You're a very picky eater.
You eat only fresh grass with dew
and refuse any brown-tipped grass.
Once you're unsatisfied, you get angry and stop moving.
And you even kick your feet.
Well...
You are my master now.
Okay? My good master, come on.
My good master, what are you doing?
How far is it?
I have no idea.
I don't suppose it's far.
It's scorching.
It's so hot.
I'm thirsty.
-We've been walking for so long. -When can we rest?
How far is it?
There's a well.
Come, let's get some water.
-I want water too. -I'll go.
Here.
Yan!
That's so weird.
Why isn't the arrow moving at all?
We are getting closer to Dafan Mountain.
Maybe your compass is broken. Get a new one next time.
We're only about ten miles away from Dafan Mountain.
We can't rest for too long.
We won't be the most meritorious if others arrive before us.
Hi, friends.
Has there been anything unusual in Dafan Mountain lately?
You probably didn't know
that Dafan Mountain was once a blessed place with a spiritual spring,
but it gradually declined for unknown reasons.
Recently, it is said that soul-eaters have appeared
and have taken several souls.
No.
I don't think so.
I'm afraid there aren't any monsters.
See?
All the arrows that signal monsters are steady.
If you are right, how come there are symptoms of soullessness?
Maybe your compass is to blame.
Impossible.
Don't you know who made my compass?
What do you mean?
Of course, I do.
It was made by Wei Wuxian.
His inventions are not all perfect.
Are they unquestionable?
I didn't say that.
I never said they were all perfect.
How can you slander me?
Anyway, Wei's inventions are unqualified!
But it's been with me for years.
-It never went wrong. -Why do you trust him so much?
-Is Wei your dad? -He is my idol!
Let's go.
My good master, it's time to go!
Here.
Yan!
Excuse us.
Thanks.
Do you want the apple?
No way! You can move now?
Apple!
Do you hear that?
Do you?
I'll call you Apple from now on.
Let's go!
Yan!
Lady.
Yan!
I beg you. Stop the dance!
Yan.
My Yan.
Madam, what's wrong with her?
She is my daughter.
She was engaged
not long ago.
But her fiancé didn't live long.
One day, he went to the mountain to cut firewood.
Yan insisted on finding him.
But unexpectedly,
-when she came back, -Yan.
she seemed like a different person.
-Yan. -She neither eats nor drinks.
-Yan. -And she doesn't remember us.
-Yan. -Yan.
Sometimes, she can recognize people,
but she has lost her mind since then.
She often dances towards Dafan Mountain.
What sin did our clan commit to deserve this?
When Yan just got a little better,
her dad lost his soul
and died soon after.
Help!
Anyone?
Help!
Somebody help!
-Can anyone help me? -Help!
Help!
Is anyone there?
Help!
JIN LING RULAN
It's always you idiots!
There are over 400 spirit nets in the mountain
and they're yet to catch any prey.
They're being wasted on you guys.
Spirit nets are quite expensive.
He set over 400 of them.
Very typical of the Jin Clan of Lanling.
Young Master Jin, please make a merciful exception.
Put us down, please.
-Please. -Please put us down.
Put us down, please.
You fools. It's better to keep you there
than to let you wander around and mess with my business.
-Young Master Jin. -Put us down, please.
If I still remember you after I catch the soul-eaters,
I'll put you down.
-Young Master Jin! -Put us down, please!
Please, Young Master Jin, put us down!
Apple!
Help!
Apple!
Let us down!
It's you!
What?
You know me?
You've gone crazy after being exiled?
Look at how you are now.
My uncle was wise to have driven you away at that time.
How dare the Mo Clan allow you to make an appearance?
I didn't know that Mo Xuanyu really was the love child of Clan Leader Jin.
Get out of my sight!
You disgust me.
Lewd thief!
Who are you referring to?
You!
Get lost now!
I can see you lack some maternal education.
You!
What did you say?
Your spiritual power was too scarce to cultivate.
Now you've adopted such foul tricks!
You should watch out.
Do you know who is coming today?
Oh, I'm so scared.
