The Legend of Chinese Zodiac
♫The twelve zodiac signs form a mystery♫
♫The grand thousands of worlds follow one order♫
♫Rat year, Ox year,♫
♫Tiger year, Rabbit year♫
♫Dragon year, Snake year, Horse year, Sheep year, Monkey year, Rooster year, Dog year, Pig year♫
♫For generations, leaving countless legends behind♫
♫Who am I? You, who are you?♫
♫He isn't himself, you are not yourself♫
♫You disguise as me, I play you♫
♫Turning and tossing, the twelve signs can reach your inner self♫
♫The twelve zodiac signs form a mystery♫
♫The grand thousands of worlds follow one order ♫
♫Rat year, Ox year, Dragon year, Snake year, Horse year, Sheep year, Monkey year, Rooster year, ♫
♫Dog year, Pig year♫
♫For generations, leaving countless legends behind♫
♫ Leaving countless legends behind ♫
♫Who am I? You, who are you? He isn't himself, you are not yourself♫
♫You disguise as me, I play you♫
♫Turning and tossing, the twelve signs can reach♫
♫Can reach your inner self♫
♫The twelve signs all put on a show♫
♫With the theme being the brewing of the taste of life♫
♫Rat year, Ox year,♫
♫Tiger year, Rabbit year♫
♫Dragon year, Snake year, Horse year, Sheep year, Monkey year, Rooster year, Dog year, Pig year♫
♫Offspring multiply for myriads of generations in an endless chain♫
♫Men take law from Earth, Earth takes law from Heaven,♫
♫Heaven takes law from the Dao. The law of the Dao is its being what it is. ♫
♫Men take law from Earth, Earth takes law from Heaven,♫
♫Having the law of the Dao, this world can be well-behaved♫
The Legend of Chinese Zodiac
Episode 15
- Brother Mi, be careful! - Brother Mi, look out!
- Are you alright? - Yes, fine. - Brother Hu.
- How did he take on this form? - Xing Hu, his body is hypertoxic. He can't be attacked.
Hey! You two. Don't, don't hurt my brother!
Brother.
Xue Lian, take the children and go. Little Fish, come with me.
Children, stay close to me. I'm going to run over to there and then you run over there. Hurry, let's go.
Quick. Go, go, go.
- Get going! Go. Go. - Brother.
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Xing Hu, lead him out to the wilderness.
If he's allowed to charge through Yi Town, it will be monumentally dangerous.
Little Fish, this will be hard on you.
- I'll be fine. - That's good then.
Lan Yan, don't you want to kill the children? They're over there!
Mi Junfei, you, you, you sold me out!
Save me!
- Run. - Help!
- Run. - Run!
Faster!
Look out.
Brother Mi, look out.
Look out!
- Mi Junfei. - Xing Hu, this mist is poisonous.
My whole body is weak and painful.
Sit more upright.
Despicable!
Brother Mi.
Brother Mi, are you alright?
Yes.
Keep following me, don't be scared. I'm just taking you home!
Faster. Hurry. Keep up with me.
Keep running forward.
Children, get up. Run.
Quick, get up. Quick, run.
Children, go...
Stop! Let my brother go!
Xue Lian.
- Sister Xue Lian. - Don't.
- Brother Xiao Hu. - Don't move.
Brother Xiao Hu!
Come here, Death Demon. Come and catch me!
Little Fish!
Help!
Xing Hu.
- Brother Xiao Hu. Help! - Xue Lian.
- Brother Xiao Hu. - Get up.
- Save me. - Brother Xiao Hu.
Little Fish.
Help!
Brother. Stop!
Don't harm that child. Big Brother!
I took my eye off the demon momentarily, and inadvertently allowed Lan Tong
- to take Xue Lian hostage. - Help me!
What point is there saying these things now?
- Help!- Little Fish, hang in there.
Help! Save me!
Brother, stop!
I'm begging you, don't hurt the child more.
He's an innocent child.
Stop, Brother!
Little Fish.
Brother.
I know that it was for my sake
that you became a toxic person.
Hiding inside a jar of poison.
The days drag on like years, spent in the dark without sunlight.
Brother, you really shouldn't,
shouldn't let hatred take over your mind.
You mustn't let savagery and cruelty become second nature,
a monster who only knows how to slaughter. Brother.
