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(Back From The Brink)

(Episode 27)

The long river falls as trouble arises.

The long river falls as trouble arises.

The long river falls as trouble arises.

(Calm your heart and stop worrying. Understand the underlying meaning.)

(Ponder upon its logic.)

(Move your brain, and you feel dizzy.)

(Only then, you shall see two.)

The long river falls as trouble arises.

Five hearts facing the sky, lying underneath the lake.

Calm your heart and stop worrying. Understand the underlying meaning.

Do you think Chenyi can save you?

Entering one's mind with one's eye.

Do you think you can replace me

just by practicing my techniques?

Only then, you shall see two.

Ponder upon its logic.

Move your brain, and you feel dizzy.

Do you think you can master my techniques

after acquiring the Ghostly Eulogy?

Stop dreaming.

You will only obtain immortality if you submit to me.

Yanhui, my pawn, heed my command!

Tianyao, just go!

Yanhui!

Just go!

You...

Go!

(Rip out his Heart Protecting Scale.)

Tianyao, go!

Just go!

Yanhui?

(Rip out his Heart Protecting Scale.)

(Rip out his Heart Protecting Scale!)

(Heart Protecting Scale!)

Just go!

(Heart Protecting Scale!)

Destroy the dark flower!

Destroy the dark flower!

Destroy the dark flower!

(You'll die if he destroys the dark flower.)

(I won't let you die.)

Destroy it!

Yanhui?

Tianyao,

you did great just now.

You should've been that decisive from the start.

Now that the dark flower is gone,

I won't be able to survive for long.

However,

I don't fear death.

Compared to the days when I had to wait for my demise,

I don't feel sad at all.

Tianyao,

why do you look sadder

than me?

Yanhui,

you will live on.

Tianyao!

What's wrong?

Yanhui,

don't be afraid.

You'll be fine.

You'll live on.

You saved me many times

ever since our first encounter.

If I can exchange my life

for yours,

it'll be a dream come true for me.

Is this the Life-Swapping Spell?

The nine stars.

Yinghuo said

someone was willing to sacrifice their lives

to preserve mine.

So, she was referring to you!

(Yanhui, )

(I'll return the Nine Stars of mind's eye to you.)

(They'll preserve your life for me.)

Yanhui,

I hope that you can lead

a peaceful life

after I retrieve my body.

So, back then,

you knew I wouldn't die!

You risked your own life

to fight Suying!

Why didn't you tell me?

Why didn't you tell me earlier?

I was afraid that you might not be willing to accept it.

Tianyao?

Tianyao!

Yanhui.

Yanhui.

There's nothing to fear about death.

There's truly nothing to fear about death.

I'm not upset at all.

How could you not be upset about it?

I don't want this!

In the future,

you can lead

the life you want to lead.

You can have all the buns you like.

You can go wherever you like.

Tianyao!

Why did you do it so quickly?

Tianyao, why did you do it

without any hesitations?

Only by destroying the flower

was I able

to receive

your current embrace.

You...

Stop blaming me.

Stop blaming me, okay?

Tianyao, I won't blame you at all.

I won't blame you.

Don't leave me!

I still wish to have delicious buns

together with you!

I still wish to go...

Tianyao! I know my fault now! Don't leave me behind!

Tianyao!

(Ghostly Eulogy)

(Tianyao, you mustn't destroy the dark flower!)

(Tianyao, you mustn't destroy the dark flower!)

(You mustn't destroy the dark flower!)

(Yanhui.)

(I'm waiting for you.)

Tianyao!

The flower...

The flower...

The flower is gone.

Tianyao!

Tianyao is gone too.

Yanhui.

Tianyao?

Tianyao!

I...

I truly fancy you!

I...

I fancy you a lot!

I truly fancy you!

I fell for you before you ripped out

the Heart Protecting Scale from my heart.

After you ripped it out,

although I was afraid of you,

I still fancied you a lot!

Ever since you brought me

out of the Royal Palace of Qingqiu, I knew

that I'd helplessly

fallen in love with you!

However,

I can never tell you that in person anymore.

What should I do?

This is just a dream.

You can never hear

my confession again.

Will you disappear

once I wake up?

I don't want to wake up!

This isn't a dream.

We're in a dream.

