17] ---
    All right, the bill is taken care of,
    you're free to go!
[18:21] ---
    Thank you.
[18:23] ---
    Right, do you know how to get
    to the nearest General Ming Temple?
[18:26] ---
    General Ming Temple?
    I don't think there are any here.
[18:30] ---
    You don't have any?
    How is it possible...
[18:33] ---
    Well, we do have a Nan Yang Temple.
    It's just five miles from here.
[18:38] ---
    Make a right turn out of the
    city gate, and it'll be right there.
[18:52] ---
    Strange, the North is clearly
    under General Guang Ming's control,
[18:55] ---
    but there's only a temple
    of General Nan Yang.
[19:01] ---
    Though Nan Yang controls the Southeast,
[19:02] ---
    there is quite a bit of incense
    lit in his honor in the North.
[19:06] ---
    You're right, he seems quite popular.
[19:09] ---
    But I have a question,
    I just don't know...
[19:11] ---
    If you should ask it or not?
    Then just don't ask.
[19:15] ---
    Actually, I was about to say,
    I don't know who can answer it.
[19:18] ---
    Is it about the story
    behind Nan Yang temple?
[19:21] ---
    --The story?
    --You, be quiet!
[19:24] ---
    Long ago, Nan Yang was
    known as Ju Yang, or "Big Yang."
[19:29] ---
    And then a careless king made a mistake
    and turned the second part into "Wang."
[19:34] ---
    All of the Duke Yang temples change
    their names to "Big Wang Temples."
[19:38] ---
    Word traveled fast...
[19:42] ---
    The mistake has been corrected.
[19:43] ---
    And what good did that do?
[19:44] ---
    To this day, most of the
    visitors to his temple are women,
[19:49] ---
    blushing as they make their wishes.
[19:51] ---
    That's enough!
    Go sweep the floor if you're bored!
[19:56] ---
    What did you say?
[19:57] ---
    Hah, don't you remember
[20:00] ---
    how your General served His Highness tea,
    swept the floor, and made his bed?
[20:03] ---
    If I didn't know you better,
[20:04] ---
    I would think you're
    standing up for His Highness.
[20:08] ---
    It's true that your General is ungrateful.
[20:10] ---
    His Highness brought him to heaven
    when he ascended that time,
[20:13] ---
    but your General turned his back
    on him and banned all talk of it.
[20:17] ---
    Your General is no better.
[20:19] ---
    As His Highness' bodyguard,
    he was supposed to be loyal.
[20:21] ---
    Instead, he betrayed his master.
[20:24] ---
    You two...
[20:39] ---
    Don't eat it!
[20:42] ---
    It's dirty!
[20:44] ---
    Stop!
[20:48] ---
    First, I am the Crown Prince
    you were talking about.
[20:52] ---
    I won't say a word,
    so don't use me against each other.
[20:56] ---
    Also, you're here to help me.
    Shouldn't I be calling the shots?
[21:01] ---
    --Yes...
    --Yes...
[21:03] ---
    All right, let's get down to business.
[21:06] ---
    Can one of you let me use your magic
    so I can contact Ling Wen?
[21:10] ---
    What happened to your own magic?
[21:12] ---
    I don't have enough.
[21:23] ---
    Your Highness, is everything
    going smoothly in the North?
[21:27] ---
    Are the two junior officials helping you?
[21:30] ---
    They are. They each have their strengths.
    And definitely potential.
[21:33] ---
    Great. The North is
    under General Pei's control.
[21:36] ---
    There's always incense burning for him.
[21:38] ---
    If you need to, you can
    stay at a Ming Guang Temple.
[21:41] ---
    We couldn't find a Ming Guang Temple,
    so we set up camp at a Nan Yang temple.
[21:45] ---
    You couldn't find one? How strange...
[21:48] ---
    Do you have any more information
    about the Ghost Groom?
[21:51] ---
    Yes, we have his rating.
    He belongs to the Wrath class of demons.
[21:55] ---
    Second on the Devastation,
    Wrath, Terror, and Wickedness scale,
[22:00] ---
    only the Devastation class
    is more ferocious.
[22:02] ---
    If we don't act, there will be
    terrible devastation and loss of life.
[22:08] ---
    Your Highness, please take
    care of it as soon as you can.
[22:14] ---
    Why did the rating take so long?
    Ling Wen could be a bit more efficient!
[22:18] ---
    The Ghost Groom is a Wrath-class demon.
    Don't underestimate him.
[22:21] ---
    We need to do something ASAP.
    You two have any ideas?
[22:26] ---
    Since the Ghost Groom is after brides,
    that's what we should use to bait him.
[22:30] ---
    But mannequins and deceit
    won't work on a Wrath demon.
[22:32] ---
    We need to use a real person.
[22:34] ---
    Not every bride ends up being abducted.
    There must be something else, too.
[22:38] ---
    Anyway, we should use a girl as bait
    and see what happens.
[22:42] ---
    No, no, if we fail,
    we will be sending her to her grave.
[22:46] ---
    Very well... so do you suggest
    using a man instead?
[22:49] ---
    What kind of man would be
    willing to dress up as...?
[22:56] ---
    Huh?
[23:16] ---
    If I were the Ghost Groom and
    someone sent me a bride like her...
[23:20] ---
    You would wipe her village
    off the face of the earth?
[23:21] ---
    I think I'd kill her.
[23:23] ---
    Good thing I'm not her!
[23:26] ---
    Your Lordship!
[23:29] ---
    You're... the girl from yesterday...
[23:34] ---
    Don't get me wrong,
    This isn't my hobby or anything.
[23:37] ---
    We just want to lure out the Ghost Groom!
[23:42] ---
    Your Lordship, I'm sorry about yesterday,
    about our misunderstanding!
[23:45] ---
    I heard the teashop owner say
    that you were staying here,
[23:47] ---
    and I brought you some food
    to thank you for helping me...
[23:50] ---
    It's fine, no need to worry about it!
[23:53] ---
    Your Lordship, I know how to
    alter clothes and do make-up.
[23:57] ---
    Why don't I help dress you up as a bride?
[24:00] ---
    Oh....
[24:13] ---
    How are things going?
[24:14] ---
    We've hired some sedan bearers.
[24:15] ---
    They're locals, quite good at kung fu,
    and know their way around.
[24:19] ---
    They should be able to defend themselves.
[24:21] ---
    Your Highness, you should be careful.
[24:25] ---
    They did end up coming for the bounty!
[24:27] ---
    Ying, that little brat,
[24:28] ---
    wouldn't help her own people,
    but she'll gladly help strangers.
[24:31] ---
    Isn't that right, Pengtou?
[24:32] ---
    Humph! When a mantis devours a cicada,
    the sparrow is never far behind.
[24:35] ---
    Let's see who will win this time.
[24:38] ---
    --Let's go! Hurry.
    --Let's go!
[24:47] ---
    How does it feel to finally
    get married at your ripe old age?
[24:51] ---
    It's too bad--I think something important
    is missing from the wedding procession.
[24:55] ---
    I think everything's ready; what is it?
[24:59] ---
    Two maids for the bride.
[25:02] ---
    Your family is poor;
    they can't afford maids!
[25:06] ---
    Fine.
[25:07] ---
    Where are we?
[25:09] ---
    We've been moving along
    on Mt. Yujun for a while.
[25:17] ---
    --♬ Bride, bride, in her sedan chair... ♬
[25:17] ---
    --What's wrong?
    --♬ Bride, bride, in her sedan chair... ♬
[25:19] ---
    --Shhhh!
    --♬ Bride, bride, in her sedan chair... ♬
[25:21] ---
    --Did you hear the giggling?!
    --♬ Bride, bride, in her sedan chair... ♬
[25:24] ---
    --I didn't hear anything.
    --♬ Bride, bride, in her sedan chair... ♬
[25:26] ---
    --Me neither.
    --♬ Bride, bride, in her sedan chair... ♬
[25:30] ---
    --Am I supposed to be
    the only one who can hear it?
    --♬ Bride, bride, in her sedan chair... ♬
[25:31] ---
    --♬ Weeping as she
    goes over the mountain, ♬
[25:34] ---
    --Something's off...
    --♬ Weeping as she
    goes over the mountain, ♬
[25:36] ---
    --Don't stop. Just ignore it.
    --♬ Weeping as she
    goes over the mountain, ♬
[25:39] ---
    --♬ she veils her head,
    never to smile again... ♬
[25:42] ---
    --Someone's singing.
    --♬ she veils her head,
    never to smile again... ♬
[25:44] ---
    --What are they singing about?
    --♬ she veils her head,
    never to smile again... ♬
[25:45] ---
    Weeping as she goes over the mountain,
[25:48] ---
    she veils her head,
    never to smile again...
[25:50] ---
    What does that mean?
    Are they warning you not to smile?
[25:53] ---
    It could be a setup.
    Maybe you're not supposed to cry, either.
[25:57] ---
    Whether I laugh or cry,
    what's the worst thing that could happen?
[26:02] ---
    You getting abducted.
[26:03] ---
    Right. I have something
    I need to tell you.
[26:07] ---
    What?
[26:09] ---
    Ever since I've gotten into
    the sedan, I've been smiling.
[26:24] ---
    A wolf? There are wolves!
[26:25] ---
    How could there be wolves on Mt Yujun?
[26:41] ---
    Looks like a magical formation.
    We need to find its core.
[26:44] ---
    Nan Feng, Fu Yao,
    will you be able to hang in there?
[26:46] ---
    Just a pack of animals--a piece of cake!
[26:58] ---
    G-Ghost!
[26:59] ---
    What happened?
[27:01] ---
    Don't come out!
[27:08] ---
    They're slave-goblins!
[27:09] ---
    I - HATE - THESE THINGS!
    They just keep coming!
[27:12] ---
    If they wear us out, we're done for!
[27:19] ---
    Did Ling Wen say anything about them?
[27:24] ---
    Nope, nothing.
[27:27] ---
    How many total?
[27:32] ---
    More than 100! A lot!
[27:34] ---
    Ten is already a handful.
[27:36] ---
    If there are over 100,
[27:38] ---
    then we really have a problem!
[27:44] ---
    Go! Kill them!
[28:00] ---
    How are you able to use your magical
    weapon If you're out of magic?
[28:04] ---
    I guess there are exceptions.
[28:06] ---
    You two should go ahead.
[28:07] ---
    What?
[28:08] ---
    When you stand around the sedan,
    The beasts just keep coming.
[28:11] ---
    There's no way you can kill them all.
    Just retreat now.
[28:13] ---
    What about you?
[28:14] ---
    I'll stay behind and see
    who this Ghost Groom really is!
[28:17] ---
    Just throw them off
    and come back later to help!
[28:23] ---
    Over here. Let's go!
[29:29] ---
    Who's there?
[29:46] ---
    In the central plains, there once
    was a kingdom called Xian Le.
[29:49] ---
    Xie Lian was its Crown Prince.
[29:52] ---
    He cared deeply about his people,
[29:56] ---
    and was known far and wide for his virtue.
[30:01] ---
    One day on Shenwu Street...
[30:16] ---
    ...he rescued a boy falling to his
    death before a crowd of onlookers.
[30:31] ---
    His quick thinking on Yinian Bridge
    rid his people of a ferocious demon.
[31:20] ---
    The Emperor thought
    the Crown Prince had unlimited potential.
[31:24] ---
    He ascended into Heaven at a young age.
[31:58] ---
    Soon after, disaster struck in Xian Le.
[32:01] ---
    The Crown Prince decided on his own
    to descend to the Mortal Realm
[32:04] ---
    to rescue his kingdom,
    but his efforts were fruitless.
[32:06] ---
    What's the point, even if
    they have a good relationship?
[32:08] ---
    --It has no future!
    --Later, Xie Lian ascended
    and was thrown back out.
[32:10] ---
    He's the first one to be thrown out
    just as he's becoming more active.
[32:12] ---
    Shame of the heavenly officials,
    laughingstock of the Three Realms.
[33:00] ---
    If you see no reason to live,
[33:02] ---
    then at least live for me.

E2 - Mountain-Locked Ming Guang

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[01:03] ---
    This man walks with
    a light step, like a youth,
[01:06] ---
    but resolutely,
    like someone who's seen it all.
[01:13] ---
    Could he be the Ghost Groom?
[03:52] ---
    Did you notice that the road here
    was littered with dead wolves?
[03:55] ---
    This mountain is haunted.
[03:57] ---
    The more haunted, the better!
    You'll be feasting with the rest of us
[04:01] ---
    when we get our hands on the bounty!
[04:03] ---
    What was that?
[04:05] ---
    It's the Ghost Groom! After him!
[04:10] ---
    Was that really the Ghost Groom?
[04:14] ---
    If so, then the wolves of this mountain
    should be under his command.
[04:18] ---
    Why were they so frightened
    when they saw him?
[04:21] ---
    That magical formation should have been
    a device of the Ghost Groom.
[04:24] ---
    But the stranger crushed it underfoot...
[04:26] ---
    But if he wasn't the Ghost Groom,
    then why did he try to abduct the bride?
[04:36] ---
    What's that over there?
[04:51] ---
    Ming Guang Temple?
[04:53] ---
    Thank you.
[04:55] ---
    By the way, can you tell me how
    to get to the nearest Ming Guang Temple?
[04:58] ---
    Ming Guang Temple?
    We don't have a Ming Guang Temple here.
[05:02] ---
    You don't? How could that be?
[05:51] ---
    One, two, three...
[05:59] ---
    Fifteen, 16, 17...
[06:04] ---
    It seems the missing
    brides are all here...
[06:13] ---
    ♬ Bride, bride, in her sedan chair... ♬
[06:27] ---
    ♬ Weeping as she goes over the mountain ♬
[06:34] ---
    ♬ She veils her head,
    never to smile again.... ♬
[06:45] ---
    ♬ Bride, bride, in her sedan chair... ♬
[07:00] ---
    ♬ Weeping as she goes over the mountain ♬
[07:31] ---
    Chaaaarge! Catch that Ghost Groom!
    We'll rid the village of this evil!
[07:37] ---
    Huh?
[07:40] ---
    Miss, did the Ghost Groom bring you here?
    Hang in there, we're coming to save you!
[07:46] ---
    It's them!
[07:48] ---
    Eh? There's a Ming Guang Temple here?
[07:50] ---
    That's odd, I've never seen it before.
[07:52] ---
    --Me neither. When was it built?
    --Never heard of it.
[07:54] ---
    Don't move!
[07:56] ---
    Y-You're a man?
[08:04] ---
    You...! Where's the bride?
[08:07] ---
    Did you see anything strange
    on your way here?
[08:10] ---
    Why should I tell you if I did?
    You and I still have a score to settle!
[08:26] ---
    Did you come across anything
    strange on your way here?
[08:36] ---
    You followed the Ghost Groom all
    the way here and saw no one but me?
[08:39] ---
    Why? You don't believe us?
[08:43] ---
    After we left,
[08:45] ---
    we took the sedan bearers to a
    safe place and followed this road here.
[08:48] ---
    We saw nothing suspicious.
[08:50] ---
    All clear. No trace of the Ghost Groom.
[08:52] ---
    Then it must be somewhere in this group...
[08:55] ---
    I'm sorry if I offended you just now.
[08:57] ---
    But I encountered the Ghost Groom a few
    moments ago, he can't have gotten far.
[09:01] ---
    Since my associates didn't come
    upon him on their way here,
[09:03] ---
    I'm afraid he must be hiding among you.
[09:05] ---
    --That can't be.
    --That's impossible!
[09:06] ---
    All of us here are flesh and blood!
[09:08] ---
    If you don't believe it,
    check us one by one!
[09:11] ---
    Nan Feng.
[09:21] ---
    See anything?
[09:25] ---
    No strangers here, we all know each other.
[09:35] ---
    You see? The Ghost Groom isn't here!
[09:38] ---
    Could he have possessed one of us?
[09:40] ---
    I think not. He has a material body.
[09:44] ---
    But he's a Wrath-level demon, after all.
    He might be able to shapeshift.
[09:49] ---
    You mean that he might have changed his
    appearance and hidden himself among them?
[09:54] ---
    If that's the case, we're in trouble.
[09:55] ---
    Who's there?
[10:12] ---
    It's you! Ugly little brat!
[10:14] ---
    I-I was worried,
    so I came looking for you.
[10:19] ---
    Did she come with you lads?
[10:21] ---
    Don't remember.
[10:22] ---
    I dunno.
[10:23] ---
    Wait a minute... She wasn't with
    us on the way here, was she?
[10:25] ---
    I didn't see her, anyhow.
[10:27] ---
    Me neither.
[10:29] ---
    That's because I was
    following silently behind you.
[10:31] ---
    Why would you do that?
[10:33] ---
    Maybe you're the Ghost Groom in disguise!
[10:35] ---
    No, no! Your Lordship,
    it's really me, Ying!
[10:38] ---
    The one who powdered
    your face and plaited your hair!
[10:45] ---
    What a strange thing to do!
[10:47] ---
    That's rather unusual.
[10:48] ---
    Did he really...?
[10:51] ---
    It was for the mission! For the mission!
[10:53] ---
    Nan Feng, Fu Yao, tell them!
[10:55] ---
    Help me out here!
[11:00] ---
    You want to say something?
[11:01] ---
    Not really.
[11:03] ---
    Thanks a lot, you two.
[11:05] ---
    Hey! Come look! Another bunch of brides!
[11:08] ---
    Ha, I knew it!
[11:12] ---
    You lot tried to pull a fast one on us,
[11:13] ---
    so that you could steal
    the credit and the bounty!
[11:16] ---
    Did you really think I'd fall for it?
[11:17] ---
    Come on! Into the temple!
[11:19] ---
    You can't go in!
[11:21] ---
    Don't listen to him. Come on, quickly now!
[11:24] ---
    Those scoundrels!
[11:27] ---
    Don't be too hasty.
[11:28] ---
    If a heavenly inspector catches you
    striking a mortal, you'll be in for it.
[11:35] ---
    So all the brides were here after all.
[11:36] ---
    Look at all these brides! We're rich!
[11:38] ---
    They're all... dead! Cold as ice!
[11:40] ---
    I think that one just moved.
[11:42] ---
    That's impossible!
[11:44] ---
    I saw it!
[11:46] ---
    We should go. This temple
    hasn't seen fresh air in years.
[11:49] ---
    The qi of death is everywhere.
    It's dangerous to stay here.
[11:53] ---
    Everyone, listen to His Lordship!
    We need to get out of here!
[11:58] ---
    Something's not right.
[11:59] ---
    If these girls died decades ago,
    how come their bodies are still fresh?
[12:02] ---
    Forget about them. Let's bring
    these bodies back down with us.
[12:05] ---
    Their families should
    still pay a pretty sum!
[12:08] ---
    Take the fresh ones.
[12:10] ---
    Don't bother with the older ones,
    their families are long gone.
[12:17] ---
    Don't lift the veils!
    They block the yang and the qi of death.
[12:22] ---
    Damn, this one's a beauty!
[12:24] ---
    Pity she's dead. She's not bad-looking!
[12:30] ---
    Still, staring at her too long
    gives me the heebie-jeebies.
[12:34] ---
    You wimp. Out of my way!
[12:46] ---
    D-Don't...
[12:49] ---
    You again! Mind your own damn business!
[12:52] ---
    You're all inviting Heaven's wrath.
[12:55] ---
    Ugly girls should keep their mouths shut!
[13:01] ---
    You--
[13:04] ---
    Who threw that?
[13:20] ---
    It was... It was me! I didn't mean to!
[13:25] ---
    Over there! It's him!
    That bandaged-up freak!
[13:29] ---
    It's the Ghost Groom! Stop him!
[13:39] ---
    No! He's not the Ghost Groom!
    Don't hurt him!
[13:44] ---
    Let's nab that freak and get our bounty!
[13:46] ---
    That smell...!
[13:54] ---
    Don't go in, it's dangerous!
[13:56] ---
    Pengtou...
[13:57] ---
    Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
    If you won't chase him, I will!
[14:00] ---
    --Let's go.
    --Yeah!
[14:20] ---
    There's blood... everywhere...
[14:28] ---
    Don't be afraid, that blood isn't theirs.
[14:41] ---
    Let me borrow your torch.
[14:54] ---
    There are corpses hanging from the tree.
[14:55] ---
    That's where the blood
    is dripping from...
[14:58] ---
    Where did all these bodies come from?
[15:05] ---
    I wouldn't have guessed
    that the Ghost Groom, a Wrath,
[15:07] ---
    was in league with the Green Demon.
    That complicates things.
[15:10] ---
    The Green Demon?
[15:12] ---
    A powerful, "Devastation" -level spirit.
[15:14] ---
    He likes to hang his victims
    upside-down from trees.
[15:17] ---
    After the attack of the slave-goblins,
    we split into two groups.
[15:20] ---
    Your Highness must have passed
    this place when you came.
[15:25] ---
    Did you notice anything unusual?
[15:28] ---
    Ah!
[15:30] ---
    What is it?
[15:31] ---
    When I was riding in the chair,
    I did come across someone. He...
[15:44] ---
    That deadly magical formation,
    you say he crushed it with a single step?
[15:49] ---
    Could he be the "near-Devastation"
    Green Demon you mentioned?
[15:53] ---
    Perhaps. Did he have any
    distinguishing features?
[15:56] ---
    The silver butterflies.
[15:58] ---
    What did they look like?
[16:00] ---
    Like silver, or crystal.
[16:05] ---
    They didn't seem to be alive.
[16:08] ---
    We need to leave. Now.
[16:09] ---
    We can't go. We haven't
    found the Ghost Groom yet.
[16:13] ---
    The Ghost Groom is merely a Wrath.
    The Green Demon is only near-Devastation.
[16:16] ---
    Do you know the master
    of those silver butterflies?
[16:19] ---
    No. Tell me.
[16:23] ---
    There's no time to explain.
    Let's just say you're in over your head.
[16:26] ---
    We need to go back
    to Heaven and report this.
[16:27] ---
    Then you go.
[16:32] ---
    Firstly, he seemed to mean us no harm.
    Second, if he's as terrible as you say,
[16:38] ---
    that's all the more reason not
    to abandon the others to his whims.
[16:42] ---
    I will stay here with Nan Feng.
    You head back for reinforcements.
[16:47] ---
    Over here! I've got the Ghost Groom!
[16:54] ---
    Now that's more like it!
[16:55] ---
    That'll bring in cash to spare!
[16:57] ---
    We're rich!
[16:59] ---
    Well done! I'll keep you in mind!
[17:01] ---
    Boys, let's go split that bounty!
[17:04] ---
    You've all got the wrong man.
    He's not the Ghost Groom.
[17:08] ---
    He's done nothing wrong,
    he's just an ordinary--
[17:10] ---
    Ordinary what? An ordinary freak?
    I want to see what the freak looks like,
[17:15] ---
    if he's so ugly he had
    to kidnap all his women.
[17:19] ---
    Let's see him!
[17:24] ---
    That's enough.
[17:28] ---
    Your Lordship! Please help us!
[17:38] ---
    He is not the Ghost Groom.
[17:39] ---
    The real Ghost Groom must
    still be somewhere hereabouts.
[17:42] ---
    Hmm? Heh! I was wondering
    why you were all acting so strange.
[17:47] ---
    It turns out you're all in cahoots
    with the Ghost Groom! I saw it all.
[17:53] ---
    Those bodies in the temple
    were all your handiwork!
[17:57] ---
    You call yourselves Heaven's envoys,
[17:58] ---
    but you're really nothing but a
    bunch of thieves and murderers!
[18:01] ---
    Now I'll put an end to this menace to--
[18:24] ---
    This place isn't safe.
    Let's get out of here!
[18:32] ---
    I-I'm sorry for all the trouble,
    Your Lordship.
[18:36] ---
    Are you hurt?
[18:38] ---
    Nothing serious, thanks to Your Lordship.
[18:44] ---
    Then can you tell me...
    about those corpses in the forest?
[18:49] ---
    I don't know anything, except that
    the boy had nothing to do with them.
[18:56] ---
    Miss Ying, who is this boy exactly?
[19:03] ---
    He used to live on Mt. Yujun.
[19:05] ---
    When he was hungry, he would
    go down to the village and steal food.
[19:08] ---
    One day, I caught him
    stealing from my house.
[19:10] ---
    He looked so pitiful,
    with open wounds on his face.
[19:12] ---
    I took some cloth
    and bandaged him up.
[19:15] ---
    He was born ugly,
    and he can barely speak.
[19:18] ---
    The villagers were afraid of him,
[19:19] ---
    they would beat him
    when they saw him.
[19:21] ---
    So I took him back up the mountain
    and brought him food every few days.
[19:27] ---
    I was worried about him.
    That's why I followed you up here.
[19:31] ---
    Now everyone thinks he's the
    Ghost Groom. But really, he isn't!
[19:36] ---
    You have to believe me, Your Lordship!
[19:38] ---
    That's right--Miss Ying,
    I wanted to ask you something.
[19:41] ---
    Besides the one on this mountain,
[19:42] ---
    are there any other
    Ming Guang Temples in this area?
[19:46] ---
    Well...
[19:49] ---
    There used to be.
    But somehow, they all caught fire.
[19:53] ---
    Some say that General Ming Guang
    was too weak to guard this place.
[19:56] ---
    That's why they turned
    to General Nan Yang.
[19:59] ---
    Miss Ying, the two of you
    stay here and don't move.
[20:02] ---
    Nan Feng, lend me some magic.
[20:05] ---
    For what?
[20:06] ---
    I'll explain later.
    Let's go back to Ming Guang Temple.
[20:14] ---
    Hey, wait! You can't leave!
[20:15] ---
    It's dangerous here.
    What'll we do if something happens?
[20:18] ---
    Yeah! What about us?
[20:35] ---
    So why are we going back
    to Ming Guang Temple?
[20:37] ---
    To deal with those 18 dead brides.
[20:40] ---
    Huh? Don't you mean 17?
[20:44] ---
    There were 17 before. Now there are 18.
[20:47] ---
    --What?!
    --One of them is the Ghost Groom!
[21:02] ---
    That's no good.
[21:10] ---
    Your Highness, I still don't understand.
    Where did the extra one come from?
[21:14] ---
    We had the villagers check one another.
[21:17] ---
    We know there were
    no strangers among them.
[21:19] ---
    You and Fu Yao also searched the vicinity
    and found no trace of the Ghost Groom.
[21:23] ---
    If the bandaged boy
    is not the Ghost Groom,
[21:25] ---
    then where could it have gone?
[21:28] ---
    Could it be...?
[21:28] ---
    Yes. It probably never left,
    it's been hiding here all along.
[21:31] ---
    What I was chasing after
    was just a swirl of black fog.
[21:38] ---
    So that's what happened...
[21:39] ---
    When it first entered,
[21:40] ---
    I slipped in among the brides,
    so it didn't notice me at first.
[21:44] ---
    Likewise, it could easily hide alongside
    the brides to escape detection.
[21:49] ---
    Ying says that the
    Ming Guang Temples built here before
[21:51] ---
    always ended up burning down.
[21:53] ---
    That could hardly be coincidence;
    it must have been arson.
[21:56] ---
    Why would someone set the temples
    on fire? Out of hatred, one would think.
[22:01] ---
    Then why is there still one Ming Guang
    Temple here on the mountain,
[22:04] ---
    protected by the magical formation
    and in perfect condition?
[22:07] ---
    The temple's statue of General
    Ming Guang is perfectly carved.
[22:10] ---
    And the brides passing by on the road
    were forbidden from smiling.
[22:15] ---
    Doesn't that sound like jealousy
    of the brides' happiness?
[22:20] ---
    When we put all the pieces together,
    the answer is clear as day.
[22:29] ---
    Jealousy, possessiveness, hatred...
[22:36] ---
    You mean, the Ghost Groom
    is not a Groom...
[22:40] ---
    ...but a bitter, vindictive...
[22:45] ---
    ...bride?

