E2 - Mountain-Locked Ming Guang

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