The Untamed
Episode 02
You're a donkey, yet you only eat fresh dewy grass,
not yellow-tipped grass.
Still hungry, you angrily baulk,
even kicking.
Okay, you're the Uncle.
Okay, Uncle. Move it.
Uncle, what are you doing?
- How long to go? - No idea.
We should be there soon.
It's so hot.
I'm thirsty.
We've walked so long. When can we rest?
How much farther?
There's a well. Let's get water.
I'll do it. Let me go.
Here.
A-Yan.
Strange. We're already at Mount Dafan foot—
Why's the compass unmoving?
It may be broken. Get a new one.
Mt Dafan is ten miles away.
We can't rest long. If others get ahead of us,
we won't get merit.
Dear friends.
I wonder if anything unusual occurred on Dafan Mountain lately?
You may not know.
It was a spiritual place that declined for unknown reasons.
Recently, it's said a soul-eater monster appeared and ate several souls.
No. I don't think so.
I fear this place has no soul-eating monsters or spirits.
Look, the Wind-evil Compass pointer isn't moving.
So why are souls missing?
Maybe that's faulty.
How can it be? Know who created Wind-evil Compass?
What do you mean? Sure I know.
Wei Wuxian did.
His artefacts can't be perfect. Can't I doubt?
I didn't say that it's undoubtable or flawless.
Why pick on me?
Wei Wuxian item or not, it doesn't work.
It worked fine for me for years
- with no errors. - You trust him so much?
- Is he your dad? - He's my idol.
Let's go.
Uncle, let's go.
Here.
A-Yan.
Sorry about this.
Thank you.
Want this apple?
I won't give it to you. Move or not?
Little Apple.
Hear that?
Hear? I'll call you Little Apple.
Okay, go.
A-Yan!
Miss.
A-Yan.
I beg you, stop dancing.
A-Yan.
Madam, what's wrong with her?
A-Yan is my daughter.
Not long ago, she got engaged.
But her betrothed didn't live long.
One day, he went to the mountain to cut firewood.
A-Yan insisted on going up the mountain to find him.
Unexpectedly, on her return,
she seemed a different person.
She won't eat or drink and remembers nobody.
- A-Yan. - A-Yan.
Sometimes she knows us.
Since then, she's been crazy.
She dances towards Mt Dafan.
What sins did our family commit?
When A-Yan recovered a little,
her dad lost his soul.
Not long after that, he died.
Help!
Help! Someone, help!
Help! Is anyone there?
Help!
Help! Anyone here?
Hurry. Help!
Help!
[ Jin Ling ]
Always you idiots. There are 400 Deity-binding Nets.
I've caught no prey but you guys damaged 10 Nets.
One Net is expensive.
He set 400 all at once?
Typical of Lanling Jin Sect.
Childe Jin, please release us.
That's right. Please release us.
Let us down.
You guys can hang up
to stop you getting in my way.
Childe Jin, release us.
If I catch that soul-eater,
I'll let you down if I remember.
Childe Jin, release us.
Little Apple.
Help!
- Little Apple. - Let us down.
So it's you.
Hm? I...
What? You know me?
After expulsion, you went mad?
Look at how you've become.
Uncle Jin was right to drive you out.
How can Mo Family let you out to be seen in public?
Didn't expect Mo Xuanyu was truly Jin Clan leader's love-child.
Not gonna scram?
Seeing you disgusts me. Pervert!
Who's a pervert?
I meant you. Get lost.
Really a kid with no mom to teach you manners.
You! What did you say?
[ Suihua/Splendid Sword ]
Good on you! Using crooked tricks due to weak Cultivation!
Better watch out. Know who's coming?
Oh my. I'm so scared.
Remove it or I'll tell Uncle. You'll cop it!
Why your uncle, not your dad? Who's your uncle?
I'm his uncle! Any last words?
Uncle!
[* Sandu sword - *3 roots of evil: greed, anger, ignorance ]
[ Jiang Cheng - Yunmeng Jiang Sect ]
Uncle! Uncle.
Stop there.
Jin Ling, why are you lingering? Must I tell you to get up?
