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♫ Unwilling to take part in something improper, how could I predict things would turn out against my wishes? ♫
♫ The flower in center of my heart has withered, time cannot turn itself back. ♫
♫ My memories are whirling and twirling, the pain is only in the depths of my heart. ♫
♫ My only wish is to live without regrets, and fly far away with the flowers’ fragrance. ♫
♫ A bottle of rice wine, a body covered in dust and ashes. ♫
♫ Memories go back and forth, a life without regrets. ♫
♫ From spring to autumn, life comes and goes. Is it right to be vain? ♫
♫ I’m waiting for the flowers to return and bloom again, intoxicating me. ♫
♫ Sincerely hoping that my lifespan is no longer withering away ♫
♫ I’m waiting for the flowers to return and bloom again, intoxicating me. ♫
♫ Sincerely hoping that my lifespan is no longer withering away ♫
♫ I want to go back to savor the aftertaste of the wine again. ♫
♫ In my memories, life comes and goes. I realize clearly in my heart. ♫
♫ I want to go back to savor the aftertaste of the wine again. ♫
Ashes of Love
Episode 37
Heavenly Empress has supreme power,
but you're afraid of me?
You're really making me feel so overwhelmed.
I'm afraid of you? Why would I?
If you're not afraid of me, how come you only dared to use karma fire on me
and not face me head on?
You seductress! Today, I'll personally kill you!
You seductress, you dared to kill me?
You've overestimated your capabilities!
Today, I'm going to make you disappear, your soul dissipated!
You actually dared to attack me just because of this seductress?
I've told you that if you dare hurt Jin Mi again, I will never sit by and watch.
Why? Why won't you stop?
This sinner is causing disaster here in the Heavenly Realm
and is even sowing discord at our relationship.
Since she's as hateful as her mother,
I'll then send her to be with her mother.
Not even you can stop me.
Mother Empress!
Jin Mi...
...is already my person.
What did you say?
What major event has happened here in Heavenly Realm
that each one is skipping the religious assembly of Lady Doumu?
She's really like her mother, no sense of honor.
Jin Mi...
...already has my child.
When?
Hateful.
Just for this seductress, you actually made up such shameful lie?
Today, even if she has your child,
I will burn it along with her.
Move aside!
Phoenix...
Move aside!
Phoenix! Phoenix!
Little Fish Immortal!
Run Yu!
Tu Yao!
Father.
Mi'er, don't be afraid. I'm here.
Deity, Mi'er is not critically injured.
For so many years, I've been telling myself
that you just have a bad temper
and an unforgiving tongue.
If not because Run Yu brought me here,
if not because I saw it myself,
I would have never thought that you're this sinister and ruthless.
That little seductress Jin Mi is completely the reincarnation of that person.
I must eliminate her! So that she won't be like Zi Fen before,
who almost brought disaster to the Heavenly Realm, and stop her from confusing my son!
Protect Mi'er.
Deity, don't worry.
Father!
You killed my lover, abducted my daughter.
This grudge is irreconcilable.
Mother Empress!
Phoenix...
Xu'er...!
Water Deity,
my Mother Empress caused the death of Former Flower Deity,
gravely injured Jin Mi,
has committed great sins.
For your grudges...
...I'm willing to bear them in behalf of my mother.
I just beg you to...
...spare my Mother Empress' life.
Xu'er!
What?
You're the one who caused Zi Fen's death?
Zi Fen didn't want any more conflict to arise here in Heavenly Realm,
hence, she left words to her subordinates to hide this matter.
But Heavenly Empress not only didn't show any remorse, she even has committed new sins today!
Men!
Drag Heavenly Empress to the Bimbisara Prison!
Her empress is being removed and she's not allowed to be part of the immortal rank forever!
Mi'er.
♫ My left hand holds the ground, my right hand holds the sky. ♫
Godmother, her retribution has come.
[Bimbisara Prison]
♫ I quickly turn time into years. ♫
♫ In three thousand lifetimes, I’ve seen it all. ♫
♫ My left hand picks flowers, my right hand wields a sword. ♫
♫ Between my brows, an entire ten thousand years’ of snow has fallen. ♫
♫ One teardrop. ♫
♫ That is who I am. ♫
We still haven't reached the end of this round.
Jin Mi, just you wait.
You're awake.
That day, I've already clarified things with you.
Princess, why must you still save me?
Mu Ci, I already know about
you getting controlled by Heavenly Empress because of the Corpse-Dissolving Heavenly Silkworms.
These past years, you have suffered.
All these are unimportant. My tribe has long been gone.
