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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 33
Mi'er, just look around.
Mi'er, you just got back from your trials in the Mortal Realm. Stay here in Luo River Palace for the night.
Regarding Rou Rou, I will update you if I get any news.
This room was prepared by your father for you.
He was thinking that you should have a place to stay in here in Heavenly Realm once you've been promoted to a shangxian.
We didn't know that you'll be back earlier,
hence, I just hastily set up the interior.
Auntie Lin Xiu, I like it a lot. Thank you.
Thank you, father.
Jin Mi this time has successfully been promoted to a shangxian.
The date of her marriage with Eldest Highness has also been set. These were supposed to be two happy occasions arriving at the same time.
But how come you keep frowning and being sad?
Are you worried about those things that happened between Jin Mi
and Second Highness in the Mortal Realm?
Indeed.
Second Highness indeed was a bit rash in his actions.
We won't be able to avoid those gossips.
But I believe that Jin Mi is a child with a sense of propriety.
Moreover, she and Eldest Highness initially have mutual affection for each other.
In the future, she'll eventually understand
that what happened between her and Second Highness in the Mortal Realm
was just like a white steed flitting past a crack (fleeting), just a dream.
Once she gives it some deep thinking, she'll make the right choice.
Hope so. Jin Mi still doesn't know
that Heavenly Empress is her mother's killer.
If the two of them end up together, with Jin Mi's personality,
she surely won't be able to face it.
It's better to not let Jin Mi know this.
Let's just first look at how she'll choose.
No!
There's too much killing.
Your Majesty, you can't still have feelings for that seductress, right?
No such thing. Heavenly Empress, stop bringing up the past.
But that seductress' hand has already extended up to the Ninth Sky Level.
She ordered Rat Immortal to kill Xu Feng during his rebirth.
In this battle at Dongting, I personally found out that she's holding more than 10,000 army.
She schemed to turn our Heavenly Realm upside down. It's really bringing me shivers.
Although Su Li committed a heinous crime,
annihilating a clan is a bit too much as a punishment.
Doing that will affect the reputation of our Heavenly Realm.
Your Majesty, don't forget.
Several years ago, the Arowana Clan has already been annihilated
except for Su Li. And in just several thousands of years,
she's able to cause these many troubles again.
If you employ the kindness of a woman,
and let these Dongting remnants go,
that will be 30,000 Su Li then.
The more you shouldn't forget that by our side,
there is still Su Li' biological child.
By then, a collusion from the inside with outside—
Run Yu, grew up under my care.
You know very well how his temperament is.
He might be innocent, but he's guilty from inviting other people's greed.
Your Majesty should know
that wild ambitions can be developed, as long as the conditions are right.
If Your Majesty wants to preserve both sons,
you then must make a decision to forever be rid of future troubles.
Heavenly Empress is helping to share my burden.
Of course, I must support you all the way.
It's just that the Heavenly Realm has been at peace for so long. Inflexible administration of justice will invite a lot of criticisms.
Your Majesty need not do it personally. For matters like this,
just entrust it to me.
I'm just worried
that doing this will taint your reputation.
For our two sons, for the tens of thousands of years of foundation of our Heavenly Realm,
I'll be a bad person this one time then.
I understand.
Xu Feng, I will surely forever eliminate future troubles for you.
[Immortal Su Li's Memorial Tablet]
Your Highness!
You came just in time. Call Li'er and Yan You over to pay respect to mother.
They got taken away by the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.
What?
Heavenly Empress is going to implement the Heavenly Law on the 30,000 water tribe members of Dongting Lake.
When will the execution happen?
I fear that Thunder God and Lightning Goddess have already accepted the command and went there.
Father Emperor.
[Immortal Su Li's Memorial Tablet]
Father Emperor, this concerns the lives of 30,000 Dongting living things.
They are innocent. My mo...
Su Li has been sentenced. Heavenly Empress' action is too violent and bloody.
I beg you to save them!
