You need to think again.
If you go,
it will be considered a rebellion against orthodoxy
with no way back.
Rebellion against orthodoxy?
What kind of orthodoxy is that?
Lan Zhan,
do you still remember the promise we have made together?
I, Wei Wuxian,
wish that I can always stand with justice and live with no regrets.
I wished to stand with justice and live with no regrets.
But tell me now,
who's stronger and who's weaker,
who's right and who's wrong.
Wei Ying!
Is this the promise that we pledged our lives to keep?
I only regret that I didn't stop the Jin Clan
who took living people as baits in the Crowd Hunt.
Otherwise, Wen Ning wouldn't have come to such an end.
I have missed a chance to save him.
At this time,
I won't give it up anyway.
Besides...
I must save him.
Lan Zhan,
if I finally have to fight with them,
I'd prefer to fight with you.
If I am doomed to death,
at least,
I could be killed by you.
That would be worth it.
Where is this?
This place? The Burial Mounds.
This... Can people live here?
Why can't they?
I once lived here for three months.
We are old friends now.
Follow me.
Let's go.
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Even before that seclusive former predecessor Lan came,
I knew things would turn out this way.
Let's see how it ends.
Guangyao,
tell all the clan leaders here
what Wei Wuxian did.
This time, in the Qiongqi Way,
Wei Wuxian made Wen Ning into a puppet
who killed a lot of people.
Four overseers were killed
and about fifty remnants of the Wen Clan fled.
Having led them into the Burial Mounds,
Wei Wuxian took the Demon-Subdue Palace of Xue Chonghai,
and set many barriers at the foot of the mountain.
Our people
can't step into the region.
He's really causing a lot of trouble this time.
On this matter, his method was nowhere near proper.
I apologize on behalf of him to the Jin Clan of Lanling.
If there is any remedy,
please tell me directly.
I will try my best to do it.
Clan Leader Jiang Cheng,
for your sake,
I shouldn't speak too much about this.
But these overseers are not only from our clan,
some are from the other clans.
Right?
Yes.
Wei Ying also killed people in our clan.
Right!
Although Clan Leader Jin is so generous that he may let it pass,
we can't.
My friends, you may not know that
the Wen's cultivator whom Wei Wuxian wanted to save
is called Wen Ning.
He and his sister Wen Qing
helped us a lot in the Sunshot Campaign.
Hence...
What do you mean they helped you?
The Wen Clan of Qishan,
aren't they the murderers who massacred the Jiang Clan?
I know a little about Wen Qing and her brother.
They came to the lecture in Cloud Recesses before.
Their temperament
is indeed distinct from the others of the Wen Clan.
Although I haven't met them again,
they didn't kill or assist in killing anyone
in the Sunshot Campaign.
Neither did they participate nor did they stop the others.
They seem to be trusted fellows of Wen Ruohan.
Even though Wen Qing is his trusted fellow,
how could she be capable of stopping him?
Since they were silent and didn't try to stop
the Wen Clan from committing their crimes,
they can be thought of as cold watchers.
How can they enjoy the favor when the Wen Clan was in power,
but bear no burden and pay no price
when the Wen Clan collapsed?
What Clan Leader Nie said was right!
Since Wen Qing was a trusted fellow of Wen Ruohan,
if people say that
she didn't participate in the whole case,
I won't buy it.
None of the Wen Clan is clear of any murders.
Maybe we haven't just discovered it yet.
Agreed!
These underlings of the Wen Clan aren't allowed to survive!
Those helping the Wen Clan will be our enemy.
-Yes! -Right!
Clan Leader Jiang,
since this should be your family affair, I'm not supposed to say this,
but as for Wei Ying,
I have to remind you.
Please.
Wei Ying is your trusted assistant.
He is important to you.
We all know that.
But on the contrary,
it's hard to say
whether he respects you as a clan leader.
Being a clan leader for so many years myself,
I haven't seen any subordinate
that can be so proud and self-centered before his master.
Do you know how other people comment on that?
In the Sunshot Campaign,
all of your achievements today
were made by Wei Wuxian alone.
Isn't it ridiculous?
Right.
Clan Leader Jin asked Wei Ying to hand in the Stygian Tiger Amulet
out of kindness.
