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[Episode 25]

Later, Ru Yi found me.

At that time, Zhu Yan went to find her master, Master Shi Ying.

She couldn't take care of me. So, I left with Ru Yi.

I didn't expect...

to see it again here.

Su Mo, do you know

Zu Yan is a senior on my mother's side.

I didn't expect we would have connections to each other so early on.

I should thank her for helping you survive.

That means I should also thank her...

for having been able to meet you.

Looks like in the end, Zhu Yan and her true love, Shi Ying, were buried together.

Zhu Yan and Shi Ying?

That's a different story.

I really envy them, that they can be together,

death cannot part them.

[Tombstone of Prince Bai]

Bai Ying is not a filial daughter

and ashamed of Royal Father's trust in me.

I'm here to plead guilty.

I traveled all over Yunhuang in the past century,

this was the only place that I dared not to come.

I was ashamed to face Royal Father and our ancestors.

If it wasn't for my shame,

a hundred years ago, jumping off the Jing Pagoda,

and triggering a trap of falling into a deep sleep,

this tragedy wouldn't have happened.

Now that Crown Prince is awake, I must let Wuse City's

100,000 people of Kongsang see the sun again.

[Tombstone of Prince Bai]

A century ago, Cangliu was aggressively watching from outside

and Prince Qing Chen became a traitor.

There were many reasons for Cangliu to invade.

Don't alone blame yourself for what happened.

Now that the Land-Sea Alliance has formed, we'll work hard together

and definitely fulfill your wishes.

Senior Sister. Su Mo. We meet again.

You're still alive. Looks like that man dressed in black indeed helped you.

Su Mo, don't be reckless. He can see that

your magic power is at its weakest here. That's why he's come to attack us.

Yu Huan, Kongsang's Holy Sword Sect would never use such a wicked formation.

You are not worthy of Kongsang's Holy Sword Sect. You've disgraced Master.

Don't talk about me and Master. Block me and you will die.

Su Mo!

Don't waste your power. Fire and water are not compatible. This is the Fire Formation.

The more you resist, the more the fire will burn aggressively.

Sister, wake up.

Lin'er, save Su Mo.

I won't save him.

I want him to die.

What are you saying?

He's the main culprit for the disaster, Sister.

He caused the ruin and death of the Bai Clan,

and made it so that the Kongsang can't see the sun.

He caused me to become a bird spirit. Isn't all of this because of him?

Did you already know that Yu Huan was waiting here for us?

Yes, but he promised me that he definitely wouldn't hurt you.

When did you start to collaborate with Yu Huan?

Or so to say, you've already taken refuge with Cangliu. Right?

Yes, I took refuge with Cangliu a long time ago.

After becoming a bird spirit, I can't fly out from Jiuyi Mountain

and can't live a normal life either.

A few days ago, Cangliu sent me a message.

They promised me that as long as I kill Su Mo

they'll help me become human again.

You're negotiating with the enemy, they can't be trusted!

As long as I can become human again, so what if they kill Su Mo.

I've always hated him anyway!

Wait here for me. I'll think of a solution to turn you into a human again,

but stop helping Cangliu. Don't confuse yourself.

Don't go, Sister!

Su Mo!

Su Mo. Su Mo!

Su Mo, wake up! Wake up!

Su Mo!

Can you walk faster, Su Mo?

I'll hold you up if you lead me out.

We won't escape from this forest.

I won't give you up. Just hold on.

It's so hot. I feel like my entire body was burned.

Clear your mind.

Su Mo.

Hang on longer, I'll figure out how to save you.

Are you Tu Lou?

If you are discontented

or want to seek demands from me, you can.

However, Su Mo is severely hurt.

He's the Emperor of the Sea. You must save him!

What's the use of having an Emperor of the Sea if he doesn't care about us?

He didn't stop caring or abandon you despite everything.

When he's better, he can give you an explanation.

Do you care for him?

Yes. Can you save him?

If I can save him, but in exchange for your life?

If you can save him, all right then.

Follow me.

You really are useless.

I didn't expect that due to the deep affection between you and your older sister, I would become a victim.

If you didn't defy military orders to save her,

how could Su Mo have escaped?

You're the one who's useless and then blaming me for not being able to kill Su Mo.

Lord Zhi Zhe gave me an order

to assist you in killing Su Mo, not my older sister.

I already helped lure him here to make it convenient for you to capture him.

You're the useless one who can't even skill Su Mo.

Don't forget Zhi Zhe said that

you can become human only after Su Mo is eliminated.

Now that the mission has failed,

go back to Jiuyi Mountain and be that unwanted bird spirit.

In these 100 years, you've had your sister's best interest at heart.