I'm willing to vouch that they won't create anymore trouble in the future.
Heavenly Empress is just acting according to the will of the heaven. Su Li rebelled and committed an unpardonable crime.
We should do the punishments according to the law. It's just that there will be too much killing.
I also couldn't bear to do it.
Heavenly Empress volunteered to be the executioner, so how could I refuse?
As my eldest son, you mustn't be the first one to break the law.
- But Father Emperor— Okay already.
Leave first.
Thunder God and Lightning Goddess aren't in the execution area and are instead here inside Cloud Nine Palace.
Looks like the person that Mother Empress wants to punish is me, right?
Those 30,000 Dongting Lake remnants
should all be punished, but for whom did they do it?
Shouldn't you be punished with them too?
They are all innocent creatures without any means to defend themselves.
I beg Mother Empress to let them go.
Mother Empress?
That day, who was the one who said that he'll kill me
to seek vengeance for his birth mother?
The Night Deity then was so awe-inspiring, so overbearing.
But today, what? Not strong anymore?
I was wrong. If Mother Empress wants to punish anyone, just punish me.
But those 30,000 Dongting water tribesmen are innocent.
Those 30,000 remnants and your mother
all harbored evil intentions and schemed to rebel.
They wanted to turn Heavenly Realm upside down, hence, they are deserving to die.
Laws don't punish intentions. It only looks at the act. Even if my mother had misgivings,
she never truly rebelled yet. It was Mother Empress who first—
Shut up!
You tried to kill Xu Feng,
privately created an army, and intended to rebel.
Those crimes are punishable by death! I should be killing you now.
Yes. I was wrong. I beg Mother Empress to have mercy.
Night Deity, what mistake did you commit?
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Big Brother!
Li'er. Yan You.
Mother Empress.
Thunder God and Lightning Goddess, how should the allies of Su Li be punished?
Based on the law, they should be executed using the Heavenly Thunder, Lightning, and Fire Punishment.
Okay.
- Proceed with the punishment. - Wait!
I was wrong. I was unfilial and disrespectful to Mother Empress.
But...my mother is already dead. They won't be able to incite any wind or waves (troubles).
I earnestly ask Mother Empress to be considerate and let them live.
I so want to see
if you're really a person of virtue and pure kindness,
or just pretentious.
Su Li tried to kill Xu Feng and has committed a heinous crime.
She should be executed. Isn't it?
Isn't it?
Yes.
Run Ru, you asshole!
Godmother has been worried about you for these past thousands of years. You don't deserve to be her son!
Then now, are you begging me as Night Deity,
or as a remnant of Dongting Lake atoning for his crimes,
or maybe begging as the lone survivor of the Arowana Clan?
I...
Godmother never acknowledged you as her son. Quickly leave now!
Yan You!
A mother's debt should be paid by her children. I'll pay for my birth mother's mistakes.
I beg Mother Empress to stop venting your anger on others.
Fine then. I'm not that unreasonable.
I'll give you two choices.
Either you clearly separate yourself from the remnants of Dongting
and personally give them their execution,
or you suffer the punishment in behalf of these remnants
and atone for the crimes of your birth mother.
I...was wrong.
I am willing to use one life in exchange of another.
Run Yu!
Okay. Good thing you know to submit to the circumstances.
I can't betray my birth mother and her clan anymore.
I'm willing to bear all the crimes by myself.
Thunder God and Lightning Goddess. Thunder God, your Pond Stunning Heaven Thunder,
and Lighting Goddess' Unbounded Lightning,
plus my Lotus Seat Karma Fire,
even Qiong Qi before wasn't able to endure it.
Don't know if Night Deity today can survive
this 30,000-level extremely intense torture.
May Mother Empress punish me.
Okay. Thunder God and Lightning Goddess, start the punishment.
Heavenly Empress, this is the Cloud Nine Palace.
And Eldest Highness is after all Heavenly Emperor's son.
Start the punishment!
Big Brother!