He is afraid that Wei Wuxian can't control it well
which may lead to a disaster.
Yet Wei gauged the heart of a gentleman with his mean measure.
Does he think that everyone covets his spiritual tool?
So ridiculous!
As for spiritual tools,
every clan has a few of their own.
That's right.
Besides,
no one knows where his Stygian Tiger Amulet came from.
-Right. -Yes.
There were four shards of Yin Iron.
Speaking of which,
there is still one remaining piece that hasn't been found yet.
Xue Yang has stolen that shard from the Chang Clan of Yueyang.
We were all present at that time.
From Yueyang to Qinghe,
who knows whether Wei Ying colluded with Xue Yang secretly?
-Why don't you think about it? -Yes. You are right!
Who made that Wen cultivator into a puppet?
Don't bring it up again!
This Wei Wuxian,
it's okay for him to have suspected me of desiring his spiritual tool,
but he is a member of the Jiang Clan and was helped by the Jiang Family.
Yet he refused to obey Clan Leader Jiang's order so many times.
On such a grand occasion as the banquet that day,
to everyone's face, he fell out
with us suddenly and left irresponsibly.
Behind your back,
he even told other people at Baifeng Mountain
that he would never take Clan Leader Jiang seriously.
All the people here heard it!
-Yes! -Yes!
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No, I didn't!
What did you say?
I never heard Wei Ying say that,
nor did I see him
disrespecting Clan Leader Jiang.
Really?
That day at the Baifeng Mountain Crowd Hunt,
Young Master Wei was so aggressive,
and he said many words,
one more shocking than the other.
Maybe he said something similar.
I just can't recall it clearly.
Right.
He's always arrogant and often says some rampant words.
We all know
that Second Young Master Lan and Young Master Wei
are close friends.
I heard that if Second Young Master Lan
didn't free him on purpose in the Qiongqi Way that day,
Wei Ying couldn't have fled that easily.
I have these words in mind for so long that Wei Wuxian,
though he had some merits in the Sunshot Campaign,
there were more courtiers who earned more merits than him.
None of them
are as proud of themselves as he was.
I thought he was problematic before.
He never studies decent tricks but crafty tricks,
and fiddles with those messy talismans.
I knew things would go wrong sooner or later.
See?
His brutal nature of killing has been exposed.
He indiscriminately killed so many of our men
just for those underlings of Wen.
It's not indiscriminately.
What do you mean by saying that, lady?
No, I have no other meaning,
I just thought the word "indiscriminately" was inappropriate.
Why is it inappropriate?
Ever since the start of Sunshot Campaign,
Wei Wuxian has been fond of killing randomly.
Can you deny that?
Sunshot Campaign is a battle.
On the battlefield, can we say
everyone can be counted as "killing indiscriminately"?
Now let's focus on this specific case,
if those overseers who were killed really had abused prisoners
and had gotten Wen Ning killed,
this can't be called an indiscriminate killing then.
I disagree!
Then we should justify his killing of our people?
Shall we praise it as chivalry?
Yes!
We don't even know whether those overseers did that or not.
Besides, no one saw it personally.
Yes!
Those overseers who survived all said that they never abused prisoners.
And it was Wen Ning himself who accidentally fell off the cliff.
They even helped to cure him out of kindness,
but they never thought they would be killed so brutally.
It's so bitterly disappointing!
Those overseers
are afraid to bear the responsibility of killing and abusing prisoners.
Surely they would insist that they are innocent
and say that Wen Ning fell off himself.
Lady Luo,
I think you are saying chicanery just because you feel guilty, right?
Clan Leader Yao,
please explain what you meant
by "with a guilty conscience"?
Shall I explain?
You know it very well.
Don't waste time with her.
How could she even be a member of the Jin Clan?
I feel ashamed standing with her.
Fine.
You all speak loud.
You all make sense.
Such being the case,
I will secede from the clan.
Clan Leader Jiang Cheng,
I think Wei Wuxian has planned this for a long time
that they went to Burial Mounds this time.
After all, with his capability now,
it is not that difficult for him to build his own clan.
He wants to take this opportunity
to develop his own section and become unrestrained.
Clan Leader Jiang Cheng,
you rebuilt the Jiang Clan with hard efforts.
