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"Burning Fire" by BABY-J

♫ In the silent world in the universe ♫

♫ When light and darkness overlap ♫

♫ From the chaos, I write my story ♫

♫ The sky is full of snow and wind ♫

♫ Raging from being banished from the mortal world ♫

♫ A sword pierces the sun and moon ♫

♫ Snow falls thousands of times and comforts me, with God as my witness ♫

♫ I pierce the night with a blood-forged sword ♫

♫ Writing in defiance of fate ♫

♫ The burning fire splits the sun and moon, unafraid of the wind and snow ♫

♫ I bear the scorching heat of the world ♫

♫ Disregarding everything for humanity ♫

♫ In this moment of reincarnation ♫

♫ Burning through this lifetime's blossoms ♫

[The Blossoming Love]

[Episode 12]

Chant the incantation and repel the Ignorance Shadow!

Ling,'er you see that I didn't lie to you. Right?

I told you that if you don't come back to the Dark Domain in a month,

your demonic energy will split your body up.

You've been in the human world for half a month now.

The retribution has begun.

Ling'er, this is the day.

Help Ignorance Shadow to get the Chaos Pearl, and then return to the Dark Domain.

Return to my side.

There's nothing for you in the human world.

Nothing.

Humans built all their glories upon the bodies of other clans.

They are always insatiable and lack self-awareness.

They are the worst in all evilness.

They shouldn't exist.

Remember. Finish your task and return to the Dark Domain.

Return to my side.

That's the only way you will live.

Return to the Dark Domain.

Return to the Dark Domain.

Miss Mu! Miss Mu!

- Qiumin! - Mu Xuanling! - Cultivator Gao!

If any of you dare to say one more word of the incantation, she will be dead.

Mu Xuanling! Are you insane?

Let me go.

You've been looking for the traitor in the Immortal Alliance, right?

Let me give you a hint.

There's another one among you who has been colluding with the Dark Clan.

The one you trust the most, City Lord Xie!

Ridiculous!

You are just trying to sow discord in the Immortal Alliance.

It is not baseless.

The one standing in front of you is our Saintess of the Dark Domain.

The direct disciple of His Grace, Sang Qi.

It was Xie Xuechen who brought her back to the Snow City.

If you don't believe me, ask him.

Yes.

I told you.

The golden boy of humanity colluded with the Saintess of the Dark Domain.

Mu Xuanling! Let her go!

Surrender the Chaos Pearl and remove the barrier.

You are already unconscious, and yet, you won't say anything cruel to him.

Fine.

Let me help you.

Surrender the Chaos Pearl and remove the barrier.

Otherwise, all of them will die.

Mu Xuanling!

Mu Xuanling will not kill them.

Mu Xuanling may not,

but City Lord Xie, how about you?

A recording stone!

The master of the Jade Sky Palace truly lives up to the name

of the artifact encyclopedia.

Recording stones are stone shards from when the ladder to the celestial world collapsed

tens of thousands of years ago.

It can record true sounds and images.

No cultivator can change that, no matter how powerful.

That means what's recorded by the stone is real.

You witch! What are you trying to do?

Let Qiumin go!

Calm down.

Since everyone is here today,

let me show you a ten-year-long secret.

- What? - How?

Father!

Xie Xuechen. Tell me why.

Why did you kill my father?!

Since City Lord Xie won't explain,

let me help you.

Ten years ago, a young cultivator left the mountain to hone his skills.

He passed by the surrounding area of Bright Moon Villa,

and decided to stay there last minute.

That night happened to be the night Sang Qi attacked the villa.

The young cultivator went to help, but instead of doing that,

he was possessed by a Dark Clan member because his faith was not strong enough.

He killed the then-leader of the Immortal Alliance, Gao Fengxu, with the sword Immeasurable Ambition.

On the same night, the young cultivator's father also rushed there to help

and saw his son killing the alliance leader.

Justice lost to sentiments.

His father cleared the alliance leader's wound of the aura of Immeasurable Ambition before anyone noticed it

and kept the incident of his son killing someone after being possessed.

Yet his conscience was troubled.

He punished the young cultivator to reflect on his actions on Snow Cliff for 7 years.

I entrusted you with this sword, Immeasurable Ambition, along with the fate of the world.

Yet you used it to kill your allies and committed this serious crime.

So?