This is shameful. Still not rising?
- I'm gonna break his legs! - Break his legs?
Didn't I tell you?
Users of Yiling Patriarch's evil tricks
should be killed and fed to dogs.
I should've checked my horoscope for bad luck before coming out.
So it's Second Childe Lan.
Sect Leader Jiang.
Light-bearer Lord still upholds a repute for turning up where chaos is.
How'd you have time to visit remote forests?
I wonder if you're here today
to steal credit from junior disciples, or to look for somebody?
In the past 16 years, you've travelled to many places.
Leader Jiang, what do you mean?
What's the meaning? I'm sure Second Childe Lan knows.
Childe Jin, night-hunting is meant to be a fair competition
but you set so many Nets over Mt Dafan.
That hinders other participants for fear of the Net traps.
Isn't that against the rules?
They stupidly trapped themselves. What can I do about it?
If that's all, let's talk after I catch prey.
Lan Sect! What's this mean?
You've no right to discipline Jin Ling. Remove it!
Leader Jiang, no need for anger.
Lan Sect silence spell does no harm.
If he doesn't forceably speak, it will lift within 15 minutes.
Right now.
Sect Leader!
Leader. Leader.
Talk. What's the bad news?
Just before, a blue-glowing sword damaged Deity-binding Nets you set.
- How many? - All of them.
More than 400 Nets.
Gusu Lan Sect, what a big hand you played.
Jin Ling! Light-bearer Lord wants to punish you. Just accept it.
It's not easy for him to discipline other sects' juniors.
- You're dismissed. - Yes.
Why stand around? Waiting for prey to throw itself on your sword?
If you can't catch the monster on Mt Dafan today, don't come near me.
Leader Jiang, all damaged Nets will be replaced by Gusu Lan Sect.
No need.
Do your tasks. Try your best.
Don't force anything.
Yes.
Wei Wuxian! Don't stir up trouble for me.
A-Xian, come for soup.
It's your favourite Lotus Pork Soup.
Wei Wuxian, you said you'd assist me.
Did you forget?
You said Gusu Lan has Two Jades; so Yunmeng will have Two Prides.
A-Xian. You, me and A-Cheng—
we three will always be together.
We'll never part.
Senior Sister.
That Childe Jin! Jin and Jiang families over-spoil him.
So young yet so overbearing.
If he inherits Jin sect, it'll be chaos.
How will we survive.
Spoiling him isn't blameable. As a baby, he lost his parents.
So what?
Many are parentless.
If all act like him, then what?
Jin Ling was pitiable as a newborn. His dad died due to Wei Wuxian.
His mom, Jiang Yanli, died later due to Wei Wuxian.
Jiang Yanli was so unlucky, raising a vicious ingrate.
No wonder Jiang Cheng hates Yiling Patriarch.
These 16 years, he never spared users of Wei Wuxian's dark magic.
Blame Wei Wuxian.
He had foes everywhere.
Really a kid with no mom to teach you manners.
You!
Jin Ling is Senior Sister's child.
Why'd I have to say that?
I thought I had a heart of stone but in the end, I'm still human.
Little Apple, you're back.
Sizhui, we looked all over.
Yet we found no traces of a soul-eating spirit or monster.
Who are you? Why sneak around.
- Old man. - Mm? - What are you doing here?
I'm the watchman looking after this graveyard.
I thought we caught an evil being.
Old man, how long have you been here?
Oh my. I don't remember.
Way back, Old Master Wen sent me here.
I don't dare leave here.
Later on, more people died.
The number of graves increased,
easily attracting evil things.
Is there anything strange in Mt Dafan?
There is. There is.
You should go to the peak to see Goddess Temple.
There's a dancing goddess statue.
It's a stone statue that looks like a real person.
Wouldn't you say that's strange?
Back then, Master Wen said... what did Master say?
Let's go to Goddess Temple. Maybe it will have clues.
Thanks, old man.
What did Old Master Wen say again?
Master. Oh, yeah.
That stone statue can move.
This stupid donkey only knows to eat.
Little Apple.