Why are you still lying to me?

I'm truly fine.

Are you done crying?

If so, it's time to apply the ointment to your wound.

Why are you in my dream as well?

You don't recognize me?

It's only been a few days since we last met each other.

My goodness.

What are you doing?

Isn't it cold?

Wait, this isn't a dream?

It really isn't.

Yanhui!

That hurts.

This is great.

This is great!

This is great! You're still alive!

I'm sorry.

I've made you worry.

He is alive,

but if you don't apply

the ointment right now,

your hair

might not be able to live.

My hair?

Where did my hair go?

Maybe my Dragon Flame

burnt a part of your hair

when I destroyed the dark aura.

Will love disappear?

It won't.

It definitely will.

Is this ointment even useful?

Chenyi made this himself.

Let's give it a try first.

Apply a bit more on my head.

Of course.

After all, I think

none of us

has any experience going bald, right?

When did you get here?

Oh, come on.

If I wasn't here to save the day,

the Heart Protecting Scale couldn't even return to your body.

The Heart Protecting Scale?

Did it return to my body again?

The dark flower on your head was already destroyed.

That's how the Heart Protecting Scale could return to you.

You made it as if it was a life-and-death struggle.

Indeed.

I'm still better

at doing such things.

Oh yeah, that works too.

Who else in this world

do you think can possess

both beauty

and brain?

The Heart Protecting Scale is inside your body.

If other people find out,

I'm afraid

it'll spell trouble for you.

Before this, I didn't know about

your feelings for me.

That's so mushy.

It's best

if I could exchange my life

for your life in peace.

You...

Shouldn't I be the person

you two should be thankful for?

I flew across the vast sea

and rushed back

in order to save you guys.

All right then. Thank you.

Thank you.

In the end, I still have

to become your matchmaker.

What did you discover when you gave him

the Ghostly Eulogy?

I discovered

the truth.

(He locked me in a water prison.)

(I discovered remnants of his memories)

(when I was trapped underwater in the Dark Phantom Palace.)

(I could see my past)

(from his memories.)

-You crossbreed! -You crossbreed!

What are you doing?

-Get up, crossbreed. -You crossbreed.

You're a crossbreed!

Get up!

You crossbreed!

That hurts!

Let me go!

You crossbreed!

This child is gifted.

He can control his shadow at such a young age.

In time,

he can defeat you without any problem, Elder.

Only the strongest person in our clan can be the clan leader.

It's the survival of the fittest.

Now that the Shadow Clan has given birth to a gifted child like him,

Elder Yingcheng, I don't know

if I should be happy

or sad for you.

Bai Xiaosheng

is the evil child stated in the prophecy.

If he can bully his playmates today,

he can definitely slaughter our village in the future.

If so...

If so, I'll send him somewhere far away.

That won't do.

The Shadow Clan can only avoid calamity

if we offer him to our lord as a sacrifice.

Mother.

Mother?

Sheng.

Mother.

Mother, what's the matter?

Let me go!

Let me go!

A shadow spirit can isolate their body

from all things in the world.

In order to prevent himself from getting injured by foreign objects,

(he used my true effigy)

(to create a shadow robe.)

He was jealous of my talent.

With this shadow robe,

I can restore my body.

And I won't need to worry about

any external injuries again.

(It seems that Dark Phantom was hurt)

(by a master before.)

(He was afraid of his reappearance.)

(That's why he needed)

(the shadow robe)

(to protect himself.)

(It's a shame that I couldn't see that part of his memory.)

(I didn't know)

(who injured him in the past.)

I did disperse a cloud of dark aura

in the Dragon Valley 20 years ago.

But I didn't know who it was.

I don't know if he was the one I'd injured.

Right now, Dark Phantom

still has your true effigy.

If you come here to see us,

that means he can harm you easily.

He has other plans for me.

If my true effigy perishes,

he will be in trouble too.

However, I can actually

do something to him.

Do what?

I'll seek revenge.

What else do you think I'm going to do?

(It's all thanks to the shadow robe.)

(If not, what happened 20 years ago)

(will happen again.)

(A Millennium Spirit Dragon?)

(If I can extract its inner core and use it to boost my strength, )

(in the future, )

(no Taoist spirit can harm me again.)