Right now, I'm just a spirit that can never see the light
and has lingered on my last breath until now. Moreover,
the Demon Clan and I have an irreconcilable grudge. Our Soul Destroying Tribe
is deemed as an inauspicious tribe. Why must Princess still...
What if I tell you that the Soul Destroying Tribe isn't an inauspicious tribe?
That year...
Ying'er! Ying'er!
Ying'er!
Ying'er! Ying'er!
You just learned to do the Shadow Shield. Don't carelessly bump into other people and killing them.
Father taught me Shadow Shield, yet you're slower than me.
This cave only has some low spiritual level beasts. It's good for your practice.
That's great.
What's going on over there?
Based on the direction, it must be the Soul Destroying Tribe.
- Let's quickly go and take a look. - Wait.
You stay here and practice your archery. I'll take some men to look at it. Protect the princess well.
Yes.
Not taking me with him.
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How come that sound was a bit weird?
How come this happened? No...I must call Royal Father to save him.
Princess! Princess!
Our Soul Destroying Tribe has been living here in seclusion for tens of thousands of years.
We never got involved in the disputes between the six realms.
Moreover, creating a Soul Destroying Arrow will require a huge amount of our bone blood.
I don't believe that Demon King will make such a decree!
How come we never heard Demon King making any decree
asking the Soul Destroying Tribe to create Soul Destroying Arrows?
Why did that King Gucheng fake a decree from Demon King?
Why are you here?
The Soul Destroying Tribe has the power to kill immortals and demons...
It's such a pity.
Your Majesty, we've searched the whole tribe. No one was left alive.
He actually massacred the whole tribe?
Princess, we came late. The whole tribe has already been annihilated.
Now, if we go argue with King Gucheng,
it will be useless. If we get discovered, it will be more troublesome.
Publicize the matter today as "the Soul Destroying Tribe privately created Soul Destroying Arrows
and attempted to gather and rebel."
Yes! It's all thanks to Your Majesty suppressing and eliminating the rebels on time,
hence, disaster to the six realm was prevented. Your Majesty has made an achievement again. Congratulations!
Congratulations Your Majesty for making another magnificent achievement!
My glory is also your glory.
Once I've conquered the six realms,
I surely will not treat you all shabbily.
Thank you, Your Majesty!
I have arrived a step late.
- This is the heaven's will. Your Majesty shouldn't blame yourself too much. - Let's go.
Royal Father, there's still him. Come with me.
Royal Father, hurry up! Here.
Royal Father, I didn't know that there are somebody else in here.
Don't worry. He's not dead.
Other than getting hurt by your arrow, he has other blade injuries.
Let's bring him back to our palace and have the Demon Physician look at him.
Your Majesty, he's from the Soul Destroying Tribe. The military report of King Gucheng has been submitted to Demon King.
This person then is now a rebel. We mustn't let him stay alive.
But the Soul Destroying Tribe was framed by King Gucheng! He's innocent!
Royal Father, are you really just going to watch and not save him?
Fine. Fine. Let's bring him back with us.
But even if we save him now, this child...
He mustn't be allowed to leave my Biancheng Royal Palace by even a step.
If one day, someone discovers his identity, it surely will lead to greater disaster.
I heard that the eyes of the members of the Soul Destroying Tribe turn black when they get mad.
But don't worry. Good thing this child is still quite young, hence, it still won't appear.
Just take note of not letting him get in contact with outsiders.
Yes.
He is now an orphan without any one to rely to. Once his injuries are healed,
let's allow him to stay in the palace and be my bodyguard. Let him accompany me to train in martial arts and swordfighting. Okay?
This child is an orphan.
Liu Ying mistakenly injured him while hunting, hence, brought him back to the palace.
What should and shouldn't be said, do you all understand?
I understand.
Don't worry. You're mine now. I won't leave you behind.
I didn't tell you these
because I don't want you to be filled with grudges and hatred, and to ensure your safety.
If you hate me for it, it's just proper.
I have no parents,
no place to go back to. If not because you and King Biancheng saved me,
I would have long died.
I was able to live longer for so many years. I should be rejoicing.
Why would I bear any grudges?
Mu Ci.
My debts of kindness and grudges are all fake.
For so many years, just to seek revenge, just to repay kindness,
I wandered from place to place and became Heavenly Empress' puppet. But in the end,
everything was actually just a joke.
But you still have me.
I want to rest now. Princess, please leave.
Royal Father, how do you feel?
It's okay. I'll be fine after recuperating for several days. No need to worry.
Royal Father, is this Corpse-Dissolving Heavenly Silkworms really incurable?
