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♫ Unwilling to take part in something improper, how could I predict things would turn out against my wishes? ♫

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♫ The flower in center of my heart has withered, time cannot turn itself back. ♫

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♫ My memories are whirling and twirling, the pain is only in the depths of my heart. ♫

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♫ My only wish is to live without regrets, and fly far away with the flowers’ fragrance. ♫

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♫ A bottle of rice wine, a body covered in dust and ashes. ♫

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♫ Memories go back and forth, a life without regrets. ♫

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♫ From spring to autumn, life comes and goes. Is it right to be vain? ♫

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♫ I’m waiting for the flowers to return and bloom again, intoxicating me. ♫

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♫ Sincerely hoping that my lifespan is no longer withering away ♫

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♫ I’m waiting for the flowers to return and bloom again, intoxicating me. ♫

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♫ Sincerely hoping that my lifespan is no longer withering away ♫

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♫ I want to go back to savor the aftertaste of the wine again. ♫

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♫ In my memories, life comes and goes. I realize clearly in my heart. ♫

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♫ I want to go back to savor the aftertaste of the wine again. ♫

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Ashes of Love

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Episode 33

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Mi'er, just look around.

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Mi'er, you just got back from your trials in the Mortal Realm. Stay here in Luo River Palace for the night.

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Regarding Rou Rou, I will update you if I get any news.

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This room was prepared by your father for you.

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He was thinking that you should have a place to stay in here in Heavenly Realm once you've been promoted to a shangxian.

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We didn't know that you'll be back earlier,

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hence, I just hastily set up the interior.

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Auntie Lin Xiu, I like it a lot. Thank you.

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Thank you, father.

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Jin Mi this time has successfully been promoted to a shangxian.

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The date of her marriage with Eldest Highness has also been set. These were supposed to be two happy occasions arriving at the same time.

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But how come you keep frowning and being sad?

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Are you worried about those things that happened between Jin Mi

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and Second Highness in the Mortal Realm?

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Indeed.

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Second Highness indeed was a bit rash in his actions.

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We won't be able to avoid those gossips.

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But I believe that Jin Mi is a child with a sense of propriety.

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Moreover, she and Eldest Highness initially have mutual affection for each other.

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In the future, she'll eventually understand

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that what happened between her and Second Highness in the Mortal Realm

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was just like a white steed flitting past a crack (fleeting), just a dream.

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Once she gives it some deep thinking, she'll make the right choice.

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Hope so. Jin Mi still doesn't know

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that Heavenly Empress is her mother's killer.

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If the two of them end up together, with Jin Mi's personality,

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she surely won't be able to face it.

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It's better to not let Jin Mi know this.

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Let's just first look at how she'll choose.

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No!

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There's too much killing.

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Your Majesty, you can't still have feelings for that seductress, right?

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No such thing. Heavenly Empress, stop bringing up the past.

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But that seductress' hand has already extended up to the Ninth Sky Level.

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She ordered Rat Immortal to kill Xu Feng during his rebirth.

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In this battle at Dongting, I personally found out that she's holding more than 10,000 army.

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She schemed to turn our Heavenly Realm upside down. It's really bringing me shivers.

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Although Su Li committed a heinous crime,

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annihilating a clan is a bit too much as a punishment.

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Doing that will affect the reputation of our Heavenly Realm.

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Your Majesty, don't forget.

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Several years ago, the Arowana Clan has already been annihilated

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except for Su Li. And in just several thousands of years,

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she's able to cause these many troubles again.

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If you employ the kindness of a woman,

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and let these Dongting remnants go,

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that will be 30,000 Su Li then.

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The more you shouldn't forget that by our side,

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there is still Su Li' biological child.

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By then, a collusion from the inside with outside—

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Run Yu, grew up under my care.

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You know very well how his temperament is.

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He might be innocent, but he's guilty from inviting other people's greed.

