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[Mysterious Lotus Casebook]

[Episode 38]

It's no use coughing.

Didn't I tell you?

You'll only get a bowl of porridge every two days.

My dear boy, I'm not coughing.

I'm not hungry either.

I'm angry.

The other day, that Shan fellow came to quarrel with me.

I didn't stand up to him well.

Call him over now.

I'll argue with him properly again.

I can't believe you take quarreling that seriously.

I wonder why Master is even keeping

a blind fool like you alive.

Stop thinking about it.

Shan went down the mountain long ago.

Went down the mountain?

So we're currently staying

on this mountain huh?

Isn't it quite inconvenient for you to go down the mountain

to enter the city then?

If only we could enter the city.

Ruyi City is more than a dozen li away.

Just going out to buy groceries will take a day of walking.

Ruyi City is more than a dozen li away.

That is some distance away.

Forget it then.

Looks like I won't be able to

quarrel with Shan.

Why am I not locked up

with other people?

You mean you won't be bored if there's someone else to quarrel with?

There is someone else besides you.

But he's being confined in Master's room.

Master treats him differently,

and visits him every day.

Master doesn't allow us to talk about him.

-Palace Commander. -Palace Commander. -Palace Commander.

Palace Commander.

His Majesty has never missed the morning court assembly.

We would like to see His Majesty.

You are by His Majesty's side every day.

How is His Majesty's health?

I have something important to report to His Majesty.

I request to see His Majesty.

Please let His Majesty know.

-We request to see His Majesty. -Guards!

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

Palace Commander!

What are you doing?

Palace Commander!

Why are you doing this?

Are you intending to rebel?

What?

Xuanyuan Xiao dared to arrest high-ranking officials?

The Minister of War,

the Minister of Rites,

on top of the Minister of Revenue, Lord Fang previously.

only the Minister of Industry is left in the six ministries.

Lord Xuanyuan also issued a verbal instruction from His Majesty,

saying that New Year's Eve is coming.

This year's Sacrifice to Heaven will be changed to a Nuo Sacrifice Ceremony,

and will be moved to Zhurong Hall at the suburbs of the capital.

They want to make it extravagant.

Impossible.

The Nuo Sacrifice Ceremony is overly extravagant,

and will cost a lot of money.

It's already been abolished for a hundred years.

Father will never make such a decision.

I'm going to see Father now.

Did you hear that His Majesty is ill?

He can't come into contact with the wind.

So he's been staying in his sleeping chamber.

The Imperial City Division is guarding the door too.

No one is allowed in.

There must be something wrong with Xuanyuan Xiao.

Even if I have to take a risk,

I must see Father.

Li Lianhua gave me a lot of useful things previously.

I'm sure they'll come in handy.

[Yi'an Hall]

His Majesty gave the order that

he won't see anyone.

I must see him.

Father!

Father!

Father, what's wrong?

From three days ago,

I've been weak and couldn't get up.

Xuanyuan Xiao brought the imperial physician to see me.

They said my energy is depleted and I'm weak, and I need to rest.

I didn't believe it,

and I tested myself with a silver needle.

It looks like I have symptoms of poisoning.

This Xuanyuan Xiao is so audacious.

Father, what should we do?

Now Xuanyuan Xiao is no longer Xuanyuan Xiao.

Strange things are happening in the palace.

Something big will be happening.

The princess is disrupting His Majesty's quiet rest.

Take her back to Zhaohua Hall and watch her closely.

Without my order, she is not to come out.

You...

Father.

-Don’t be afraid. -Father.

Don't be afraid.

Father!

The smell of the medicine in this porridge is so strong.

How am I supposed to eat it?

The medicine is being served as porridge.

Looks like the cook today

has been changed to a medicine peddler.

Li Xiangyi.

You lost your sight,

but your sense of smell is still pretty sharp.

So it's Gang Leader Jiao we have here.

Sect Leader Li.

You were so powerful back then.

Looking at you now,

you must have suffered much

over these past few years.

How much I've suffered,

shouldn't your spies know

even better than me?

Li Xiangyi.

You should know the reason

why I'm not killing you.