E3 - Confidant's Past Grudge

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[00:18] ---
    Recently, some followers in the North
    have been begging the heavenly officials
[00:22] ---
    to descend to Earth and
    subdue the demonic spirits.
[00:25] ---
    Two junior officials from
    Middle Heaven came to assist you.
[00:29] ---
    --Nan Feng.
    --Fu Yao.
[00:30] ---
    Legend has it, there is a ghost
    bridegroom living in the mountains.
[00:35] ---
    Our goal is to capture the Ghost Groom.
[00:38] ---
    Do you know how to get
    to the nearest General Ming Temple?
[00:41] ---
    General Ming Temple?
    I don't think there are any here.
[02:43] ---
    Ying says that the
    Ming Guang Temples built here before
[02:47] ---
    always ended up burning down.
    That could hardly be coincidence.
[02:48] ---
    It must have been arson.
[02:51] ---
    Why would someone
    set the temples on fire?
[02:53] ---
    Out of hatred, one would think.
[02:55] ---
    Then why is there still one Ming Guang
    Temple here on the mountain,
[02:59] ---
    protected by the magical formation
    and in perfect condition?
[03:01] ---
    The temple's statue of General
    Ming Guang is perfectly carved.
[03:05] ---
    And the brides passing by on the road
    were forbidden from smiling.
[03:10] ---
    Doesn't that sound like jealousy
    of the brides' happiness?
[03:14] ---
    When we put all the pieces together,
    the answer is clear as day.
[03:21] ---
    You mean,
    the Ghost Groom is not a Groom...
[03:24] ---
    ...but a bitter, vindictive... bride?
[03:28] ---
    Yes. And also...
[03:30] ---
    They were driven to their
    graves by the Ghost Groom
[03:33] ---
    and perished, full of resentment.
[03:38] ---
    When we lift their veils
    and expose them to the yang...
[03:48] ---
    Help!
[03:51] ---
    It's outside!
[04:07] ---
    Wait for me!
[04:09] ---
    What are you waiting for?!
    Shut the gate!
[04:11] ---
    But... some of our men
    are still out there!
[04:13] ---
    What... W-W-What will they do?
[04:15] ---
    Shut the gate, now!
[04:21] ---
    Why do they always come after us?
[04:32] ---
    --Oh no...
    --Such fools! The bigger the commotion,
    the more ghosts are lured in!
[04:35] ---
    Let's save them first,
    then we'll handle the Ghost Groom.
[04:42] ---
    Stay away from me!
[04:48] ---
    Ah...
[05:15] ---
    Ah... Your Lordship!
[05:21] ---
    Huh?
[05:31] ---
    Nan Feng?
[05:32] ---
    Got it!
[05:55] ---
    My apologies.
[06:13] ---
    Help!
[06:17] ---
    Don't move!
[06:22] ---
    Hurry, this way! Let's go!
[06:38] ---
    Get in there!
[06:41] ---
    Let's go, move it!
[07:30] ---
    Ling Wen is all-knowing!
[07:32] ---
    Ling Wen? Ling Wen?
[07:50] ---
    --Wow!
    --Bravo!
[07:51] ---
    --A real kung fu master!
    --Your Lordship, your skills are amazing!
[07:54] ---
    Thank you, thank you! And now
    if you have any change to spare...
[07:59] ---
    Oops, sorry, a line from my
    busking days must have slipped out.
[08:05] ---
    Ling Wen? Ling Wen?
[08:06] ---
    Your Highness?
[08:08] ---
    Finally, there you are!
[08:09] ---
    I was in a meeting just now,
    that's why you couldn't reach me.
[08:11] ---
    Do you have a question?
[08:12] ---
    I do.
[08:13] ---
    Has General Ming Guang
    ever had any romantic ties?
[08:16] ---
    Why do you ask?
[08:17] ---
    I'm in dire straits here.
    There are a dozen corpses chasing me.
[08:22] ---
    Has he ever been with a woman
[08:24] ---
    who was jealous and possessive,
    with some physical injury?
[08:27] ---
    Let me think...
[08:29] ---
    Actually, yes, yes, he has.
[08:31] ---
    Pei was a general before he ascended.
[08:34] ---
    On the battlefield, he met
    a beautiful yet fierce female general
[08:36] ---
    of the enemy forces, named Xuan Ji.
[08:39] ---
    Xuan Ji?
[08:40] ---
    That's right.
[08:43] ---
    At the time, her army was defeated,
    and Xuan Ji was taken prisoner.
[08:47] ---
    She tried to take her own life,
    but Pei stopped her.
[08:48] ---
    Amazing! Wow!
[08:53] ---
    Since the war was over,
    Pei set her free.
[08:58] ---
    Xuan Ji was not one to be easily defeated.
[09:01] ---
    Eventually, she and Pei fell in love.
[09:08] ---
    Sounds like a fairy tale.
[09:10] ---
    It was, at first.
[09:12] ---
    But things took a turn for the worse
    when Xuan Ji wanted to marry Pei
[09:15] ---
    and spend the rest of her life with him.
[09:18] ---
    And what's wrong with that?
[09:21] ---
    You see, Pei was quite the ladies' man.
[09:24] ---
    Plus, they were from enemy states
    that were always fighting.
[09:28] ---
    Hold on, hold on...
[09:41] ---
    Tell me, Xuan Ji had an
    injury, right? What was it?
[09:46] ---
    It was her...
[09:48] ---
    Huh? Ling Wen?
[09:49] ---
    This always happens
    at the worst possible time...
[09:57] ---
    I've been wondering...
    Could this be the sound of footsteps?
[10:01] ---
    But this isn't what footsteps
    usually sound like.
[10:04] ---
    Who would make this kind of sound?
[10:08] ---
    I'm afraid it could only be someone
    who is limping along with injured legs.
[10:23] ---
    Is that right, Xuan Ji?
[10:31] ---
    Was it he who sent you to find me?
[10:40] ---
    Why didn't he come himself?
[10:47] ---
    Why didn't he come to see me?
[10:49] ---
    My darling Pei,
    I betrayed my country for you,
[10:55] ---
    I left everything behind for you,
    and this is what you do to me...
[10:57] ---
    Is your heart made of stone?!
[11:07] ---
    You betrayed your country?
[11:09] ---
    Could it be... that General Pei
    took advantage of her love
[11:12] ---
    to obtain valuable intelligence?
[11:14] ---
    Only to abandon and maim her...
[11:17] ---
    Listen to me.
[11:18] ---
    My darling Pei didn't come...
[11:22] ---
    ...that means everyone
    here today shall die!
[11:27] ---
    Xuan Ji, don't take your grievances
    against Pei out on innocent souls.
[11:30] ---
    Don't cause yet another injustice,
[11:32] ---
    --stop while you still can,
    return to Heaven with me!
    --Where is Pei? Make him come here!
[11:40] ---
    Go away, you fool!
    What if you lure the ghosts here?
[11:44] ---
    Well then so be it!
    You're worse than the ghosts.
[11:48] ---
    Hurry, let's grab this fellow; go down
    the mountain and claim our bounty!
[11:53] ---
    No!
[11:54] ---
    You can't take him away!
[12:00] ---
    Don't go out! Go back!
[12:22] ---
    General, you must stop this killing.
[12:24] ---
    He doesn't want to face me, huh?
[12:26] ---
    You used to be a hero
    who defended your country.
[12:28] ---
    Please stop hurting yourself and others.
[12:30] ---
    Hurting myself and others?
[12:32] ---
    I will burn your temples to the ground;
    I will sow chaos in your land!
[12:36] ---
    Why don't you come
    and take a look at me, huh?
[12:39] ---
    I've waited for you for so many years,
    and yet you still don't come!
[12:43] ---
    Is it because you've realized
    how you've wronged me?!
[12:46] ---
    General Xuan Ji!
[12:48] ---
    Just look at my legs, look at me!
    It was all for you!
[12:53] ---
    All for you!
[12:55] ---
    So why won't you ever
    come and see me?
[12:59] ---
    Your Lordship, be careful!
[13:01] ---
    Don't wor--
[13:02] ---
    --Since you only fancy girls who smile,
    I should show you my smile!
    --You must be mistaken.
    I'm not General Pei.
[13:07] ---
    Just you watch! Watch! Watch me!
[13:12] ---
    Let His Lordship go!
[13:13] ---
    Don't go there!
[13:18] ---
    Don't...!
[13:23] ---
    You think you deserve his attention?
[13:28] ---
    Darling, I've gotten rid of her.
    She was in our way.
[13:31] ---
    Tie her up!
[13:38] ---
    Your Lordship... did I get in your way?
[13:44] ---
    Of course not, you were a great help.
[13:45] ---
    I was only able to catch the ghost
    once you had distracted her.
[13:49] ---
    And I thank you for that.
[13:50] ---
    Ah... In the future, please don't go looking
    for food at the foot of the mountain.
[13:54] ---
    If he's hungry, he can come to me.
[13:57] ---
    R-R-Really?
[13:59] ---
    Thank you... Your Lordship!
[14:03] ---
    If I weren't so... Could it be...
[14:17] ---
    My darling Pei...
[14:19] ---
    Oh no, she has completely lost her mind.
[14:26] ---
    Look at me...
[14:28] ---
    Look at me!
[14:32] ---
    Once a Wrath unleashes its power,
    no mortal can withstand it.
[14:37] ---
    If I only still had some magic left...
[15:03] ---
    What's going on?
[15:04] ---
    Don't worry, these are reinforcements.
[15:16] ---
    This is General Pei.
[15:17] ---
    General Pei?
[15:18] ---
    Thank you, Your Highness.
[15:20] ---
    Ling Wen said that the events on Mt.
    Yujun had to do with Ming Guang Palace,
[15:25] ---
    and that is why I rushed over.
[15:27] ---
    Thank you, General Pei,
    and many thanks to Ling Wen.
[15:29] ---
    My darling Pei, is that you?
[15:34] ---
    Are you finally here?
[15:35] ---
    Wait, who are you? And where is Pei?
[15:38] ---
    General Pei has some
    important matters to tend to.
[15:40] ---
    Hey, isn't he General Pei?
[15:43] ---
    Yes, but actually there are two of them.
[15:45] ---
    This one is Pei Xiu, a descendant of
    General Pei attached to Ming Guang Palace.
[15:48] ---
    He is known as General Pei the Younger.
[15:50] ---
    General Xuan Ji, please follow me.
[16:02] ---
    In the past, he would cross the entire
    country to spend just one night with me.
[16:06] ---
    What kind of matter could prevent him
    from coming here for just one second?
[16:10] ---
    You're lying to me again, aren't you?!
[16:12] ---
    Take her away.
[16:13] ---
    General Pei, may I ask,
    what punishment awaits General Xuan Ji?
[16:17] ---
    Imprisonment in the mountain.
[16:19] ---
    I'm just afraid this won't last long.
[16:21] ---
    She will never forget how General Pei
    caused her to betray her country
[16:23] ---
    and broke her legs.
    Her resentment is too strong.
[16:26] ---
    She blames General Pei
    for both of these?
[16:29] ---
    Is... Is that not true?
[16:32] ---
    Indeed, she betrayed her country for Pei.
    But she broke her own legs.
[16:38] ---
    Back then, when Xuan Ji was defeated
    and taken prisoner by General Pei...
[16:43] ---
    Every nook and cranny in
    this camp must be inspected.
[16:44] ---
    Yes, sir!
[16:46] ---
    Send a few more people over!
[16:48] ---
    --Yes, sir!
    --Yes, sir!
[16:48] ---
    The war has finally drawn to a close,
[16:51] ---
    and your side's losing
    fate has been sealed.
[16:53] ---
    Don't make any senseless moves.
[17:09] ---
    There's no need
    to sacrifice any more lives.
[17:12] ---
    Just go back.
[17:13] ---
    As the General in command,
    I don't owe anybody anything!
[17:26] ---
    You don't owe me anything anymore.
[17:27] ---
    Hey!
[17:29] ---
    I like your face when you're angry.
[17:31] ---
    Has anybody ever told you
    how beautiful you are?
[17:35] ---
    If only you smiled a bit more often...
[17:38] ---
    How could a general
    grinning from ear to ear
[17:40] ---
    assert her authority and lead her troops?
[17:42] ---
    Warriors on the battlefield
    might not live to see another day.
[17:44] ---
    Why not live in the moment
    and bring a little joy into your life?
[18:10] ---
    They agreed to start seeing each other,
    taking things one day at a time,
[18:13] ---
    Not thinking about the future.
[18:17] ---
    But Xuan Ji started
    to take things too seriously.
[18:19] ---
    She ached for commitment as time
    went on and became obsessed.
[18:32] ---
    General Pei didn't care
    for assertive women,
[18:35] ---
    and Xuan Ji was certainly headstrong.
[18:37] ---
    This is why they had no future together.
[18:41] ---
    What did you just say?
[18:42] ---
    There have been
    some military developments.
[18:44] ---
    We are on opposing sides
    and serve different countries.
[18:46] ---
    Your country, your soldiers
    need you, you should go back.
[18:50] ---
    And if I do, what will come of us?
[18:55] ---
    If we have to end things,
    then so be it.
[19:00] ---
    Did I do something wrong?
    I can change; I can improve!
[19:07] ---
    It's not you.
    Don't be so hard on yourself.
[19:09] ---
    Fate brings people together
    and pulls them apart.
[19:12] ---
    It is just the natural course of things.
[19:16] ---
    What's this?
[19:19] ---
    It is my army's intelligence.
    I also have a map.
[19:22] ---
    If you get hold of them,
    you will be sure to clinch victory.
[19:25] ---
    I'll go back now. Once you've won the war,
[19:30] ---
    will you come for me?
[19:53] ---
    My darling Pei, you've won the war,
    as I knew you would.
[19:55] ---
    We can now spend the rest
    of our lives together!
[19:59] ---
    You have really disappointed me.
[20:13] ---
    Darling! But why?
    I betrayed my homeland for you.
[20:16] ---
    I left everything behind!
    Why do you treat me like this?
[20:19] ---
    Pei, tell me!
    Turn around and look at me!
[20:23] ---
    Look at me!
[20:26] ---
    Very well,
    if you're not willing to look...
[20:31] ---
    Oh no, the General's legs!
[20:34] ---
    She broke her own legs to tie
    this burden around General Pei's neck.
[20:38] ---
    General Pei never abandoned her--
    in fact, he did his best to care for her.
[20:44] ---
    But he did not wish to marry her.
[20:47] ---
    When she realized that her life's dream
    was to remain just that--a dream,
[20:51] ---
    Xuan Ji, embittered, took her own life.
[20:55] ---
    She wanted to upset the
    General by hurting herself,
[20:58] ---
    but to be honest,
    that was never going to happen.
[21:02] ---
    What's right and what's wrong
    is not for me to judge.
[21:05] ---
    But I do know that if General
    Xuan Ji had just let him go,
[21:07] ---
    things would have turned out differently.
[21:09] ---
    Pei Ming, I curse you!
[21:12] ---
    May you never love again!
[21:14] ---
    --Or you'll end up like me--
    burning up in the flames of love,
    --Take her away!
[21:19] ---
    every second of every wretched day!
    Every wretched day!
[21:24] ---
    May the fire of love
    reduce your heart to ashes!
[21:30] ---
    General Pei asked me to tell you
    that this is never going to happen.
[21:34] ---
    I curse you!
[21:35] ---
    I curse you! I curse you!
[21:40] ---
    Goodbye, Your Highness.
[21:49] ---
    What is wrong with them?!
[21:50] ---
    Outsiders have no right to judge.
[21:55] ---
    I do pity those innocent people
    whose suffering they caused.
[22:21] ---
    Huh? General Ming Guang
    has quite the romantic past.
[22:26] ---
    Didn't you run away?
    What are you doing here?
[22:30] ---
    If I hadn't brought back more men,
    you'd have had to move these yourself!
[22:33] ---
    Hmph, you're only around
    when it's time for the cleanup.
[22:35] ---
    What did you say?!
[22:36] ---
    Come now, come now...
[22:37] ---
    And you!
[22:38] ---
    How long are you going to be
    wearing that wedding dress?
[22:41] ---
    Hold on... was I wearing this when
    we spoke to General Pei the Younger?
[22:46] ---
    Even if your outfit were
    ten times more bizarre,
[22:47] ---
    he wouldn't care one way or another.
[22:50] ---
    Really?
[22:50] ---
    Pei the Younger ascended
    only a few hundred years ago.
[22:53] ---
    He had just turned 20
    when he was promoted by General Pei.
[22:57] ---
    He is quite a nuisance,
    just like his forefather.
[22:59] ---
    Do you know what he was
    doing before he ascended?
[23:03] ---
    What?
[23:05] ---
    Massacring entire cities.
[23:06] ---
    Not every official in Upper Heaven
    is easy to get along with.
[23:08] ---
    No one can be trusted.
[23:10] ---
    Well, a few of them can be trusted.
[23:12] ---
    Do you mean your General?
[23:15] ---
    Well, we know that it certainly
    couldn't be your General.
[23:20] ---
    Let's not get too excited.
    We're not done here yet.
[23:22] ---
    Let's first try to figure out some
    arrangements for the villagers.
[23:25] ---
    They must be honest
    and right their wrongs.
[23:27] ---
    They must promise not to sell the corpses
    or engage in any other shady business,
[23:32] ---
    and they must pray and burn incense
    in memory of each murdered bride.
[23:52] ---
    This child can't stay on Mt. Yujun.
[23:55] ---
    Where else can he go?
[23:56] ---
    Up to Heaven with His Highness?
[23:59] ---
    I can barely take care of myself--I'm
    sure we can find a different solution...
[24:03] ---
    The dead have gone to a better place.
    We shall take care of the living.
[24:06] ---
    If she were alive,
    she would hate to see you so sad.
[24:12] ---
    Your head seems to be injured.
    Take off the bandage, let me have a look.
[24:16] ---
    Don't be afraid.
[24:38] ---
    The face sickness...
    How is this possible?
[24:41] ---
    It was supposed to have disappeared
    together with the Kingdom of Xian Le!

