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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 the 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 1

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[ Hundred Flowers Palace of the Flower Realm ]

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Spread my decree that as of today, my child has left with me. (T/N euphemism for dying)

[ Zi Fen, Flower Deity ]

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If anyone leaks the truth, her primordial spirit will be destroyed.

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I shall obey.

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I will strictly follow Mistress' order. If I disobey it, I will personally destroy my primordial spirit.

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Let her take this.

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That's the Pellet that prevents anyone who takes it from ever falling in love.

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Mistress..!

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If one is heartless, she becomes strong. If one never loves, she stays carefree.

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This is the best blessing that I can give her.

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My child mustn't be like me.

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[ Cloud Nine Palace ]

Because of deep love and infatuation, I brought harm to myself.

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The Water Immortal, Luo Lin, is kind as water. The Wind Deity, Lin Xiu, is composed and virtuous.

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You two are a perfect match made in heaven.

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In this whole universe, I fear that we can't find another perfect marriage fate like yours.

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Drink this marriage wine. I wish you two shangshen an eternally-blissful marriage.

(T/N shangshen is a high-level immortal that has passed several cultivation trials)

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Starting today, you two must be of one mind and heart. Do your best to serve the Heavenly Emperor.

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If your eldest child is a son,

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he can be my son's sworn brother.

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If it's a daughter, she then can become my son's wife.

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If the friendship between us can continue with our younger generations,

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that will be a wonderful thing.

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What do you think?

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We will strictly obey Your Majesty's decree.

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Congratulations!

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Congratulations!

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Congratulations!

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Zi Fen, the decree of the Heavenly Emperor can't be disobeyed,

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but how are we going to endure this?

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In my heart, there is only you. Heaven and Earth can be my witness that I was never unfaithful to you.

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I only hope that you may remain like the bright and flourishing flowers and be free from worry.

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Live the rest of one's life in an ordinary manner like a dull cloud and flowing water.

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Let's call her "Jin Mi" then. (T/N jin for "splendor", mi means "to look")

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Yes.

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Welcoming the birth of the young deity, Jin Mi.

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Forego with the formalities. Once I die, don't make her a flower deity.

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It's best that she just become a carefree sanxian. (T/N an immortal without any official duty)

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Mistress, please reconsider. How can our Flower Realm have no ruler for a day?

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I have made my decision. Once I'm gone, you all

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must continue the

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Twenty-Four Solar Terms Flower Cycle, each one of you heading one of the four seasons.

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Yes.

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I will strictly obey Mistress' order.

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Just now, I focused and made some fortune calculations. This child might face

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a love trial within the next ten thousand years. Although she has taken in the Fallen Pellet,

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I still can't be at ease.

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Spread my decree that starting today,

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lock Jin Mi within the Water Mirror.

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She mustn't leave the Flower Realm for ten thousand years.

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Yes.

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Mistress!

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Mistress!

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During the end of summer of the Year of Heaven 28,613,

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the Flower Deity Zi Fen died and hundreds of flowers withered.

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After hearing such sad news, the Heavenly Emperor canceled court sessions for seven days.

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The Flower Realm mourned for their Flower Deity.

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The color of the whole world also grieved with them, with buds resisting and unwilling to bloom.

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For ten years, not one flower bloomed again. The colors in the world were gone.

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Only until after ten years, when the mourning had ended, did they start to compete for splendor and bloom magnificently once again.

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In the beginning, when the world existed, it was divided into yin and yang, separated by their purity and impurity.

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This is also the Heavenly Realm and Demon Realm that we know about.

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The mutual sympathy between yin and yang, their enshrouding union,

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formed the sun, moon, stars, and constellations; flowers, birds, bugs, and fishes.

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And following that, the division of good and bad, righteous and evil.

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Afterwards, all living things start to do self-cultivation.

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Cultivating into deities, immortals, monsters, and demons, and the humans who have flesh and blood.

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The Flower Realm initially belonged to the Heavenly Realm. Four thousand years ago, the Flower Deity died bearing a bitter grudge.

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The different fragrance chiefs separated from the Heavenly Realm and established their own kingdom.

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They became the sixth realm between heaven and earth.

