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[Episode 21]
I've thought it through.
Be it that you're of royal blood
the girl I like is still mine.
I won't give her up to you.
If she chooses to be with me, she will have a better life.
Life is only better if she's happy.
Love will run thin eventually.
Then, women will look to other things for support.
For instance, money.
Social status.
Power.
These aren't things someone like you
who doesn't even dare to acknowledge his own surname, could offer.
If you truly care about her
you should give up.
You must have been in the palace for too long?
Not everyone thinks like you do!
Look at Nanny Su.
You're staying up so late.
If I've kept some matter from you...
will you be angry at me?
I'd have to know why you kept it from me.
I'm not actually what you think I am.
You're fond of someone else?
What were you thinking?
I mean...
I wasn't a hunter in this village.
I'm actually--
That's enough.
Whatever you might be, I'll stay by your side.
In the future...
we won't lead a peaceful and quiet life.
You won't regret it?
I only regret not having met you sooner.
If one day, I should die in combat...
what will happen to you?
I'll join you in death.
My life has been worthwhile.
My entire lifetime...
has now been worthwhile.
Go.
Who is it?
Han Jiang.
What's the matter?
Something weird has happened in the village.
What is it?
Nanny Su and Wang Duo are both gone.
Perhaps they went out early this morning.
I went over to Granny Ying's place.
No one is home there either.
Have you checked the other places as well?
I did.
There's no one around.
Is anyone in?
Head back and pack up quickly. We'll leave this village right away.
I'll inform Muyun Lu.
[Subterranean City]
Greetings, Hall Master!
Where there is light, there will be darkness.
Where there is light, there will be shadows.
There are warriors under the light.
Then there will be assassins in the shadows.
As Tian Luo Assassins
we are the sharpest blades.
The most lethal poison.
Should anyone become our target
they shall come to one end.
Death!
Well said!
This is Princess Ji of the former dynasty.
From now on, it is as good as seeing me when you see her.
Her command is that of mine as well!
Yes!
Anomalies are observed.
Novoland shall be thrown into havoc.
The Muyun family can no longer remain firmly on the throne.
Your mission is to annihilate the Muyun family.
You are to kill those thieves who stole my nation.
Return the Ji family as sovereigns of the Great Cheng Empire.
Hall Master.
Have you forgotten?
Tian Luo Assassins are never to get involved with politics.
Tian Luo Assassins are also tied to our promises.
This is a contract signed by Tian Luo Assassins.
300 years ago, the headquarters of Tian Luo Assassins
sealed this contract with the Ji family.
It's very clearly written.
Tian Luo Assassins promised to wipe out the Muyun family for the Ji family.
Unfortunately, the Muru family rescued them in time.
Tian Luo failed to succeed.
This debt that your ancestors owe me...
It shall be paid by all of you.
Take this path back to Tian Qi City first.
No.
We're going straight into Qing Yu Ridge.
I must find that thing and give it to my father.
It will cheer him up.
What could be so important?
Do you still remember that small ball you dug up?
I do.
I opened that ball up.
There was a map within it.
There really was a treasure map?
Didn't you drop that ball when you got hurt?
It went into the ground and disappeared.
The thing hidden within the ball is of no significance to common folks.
However, it is a treasure of the highest supremacy to the royal family.
Inside it is the...
It reveals the location of the Sovereign Seal.
The map is already gone.
Stop thinking about it.
I've memorized it.
However...
this map was designed with coded language.
Only the book on decoding in Long Yuan Chamber can decipher it.
Therefore--
Muyun Lu!
Su Yu Ning, wait here for me.
Back then...
someone told me that you were waiting for me on the mountain.
I went there to meet you.
But when I got there, I was pushed off a cliff.
That mountain was so high, but I fell into an underground hole.
I was too shocked at that time.
I was still a bit too dazed.
I only knew that I was underground.
When I woke up, I realized that I was rescued.
Who saved you?
As for that...
I can't tell you.
What is not to tell?
But I've promised them.
I won't tell anyone about them.
Therefore... I've never told anyone about this.
Even if it's you...
Back then, the hunting grounds were near the southeast of Qing Yu Ridge.