What? You call me a monster?
Aren't you afraid I will kill you?
If I died,
perhaps it would be enough to return you to your natural state.
For me, Lan Tong, my death wouldn't matter.
Brother, do you still remember?
When we were children,
others would bully me.
You were always with me to protect me.
You would say to me, "Don't be afraid,"
"Big Brother is here."
"I will protect you."
Brother. I will never give up on you, Brother.
I will continue to stay with you.
If you're unable to eat, I will feed you.
If you're unable to drink, I'll give you a drink.
If you want to come to Yi Town, I will carry you there on my back.
Brother, I will still obey you.
For you, I can abandon my life.
You are at the center of my everything.
I consider you as my dream,
as my god, Big Brother!
Do you know, do you know why?
Because you're my big brother.
I really don't want to see you changed into this thing.
Brother.
Brother, are you able to change back to your original form?
Can you change back to your original form?
It's no longer possible.
No longer possible.
We really have no way of returning you to the way you used to be.
You can't return to how you used to be anymore.
You can no longer go back to the way you were before.
I can only...
Brother!
Forgive me.
Brother...
YOU are now narrowing my steps?
Conjoined premature death?
Conjoined premature death indeed. I've only heard about it in rumors.
What is conjoined premature death?
Conjoined premature death is a strange disease.
Every one million births of brothers, there is one couple
whose physical sense of pain is linked together. If one of them suffers,
the other one suffers the same pain as the one who got hurt.
But even if it is a conjoined premature death,
it should not be able to cause actual harm to the body.
This is really strange.
What is this?
What have you done to me?
I should kill you. Kill you!
Brother, to be honest...all along I had
a secret I kept away from you.
Back then, although you gave up yourself and saved me,
and turned into a toxic person...
I have also ran into...a strange, demonic thing.
I can grant you one wish.
Tell me. What do you desire?
My brother is about to die. I just want to save my big brother.
Want to save your older brother? I can keep him alive in this poisonous fluid.
But you'll have to give him half of your life. Do you agree?
If you'd only make my brother live, I'll agree to anything! I'll agree to anything!
Defying the heavenly fate does not allow benevolence to remain.
So his benevolence shall be turned into a pet.
- You have to treat it well, and a day will come when it will develop unrivaled powers. - What powers?
This world's affairs were fated long ago.
Fate itself may tell you that.
Therefore...your life
is the half of mine that I gave to you.
If I die, you will have no way to stay alive.
Big Brother, don't you think this is predestined?
Our two lives are linked together.
Either living together,
or otherwise two people
dying together.
Actually,
it's all my fault.
It seems sorrow has deceived my eyes,
and hatred has covered my heart.
I knew I gave everything for you,
-Brother... - But you
actually did the same.
- Little Brother. My good little brother. - Brother
- Brother... - Your Brother has falsely accused you.
Brother.
Good brother, having a brother like you in this lifetime
is good enough for me.
If I am reborn,
my one hope is that you will be my brother again.
If there's a next life,
we will certainly be brothers.
Brother.
Little Brother.
Big Brother.
Little Brother.
- Little Brother. - Big Brother.
Little Brother.
Big Brother.
- Big Brother. - Little Brother.
Brother.
Good Little Brother.
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It's snowing.
Monkey Yaksha.
I appear to be cured.
What's going on!
It turns out that Lan Yan really is the embodiment of the Monkey Zodiac.
Then how come he has transformed into Lan Tong?
Yes, why?
Because of Lan Tong's experiences as a teenager,
he was trapped in his childhood state.
The way he looks now is his true appearance.
Oh! Dying and transforming in order to hit Chiyou is so much fun, why don't I get some of it?
I'll surely spare some time for taking part in this!
Young Monkey, you are burdened with heavy responsibility.
Young Monkey, hurry to Yaowang Mountain to practice the Dao.
Wait calmly for the day the Twelve Zodiac animals come together.
Little Brother, I should be accompanying you in death,
to atone for my crimes through death.
Except that the Yaksha has told me that
I am actually the embodiment of the Monkey Zodiac.
I bear an important task. I must save even more people from suffering.
Please allow me to wear my guilt upon my body,
in place of us two continuing our lives together.
Let me continue to be the one in your memory
who is your righteous and kind-hearted Older Brother.