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[ Water Mirror ]

The story of the past Flower Deity ends here today.

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Everyone, do you have any questions?

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Lao Hu!

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Lian Qiao.

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Everyone keeps mentioning about the six realms,

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"The Comprehensive History of the Six Realms", "The Testament of the Six Realms", or "The Historical Novels of the Six Realms".

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But in these books, the ones that are mentioned

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are just the Flower, Mortal, Heavenly, and Demon realms.

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What then are the other two realms?

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That's right... There are still two more realms.

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What are they?

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The great truth is weak and mustn't be told.

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What do you mean?

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- I can't say it.

- That's right. Just say it.

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You probably don't know it.

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Jin Mi! Jin Mi!

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Stop sleeping! Quickly wake up!

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Little Tao Tao! (T/N tao means "naughty", mimics her nickname of Putao - "Grape")

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What is it? Is it time to eat?

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Say you, other than eating, you sleep. Other than sleeping, you eat.

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Tell me, do you still know a third thing to do?

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It's fine. Today isn't the first nor the fifteenth day of the month. Head Fragrance Chief won't be coming.

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Jin Mi, have you forgotten what day it is today?

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Jin Mi! Jin Mi!

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Head Fragrance Chief.

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Head Fragrance Chief.

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No desire to progress.

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Head Fragrance Chief, did you remember the wrong date?

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Today isn't the first or the fifteenth of the lunar month!

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I'm doing an unannounced check.

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Head Fragrance Chief...

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This is what you learned in four thousand years?

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Your spiritual power is very low, your immortal magic is so crude and superficial, your immortal knowledge so ordinary.

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You can't even perform an average level of magic.

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Your comprehension isn't worse than others, and you are even a bit smart.

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- These past years, where have you been focusing your attention?

- Yes.

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Outside the Water Mirror is endless danger.

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Only by working hard to cultivate your spiritual power can you adequately protect yourself.

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If you want to leave the Water Mirror, stop idling around.

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Concentrate and train within your bounds.

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I understand. I will remember your teachings.

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Have you still not remembered what day it is today?

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Today?

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Today isn't the first nor the fifteenth.

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Lao Hu?

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A carrot?

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A white radish? (T/N lit. "white carrot")

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Lian Qiao,

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do you want to get punished with her?

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Drink carrot soup?

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I remember!

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Frost's Descent! (the eighteenth solar term)

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During Frost's Descent, we must drink carrot soup and cook some spareribs.

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Hence, today...

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Hence, today is the death anniversary of the Flower Deity.

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After the offering ceremony, you are punished to guard the tomb of the Flower Deity.

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Head Fragrance Chief, I...

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She's gone.

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That scared me.

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Jin Mi

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[ Qi Wu Palace ("Bird's Perch") ]

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My son, Xu Feng is doing his Nirvana,

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[ Zifang Yun Palace ]

He must train for forty-nine days.

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Tonight is his final phase.

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Lord Liaoyuan must help him finish his phase.

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Tonight, you must guard Qiwu Palace well

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and not let anyone go in.

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Remember! No one!

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I will follow the Heavenly Empress' orders.

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I think I know why the Head Fragrance Chief is extremely mad.

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I wonder if you know what might be the reason?

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Today is the past Flower Deity's death anniversary.

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The Flower Realm opens the Water Mirror every one hundred years,

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to let sprites with little cultivation from the Flower Realm to worship.

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It might be because the Head Fragrance Chief missed her old friend, that's why she's always so unhappy.

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The day before yesterday, I drafted a document to the Head Fragance Chief.

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I told her that I wanted to leave the Water Mirror.

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That's why she wanted to test your spiritual power.

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Little Tao Tao, are you under some spell?

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The outside world is really dangerous.

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There's already not many left of fruit immortals, fruit sprites,

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so if you go out, you might be eaten.

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But it's so wonderful to be in this boundary,

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it can let us focus on cultivation.

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I just want to go outside and have a look at what the book talks about,

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Mortal Realm, Heavenly Realm, Demon Realm, I want to go and look,

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and see how these places look. Even though we are in the Flower Realm,

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but staying in this Water Mirror, we don't even know how

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the Flower Realm looks like. I just don't understand.