E4 - Ghost King of Hua Cheng

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[00:43] ---
    Wait! Come back!
[00:54] ---
    Why did he run off?
[00:56] ---
    Your Highness still has some makeup on.
    That's probably what scared him off.
[01:02] ---
    What's wrong?
[01:04] ---
    He... has the face sickness.
[01:06] ---
    How could that be?!
    Are you sure that's what you saw?
[01:09] ---
    Face-sickness victims often try to
    burn off the affected part of the skin.
[01:15] ---
    His face was disfigured by burn marks.
[01:18] ---
    But the sickness should have died out
    hundreds of years ago when Xian Le fell!
[01:22] ---
    Besides, the face sickness
    is highly contagious.
[01:25] ---
    But there've been no reports
    of it anywhere near Mt. Yujun...
[01:30] ---
    I know what I saw.
[01:32] ---
    He must have recovered already.
    His scars are long healed.
[01:39] ---
    You're saying he's hundreds of years old?
[01:44] ---
    Quite possibly.
[01:47] ---
    This whole affair is suspicious.
    We'd better go back and inform Ling Wen,
[01:50] ---
    then expand our search and find
    the boy as quickly as possible.
[03:55] ---
    I see. The face sickness...
    That's no trifling matter.
[04:00] ---
    Don't worry, Your Highness. We'll do
    all we can to help you find that boy.
[04:08] ---
    Is something else worrying you?
[04:12] ---
    This face sickness, could it be...
[04:15] ---
    No use worrying yet, Your Highness.
[04:17] ---
    Let's wait for the outcome
    of the investigation.
[04:20] ---
    All right.
[04:21] ---
    There's something else I need
    to tell you about Mt. Yujun...
[04:24] ---
    Let's talk about it in
    the Telepathic Matrix.
[04:27] ---
    Everyone is already
    there discussing this affair.
[04:33] ---
    Now he's gone and done it!
[04:35] ---
    You're far too forgiving.
[04:36] ---
    I've had enough! Xuan Ji refuses
    to tell us where the Green Demon is.
[04:39] ---
    She insists on seeing Pei Ming.
    Get her out of here!
[04:42] ---
    General Nan Yang, the other
    heavenly officials' palaces are all full.
[04:45] ---
    Yours has just been renovated.
[04:47] ---
    Won't you let her stay just a few days,
[04:48] ---
    until we can find a
    mountain to imprison her in?
[04:50] ---
    Can we hurry this up? Does my Nan Yang
    Palace look like a loony bin to you?
[04:54] ---
    General Pei the Younger,
    do you have a spare room somewhere?
[05:00] ---
    Xuan Ji has always
    been fierce and stubborn.
[05:03] ---
    Only General Nan Yang
    can handle her, I'm afraid.
[05:06] ---
    Ming Guang Palace is
    really in for it this time.
[05:09] ---
    It's hard enough to deal
    with Xuan Ji alone
[05:11] ---
    without adding the Sad-faced
    Green Demon to the mix...
[05:13] ---
    The Sad-faced Green Demon
    is certainly one of a kind.
[05:15] ---
    Sad-faced... Green Demon?
[05:17] ---
    Could this have anything to do with the
    Forest of Hanging Corpses on Mt. Yujun?
[05:20] ---
    Was that his doing?
[05:24] ---
    Late as usual, Your Highness.
[05:28] ---
    Sorry, I had some business to attend to.
[05:31] ---
    Hm. The Green Demon
    never came to Mt. Yujun.
[05:34] ---
    Xuan Ji made the Forest of
    Hanging Corpses as an offering to him.
[05:37] ---
    That forest again! Sad-face's style
    is as distasteful as ever.
[05:43] ---
    Even his fellow demons find him tacky.
[05:46] ---
    Who gives a shit if he's tacky or not?
    Is old Pei back yet?
[05:49] ---
    We need to find out where the Green Demon
    is and send that crazy woman away!
[05:51] ---
    What a mess. General Pei's little fling
    is causing him a lot of trouble.
[05:57] ---
    That Xuan Ji was head over heels for him.
    Maybe he should come out and meet her.
[06:00] ---
    That's right! And spare us all this fuss!
[06:04] ---
    It's no use meeting with her.
    It would only drive her madder.
[06:07] ---
    Is Xuan Ji under the
    Green Demon's command?
[06:09] ---
    Yes. For centuries after her death,
    she nursed a bitter grudge
[06:13] ---
    but couldn't stir up too much trouble.
[06:18] ---
    It wasn't until the Green Demon
    took her under his wing
[06:21] ---
    that she became a real problem.
[06:22] ---
    That's true.
[06:23] ---
    Xuan Ji had an obsessive grudge,
    but not much power to go with it.
[06:25] ---
    If it hadn't been for Sad-face, she would
    never have been able to hurt anyone.
[06:29] ---
    It's too bad Old Pei isn't here,
    but at least we've got young Pei with us!
[06:32] ---
    Hold on, we'll track down Sad-face,
[06:34] ---
    but Ming Guang Palace
    still ought to pull its weight!
[06:37] ---
    Silence!
[06:38] ---
    We couldn't have handled the
    Mt. Yujun affair without Xie Lian,
[06:42] ---
    and without help from Generals
    Xuan Zhen, Nan Yang, and Ming Guang.
[06:47] ---
    Thank you, everyone!
[06:49] ---
    Your Highness, as the official
    in charge of this matter,
[06:52] ---
    is there anything you want to add?
[06:53] ---
    There must be a child spirit on Mt. Yujun.
[06:55] ---
    I heard it singing when
    I was on the sedan chair,
[06:58] ---
    but the two junior officials
    with me didn't hear a thing.
[07:01] ---
    It must be very powerful.
    Has anyone heard of such a spirit?
[07:04] ---
    A child spirit?
    We came across nothing of the sort.
[07:07] ---
    So Your Highness was
    the only one who heard it...?
[07:10] ---
    Could it be that you imagined it?
[07:12] ---
    This matter is highly suspicious.
[07:14] ---
    Ming Guang Palace should
    really be taking the lead on this one.
[07:16] ---
    To hell with the child spirit!
    Can't we get rid of that she-demon first?
[07:20] ---
    We have to find a
    suitable mountain first--
[07:25] ---
    I'll look into this child spirit.
    Was there anything else?
[07:30] ---
    One more thing.
[07:32] ---
    On the mountain, I came upon a youth
    who could control silver butterflies.
[07:34] ---
    Who was he?
[07:35] ---
    What did you say, Your Highness?
[07:38] ---
    He said he came across
    Hua Cheng (Flower City).
[07:42] ---
    Hua Cheng? His name is "flower city"?
    It suits him well.
[07:49] ---
    Has Your Highness never heard
    of the Four Calamities?
[07:54] ---
    You can't blame His Highness for that.
[07:56] ---
    He's spent the last few centuries
    honing his art in the mortal realm.
[07:59] ---
    He was preoccupied with making a living,
    so it's no surprise he's ill-informed.
[08:04] ---
    So... what are the Four Calamities?
[08:09] ---
    Four demon kings.
    The Green Demon, or Green Light
[08:14] ---
    Night-stalker, is one of them.
[08:16] ---
    But he's the weakest of the four,
    not even Devastation-level.
[08:20] ---
    And he really has awful taste.
[08:21] ---
    He only cares for shock value,
    and stirs up trouble everywhere.
[08:23] ---
    Then there's the Black Demon,
    or Black Water Boat-sinker.
[08:26] ---
    He rarely appears, and few of us in the
    heavenly realms have crossed his path.
[08:30] ---
    We know only that he is
    a great water-demon.
[08:33] ---
    And then there's the White-clad Calamity.
[08:36] ---
    He has another name as well:
    Bai Wuxiang (White No-form).
[08:50] ---
    He destroys kingdoms and
    leaves chaos in his wake.
[08:53] ---
    The very first kingdom
    he annihilated was--
[08:56] ---
    Something wrong with your
    throat today, Lord Ling Wen?
[08:58] ---
    Your Highness, Bai Wuxiang
    has been dead for centuries.
[09:04] ---
    I know. Don't worry about me.
[09:09] ---
    Even if he were still alive,
    we wouldn't have time to deal with him.
[09:14] ---
    The silver butterflies Your Highness saw
    are known as Dead Soul Butterflies.
[09:18] ---
    Their master is one whom we
    would do well not to anger:
[09:22] ---
    Hua Cheng, also known as the
    Blood Rain Flower-seeker.
[09:27] ---
    Hua Cheng is likely not his real name, and
    what you saw was not his true appearance.
[09:31] ---
    That's not the point. He once challenged
    33 heavenly officials in a row.
[09:36] ---
    After that, no one would forget his face.
[09:38] ---
    Thirty-three in a row?
[09:41] ---
    That was the year that
    Hua Cheng rose to infamy.
[09:43] ---
    He threw down the gauntlet
    before 35 heavenly officials.
[09:47] ---
    If Hua Cheng lost, he was
    to offer his ashes up to heaven.
[09:50] ---
    But if a heavenly official lost, they'd
    have to return to earth as a lowly mortal.
[09:54] ---
    And 33 fools accepted his challenge!
[09:57] ---
    In the end, the martial
    officials couldn't outfight him,
[10:00] ---
    and the scholarly officials couldn't
    outwit him. It was a total defeat.
[10:02] ---
    Hua Cheng called on them
    to fulfill their half of the bargain.
[10:05] ---
    But they thought he was only bluffing and
    would never dare go against all of heaven.
[10:10] ---
    So they all twiddled their thumbs.
[10:11] ---
    Then Hua Cheng burned down
    all their temples in the mortal realm.
[10:15] ---
    And since temples and worshippers
    are the source of heavenly power,
[10:19] ---
    those 33 officials were never seen again.
[10:26] ---
    On top of that, thinking they'd
    show off their heavenly might,
[10:28] ---
    those fools put a vision of the battle
    in their worshippers' dreams.
[10:31] ---
    When they lost, their followers
    began to worship Hua Cheng instead!
[10:35] ---
    The heavenly realm lost
    every bit of face it had.
[10:38] ---
    What a maniac!
[10:39] ---
    He's a cunning one.
[10:41] ---
    The martial gods were all slashed
    to bits by Hua Cheng's scimitar.
[10:44] ---
    Everyone's still traumatized.
[10:47] ---
    The scholarly gods were hardly any better.
[10:49] ---
    He insulted them up and down,
    inside and out.
[10:53] ---
    They were so furious,
    they were all but spitting blood!
[10:57] ---
    And then there were those
    crazy silver butterflies!
[10:59] ---
    That's right!
[11:00] ---
    Some of the officials still
    have nightmares about them.
[11:04] ---
    I thought the silver butterflies
    were kind of cute.
[11:19] ---
    So, Hua Cheng challenged 35 heavenly
    officials, but only 33 accepted?
[11:23] ---
    What happened to the other two?
[11:27] ---
    By the way, Xuan Zhen, Nan Yang,
    how do you know all these inside details?
[11:32] ---
    How do they know?
    It's pretty obvious!
[11:35] ---
    Your Highness, are you sure the person
    you encountered was Hua Cheng?
[11:39] ---
    Do you remember anything else about him?
[11:41] ---
    He was wearing a red robe and
    black boots, and he had an umbrella.
[11:45] ---
    And what did he do when he saw you?
[11:47] ---
    He crushed Xuan Ji's magical formation
    and even guided me along the path.
[11:51] ---
    That's it?
[11:53] ---
    That's it.
[11:54] ---
    Well...
[11:55] ---
    That's not like him. Could it be a ploy?
[11:57] ---
    What is he really up to?
[11:58] ---
    I don't know.
[12:00] ---
    Listen, if two of the
    Four Calamities have appeared,
[12:02] ---
    that means they're probably
    plotting something.
[12:04] ---
    If we are easily fooled by appearances,
    we'd be playing right into their hands.
[12:09] ---
    Yes, Hua Cheng is far too devious.
    We need more than just wild guesses.
[12:15] ---
    I think our first priority
    should be to find out
[12:17] ---
    what's really going on
    instead of pointing fingers.
[12:19] ---
    Ming Guang Palace
    will do its best to help.
[12:22] ---
    Lord Ling Wen, what do you think?
[12:24] ---
    I agree.
[12:25] ---
    This has gone beyond our meeting agenda.
    I have to inform His Imperial Majesty.
[12:30] ---
    Everyone, let's call it a day.
[12:33] ---
    Thank you, Your Lordship.
    Your Highness. I'll take my leave.
[12:38] ---
    See you all later.
[12:39] ---
    I'll head out as well, then.
[12:42] ---
    I'm leaving as well.
[12:45] ---
    I still have to deal with Xuan Ji.
[12:47] ---
    Nan Yang.
[12:50] ---
    Xuan Zhen.
[12:58] ---
    Those two junior officials you sent
    were a great help. Thank you.
[13:08] ---
    Your Highness should really
    worry about yourself first.
[13:10] ---
    Do you really think you can pay back
    the 8.88 million merit points you owe
[13:14] ---
    with nothing but the
    offerings from Mt. Yujun?
[13:17] ---
    What do you think, General Nan Yang?
[13:36] ---
    I need a few people
    to help me over here.
[13:38] ---
    Yes, sir.
[13:42] ---
    These must be carefully inspected.
[13:57] ---
    Ling Wen, can I talk to you for a second?
[14:01] ---
    It's about those 8.88 million merits.
[14:06] ---
    Perfect timing, Your Highness.
    I have something to tell you, too.
[14:11] ---
    Congratulations, Your Highness!
[14:13] ---
    The worshippers on Mt. Yujun
    have fulfilled their vows with offerings!
[14:19] ---
    With all the merits you received,
    your debt has more or less been repaid.
[14:23] ---
    Really? All of it?
[14:25] ---
    But the merits from Mt. Yujun
    couldn't have been enough...
[14:29] ---
    I said you're in the clear.
[14:30] ---
    There's no need for Your Highness
    to ask too many questions.
[14:34] ---
    Thank you.
[14:37] ---
    Anyway, what exactly did you find out?
[14:50] ---
    After our meeting the other day,
[14:52] ---
    I reported the Hua Cheng
    affair to His Imperial Majesty.
[14:54] ---
    Now we're conducting a full investigation.
[14:58] ---
    Your Highness has no idea how
    much trouble Hua Cheng caused
[15:00] ---
    while you were living in the mortal realm.
[15:04] ---
    It must have been hard for you.
[15:06] ---
    Anyway, does Your Highness
    have any plans for the future?
[15:09] ---
    Actually, that's why I'm here.
[15:13] ---
    I've ascended to heaven three times,
[15:14] ---
    yet I still don't have a
    single temple or follower.
[15:17] ---
    That must be a headache
    for you and His Imperial Majesty.
[15:21] ---
    So I did some thinking, and I've decided
    to pull myself up by the bootstraps.
[15:25] ---
    Since I've got nothing but time now,
[15:27] ---
    I thought I'd go down to the mortal
    realm and build a temple to myself!
[15:33] ---
    Huh?
[15:35] ---
    See you around!
[15:37] ---
    Wait!
[15:48] ---
    What?
[15:49] ---
    Someone moved into that abandoned
    house by the village entrance?
[15:51] ---
    It's a temple now!
[15:52] ---
    Who could've pulled that off?
    Let's go take a look!
[16:00] ---
    Welcome, everyone.
[16:05] ---
    Master, whom is your
    temple dedicated to?
[16:09] ---
    To the Crown Prince of the
    Kingdom of Xian Le.
[16:12] ---
    Who's that?
[16:13] ---
    He was a crown prince.
[16:15] ---
    What can he do?
[16:17] ---
    He protects his worshippers.
[16:18] ---
    Can this crown prince bring us wealth?
[16:22] ---
    I'm afraid not, sorry.
[16:24] ---
    What about political
    careers and promotions?
[16:25] ---
    He can't do that either.
[16:31] ---
    Then this god is useless.
    No wonder he's so poor.
[16:34] ---
    Men are afraid of getting the wrong job,
[16:35] ---
    women are afraid of
    marrying the wrong man,
[16:36] ---
    and priests should be afraid
    of worshipping the wrong god.
[16:39] ---
    How about dedicating your temple
    to the Water God instead?
[16:41] ---
    He brings wealth!
    You'd get a lot of incense offerings!
[16:43] ---
    Uh...
[16:45] ---
    Or to Lord Ling Wen! He might bless
    our village with a Number One Scholar!
[16:49] ---
    Well...
[16:51] ---
    Or you could worship...
[16:54] ---
    Yes?
[16:56] ---
    General Big Wang.
[17:03] ---
    Think about it!
    Oh, if only it were Lord Ling Wen.
[17:06] ---
    General Big Wang isn't bad either.
[17:07] ---
    Yes, yes, yes!
[17:12] ---
    It's all right, I've got plenty of time.
[17:14] ---
    There'll be worshippers
    and incense someday.
[17:23] ---
    I do need to pay for renovations.
[17:26] ---
    So...
[18:32] ---
    Gossip about gods and immortals,
    tales of the demon world.
[18:35] ---
    Not bad at all.
    That should be enough for renovations.
[18:39] ---
    Building the temple cost me money,
    but collecting junk got me paid.
[18:43] ---
    Turns out collecting junk is a
    better deal than ascension!
[18:51] ---
    Hm?
[18:52] ---
    This one's about me.
[18:55] ---
    The Crown Prince of Xian Le
    ascended to heaven three times.
[18:57] ---
    He is the god of martial arts,
    pestilence, and junk-collecting.
[19:02] ---
    Well, at least I'm a god.
[19:04] ---
    Whether of martial arts or junk-collecting,
    there's really not much difference.
[19:07] ---
    All gods are equal,
    as are all living creatures.
[19:10] ---
    Is that so?
[19:12] ---
    People like to talk about equality.
    But if they really got their equality,
[19:16] ---
    would there still be a place
    for all the gods in heaven?
[19:35] ---
    That's true.
[19:36] ---
    Wu Du, the Water God,
    is in charge of water and wealth.
[19:40] ---
    If he's already a Water God, why does
    he need to control wealth and fortune too?
[19:43] ---
    Merchants often ship goods by water,
[19:46] ---
    so they usually go to the Water God's temple
    to pray for safe passage before traveling.
[19:49] ---
    As this became custom, the Water God
    gradually began to handle wealth as well.
[19:54] ---
    This Water God must
    be quite powerful, then.
[19:57] ---
    Yes, a real Water Tyrant.
[19:59] ---
    Water Tyrant?
[20:00] ---
    If you don't give him an offering,
    he'll capsize your boat.
[20:04] ---
    Hence, a Water Tyrant.
[20:06] ---
    I see. You look quite young,
    but you seem to know a lot.
[20:12] ---
    I've got plenty of spare time,
    so I observe things around me.
[20:22] ---
    You know a lot about gods,
    but what about demons?
[20:27] ---
    Which ones?
[20:39] ---
    The Blood Rain Flower-seeker, Hua Cheng.
[20:46] ---
    Wait a moment, Your Highness.
[20:49] ---
    It might be bad luck to say this, but...
[20:52] ---
    When you journey through the mortal realm,
    you may well encounter Hua Cheng again.
[20:56] ---
    So please remember this:
[20:59] ---
    He comes from Mt. Furnace,
[21:02] ---
    where thousands of demons fight
    to the death to become kings.
[21:05] ---
    Any demon king who survives that ordeal
    must be cunning, ruthless, unpredictable.
[21:12] ---
    He might have been kind to you,
    but you should never let your guard down.
[21:17] ---
    Avoid him if you can.

