The Legend of the 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♫
♫With the theme being the brewing of the taste of life♫
♫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♫
♫Who am I? You, who are you? 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 the Chinese Zodiac
Episode 7
Brother little tiger!
How did he vanish like that?
- Brother little tiger!- Xing Hu!
- Brother little tiger!- Brother little tiger!
Come out! Come out I say!
Brother little tiger!
Strange. What is this place?
And what about Xue Lian and the others?
Brother little tiger, where are you?
- Where are you?- Bring out Xing Hu.
Can you see where he is?
Xing Hu, come out!
I'll stall him, you go and rescue Xue Lian. Hurry!
Where are you, Xing Hu?
Little Fish.
- Wait a minute. - You're trying to trick me again?
You've already experienced my secret poison injection once, and you still have the nerve to mess around?
You should know the taste of a poison intruding the body.
Nonsense! Where did I experience your poison injection?
Right there.
You have experienced my wonderful secret poison injection. If you want to live, quickly catch me and tie my hands up.
So dangerous!
- It hurts!- Little Fish.
Little Fish.
Hurts so much!
Stop playing around. He's still a little kid!
Demon, let Little Fish go.
Brother Mi, save me!
- Save me!- Alright, alright.
Where on earth is this?
Is it Yongjin Cave? Where's Xue Lian?
Where did they go?
Miss, who are you?
Where is this?
Miss, tell me!
No need to thank me. Since you've already recovered, you can leave.
It's you. You saved me.
I said there's no need to thank me.
Miss, why do you cover yourself in this way?
My appearance is ugly. I'm unwilling to show people, that's all.
You talk a lot of nonsense. You may go.
- Hey, you - This is the He Lan Wastelands.
If you keep walking towards the north you will see a village.
Xue Lian and the others will probably be in danger shortly.
Miss.
Miss, please tell me. How do I get back to Phoenix City?
It's unheard of. More than that, it has nothing to do with me.
Many thanks for your kindness, Miss. If the opportunity arises I will risk my life to repay you.
Remember, as you travel do not pass straight through the wastelands.
Many thanks.
The masked woman reminded me just then
not to go straight through the wastelands as I travel. Presumably there is a reason.
However, a heavy rain will begin in a moment.
I need to arrive at the village before that to ask how to get back to Yongjin Cave.
Or else, as time passes there will be much more to take into account.
That masked woman was extremely eccentric.
For what reason did she save me, yet also behave as cold as ice and frost towards me?
And why can't I figure out how she cleverly arrived here?
Except for overgrown weeds which block your steps,
nothing seems unusual here.
Xing Hu, when did you become as timid as a mouse?
Are you alright?
You've been poisoned by a snake.
My name is Ba Tuo. I didn't look where I was going. I encountered a viper.
You...you are from somewhere else.
My name is Xing Hu. I come from Phoenix City.
I don't know if you have heard of it.
Phoenix City? I have never heard it mentioned.
It hurts! The snake venom in these parts is extremely strong in nature. In our clan there is no doctor, either.
I think that this time I cannot definitely be saved.
I hope that you, brother tiger, will remember how my arrows saved you
And carry my dead body on your back and proceed to He Lan Village up ahead.
Deliver me to my mother in my home.
My death is finally at hand.
I don't understand the healing arts, but I do know
that there is a type of venom-dissolving medicinal herb that grows where snakes live.
Let me go and look for some.
Ba Tuo, you're in luck. These plants are precisely the medicine that dissolves snake venom.
Try to bear it. I'll help you to clear out the venom.
Bear with me. It will be done quite soon.
Ba Tuo, take this, chew it up and swallow it. The venom will instantly dissolve.
I am grateful for God's blessing and for sending Brother Hu to my rescue.
Brother Hu, I should thank you properly.
Ba Tuo, the truth is that you helped me. You helped me more by showing me the way back to Phoenix City.
I cannot thank you enough.
My mother has migrated a few times.
She's passed through many places.
- I'll take you to her and you can ask her. - Alright.
Ba Tuo, can I have violated some taboo?
Why were they looking at me with such an expression of detest?
It's a long story. When we are in my home I will tell it all.
- Ba Tuo, is something wrong with you? - Mother. I'm fine.
Brother Hu, this person is my mother.
Mother, this is Brother Hu.
I was just walking through the wastelands, and before long got a snakebite.
Fortunately, I met with Brother Hu. If not for him helping to treat me
right now I would already be have already been dead in the wastelands.
