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[Ever Night]

[Episode 25]

[Red Sleeve Invite]

-Sixty thousand five hundred. -Seventy thousand.

Seventy-nine thousand one hundred.

We're rich!

Sister Shui Zhou, this time you've struck it rich.

It's all because of Sang Sang.

It is worth this amount of money only if the private seal of Ning Que is added onto it.

Fifty-five.

Seventy-three.

Wait, you're doing business in Red Sleeve Invite.

Anyhow, you should pay some rent to Jian Daijia.

Sixty-three and one.

Otherwise, we'll just go our separate ways.

Deal.

The original copy.

Sang Sang, you really know how to do business.

Of course.

The money in our household is all earned by me.

[A note from the Young Master]

May I trouble Sister Shui Zhou to read this for me?

Sang Sang, Xiao Ye got drunk today so I probably won't make it home to sleep.

Remember to drink the chicken soup.

Can you please read it one more time?

Sang Sang, Xiao Ye got drunk today

so I probably won't make it home to sleep.

Remember to drink the chicken soup.

Once more, slowly, please.

Sang Sang, Xiao Ye got drunk today

so I probably won't make it home to sleep.

Remember to drink the chicken soup.

Sang Sang

Sang Sang, Xiao Ye got drunk today

so I probably won't make it home to sleep.

Remember to drink the chicken soup.

All right, the writing brush, paper, and inkstone are all here.

Time to start, Mr. Thirteen.

Don't.

You can call me Ning Que instead.

I don't want to be called Mr. in front of you.

Teacher, how to draw a talisman?

First, you have to perceive the nascent energy of the universe.

The more subtle the better.

Then according to what you've perceived,

draw the traces that left behind by the flowing nascent energy.

How can I draw it if I can't see it?

In the cultivator's world, he never sees with his eyes.

So he totally relies on sense perceptions.

That's correct. Use your sense perception to draw talismans.

So what you mean is that

I can draw anything and that'll work.

Then that's simple.

You wish!

If it is that simple, why don't you just poke your eyes out.

So these are the talismans?

Don't underestimate them.

Most of these talismans are the embodiment of the wisdom of many masters.

Next time when you are learning about the cracks of heaven and earth,

don't forget to refer to these talismans.

But, even if your abilities to copy them are very strong,

and are able to reproduce these talismans,

I don't believe that the teacher grading these papers will understand them.

Teacher

If I focus on practicing the art of talisman, how soon am I able to draw the first talisman?

Indefinite.

Some people can get it in about ten days.

But some won't be able to grasp it for as long as ten years.

That long?

There is no royal road to learning.

You still have a lot to learn.

Teacher, can I bring these books back to the Old Writing Brush Shop to read?

Yes, take them.

Also, before you finished reading all these books, there's no need for you to come here everyday.

Then may I leave?

Thank you, Teacher.

Teacher, who made so many copies of my "chicken soup note"?

I . . . give it to me.

Give it. Give it to me.

Give it back.

Teacher, you're not helping Sister Shui Zhou in doing business, are you?

And what if I am?

If I didn't find out about the Chicken Soup Note

would you and Sang Sang have the chance to live such a good life?

And what's more, I'm not doing this for myself.

It was Shui Zhuo who was crying and begging me.

She is just a mere lady,

who works hard every day and does not get enough rest.

I'm only helping her.

Helping.

Helping her.

How many shares?

Just one.

You little brat, you're laughing at me.

You dare to interrogate your teacher? Huh?

You still dare to interrogate me?

Your lowly Chicken Soup Note

actually has a much higher selling price

the words of your teacher who is a Divine Talisman Expert!

I still have not come to get revenge on you!

You're still running from me?

-You . . . you . . . -Teacher, I was wrong!

I am still earning...

That little girl is Ning Que's servant girl.

The one sending her up is Jian Dajia's personal assistant, Xiao Cao.

For now this is all I have found out. If General doesn't believe me I-

I believe in your abilities.

You are just trying to remind me

that my opponent has a high status,

even his little maid servant

cannot be messed with so easily.

General Lin is indeed intelligent.

His Majesty asked me to investigate the incident of Mr Thirteen being kidnapped.

I think that I need to remind General

that staying in the capital is not my own choice.

Lord Shangguan, this thing about secretly investigating,

I hope you will keep it a secret and not mention it to anyone.

I understand.

Remember, I was never here in the capital.

Official/Sir, are we really going to let him go just like that?

If it is His Majesty's orders...