Everyone, I'm now going to Yaowang Mountain to practice the Dao.
I hope we have the opportunity, I hope we meet again.
I take my leave.
Alright. We should start out too.
Why so impatient? We've only just saved the children.
We still haven't bought our rations.
Then can we go back to Yi Town to buy them?
You're right. Let's go.
Let's go.
Brother Xiao Hu, you go on ahead. I'll wait here for you.
Xue Lian, are you not feeling well?
Is travel too tiring for you at this time?
It's nothing, I'm fine.
You go ahead.
Forget about it. How about you go on ahead. I'll stay here and keep Xue Lian company.
I can stand guard and still keep Xue Lian company.
You and Little Fish go shopping.
Brother Mi, get going or else we'll be walking after dark.
- Besides, Brother Xiao Hu doesn't have your gift of the gab. He won't haggle. - Says who?
- Get going. - But I - Go!
Xue Lian, what's really the matter?
Is there a problem? Feel free to tell Brother Xiao Hu.
It's just that I think it's so sad.
Sad?
About Lan Tong?
Brother Xiao Hu, can you come with me to take a look at Lan Tong's tomb?
Brother Xiao Hu, I feel they are really to be pitied.
Yes.
In order to take the place of his younger brother,
Lan Yan became a poisonous being, his whole life spent soaking in a jar of poison.
His younger brother, in order to allow his older brother to keep living,
expended half of his own life.
He even gave up the life of an ordinary man,
and was willing to use his life to care for his own older brother.
Brother Xiao Hu, tell me why heaven is so cruel,
letting them get to the point of death, and only then could they regain their feelings of brotherly love.
Is it after all just yin and yang spreading apart that Lan Yan, though surviving, (T/N intertwined forces)
has to bear the sadness of two people.
Xue Lian, you are truly kind-hearted.
But the affairs to the human world are difficult to anticipate. There are many things
that we really have no control over.
Just don't think about it anymore. The more you think,
you will only be adding to your worries, nothing more.
Brother Xiao Hu, I don't know.
It's just that as soon as I think of them,
I feel so broken-hearted, my heart hurts,
as if being weighed down by a large rock.
I keep thinking that
this situation could happen to us at any moment.
Xue Lian, don't cry.
Think about it. Before he died, Lan Tong
was able to re-establish his relationship with his brother.
He was able to fulfill his wish.
Also, didn't you see?
Before Lan Tong died,
he was smiling so happily, right?
Brother Xiao Hu. I feel that a person's life is very difficult.
If I knew this beforehand,
I would rather be a rabbit.
You love to cry. What are you afraid of?
You have me. Even if the sky were to fall,
I will be here to support you. Right?
Brother Xiao Hu.
Your embrace is very comforting.
I've never tried it before.
How would you try this yourself?
Brother Xing Hu, tell me...
if I didn't have you, what would I do?
Come.
Don't worry. As long as I am alive,
no one will be able to hurt you.
Are you ready?
Let's go.
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Li Shi and Man Jiao are useless.
After sending them out, I have not heard back.
When they come back, I will show no mercy.
Your Majesty! Seems like the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan got himself two helpers.
Whatever deathbed struggle these nobodies put up,
they cannot escape their fated death.
Sooner or later, I must trample them to death!
Your Majesty, as far as I see it,
these two are not regular people.
How would that be of help? My army is several times bigger than theirs.
What is there to worry about these two trivial people?
Men! Dispatch my orders.
On dawn, reorganize the troops, and get them trained wore vigorously.
In the next battle, I'm going to take advantage of some opportunities
to eliminate that puny Yellow Emperor's army of nobodies!
Heads up. One. Backs straight.
- Two. Three. - Use some force!
- Four! - Brace up!
- Two. Three. - Heads up.
Three.
One. Two.
You are indeed brilliant, Military Advisor.
The troops are organizing is as if using a heavenly help.
The war situation can change in the wink of an eye.
Many thanks for my Lord's praise.
However, this fight is bound to be an arduous struggle.
Chiyou might indeed go to war
and by demanding one battle may destroy our army.
Military Advisor must have a good strategy.
Chiyou's regular soldiers are of immense numbers.
Having only the current troop force confronting him,
my troops will undoubtedly be defeated.
This war is a matter of life and death. Don't aim for victory, aim to survive.
My idea is that we can set a trap.
