The Untamed
Episode 03
=Jinzhenhe Tavern Waiter, what happened?
How can you suddenly run out of room?
Sir.
This is not our intention at all.
Today
here suddenly came an influential Childe.
He booked the whole tavern
and drove everyone out, except his people.
Sir, I'm sorry but I assume
it's better to find another tavern.
Waiter!
Oh, Misses.
According to your order
all rooms have been tidied.
And we have also sent other guests away.
Please take these perfume bags.
And put them in our Childe Jin's room.
With chopped herbs inside
they can keep mosquitoes at bay.
Mianmian, how considerate you are!
No wonder our Childe favors you.
Stop that.
You shall be careful of this matter
taking the renown of our Childe into account.
Please rest assured. I fully understand.
Let's go
to see our Childe's room.
Please go this way, Misses.
I see. They are the Jin clan of Lanling.
They must be here for the lecture too
and taking a rest in Caiyi town.
Brother,
such a few people of Jin clan
occupy the whole tavern
and want to drive us away despite the sequence.
But there is no vacant tavern left in the town.
We have no choice.
Lady Mianmian!
May I have one of your perfume bags?
Who are you?
Who gave you the right to call me Mianmian?
It's her.
She may call you Mianmian.
Why can't I?
Who on earth are you?
Don't call me like that!
All right.
What about you telling me your true name?
Then I won't call you Mianmain.
Why should I tell you as you ask?
You should say your own name
before asking somebody else's name.
That's easy.
I'll say, keep it in mind.
My name is Yuandao.
Yuandao...
Mianmian
I can't remember which clan's childe bears this name.
But judging from his look and demeanor
he's not like a nobody.
You...
You teased me!
What happened?
Think about the poetry.
What's next to "green, green,the riverside grass"
Green, green, the riverside grass
Long, long, missing that far road. (also can be seen as "Mianmian misses Yuandao" )
Don't speak that out!
Who misses you?
How shameless.
Say, Lady Mainmian, you come from Jin clan of Lanling, right?
People say girls from Jin clan are all pretty as fairies.
Now that I have seen one
I can't agree more.
Glib-tongued.
I am Wei Ying from Jiang clan of Yunmeng.
My courtesy name is Wuxian.
We're going to the Lan clan of Gusu for the lecture
and taking a rest in Caiyi town.
As fellow cultivators,
Lady Mianmian won't bear to see us sleep out on the streets.
So, Mr. Yuandao
you do have a decent name.
However...
as for the rooms...
Mianmian,
our Childe won't bring so many people here anyway.
These rooms are vacant for nothing.
Not to mention they arrived earlier.
Such being the case,
Childe Wei, you and your party may stay.
And I won't bother our Childe with this matter.
Ladies, much obliged.
Only a frivolous playboy like you
can take the rooms back from those girls.
Senior Sister,
listen to what he said!
Jiang Cheng,
I'll generouly take that
as your envy and jealousy of me.
How about you two fighting it out here and now?
But, senior sister,
who is the Childe Jin Mianmian mentioned?
Who else could it be?
Approximate age as us
and a Jin clan.
If it's not the youngest Childe, Jin Zixuan
who else could it be?
I just wonder if such Childe Jin
is still fancy like he was
when he was a child.
Lady and gentlemen,
I'm terribly sorry but
there aren't enough rooms.
Please empty these rooms as well.
Childe Jin.
This is the best tavern in the Caiyi town?
Yes, Childe.
Still no comparison to Jinlintai even as the best.
As for the chair,
we Jin clan make them out of black sandalwood.
As for the teacup,
we adopt only peacock green glaze porcelain.
The tea is stale.
Let's go check the rooms.
This way, Childe.
Jiang clan of Yunmeng, pleased to see you.
I suppose junior Childe Jin
is also going to Lan clan of Gusu as an auditor, right?
Watch your manner!
Our childe is Childe Jin
not junior Childe Jin.
Childe Jiang is also passing by this place?
Yes, we need to take a rest here.
Unfortunately
every room in this tavern has been booked
by us Jin clan of Lanling
You guys better go elsewhere.
