# Season 1
# E1 - The Bride Prince
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G4VUQ2EJD/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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G14U4MW0Z/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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Recently, some followers in the North
have been begging the heavenly officials
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to descend to Earth and
subdue the demonic spirits.
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Two junior officials from
Middle Heaven came to assist you.
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--Nan Feng.
--Fu Yao.
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Legend has it, there is a ghost
bridegroom living in the mountains.
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Our goal is to capture the Ghost Groom.
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Do you know how to get
to the nearest General Ming Temple?
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General Ming Temple?
I don't think there are any here.
**[02:43] ---**
Ying says that the
Ming Guang Temples built here before
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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?
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Out of hatred, one would think.
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Then why is there still one Ming Guang
Temple here on the mountain,
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protected by the magical formation
and in perfect condition?
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The temple's statue of General
Ming Guang is perfectly carved.
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And the brides passing by on the road
were forbidden from smiling.
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Doesn't that sound like jealousy
of the brides' happiness?
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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...
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They were driven to their
graves by the Ghost Groom
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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!
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What are you waiting for?!
Shut the gate!
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But... some of our men
are still out there!
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What... W-W-What will they do?
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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!
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Let's save them first,
then we'll handle the Ghost Groom.
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Stay away from me!
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Ah...
**[05:15] ---**
Ah... Your Lordship!
**[05:21] ---**
Huh?
**[05:31] ---**
Nan Feng?
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Got it!
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My apologies.
**[06:13] ---**
Help!
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Don't move!
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Hurry, this way! Let's go!
**[06:38] ---**
Get in there!
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Let's go, move it!
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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.
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Ling Wen? Ling Wen?
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Your Highness?
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Finally, there you are!
**[08:09] ---**
I was in a meeting just now,
that's why you couldn't reach me.
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Do you have a question?
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I do.
**[08:13] ---**
Has General Ming Guang
ever had any romantic ties?
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Why do you ask?
**[08:17] ---**
I'm in dire straits here.
There are a dozen corpses chasing me.
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Has he ever been with a woman
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who was jealous and possessive,
with some physical injury?
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Let me think...
**[08:29] ---**
Actually, yes, yes, he has.
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Pei was a general before he ascended.
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On the battlefield, he met
a beautiful yet fierce female general
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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.
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Sounds like a fairy tale.
**[09:10] ---**
It was, at first.
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But things took a turn for the worse
when Xuan Ji wanted to marry Pei
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and spend the rest of her life with him.
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And what's wrong with that?
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You see, Pei was quite the ladies' man.
**[09:24] ---**
Plus, they were from enemy states
that were always fighting.
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Hold on, hold on...
**[09:41] ---**
Tell me, Xuan Ji had an
injury, right? What was it?
**[09:46] ---**
It was her...
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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?
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Only to abandon and maim her...
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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!
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Let His Lordship go!
**[13:13] ---**
Don't go there!
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Don't...!
**[13:23] ---**
You think you deserve his attention?
**[13:28] ---**
Darling, I've gotten rid of her.
She was in our way.
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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.
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And I thank you for that.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GVWU09Q5Z/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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G31UX90DQ/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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G2XU0Q8WW/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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G50UZ579X/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.