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[Novoland: Eagle Flag] [Based on a fiction by Jiang Nan]
[Episode 31]
What's happened?
Let's go take a look.
Let me through. Let me through.
Crown Prince.
Crown Prince! Crown Prince!
How did he get stabbed like that?
I don't know.
Take a look.
Asule!
Asule, wake up!
Doctor! Doctor!
Go find a doctor!
Please save him!
I beg you, please save him!
Find a doctor quickly!
Is there a doctor?
Doctor!
Find a doctor!
Is there a doctor?
Anyone here?
Father!
Asule,
hold on some more.
Stay away! Stay away!
Asule, hold on a little longer.
Don't. Hold on a little longer.
Hold on a little longer.
Asule!
Stay away!
Stop!
When I was young,
I relied on you very much, Teacher,
just like a child relied on his father.
But I am the Emperor of Great Yin.
The Emperor of the world has no father and no other sovereign.
For Great Yin's future, I can abandon everything.
I'm sorry that I cannot keep Teacher in this world.
Please forgive me.
Your Highness, Crown Prince's injury
cannot be cured. We've done our best.
How is the Crown Prince?
Speak!
I've paid so much to keep you around.
When you are needed, do you only know to kneel?
Older Brother, it's not use to be upset.
No medicine can reverse death. When Crown Prince was sent here, his heart already stopped.
It's Revelation City here.
Who dares to kill the Emperor's friend?
Older Brother, why don't you take a look at him for the last time?
You came here for me,
and you also died for me. I promise you.
Whoever the killer is, regardless of his status and background,
I will make him regret to the utmost.
Your Majesty.
This man was silly.
Even though he didn't have many friends,
he had compassion for everyone else.
If anyone cheated him with the excuse of justice for the people,
he would give his life for the cause.
If I had know he was coming to the capital,
I would have definitely stopped him.
I just hope that Your Majesty will remember,
that his death was not for you,
but because he believed in justice in the world.
I will remember.
Your Highness.
Weren't you keeping Prefecture Princess Yu Ran company?
I suddenly have a question to ask you, Older Brother.
What's your question? Just ask.
I grew up with you since childhood.
There is none other than you who is closest to me in this world.
I would believe anything you say.
Older Brother, tell me.
Do you have anything to do with the Crown Prince's death?
What nonsense are you thinking?
Do you actually think that just because you discovered the hidden gold,
I would use such a vicious method?
That was a small matter.
I had to do that to counter Aunt.
But Crown Prince and the Heavenly Samurai Regiment,
I went through arduous hardship to get them as my helpers.
Why would I ruin my own defense?
I know that
you are feeling sad.
Not sad, I'm feeling angry.
No matter who that killer is, I will definitely find him
and let him die the most horrifying death.
It's your wish.
It's also my wish.
With the Crown Prince's death, there must be a lot of worries in the capital.
I will be very busy in the next few days.
Take good care of yourself.
Sleep well when you get back. This too shall pass.
Your Majesty, Qingyang's Crown Prince has a unique identity.
The Abbey of Hong Lu Temple is not certain about the announcement.
Beat the drums, rings the bells, blow rhinoceros horns.
I bequeath him a death robe sewn with gold and jade, and his coffin covered with cypress wood.
He is to be carried by a hearse with a yellow roof for the funeral procession.
Your Majesty, that is the royal funeral for an emperor.
Your Majesty, please reconsider.
I want everyone in the world to know,
the Crown Prince is dead, my heart is dead too.
We should make our preparations early.
It's lucky that I picked up this belt.
Clearly someone wanted to frame me.
Qingyang's Crown Prince was the leader of the Heavenly Samurai. When the emperor exonerate the Heavenly Samurai,
everyone said it was to curb My Lord's power.
Now that he's assassinated, you are the one under the strongest suspicion.
That's why the Emperor is giving the Crown Prince a state funeral.
The high honor shows how much sadness he feels.
He will turn around and point the bayonet at me.
It doesn't bother me, but I cautioned that child previously.
The royal court is a battlefield. Once you step inside, you can't come out.
It's too bad that he didn't listen to me.
What do we do now then, My Lord?
Any sign from the Heavenly Samurai?
The old man, also a Heavenly Samurai, has suddenly disappeared from the Emperor's side.
The other Heavenly Samurai, because they hide in the dark,
it's difficult to know their movement.
But, it's not difficult to guess how they must be feeling now.
Send my command to all forces, keep tight watch over all the major routes in the capital,
be ready with high alert.
Yes.