But what about her? How many times has she visited you?

Between you and Su Mo, she chose him.

Shut up!

Am I wrong?

Su Mo, I want him dead!

Stop yelling! Stop yelling!

Who's yelling? Why don't I hear anything?

It's my punishment

for my Uncle Qing Chen's betrayal of Kongsong,

I rely on him to survive.

I absorbed the evil aura to become a bird spirit

and don't have the right to enter the Valley of the Ancestral Kings. They're chasing me out.

I'm leaving. You can live or die here.

I can't go back like this.

The Cold Water Pool in Jiuyi Mountain is the only place with clean water.

It can definitely subdue the fire injuries.

Really?

There's a barrier here. When Bai Wei first designed this,

it was to prevent the clean waters in Jiuyi Mountain from being infected.

But we drank the water of Jiuyi Mountain and can't enter.

Then I'll give it a try.

Perhaps, she's different from Bai Wei.

You'll be all right.

Hold on.

Prince Qing, it's me.

Left Commisioner, Yan Xi? What are you doing here?

I'm here as reinforcement. His Highness, Zhen Lan and the rest have entered the mountain already.

Yu Huan and Fei Lian of Cangliu have also rushed to Jiuyi Mountain.

Two of Cangliu's generals are here?

Yu Huan has gone into the mountain already. Fei Lian deployed the army to Jiuyi Mountain. He probably wants to surround it.

I believe they've obtained information and want to capture us.

I stole Fei Lian's command token. He can't deploy the military for the time being.

What will you do once I've gone in?

I'll keep watch here.

Even if the defending troops come, I can delay them too.

Thank you, Left Commissioner.

Bai Ying.

Bai Ying. Bai Ying!

It should be warmer over here.

You're awake.

As long as you're all right, then it's good.

Why are you so foolish? You could have just put me into the Cold Water Pool.

You could have slipped in there. I was worried about you.

Bai Ying, I'm a merman.

Sorry. I panicked and forgot all about that.

By the way, I talked about the various ways of knocking on the Sunlight Blocking Pearl

and the different meanings.

I thought of one now.

What is it?

Knocking four times mean "Don't push me away."

Don't come here.

It was a critical moment then. It was the only thing I could do.

Promise me.

All right.

After obtaining the Splitting Sword, I still want to find Lin'er.

No matter what, I don't want her to continue to live like this.

Moreover, I want to give Royal Father an explanation.

All right.

Where is she?

General, you've already searched my Fragrance Tavern

from top to bottom and didn't find her either.

How would I know the whereabouts of the person you're looking for?

I'm asking you one more time. Where is she?

General, aren't you just looking for someone?

Is there a need to flash your weapon?

If you want me to help with the search, I can do it immediately,

but I really don't know the person you mentioned.

So you're saying you don't know who comes to your tavern?

Jiuyi Mountain is a place that isn't managed by anyone.

So, there's a mixture of good and bad people.

Outlaws who kill and rob come and go.

This... is a place of transit.

How could I know everyone?

General,

I really don't know who she is.

General,

if you still have the time, why not go out and find her?

I think she has probably already left.

If she comes back, I'll notify you immediately.

Pierce a hole in the leaf.

Resembles her, but it's not her.

The Emperor of the Sea is back. Ming Huo was right.

Emperor of the Sea, I've waited for you for 7,000 years.

You kept quiet when you were in the forest.

Was Bai Ying the reason?

That's right. I was afraid you'd be like my foolish older brother

and be hoodwinked by a woman from the Bai Clan again.

Foolish older brother?

Since you're also merpeople,

why stay in Jiuyi Mountain in this form?

This happened 7,000 years ago.

After Bai Wei died, Lang Gan sealed the Biluo Sea and brought us to Yunhuang.

In order to dissipate his anger, he imprisoned us here

to guard Bai Wei's cenotaph.

For 7,000 years, he sealed off the rain and sunshine.

How can we survive away from water?

In order to survive, we can only drink the weak water in Jiuyi Mountain,

and then turned into this form.

Previously, we could only live underground.

But the barrier changed a hundred years ago.

That's how we have been able to live in the forest.

I heard that you eat living people.

We've never harmed innocent people!

Even if they were treasure robbers, we only threatened them and expelled them.

Then these must be rumors.

Why did you attack Bai Ying in the forest?

You also seemed dissatisfied with me. So why did you save me now?

She's different from Bai Wei.

She is true to you.

While you are also unlike my silly brother.

He was kind but too softhearted.

You have the same gaze as my brother.

What do you mean by that?

You transformed for her sake, right?

Yes.

No wonder. We merpeople only love one person in our lifetime.

