01x16 - Episode 16

[bunniefuu]

Ningxi,

this is the Sword of Vitality.

It's yours now.

Sword of Vitality.

[20 Years Ago]

That's a beautiful name.

I don't understand

why do you have to go back

and you won't let me come with you.

If your master hears

that you are leaving with me,

he will make it hard for you.

She wants you to marry Gao Fengxu,

the leader of the Immortal Alliance.

[Su Ningxi]

I'm worried that you might be in danger.

This is the only thing

that I can't let my master decide.

After I say goodbye to Master and Zhen,

we can go to a place

where no one can find us.

What do you think?

Great.

When I'm not with you,

this will keep you safe.

Ningxi!

Why?

Because you disgust me.

So,

everything that happened between me

was just you tricking me.

Eliminate all survivors of the Canglang Clan!

Yes.

This is a trap

from the beginning.

I am the young madam of Mirage Palace.

How could I fall for a despicable Spirit Clan member like you?

Saintess.

I am surprised to see

that there are things that can make my master

brood by himself.

Why did you ask me

to come here, master?

Your Demonic Vine of Judgement

was confiscated by the Immortal Alliance.

This is the new artifact that I made you.

The name is Disassociation.

Its power

is so much stronger

than the Demonic Vine of Judgement.

Disassociation.

I like the name.

Thank you, Master.

Master.

The Decaying Immortal Pavilion has acquired the Chaos Pearl.

When are they going to deactivate the Immortals Array?

I want to pay the bunch

of the Immortal Alliance back.

The Chaos Pearl in Snow City

is a fake.

The Chaos Pearl has always been sealed

in Snow City.

How could that be a fake?

Is the master of the Decaying Immortal Pavilion

trying not to pay us with an excuse?

He's not

that stupid.

Master.

I can go to the human world again

to find the real Chaos Pearl for you.

That's not urgent.

Your Jade Vault Technique

is not mature yet.

You'd better stay in the Dark Abyss

and train for a while.

Mr. Xie

pitied you for losing your demonic power

and taught you the Jade Vault Technique,

you shouldn't waste

his kindness.

Yes.

The beacon of righteousness?

Detached sword cultivator?

With a little love scheme

and he is losing catastrophically.

Why didn't I

just k*ll him in one strike

and be done with it?

How nice would that be?

Yes.

Why didn't you

just k*ll him?

It's easy.

When my Jade Vault Technique is ready,

I will take Xie Xuechen's head down

and hang it in the Temple of Divine Execution

as a keepsake for you.

To guard the Chaos Pearl, the Immortal Alliance

paid a great price.

All that just for

a fake!

But when was

the Chaos Pearl switched.

I think it was a fake

that was put in the Pearl Tower in the first place.

I believe

that with Leader Xie's integrity,

he will never do something like that.

Besides,

he guarded the Chaos Pearl

with his life.

So,

we can remove him

from the list of suspects.

Then it must have been switched

before it was put in the Pearl Tower.

Is it

Moonlight Heights?

What we can be sure of

is that the real Chaos Pearl

is not in the Decaying Immortal Pavilion.

That's one thing to be glad about.

The Chaos Pearl was lost in Snow City.

I will be responsible

for finding the real one

and give everyone closure.

But you guys should understand

that the Immortal Alliance

is never about guarding

one specific artifact.

It is guarding the tranquil life of humanity

and peace of the world.

Whether the Chaos Pearl is real or not,

our goal

will never change.

I'm just glad that Mr. Xie is okay.

We are waiting here today

because we want to

ask Mr. Xie of something.

The Jade Sky Palace hopes

Mr. Xie can succeed as the alliance leader.

Mr. Xie put aside your personal safety

and saved humanity multiple times.

You are the one with the most credit

in the Immortal Alliance

and the one that we trust the most.

The Jade Sky Palace would like to follow Mr. Xie

to keep guarding humanity.

The Osprey Island would love to follow Mr. Xie.

The Xuantian Sect would like to follow Mr. Xie.

The Mirage Palace would like to follow Mr. Xie.

I have no intention in that position.

I have to ask you

to find another candidate.

Mr. Xie.

When Sang Qi

and the Decaying Immortal Pavilion attacked,

we didn't have enough power to fight them

and brought danger to the people and the Chaos Pearl.

That's our failure,

and the fault is ours.

Thanks to you,

it was not all ruined that night.

We know what we saw.

We can't live up to

the code of the Immortal Alliance.

