I’m back.
I’m starved. Get me some noodles.
What’s wrong? Where is everybody?
Why am I here?
Why are you here, too?
You followed me, didn’t you?
Do you have
too much time on your hands?
How could I
Have too much time on my hands?
But today…
I’ll use my precious time
On you.
Why? Any reason?
People like something fresh.
The rarer it is,
the more attractive it is!
The greedier one is,
the less he can resist the temptation.
Greedy?
For what?
Noodles?
Come and have some.
I come for your soul.
Come on.
Come into my nectar pot
and you’ll meet your mother
and feel infinite happiness.
Come.
Come to me.
You really are not an ordinary human being.
You refused my nectar pot.
But I even collected
the soul of Yaoji
who was a fairy.
I don’t think
I can’t get your soul.
Father.
Lanying.
Help me.
Master.
Father, save me.
You’re a girl from the demon race?
You have a spirit, but no soul.
Six transverse valleys of Taihang Mountain?
There should be eight.
Why are you still here?
Fine.
Keep ignoring
people around you.
Don’t get angry.
Don’t you see?
I promised Lord Wucheng
to draw the topographic map for him.
You mean the map on the wall?
Is that the topographic map?
So I’m occupied.
What’s the difficulty with that?
I love drawing.
I can draw
little animals vividly.
But I’m not from a rich family,
and I couldn’t afford the ink.
You can draw?
I won’t cheat you.
Fine. I believe you.
Go have something to eat.
Get out of the way.
Give it to me.
You really can draw?
Look!
All eight transverse valleys are here.
Here?
No.
Here?
Here. See? Right here.
Is this a river?
Look!
It’s noted here.
From bottom to top.
No.
It flows from top to bottom,
throughout the mountain.
It’s clearly drawn.
Look!
Well, I’ll find you a map
and you’ll understand.
Bro. Wu Ji.
After all this,
will you go back to the noodle shop with me?
I can’t stay
in one place
for too long.
I’ve stayed in Zhaoge
for quite a long time.
and I’ve interfered
with a lot of things.
Are you really mad at me?
Xiao’e.
What happened?
Wake up!
Why is your forehead so hot?
See?
That’s Shouxian Palace.
Tomorrow,
I’ll have you sent there.
Remember.
You shall never forget
the kindness of the queen.
Never will I forget.
After a while,
someone will come
to teach you imperial rules.
You must remember all of them, got it?
I will learn it carefully
and keep them by heart.
Father, you’re back from vegetable shopping?
Where’s your mother?
In the noodle shop.
Did she make fried cakes?
No.
I’ll have some tea instead.
Father.
Bro. Wu Ji is leaving
to travel around the world.
Master, Xiao’e. Xiao’e.
Please help her.
Make way!
So hot!
She’s badly wounded.
What’s wrong with her?
Why did she pass out in the bamboo forest?
What happened?
Her forehead is hot enough
to fry cakes.
Ying’er, leave us.
Why?
When you’re here,
I don’t feel free to save her.
Leave.
Yang Jian.
Take off her clothes.
Okay.
Master, she’s a girl.
I know.
I’m a man.
Don’t I know that?
Hurry and take off her clothes.
Master,
why did you get Lanying out?
You should have got me out
and asked Lanying to take off her clothes.
My daughter hasn’t got married.
She can’t see dirty things
which she shouldn’t.
Master,
what do you mean?
They both are girls.
What could be dirty?
After I take off her clothes,
will she turn into a boy
or a monster?
That depends.
You must be very careful.
Take off.
Hurry!
Jiang Jian.
Take off her clothes
and don’t think too much.
Master, why don’t you do it?
I can’t.
My wife will curse me.
Don’t worry.
I won’t tell her.
Well, I should teach you something.
A master is just like a father.
I’m your master.
You must take off her clothes when I ask you to.
Do it.
You’re overwhelming me by your power.
Experience. What you need most is the experience.
How can I experience by this?
Cut the crap and do it!
Are you going to let Xiao’e die?
Do it.
Master.
There’s a totem on her belly.
An animal’s head.
What animal?
Like a fox? Wolf? Or cat?
No, none of them.
A spirit dog?
Yes. Yes. A spirit dog.
Cover her.
