E15 - Advent of the Devil

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SIGN    True Cooking Master Boy
[01:32] Mao
    This pot will bring peace
    to the Shanghai Alliance.
[01:36] Mao
    It belongs to the Grand Alliance.
[01:38] Leien
    We'll need it eventually for our all-out
    confrontation with the Underworld.
[01:42] Leien
    When that time comes, we'd like your help.
[01:45] Mao
    Master Tang Li, please hold
    onto this pot until then.
[01:51] Tangli
    I shall.
SIGN    Longzhen Restaurant
[01:54] Xielu
    Mao, go without us to the Jiuhua Mountains,
    where the next utensil awaits.
[01:59] (Flashback) Xielu
    Lei En and I have something
    we want to look into.
[02:06] Mao
    At least, that's what he said.
[02:08] Mao
    I wonder what they wanted to investigate?
[02:14] Mao
    We finally made it.
[02:15] Mao
    This is the village of Jiuhua.
[02:18] Mao
    Huh?!
[02:22] Mao
    What is this?
[02:24] Shirou
    The people of Jiuhua developed the mountains...
    shouldn't they be hard workers, then?
[02:29] Shirou
    What's going on?
[02:37] Villager
    It's time.
[02:38] Villager
    Time for soup.
[02:40] Villager
    Hurry, to the Devil's Palace.
[02:42] Villager
    It's time for God's food!
[02:45] Mao
    What is this? What's happening?
[02:47] Shirou
    Huh? What?
[02:50] Villager
    God is coming!
[02:54] Mao
    God?
[02:55] Meili
    What's going on?
[02:57] Meili
    Those people wouldn't even
    lift a finger a moment ago.
[03:06] Mao
    There's a castle this deep in the mountains?
[03:09] Meili
    And everyone has expensive-looking
     items and dishes.
[03:12] Meili
    I think they're waiting for something.
[03:14] Official
    We get to drink it again.
[03:16] Official
    That soup...
[03:17] Shirou
    Hey, what are you going to do with that?
[03:20] Official
    It's an offering for the god.
[03:22] Official
    The more you give,
    the more of god's soup you get.
[03:27] Shirou
    God's soup?
[03:32] Follower
    Stand back!
[03:46] Mao
    A giant pot?
[03:53] Official
    Thank you so much.
[03:57] Mao
    They're trading valuables for soup?
[04:05] Villager
    It's divine. This is the flavor of God!
[04:08] Villager
    God has visited us again today.
[04:11] Meili
    What is that soup?
[04:13] Mao
    Could we get three helpings?
[04:15] Both
    What?
[04:16] Shirou
    Mao, where'd you get that money?
[04:21] Shirou
    That's the traveling
    allowance Sanjie gave us!
[04:25] Meili
    Why'd you have to spend it all, Mao?!
[04:30] Mao
    This is God's soup.
[04:32] Mao
    All that's in it are some
    small scraps of abalone.
[04:36] Mao
    Judging by the smell, color, and refraction,
[04:39] Mao
    it's hard to imagine much extract
    has dissolved into the soup.
[04:44] Mao
    What's so great about this soup?
[04:48] Shirou
    Why'd you freeze in place, Mao?
[04:54] Meili
    Mao?
[04:55] Mao
    It's shockingly good.
[04:58] Both
    What?
[04:59] Mao
    The sweetness of the soup
    clings to the tongue.
[05:02] Mao
    The velvety mouthfeel of the abalone
[05:04] Mao
    melts in your mouth, while still
    retaining its crunchy texture.
[05:08] Mao
    It's impressive.
[05:11] Meili
    How is it this delicious?!
[05:13] Shirou
    It's so good, it's driving me crazy!
[05:16] Mao
    On top of that, it's refreshing,
    like a lungful of air from high up in the sky.
[05:22] Mao
    Could it be?!
[05:25] Mao
    Is someone here using a legendary utensil?!
[05:28] Follower
    Silence!
[05:31] Villager
    The Devil is coming.
[05:34] Mao
    The Devil?
[05:36] Shirou
    Mao, something's coming!