(That dark aura seemed strange.)

(What exactly was it?)

The flame of the Spirit Dragon.

Changlan.

My Lord.

When can you initiate a war between the Taoists and spirits

for Sanchong Mountain?

The beings of Qingqiu

are all under my spell.

As for Chenxing Mountain's Lingfei,

initially, I wanted to kill her in Qingqiu

to initiate a conflict between the two realms.

But now that I think about it,

I think it's more useful

to keep her alive.

When she returns to her clan,

it'll be the beginning

of the war.

Very good.

You're far superior to Bai Xiaosheng.

My Lord,

regarding Bai Xiaosheng,

I'm afraid he has turned on you.

It doesn't matter.

Just leave him be.

You do look

exactly like Changlan.

You look different

from what Changlan

had described to me.

Let me do it.

He imprisoned you for many years,

yet he mentioned me in front of you?

Sometimes, when he holds a discussion with Zhao Yu,

he'll bring up your name.

When my mind's eye was still clear,

I heard of you.

I guess he said nothing good about me.

Your Majesty,

I came here

because I want to ask you something.

What is it?

I saw you

inside Dark Phantom's mind's eye.

Your Majesty, I wish to know

how exactly

you sealed him away.

Actually,

I didn't seal him away

with my powers alone.

And

he wasn't sealed away

in his mind's eye.

He was sealed within the body

of Master Qingguang of Chenxing Mountain.

Master Qingguang?

He's the founder of my sect.

I thought he was on retreat

in Starhaven?

Back then, in order to stop Dark Phantom

who was causing chaos everywhere,

Xuelin practiced Ghostly Eulogy by herself.

She intended to make herself

the Lord of Dark Aura

and swallow Dark Phantom.

(She intended to end her life)

(at the Obsidian Riverhead after swallowing Dark Phantom.)

(However, Xuelin wasn't able)

(to master the Ghostly Eulogy.)

(Her body was ruined instead.)

What's wrong?

Are you okay?

Take a sip of this.

(But Dark Phantom kept committing atrocious deeds.)

(We couldn't just allow him to get his way.)

(To Qingguang) (She wrote a letter to Qingguang)

(requesting his help.)

(She intended to seal Dark Phantom away)

(with our combined powers.)

(I prepared a trap in the vast desert.)

(Xuelin built the geomantic compass to absorb the dark aura)

(while Qingguang reinforced my trap.)

Xuelin.

It's been a century since we last met.

You've summoned me again.

Is it because you're willing to return to my side?

Dark Phantom, your dark aura is running rampant.

Innocent people have been hurt.

I can't just let you

keep this up.

I haven't found a way

to disperse the dark aura.

Now,

I can only seal you away temporarily.

Xuelin,

you lied to me!

Xuelin.

I didn't expect you to call me here

just to seal me away!

You lied to me!

You lied to me!

Xuelin!

Polars of Qiankun!

So, the vision I saw

when I was inside the geomantic compass was...

Qingguang

used his body as a vessel

to seal Dark Phantom away.

And the injuries

Xuelin had sustained back then

exhausted her life force entirely.

After she passed away,

I followed her wish

and sealed the Ghostly Eulogy

within the screen.

However, even when she was on her last breath,

she still couldn't figure out

how to get rid of the dark aura.

She only knew

that one could manipulate the dark aura and cause it to implode

if one mastered the Ghostly Eulogy.

As for Qingguang,

once he returned to Chenxing Mountain,

he focused all of his efforts

to suppress Dark Phantom, which was in his body.

Twenty years later,

I found out

that he had sealed himself away completely.

He sealed himself within Starhaven.

I assume this has something to do

with Dark Phantom.

So Lingxiao

visited Starhaven every year

in order to help Master Qingguang reinforce his seal.

All these years,

I've been trying to find a way

to get rid of the dark aura.

After fifteen years,

I finally invented

a spell

that could curb the dark aura.

However, I never expected Changlan

to become Dark Phantom's follower.

He even mastered visual spells.

Fifteen years ago?

Wasn't that the year

Changlan offered the Phantom Clan to Dark Phantom as a sacrifice

and opened a portal

to Dark Phantom's mind's eye?

Fifteen years ago.