It doesn't matter if Li Lianhua is dead or alive.

But for Li Xiangyi,

that's not the case.

I'm here today to tell you two pieces of good news.

Have a feel.

These clothes aren't made too well.

But I think it should suit you quite well.

This is a piece of armor.

This is made exactly according to

what the powerful Li Xiangyi wore on the day

Sigu Sect was first founded.

I'm gifting it to you.

You don't have to give it to me.

You should give it to Shan Gudao.

This is what he asked me to make for you.

On the day he succeeds in his plan,

he wants you to wear this armor

and kneel respectfully at his feet.

Then he will be disappointed.

I can't see clearly now.

No matter how glorious he looks, I won't be able to see it.

No wonder Shan Gudao hates you so much.

You have a glib tongue.

But look at you now.

What's the use of having a glib tongue?

I guess you can use it to drink wine.

Let's talk about the second piece of good news.

Let me guess.

Could it be...

a wedding toast?

Bingo.

This is a toast for the lord and I's wedding.

You must drink it.

I don't know if Director Di is happy about this though.

Director Di's taste

has become like this now?

What do you know?

I'm gifting him the world as dowry,

and giving him my heart.

Isn't he satisfied?

So you want the world too.

Bingo again.

I think

no one is your match now.

It's not that you can't do it. You're just tired of it.

So now you want to take the throne.

I was originally a Nanyin royal.

Why can't I be the emperor?

Why can't I do

what those men can do?

But there is only one throne.

It seems that you are not on the same side as Shan Gudao.

Of course the throne belongs to me.

What about Di Feisheng?

Don't tell me...

you want him to be the empress?

Empress?

Li Xiangyi.

You're getting more interesting now.

How about...I marry you too?

What do you think?

But three days later

will be my wedding day with Di Feisheng.

I need you to officiate our marriage for me.

Don't be jealous.

When I become the emperor,

you'll have the chance to humor me.

Are you that sure

you'll be the one to win in the end?

Since Shan Gudao has the mother bug of the Karmic Bug,

he thinks he's guaranteed to win,

and has nothing to worry about.

He doesn't even know that I can destroy

that mother bug easily.

Talking to you is so dangerous.

Earlier I was careless,

and you made me spill so many secrets.

You don't believe I'll kill you?

If I die,

who else will attend your wedding with Di Feisheng?

I'm afraid no one will sing congratulatory songs for you.

It's not very appropriate for a wedding to be

quiet and empty, is it?

Li Xiangyi, good for you.

Let's wait and see.

Oh Di Feisheng...

Having the affection of someone like her is really dangerous.

I work for the Imperial City Division.

Why won't you let me enter the inner palace?

Lord Yang.

This is the Emperor's order conveyed by the Palace Commander.

Without His Majesty's special permission,

no one can enter the inner palace.

Please go back.

I want to go out.

Let me out!

I'm just going out for a walk.

Say something!

Let me out!

Don't!

Father is sick in bed.

But yet I can't even see him.

You people from the Imperial City Division are such bullies!

All the court officials are either arrested by you,

or chased out.

All the important officials in the capital,

and the generals' families have been arrested.

What else do you want?

Master!

Master.

What's wrong?

You've been bewitched by them.

It's the Karmic Bug.

Master, you've been loyal all your life.

How could they do this to you?

Master.

Go find Li Xiangyi.

Save His Majesty.

Go, quickly!

Master!

Go!

Quickly!

I want to eat.

It's not two days yet.

What are you yelling about?

Even if it's not two days yet, I should still eat.

Why?

You ask why?

My dear boy,

you're not being very loyal here.

I helped you to make a contribution.

Aren't you going to feed me in return?

You agree to wear that armor?

Yes.

Your master is so beautiful.

She'll be angry if I don't wear it.

You are indeed thirsting for

my master's beauty.

I still thought you were a man of integrity.

Hey, watch what you're saying.

I wonder how your master

is treating this Di Feisheng.

What else, Master cut his tendons and tied him up.

He can't go anywhere.

Di Feisheng used to kill countless people.

But now he's only my master's prisoner.

Eat up.

Smells good.