For 7,000 years, how many foolish lovers have there been

who pay the price because of a person from Kongsang.

Lovers becoming a couple must be the most difficult thing to achieve in this world.

For both to know each other's hearts,

it's even more difficult.

My older brother used to tell me.

If you can be with the person you love,

even if it's just for a day, it's joyous.

But we don't have a future anymore.

No matter when our eyes are open or closed,

we cannot see the new day's sunshine.

But they're still young.

These Quanxian children

still have hope to see the new day's sun.

I'll definitely lead them to see the sun again

and return to the Biluo Sea.

Emperor of the Sea, remember your words.

I can only send you off to this point.

Go straight on this path and you'll reach the Monument of Fallen Tears.

Emperor of the Sea, you must get the Splitting Sword and save the dragon deity.

Let the dead souls ultimately find their peace.

Let those tearless eyes be able to close.

I swear to you as the Emperor of the Sea

and the spirit of the dragon deity.

Emperor of the Sea, we shall always follow you and be loyal.

Always follow and be loyal! Always follow and be loyal!

What's wrong?

Why are you suddenly not talking?

I was thinking of the Tu Luo and got emotional, that's all.

Bai Ying.

I can never guess what you are thinking.

Sometimes you are happy, other times sad.

Sometimes...

Sadness and happiness, separation and reunion, these are normal human feelings.

You don't need to take painstaking effort to guess what I'm thinking.

But I want to know what will make you happy

and what will make you sad?

I hope that, between us,

there will only be reunion and never separation.

In this world, how can there only be reunion without separation?

If there were only reunions, Royal Father and Lin'er

wouldn't have left me, and there wouldn't have been...

I've already asked the Tu Luo to find Bai Lin.

I'm sure they'll find her.

Lin'er... she...

She's still your younger sister.

Thank you.

Bai Ying.

If I leave someday,

will you miss me?

You can live thousands of years.

If someone has to leave,

in the end, that person would be me.

If you leave,

I will always wait for you.

I'll wait for your return, just like right now.

Su Mo, I'm always willing to wait for you.

But... I can't.

Don't overthink it.

At least in Jiuyi Mountain,

you have to stay by my side and can't leave randomly.

Because there's only one Purple-lipped Dendrobium left.

Then don't use the mirror technique anymore.

I'll protect you.

Then I'll trouble Princess Bai to protect me then.

Let's go.

[Spirit Mirror Stage]

You can feel the barrier's breath here.

A hundred years ago,

us six princes opened Wuse City here.

When a formation is activated here, its effect will greatly increase.

This Spirit Mirror Stage can connect directly to Wuse City.

That year, when we used this to cast a spell to open Wuse City,

in order to assure safety, he ordered the entrance to be sealed.

It's so that the intruders can never come back alive.

This Monument of Fallen Tears is also known as the Nameless Monument. [Monument of Fallen Tears]

All the names of the deceased Kongsang people are on it.

Some people who didn't fear hardship used to come here

just to send off their family on the last journey.

Why is only the Monument of Fallen Tears here? Where's the Splitting Sword?

There must be a mechanism nearby.

There's no more time to consider us.

Only by opening Wuse City

can we protect the lives of the Kongsang people in Jing City.

Six Princes, do you know the price

for opening Wuse City?

We understand.

Are you willing?

We're willing.

Then, I'll start setting up the formation.

Heaven and Earth, six seals of princes,

six stars gather together,

Wuse City opens!

From then on, the six princes' destinies are covered on the same destiny wheel.

When Wuse City is opened,

we will...

I didn't realize just how many things had happened later on.

Luckily, we protected the 100,000 people of Kongsang.

I had planned to keep it from you,

but didn't consider that you'd still end up seeing it.

Do you regret it?

The Earth Ring saved me.

It chose me.

I've put this ring on and accepted this identity.

So I should protect this city.

I should fight for the 100,000 Kongsang people in Wuse City

to have a chance to wake up.

I really wish you could be a carefree

Kongsang Holy Swordmaster who freely roams the land.

I, too, also wish that you can be an Emperor of the Sea who can fly between the sea and the sky.

It's unfortunate, our choice is to protect the people we want to protect.

Once Kongsang wakes up and Quanxian returns,

I'll take you away from Yunhuang. All right?

I don't know what the future holds.

But I know I want to cherish the beautiful present.

If you knew

that I probably didn't have a future,

I'm afraid my beautiful present

will also disappear.

Look around you. See if there is a mechanism for the Splitting Sword?

Let's keep searching.

Let's go.

[Splitting Sword]

Splitting Sword.

They say Queen Bai Wei brought the Splitting Sword

when she was exiled from Quanxian.