- Thank you. - It's a mere trifle. Not worth mentioning.
Furthermore, it was Ba Tuo who saved me first.
- Kind man, quick, please sit. - Sit.
Them, they all call me Aunt Ba.
Little Brother, you are from somewhere else then?
That's right. I'm from Phoenix City. I don't know that you would have heard of it before, Aunt Ba.
My friend is still in Phoenix City, her life in a desperate situation.
I hope that you can give me direction to return there. I could not thank you enough.
Here, eat some.
I have waited in He Lan Village for so many years.
I've experienced many great migrations
stretching for several hundred li. [T/N: About half a kilometre.] I have never heard of a place like this.
Only this village withing a few hundred li.
While being injured, how could I get here?
Brother Hu, how strange!
It's as though you don't know how to go back there from here.
Then how did you come to be at our He Lan Village?
Oddly enough, I truly don't know.
It's just...
- Oh, right! Maybe it has something to do with her.- Who?
I don't know of which place this person is a deity, either.
She lives on the other side of the wastelands in a black tent.
Wearing black clothes from head to toe. Someone who uses sackcloth to firmly wrap her face.
The one you speak of is the Ghost Aunt.
Brother Mi, Brother Mi, hurry and save Little Fish.
He's still a child. Hurry and let him go.
Let him go!
Answer me demon, except for heart and stomach irritation,
do you feel a bit of numbness?
I'll tell you, this poison is called the Five-Poisons-Make-A-Corpse Powder.
If you will not get an antidote before it is dark,
when you stand up, the poison will intrude your body and will dissolve your flesh and bones, making you a corpse.
- and very quickly- help!- will turn your whole body into a yellow liquid.
Therefore I demand you make a pact with me.
It's quite simple. You bring the antidote and I'll spare him.
Why should I believe you?
I presume this is enough for you to believe?
Little Fish!
- Save me!- Alright, alright. How about this.
I come... come and swap places with him.
After I see him leave through the mouth of the cave,
I'll just tell you the secret recipe for the antidote.
Fine.
- Are you alright?- Yes.
Little Fish, what are you doing still standing there? Run!
Don't we still have to save Sister?
Little Fish, don't worry about me. Run away now!
Go!
Speak! Where is the antidote?
Antidote. Come here and I'll tell you.
The antidote...
This is the antidote!
Such courage.
Sister Xue Lian, Brother Mi.
I'll go and look for someone to save you. You must hold on!
Brother Hu, where are you?
Brother Hu, save us!
Come quickly and save Brother Mi and Sister Xue Lian!
Brother Hu.
Who is the Ghost Aunt?
The Ghost Aunt is the woman with the covered face that you spoke of. Brother Hu, have you met her?
No. It's just that I seem to have been saved by her.
As if the Ghost Aunt would save someone! The Ghost Aunt only harms people.
Mother, don't fret. I am confident in my ability to read people.
Brother Hu was willing to risk his life to suck out the snake venom for me, and saved my life. He's certainly not evil.
When all is said and done, who is this so-called Ghost Aunt?
Actually, her name isn't really Ghost Aunt.
Nobody knows what her name is.
We only know that she comes from some far, far away place.
A number of generations of our He Lan clan ancestors,
have always lived simple lives on the wastelands,
in order to herd livestock for a living, and even feel comfortable, safe, and warm.
But ever since this foreign woman came it has become common for people in the clan to contract the plague.
The livestock that we depended on to survive began to die in great numbers.
And afterwards all of the people likewise began to suffer from disease and die.
Child, can you have forgotten the words that our might clan leader Ta Ha said?
All of these serious diseases were brought here by that masked devil-woman.
She's almost even more frightening than a ghost.
Mother, mother. So, that's why everyone calls her Ghost Aunt.
And according to the clan leader, she was sealed off on a hill far from the wasteland, to live there alone.
So, just now when I entered the village,
Their glaring at me like a tiger on it's prey, loathing was...
Because the Ghost Aunt brought a plague here,
we He Lan villagers especially detest people who come from other places.
But if you will,
- you can come and live in our house.- Ba Tuo!
Mother, we have a saying on the grasslands: "A good horse should be aware of his breeder's benevolence."
If Brother Hu did not help me, I would come back with the snake venom strongly contained within my body,
then I would undoubtedly be dead.
- Brother Hu had shown me much grace upon saving me, should we not treat him as the horse would have been?- You are right.