Judging by the linear distance...
it isn't too far away from here.
Don't be scared.
It's all right.
Don't be scared.
It's good that I didn't let Han Jiang come down here.
He wouldn't have spoken to them politely.
Yun Cong? Is that you?
You're awake?
It's been a few years and you're more beautiful than before.
You're dressed so prettily today.
When I first met you, you were still dressed like a little boy.
Is that so?
I've spent years living in such a dark place
so I always wanted to have some brilliant colors on me.
It's as if by doing so, I can see the rays of sun coming through.
I've missed you ever since we last parted.
I didn't know how you were doing underground.
I've wanted to take you with me.
But I couldn't find that hole again.
When you fell into that hole and met me, I asked you a lot about the palace.
I also told you not to tell anyone what you saw underground.
Have you never suspected who I might be?
Whoever you might be
I think you're a very capable woman.
You're so much tougher than me. I'm so envious of you.
People really shouldn't study too hard.
You can get silly.
Is that so?
I think that the books have taught me
to spot great things and kind people in life.
I'm also very blessed.
Su Yu Ning.
You're a nice person.
You're a friend worth making.
These flowers are going to wither.
You should water them more often.
It's best not to touch them.
Why don't these flowers have roots?
Do you think that they could survive in a place without sunlight?
These are...
In the early hours of every morning, I have my maids cut some for me.
When they wither
my maids will take them out and bring in new ones.
When I first met you, I thought that you only seemed cold.
But deep down, you're still a innocent and carefree girl.
See? You also like these beautiful things.
You'd actually persist on doing the same chore every day.
Do you find me boring as well?
I keep on looking after flowers that can last only a day.
They aren't kept to look pretty.
They are there to remind me...
I have to keep one thing on my mind.
What is it?
Hatred.
I must never forget hatred.
I must hate more as each day goes by.
Is there such a great artist under the ground?
Why have you come to see me?
One of my friends was captured and taken underground.
The men who took him were dressed like the ones at your side back then.
I thought that you might know.
That person is your friend?
I've never told you who I am, have I?
Look around this room of mine and tell me what is strange about it.
There are many doors.
Do you know what lies beyond that golden door?
It's a cave.
It's no more than 3 miles in width and 10 miles in length.
It's just a bit more in height.
The cave takes up half of North Mang Mountain.
It's so big. What do you put in it?
Goldlings.
How many goldlings will it fit?
It really isn't that many.
Due to the Muyun family
half of the taxes Yue Prefecture paid annually are all in here now.
It has been so every year for 323 years since the Duan Empire was founded.
Therefore, we've saved up quite a bit.
Why would they give so much money to you?
Do you know what lies beyond that silver door?
I don't know.
Armor.
That is what my father had put his heart and effort into.
He went to great lengths to have this armor crafted.
It was his hope that the Ji family could have an army of our own someday.
Sadly, he passed away before he could accomplish that.
Poor me...
It has been so hard trying to build an army of my own.
Why do you want to have your own army?
Come with me.
What is it behind these doors?
It's the world.
What is this?
Since the Muyun family seized the throne
its crafty emperors made great efforts to get it.
In the eyes of the people, without it
their sovereignty will always be seen as stolen.
You actually dare to say that?
Who exactly are you?
Look at this place I live in... Do you find it nice?
It's really surprising to find such a palace underground.
These...
The Muyun family built this for us.
Why do you still call them thieves?
The better they treat us, the more humiliated we feel.
These should have belonged to us in the first place!
Why should these be bestowed to us?
Those thieves, the Muyuns, took our sovereignty from us.
So as to demonstrate their virtues to the people
they give us goldlings year after year.
They constructed this Subterranean City for us to settle down in.
In truth...
they want to keep us imprisoned in this dark place.
They even sent the Wise to keep an eye on us.
Who exactly are you?
The Great Cheng Dynasty.
The 34th emperor.
King Ji Yu's eldest daughter, the supreme princess.
Ji Yun Cong.
What is in here?
The Sovereign Seal.
You have the Sovereign Seal?
Su Yu Ning?
Su Yu Ning!