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Your Majesty should know

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that wild ambitions can be developed, as long as the conditions are right.

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If Your Majesty wants to preserve both sons,

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you then must make a decision to forever be rid of future troubles.

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Heavenly Empress is helping to share my burden.

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Of course, I must support you all the way.

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It's just that the Heavenly Realm has been at peace for so long. Inflexible administration of justice will invite a lot of criticisms.

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Your Majesty need not do it personally. For matters like this,

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just entrust it to me.

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I'm just worried

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that doing this will taint your reputation.

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For our two sons, for the tens of thousands of years of foundation of our Heavenly Realm,

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I'll be a bad person this one time then.

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I understand.

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Xu Feng, I will surely forever eliminate future troubles for you.

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[Immortal Su Li's Memorial Tablet]

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[Immortal Su Li's Memorial Tablet]

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[Immortal Su Li's Memorial Tablet]

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Your Highness!

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You came just in time. Call Li'er and Yan You over to pay respect to mother.

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They got taken away by the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.

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What?

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Heavenly Empress is going to implement the Heavenly Law on the 30,000 water tribe members of Dongting Lake.

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When will the execution happen?

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I fear that Thunder God and Lightning Goddess have already accepted the command and went there.

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Father Emperor.

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[Immortal Su Li's Memorial Tablet]

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Father Emperor, this concerns the lives of 30,000 Dongting living things.

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They are innocent. My mo...

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Su Li has been sentenced. Heavenly Empress' action is too violent and bloody.

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I beg you to save them!

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I'm willing to vouch that they won't create anymore trouble in the future.

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Heavenly Empress is just acting according to the will of the heaven. Su Li rebelled and committed an unpardonable crime.

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We should do the punishments according to the law. It's just that there will be too much killing.

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I also couldn't bear to do it.

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Heavenly Empress volunteered to be the executioner, so how could I refuse?

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As my eldest son, you mustn't be the first one to break the law.

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- But Father Emperor—

Okay already.

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Leave first.

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Thunder God and Lightning Goddess aren't in the execution area and are instead here inside Cloud Nine Palace.

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Looks like the person that Mother Empress wants to punish is me, right?

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Those 30,000 Dongting Lake remnants

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should all be punished, but for whom did they do it?

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Shouldn't you be punished with them too?

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They are all innocent creatures without any means to defend themselves.

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I beg Mother Empress to let them go.

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Mother Empress?

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That day, who was the one who said that he'll kill me

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to seek vengeance for his birth mother?

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The Night Deity then was so awe-inspiring, so overbearing.

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But today, what? Not strong anymore?

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I was wrong. If Mother Empress wants to punish anyone, just punish me.

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But those 30,000 Dongting water tribesmen are innocent.

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Those 30,000 remnants and your mother

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all harbored evil intentions and schemed to rebel.

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They wanted to turn Heavenly Realm upside down, hence, they are deserving to die.

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Laws don't punish intentions. It only looks at the act. Even if my mother had misgivings,

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she never truly rebelled yet. It was Mother Empress who first—

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Shut up!

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You tried to kill Xu Feng,

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privately created an army, and intended to rebel.

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Those crimes are punishable by death! I should be killing you now.

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Yes. I was wrong. I beg Mother Empress to have mercy.

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Night Deity, what mistake did you commit?

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Big Brother!

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Li'er. Yan You.

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Mother Empress.

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Thunder God and Lightning Goddess, how should the allies of Su Li be punished?

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Based on the law, they should be executed using the Heavenly Thunder, Lightning, and Fire Punishment.

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Okay.

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- Proceed with the punishment.

- Wait!

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I was wrong. I was unfilial and disrespectful to Mother Empress.

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But...my mother is already dead. They won't be able to incite any wind or waves (troubles).

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I earnestly ask Mother Empress to be considerate and let them live.

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I so want to see

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if you're really a person of virtue and pure kindness,

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or just pretentious.

