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[Lost Love In Times]
[Episode 31]
We're having the military drill tomorrow.
I'm a bit worried.
I have some words to tell you in private.
What is it that you want to say to me in private?
I'm here but I haven't told you...
Cai Qian!
If you do so, I'm afraid--
Whatever I plan on achieving...
No one can stop me.
Do you think that Ling would like it
if I wear this outfit to the drill tomorrow?
What does that mean?
No, I mean... When you take part in the drill
you'll stand out in this outfit.
That's good.
But...
But you look...
I don't care.
Anyway, in my mind, the selection of Ling's princess consort isn't over.
The Gold Phoenix Pebble is His Majesty's most treasured item.
It's also the target item in this military drill.
None of you are allowed to bring any weapons for the military drill.
I'm in charge of casting a magic circle for this imperial military drill.
As the military drill begins after you enter the magic circle
the Gold Phoenix Pebble will also be placed in a certain spot.
Whoever finds the Gold Phoenix Pebble first will win this military drill.
The sorceresses will send back your most recent updates
with their butterfly spirits to the Rippling Mirror at Sky Terrace.
Minister Feng, Master Wei, Master Yin, and Mister Mo
will be supervising the drill to ensure fairness.
The winner will be rewarded with the Gold Phoenix Pebble.
You could also ask His Majesty for a wish.
The magic circle is now activated.
The military drill shall begin now!
We must kill the Crown Prince and Prince Ling within the magic circle.
Even if it means sacrificing our lives, we can't let them leave here alive!
Yes!
These butterfly spirits are here to gather information.
If we could make use of them instead, it would be just perfect.
There are many butterfly spirits within the magic circle.
I'm afraid that we might not find all of them.
I'll lure them away with my powers so as not to give ourselves away.
Make use of your time well.
Be sure to locate the Crown Prince and Prince Ling as soon as possible.
Kill the both of them.
Yes!
- You're not the dark guards? - So?
Who exactly are you? How dare you disguise as dark guards?
You just have to know that we're here to kill you!
- Are you all right? - I'm fine.
Thank you, Your Highness.
- Hao. - Crown Prince.
Are you both all right?
Luckily, Prince Zhan came to my aid.
If not...
It's our duty to protect Your Highness within the grounds of Great Wei.
This is totally unexpected. You must be shocked.
I've heard that Great Wei's military drill
is guarded by dark guards to prevent outsiders from entering.
However, why would these dark guards attack us with lethal stances?
In the past, the military drills were held as you've just said.
There's never been any casualties.
However, this drill seems completely bizarre.
Hao, have you noticed anything strange on the way?
I was ambushed by those disguised as dark guards.
From now on, we mustn't take actions independently.
You're right.
Should Her Highness be harmed in Great Wei
the consequences will be dire.
Could it be that someone is using this military drill to kill us?
Nothing can be confirmed yet.
Anyway, we should all stay alert.
Let's go.
There's something fishy about this military drill.
What is this malicious aura?
Could it be dark sorcery?
Now that the enemies are in hiding
I must try to leave this magic circle first.
I have to find out what the dark sorceresses are up to.
It hurts so much!
Yuan Li is disqualified from the drill.
Come with me.
Your Highness, what's wrong?
Greetings, Your Highness.
This is boring! So boring!
Prince Li of Great Wei is disqualified so soon?
If I knew that it would be so boring, I should have stayed home and slept!
Your Highness is absolutely right.
Well, this is...
Should I accompany you back to the palace?
Master Feng wants to slip away as well?
I'm not...
Your Highness.
It's just that Master Feng and I are already quite old
so we're not fit enough for this kind of activity.
Exactly, time and tide wait for no man.
We'll leave Master Wei and Mister Mo to supervise this then?
You may both head home in ease.
Why don't you both head home first?
I'd like to take a look around.
I want to see who will win this year, all right?
All right then, we'll--
We'll leave the supervision to Your Highness then!
After you.
Take care of your health!
- Sure! - Sure!
Elder.
Try and see if you can summon your butterfly spirit.
Elder, bad news.
Our butterfly spirits were ambushed.
There's an aura of dark sorcery within the magic circle.
Although Ding Shui is dead, dark sorcery still remains.
What should we do now?
The princes and A-Chai Tribe's princess are all in the military drill.
I'll try to break this magic circle and collaborate with Qing Chen from here.
Convey my orders.
Seal off all exits out of the Meandering Skies
to prevent dark sorceresses from escaping.
Yes!
Mister Mo, why can't we see how the princes are in the drill?
Master Wei, fret not.
We shall know once we've asked Elder Tao Yao about it.
I'll let you off today.
Gentlemen, I take my leave.