Master, what is that?
Why is the totem of a spirit dog
on her belly?
You’ll know.
Why the old sentence again?
Who the hell is Xiao’e?
Why does she never get drunk
while drinking?
And why is the totem
on her belly?
She can’t be an ordinary person.
Why would this happen?
It’s on fire.
I was so sincere
that I moved the god.
Master, Xiao’e is afraid of fire.
I think so.
Master, is she a human being?
Kind of.
Master.
Does this matter?
When you’re clear about this,
will she be someone else
instead of herself?
Will she die?
No, but not alive, either.
Will she wake up?
Yes.
When?
Yang Jian.
You don’t heave eyes
or ears.
She said right in front of you.
But you didn’t listen.
When did she say that?
What did she say?
She said seven days.
Seven days?
In the hill,
she said
we would be duty off for seven days.
Xiao’e.
How many days did your mistress say we’ll have off?
Seven days.
Don’t look at her.
Xiao’e had no idea
what she had meant.
Li’er?
Who are you?
Your Grace, I’m new here.
What’s your name?
I’m Ruili.
Ruili?
Miss.
Can I call my name again?
Come closer.
You look so like her.
Your Grace.
A girl named Li’er
grew up with me just like my own sister.
Where is she now?
She’s dead.
In Jizhou.
I don’t know who killed her.
I’m also from Jizhou, too.
Why are you staring at me?
What’s the problem with that?
Bi De, come over.
Your Grace.
Hasn’t His Highness
ever waken up?
No.
His Highness
has never waken up.
Look at him.
He seems to be dreaming.
Only…
Only a mother
can tell that.
I can’t.
Mother, do you member
when I went to pay my respect to
Master Du Yuanxian on the seventh day
after he died.
On my way back,
I ran into
a girl.
Following her,
I met Crooked Neck Lane A3.
Crooked Neck Lane A3?
Jiang Ziya of the Ma’s Noodle Shop?
Yes.
Who? Stop!
It’s been three days and he hasn’t showed up.
Who are you referring to, Your Grace?
Nothing.
Ruili.
Tell me.
At night,
was there anything wired?
Didn’t hear of it.
Any palace maid heard?
No.
Hurry. Search this place.
Hurry. And this place.
Search it carefully.
Why are soldiers
in Shouxian Palace?
Your Grace.
What makes you panic?
I heard there was a monster in the palace.
Monster?
What do you mean?
A soldier saw something
jump into the palace across the northwestern wall.
Some others
also saw it.
But…
That thing was shot.
Shot?
Are you sure
it’s not an animal?
It must be a monster.
Soldiers
are searching everywhere for it.
Go out and have a look.
If there’s anything unusual
around our palace,
come back and tell me.
Yes.
All of you. Go and look carefully.
Yes.
What happened?
Why are you wounded?
Your Grace.
We’re the guards. Please open the door.
Get up.
You can’t stay here.
Your Grace.
- Soldiers are out there. - Your Grace.
Your Grace, please open the door.
We’re the guards, Your Grace.
Your Grace, open the door. Your Grace.
Your Grace. Your Grace. Your Grace. Open the door.
We’re the guards. Your Grace, please open the door.
Hurry. Get yourself invisible.
They’re breaking in.
Your Grace.
I can’t even
heal my own wound now.
How can I get myself invisible?
We’re the guards, Your Grace.
Please open the door, Your Grace. Your Grace.
Open the door, Your Grace.
However hard we knock,
Consort Su doesn’t respond at all.
Is Consort Su really in there?
Yes.
She…
stayed in there alone
and asked us to come out and have a look.
So we came out.
It’s our duty.
We must see her ourselves.
Sorry.
If the door isn’t open, smash it.
Yes.
Your Grace. Your Grace. Your Grace.
You. Go over there.
You. Over there.
What are you doing?
Who asked you to break in?
Your Grace,
didn’t you hear our shout?
I’m worshiping my parents.
Do you mean
I must answer the door
when you knock?
Sorry, Your Grace.
I had no idea.
I thought
something happened in here
Please forgive us.
Your Grace.
We must search your palace.
Please kindly approve.
Search my palace?
Don’t you know
whose spirit tablet it is?
Your Grace.