His Majesty will protect me.

Him? I'm afraid that he can't even protect himself right now.

Sneaking into the palace is a crime punishable by death.

You had better hurry and leave.

The Eternal Night approaches. The Child of Light did not die.

The Eternal Night approaches...

I feel a lot of unrest. That's why I risked seeing you.

Don't worry. I can take care of myself.

I won't let anyone else hurt you.

Back then, I really shouldn't have brought you to Tang State.

Otherwise, you wouldn't have met him.

Thank you, Your Majesty, for letting Lin Ling go.

I just didn't want to put you on the spot.

I don't wish for the matter of the assassination of Mr Thirteen

to be made known to everyone inside and outside of the Imperial Court, causing panic everywhere.

My (lit Royal We) eyes were covered by the dark clouds.

When will I (lit Royal We) be able to see clearly

what is the truth of the matter?

Last night, I saw Lin Guangyuan in my dream.

Your Majesty is benevolent and honorable. This matter happened a long time ago.

Your Majesty is still unable to forget this unfortunate matter.

Could it be that even now, Your Majesty still can't believe that

Lin Guangyuan was a traitor.

Those court officials who passed away are still my (lit Royal We) court officials none the less.

It's just that I did not find any evidence.

If I find evidence

that proves Lin Guangyuan's innocence,

I (lit Royal We) will let the truth be made know to the whole world.

I will not tolerate those who

carry out injustices and kill innocent and helpless people before my very eyes.

But

what I'm most afraid of is

it'll destroy Xia Hou, which in turn will hurt you, my Empress.

It's me that putting you in a difficult position.

It's not difficult.

Since you've come into my life, there's never been difficulties.

If not for you beside me, I (lit Royal We) would not have know

what is to be warm and cozy during those long nights.

I've been thinking about this lately.

My Tang Empire wants to pass its inheritance and traditions on through the generations for thousands of years.

What will happen when

the national power and capabilities start to decline after several generations?

Fu Zi will one day

leave this world.

At that time,

- what can be done? - We can only progress when we are tested (lit trees can only be towering after they experience storm).

The Tang Empire has fought in many wars since it was founded a thousand years ago.

Many good and wise officials and soldiers were sacrificed to give us what we have today.

The thing that we can do

is to teach our descendants to treasure the lives that they have before them.

Your son, Chong Ming, greets Imperial Father.

Greetings, Your Majesty.

Imperial Father, may you be blessed with longevity.

You may rise.

Thank you, Imperial Father.

For these 15 years,

Chong Ming, you've suffered.

I (lit subject son) was in the Tang Empire for the past 15 years.

But whenever I think that this is done for the sake of the Yan State rising up again,

I don't feel like I've suffered.

Right.

Indeed, you did not suffer.

The Assembly to Restore the State that I painstakingly placed in the Tang Empire

was destroyed in one fell swoop

by you.

I really wonder if

what you've received while living in Tang State

has caused you to forget where you came from.

I don't dare. I know my wrongs.

I made this grave mistake because I was too impatient this time round.

Too impatient?

I'm afraid that you weren't impatient with attacking Tang Sate

but more concerned for that princess.

I ( lit subject son) am willing to sacrifice my life for the sake of the assemble to restore our country.

Who is this person beside you?

He is my personal guard from the time when I was in the Tang Empire.

He followed me back to the Yan State during this trip.

Personal guard?

You were raised in the Tang Empire in the last fifteen years.

I didn't imagine that you would bring a personal guard back.

I'm afraid that he was also arranged by the princess?

Yes.

-Kill him.-Imperial Father!

It can't be that you want a spy

to live in the palace of my Yan State openly in a grand manner?

Imperial Father, I can't do this.

Reporting to the King. I ( lit small person) was actually from the Yan State. I drifted into the Tang Empire when I was young.

I am definitely not a spy who betrayed his country.

Get up.

Get up!

Kill him.

Or let me condemn you to the status of a commoner, to be exiled to a foreign country.

You choose one of these.

Please have mercy, Your Majesty. Please have mercy!

I'm really not a spy. Please spare me.

You're all dismissed.

Yes.

You are absolutely disgraceful.

For a woman,

do you really think it's worth it right now?

You want to save her life.

But she has designs on you everywhere.

Do not think about those delusive and fallacious things anymore.

It is enough for you to experience it just once.

I hope that you have learnt your lesson from your King Father's Assembly to Restore the Country, and will remember it well.

Do not lose a second time because of a woman.

I understand.