Wei Wuxian has always been a controversial character.
And he keeps making trouble for you.
It may be that he didn't respect you at all
and never thought about your feelings.
No.
That's his character since we were children.
Even my father couldn't change that.
Did Fengmian really have no method?
As for Fengmian, he was partial to him.
Clan Leader Jiang Cheng,
you are different from your father.
You have just rebuilt the Jiang Clan for several years.
It's time for you to build up your authority.
Yet,
he has no intention of defending your authority and never considers this.
What would your new disciples think
if they saw that?
Should they take him as their role model
and defy your authority?
Clan Leader Jin, that's enough.
I will go to Burial Mounds myself
to end the issue.
That's the wise decision.
Clan Leader Jiang Cheng,
dealing with someone or something,
you can't be too generous with them.
As for the ominous Stygian Tiger Amulet...
I will ask him to hand it in
and give everyone an account.
Well, you all heard that!
So poor is the table of Clan Leader Jiang.
He even crushed a cup with his hand.
It seems like he is really angry.
Mingjue,
where is Wangji?
I saw that he left early.
This girl really has a backbone.
Yes!
Yet...
It's really difficult to deal with the issue of Young Master Wei.
Young Master Wei
is so capable
that he could even resurrect the dead?
According to one of the overseers,
Wei Wuxian did make the dead Wen Ning into a puppet.
Wei Ying,
you really messed this up.
But the case of Yin Iron isn't clear yet.
Maybe Young Master Wei didn't do it.
If it weren't him, then who could it be?
Wei Ying depends on his capability
and refuses to follow the righteous course.
You have to take him as a warning.
Yes, I will follow your words.
Wangji,
have you regretted it?
I didn't punish you when you stole in the forbidden chamber
of Library Pavilion
because I wish you could be self-retrospective.
You shouldn't have gone to the Qiongqi Way
and let Wei Wuxian and his fellows go!
Should you make one mistake after another?
What's the use of the family discipline
that I have asked you to recite?
Answer me,
what's the 52nd clause
of family discipline?
No association with evil.
Did you forget your father's lesson?
My mother, she...
Hold your tongue!
Wangji,
I have been taking care of you since you were a child,
and I always take you as my own son.
I am always strict with you
because I wish
that you can stick to the right path.
I don't want you
to repeat your father's tragedy.
That's what I want to say to you.
I hope you can choose the right path yourself.
You may leave.
I'm just taking a walk.
Young Master Jin.
Lady Jiang.
Young Master Jin.
I have to find Wuxian.
Excuse me.
I don't mind!
Lady Jiang,
I...
I know what happened today.
But this is Wei Wuxian and his own business.
Young Master Jin,
as for involving you in this mess,
I'm so sorry.
Tomorrow...
Tomorrow, Cheng and I
will leave Carp Tower.
You'll leave?
Where are you going?
To the Burial Mounds?
Would you please not go there?
Lady Jiang,
please stay here,
stay in Carp Tower.
No matter how people slander you,
trust me,
I will take care of you for my whole life.
Yanli!
Wei Wuxian.
Wen Qing,
you scorched it again.
Wei Wuxian,
why didn't you answer when I was calling you?
You know that we have stayed here for three days and nights.
Why do you still ask?
Still taking a lot.
Don't eat it then.
Don't snatch it.
By the way,
he can hear words now.
Talk more often with him,
he may wake up earlier.
Ning,
can you hear me?
Ning.
Sir.
Young Master Wei,
shall we reclaim the whole barren land today?
Yes.
Only this way can we grow the crops well.
This...
Yuan, quit it.
Speak!
Fine. Put your hands away.
Put away...
Here. Go play with this.
Yuan,
if you still follow me this way,
I will plant you in the field as a turnip.
Yuan!
You really want to be a turnip.
Fine! Then stay still.
If you move, I won't plant you.
There you go!
I will plant a big turnip today.
After several days,
many turnips will grow out.
Then everyone can eat to their heart's content.
But I'm not a turnip.
Then we will plant a child here.
If we water the child, apply fertilizer to him,
and let him enjoy the sun often,
we can grow many children.
I want three elder brothers
and two elder sisters.
No problem.