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Su Li tried to kill Xu Feng and has committed a heinous crime.

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She should be executed. Isn't it?

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Isn't it?

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Yes.

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Run Ru, you asshole!

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Godmother has been worried about you for these past thousands of years. You don't deserve to be her son!

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Then now, are you begging me as Night Deity,

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or as a remnant of Dongting Lake atoning for his crimes,

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or maybe begging as the lone survivor of the Arowana Clan?

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I...

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I...

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Godmother never acknowledged you as her son. Quickly leave now!

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Yan You!

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A mother's debt should be paid by her children. I'll pay for my birth mother's mistakes.

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I beg Mother Empress to stop venting your anger on others.

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Fine then. I'm not that unreasonable.

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I'll give you two choices.

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Either you clearly separate yourself from the remnants of Dongting

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and personally give them their execution,

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or you suffer the punishment in behalf of these remnants

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and atone for the crimes of your birth mother.

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I...was wrong.

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I am willing to use one life in exchange of another.

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Run Yu!

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Okay. Good thing you know to submit to the circumstances.

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I can't betray my birth mother and her clan anymore.

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I'm willing to bear all the crimes by myself.

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Thunder God and Lightning Goddess. Thunder God, your Pond Stunning Heaven Thunder,

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and Lighting Goddess' Unbounded Lightning,

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plus my Lotus Seat Karma Fire,

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even Qiong Qi before wasn't able to endure it.

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Don't know if Night Deity today can survive

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this 30,000-level extremely intense torture.

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May Mother Empress punish me.

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Okay. Thunder God and Lightning Goddess, start the punishment.

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Heavenly Empress, this is the Cloud Nine Palace.

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And Eldest Highness is after all Heavenly Emperor's son.

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Start the punishment!

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Big Brother!

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I initially thought that he has a calmer temperament and is different from Xu Feng.

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Never thought, he also was this rash.

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My hand and feet feel like their broken into fine pieces.

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My body form is like a shattered jade.

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Scorching, the karma fire burns.

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Surging, the bloody ocean irrigates.

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Obscurely, the spring stage weeps.

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Separating, the white bone is emptied.

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Mother!

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Hearing is...obeying, calling for Buddha.

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Who dare to be lax?!

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Run Yu!

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- Big Brother!

- Run Yu!

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- Quickly wake up! Wake up, Big Brother.

- Run Yu, quickly wake up! Wake up!

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Quickly wake up!

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Heavenly Empress, you evil bitch! The person who tried to kill your son is me!

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Vent your anger at me!

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Totally disregarding everything.

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Big Brother.

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Heavenly Empress, in the Heavenly Thunder, Lightning, and Fire Punishment, there's no Crystal Pure Fire.

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If you use the Crystal Pure Fire, Night Deity will surely die. You mustn't.

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Why don't I save the Crystal Pure Fire for you two?

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What did Night Deity do wrong that Heavenly Empress will take the laws into you own hands and aim to kill him?

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Water Deity, you harbored a criminal.

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I am already magnanimous for not going after you about it.

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Stop pushing your luck.

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What then must be done to a person who tried to kill the son of the Heavenly Emperor?

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Run Yu disobeyed the command first.

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He also volunteered to accept the punishment for those 30,000 remaining rebels.

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How is this my fault?

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All of you, stop it now!

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Greetings, Your Majesty.

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Men, go to South Heavenly Gate and promulgate my decree.

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The mastermind Su Li committed a heinous crime and has already been executed.

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The Dongting water tribes were blackmailed by her, hence, their actions were understandable.

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You all committed a crime for the first time.

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I will especially pardon you. Hope you all can turn over a new leaf

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and be loyal to the Heavenly Realm. If you dare commit a crime again, I surely will strictly punish you.

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I will abide.

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You get to be the good man here.

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Night Deity.

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I...thank the heaven's graces...

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...in behalf of...

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...36,400 creatures in Dongting Lake.