Yu Ran, you haven't slept for a whole day and night.
Go get some rest.
I'm fine. I want to stay here with Asule.
If he wakes up and doesn't see us,
he will be scared.
Yu Ran.
Asule
is no longer with us. Don't lie to yourself like this.
What are you saying?
Isn't he lying here nicely?
Are you sleepy?
You can go to sleep first. I can stay here with him...
Yu Ran, Asule is already dead. Don't torment yourself.
Asule is really dead.
You are too tired. You should get some sleep.
You get up. You get up.
Get out! Get out of here!
Asule is not dead. Asule is not dead.
Yu Ran!
Asule is not dead!
If Asule is alive, he wouldn't want you to be like this.
Yu Ran, the living
should stay alive well.
Asule is not dead. Asule is not dead!
The armor is still around.
I wish to use the gauntlet.
That is not possible.
Even if you put on the Iron Armor, it will not make you infallible.
The Blue Cloud Ancient Tooth Sword
is a most divine but also most evil among iron-slashing swords.
Anyone that wants to touch it
will be corroded by its innate spirits. In the world,
there are very few people that can resist it.
Clearly you are not one of them, Your Majesty.
I cannot.
Neither can you.
That's correct. I've gone through a lot.
I don't have an innocent heart. My hands are stained with the blood of the innocents.
So I am not guiltless, and am not qualified to be its master.
I want this sword
only to use it to command the Heavenly Samurai Regiment.
It's no longer important if it accepts me or not.
Congratulations to Sir Iron Royal for solidly in control of the Heavenly Samurai.
I also thank you for your help.
I still don't know whether I helped your own ambition
or peace in the world.
I am the Emperor, and the Emperor is the world.
You have already taken your stand with me.
Your Majesty must think that I viewed the Crown Prince as my opponent
for power and, therefore, helped you secretly.
If I really wanted power,
then the power over the Heavenly Samurai Regiment wouldn't be enough to satisfy me.
Then what is your reason?
I gave up on the Crown Prince
because he blocked the Heavenly Samurai Regiment from moving forward.
While he is sincere,
he's too young, too stubborn.
He could not allow any imperfection in his eyes.
Going forward like this, he would lead the Heavenly Samurai
on a road to death, and that's the road
we already took many years ago.
I would like Your Majesty to remember something.
The Heavenly Samurai Regiment will not join any evil doings with anyone.
We pledge allegiance to Your Majesty because
we believe you will use force to bring peace to the world.
But, if Your Majesty ever reverse and take the wrong way,
we will quickly become enemies.
I shall remember your words, Sir.
Come. You must be wet from the rain.
- My Lord. - Come, drink some hot tea.
Are there any signs of movements anywhere?
In the palace, there is only the funeral and nothing else.
It's probably because I retrieved that belt that they don't have any evidence for now.
For the Emperor, killing the general and taking over the soldiers is apparently a good tactic.
As for the First Princess, she originally didn't want the Heavenly Samurai by the emperor's side anyway.
I heard that she's been staying in and not stepping outside at all. About the Crown Prince's death,
she has stayed quiet.
So it seems both the young emperor and First Princess are both suspects.
- Zhang Bo. - Yes. - How is the capital's defense?
Regarding the capital's defense, we are solidly in control of important roads and the city gates.
Jiwu Guards are guarding Grand Qing Palace securely. On the surface, there isn't anything happening.
But everyone has increased their alert level. Other than that, there's nothing else much.
It feels like the mountain rainstorm is about to come. (Popular phrase describing the calm before the storm.)
If it comes, it comes. The capital city will be turned into a battlefield.
It's not bad.
Reinforce all defenses. Order the troops outside the capital
to be on high alert, be ready to enter the city anytime.
Yes.
Want to die? How dare you to assassinate His Lordship!
Men, drag him down.
Get up! Go!
Your friend died.
You think I did it?
I saw it with my own eyes.
Xie Xuan took away that red belt.
Isn't it what the killed dropped?
Every warrior in our Thunder Brave Camp has the same belt.
Based on that one belt, you've barged into my manor
to find me for revenge?
You... You are the one who most wanted him to die.
If it's not you, who else can it be?
My Lord, he even said this, we can't keep raising a tiger here.
According to Li State's rules, he came to avenge for his friend,
I will have to accept it.
Release him.
Give him his weapon.
Yu'er, what are you doing here?
My slave,
if I don't say to kill him, even Father cannot touch him.
He came to me for revenge. It's a matter between man and man to be resolved with sword and blade. Get out of the way.