Will this fire burn you?

Either way I have to try.

Be careful then.

The Splitting Sword has appeared!

The sword that can split the sky and suppress the universe.

Eternal Star, I'm the only one.

What's the matter?

It's fine.

Kill her. Kill her.

Kill her. Kill her.

This sword...

- Kill her! - Kill her!

- Kill her! - Kill her!

Their strength is strong. They probably attacked me because they sensed that I'm a Kongsang royal.

There are too many memories and too much killing aura in this sword.

I kept it in the mark of the dragon deity

and suppressed it.

By the way, in Kongsang's history,

did they talk about how Queen Bai Wei died?

Queen Bai Wei was in the Stranded Dragon Abyss

with Heavenly King Lang Gan trying to seal the dragon deity together,

she died from spiritual exhaustion.

Why are you asking about that?

It's nothing.

There are some things that I want to understand better

once I know all the facts.

It's fine.

The Splitting Sword.

Report! The Splitting Sword has been pulled out.

Go to the Monument of Fallen Tears immediately and find General Yu Huan.

Tell him that I want to discuss urgent matters with him.

Yes!

Where are Su Mo and Bai Ying?

How did they get away so fast?

Or... is there another mechanism here?

What barrier is this?

General Yu Huan, the King of Jiuyu would like to see you.

He says there's an urgent matter to discuss.

Why haven't we arrived there yet?

- Sister Li Zhu, how much longer must we walk? - Be careful.

We have been walking in this dark tunnel for a long time already.

After another tunnel,

we'll reach the place where there's water.

The Heavenly Emperor's tomb

is under the weak water there.

Back then, the Heavenly King and Queen Bai Wei,

at their point of death,

stepped on the reverse flowing water of Horizon waterfall.

Flowing in reverse?

Watch me. Watch me. Is flowing in reverse like this?

Na Sheng! This place is dangerous. Be quiet.

Uncle, you really shouldn't eat barbecue all the time.

Eating more vegetables is good for the eyes.

Don't move.

Be careful.

Na Sheng, where are you?

Come closer to me.

I'm here. I'm here.

Who's that?

Qing Yuan?

Your Highness.

How are things outside?

Cangliu's General Yu Huan

and Fei Lian have both arrived in Jiuyi.

Fortunately, Yan Xi is out there as reinforcement to protect us.

Yan Xi? How is Yan Xi?

Does he miss me? Has he lost weight?

Na Sheng! Na Sheng! Let Qing Yuan finish talking.

Yan Xi stole Fei Lian's command token.

He should be able to delay them for a while.

Also, he said Yu Huan has entered Jiuyi Mountain already.

Miss Li Zhu, have you heard

that Yu Huan was on Jiuyi Mountain?

I've only been ordered by the King of Jiuyi

to take Your Highness to the mausoleum of the Heavenly King.

I really don't know about anything else.

How can I trust you?

If Your Highness doesn't trust me,

why have you followed me for this long?

Besides,

didn't Your Highness also bring

this person, who is probably Prince Qing of the six princes. Right?

Back then, you didn't surrender along with your uncle's whole family.

You chose to succeed as Prince Qing.

Becoming one of the six princes who sacrificed themselves to save Kongsang.

As a member of the Qing Clan, I greatly admire you.

Miss Li Zhu, how do you know Qing Yuan?

Your Highness, please rest assured.

We... are on the same side.

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Wanting to Return by Zhou Shen

♫ Among the frosty clouds is the cold moon ♫

♫ A strange light in the night ♫

♫ In the dream, there is longing and fear ♫

♫ The layers of waves build up ♫

♫ Repeating the promise ♫

♫ Yet they disappear in the end ♫

♫ We've met several times ♫

♫ Yet it is hard to mention our fated relationship from the past ♫

♫ Sighing over the past is as frivolous as smoke ♫

♫ Split open the cocoon in my heart ♫

♫ You live in there ♫

♫ and have never been discovered by anyone ♫

♫ Ask time to borrow a chapter ♫

♫ The unforgettable memories ♫

♫ have disappeared, disappeared ♫

♫ I once thought there was a deep bond ♫

♫ Using ten fingers to painstakingly ♫

♫ play the ancient chords ♫

♫ In exchange for only a moment of your smile ♫

♫ Use a lifetime to love only one person ♫

♫ How do you calculate the debt between each other? ♫

♫ Yet unwilling, unwilling ♫

♫ to make an exchange for a promise and apology ♫

♫ Our next lives are too far away ♫

♫ I would rather turn into ash and be lost in a reverie ♫

♫ When I want to return, it will be time for my dream to come true ♫