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May Mother Empress give the order to let them go.

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Heavenly Empress, deal with the aftermath.

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The 30,000-level Heavenly Punishment is 10 times more harder to bear than dismembering a body.

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The more is it unbearable to recover from it. If I'm you,

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I'd rather destroy my own internal energy pellet and just end all my troubles.

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Mother Empress, don't worry. I surely won't die.

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I surely will continue living well.

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I must personally see you fulfill your shangshen oath

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of letting them all go.

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Not being fickle.

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Big Brother.

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[Xuanji Palace]

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Your Highness!

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Run Yu.

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Run Yu might not last long.

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Mother...I'm so cold...

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So cold...

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Your Highness...

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Brother Yun Yu.

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Mother...

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Mother...

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Mother...

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So hot...

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His Highness once said

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that if you lose too much blood

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and is cold to the most extreme level,

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you will instead feel hot as if your organs are being burned.

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Mother...

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Your Majesty, you agreed to give me full power in handling this matter.

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But at the last moment, you got soft-hearted.

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You get to be the good man and I get to be the evil one.

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If I allowed it to continue, causing the heaven to be mad, the god to bear grudges,

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the public raging with criticisms, what good can that bring us?

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Who can you blame?

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It's all your fault for spoiling him.

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When things become critical, he instead bit me back.

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He didn't acknowledge me as his Mother Empress

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and instead acknowledged that birth mother of his, who has committed a heinous crime.

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After the battle in Dongting, he wanted to protect

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even those remnant rebels. If this continues,

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I fear that he'll be turning this Heavenly Realm upside down.

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With me here, he won't be able to do that.

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There is a difference between a legitimate blood line, and an illegitimate one.

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Who is more important between Xu Feng and Run Ru, I know it very well.

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I will remember your words.

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Hope Your Majesty won't forget it too.

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Your Highness, you're finally awake.

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Did Heavenly Empress let them go?

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Don't you care about your life at all?

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I've once promised mother

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that I'll take good care of Li'er.

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There are thousands of Li'er in Dongting Lake.

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That Li'er who once lived in Li Pond

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has experienced how it is to be under other people's roof for thousands of years.

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I don't want them to repeat my path.

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For Night Deity to place oneself in other people's position and be this considerate

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is really the great fortune of Dongting Lake.

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Deity.

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You're badly injured.

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Just quickly lie down.

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Deity, I have a request.

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My power is little and my strength too thin. I'm unable to contend with Heavenly Empress.

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May Deity be benevolent.

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I earnestly ask you to take care

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of those Dongting water tribes that became destitute and homeless.

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Don't worry. I surely will do my best.

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Since that day in Dongting Lake,

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I've already determined to fight with Heavenly Empress until the end.

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Thank you, Deity.

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Kuang Luo, Deity,

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please don't tell

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anyone about

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me getting hurt, especially Mi'er.

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I don't want her to get worried. The more I don't want...

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...I don't want her to see me...

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...at such an ugly state.

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Promise me.

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Don't be sad for me.

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Rou Rou!

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Rou Rou!

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Rou Rou!

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I must find out who the perpetrator is

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and seek vengeance for you.

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After 3 months, we'll choose an auspicious date

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to complete the marriage between Jin Mi and Run Yu.

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Stimulate oneself, but control your presence of mind.

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How many times have I taught you that?

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You just are unable to learn it.

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Now, you and Heavenly Empress are in an irreconcilable state.

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You're making things difficult for me.

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Heavenly Empress indeed went a bit overboard,

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but she was just following my order.

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You disobeying Heavenly Empress is disobeying me.

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Just treat everything that happened in Cloud Nine Palace

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as a lesson.

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I admit my mistake.

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I...have already pardoned the Dongting water tribes.

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The matter today concerned the reputation of the Heavenly Realm.

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About the matter of you bearing the punishment of Heavenly Thunder, Lighting, and Fire for the Dongtime remnants,

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you mustn't mention it to anyone in the future. Understand?

