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(The Legend of Shen Li)

(Episode 2)

Cluck,

you are so vigorous.

Why did you throw me in the water?

Look.

You are just as dirty as the ginseng from the ground.

- I... - I must wash all of you.

Or do you feel like

playing in that pond more?

That's unnecessary.

It's too packed.

What are you doing?

They can't be sold at a good price if their appearance is ruined.

Are you selling this kind of ginseng?

What other types of ginseng can I sell?

What are you doing?

Which type do you think it is?

What do you mean? I don't know which type you are talking about.

It's so itchy.

(He's quite handsome.)

Why did you get so close to me?

(Why is he smiling?)

(Did I peck him until he became crazy?)

You are capable indeed.

- You are weird. - Cluck.

How childish.

(I should first stay at this sickly person's house.)

(It seems like his yard allows me to recover faster.)

(In merely two to three days,)

(my wound from Mo Fang)

(has almost recovered.)

(Moreover,)

(I don't need to be worried about getting caught by others when I'm here.)

(Although I don't know when I can fully recover,)

(a day in heaven equals a year in the Mortal Realm.)

(I can buy a lot of time while staying here.)

Why are you staring at me?

Wash your ginseng,

puny mortal.

Cluck,

it's time to eat.

- Why is it a vegetarian dish again? - Don't you like it?

I can't eat it every day even if it's delicious.

I will get bored.

I want to eat meat.

I have no money.

Can't I have meat sometimes?

Although you don't look rich,

I'm sure you are not poor.

I am poor.

However,

I have a good temperament.

Wait. What about the wild mountain ginseng you sell?

Those are

not wild mountain ginseng.

They are

normal

Southern Ginseng.

If you sell them,

you can make some money at least.

I can't sell them.

I want to use them to trade for a lifesaving medicine

from the herbal shop.

(This sickly person is quite pitiful.)

(I owe Xing Yun a favor.)

(I also know I need to repay him.)

(However, I hold a fighting post.)

(I'm good at killing and fighting wars.)

(I can't save people.)

(Since I can't save him,)

(I will let him live a better life while he is still alive.)

(Go.)

(It still doesn't work.)

(After so many days, the aura inside me is still empty.)

(I can't even do the magic to turn rock into gold.)

(Let me try it again.)

(I did it!)

(That's...)

(Change!)

(That's... It turns back so quickly.)

(I'm so angry.)

(Change!)

(Stupid rock. Go away!)

(It hurts so much.)

I should buy two taels of meat tomorrow.

You're not bringing your basket and hoe.

Are you not selling any ginseng today?

The ginsengs are still drying.

I'm going out to buy something.

Cluck,

watch the house for me.

Wait.

(Since Moon Essence can't be used,)

(I should try using Sun Essence instead.)

(If I can turn stone into gold,)

(he can buy something nice.)

I'll go with you.

How do you go out in this form?

There are many people in the market.

If you get lost,

you might

turn into a pot of chicken soup.

You...

Why don't I walk you after tying a rope

around your neck? What do you think?

Ridiculous! I want to accompany you to the market out of kindness

and gratitude.

Naturally, I want you

to carry me.

Carry me.

Hurry.

Carry me.

That's right.

Be careful while you walk.

Don't be too shaky.

Don't worry.

I'll listen to everything you say.

Sure. Come back again.

- Fruits! - Meat!

- Meat! - Fresh fruits!

Miss, please take a look.

Freshly butchered pig!

Fresh fruits!

Sure. Take care.

Come again.

Meat!

Sir, do you want to buy meat?

Fresh pig.

It was just butchered today.

- I still lack some money. - Come back again next time.

Why don't you pick up another rock for me?

Stop pecking at rocks.

Don't worry. I won't starve you.

The world doesn't change.

Ten bronze coins to know your future...

- Sir! - Meat!

I'm not talking about you. Go away, poor guy!

This plump guy.

You are blessed.

You have a wealthy appearance.

Come here.

Hurry.

Ten bronze coins.

Let me tell you about your future.

- All right. - Meat!

What do you want to know?

The imperial exam.

Imperial exam?

Sir, you've studied hard in recent years

but you haven't been chosen, right?

You've made a huge mistake.

You enter your bridal chamber

when you succeed in your imperial examination.

As the saying goes, get married first before you start your career.

You've had your priority wrong.

This is a huge mistake.

You should get married first.

Fresh fruits!

It's fragrant.

You have an encounter with a lady today.

Sir, give me another ten cents

and I will tell you where the lady is.

Sure.

Sir.

At noon today,

there might be a fire at your house.

If you don't go home now,

you might regret it in the future.

Big Mushroom! Who are you?

Are you a peer who is trying to steal my business?

Are people in our line of work so despicable?

Who are you? Go away.

Sir, don't listen to him.

He will take away all your luck.

Let me take a good look.

Sir,

if you don't believe me,

just go home and take a look.

This afternoon,

I will still wait for you here.

Nonsense!

He is talking nonsense.

Let me...

Sir.

Is this a trap?

