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Adapted from Ergen's novel, Beyond Time's Gaze

♪All living beings open their eyes♪

♪Heaven and Earth shift over Wanggu's realm♪

♪Endless seas of blood expand♪

♪Beyond time's gaze, boundless Heaven and Earth♪

♪Fallen mountains fail to bury skeletal remains♪

♪Mortals dissolved by blood rain into city dust♪

♪Irrigating human hearts into a sea of desolation♪

♪Bearing flesh and blood upon withered mountains♪

♪Marching to battle against the heaven-defying hilt♪

♪With mortal courage, forging a grand revolution♪

♪To overturn Heaven and flip the Earth♪

Beyond Time's Gaze Nian Fan

R E C A P

These poison worms of mine

can continue to evolve further.

I hope the day never comes

where I truly have to test these tiny black worms against a Core Formation expert.

Xu Qing.

You'd better see for yourself.

My dear friend Grandmaster Bai...

T/N: 紫土 (Zǐ Tǔ - "Purple Earth"). An ancient sovereign human sanctuary territory in Wanggu. Renowned as a sacred center of medicine and alchemy, it is governed by the Eight Great Clans with rigid social caste laws, where commoners are strictly forbidden from cultivating.

in Purple Earth...

was assassinated this morning.

Episode 40 Libations and Scriptures Before the Grave

My dear friend Grandmaster Bai...

in Purple Earth...

was assassinated this morning.

Kid.

You answer.

Kid,

starting tomorrow,

come inside the cabin to listen to the lessons.

As long as you don't die,

we will meet again eventually.

Will we meet again eventually...?

Xu Qing.

I'm...

all right.

Are there any clues about the killer?

Speculated to be the Guiyou Clan.

T/N: 诡幽族 (Guǐ Yōu Zú - "Guiyou Clan" / "Ghostly Secluded Clan"). An insidious alien race capable of parasitizing living beings marked with their sigil. When possessing a host, they erase the host's soul, turning them into walking puppets and allowing the Guiyou cultivator to resurrect repeatedly.

This race can parasitize and resurrect within marked living beings,

making them exceedingly difficult to eradicate.

After committing the murder,

the killer seized what Grandmaster Bai had sealed away:

the lower volume of the Lunar Paragon Transformation Pill recipe.

T/N: 太阴化骄丹 (Tài Yīn Huà Jiāo Dān - "Lunar Paragon Transformation Pill"). A taboo, evil alchemical elixir. It uses the blood and cultivation of captured young geniuses (paragons) as primary ingredients, allowing an ordinary mortal to artificially transform into a peerless genius.

Lunar Paragon Transformation Pill High-Tier Taboo Elixir

This pill is vicious to the extreme.

It uses chosen paragons as its primary medicinal ingredient;

consuming it allows ordinary mortals to become heaven-defying geniuses.

Grandmaster Bai obtained the lower volume by chance,

intending to find an opportunity to secretly destroy it.

Who could have expected...

This matter,

is nobody investigating it?

Grandmaster Bai was merely a mortal without cultivation;

those over in Purple Earth couldn't care less.

After symbolically locking down all outward teleportation from Purple Earth,

there was no further action.

If Purple Earth won't investigate,

I will.

I will open a concealed teleportation array for you shortly.

You can activate it using your identity medallion.

Remember,

the key in a murder-for-hire

is the mastermind behind the scenes.

Teleport.

to Purple Earth Capital.

A child who grew up in an apocalyptic wasteland

has rarely tasted warmth.

When someone was willing to teach him skills,

he would probably remember it for a lifetime.

Back then,

I seemed to be much the same.

Lunar Paragon Transformation Pill...

The chosen geniuses who vanished in recent years...

Senior Brother Chen...

Sixth Uncle.

Disciple has certain evidence and conjectures:

we may be able to uncover the truth of Senior Brother Chen's murder back then.

I request Sixth Uncle

to grant disciple permission to lock down the sect.

Granted.

In my capacity as a Seven Blood Eyes Sequence disciple,

with the authority of Seventh Peak's Eldest Senior Brother,

and my position as Director of the Seventh Peak Intelligence Division:

I invoke the Sect Grand Defensive Formation!

Shut down all teleportation arrays of Seven Blood Eyes!

Seal off Seven Blood Eyes' ports!

Let all foreign vessels traveling to and from Seven Blood Eyes

be forbidden from leaving port,

and forbidden from entering port!

Little A'Qing,

all your senior brother can do

is this much.

I hope you can uncover the truth smoothly.

Over the years,

the chosen geniuses who vanished at sea...

their numbers are quite considerable.