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Yes.

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Okay. Make a shangshen oath then.

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I swear that as long as from now on,

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Father Emperor and Mother Empress won't mention this matter again,

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won't go after it, this matter will end here.

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I will never mention it again.

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Father Emperor, my mother...

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...is she really that evil and unforgivable?

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This matter has already been given proper judgment.

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No need to discuss it anymore. As a shangshen,

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Don't be obsessed with material things. Don't get disturbed by affection.

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You still have to improve your cultivation.

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Don't worry. Your birth mother's matter has nothing to do with you.

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I never expected that

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one day, you'd dare disobey Heavenly Empress.

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I admit my mistake.

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I wasn't able to consider things properly at that time.

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I didn't immediately rush there earlier

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because I was testing you too.

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Never thought that even if I've lost the horse, I was able to obtain a blessing. (blessing in disguise)

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From now on, in restricting and balancing the power of Heavenly Empress and the Bird Tribe,

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I'm depending on you.

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Father Emperor, if I didn't stand out that time,

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are you not going to care about the lives of the Dongting creatures at all?

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You are still young. Once you've lived for a few tens of thousands years more,

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you will then know

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mortal life lasts only for a hundred years, but cultivation takes thousands of years.

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In the eyes of us shangshen,

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they are all no different with a mayfly.

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Just a short moment, no meaning at all.

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Without them being involved in the blue sea turning into mulberry fields (world transformations), it won't make any difference.

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This is what they call 'Heavenly law is heartless'.

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In these past thousands of years, at such long immortality path,

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has Father Emperor ever been compassionate?

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I am not afraid to tell you one truth.

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A Heavenly Emperor

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is the greatest prisoner in this whole heaven and earth.

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So...my birth...

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...was just a scheme from the start.

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Mother...

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Mother, it was me who brought you harm.

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I am a sinner!

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No.

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It's him. He is the mastermind

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of everything that happened in this world.

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In your heart,

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there's totally no father-son, husband-wife, or familial affection.

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In your heart, everyone is just a pawn.

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Heavenly law is heartless?

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Father Emperor,

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I got schooled.

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Live on. Those who are unable to kill you

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will only make you stronger.

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Where is Mi'er?

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She was just mumbling about Rou Rou.

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I think she's asleep now.

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How is Night Deity?

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New grudges keep adding to the old. Continuous disaster.

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His heart is filled with grievances, but nowhere to express them.

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Looks like his grudge with the Heavenly Empress will be difficult to resolve.

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Although Heavenly Emperor suppressed today's incident,

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it has secretly spread in the Heavenly Realm.

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Heavenly Empress's actions have incited public indignation. However, Night Deity

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was able to redeem himself.

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In the past, I thought that Nighty Deity was gentle and mild.

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Turns out, he only brings out his courage for important situations.

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He is willing to die a martyr for a noble cause and able to endure things that others can't endure.

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His tolerance and his uprightness

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are extraordinary.

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Heavenly Empress revealed her true side and has reached the extreme.

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The tides are going to turn. Just watch and see.

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Magnolia, what are you doing? What happened?

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Sister, I am at fault. I committed a great crime.

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That day, when people from the Dongting Water Tribe came to find you

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and asked to join forces with our Flower Realm to fight against the Heavenly Realm,

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I lost my mind,

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and believed that person's words in a moment of confusion.

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Then... Then, I told him Jin Mi's true identity.

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What?

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Magnolia, how could you be this muddle-minded?

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Thus, during Jin Mi's mortal trial,

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people were trying to shoot her with the soul-destroying arrow.

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It's all my fault. It's my fault for revealing her identity.

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All of this is because of me.

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I know that my crimes are grave, so I don't ask for your forgiveness.

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I just ask for death in punishment as a way to give thanks to our former master's spirit in heaven.

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If you die now, how could you face the former master?