Why don't you write a letter to the princess?

Tell her that you will definitely be

the successor to the throne of the King of the Yan State.

King Father. Long Qing is

the one whom all the officials and people of the Yan State support. It is not I, the hostage prince.

Yes, but Long Qing

didn't get into the Two-Story Building.

So I feel that you'd be more suitable.

What?

This . . . How can this be?

Because of a guy named Ning Que.

Alright. You may be dismissed.

Hold on to this woman and steady her.

She will be useful to us in time to come.

Yes, Imperial Father.

Imperial Father.

The light will not be extinguished. The Heavens exist forever.

Long Qing.

Since you did not become the personal disciple of Fu Zi,

I will teach and guide you personally.

I want to take you as my disciple.

And proclaim to the entire Heavenly God's world. You must remember

all the humiliation that you suffered in the Tang Empire, in the Tang Academy.

The day will come when

all these people who do not have faith in the Heaven God will have to pay the price for it.

Disciple Long Qing kneels in respect to the Master.

You may rise.

Thank you, Shrine Leader.

You are already the Esteemed Leader of the Justice Department.

It is time for you to resume your responsibility.

Yes. I, your disciple, will adhere to your order closely.

Your Majesty.

Official Department Head.

These

all all the remaining evils of the Demon Sect. They were spies planted in Xiling.

You will be allowed to live

as long as you tell us who is your accomplice.

King of Hades comes to the earth to protect our tribe.

They won't say anything.

Kill them.

Your Highness.

The Justice Department isn't a place you should be coming to.

Ever since your highness has returned to Peach Mountain you didn't come look for me.

And so I came to look for you.

I am not the Child of Light.

I also failed to become FuZi's student.

I no longer have the right to come see you. It's better to not see each other anymore.

Why do you care for these things?

You are the disciple of the Shrine Leader.

The Esteemed Leader of the Justice Department. The Prince of the Yan State.

Are these thing not enough?

Not enough.

These things were originally mines.

Then why are you going after those things that are not yours.

I lost.

Lost to a hoodlum.

You didn't lose.

That was just FuZi's choice.

Everyone can see your efforts, even I can see it.

I think this result is quite good. Really good.

I don't think it is good.

Is FuZi always correct?

A gentleman doesn't compete.

Why not compete?

Even you think that way, I am very disappointed.

It can't be that this dirty life that is filled with blood and gore is really what you wanted.

Long Qin.

I'll wait for you.

I'll wait for your return.

Back to my side.

Young Master drink some water.

What kind of scribbling are you looking at?

What are you talking about? Your not a cultivator so you can't see it.

Go go go. Don't disturb my studying.

What could I possibly comprehend from this mass of black ink?

Really is just scribbling.

[Old Writing Brush Shop]

Young Master hurry and come wash your feet.

Young Master did you know?

You have an exceptionally outstanding quality.

What is it?

Absorb with heart and soul.

When you studied Lao Tse's Treatise on the Response of the Tao for the first time that year,

Not sleeping for at least half a month.

Finally, it was the General Ma who broke your intense concentration with a crack of his whip.

It brought that period of time to an end at long last.

Sang Sang, I've made you worry.

Young Master, you just do what you want to do.

Sang Sang can take good care of you.

Okay.

Go ahead and sleep first. Let me think for a bit longer.

Mm.

Young Master are you hungry?

What do you want to eat this morning?

[The Tang Academy]

Junior Brother.

Yesterday you were definitely busy, but your not busy today right?

Seventh Senior Sister.

You don't know this but yesterday Fifth Brother and Eighth Brother asked me to play chess.

I am sending them something to eat.

If I don't go they will starve to death.

So that's the case.

Let me take a look at what you brought for them to eat.

Since this is Bi ShengJu's breakfast.

Smells goods.

Seventh Senior Sister, this is Fifth and Eighth Brothers', I -

It's okay, you eat it.

Little Brother you're so nice.

Princess's Residence

This dew of the rose buds is very good for the skin.

Young Master bought it for Sang Sang before.

Take a quick look.

It's becoming more and more lustrous.

- Do you like it?- I like it.

Thank you Princess.

You and HuiYuan are about the same age.

Why don't you become my adopted sister?

Sang Sang wouldn't dare. Thank you Princess for your kind affection.

There's no need for you and I to be so polite.

For there to be a maid like you serving Ning Que.

He battled and won Long Qing now,

and become the First Disciple of Great Master Yan Se.

Your status is not as what it was in the past.