Let's not be in a hurry,

I'll have a few bites first.

Not that I want to criticize you,

but you two are so bad at making your master happy.

If you call her here directly,

how can you show your ability?

If you call her after

I put on this armor,

this will all be your work.

Right?

Sorry, kids.

Have a good rest for now.

I need to go save an old friend.

So Jiao Liqiao's residence is here.

Are you having a good day today,

my dear lord?

Look.

This is how I looked the first time you saw me.

Do you remember?

The day after tomorrow is our wedding day.

Are you happy?

After the wedding,

I'll officially call you my husband.

Shouldn't you also change your stance,

and say you love me?

Don't worry.

As long as you say it to me,

I'll let you go.

This hot spring aids blood circulation.

The wounds on your body can't heal at all.

My heart aches seeing it too.

It must hurt so much.

You're still so shy.

You won't even open your eyes to look at me.

I can only play the old game we've been playing these few days.

If you don't answer,

I'll pretend to be angry

and give you a fierce stab.

Here we go.

Di Feisheng.

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

Do you?

Forget it.

We should change how we play this game.

Do you know Li Xiangyi is also locked here?

I knew you would be concerned

after hearing his name.

I will...

grant you death.

I can't believe you're doing this to me.

All the tendons in your limbs are severed.

You have no strength.

Yet you only think of killing me.

Granting me death...

Do you want me to die so badly?

Our wedding will happen the day after tomorrow.

After we exchange our vows,

even if you become a human swine,

you'll still be my husband.

Forever,

my husband.

Does this look good?

Li Xiangyi.

Of course Beauty Jiao looks good.

You can have her if you like.

But...

you don't look too good.

Don't tell me you're here

to say all this nonsense.

You're saving me unconditionally.

Aren't you afraid I'll attack you again after escaping?

Director Di.

Saying harsh things without meaning it,

you'd better save it for Jiao Liqiao.

I’ve been to Di Fortress.

You're working with Shan Gudao

only because you want to steal the Rama Vessel

to cure yourself of the mind control techniques.

But looking at you now...

I've always been a kind person,

and I deeply empathize with you.

Aren't you the same?

I asked Wuyan to look for you,

but you were captured and brought here.

Looks like Shan Gudao got his way.

Since both of us are in such a situation now,

let's save the spite at each other.

I killed the child bug of the Karmic Bug

using the snow salt that Wuyan gave.

But I didn't think that

Shan Gudao got the mother bug instead.

Let's not waste any more time talking,

and get out of here first.

Let's hide for a while first.

Hide where?

The most dangerous place is the safest place.

The newlywed room.

Newlywed room?

Your newlywed room.

Bad news!

The man Master caught has escaped.

Hurry!

Block all the exits!

After them!

You're starting to practice already?

There's no need for such a rush.

I'm rebuilding my meridians.

Looks like I underestimated

your Windy Poplar.

Your Yangzhouman is proper and long-lasting,

but Windy Poplar seeks survival in dangerous situations.

We have different approaches.

When Jiao Liqiao got rid of my martial skills,

the Windy Poplar protected me,

and locked my internal power within my Sea of Qi.

That's why I still have a chance to try.

No wonder you could survive

after the battle at the East Sea.

My injury back then

is not as serious as it is now.

What about now?

It'll depend on my luck.

Odds of one to nine.

There's a 9 out of 10 probability

that I'll die.

If you die,

it would be a waste of me saving you.

Fine, whatever.

Treat it as me owing you a favor.

Fine.

I'll go see what kind of clothes there are.

I rescued you after much difficulty.

You can't die.

Protecting the heart and releasing,

releasing while not reaching.

He who reaches is not dismayed,

that is the way of Qi.

[Royal Palace]

[Mysterious Lotus Casebook]

So this eighth level needs to be broken and built again.

My meridians needed to be severed before being resurrected.

Director Di,

you are so lucky.

You've won even though it was a 1 in 10 chance.

Congratulations.

You helped me just now.

I will pay you back.

I don't like to be indebted to people.

Don't say all this about paying back and what not,

it's tiring to hear.

I'm most afraid of returning favors.

How about this?

