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=Candle in the Tomb: The Worm Valley=

=Episode 13=

They put them here to scare us, right?

Hu.

Look at this.

This looks like a kid.

This is an everlasting candle made from a living person.

These kids' bellies were filled with oil.

And the oil flows out through their navels.

It looks like

they were alive when the oil was poured into their bellies.

Alive?

I've only ever heard of it.

But I never expected someone would do such a horrible thing.

That bastard King Xian.

This is way too cruel.

He wouldn't even spare the children.

I had meant to leave his body intact,

but just for this,

I'll make sure to scatter his ashes too.

Look at this.

"To receive deities and saints".

They don't just act as candles,

but they act as reception children too.

To lead the way for King Xian once he becomes a deity.

These poor kids.

They were sacrificed and lost their lives at such a young age.

King Xian has lost all sense of humanity

in his pursuit of immortality.

Odd.

According to the design of the mausoleums,

each everlasting candle in the underground palace

corresponds to a corpse.

With the six black-scaled sirens,

that makes nine everlasting candles.

Could it be

that there are nine corpses here?

That's not right.

There are only three coffins here.

It doesn't add up.

Hu. Fatty.

Come and look at this.

Why are there red spot marks

on these reception children too?

Hu.

You said

each candle represents a corpse.

Then did that bastard King Xian

include us too?

Do you think these three reception children

represent the three of us?

Don't over-think and scare yourself.

I'm not scaring myself!

Look!

Those red spot marks look exactly the same as the ones on our bodies!

What does that mean?

A coincidence? I think not.

This is not a coincidence.

Like the Zaglama clan,

these reception children

have erythema disease as well.

Right.

I think Chief Yang's observation makes sense.

It seems that King Xian

has inextricable ties to the Ghost Cave clan

of the ancient Jingjue City.

This proves

that the Fowl-dust Orb

is indeed inside King Xian's tomb.

What?

You mean the three of them are thieves?

Yes.

I saw a lot of tools

in their bags.

They must be after the treasure.

Think about it.

If there were indeed

that many monsters in the Bottle Gourd Cave,

would they have been able

to make it out with just the three of them?

Save us?

They just wanted to use us as scapegoats

so that they could take advantage of the chaos

and escape.

So they wanted to use us as scapegoats.

They're so evil!

We shouldn't maliciously speculate others.

They're not that kind of people.

Da.

Think about it.

Those outsiders

have been using you and your sister.

How can you still believe them?

Da.

I think Zha Long has a point.

Let him finish.

Zha Long.

Go ahead.

What should we do now?

If you ask me,

whatever is under the water

belongs to us.

We can't let the outsiders get their hands on them.

Those who can swim

should come with me

and reclaim what's rightfully ours.

We will capture those outsiders

and bring them back to the village.

I'll go with you.

Me too.

Then, me too...

Good!

Since everyone is willing,

we'll go into the water now.

You can't go!

I've engaged with those people.

They're definitely not thieves.

You are a member of the Zhelong Village.

But you keep speaking up for those outsiders.

You're not taking any favors from them, are you?

You...

Oh, right.

His sister was the one who showed them the way.

Zha Long!

You're slandering me!

If you dare to talk nonsense again,

I won't go easy on you.

Come on.

Don't waste time on him.

Let's go.

I'll see who dares to take another step.

Hu.

There's another everlasting candle here.

This candle is huge.

It must be King Xian's.

The tenth candle.

That means

there are at least 10 corpses here.

Besides King Xian,

what other important people

would be buried here?

If

the corpses in these three coffins

represent King Xian's three lives,

then along with his own corpse,

there should be four in total.

When we were crossing the Three Lives Bridge,

I realized

that the animals carved on the bridge were in pairs of male and female.

That means this is a joint tomb.

Along with King Xian's concubine,

there should be at least five corpses here.

But if that's the case,

the number of the bodies

and the everlasting candles don't add up.

Well, could it be

that King Xian had a lot of wives?

All right.

Let's stop guessing.

Let's hurry and open the coffin.

