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♫ Waking up before midnight, I’m as confused as the ocean ♫

♫ The stars forget to shine ♫

♫ We were children ♫

♫ We’ve been children born on this boat ♫

♫ The ark that people talk about is like a small boat ♫

♫ You could hear whispering through deck ♫

♫ Its flag sways in rainstorms ♫

♫ But humans’ endless disputes ♫

♫ push you and me to two most distant sides with ♫

♫ heresies, extremes and abandoned regrets ♫

♫ When have that thousands of thousands layers of color ♫

♫ quietly blossomed through the end of dark night? ♫

♫ On the top of clouds, ♫

♫ that ray is like a crown. ♫

[Magic Star]

~ Episode 21 ~

A Ji Ya?

A Ji Ya.

A Ji Ya, listen to me.

Say it.

Actually that year...

Hey, A Ji Ya.

Our fathers are all dead.

Can't we just let these grudges end here?

We've been through so many sufferings and happiness.

Can you bear abandoning all these things?

I just want to know what is written on the secret files.

At the night of mid-autumn in the 17th year of Chengxuan:

Seize the Magic Star for His Majesty.

King Salin died because of this.

Only one child escaped.

The main merit for this mission belonged to Bai De Ming.

He was awarded the Mystical Dragon Medal.

A Ji Ya, don't be rash!

Move out!

A Ji Ya!

Let go.

A Ji Ya, I understand your feelings.

Rest assured.

They won't be able to live for long.

I need to get revenge for my dead parents!

Now you have to think about the bigger picture!

The bigger picture?

What bigger picture?

Have you known what Elder Zhao Ran needs the Magic Stars for?

Other than lowering your head and selling your life to him, what else do you know?

Let me ask you, what is the destiny of those young children?

Why have I never seen Elder Zhao Ran give them any lectures?

You tell me what these are all for!!

A Ji Ya, the Illuminati now are no longer the same as the one in the past.

I know this.

Now no one can go against the words of Elder Zhao Ran.

You don't believe me, do you?

Don't dare to go against?

Don't tell me, you are just going to watch Elder Zhao Ran destroy the entire Illuminati?

There will come a suitable time.

Seems like Gong Zi Xu's efforts cannot stop A Ji Ya.

Then let me.

- Move! - Move!

What are you doing?

Take her away!

Chase after her!

After her!

Stay put!

I've decided to go down the mountain tomorrow.

Have you obtained the whereabouts of the Magic Stars?

It has nothing to do with the Magic Stars.

Then why are you so eager to leave?

Reporting!

Boss, the woman from Casual Guests' Inn has suddenly came here!

She says she wants to see you immediately!

She came at a good time.

- Invite her in! Invite her in! Invite her in! -Yes!

Why did she come all the way here?

She opens an inn so she is very well-informed.

Her knowing that isn't surprising.

Why are you leaving? It's not like she'll eat you.

Sit down!

Welcome! Welcome!

Let's all eat some seeds together.

I have hot tea. Do you want some?

Do you want?

I say what occasion is it today?

It is so rare for this mess of a place to have a woman,

but today there are two!

I've really met my luck.

Cut the crap.

Today we aren't here to talk about the matters between the two of us.

I'm here because there is something of utmost importance,

that I need the help of the both of you.

Say it!

All of you leave.

Yes!

Better now?

What are you doing now!

Just speak properly.

Okay, okay. I'll accompany you. I'll accompany you...

Hey, what are the two of you doing now?

Hurry and get up!

Enough!

If you are going to continue sobbing,

I don't have the patience to stand here all day.

Heard that? Hurry and get up.

Hey...

Why do girls always listen to you so well?

Let's do this instead.

I'll speak for Miss Qian Meng.

Speak!

Miss Qian Meng was the Imperial Doctress in the palace.

This time she came to Yanjiao Town because she is looking for Bai Ze, Yuan Shuai,

and Zhan Xiong Fei and the other descendants of the Heaven Strategy Envoys

to help save His Majesty.

What? What?

Save who? Save His Majesty?

That's right.

His Majesty is now in Ding Song's hands.

To be honest, the situation became this way

that we have to take responsibility.

Ding Song used demonic magic to kill General Su and other important ministers.

His Majesty sensed that he was in danger.

So he had come to Casual Guests' Inn together with Eunuch Cao awhile ago.