Mr. Xie

may not be interested in the position,

but the Immortal Alliance is in urgent need

of a new leader

to keep going,

and humanity

can have hopes and a future.

Therefore,

we plead with Mr. Xie

to accept the position.

Please accept the position.

I can be the acting alliance leader for the time being.

After all of this is over,

we'll have to select another leader

for the Immortal Alliance.

For the time being?

The news that the Chaos Pearl has been missing will get out.

Masters,

please return to your cities

and ease people's minds.

I will take the disciples of Snow City

to guard the Two Realms Mountain

and watch out for any actions from the Dark Abyss.

Mirage Palace is the closest to the Two Realms Mountain.

Madam Su,

please send help.

Yes.

Yes,

Leader Xie.

The Immortal Alliance does respect you,

but they are also pushing you to the frontline.

The imposed position

brings no benefit.

Your experience boils down to five words.

No good deed

goes unpunished.

The Two Realms Mountain is just by the Dark Abyss.

That means she's close.

Do you want to save her?

How about you?

Are you acting on your own or coming with me?

You need to find the Chaos Pearl,

guard the Immortals Array,

stay vigilant about the Spirit Clan and the Dark Clan,

and save her.

If I don't go with you,

you will be the first leader of the Immortal Alliance

who dies overworking.

Before we set off,

there's an arrangement that I need to make.

Miss Gao, do you know

how the Chaos Pearl was delivered to Snow City?

Sang Qi and his demon troops

attacked Moonlight Heights.

I was young.

My memory is a blur.

All I know is that the then-lord of Mirage Palace,

Saint Miaohua got there.

I was saved,

and the Chaos Pearl was brought away.

Saint Miaohua is Madam Su's master, right?

Yes.

My mother

and my master are sisters.

She was also Saint Miaohua's disciple.

It's just that

my mother died

when giving birth to me.

Saint Miaohua was the one who brought the Chaos Pearl

to Snow City.

My father was also there

when the pearl was sealed in the tower.

I asked Elder Cang.

The Pearl Tower was never opened over the years.

No abnormalities as well.

What are you trying to say?

My father guarded the Chaos Pearl until his last breath.

Snow City has nothing to do with this,

no doubt.

There's only one possibility left.

The Chaos Pearl that was delivered to Snow City

was a fake.

Are you saying

that the Mirage Palace is the thief

and that Saint Miaohua and my master

faked the pearl

to take the real one for themselves?

The Mirage Palace is not my enemy

or the Snow City's enemy.

I just want to find the Chaos Pearl

to stop Decaying Immortal Pavilion and the Dark Clan.

I'm having this talk with you

not to blame anyone.

I need a favor.

Do you want me

investigate my master for you?

Yes.

Shortly after what happened to Moonlight Heights,

Saint Miaohua gave the leadership

to Madam Su

and was never seen again.

Madam Su

is the one most likely to know what happened.

Sang Qi and my master

must have been good friends.

One brought m*ssacre upon Moonlight Heights

while the other stole the important artifact.

In that case,

why did Sang Qi

come to Snow City?

If you have no doubts,

you wouldn't have come to see me.

You also want the truth,

don't you?

Mr. Xie.

I've collected all the things

that Xuanling left behind.

Should we seal them off

or…

Classes, chores, and shifts.

Life in Snow City

is so boring.

The process of becoming a common human

is so long.

[I drank tea water from his cup.]

[He brought a lot of swords to me, and I didn't like any one of them.]

It's strange.

I found the boring people

and events in Snow City

are interesting in a way.

Did they become more interesting

or have I become boring?

It turns out

that I have never escaped

Sang Qi's control.

Am I never

getting what I want?

In the past

and in the present.

Never mind.

Let death come.

I will help Xie Xuechen

to guard the things he wants to guard for this once.

Put everything back as they were.

Keep

everything.

Mr. Xie, are you saying

that she might come back?

Yes.

Understood.

I heard that the Saintess managed

to activate spiritual channels as a Spirit Clan member!

She's training

with spiritual power today, right?

I wonder between spiritual power

and demonic power,

which one is stronger?

Since you are so curious about the spiritual power,

you can taste it yourselves.

Cultivations with spiritual power and demonic power

are similar.

They are both about accumulating power

and master it.

The key

is to keep practicing.

Saintess!

Spare us!

I just need to keep a fine control

over spiritual power,

to not k*ll a Dark Clan member in an instant.

Just like fire

won't burn a candle down in an instant.

Saintess!

It's been a while.