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Why did the past Flower Deity make such a cage?

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And make us live in this fake water droplet?

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If it continues this way, I'll turn into a dry grape!

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Keep quiet, if the Head Fragrance Chief heard this, you'll get beaten up again.

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I'm telling you, outside is not fun at all, it's dangerous.

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Did you forget how much trouble you got into nine hundred years ago during the Flower Deity Festival?

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The Water Mirror is opening.

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It's true, it's true.

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It's really opening! It's real.

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Quickly.

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Quickly, come here.

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Jin Mi, it's time, let's go and worship the past Flower Deity.

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[ Flower Deity's Grave ]

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[ Memorial Tablet of the Flower Deity, Zi Fen ]

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Jin Mi, come and stand in the front.

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Did you do something wrong again?

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Kneel down.

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Me?

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She's still a sprite, Elder Sister, this doesn't seem appropriate.

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The great principles are simple. Everything comes from the heart.

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The past Flower Deity was kind to everyone, there isn't anything inappropriate.

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Be solemn.

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Kneel.

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Respect.

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Reminiscing your spiritual presence, it has now drifted away.

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Snapping off flowers to commemorate a lost person.

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Unending length, it's forever.

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I'm missing this beautiful woman so much.

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Fragrance Chief Peony.

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Fragrance Chief Begonia.

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Brought every sprite in the Flower Realm,

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using the utmost sincerity to pay the past lord's spirit with respect.

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Worship.

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Flower Rain? Flower Rain?

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It really is Flower Rain.

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It's really pretty.

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Jin Mi, quick come here.

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You'll be at peace with the Pellet guarding your body.

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Tonight will be the last phase of the Phoenix Nirvana.

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From 11 pm until 1 am, the Fire God's spiritual energy will be at it's weakest. At that time you can take action.

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I know.

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Benefactor Lord, if you don't have a secure plan,

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don't take any rash actions.

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Phoenix Nirvana only happens every five hundred years.

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I already waited for too long.

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I'll send other people to do this. You don't need to handle this anymore.

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Meet up with people from the Flower Realm as soon as possible.

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Yes.

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Lian Qiao are you alright?

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I'm fine.

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Just go first, you don't have to stay with me, I'll kneel here myself, it's fine.

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No, it's not. Best friends need to endure hardships together.

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You're worse off than I am, the Head Fragrance Chief put a "Body-Freeze" Spell on you.

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After the sun goes down the mountain and the spell is broken,

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your whole body will be numb, like needles sticking you everywhere.

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My mother is calling me.

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I'll go first then.

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Moth...

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er?

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(Chanting a spell.)

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Move!

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Grape, Grape, you can't even break a little "Body-Freeze" spell.

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What will you do?

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You can't be this way.

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Order,

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Mountains,

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Pour,

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Sea!

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You're hurting my pride too much. Am I really that useless?

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Lord Puchi.

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Yan You.

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Lord Puchi!

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Yan You.

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It's been nine hundred years, and you still can't remember.

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Yan You doesn't sound good at all. Do you know why?

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In the Flower Realm, there's a slug also called "Yan You".

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Ew! He looks very disgusting.

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I think "Lord Puchi" sounds better. It highlights your personality (T/N "Puchi" = breaking into laughter)

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and it's lively. Don't you agree?

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Lord Puchi? I don't like this name.

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However, you've been calling me that for nine hundred years, so I'm used to it.

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You're just a small monster from the pond.

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Why do you make such a ruckus every time you appear?

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Not only is it flashy, it's a waste of your spiritual powers.

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I...

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managed to easily collect one hundred years of spiritual powers. Take it to replenish yours.

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What nonsense!

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You worked so hard to collect these spiritual powers, but you're giving them to me.

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I wonder who was just struggling to break the immobilization spell just now?

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It was rather sad. Just take it back.

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Are you looking down on me?

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I really don't know what to do with you!

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That's more like it.

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Alright. Have it back.

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I also brought a gift for you.

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What is it? Food?

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Guess.

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I'm hungry right now.

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If you brought meat (rou) for me, that'd be great!

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Smart. You're half right.

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This is Rou Rou.

