"Ashes of Love"
"Episode 1"
"Flora Palace"
Send my order.
Starting from today,
my child shall follow the fate of mine.
The souls of those who...
leak this information shall be perished.
- Yes. - Yes.
I obey the decree of the Lord strictly.
If there is any violation,
I will perish my primordial soul myself.
Let her take this.
This is Yun Elixir.
Those who took this...
shall be cut off from love.
My Lord.
You will live strongly when there's no emotion.
You will live freely when there's no love.
This is the best blessing that I can give to her.
My child can't be like me.
"Highest Palace" To be destroyed by those infatuations.
Luo Lin, the Water Immortal, has the attribute of highest good.
Lin Xiu, the Wind Immortal, is decorous and virtuous.
You two were made to be together.
I'm afraid it's hard to find such beautiful marriage...
in this vast universe anymore.
Drink this cross-cupped wine.
Wishing both of the Supreme Immortals be in love forever.
Staring from today,
you two shall assist Heavenly Emperor with same heart and manner.
If you have a son after the marriage,
he can take an oath of brotherhood with my eldest son.
If it is a girl,
she can become the wife of my son.
It would be a nice thing that our relationship can be continued...
by our offspring.
What do you think?
We obey your decree strictly.
Congratulations.
Zi Fen.
The order from the Heavenly Emperor shall not be disobeyed.
But what should we both do now?
My heart belongs only to you.
The heaven and earth can prove it.
You will not be betrayed.
I wish you to find your own peace.
To live this life in simplicity.
I shall name her Jin Mi.
- Yes. - Yes.
Congratulations. Jin Mi has been born into this world.
You don't need to.
Do not throne her...
as the Flower Immortal when I'm gone.
It is good already to be a free immortal.
My Lord, please have a second thought.
The Flora Realm can't go on without a ruler even a single day.
I have made my decision.
After my death...
you people...
shall become the Flower Guardians for 24 festivals.
Replacing each other...
as the lords of four seasons.
Yes.
We shall strictly obey your command.
I have her fortune told just now,
my child shall experience one love trial within this 10,000 years.
Although she has taken Yun Elixir,
I am still worried.
Send my words.
From now on,
Jin Mi shall only live in the Water Mirror.
She shall not...
step out from Flower Realm within this 10,000 years.
- Yes. - Yes.
- My Lord. - My Lord.
My Lord!
The universe has experienced...
288,613 of summer solstices.
Zi Fen, the Flora Immortal, has passed away.
Hundreds of flowers have withered.
When the Heavenly Emperor heard about this bad news,
he stopped the court and mourned for 7 days.
Flora Realm held a funeral for Flora Immortal,
four seas and nine regions mourned for her.
Flower buds are closed tightly.
Not even a single flower bloomed for 10 years.
The colours of heaven and earth had worn out.
Everything only started to bloom...
after the ten years of mourning.
The beginning was the truth,
which became Yin and Yang.
Separating the clear and unclear.
This is what we know as...
the Realms of Heaven and Demon.
As Yin and Yang come across, smoke and mist combine.
It created sun, moon, stars flower, bird, insect, and fish.
It then divided into good and evil.
Every creature cultivated by themselves afterwards,
and become immortal, demon...
and mortal with human flesh.
Flora Realm used to belong to Heaven Realm,
Flora Immortal died with hatred 4,000 years ago.
Many Pavilion Chiefs left the Heaven Realm,
and live on their own,
becoming the sixth realm of the heaven and earth.
"Water Mirror" That's it for...
the biography of Flora Immortal today.
- Do you have any question? - Lao Hu!
Lian Qiao.
Everyone talks about the six realms all the time.
The History of Six Realms.
The Encyclopedia of Six Realms. The Romance of Six Realms.
But no matter what, the books only talk about...
flora, mortal, heaven and demon realms.
What the other two realms then?
That's right. What's the other two realms?
- This... - Yeah, what is it?
The truth is subtle and profound.
It can't be told.
What is it that you can't tell us?
- It can't be told. - What is it that you can't tell?
You don't know it, isn't it?
Look.
Jin Mi.
Don't sleep, wake up.
Wake up.
Little one!
What's wrong?
- Is it time to eat? - Look at you.
You only eat and sleep all the time.
Tell me, do you do anything else?
Don't worry.
Today is not the first day of the month...
nor the fifteenth day of the month.
Chief Zhang will not be here.
Jin Mi.
You have forgotten what day it is today.
Jin Mi!
Chief Zhang.
- Chief Zhang. - Chief Zhang.