If you really want to repay me,

don't ever challenge me to a fight in the future.

I don't need you to teach me how to repay you.

It seems to be today.

The battle at the East Sea ten years ago was on this day.

That's right.

27th of the twelfth month.

It is today.

I didn't expect after fighting to the death ten years ago,

ten years later,

we'd be drinking together like this.

Come.

-That day... -That year...

The moon that year was not as bright as today.

The moon that year was just like today.

It was just like today.

After today,

what do you plan to do?

I'll retrieve my sword,

find the Styx Flower,

save your life and have another fight.

Director Di.

Li Xiangyi is already dead.

Li Lianhua will also die soon.

Please go forth and conquer the world.

Just let me off already, okay?

Li Xiangyi is dead.

But his sword is not dead.

It's easy to conquer the world,

but breaking the Xiangyi Swordplay is not easy.

Have you forgotten your sword?

Drink up.

So you also noticed something's wrong with this wall.

Yes.

So it was hidden here.

No one can stop me now.

Let's go.

Wait.

Beauty Jiao hid the stuff here.

Maybe...

there's other things hidden here too.

Think about it.

Beauty Jiao and Shan Gudao

are not united.

Then she must have a way to suppress the Karmic Bug.

She might have hidden it here.

I'm asking you.

Do you know what Jiao Liqiao said before?

She didn't.

You still say she didn't.

Stop pretending.

Jiao Liqiao said

she wants to gift you the world as marriage dowry.

Given her personality and the way she does things,

where else would be more suitable to put the dowry

than this newlywed room?

Let's hunt around.

[Never-ending Wind and Rain]

Catch this!

This is the record from

when Consort Xuan was making the karmic fire a hundred years ago.

Jiao Liqiao must have gotten it from the Yipin Tomb.

Look at this here.

There is indeed a way to destroy the Karmic Bug.

They are here.

Oh no.

We have to fight even if we don't want to.

Move away!

[Freezing Sky and Closed Earth]

The person I set my sights on is amazing indeed.

You want to escape?

In order to keep you,

I specially designed this place

to be a trap formation.

Di Feisheng.

You won't be able to escape.

Director Di,

of all people to provoke,

you chose to provoke her.

Even if you want to leave, it's hard.

Li Lianhua.

Do you think you don't have your share of traps here?

Look who this is.

Biqiu was the one who designed this formation for me.

What do you think?

The number one trap master of Sigu Sect.

Even Tianji Hall never had

such an entertaining trap formation.

Biqiu,

I like it very much.

Li Lianhua.

What a coincidence.

It was Yun Biqiu who brought you here

from Lotus Tower.

Now he will also help me to keep you from leaving.

Ten years ago,

it was him who used a cup of Bicha

to turn Li Xiangyi into Li Lianhua.

Now it'll also be him

to turn Li Lianhua into a lonely wandering ghost.

Saintess!

Saintess.

Bad news.

Qiao Wanmian and Fo, Bi, Bai, Shi

have led a large group of Sigu Sect disciples

and are already at the foot of the mountain.

What are you nervous about?

Biqiu.

Activate all the traps on the mountain,

and have them all come up to die.

Let's go.

Di Feisheng.

At this point,

you will need to choose between two options.

Will you choose to be my husband,

or to be a ghost with Li Xiangyi?

You'll be the one to be a ghost.

Director Di.

You really don't know how to treat ladies well.

Gang Leader Jiao is trying so hard to keep you,

but you're still so fierce.

You mean you know how to treat ladies well?

Go ahead then.

I dare not.

Di Feisheng.

You asked for it.

Don't touch it.

I caught him again.

Why don't we let him

stay enclosed in this metal tower,

so that I can control him forever.

It's not a bad idea

to let him be a zombie that won't budge.

Beauty Jiao.

You're joking around again.

This poisonous smoke has no effect on you.

I got away from the Bicha Poison already.

Other poisons

are nothing to me.

I thought this Bicha Poison couldn't do anything to you.

But you're just a paper tiger.

Then hurry up and die

to liven things up for me.

What's going on?

Sigu Sect is approaching fiercely.