How do you like the story?

I don't remember anything about that day.

That is the symptom of being possessed by a Dark Clan member.

See that?

That is the City Lord Xie who you trust the most.

He's just an ordinary person

who killed his innocent allies because of a lack of faith.

Aren't you worried that he will lead you to a fate of death?

Don't listen to her bewitching words.

She's a witch from the Dark Domain. We can't take her word for it.

Not everything we see is the truth.

Besides, it's just an image left by a stone.

But you can't fake things with a recording stone.

You...

You see what's happening?

Not even one person in the whole Immortal Alliance dares to speak up for your father.

Do you know why?

Because it was Xie Xuechen who killed him.

You witch!

Stop disturbing our minds with your wicked words.

Ignorance Shadow, everyone is here today.

It's the time to eliminate them all.

Fa Jian has accumulated 500 years of power.

The golden essence in his body is mighty.

Detonating it will bring half of Snow City down with you.

I didn't know one could do that.

Let's go big.

Nan Xuyue, reinforce the barrier!

Nan Xuyue!

Even if I die in the Nine Heavens Hanging Clouds Array

you are not removing the barrier today.

An insignificant artifact...

cannot stop me.

Disciples of Snow City! Join the array!

- Yes. - Yes.

Disciple of Snow City, Cui Miaomiao, joins the array!

Disciple of Snow City, Wang Zheng, joins the array!

Disciple of Snow City, Jing Sheng, joins the array!

Disciple of Snow City, Chun Feng, joins the array!

Mu Xuanling, Disciple of Snow City, join the array!

Mu Xuanling, Disciple of Snow City, join the array!

Mu Xuanling, Disciple of Snow City, join the array!

Mu Xuanling, Disciple of Snow City, joins the array!

Mu Xuanling, join the array!

Mu Xuanling, join the array!

Mu Xuanling, join the array!

Mu Xuanling, join the array!

Your temperament doesn't align with Snow City.

So when we get there, you'll have to start as an entry-level external disciple,

refine your character, and turn over a new leaf.

Mu Xuanling, Disciple of Snow City, join the array!

As a disciple of Snow City, how can you be so dispirited?

But I joined the sect earlier than you. You're the junior sister.

Mu Xuanling, Disciple of Snow City, join the array!

Didn't you say you wanted to leave the Dark Domain and live an ordinary life?

I brought you to Snow City because I believed you.

You can live like an ordinary person here.

Belief makes it possible.

Mu Xuanling, if there's an opportunity one day,

I'll show you the real human realm.

Xie Xuechen.

♫ I pierce the night with a blood-forged sword ♫

♫ Writing in defiance of fate ♫

Xie Xuechen!

♫ Unafraid of the wind and snow ♫

♫ I bear the scorching heat of the world ♫

Xie Xuechen!

Nan Xuyue!

♫ Burning through this lifetime's blossoms ♫

Xie Xuechen...

Ling'er.

You are such a disappointment.

Why are you doing this?

You wouldn't take action, so I cut him loose for you.

What's wrong with that?

You weren't possessed by a Dark Clan member.

You have doubts about humanity, and you hate the Immortal Alliance deep down.

That's why you couldn't resist the demonic melody,

and handed your conscience to me.

You must have heard it all.

Back then, Xie Xuechen was possessed by a Dark Clan member.

That means, the person on your mind for the last ten years was not him.

If you knew that, why didn't you tell me?

Because hatred...

makes you powerful.

Hatred gives you the strength to survive in the Dark Domain.

Where is that person?

Where did he go after that night?

I've never met him in the Dark Domain over the last ten years.

When a Dark Clan member dies, his spirit will return to the Void Sea.

No one knows when the spirit will gain a physical form.

Maybe tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow.

Maybe a hundred years or a thousand years later.

You need to be patient.

Ling'er, you should return to the Dark Domain for his sake.

You are hesitating.

Because of Xie Xuechen.

So, you learned that Xie Xuechen was not that guy,

yet you were willing to die with him.

Absurd!

My life is my decision.

Even you don't have the right to decide for me.

Ling'er, I feel sad hearing that.

I thought you'd lost the ability to feel long ago.

On the day you lost your arm.

I'm sticking to the path I chose.

- Even if it leads to a dead end? - Yes!

Then get lost.

She's Sang Qi's disciple, and a witch from the Dark Domain.

