The Untamed
Episode 35
How dare you hit me!
Never did my uncle do it to me!
Really?
But your uncle keeps saying
that he'll break your leg everyday.
He's just saying that.
What on earth do you want?
Let me tell you...
Hanguang Jun!
Hanguang Jun, I was wrong!
Hanguang Jun, I can explain!
Hanguang Jun!
This matter ain't over yet. I'll be back for you!
Little stupid.
I always thought
that Jiang Cheng would always stand on my side,
and Lan Wangji would be our opposite.
It never came to me
that things today
would turn out to be such a reversal of that.
Lan Zhan,
I'm fine.
What happened?
This is a common trace of evil spell.
When it comes to find me
I will make it dispersed anyway.
But you have to help me then.
I'm unable to cope with it alone.
By the way,
did you find him?
Where is him?
Is him the one we are looking for?
It's transferred from Jin Ling, isn't it?
You met Jiang Wanyin.
As long as we two are alive in the world,
we'll meet sooner or later.
Let's go. Let me carry you on my back.
Just a whipp by Purple Lightening.
Legs just feel a little numb. They aren't broken.
Besides,
I'm a adult man.
It's so embarrassing!
Embarrassing?
Not embarrassing?
You once wanted to carry me on your back.
No way did I want that.
You must have mistaken it.
It's impossible.
Never would you try to remember these.
Lan Zhan,
You... How's your leg?
Fine.
Don't pretend it's fine in every case.
Or,
I can carry you.
Everyone says that I have a bad memory.
Well, let it be so.
No carrying me.
What are you doing?
Lan Zhan,
you have recognized me in Dafan Mountain.
How did you notice it?
Want to know the reason?
You told me that yourself.
I told you that?
Because of Jin Ling?
Or Wen Ning?
I guess neither.
Think by yourself.
Just tell me. Please.
Put on the mask.
So it's really that old friend of ours, huh?
I don't know. I don't know. I...
I don't know anything.
I really don't know anything.
Hanguang Jun.
It's truly not me!
Hanguang Jun,
I was just passing by.
I know nothing at all.
Since you don't know,
let me tell the story.
Maybe you'll recall something
when I'm telling the story.
Who's this Childe?
Hanguang Jun,
is there any liquor?
About Walker Ridge,
there's rumor about the Man-eating Ridge and Man-eating Bunker,
but no real victim was ever found.
Thus they are all merely rumors.
And these rumors will keep people away from Walker Ridge.
So it was used as a defense line.
And it's only the first defense line.
Childe,
I feel we have met somewhere before.
Since there is the first line, surely there will be the second line.
The second line,
is the evil beings in Walker Ridge.
If some ordinary people intrude Walker Ridge,
fearless of the rumors,
or accidentally,
they'll run away in terror
after seeing the evil beings.
As for the third line,
it is the Disorientation Trap nearby the stone bunker.
If the first two lines
were set for the ordinary ones,
then the third,
is for those cultivators.
But only those ordinary cultivators.
If the cultivator possesses some spiritual tool or wonder dog,
or he specializes in disorientation trap,
or he is a well-known high-rank cultivator as Hanguang Jun,
then the last line
will be breached anyway.
The only function of these three defense lines
is to prevent the Man-eating Bunker
in Walker Ridge from being discovered.
As for who built the stone bunker,
the answer is clear.
The place is within the boundary of Nie clan of Qinghe.
Except Nie clan,
none can set these three barriers easily
within the boundary of Qinghe.
Besides you happened to appear near the stone bunker
and left an evidence.
What's Nie clan's aim to set stone bunker
in Walker Ridge?
Why are there so many corpses inside the wall?
Did it eat people?
Clan Leader Nie,
if you don't make it clear today,
you should expect when one day it's exposed
the other clans come together to confront you.
I'm afraid nobody would hear you
or believe you,
even if you want to explain then.
It's not Man-eating Bunker at all
but ancestral grave of my family.
Ancestral grave?
Your ancestral grave isn't for corpses
but for blades?
Hanguang Jun,
before I tell you,
would you please swear.
Since we two clans are friends for generations
and your big brother and mine are sworn brothers,
no matter what I'm going to say
you
and your friend
can never leak even one word to the public.
Even if it should be exposed one day,
please be my witnesses
and say something for me then.
Hanguang Jun.
Since you never lie,
I will trust you
if you swear.