[05:42] Mao
    It's an elephant!
[05:46] Shengyu
    You've gathered again today,
[05:49] Shengyu
    you rotten scum.
[05:52] Mao
    He's the one using the legendary utensil?!
[05:55] Shirou
    Why's he acting so high and mighty?
[05:58] Follower
    You will tell us!
[06:01] Follower
    Who is your heavenly father?!
[06:03] All
    The Great Abalone Devil, Wang Shengyu!
[06:07] Follower
    To where do you return?!
[06:10] All
    Our holy land, the Devil's Palace!
[06:16] Shengyu
    That's right. You scum
    have nowhere to return to
[06:21] Shengyu
    besides me, your god.
[06:27] Meili
    He called himself a god?
[06:29] Shirou
    That shady old man?
[06:32] Mao
    What's in that box?
[06:36] Shengyu
    I will permit you scum to gaze upon it.
[06:39] Shengyu
    This...
[06:41] Shengyu
    is the Holy Copperware!
[06:44] Shengyu
    A miraculous pot that only I,
    the Abalone Devil, am capable of using.
[06:48] Mao
    Holy Copperware?
[06:59] Shengyu
    This is your typical dried abalone.
[07:03] Shengyu
    Normally it's rehydrated
    to an edible level of softness
[07:07] Shengyu
    after being boiled for three days
    and three nights with the utmost care.
[07:10] Shengyu
    But in my hands, behold.
[07:14] Shengyu
    It'll aba-blow your mind!
[07:17] All
    Aba-blow your mind!
[07:20] Meili
    What's that light?
[07:26] Mao
    That luster, that bounce...
[07:29] Mao
    The abalone's been rehydrated!
[07:31] Villager
    It's a miracle of God!
[07:33] Villager
    Oh, divine Shengyu!
[07:36] Mao
    Could that be the power
    of a legendary utensil?
[07:41] Shirou
    There's no way that sketchy guy
    has something like that.
[07:44] Shirou
    It must be a trick.
[07:46] Shirou
    The pot has a false bottom,
[07:48] Shirou
    and he stuck some already
    rehydrated abalone in there.
[07:52] Meili
    Then how did he produce that light?
[07:54] Shirou
    Glowing mushrooms.
[07:56] Shirou
    He keeps a bunch stuffed
    under the false bottom, too.
[07:59] Shirou
    Besides, don't legendary
    utensils choose their users?
[08:03] Shirou
    There's no way he could use one.
[08:08] Follower
    What are you doing?
[08:10] Old Woman
    Please, could you give me some abalone?
[08:17] Shengyu
    If you don't have money,
    hand over ownership of your home.
[08:21] Shengyu
    You scum couldn't survive
    without my charity.
[08:30] Shirou
    That jerk.
[08:31] Shengyu
    Here.
[08:34] Villager
    Give me that. It's mine!
[08:36] Villager
    I offered more!
[08:39] Shengyu
    That's right.
[08:39] Shengyu
    That's how scum should behave.
[08:45] Mao
    Everyone, don't be fooled!
[08:48] Villager
    What?
[08:52] Mao
    He wastes food and looks down on people.
[08:55] Mao
    That's not something a god does,
    much less a decent chef.
[09:02] Shengyu
    Some outsiders are mixed in
    with the villagers.
[09:05] Shengyu
    Everyone, there's someone here who dares
    to sully our spiritual home,
[09:08] Shengyu
    the Devil's Palace.
[09:11] Villager
    The heretics must pay.
    The heretics must pay.
[09:16] Mao
    What?
[09:17] Villager
    Throw them out!
[09:20] Shirou
    Mao!
[09:22] Mao
    Hey, wait. What?!
[09:35] Mao
    Damn!
[09:36] Shirou
    Mao...
[09:37] Mao
    He won't get away with this.
[09:39] Mao
    An entire peaceful village is about
    to be destroyed because of him.
[09:43] Meili
    But there's not much we can do
    when the villagers are so agitated.
[09:49] Shirou
    And your influence as a Super Chef
    isn't worth much here.