Purple Earth Capital

T/N: 紫土都城 (Purple Earth Capital) - The sprawling sovereign capital of Purple Earth, governed by the Eight Great Clans and the Zhou Clan Imperial Court.

Continue locking down the teleportation grand array!

Inbound only, no outbound!

Anyone without a medallion issued by the Eight Great Clans

T/N: 杀无赦 (Shā wú shè - lit. "Killed with zero pardon"). A classic imperial and sect martial law decree indicating immediate summary execution with no leniency for anyone violating the teleportation array quarantine.

may not leave through the teleportation array!

Violators

shall be executed without mercy!

Greetings, Noble Lord!

Mercy!

Noble Lord, spare our lives!

Noble Lord, spare our lives!

Yes, sir!

This lowly one was blind and foolish,

offending the Noble Lord!

Are you blind?!

This lowly one deserves death!

If any harm came to the Noble Lord,

even ten of your lives wouldn't be enough to pay for it!

Bah!

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Go investigate.

Report immediately if there are any developments.

Regarding Grandmaster Bai's matter,

what does the Bai Clan say?

What else could they say?

After all, he was merely from a collateral branch.

T/N: 进不了祖坟 / 庶出 (Jìn bù liǎo zǔ fén). In traditional clan hierarchy, children born of concubines (庶出) and members of collateral branches without cultivation are considered secondary and denied burial in the ancestral family graveyard, regardless of merit.

No matter how great his contributions,

he was still born of a concubine.

He cannot be buried in the ancestral graves;

that is the rule of Purple Earth.

However,

that room full of pill formulas of his is worth a fortune.

Right now, the various branch lines of the Bai Clan

are fighting tooth and nail over them!

Even as branch lines, they are still a prominent clan;

to make things so unsightly,

aren't they ashamed?

Yuanzhi Grass:

its flavor is bitter.

When its medicinal properties are nearly spent,

it can be consumed.

Angelica...

This is...

T/N: 草木药典 (Cǎo Mù Yào Diǎn - "Herbal Pharmacopeia"). The medical treatise compiled by Grandmaster Bai. Having no cultivation, he tasted hundreds of toxic herbs himself like the mythical Emperor Shennong, seeking cures to relieve ordinary mortals from illness and poison.

the Herbal Pharmacopeia.

Externally, it has

miraculous effects in expelling cold and warding off evil;

internally, it resolves...

internally, it resolves...

internally resolves the stagnation of melancholy thoughts.

May I ask, Elder,

this Herbal Pharmacopeia,

where did you learn it from?

Young people truly have great memories!

This is Grandmaster Bai's Cold-Dispelling Powder.

Indeed.

This humble old man, unworthy as I am,

also received Grandmaster Bai's teachings.

Back then,

I was merely a lowly slave of the Chen Clan.

I made a mistake and was nearly beaten to death.

It was Grandmaster Bai who took me in.

He treated my wounds,

and even cured my mother's illness.

He also told us:

Young Grandmaster Bai

"Don't kneel.

From now on,

stand up!

Never kneel again."

He knew countless spirit herbs.

Some he learned from books,

while others,

he tasted and discovered himself.

For this,

he suffered no small amount of hardship.

Teacher!

Teacher!

I found it!

I found it!

I once asked Grandmaster Bai

what kind of path he wished to walk.

He answered like this:

"In this world,

ordinary mortals are born lowly

and die in silence.

The noble lords refuse to look,

refuse to care.

I thought to myself:

someone must

do what they will not do."

Grandmaster Bai,

lost a great deal,

yet he also gained a great deal.

I heard that although Grandmaster Bai came from a great clan of Purple Earth,

he was completely different from those people.

Indeed.

As for the reason,

I asked him about it years ago.

Teacher,

disciple has always wondered:

why do you not cultivate magical arts

like the other nobles?

Me?

I was once an official.

Later, I spoke words that should not have been spoken;

my cultivation was crippled, and my scholarly teachings were banned.

Here in Purple Earth,

T/N: 尊卑有序 (Zūn bēi yǒu xù - lit. "Order between noble and lowly"). Purple Earth enforces a rigid caste system where mortals are treated as hereditary servants ("A slave for one lifetime, a slave for generations"). Grandmaster Bai's cultivation was crippled because he advocated education for commoners.

order between noble and lowly is absolute;

the rules are rigid and severe.

Commoners may not cultivate dharma,

and may not seek scholarship.

A slave for one lifetime,

a slave for generations.

Mother,

is that the person who said

he wanted even lowly commoners to study?

I wanted to try

changing things.

"That is a sinner!"