By defending instead of attacking, our side can maintain an invincible position.
As Military Advisor wishes.
You. Come and stand here.
If you are slow even by half a beat on the battlefield,
you'll be just like that - down with a single blow.
If you're a little careless, this battle will be your last.
My Lord, view this please. Looking at this based on Chiyou's nature and capabilities,
he will be probably installing large banners and drums,
and will come over attacking with his whole army.
Our army can first dispatch Yinglong,
supress them with the power of water and curb their dashing spirit,
then pretend to withdraw due to being no match.
Lure the enemy army to enter our hind area, into the ambush zone where we'll be long waiting for them.
Then the ambush soldiers from both sides will swarm out.
Surrounding his large army.
Then the pocket formation will deliberately open a gap,
allowing Chiyou's great army to flee through it.
Then Marshall Li Mu will lead our army's elite troops
into a direct attack from that gap, wiping out his military might.
And when the time comes, Chiyou's army would probably be defeated,
unable to bear a single blow.
Today we intensify our training.
For our realm, and for yourselves,
in this battle, we cannot be even a little bit careless!
If you are slow by even half a beat, it means you want to die on the battlefield!
We cannot die. We must win!
We won't die! We want to win! We won't die, we want to win!
We won't die! We want to win!
Where have we landed this time?
I can't see a trace of even one person.
Why is this jade plate so hard to use, always taking us on random paths?
It brings us obediently to the location, but won't do the next step of putting the next zodiac next to us. Really.
You wish! Have you ever seen something obtained with no effort?
You'd just lie on your bed, and the zodiacs will actually come by themselves at your side?
That would be great.
Xue Lian, why do you look a bit strange?
Mi Junfei, you jealous thing!
Undisguised jealousy!
Hey. Be quiet. It seems as if this place has nobody living here.
First let's think about how to look for the Zodiac animals.
The jade plate brought us to this place.
Meaning that the person which the primordial spirit turned to be should not be far away.
How about this then? We first go and search up ahead.
Maybe we'll find some town, or country or something.
- Good, let's go. Let's go. - Alright.
What are looking at? Let's go!
Hurry up, get going.
Go, go.
Xue Lian.
Brother Mi.
- Do you have something weighing on your mind? - No.
What are you scared of. If you have something on your mind, just say it.
Perhaps your Brother Mi can help you.
Brother Mi, I do have a problem.
I don't know if I should ask or not.
Ask away.
I remember something that Master said back when I was at Yaowang Mountain.
He said that between men and women is a kind of feeling.
This kind of feeling is called being --
In love.
Xue Lian, forgive me for speaking bluntly.
Are you in love with someone?
Brother Mi, I grew up on Yaowang Mountain from a young age.
I don't really know what love is.
This is simple. Everyone who is in love with someone
normally will have three characteristics.
Which three?
The first, when you are in love with someone
no matter how the other person looks
you only need to look at them and you will feel happy.
So much so that you will blush and your heart will race.
The second one, when you are in love with someone
even if the two of you have nothing to say or nothing to do, you still want to stay close to them.
When you can't see them, you miss them desperately.
When you think of them, you smile stupidly.
The third one, when you are in love with someone, when you are embracing them or being embraced by them,
you will feel warm, feel that as long as they are with you,
there is nothing to fear anymore.
Xue Lian.
Weren't you listening to me?
- What are you thinking about? You're so preoccupied. - Nothing.
Nothing? I don't believe you. But that's not important.
I haven't finished telling you what is important.
Yes. What I was just saying was that when you fall in love with someone, this isn't important.
The most important thing is the one you love not denying that he loves you.
Suppose the one you love doesn't love you.
Then you'll have to be a solitary flower admiring its own fragrance. (T/N Chinese idiom: sad and lonely)
But...is this something only he himself knows?
Not so, not so.
There are three mysterious Daoist principles at play.
I'll tell you. Listen carefully. The first point - when a man loves you,
he will recklessly use his body to protect you.
So much so that he is willing to pay with his life.
He hesitates at nothing.
Number two - he will worry about you all day long.
He would rather lie to you than put you in danger.
Number three - when you cry,
he will tenderly help you wipe away your tears.
Using every means to make you happy,
to take you in his arms and tell you not to be afraid.
But that's not all.
Xue Lian, do you still not know, when two people are truly in love with each other,
what they do?