I initially thought that he has a calmer temperament and is different from Xu Feng.
Never thought, he also was this rash.
My hand and feet feel like their broken into fine pieces.
My body form is like a shattered jade.
Scorching, the karma fire burns.
Surging, the bloody ocean irrigates.
Obscurely, the spring stage weeps.
Separating, the white bone is emptied.
Mother!
Hearing is...obeying, calling for Buddha.
Who dare to be lax?!
Run Yu!
- Big Brother! - Run Yu!
- Quickly wake up! Wake up, Big Brother. - Run Yu, quickly wake up! Wake up!
Quickly wake up!
Heavenly Empress, you evil bitch! The person who tried to kill your son is me!
Vent your anger at me!
Totally disregarding everything.
Big Brother.
Heavenly Empress, in the Heavenly Thunder, Lightning, and Fire Punishment, there's no Crystal Pure Fire.
If you use the Crystal Pure Fire, Night Deity will surely die. You mustn't.
Why don't I save the Crystal Pure Fire for you two?
What did Night Deity do wrong that Heavenly Empress will take the laws into you own hands and aim to kill him?
Water Deity, you harbored a criminal.
I am already magnanimous for not going after you about it.
Stop pushing your luck.
What then must be done to a person who tried to kill the son of the Heavenly Emperor?
Run Yu disobeyed the command first.
He also volunteered to accept the punishment for those 30,000 remaining rebels.
How is this my fault?
All of you, stop it now!
Greetings, Your Majesty.
Men, go to South Heavenly Gate and promulgate my decree.
The mastermind Su Li committed a heinous crime and has already been executed.
The Dongting water tribes were blackmailed by her, hence, their actions were understandable.
You all committed a crime for the first time.
I will especially pardon you. Hope you all can turn over a new leaf
and be loyal to the Heavenly Realm. If you dare commit a crime again, I surely will strictly punish you.
I will abide.
You get to be the good man here.
Night Deity.
I...thank the heaven's graces...
...in behalf of...
...36,400 creatures in Dongting Lake.
May Mother Empress give the order to let them go.
Heavenly Empress, deal with the aftermath.
The 30,000-level Heavenly Punishment is 10 times more harder to bear than dismembering a body.
The more is it unbearable to recover from it. If I'm you,
I'd rather destroy my own internal energy pellet and just end all my troubles.
Mother Empress, don't worry. I surely won't die.
I surely will continue living well.
I must personally see you fulfill your shangshen oath
of letting them all go.
Not being fickle.
Big Brother.
[Xuanji Palace]
Your Highness!
Run Yu.
Run Yu might not last long.
Mother...I'm so cold...
So cold...
Your Highness...
Brother Yun Yu.
Mother...
So hot...
His Highness once said
that if you lose too much blood
and is cold to the most extreme level,
you will instead feel hot as if your organs are being burned.
Mother...
Your Majesty, you agreed to give me full power in handling this matter.
But at the last moment, you got soft-hearted.
You get to be the good man and I get to be the evil one.
If I allowed it to continue, causing the heaven to be mad, the god to bear grudges,
the public raging with criticisms, what good can that bring us?
Who can you blame?
It's all your fault for spoiling him.
When things become critical, he instead bit me back.
He didn't acknowledge me as his Mother Empress
and instead acknowledged that birth mother of his, who has committed a heinous crime.
After the battle in Dongting, he wanted to protect
even those remnant rebels. If this continues,
I fear that he'll be turning this Heavenly Realm upside down.
With me here, he won't be able to do that.
There is a difference between a legitimate blood line, and an illegitimate one.
Who is more important between Xu Feng and Run Ru, I know it very well.
I will remember your words.
Hope Your Majesty won't forget it too.
Your Highness, you're finally awake.
Did Heavenly Empress let them go?
Don't you care about your life at all?
I've once promised mother
that I'll take good care of Li'er.
There are thousands of Li'er in Dongting Lake.