As what you said.
Answer my question.
You said it isn't a Man-eating Bunker,
so whether did it eat human or not?
Yes.
No, no, no.
But...
It's not what you are thinking about.
These things
shouldn't blame my clan.
It's dozens of years ago,
when the rumor came up
that there was a Man-eating Bunker in Walker Ridge.
I only exaggerated the rumors
to spread them widely.
Please elaborate it.
Hanguang Jun,
you all know
that our clan is different from the other clans.
Decent cultivators all practice sword
as cultivation since the ancient time.
But...
Surely, not including Wei...
You know who...
He practice talisman as cultivation.
The founding progenitor of our Nie clan was a butcher.
So we all practice blades.
The blades carried by our previous clan leaders
all showed strong hostility and killing will.
Almost every previous clan leader
ended up possessed by the devil and died a violent death.
Besides, their fractious temperaments
also have a lot to do with it.
When previous clan leaders were alive,
the agitation of blades could be controlled by their owners.
Yet after their owners died, without control
they would become ominous weapons.
This sounds like wicked tricks.
Different. Different.
Wicked tricks are called so
because they are wicked and they murder.
Our blades don't need human sacrifices,
but ghost or spirit etc.
They have killed so many evils
in their whole life.
If no evil beings
were left for them to kill,
they would be restless
and haunt our clan.
Moreover, each blade only recognizes one owner.
Hence they can't be wielded by the others.
Offspring like me can't melt down the blades.
First, it's a great disrespect to progenitors.
Second, the problem may still remain.
They are such arrogant existence!
Tell me about it.
Those blades which followed my ancestors
through countless battles
and accompanied their cultivation
are arrogant existences indeed.
As the cultivation achievement of our clan leader
increased gradually,
the problem became worse and worse.
Until our sixth clan leader
he brought up a method.
Build a Man-eating Bunker?
Similar to it.
But at first what he came up with wasn't this one.
He just built two coffins and a stone bunker
to place the blades of his father and his grandfather.
What's strange is
that even if nothing valuable was placed inside the bunker,
hundreds of evil beings were oppressed there.
Hanguang Jun, let me explain.
We collected those evil beings out of no spite.
Our sixth clan leader said
since these blade spirits
wanted to fight with something wicked,
then we would give them something wicked
to fight with.
So we buried them together
as funerary objects
to reduce the agitation of the blade.
In this way,
the following generations could lead a peaceful life.
Then why you call it man-eating?
Not man-eating.
Even if it did eat someone
but not as what you think about.
What they built first was a big tomb for blades.
So it's quite a common tomb.
But later,
it was unearthed by a group of grave robbers.
It's bearding the lion in his den.
Exactly!
The grave robbers heard that there was
a big tomb of previous dynasty in Walker Ridge.
So they surveyed it first
and came prepared.
They rummaged around inside it
to find gold or jewelry.
But the blade spirit oppressed inside was aroused.
The blade spirit was wakened.
Right!
That's to say,
the evil beings oppressed broke trough the wall,
so sacrifices became less.
The group of robbers were taken as sacrifices.
You are right!
Since they entered Walker Ridge,
no one saw them out.
Even corpses.
Thus rumors came
that something inside Walker Ridge was man-eating.
Our clan thought
it's beneficial to spread the rumors.
In this way no one would near that place again.
Hence,
we polished the rumor about a man-eating bunker.
You two can look at this.
As for little Childe Jin,
I don't know what method he took
to explode a hole in the wall.
At the same time,
a skeleton of a robber was also smashed by the explosion.
Thus instantly after he entered
the Disorientation Trap inside was triggered off.
When he became dizzy,
he was instructed to bury himself inside the wall.
I often go there to check it up regularly
and I saw it when I just arrived today.
When I picked up this stone,
a dog came after me and bit me.
I was really...
This Blades Shrine
is kind of our ancestral grave.
Ordinary cultivators won't go there for night hunting
after knowing it's within our boundary.
Who knows...
Who knows that you could be so unlucky
to meet Jin Ling, an undisciplined boy.
Tell me about it.
Hanguang Jun,
and this Childe,
necessary or not,
I've told you everything today.
You must keep it as a secret!
I'll keep my promise.
Thanks a lot. Hanguang Jun.
So...
Can I take leave first?
Wait!
Brother Nie!
What's so interesting? Let me have a look.
