Once upon a Time in LingJian Mountain
Episode 15
Dad, please don’t cry.
I’m going for practice rather than a funeral.
If you keep crying,
how can I go anywhere?
How can I stop crying?
I don’t want you to suffer.
Don’t worry about me.
But you.
I have my inn in your hands now.
We haven’t earn much money these years,
but at least we didn’t close it down.
Please take good care of it.
Make your mind easy.
I will certainly run it well.
Forget about it.
You are a dotard.
How could you read the account book?
Call it doing charity.
Please take good care of Wang Lu.
Strictly speaking,
I’m not his master.
But we get along for such a long time,
both his gifts and nature
are alright.
You should teach him well.
Don’t waste his talents.
Waste his talents?
It’s you who have wasted his talents.
I’ve made the plan for thirty years.
Silver and gold cannot let you stay here.
You just want to go down for practice.
I’ve no idea what’s
in your beautiful young girls’ mind.
Feng Ling.
There are people who don’t want you to go.
Go ahead.
All right. Don’t cry.
I thought you wouldn’t come.
We have always scrounged food in your inn.
We feel guilty.
I cooked this for you.
It’s from the royal kitchen of Canglan country.
Try it.
Thank you, Wen Bao.
Feng Ling.
I have nothing for you.
Keep this teleport charm to defend yourself.
Hai.
There is something I always wanted to tell you.
But I was afraid you would be upset if I said it.
Today, I’m leaving.
And I’m ready to risk everything.
I know you’ve had prejudice against demons.
I want to tell you that
the real evil is not a demon,
but the will.
If the will is bad,
no matter human or demon
will do evil.
If the will is good,
even a demon
will do good.
Would you believe it?
What’s the matter with you?
I have taught you so much for nothing.
Everyone brings a gift, but you’re empty-handed.
I knew you would say that.
What’s this?
A fruit.
I thought about it all night,
but I still don’t know what to give you.
So I can only give you something
you don’t have but you want the most.
Do you want to take another beating?
After today,
I don’t know when I can take a beating from you.
A bit reluctant.
Rest assured.
When I return with honors someday,
I’ll beat you to death.
Beat you to the level of Gold.
It’s a deal.
Your master really cares about you.
You should be good and behave.
Don’t look for trouble.
After all, she is the shame of LingJian Mountain.
She herself is a big trouble.
I can’t stand seeing her like that.
I gotta go.
Take care.
My dear Ling.
Master, excuse us.
I don’t want you to leave.
You look furtive.
What’s it?
Secret.
You grow up and rebellious.
Now you have a secret.
Actually, I can have no secret.
If
you can stamp this paper,
I will tell you everything,
including my own secret.
No interest.
Master.
If you still don’t approve my application today,
it will be too late.
You know how much
the opportunity for practice means to Hai?
Who says I won’t?
I already applied for you.
Four.
All of you.
Master. You’re kidding, right?
Who are they?
You’ll know.
If you want to change it,
tell the leader yourself.
If we tell him this now,
we both will die.
How can I make you obey me?
Dissension and discord.
Unite human with sword.
Could it be…
Are you dancing a sorcerer's dance?
Keep your body below your waist stable.
Don’t be so flippant.
I’m practicing my sword. None of your business.
Why is it none of my business?
Your practice is neither fish nor fowl.
You are sullying Kunshan Sword.
Turn up your nose at me, don’t you?
Do not forget who the boss is.
Do not come the heavy over me.
Believe it or not.
I’ll melt the sword right now.
Blacksmith.
Bastard.
I’ll never mind your business any more.
I promise.
A cocky little sword spirit.
You think I’m scared?
Sword spirit?
Sword spirit.
Sorry. Miss Liang Qiu.
My fault.
You’re the boss. I’m the little one.
Please turn it back.
That’s more like it.
Magic is amazing, huh?
Try to crush me if you can.
Look at you. Got frightened?