This is...Soul-gathering Grass?
Soul-gathering Grass collects spiritual energy from soil
near Cultivators' graves.
Could there be a lot of Cultivators' graves around?
Who knew you're so good at eating?
This place has a black aura,
so a lot of Cultivators must be buried here.
Spiritual energy lingers and nourishes Soul-gathering Grass.
Excuse me, whose graves are these?
They are long gone.
Wen Clan is long gone.
Wen Clan?
Wei Wuxian.
This is where my ancestors are buried.
Oh no! It's not a soul-eating spirit causing trouble here!
This is bad. Jin Ling.
Where's the old man?
[ Goddess Temple ]
Centuries ago, a hunter from Buddha Feet went to the mountain.
In a cavern, he found an odd rock resembling a human,
with limbs in a dancer's pose.
More strangely,
the stone had vague features of a smiling girl.
Astonished Buddha Feet townspeople made up tales.
Locals say people who pray here have wishes come true.
It's so dilapidated.
Nobody cleans it.
This old piece of rock deemed by a random person as godly
dares to receive people's prayers?
Those country bumpkins
pray to gods all day,
unaware gods can't care for themselves, let alone a lowly, nameless stone.
If she grants wishes,
I'll make a wish now—
for the soul-eating thing on this mountain
to show up in front of me.
Can it grant that?
Yeah. Young Childe Jin is right.
Hey, what's wrong? Hey!
Wake up.
Senior Mo.
Everyone, leave! Watch out for this soul-eating Goddess.
The G-goddess' pose changed!
Still in a daze? Run!
Kids! Kids, wait for me!
Who are your kids? Do you know our sect?
Okay. Big Brothers. Big Brothers.
Can you set off a flare
to signal your...
your Light-bearer Lord to come.
Oh no. All the flares were used up at Mo Manor.
You didn't restock?
We forgot.
Should you forget?
If your Lord finds out, you'll be punished.
It's bad! He'll thrash us.
You should be punished so you remember next time.
Senior Mo. How'd you know the soul-eater is the Goddess?
I observed.
What did you see?
The old tombs.
So I deduced it can't be a soul-eating spirit or monster.
Why not?
Gosh, Gusu Lan Sect
teaches too much Immortal etiquette,
ancestral genealogy, Cultivation history; boring things to memorize.
They should teach practical things.
Soul-eating monsters and spirits
thrive on absorbing undeparted souls of the dead.
I ask you.
So many souls linger at the old Cultivator tombs,
why aim at the living?
It makes sense.
Wait.
So you're not crazy?
[ Tea ]
So how about Miss Yan?
I ask again.
If a soon-to-be bride's betrothed disappears,
what can she do as a weak girl?
- Pray to the gods. - That's right.
And there's a special point about Miss Yan.
Why did only her soul return?
About this...
Miss Yan's father,
who loves his daughter dearly, finds out her soul is missing.
Medicine is of no use; the situation is hopeless.
What would he do?
I got it! He'd pray.
So, he also went to Goddess Temple to wish—
For A-Yan's soul to return!
That's right.
Dancing Goddess spat out A-Yan's soul, so it suffered damage.
That's why she copies the Goddess' dance pose and her smile.
So, when Jin Ling said
he was wishing for the Mount Dafan thing
eating people's souls to show up in front of him,
the statue came to life.
Jin Ling. Anyone seen Jin Ling?
How's the Goddess—
—so human like?
Weird. Lan Zhan and I sealed her.
Why'd she come to life?
Childe Jin, hurry, send your flare!
What are you doing with my sword?
Why play flute now?
Sounds awful. You're a real lunatic.
[ Wen Ning ]
Wen Ning.
Didn't Wen Ning die?
How can it be him?
What the heck is this?
It's Ghost General! Ghost General Wen Ning!
Didn't Wen Ning turn into ashes 16 years ago, alongside Yiling Patriarch?
No. It's illusion.
Who took the trouble to make this illusion?
Was it to get me to call Wen Ning?
Dancing Goddess disappeared.
That...was fake.
What?
Surround him. Don't let him escape.