His Majesty commanded that
we should search every palace
to arrest the monster.
Not here.
His Majesty will understand. You may leave.
According to His Majesty,
we must search everywhere,
with no exception.
Do you want me
to chop your head?
Your Grace, this is the order of His Majesty.
Search.
Dare you!
Search.
Get out when you finish.
Or I’ll tell His Majesty
and none of you shall live.
Please forgive us.
Why can’t you recover?
You can bring people
back to life, can’t you?
Even I myself is dying.
How can I bring others back to life?
Dying?
You will die?
A man dies as long as he has a soul.
I was too careless.
I have swollen a soul
which I shouldn’t have.
I don’t believe
a soul can kill you.
A buffalo dies
when it eats half piece of hibiscus radiatus.
An elephant dies
when it eats
a five-color ant.
How can I save you?
A drop of blood.
A fresh drop of blood.
One drop will be enough?
Yes.
You mean you really are dying?
Yes.
Just disappear
like this?
Yes.
Zixu is dying.
He will disappear.
Your Grace.
Li’er?
Your Grace.
It’s me, Ruili.
Your Grace, you don’t look well.
What are you thinking of?
If I hadn’t met him,
what would have happened?
Will Li’er still be alive?
Your Grace,
who do you mean him?
No.
I should have met him earlier.
Then Li’er wouldn’t have been alive.
Maybe everyone could have been alive.
Your Grace.
If so,
my father, mother, brother and Li’er…
none of them
would have been killed.
Yes.
No.
I shouldn’t have met him.
If it weren’t for him,
Lady Lyuqiu wouldn’t have been dead.
I could have married
her son.
I wouldn’t have come here.
It was all because of him.
Since that time,
everything has been in disorder.
He shouldn’t have turned up.
I shouldn’t have met him.
Your Grace, what’s wrong with you?
It’s all because of him
that I’m homeless.
Zizhou…
Everything nice
and beautiful
was gone there.
It was all because of him.
You deserve your death.
You killed
so many people.
To get my soul,
you got all the people in Jzihou dead.
You deserve your death.
Did I do that?
It was you!
It was all because of you!
If it weren’t for you,
everything would have been fine.
My parents
wouldn’t have died miserably.
Just because they’re dead,
I come to stay with you.
Except me,
no one else is around you.
Why me?
Tell me. Why me?
Because you have
the purest soul in the world.
No.
If you want my soul only,
you could have got it early.
You always
control my life.
Why me?
Because…
Your soul is still here.
That’s not a reason.
Just because of
this ridiculous reason,
I can stay by your side.
Only with this
seemingly hilarious excuse,
I can help you
and always protect you.
Without this reason,
how can I still stay by your side?
Why?
Why did you come to me?
I want you to die more eagerly than anyone else.
Why did you come to me?
Do you really think I will help you?
I just come to tell you
I’m dying.
When you die, I’ll be free.
Why must I save you?
I’m evil. I won’t save you.
And then,
you’ll be really
alone.
Father.
Mother.
Regret? Too late.
Do you really think
I’ll set you free
to repay your life-saving grace?
Your sudden sympathy
made a real mistake.
Even if I want to set you free,
I can’t do that.
Once the agreement is set,
it can’t be undone
unless it’s completed or either part is dead.
Now your soul
belongs to me again.
It wasn’t sympathy.
It was a deal.
An animal knows to repay one’s kindness.
You can’t be even worse than an animal, can you?
Since it’s deal,
name your condition.
You can’t stop me from taking revenge.
You’ll listen to me.
No way.
Next one.
Don’t leave me alone.
Deal.
Ziya.
This is an elixir for you.
Don’t use it unless you have to.
Do remember that!
What are you sneaking around for?
Give it back to me.
This is an elixir.
My master gave it to me to save people’s life.
Bah.
You’re daydreaming again, huh?
Dear, give it back to me.
I’ll use it to save Xiao’e.
She’s still in a coma.
Only this elixir
will save her.
You know what?
It’s okay when you divine for others
to cheat them for money.
But you can’t feed her elixir. You may kill her.
This really is an elixir.
Look!
What poison looks shiny?
Don’t move.
I asked you not to move.
Don’t move.
Well, it really looks pretty.
Don’t… don’t grab it.