I told you to let her surrender.
But I didn’t expect you to surrender.
Not bad. You come in time.
She almost has broken my legs.
It’s you who drew the sword.
It’s your choice of reserving her memories.
I already kindly reminded you.
But you keep looking for trouble.
Now you believe in me?
Alright, don’t be scared.
Sword spirit is a girl.
You’re always a butter-tonsiled flippant.
Keep praising her.
Then she may obey you.
Am I right, little sword spirit?
Maybe scolding you
will be more helpful than praising her.
You’re asking for trouble.
Sorry about that.
The leader died?
In your dream.
I’ve been expecting his death
for several decades.
But it never happened.
What does the bell ring for?
Mobilization meeting for practice.
Dearie.
I have some surprise for you.
Don’t forget to greet it with anticipation.
You finally come. Here.
Wang Lu, why are you late?
I…
I don’t want to listen to
your feeble excuses.
Are you all waiting for me?
Yeah. Right.
Is everyone here?
Yes.
I’m calling you all together here
to assign you
a very important task.
In order to strengthen the development
of talents of Lingjian Sect,
improve your personal comprehensive strength,
we decided to
assign you to the mortal world
to finish the appointed tasks
from tomorrow.
It’s a one-year practice.
Yeah. One year later,
write a paper of not fewer than 5,000 words
according to your own practice.
The quality of the paper will directly affect
the results of the final evaluation.
It’s proposed by the leader
and decided by a show of hands by the masters.
Subject of the paper is
the relations between the immortal and human.
Are we all clear?
Yes.
Fang He.
Group them.
Now listen up, everybody.
Bluntly, Lingjian Sect
has been at peace for hundreds of years.
It’s asking for trouble.
It requires us to find the presence.
Wang Zhong.
What do you mean by asking for trouble?
Why do we ask for trouble?
Group II.
I…
I… I don’t know how to say.
Yue Xinyao.
How do we ask for trouble?
What’s wrong with you?
Master Fang He is making the name list public.
See which group you’re in.
Group III.
Wang Lu.
Hai Yunfan.
Wen Bao.
Liuli Xian.
What?
Group IV.
Mu Xiao.
Xue Yin.
Great. It’s great.
We are in the same group.
We are the best partners, aren’t we?
Yes.
Group V.
Why?
Master is absolutely screwing me.
The annoying sword spirit is not enough.
Here it is the “active volcano”.
She has deliberately put me on the road to ruin.
Group VI.
Surprise?
It’s scary.
Why don’t you have gratitude?
Gathering two successor disciples
in one group
can be called a legend
in Lingjian Sect.
How did you make it?
What were you thinking?
Liuli’s master is Ao Guanhai.
I can’t find the second one
who obeys me like him
in Lingjian Sect.
Look at you.
I can’t stand you.
Aren’t you afraid that Liang Qiu exposes you?
Well then return the sword to me.
I’ll tell her myself.
Fine. Just kidding. Master.
I’ll persuade her right now
into showing filial obedience to you.
Since you are so obedient,
for pity’s sake,
I’ll teach you Wuxiang Magic.
Tomorrow I will go down for practice,
you haven’t taught me the magic until now.
Why?
You just broke through the 9th level.
You couldn’t learn even if I taught you earlier.
Thank you.
Which set do you want to learn?
How many do you have?
At least
ten or twenty.
Stop cheating me to make detours.
Okay?
Can you filter them before giving me the choices?
Good eyesight.
I have two.
The most powerful Wuxiang Magic.
One is great perseverance.
And the other is great intelligence.
Which one do you prefer?
Great intelligence.
You are choosing the easy way.
I’m not stupid.
If I choose the one with great perseverance,
you will say I can get limited success
after practicing for more than few hundred years.
I won’t let myself be fooled.
Don’t assume the type with great intelligence
doesn’t need perseverance.
It’s opposite.