I don't know him.

No.

Sir!

Sir!

Are you lying?

This is about our money to buy meat.

Miss, pick two more fruits.

Come and take a look.

You are such a jinx.

Do you know the rules?

- I don't. - Why did you speak nonsense if you don't?

I'm speaking the truth.

If you don't believe me,

let's wait here

since you won't be leaving this afternoon.

If I was right,

you need to willingly

pay me ten cents.

- What do you think? - Amitabha.

I never gamble with other people.

Look at your face!

I won't admit defeat!

I'll accept the bet.

If I lose, I'll give you ten bronze coins.

If you lose, you need to give me that chicken.

- How about that? - Do you have a death wish?

Enough. When I'm here,

no one dares to touch you.

(I actually)

(feel protected by a puny mortal.)

(What an amazing feeling.)

Stop scratching.

When the land was created,

there were three realms.

The lower realm is the Mortal Realm.

The upper realm is the Heavenly Realm.

Beasts existed in the Heavenly Realm.

The beasts absorbed the spiritual aura of heaven and earth

and learned the five-element skills

to gain a human form.

They call themselves the Spiritual Clan.

Above the Heavenly Realm

is the residence of the Ancient Gods.

Sky's Beyond.

The Ancient Gods were powerful

and each had their own responsibilities.

Some controlled time

and some created humans and things.

After the Ancient Gods created humans,

people learned the five-element skills

to fly to the Heavenly Realm

and called themselves Immortals.

With more and more Immortals

arriving at the Heavenly Realm,

the Immortals and Spiritual Clan

were always fighting.

After millions of years of war,

the Immortals and Spiritual Clans finally drew an agreement

to live separately in the Heavenly Realm

and called them the Immortal Realm and the Spiritual Realm.

You just won't give up

until the end.

I'm not bullying you.

It's noon, right?

After all these years,

I've never seen anyone who predicts the afternoon in the morning.

How are you so good at pretending?

Come. Give the chicken to me.

I'll teach you a lesson today.

Look.

Why should I give it to you?

Look.

He's here.

Benefactor!

Benefactor!

Benefactor!

If you didn't ask me to go home,

my mother

would've been burned to death in the firewood warehouse.

If you don't mind,

please accept the meat I have here.

I'll accept it then.

Study hard this year.

You will succeed next year.

Thank you, Benefactor.

Master!

I offended you just now

and didn't know who you were.

Please forgive me.

Why don't you predict my future for me as well?

Sure.

Today,

you will

get hurt.

I'm leaving. Farewell.

I heard the fortune teller didn't make any money and lost ten cents.

He went home and was beaten up badly by his wife.

He really got hurt.

Really?

Do you really know how to predict the future?

I can predict a little.

Who taught you that?

I was born with the talent.

You will be punished by heaven for revealing the future.

I know.

Otherwise, why would I drink medicine every day?

Heaven moves all things.

You'll always gain and lose something.

Everything is balanced.

(A mere mortal can predict the future)

(and it's so detailed no less.)

(It's obvious that his body is suffering)

(from a heavy backlash.)

(No wonder he looks like a short-lived person.)

(However, he has resisted his fate)

(and lived until now.)

(This sickly person)

(is not ordinary.)

Since you are talented and have this ability,

why don't you make a living by telling people's fortunes?

If a half-immortal like you with real ability

can tell the fortune of officials or wealthy people,

your life will be ten times better

even if you only do it once a year.

Fortune-telling

is not a good ability.

It harms others and doesn't benefit me.

I can live well

without relying on it.

Xing Yun.

Are there any ingredients that restore one's vitality

in the food you make?

Bring it to me and let me study it.

Do you think I am someone

who can afford something like that?

(Yes.)

(He is someone who can't even afford meat.)

(He wouldn't be able to add any tonic in the mantou.)

(However, I did recover quickly in this house)

(compared to when I was outside.)

(My inner aura)

(has also gradually stabilized recently.)

(I'll probably)

(regain my human form in the next few days.)

Coming.

Coming.

Immortal.

Are you the immortal

whom they say can predict the past and future?

Is it you?

Are you that person?

I guess

I'm the person you are looking for.

- However... - Sister-in-law!

- Tell me my fortune. - Sister-in-law!

- Stop fooling around. - Immortal.

- Stop fooling around. - Tell me my fortune.

Immortal, help me.

Help me see where my husband who joined the army for 15 years is right now.

Let's go back.

- (He's a soldier's wife.) - Immortal!

- Immortal, please help me. - Let's go home.

- Cut it out. - Immortal!

Immortal. I beg you. Help me.

- Let's go back. - Immortal!

- Stop it. - Immortal!

- Sister-in-law. - Immortal!

- I beg you. - Please help me.

(When the enemy has been defeated,)

(I will return as soon as possible.)

(Yun Niang,)

(wait for me.)

(I will wait for you.)

(I will always wait for you)

(until you come back safely.)

- Help me. Immortal. - Sister-in-law.

- Help me. - It has been so many years.

Let's not ask him.