Ignorance Demon and Anger Demon

have been avoiding me.

Do you still mind

what happened in the human world?

Or

you think less of me since I've lost

my demonic power.

How ruthless are my comrades?

Don't be ridiculous.

His Grace trusts you as always.

We heard that

you've been busy cultivating spiritual power,

and we didn't want to disturb you.

Do you think you have the right

to stick your noses in my business?

You said

that you didn't want to disturb me.

What's so important

that changed your mind?

His Grace summoned you.

Now?

Master.

Are you finally letting me go to the human world?

I heard

that you took quite a few Dark Clan members.

I was just focusing on improving the Jade Vault Technique

as you've requested.

It seems

that you did well.

Go, then.

Do you know where to get started?

Mirage Palace.

Their young madam, Gao Qiumin,

is a good friend

since Moonlight Heights.

I believe

that she will help me find the Chaos Pearl.

Good.

Master.

Do you trust me?

Where did that come from?

No reason.

I'm just worried

that I failed

to get the Chaos Pearl

from Xie Xuechen,

you might doubt

my loyalty because of that.

You shouldn't worry about that.

Go.

Mu Xuanling is a Spirit Clan member,

yet she acts

like she's a Dark Clan member.

She's a little different after she returned.

No.

Maybe she has gotten better at pretending.

His Grace is also a member of the Spirit Clan.

If you ask me,

no one is more like a Dark Clan member

than His Grace.

She betrayed us for a human,

and she will do it again.

I will never believe that she'd be loyal to His Grace.

Your Grace.

What is the Saintess's…

You don't need to know that.

What about you?

I have

acquired the Jade Vault Technique

and activated spiritual channels.

I just need to train for a few days longer

to completely control

both spiritual power and demonic power.

I will defeat our enemies

with their weapon.

Isn't that interesting?

Yes.

I didn't get such a warm welcome

the last time I came to the human world.

Mu Xuanling!

Her Grace

asked us to inspect the Two Realms Mountain every day

to avoid the Dark Abyss and the Spirit Clan

invade the human world again.

Look what the cat dragged in!

Isn't it the Saintess of the Dark Abyss?

Su Ningzhen.

It seems that she has been thinking

about Master and I.

I didn't expect to be spotted

right after arriving in the human world.

Well,

to avoid my whereabouts getting out,

maybe I should k*ll you all.

How are you using spiritual power?

Isn't that interesting?

I wonder if your soul

burns faster

than Dark Clan members.

Mr. Nan,

I knew it was you.

Ms. Mu!

Here we meet again.

How did you manage to escape?

Escape?

After Sang Qi took you,

I've been worried that he might hurt you.

Mr. Nan, I think you've misunderstood something.

I was trapped in Snow City,

and Master was here to bring me home.

He has treated me really well.

How could he hurt me?

Go home?

Mr. Nan,

we have spent time together.

But if you are going to help

those cultivators from the Immortal Alliance,

I will not go easy on you.

Ms. Mu.

Why don't you tell me

what happened

after you got back to the Dark Abyss.

To think back,

Nan Xuyue seems to care about me in a way.

Mr. Nan,

I've let my master down.

I need to find a way to make it up.

Mr. Nan,

since you care about me,

maybe you can help me out.

You are…

What

do you want me to do?

To start with,

deactivate all the arrays in this forest

and let me k*ll all

of those cultivators.

Then what?

Keep trying to take the Chaos Pearl?

You are always so smart.

I always knew

that you are different from Xie Xuechen.

You don't care about the Immortal Alliance

or humanity.

You are helping Xie Xuechen

because you want to see

what interesting things you can find

in this boring world.

What you really

care about

is me.

Am I right?

I can see you,

and you can see me as well.

Mr. Nan,

join me.

I can give you what you want.

That includes

that "little affection."

The Spirit Clan's life span is over a thousand years.

It is a wide world

full of men.

Why would I give up my life

for Xie Xuechen, who is just a guy.

I've played

your admirer for long enough.

It has become tiring.

Enemies always meet.

I don't think Xie Xuechen

will cut me any slacks anymore.

Mu Xuanling!

Mu Xuanling!

Since you have gotten out,

why are you running?

You are trying to k*ll me.

It's a shame

that I failed.

Why not pursue her?

Xie Xuechen is there.

She won't get away.

She's a little weird.

The mole under her eye

is called Mundane Tear.

It's the sign of drinking the Disillusion Water.

The Disillusion Water?

It is documented in the Greenview Archive.