He was looking for Bai Ze and the rest.

But when they arrived, Bai Ze and the others had left already.

Are you saying... they were the two people I saw that time?

Right. It was those two.

After that, Ding Song let Ma Shun

capture Eunuch Cao and His Majesty back to the palace.

He locked them in the prison.

Then used demonic magic to transform another person into the likeness of His Majesty.

He wanted to use the fake emperor to abdicate the throne to him.

But I took the fake one as the real one and got him out of there.

Thus destroying his plans.

Now Bai Ze and the others are looking for the Magic Stars,

I don't know where they are, either.

But to save His Majesty,

it is something that cannot be delayed.

So, after thinking,

I decided that the only people who can help us now

are the two of you.

As long as I can rescue His Majesty,

he will definitely reward you

all the luxury of many lifetimes!

Forget it.

He cannot even save himself.

How can he speak so grandly?

I am willing to guarantee that

if this promise is not kept

then I am willing to be a cow or a horse in my next life to repay you two.

You don't need to say that.

But those two people, if not for me chasing after them,

they also would not have been captured.

Fine.

Take it as I owe them a favor.

I will definitely help you.

Qian Yi Shou has already agreed to help.

Ma Da Dao, what about you?

Hmm...

I really regret inviting you into this place.

I just ended up searching for trouble on my own.

What happened?

It looks like someone searched the entire place!

It must be because of the Magic Star!

- That must be the case. - Oh, no. Oh. no.

My treasure.

Treasure?

Where is the Magic Star?

Oh, thank goodness.

My small wooden horse!

The small wooden horse wasn't stolen by others.

All my treasures are here! All my treasures are here!

They are all here.

This...

The clothes that I patched.

If little Biao Zi sees them he will definitely like them.

I actually thought it was something precious.

It's just these small trinkets.

Children's clothing?

And children toys?

Little Biao Zi, this is the peach wood sword that you liked the most.

When you hold onto this peach wood sword,

you surely can eliminate the oppressors and protect the good citizens and steal from the rich to help the poor.

Guess what I've brought for you!

What is it? Give it to me!

Do you like it?

Yes, I do, Father.

Look at me!

Little Biao Zi, you're doing pretty good.

Come, fight with Father!

Okay!

Father, you dropped something!

Oh, it's nothing.

Come let's continue!

Zhan Xiong Fei.

Zhang Xiong Fei, what's wrong with you?

When I was little, I also had such a peach wooden sword.

This old man is really so like my father.

But... I can't remember what my father look liked anymore.

Is it because you thought about your father that's why you're a bit sad?

Old man, where is the Magic Star exactly?

There seems to be someone in there! Come with me to take a look!

Yes!

Hurry. Hurry.

Can we get out?

I am not sure.

It depends if my man will cooperate with us.

When did you have a connection with the Illuminati? Is that reliable?

When I do the task, when have I failed?

Moreover, espionage has always been like this.

Each puts in one's own men. Any walls will have holes.

Where are you still planning to escape to?

Ah Ning, you really didn't change at all.

From when we were little till now, you've always been disagreeable.

Don't mention the past to me.

It's very different now.

Arrest her!

No. No.

Let's rest first. Let's rest first.

They won't dare to chase us here.

Breathe. Breathe.

Xiong Fei, what's wrong?

- CPR. CPR. - There are butterflies.

You're still joking around?!

- My butterfly... - Butterfly?

- Why did you vomit so much blood? - What's wrong with you? How are you?!

Are you okay? Are you okay? Stinky old man!

- Zi Su, hurry! - What do we do? What do we do?

My butterfly...

- Let's follow the butterflies! - Hurry and go! Hurry! Hurry!

Take her away.

Stop!

Move aside!

Who dares to start the fight!

- Are you alright? - You have no right to speak here!

A Ji Ya, are you alright?

As long as she is able to find the Magic Star for Elder Zhao Ran,

she then can be allowed to live.

The Star Chart is in his hands.

He knows it better than me.

But the Star Chart isn't working anymore.

Is it painful?

You should know that in one's lifetime, whether to live or die,

doesn't matter to me.

You don't need to worry about me.

A Ji Ya,

why?

Why won't you share your sufferings?

You think that being like that is being strong, isn't that so?

Don't you know that someone cares about you and

someone is worried about you?