Let's not ask him, all right?

I must ask him!

No matter how many years have passed, he is still my husband!

I'll find him the next day if I can't find him today.

I'm sure we will find him one day if we keep looking.

Sister-in-law!

My son!

(Those who went to the battlefield)

(might not have their bones found)

(when they die,)

(regardless of how long their families wait)

(or search for them.)

Immortal, I beg you.

Immortal, help me.

Help me tell my fortune.

Stand up first.

I can't

tell you your fortune.

Please go back.

Sorry for troubling you.

(People from my village)

(either came back)

(or perished on the battlefield.)

(However, he vanished.)

(It has been 15 years now)

(but I still can't find him)

(or know his fate.)

(The clothes I mended have nowhere to be delivered to)

(and the letters I wrote)

(have no one to read them.)

Let me miss him at least, Immortal!

Immortal!

Let me miss him at least!

Let's go.

- Immortal! - Let's go.

Immortal!

Let's go.

- Let's go home. - Help me!

Let's go.

You've realized something, right?

Why didn't you tell that woman?

Where is her husband?

I didn't realize anything.

(This Xing Yun.)

(He saved an old person for some meat)

(but he also ignored a soldier's wife's tears)

(and did nothing.)

(He is really casual and heartless.)

(The aura on the soldier's wife was...)

(The aura is stronger now.)

This chicken is too free.

Sister-in-law!

Sister-in-law!

It's almost time for me to go to work.

I'm leaving.

If you need anything,

go and find your sister-in-law.

Don't run anywhere

in the middle of the night.

(Yun Niang, stop making me clothes.)

(I think I'll even have enough clothes until my next life.)

(After you leave,)

(no one can help mend your clothes)

(if it is torn.)

(I won't let the enemy break my armor.)

(I won't let them destroy your kindness for me.)

Oh, no.

Stop chasing me!

How annoying.

Which thief dares trespass on my residence?

Wait. Stop.

It's a misunderstanding. I... You...

I'm here to help you.

Where did this chicken come from?

Who is it?

Who's over there?

Yun Niang!

Cluck, don't you know there's a curfew?

Why are you here?

Let's go. Come back with me. Come here.

You are causing trouble again.

You fool!

Don't come here!

Cluck, come here.

Don't come here.

Why did you knock me?

You would've been dead if I didn't.

Stand up, fool!

Look out!

Can't you see that man?

Man?

What man?

Forget it. Mortals can't see anything.

Go back, wash up, and sleep.

When the lady came to us this morning,

I felt a weird aura on her.

When I followed her back here,

I realized this man...

Or should I call him an immortal?

An immortal?

I think he is the lady's husband

but he has an extraordinary aura.

I think he is an immortal.

I think he became an immortal after winning the war

due to his loyalty.

There have been such rumors in the Mortal Realm.

However, he is reluctant to join the ranks of immortals

and still misses the Mortal Realm

and won't leave his wife.

That is why he stays by her side and protects her until now

in the form of the immortal's primordial soul.

I think he doesn't know how to use any powers

so his wife can't see him.

Oh no. You angered him.

I can't regain my human form now.

Then, let me

help you.

How?

Distract him and buy me some time.

Cluck, it's done.

Come down.

Xing Yun, remove your clothes.

All right.

- Come here. - Where?

He is behind you.

Who?

Hurry!

Fine.

Know your place.

Are you her husband whom she's been searching for 15 years?

Do you know she has been looking

and waiting for you?

Do you want her to see you?

Is it possible?

Xing Yun, can you make a formation?

Since I've already meddled in this,

I should just do my best.

However, you shouldn't regret it

when it's done.

Lady.

Your husband has returned.

San Lang?

Yun Niang.

You have returned.

Yun Niang.

Look at me.

I didn't prepare anything.

I didn't prepare any food for you.

I...

I've been waiting so long

for this day.

It has been so many years.

Where have you been?

Everyone thinks I'm crazy

but I'm not.

You told me to wait for you

before you went to war.

I know

you won't lie to me.

San Lang.

I...

You've finally returned.

Don't leave again.

I won't leave anymore.

Yun Niang, wait for me.

You must be safe.

I'll wait for you.

This formation's power

is so powerful.

It turned them back into their younger selves.

This formation

can't last for a long time.

If you have anything to say,

you should tell them quickly.

(He actually realized what I wanted to do.)

During the day,

I could sense a weird aura around the lady.

I didn't expect it

to be her husband whom she has been looking for for years

who has been following and protecting her.

He is not supposed to stay here.

Immortals and humans are different after all.

His aura is too powerful.

When they have been together for a long time,

it will affect this lady

and reduce her lifespan.

I wanted to persuade him to leave

but...

Why don't you let them decide it for themselves?

Both of them are ordinary people.

They don't know how much the aura

will affect humans.

Since things are at this point now,

why don't you tell them everything?

Just let them decide

whether he stays or leaves.

You want them to have a bit more time together,

right?

Even if it's only for a brief moment.

But my formation

can't hold for a long time.