Be careful!
This one is my favorite folding fan.
Look. It is exquisitely painted and uniquely constructed.
How's it? It is of the highest grade, isn't it?
In my opinion,
it's just so so.
What do you mean "just so so"!
The folding fan is exquisitely painted and uniquely constructed.
It is of the highest grade in the world.
Childe, you have a good taste!
I shall leave.
Lan Zhan,
what are you doing?
Clean the evil spell.
It's fine. I'll do it myself.
It has come to the upper thigh.
We should play the Requiescat.
Play it well.
You must have felt uncomfortable,
when enduring my noise so long that day.
What happened?
Is it used to the noise
and can't accommodate to my beautiful tune this time?
In these days,
I've never seen
it was so restless as today.
As if it was stimulated by something.
It's the thing on your leg.
Trace of evil spell.
Jin Ling got it when he was trapped in the stone bunker.
The sword ghost
reacts so intensively to the evil spell.
Does it mean...
Could it be that
Blades Shrine of Nie is the place
where the sword ghost is leading us.
Mending the wall over there. Over there.
Be careful. Careful.
Hanguang Jun and this Childe...
Clan Leader Nie,
you are mending the wall?
Yes. Yes. Yes.
I'm sorry
that you may have to
mend it again later.
Fine. Fine. Fine.
Wait!
Clan Leader Nie, don't worry!
We just want to
check the things buried inside your Blades Shrine.
We'll return them soon.
Help.
You...
This...
Use the Evil-subdue Qiankun pouch.
Later.
We don't know
what's the thing the sword ghost is leading us to.
Too dangerous to unseal it now.
You... What are you finding after all?
Could it be that we assumed it wrongly?
The sword ghost was not leading us
to the murder.
The sword ghost
is pointing out its owner.
No, no.
You must make a wrong assumption.
None of us in Nie clan practices sword.
We all practice blade.
Han... Hanguang Jun.
I'm not lying to you.
You...
Clan Leader Nie, you surely aren't lying to us.
We made a mistake.
And it's a big one.
The wicked spirit can attach to the sword
which can only prove that it's a spiritual weapon
But no one can say it's definitely sword ghost.
Clan Leader Nie,
another thing needs to bother you.
A... Another?
Nothing tricky.
Please help us
take all blades
out of the Blades Shrine.
What?
Hanguang Jun. Doesn't it cross the line?
Please. Clan Leader Nie.
Open it. Open it.
Yeah.
This is the last one.
So strange!
All these blades here.
Neither do they have trace of Stygian Tiger Amulet,
nor did the blade spirits leave them.
Could it be...
Brother Nie,
all your blades in Nie clan
are here?
All are here!
What?
You haven't done digging the ancestral grave of others?
I'm afraid not.
You... What do you mean?
Baxia.
You mean
Baxia the blade owned by Red Blade Master isn't here?
Big brother!
I'll kill you!
Huaisang!
Big brother!
Don't go there!
Big brother can't recognize us!
Big brother!
Big brother! Big brother! Big brother!
Big brother! Big brother! It's me. Big brother!
Big brother!
Big brother! Big brother!
It's me.
Big brother!
That's to say Red Blade Master broke all his tendons
in Jin clan's Floral Banquet
but fled away anyway.
Besides no one has ever seen his body.
Exactly.
This is similar to my case.
Lan Zhan,
if the blade spirit
is Baxia the blade owned by Red Blade Master,
then it leads us here
to inform us
who's its owner.
Say,
where could it take us next?
To west.
It seems the blade spirit won't let us off.
What do you say?
Do you think it'll take us to find Red Blade Master?
Makes sense.
Whoever left this blade spirit
in Mo's Manor,
he wants us to find Red Blade Master.
Hence,
his being possessed by the devil wasn't an accident.
Besides the blade spirit seems so uneasy
I'm afraid Red Blade Master
was murdered.
But,
even if he was murdered
how was I...
my Stygian Tiger Amulet involved?
Is there anyone who wants to frame me up again?
Time will tell.
Clan Leader Nie,
we brought you trouble just now.
Sorry for that.
You exaggerate it.
If it's really
my big brother's Baxia who committed the crimes,
we Nie clan won't sit idly and watch.
After I finish mending our Blades Shrine,
I'll come to see you
Hanguang Jun and Childe Mo.
If...
if big brother's body can be found,
then I..