The one you choose might be more difficult.
Open it.
You are playing me.
The so-called great intelligence
means you must create
your own magic.
Wait a minute.
Create?
Then why do I put myself under you?
Don’t you think my teaching idea
is advanced and special?
So special.
Now I order you to customize an
exclusive magic for me.
Otherwise, don’t think about leaving.
Lu.
Calm down and listen to me.
The so-called magic is the fundamental
for fighting an enemy in an actual combat.
You must take your Kunshan Sword
to get your own magic
by means of the practice.
Because if you just use one type of magic,
it will be easily broken.
Then it means you have finished the discipleship.
In those years,
I have experienced all
step by step, too.
There is no easy way out.
Make a greater effort, boy.
Master.
Got it.
Pack up your things.
Do good in the practice
with the sword and esoterica I gave you.
See you.
You want to leave me to die.
I’m not that stupid.
I have the other choice
even it is difficult.
Nothing?
Wang Wu.
Our task is…
Destroying the Qianling Sect.
It sounds exciting.
Is the Qianling Sect
the heresy
with the branch destroyed by your master?
Correct.
Seems like that
my master and I
will keep being against the Qianling Sect.
Master, don’t worry.
I will make effort to fulfill your last wish.
What?
- Master Wang Wu. - Master Wang Wu.
Master, why are you here?
I miss you.
I’m here to say goodbye.
Not in good faith?
I’m here because there is one thing
I want to remind you.
Now listen.
In addition to practicing,
you will have another task
to complete.
You have to cut off the threads.
Cut off the threads?
What’s the reason?
Immortal and human have different ways.
No joking.
The biggest difference between them
is not power
but longevity.
For disciples like you in training period of Power,
many of them are 100 years old.
Let alone the others.
So,
since you enter the Immortal Cultivation world,
there is one thing that is inevitable.
You will see that your relatives and friends
pass away before you.
What do you mean?
Go home and see your parents before practicing.
As time goes by,
it won’t be long before
you find they are getting old
and die.
It’s their destiny
as well as your fate.
Alright.
I am done.
Good luck, you guys.
Goodbye.
Bye, Master.
Wang Lu.
Where is our first stop?
As Master said,
let’s go home first.
Liuli’s home is here in the Lingjian Mountain.
No need to go back.
Although I miss my father,
my home is in Canglan,
not in Cangxi State,
and it is out of the designated area.
I can only get back next time.
How about Hai?
My parents died.
In this world,
I already have no home.
You are my families.
How about
go to my home first?
Visit my parents?
Where is your home?
Over there.
Wang Village, Northeast of Dog Ear Mountain,
Wuhou County, Dongdao Province, Cangxi State, Ming.
Wang Village?
We can’t wait. Let’s get going.
Come on. What are you looking at?
Uh.
Come on. Let’s go.
Well.
Next, over Dog Ear Mountain,
it’s the former residence of immortal Wang Lu,
the world’s best immortal in the future.
Wang Lu.
This time you return home,
villagers will certainly stream out
to welcome you along the roadside.
Of course.
You are lucky.
The open-air banquet in Wang Village
is unique in Dongdao Province.
There are a lot of delicious foods.
Delicious foods?
Why didn’t you tell us earlier?
I’m gaunt with hunger.
Open-air banquet. Open-air banquet.
What’s the open-air banquet?
It’s the dinner for a lot of people.
- Then. - Wait a minute.
For what, Hai?
My parents are very kind.
Don’t worry.
Not that, Wang Lu.
I just looked over with Qi inspection,
seems there is some problems in Wang Village.
In the region of a hundred miles,
the nimbus is light green.
Except Wang Village, it’s yellow.
I once looked up
the books and records in the library.
There are three possibilities.
A drought or flood.
Death of a great man.
A demon or evil.
It’s luxuriantly green here.
A drought or flood is impossible.
More impossible for the second reason.
I’m the great man.