Actually, it's like this. All of He Lan's doctors have died.
All your doctors have died?
None of the doctor's could cure the plague and they unexpectedly contracted the infection.
So according to the clan leader's commands, they were send to the demon-tooth valley to be fed to the wolves.
Child, drink a bowl of buttered tea. Stay here for the night.
Many thanks, Aunt Ba.
My strange arrival here... ghost aunt must have a key role in it.
I cannot tell where this Xing Hu's magical energy went to.
Seems like he is not in Phoenix city anymore.
- Elders!
Little kid, what made you look for us in such a hurry?
Elders, come quickly and help
Little kid, what is it? tell us who needs our help!
Go and help brother Mi and sister Xue Lian, they are about to be killed by the stinky demon trap.
Where are they right now?
In the cave of pouring gold.
Small brother, small brother, wake up
Look at our Ba Tuo!
- Ba Tuo- Small brother, look
What happened to our Ba Tuo?
Has she caught the plague?
If she got the plague, she will be sentto the demon -tooth valley!
Aunt Ba, I have no knowledge of healing
But according to her looks, it must be a strong snake venom.
With some cold she caught during the night, the venom's spread in the body has intensified.
So... So what shall we do?
Aunt Ba, don't worry, I'll go and bring some curing herbs.
Ba Tuo, hang on.
Ba Tuo! Ba Tuo!
Ba Tuo! What happened to you?
Don't scare me! Ba Tuo!
I'll ask you again, the one called Xing Hu, where did he disappear all of the sudden?
Where is he hiding?
Even if you ask me a thousand times,
my answer will be the same.
I don't know.
Sister Xue Lian! Brother Mi! I am here to save you!
Little fish, where did the demon go?
An emergency help is needed!
Elder, are you ok?- I'm fine, I'm fine. Go get emergency help.
Brother Mi, are you ok?
We'll save you, come.
Aunt Ba! Aunt Ba!
I found a curing herb! Aunt Ba!
Ba Tuo! Aunt Ba!
Ba Tuo! Ba Tuo!
Ha Ri Man, Normally you are Ba Tuo's closest friend, like a brother.
I beg you, you must save our Ba Tuo!
I beg you!
Aunt Ba, it's not that I do not wish to save her
She will be sent back by the people sent to the demon-tooth valley whether I help or not.
I beg you!
Aunt Ba, what happened?
little brother, quick, go and save Ba Tuo
They blamed her of suffering from the plague, and the clan snet people to catch her and take her to the demon-tooth valley!
Those who go to the demon-tooth valley cann't go on living
-Aunt Ba...- Save her, quickly!- What kind of place is demon-tooth valley?
Demon-tooth valley is a valley to the south.
This valley resembles a demon tooth, which is why we call it demon-tooth valley.
The clan leader has ordered
that every person suffering from the plague should be sent to the demon-tooth valley for their own fate.
That way we can stop the plague from spreading on a large scale.
Ba Tuo's illness isn't the plague.
- Really?- Let's go and save Ba Tuo. - Yes, yes.
I urge you not to go. There are many guards watching there.
Hurry up.
Elder, go and save Xue Lian.
You want to save them? It won't be that easy.
How are you? It looks like this fellow is really hard to deal with.
Let's do it together. A quicker we fight the sooner it's over.
Oh my, we fell for this brat's evil trick.
- Worthy brother, let's retreat now.- Yes.
There's still Xue Lian.
Freeze-Over Technique.
She's been frozen.
Away!
Up ahead.
Hurry.
It's just here. This is Demon-Tooth Valley.
The clan leader has ordered that strangers to Demon-Tooth Valley are forbidden to proceed.
My daughter is in there. Give me back my daughter.
Ba Tuo didn't catch the plague. She was brought to Demon-Tooth Valley by mistake.
We must save her and take her back.
Please think about their close mother-daughter relationship and let us enter Demon-Tooth Valley.
Not allowed. If you want to enter the Valley, you will immediately contract the plague. Go away.
I'm not leaving. What is the use of living without my daughter?
If you had a heart, you would help me and my daughter to meet in the afterlife!
- I, I'll fight it out with you.- Aunt Ba.
Be careful.
Aunt Ba, you can't just charge forward, you might get hurt. How can I let you go there?
Never mind. I'll take you back now.
Wait until the dead of night. I'll take advantage of the time when the guards are sleeping soundly.
- And then I'll rescue Ba Tuo and take her back. How about that?- Alright.