Hey,
but we arrived earlier.
You are earlier, so what?
You should go complain to the owner.
Anyway, we have booked the whole tavern.
Our Childe would rather not
have association with some random folks.
As for the lecture of Lan clan
only a few quotas available for each clan.
Junior Childe Jin, you brought out a grand display
with so many people.
What's your purpose?
We're Childe Jin's servants. What's wrong?
So it's real that the Jin clan is ostentatious.
But I heard
the Lan clan is strict and puritanical.
Junior Childe Jin
takes so many retinues.
I'm really afraid
that you couldn't stand that kind of suffering.
Xian.
Senior Sister.
I'm just providing
a friendly suggestion.
How dare you insult our Childe!
Where is the manner of Jiang clan?
What insult?
Name it.
And
you can confront me
but don't involve Jiang clan of Yunmeng.
Xian, Cheng.
Go pack up.
We'll find another place.
Goodbye, Childe Jin.
Childe.
Your room is the next one.
Forgive me, Miss Jiang.
I'm mistaken about the room
No offence.
You are too modest to say that.
Isn't the whole tavern yours?
It's said that the etiquette of Jin clan is of high reputation.
Now I can say just so so.
This Jin Zixuan,
how arrogant he is!
Yeah.
He is flaunting just like a peacock.
It's a pity that I couldn't even touch the pot of Emperor's Smile.
Look at our situation.
You're still thinking about liquor?
Can't you see the look on senior sister'face?
I just don't know what Uncle Jiang was thinking.
Why did he arrange marriage
between senior sister and that peacock?
According to Lan clan's principles
everyone coming for the lecture
is not allowed in without an invitation.
Oh, buddy,
I've told you a thousand times.
We accidentally got our invitations lost.
We never intended to lose it.
What's more.
All of us are standing here.
What can we lie to you?
Sir,
without an invitation,
I can't identify you people.
Look, sun is about to set.
You can't just watch us sleeping out on the streets,
can you?
How about this.
Please go fetch your clan leader.
He had seen our senior sister.
At sight of her
he will know we're talking honestly.
Well then, please wait here for a moment
until we change shifts when it's 17:45.
17:45?
The sun has already set then.
Xian.
Behave yourself.
But senior sister...
As father instructed
no matter when
we can't forget our manners.
Let's leave the gate and plan for the next step.
Second Childe, welcome back.
Who are looking for trouble?
This Second Childe of Lan
must be Lan Wangji, one of the twin jades of Lan,
and the younger brother of their clan leader Lan Xichen.
He must be our key to get in.
What happened?
Just carry him inside.
How can he end up like this?
End?
He's not dead if I say.
He's more like cursed by some wicked sorcery.
Wicked sorcery?
Second Childe Lan
I am Jiang Cheng from Jiang clan of Yunmeng,
son of our clan leader Jiang Fengmian.
This is my sister, Jiang Yanli.
My senior brother, Wei Ying, also called Wei Wuxian.
Second Childe Lan, we've heard much about you.
My honor.
Second Childe Lan,
we accidentally got our invitation lost.
It's getting late and inconvenient to sleep outside.
Please make a merciful exception for us.
No invitation, no entry.
Second Childe Lan,
we come all the way from Yunmeng.
Despite the exhausting travel
we finally made it before sunset
to the Cloud Recesses.
You just turn us down for an invitation.
Don't you think it's a little rigid?
No invitation, no entry.
Second Childe Lan,
it was an accident.
We never intended to lose it.
Please make an exception.
Find it and come back.
Second Childe Lan,
sun is about to set,
while we are more than 20 miles away from Caiyi town.
You ask us to find it now.
What an imposition!
Second Childe Lan,
in the worst case we can...
Second Childe has put silencing charm on you.
No one can relieve it except the Lan.
And it dispels automatically
after a stick of incense time.
How inflexible the Second Childe Lan is.
Yeah.
So much fuss about the Cloud Recesses.
Yunmeng is much better.
Tell me about it.
I'd rather not be here.
Sis,
don't you worry.
He just went back to the tavern for the invitation.