We can't spare her life!

According to the law of the Immortal Alliance, she should be executed right away.

She was just controlled by the demonic energy.

It's a fact that she turned demonic.

If she can be controlled, then this will repeat.

Sang Qi's disciple will never turn to the good side.

Eradicate all evil.

Master!

City Lord Xie, are you serious in defending this witch?

She has never done anything evil.

This shouldn't be her fate.

If evil deeds are deemed innocent because one is controlled,

then how is it fair to the deceased Venerable Fa Jian?

Master Su, are you referring to Mu Xuanling or me?

You should explain Alliance Leader Gao's death.

I will give you an explanation of what happened to Gao Fengxu.

Gao Fengxu had it coming.

- Mu Xuanling! - Ten years ago, I was in Bright Moon Villa

as a slave when Sang Qi attacked.

Gao Fengxu tried to kill me.

A Dark Clan member killed him to save me.

Total nonsense!

Why would the leader of the Immortal Alliance care about an insignificant slave like you?

Do you think Gao Fengxu was a decent man?

As the leader of the Immortal Alliance,

he set an example of oppressing and bullying the Spirit Clan.

He may have looked like an upright man,

but he was just a hypocritical and ruthless scoundrel.

On the night Sang Qi attacked, he lost his mind over the killings.

Because I belonged to the Spirit Clan,

he tried to kill me regardless of the fact that I did nothing.

A Dark Clan member couldn't watch him bullying a young girl,

and helped me.

What did he do wrong?

Mu Xuanling! How dare you slander my father!

You lived with him for ten years.

Didn't you know what he was like?

What about you? What were you doing?

Why pretend that you were in a good relationship now?

You are just two peas in a pod.

Mu Xuanling!

Ladies!

No one witnessed what happened to Alliance Leader Gao.

It's pointless to keep arguing.

Am I right?

Yes.

It has been ten years since Alliance Leader Gao passed away.

We can't allow his name to be smeared because of a few words.

City Lord Xie's fault is that his faith was not strong enough

and allowed a Dark Clan member to possess him.

Defending the Dark Clan at all times is difficult for everyone.

Otherwise, Venerable Fa Jian wouldn't have...

Alliance Leader.

Am I right?

In addition, City Lord Xie stood before the exploding golden essence

and saved everyone here along with half the city.

How can we judge his faults and merits?

We will discuss Alliance Leader Gao's death another day.

Our focus right now should be how to deal with the Saintess of the Dark Domain.

Restrain Mu Xuanling's power, and lock her up in the Frozen Dungeon.

We shall discuss what to do later.

- City Lord Xie... - I said... that we'll discuss it later.

You and him are so similar.

But why are you not him?

Xuechen. The Immortal Alliance...

Senior Brother!

Senior Brother!

Venerable Fa Jian owned great power.

You used your primordial spirit to resist his self-explosion.

You were looking for death.

Celestial Pinnacle Sword took half of the impact.

I will live.

If it weren't for Celestial Pinnacle, you'd be dead on the spot.

Xuyue.

Xuyue.

Don't let anyone know about my injury.

You are worried that Sang Qi might strike.

Fa Jian's self-explosion has put a crack on the Pearl Tower.

We can't let anything happen to the Chaos Pearl.

As long as I'm all right, Sang Qi will think twice before making moves.

As long as you are all right, Immortal Alliance will think twice as well,

and you will keep Mu Xuanling safe.

Right?

In the Hall of Righteousness, all the sects wanted Mu Xuanling dead.

If you didn't toughen up and control the situation,

they would have killed Mu Xuanling on the spot.

Even so, we have to keep her in the dungeon for the time being.

She has never done anything evil. She shouldn't have to die.

But there are abnormalities in her body.

I checked her pulse.

The demonic energy is stirring up in her body,

and pulling her internal channels apart.

Her spiritual apertures are damaged.

I don't know how long she can keep holding on.

The retribution of the demonic energy has made the sunshine untouchable for me

in the last half month.

Why do I have to go through this?

I don't want to live like pests in the sewer.

City Lord Xie, you shouldn't be here.

What happened to you?

It's just a minor injury.

Compared to your injury, this is nothing.

Now that the bracelet is broken,

you are not transferring my wounds to you again.

Xie Xuechen,

I'll be honest with you.