[09:55] Old Man
    They all changed.
[10:07] Old Man
    They used to pray diligently
    at this shrine every day.
[10:14] Old Man
    Jiuhua is a sacred place.
[10:18] Mao
    What?
[10:20] Old Man
    It's said that this land was
     cleared a thousand years ago
[10:23] Old Man
    by a comet that fell from the heavens.
[10:27] Old Man
    The people of Jiuhua who cultivated
    fertile crops here worshiped the comet.
[10:35] Mao
    Sir, could you tell me more about that?
[10:49] Shengyu
    Yahoo.
[10:50] Shengyu
    They're all idiots.
[10:51] Shengyu
    I can't believe it worked so well.
[10:54] Shengyu
    Anyway, who were those kids?
[10:57] Shengyu
    Not that there's anything
    they can do to stop me now.
[11:02] Shengyu
    I'm going to use this utensil
    to make even more money.
[11:08] Follower
    Who is your heavenly father?
[11:11] All
    The Great Abalone Devil, Wang Shengyu!
[11:15] Follower
    To where do you return?
[11:18] All
    Our holy land, the Devil's Palace!
[11:22] Shengyu
    That's right. That's exactly right, scum.
[11:28] Mao
    Wrong, you false god.
[11:32] Mao
    You're not fooling anyone else
    with your shady cooking.
[11:37] Shengyu
    Who's there?! Show yourself!
[11:42] Mao
    The Comet God has descended
    to pass judgment upon you.
[11:45] Shengyu
    What?
[11:50] Mao
    With his miraculous comet cooking!
[11:57] Mao
    Listen to me!
[11:58] Mao
    People of Jiuhua, have you
    forgotten the legend?
[12:02] Mao
    You've been seduced by an evil deity,
    and now your fertile fields lie in ruin.
[12:08] Shengyu
    This is ridiculous.
[12:09] Shengyu
    You're that boy from the other day.
[12:11] Shengyu
    You're not a god!
[12:13] Mao
    No, I am.
[12:14] Shengyu
    What?
[12:15] Mao
    Because I can create true miracles.
[12:19] Mao
    The miracle of comet cooking!
[12:22] Shengyu
    Is he challenging me to a cooking battle?
[12:26] Shengyu
    The fool.
[12:27] Shengyu
    In that case, I'll play my trump card.
[12:31] Shengyu
    Very well. I'll prove to you which
    of us can create true miracles.
[12:36] Shengyu
    Bring that to me.
[12:37] Follower
    Yes, sir.
[12:40] Shengyu
    Behold, never before seen,
    the first and last of its kind,
[12:45] Shengyu
    the miraculous dried food.
[12:49] Villager
    What a giant abalone.
[12:51] Villager
    So magnificent!
[12:52] Villager
    It's like a fossilized dragon!
[12:54] Shengyu
    In you go.
[12:56] Shengyu
    Only one as divine as myself
    possesses such a dried food.
[13:00] Shengyu
    It would take an ordinary person seven days
    and nights of boiling to rehydrate it,
[13:03] Shengyu
    but in my hands...
[13:16] Shengyu
    Now eat, scum.
[13:19] Shengyu
    Today's lavish feast requires no offerings.
[13:27] Villager
    It's even richer than usual.
[13:31] Villager
    The meaty flesh is so filling.
[13:33] Villager
    The plump texture clings
    to my teeth and won't let go.
[13:36] Villager
    I can't breathe.
[13:38] Villager
    I can't resist the pull of gravity.
[13:40] Villager
    Truly miraculous.
[13:44] Mao
    Is that the best miracle you can produce?
[13:47] Shengyu
    What?
[13:51] Mao
    Watch this.
[13:53] Mao
    This is my cooking.
[13:57] Villager
    A large plate?
[13:58] Villager
    It's just a big, empty plate.
[14:00] Shengyu
    What is this, scum?
[14:02] Shengyu
    Will your dish spring forth from the plate?
[14:05] Mao
    Stay back, evil deity!
[14:07] Mao
    You'll corrupt the plate!