Our main objective is to find the Fowl-dust Orb.

Mathematics scares me the most.

Hu, you know

I was taught mathematics by my sports teacher. [*It means that a person's poor at math]

What?

Number.

He means

he learned it from you.

What happened?

It's possible that it has been here for too long,

and with how violently the coffin was shaking earlier,

the chains couldn't hold the coffin any longer.

Hu.

Look.

I think that crash made a big hole.

Be careful.

Slowly now.

Watch out for any traps.

All right.

There's another room.

It looks like

we were right.

There are more than three coffins.

And

King Xian's real corpse

might just be down there.

Careful.

Be careful.

You're so heavy.

Gosh.

This crypt sure is deep.

Gosh.

So many burial items.

This is made of bronze, isn't it?

Hu, look at this.

This vajra pestle is made of gold.

Don't just simply take something.

What if you trigger a mechanism?

Put it back.

I was just checking it out.

Why is it so smelly in here?

This is a tomb with a wood outer coffin.

It has been so long, so this coffin is moldy.

It'll be better after we get some air in here.

Forget about the coffins.

With this amount of burial objects alone,

this coffin is sure to be King Xian's.

Fate works in willful ways.

I bet King Xian never expected

that the jade coffin

would crash and lead us into this crypt.

But what is this coffin made of?

Jade? Crystal?

This is blue kyanite.

It's a variant of a crystal.

This metamorphic rock

can only be formed in subsurface stromatolites.

Kyanite?

I remember seeing this

in ancient texts.

Legend has it that there is a stone mill made of kyanite in hell.

All evil-doers

would be crushed by this stone mill

after they fall into the underworld,

and they can never be reborn.

They call this coffin a ghost coffin too.

It's an ominous item.

Why would King Xian be buried in a ghost coffin?

So you're saying

King Xian isn't inside this coffin?

I think we should leave discussions aside

and get to the actual practice.

All we have to do is open up the coffin,

right?

Look, Hu,

I'll take the lead this time.

Leave it to me.

The capable only appear when they are needed.

But don't blame me for not reminding you.

Don't overestimate yourself.

Be careful, it could turn into a zombie.

Don't worry.

I know what to do.

Just watch.

I'll leave it to you.

Commander Wang.

Could you help me out here?

Where is the southeast corner in this space?

Chief Yang,

you're teasing me, aren't you?

Everything is round in here.

Where am I supposed to find a corner?

Besides,

I can't even find the north,

how would I know where the south is?

Use that compass of yours

and find it yourself.

All right. This is the spot.

We'll open the coffin from here.

Come on.

Not bad.

You sneakily learned that, didn't you?

Have you been planning to usurp me all along?

Well, I'm a proper tomb raider.

I can't tarnish the name of the founder now, can I?

Chief Yang,

take this.

What is this made of?

The tripwire?

There's cinnabar on it.

To deter zombies.

If you see a corpse turning into a zombie,

we'll stop it the moment we open the coffin.

That way, the body will be trapped.

If it can't move, it won't be able to come out.

Some wires will be able to stop it?

It makes no scientific sense.

This is passed down by the founder.

It's better to be prepared.

Let's do it.

One, two, three.

King Xian

looks rather well-preserved.

Why did it turn black?

It was caused by...

Oxidation.

You said it before.

The kyanite coffin may be ominous,

but it can preserve the original appearance of a body well

under a tightly sealed condition.

Look.

King Xian's eyes are gone.

It looks like

they were removed.

There are signs indicating that his eyes were gouged out.

In ancient times, there was a torture device

shaped like a cup

with rotating blades inside.

Put that on the eye,

and you can

instantly gouge someone's eyes out while that person is still alive.

So you mean

someone gouged King Xian's eyes out?

Who would dare do that?

Look.

Its head.

There are signs that it was cut off by a sharp object.

But it doesn't seem like its head was chopped off.

It looks like it was removed after his death.

I think

this head was pieced onto this body.

Pieced on?

Hold this.

Careful.

Goodness.

They used gold to fill up this skeleton.