It's a type of medicine that makes people forget about love.

Forget about love.

Why would she take it?

Should we let Xie Xuechen know?

No matter what the reason might be,

she has forgotten all kinds of personal feelings.

If it's you,

would you tell Xie Xuechen?

But she doesn't love Xie Xuechen

or you.

I know.

You saw it in your divination, didn't you?

The ending of Xie Xuechen and her.

How will they end?

A relationship with no results.

The coldness and the intention

to k*ll in her eyes was real.

Is it because I left her behind

and that hurt her?

That was a bad beginning.

Why does it have to be the most difficult target in the Immortal Alliance?

Xie Xuechen

is a shrewd man.

Fighting him head-to-head will not do.

I need to be smart about this.

Xie Xuechen.

Say something.

Stop reading.

Do you want to know

why I attacked you earlier?

You know this.

Sang Qi put Heartstring on me.

It wasn't me who tried to k*ll you.

He controlled me.

Xie Xuechen.

What I said that day

was not my intention.

How could I not love you?

I went through all kinds of dangers

to escape the Dark Abyss

just so that I can get back to you

and be with you forever.

What happened to you?

We haven't seen each other for so long.

Don't you miss me?

They say that a short time apart makes the couple miss each other more.

You've set a barrier outside.

No one can get in.

How about…

I have other plans.

You should rest.

Just as expected.

This is the way to make him leave.

Master.

Luck did not favor me.

I met our nemesis, Xie Xuechen.

What?

Already got caught when you just arrived in the human world

and you want me to save you?

That's not necessary.

But

I do have another plan.

Xie Xuechen will not give up

on searching for the Chaos Pearl.

With him.

I don't need to go to Mirage Palace

and find Gao Qiumin.

So,

I want to stay close to him.

Even if I couldn't

get the Chaos Pearl directly,

I will get clues.

Are you sure

that he will allow you?

That's why

I'd like to ask you to do something for me.

If Xie Xuechen can witness

that I suffer from Heartstring,

how could he

leave me here by myself?

All right.

Tonight, I will

help you put on another show.

I always knew that

that you are different from Xie Xuechen.

You don't care about the Immortal Alliance

or humanity.

What you really

care about

is me.

Am I right?

I can see you,

and you can see me as well.

Mr. Nan,

join me.

I can give you what you want.

That includes

that "little affection."

I knew you would visit.

Do you also feel that there's something

strange about her?

Her tone, behaviors,

expressions, vibe,

and the grey mole under her eye…

Everything is strange.

But her mind is clear.

There's no sign of her being controlled

like when we were in Snow City.

Just ask

what you want to know.

What were you talking about

in the forest?

She said that she was here for the Chaos Pearl

and she wanted me to help her.

In return,

she will give me what I want.

What you want?

Her affection.

Nan Xuyue.

You do know how to annoy people.

You asked.

I was just telling the truth.

She has betrayed the Dark Abyss and joined me.

She never liked human beings.

Yet for me,

for the people I want to protect,

she risked everything

including her life.

I left her behind that day

and allowed her to be taken by Sang Qi.

That was all my fault.

I left her behind once.

That will never happen again.

If the Immortal Alliance won't tolerate her,

I will protect her.

Mr. Xie,

you are finally living like a common person.

Just like when I first met you.

You have desires,

persistence,

and do not accept restraining.

Always

trying to win.

It's not about win or lose when it comes to her.

I will never

let her go again.

Even if you have feelings for her,

I will not cut you any slacks.

I know.

I knew that when you decided

to come to the Two Realms Mountain.

Oh, right!

I need to talk to you about something.

There's an emergency

that requires me to go back to Greenview Heights.

I'm leaving early in the morning.

What is it?

It's a secret.

Fine.

Don't tell me.

It's just that

I haven't thought this through myself.

If I want to share

this secret one day,

you will hear it.

Okay.

What about the Chaos Pearl?

Any news?

I asked Gao Qiumin to help me with the investigation.

She might be the young madam of Mirage Palace,

she was also once the young madam of Moonlight Heights.

I believe

that she doesn't want the truth buried as well.

Master.

Be careful, it's hot.

You've been trying to say something lately.

Spit it out.

Master.

What's the connection between Sang Qi and my mother?

Why did the Sword of Vitality deem him as the master?

How can you connect him to your mother?

She was obsessed with my sister

and gave her the Sword of Vitality.

How could my sister ever

fall for a Spirit Clan member?

She was just too kind.