Let's go.
These sick people really are pitiful. If Xue Lian was here she'd surely be able to cure them.
There's nothing I can do about. I must look for Ba Tuo first.
Ba Tuo.
Ba Tuo. Ba Tuo.
This is bad. Could it me the guards?
If I'm discovered, I won't be able to rescue Ba Tuo.
She's actually going to remove her cloth.
For now, I'll calmly observe her transform and watch her removing the cloth.
and see the true identity it will reveal.
-Good- Thank you- Thank you!
- Thank you. - Thank you. Thank you.
It looks like I've misunderstood her.
She came only ot heal people. But her tears has such a god-like power.
Presumably it was she who treated me that day.
She's unlikely to be the prime suspect for causing this plague. She's one who has been misunderstood.
But why doesn't she explain this to the people of He Lan?
This won't do. I must go to her and ask her outright.
Also, I must ask her how on earth did I get here?
Miss.
It came.
I have heard this sound before. Last time it used it to call the wolf pack.
Is it the king of wolves?
What kind of monster is this?
Watch the sword!
Lady, are you ok?
Lady, you clearly have a peerless beauty. Why would you still cover your face with linen?
And this wolf monster, what is going on about him?
Lady!
Oh no, over there is Helan village. Does this wolf monster plan on harming people?
Be cautious. This one-eyed wolf monster is cunning.
I see. This tent camp does not seem different, who lives there?
Strange.
I better wait till dawn, and then explore.
- Who is it?- Aunt Ba, it's me.
Aunt Ba, is something wrong?
Could it be that Ba Tuo has returned?
- Brother Hu!
- Ba Tuo!
- Brother Hu!
Quiet, more quiet. Be careful. They will come to catch you.
Mom, relax, I am ok now.
If they will come to catch me, it will be groundless.
You have recovered from your illness?
But I don't know if it was for real, or just an illusion,
yesterday, when I got ill, and was considered suffering of pestilence,
I was cast into demon-tooth valley, and all people there were dead and wounded.
I was certain that this time I am surely dead.
Hey, hey, hey, don't talk nonsense!
Mom, calm down, I've returned, didn't I?
But...
I was certain that this time I am surely dead.
An I was surprisingly calm. I laid down and fell asleep.
And in my half dream half awakeness
I saw a woman, who sehd a tear under the moonlight
Her tear dripped on my body, and suddenly emitted a dazzling rainbow of light
This radiation wrapped me up
And all I could feel is that my whole body had a warm current from inside and outside
flowing through all of my blood vessels.
And the disease disappeared from my body, and suddenly everything vanished.
While I was waiting to get regain consciousness, the woman disappeared.
I don't know whether this was dream or reality.
My body has fully recovered
So I took advantage of no one being on guard, and ran back home.
- Of course.- Brother Hu
Oh, right. Is there anywhere in your tribe a golden colored tent camp?
Golden? I actually never took note of it.
Isn't it the home of our chief?
The chief's home?
Yes, correct, now I remember.
But brother Hu, why would you ask that?
Are there people inside?
It's dawn, they must have come to catch you.
- Quickly, duck into the burrel!- mom
Mom, I'm fine
How could they have heard you?
- Come inside, quick- Mom!- quickly inside
- Go in, quick.- Mom, I'm fine...
-Mom...- Go in!- Mom, I'm ok now.
Mom, I'm... I'm...
Come!
Qingfeng! Qingfeng! Qingfeng!
Qingfeng! Qingfeng!
Come! come and catch me!
- Catch me!- Got you!
- Let me go!- Qingfeng!
What is going on here?
How can this ghost aunt have such a peerless beauty?
yet refuse to show it to people.
Seems like she carries secrets on her body.
What can they give rise to?
Could there be a link between her arrival here and my arrival?
What is the quarrel about?
A sacrifice to heaven, we have to make a sacrifice again.
Sacrifice to heaven?
Offering a sacrifice and praying to the heavenly god for blessing and protection.
If the heavenly will accept the present, he might open his eyes
and help us resolve the plague.
But I do not believe it, we sacrificed three times already
and the plague did not come to a halt.
You talk nonsense! The sacrifice to heaven is good for everybody!
If only the heavenly god will open his eyes, all will be well.
- Get in, quickly!- Mom!
Aunt Ba, the present to the heavenly god you have just mentioned, what is it?
Heaven knows what woman would like to suffer.
Get in quickly!
Human?!
♫ 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. ♫