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Wait! Come back!

Why did that guy run away?

Your Highness, did he get scared off by the bits of womens' makeup left on your face?

What's wrong?

He... has the Human Face Plague.

How is that possible?

Are you sure you saw correctly?

People with the Human Face Plague usually use fire to burn the diseased skin.

He still has the burn scars on his face from that.

But the disease went extinct along with the country of Xian Le a couple hundred years ago.

And the Human Face Plague is incredibly contagious.

There haven't been reports of any epidemic in the couple hundred li* around Mount Yu Jun.

T/N: li = unit of length, 1 li = 500 m

There is no way I was mistaken.

He has probably already been cured.

The scars are probably from a while ago.

Does that mean he has been alive for hundreds of years?

It's not impossible.

There's something very suspicious about this situation.

We best go back and notify Ling Wen.

Intensify the search and find that boy as soon as possible.

Heaven Official's Blessing

Episode Four

So that is how it is...

Human Face Plague...

It definitely cannot be taken lightly.

Don't worry, Your Highness.

Ling Wen Palace will do everything in their power to assist the search.

Mn.

What are you still worried about, Your Highness?

This reappearance of the Human Face Plague, do you think it might be...

Don't overthink it, Your Highness.

Let us save the conclusions until after we have gotten the results of the investigation.

Mn.

I have some more things I would like to tell you regarding Mount Yujun.

Let us talk about it in the Spiritual Communication Array.

As it happens, everyone is already discussing this matter anyway.

Look at the way he behaves!

How very kind of you.

I've had enough!

That Xuan Ji isn't even telling us where the Green Ghost is. She's just screaming about wanting to see Pei Ming.

Someone take her away.

General Nan Yang, all the other divine palaces are full.

Your palace is the only one available since it has just been rebuilt.

Please bear with her bothering you a little longer.

When we find a fitting mountain to imprison her–

Can't you go any faster?

Are you using my Nan Yang Palace as a mental asylum?

Do you have any empty rooms at your place, General Pei Jr.?

General Xuan Ji's character is rather stubborn and explosive.

You are probably the only one who can suppress her, General Nan Yang.

Ming Guang Palace really got into deep trouble this time.

Xuan Ji has already caused enough trouble, and now there's the situation with the Green Ghost Qi Rong.

The Green Ghost Qi Rong isn't something you see everyday.

The Green Ghost Qi Rong?

Excuse me, what is the situation with the Hanging Corpse Forest up on Mount Yujun?

Is the Green Ghost Qi Rong also nearby?

He is late.

He truly is His Highness the Crown Prince.

Sorry, I got held up by something on the way here.

Hmph.

The Green Ghost isn't on Mount Yujun,

but the Hanging Corpse Forest is a sacrifice made to him by Xuan Ji.

Again with the Hanging Corpse Forest.

Qi Rong's tastes are still rather unpleasant, as usual.

Even his own people are repulsed by his crude tastes.

F***! I don't care how crude his tastes are! Is Old Pei back yet?

Hurry up and find out where the Green Ghost is so you can take that psycho away!

Oh, Nie Yuan.

Just how large of an emotional debt did Old Pei rack up?

– That Xuan Ji sure is infatuated. – Maybe we can try getting General Pei to see her.

That's right. It will save us the upset from both above and below.

Even if we do let them meet, it wont work. It will just make her crazier.

Is Xuan Ji an underling of the Green Ghost?

Correct.

It has been hundreds of years since General Xuan Ji's death.

Her obsession was very strong, yet she was powerless to do anything about it,

until she met the Green Ghost Qi Rong and became his underling.

That was when she started causing trouble.

– General Pei Jr. is right. –

– – Xuan Ji may be strong in her grudges, but she doesn't have much spiritual power.

If not for Qi Rong taking her in, she wouldn't be able to cause any trouble.

It's a good thing we still have General Pei Jr. while Old Pei isn't around.

Wait. We do have to find Qi Rong, but Ming Guang Palace should make an effort towards it, too.

– Yeah, that's right! – Order.

The only reason we could settle the situation at Mount Yujun was all thanks to Xie Lian

along with the great help provided by the Xuan Zhen Palace, Nan Yang Palace and Ming Guang Palace.

Thank you all for going through the trouble.

As the main handler of this investigation, is there anything you would like to say, Your Highness?

There should also be a child spirit on Mount Yujun.

I heard them singing when I was in the sedan.

But the soldiers around me didn't see a thing.

These spirits probably have strong spiritual power.

Has anyone reported such things?

Child spirits? We didn't find any child spirits.

Since Your Highness was the only one to hear them, is it possible your ears were playing tricks on you?

This is indeed strange. Ming Guang Palace should act as an example and take the lead.

I don't care about this child spirit! Can we just take this ghost woman away?

When we find a suitable mountain, then...

My palace will revisit the investigation on the child spirits.