The wicked are draped in golden sashes,

T/N: 恶者金带加身，善者横祸临门 (È zhě jīn dài jiā shēn, shàn zhě héng huò lín mén). "The wicked are draped in golden sashes, while the virtuous suffer calamity." A poignant proverb lamenting a corrupt world where ruthless scoundrels prosper in high office while benevolent healers suffer violent deaths.

while the virtuous suffer calamity.

This world...

should not be like this.

But Teacher,

the world has always been like this;

how could the strength of one person ever change it?

Martial might can kill;

the Dao of medicine can save.

The world is sick,

yet human hearts...

can still be healed.

When the day comes that I depart,

these medical tomes will still be passed down.

You all

will also pass all you have learned

to even more children.

After Grandmaster Bai passed away,

everyone's morale scattered.

This academy fell into ruin.

Though I am just an old man with half a foot in the grave,

I still wish to rebuild the academy,

so that Teacher's unfinished work

can continue onward.

Elder,

rebuilding the academy...

I entrust it to you.

Th-This...

so much!

Purple Earth Public Cemetery

T/N: 紫土公墓区 (Purple Earth Public Cemetery) - Denied burial in the Bai Clan ancestral tombs due to his concubine birth and lack of cultivation, Grandmaster Bai was laid to rest in this common cemetery.

Tingyu Lin Clan Direct Lineage Grandmaster Bai's Direct Disciple

Chen Feiyuan Young Master of Chen Clan Two-Fire Mid Foundation Establishment

Teacher always spoke of him fondly.

Tell me,

will he come?

That white-eyed wolf is now a Seven Blood Eyes Sequence,

T/N: 白眼狼 (Bái yǎn láng - lit. "White-eyed wolf"). A famous Chinese idiom denoting a heartless ingrate who turns against their benefactor. Grandmaster Bai's junior student cynically assumes Xu Qing abandoned his mentor after rising to power in Seven Blood Eyes.

standing in high and mighty status.

How could he possibly care about such a fragile master-disciple bond?

He is not that kind of person;

he will definitely come.

Even if he comes, what of it?

A wanted criminal

cannot take a single step in Purple Earth.

For Teacher's matters,

we cannot rely on anyone else.

This vengeance,

we will exact ourselves!

Young Master,

the hidden chess pieces you nurtured over the years

have all been activated.

Have them closely monitor

the movements of Core Formation experts among the Eight Great Clans.

Whatever they want,

I can provide.

Understood.

Xu Qing was right not to meet with us.

Tingyu's mind is simple and pure;

if a clue were exposed and noticed by others,

someone would inevitably be swayed by the Sea Corpse Clan's bounty.

T/N: 海尸族 (Hǎi Shī Zú - "Sea Corpse Clan"). The primary aquatic enemy civilization warring against Seven Blood Eyes. They placed an immense continent-wide bounty on Xu Qing's head after he killed their Dao Seed and restricted zone guardian in previous battles.

The Sea Corpse Clan's bounty

holds immense attraction for those old fogies in Purple Earth.

Perhaps Master's death

will also be used as bait to fish for Xu Qing.

Has everything been arranged?

Everything has been properly arranged.

There is no other way;

I cannot trust you all either.

Teacher.

I will find the murderer,

and find the mastermind behind the scenes.

You loved drinking wine;

disciple will drink with you.

Teacher,

the herbal scriptures you left before departing,

disciple has memorized in full,

etched into my heart.

I will recite them for you:

Plant the first:

Golden Button Grass,

also named Three-Leaf Pearl

and Cold-Dispelling Herb.

A Cyperaceae plant,

the whole herb of the single-spike water centipede.

A perennial herb,

growing under hillside forests

and damp wild places.

Distributed across

Distributed across

southern Nanhuang,

Lingyou,

and Guangling prefectures.

Plant the second:

Night Corpse Morning Glory,

also named Poison Mountain-Root Vernonia.

The vine stem of fine-veined Vernonia, family Asteraceae,

and its roots.

A woody vine,

growing in corpse-shade ravines,

chilly streamsides, or deep jungles.

Possesses miraculous efficacy in dispelling wind and relieving exterior syndromes.

Plant one hundred and thirty-seven:

Soul-Blending Mist,

also named Heaven Closes Its Eyes.

Very concealed...

It is the scent of the Twelve-Hour Dissolving Decay Pill.

The primary ingredient of this pill is Soul-Blending Mist,

capable of leaving behind a tracking mark!

The murderer

must have been tainted with this scent.

This is the clue to finding the killer!

This scent,

have you memorized it?

Memorized.

Search for me!

Not this one.

Next.

Not this one.

Not enough.