How about from now on in private you can call me Elder Sister.

I'll call you Little Sister, what do you think?

Elder Sister.

Good Little Sister.

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Senior Brothers, hurry and eat.

I've brought breakfast for the two of you from the Victory Restaurant.

Come.

[The Victory Restaurant.]

I'm afraid it might not be enough to eat.

Your Fifth Senior Brother likes to eat the dumpling skin.

Your Eighth Senior Brother likes to eat dumpling stuffing.

With this your full already?

We are not concerned with quantity when it comes to good things.

We are concerned only with the one that is most loved.

We're full.

Junior Brother proceed.

No no no. You two Senior Brothers.

Yesterday I already had 12 rounds.

I really can't play anymore.

- I beg the two Senior Brothers to let me off quickly. - Little Junior Brother. Come here.

Don't go.

Junior Brother.

Why are you unhappy?

Did you have an argument with Ning Que?

These days the Young Master has been running around the Academy.

Or else he will be strolling in the streets with Great Master Yan Se not doing anything.

Don't talk about having an argument with him.

He doesn't even have the time to speak to me for a little bit.

Take a seat.

Thank you Princess.

He's just been accepted into the Second Level and he's already so arrogant.

That he's even ignoring you now.

Next time I see him I'll teach a lesson for you.

Princess. No, Elder Sister please calm down.

Young Master is not arrogant. He's just worried his cultivation is too low.

His studies isn't up to par. Letting down the Academy and Grand Teacher YanSe hopes.

Princess must not blame him.

Looks like.

In your heart he really is important.

Quick have a seat.

Thank you Princess.

Junior Brother!

Where are you coming from and where are you going?

Eleventh Senior Brother.

Just now I delivered dinner to Fifth and Eighth Senior Brother.

- Right now --- I am not asking where you are currently coming from and going to.

This is meant by what is past is past, so don't obsess over it (lit don't have in us a heart that obsesses over the unreal past - teachings from the Diamond Sutra).

And what is here now will be gone in a flash. So what more is there to talk about what is the future (lit don't have in us a heart that obsesses over the present or the future - teachings from the Diamond Sutra)?

I am asking where your original intention is coming from and where it's going.

Eleventh Senior Brother, if there is any problem let's talk about it some other time.

Junior Brother is about to die from exhaustion today.

Clever clever, talk about being tired to death.

Junior Brother what you were trying to say was.

Before I was born, how could I have known the joy of being alive? And now I am not dead yet,

how could I have known the grief of being dead?

I.

[The Victory Restaurant]

Eleventh Senior Brother.

Are you going to say it Junior Brother?

You think about everything for his sake.

But don't you ever think for yourself sometimes too?

I..

Royal Older Sister.

Royal Older Sister.

Where did this Little Fairy come from?

Don't you talk nonsense.

Hunyuan. Why are you not in the military training camp?

What are you doing back here?

I.. I am back on home leave.

Royal Older Sister. This is ..

This is Ning Que's maid, Sang Sang.

The two of you have met previously.

It's her. She looks different.

Did you come back to settle somethings?

Royal Older Sister. I beg you. Do not let me go to the military training camp anymore.

My legs are hurt.

I promise that I will obey you in everything in future.

Go to the study room and wait there.

We will plan again regarding you going back to the military training camp.

I asked you to go to the study room and wait there.

Go Quickly.

Ninth Senior Brother. Tenth Senior Brother. What are the two of you doing?

Little Junior Brother. You must listen to the new tune that we composed last month.

You must listen to it this time round.

Okay, okay, okay.

Seventh Senior Sister. Let me help you. Let me help you.

- Little Junior Brother. - Junior Brother.

Young Master is back.

I'm hungry. Start to prepare food now.

I'll do it immediately.

Master.

- I am back. - You are back.

All these useless things.

What are you doing?

I am fixing the door.

Hold the door here.

- Wait a moment. - What are you doing?

What is that on your face?

Hold on to it. Hold on to it.

- Like this? - Yes.

Hold on to the door.

[Hao Tian Dao Nan Men]

Master.

You have been working too hard (lit with one's brains) today. Your disciple is really worried.

I have specially decocted some medicinal soup for you.

Master. Please take the medicinal soup.

You are indeed taciturn and stubborn in your character.

You are unsuited to be

in control of the South Faction of the Heavenly Dao.

What do you plan to do

in future upon my demise?

I will forever follow you, Master.

Your potential for cultivation is limited.

Your temperament, being slow and passive, is also unsuited to the Imperial Court.