That Li'er who once lived in Li Pond
has experienced how it is to be under other people's roof for thousands of years.
I don't want them to repeat my path.
For Night Deity to place oneself in other people's position and be this considerate
is really the great fortune of Dongting Lake.
Deity.
You're badly injured.
Just quickly lie down.
Deity, I have a request.
My power is little and my strength too thin. I'm unable to contend with Heavenly Empress.
May Deity be benevolent.
I earnestly ask you to take care
of those Dongting water tribes that became destitute and homeless.
Don't worry. I surely will do my best.
Since that day in Dongting Lake,
I've already determined to fight with Heavenly Empress until the end.
Thank you, Deity.
Kuang Luo, Deity,
please don't tell
anyone about
me getting hurt, especially Mi'er.
I don't want her to get worried. The more I don't want...
...I don't want her to see me...
...at such an ugly state.
Promise me.
Don't be sad for me.
Rou Rou!
I must find out who the perpetrator is
and seek vengeance for you.
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After 3 months, we'll choose an auspicious date
to complete the marriage between Jin Mi and Run Yu.
Stimulate oneself, but control your presence of mind.
How many times have I taught you that?
You just are unable to learn it.
Now, you and Heavenly Empress are in an irreconcilable state.
You're making things difficult for me.
Heavenly Empress indeed went a bit overboard,
but she was just following my order.
You disobeying Heavenly Empress is disobeying me.
Just treat everything that happened in Cloud Nine Palace
as a lesson.
I admit my mistake.
I...have already pardoned the Dongting water tribes.
The matter today concerned the reputation of the Heavenly Realm.
About the matter of you bearing the punishment of Heavenly Thunder, Lighting, and Fire for the Dongtime remnants,
you mustn't mention it to anyone in the future. Understand?
Yes.
Okay. Make a shangshen oath then.
I swear that as long as from now on,
Father Emperor and Mother Empress won't mention this matter again,
won't go after it, this matter will end here.
I will never mention it again.
Father Emperor, my mother...
...is she really that evil and unforgivable?
This matter has already been given proper judgment.
No need to discuss it anymore. As a shangshen,
Don't be obsessed with material things. Don't get disturbed by affection.
You still have to improve your cultivation.
Don't worry. Your birth mother's matter has nothing to do with you.
I never expected that
one day, you'd dare disobey Heavenly Empress.
I admit my mistake.
I wasn't able to consider things properly at that time.
I didn't immediately rush there earlier
because I was testing you too.
Never thought that even if I've lost the horse, I was able to obtain a blessing. (blessing in disguise)
From now on, in restricting and balancing the power of Heavenly Empress and the Bird Tribe,
I'm depending on you.
Father Emperor, if I didn't stand out that time,
are you not going to care about the lives of the Dongting creatures at all?
You are still young. Once you've lived for a few tens of thousands years more,
you will then know
mortal life lasts only for a hundred years, but cultivation takes thousands of years.
In the eyes of us shangshen,
they are all no different with a mayfly.
Just a short moment, no meaning at all.
Without them being involved in the blue sea turning into mulberry fields (world transformations), it won't make any difference.
This is what they call 'Heavenly law is heartless'.
In these past thousands of years, at such long immortality path,
has Father Emperor ever been compassionate?
I am not afraid to tell you one truth.
A Heavenly Emperor
is the greatest prisoner in this whole heaven and earth.
So...my birth...
...was just a scheme from the start.
Mother...
Mother, it was me who brought you harm.
I am a sinner!
No.
It's him. He is the mastermind
of everything that happened in this world.
In your heart,
there's totally no father-son, husband-wife, or familial affection.
In your heart, everyone is just a pawn.
Heavenly law is heartless?
Father Emperor,
I got schooled.
Live on. Those who are unable to kill you
will only make you stronger.
Where is Mi'er?
She was just mumbling about Rou Rou.
I think she's asleep now.
How is Night Deity?
New grudges keep adding to the old. Continuous disaster.