She's gone down there to save him?
Could it be that she likes him?
That bookworm.
Fine.
The both of you can stay down there all you want!
Silly girl.
You think that I'll save you?
300 years ago when the families of Muyun and Muru broke into our city
our ancestral emperor had the Sovereign Seal in his arms
and burnt himself to death in Snow Wings Tower.
Since that day
the Sovereign Seal can no longer be found.
My father had always had the dream of restoring our sovereignty.
He couldn't tolerate being trapped underground for so long.
Therefore, he had his men construct three paths up to the surface.
That January when I was six years old
my father took me up to the surface for the first time.
That was the first time I saw the color of the sky.
It was so beautiful.
At that time, it had just turned sunny after the snowfall.
My father built me a smiling snowman.
I asked my father what he was so happy about.
He told me that he had already found where the Sovereign Seal was.
However, since then...
I never saw my father again.
I waited next to the snowman every day for my father to come home.
The sun was out.
I was so warm with the sunlight on me.
But the snowman...
It melted away a bit at a time.
I couldn't get it to stay standing.
As for my father...
he never returned.
You haven't seen your father since you were six years old?
You had only yourself to depend on?
He...
What happened to him?
I only found out just some time ago.
My father...
In order to find the Sovereign Seal
he was killed by those slaves of the Wise hired by the Muyun family.
The sacred relic that was once lost has finally been found...
Father...
I must fulfill my father's wish.
Even if I can't restore our sovereignty...
I'll wipe out every last one of the Muyuns.
Put an end to the generations of the Ji family's vengeance
and every moment of humiliation.
That friend of yours...
Is his surname Muyun?
Princess Ji.
Is it ready?
The ceremony is all set.
We're just waiting for Your Highness.
Su Yu Ning, come with me.
Welcome the princess!
Greetings, Princess Ji!
Rise!
You have quite a pretty face.
I wonder if your heart is just as pretty.
It's all right.
Long Jin Huan!
Present.
I wonder if you happen to carry some small sharp blades on you.
Your Highness, allow me to do it instead.
This Muyun Lu is the son that thief of an emperor particularly likes.
If he weren't trapped down here...
he could possibly be the new emperor.
It's a lot more interesting for me to do it.
Yun Cong, what are you trying to do?
I like you and regard you as my friend.
But right now, it's best that you address me as Your Highness.
That will please me even more.
Your Highness.
Muyun Lu is a good man.
Can you let him off?
A good man?
Someone from the Muyun family is a good man?
Su Yu Ning, do you know what the Ji family once was?
Tell her now what the Ji family once was.
The heroes of the Ji family
bestowed the silver armor by gods
uphold righteousness of the world!
and keep Novoland safe and peaceful!
The Great Cheng Empire shall never end!
Never end!
The Great Cheng Empire
has safeguarded this world for the gods for over 1,200 years.
30 some emperors went to great efforts to create a human world
of ideals, righteousness, and enthusiasm.
However, it was ruined by the greedy thieves of the Muyun family.
Young lady.
Are you not well-read?
Or have you purposely chosen to forget?
The people were in great suffering toward the end of the Cheng Dynasty.
Please shut up.
One's belief...
and ideals...
They will be worn away as time goes by.
They will be eroded by material desire.
The royal Ji family was so caught up then
in your own struggle for power and benefits
that you had left the people to their suffering.
Isn't it the same with your family?
You're doing this for yourself.
Just say so.
Don't say that you're doing this for the people of this world.
You do have a noble integrity.
You're the first of the Muyun family whom I have placed on my altar.
Should I offer you some privileges?
Your Highness!
I really can't bear to kill you so quickly.
Why don't I bleed you dry first?
But if you can't take the pain and decide to beg for mercy...
I might show you some pity and dig your heart out first.
Let me do it.
What are you going to do?
Your Highness, you want the Sovereign Seal.
This man has memorized the coded map.
If he dies, you'll never find the Sovereign Seal.
He couldn't possibly know where it is.
The map was hidden in a small ball crafted by the Wise, wasn't it?
Where is it now?
There are many ways to make a man speak.
Mister Long happens to be very good at it.
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