Is it…
A demon or evil?
Demon or evil?
Are they powerful? Can we fight?
Powerful?
They are severely blind.
If they dare behave atrociously in Wang Village,
I will skin them for a full formal banquet.
What is a full formal banquet?
Edible?
Delicious?
Corn.
Let’s go.
Come on.
Yue.
Gui, how’s your business?
Hei.
Hurry off.
Get away from him.
Don’t look.
I…
Is that the…
Come on. Don’t look.
Hurry. Come on.
Come on. He is from the heresy.
Don’t look. Come on.
What’s wrong?
Why are they so shy
when seeing me?
Did I become more handsome?
I become handsome?
Liar.
Brother Wang Lu. Brother Wang Lu.
Nice to see you.
Are you alright?
Puppy.
I told you not to run.
But you don’t listen.
Do you want to be spirited off
like your sister?
What?
Lan is spirited off?
What’s wrong?
Let me take a look.
When I become an immortal,
I will get my sister back.
Aunt Liu.
What’s it in the bottle?
It’s the holy water from the fairy.
It can treat all the various illnesses.
You are known as going for cultivation.
Why?
Haven’t you ever seen this?
Let’s go.
Brother Wang Lu.
- Come on. - Brother Wang Lu.
- Brother Wang Lu. - Hurry.
Wang Lu.
Why does it seem like
the villagers don’t like you?
They are shy
while seeing a handsome like me.
Is that Fugui’s son, Wang Lu?
Grandpa Qinian. Long time no see.
How are you?
Just so so.
Neither good nor bad.
Let me introduce.
This is my friend Hai.
Liuli and Wen Bao.
Nice to meet you.
Welcome to Wang Village.
Grandpa Qinian.
Why do I have the feeling that the villagers
don’t welcome me?
There must be some misunderstanding.
In any case,
let’s go to my home first.
Come on. This way.
Okay.
Come.
Actually, it’s not that the villagers
don’t welcome you.
During the years after your leave,
things have happened in the village.
Is there a demon in the village?
Why do you
speak like this?
How can you?
If it is heard by the immortal,
what should we do?
Immortal?
What do you mean?
After the Age of Chaos,
nobody can really be an immortal.
Stop talking nonsense.
What Age of Chaos?
I don’t know what you are saying.
But now it seems that
Hu is right.
You have fallen into a wrong path.
You’re right.
Such kind of master
will certainly make me misled.
By the way, Grandpa Qinian.
Who is the immortal you mentioned?
Is she in our village?
Not now.
After another period of time,
The fairy will come again
to deliver the pre-destined man.
Fairy? Deliver?
How?
By drinking the holy water gifted by the fairy,
Magic Root will come out after 49 days,
and one will become attached to immortal.
If one smears the holy water on the wounded part,
it will be cured.
Seems it’s that thing.
Within these years,
lots of villagers have been delivered,
and become attached to immortal.
Who are they?
Wang Xiaohu did well.
He touched the fairy,
and brought about many immortal causes here.
Who else?
Is there any other people delivered?
Not to mention Wang Dafu.
Others include Wang Tiezhu,
Wang Laogen,
and Wang Shanyao. Almost seven or eight of them.
What a coincidence.
Those delivered by the fairy are rich people.
Does it mean
the immortal cause is in direct proportion to deposit?
Don't talk nonsense.
Qianling Sect goes straight.
How could they seek the vulgarian?
Qianling Sect?
How about my father?
He is so rich.
Why didn’t they develop my father first?
Your father…
Seems he hasn’t had the luck.
Since Wang Xiaohu rescued in time,
the fairy agreed reluctantly.
But in order to express sincerity,
your father needs to build a yard for the fairy.
A yard?
Yes.
There are a lot of empty houses in our village.
But that cannot be used for the fairy.
Just tell me how much they need.
About 700,000 to 800,000 taels.
700,000 to 800,000?