The trap formations are all activated.

How did they get in?

We can't stop them at all.

You may leave.

Yes.

Useless!

You don't have the upper hand anymore.

Where is Li Lianhua?

Li Lianhua is waiting for you in the netherworld.

You still want to activate the traps?

It's too late.

Li Lianhua!

Li Lianhua!

The bullets are poisonous.

Don't touch them!

Jiao Liqiao.

Your Yulongniuma Gang has been wiped out.

Your plan has failed already.

Just give up.

Then I'll destroy this mountain

and let everyone die with me.

But Li Xiangyi,

you must die in my hands today.

[Freezing Sky and Closed Earth]

The mechanism is at the southeast of the mountain peak.

Seven-Dipper Formation is in the east,

and the Nine Changes of Heaven and Earth is in the west.

The mechanism's axis cuts through north to south.

In this case,

every section should have a trigger mechanism.

Eight steps east from the north corner of the building behind,

ten inches below the wall.

That's the weak point of all the traps.

We can destroy the traps by hitting that point.

Take Shaoshi!

Li Lianhua.

I know.

It's all your fault.

Li Xiangyi!

If I kill you...

If I kill you, no one else will

to get in the way of our relationship.

Leave first,

and leave things here to me.

I hate you.

Because you are hateful.

It has nothing to do with others.

Fine.

Since I can't keep you,

let's die together.

I don't kill women.

But you

are an exception.

Xiaobao.

You destroyed this trap, right?

Strange.

All the traps we encountered along the way,

all of the weak points are exposed.

It's obvious.

Logically speaking,

everyone who knows how to design traps

know that the mechanism should be hidden.

And this mechanism...

someone deliberately

wants to show it to others.

That's right.

Could it be...

Xiangyi!

Xiangyi!

Are you okay?

I'm fine.

Is everyone all right?

Sect Leader.

He really is our Sect Leader.

Greetings, Sect Leader.

Greetings, Sect Leader.

Please rise, everyone.

I'm no longer your sect leader.

Thanks to Young Master Fang,

we were spared from a bloody battle.

The crisis is temporarily resolved.

Everyone, evacuate now.

Brother Li.

Brother Fang.

Brother Li, Brother Fang.

Something happened in the capital.

Shan Gudao is controlling my master with the Karmic Bug.

He has the palace under his control.

He also captured Princess Zhaoling,

and many court ministers.

They will hold a Sacrifice Ceremony at Zhurong Hall in the east of the capital tomorrow.

His Majesty is in danger.

[Fire Immortal Palace]

Good.

Everything will go according to Mr. Li's arrangement.

Let's split up.

Yes.

[Elegance]

Li Lianhua.

This will inevitably be another tough battle.

Can you hold on?

I told you the method behind

Windy Poplar's internal power.

Although I can't let you go back to how you used to be,

but it can still temporarily protect your stamina and pulse.

Thank you.

♫I'll fight with my sword♫

Director Di.

I didn't expect that...

♫I enjoy the spring breeze against my sword♫

you would stay and help us this time.

I was right about you.

♫Stop the carriage in the night forest♫

I’m not interested in helping others.

I just don’t want Li Xiangyi to die here.

♫Headed to Jiangnan on a lonely boat♫

Ten years ago, during the battle between Sigu Sect and Jinyuan Alliance,

♫Yesterday I lit a lamp to light the four corners♫

both sides suffered terrible losses.

♫It doesn't dampen the noise♫

Ten years later,

we are fighting together.

♫Today we speak nonsense for ten years♫

Life is really interesting.

Of course I want the person behind the mess back then,

♫Floating like flowers and grass♫

to pay with their blood.

♫Every word and phrase♫

♫Have the rules of the martial world♫

♫I thought making a name for myself♫

♫Was easy♫

♫Grit your teeth and live on♫

♫I must be invincible tomorrow♫

♫The green mountains beyond, and the towers afar♫

♫Cannot be compared to the birds singing in the willow trees♫

♫A song on the spring river of the moonlit night♫

♫Discussing swordplay over wine deep in the bamboo forest♫

♫Raise a toast to drown our deep sorrows♫