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But if I continue living,

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how could I face our fellow sisters?

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Forget it.

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I know your intention.

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You just wanted to get revenge for our former master. That's why you made such a mistake.

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However, Magnolia,

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Former Master didn't want us to get revenge because she was afraid of an unending chain of vengeance.

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Her body already lies with the earth and sky.

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The thing she cares the most about is Jin Mi.

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Seeing how you've sincerely repented,

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do not bring up this again. Pretend like it never happened.

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Yes.

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Promise me that in the future, us sisters will work together

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to follow our former master's order to protect Jin Mi.

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Yes, eldest sister.

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Immortal Jin Mi.

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Oh, I should call you High Immortal Jin Mi now.

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It's not a big deal.

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Are you here to visit His First Highness?

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You must not know yet, High Immortal.

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Heavenly Empress used "rebellion" as the reason

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to execute the birth mother that His First Highness recently reunited with.

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E-Executed?

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After His First Highness's birth mother died,

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he hasn't been sleeping or eating.

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You should try to urge him. He listens to you the most.

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Okay.

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Almighty deity.

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Mi'er.

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I just heard that your birth mother passed away.

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Although I don't know what happened,

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But Little Fish Immortal, you are a very kind person.

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Your birth mother must be a gentle and virtuous lady.

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I just recently remembered my childhood,

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I just learned who my birth mother is,

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I just recently acknowledged my mother,

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but I had to watch her die in front of me,

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while I was unable to do anything.

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Earlier, I also watched

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Rou Rou's soul getting destroyed just to save me.

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I also was unable to do anything.

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I can understand your feelings.

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When Rou Rou left, she told me these words.

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She told me to let go. There is this saying in the Mortal Realm,

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'The dead is already gone, while the living must continue to live on.'

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Your mother surely won't want to see how you are now,

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not eating and not sleeping. She won't want you to continue being dispirited.

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The dead is already gone, while the living must continue to live on.

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That's right.

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I think that it must be because they love us so much,

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that's why, they surely won't want to see us sad.

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Love?

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Mi'er, you seem to be a bit different from before.

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How am I different?

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I heard from Kuang Lu that Father Emperor has set our wedding date.

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You...what are your plans?

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What are your plans?

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If I tell him now that I don't want to,

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I'm sure that it will just make him sadder.

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While mother was alive,

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I wasn't able to stay by her sight and give her delight.

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Now, mother is dead.

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I want to request from Father Emperor to mourn for 3 years.

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Mi'er,

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presently, for me,

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you are the most important person. Are you willing to wait for me?

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I...

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Accompany me for a while, okay?

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Only when you're by my side do I not feel that angry,

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not feel that painful.

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♫ My left hand holds the ground, my right hand holds the sky. ♫

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♫ Lightning bolts erupt out of my palm print and go in ten directions. ♫

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♫ I quickly turn time into years. ♫

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♫ In three thousand lifetimes, I’ve seen it all. ♫

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♫ My left hand picks flowers, my right hand wields a sword. ♫

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♫ Between my brows, an entire ten thousand years’ of snow has fallen. ♫

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♫ One teardrop. ♫

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♫ That is who I am. ♫

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♫ My left-hand’s finger touches the moon, my right hand is selecting Red Threads ♫

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♫ to bestow upon you and I our desired and predestined love. ♫

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♫ In the moonlight. ♫

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♫ You and I. ♫

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♫ My left hand transforms into feathers, my right hand becomes scales. ♫

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♫ Some of my lives are spent in the clouds, some are in the forests. ♫

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♫ I’m willing to follow you and become a speck of dust ♫

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♫ in order to emerge in this mortal life. ♫

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♫ My left hands picks you up, my right hand lets go of you. ♫

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♫ When I clasp my palms together, you are completely drawn back into my heart. ♫

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♫ In the time it takes for one incense stick to burn. ♫

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♫ You and I, we become inseparable. ♫