He's Wen Ning.
What do you fear? Don't.
Yiling Patriarch isn't here.
Yeah. What's to fear?
His Leader's dead.
Charge!
My fierce tune triggered his bloodlust.
I have to suppress it and play calmly.
A-Ling!
Uncle.
No flares? What humiliated you?
Stop acting tough! Get here!
- Didn't you say to catch it? - Don't talk back.
S...Sect Leader.
What caused you trouble?
It was Wen Ning.
- What did you say? - Wen Ning came back.
Wen Ning?
It was Wen Ning. Truly.
He turned to ashes. Impossible.
It really was Wen Ning. I know it was him.
He called him out.
Fine. You're back.
( Zidian/Purple Lightning VS Wanji Guqin )
Lan Wangji, dare hinder me?
What? You're rich and powerful
so you can just hit anyone?
Why was there no reaction? Why?
Impossible.
- Unmask! - I won't.
- You! - You'll be scared to death if I do.
Enough, Leader Jiang. That's Purple Lightning.
Purple Lightning can show if someone's possessed.
That year Wei Wuxian died, his body and soul were lost.
Unless he takes a body by force, he can't resurrect.
How do you know he died?
Wasn't it you who stabbed Wei Wuxian to death?
Tell me
just who you are.
Wei Wuxian!
Go die!
Sometimes, I really wish I can go back 16 years ago
to Lotus Pier.
Even if it's just a dream,
I don't want to wake.
A-Xian.
[ 16 years ago] A-Xian.
[ 16 years ago ]
A-Xian.
Get up or I'll let the dog loose.
Dog?
Loquats for sale!
Fresh loquats! Just picked.
Don't make fun of A-Xian.
We've arrived?
Wait for me.
I'm coming! I'm coming!
Senior Sis, we've arrived.
We're not at Cloud Recesses yet. This is Caiyi Town.
What's fun in Caiyi Town?
We came to study. You only want to play.
Know how to do what not to do.
Enough, you two.
This isn't home. Behave.
- Senior Sis, look at him. - What about me?
I want this one.
Coming through!
Senior Sis. Look, a bunny. Isn't it nice?
Nice.
Wei Wuxian, still playing?
We'll be at Cloud Recesses soon.
Major sects' disciples will attend Lectures.
Don't cause them to scorn us.
I know.
Oh, yeah. You all heard me?
For now on, all we do and say
represents Jiang Sect honour.
Yes.
Hey, Wei Wuxian! Hear me?!
Sis, we had a long, tiring trip from Yunmeng.
Why not rest in an inn, then go to Cloud Recesses,
in order to keep our good image.
Fine. The Greeting Ceremony is in 10 days. Rest here.
We're going to stay here?
Gusu Emperor's Smile liquor is famed—
rich, mellow, erases worries. I coveted it and can finally taste it.
- Wuxian, don't drink! - I will.
- It cheers the heart. Why stop me? - You!
Dad shouldn't have sent you.
Enough. Don't gab.
Let's find an inn.
Wuxian, I tell you once more—
I know...my ears will fall off!
- I'm going ahead. - Hey!
Sis, just look at him.
I have a feeling he'll make trouble at Cloud Recesses.
A-Xian was born lively. It's not a bad thing.
Dad said so too.
Sis, you and Dad always take his side.
He can't change his character.
Besides, our sect teaches
that one should be able to live an unrestrained life.
~Listen to the lonely, disconsolate flute~
~In endless night deep in cloud~
~Right or wrong is in the past~
~On waking, how can I take it as a dream~
~How to measure praise and blame, gains and losses, in this world~
~Blood whistles hot on cold blade~
~On peaks or rivers, hear the guqin~
~The story isn't over, like buds under moonlit frost~
~Stir a cup of life's joy and sorrow to toast the lad~
~Why's the bright moon still listless~
~Why not face all hardships carefree~
~Sharing a melody however far away~
~Stir a cup of life's joy and sorrow to toast the lad~
~Moon is bright, why be sad~
~Why not face all storms unrestrained~
~Playing a melody together afar~