It is impossible for you

to assume the position of the State Preceptor of the Tang empire.

I, your disciple, really don't have much abilities.

I am accustomed to taking care of you, Master, and Senior Uncle all these years,

and carrying out duties related to documentation and such.

On the day of your demise (lit riding crane to western paradise),

I, your disciple, will complete all the duties that I am supposed to do.

Then I will retreat and come before your presence to study the Art of Dao.

You will be doing something very difficult all by yourself (lit guarding solitary boat in bitter wind and cold rain).

It does sound

a little tragic.

- Ming Chi. - Master.

Come over here.

I, your Master, have only one discilple, that is, you.

I will naturally consider everything thoroughly for you.

Master. You are always giving thoughts to my every need.

I, your disciple, certainly must take care of you wholeheartedly.

Master. Please drink your medicinal soup.

[Tang Empire]

[♪ 𝕎𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕𝕝𝕪 𝔸𝕗𝕗𝕒𝕚𝕣𝕤 𝕓𝕪 𝕍𝕚𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕖𝕚] ♫ The daybreak gets on the west building ♫

♫ The breeze last night was like the breeze in autumn already ♫

♫ Treat the cool breeze as the wine I bought ♫

♫ The green hills are far away. The zither sound is calming ♫

♫ I'll ride in a skiff in high spirits ♫

♫ The sound of book reading is clear in a cool drizzle ♫

♫ I ask the cool breeze if it'd like touring the mortal world with me once ♫

♫ Peach blossoms was fragrant in the spring that year ♫

♫ We cut some peach blossoms to go along with the wine drinking ♫

♫ See the world is at leisure ♫

♫ Life is like a question that silly people just laugh at it ♫

♫ I laugh that all living things like to make noise ♫

♫ Beg but cannot get the antidote ♫

♫ Love is too devoted. Hate is too disturbing ♫

♫ Seperation hurts. Love is lonely ♫

♫ People always bend down to fame and profit in chaos ♫

♫ How pitiful that beautiful woman suddenly ages ♫

♫ The prime of youth is the easiest thing to disappear ♫

♫ I only laugh at how very disturbing worldly affairs are ♫

Take a look at the roof tiles on this house.

It is gently sagging in places where the tiles intersect.

Then it tilts up again smoothly.

The roof tiles follow the thread of the rain.

When the rain falls, it follows the overlying of the tiles and flows downwards.

The secret talisman is kept between the roof tiles and the rain.

Therefore it feels very smooth.

The secret talisman.

These houses must have been built many years ago.

But the craftsmen could not have been Talisman Experts.

Could it be that they could also sense the law of the nascent energy between the Heaven and the earth?

What you said is not bad.

The knowledge for building rain eaves has been passed down for many generations.

A great amount of wisdom is accumulated in it.

In which direction will the rain water flows when it rains?

Why did the rain water flow in a certain direction?

The craftman who built the rain eaves did not know why. Even his ancestors might just have a smattering of knowledge.

They were just imitating the law of nature.

So, the first step for human beings when learning from the Heaven and the earth

is always imitation.

Slowly.

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"Old Chang'an" by Jane Zhang

♫ Hey, I can only say sorry ♫

♫ You, who has forgotten time, look a little lost ♫

♫ You seem so far away, but you're right in front of me ♫

♫ Time flies just in a wink of an eye ♫

♫ Take it easy ♫

♫ Life is still the same ♫

♫ Hey, let me change the ending ♫

♫ Even if I cover everything up, it'll just be a short time ♫

♫ No need to be too obsessive. No need to say sorry ♫

♫ Winning or losing only makes the loser treat the others to a meal ♫

♫ It's better to not see each other than to cry upon separation ♫

♫ The night is very long and dark ♫

♫ Don't leave any regrets ♫

♫ I've seen through every right, wrong, gratitude, grudge, word and act in this world ♫

♫ I risk danger in desperation for you ♫

♫ An umbrella appears in old Chang'an ♫

♫ The night is approaching ♫

♫ Supernatural talismans burn ♫

♫ Fight till everything is in chaos and darkness and everyone is gone ♫

♫ See us breaking through the darkness, blazing and changing the heavens, the earth and the world ♫

♫ Spur the horse to go forward all the time ♫

♫ Swan geese fly south because it's going to snow ♫

♫ Get drunk at a warm coast ♫

♫ Under the slashes of the sword, we still love each other ♫

♫ Under the slashes of the sword, we still love each other ♫