No one is worried about me.

I worry about you!

Bai Ze will pay the price sooner or later,

but you can't just live like this.

You can't just trample on your life like this.

Is telling them the whereabouts of the Magic Star

really that hard?

You are always like this, not saying anything, not saying anything!

It looks as if you are just being aloof but the truth is it you are being weak.

You don't even dare to express how you feel.

I don't know what you are saying.

What I mean is to cry and laugh when you want to.

Put down the baggage that you are carrying. Okay?

You can bring me to the prison now.

- Take her away. - Yes. Yes.

A Ji Ya!

We're here. We're here.

This is the Icy Fire Spring.

Slowly!

Will old man be okay just going down like that?

Zi Su, will he be okay?

The poison in his body and the Icy Fire Spring neutralize each other.

He will be fine. Don't be worried.

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Hey, shift change.

Hey, hurry and go.

Let's go.

Hurry. Hurry and escape.

Help me to block view to the door lock.

- Go. Come with me. - Go.

Yuan Shuai.

Hurry. Let's go.

It isn't suitable to stay longer in this place. Hurry and come with me.

- Thank you, hero. Yuan Shuai. - Stop your nonsense.

Hurry and leave now.

Go.

Old man! Are you alright?

Zi Su.

Let's go.

Hey! Old man!

- Are you alright? - Old man!

Who are you two?

What who am I?

We are your saviors.

Hurry and come down.

Hey, old man, you wouldn't have forgotten that you are Elder Jiong Ye, right?

Of course, I know that I am Elder Jiong Ye.

I am asking, who you two are.

Hey! Old man! Don't you dare deny that you know us!

You... You better not go against your words!

That's right.

- Gray Thunder Edge. - Old man, what are you doing?

Return the sword to me!

Why is this sword in your hands?

Hurry and say it. Or else, I won't be nice to you.

- How were you able to get it? - Hey.

This sword was left to me by my father.

Who is your father?

I fear that it might scare you if I say it.

My father is Zhan Ke, one of the top four Heaven Strategy Envoys.

I am his son, Zhan Xiong Fei.

They call me Yanjiao Town's number one magician.

How about it? Are you afraid now?

Zhan Xiong Fei?

Could it be that you are my son?

- What? - What?

I'm even your father!

How could your blood have merged with each other?

Could it be that you two are really father and son?

I have worn this protection amulet since I was little.

You, right now, are also my most important person.

It can keep you safe forever.

I surely will treasure such a precious thing forever.

I really am your father.

I am indeed Zhan Ke.

This is the protection amulet that your mother left.

Child... I am your father.

Father...

Father!

Father!

- Father... - Child...

- Father... - Good child.

My child...

Why didn't you come to look for me?

It has been so many years already.

Why didn't you come to look for me?!

Child, I wronged you.

For so many years, I was afraid that I might bring trouble to you all.

I couldn't dare to go back and look for you.

Father, I always thought that I was an orphan

without a father and a mother.

It has been so many years already. I already have forgotten how to say 'father.'

- My child... - Thirteenth Older Sis, Yuan Shuai,

I've found my father!

I have wronged you. I have wronged you.

- Father... - I have wronged you...

You still ended up in my hands.

You are just a person who knows how to stab people's back.

You all love to act so upright at any given situation.

A person like who is already broken, how can you understand others who had always lived in an upright manner?

Men!

Lock her up.

Watch her well.

Father, I thought I would never see you again.

Child,

I think about you everyday.

Me, too.

Enough, enough, you two.

It's not easy to have reunited which is such a happy event.

So stop crying.

Father, she is Zi Su.

She is my younger... Oh, wrong.

She is the Emperor's younger sister, the current government's princess.

Uncle, hello.

I'm not worthy to be called that.

- Father, how did you... - How did you...

You say it first.

Why are you in the Illuminati?

And this wooden amulet.

My mother... What really happened?

Child, while at Yanjiao Town,

have you heard of a story?

What?

In Yanzhou, there is a person who likes to draw carps.

In front of his house is a lily pond.

Fancy carps floated around.

The creek loves to folic with it.

One night, the house caught on fire.

Someone went into the fire to protect him.

Then afterwards?

Afterwards, people said that

when the evil mountain demon falls in love,

she surely would turn into dust.