E5 - Daily Life at Chestnut Temple

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[00:29] ---
    You know a lot about gods,
    but what about demons?
[00:32] ---
    Which ones?
[00:37] ---
    The Blood Rain Flower-seeker, Hua Cheng.
[03:00] ---
    What would you like to know?
    Just say the word.
[03:02] ---
    Where did he get that impressive moniker,
    "Blood Rain Flower-seeker"?
[03:07] ---
    Oh, it's nothing special.
[03:10] ---
    He once destroyed a demon's hideout.
[03:14] ---
    As he was leaving, a wilted flower soaked
    in a rain of blood caught his eye.
[03:18] ---
    He shielded it with his umbrella.
[03:26] ---
    Does this Hua Cheng
    get into frequent fights?
[03:30] ---
    Not really, let's just say
    it depends on his mood.
[03:32] ---
    What was he like before he became a ghost?
[03:35] ---
    Not a nice person, that's for sure!
[03:37] ---
    What does he look like?
[03:42] ---
    What do you think he looks like?
[03:48] ---
    Since he is a demon king,
    he must be able to shape-shift
[03:51] ---
    and take on a multitude of forms.
[03:55] ---
    I think that he does show
    his real self from time to time.
[03:57] ---
    I suspect that his true form must
    be that of a young man, like you.
[04:02] ---
    And why is that?
[04:04] ---
    Hey, we're just chatting, and I'm
    just sharing my thoughts, that's all.
[04:08] ---
    Ha, maybe you are right!
[04:10] ---
    I do know he is blind in one eye.
[04:13] ---
    This one.
[04:18] ---
    What happened?
[04:20] ---
    Good question.
[04:21] ---
    Many people want to know
    how Hua Cheng lost his right eye.
[04:25] ---
    Perhaps this is where his weakness lies.
[04:27] ---
    Actually...
[04:28] ---
    One time, in a fit of madness,
    he gouged it out himself.
[04:32] ---
    Does Hua Cheng have a weakness?
[04:34] ---
    His ashes.
[04:36] ---
    Whoever obtains his ashes shall
    become the master of this ghost.
[04:39] ---
    Whoever destroys the ashes
    will also deal him a death blow.
[04:44] ---
    I'm afraid no one will be able to
    get a hold of Hua Cheng's ashes.
[04:47] ---
    Not necessarily.
[04:49] ---
    There is one circumstance under
    which he would offer up his own ashes.
[04:52] ---
    Like when he bet his own ashes, when
    he challenged the 33 heavenly officials?
[04:55] ---
    Why would he do that?
[04:58] ---
    There is a custom in the realm of ghosts:
    when a ghost truly trusts someone,
[05:04] ---
    it entrusts that person
    with its own ashes.
[05:07] ---
    Wow, what a moving custom
    of the ghost realm!
[05:10] ---
    Yes, but few ghosts
    are willing to do this.
[05:13] ---
    If they gave away their ashes foolishly
    only to have them scattered in the wind,
[05:17] ---
    it would be tragic indeed.
[05:19] ---
    Why should I care?
[05:21] ---
    If I entrust others with my ashes,
[05:23] ---
    they can scatter or
    destroy them for all I care.
[05:36] ---
    We've been chatting for a bit, but
    I just realized I don't know your name.
[05:40] ---
    My last name is Xie.
    First name is Lian.
[05:42] ---
    As for me,
[05:43] ---
    since I'm the third child in my family,
    you can call me Third Lang, or San Lang.
[05:47] ---
    Since you're walking in this direction,
    are you headed to Chestnut Village?
[05:50] ---
    No, I'm just wandering.
[05:52] ---
    I had a fight with my family,
    and they kicked me out.
[05:55] ---
    I was terribly hungry,
    and I decided to look for a place to stay.
[06:00] ---
    Would you like something to eat?
[06:02] ---
    What about you?
[06:03] ---
    I'm all right, not too hungry.
[06:05] ---
    I'm all right, too.
[06:11] ---
    How about we split it?
[06:21] ---
    What about you? What do you do?
[06:22] ---
    I've built a temple called
    Chestnut Temple, and it's just opened.
[06:24] ---
    Chestnut Temple?
[06:25] ---
    I like that.
    There must be so many chestnuts.
[06:29] ---
    You should come pray there,
    and I'll treat you to some chestnuts.
[06:30] ---
    Oh, wonderful!
[06:32] ---
    --And who is the temple dedicated to?
    --Um, the Crown Prince of Xian Le.
[06:35] ---
    But you've probably never heard of him.
[06:36] ---
    I've...
[06:52] ---
    What's going on?
[06:52] ---
    No idea!
[06:55] ---
    Come on, go, go!
[06:57] ---
    Get a move on!
[07:21] ---
    There... Th-Th-Th-There are ghosts!
[07:23] ---
    Protection!
[07:29] ---
    What day is it today?
[07:31] ---
    It's the Ghost Festival...
[07:34] ---
    In a moment, when they come close,
    stay quiet as a mouse.
[07:36] ---
    I can't, I won't be able to hold it,
    what are we going to do, O Daoist master?
[07:40] ---
    I think there's a way.
[07:41] ---
    Sorry.
[07:51] ---
    Huh? What's going on?
[07:52] ---
    Strange, I can't get through!
[07:58] ---
    I can't either!
    This is almost... paranormal!
[08:01] ---
    Well, we are paranormal!
[08:04] ---
    Huh?!
[08:06] ---
    Over here!
[08:29] ---
    Wow, you are truly a man of many talents!
[08:32] ---
    I wouldn't go that far.
    I just know a few things.
[08:34] ---
    Are you all right?
[08:35] ---
    No, I'm spooked!
[08:37] ---
    Hm!
[08:38] ---
    Fear not, if you walk behind me,
    nothing can hurt you.
[09:02] ---
    And this is...
[09:04] ---
    There's a ghost down!
    Ghost down!
[09:06] ---
    Many of the will-o'-the-wisps
    have been extinguished!
[09:07] ---
    --Their bodies chopped
    into ten thousand pieces!
    --Could this be the doing
    of a monk or a Daoist?
[09:11] ---
    Just now, something was
    blocking our path... Could it be...
[09:13] ---
    Over there!
[09:14] ---
    Hold on tight!
[09:16] ---
    Don't run!
[09:21] ---
    It's a person!
[09:22] ---
    It's a Daoist!
[09:23] ---
    Get them!
[09:30] ---
    Daoist master, what is this for?
[09:32] ---
    During the Ghost Festival,
    the paths of ghosts and humans converge.
[09:36] ---
    After you cross into the ghost realm,
    it is very difficult to leave.
[09:40] ---
    With the heaven official's blessing,
    we fear nothing.
[09:42] ---
    May we set out on the path to heaven!
[09:44] ---
    The first stick stands for going left,
    the second one--for going right,
[09:46] ---
    they will help us pick the best path!
[09:48] ---
    "good fortune"
[09:49] ---
    "good fortune"
[09:52] ---
    "good fortune"
    "good fortune"
[09:54] ---
    "good fortune"
    "good fortune"
[09:56] ---
    Over there!
[09:57] ---
    Wait!
[09:59] ---
    --Can I try?
    --Don't overdo it.
[10:05] ---
    "very auspicious"
    Wow, you sure are lucky!
[10:07] ---
    "very auspicious"
    I always am.
[10:09] ---
    "very auspicious"
    Which way shall we go?
[10:10] ---
    There's no time.
[10:11] ---
    Since both sticks landed right
    side up, let's just pick a direction.
[10:19] ---
    Found them!
[10:24] ---
    Wrong way... again!
[10:31] ---
    Gentlemen, we certainly meant no harm,
    and we would be infinitely grateful
[10:34] ---
    if you would kindly release us.
[10:36] ---
    Release you?
[10:37] ---
    Didn't you just destroy
    the will-o'-the-wisps?
[10:40] ---
    No, no, most certainly not.
    I am but a lowly scrap collector.
[10:46] ---
    You are clearly a Daoist master!
[10:47] ---
    Who else would kill a ghost?
[10:50] ---
    Not all ghosts are killed
    by Daoist masters.
[10:53] ---
    Then who else would kill them?
[10:54] ---
    Other ghosts?
[10:55] ---
    Could be.
[11:00] ---
    Liar, liar, pants on fire!
[11:03] ---
    We're going to make you--
[11:09] ---
    You, you, you...!
[11:13] ---
    Yes?
[11:16] ---
    Anybody there?
[11:18] ---
    What happened?
[11:20] ---
    You're so powerful that
    you scared the ghosts off.
[11:25] ---
    I had no idea I was this powerful.
[11:45] ---
    All is well, maybe this was
    the right path after all!
[11:56] ---
    San Lang?
[11:57] ---
    Hm?
[11:58] ---
    Have you ever had your fortune told?
[12:00] ---
    Nope.
[12:01] ---
    Would you like me to tell your fortune?
[12:04] ---
    Sure.
[12:05] ---
    How?
[12:06] ---
    How about a palm reading?
[12:15] ---
    Regular ghosts can take on
    a human appearance,
[12:17] ---
    but their palm lines
    always give them away.
[12:22] ---
    Well?
[12:25] ---
    I see smooth sailing ahead for you.
[12:27] ---
    How so?
[12:28] ---
    You are hard-working and persistent.
    Even when you encounter difficulties,
[12:32] ---
    you remain true to yourself.
[12:35] ---
    This young man shows no signs of magic,
    and his palm lines are strong and clear...
[12:40] ---
    You turn bad luck into a blessing
    and make the best of your misfortunes.
[12:43] ---
    Good fortune will smile upon you,
    and your future is bright.
[12:51] ---
    If he really is a demon,
[12:53] ---
    then his disguise is so perfect
    that he must be a Wrath.
[12:56] ---
    But why else would the Demon
    King come to such a place?
[12:59] ---
    So... is that it?
[13:00] ---
    What else would you like to know?
[13:02] ---
    What about love?
[13:04] ---
    You shouldn't worry about it.
    I'm sure you are popular with the ladies.
[13:09] ---
    Why do you say that?
[13:10] ---
    Because you are handsome,
    you come from a nice family,
[13:12] ---
    you are generous, knowledgeable, wise.
[13:15] ---
    San Lang, were you just trying
    to get me to compliment you?
[13:30] ---
    Daoist master, thank you for the fortune.
    And the kind words. See you around!
[13:38] ---
    San Lang, where are you
    planning on staying the night?
[13:42] ---
    I don't know, out in the street.
[13:46] ---
    If you like, you are welcome
    to come to my temple!
[13:49] ---
    --Really?
    --Of course!
[13:51] ---
    It's just very bare-bones,
    I hope you won't mind.
[14:07] ---
    Huh?
[14:08] ---
    San Lang?
[14:12] ---
    Well, let's go!
[14:15] ---
    Wait...
[14:21] ---
    A ghost?!
[14:25] ---
    Oh, Daoist master, you saved my life!
[14:28] ---
    Please don't tell anyone
    about what happened last night.
[14:40] ---
    The temple is on the verge of collapse!
    Kindly benefactors,
[14:44] ---
    Make a donation,
    repair the temple, do a good deed!
[14:47] ---
    See, this is why I thought
    you might not like it here.
[14:52] ---
    It's not bad.
[14:53] ---
    Right, do you have a bed?
[14:55] ---
    If you don't mind, perhaps
    we could share a bed tonight.
[14:59] ---
    Sure!
[15:09] ---
    --Lian?
    --Yes?
[15:11] ---
    I feel like there's something
    missing from your temple.
[15:13] ---
    I can't see what's missing,
    aside from followers.
[15:16] ---
    What about paintings of gods?
[15:18] ---
    I'll paint one tomorrow
    that we can hang up.
[15:20] ---
    I can paint, too! I'll help you.
[15:22] ---
    Well, I really appreciate your offer.
[15:24] ---
    But I don't think you know
    what the Crown Prince looks like.
[15:28] ---
    Of course I do, we were just talking
    about him on the cart, weren't we?
[15:34] ---
    But do you really know him?
[15:47] ---
    Yes.
[15:49] ---
    So, what do you think of
    the Crown Prince of Xian Le?
[15:57] ---
    I think...
[15:59] ---
    Junwu must hate him.
[16:03] ---
    And why do you say that?
[16:04] ---
    Otherwise, why would
    Junwu banish him twice?
[16:07] ---
    What a childish way of thinking.
[16:10] ---
    The world is full of matters
    that are not black and white
[16:12] ---
    and can't be explained
    in terms of likes or dislikes.
[16:16] ---
    Besides, those who make
    mistakes deserve punishment,
[16:21] ---
    and Emperor Junwu was
    simply performing his duty...
[16:29] ---
    Uh...
[16:32] ---
    This is...
[16:40] ---
    Let's go to sleep.
[17:17] ---
    San Lang?
[17:46] ---
    San Lang, how did you sleep?
[17:49] ---
    Pretty well!
[17:50] ---
    Did you paint the picture in the temple?
[17:52] ---
    Yep.
[17:53] ---
    It's beautiful.
[17:56] ---
    I'm glad I could be of help.
[18:03] ---
    Your hair is askew,
    let me help you brush it out.
[18:16] ---
    However lifelike a ghost's disguise
    may be, its hair will give it away...
[18:22] ---
    How strange,
    nothing out of the ordinary...
[18:29] ---
    Oh, Lian.
[18:31] ---
    Are you fixing my hair,
    or do you have something else in mind?
[18:34] ---
    All right, I'm all done!
[18:36] ---
    There was something
    else I just remembered...
[18:40] ---
    Somehow my hair feels
    even more off-center...
[18:49] ---
    --Phew!
    --Lian?
[18:51] ---
    --Uh?
    --What are you doing?
[18:56] ---
    I've just changed the door curtain,
    and I'm planning on hanging something.
[19:02] ---
    What's that?
[19:03] ---
    It's a good luck charm
    for warding off evil spirits or ghosts.
[19:08] ---
    But...
[19:10] ---
    Since there is no door, we can
    at least use this to keep them out.
[19:12] ---
    I'll be right back.
[19:19] ---
    Could he have been pushed out
    by the good luck charm?
[19:54] ---
    San Lang?
[20:04] ---
    I'm making something.
[20:17] ---
    Since you'd like a good luck charm,
[20:18] ---
    wouldn't it be better if
    we painted in on a door?
[20:21] ---
    Lian, aren't you going to
    redo the entire place?
[20:24] ---
    I'll help you.
[20:25] ---
    Are you sure you wouldn't mind?
[20:27] ---
    You took me in; I want to repay
    you for the food and the hospitality!
[20:52] ---
    I didn't know that you
    were a jack of all trades.
[20:55] ---
    I learned this when I was small.
[20:57] ---
    Your parents must have been very strict.
[21:00] ---
    And this is...?
[21:01] ---
    That's when I got my tattoos, too.
[21:03] ---
    San Lang, you are quite the artist.
    Your family taught you how to paint, too?
[21:07] ---
    Nope. I just did it for fun.
[21:10] ---
    You even know how to paint the
    Crown Prince worshipping the gods?
[21:14] ---
    Didn't you just call me
    a jack of all trades?
[21:16] ---
    Of course I do!
[21:19] ---
    --We're here! The god is here!
    - This is the place!
[21:21] ---
    --Good point.
    --We're here! The god is here!
    This is the place!
[21:22] ---
    --Makes sense!
    --We're here! The god is here!
    This is the place!
[21:23] ---
    This is a powerful god! Where is he?
    Have we been lied to?
[21:26] ---
    --Powerful god!
    --Yes, I saw it myself!
[21:27] ---
    Just here, yesterday,
    the god turned evil into good,
[21:30] ---
    and used his great power
    to drive away the evil ghosts...
[21:33] ---
    What a great and powerful god!
[21:35] ---
    The god is coming!
[21:36] ---
    God of wealth!
[21:38] ---
    Bless me with unfailing luck
    in my gambling!
[21:40] ---
    God of love!
[21:41] ---
    Bless me with a wife!
[21:44] ---
    God of fertility!
[21:45] ---
    Bless me with a child!
[21:47] ---
    --Yes, yes!
    --God...
    --God...
[21:48] ---
    Dear villagers, I ask that you not
    use this time to pray for wealth.
[21:51] ---
    The consequences of such
    a request may be unpredictable.
[21:53] ---
    The temple has no say in affairs
    of the heart, not to mention fertility...
[22:00] ---
    What a handsome god.
    He must surely be all-powerful!
[22:04] ---
    I had asked him not to say a word...
[22:13] ---
    The temple is doing pretty well
    in the incense department.
[22:15] ---
    Lian, look at all how many
    followers you have now.
[22:17] ---
    Normally, there's not a soul
    in here for months on end.
[22:20] ---
    But isn't it wonderful
    to have so many followers?
[22:22] ---
    It is, but...
[22:24] ---
    It used to be so quiet. Now with the
    crowds rushing in, I feel overwhelmed.
[22:28] ---
    Perhaps some of your good luck
    has rubbed off on me.
[22:31] ---
    San Lang, thank you for this good luck.
[22:35] ---
    If my luck is helpful to you,
    then take all of it.
[22:40] ---
    Hm? What do you mean?
[22:42] ---
    Never mind.
[22:43] ---
    Oh, powerful god!
[22:47] ---
    This man appeared out of nowhere,
    he seems to be dying!
[22:51] ---
    Please help him, god!
[22:53] ---
    Daoist Master, help us!

E6 - Lost Crescentian

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[02:37] ---
    Are you awake?
[02:44] ---
    I... I just got out of there...
[02:45] ---
    I'm not going back! Master, help me!
[03:01] ---
    It's all right, you're safe.
    I'm the master of this temple.
[03:03] ---
    If you need something,
    I'll do what I can to help.
[03:06] ---
    You were saying you didn't want
    to go back? Back to where?
[03:10] ---
    H-Half-Moon Pass. I only just escaped.
[03:13] ---
    What happened there?
[03:19] ---
    You don't know?
[03:21] ---
    All I know is that it's an oasis.
    It owes its name
[03:23] ---
    to the beauty of the nocturnal
    landscape lit by the crescent moon.
[03:27] ---
    Oasis? Beautiful landscape??
[03:30] ---
    Two hundred years ago, maybe.
    Now they should call it "Half-Dead Pass."
[03:35] ---
    At least half of the people
    who go there disappear!
[03:40] ---
    Who told you that?
[03:42] ---
    I saw it with my own eyes!
[03:44] ---
    A caravan wanted to take the pass.
[03:48] ---
    Knowing it was haunted, they hired all
    the disciples at my temple to escort them.
[03:59] ---
    Then something terrible happened.
    More than 60 people entered the pass...
[04:06] ---
    And I'm the only one remaining!
[04:12] ---
    Sixty people?
[04:13] ---
    Even Xuan Ji only killed 200 or so over
    the hundred years that she was active.
[04:18] ---
    When did Half-Moon Pass
    become the Half-Dead Pass?
[04:21] ---
    I'm not sure.
[04:23] ---
    But people say it started 150 years ago,
[04:26] ---
    --when the pass was occupied
    by a demon Daoist.
    --Hold on.
[04:29] ---
    You say you ran all the way
    here from Half-Moon Pass?
[04:32] ---
    Yes, I escaped by the skin of my teeth.
[04:35] ---
    Ah.
[04:41] ---
    You must be thirsty
    after all that running.
[04:43] ---
    Here, have some water.
[04:45] ---
    Ah...
[04:49] ---
    Don't be shy, have a drink!
[05:12] ---
    Enough.
[05:15] ---
    You can't really drink, can you?
[05:55] ---
    It's soiled. I'll get you a new one later.
[06:05] ---
    He's just a puppet.
    No wonder he had no internal organs.
[06:07] ---
    Interesting fellow.
[06:09] ---
    It's hard enough to make an empty shell
    like this look so convincingly human.
[06:13] ---
    But this "Daoist"
    also gave off no ghost-aura,
[06:15] ---
    and was unaffected by the good luck charm.
    His creator must be powerful indeed.
[06:19] ---
    I didn't know you dabbled in these arts.
[06:22] ---
    Just a little.
[06:24] ---
    It's an odd affair, isn't it?
[06:29] ---
    Indeed...
[06:51] ---
    Your Highness has returned.
[06:55] ---
    How was your time in the Mortal Realm?
[06:59] ---
    Not too bad.
[07:00] ---
    What's going on here?
[07:03] ---
    The Wind Master is back.
    He's giving out merit points.
[07:06] ---
    --Those are my points! Give them back!
    --Too slow!
[07:07] ---
    That's right!
[07:09] ---
    One hundred merits! One hundred!
[07:11] ---
    How come I only got one?
[07:13] ---
    The Wind Master truly is generous.
[07:16] ---
    You're not going to join them?
[07:19] ---
    I'll leave them to it.
[07:21] ---
    Has anyone here heard of Half-Moon Pass?
[07:30] ---
    Is anyone familiar with Half-Moon--
[07:32] ---
    There's more, there's more!
[07:33] ---
    The Wind Master is giving
    out another 100,000 merits!
[07:35] ---
    ...Pass?
[07:38] ---
    Wait a moment, Your Highness.
    Why are you asking about Half-Moon Pass?
[07:42] ---
    A puppet came to my door,
    claiming he'd escaped from the pass.
[07:46] ---
    He said that over the past 150 years,
[07:47] ---
    half of those who ventured
    there went missing.
[07:50] ---
    I found his story suspicious,
[07:52] ---
    so I came up here to
    find out what really happened.
[07:55] ---
    I advise Your Highness
    not to get involved.
[07:59] ---
    Then was the puppet telling the truth?
[08:04] ---
    We're really not at liberty to discuss it.
[08:08] ---
    Some heavenly affairs
    are better left untouched.
[08:17] ---
    San Lang, I'm going away for a while.
[08:20] ---
    To Half-Moon Pass?
[08:22] ---
    All right. Mind if I come along?
[08:25] ---
    The road is long.
    There'll be wind and sandstorms.
[08:27] ---
    Why do you want to come?
[08:29] ---
    Why do you want to meddle
    in the Half-Moon Pass affair?
[08:33] ---
    I... I used to collect rubbish
    in Half-Moon Kingdom.
[08:36] ---
    Hearing the name now reminds me
    that I wouldn't mind seeing it again.
[08:38] ---
    I see.
[08:40] ---
    Do you want to hear the story
    of the evil Half-Moon Daoist?
[08:43] ---
    Oh? You know the story?
[08:46] ---
    Two hundred years ago, Half-Moon Pass
    was still Half-Moon Kingdom.
[08:53] ---
    The Half-Moon people
    were strong and warlike.
[08:56] ---
    They often raided the
    people of the Central Plains.
[09:00] ---
    And that demon Daoist
    was their Grand Preceptor.
[09:19] ---
    You're going to Half-Moon Pass?
[09:20] ---
    How did you know?
[09:21] ---
    We heard you were asking
    about it in the Telepathic Matrix.
[09:24] ---
    What are you going there for?
[09:26] ---
    I have some business to take care of...
[09:28] ---
    Anyway, what are you two doing here?
[09:36] ---
    Let me guess, you "volunteered"?
[09:40] ---
    That's right.
[09:41] ---
    When do we set out?
[09:43] ---
    Right now.
[09:45] ---
    What's the rush?
[09:46] ---
    Then I'll draw a teleportation formation.
[09:47] ---
    Let's be clear on one thing first.
[09:48] ---
    If we come across something we can't
    handle, there's no shame in fleeing.
[09:52] ---
    Who are these people?
[09:56] ---
    Who are you?
[10:00] ---
    Don't worry, San Lang. They're my friends.
[10:02] ---
    Don't talk to him!
[10:03] ---
    Why? Do you all know each other?
[10:05] ---
    No.
[10:06] ---
    Then why are you so tense?
[10:08] ---
    Are these your servants?
[10:11] ---
    Not servants.
    They're more like my assistants.
[10:15] ---
    Really?
[10:17] ---
    Can you do me a favor, then?
[10:22] ---
    Wait, that's the only broom I have.
[10:29] ---
    Stop! Calm down!
[10:31] ---
    Heh... Very impressive!
[10:34] ---
    Who is this person, really?
[10:35] ---
    What's his name? Why is he here with you?
[10:38] ---
    I met him along the road.
    His name is San Lang.
[10:40] ---
    He had nowhere to go, so he came with me.
[10:42] ---
    And you let him in, just like that?
[10:44] ---
    What if he's plotting something?
[10:46] ---
    Let's all calm down.
[10:48] ---
    How are we supposed to calm down?!
[10:50] ---
    I have nothing worth plotting for.
[10:52] ---
    I'm still waiting for donations just
    to repair this shabby old temple.
[10:57] ---
    Enough. Let's go to Half-Moon Pass.
[11:01] ---
    If you fight here,
    I'll have to rebuild the whole temple.
[11:04] ---
    Move over. I need space
    to draw the formation.
[11:06] ---
    Hm!
[11:07] ---
    Why don't you draw it on the door?
[11:10] ---
    That was just a misunderstanding.
    Don't take it to heart.
[11:12] ---
    If you say so, then I'm already over it.
[11:15] ---
    Maybe I look familiar to them.
[11:18] ---
    That's right.
    We mistook you for someone else.
[11:22] ---
    What a coincidence.
    You two look rather familiar, too.
[11:29] ---
    So you live in this dump?
[11:31] ---
    I've always lived in places like this.
[11:34] ---
    Where's the bed?
[11:36] ---
    Over there.
[11:40] ---
    So... you two slept in the same bed?
[11:42] ---
    What's wrong with that?
[11:46] ---
    It's ready.
[11:52] ---
    You're terrible at drawing.
[11:54] ---
    If I drew as well as the Earth Master,
    then he'd be out of a job!
[11:58] ---
    All right, all right.
[12:01] ---
    Let's go.
[12:06] ---
    With the heaven official's
    blessing, we fear nothing.
[12:20] ---
    It's written in an ancient book
    that when the moon begins to set,
[12:23] ---
    the North Star will lead you
    to Half-Moon Kingdom.
[12:27] ---
    Look. The North Star.
[12:29] ---
    It's so bright.
[12:29] ---
    Yes.
[12:31] ---
    The night sky in the Northwest
    is vaster than the Central Plains.
[12:36] ---
    He's still with us?
[12:37] ---
    Daoist divination is truly marvelous.
    I wanted to see it for myself.
[12:41] ---
    See it for yourself...?
    Did you think we came to sightsee?
[12:44] ---
    Forget it. We can't do much about him now.
[12:45] ---
    Besides, there's enough
    food for all of us.
[12:47] ---
    San Lang, stay close to us.
    Don't wander off.
[12:50] ---
    Got it.
[12:50] ---
    Do you really think
    food is the issue here?
[12:52] ---
    Come on, Nan Feng.
    You worry too much. Let's go.
[13:24] ---
    You know, we've been walking all night.
[13:27] ---
    Can't we draw another
    teleportation formation?
[13:30] ---
    Teleportation allows us to travel
    quickly, but the longer the distance,
[13:33] ---
    the more magic it requires, and
    the longer we must wait to use it again.
[13:38] ---
    Then why can't he draw one?
[13:41] ---
    Fu Yao has to save his magic,
    in case we need it later.
[13:51] ---
    Here, put this on.
[14:06] ---
    I don't need it.
[14:10] ---
    All right, let me know if you do.
[14:13] ---
    By the way, San Lang, what's the
    story behind this demon Daoist?
[14:16] ---
    You never finished telling me.
[14:18] ---
    If you're interested,
    I'll continue the tale.
[14:20] ---
    The Half-Moon Daoist
    is one of two demon Daoists.
[14:24] ---
    Two? Who's the other?
[14:27] ---
    Fang Xin, the Grand Preceptor
    of the Central Plains.
[14:30] ---
    Half-Moon Kingdom
    was strategically placed.
[14:32] ---
    It straddled the road from
    the Central Plains to the West.
[14:33] ---
    There were constant border skirmishes.
[14:35] ---
    Two hundred years ago, the Central Plains
    finally attacked Half-Moon Kingdom.
[14:41] ---
    The Half-Moon Daoist
    was from that Kingdom.
[14:44] ---
    An orphan, abandoned as a child
    and left to roam the streets.
[14:47] ---
    Later, the Daoist managed to learn
    black sorcery, goodness knows where.
[14:52] ---
    Fearful of that dark power,
[14:53] ---
    the people of Half-Moon made
    the Daoist their Grand Preceptor.
[14:56] ---
    At that point, the two states
    were at a stalemate.
[14:58] ---
    The Grand Preceptor set up an altar,
    supposedly to protect the soldiers.
[15:03] ---
    This greatly lifted the soldiers' spirits.
[15:04] ---
    They staunchly defended the city gates.
[15:06] ---
    It was chaos. Arrows, catapults, flaming
    oil, soldiers fighting hand-to-hand.
[15:12] ---
    But then...
[15:13] ---
    At the very height of the battle,
[15:16] ---
    the Grand Preceptor suddenly
    threw open the city gates.
[15:18] ---
    Tens of thousands of enemy
    soldiers flooded into the city.
[15:21] ---
    The massacre turned
    the city into a blood altar.
[15:23] ---
    With this heinous blood offering,
    the Grand Preceptor was at last able
[15:28] ---
    to gain greater powers
    and transform into a Wrath.
[15:33] ---
    As for Half-Moon Kingdom, nothing
    is left of it now but Half-Moon Pass.
[15:36] ---
    Where are the kingdom's ruins?
[15:38] ---
    After its destruction,
    the city was eroded by evil spirits,
[15:42] ---
    and the oasis and dwellings
    gradually sank into the desert.
[15:45] ---
    And the rumor that half of those
    who attempt the pass disappear,
[15:48] ---
    where did that come from?
[15:51] ---
    Well, I've heard that the demon Daoist
    would feed the souls of passersby to
[15:54] ---
    the ghosts of Half-Moon's soldiers,
[15:56] ---
    so that they don't consume
    themselves out of hunger.
[16:00] ---
    Hm. You sure know a lot.
[16:04] ---
    Not at all, it's just that
    you all know so little.
[16:07] ---
    What did you say?
[16:11] ---
    Who are you, really? Reveal yourself!
[16:16] ---
    It's just a story from some ancient book.
    What are you so angry about?
[16:20] ---
    You--
[16:21] ---
    Your story may be just a legend,
    but Half-Moon Kingdom did exist.
[16:25] ---
    Look! Over there!
[16:31] ---
    It's already noon, and it'll only
    get hotter. Let's rest for a bit.
[16:35] ---
    I'll go on ahead and scout the way!
[16:39] ---
    Your Highness, don't you
    think that fellow's a bit odd?
[16:43] ---
    Certainly.
[16:45] ---
    Then why do you keep him around?
    What if he's dangerous?
[16:48] ---
    Nan Feng, you shouldn't say that.
[16:51] ---
    He may be strange, but that
    doesn't mean he's dangerous.
[16:53] ---
    Others may think I'm strange.
    Would you two say I'm dangerous?
[16:57] ---
    Besides, I've tested him.
[17:01] ---
    And?
[17:03] ---
    There's nothing suspicious about him.
[17:05] ---
    If he's not human,
    then there's only one other possibility.
[17:10] ---
    He's a Devastation-level demon king?
[17:11] ---
    Do you really think a
    Devastation-level demon king would
[17:13] ---
    have nothing better to do than to
    collect junk with me in some village?
[17:16] ---
    San Lang and I get along well,
    and he has nothing to gain from me.
[17:19] ---
    So there's no need to worry.
[17:21] ---
    That's not enough.
    We need to test him some more.
[17:24] ---
    All right then. But remember,
    the two of you are heavenly officials.
[17:27] ---
    He's probably just a young man
    who's run away from home.
[17:30] ---
    So be nice. Don't bully him.
[17:31] ---
    --But--
    --Hm.
[17:32] ---
    Lian! Hey, Lian! Come quick!
[17:35] ---
    It's nice and cool here.
[17:59] ---
    Any water left?
[18:03] ---
    Wait! I have some water here.
[18:06] ---
    Is this... Truth Water?
[18:09] ---
    Go ahead, help yourself.
[18:10] ---
    It's all right,
    I can drink from Lian's flask.
[18:12] ---
    He's almost out of water.
[18:14] ---
    Oh really? Then you two drink first.
[18:18] ---
    You're our guest. You drink first.
[18:20] ---
    You're a servant;
    you've been working hard. I insist.
[18:23] ---
    No, you go ahead.
[18:24] ---
    No, no, you two drink first.
[18:26] ---
    Why won't you drink this water?
    Are you hiding something?
[18:30] ---
    Why are you two so hostile?
    Are you hiding something?
[18:35] ---
    Perhaps... there's poison in the water?
[18:38] ---
    Ask him if there is.
[18:41] ---
    Brother, is the water poisoned?
[18:43] ---
    No. But...
[18:45] ---
    All right then.
[18:51] ---
    Tastes awful.
[18:55] ---
    It's just plain water. It's all the same.
[18:57] ---
    No, this one tastes much better.
[19:00] ---
    Young friend,
    this journey will be dangerous.
[19:04] ---
    Here's a sword you can
    use to protect yourself.
[19:06] ---
    Red Mirror, the demon-revealing sword?
[19:08] ---
    I thought it had been pawned off long ago.
[19:11] ---
    Where did you get this?
[19:13] ---
    It belongs to General Nan Yang.
[19:15] ---
    He went back down to earth after his
    ascension and brought the sword back.
[19:18] ---
    I borrowed it from him.
[19:21] ---
    Oh? Let's have a look!
[19:41] ---
    Lian, are they joking with me?
[19:43] ---
    Who's joking?
[19:46] ---
    This sword is broken.
    How could it protect me?
[19:56] ---
    You...!
[19:58] ---
    Then again, you wouldn't have
    given me a broken sword on purpose.
[20:01] ---
    Maybe it broke along the way.
[20:03] ---
    It's all right.
    I can make do without a sword.
[20:09] ---
    Look at that sky.
    There's a sandstorm coming.
[20:12] ---
    If we don't leave now,
    we might not find shelter on the road.
[20:25] ---
    Your Highness, aren't you
    going to resolve this matter?
[20:28] ---
    Yes, but...
    I think there's someone out there.
[20:41] ---
    Who's that?
[20:42] ---
    I don't know.
    But it's definitely not a caravan.
[20:45] ---
    Ordinary people wouldn't be here,
    especially at this hour.
[20:50] ---
    San Lang, is that Demon Half-moon
    Daoist of yours a man or a woman?
[20:54] ---
    They say it's a woman.
[21:08] ---
    Could that woman...
    be the Half-Moon Daoist?
[21:11] ---
    Let's follow her.
[21:25] ---
    Ah, looks like we've lost her.
[21:28] ---
    The wind is rising. Strange!
[21:31] ---
    Fu Yao! Let's see
    if we can shelter somewhere.
[21:36] ---
    Fu Yao? Nan Feng?
[21:50] ---
    San Lang?
[21:51] ---
    San Lang!
[22:03] ---
    Careful.
[22:37] ---
    Thanks.
[22:42] ---
    Everyone, be careful!
[22:43] ---
    Something isn't right about this storm.
    It could be sorcery.
[22:46] ---
    It's just sand being blown about.
    What else could it be?
[22:49] ---
    It's not the sand I'm worried about.
    There's something hiding behind it.
[22:53] ---
    Maybe it's the doing of those two we saw?
[22:57] ---
    In any case,
    we have to find shelter first.
[23:00] ---
    If there was a demon in that sandstorm,
[23:02] ---
    it was probably trying prevent us
    from continuing onward.
[23:04] ---
    In which case, we should keep going.
[23:07] ---
    What's so funny?
[23:09] ---
    Does it make you feel special
    to always be so contrarian?
[23:13] ---
    What did you say?
[23:15] ---
    You two can hash this out later.
[23:17] ---
    We won't want to be out here
    when the wind really rises.
[23:20] ---
    It's not like it could blow us away.
[23:25] ---
    --Your Highness!
    --Your Highness!
[23:37] ---
    Entangle! Catch on something sturdy!
[23:53] ---
    I didn't mean San Lang!
[23:59] ---
    No!