[14:11] Mao
    Heavens, please save the people of Jiuhua.
[14:15] Mao
    Show them that thousand-year-old
    miracle once again.
[14:19] Villager
    What?
[14:20] Villager
    What's going on?
[14:22] Villager
    Huh?!
[14:23] Villager
    What?!
[14:24] Villager
    What's that?
[14:28] All
    It's a comet!
[14:39] Mao
    The Special Miracle Comet
    Fried Rice has descended!
SIGN    Miracle Comet Fried Rice
[14:45] Villager
    I don't believe it!
[14:47] Villager
    His dish came...
[14:48] Villager
    ...from the sky!
[14:50] Mao
    Do not fear. Eat.
[14:52] Mao
    And remember the fragrance of the land
    that birthed and raised you.
[15:05] Villager
    Delicious!
[15:09] Villager
    This overpowering green smell.
[15:12] Villager
    It's refreshing like a lungful
    of the land's own breath,
[15:16] Villager
    brimming with the smell of the sun!
[15:19] Villager
    Why? My limbs that were as
    heavy as lead feel so light.
[15:23] Meili
    Ingredients drawn from the fields
    of Jiuhua by divine power
[15:28] Meili
    and flung through the air,
    instantly cooked by the heat of the sun
[15:32] Meili
    for the Comet God's miraculous dish.
[15:35] Villager
    So this is a miracle!
[15:36] Villager
    The Comet God's miracle has returned.
[15:40] Villager
    Spinach, bok choy, spring onions.
[15:43] Villager
    A jade-colored fried rice dish full
    of fragrant, fried Jiuhua vegetables.
[15:49] Villager
    That comet glowing green.
[15:51] Villager
    The smell of the earth I'd forgotten.
[15:53] Villager
    I remember now.
[15:55] Villager
    We were raised surrounded
    by the abundance of green
[16:00] Villager
    given to us by the Comet God.
[16:02] Shengyu
    What?!
[16:07] Meili
    The listless villagers seem so lively now.
[16:10] Meili
    What happened to them, Mao?
[16:13] Mao
    The people of Jiuhua were raised in these
    mountains, and had never seen abalone before.
[16:17] Mao
    They were convinced that it was
    the ingredient of the gods.
[16:20] Mao
    Abalone is delicious.
[16:22] Mao
    But eating only abalone
    causes vitamin deficiency,
[16:25] Mao
    making the body feel fatigued and leaden.
[16:30] Mao
    I instantly replenished their vitamins
    with green vegetables
[16:34] Mao
    and super healthy brown rice.
[16:40] Mao
    I tossed it through the air to make it look
    like a comet, and to absorb the sunlight.
[16:45] Mao
    It tossed the rice nicely, too.
[16:48] Meili
    Shirou did a great job.
[16:52] Shirou
    I'm glad it reached the plate.
[16:54] Shirou
    Mao's ideas are always reckless.
[16:57] Shirou
    Gramps, the vegetables you protected
    and cultivated in your field
[17:01] Shirou
    saved the people of Jiuhua.
[17:08] Villager
    What? You're the young
    Super Chef Liu Maoxing?
[17:12] Villager
    Our eyes have been opened.
[17:14] Villager
    We'll work and cultivate our ravaged fields.
[17:18] Shengyu
    Silence, silence!
[17:20] Shengyu
    You scum...
[17:23] Meili
    No, you shut up!
[17:25] Meili
    Listen, everyone.
[17:27] Meili
    The Holy Copperware is just a pot
    with a false bottom.
[17:31] Mao
    He used abalone to force you
    into unbalanced diets,
[17:34] Mao
    and got rich off of your offerings.
[17:36] Mao
    Him, a god? The idea is absurd!
[17:39] Mao
    He's just a little scoundrel!
[17:42] Villager
    The pest that ruined Jiuhua.
[17:46] Villager
    How dare you deceive us!
[17:48] Villager
    Jerk!
[17:49] Villager
    Get him!
[17:51] Shengyu
    Stop.
[17:53] Shengyu
    Stop this, you rotten scum!