I'll have...
Clan Leader Nie,
if we make sure it's his body,
Hanguang Jun will send you an urgent letter.
Let's go.
How's your trace of evil spell?
Almost healed.
A little remains.
I'm fine.
It's not this trace of evil spell that troubles me.
What do you mean "a little"?
A little means a little.
How can I tell you that?
Or let me undress to show you that?
Lan Zhan, let me ask you.
Do you think
those who unleashed the blade spirit in Mo' Manor
and those who killed Red Blade Master
are the same group?
Not the same.
I agree with you.
If he is the one who killed Red Blade Master
and doesn't want the body of Red Blade Master found by us,
it's impossible for him to have used the blade spirit
to hurt the people of Lan clan.
Because it's easy to be investigated
and discovered.
One tries hard to hide,
yet the other wants everyone to know it.
So they aren't on the same side.
The man who killed Red Blade Master
seems to know a lot secrets of Nie clan.
The man who left us the blade spirit
however knows a lot of our activities.
Both of them must be tricky to deal with.
Secrets are becoming more and more.
Step by step.
Then how did you recognize me?
Think it by yourself.
Lan Zhan!
It's late. Let's find an inn first.
= Qiting Tavern =
Good liquor. Lan zhan. It's good.
Sir,
the haunted house of Chang clan is there for years,
you'd better not go there!
Very dangerous!
I heard
scores of people of Chang clan
were all killed overnight.
These ghosts
trapped in the mansion
kept haunting around at night.
It happened about more than ten years ago.
Nothing like this happens nowadays.
Just because several cultivators passed by this place
and rested in our inn.
I remember they sat just at the seats where you are.
Cultivators?
Lan Zhan,
it's so unbelievable
after going here and there
we're back here again.
Lan Zhan,
you did it on purpose.
You don't know that at that night
the sky was tainted into red
so bloody
and the whole night resounded the sound of door-knocking.
So scary!
What happened later?
Later, several sword cultivators came
and took a guy away.
Who was taken away?
I don't know that.
Please enjoy.
You guys don't know?
It's Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan who caught Xue Yang,
the courtier of Wen clan here.
But now he's a courtier of Jin clan.
- Drink. - Let's Drink.
The little jerk didn't die
and became a courtier of Jin clan?
Not a courtier.
Sixteen years ago,
Xue Yang appeared at the Jinlintai suddenly.
All clans agreed with punishing Xue Yang.
Only Jin Guangshan objected.
You said that he murdered about fifty people of Chang clan
did anyone see it in person?
I can't even guarantee the life of one guy?
What happened later?
Later,
the only survivor Chang Ping of Chang clan
withdrew his confession.
Really?
Chang Ping declared
the massacre of Chang clan
had nothing to do with Xue Yang.
That was to set the tiger back to mountain.
It's not until Jin Guangshan died
and Lianfang Zun Jin Guangyao became the clan leader
that Xue Yang was punished.
That Xue Yang should have died later, right?
I heard he was pursued by his enemy.
Who cares!
Anyway he was never seen later on.
Even if he didn't die, he won't come for us anyway!
Come on. Drink.
I heard he had some association with Yiling Patriarch.
Really?
Drink. Drink. Drink.
Me again!
Drink. Bottom up.
It never came to me that after sixteen years
people still hold deep hatred
to Yiling Patriarch.
All bad things have connections to me.
Strange!
When Xue Yang was set free that time,
didn't my senior uncle and Song Lan
appear?
Xiao Xingchen disappeared
and Song Lan wandered faraway.
They were not seen again.
So many years passed.
Not even any news about them?
Lan Zhan.
Sixteen years ago
Chang Ping died of slow slicing
and lost his eyes overnight.
The weapon used to slice him
is
Xiao Xingchen's sword Frostwork.
What? Impossible!
So,
people all believe
it's the disappearing Xiao Xingchen who killed him for revenge.
Since we parted at Yueyang
I only met Song Lan once.
And I thought we would meet again,
but the world was turned upside down now.
I've never seen him since we parted.
To be honest,
I actually admire Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan.
We had the mission of tracking Yin Iron then.
But neither were they from big clans,
nor were they acquainted with Chang clan.
They ended up so miserably
only for what have nothing to do with them.
I just want to say things are...
Things are so unpredictable.
Yeah, things are unpredictable. Quaff down the liquor!