Long time no see, Red Blade Master.
Empathy?
Call the cultivator who stayed the latest last time.
What's his name?
Clan Leader,
his name is Meng Yao.
People like him
aren't qualified to be my servant.
-Yes. -Right.
What a joke he is.
Clan Leader Nie.
Meng Yao.
Yes.
Why aren't you resting in the cave like the others?
Clan Leader...
Come with me.
Do you mean Meng Yao?
Yes, him.
Impossible!
He is the son of Jin Guangshan?
Can the son of Jin Guangshan mess around with us?
-I think so. -Why doesn't he go find his dad?
With just a move of a finger, he won't be so toilsome like now.
He brought a memento
and trekked all the way from Yunmeng to Lanling
just for his dad's recognition.
Then what?
Then he was kicked out of the Carp Tower.
I must say, Jin Guangshan has been playing around for so long.
There must be a dozen bastards.
Did any of them ever get his recognition before?
Therefore,
the unlucky result
is caused by himself.
People shouldn't desire what is not for them.
Who can you blame when you mess up in the end?
No one.
You deserve it.
Exactly.
Wasn't he stupid?
With a son like Jin Zixuan,
Jin Guangshan will never pay any attention to his other sons.
Moreover,
it's a son from a whore who can sleep with anyone.
Who knows if Jin Guangshan is his real dad?
As I see it,
Jin Guangshan must be asking the same question himself.
So he didn't recognize him.
No way could he recognize him.
I think
he'd totally forgotten
the relationship with that woman.
And the thought of Jin Guangshan's son
fetching water for us and resigning to fate
gets me kind of excited.
Resigning to fate?
He tries hard for attention!
Don't see how hard he's been working?
Running here and there, attending to everything all day.
How attentive!
All he can think of is coming to the fore.
Then his dad would recognize him.
-Clan Leader. -Clan Leader.
Drinking the water that came from his hard work
but speaking such nasty remarks about him,
you joined my clan
for eliminating the evil for the people
or backbiting others?
Meng Yao!
Clan Leader.
A decent man
shall stand straight and be just.
The more these people backbite you,
the more perfectly you should do
to leave them
with nothing to say.
From now on,
you
are my vice general.
Thank you, Clan Leader!
Meng Yao!
It wasn't me.
It's not my fault.
Clan Leader.
Please hold on for a second
and let me explain.
What do you want to explain?
Just a moment earlier,
I saw him accidentally release Xue Yang, so I immediately argued with him.
However,
he wanted to kill me.
He even humiliated my mother that...
That's why I killed him.
You're lying.
If you really couldn't stand it and were seized by an impulse,
why did you look like that when you were killing him?
Why did you deliberately pick up a Wen Clan's sword?
Why did you pretend that it was done by Xue Yang?
You must have been plotting
this murder for a long time!
The captain told me the other day.
That day...
Captain.
Who were you talking to?
Nobody.
What were you doing then?
I was just guarding the prisoner
according to the Clan Leader's order.
You're lying!
I just saw that.
You were talking.
Tell me honestly.
What's your ulterior motive?
You've misunderstood me, Captain.
He's too drunk.
Get him back to his room.
Son of a whore.
Huaisang, I must check on Xue Yang.
Meng Yao...
Tell me, Meng Yao.
The first time we met,
did you pretend to be delicate and poor?
So that I might lend a hand to help you?
If I hadn't stood up for you,
would you have killed them all
like today?
-I... -Don't lie to me!
I don't regret to
have met you in my life, Red Blade Master.
Since you saved me today,
I won't harm you.
Go away.
It doesn't matter if you go to Jin Clan or other places,
don't ever come back.
Your Excellency.
Clan Leader Nie,
long time no see.
It's you.
I would never have expected
that you could look so miserable today.
Get lost!
Do you think you are still the King of Hejian?
Look closely.
This is the Scorching Sun Palace.
What Scorching Sun Palace?
This is just a den of the Wen Clan!
You!
Jackal!
Kill me too if you can!
Pleased.
Anyone else feels like saying that word?
Jackal.
Clan Leader Nie.
Please have a look at this.
Clan Leader Nie,
I've held Baxia many times before.
Isn't it a little too late
for you to be angry now?
Put your hand away.
Your blade
can barely be deemed a first-class spiritual tool.