The magic circle is compromised.
I'll try to break it--
The message is incomplete.
Yet the silver butterfly is gone?
This is a magic circle created by Elder Tao Yao.
It shouldn't be so difficult for the silver butterfly to send a message.
This aura...
It's dark sorcery?
That foresight I had...
Elder Tao Yao!
What is going on?
The military drill has never been designed to cause any casualties.
I'll be honest with you.
There's dark sorcery interfering with the military drill.
Our butterfly spirits have been attacked.
They could no longer send back any information.
Elder, the princes and Princess Duo Xia are all in the magic circle now.
Should any of them be harmed, neither of us can survive!
I know that it's a serious issue.
I've already sent someone out to rescue them.
This is a grave situation.
We must report this to His Majesty now.
I could only entrust this task to Master Wei.
Yes! I'll report back to His Majesty right away.
We've gone to great lengths to finally obtain the Grand Sorceress's blood.
Qing Chen never would have thought that
when she sent her golden butterfly after Elder Ding Shui
Ding Shui identified her as the Grand Sorceress.
The right time, right place, and right person.
We have all three elements.
We shall surely accomplish a great feat today.
- Elder! - Elder!
Why would this happen?
It's The Tourmaline!
The Tourmaline is absorbing my powers from within the magic circle!
The Tourmaline has appeared?
Let's hope that Qing Chen can sense its presence in the magic circle.
Is this the power of The Mages that The Tourmaline is absorbing?
By placing The Tourmaline within the magic circle
it could then absorb spiritual powers.
No one else in this magic circle could wield spiritual powers now.
Half of Elder Tao Yao's powers have been absorbed
so she could no longer break this magic circle now.
Only physical combat is allowed in the magic circle.
However powerful Feng Qing Chen might be, she can't wield her powers.
Since Tao Yao created this magic circle
she must have designed it to assist Qing Chen
in locating the Gold Phoenix Pebble.
Right now, Qing Chen will surely think of ways to find it.
This magic circle ends up helping me instead.
Never in their wildest dreams would they think that I had The Tourmaline.
I have already instructed my men.
No one is to use spiritual powers in the magic circle anymore.
What use do you have of the Gold Phoenix Pebble?
It's just a pebble.
Would that lure The Mages into your trap?
I've heard that when the Gold Phoenix Pebble is in our hands
it's no different from any other stones.
However, in the hands of The Mages, it becomes a sacred pebble.
It can be very powerful.
Since the ancient times, the sacred pebbles have always been with The Mages.
Due to some unknown reason, the sacred pebbles were scattered.
From what you just said
The Mages will surely try to retrieve these sacred pebbles?
In the past, it's just a custom to get The Mages to design the drill.
However, if the Gold Phoenix Pebble is placed within the venue
Elder Tao Yao will surely try to retrieve it.
Hence, she will design a magic circle unlike any other.
Xi Xie once told me that the magic circles of The Mages are unique.
It isn't known to any outsiders.
Therefore, I'm going to lure Elder Tao Yao into casting such a magic circle.
Then this magic circle can wipe out The Mages
with the power of the sacred pebble.
Who knew that The Tourmaline could assist me in my achievements?
It's now very easy to take out Hao and Ling in this magic circle.
However, The Mages won't give up so easily.
It's good that you're aware of it.
They will surely find ways to break the magic circle.
We must make the best of this opportunity while it lasts.
So it really is Ming?
He had turned the Meandering Skies into a graveyard?
No, this won't do.
I have to find Hao and the other brothers soon.
I can't let Ming keep going down the wrong path!
Ji! Why are you so careless?
Do you know how dangerous these traps are?
Ming...
Why would you do so?
If you quit right now, it isn't too late yet.
I definitely won't tell anyone.
This doesn't concern you.
Ji, you had better stay here.
Don't let me see you in the military drill.
Don't try to notify anyone else about the traps either.
Otherwise, I'll have you killed as well!
Jiu!
You were Jiu, weren't you?
I saw you meeting up with the dark sorceress.
After Celestial Dance House was shut down
the leader of the dark sorceresses was rescued by a woman.
That woman left behind a scented sachet.
No one else might recognize that sachet but I can.
In this world...
Only Jiu would have that sachet.
When Father was almost assassinated, you didn't greet him in the palace.
You weren't actually preparing for the empress's death anniversary.
You had gone to Celestial Dance House to rescue the dark sorceress.
How would you know that I wasn't in my manor?
You didn't know that I had been to your manor that day.
You...
This is strange. Since last night
Ming hasn't been home.
Where could he have gone?
Step aside! Criminals escaped from Celestial Dance House!
Don't let them off!
Step aside!