Is there anything else?

There is one more thing.

I met a young man in the mountains who could control silver butterflies.

Who is this person?

What did you just say, Your Highness?

– Don't silver butterflies mean it's that person? –

He is saying he met Hua Cheng?

What kind of crazy talk is that?

So his name is Hua Cheng?

The name kind of suits him.

Have you never heard anything about the Four Great Calamities, Your Highness?

It's not His Highness's fault.

He spent hundreds of years busying himself in the human world.

It's no surprise that he is not up to date with our affairs.

May I ask what the Four Great Calamities are?

Ahem.

The Four Great Calamities are four ghost kings.

Night Touring Green Lantern: Green Ghost Qi Rong is one of them.

He is the weakest of the Four Calamities. He isn't even a Devastation.

He has the worst taste too.

He is into all sorts of disturbing things and causes trouble everywhere.

And then there is the Black Ghost: Black Water Sinking Ships.

This ghost almost never shows its face and he seldom interferes with the heavenly affairs.

All we know is that his true form is a large water ghost.

And then there is the White-Robed Calamity.

He also goes by a different name, White No-Face.

The first country White No-Face brought destruction upon was...

Does Ling Wen Palace have a sore throat today?

Your Highness, White No-Face has been dead for hundreds of years.

I know. Don't worry about me.

Even if White No-Face was still alive, he is the least of our worries now.

Your Highness, the silver butterflies you saw are also called dead soul butterflies.

Their master is someone who the heavenly realm does not presently want to mess with,

Crimson Rain Sought Flower: Hua Cheng.

Hua Cheng definitely isn't his real name. And his appearance is definitely fake.

So what if it is fake?

Back in the day, he challenged 33 heavenly officials one after the other.

Who would be able to forget such a face?

Challenged 33 heavenly officials one after the other?

Hua Cheng had only just become noteworthy that year

and he immediately sent a challenge letter to 35 heavenly officials.

If he lost, he would surrender his bone ashes for us to do with as we pleased.

But the officials who lost must descend to the earthly realm and become mortal.

And so, 33 idiots accepted the challenge.

In the end, the martial gods couldn't win in a fight and the civil gods couldn't win in an argument.

Every single one of them was utterly defeated.

Afterwards, Hua Cheng asked them to fulfill their promise.

But everyone thought that since Hua Cheng was only a ghost,

he wouldn't have the bravery to go against the heavens even if he was particularly arrogant.

So they just pretended nothing happened.

Consequently, Hua Cheng burned down every shrine they had in the mortal realm to the ground.

Because a heavenly official's power is linked directly to their shrines and their worshippers,

those 33 heavenly officials all faded out of existence eventually.

And to make things worse, those idiots wanted to exercise their divine power and sent their followers messages about the challenges through their dreams.

When they lost, all these followers started worshipping Hua Cheng instead.

The heavens lost all their manpower and face.

How despicable.

How cunning.

The martial deities were all destroyed by that strange curved blade Hua Cheng uses.

We still get nervous talking about it all these years later.

The literary deities didn't have it any better.

He insulted them from the heavens to the earth, from ancient times to the present.

They got so angry that they vomited blood up through the clouds.

And then there are those crazed and devastating silver butterflies.

Yes, yes, yes. They've traumatised a lot of heavenly officials.

I thought those silver butterflies were pretty cute.

You said Hua Cheng challenged 35 heavenly officials and only 33 officials accepted.

What about the other two?

Oh yeah, General Xuan Zhen and Nan Yang, why do you two know so many details?

Of course those two know! How can they not know?

Why else?

Your Highness, was the person you met really Hua Cheng? Did he have any defining features?

Red robe, black boots, and he was holding an umbrella.

What did he do to you?

He broke Xuan Ji's maze array and showed me the way around.

Nothing else?

Nothing.

– Huh? That's… – That's not like him.

– Maybe he's plotting something. – Just what is Hua Cheng planning to do?

I don't know.

Everyone, two of the Four Great Calamities have made an appearance.

This is most likely some sort of scheme.

If we were to be misled by appearances and start arguing amongst ourselves, we might just be playing into the enemy's hand.

Yes.

There are too many suspicious events surrounding Hua Cheng. It's not a good idea to just keep guessing.

In my opinion, we should be focusing on the situation at hand instead of pointing fingers around.

Ming Guang Palace will put all its assets into the investigation.

What do you think, Ling Wen-zhenjun*?

*T/N: -zhenjun = respectful address for deities, persons with especially high cultivation

I think you're right. Our situation is far outside the usual.

I have to report to the Emperor, too.

Everyone, let us end it here for today.

Ling Wen Palace and His Highness the Crown Prince have also worked hard.

Goodbye.

– All right, I will take my leave. – See you.

Goodbye.

All right, I shall take my leave as well.

I shall take my leave, too.

I have to deal with that ghost woman. See you.

Nan Yang.