I don't have much time left.

So,

kill me.

Prove that you have strong faith with my life.

That will put an end to the statement of you colluding with the Dark Clan.

Kill me, and you can keep being

the fair representative of justice.

You have never done anything evil.

You shouldn't die.

What is justice?

If I can't save one person, how can I save the world?

I told you that when there's hope, there's a way.

You are in this situation because of me.

Why aren't you mad?

Xie Xuechen,

I'm not as kind as you think.

I lost my consciousness today to the demonic power because I have inner demons.

If it weren't for...

the bond I have with this world,

I might have put an end to the Immortal Alliance... and humanity.

Mu Xuanling,

since the day we met,

I've had this question.

Why are you so persistent about me?

I got my answer today.

The person on your mind...

was never me.

Yes.

It was my big brother.

I owe him my life.

But today, I wasn't thinking about him.

I was thinking about...

♫ Is it possible to remain tireless? ♫

Considering the situation we are in, there's no point talking about this.

Can you bring me some snacks and delicious liquor?

When I finish my last delicious meal, you should kill me.

♫ Not regretting the encounter ♫

Xie Xuechen, I'm telling you to kill—

♫ Gazing into the eyes of that person ♫

♫ I desire nothing else ♫

♫ I'll live a life without regrets or worries ♫

♫ As long as I'm by your side ♫

Mu Xuanling, I'm not letting you die.

It's not up to you...

to decide.

You should learn...

how to make best use of things from the Jade Sky Palace.

♫ They'll brave the wind and snow through the fleeting years ♫

Xie Xuechen, you should go.

I hope that the next time we meet...

is the time that you kill me.

I will not let you die.

♫ I desire nothing else ♫

♫ I'll live a life without regrets or worries ♫

♫ As long as I'm by your side ♫

Xie Xuechen.

There is no chance for me...

to see the real human realm with you.

[Courtyard of Saints]

You knew, didn't you?

When I asked you how the puppet incident in Mirage Palace was quelled,

your answer was vague.

You were covering for her, weren't you?

I wasn't, Master.

I didn't know that she was the Saintess of the Dark Domain.

She did use her demonic power to save everyone.

But she's a Spirit Clan member.

You covered up for a Spirit Clan member.

Her kind knows how to lure people.

Sang Qi must have asked that witch to get close to Xie Xuechen

to hinder Xie Xuechen's cultivation.

Xie Xuechen was trapped in the Dark Domain and held up in the Lava Abyss.

What's the point of complicating things?

What do you know?

Sang Qi is a treacherous man.

Messing with people's minds is fun for him.

Sang Qi is the nemesis of the Mirage Palace.

This vendetta will only end with death.

I will not let him or that witch off.

- Master, has Sang Qi tricked you before? - Ridiculous!

He's just a low Spirit Clan member.

He's no match for the members of the Mirage Palace.

Master, your hatred against Sang Qi is a little too strong.

Qiumin, you should hate him, too. You have to.

He brought the massacre on Bright Moon Villa, and he's the reason your mother is dead.

Didn't you say that my mother died when giving birth to me?

I have misspoken.

I'm tired.

You should leave me.

[Courtyard of Saints]

Is this barrier useless?

How did you get in here?

The barrier of the Frozen Dungeon is meant to trap prisoners.

Good people like me can come and go freely.

Good people.

Good lady, what are you doing here?

Even if I am to be killed, you shouldn't be the executor.

Mu Xuanling, you are in this situation all thanks to that mouth of yours.

Our Ladyship, you are not here just to humiliate me, are you?

What? Is it information that you want?

Do you want to know about Sang Qi's plan

or why I slandered Gao Fengxu?

I want to ask what's the connection between Sang Qi and my mother's death.

Didn't your mother die during childbirth?

What's Sang Qi's role in this?

I don't know what Su Ningzhen told you.

All I know is that when you were born, Sang Qi was in seclusion.

He couldn't have gone out to hurt your mother.

Why should I believe you?

If you don't trust me, why come to me?

Twenty years ago, Sang Qi hadn't adopted me yet.

I heard about this from other Dark Clan members.

Back then, Sang Qi was severely injured and had lost an arm.

He was in seclusion for three years.

That means he couldn't have gone to the human world.

Sang Qi lost an arm?

Cultivator Gao,

do you have more questions?