I've been following you since we started the military drill.
I saw you giving orders to the dark sorceress.
It has come to such as you still intend to keep it from me?
What have I kept from you?
Ji, you must have thought too much about it!
You're obviously Jiu.
You came up with a way to get Father to pay respects to my mother, right?
Nonsense!
Step aside!
Ming...
Whether you admit it or not...
I don't want you to make a grave mistake.
Stop following me.
If you still refuse to leave, I'll kill you!
If killing me can stop you from going down the wrong path...
- Do it. - You--
Dark sorceresses have slipped into the magic circle.
I'm afraid that they have the intention to kill.
The situation is still unknown.
We must all stick together.
If we're split up, the dark sorceresses might take advantage of it.
Elder Tao Yao's message is fragmented.
I only heard that The Tourmaline would absorb spiritual powers.
Could someone have placed The Tourmaline in the magic circle?
If so, no one would be able to use any spiritual powers within the magic circle.
Elder Tao Yao is surely trapped outside the magic circle and can't get in.
Let's get the others to meet up first.
Those in the magic circle have noticed the turn of events.
Has anyone gone to retrieve the Gold Phoenix Pebble?
We've sent someone in.
Good.
Let's go according to our plan.
- Spare none! - Yes!
- Mister Mo! - General.
What exactly happened during the military drill?
Why hasn't Her Highness made it out yet?
General, don't panic.
We don't know what is going on in the military drill yet.
We're now trying to resolve it.
Resolve it?
It's been more than two hours.
Is this how you resolve the issue?
Don't be anxious, General.
Elder Tao Yao has remarkable spiritual powers.
Nothing will go wrong.
Should Her Highness be harmed in any way
A-Chai Tribe will surely launch war upon Wei State!
General, don't worry.
Many of our princes are also in the military drill.
We'd definitely ensure the safety of Princess Duo Xia and our princes.
Who knows if you'd save our princess first or your princes?
If so, I will rescue Her Highness myself.
General!
General...
What is going on?
The magic circle has been activated.
We can no longer enter freely.
General, please believe in Great Wei and The Mages.
Your Highness.
Your Highness, it's now dangerous in the magic circle.
The power of that sacred pebble is difficult to control.
Your Highness, you must be careful.
A good opportunity only comes knocking once.
We must get rid of Crown Prince and Prince Ling this time.
Now that the magic circle is activated
no one could come in and they couldn't leave either.
I reckon that they can't get away.
Find out what they are doing and where they are located.
Check to see if they are dead or alive.
Yes.
What does Ming mean by that?
Is he using this drill to kill Hao and Ling?
Elder Tao Yao had her powers backfired.
She's now severely injured.
Now, no one can enter the magic circle she created for the drill.
We know nothing of the situation in there.
We must think of a solution.
Apart from the 12th Prince, Yuan Li
all the other princes are in there.
Should anything go terribly wrong
The Mages will surely be held accountable for it.
All of you are to head down there.
Take a look around the magic circle for any cracks to break in.
Yes!
- Ling. - This is great.
Princess Duo Xia is with you.
It's dangerous in every corner of this magic circle.
Are you both all right?
The dark sorceresses have laid traps everywhere in here.
The magic circle created by Elder Tao Yao has been broken by dark sorcery.
We're all hanging by a thread now.
Ling, what plans do you have?
I, Qing Chen, Ming, and Ji will take the same route.
The others will take another route with you.
Ling, you arranged it so that we could break out from different sides?
I'll lure the dark sorceresses away.
The others are to protect Crown Prince.
Let's get started.
Mister Mo, how is the situation?
Elder Tao Yao is badly wounded so she's now healing herself.
Princess Duo Xia and the princes have been in the magic circle for a long time.
None of them must be harmed.
You'd have to try all means to get into the magic circle
and bring all of them back safely.
Mister Mo, rest assured.
Crown Prince is also in the magic circle.
I'll definitely do my very best to bring them out of there.
Be very careful.
Yes!
Why have you split us up in such teams?
The Gold Phoenix Pebble is The Mages' sacred object.
I'm worried that it will fall into the hands of others.
That's why I've split the group up so I can retrieve it when I get the chance.
You had me, Ming, and Ji in one team.
What is it for?
If it were the others, I'm sure that they will bring the sacred pebble back.
However, as for Prince Ming and Prince Ji...
I couldn't say for sure.
The Gold Phoenix Pebble can freeze time and space.
This is the Cotton Rose Pebble.
It can react to the Gold Phoenix Pebble.
Elder Tao Yao set up this magic circle so that
the Cotton Rose Pebble can lead us to the Gold Phoenix Pebble.
You'd like me to find you the Gold Phoenix Pebble?