What happens when two people are in love?
They get married.
Brother Mi, I remember you once told me,
that 'marriage is a game for two, but one plays it every day'.
I said it like that?
That's all a misunderstanding! But none of that is important.
Don't you know that every girl on earth's greatest desire is to wear a wedding dress?
Xue Lian, don't you want to wear a wedding dress too? All of this...!
I understand everything now. Thank you, Brother Mi.
- Brother Xiao Hu! - I can do all of these things for you, Xue Lian.
Xue Lian!
I'm exhausted.
We've been walking for such a long time now. How about we rest for a while?
- Alright. - Alright.
Xue Lian.
Alright. I'll sit down and rest awhile, too.
Brother Xiao Hu, are you tired?
Yes, you?
Look over there.
Where?
Brother Mi, I've told you before.
When the right time is fated, it will come. When it is not fated, it won't come.
Accept your fate.
You former life reader! Speak up, will you?
Then see if I won't stick this pile of straw into your mouth and turn you into a straw-head!
Brother Mi, You're a straw-head even without stuffing straw.
You're so witty.
Mi Junfei, Mi Junfei. You see it all,
and you still don't get it clear? A man ought to be a gentleman.
Give up when you should.
But you are the romantic and elegant Mi Junfei!
Based on your qualities of literary talent and military strategy,
and your handsome and gorgeous appearance,
you'll have a pack of girls chasing after you everywhere you go, won't you?
Don't abandon the entire forest for one tree.
There's no reason to give up the entire starry sky for a single star.
Even without Xue Lian, there are still plenty of beautiful women in the world.
But I am still thinking about her.
This day is changing faster than a woman's temper.
Is it about to rain? We should find somewhere to get out of the rain.
Right.
We'll look for somewhere out of the rain first.
It's almost dark. We should first find somewhere to have a rest.
- Shall we go? - Let's go.
This place seems rather strange.
- Brother Mi. - Who cares?
There's a hut! Xue Lian, Little Fish, hurry up.
Come.
- It seems that someone used to live here. - Wow.
What's this? Wine?
Brother Mi, don't drink random drinks.
Oh, relax. Once I sniff it I'll know that this is a jar of genuine aged wine.
Xue Lian, come here and look.
What's the matter?
- What's the matter, huh? - Brother Xiao Hu, what's wrong?
Look.
There's a painting!
Looks like it hasn't dried yet. This is freshly painted.
Isn't this Brother Mi?
This is Brother Mi. This is Sister Xue Lian.
And another female.
Yes. I saw this woman.
She inevitably raises very distinctive feelings.
In this painting we four are all facing each other.
It's as though it has been taken exactly from a real-life scene.
The main thing is that you're not in this painting. Maybe you die.
It's you who will die. I'll beat you to death. I'll kill you.
You're going to die. I'll kill you.
Brother Xiao Hu.
Do you know this woman?
- No. - I'll kill you. I'll beat you to death.
- I'll kill you. - Don't hit me, don't hit me.
I'll kill you. How dare you say I'm going to die.
- Don't hit me. Don't hit me. - I'll kill you.
Brother Xiao Hu.
It looks as though we'll have to spend the night here.
I have a bad feeling about this.
Brother Xing Hu!
Brother Xiao Hu.
I'm here. Save me.
Come and save me.
Hey, where are you going?
Hey.
Help me. I'm over here.
Will anyone come and save me?
Is there anyone to save me?
I am here.
Help me.
Someone save me.
Could someone be in trouble here and Xing Hu is saving her?
That's weird. There's clearly quite a distance separating them. I'm confident that I have sharp ears and eyes.
- How did Xing Hu hear it yet I didn't hear it. - Help me.
Who will save me?
♫Oh, world♫
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♫Oh, world♫
♫We are born and die within your bosom♫
♫Our sorrow and joy dance freely upon your body♫
♫You are our home, from antiquity till now.♫
♫We cherish you forever.♫
♫You are the most intimate source of nourishment.♫
♫Please don't reveal your dark side randomly.♫
♫We should make your regions of land become a peaceful and fertile place,♫
♫and get the fruits of endless happiness,♫
♫spread their fragrance freely.♫
♫Satisfying, ripening♫
♫our endless hopes. ♫
♫Our endless hopes. ♫