Chief Zhang.
You have no desire to improve yourself at all.
Chief Zhang.
Have you got the date wrong?
Today is not the first nor fifteenth of the month.
I have come to check spontaneously.
Chief Zhang.
This is what you've learned from the past 4000 years?
Low in magical prowess.
Shallow in deity technique, average in deity knowledge.
You can't even complete intermediate level magic.
Your ability is not worse than others.
And you have some wits too.
Where have you put all your effort all these years?
It is dangerous outside of Water Mirror.
You can only cultivate hard to protect yourself.
If you wish to leave Water Mirror, you shall not be lazy anymore.
It's best to settle down and cultivate abidingly.
I understood.
I'll obey your teachings.
You still haven't recalled what day is it today?
Today?
It's not the first nor the fifteenth day of the month.
Lao Hu?
Carrot?
White radish?
Lian Qiao.
Do you wish to be punished together?
Drink carrot soup?
I remember now.
Frost's Descent!
We'll drink carrot and pork ribs soup during the snowing season.
So today...
So it's the death anniversary of the late Flora Immortal.
I punish you to guard the Mound of Flora Immortal...
after the praying ceremony.
Chief Zhang!
I...
She's gone.
- Gave me a fright. - Finally, she's gone.
Jin Mi.
"Qi Wu Palace"
My son, Xu Feng, obeys the rule of Nirvana.
"Zi Fang Yun Palace" He has to cultivate for 49 days.
It will be completed tonight.
Liao Yuan, you must help him to complete it.
Tonight, you must guard Qi Wu Palace carefully.
Do not let anyone enter without permission.
Remember.
Not a single person.
I will obey your decree.
"Spring Garden"
I think I remember Chief Zhang was furious about something.
I wonder what is it about?
Today's the death anniversary of the late Flora Immortal.
Flora Realm will open up Water Mirror every hundred years....
to let fairies from Flower Realm like us...
with low magical prowess to worship.
Maybe she thought of the late Flora Immortal...
and is not delighted about it.
I wrote a letter to Chief Zhang 2 days ago,
saying that...
I wish to leave Water Mirror.
No wonder Chief Zhang tested your magical prowess.
Little one. Are you caught with some kind of curse?
It's very dangerous out there.
Fruit deities and fairies like us are already rare.
Who knew if someone would eat us if we go out?
But it is so nice to be in this barrier.
It allows us to cultivate whole-heartedly.
I just wish to go out and see.
Take a look the places mentioned in the book.
Mortal Realm, Heaven Realm, Demon Realm.
I wish to see how are those places like.
We are in the Flora Realm,
but we stay in the Water Mirror all the time.
I don't even know how Flora Realm looks like.
I don't understand...
why did the late Flora Immortal set this barrier up.
Trapping us in a fake water drop.
If this keeps going on, I will turn into a raisin already!
Lower your voice.
You'll be in trouble if Chief Zhang hears it.
Let me tell you. It's totally not fun out there.
It's very dangerous.
Have you forgotten the anniversary 900 years ago?
You caused so much trouble for breaking out of here.
- The Water Mirror is opened! - Really.
- Really? - Really?
- It's really opened. - Go and take a look.
- Let's go and take a look. - Quick.
- Come here.
Jin Mi.
It's time. Let's worship the late Flora Immortal.
"Mound of Flower Immortal"
Jin Mi, stand at the front.
What did you do wrong again?
Kneel down.
Me?
She is still a fairy.
It's against the rule of you doing this.
Truth leads to simplicity.
Everything starts from the heart.
Our late Lord had spread her kindness to us.
There is nothing against the rule.
Silence.
Kneel.
Worship.
Thinking of the goddess who left.
We break flowers as a gift of missing.
We repeat this forever and ever.
There is no limitation in missing someone.
Chief Mudan.
Chief Haitang.
We both lead the beings of the Flora Realm.
Sincerely worship the spirit of the late Flora Immortal.
Worship.
It's raining flower. Look, it's raining flower.
- It's raining flower. - It actually is raining flower.
- It's beautiful. - It's so beautiful.
- So beautiful. - It's really nice.
Jin Mi, come here, quick!
You will be safe with the Yun Elixir protecting you.
Tonight is the last day of Phoenix's Nirvana.
During midnight,
the magical prowess of Fire Immortal will be at its weakest stage.
We may use it as a chance.
Understood.
My Lord.
We shall not act...
if there's no well-planned strategy.
Phoenix's Nirvana happens every 500 years.
I have waited too long.
I will send someone else about this matter.