E7 - Scorpion-Tailed Snake Shadow

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[00:29] ---
    Entangle!
[00:30] ---
    Catch on something sturdy!
[00:37] ---
    I didn't mean San Lang!
[00:41] ---
    No!
[00:47] ---
    Lian, take this.
    Just don't fly away again.
[00:50] ---
    Thank you, San Lang.
    That is kind of you. Retract!
[00:52] ---
    Wow, you know magic
    on this level, amazing!
[00:54] ---
    Um... San Lang! Don't panic!
[01:03] ---
    Sorry, it's safer this way.
    Just hang in there.
[01:09] ---
    One more time!
    Don't catch on people!
[01:14] ---
    Ugh, get away from me!
[01:16] ---
    Get off!
[01:17] ---
    What are you doing here?
[01:19] ---
    You should ask your stupid silk sash!
[01:22] ---
    I told you not to catch on people!
    Heavenly officials are people, too!
[01:34] ---
    You two hang in there, too!
[01:35] ---
    Entangle! Don't make the same mistake.
[01:38] ---
    Go!
[01:40] ---
    This doesn't look like a good idea.
    Let's think of something else!
[01:49] ---
    I've caught something!
    Let's give it another chance!
[01:52] ---
    Just take it easy on me!
[01:53] ---
    It feels taut! Must have caught
    on something heavy! Retract!
[02:26] ---
    This is all thanks to the
    heaven officials' blessing.
[02:28] ---
    Hurry! Hide in there!
[04:39] ---
    Those wretches. If I got
    my hands on them, I would...
[04:43] ---
    You'd what?
[04:44] ---
    Swallow a few more pounds of sand?
[04:47] ---
    Shut it!
[04:56] ---
    Lian, what's on your mind?
[04:59] ---
    Those two women had a strange gait.
[05:01] ---
    They're no ordinary people.
[05:03] ---
    The one in white must be
    the Half-Moon Grand Preceptor.
[05:06] ---
    Then who is the woman in black?
[05:08] ---
    Could she be the other
    evil Daoist Fang Xin?
[05:13] ---
    That's not possible.
[05:14] ---
    Fang Xin is the Grand Preceptor
    of Yong An Kingdom.
[05:17] ---
    The two of them were born
    almost 100 years apart.
[05:20] ---
    How do you know so much
    about Yong An Kingdom?
[05:22] ---
    Huh?
[05:24] ---
    To be honest, I used
    to collect rubbish there.
[05:28] ---
    Anyway, if the Half-Moon Daoist's
    goal was to get us stuck here,
[05:33] ---
    she's accomplished her mission.
[05:34] ---
    Are we going to wait here
    until the end of the sandstorm?
[05:37] ---
    That's our only option.
[05:54] ---
    By the way, Nan Feng, why didn't you
    summon the Thousand-Pound-Drop
[05:57] ---
    in the sandstorm just now?
[05:59] ---
    I did! It didn't work!
[06:01] ---
    This vast expanse of land
    is in the far Northwest.
[06:02] ---
    There's no way we'll find
    any Xuan Zhen temples.
[06:07] ---
    My General controls the Southeast.
    His is in the Southwest.
[06:10] ---
    Once we leave their jurisdiction,
    our magic is less effective.
[06:15] ---
    That's odd. This rock is solid--
    how could someone dig a cave here?
[06:23] ---
    Like master, like servant.
    Always making something out of nothing.
[06:33] ---
    The Half-Moon people are herders,
    and at night, to escape the sandstorms,
[06:37] ---
    they dig caves in the rock, sometimes
    blowing them open with dynamite.
[06:48] ---
    What's wrong? Who's there?
[06:56] ---
    Who are you?
[07:01] ---
    I... We're just ordinary
    merchants passing through,
[07:03] ---
    taking shelter from
    the sandstorm raging outside.
[07:08] ---
    If you're just ordinary merchants,
    why are you slinking around like phantoms?
[07:12] ---
    We were sitting here just fine
    until all of you stormed in.
[07:15] ---
    You lit a flame in your bare palms--
    are you humans or ghosts?
[07:18] ---
    We were too scared to make a sound!
[07:22] ---
    You little rascal!
[07:24] ---
    Tian Sheng, don't talk nonsense.
[07:26] ---
    Uncle Zheng, I'm not!
    They're the ones who look suspicious!
[07:36] ---
    I think there's been a misunderstanding.
[07:37] ---
    I am the head priest of
    a Daoist temple, and these...
[07:39] ---
    These are my men from the temple.
[07:41] ---
    What they used was Daoist magic.
[07:45] ---
    Wow, that's amazing! It's so bright!
[07:47] ---
    So, you are but ordinary merchants.
    We are just ordinary people, too,
[07:51] ---
    and we have come to the same
    shelter to weather a sandstorm.
[07:55] ---
    I see... Since we're
    all just regular people...
[07:58] ---
    "Half of those who ventured
    there went missing"...
[08:00] ---
    And yet you still dare come here--
    how could you be ordinary people?
[08:05] ---
    That rumor is exaggerated.
[08:07] ---
    As long as you find a reliable guide
    and avoid entering Half Moon Kingdom,
[08:10] ---
    you can come and go safely.
[08:13] ---
    That's right!
[08:14] ---
    A local guide took us.
    He helped go around the quicksand.
[08:17] ---
    As soon as the wind picked up,
    he took us and told us to hide here.
[08:21] ---
    Isn't that right, Zhao?
[08:24] ---
    I was just doing my job.
[08:26] ---
    I hope the camels and their cargo
    will be fine until the storm passes.
[08:29] ---
    I'm sure they will!
[08:31] ---
    So, Daoist master, you see...
[08:33] ---
    Now that we've cleared the air, I'd like
    to apologize for all the fuss just now.
[09:07] ---
    --Lian?
    --Yes?
[09:09] ---
    There seem to be some characters
    carved in the rock you're sitting on.
[09:12] ---
    Huh?
[09:25] ---
    These are...
[09:26] ---
    Is this Half-Moon script?
[09:28] ---
    You can read Half-Moon script?
[09:31] ---
    To be honest, I was collecting
    rubbish in Half-Moon Kingdom
[09:34] ---
    before the evil
    Half-Moon Daoist was even born.
[09:36] ---
    Is there anywhere you
    haven't collected rubbish?
[09:41] ---
    Ignore him.
[09:42] ---
    What does the tablet say?
[09:49] ---
    General.
[09:51] ---
    What?
[09:52] ---
    This stone tablet marks
    the grave of a general.
[09:55] ---
    San Lang, you... can also read
    Half-Moon characters?
[09:59] ---
    I learned a character
    or two just out of curiosity.
[10:01] ---
    Excellent.
[10:01] ---
    Come over here, we can read it together.
[10:16] ---
    General... This tells
    the life story of the general.
[10:20] ---
    A general from Half-Moon Kingdom?
[10:25] ---
    He is from the Central Plains.
[10:27] ---
    Half-Moon Kingdom was constantly
    at war with the Central Plains,
[10:29] ---
    so why would the Half-Moon
    people honor an enemy general?
[10:32] ---
    Because there's something
    special about this general.
[10:35] ---
    Although it says "general" on the tablet,
    he was actually just a captain.
[10:43] ---
    As the war between Half-Moon Kingdom
    and the Central Plains raged on,
[10:46] ---
    he led his troops to the front line.
[10:48] ---
    Was he promoted to general
    because he won the battle?
[10:52] ---
    No.
[10:53] ---
    At first, he commanded 100 soldiers.
[10:56] ---
    Then 70. And then only 50.
[11:01] ---
    He kept getting demoted.
[11:03] ---
    How could a military officer's career
    move backwards like that?
[11:06] ---
    Normally, if you don't make mistakes,
    you can at least maintain your rank!
[11:08] ---
    How could he have
    failed so miserably?
[11:12] ---
    Young man, this world is full
    of all kinds of extraordinary things.
[11:16] ---
    Let's continue...
[11:18] ---
    This captain was being demoted because
    he kept intervening on the battlefield.
[11:22] ---
    What do you mean?
[11:23] ---
    He didn't allow Half-Moon soldiers
    to slaughter enemy civilians,
[11:26] ---
    and stopped the enemy from doing the same.
[11:28] ---
    Each time he did this,
    he would get demoted,
[11:30] ---
    until he couldn't move
    any lower in the ranks.
[11:34] ---
    He was saving lives by preventing
    soldiers from killing innocent people.
[11:37] ---
    What's wrong with that?
[11:38] ---
    That's true, he didn't hurt anyone.
[11:40] ---
    I agree. What's wrong with that...
[11:41] ---
    Hmph! Everything!
[11:43] ---
    Every job comes with responsibilities.
    Soldiers must perform their duties, too.
[11:47] ---
    Of course there are casualties in a war.
    If you try to do things for both sides,
[11:51] ---
    your people will despise you,
    and the enemy will laugh at you.
[11:56] ---
    You would end up with nothing.
[11:59] ---
    But he saved people's lives!
[12:00] ---
    They even put up a monument to him!
[12:02] ---
    What does the monument
    tell us other than that he died?
[12:06] ---
    And isn't Half-Moon Kingdom no more,
    according to historical records?
[12:09] ---
    What's the point of what he did?
[12:12] ---
    But, but...
[12:13] ---
    Boy, you are too naïve.
[12:18] ---
    Daoist master, am I right?
[12:21] ---
    But this captain was
    saving people's lives...
[12:24] ---
    You're right. He did die.
[12:27] ---
    Killed by his own men, surely?
[12:29] ---
    Not quite.
[12:31] ---
    It says here that one time,
    in the midst of a battle,
[12:35] ---
    his shoelaces came loose,
    and he tripped over them.
[12:39] ---
    He was trampled to death and stabbed
    by crazed soldiers from both sides.
[12:56] ---
    What's so funny?
[12:57] ---
    No, no, it's just... dying like that...
[13:03] ---
    Though the captain's reputation
    in the military had been tarnished,
[13:06] ---
    some people felt grateful to him.
[13:08] ---
    They addressed him as "General"
    and erected this stone.
[13:12] ---
    Later, it turned out
    the tablet had magical powers.
[13:16] ---
    If you kneel thrice before it,
    you will gain the ability
[13:18] ---
    to transform misfortunes into
    good luck here in the Gobi.
[13:20] ---
    Is that true?
[13:22] ---
    It is.
[13:35] ---
    Does it say so on the monument?
[13:38] ---
    I just made it up.
[13:39] ---
    They've had their fun--
    now it's our turn!
[13:42] ---
    --You're a jokester.
    --What's this?!
[13:45] ---
    There's a snake!
[13:46] ---
    How?!
[13:54] ---
    The desert is full of snakes,
    what's so strange about it?
[13:57] ---
    Its tail--watch out!
[13:58] ---
    San Lang!
[14:00] ---
    Its tail is fascinating!
[14:03] ---
    Lian, check it out.
[14:05] ---
    So, it's the scorpion-tailed snake.
[14:08] ---
    Scorpion-tailed snake?
[14:09] ---
    A creature from Half-Moon Kingdom,
    with the body of a snake,
[14:12] ---
    and the venomous tail of a scorpion.
[14:15] ---
    One reason the evil Half-Moon
    Daoist was made Grand Preceptor
[14:18] ---
    was that she could control
    these kinds of snakes.
[14:22] ---
    Control them?
[14:25] ---
    There's more--everyone, out!
[14:31] ---
    Snakes!
[14:32] ---
    So many snakes!
[14:34] ---
    Here, too!
[14:59] ---
    Get out!
[15:00] ---
    Hurry, hurry! Quick!
[15:18] ---
    We paid our respects to the tablet,
    but it only brought us bad luck!
[15:20] ---
    Yeah, the more we worshipped,
    the worse our luck,
[15:22] ---
    just like when we prayed
    to that scrap-collector god!
[15:25] ---
    What happened?
[15:27] ---
    Uncle Zheng!
[15:30] ---
    --Uncle Zheng!
    --What's wrong?
[15:38] ---
    This venom is strong.
[15:44] ---
    Well done.
[15:47] ---
    Zhao, is Uncle going to die?
[15:51] ---
    The venom of the scorpion-tailed snake
    kills its victims within four hours.
[15:54] ---
    What can we do?
[15:59] ---
    Is this the antidote?
[16:01] ---
    It will only delay his
    death by a day or so.
[16:09] ---
    So we're just waiting for him to die?
[16:10] ---
    Is there really no cure?
[16:12] ---
    There's a cure.
[16:13] ---
    There is a plant called the Good-Moon
    herb, an antidote for this snake's venom.
[16:17] ---
    Zhao, why didn't you
    say something earlier?
[16:20] ---
    Of course he didn't tell you--
    someone has to die to save the victim.
[16:25] ---
    What?!
[16:26] ---
    The Good-Moon herb can only
    be found in Half-Moon Kingdom.
[16:29] ---
    No wonder so many people
    are risking their lives to go there.
[16:32] ---
    True.
[16:33] ---
    What are we going to do? How...
[16:38] ---
    The venom of the scorpion-tailed snake...
[16:41] ---
    Was this what the Half-Moon
    Preceptor was after?
[16:43] ---
    Ling Wen, I wanted to ask
    you something. Ling Wen?
[16:49] ---
    Are you able to enter
    the Telepathic Matrix? I can't.
[16:53] ---
    Me neither.
[16:54] ---
    Nor I.
[17:00] ---
    Could even the Telepathic Matrix
    be blocked? What on earth...
[17:07] ---
    Watch out...!
[17:20] ---
    Everyone, be careful!
[17:22] ---
    There might be more snakes.
[17:26] ---
    San Lang?
[17:30] ---
    Don't worry... it's not that bad...
[17:46] ---
    Hang in there, brother.
[17:53] ---
    Don't! The venom is extremely potent,
    you might get infected, too...
[18:05] ---
    He wasn't about to get bitten--
    why did you have to grab the snake?
[18:08] ---
    Jeez.
[18:09] ---
    But what if he'd gotten hurt?
[18:15] ---
    All right, San Lang, I promise,
    it doesn't hurt anymore.
[18:24] ---
    I swear.
[18:26] ---
    Thank you.
[18:29] ---
    Everyone, inspect yourselves.
[18:30] ---
    If you have any open wounds,
    make sure to bandage them.
[18:42] ---
    Dao master, your hand...
[18:45] ---
    --I'm fine.
    --Yeah, right!
[18:46] ---
    The snake just bit you!
[18:48] ---
    We'd better get back
    to heav--uh, just go back!
[18:51] ---
    What? You're leaving?
[18:53] ---
    What about us?
[18:54] ---
    Dao master, don't leave us!
[18:58] ---
    The Telepathic Matrix is blocked,
    so we must go back to report it...
[19:03] ---
    Saving lives is our
    top priority. Don't worry.
[19:06] ---
    Stay calm. We will find the Good-Moon
    herb and bring it to you within 24 hours.
[19:11] ---
    But...
[19:13] ---
    ...we need him to guide us.
[19:16] ---
    But if he leaves...
[19:19] ---
    Fu Yao will stay and protect you.
    Would that be all right?
[19:22] ---
    Huh?!
[19:24] ---
    Fine by me if Zhao is fine with it.
[19:25] ---
    Sure.
[19:27] ---
    It's easy to get to the Half-Moon Kingdom,
    we just need to walk in this direction.
[19:36] ---
    Zhao, we're counting on you.
    Go ahead.
[19:38] ---
    All right, let's go.
[20:08] ---
    Do you feel there's something
    off about this Zhao guy?
[20:10] ---
    Maybe I was just being paranoid.
    He's here now; let's keep an eye on him.
[20:23] ---
    How long has it been since they left?
[20:24] ---
    Zhao said Half-Moon Kingdom was
    not far, so they should arrive there soon.
[20:28] ---
    I'm worried Uncle Zheng
    won't make it to their return.
[20:30] ---
    I'm worried, too.
[20:32] ---
    I need to pee.
[20:33] ---
    --Me too.
    --Me three.
[20:50] ---
    And here we are!
[21:17] ---
    This is Half-Moon Kingdom?
[21:19] ---
    The walls are high, but it looks
    more like a city than a kingdom.
[21:23] ---
    It should've just taken a few days
    to conquer, don't you think?
[21:26] ---
    Don't underestimate this desert kingdom.
    They say only 10,000 people lived here,
[21:29] ---
    but every single citizen
    was a soldier armed to the teeth,
[21:32] ---
    so conquering it was no easy task.
[21:35] ---
    Dao master, you're full of knowledge.
[21:37] ---
    It's because--
[21:38] ---
    Wait. There's someone here.
[21:49] ---
    Why did they suddenly
    disappear in the blink of an eye?
[21:52] ---
    Do you want me to hunt
    you down one by one?
[21:56] ---
    It's the Half-Moon Grand Preceptor.
[21:58] ---
    You should ask your friends for help.
[22:01] ---
    No, no, I prefer to ask you.
    Aren't you happy about that?
[22:06] ---
    Why would I be?
[22:07] ---
    Hurry!
[22:09] ---
    Lian, should we deal the first blow?
[22:12] ---
    Let's wait until they leave.
[22:13] ---
    We can't waste time.
    Finding the herb is our top priority.
[22:16] ---
    If we engage now, what if they
    bring in the Half-Moon soldiers?
[22:20] ---
    Then we'll have a problem...
[22:27] ---
    Huh? What's wrong?