I'll tell my uncle if you don't lift the spell.
You'll be dead then!
Why your uncle and not your dad?
Who is your uncle?
I am his uncle.
Any last words?
Uncle!
JIANG CHENG WANYIN
Uncle.
Stop.
Jin Ling, what's taking you so long?
Are you waiting for me to help you up?
Look how embarrassing you are.
Stand up!
I'll break your legs!
Break his legs?
What did I tell you?
Anyone who uses the Yiling Patriarch's tricks
should be killed and then fed to your dog.
I'm so unlucky today.
Second Young Master of Lan.
Clan Leader Jiang.
You really live up to the idea of "appearing amidst chaos."
So you have some time to visit the rural forest today?
Are you here to take the credit from us
or to look for someone?
I heard you have been to a lot of places in the past 16 years.
Clan Leader Jiang, what do you mean by that?
What do I mean?
Second Young Master Lan, you know what I mean.
Young Master Jin,
the night hunt is supposed to be a fair competition.
However, you set so many nets in Dafan Mountain
that it makes others hardly able to proceed
for fear of those nets.
Aren't you breaking the rules of the night hunt?
They got caught because they are stupid.
What can I do about that?
If there's nothing else, let's talk after I catch the prey.
Lan!
What are you doing?
You're not the one who should discipline him.
Lift it now!
Clan Leader Jiang, please don't be angry.
The Silence Spell of the Lan Clan won't hurt people.
The spell will be lifted in a stick of incense's time
if he doesn't force it to break.
Do it now!
Clan Leader!
Just say it.
What's the bad news now?
The nets were destroyed by a glowing blue sword just now.
How many of them?
All of them.
Over 400 spirit nets!
Excellent work, Lan Clan of Gusu.
Jin Ling,
Young Master Lan wants to teach you a lesson. Just take it.
It's not easy for him to discipline a junior from another clan.
Off you go.
Yes.
Why are you still standing there?
Are you waiting for the prey to kill itself before you do?
If you can't catch the monster today,
don't come back to me.
Clan Leader Jiang,
we, the Lan clan of Gusu, will return the nets to you later.
No need.
Get back to your positions.
Try your best, but don't take risks.
-Yes. -Yes.
Wei Wuxian,
don't stir up trouble again.
Xian, have some soup.
It's your favorite lotus root and ribs soup.
Wei, you said you would assist me.
Don't you remember?
You said Gusu has its Twin Jades,
so we are the Twin Heroes of Yunmeng.
Wuxian,
you, Cheng, and I,
we won't be separated.
We will stay together forever.
Yanli.
Yanli!
This Young Master Jin
is spoiled by both the Jin Clan and the Jiang Clan.
What a bossy young master.
I can't imagine what will happen
when he takes over the Jin Clan of Lanling.
Nobody would stand it then.
It's reasonable.
His parents passed away when he was a child.
So what?
There are so many people without parents.
What would the world become if everyone was like him?
But Jin Ling does have a miserable past.
His father was killed because of Wei Wuxian
just a few days after he was born.
His mother, Jiang Yanli,
was also killed later on because of Wei.
What an unlucky woman!
She trusted Wei, only to be killed.
No wonder Jiang Cheng hates Wei, the Yiling Patriarch, so much.
Jiang never forgave anyone who used Wei's tricks
in the past 16 years.
I think Wei Wuxian is to blame.
He has so many enemies.
I can see you lack some maternal education.
Jin Ling is my sister's son.
How could I say that to him?
I thought I could be indifferent to the world,
but nobody can repress their feelings after all.
Apple! You're back!
Sizhui,
we have searched everywhere.
There is nothing related to the soul-eating monsters here.
Who are you?
Why are you hiding?
Sir,
what are you doing here?
I'm the caretaker.
I look after these graves.
I thought it was the monster.
Sir,
how long have you been here?
I can't recall.
At the beginning,
Master Wen asked me to watch over the graves,
so I dare not leave.
But later,
more people died.
The graves here then increased in number,
which easily attracted evil spirits.
Is there anything strange in Dafan Mountain?