His heart is filled with grievances, but nowhere to express them.
Looks like his grudge with the Heavenly Empress will be difficult to resolve.
Although Heavenly Emperor suppressed today's incident,
it has secretly spread in the Heavenly Realm.
Heavenly Empress's actions have incited public indignation. However, Night Deity
was able to redeem himself.
In the past, I thought that Nighty Deity was gentle and mild.
Turns out, he only brings out his courage for important situations.
He is willing to die a martyr for a noble cause and able to endure things that others can't endure.
His tolerance and his uprightness
are extraordinary.
Heavenly Empress revealed her true side and has reached the extreme.
The tides are going to turn. Just watch and see.
Magnolia, what are you doing? What happened?
Sister, I am at fault. I committed a great crime.
That day, when people from the Dongting Water Tribe came to find you
and asked to join forces with our Flower Realm to fight against the Heavenly Realm,
I lost my mind,
and believed that person's words in a moment of confusion.
Then... Then, I told him Jin Mi's true identity.
What?
Magnolia, how could you be this muddle-minded?
Thus, during Jin Mi's mortal trial,
people were trying to shoot her with the soul-destroying arrow.
It's all my fault. It's my fault for revealing her identity.
All of this is because of me.
I know that my crimes are grave, so I don't ask for your forgiveness.
I just ask for death in punishment as a way to give thanks to our former master's spirit in heaven.
If you die now, how could you face the former master?
But if I continue living,
how could I face our fellow sisters?
Forget it.
I know your intention.
You just wanted to get revenge for our former master. That's why you made such a mistake.
However, Magnolia,
Former Master didn't want us to get revenge because she was afraid of an unending chain of vengeance.
Her body already lies with the earth and sky.
The thing she cares the most about is Jin Mi.
Seeing how you've sincerely repented,
do not bring up this again. Pretend like it never happened.
Yes.
Promise me that in the future, us sisters will work together
to follow our former master's order to protect Jin Mi.
Yes, eldest sister.
Immortal Jin Mi.
Oh, I should call you High Immortal Jin Mi now.
It's not a big deal.
Are you here to visit His First Highness?
You must not know yet, High Immortal.
Heavenly Empress used "rebellion" as the reason
to execute the birth mother that His First Highness recently reunited with.
E-Executed?
After His First Highness's birth mother died,
he hasn't been sleeping or eating.
You should try to urge him. He listens to you the most.
Okay.
Almighty deity.
Mi'er.
I just heard that your birth mother passed away.
Although I don't know what happened,
But Little Fish Immortal, you are a very kind person.
Your birth mother must be a gentle and virtuous lady.
I just recently remembered my childhood,
I just learned who my birth mother is,
I just recently acknowledged my mother,
but I had to watch her die in front of me,
while I was unable to do anything.
Earlier, I also watched
Rou Rou's soul getting destroyed just to save me.
I also was unable to do anything.
I can understand your feelings.
When Rou Rou left, she told me these words.
She told me to let go. There is this saying in the Mortal Realm,
'The dead is already gone, while the living must continue to live on.'
Your mother surely won't want to see how you are now,
not eating and not sleeping. She won't want you to continue being dispirited.
The dead is already gone, while the living must continue to live on.
That's right.
I think that it must be because they love us so much,
that's why, they surely won't want to see us sad.
Love?
Mi'er, you seem to be a bit different from before.
How am I different?
I heard from Kuang Lu that Father Emperor has set our wedding date.
You...what are your plans?
What are your plans?
If I tell him now that I don't want to,
I'm sure that it will just make him sadder.
While mother was alive,
I wasn't able to stay by her sight and give her delight.
Now, mother is dead.
I want to request from Father Emperor to mourn for 3 years.
Mi'er,
presently, for me,
you are the most important person. Are you willing to wait for me?
I...
Accompany me for a while, okay?
Only when you're by my side do I not feel that angry,
not feel that painful.
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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. ♫