E8 - Foreboding Wind in the Ancient Country

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[00:58] ---
    You! Out of the way.
[03:55] ---
    Zhao, is everything all right?
    Are you hurt?
[03:58] ---
    I'm fine.
[04:08] ---
    Those two women... Were they...?
[04:11] ---
    In any case,
    Nan Feng has lured them away.
[04:14] ---
    They won't be back for a while.
[04:17] ---
    It's getting late. We need to hurry.
[04:21] ---
    Zhao, where in the city does
    the Good-Moon herb grow?
[04:27] ---
    I don't know, I'm sorry.
    All I know is how to get to the city.
[04:32] ---
    They say the Good-Moon has a thin
    stem and broad, peach-shaped leaves.
[04:36] ---
    It's small and thrives in shade,
    so it's usually found near tall buildings.
[04:39] ---
    Tall buildings?
[04:50] ---
    As the legend goes, it was the Queen
    who plucked the herb, and--
[04:54] ---
    Wait a minute, what legend?
[04:57] ---
    There's a legend saying that the
    King of Half-Moon Kingdom once
[04:59] ---
    killed two venomous creatures that
    had done no wrong. A snake and a scorpion.
[05:02] ---
    They bore a bitter grudge,
[05:03] ---
    and the Scorpion-Tailed
    Snake is said to be their progeny.
[05:05] ---
    But... what does that have to
    do with the Good-Moon plant?
[05:08] ---
    After the King killed the two
    creatures, the Queen, out of pity,
[05:11] ---
    plucked a leaf from a Good-Moon herb
    and laid it over their bodies.
[05:14] ---
    Since then, the plant has been an
    antidote for scorpion-tailed snake venom.
[05:19] ---
    That means--
[05:20] ---
    The Good-Moon plant
    must grow in the royal palace.
[05:24] ---
    That's where we have to go. Come on!
[05:39] ---
    We don't have much time.
    Let's split up and search for it.
[05:41] ---
    --Got it.
    --All right.
[06:13] ---
    Master! Don't hurt me!
    It's me, it's me!
[06:16] ---
    What are you doing here?
[06:17] ---
    Are you really Tian Sheng?
[06:19] ---
    Yes, it's me! I came with a few others.
[06:23] ---
    They're inside.
    Take a look, if you don't believe me!
[06:27] ---
    Everyone!
[06:31] ---
    Tian Sheng?
[06:32] ---
    --I'm over here!
    --Tian Sheng!
[06:35] ---
    What are all of you doing here?
[06:37] ---
    We didn't know when you'd be back,
    so we decided to follow you here.
[06:42] ---
    That was rash.
    You know how dangerous it is!
[06:43] ---
    Thank goodness you're all safe.
[06:46] ---
    But how did you know that the Good-Moon
    plant could be found in the royal palace?
[06:52] ---
    We figured anything of value would
    be locked up in the palace, so...
[06:56] ---
    Found it.
[06:59] ---
    This must be it.
[07:07] ---
    Does it really work?
[07:22] ---
    I feel much better.
[07:24] ---
    --He's healed?
    --That's incredible!
[07:27] ---
    --Quick! Let's look for more.
    --Thank you, San Lang.
[07:29] ---
    Yes!
[07:31] ---
    I'll look over here!
[07:32] ---
    I'll search over there!
[07:45] ---
    I found some here, too!
[07:47] ---
    It's huge!
[07:48] ---
    Where did you find that, Zhao?
[07:51] ---
    Come on!
    Let's search the spot where he found it!
[07:53] ---
    Pick as much as you can, we can sell this!
[08:00] ---
    The Good-Moon over there is no good.
[08:02] ---
    Why not?
[08:06] ---
    Was that you?
[08:07] ---
    I-It wasn't me!
[08:09] ---
    It wasn't me either!
[08:10] ---
    Then who--
[08:15] ---
    Get off! You're stepping on me!
[08:32] ---
    It's a monster!
[08:34] ---
    Don't panic. It's just a face.
    We've all got one.
[08:41] ---
    Did I scare you?
[08:44] ---
    To be fair, I scare myself all the time.
[08:46] ---
    Who are you?
[08:48] ---
    Who are you?
[08:49] ---
    We're from a caravan, just passing by.
[08:53] ---
    Ah, I was once in a caravan.
    Fifty-some years ago.
[08:57] ---
    Th-Then how did you end up here, sir?
[09:01] ---
    I was caught by Half-Moon soldiers
[09:05] ---
    and buried here to feed
    the Good- Moon plant.
[09:12] ---
    The one I gave you didn't come from him.
[09:14] ---
    Thanks. That was thoughtful.
[09:16] ---
    I haven't seen a living soul for ages.
[09:19] ---
    Come closer, all of you.
    Let me get a good look at you.
[09:24] ---
    What, you don't want to get too close?
    Ah, that's a pity.
[09:29] ---
    There's something I can't quite figure out.
    I wanted to see if it was true.
[09:33] ---
    What's that?
[09:38] ---
    I've seen one of you before...
    50 or so years ago.
[09:44] ---
    Which of us do you mean?
[09:47] ---
    Come closer and I'll tell you.
[09:50] ---
    Back away, everyone. Don't listen to him.
[09:52] ---
    Don't you want to know who it is?
    He'll kill every last one of you.
[09:58] ---
    No need to be afraid.
    I'm human, too. I won't hurt you.
[10:07] ---
    Don't touch it! Come back!
[10:19] ---
    Tasty! Tasty!
[10:23] ---
    So tasty!
[10:24] ---
    I was starving. Starving!
[10:55] ---
    General! They're over here!
[11:01] ---
    Th-Those are Half-Moon soldiers!
[11:12] ---
    Take them away.
[11:16] ---
    Don't panic. They're just moving us.
    They won't kill us just yet.
[11:21] ---
    Everyone, sit tight and don't pull any
    hasty moves. We'll have to improvise.
[11:24] ---
    General! General!
[11:26] ---
    I've helped you capture your foes.
    Please, let me go home now!
[11:50] ---
    What...? What is this?
[11:54] ---
    It's your body.
[11:55] ---
    Your flesh and blood are long gone,
    consumed by the Good-Moon plant.
[11:58] ---
    That... That's impossible!
    You're a liar!
[12:01] ---
    That's not my body!
[12:03] ---
    Well, well.
[12:04] ---
    Not so keen on having your
    body back now, are you?
[12:07] ---
    What were you sticking out
    of your mouth just now?
[12:09] ---
    What's the problem?
[12:10] ---
    M-My tongue is just a bit
    longer than most, that's all!
[12:15] ---
    Just a bit.
[12:17] ---
    You still think you're human?
[12:20] ---
    Of course I am!
[12:24] ---
    Some people have long tongues.
    Yes, just a tad long, that's all.
[12:28] ---
    I had to catch bugs with
    my tongue to survive,
[12:30] ---
    so it grew longer and longer,
    till it ended up like this.
[12:37] ---
    Those Central Plainers!
[12:39] ---
    Serves them right!
[12:42] ---
    I want to go home!
[12:43] ---
    I can go home now!
[12:56] ---
    They called their leader "General."
    I wonder which general he is?
[13:00] ---
    There was only one general at the
    time of the Half-Moon Kingdom's fall.
[13:04] ---
    His name means "Millstone."
[13:07] ---
    Millstone?
[13:08] ---
    They say he was often bullied as
    a child, as he was small and weak.
[13:11] ---
    So he trained with millstones to become
    stronger. That's where he got his name.
[13:16] ---
    "Strongman" would've
    had more of a ring to it.
[13:21] ---
    He is indeed incredibly strong,
[13:23] ---
    as well as the most fearless general
    in the Kingdom's history.
[13:25] ---
    He's also a faithful supporter
    of the Grand Preceptor.
[13:28] ---
    Even in death?
[13:32] ---
    Is he taking us to the
    Grand Preceptor now?
[13:35] ---
    Perhaps.
[13:43] ---
    Is this...?
[13:47] ---
    The Sinners' Pit.
[14:48] ---
    Brothers!
[14:55] ---
    Throw two of them in and lock the rest up!
[15:00] ---
    Stay calm. If anything happens,
    I'll handle it.
[15:12] ---
    Zhao!
[15:25] ---
    Zhao!
[15:38] ---
    Help! Help!
[15:39] ---
    Stay away from me!
[15:44] ---
    Wait a moment, General.
[15:46] ---
    Let go of me!
[15:47] ---
    You speak our language?
[15:49] ---
    Where are you from?
[15:51] ---
    I'm from the Central Plain.
[15:53] ---
    The Central Plain?
[15:54] ---
    You're a descendant of Yong An?
[15:56] ---
    No.
[15:57] ---
    Yong An Kingdom is long gone,
    together with its people.
[16:00] ---
    Ha!
[16:02] ---
    All people from the Central Plain
    are descendants of Yong An!
[16:04] ---
    They are our enemies!
[16:06] ---
    --You scum!
    --Liars!
[16:08] ---
    Throw them in the pit!
[16:10] ---
    Half-Moon Kingdom was
    destroyed 200 years ago.
[16:13] ---
    You're not one of us,
    yet you speak our language.
[16:17] ---
    Just who the hell are you?
[16:23] ---
    Let go! Help!
[16:26] ---
    General, let me go first.
[16:28] ---
    Go first? Why?
[16:31] ---
    General, these people are innocent.
[16:33] ---
    They're just merchants going about their
    business. They have children with them.
[16:35] ---
    Ha!
[16:36] ---
    When the Yong An army
    slaughtered my people,
[16:39] ---
    they didn't give a damn about
    our merchants and children!
[16:44] ---
    You stay here. I don't trust you.
[16:46] ---
    Besides, I have a few questions for you.
[16:48] ---
    Throw someone else in!
[16:49] ---
    There's nothing for it but to jump, then.
[16:56] ---
    San... San Lang?
[17:07] ---
    I'll be fine.
[17:08] ---
    Wait! Stay right there!
[17:10] ---
    Don't be afraid.
[17:15] ---
    Stop!
[17:18] ---
    Don't worry.
    I'll only be gone a little while.
[17:49] ---
    San Lang!

E9 - Evil Taoist Scourge

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[00:25] ---
    S-San Lang!
[00:29] ---
    I'll be fine.
[00:31] ---
    Wait! Stay right there!
[00:33] ---
    Don't be afraid.
[00:38] ---
    Stop!
[00:41] ---
    Don't worry.
    I'll only be gone a little while.
[01:00] ---
    San Lang!
[03:23] ---
    I need to ask you something. Don't move!
[03:26] ---
    How about you come with me?
[04:36] ---
    It's that hag again!
[05:00] ---
    Entangle!
[05:11] ---
    Oh no...
[05:36] ---
    San Lang?
[05:44] ---
    Is it you?
[05:45] ---
    Are you all right?
[05:46] ---
    Are you hurt?
[05:54] ---
    I'm fine.
[05:56] ---
    Good.
[05:57] ---
    Thank you. You can put me down now.
[06:00] ---
    That's a bad idea.
[06:02] ---
    Why?
[06:04] ---
    It's dirty here.
[06:14] ---
    Brothers, what happened?!
[06:18] ---
    Who did this to you?
[06:20] ---
    Who was it?!
[06:29] ---
    He's not breathing and has no pulse?
[06:34] ---
    I want my men back!
[06:36] ---
    You must die!
[06:41] ---
    San Lang, watch out!
[06:42] ---
    Just ignore him.
[06:48] ---
    San Lang, why don't you put me down?
[06:50] ---
    Don't worry, I got it.
[07:09] ---
    You can't just keep carrying me like this!
[07:11] ---
    Why not? Hold on tight!
[07:14] ---
    You killed my men! That's unforgivable!
[07:55] ---
    San Lang, all these men...
    You killed them?
[07:59] ---
    I did.
[08:02] ---
    Next time you see this kind of pit,
    think twice before jumping in.
[08:07] ---
    I couldn't stop you.
    I didn't know what to do.
[08:14] ---
    Is there anything else
    you'd like to ask?
[08:16] ---
    Is there anything I should
    ask you about?
[08:18] ---
    For example, whether I'm human.
[08:21] ---
    Whether you're human or not--
    it doesn't matter to me.
[08:25] ---
    Huh? And why is that?
[08:28] ---
    When we interact with others, what
    matters most is how we get along.
[08:31] ---
    Do we feel a connection?
    Who we are is not important.
[08:34] ---
    If I like you, I couldn't care less
    if you were a beggar.
[08:38] ---
    And if I hated you, it wouldn't matter
    if you were the emperor himself.
[08:42] ---
    It's as simple as can be.
    So I don't need to ask you anything.
[08:48] ---
    That makes sense.
[08:50] ---
    San Lang, watch out!
[08:55] ---
    Entangle!
[09:01] ---
    You... two against one! Not fair!
[09:06] ---
    Even if it were one on one,
    you wouldn't stand a chance.
[09:08] ---
    You are all minions of that witch.
    And you will die like dogs!
[09:13] ---
    San Lang, don't kill him.
[09:15] ---
    If we want to make it out of here,
    we'll need to ask him how to do it.
[09:19] ---
    San Lang, why don't you set me down?
[09:22] ---
    Hold on.
[09:46] ---
    Thank you.
[10:00] ---
    I wonder how the others are doing.
[10:02] ---
    Will they also be dragged
    down by that corpse in black?
[10:08] ---
    Watch out!
[10:09] ---
    I warned you the floor is dirty.
[10:12] ---
    Since you work for that hag,
[10:14] ---
    there's no way Half-Moon Kingdom
    will ever let you go!
[10:19] ---
    General Millstone,
    who are you talking about?
[10:25] ---
    The demon Daoist, who else!
[10:29] ---
    The Half-Moon Grand Preceptor?
[10:31] ---
    Aren't you the one loyal to her?
[10:33] ---
    Hah! I, Millstone!
[10:36] ---
    I will never pledge
    my allegiance to her again!
[10:38] ---
    She will pay for what she's done!
[10:40] ---
    But, General...
[10:42] ---
    You've killed my men,
    so I won't answer your questions!
[10:45] ---
    Come on! Let's fight!
[10:48] ---
    I killed them.
    He had nothing to do with it.
[10:51] ---
    You can answer his questions,
    and then you and I will fight.
[10:53] ---
    You're both the witch's puppets;
    what difference does it make?
[10:57] ---
    General Millstone, I think
    there has been a misunderstanding.
[11:00] ---
    We're here to kill the Grand Preceptor.
    How could we be her underlings?
[11:04] ---
    If she is not your boss,
    then why did you kill my men?
[11:09] ---
    You threw us down there,
    we had to defend ourselves!
[11:13] ---
    Nonsense! You jumped into
    the pit yourselves!
[11:18] ---
    All right, fine.
[11:20] ---
    But since we're stuck here together,
    why don't we just call a truce.
[11:25] ---
    Why do you have an axe to grind
    with the Grand Preceptor?
[11:32] ---
    General Millstone?
[11:34] ---
    For the sake of your men,
    you had better answer truthfully.
[11:38] ---
    You've already murdered them;
    don't you dare threaten me!
[11:43] ---
    Hm! But their bodies are still here.
[11:46] ---
    What are you scheming?
[11:48] ---
    That depends on you.
[11:50] ---
    You, the Half-Moon people, believe
    that how one spends the afterlife
[11:52] ---
    depends on the condition of the body.
[11:55] ---
    Do you want them to live
    their afterlife in good health or...?
[11:59] ---
    You, you!
[12:05] ---
    Don't worry.
[12:10] ---
    Don't you touch them.
[12:12] ---
    These brave soldiers had already
    spent years stuck in this pit.
[12:17] ---
    Now that they are finally free,
[12:20] ---
    I will not allow them
    to be desecrated.
[12:31] ---
    Did you really come to kill
    the Grand Preceptor?
[12:33] ---
    Yes, you have my word.
[12:36] ---
    Outsiders know so little
    about the Grand Preceptor.
[12:39] ---
    You have dealt with her in the past,
    so we wanted to ask for your help.
[12:44] ---
    She despised Half-Moon Kingdom!
[12:48] ---
    But wasn't she from Half-Moon Kingdom?
[12:50] ---
    Yes, but not entirely.
[12:54] ---
    This demon Daoist was of mixed blood.
[13:00] ---
    Her mother was Half-Moon,
    but her father was a Yong An scoundrel.
[13:05] ---
    That good-for-nothing,
    tired of his harsh life on the border,
[13:08] ---
    abandoned his wife and
    daughter and returned to Yong An.
[13:17] ---
    The poor Half-Moon woman died of grief,
[13:21] ---
    leaving her six-year-old
    daughter to fend for herself.
[13:27] ---
    She became the demon Daoist.
[13:31] ---
    In Half-Moon culture, we pride
    ourselves on our physical strength,
[13:35] ---
    but because of her mixed heritage
    the girl was scrawny and bullied.
[13:38] ---
    She became more
    and more strange as a result.
[13:44] ---
    Later, during a deadly uprising
    at the border, the girl disappeared.
[13:48] ---
    No one knew where she had gone.
[13:52] ---
    When she returned, she possessed
    the evil magic of Yong An.
[13:58] ---
    She even managed to land a position
    at the Half-Moon imperial palace.
[14:01] ---
    Your Majesty, this sorceress is evil!
    We can't appoint her!
[14:06] ---
    Evil? Why do you say so?
[14:09] ---
    The scorpion-tailed snakes
    she controls are terrible.
[14:12] ---
    If, one day, she decides
    to use them against us,
[14:14] ---
    we won't have time to get
    our hands on the antidote!
[14:15] ---
    You're right, she is evil.
[14:19] ---
    Exactly!
[14:20] ---
    Not to mention that she is half Yong-An!
    Their filthy blood runs in her veins!
[14:25] ---
    She is a demon sent by the scorpion-tailed
    snake to wreak havoc in Half-Moon Kingdom!
[14:30] ---
    Sorceress, what do you
    have to say for yourself?
[14:34] ---
    Your Majesty, her silence
    says it all! Let's hang her!
[14:37] ---
    Yes, hang her!
[14:40] ---
    Silence!
[14:42] ---
    Millstone, what do you think?
[14:46] ---
    I felt sorry for her and
    begged the king for mercy.
[14:52] ---
    Come with me.
[15:11] ---
    Good job, boys!
[15:13] ---
    We've finally rid ourselves
    of these desert bandits!
[15:15] ---
    When I go back to report on your
    performance, you'll get your fair share!
[15:19] ---
    Great!
[15:21] ---
    What's happening?
[15:22] ---
    What's going on?
[15:23] ---
    General!
[15:24] ---
    Bad news!
[15:26] ---
    What's gotten into you?
[15:28] ---
    General!
[15:29] ---
    A storm's upon us! Our sandy hideout has
    no support beams--it's going to collapse!
[15:34] ---
    What?
[15:41] ---
    How could this happen?
    What is this?
[15:43] ---
    --Out! Follow me! Let's go, hurry!
    --Go, go! Get a move on!
[16:00] ---
    In that situation, men who got buried
    had little chance of survival.
[16:05] ---
    I had no choice but to lead out
    those who were still alive.
[16:16] ---
    Let's go.
[16:17] ---
    Let's take our brothers' bodies home.
    Every single one of them!
[16:21] ---
    Yes, sir!
[16:23] ---
    General, look! Over there!
[16:49] ---
    --General?
    --The General is here!
[16:51] ---
    Everyone, wake up!
[16:52] ---
    We are saved!
[16:53] ---
    The General is here to rescue us!
[16:55] ---
    She dug out a cave for the
    wounded soldiers to hide in.
[17:00] ---
    Then she dug out the
    bodies of the dead,
[17:03] ---
    all with her own bare hands.
[17:08] ---
    At this point, I felt she had proven her
    loyalty to Half-Moon Kingdom.
[17:12] ---
    I vouched for her, ignoring
    all those who disagreed.
[17:16] ---
    She was so reliable, capable, discreet--
    so I kept recommending her
[17:22] ---
    until she was promoted all the way
    to the position of Grand Preceptor.
[17:41] ---
    The Grand Preceptor! Where is she?!
[17:44] ---
    General, as soon as the battle began,
    she just vanished into thin air!
[17:48] ---
    Wh-What's she playing at?
[17:51] ---
    General!
[17:52] ---
    General, the Grand Preceptor
    has flung open the city gates!
[17:55] ---
    What?!
[18:25] ---
    Why on earth...?
[18:26] ---
    How could she do that to me after
    I placed so much trust in her?
[18:31] ---
    The demon Daoist is a traitor.
[18:33] ---
    She deserves to be
    hanged over the Sinners' Pit!
[18:38] ---
    General Millstone, try to stay calm!
[18:40] ---
    Shhh!