Why don’t they go and rob?
Once your father builds the yard,
next time when the fairy comes to our village,
your father and you will be chosen.
Really?
Yeah.
Who brought the fairies here?
What’s the relation between him and Hu?
Mr. Zhou
is the two-star Ambassador of Qianling Sect.
He has lived in our village for a long time.
He is responsible for preaching the magic.
About Hu,
he is an assistant of Mr. Zhou.
Sure enough.
Nothing.
You must be hungry.
I’ll go and get you some food.
Please wait a moment.
Wang Lu.
Seems the Qianling sect has taken root
in Wang Village.
No wander the niumbus is yellow.
So the evils are the remnants of the heresy.
Wouldn’t it be better?
We can idle away during doing the assignment.
Okay. You guys wait here.
I’ll go home and have a look.
Wang Lu.
If they make a false countercharge,
saying you are a heretic. What should we do?
How could it be possible?
The villagers had watched me grew up.
But that guy has come for only two years at most.
I’m the Successor Disciple of Lingjian Sect.
Why don’t they believe me?
Fine. Let’s talk later.
I’ll lose my property if I get there too late.
Mr. Zhou.
For the yard,
you have asked me to give you one million.
I’m just doing some small business.
And I don’t have that much money.
Seems Mr. Wang is reluctant.
No. No. No.
But I…
What?
The fairies set the value of silver at naught.
Building a yard
is just for you to show your sincerity.
Yes.
In that case,
let me tell you the truth.
I don’t think
I have enough fate.
I have saved silvers all my life
for my son to take a wife
and for my wife
to spend her remaining years in comfort.
This makes us perfectly satisfied.
About being immortal,
we’ve never thought about it.
About the yard,
let’s forget it.
Mr. Wang.
I’m afraid
it’s not up to you.
If you build the yard for Qianling Sect now,
when the fairy comes here one day,
the villagers will be favored.
Yeah. Right.
Will you ruin the opportunity and prospect
of the whole village
just for the small amount of silver?
Will you?
If it’s not because of Mr. Zhou,
I, only a woman,
wouldn’t have known my son has magic root.
Yeah.
Brother Fugui.
Please think for us.
Yeah.
Think for us.
Brother Fugui.
Please think for the villagers.
Make some concession.
As your friend, I will give 100,000 for you.
Is that okay?
Look. You are so stingy.
It’s just one million.
You are forcing me, aren’t you?
Mr. Wang, you are getting old.
You don’t want to be on the way of immortal,
we can understand.
But you should think about
your son.
Yeah.
Lu has fallen into a wrong path for two years.
Get the golden time lost.
If he can participate in Qianling Sect early,
with the grace of the fairy,
he will be an immortal one day.
That would be great.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Think about your son.
In this case…
The one million…
I…
Let’s say goodbye.
It’s ridiculous.
Your branch at White Moon was destroyed,
why are you still impenitent?
How dare you mess with me?
Seems like that it’s time for Cangxi State
to clear the rubbish.
Lu.
It really is you.
Dad. Please take a seat.
Who are you?
I’m Wang Lu.
Wang Lu?
You went for pursuing immortality two year ago?
Correct. What do you want?
Nothing.
But it seems like that you are
biased against Qianling Sect.
Who will be biased against shit?
How dare you
insult Qianling Sect?
Aren’t you afraid of annoying the fairy?
Then the village will be cursed.
Lu.
Watch your tongue.
Make your apologies to Mr. Zhou.
Yes. Apologize.
Yeah.
If it were not for your loose-lipped mouth,
the village wouldn’t have this big trouble.
What should your father do in the future?
Yes. Right.
Apologize.
Shut up.
Seems you did have learnt something
during the last two years.
Which sect were you in?
Lingjian Sect.
So you are a disciple of Lingjian Sect?
No wander you are of ordinary talent.
But no matter who you are,
you need to be reasonable.