Everything will be fine.
I just worry...
Sis,
Jin Zixuan
is typical of his kind.
Don't worry too much.
I do not.
I just worry that Childe Jin will embarrass Xian
for his character.
As long as he stay fine with others,
nobody will embarrass him.
It's hard to say he is not having fun with some Mianmian
or some Yuandao now.
Cheng,
you know that Xian always takes it seriously,
when it's important.
Second Childe Lan.
Senior Sister!
Cheng!
Where is everybody?
No wonder nobody's here.
Wards are used to be broken.
What a coincidence! We meet again.
Se...Second Childe Lan. You come out at this late night.
Are you coming to admire the moon?
Second Childe Lan,
I come for my senior sister.
Oh right.
I found that invitation.
Right here.
I'll show you.
Breaking through wards.
A violation of Lan clan principles.
Who comes at night should not be allowed in till 7:00.
Two violations of Lan clan principles.
Unauthorized carrying of liquor.
Three violations of Lan clan principles.
Second Childe Lan,
I...
am new here in your Lan clan of Gusu
and not familiar with many rules.
But I swear
such things won't happen again.
What's more. I was just in a hurry
to find my senior sister and Cheng.
How about this.
You just let me in for a glimpse.
Just one glimpse.
Well then.
The Emperor's Smile.
I spare you one pot.
Forget about these, deal?
Attempt to bribe law enforcer.
Doubly guilty.
Second Childe Lan.
Are you seriously so inflexible?
When we were at the gate
you put silencing charm on me of no reason.
You are somehow responsible for that case, right?
I didn't expect that fuddy-duddy had real skill.
I'm occupied today.
Excuse me.
Lan Zhan!
Pay for my Emperor's Smile!
Turn around.
What's this?
Lan clan of Gusu principles.
This much?
Put it down.
Since you came for the lecture,
let's count how many principles you have violated tonight.
Well,
I'm so fortunate that
I haven't been born in stiff and horrible Lan clan of Gusu.
Liquor is forbidden in the Cloud Recesses.
Well, I can stay outside
and sit here to drink.
This won't count, right?
Recalcitrant.
The female cultivators in every clan
is all admiring the famous Second Childe Lan.
What a pity.
Pity?
What a pity that they don't know
the person they are admiring
is a relentless unreasonable
and rigid guy.
But it doesn't matter.
When I go back to Yunmeng,
I'm going to...
Let's go.
Uncle
=Lan Huan. Courtesy name Xichen
This man's death looks strange. =Lan Huan. Courtesy name Xichen
This man's death looks strange.
Nothing like this happened before.
=Lan Qiren
It looks like he was cursed by some wicked sorcery. =Lan Qiren
It looks like he was cursed by some wicked sorcery.
Wangji only brought one corpse back?
Clans around Gusu have reported lately.
They say there are cultivators going missing recently.
So I sent Wangji to investigate that.
This man is...
one of our disciples from outside families.
Wicked sorcery.
Uncle.
Who is making noises?
Big brother.
Childe Wei.
The Cloud Recesses is not like the Lotus Cove.
There are many rules indeed.
You are new here.
I can't blame the innocent.
But under no circumstance
can I defame our principles.
So the punishment
is inevitable.
As for how,
Wangji, it's up to you.
Transcribe the principles, 300 times.
Wangji,
just dispel the silencing charm on Childe Wei.
You fuddy-duddy!
Zewu Jun,
listen to me.
What Lan Zhan said is totally wrong.
He is such a dumb
if one word is enough he won't say two words.
Let me speak.
The truth is
my party and I arrived at dusk
at the gate of the Cloud Recesses
only to find our invitation was lost.
But actually it's not us to blame.
It's all that peacock Jin Zixuan's fault.
Anyway, we made it to the gate
and wasn't able to get in.
We had no choice.
So I went back for the invitation alone.
And the Emperor's Smile from Gusu is so well-known.
It's resonable that I bought two pots, is it?
However I couldn't even have one sip
before Lan Zhan broke one of them.
Before I could get my liquor compensated
you know what
he put silencing charm on me.