The skeleton and the head

are not from the same body.

I think there are more than two bodies.

Right.

Look at this lower limb,

the midsection, and the head.

They don't match.

They're clearly not from the same body.

That's not unexpected.

This is just one of that old King Xian's

means to achieve immortality.

This body is a shadow bone.

There was a saying in ancient times.

Those who wish to achieve immortality

must be transformed in flesh and bone

and experience several major calamities.

They are to find their corpses from their past three lives

and bury them in a crypt to turn them into shadow bone.

So as to show heaven and earth

that they have gone through three sufferings

and may be transformed.

By doing so,

they'll have a chance to become immortal.

So you're saying

that this shadow bone

was formed from the three

combined corpses?

Based on the state of preservation of this skull,

it looks like something that was in that cellar wood coffin.

And the bones of this midsection

have already decayed so much that they're gone.

So it had to be refilled with gold.

It was most likely the corpse in that stone coffin.

Then I suppose the lower limb

belonged inside that bronze coffin, right?

You're quite clever, huh?

Of course.

Also,

the head is missing its eyes,

a few ribs are missing from the sternum,

and its legs are covered in bruises.

That means that these three people

must have undergone the three sufferings.

Namely, their eyes were gouged,

their hearts were removed

and their souls were taken from them.

So this shadow bone

suffered through all of them in place of King Xian, right?

These three guys sure were unlucky.

Even in death,

their bodies were dismembered,

and their graves were dug up.

What gives?

This shadow bone is not King Xian.

King Xian wasn't inside any of those coffins too.

So

where is he?

Da!

Da!

Brother Zha Long!

Brother Zha Long!

Da!

Good!

Ze Wa

and Patriarch are dead.

I'm the only one who can be the next patriarch.

Don't you want to save Kong Que?

Good, Brother Zha Long!

Get up, Da!

Get up!

Get up!

I thought

we had somehow

found King Xian's coffin.

But who knew?

Now,

we've eliminated all four coffins.

Where do you think

that King Xian is hiding, huh?

Could it be that he actually became a deity

and is living up there now?

Fatty.

What did you say just now?

What did I say?

You said up there.

Fatty.

I'll give you credit this time.

No, wait. What are you guys talking about?

The shadow bone in this outer coffin

had to suffer in hell for King Xian.

That means

this outer coffin

represents hell.

And the three coffins in the crypt

represent the realm of the living.

As such,

there should be another crypt

above that crypt.

And that crypt represents the Mountain of Deities.

King Xian's body

is on the Mountain of Deities.

So you're saying

there's another crypt up there?

Since the shadow bone is down here,

then there must be a heaven's gate and an earth's gate.

It's a dragon waiting to ascend.

This is a three-layer water tomb formed by the tail of a shrimp,

the body of a crab, and the eyes of a goldfish.

Then King Xian's coffin must be somewhere

that forms a vertical line

between the hanging coffin in the middle crypt

and the shadow bone in the wooden coffin.

Well, what are we waiting for then? Let's get up there.

Don't be hasty.

There's a task for you.

What is it?

We promised Professor Sun

we wouldn't ruin any relics.

So...

Oh, you want me to rearrange everything back.

But what gives?

No job is noble or humble.

Logistics are important.

All right.

Leave it to me.

Fatty.

Don't get any bad ideas.

Don't even think about taking anything with you.

How am I supposed to carry something so heavy back?

We still have to swim back, don't we?

Don't worry.

Come on.

Let go of us!

Zha Long.

You are despicable.

Da.

A soft-hearted person like you

will never amount to anything.

Those who want to stay with Da,

do as you like.

But if I find any treasure,

you'll have nothing to do with it.

Let's go.

Into the water.

Hu.

We were right.

There is a crypt up there.

Let's check it out.

Hu.

You bastard.

You tricked me.

Careful.

Fatty!

How are things over there?

I'm done!

We've discovered something.

Hurry up and get up here.

All right. Coming.

Hu!

Hu!

Climb up.

All right.

It's so high.

I have to climb again.

Oh, darn.