Yes.
You should visit Tiannu Temple at the top of the mountain.
There stands a dancing fairy statue.
It's a stone
that looks like a person.
It's very strange.
At that time,
Master Wen said...
What did he say?
Let's have a look at the temple.
Maybe we'll find some clues.
-Master Wen... -Thank you, sir.
What on earth did he say?
Master Wen...
I got it!
That stone there can move!
You stupid donkey, you just eat all day.
Apple.
This is soul-gathering grass.
Such grass can gather spiritual energy from the earth.
It usually grows beside the graves of cultivators.
Maybe there are lots of them around here.
I'm amazed.
You're really good at eating.
This place is surrounded by a dark fog because many cultivators are buried here.
The spiritual energy lingers and nourishes the grass.
Excuse me.
Which clan do the graves belong to?
They disappeared long ago.
The Wen Clan had disappeared.
The Wen Clan.
-Wen Clan. -Wei Wuxian.
My clan is buried here.
No.
It's not the soul-eater.
Damn it, Jin Ling is in danger.
Where did the old man go?
TIANNU TEMPLE
It was said that hundreds of years ago,
a hunter from Fojiao Town went to the mountain
and found a strange stone in a cave that looks eerily human.
It has its four limbs in a dancing gesture.
What's more,
the statue even has a vivid face of a smiling woman.
The people in Fojiao Town saw it as a miracle
and made up many fairy tales about it.
According to the locals,
making wishes here is really effective.
Why is the temple so dilapidated now?
Does nobody come to clean it?
A stone from nowhere was put here with no explanation.
It should be considered a deity and served.
The ignorant villagers pray all day.
But they don't know that gods can't even carry themselves,
let alone a stone.
If it is effective as people say,
then I wish
that the monster of Dafan Mountain show up in front of me immediately.
Can the stone do that?
Yes.
Young Master Jin is right.
Hey. What's wrong with you?
Wake up!
Young Master Mo!
Get out of here!
Watch out! It's a soul-eating statue.
The stone just moved.
Stop stalling. Run!
Kids.
Wait for me!
Who are your kids?
Do you know our clan?
All right.
Men,
can you set off a signal shell of yours
and ask your Young Master Lan for help?
Gosh. The shells were used up at the Mo's Manor that night.
All of them.
You didn't get more?
I forgot.
You forgot?
You are going to be punished if your young master finds out.
We're doomed. This time, Young Master Lan will severely punish us.
"Punish." You are supposed to learn a lesson,
or else you won't remember it next time.
Young Master Mo,
how did you know
it was the fairy statue that ate souls?
I saw them.
What did you see?
Old graves.
So I deduced that it wasn't something soul-eaters do.
Why?
You Lan clan of Gusu
learns too much about cultivators' etiquette,
cultivation, and clan history.
They're all meaningless and tiresome to recite.
They should teach you something useful.
Soul-eating monsters and soul-eating specters
live on the undissipated spiritual energy of the dead.
Now I have a question.
There are so many cultivators' graves that have their lingering spiritual energy.
Why do they target living people?
You have a point.
Wait.
So you are not crazy.
What about the lady named Yan?
Second question.
Her fiancé went missing,
what can she do as a weak woman?
Pray to the gods.
Yes.
And there's something special about Yan.
Among all the victims, only her soul came back.
Well...
Yan's father loves her so much.
When he found out that Yan's soul was lost and the medicine was useless,
what did he do?
I know.
He also went to pray.
So he also went to the temple
in order to get Yan's soul back.
Correct.
The fairy statue returned Yan's soul,
but her soul had already been affected.
That's why Yan imitates the fairy statue's gesture and smile.
So when Jin Ling said his wish,
"I wish
that the monster of Dafan Mountain show up in front of me immediately."
the statue was brought to life!
Jin Ling.
Did anyone see Jin Ling?
Why does the statue...
..look like a real a human?
That's strange.
Lan Zhan and I sealed her.
What brought her to life?
Young Master Jin, release the signal.
Why did you take my sword?
Why are you playing the flute right now?
And it sounds awful.