Nevertheless,
compared to your father, old Clan Leader Nie's blade,
it's a little bit inferior.
Why not have a guess?
How many times will Clan Leader Wen spank it
until it's broken?
I remember that when old Clan Leader received his broken blade,
he died
of wrath.
Wei Ying.
Nie Mingjue.
Lan Xichen.
You're finally awake.
Hand me the blade.
Clan Leader Nie.
Nie Mingjue.
Clan Leader Nie,
your wounds are still fresh.
Xichen, it's none of your business.
When you were killing the cultivators of the Nie Clan--
I had no choice at that moment.
You had no choice?
It was always your choice,
whether to kill them or not.
Was it really up to me?
Clan Leader Nie,
if we could have exchanged our situation...
We couldn't!
Nie Mingjue.
-Xichen. Get out of the way! -Calm down!
Zewu Jun.
Nie Mingjue.
Back then, after he was kicked out of Qinghe,
I was wondering why I couldn't know his whereabouts.
It turns out that he became the Wen Clan's underling
and had been helping the tyrant in the Nightless City.
Nie Mingjue.
Do you know who gave you the Wen Clan's map of tactical formation at that time?
Do you know who
our source of information was all this time?
Him?
Clan Leader Nie.
What I just did here
was to gain his trust
and to cover my identity.
But I did hurt you
and said something awful.
I knew the case of old Clan Leader Nie is your grief
but I purposely brought it up.
You shouldn't kneel to me
but to those who were killed by you.
Wen Ruohan is so atrocious.
If there is something that is against his will, he would just go mad.
If I wanted to be his trusted hand,
when he was insulted,
I couldn't stay silent.
Fair enough.
It seems you've been quite used to barking for him.
Nie Mingjue.
While working in Qishan,
Yao couldn't help doing something undesirable.
But I believe,
when he was doing such things,
deep in his heart, he must have been...
If there is disloyalty between us, we'll be universally condemned.
Both God and people will be furious with us.
All right.
Having heard Xichen's playing,
I want to smash my Qin right away.
Yao, your playing is also quite good outside Gusu.
If you could be instructed by some famous musician,
you'll make great progress very soon.
There's a famous one right before me.
But I dare not bother him.
What would you like to teach me then?
How about the Song of Clarity?
Great.
Nie Mingjue!
Wei Ying.
Yao.
Nie Mingjue's temperament is getting worse.
Don't ever displease him again.
He's been subject to the harassment of his blade lately.
If you hadn't been playing the Song of Clarity for him every day,
I'm afraid he'd be...
Jin Guangyao!
Nie Mingjue, what's wrong?
Don't move.
Come out.
Lan Xichen,
please check the list of guests
of the Floral Banquet for me.
I need to talk about some private affairs with Nie Mingjue.
I'll explain it to you later.
Nie Mingjue.
Why act like this?
We can talk nicely, can't we?
Where is Xue Yang?
He's been shut up in the dungeon
for a lifetime.
What did I tell you in Unclean Realm at that time?
I want him to pay his killing debts.
You now give him life imprisonment.
As long as he's punished
and can't recommit crimes,
I can't see the difference
between life imprisonment and a death sentence.
Tell me.
When we were at Unclean Realm,
who on earth released Xue Yang?
Was it my captain or you?
It wasn't me.
Why should I let him go?
But the past is in the past,
Chang Ping had withdrawn his confession.
No certain evidence can prove
that Xue Yang had massacred 50 people of the Chang Clan.
And my father insists on keeping him alive.
Why?
Don't you know he's got a shard of the Yin Iron on him?
You're trying to reclaim him now.
I can clearly see what you have in mind.
Nie Mingjue,
this is really my father's order.
I couldn't deny it.
If you want me to execute Xue Yang now,
in which way can I report this to him?
Meng Yao.
Don't try to get clever with me.
I am already used to
how you operate to get your way.
How I operate?
What are you talking about?
Nie Mingjue,
you always scold me for indecent scheming.
You always say that you are just and straight,
being fearless when facing anything.
A decent man
shouldn't resort to devious stratagems.
Well,
you're of noble birth
and have profound cultivation.
What about me?
How can I be the same?
First, I don't have the foundation of cultivation.
No one has ever taught me that since I was a child.
Second, I don't have any background.
Do you think that my position is very solid
in the Jin Clan of Lanling?