The moth flying into the fire isn't a stupid act

but is actually fated.

Father, what do you mean by all that?

This fancy carp saving a human story... in Yanjiao town, is actually describing your mother and I.

I want to tell you that if you want to become the person you wanted,

it will depend on what path you choose to walk.

That sounds very reasonable.

- Father! Are you alright? - Uncle, what's wrong?

Don't worry. Don't worry.

Little Biao Zi, isn't it you who wanted to know how I ended up here?

Actually...Yuan Shuai's father Yuan San Lang

died because of me.

You wouldn't have thought that after hiding so far and for so long, you would still be found by me.

Later, it will be your moment of death.

I'm really so happy now that I don't know what to do anymore.

Nothing more to say. Just come.

Murderers whose hands are full of blood,

of course, you have no face to face the souls of the innocent victims of the demon exterminators in Heaven.

Just wait for your death!

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Are you alright?

I'm fine.

San Lang!

After falling down the cliff, I was lucky to survive.

Hence, I started to wander around.

So as not to bring you guys more killings, I exiled myself.

Until I ended up in Guanming Town and my illness worsened.

Elder Zhao Ran, that time he was still a Red Clothed Soldier,

saved me.

Elder Zhao Ran saved you?

Right.

It was Elder Zhao Ran who saved me.

But other than being grateful to him for this matter,

there is already no other meaning.

Zhao Ran is still that Zhao Ran that became overly ambitious overnight.

Zhao Ran is still that Zhao Ran that can't be allowed to stay in the mortal world.

What are you doing? Where is your seal?

The seal is here.

How about the two of them?

They are all our members.

Members?

Where did they come from?

Let's go. Let's get closer.

Where did you come from?

Yuan Shuai, hurry and remove their clothes.

Okay.

Remove your clothes! Hurry!

Are you two done changing?

- Have you finished changing your clothes? - Almost.

- You done changing? Let's hurry and go. - It's a little small. - It's okay.

Let's go.

This way.

Hey... Look.

Be a bit calm and collected.

This way.

Hey, let's follow closely.

Father...

There's still another thing that I must ask.

Did the Heaven Strategy Envoys do any immoral acts?

I'm talking if because of being tasked by the Emperor, there were things that you had no choice but to do.

For example... A Ji Ya's story.

Who told you this?

So this thing is indeed true, right?

A Ji Ya came to the Illuminati when she was six years old.

It was really a sinned fate that was hard to break.

One day, I encountered the beggar A Ji Ya outside.

I pitied her and wanted to accept her as my disciple.

This child A Ji Ya had a very clear gaze.

In her eyes, there was natural-born strength.

Whoever saw it would like it.

Afterwards, I noticed that she was carrying the jade court beads on her waist.

I am so familiar with those court beads.

It was indeed an item previously worn by King Salin.

It was then that I knew her real identity.

- Come with me. - Teacher, please accept a bow from me.

Come.

Let's go.

But... since you already knew then A Ji Ya's identity,

why did you still leave her by your side?

Actually I had a lot of ways to save her.

I also had a lot of choices and didn't need to keep her by my side.

Maybe it was repenting. Maybe it was redemption.

And in a curious coincidence, I accepted her as my disciple.

I treated her like my own daughter.

A Ji Ya, this child, has been full of hatred ever since she was little.

She is the disciple among the Orphaned Child Camp of

the Illuminati that trained the hardest and the most outstanding.

That's why... she developed this giving it all type personality and attitude of doing things.

I can see that.

In this journey, we wouldn't be able to reach the Illuminati without her, either.

How much suffering is inside A Ji Ya's heart,

who among us can really completely sympathize with her?

If all of us can stand in her point of view,

think about her sake by putting ourselves in her shoes,

you would then know

how deep the weakness and strength this child has.

But...

I don't believe those recordings in the secret annals.

That's right. Hadn't the Heaven Strategy Envoys always been heroes that eliminate the evil for the citizens?

This is totally different from what I think.

When you grow up, you will naturally understand.

Just being an upright person will be enough.

Whatever others say, don't mind them.

Father, then are you an upright person?

I am not.

To be an upright person is really hard.

I am a failure.

Father, let's go and save Bai Ze now!

And then destroy this evil sect Illuminati.

By that time, the citizens will surely say that you are a hero.

The Illuminati must not get destroyed.