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The clouds and waters are vast. In the flick of a finger, thousands of years pass. (T/N time flies)

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These past years, you gave your spiritual powers all to me,

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claiming you want to repay me for saving you that day.

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Actually, I don't even need your spiritual powers.

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It's enough to have you occasionally keep me company and chat with me.

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Actually, I... I'm not giving you spiritual powers

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all because of you.

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If that day, I hadn't insisted on dragging her to go play outside the Water Mirror,

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we wouldn't have met Qiong Qi.

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If we hadn't met Qiong Qi...

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Thus, I'm doing this

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to atone for my sins.

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I know you're still hung up over her. That's why I'm showing you

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that your most beloved friend is with you in a different form.

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Lord Puchi, can she still turn back into

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the Rou Rou who can talk, sing, run, and jump around?

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About that...

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There's a slight chance if you can find Golden Immortal Da Luo.

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Golden Immortal Da Luo? Can I find him in the Heavenly Realm?

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You cannot see him,

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unless you cultivate yourself into an immortal.

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I can't even leave this small Water Mirror.

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Everything is in vain, except for cause and effect.

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Don't be engrossed in the past. It's time to let go.

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Focus on cultivating yourself. One day,

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Succulent Immortal will wake up and turn back into the Rou Rou from your memories.

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[ Star-Viewing Platform ]

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Today is the Frost’s Descent, the tail of the Fire Tiger.

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Set the nine-starred Tail Mansion.

(One of the 28 mansions of the Chinese constellations)

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Your Highness the God of Night.

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Your Highness the God of Night.

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- Lord Liaoyuan.

- Why is Your Highness here at night?

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Just now, I was on duty at the north Heavenly Gate and saw a man in black clothes barge in

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and run all the way here. Did you see him, Lord Liaoyuan?

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I have not. Did any of you see a man in black clothes?

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- No.

- No.

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Now is the critical moment of Xu Feng's rebirth in Nirvana.

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I am afraid that man in black clothes wants to hurt Xu Feng.

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Lord Liaoyuan, please come in with me to catch him.

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Heavenly Empress has ordered that Qiwu Palace must remain closed tonight.

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Nobody is to disrupt.

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Your Highness, please forgive me.

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Alright, then. I fought with the man in black clothes earlier.

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His spiritual powers are strong, and his cultivation is amazing.

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Lord Liaoyuan, please be cautious.

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Your Highness the God of Night is a good brother of the Second Prince, my master,

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and I am touched by this bond. I will be on high alert.

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Since that is the case, I will see you later.

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A shooting star?

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I heard mortals say that if you wish upon a shooting star, your dreams will come true!

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But there is an enchantment here. Will it take away from the effects?

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Never mind, I will just give it a try.

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I want to see Golden Immortal Da Luo!

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What is that? It smells burned.

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So stinky!

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It looks like a bird.

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First roasted, then frozen.

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Freezing already-cooked food?

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What method of cooking is this?

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This is a bird?

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I see a "duo" of bird! (T/N "duo" is used to express quantity of flowers)

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It's called a "zhi" of bird. (T/N "zhi" is used to express quantity of birds)

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His flowers and leaves are so hard.

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Those are his feathers.

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It's just a little stinky.

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A crow. He's a crow!

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A crow? How do you know?

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I read Lao Hu's "Encyclopedia of Species of the Six Realms".

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This is what crows look like. That's definitely right. He's a crow.

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But why isn't he moving? Is he dead?

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Don't panic.

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No, he's not dead yet. He's still breathing.

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Let's save him and then raise him!

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In the mortal realm, there's a saying:

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"Buddha is said to be benevolent."

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How could we just watch him die?

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Let's save him!

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Will this really save him?

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Don't worry. This is how we all grew up.

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Give him some water.

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Tomorrow, he can get some sun. Then, he'll be better!

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Little crow, you must live.

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We'll come visit you in a few days.

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Here's some water.

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- Let's go!

- Okay.

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[ Cloud Nine Heavenly Palace ]

Your Majesty, His Highness the Second Prince went missing during his rebirth.

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What is going on? Lord Liaoyuan, explain yourself.