If we use the last level of the karma fire, Glaze Pure Fire,
to burn the young Corpse-Dissolving Heavenly Silkworms inside his body,
we can completely eliminate Mu Ci's reliance on the Corpse-Dissolving Heavenly Silkworms.
Royal Father...
It's just that...by doing that,
he will be only left with 10 years to live.
Also, his spiritual energy will slowly regress and disappear.
In the end, he will be like a mortal.
10 years?
Ying'er, I know that you deeply love him.
But these 10 years for us is just like the flick of a finger,
and you are still in the prime of your youth.
I'll then use my bone blood to continue his life.
With your spiritual power, it might be you who couldn't last these 10 years first.
But I can't let you expend your spiritual power like this.
Royal Father, what must I do to save Mu Ci?
Ten years. Be like a mortal.
I mustn't keep burdening you.
Jin Mi.
Mi'er.
Jin Mi.
Mi'er.
Father...
Father.
You had a nightmare again?
Don't be afraid. I'm right by your side.
Father,
my mother...was she really killed by Heavenly Empress?
I want to seek revenge. I want to seek vengeance for mother and Rou Rou. I...
What seek revenge? Are you going to risk your life again?
She has now been imprisoned in Bimbisara Prison. She will eventually be punished by the heavens.
Mother... Rou Rou...
Mother! Rou Rou...
This blade is created from the Sacred Assist Mysterious Ice. In creating it,
I've transferred half of my cultivation in it. Take it with you at all times.
If you meet any bad person again, at least, you have a weapon to defend yourself.
Half of your cultivation?
Then father...is your primordial spirit...
Is your primordial spirit damaged too?
I'm fine. Just keep this.
Silly child.
Come.
Thank you, father.
Don't cry.
Is Jin Mi doing well?
No need for Your Majesty to worry about her.
Are you angry at me?
I've already imprisoned Tu Yao in the Bimbisara Prison.
How else do you want me to punish her
- to decrease the hatred in your heart? - Hatred...
...isn't enough to describe it. If not because I followed Zi Fen's last will,
if not because of the children's happiness,
you think I would swallow insult and humiliation until today?
But from this moment on,
just for my daughter, I won't have anymore apprehensions.
I know
that I've wronged you all. I also just learned
that Zi Fen died in the hands of Tu Yao. If I've known of it earlier...
If I've known earlier that the truth is like this,
how could I have tolerated her for thousands of years?
Moreover, you know that my feelings for Zi Fen are true and sincere.
True and sincere?
It is exactly this true and sincere love of yours
that brought her harm.
Tai Wei, let me ask you this.
Have you ever sacrificed anything for Zi Fen?
Did you sacrifice the power of the Heavenly Empress' Bird Tribe
or sacrifice the power of the Heavenly Emperor throne?
You dared say that you love her?
You only wanted to own her!
Today, you imprisoned Tu Yao,
maybe because she already lost her value.
She instead has become your obstacle.
Luo Lin, you think it's that easy to be the heavenly emperor?
All these choices for me were also done with extreme pain and sadness.
Of course, it's not easy to be the heavenly emperor.
You will forever pace back and forth between balancing and doubts.
Tens of thousands of years got wasted just like that.
Even a mortal knows about the principle of 'each position has its required moral reasoning'.
But as the supreme ruler of the Heavenly Realm,
you didn't understand the importance of virtue.
You're saying that my moral reasoning isn't fit for my position?
If you're just pretending to be virtuous, you'll eventually reveal your true self.
Luo Lin,
looks like living in seclusion and withdrawing from worldly affairs are indeed suitable for you.
I know that very well.
No need for you to remind me.
Luo Lin, I know that you're still mad right now,
but don't destroy our half-lifetime of friendship
just because of Tu Yao's crimes.
We can't just disregard everything.
For your daughter and my son,
we must look ahead in the future and back into the past (be cautious and consider the consequences).
Luo Lin,
no matter if you believe it or not. The person that I've truly loved
was only Zi Fen. I now have everything,
but ZI Fen is dead. Moreover, the person she loved was you.
That for me is already the highest form of punishment.
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♫ Unwilling to take part in something improper, how could I predict things would turn out against my wishes? ♫
♫ The flower in center of my heart has withered, time cannot turn itself back. ♫
♫ I wish to wash away my vanity and brush off the dust and ashes that cover my body ♫
Xu Feng, I really like you so much.