She felt sorry after driving him off

and kept the sword.

Is that

the whole truth?

Qiumin.

Master.

You are born with nine apertures.

Though not as talented as Xie Xuechen,

you are still one of the best among your peers.

But you've been too easy on yourself.

Until now,

you are still in the Golden Core stage.

I asked you to come here

to channel my power to you.

Master.

You are not fully recovered.

If you give me your power…

You don't have

time to waste.

I will train harder.

Sang Qi and Mirage Palace

have a life-and-death vendetta.

Since he won't

stay quietly in that small Dark Abyss,

he will be looking for a chance to pay us back.

Besides, now that the Chaos Pearl is missing,

he's not the only one

watching Mirage Palace right now.

The world is different.

It's getting more and more dangerous.

Do you understand?

Yes.

Master!

Are you all right?

I'm fine.

Master,

your hair…

Leave me.

Master.

Go.

[Plantation Pavilion]

Elder Zai Xi.

Have you been waiting for long?

I'm here to talk to Madam.

It seems that I'm too late.

Go back.

Yes.

Now that the Chaos Pearl is missing,

he's not the only one

watching Mirage Palace right now.

The world is different.

It's getting more and more dangerous.

Do you understand?

Madam Su

is the one most likely to know what happened.

You also want the truth,

don't you?

By danger,

is Master referring to Sang Qi

or Xie Xuechen?

Why are you in a rush to give Qiumin your power?

The Chaos Pearl is missing.

A lot of eyes

are on Mirage Palace.

The Immortals Array can no longer constrain the Dark Clan.

The rodents lurking in the darkness

will come to Mirage Palace sooner or later.

I can face my death,

but not Qiumin.

Moonlight Heights is no more,

and Ningxi is dead.

Sang Qi may not come to Mirage Palace.

He can't wait to burn Mirage Palace

to the ground

and remove the one who cost him his arm completely from this world.

Why wouldn't he come?

If your sister didn't fall for that Spirit Clan member…

My sister did nothing wrong.

It was Sang Qi who lured her…

And Miaohua made her marry Gao Fengxu.

Miaohua

did it for Mirage Palace.

Otherwise,

how would Gao Fengxu agree to leave the Chaos Pearl

with Mirage Palace for a hundred years?

Yes.

Gao Fengxu wanted to restore the power of the Chaos Pearl

and Mirage Palace coveted

that piece of unparalleled treasure.

Why not

sacrifice just one person?

Miaohua never saw her

as a disciple.

She cared for my sister

because

she has the body of a Primal Celestial Maiden.

The body of a Primal Celestial Maiden?

That kind of body contains endless vitality.

Reviving people

are already magical for common people.

Who would have thought

that she could be

the container that nourishes objects!

Are you still holding on to all that?

You've made Miaohua pay a great price.

That's far from enough.

It's all in the past.

You are the lord of Mirage Palace now.

Qiumin knew

that Sang Qi shares a connection with her mother.

She will not let this slide.

She will ask the wrong questions.

Once someone gets curious,

the buried secret

will be revealed.

Can you risk letting her know?

If anyone learns

that the real Chaos Pearl…

All the people who know that secret

cannot talk anymore.

I will not tell Qiumin.

Even when I die.

That place is still there.

Traces from back then can be found in Moonlight Heights.

I know

that you don't want to be anywhere close

to the place your sister lived.

But considering the situation,

we'd better make plans in advance.

Someone is there.

Is that real?

My mother loved Sang Qi.

She was forced to marry my father

to nourish the Chaos Pearl.

Qiumin!

♪ Searching for your face in the cycles of life ♪

♪ If the tears in my heart remain unseen ♪

♪ Can I still remain tireless? ♪

♪ Because my heart holds longing ♪

♪ A devoted soul asks not how far the road goes ♪

♪ For love, braving the storms, crossing the years ♪

♪ Never regretting our meeting ♪

♪ Only wishing for thousands of blossoms ♪

♪ To bloom for you that day ♪

♪ Gazing at that one person, those eyes ♪

♪ I desire nothing else ♪

♪ A life with no worries or regrets ♪

♪ Staying by your side ♪

♪ For love, braving the storms, crossing the years ♪

♪ Never regretting our meeting ♪

♪ Only wishing for thousands of blossoms ♪

♪ To bloom for you that day ♪

♪ Gazing at that one person, those eyes ♪

♪ I desire nothing else ♪

♪ A life with no worries or regrets ♪

♪ Staying by your side ♪