You thought that I could be promoted all the way up after Jin Zixuan's death?
Jin Guangshan would rather
recognize another bastard
than to let me succeed him.
You told me to be fearless when facing anything.
Yet I can do nothing but fear everything
and even the people!
After all,
the reason why you kept Xue Yang alive
was to stabilize your position
in the Jin Clan of Lanling!
Sure I did.
But Nie Mingjue,
I've always wanted to ask you a question.
Lives that you've taken
can only be more
than those I took.
I just killed a few cultivators
under that certain situation.
Why do you stick to it
until now?
Well...
I can tell you.
So many had died under my blade,
but I would never kill anyone just for my own satisfaction.
And I will not kill just to gain more power.
Nie Mingjue.
I see what you mean now.
Are you trying to say
you killed all of them for justice?
Please allow me to ask this.
How can you judge whether
one should be killed as a punishment?
Are your standards necessarily just?
If I can kill one for saving a hundred,
is that "merits outweigh shortcomings"
or "just punishment"?
To achieve something great,
there must be some sacrifice.
Why don't you sacrifice yourself then?
Are you more precious than them?
Are you any different from them?
Yes!
Of course,
I'm different.
Bastard!
I can't expect more
from a son of a whore, can I?
Nie Mingjue,
it's time for the Song of Clarity.
Nie Mingjue,
ever since Lan Xichen taught me the Song of Clarity,
every time you needed to settle your mind,
it's always me who played the music.
We never bothered Lan Xichen again.
Nie Mingjue,
please forgive my impudence,
but you can't be more careless.
Didn't you notice any difference
between the Song of Clarity played by me
and that of Lan Xichen?
You!
You lout! How dare you!
I'll kill you!
Kill!
I'll kill you!
Kill!
I'll kill you!
Kill!
I'll kill you!
Kill!
I'll kill you!
Kill!
Mingjue!
-Mingjue! -Mingjue!
-I'll kill you!
Mingjue!
Kill!
Mingjue!
Huaisang!
Don't go there!
Nie Mingjue can't recognize us!
Mingjue!
Mingjue! It's me!
Mingjue!
-Mingjue! -Don't go there!
It's me!
It's me.
It won't work.
I only have half the power of Stygian Tiger Amulet here.
I can't control him.
What should we do?
Just kill him.
Finally, it's quiet now.
Come on!
Move!
Wei Ying.
Wake up!
Wei Ying.
How is it?
Let's go.
Where?
Fragrance Hall.
The bronze mirror in Fragrance Hall
is the entrance of the hidden chamber.
His wife, Qin Su,
just found out his secret and was dragged inside by him.
She should be inside it now.
So is Red Blade Master's head.
Let's hurry there!
Hold on.
Why is Hanguang Jun in a rush?
Anything urgent?
Please allow us to report to His Excellency.
Get aside. There's no time for you to report it.
I've told you already.
Wangji.
Xichen.
Where is he?
Fragrance Hall.
It's you guys.
Why are you here?
Wait a second.
This is my uncle's bedroom.
You must have come to the wrong place.
Stop.
What do you want
that you're barging into here?
Lianfang Zun.
Clan Leader Jin. Please open the door.
Open up!
What on earth do you want?
You've attracted all the people here.
This is Jin Guangyao's bedroom.
Do you know what a bedroom is? Didn't I tell you never--
What's the problem?
FRAGRANCE HALL
Did any imperfections of our service during the day trouble you?
So you want to open
another banquet at night here?
Lianfang Zun, you show up in time.
A little bit later.
You will miss the good stuff in the hidden chamber
in Fragrance Hall.
Hidden chamber?
What's wrong?
The hidden chamber is not so rare, is it?
All clans have their treasure vaults
if they have some precious spiritual tools.
Yao.
May we see what's inside
your treasure vault?
Lan Xichen,
it's called "treasure vault,"
which means
to keep others
from getting in.
So...
Open it.
Clan Leader Lan.
It's said that the Lan Clan of Gusu takes etiquette highly.
Judging from this case,
it seems it's just being said, not done.
Forcing one's way to the bedroom of a clan leader,
does it fit with etiquette?
Su She.
Hanguang Jun.
Su She.
You defected from the Lan Clan
but still imitate Hanguang Jun.
He wields Qin, and so do you.
How can you scold the Lan Clan of Gusu?