♫ and chat with you for an intoxicating lifetime. ♫
♫ Unwilling to take part in something improper, how could I predict things would turn out against my wishes? ♫
♫ The flower in center of my heart has withered, time cannot turn itself back. ♫
♫ My memories are whirling and twirling, the pain is only in the depths of my heart. ♫
♫ My only wish is to live without regrets, ♫
Mi'er, the night is cold.
You just recovered, so why are you wandering around like this?
Little Fish Immortal, you got hurt because of me. I came to visit you.
It's just a minor injury. Nothing to worry.
May I ask...
...how many immortal women have you had any intimate contact with?
I'm not a frivolous person.
Since our wedding date has been set,
of course, I won't have any intimate contact with other person anymore.
So, I'm that frivolous person.
Mi'er, why did you ask such a question?
Did I do anything wrong?
Heavenly Empress killed my mother.
Now, we can be considered as fellow sufferers sympathizing with each other.
Don't know how Heavenly Emperor will punish her.
She is Xu Feng's mother.
How should we face Xu Feng from now on?
The debt of gratitude for one's parents is as vast as the boundless heavens.
Don't think about these matters anymore.
Just leave them to me.
I'll go back now then.
I'll walk you back to Luo River Manor.
You are still so competitive and aggressive.
If I don't act tough,
must I wait for you to laugh at me?
We are husband and wife. In a blink of an eye,
I saw you turn from a revered Heavenly Empress to a prisoner.
How then will I be able to laugh?
Since we got married,
when have you treated me as your legitimate wife?
Tu Yao, you are already holding such supreme position here in Heavenly Realm. What else are you not contented with?
I can say that my conscience is clear.
These past years, you further intensified and created enemies left and right.
Not only did you schemed and harmed the women by my side,
even Water Deity, Night Deity, and Jin Mi, you couldn't tolerate.
When can you be contented?
Clear conscience?
Your Majesty, for so many years, have you ever asked your conscience
if you indeed never wronged me?
Have you forgotten
how you were able to stably sit in the Heavenly Emperor throne?
During the battle between the Heavenly and Demon Realms,
if not because the warriors of my Bird Tribe charged ahead—
Enough!
No, I will say it.
Your Majesty, in your every battle,
when did the Bird Tribe not gave it our best to assist you?
During the Heavenly and Demon war, you got badly injured.
Do you know that just to save you,
what price did I pay?
Tai Wei, I treated you like that,
while you...how did you treat me?
After you've sat on that supreme throne, you then became ungrateful.
Being so promiscuous. You completely forgotten about
the oath that we made!
Shut up! You capitalized on your past achievement,
and got rid of those with contradicting opinions as yours, incessantly killing innocent people,
annihilated the Arowana Tribe, killed Su Li, removed my royal concubines.
Your methods were so vicious,
but I never made a fuss with you about it. But I never expected
that even Zi Fen had died at your evil hands.
You killed a shangshen. Isn't that being too undaunted and reckless?!
Zi Fen? What crime did I commit?
Is it killing a shangshen and undermining the laws of the heaven, or...
I sliced off a flesh from your heart and caused your heart to ache?
- You... - You!
Betrayed me one after another. Totally not putting any importance to me and my son.
She? She's already dead, yet her shadow still won't go away.
Her daughter even dared to come and seduce my son?!
A mother and daughter bewitching you and your son.
Don't you feel that is a great sarcasm and insult to me?!
While I, the noble Heavenly Empress,
a Bird Tribe Princess, must I live under her shadow forever?!
I initially thought that you'll have some remorse while in this place.
Never thought that you're still this obstinately persistent with your wrong ways.
Look at yourself now,
so tactless, such sinister appearance. You don't have any poise and bearing of a Heavenly Empress at all.
You clearly are like a jealous wife in the mortal world.
When a person is about to die, her words also become blunt.
It's my fault for being blind and entrusting the wrong person.
Tu Yao's actions were all against our aim.
She can't bear the duty of a Heavenly Empress. I want to make someone else as the Heavenly Empress.
Laoujun and Dan Zhu, what do you think of Flower Deity?
No, that's inappropriate. Even the emperors in the mortal world know
that a chaff wife mustn't be removed from position. Moreover, you're the Heavenly Emperor. (a wife that went through trials and tribulations with you mustn't be replaced)
The more you should be an example.
Hence, changing one's wife after achieving wealth and fame is a big no-no.
Your Majesty, Heavenly Empress hasn't done any grave mistake.
Also, the new Heavenly Realm government has just been established and its foundation isn't that stable yet.
We still need the support of the Bird Tribe. I fear that the act of deposing the empress
might incite turmoil here in Heavenly Realm.
Your Majesty, you must reconsider it.
Who is driving a wedge between us?