[17:56] Villager
    You're the scum, here!
[18:01] Shengyu
    How awful.
[18:04] Shengyu
    That was horrendous.
[18:05] Shengyu
    Those brats. They'll pay for this.
[18:08] Shengyu
    For now, to the Devil's Palace...
[18:14] Shengyu
    My spiritual home, my Devil's Palace...
[18:18] Xielu
    You're late.
[18:21] Xielu
    The Comet God isn't the only deity.
[18:23] Xielu
    There are as many as there are prayers.
[18:25] Xielu
    The lords of destruction...
[18:27] Leien
    ...have arrived!
[18:31] Xielu
    We looked into your background,
    Shengyu the con artist.
[18:34] Xielu
    You use expensive ingredients
    to trick people
[18:38] Xielu
    and were still at large with their money.
[18:42] Leien
    We already learned in Shanghai that
    you were hiding in the Jiuhua Mountains.
[18:47] Leien
    We doubted it was possible, but we
    examined your ties to the Underworld.
[18:51] Xielu
    Turns out you're just a scoundrel acting
    to fulfill his own selfish desires.
[18:54] Xielu
    Some officials will be
    arriving shortly to arrest you.
[18:59] Xielu
    Admit to your wrongdoings and
     let the authorities take you away.
[19:04] Shengyu
    Fools! Let's return to our other hideout
    before the officials arrive!
[19:09] Follower
    Yes, sir—
[19:11] Shengyu
    Huh?!
[19:14] Xielu
    You won't be returning anywhere.
[19:17] Follower
    Shengyu!
[19:20] Mao
    Xie Lu! Lei En!
[19:26] All
    The devil has been defeated!
[19:31] Xielu
    The villagers are going to build
    a new shrine to the Comet God here.
[19:38] Leien
    The evil castle has fallen.
[19:44] Shirou
    This all started because of this bogus pot.
[19:48] Xielu
    An ironmonger at the base of the mountains
[19:50] Xielu
    was going to melt it down
    into something else
[19:52] Xielu
    when Shengyu took a liking
    to it and stopped him.
[19:54] Mao
    But we never learned the secret
    behind Shengyu's abalone soup.
[19:59] Meili
    You're right.
[20:01] Meili
    I doubt Shengyu was skilled enough to achieve—
[20:02] Shirou
    Aba-blow your mind!
[20:04] Meili
    What are you screaming about?
[20:06] Shirou
    There's no trick to this pot!
[20:10] Meili
    What do you mean?
[20:12] Shirou
    There's no false bottom, and there
    aren't any glowing mushrooms.
[20:15] Shirou
    It's a plain old copper pot!
[20:19] Mao
    Impossible. Then how did he rehydrate
    that dried abalone instantaneously?
[20:24] Shirou
    What?
[20:29] Xielu
    The pot is responding to Mao.
[20:32] Leien
    This bright blueish-white light cutting
    through the air in all directions.
[20:37] Leien
    Like the Ever-Soul Knife,
    it's the light a utensil releases
[20:41] Leien
    only when it's touched by its successor.
[20:43] Meili
    You mean...
[20:45] Xielu
    Yeah, definitely.
[20:47] Xielu
    This is a genuine legendary utensil!
SIGN    Holy Copperware
[20:51] Meili
    That explains the flavor!
[20:54] Shirou
    But how was Shengyu using it?
[20:56] Xielu
    Maybe the pot shared a little bit
    of its power with Shengyu
[20:59] Xielu
    to thank him for saving it
    from being melted down.
[21:03] Xielu
    None of that matters now, though!
[21:06] Xielu
    Right, Mao?
[21:11] All
    The third legendary utensil is ours!
[21:20] Mao
    What are these ominous clouds?
[21:43] Xiang
    The second and third utensils
    have fallen into their hands.
[21:48] Xiang
    I am sorry,
[21:52] Xiang
    Lord Ya Kan.
[21:54] Xiang
    Lord Kai You.
SIGN    Next Time
SIGN    "River of Fire"
[23:57] Narration
    "River of Fire."