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I used the Jiuyao Flame to burn for forty-nine days to help His Highness in his rebirth.

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Today is the forty-ninth day.

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Unexpectedly, after the fire was extinguished,

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- His Highness disappeared.

- How could this happen?

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In your opinion, what variables were present

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during Xu Feng's trial this time?

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I have one more thing to report.

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Say it!

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Little crow! Little crow!

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Little crow! You are so weird.

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Our enchantment is too strong to break. How did you get in?

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Still no reaction?

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Fine. Fine. I don't give these to just any ordinary person.

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This is a fragrant nectar that I created

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using a hundred kinds of flowers. I've stored this for five hundred years.

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Let me test it on you.

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Let's see if it will work.

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It worked!

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How come you're dead again?

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Oh, no, Lian Qiao will surely get disappointed.

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But since you're able to break this enchantment,

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you surely aren't some simple crow.

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Are you a crow that's enlightened?

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If that's the case, burying you to become flower fertilizer is too wasteful.

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And you even ate this precious nectar of mine.

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Why don't...

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Why don't I cook and eat you?!

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It's you then...

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Little crow!

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Little crow...

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Little crow!

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Little crow, why did you become this big?

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If you became this big, how can you still fit in this?

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If I'm unable to fit you in here, how can I still cook you?

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But I heard that immortals or strange spirits have internal pellets or yuan spirit. (T/N remnants even after death of energy)

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All his cultivation are gathered in it.

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If I'm able to find your internal pellet and eat it,

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won't that equate to eating you too?

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Little Grape, you're so smart!

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Weird. How come this part of him isn't the same as mine?

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I got it!

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This is the internal pellet. This will surely increase my spiritual energy.

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Who are you?

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D-Daoyou, you're awake. (T/N Daoyou refers to a friend that cultivates with you)

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What kind of monster are you?

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I'm not a little monster!

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I said that I'm not a little monster.

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Although I'm just a fruit sprite, I'm earnestly cultivating fruit sprite.

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I'm not some little monster.

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Since you're awake,

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then just call me Savior.

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One doesn't leave one's name when doing acts of kindness. That's the good tradition of our Water Mirror spirits.

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Savior? Your waving the knife at me earlier was also to save my life?

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Yes, that was indeed what I was doing.

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I was...

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Daoyou, you fell in my backyard today and was severely injured. Out of kindness, I saved you.

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Just to save you, I fed you the nectar that I created based on a personal secret recipe. Only then did you show some improvements.

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Oh, right. I saw how shabby your clothes are. I initially planned to help you change your clothes.

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But I unexpectedly saw that you have a defect in your dantian vital energy sea. (T/N acupoint 2 in/5 cm below navel)

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It's not bad to have a physical defect,

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but you are still different from others.

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Since I saved you today, I plan to do good until the end.

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Come... Lie down. I'll treat your sickness now.

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Daoyou, lie down.

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What are you doing?

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You are a woman? Don't you know that men and women shouldn't be intimate?

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- What men and women shouldn't be intimate?

- You being this unruly is so scandalous!

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I only know that flowers and trees are different, that humans, fishes, birds, and beasts are different.

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I never heard about men and women being different.

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You...

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Considering that you're still young,

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and were born in this remote and rural place, I won't make a fuss with you anymore.

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There is indeed no point for a fruit like me to bicker with a bird.

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For a low-level sprite like she is, how come she has this kind of spiritual hair pin?

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Don't know where it came from.

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Since...we now know each other,

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we're friends then.

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Since we're friends, just rest here first. I'll go get you some food to eat.

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Just rest.

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Daoyou! It's time to eat!

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Hurry up.

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Sit.

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You eat those yourself.

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Why? Don't crows like you love to eat worms?

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You little monster, who told you that I'm a crow?

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You're not a crow? Could it be that you're a magpie?

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Is there any spring water here?

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Please come with me.

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It's quite sweet and refreshing. Not bad.

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Daoyou...never thought that your magical skills were that great!

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Although I know some transforming magic,

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it's impossible for me to create objects out of nowhere.

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Old Hu also can't do it, but Head Fragrance Chief can.

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Daoyou...how long did it take you to learn this kind of magical skill?

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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. ♫