When Dark Phantom was trapped

within Starhaven,

I regained freedom

temporarily.

Back then,

I tried to search for him in his mind's eye.

However, I never found him.

Until fifteen years ago,

he suddenly returned

and told me to meet our new ally.

His name was Changlan.

This useless twin son

was actually his hope

of turning the tides.

Your Majesty,

didn't the brush sprite say

that the second twin son of the royalty of Qingqiu

should be

imprisoned?

So, how did he manage to escape?

Also, how did he

end up being

Dark Phantom's trusted aide?

Regarding that, we need to talk about

what happened long ago.

Although we were twins,

I never knew about

his existence

for many years.

After that, when the late king passed away,

Zhao Yu told me

that he couldn't bear to see Changlan suffer any longer.

Only then did I find out

that I had a younger brother.

Back then,

Xuelin and I just got married.

After our discussion,

we decided

to release Changlan

from the dungeon forever.

But he told me

that he didn't want to stay in Qingqiu.

I could understand why.

Thus, I allowed him to leave.

After that, I found out

that he had gone to Luochuan Dragon Valley

and had been living there.

I heard that he had a good life when he was living in the valley.

If so, how did he

end up like this?

Speaking of which, he could be considered an old friend of yours.

Why did he attack you too?

Changlan,

when he first came to Luochuan Dragon Valley,

he wasn't someone who would do something terrible like this.

My Flaming Dragon Fang

contained his blessings too.

Could it be

that you met Suying at the time?

Back then,

he did tell me

not to trust Suying easily.

But I didn't listen to him.

He might have left the valley

out of disappointment.

After that,

we never met each other again.

No matter

what he became after that,

right now, he's trying

to collect

violent and evil aura in the world

to make him stronger.

Violent and evil aura?

What is that? How does one collect it?

By leading people to commit evil deeds and initiate wars.

If we wish to stop Dark Phantom

from returning to this world,

our first step

is to stop Changlan.

If so, we need to return to

the Royal Palace of Qingqiu immediately.

Now that I think about it,

everything Changlan did

was aimed at initiating the war

between the Taoists and spirits

so that he could set the Lord of Dark Aura free.

We have to bring His Majesty

back to Qingqiu

to expose his evil plots.

Lingfei said Changlan wanted to assassinate her.

Once she returns to her base,

she'll definitely gather her troops and prepare for battle.

A disaster is coming.

And the Heart Protecting Scale

just returned to your body.

You still need to rest and recuperate.

You need to rest and recuperate too.

Elder Lingfei!

What are you laughing at?

You look pretty funny

in that getup.

Actually, it hasn't been too long

since I left.

However, I was thinking about you

all the time.

I've truly

fallen for you.

What about you?

Did you miss me?

I wouldn't have fallen for you

had I known you were this heartless back then.

Bai Xiaosheng...

Are you sure you don't want to consider me at all?

No.

Fine. I admit.

Tianyao

is pretty good.

You can come to me anytime

once you guys have broken up.

I'll definitely reserve a spot

for you.

It's getting late.

You should head back and rest.

No thanks.

I'm here to bid farewell.

Bid farewell? Won't you come with us

to the Royal Palace of Qingqiu?

I'm going

to seal away the entrance

to Dark Phantom's mind's eye

and stop him from contacting Changlan.

By then, it'll be easier

for you guys to deal with Changlan

in Qingqiu.

Are you heading there alone?

Nope, there are two of us.

Two?

It's me

and you, which I keep in my heart.

It's getting late.

I won't waste your time.

See you.

That was quick.

Yanhui.

Tianyao!

I made you a tiara.

I wonder if you like it.

It's so nice.

This tiara

can cover the bald spot on my head.

I like it!

Let me help you put it on then.

These eyes of mine,

which have seen through countless relationships,

have never failed me indeed.

Tianyao,

within the Taoist clan...

Only husbands

can comb the hair of their wives, right?

If so, you...

We are married, aren't we?

We notified our kin

when we were in Tongluo Village.

We announced our marriage to the world

in the main hall of Qingqiu.

Yanhui,

do you know something?

You were already my wife

when I gave you the nuptial agreement.

If so, you better keep your word.

I will.

I put my seal on it.

It's decided for life then.

See you.