E10 - Bygone Banyue Days

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[00:19] ---
    General Millstone, try to stay calm!
[00:21] ---
    Is that the Grand Preceptor
    hanging over the Sinners' Pit?
[00:24] ---
    That's right!
[00:25] ---
    I made sure to drag that
    traitor to the grave with me!
[00:28] ---
    Whenever I get
    my hands on her, I hang her!
[00:32] ---
    So for all these years, every time
    you caught the Grand Preceptor,
[00:36] ---
    you would hang her over the Sinners' Pit?
[00:39] ---
    Yes, and hanging was too good for her!
[00:42] ---
    After she died, that witch hunted
    down my Wrath soldiers
[00:45] ---
    and threw them into the pit!
[00:47] ---
    She set up a magical formation around it
[00:49] ---
    to ensure that none who fell
    in could ever climb out again.
[00:51] ---
    I had to listen to their
    howling night after night.
[00:57] ---
    All I could do was toss down a few Central
    Plains merchants from time to time,
[01:03] ---
    so they could feed.
[01:05] ---
    I had no other choice.
[01:10] ---
    What about that half-buried face
    in the royal palace?
[01:11] ---
    Was that your handiwork?
[01:13] ---
    We had to fertilize the
    Good-Moon herb somehow.
[01:15] ---
    Otherwise, we'd have no way
    to deal with those vile snakes.
[01:19] ---
    It seems that even though Millstone
    and his soldiers were no longer human,
[01:22] ---
    they still feared the
    scorpion-tailed snakes.
[01:25] ---
    So why didn't the Grand Preceptor
    wield her snakes against them
[01:28] ---
    instead of letting herself
    be hanged so easily?
[01:32] ---
    Besides, it's rather strange that she let
    her snakes out of the city to attack humans.
[01:35] ---
    It's almost as if she wanted
    to lure people back into the city,
[01:37] ---
    so that Millstone could
    feed them to his soldiers.
[01:39] ---
    But if they're enemies,
    why would she help him?
[01:42] ---
    And there's another thing
    that's troubling me...
[01:48] ---
    General Millstone,
    when we entered the city just now,
[01:50] ---
    we saw two figures,
    one in black and one in white--
[04:28] ---
    What happened, Millstone?
[04:31] ---
    "What happened"?!
[04:33] ---
    You pushed them all off!
[04:35] ---
    You demon Daoist!
    You killed them!
[04:39] ---
    I should hang you a thousand times over!
    Ten thousand times!
[04:43] ---
    Demon Daoist?
[04:46] ---
    So she's the Half-Moon Grand Preceptor?
[04:49] ---
    Wait. Who are these people?
[05:32] ---
    All right.
[05:34] ---
    "All right"?! Are you happy now?
[05:38] ---
    They're all dead, finally!
[05:41] ---
    Millstone, it's all over at last.
    We're finally free.
[05:49] ---
    Was it you who killed those soldiers?
[05:52] ---
    That was an accident.
[05:55] ---
    Nonsense!
[06:00] ---
    Who are you?
[06:01] ---
    I'm a heavenly official. And this is...
[06:05] ---
    This is a friend of mine.
[06:13] ---
    No heavenly officials
    have ever come here before.
[06:16] ---
    I thought you'd given up on us.
[06:21] ---
    Do you want to leave?
[06:23] ---
    Of course we do.
[06:25] ---
    But there's a magical formation here.
    We can't get out.
[06:38] ---
    It's gone now. You're free to go.
[06:41] ---
    So she was the one who put it there.
[06:43] ---
    Then who were those
    black- and white-robed figures?
[06:49] ---
    Hello?
[06:57] ---
    If no one's down there, I'm leaving!
[06:58] ---
    Fu Yao! Down here!
[07:01] ---
    What else is down there?
[07:03] ---
    Come see for yourself!
[07:07] ---
    He really is down there?
[07:24] ---
    They're all dead!
[07:28] ---
    These piled-up bodies... Are they all...?
[07:40] ---
    San Lang...
[07:53] ---
    Weren't you supposed
    to look after the caravan?
[07:55] ---
    You've been gone for six hours.
[07:57] ---
    So I drew a protection circle
    around them and came to find you.
[08:02] ---
    They must have thought
    you'd abandoned them.
[08:05] ---
    If they want to risk their lives,
    there's not much I can do about it.
[08:17] ---
    Who are these people?
[08:18] ---
    This is the Half-Moon Grand Preceptor,
    and that is General Millstone.
[08:23] ---
    --Now they--
    --Yah!
[08:25] ---
    You demon! I'll kill you!
[08:27] ---
    You'll pay for this in blood!
[08:36] ---
    You despicable traitor!
[08:39] ---
    Where's your scorpion-tailed snake now?
[08:42] ---
    Go on, bite me!
[08:45] ---
    Millstone, I can't control
    the snakes anymore--
[08:48] ---
    Nonsense! Then why don't they bite you?
[08:50] ---
    I'm sorry.
[08:54] ---
    I'm... I'm sorry.
[08:57] ---
    You're sorry?
[09:04] ---
    Will your apologies bring
    my men back to life?
[09:09] ---
    But I--
[09:10] ---
    Traitor!
[09:19] ---
    I'll hang you every time I catch you!
[09:27] ---
    General, take it easy!
    Let's talk this out.
[09:44] ---
    It's you!
[09:45] ---
    G-General Hua?
[09:51] ---
    Let him cool off for a bit.
[09:59] ---
    Do you two know each other?
[10:04] ---
    Half-Moon?
[10:07] ---
    You still remember me, General?
[10:10] ---
    Of course I do. But...
[10:13] ---
    ...what happened to you?
[10:17] ---
    I'm terribly sorry, Captain.
    I... I made a mess of things.
[10:26] ---
    General? Captain?
    What's he on about?
[10:32] ---
    Hold on. Are you that
    general from the tombstone?
[10:37] ---
    Yes, that was my tomb.
[10:40] ---
    What exactly is going on here?
[10:43] ---
    Well... It's a long story.
[10:48] ---
    Two hundred years ago, I had to lie low
    for a while, for one reason or another.
[10:54] ---
    So I took my compass and headed south.
[10:56] ---
    But my compass broke, and I ended up
    wandering until I reached a desert.
[11:00] ---
    There, I ran into an army
    that was conscripting troops.
[11:04] ---
    So you were drafted into the army?
[11:07] ---
    Later, I took part in a few
    missions to drive off bandits.
[11:10] ---
    Somehow or other,
    I was promoted to captain.
[11:14] ---
    Some of my men called me
    General, out of deference.
[11:18] ---
    But why "General Hua"?
    That's not your surname.
[11:23] ---
    Back then, I went by an alias-- "Hua Xie."
[11:29] ---
    The frequent border skirmishes
    made orphans of many children.
[11:33] ---
    Half-Moon here was one of them.
[11:36] ---
    One day, when I was cooking a meal...
[11:46] ---
    Ugh! What the hell is that?
[11:50] ---
    I was just cooking up something to eat.
    Don't be angry at the food.
[11:53] ---
    Look at that garbage!
    Who in their right mind would eat that?
[12:01] ---
    Wait a minute, kid! Don't--
[12:08] ---
    Little girl, you really shouldn't
    eat things you find on the ground.
[12:13] ---
    Where are your parents?
[12:18] ---
    Hey! What are you doing?
[12:32] ---
    You can have this.
[12:38] ---
    After that, the child would
    follow me around quietly.
[13:12] ---
    I got to know her after a while.
[13:16] ---
    I had no idea where she came from.
[13:18] ---
    She knew how to speak the language,
    but she rarely talked.
[13:22] ---
    She had no friends,
    other than one Yong An boy.
[13:28] ---
    In my spare time,
    I taught her to sing and wrestle.
[13:30] ---
    We got along pretty well.
[13:33] ---
    But all good things must come to an end.
[13:38] ---
    One day, a riot broke out,
    and I got caught up in the crowd.
[13:44] ---
    I was trampled in the
    stampede and couldn't get up.
[13:47] ---
    I had to play dead.
[13:52] ---
    The rest is a bit of a blur.
[13:54] ---
    When I awoke, I found myself
    back in Yong An Kingdom.
[13:56] ---
    Afterwards, I lost track of Half-Moon.
[14:00] ---
    I thought the "Half-Moon"
    in "Half-Moon Grand Preceptor"
[14:01] ---
    referred to the name of the kingdom.
[14:03] ---
    I didn't realize it was you.
[14:06] ---
    I'm sorry.
[14:08] ---
    General Hua, you were only trampled
    because you were trying to protect me.
[14:13] ---
    It wasn't that bad, really!
[14:15] ---
    How could you have been trampled?
[14:18] ---
    Even on your worst day,
    you should have been able to get away.
[14:21] ---
    Well, I seem to recall that the two sides
    wouldn't listen to me and began fighting.
[14:25] ---
    I saw that Half-Moon had
    been swept up by the crowd,
[14:28] ---
    so I tried to carry her to safety.
    But before I could--
[14:31] ---
    You seem to recall?
[14:33] ---
    How could you forget something like that?
[14:35] ---
    Everyone's memory has limits.
[14:36] ---
    I'd rather remember the delicious
    pork buns I had yesterday
[14:39] ---
    than how I got trampled 200 years ago.
[14:46] ---
    I'm sorry.
[14:47] ---
    Half-Moon, it was my choice to save you.
[14:50] ---
    It's not me you should be apologizing to.
[14:57] ---
    Let's get back to the point.
[14:58] ---
    So, why did you open the gates
    and let the enemy massacre your city?
[15:05] ---
    Who were you working with?
[15:07] ---
    What else were you scheming?
[15:13] ---
    You--
[15:15] ---
    Has she lost her voice?
[15:19] ---
    The Half-Moon I remember would never have
    sought revenge on or betrayed anyone.
[15:24] ---
    So what happened?
    Why did you open the gates?
[15:27] ---
    Can you tell us?
[15:30] ---
    Hmph!
[15:32] ---
    If you don't want to talk about that,
[15:34] ---
    can you at least explain why you
    sent your snakes to attack people?
[15:39] ---
    She's a Wrath. What is there to explain?
[15:42] ---
    I didn't send the snakes.
[15:43] ---
    They disobeyed me and escaped.
[15:46] ---
    What?
[15:47] ---
    It's the truth, General Hua.
[15:49] ---
    That's what they all say!
[15:51] ---
    All those people who took the pass
    were bitten by your snakes.
[15:55] ---
    Enough talk. Stick out your hands.
[16:07] ---
    We've accomplished our task. Let's go.
[16:10] ---
    Wait a moment, Fu Yao.
[16:12] ---
    Are you really going to
    listen to her nonsense?
[16:15] ---
    She has no reason to lie.
[16:24] ---
    You can't summon
    the snakes at all anymore?
[16:27] ---
    I can summon them,
    but they don't always obey me.
[16:33] ---
    Then summon them.
[16:49] ---
    No!
[17:03] ---
    You see? She was lying.
[17:05] ---
    Did you really think the snake
    could touch him? How foolish.
[17:08] ---
    It wasn't me! That snake
    wasn't acting on my orders!
[17:11] ---
    There's no way for us to know whether
    it was obeying or disobeying you!
[17:15] ---
    I didn't even summon that one!
[17:28] ---
    You still say it isn't you?
[17:29] ---
    It's not me!
[17:30] ---
    Who else could it be?
    Tell them to back off!
[17:46] ---
    Wait a minute!
[17:47] ---
    Don't tell me you believe her!
[17:49] ---
    Those snakes...
[18:03] ---
    Come on now! Can there be any doubt?
[18:06] ---
    Let's get out of here first!
    We'll talk about this later.
[18:09] ---
    Why are you coming back down?
[18:10] ---
    The formation's gone now.
    Get back up there!
[18:15] ---
    The hell is this?
[18:23] ---
    It was you all along!