I'm exhausted.

Look at you. It took you so long just to tidy up.

We waited for you all day.

Who spent so long?

I had to tidy up everything down there by myself.

I'm telling you,

it took a lot of effort

to close that coffin.

If only Jin were here.

Let me.

It won't help even if Jin was here.

I'm telling you, Hu,

I'm only working so hard

because that was a task you gave me.

All right.

Since you're so eager to work in logistics,

I'll appoint you as the head

of logistics.

Don't give me that.

I won't fall for that.

Don't think you can fool me again.

Wait, Hu, didn't you say

that King Xian's coffin was above the shadow bone?

Where's the coffin?

I don't see it.

I think it's strange too.

Could it be that King Xian

has changed the feng shui around here?

King Xian's thoughts are certainly unusual.

It's hard to tell what he is thinking.

Since there's a tomb passage here,

it means

our line of thought is right.

Let's carry on further.

Stay on guard.

Why do I feel like

these statues are staring at us?

It's creepy.

Chief Yang.

Look.

What are their eyes made of?

♪ The path ahead ♪

♪ Is shrouded by mist ♪

♪ It's full of perils, but we never give in ♪

♪ We search ♪

♪ For the answer ♪

♪ Eventually, we wipe away ♪

♪ Our sweat and tears ♪

♪ Disperse the mist ♪

♪ That's blocking our way ♪

♪ The cheers of victory ♪

♪ Will permeate the rocks ♪

♪ We'll reach ♪

♪ The shore of hope ♪

♪ Break free from gravity ♪

♪ Break free from destiny's ♪

♪ Shackles ♪

♪ With my strength ♪

♪ The blossom will bloom ♪

♪ Even on the cliff ♪

♪ There could be setbacks ♪

♪ But we fall for no trick ♪

♪ The mysterious tracks ♪

♪ Through the dark and moist ♪

♪ Realm of dream ♪

♪ The dark night ♪

♪ Will be torn open ♪

♪ Daybreak ♪

♪ Will be pulled apart ♪

♪ We walk in a circle ♪

♪ My fear ♪

♪ Is overcome by my belief ♪

♪ Over the hills and mountains ♪

♪ We drink heartily in the wind ♪

♪ Eventually ♪

♪ Life will surprise us ♪

♪ The rainbow ♪

♪ Arrives after the storm ♪

♪ Who can feel my lonely ♪

♪ The eerie noises next to my ears ♪

♪ The peril ♪

♪ Could be lethal ♪

♪ I strive to see the truth ♪

♪ It's all right ♪

♪ We never believed in destiny ♪

♪ When we cross paths ♪

♪ We keep a level head ♪

♪ And survive the morass ♪

♪ We work as one ♪

♪ And move forward ♪

♪ By marching together ♪

♪ The evil brings pain ♪

♪ And fill us with hate ♪

♪ We must keep the beckoning at bay ♪

♪ Through the woods ♪

♪ We speak to the gods ♪

♪ Weapons are forged with courage ♪

♪ We will not back down ♪

♪ My gaze ♪

♪ Will punish the evil ♪

♪ With the worst torment ♪

♪ The dark night ♪

♪ Will be torn open ♪

♪ Daybreak will be pulled apart ♪

♪ We walk in a circle ♪

♪ My fear ♪

♪ Is overcome by my belief ♪

♪ Over the hills ♪

♪ And over the mountains ♪

♪ We drink heartily in the wind ♪

♪ Eventually, life will surprise us ♪

♪ The rainbow ♪

♪ Arrives ♪

♪ After the storm ♪

♪ The dark night will be torn open ♪

♪ Daybreak will be pulled apart ♪

♪ We walk in a circle ♪

♪ My fear ♪

♪ Is overcome by my belief ♪

♪ Over the hills ♪

♪ And over the mountains ♪

♪ We drink heartily in the wind ♪

♪ Eventually, life will surprise us ♪

♪ The rainbow ♪

♪ Arrives ♪

♪ After the storm ♪

♪ The rainbow arrives after the storm ♪