Exactly.
I will try to lure Prince Ming away.
All right.
Where's Ming and Qing Chen?
Let's split up to look for them.
Ling, be very cautious.
I will.
You can't get away.
Even if you activated a new magic circle with my blood
you don't realize that although The Tourmaline can absorb my powers
I'd still break this magic circle
at the risk of having my powers backfire at me.
Your Highness?
You won't be able to break this magic circle.
Haven't you already left?
I only pretended to be disqualified because I'd noticed something amiss.
Qing Chen is still in the magic circle.
She would need help from the outside to break free.
Your Highness, you--
Don't get so agitated.
I already knew that you are both of The Mages.
If I wanted to hurt you, I'd have done so ages ago.
Why would Your Highness possess spiritual powers?
As for this matter...
This is a secret between me and Qing Chen.
I'll let you know when there's a chance.
I've already inspected the premises.
The Tourmaline is in the magic circle.
Its specialty is to absorb the spiritual powers of others.
That was why Elder Tao Yao was so severely injured.
At the moment, we'd have to try and rip a hole in the magic circle.
Only then can those in it come out or those outside can go in to save them.
All right, I'll assist you.
Hold on.
You can't handle this.
Leave it to me.
His Highness's powers are above mine.
Your Highness!
Although The Tourmaline is powerful, this is all it can do.
The Phantom Pebble has appeared as well?
My plan will surely succeed today!
Your Highness has already taken out the Elder of dark sorcery
and cleared Xian Wu's name.
You had this specially set up today.
What is it that you still want?
That day at Feng Manor, you already knew that I'm a dark sorcerer.
However, you didn't expose my identity
so that you could use me to get rid of the Elder of dark sorcery.
Now that the Elder is killed
your next step is to have me taken out?
Why would you do so?
Are you doing it for Zhan or Ling?
Prince Ming, you've advanced step by step with your ploy.
You're using this military drill to get rid of Crown Prince and Prince Ling?
So what if I am?
Do you know what is my deepest regret and greatest agony?
I failed to protect Xian Wu.
Do you think it was the dark sorceress who had poisoned Xian Wu?
That's not true!
Minister Feng only notified me two hours after Xian Wu got home that day!
What did he do to Xian Wu during those two hours?
Isn't it obvious enough?
If Your Highness doubted my father
I can help you find out what happened in those two crucial hours.
However, compared to the truth
what Your Highness really wants now is actually the throne?
Right now, I'd need to retrieve The Tourmaline.
Then I can break the magic circle.
How does that feel?
Although The Tourmaline can absorb spiritual powers from others
it will also release the powers once it's taken out of a magic circle.
You've been wounded by it.
Since I've fallen for your trap
you can kill me if you wish! I'm at your mercy!
If I were to kill him today, Flower of Life's petal will surely fall.
If I don't heal you, you won't make it out of the woods.
I have come late.
Please forgive me.
Zhang Shu, how did you get in?
Your Highness, the spell is broken.
Please leave the premises right away.
Ling and the others are still in here!
Hao, could I ask you for the Imperial Army?
Sure.
We already guessed that the tampering of this military drill is an inside job.
Ling deliberately broke us up into two teams
so as to lure out this traitor.
Ling claimed to assist us to safety by luring the dark sorceresses away
but I should have known that it couldn't be so simple.
We haven't been ambushed at all on our way again out.
That's how we managed to escort Princess Duo Xia to safety.
If the traitor was among us, he'd surely pass along information.
We couldn't have made it out so smoothly.
You mean that the traitor is on Ling's team?
We have yet to see or hear from Ling's team.
It's not hard to guess that the traitor has colluded with dark sorceresses.
However, we'd only know the truth once we see them.
It seems that Ling is trying to lure out that traitor gradually.
You asked me for the soldiers in order to assist Ling, right?
Exactly.
If we could get them cornered
it won't be difficult to figure out who the real traitor is.
Ming! You're injured!
Ming!
Ji...
Leave me alone!
- Ming! - Round them up!
Zhan... You've brought so many soldiers here with you.
What are you up to?
Ling broke us up into two teams.
He was trying to seek out the traitor among us.
Our team was safe but you were attacked by dark sorceresses.
Therefore, I'm here to arrest that traitor.
- Ji! - Prince Ji!
Ji, you...
Who knew that you could figure out the trap that I've set?
Ji, what are you doing?
You're not to come any closer.
Otherwise, I'll kill him!
Step aside!
Ji..
Step aside!
Zhang Shu.
Inform Ling.
- Get him to join us in the pursuit. - Yes.
Were those my memories?
What have I gone through with Qing Chen previously?
Those memories seemed so real.
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