We'll give Yuan three elder brothers
and two elder sisters.
Will they look like me
or turnips?
That's hard to say.
Do you want them to look like you
or the turnips?
Wei Wuxian,
what are you doing?
Wen Qing,
we're trying to grow some older brothers and sisters here.
Yuan,
how about growing more aunts?
If we grow more aunts,
then we won't worry about the labor force.
Get up. Come.
Wei Wuxian,
I just left for a while.
How could you plant Yuan in the soil?
It's fine that you can't help with work, but how can you make trouble?
I haven't washed his clothes yesterday yet.
You messed up his clothes again.
What should he wear tomorrow?
You should wash all his clothes today!
Washing clothes is a woman's job.
How can a man like me do that divine job?
Will you do it or not?
Fine.
-Clan Leader. -How is it?
Surrounding the Burial Mounds, there are walls of talismans.
We can't step into it.
You people wait here.
Let me have a look first.
Clan Leader,
you might be in danger of going there alone.
Potatoes!
Turnips!
I dislike turnips. I want potatoes.
Turnips grow well and won't wither easily.
No, potatoes.
I said turnips, then we grow turnips.
Young Master Wei.
You're here, Jiang Cheng.
Tell me,
is it better to plant potatoes or turnips?
What are you looking at?
Back to work.
What are you doing?
Can't you see it?
We're building a house.
Building a house?
Then while I was coming up,
what are those diggers doing?
Don't tell me that you want to grow food!
You already saw it.
They are going to grow food there.
You want to grow food on a mountain of corpses.
Can they be edible?
Believe me,
when people are extremely hungry,
they will eat anything.
You really want to station here in the long run.
Can people live in such a terrible place?
I once lived there for three months.
You're not returning to Lotus Pier?
Since Yunmeng and Yiling are close to each other,
I can go back when I miss Yunmeng.
Stop daydreaming!
Where is this child from?
Get off of me!
Get off?
Can you use the words correctly?
Yuan,
how can you just hold the leg of whoever you see?
Don't put your hand in your mouth, you just touched the soil!
Do you know what kind of soil it is?
Come here.
-Where's Madam? -Yuan. Come here.
-Go to Madam. -Come here.
-Madam. -Come here.
Run slowly.
Play with me.
Those clan leaders thought
that you had gathered a group of remnant rebels
to throne yourself in the mountain swaying some flags.
They turn out to be a group of the old, young, and weak.
All useless!
All useless?
Can't you speak in a good manner?
Where's Wen Ning?
Why did you ask for him suddenly?
Many people came up to me to ask about him.
Who can I turn to when they come to me?
I can only come to you.
What do you want to do?
Don't worry.
Jiang Cheng came here to meet an old friend.
He won't do anything to him.
He just calmed down.
Don't disturb him.
I know.
After entering, don't make any noises.
Fine.
Why are you still standing there?
Let's go.
Don't trample on it!
This is useful to me.
It will be finished soon.
Don't trample on that!
This is also useful.
To be finished soon.
You threw them all over the place. You can't blame me.
I live here alone.
I feel like scattering them. So what?
You really...
You live in this place?
Wen Ning.
Someone came to see you.
He can hear us.
Why is he in this condition?
People said
the dead who you resurrect will become fierce
and kill people without blinking.
Resurrection?
Where are the people I resurrected?
Part of his spirit was snatched by the dancing fairy when he was a child.
Hence, he was taken as a rare bait
by some vicious men to attract evil.
When we found him,
he was corrupted by evil.
His pulse had stopped.
He only had his last breath.
I just wanted to give the Jin Clan a lesson through Wen Ning
by using the power of Stygian Tiger Amulet.
It didn't come to me that...
he would become a puppet
and lose his mind.
Could he slaughter others just because he lost his mind?
Wen Ning was an introvert and a coward.
He often hid his emotions.
When he lost his mind,
those pain, fury, anxiety, and uneasiness
hidden inside his heart
all erupted out.
How is he now?
Now,
I'm trying to call his consciousness back.
You are asking for the moon again.
Can he count as a human now?
What's his difference from the puppets we killed?
Wei Wuxian...
Was that really you?
Jiang Cheng,
you suspect that I took the shard of Yin Iron too?