Childe Wei,
anyhow
you have violated our principles first.
So you can't blame Wangji for that.
What's more.
Lady and Childe Jiang have got in
all thanks to Wangji who just explained to me.
Brother.
My senior sister, they got in?
He let them in?
So you aren't that grim.
Hey, Lan Zhan, you serious?
I am sorry, OK?
Well, Childe Wei.
Since it was a misunderstanding
please go back and have a rest.
Zewu Jun,
is he dead?
Why covered with a white cloth?
What did you say?
am I wrong?
But when I was at the gate this afternoon
he was still alive.
The things I just told you
do you get them all?
=Wen Qing from Wen clan of Qishan
Yes, Your Excellency. =Wen Qing from Wen clan of Qishan =Wen Qing from Wen clan of Qishan
I understand.
I'll send Wen Chao with you.
He'll take you to the Cloud Recesses.
Everything after that
is up to you.
Remember.
The shard of Yin Iron looks exactly the same as the one in Dafan Mountain.
You could recognize it.
Find it and bring it here.
Your Excellency, I...
Speak.
Ning is frail and feeble since childhood.
May I take him with me?
You worry that he would be treated
unfairly in the Nevernight?
How dare I.
Whatever,
do what you want.
Ning Wen has a special constitution.
Maybe he could help you when you do the investigation.
Thank you, Your Excellency.
Departure is tomorrow.
Off you go.
Understood.
You see.
He looks dead
and feels like a dead.
But he's still affected by the fluctuation of spiritual power.
He can't count as a true dead.
Nothing more than...
Than what?
It's hard to say.
But he seems to have lost the spiritual cognition.
Spirit snatch.
A puppet.
Yes.
He's like a puppet.
A manipulable puppet.
Wangji.
Big brother.
Wangji.
What's the matter?
About that puppet
brother and uncle seem preoccupied.
I just had a conversation with uncle.
Specific reason remains unknown but
we can preliminarily infer that
it should be caused by someone's trials of wicked sorcery.
If it is true
the culprit must be ambitious.
Cultivators going missing
may be just a start.
What's your plan, big brother?
For now we could only inspect around.
But what if...
Big brother.
Never mind.
Maybe I just think too much.
Wangji,
look into the missing case again.
But remember,
don't be reckless.
I know, please rest assured.
I am always assured of you.
Ever since our father's death
you are becoming more and more prudent.
I sometimes wonder
whether I have been too strict with you.
Brother has taken a lot of duties,
I'm just helping spare the burden.
It's good for you to be with me during the lecture.
Many disciples from different clans are at the same age as you.
It's time for you to make some friends.
I actually feel good about that Childe Wei.
Though he sometimes
does some excessive things.
He is smart
and has a lively and cheerful character.
Wangji
doesn't he have some real skills?
You two tied against each other?
=Xue Yang
Xue Yang
=Wen Ruohan from Wen clan of Qishan
What are you laughing at? =Wen Ruohan from Wen clan of Qishan
Your Excellency.
I'm just laughing because that
all these puppets are just a trial.
Yin Iron can do much more than this.
Is it?
If Your Excellency don't trust me
don't trust the power of Yin Iron
why did you bother to
snatch so many cultivators
to test this shard of Yin Iron?
Xue Yang,
you dare talk to me like that.
What a daredevil.
I don't fear death.
I fear boredom.
You help me find other three shards of Yin Iron
and subdue all other clans.
Then you can call your life worthwhile.
Please don't forget, Your Excellency.
I don't have the slightest interest in dominating others.
My request has been given
the first time I came to the Nevernight to see you.
I hope Your Excellency don't forget it.
Don't worry.
Once I've collected all four shards of Yin Iron
your wish will definitely be fulfilled.
Thank you in advance, Your Excellency.
Xue Yang.
West of Dafan, East of Gusu, North of Yueyang.
where is the last shard of Yin Iron?
Don't forget the promise between us, Your Excellency.
When Your Excellency ask me
to go to Chang clan of Yueyang for that shard of Yin Iron
I will tell you the last part then.