And Xuan Zhen.

The two officials from your palaces were a real help this time.

Thank you.

You worry too much about others, Your Highness.

You should worry more about yourself.

You don't think you can rely on only the followers at Mount Yujun to help you repay your debt of 8.88 million, right?

Don't you think so, General Nan Yang?

Hmph.

Someone come here and help me.

Yes.

You have to check these carefully.

Ugh.

Um, Ling Wen, let's discuss something.

Regarding the eight million eight hundred eighty thousand merits...

Your Highness, what a coincidence.

I also have things to discuss with you.

Congratulations, Your Highness.

The worshippers at Mount Yujun have given you votive offerings.

So, adding up the merit points

your debt has basically been wiped clean.

Huh? All of it?

But logically speaking, the offerings at Mount Yujun wouldn't be enough.

If it's cleared, then it's cleared.

You don't need to look too deeply into it, Your Highness.

Thank you.

By the way, what exactly happened here?

When the meeting ended the other day, I reported the situation with Hua Cheng to the Emperor.

As you can see, we are currently putting everything we have into the investigation.

Because of those years you were sent to the mortal realm, you don't know how much trouble he caused for the heavens.

You must have had it tough.

Let's stop talking about this.

What do your plans for the future, Your Highness?

That's part of the reason I came to see you.

I have already ascended three times for better or for worse,

and yet I don't have a single shrine or follower,

which is why I've caused you and the Emperor trouble.

I've been thinking...

I have to rely on myself in the future to survive.

And, look, I'm not particularly busy.

I can always descend to the mortal realm and build a shrine to worship myself.

Huh?

See you.

Wait!

What? Someone's living in that old house at the edge of the village?

This shrine is seeking charitable donations for repairs. Thank you for your meritorious act.

And it's a shrine now?

Who did that? Let's go take a look.

Welcome! Welcome!

Daozhang*,

*T/N: respectful address for Taoist/cultivator

Who is this shrine for?

This shrine is dedicated to the Crown Prince of Xian Le.

Who is that?

A certain His Highness the Crown Prince.

What does he do?

He mostly protects people from harm, I guess.

Does this Crown Prince give blessings of wealth?

I'm sorry, I don't believe so.

What about blessings of employment and promotions?

I don't believe he does those either.

Aiya, then there's no use worshiping him. No wonder the shrine is so meager.

Men fear finding a bad job, women fear finding a bad husband and Taoist priests fear worshiping a useless deity.

Why not switch to worshipping the water god instead?

He attracts wealth. You'll get a lot of incense offerings!

Or Ling Wen-zhenjun.

Maybe someone in our village will get first place in the imperial examinations.

Well...

Or you can worship that deity...

Which deity?

General Ju Yang*.

T/N: big penis euphemism, misspelling of original temple name.

You gotta work hard!

Aiya, it'd be great if it were Ling Wen-zhenjun.

General Ju Yang is better.

Yes, exactly!

We have a long future ahead of us.

The worshippers will come and the incense will come, too.

Got to spend more money to clean the place up.

And next up...

Divine Secrets.

Mysteries of the Ghost Realm.

I got a lot of good stuff this time.

It should sell for enough to pay for repairs.

You pay money to build a shrine and you get money collecting garbage.

Looks like collecting garbage is better that ascension after all.

Oh?

One of these actually mentions me?

The Crown Prince of Xian Le ascended three times,

Martial deity, Plague deity, Garbage deity.

At least I'm still a deity.

What's the difference between a Garbage deity and a Martial deity anyway?

All living things are born equal

All deities are equal

All deities are made equal and all living things are made equal.

Is that so?

People love talking about equality.

But if everyone really is made equal, would the major and minor deities of the heavens still exist?

I guess you're right.

The god of water, Wu Du, controls water and wealth.

Well, if he is a water deity, what does water have to do with luck and wealth?

The transportation of goods is usually done by boat,

so merchants would go to the god of water to ask for safe passage.

After a while, the god of water slowly became the god of wealth as well.

The god of water must be very powerful then.

Mn.

A water tyrant indeed.

A water tyrant?

As the ships travel the rivers, he sinks all those that did not give offerings.

That's why, he's the water tyrant.

So that's how it is.

You sure know a lot for someone so young, friend.

When idle, one can read all kinds of things.

You know about Gods. Then what about Ghosts?

Which ghost?

Crimson Rain Sought Flower: Hua Cheng.

Your Highness, please wait.

Though it might be bad luck to say this,

but you may see Hua Cheng again while travelling in the mortal realm.

So please keep one thing in mind.

Hua Cheng first emerged from Mount Tonglu.

It is a haunted place full of thousands of ghosts feasting on each other.

Any Ghost King who is able to rise above the others must be cunning, ruthless and unpredictable.

He may have been kind to you in the moment, but you mustn't let your guard down.

Avoid him as much as you can.