You can leave it aside.
Go visit the people in Flora Realm as soon as possible.
Yes.
Lian Qiao. Are you alright?
I'm fine.
You can go first. You don't have to stay with me.
It's fine for me to kneel here alone.
No way.
Best friends are meant to suffer together.
You are worse than me.
Chief Zhang has set a binding spell on you.
When the spell is broken after the sun sets,
your whole body will feel dumb as if you're getting needled.
My mother is calling me. I have to go now.
Mo...
Mother?
Move!
Little grape.
You can't even break a little binding spell.
What can you do?
I can't be like this.
Break the mountain and pour the sea!
Seriously?
Am I really that bad?
Pu Chi.
Yan You.
Pu Chi.
Yan You.
It's been 900 years, you still can't remember it.
The name Yan You doesn't sound good.
- Do you know why? - Why?
There's a man of booger in Flora Realm.
His name is Yan You as well.
He looks like a pervert.
Pu Chi sounds better.
Pu Chi fits your style...
and it sounds animated, doesn't it?
Pu Chi?
I don't like this name.
But you have addressed me in that way for 900 years.
I somehow got used to it.
Look at you.
You are just a little demon in a the pond.
Why do you need to spend that much effort when you show up?
Let's not say it's an white elephant.
It also wastes a lot of magical prowesses.
I...
have collected...
a hundred years' worth of magical prowess easily.
Take it and help yourself.
What are you pretending?
You wish to give me this hard earned prowess?
I wonder who was the one...
who couldn't even break a little binding spell just now?
How pity.
Forget it. Just keep it.
You look down at me, don't you?
I just don't know how to deal with you.
That's right.
Alright.
Give it back to you.
I brought a present for you too.
What is it?
Is it food?
Give it a guess.
I'm hungry right now anyway.
It's the best if you brought me some meat.
Smart. But you are only half correct.
It's Rou Rou.
The cloud and water are vague.
A thousand years pass with a snap.
All these years, you gave your hard earned prowess to me.
Wishing to repay me for saving your life that day.
In fact, I don't need those little prowesses.
I'm already glad that...
you can accompany and talk to me.
Actually...
returning you your prowess isn't all about you only.
That day, if I didn't dragged her out from the Water Mirror...
to play outside,
we wouldn't have met Qiong Qi.
If we hadn't met Qiong Qi...
So what I'm trying to do now,
is redemption.
I know you can't let go of her.
That's why I want to show you...
that the friend you love the most is staying by your side...
in another form.
Pu Chi.
Can she still become...
the Rou Rou who can talk, sing, and dance?
Well...
It's not entirely hopeless.
If we can meet Daluojin Immortal.
Daluojin Immortal?
Does it mean if I go to Heaven Realm, I'll be able to find him then?
You have no chance meeting him sitting here.
Unless you have completed the cultivation and become an immortal
I can't even break out from Water Mirror.
Everything is emptiness, except cause and effect.
Yesterday will not stay.
Let it go. Cultivate well.
One day...
Rou Rou Fairy will wake up...
and become the Rou Rou in your memory.
Today, it's Frost's Descent, Fire-tailed Tiger.
We can set Nine Stars Constellation.
Lord Night Immortal.
"Qi Wu Palace"
Lord Night Immortal.
Liao Yuan.
I wonder what made you came here during night time?
I was on duty at Northern Heavenly Gate.
I saw a man in black broke in.
He ran all the way here.
I wonder if you have seen him?
I have never seen him.
Have you seen a man in black?
- No. - No.
This is the crucial moment for Xu Feng's Nirvana.
I'm just afraid that man in black bears nothing good,
intend to harm Xu Feng.
I hope you can go in with me and catch him together.
Heavenly Empress has given her order.
Qi Wu Palace will be closed tonight.
No one shall disturb.
I hope you understand this.
Alright.
I have dealt with the man in black.
This guy has great magical prowess. He's well-cultivated.
You have to guard carefully.
Master Xu Feng and you are brothers.
I can tell your worry. I will never slack off.
If that's so, I shall leave now.
A meteor?
I heard from the mortal that...
your dream will come true if you make a wish when you see a meteor.
But there's a barrier here.
I wonder does it still count?
I don't care, I shall give it a try.
I wish to meet Daluojin Immortal.
What was that?
It smells like something's burnt.
It stinks.
It looks like a bird.
Roast it first and let it sit in the ice.
Freeze it after it's cooked?
What kind of cooking style is this?
So this is a bird?
I'm looking at a piece of bird.
You mean a bird.