E11 - Right and Wrong, Buried in the Sand

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[00:31] ---
    What's this?!
[00:35] ---
    Fu Yao! Use fire to block it!
[00:48] ---
    Thank you.
[00:54] ---
    You still claim these snakes
    don't obey you anymore, huh?
[00:57] ---
    If you're not the one controlling them,
    then why didn't they attack you?
[01:01] ---
    Maybe you were just unlucky?
    They didn't attack us, either.
[01:06] ---
    Is that so?
[01:09] ---
    Fu Yao, don't get angry.
[01:11] ---
    First, we need to figure out
    what's happening with these snakes.
[01:15] ---
    "What's happening with the snakes"?
[01:17] ---
    Either the Grand Preceptor lied to us,
    or this friend of yours set us up!
[01:21] ---
    I think they have nothing to do with it.
[01:24] ---
    Your Highness, don't pretend
    you don't understand!
[01:28] ---
    Do you remember who you actually are?
[01:30] ---
    This thing by your side--
    I think you know full well what it is!
[01:38] ---
    I know who I am better than anyone.
[01:42] ---
    Then how dare you stand by him?
[01:45] ---
    Because there aren't
    any snakes next to him.
[01:51] ---
    You!
[02:03] ---
    Don't move.
    They don't dare come this way.
[02:09] ---
    San Lang...
[02:10] ---
    Don't worry, he'll survive.
[02:17] ---
    Fu Yao, can you light more fires?
    Why don't you light some more?
[02:23] ---
    I can't!
[02:24] ---
    That thing by your side
    is blocking my magic!
[02:28] ---
    It's not me.
[02:29] ---
    I know, and that makes
    things even stranger.
[02:32] ---
    Half-Moon and Millstone are bound
    and can't cast any spells,
[02:35] ---
    and I'm out of magic, too...
[02:39] ---
    What if... there's someone else
    here in the pit with us?
[02:42] ---
    Impossible!
[02:44] ---
    No one else has jumped in.
    Who else could be here?
[02:46] ---
    Who's there?!
[02:47] ---
    What's wrong, Half-Moon?
[02:50] ---
    Is someone over there with you?
[02:51] ---
    There was someone...
[02:53] ---
    Half-Moon?!
[02:54] ---
    Watch out for her tricks!
[02:56] ---
    Let's try to save her first!
[03:00] ---
    All right!
[03:15] ---
    Huh?
[03:16] ---
    There does seem to be
    a sixth person. Interesting.
[03:19] ---
    Wait, Lian. I'll deal with him.
[03:36] ---
    Don't worry, stay calm.
[03:39] ---
    Half-Moon, are you awake?
    Can you answer me?
[03:45] ---
    Maybe she's the one you're fighting!
[03:47] ---
    It can't be Half-Moon.
[03:49] ---
    She is a small woman.
[03:51] ---
    Brute force and weapons are not her style.
[03:56] ---
    But that was quite a blow just now.
    Who on earth are we dealing with?
[04:01] ---
    When did they come here?
[04:02] ---
    Traitors like her and
    Xuan Ji are all the same.
[04:04] ---
    Why do you believe her?
[04:08] ---
    Fu Yao, what did you just say?
[04:10] ---
    I said, why do you believe her?
[04:13] ---
    No, before that!
[04:14] ---
    You mentioned Xuan Ji, right?
[04:17] ---
    So what? It's unrelated!
[04:21] ---
    I know what happened!
[04:23] ---
    What?
[04:24] ---
    Drop the act! I know who you are.
[04:34] ---
    General Pei the Younger,
    do you think I'm joking?
[04:38] ---
    Are you mad? What does
    General Pei have to do with this?
[04:44] ---
    I should have seen it earlier.
[04:46] ---
    For the past two centuries,
[04:49] ---
    heaven has studiously ignored
    the unrest in Half-Moon Kingdom.
[04:51] ---
    I'm sure someone has been
    trying to sweep it under the rug.
[04:55] ---
    Fu Yao, you brought up Xuan Ji.
    This isn't related to Half-Moon Kingdom--
[04:59] ---
    but she reminded me of the Generals.
[05:03] ---
    As for General Pei the Younger...
[05:04] ---
    Pei the Younger ascended
    only a few hundred years ago.
[05:06] ---
    He had just turned 20
    when he was promoted by General Pei.
[05:10] ---
    He is quite a nuisance,
    just like his forefather.
[05:13] ---
    Do you know what he was
    doing before he ascended?
[05:16] ---
    Massacring entire cities.
[05:18] ---
    Which cities did he wipe out?
[05:22] ---
    Do you mean...?
[05:24] ---
    Rumor has it that the Grand Preceptor
    would sic her snakes on people
[05:26] ---
    and feed them, live,
    to the ghost soldiers.
[05:29] ---
    But Half-Moon said...
[05:30] ---
    I didn't send the snakes.
    They disobeyed me and escaped.
[05:35] ---
    General Hua, that's the truth!
[05:37] ---
    Millstone is terrified of snakes,
    so it couldn't have been him.
[05:41] ---
    Who could have sent them? And why?
[05:46] ---
    Ever since Half-Moon Kingdom fell,
    plunging the population into misery,
[05:49] ---
    the spirits of the deceased have
    been harboring resentment.
[05:51] ---
    And so, to cover up the truth...
    General Pei fed people to the ghosts?!
[05:55] ---
    Impossible!
[05:56] ---
    Everyone would have seen
    a god like him coming down here!
[06:02] ---
    What if it wasn't really him?
[06:04] ---
    Huh?
[06:05] ---
    For years, I had never seen a single
    scorpion-tailed snake in the Kingdom.
[06:08] ---
    Yet these merchants were
    attacked by a swarm of snakes
[06:13] ---
    in the first cave they found.
    What are the odds?
[06:18] ---
    We only found Half-Moon
    Kingdom thanks to a guide.
[06:21] ---
    How did the merchants get here so fast?
[06:25] ---
    When the Half-Buried Face said he
    had met one of us fifty or so years ago,
[06:30] ---
    I thought he was lying just to
    lure us into coming close to him.
[06:32] ---
    On second thought,
    what if he was telling the truth?
[06:39] ---
    A local guide took us.
    He helped us go around the quicksand.
[06:43] ---
    As soon as the wind picked up,
    he took us and told us to hide here.
[06:46] ---
    Isn't that right, Zhao?
[06:49] ---
    It's easy to get to the Half-Moon Kingdom,
    we just need to walk in this direction.
[06:56] ---
    I've seen one of you before...
    Fifty or so years ago.
[07:02] ---
    Just now, at the top of the Sinners' Pit,
[07:04] ---
    I told you I would act if
    something came to pass.
[07:06] ---
    But you insisted on leaping in recklessly.
[07:10] ---
    General Pei the Younger,
[07:12] ---
    would you like to say anything in
    defense of this suspicious behavior?
[07:16] ---
    Or should I call you Zhao?
[07:23] ---
    My magic's back!
[07:32] ---
    Your Highness, did it ever occur to you
    that the Half-Buried Face may have been
[07:37] ---
    referring to this young man
    in red next to you?
[09:55] ---
    Who are you?
[09:56] ---
    Hadn't you plunged to your death?
[09:58] ---
    You haven't changed one bit
    after all these years.
[10:01] ---
    So it was you! Pei Xiu!
[10:09] ---
    Get this off me!
    He will pay for this!
[10:11] ---
    General Pei, how did you learn to
    control the scorpion-tailed snakes?
[10:16] ---
    I... I have my ways.
[10:19] ---
    Then how did you meet Half-Moon?
[10:23] ---
    General Hua,
    you still haven't recognized me.
[10:40] ---
    It was you?!
[10:41] ---
    It was me.
[10:46] ---
    Half-Moon, were you refusing
    to talk because of him?
[10:51] ---
    Did he force you to open the gate?
[10:54] ---
    She answers to me, so I don't
    need to force her to do anything.
[10:58] ---
    What is this about?
[11:01] ---
    What else could this be about?!
[11:03] ---
    You have no shame!
[11:04] ---
    He was using Half-Moon,
    collaborating with an insider!
[11:07] ---
    They massacred my people
    and laid waste to my country!
[11:11] ---
    Is that true, General Pei?
[11:16] ---
    What an unusual way for
    the heavenly officials to act.
[11:20] ---
    You live and learn.
[11:22] ---
    No!
[11:29] ---
    You don't understand!
    It was my own choice.
[11:33] ---
    Everything is my fault.
[11:40] ---
    What happened? Be straight with us!
[11:48] ---
    Actually, I-I...
[11:53] ---
    You mixed-blood! Get out of here!
[11:56] ---
    Out!
[12:17] ---
    Are you all right? Were the
    Half-Moon kids bullying you again?
[12:29] ---
    Unbelievable!
[12:31] ---
    One day, I will run them
    out of the kingdom!
[12:35] ---
    But I am Half-Moon myself.
[12:39] ---
    If they bully you again, fight back.
[12:43] ---
    But General Hua said...
[12:45] ---
    General Hua?
[12:49] ---
    General Hua!
[12:59] ---
    General Hua!
[13:05] ---
    General Hua!
[13:30] ---
    General Millstone not only let
    the mixed blood into the palace--
[13:34] ---
    he also recommended her for
    the position of Grand Preceptor!
[13:36] ---
    How could he do such a thing?
[13:38] ---
    Shhh! The war is about to start.
[13:41] ---
    We should talk less
    and rally our morale instead!
[13:43] ---
    My Half-Moon brothers,
    victory will be ours!
[13:47] ---
    Let us destroy the Central Plains
    and raze Yong An to the ground!
[13:50] ---
    Yeah! Destroy the Central Plains;
    raze Yong An to the ground!
[13:54] ---
    General Millstone.
[13:57] ---
    Do we have to fight?
[13:58] ---
    Don't worry, Half-Moon Kingdom
    has the most valiant soldiers.
[14:02] ---
    You will see them return triumphant!
[14:07] ---
    --Return triumphant! Victory is ours!
    --Return triumphant! Victory is ours!
[14:20] ---
    The war will be over soon,
[14:22] ---
    putting an end to the
    suffering on both sides.
[14:27] ---
    I think this is what General Hua
    would have wanted.
[14:40] ---
    Those scoundrels from the Central Plains!
[14:49] ---
    If our city falls tomorrow, we will
    scatter and converge on Yong An!
[14:53] ---
    We shall perish together!
[15:00] ---
    What are we going to do?
[15:02] ---
    There's a way... but whether
    we use it or not is up to you.
[15:11] ---
    The city gates are open!
    Go in, kill them! Slaughter them all!
[15:15] ---
    Kill them!
[15:23] ---
    I'm sorry, I'm sorry...
[15:28] ---
    I'm sorry!
[15:30] ---
    Half-Moon!
[15:33] ---
    It's all right, she's just worn out.
[15:39] ---
    Let me go!
    I'll fight and kill this villain!
[15:43] ---
    First, you already died after
    our battle 200 years ago.
[15:47] ---
    Second, why do you call me a villain?
[15:51] ---
    If you hadn't ganged up with Half-Moon,
    we would never have lost!
[15:57] ---
    Though I only had 2,000 men, I was going
    to break through the gate sooner or later.
[16:03] ---
    I didn't plan to massacre
    the city residents,
[16:05] ---
    but you brought it upon yourselves.
[16:07] ---
    If you people from the Central Plains
    hadn't surrounded us from all sides,
[16:09] ---
    why would we have resorted
    to taking you down with us?
[16:14] ---
    Fine, then let's start from the beginning.
[16:16] ---
    How often had the Half-Moon people
    caused trouble at the border,
[16:19] ---
    robbing caravans, massacring
    civilians, and sheltering bandits?
[16:22] ---
    It serves you right!
[16:23] ---
    You occupied our territory,
    so we had to fight back!
[16:26] ---
    Our countries have always
    been mired in border disputes,
[16:28] ---
    so how can you just claim
    the land as your own?
[16:30] ---
    We had already agreed on the boundaries,
    it was you who broke your promise!
[16:32] ---
    You decided on them unilaterally.
[16:34] ---
    Deserts for us, oases for you.
    That's how you split things, huh?
[16:38] ---
    Generations of Half-Moon people
    had lived peacefully on the oases.
[16:41] ---
    Of course they belonged to us!
[16:45] ---
    See, arguing about this is pointless.
[16:47] ---
    We just have to fight it out.
[16:51] ---
    I agree with the first part.
[16:53] ---
    And I agree with the second.
[16:55] ---
    Pei Xiu, stop this farce.
[16:57] ---
    You didn't massacre us
    for the sake of your people!
[17:03] ---
    Your forefathers had been exiled,
    so you needed to win this battle in order
[17:07] ---
    to get a foothold in Yong An
    and climb your way up to the top.
[17:10] ---
    Exiled?
[17:12] ---
    I thought he was descended
    from General Pei.
[17:13] ---
    He's not a direct descendant--
    he comes from one of the side branches.
[17:18] ---
    If he hadn't ascended to heaven,
[17:20] ---
    he wouldn't have enjoyed
    the same privileges as his ancestor.
[17:23] ---
    Who would have thought that someone
    like you could take advantage of Half-Moon
[17:26] ---
    and lead her to betray us!
[17:28] ---
    She worked for me. Half-Moon
    had infiltrated Half-Moon Kingdom.
[17:32] ---
    There is some Yong An blood in her,
[17:34] ---
    so of course she would
    be loyal to Yong An.
[17:36] ---
    You malicious Half-Moon people,
    I have no regrets about killing you all!
[17:41] ---
    No regrets, huh!
[17:43] ---
    What about all these innocent
    people languishing in this pit,
[17:48] ---
    you don't regret killing them, either?
[17:52] ---
    Who's there?
[17:56] ---
    Watch out!
[18:26] ---
    Nan Feng?
[18:30] ---
    What happened?
[18:31] ---
    Where are Tian Sheng and the others?
[18:36] ---
    What happened to you?
[18:38] ---
    Looks like he wasn't skilled enough
    and took a beating from those two women.
[18:42] ---
    Your Highness.
[18:51] ---
    Hello, Master.
[18:55] ---
    Wind Master.
[18:57] ---
    She's the Wind Master?
[18:59] ---
    Nan Feng, why didn't you say anything?
[19:00] ---
    How was I supposed to know
    she was the Wind Master?
[19:02] ---
    Before, she was
    obviously... Never mind.
[19:08] ---
    Pei, are you the one who's
[19:11] ---
    been luring people into Half-Moon
    Pass for the last two centuries?
[19:14] ---
    I am.
[19:15] ---
    The restless souls are
    evidence of your bloody deeds.
[19:19] ---
    You didn't want them to get
    in the way of your promotion,
[19:22] ---
    so you fed them people to appease them.
[19:26] ---
    This is no trivial matter...
[19:32] ---
    Why didn't he just get rid of the spirits?
[19:36] ---
    He couldn't.
[19:37] ---
    Many eyes in heaven are watching.
[19:39] ---
    That is why this can't
    be done in the open.
[19:42] ---
    He had to send Zhao,
    his clone, instead of himself.
[19:45] ---
    You lured people into the city,
    let the snakes bite them,
[19:48] ---
    and fed them to the angry spirits.
[19:50] ---
    Killing people--
    that's really crossing a line.
[19:55] ---
    I know.
[19:56] ---
    Good. Think about it some more,
    and we can talk about it after we go back.
[20:02] ---
    Your Highness, I'm terribly sorry.
[20:05] ---
    The sandstorm in which you found
    yourselves--I was the one who started it.
[20:07] ---
    What?
[20:15] ---
    So it was you?
[20:17] ---
    I wanted you to stay away
    from Half-Moon Kingdom.
[20:19] ---
    But you found it anyway.
[20:22] ---
    Your Highness, please don't ask
    about this affair again.
[20:28] ---
    The heavenly officials
    have quite a social circle.
[20:30] ---
    If Wind Master takes
    Half-Moon up with her,
[20:32] ---
    it would take just one word for someone
    to blame her for Pei Xiu's crime.
[20:41] ---
    I have been handling this situation.
    How could I let it go now?
[20:45] ---
    Your Highness, don't worry.
    We know all about the case up there.
[20:51] ---
    Though the Grand Preceptor is
    a Wrath, she hasn't hurt anyone.
[20:53] ---
    She locked in the Half-Moon soldiers
    with her magic formation
[20:58] ---
    and set the merchants free.
[21:01] ---
    Half-Moon set Tian Sheng
    and the others free?
[21:04] ---
    We will only take Millstone and
    General Pei the Younger with us.
[21:08] ---
    Sorry for being so suspicious.
[21:12] ---
    I don't blame you.
    Heaven's way of doing things isn't ideal.
[21:15] ---
    Are you done? Can we go now?
[21:19] ---
    What's the rush?
    I'm going to take my time.
[21:23] ---
    Your Highness, if that is all, I will go.
    We will see each other up in heaven.
[21:30] ---
    See you there.
[21:34] ---
    Let's go.
[21:56] ---
    We have been exiled.
    We've lost everything.
[21:58] ---
    I have a young child, please let us go!
[22:07] ---
    Why don't you fight back?
    The Half-Moon people have gone too far!
[22:18] ---
    The Half-Moon people have attacked
    our border, harassed our people!
[22:22] ---
    Kill the Half-Moon wretches;
    restore peace on the border!
[22:27] ---
    That's right!
[22:29] ---
    Now I will assign you to a position.
    You, squadron on the left!
[22:33] ---
    You, squadron on the right!
    As for you...
[22:36] ---
    Officer, why wasn't I assigned a position?
[22:39] ---
    The military also considers
    your family background.
[22:42] ---
    You'll need to work twice as hard
    if you want to catch up to your peers.
[22:53] ---
    What a beautiful victory!
[22:55] ---
    Pei killed the most enemy soldiers.
    A promotion surely awaits him!
[22:58] ---
    Pei, we will follow you
    and slaughter them all!
[23:01] ---
    Your career is about to take off.
[23:02] ---
    But I heard it wasn't Pei...
[23:04] ---
    What?!
[23:10] ---
    Starting today,
    I will serve as your Deputy Lieutenant.
[23:15] ---
    That's no surprise.
[23:17] ---
    His father is an imperial official.
    Surely, he will work his way up.
[23:20] ---
    You, however, are doomed
    by your family background,
[23:25] ---
    unless you are lucky and
    score a major military victory.
[23:45] ---
    Things turned out exactly
    as Pei had planned.
[23:46] ---
    The Half-Moon soldiers
    walked right into our trap!
[23:47] ---
    We won again!
[23:49] ---
    If we continue to win,
[23:50] ---
    Pei will certainly edge out the guy
    who got in through connections.
[23:52] ---
    True! It was all thanks to Pei!
[23:53] ---
    Yes, yes!
[23:57] ---
    Pei Xiu, did I really do the right thing?
[24:01] ---
    If we continue on like this,
    the war will be over soon,
[24:04] ---
    putting an end to the suffering
    of people on both sides.
[24:09] ---
    I think this is General Hua's
    wish as well.
[24:13] ---
    Deputy Lieutenant, everything is ready.
[24:14] ---
    The day after tomorrow,
    we fight the last battle.
[24:16] ---
    We'll conquer Half-Moon Kingdom
    and finally set things right.
[24:19] ---
    Excellent. If you secure victory,
    you will be generously rewarded.
[24:24] ---
    You are too generous, Deputy Lieutenant.
[24:25] ---
    We must win, and we can't make mistakes.
[24:29] ---
    Since you are the one
    leading your troops into battle,
[24:32] ---
    you will be punished under
    military law if you lose.
[24:37] ---
    Also, since you're so talented,
    I think 2,000 men should suffice.
[24:46] ---
    What are we going to do?
    If their city is taken,
[24:49] ---
    the Half-Moon people will use explosives
    to destroy Yong An out of revenge.
[24:52] ---
    Countless people will die.
[24:59] ---
    The city gates are open!
    Go in, kill them! Slaughter them all!
[25:02] ---
    Kill them!
[25:09] ---
    Found her!
[25:10] ---
    The Grand Preceptor is here!
    Let's kill her first!
[25:13] ---
    Traitor! Kill the traitor!
[26:13] ---
    What's this?
[26:17] ---
    You've done enough. Now we just
    need to report this to the emperor.
[26:22] ---
    You don't need to worry about this part.
[26:25] ---
    Is this because of General Pei?
[26:27] ---
    Yes, you have made an enemy of him.
[26:31] ---
    I knew this would happen with the Peis.
    I was bound to offend one of them.
[26:39] ---
    General Pei values Pei Xiu
[26:41] ---
    and wants him to replace the
    martial god of the West, Yi Zhen.
[26:44] ---
    I wonder if Pei Xiu
    will be demoted upon his return.
[26:48] ---
    If he's demoted, you'll be in trouble.
[26:51] ---
    Don't worry, Pei Ming is a proud man.
    He wouldn't do such a thing.
[26:57] ---
    Right--where is Fu Yao?
    It's been a while since I've seen him.
[27:00] ---
    Don't worry, Lian. He must be embarrassed
    about being wrong, so he went back.
[27:04] ---
    Huh? What happened while I was gone?
[27:08] ---
    It's a long story. I'll tell you later.
[27:12] ---
    Let's take Half-Moon up with us
    and then return to save the others.
[27:21] ---
    Half-Moon? Half-Moon?
[27:24] ---
    Brother, I seem to recall that you could
    use your magic to collect things.
[27:32] ---
    Thanks, San Lang!
[27:35] ---
    Collect!
[28:12] ---
    He's awake, finally!
[28:13] ---
    Yes.
[28:19] ---
    --We can set off now.
    --Yes.
[28:21] ---
    --That's great.
    --Are you ready?
[28:23] ---
    Yes, here you go.
[28:27] ---
    Master, I have a question.
[28:32] ---
    You're a god, right?
[28:34] ---
    I saw you using magic!
[28:38] ---
    Don't worry. I won't tell anyone.
[28:41] ---
    If it hadn't been for you,
    I would have ended up in the pit.
[28:45] ---
    When I go back, I'll erect a big
    temple and dedicate it to you!
[28:51] ---
    Thank you.
[28:54] ---
    Of course! See you later!
[29:04] ---
    Goodbye!
[29:05] ---
    Right, Wind Master
    asked me to stay out of things.
[29:08] ---
    Does this mean she's
    in charge of reporting it?
[29:11] ---
    What if she's next to
    make an enemy of General Pei?
[29:14] ---
    Don't worry about her. General Pei
    dares mess with you but not with her.
[29:19] ---
    She's younger than you,
    but she's a lot more savvy.
[29:23] ---
    Of course she is. She has connections.
[29:27] ---
    You mean the woman
    in black by her side?
[29:30] ---
    No, but she is famous, too.
[29:34] ---
    She must be one of the five masters
    of wind, water, rain, earth, and thunder.
[29:38] ---
    Try not to offend her.
[29:40] ---
    I agree. Thank you, everyone.
[29:44] ---
    Nan Feng, will you stay for dinner?
[29:46] ---
    I'll cook something up
    as a token of my gratitude.
[29:49] ---
    Huh? What? Did you say it's urgent?
[29:52] ---
    Your Highness, something has
    come up in my palace, and I must go.
[30:00] ---
    All right, since he's not coming,
    let's go. What would you like eat,
[30:05] ---
    Hua Cheng?
[30:18] ---
    I still prefer the name "San Lang."

E12 - Special Episode

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[02:29] ---
    Blood Rain Flower-Seeker?
[02:31] ---
    Your Highness.
[02:34] ---
    That's the first time
    you've called me that.
[02:38] ---
    How does it feel?
[02:41] ---
    It feels... different than
    when other people say it.
[02:49] ---
    Different how?
[02:51] ---
    It feels... special.
[02:56] ---
    But enough about me.
[02:57] ---
    So you were the bridegroom
    who guided me on Mt. Yujun.
[03:04] ---
    Er... that is to say, you were
    disguised as a bridegroom.
[03:14] ---
    I wasn't in disguise.
[03:17] ---
    Then what were you doing on Mt. Yujun?
[03:23] ---
    There are two possibilities:
[03:25] ---
    Either I went there for you...
[03:28] ---
    ...or I had a lot of time on my hands.
[03:32] ---
    Which do you think it was?
[03:34] ---
    Hard to say.
[03:36] ---
    But you do seem to
    have a lot of free time.
[03:43] ---
    By the way, you're not
    at all like the rumors say.
[03:48] ---
    Then how did Your Highness know
    that I was the Blood Rain Flower-Seeker?
[03:55] ---
    I tried all sorts of tests on you,
    but you were impenetrable.
[03:57] ---
    So I realized you
    must be Devastation-level.
[04:00] ---
    Besides, you were all-knowing,
    all-capable, and all dressed in red.
[04:07] ---
    Who could you have been but the
    terrifying Blood Rain Flower-Seeker?
[04:14] ---
    Is that supposed to be a compliment?
[04:19] ---
    Isn't it?
[04:52] ---
    Half-Moon, you're awake?
[04:55] ---
    Did you want to gaze at the stars?
[05:03] ---
    General Hua, what will happen
    to General Pei the Younger?
[05:09] ---
    I don't know.
[05:10] ---
    But he has made mistakes, so he will
    have to be punished one way or another.
[05:14] ---
    Actually, he really isn't a bad person!
[05:18] ---
    He helped me in the past.
    Millstone always thought I'd gone mad.
[05:25] ---
    But even if he was using me,
    it was I who chose to open the gate.
[05:32] ---
    It's all right. It's all in the past now.
[05:43] ---
    General Hua, I'm sorry.
[05:47] ---
    Half-Moon, why do you
    insist on apologizing to me?
[05:51] ---
    "I want to save the world."
[05:54] ---
    What?
[05:56] ---
    That's what you once told me.
[05:59] ---
    Huh?
[06:00] ---
    Wait a minute!
[06:07] ---
    Did I really say something that silly?
[06:12] ---
    Yes.
[06:13] ---
    One time, you asked me what
    I wanted to be when I grew up.
[06:17] ---
    I said I didn't know. Then you said...
[06:29] ---
    When I was younger,
    my dream was to save the world.
[06:33] ---
    I was just speaking off the cuff.
    You didn't need to memorize it!
[06:37] ---
    But you seemed so sincere at the time.
[06:41] ---
    Ha! Really?
    I don't even remember anymore.
[06:45] ---
    I do!
[06:47] ---
    You also used to say,
    "Do what you believe is right!"
[06:50] ---
    "Nothing can ever stop you!"
[06:53] ---
    What a load of drivel.
[06:58] ---
    I'm not that kind of person.
[06:59] ---
    Or am I?
[07:02] ---
    I used to think I was
    doing the right thing.
[07:04] ---
    But now I don't know what's right
    and what's wrong anymore.
[07:10] ---
    I opened the city gates
    and let the enemy in.
[07:12] ---
    Because of that, my people were
    slaughtered and the kingdom is no more.
[07:15] ---
    But if I hadn't done so,
    the Half-Moon soldiers would have gone
[07:18] ---
    to the Central Plains and fought
    until both peoples were destroyed.
[07:23] ---
    General Hua, you were very good to me.
[07:24] ---
    So was Millstone.
    And the soldiers followed me loyally.
[07:29] ---
    And yet not only
    did I cause them to be killed,
[07:32] ---
    I also failed to relieve
    their suffering after death.
[07:36] ---
    To be honest, General Hua,
[07:39] ---
    I have no idea what I've been
    doing for the past 200 years.
[07:47] ---
    And I've idled away the past 800 years.
[07:51] ---
    General Hua, could you please
    tell me where exactly I went wrong?
[07:56] ---
    What should I have done instead?
[08:04] ---
    I'm sorry, Half-Moon.
[08:06] ---
    I didn't know the answer
    to that before, and I still don't.
[08:18] ---
    Half-Moon wasn't trapped at Half-Moon Pass
    because she became a Wrath.
[08:23] ---
    She stayed there of her own accord.
[08:29] ---
    In fact, if he wanted to hush things up,
[08:32] ---
    Pei the Younger could've just sent
    a clone to deal with the ghosts.
[08:36] ---
    Why did he have to feed them living souls?
[08:41] ---
    A clone would've been too weak
    to subdue so many ghosts at once.
[08:45] ---
    Feeding them live people
    appeased their grudge more quickly.
[08:49] ---
    To a heavenly official,
    humans are as expendable as ants.
[08:55] ---
    So clones are weaker than the original?
[08:58] ---
    But this clone of yours
    is quite impressive.
[09:02] ---
    Oh, I'm the real deal!
[09:06] ---
    Really?
[09:07] ---
    You're the original?
[09:19] ---
    Ha! Not bad.
[09:22] ---
    So you like this look on me?
[09:26] ---
    Yes, it's very nice.
[09:29] ---
    But... could you show me
    what you really look like?
[09:36] ---
    Never mind. I just thought I'd ask.
[09:39] ---
    Anyway, let's eat!
[09:44] ---
    Oh no, it's burnt.
[09:48] ---
    Sorry, I'll make it again.
[09:51] ---
    I'll show you what
    I look like some other time.
[09:53] ---
    And I'm really not that hungry.
    Let's just relax tonight.
[10:23] ---
    You've been spending
    a lot of time in this realm.
[10:24] ---
    Is it really so uneventful in the ghost
    realm that you don't need to report back?
[10:33] ---
    What's there to report?
[10:34] ---
    We each go about our own business there.
    No one reports to anyone else.
[10:37] ---
    Besides, I'm the boss over there.
    No one would dare meddle in my affairs.
[10:43] ---
    I see. I thought you were governed
    as strictly as the heavenly realm.
[10:49] ---
    We're much more flexible.
[10:52] ---
    So, have you met the other Demon Kings?
[10:55] ---
    I have.
[10:56] ---
    What about the Sad-Face Green Demon?
[10:58] ---
    That vulgar good-for-nothing?
[11:01] ---
    I went to see him once,
    but he ended up running off.
[11:05] ---
    I'm sure you didn't go
    there just to say hello.
[11:07] ---
    I did say hello first.
[11:09] ---
    It was then that I earned the moniker
    "Blood Rain Flower-Seeker."
[11:14] ---
    So you two didn't get along?
[11:18] ---
    No, he's too much of an eyesore.
[11:19] ---
    And it's not just me.
    Black-Water doesn't care for him either.
[11:25] ---
    Black Water Boat-Sinker?
    Do you know him well?
[11:28] ---
    Not really.
[11:30] ---
    I'm not too familiar with
    most in the ghost realm.
[11:31] ---
    Only Devastation-level demons
    have the right to address me.
[11:38] ---
    Your ghost realm sounds pretty nice.
    There are only a few bigwigs.
[11:41] ---
    I can hardly remember all the
    names in the heavenly realm.
[11:45] ---
    Then don't bother remembering,
    it's a waste of time.
[11:49] ---
    I have to try,
    otherwise they'll get offended.
[11:55] ---
    If that's all it takes to offend them,
[11:57] ---
    then they're a bunch
    of petty-minded chumps.
[12:08] ---
    I wonder when Half-Moon will be back.
[12:12] ---
    She's got a lot on
    her mind. Let her be.
[12:17] ---
    You're right.
[12:22] ---
    By the way, that was a good line.
[12:25] ---
    What line?
[12:28] ---
    "I want to save the world."
[12:34] ---
    San Lang...
[12:37] ---
    Hm? What's wrong with that?
[12:41] ---
    It sounds stupid.
[12:47] ---
    Throughout history, few have had
    the courage to look the world in the face,
[12:51] ---
    much less try to save it.
    I have nothing but respect for that.
[13:00] ---
    It's much easier said than done.
[13:03] ---
    You know how difficult it is,
    but you try nevertheless.
[13:05] ---
    That's all the more commendable.
[13:10] ---
    Actually, when I was a child,
    I used to say something even sillier.
[13:14] ---
    Oh? And what was that?
[13:17] ---
    A long time ago, someone once
    told me that he couldn't go on living.
[13:22] ---
    He asked me what the point of it was,
    what the meaning of life was.
[13:30] ---
    You know what I said to him then?
[13:32] ---
    What?
[13:39] ---
    I said...
[13:44] ---
    "If you see no reason to live,
    then at least live for me."
[13:49] ---
    "If you don't see the point in living,
    then use me as a reason to go on."
[13:57] ---
    What in the world was I thinking?
[14:00] ---
    I wouldn't even be able
    to say those words now.
[14:04] ---
    Being the meaning of one
    person's life is heavy enough
[14:09] ---
    without trying to save
    the world on top of it!
[14:14] ---
    I wonder how he's doing these days.
[14:21] ---
    Wanting to save the world when you were
    young was courageous, but very silly.
[14:28] ---
    I know.
[14:31] ---
    That is, it was silly,
    but very courageous.
[14:36] ---
    Thank you, truly.
[14:38] ---
    Don't mention it.
[14:40] ---
    But Your Highness, you've
    told me quite a lot about yourself.
[14:44] ---
    Don't you want to know
    why I approached you?
[14:47] ---
    People cross paths as destiny ordains.
[14:50] ---
    If you don't want to tell me,
    then you won't.
[14:51] ---
    Besides, even if I sent you packing,
[14:54] ---
    you could just come back
    with a different appearance.
[14:58] ---
    You certainly have that power.
    Let's just go with the flow.
[15:01] ---
    And what if my real
    appearance is hideous?
[15:05] ---
    Would you still want to see it?
[15:08] ---
    If that were the case...
[15:10] ---
    What if I'm a ferocious-looking beast?
[15:15] ---
    I'd still want to see.
[15:21] ---
    Because we're friends now, and friends
    should be honest with each other.
[15:24] ---
    Don't worry. As long
    as it's the real you, I'll...
[15:32] ---
    What's wrong?
[15:40] ---
    What's so funny?
    Did I say something wrong?
[15:44] ---
    Not at all. You're absolutely right.
[15:46] ---
    You don't sound very sincere.
[15:48] ---
    Never mind. I'm going to sleep.
[15:54] ---
    Next time, if you don't mind,
[15:57] ---
    I'll show up as the real me.
[16:01] ---
    Don't talk, I'm trying to sleep.
[16:19] ---
    I swear to you...
[16:21] ---
    On earth or in heaven, you'll never
    meet anyone as sincere as I am!
[18:29] ---
    Lian! Lian!
[18:34] ---
    Lian!
[18:36] ---
    Lian! I feel like there's something
    missing from your temple.
[19:18] ---
    What about paintings of gods?
[19:21] ---
    I can paint, too! I'll help you.