Right. Man to man,
resolve with sword and blade.
Who do you think you are?
Know what status you have. When I'm talking with my father, you have no right to interrupt.
Don't forget who helped your revenge. You haven't paid all that you owe me.
You only deserve to be my dog now.
The second mission that I want you to do is.
leave here immediately.
Go now! Do you hear?
Go! Go!
Go! Hurry and go!
I just said we shouldn't raise a tiger, now we're letting the tiger go free.
That's not a tiger that I raised.
That's my daughter's tiger.
You're actually still following me?
Didn't you see I was trying to save you? You should run away now to save your life!
How many people in this world can escape from my father's hands?
You've escaped once. Do you think there'll be a second time?
What I owe you, I must repay before I leave.
At that time I won't be your slave anymore.
I will then be able to squarely revenge against your father.
Do you think you can win?
I don't care if I win or not. I don't mind dying by your father's blade,
but I can bear seeing the murderer standing in front of me.
Murderer? You really don't know my father.
If he wants to kill your friend, he would have cut off his head in front of everyone.
Throughout Ying Wuyi's life,
he has killed countless people on the battlefield.
When has he ever used a despicable means?
Who else can it be other than your father? Everyone knows that Asule is his strongest enemy.
Never used a despicable means?
I saw with my own eyes that
the Bare-Tooth Army of Li State killed Asule's friend.
Bare-Tooth Army is not from Li State. They are trained by the State Preceptor.
A viper is supposed to be in league with a viper.
Alright.
My father is a viper.
I am a viper's daughter, and you are a Heavenly Samurai's descendant.
So will you kill me, too?
It sure is a cold night.
Go, buy me a cup of warm wine.
Don't you hear your master?
I want you to buy some warm wine!
You can leave now.
I helped you get your revenge, so you owe me three missions.
I let you fight for the position of Chief General of Jinwu Guards.
Even though you didn't get it, you tried. That was the first mission.
Tonight, I asked you to leave with me. That was the second.
Just now, I asked you to buy warm wine for me. That counts as the third.
From this moment on, you are no longer my slave.
You are free.
I can't protect you, and can't stop you from seeking revenge against my father.
I thought wrong.
One can't get to know an eagle.
The eagle came to me,
it was just to rest its wings.
Very soon, sixteen states in Eastland's four provinces will receive the iron certificates from Your Highness.
Even if Ying Wuyi is a ferocious tiger, he will be devoured by the horde of wolves.
Isn't this what Sir Lei's prophesy said?
The lion's claws are broken on a rock.
Wolves are devouring each other on the desolate land.
There is another line in that prophesy that I can't guess at all.
The phoenix is reborn in fire.
Who is the reborn phoenix?
[Lower Tang, South Huai City]
His Lordship arrives.
Greetings, My Lord.
That day, they commanded him to leave by royal decree.
Who would have known the Crown Prince would lose his life.
As a subject, there aren't too many choices.
Everyone who receives a decree
has to fulfill his duty as a subject
and pledge loyalty to the emperor.
My Lord, what does the iron certificate want us to do?
First Princess wants us to send our troops to clean up the court for the emperor.
My Lord, may I ask, is our enemy Ying Wuyi?
It's Ying Wuyi, but also the Heavenly Samurai Regiment that has been the source of turmoil.
My two generals, do you have any ideas?
The Emperor has just exonerated the Heavenly Samurai.
First Princess sends out the iron certificate right away. The royal family is fighting from within.
It's not easy for us to take sides.
General Xi?
I think we have no other choice. First Princess is probably not sending the command just to Lower Tang.
At this time, probably all the lords in Eastland must have received it, too.
Right, chaos is really here.
General Xi.
Present.
Gather the troops and be ready to head to the capital.
Yes.
[Chuwei State, Ming Shuo]
First Princess
has secretly sent over an iron certificate to clean up the royal court.
I have already guessed what it's for.
First Princess will say that the emperor is young.
The lords around him are not loyal.
Using that as excuse, she orders all the state lords to enter the capital by issuing the iron certificate.
The first to send troops will be considered loyal subjects.
Those that don't respond are condemned as traitors.
You guessed right.
Actually, when the First Princess calls in all the state lords with the iron certificates, her target is Ying Wuyi.
Since Ying Wuyi already has led his army into the capital,
then he doesn't mind opening the city gates
to let these lords chase after the deer.
Won't this start a war?
Yes.
We will just have to wait to see what happens.
But, I'm afraid Chuwei cannot escape getting involved.
The smoke of war rises, innocent lives will be lost.
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