It's not a piece of bird.
Its flower and leave are hard.
Those are its feather.
But it stinks.
Crow.
It's a crow.
Crow?
How did you know?
I have read Lao Hu's...
"Living Creatures in Six Realms Encyclopedia".
Crow looks like this.
I'm right. It is definitely a crow.
But why doesn't it move at all?
Is it dead?
Don't worry.
No, it isn't dead yet. It's still breathing.
If we can save him, we might get to keep it.
There's a saying in the Mortal Realm.
It goes like this,
Buddha said compassion is everything.
How can we not save others?
We'll save it!
Can you really save it this way?
Don't worry.
We grew up like this when we were young, isn't it?
Give it some water...
and get exposed to the sun tomorrow.
It will be fine soon.
Little crow.
You have to take care.
We will come see you in 2 days.
Pour some water.
Let's go.
Alright.
"Highest Palace"
Your Majesty.
The second prince has gone missing during Nirvana.
What happened?
Liao Yuan, explain yourself.
I used Nine Luminaries Fire to keep the fire going on for 49 days...
to help his Nirvana.
And today is the 49th day.
But after the fire was out,
the second prince has gone missing out of a sudden.
How could that be?
From your perspective,
were there any uncertainties during Xu Feng's trial?
I have something else to tell.
Speak.
Little crow.
Little crow, you're strange indeed.
Our barrier here is unbreakable.
How did you come in?
There's no reaction yet?
Alright.
I won't give this to anyone.
This is the honey I made...
from hundreds of flowers.
I have stored it for 500 years.
I'll let you try some to see whether it's working or not.
Really! It's really working!
You... Why are you dead again?
Oh, no.
Lian Qiao will be disappointed.
If you are able to break this barrier,
you are definitely not an ordinary crow.
Are you a well-cultivated crow?
If that's the case, it will be a waste making you into a fertilizer.
And you also ate my precious honey.
What if...
What if I make you a stew and eat you?
It's time.
Little crow.
Little cro...
Little crow?
Why have you become so huge?
Now that you're so big, how can I fit you here?
If it can't fit you, how can I make you a stew?
But I heard that immortals, demons and others have inner elixir.
All the cultivation gathers in it.
If I can find your inner elixir and eat it,
it's equal to eating you as a whole.
Little grape, you are so smart.
That's weird.
He is different from me.
I know it.
This is the so-called inner elixir.
It will sure help my magical prowess to grow greatly.
Who is it?
You are awake.
Who are you, little demon?
I'm not a demon.
I said, I'm not a demon.
Although I'm a fruit fairy,
I'm a fruit fairy who cultivates rightfully.
I'm not a demon.
Since you are awake,
you can say that...
I'm your saviour.
We don't leave name when we do charity.
It's the excellent tradition of the fairies of Water Mirror.
Saviour?
Just now you were saving my life...
by using that knife?
Yes. Why not?
Why not...
Today, you fell into my garden and injured badly.
I'm kind enough to save you.
In order to save you,
I have fed you with my exclusive honey.
Then only you woke up.
By the way,
I saw that your clothes are all ragged.
I was thinking to change for you,
but I accidentally saw...
there's a deformity in your lower abdomen.
It's good to have strong will even there's disability.
But you are different from other people.
I shall finish what I've started since I saved you today.
Come on, lie down.
I will help you to remove you deformity.
Lie down, my friend.
What's wrong?
You are a woman.
Don't you know that men and women are different?
What's the difference between men and women?
How can you be so presumptuous?
I only know the difference of...
flower, grass, tree, human, fish, bird, and beast.
I have never heard of the difference between men and women.
You...
Since you are still young,
and was born in such a desolate place,
I shall not argue with you anymore.
As fruit fairies, of course we won't argue with a bird.
How can a low rank fairy...
has a Prowess Suppress Hairpin?
I wonder where did she get it?
Since...
Since we know each other now,
we are now friends then.
Since we are friends,
you should first rest.
I'll go and get you something to eat.
Take a rest.
My friend, the food is ready.
Hurry.
Sit.
You can eat it.
Why?
Don't crows like to eat worms?
Little demon.
Did I tell you I'm a crow?
If you are not a crow...
then are you a magpie?
Is there any spring here?
Please come with me.
It's quite sweet.
Not bad.
My friend.
I didn't know you have such an amazing magical prowess.
I know how to transform,
but I can't be like you and do it from nothing at all.
Lao Hu can't do it.
Chief Zhang might able to do it.
My friend.
How many years did you take to have such prowess?