Maybe it's time for you to leave.

I need my rest.

Mu Xuanling! Why do you always see me as an enemy?

Because you are just like your father.

You never remember the vicious things you did to others.

Make yourself clear. What vicious things have I done to you?

Back then, did you not act lofty and always bully members of the Spirit Clan?

When Sang Qi came, you switched clothes with me so that I would die for you.

Didn't you do that?

Her eyes...

You are that girl.

See?

You did forget it indeed.

That's how cheap my life is.

I didn't forget. It's not like that.

My father forbade me to be close to Spirit Clan slaves.

If I was kind to anyone, he would punish them.

That's why I pretended that I hated Spirit Clan slaves.

As for sacrificing you, there were so many killings

that I... I was dazed.

The elders arranged everything.

When I realized what was happening, I had already been taken away.

I tried to save you, but you had already been taken.

Mu Xuanling, I didn't want things to happen like that.

Yes.

You got all the benefits, and the faults are always someone else's.

You are always pure and innocent.

- My Ladyship. - Mu Xuanling!

Cultivator Gao, City Lord Xie has ordered to keep Miss Mu here for the time being.

No unauthorized penalties.

Did I do anything to her?

Just a little reminder.

You are not a member of the Immortal Alliance.

What gives you the right to protect her?

Though the Profound Excellence Villa is not a part of the Immortal Alliance,

someone in the golden essence stage cannot offend us.

Fine.

For the sake of the Profound Excellence Villa, I will let this one slide.

Stupid and cowardly.

Is that because of the demonic energy?

I'll get some medicines for your wound.

That will help with your recovery.

It might hurt a little, though.

I don't think it could hurt more

than being penetrated by demonic energy or demonic energy dispersing.

This is muscle regeneration powder.

It speeds up wound recovery.

But it will feel both painful and itchy, as if you are being bitten by bugs.

Maybe just let the wound be.

Scars are like medals in the Spirit Clan.

Do you want to try the muscle-decaying powder?

Your medals will look more impressive.

Villa Master Nan is dashing and decent.

Why do you have poisons so vicious?

That's because I'm not such a decent person.

Profound Excellence Villa does have surprisingly efficient medicines.

I'm already feeling better.

How much time do you have?

About half a month.

So, talk to Xie Xuechen and convince him to kill me.

You already know that he's not the one who saved you.

Yet you are still willing to die for him.

I couldn't tell before.

But when Ignorance Shadow detonated the golden essence, I was so scared.

I was scared of the idea that I couldn't find Xie Xuechen in this world.

Other than him saving my life on that day, I guess...

I do have feelings for him.

But I'm dying.

Does this count as dying in a foreign land?

Never mind.

I don't even know where my hometown is.

How do I know where a foreign land is?

What if I get you out of here?

Would you come with me?

Profound Excellence Villa has unique medical knowledge.

I can help you strengthen your body, and defend against demonic energy.

My arrays are unparalleled in the world.

You will not be found by anyone from the Spirit Clan, the Dark Domain,

or the Immortal Alliance.

Come with me and you will live a normal life.

Will you?

How can Snow City answer to the other sects if they lose an important inmate?

If you stay, you will die.

Are you willing to die to protect him?

This is the path I've chosen.

Once chosen,

I won't change.

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"A Thousand Peach Blossoms" by Ye Xuanqing

♫ Searching for your face in the cycles of time ♫

♫ If the tears in my heart go unnoticed ♫

♫ Is it possible to remain tireless? ♫

♫ Because my heart is filling with yearning ♫

♫ A lovesick person won't ask how long the path is ♫

♫ They'll brave the wind and snow through the fleeting years ♫

♫ Not regretting the encounter ♫

♫ I only wish for a thousand peach blossoms ♫

♫ To accompany you that day ♫

♫ Gazing into the eyes of that person ♫

♫ I desire nothing else ♫

♫ I'll live a life without regrets or worries ♫

♫ As long as I'm by your side ♫

♫ They'll brave the wind and snow through the fleeting years ♫

♫ Not regretting the encounter ♫

♫ I only wish for a thousand peach blossoms ♫

♫ To accompany you that day ♫

♫ Gazing into the eyes of that person ♫

♫ I desire nothing else ♫

♫ I'll live a life without regrets or worries ♫

♫ As long as I'm by your side ♫