Your act of insulting Qianling Sect without cause
and threatening the villagers
is indeed unreasonable.
You think Lingjian Sect
is more unreasonable than a heresy like yours.
Okay.
For the villagers’ sake,
I will let you figure it out.
The so-called Qianling Sect
is the number one heresy in Cangxi State.
They gang up with the officials and
cheat the villagers.
They do people great harm.
Before you give us a label hastily,
you should ask for the villagers’ opinions.
Everyone.
Have I ever cheated on you?
No. Never. Mr. Zhou.
Mr. Zhou. Your words
worth a month's study of books.
You make us
suddenly enlightened.
We will all listen to you.
Right? Fellow villagers.
Yeah. We will support you.
Nonsense.
Zhou.
Do not take the villagers as a shield.
Just because you said
everybody could become an immortal,
it can recognize that you are a low-grade.
Think about it.
If everyone becomes an immortal,
is there any normal people in the world?
Good question.
This is a problem that perplexes
the immortal world for thousands of years.
In the past, people thought that
opportunities are doomed.
Only few chosen ones
can be on the way of immortal.
Actually, that’s not the case.
God is fair.
Each of us has an opportunity.
But we haven’t found
our potential.
Only after the arrival of the fairy,
she invented, for the first time,
the holy water that can cultivate magic root.
Thus, we opened a door for all living things
for magic cultivation.
Then why do you charge for it?
To express your sincerity.
If you want to obtain one thing,
showing sincerity goes without saying.
Then what is your sincerity?
What do you mean by saying this?
You think it’s us
who push you to cultivate?
Of course.
The immortal world is always like this.
Disciples with good qualification
are always treasure no matter where they are.
Every few years, the sects
will take time and money to seek
talents with immortal causes.
Without paying,
they provide talents with resources.
But you guys
keep asking for money
of hundreds of thousands taels.
Just for several bowls of
useless water.
You even call it holy water.
Is this the way you show your sincerity?
Who told you the water is worthless?
Okay. Let’s say it has cost.
But you just said
the fairies set the value of silver at naught.
Do what you say.
Offer the holy water without precondition
to deliver all the pre-destined people.
It’s unnecessary to defraud my father for money
to build a yard.
Yes.
It makes sense.
It’s absolutely true.
Yeah. It’s unnecessary.
Yeah. Correct.
You nasty.
Blame yourself for bad luck.
Why you keep being against us?
You are so young with good quality,
but you don’t have the luck.
Today I will kill you.
Come on. Help yourself.
Are the dishes in good taste?
Delicious.
But Grandpa Qinian.
Do we have something else to eat?
I’m still hungry.
You little girl have a big appetite.
Help yourselves.
There are two main courses in the kitchen.
Main courses?
Yes.
Why doesn’t Wang Lu come back?
Is there an accident?
Please close your big mouth.
Okay.
How about
you keep eating,
and I go there to check it for you?
Thank you. Grandpa Qinian.
- Look. - Lu.
This is the wrath of heaven.
- Lu. - The wrath of heaven.
It comes true so quickly.
How is it possible?
The nail can penetrate the rocks in a moment.
And I fed the needle with toxicant.
It’s poisonous. You’ll be killed.
How could you…
Lu.
He is not a human.
He is a demon.
Demon.
No wander he is still fine.
Uh.
At the moment you enter,
I could feel the hostility in you.
You are not a kind guy.
But I had no proof.
Dear villagers,
I have to use
the trump of Qianling Sect, the Penetrating Nail
to have a try.
I didn’t expect that you are really a demon.
Once a human touches the toxic,
he will die without doubt.
But you
can be safe and sound after swallowing the nail.
It could only mean that
you are an impenetrable demon.
He is the demon. He is the demon.
No. It’s impossible.
He is my son, Wang Lu.
It’s impossible for him to be the demon.
Hai is right.
A cornered beast will do something desperate.
You pushed me.