Still not enough.

Found him!

Although Purple Earth has locked down the teleportation array,

based on estimates,

after three days at most,

one will be able to depart.

I've been discovered!

Bind!

What is this thing?!

My body cannot move!

T/N: 煞火吞魂经 (Shà Huǒ Tūn Hún Jīng - "Fiendish Fire Soul-Devouring Scripture"). Xu Qing's core cultivation art from Seven Blood Eyes, utilizing life fires, soul devouring, and the primordial Golden Crow to suppress and incinerate enemy souls and magical bodies.

Seven Blood Eyes' Fiendish Fire Soul-Devouring Scripture!

I have no grievance or enmity with Seven Blood Eyes;

what is the meaning of this, Fellow Daoist?!

What is my meaning?

I want you...

to DIE.

No soul can be refined.

It seems living beings marked by the Guiyou Clan,

upon being possessed,

have their divine souls instantly obliterated,

becoming walking corpses driven by their will.

Truly vicious.

Did he escape?

The Golden Crow only seized a sliver of his origin.

But no matter;

intense emotional turbulence can shake his mind.

Once he falls into anxiety and terror,

I should be able to siphon out more.

Once his origin is depleted,

he will surely turn to the mastermind behind him for help.

Continue the hunt.

Who on earth is that guy?!

Not only could he track me down,

but he directly obliterated my host body,

which had combat prowess comparable to two Life Fires!

Damn it!

This mission was originally simple;

how did such a bizarre, terrifying cultivator show up?!

Calm down.

I am currently inside the Zhou Clan Imperial Palace.

If that person dares infiltrate without authorization...

Wh-Wh-What's happening?!

Who's there?

What's all the racket in the middle of the night?!

Old Wang!

You...

what's wrong with you?

Old Wang!

Y-Y-You...

you've b-b-been possessed by an evil spirit!

You...

what do you want to do?!

Quick, call for help!

My Master...

sends his regards to you.

What on earth

is going on?!

The game...

has only just begun.

"Supreme Sage Healer: Grandmaster Bai" (至圣医师·柏大师): A parody chronicle depicting Grandmaster Bai's life and philosophy of "teaching all without discrimination" (有教无类). Born into a collateral branch with thin bloodline, his attempts to break clan monopolies resulted in expulsion and stripped cultivation ("Hellish start, sadly had no cheats! Never bully a poor youth!"). Despite having only a mortal body, he tasted hundreds of herbs to upgrade "Herbal Pharmacopeia" from v1.0 to v2.0 (parodying "5 Years Herb Gathering, 3 Years Herb Grinding"). He traveled the realm healing commoners, proclaiming "Mortals may not achieve immortality, but all mortals can be healed, " before passing the treatise to Xu Qing to make medicalDao flourish, only for a guilty, weeping Xu Qing to confess: "Sorry Master, I've already twisted it into the Way of Poison!" Summary: "In this chaotic world, one still needs some martial arts..."

Purple Earth Annals (紫土): Ancient imperial capital of Nanhuang. Established by refugees following the collapse of the Wanggu Continent's Ziqing Superior Nation during the era of Human Sovereign Jingyun. Centuries later, the subordinate Eight Great Clans usurped the throne, turning rebellion into orthodox rule and dividing the capital into eight clan territories. Bound strictly by bloodline rank and feudal tradition, they despise commoners and foreigners alike while perpetually feuding amongst themselves.

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♪Winds rise, heart distraught♪

♪Whose streamer stirs?♪

♪My aim, the far shore bright♪

♪Joy and grief, jested light♪

♪Rain drifts, snow descends slow♪

♪Staining my ragged robe♪

♪Mortal world's tangled strife♪

♪What's it to my life?♪

♪All mortal realm♪

♪Lies in empty dream♪

♪Foolish longing's spell♪

♪Craving joy hard to quell♪

♪Who can grant my plea?♪

♪Sever mortal ties free♪

♪Wait till I break free from retreat♪

♪See♪

♪The world♪

♪Is nothing but a scroll of paintings♪

♪All longing, all clinging ache♪

♪Are merely fleeting dreams♪

♪Laugh not at my mad, foolish way♪

♪Mourn not my endless sea of dismay♪

♪I'll turn sun and moon to a brand-new day♪

♪No envy of immortals' sway♪

♪Who wakes first from life's grand dream?♪

♪No reckless, wild extreme♪

♪Simply let it be♪

♪My heart pure, void of vanity♪

♪Whose doom shall draw near?♪

♪Fearless of endless dark year on year♪

♪Just♪

♪Watch and see♪

♪I tread free beneath stars and moon's glow♪