What one hears is true, what one sees is real.
Your Majesty, why bother hiding it? Now, the one standing in front of you,
is just a jealous wife who got abandoned by her husband
and considered evil by her son.
Why? Do you still know to feel guilty?
But I still preserved your position.
Which of my past promises have I not fulfilled?
There is no perfect thing in this world. Even I have regrets.
But how come in your eyes, you can't tolerate even a grain of sand? (a perfectionist)
So what if I obtained a highly respected position?
Did I ever enter your heart?
All women in this world yearn to grow old with the man they love,
while I got married to a cold throne.
Although I'm a shangshen, I'm just the same with the women in this world.
I just want a husband that will stay faithful to me.
But in your eyes, other than that person,
have you ever seen me? That lowly Arowana sprite
just looked a bit similar with her.
You clearly know that you were just using her,
but you developed true affection for her.
Have you ever thought about what a wife would feel?
Have you ever experienced the sorrow
of using your gaze to follow a heartless and disloyal man?
Tu Yao...
For my heart to continuously think about Zi Fen,
I indeed have wronged you.
But I already tried my best to make up for it.
As the Heavenly Empress, you acted willfully and was unscrupulous.
Didn't I endure it and indulge you?
But, you just have endless desires.
Endure it? Indulge me?
What I want are not those.
I'm unable to obtain your love and sincerity.
I was just guarding an empty Heavenly Empress reputation.
Your Majesty, do you know how I survived all these years?
After my father just died, you already developed the intention to depose me.
If not because I have the Bird Tribe's power intimately connected with me,
I fear that thousands of years ago, I would have ended up like this already.
That time, I finally understood how good power is.
What love, what doting, all are fake. All are just fleeting like the passing clouds and smoke.
Only a supreme power will not disappear.
Even if you want to obtain power, you mustn't be unscrupulous.
You are the respected Heavenly Empress and you have the Bird Tribe at your back.
If you could have just peacefully lived your days, I wouldn't have touched you.
Unscrupulous? What's our difference?
In the past, you killed your brother to usurp the throne and arrogated all power to yourself.
We are actually the same. We are prisoners of power.
Your Majesty! Do you still remember
our agreement?
You are now pregnant. It's inconvenient for you to still accompany me to fight.
If this time, I will lose the battle and die,
go back to Yimiao Region.
This Greater Truth Phoenix Feather is a sacred treasure of each phoenix in our tribe.
Each phoenix will only have one.
I'm gifting it to you now.
Hope it can protect you in my behalf.
If tomorrow, you lose,
me and my child will jump from here.
I will never live an ignoble existence.
Today, I'm making an oath that once this battle ends in victory,
if you bear a son, he surely will become the Crown Prince.
Let's enjoy the Heavenly Realm together.
My greatest wish is that one day,
we'll be able to stand side by side
in this highest point of the Nine Levels of Heaven and smilingly watch the wind and clouds.
You've changed.
Tu Yao, I wronged you.
But this matter has already reached the High Clear Sky.
I fear that your heavenly empress position can't be preserved anymore.
If I still don't suppress your Bird Tribe's arrogance,
I fear that the public won't accept it.
I've long expected this.
I've been a heavenly empress for too long.
It's really enough.
In this life, I...
...was willing to sacrifice everything for you.
Now, I don't have any other requests except for one wish.
I only have one child, Xu Feng.
I believe that Your Majesty surely understand what my request will be.
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♫ My left hand holds the ground, my right hand holds the sky. ♫
♫ Lightning bolts erupt out of my palm print and go in ten directions. ♫
♫ I quickly turn time into years. ♫
♫ In three thousand lifetimes, I’ve seen it all. ♫
♫ My left hand picks flowers, my right hand wields a sword. ♫
♫ Between my brows, an entire ten thousand years’ of snow has fallen. ♫
♫ One teardrop. ♫
♫ That is who I am. ♫
♫ My left-hand’s finger touches the moon, my right hand is selecting Red Threads ♫
♫ to bestow upon you and I our desired and predestined love. ♫
♫ In the moonlight. ♫
♫ You and I. ♫
♫ My left hand transforms into feathers, my right hand becomes scales. ♫
♫ Some of my lives are spent in the clouds, some are in the forests. ♫
♫ I’m willing to follow you and become a speck of dust ♫
♫ in order to emerge in this mortal life. ♫
♫ My left hands picks you up, my right hand lets go of you. ♫
♫ When I clasp my palms together, you are completely drawn back into my heart. ♫
♫ In the time it takes for one incense stick to burn. ♫
♫ You and I, we become inseparable. ♫