You're crazy after all.
WEN NING QIONGLIN
Wen Ning?
Wen Ning should be dead.
Why him?
What the hell is this?
It's the Ghost General.
The Ghost General Wen Ning.
Wen Ning should have died 16 years ago along with the Yiling Patriarch.
No.
It's an illusion.
Who made this?
And why?
Was it for me to lure out Wen Ning?
The fairy is gone.
It's so illusive.
What?
Surround him!
Everyone! Don't let him escape!
He is Wen Ning!
Why are you afraid? Don't be afraid!
The Yiling Patriarch is not here.
Yes. There's no need to worry.
His master is dead.
Go!
My playing was too fierce,
it stirred up his temper.
I have to stabilize him.
Ling.
Uncle.
You didn't carry the signal shells? Now what happened?
Don't pretend to be brave.
Get over here now!
-You told me to catch it no matter what. -Don't talk back.
Clan Leader.
What on earth was that?
How could it have caused you such trouble?
Clan Leader, it was Wen Ning.
-What? -Wen Ning is back.
Wen Ning.
It was Wen Ning. Truly.
He was executed a long time ago.
Impossible.
It's true.
I couldn't have seen it wrong.
He called Wen Ning out.
Great.
You are back.
Lan Wangji, how dare you!
What?
You think you can beat people as you will because you are rich and powerful?
Why didn't it work?
Impossible.
Take off your mask.
-No. -You!
You will be shocked to death if I take it off.
Clan Leader, please stop.
That's the Zidian.
The Zidian can recognize souls that possess others' bodies.
Wei Wuxian's body and soul were both lost after he died.
He can't resurrect unless he possesses another body.
How do you know Wei died for sure?
People say you killed him yourself.
Tell me.
Who are you?
Wei Wuxian!
Go to hell!
Sometimes,
I really want to go back 16 years ago,
back to Lotus Pier.
Even if it was just a dream.
I would be willing to stay dreaming.
Xian.
16 YEARS AGO
Xian.
I'll release the dog if you don't get up.
A dog.
Fresh loquat! Fresh from the trees!
Don't make fun of Xian.
You're here.
Let me up.
I'm coming.
Yanli, everyone is here.
We haven't reached Cloud Recesses.
This is Caiyi Town.
Is there anything fun here?
We are here for the lecture.
All you think about is having fun.
It's fun to do something forbidden.
All right, you two.
This is not our hometown.
Remember to behave yourselves.
Look at him.
What's wrong with me?
I want this.
Excuse me.
See.
A bunny. Isn't it interesting?
Yes, it is.
Wei Wuxian, stop playing.
We are getting closer to Cloud Recesses.
This time, pupils from all the famous clans will come.
Don't let others look down on us because of you.
Okay.
And you should keep this in mind too.
From now on,
whatever we say and do represents the Jiang Clan of Yunmeng.
-Yes, sir. -Yes, sir.
Wei Wuxian!
Did you hear what I said?
Yanli,
we had a long journey from Yunmeng and we're exhausted.
I think we can find a tavern and get some rest,
and then go to Cloud Recesses
in order to keep a good image.
Sure. There are ten more days before the ceremony.
It's been a long journey, let's rest here.
Are we going to stay here for a while?
I heard the Emperor's Smile liquor of Gusu is the most famous one.
It tastes soft, yet full-bodied. Drink it to forget all your worries.
I've been wanting it for a long time. Now, I can finally taste it.
Wei Wuxian, don't drink.
I have to.
Drinking can ease one's mind.
-Why stop me? -You!
-Father shouldn't have let you come. -You!
Quiet, both of you.
Let's find a tavern first.
Wei Wuxian, remember to--
I know. I can even recite your words now.
I have to go.
Yanli, look at him.
I have a feeling that
he will definitely make trouble at Cloud Recesses.
Xian was born high-spirited.
It's not a bad thing.
Father also says so sometimes.
Yanli, you and Father always defend him.
There's no way he would change his attitude.
Besides, we, the Jiang Clan of Yunmeng,
have always been told to be free, right?