The one who is wrong is not the Illuminati.

It is Zhao Ran.

I will surely let Elder Zhao Ran pay for his crimes.

Child, you all must leave here unscathed.

Or else, I will not die peacefully.

This is what your guard did.

This is impossible.

This is impossible.

I'm afraid that A Ji Ya seeking revenge was fake,

but saving her friends is what's true.

Gong Zi Xu, you have been deceived.

Impossible. Impossible.

Stop!

What are you doing?

Elder Zhao Ran ordered us to go down the mountain for a mission.

These clothes of yours are a little small for you.

- I... - He got fatter.

Right. I got fatter.

Correct.

You all can pass.

Stop!

We can't let them escape. Attack!

Here.

No one can escape today!

Where are you going?!

Be careful!

Above!

Bai Ze, what do we do?!

Let him go!

I'll go back with you!

What a joke. You still have the nerve to bargain with me?!

Take them all back! Drag them back to the prison!

No way. Father, we don't know what evil people are now in the Illuminati.

That Elder Zhao Ran is committing all kinds of evil things.

Those Red Clothed Army under him are all his lackeys.

They even took a lot of children.

I totally don't know what scheme they're doing.

You must come with us!

Child, for things that you haven't personally seen,

don't haphazardly make conclusions.

The Illuminati isn't an evil sect.

It only got used by an evil person.

The previous virtuous deeds of the Illuminati in saving the citizens and their valiant records

and the current situation is so different.

But all are not reasons to slander it.

I totally can't endure seeing the Illuminati be buried.

This will be an insult to when Gui Yi Shi granted me the name Jiong Ye.

But this place is so dangerous.

With you staying here alone, we will get worried.

That's why you two must leave this place.

No way. Father, I won't leave you!

It's impossible for me to leave you alone in the Illuminati!

This place is really so dangerous.

We can't leave you here alone.

I still have a more important thing to do.

You guys leave first.

Moreover, I am an Elder here.

The Red Clothed Army won't do anything to me.

But you two are different.

So... you must go back earlier.

We haven't seen each other for more than ten years.

- I won't leave you here to be in danger again! - That's right.

It's so dangerous here! I won't leave you here!

Child...

My good child.

Father.

My good child.

You must listen to my words.

Only with you staying alive can I continue living.

No. Father, you must come with us!

There's no room for discussion!

Child.

Men!

Escort these two out of the Illuminati!

We will abide with your orders!

Father.

This is the protection amulet that your mother left.

Keep it well.

It will protect you for a lifetime.

Father, what are you planning to do?

Remember every word I said.

You...

Escort these two out of the Illuminati!

Father!

Uncle...

- Uncle! - Father!

Father!

Elder.

Bai Ze and the others are now locked up in prison.

But...

May Elder consider past relationsihps

and let A Ji Ya go.

A traitor of the sect who refuses to mend her ways.

She originally should have been executed

or else, it is a disrespect to the Three Gods of Illumination.

I dare to use my life as a guarantee

that A Ji Ya never betrayed our sect!

It's not your call to say if she betrayed the sect or not.

It's my call.

At the bottom of all this, whether she betrayed the sect or not

has nothing to do with you.

Isn't that so?

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♫ How long can my friends around me to accompany me? ♫

♫ I’m tired of hearing those comforting words ♫

♫ I’m pulled between courage and collapse repeatedly ♫

♫ I cry out to myself to hang in there ♫

♫ I’m still awake at 3 in the early morning ♫

♫ I can only expect for a good night sleep but not having it ♫

♫ If I’m not careful, I’ll be disturbed once I think about you ♫

♫ Memory has been overturned into a kind of sin ♫

♫ Having loved one very much is wrong but so what ♫

♫ Loneliness is also just a process ♫

♫ We still have next person waiting for us ♫

♫ I’ll remember those wonderful things ♫

♫ Shedding tears isn’t need ♫

♫ Thank you for your choosing ♫

♫ Don’t force myself to give blessing ♫

♫ Be a mature person ♫

♫ Having loved one very much is worth the pain and so happy ♫

♫ I need to learn to let go those I can’t part with ♫

♫ Having loved one very much is wrong but so what ♫

♫ Loneliness is also just a process ♫

♫ We still have next person waiting for us ♫

♫ With a little regret, I’m more complete ♫