Brother.
The freaks are coming.
Brother. Open the door.
Brother.
Where are they?
On their way.
Why are you angry?
Boring.
Can’t you take a joke?
Doomed. They are really coming.
- There you are again. - Manager.
Get us some water.
Pay me.
You want water before you pay?
Go home for the money.
Give us some water first.
I’ll pay you tomorrow.
No way. Get money first.
They two
don’t look that horrible.
Oh, I forgot to tell Bro. Yang Jian.
Brother.
Brother, I saw them.
They have come.
Brother, I’m serious.
I’m not lying.
I’ll be a dog if I lie.
Where are they?
They came but left again.
Brother.
I’m telling the truth.
Why don’t you trust me?
Why are you so stubborn?
I’m so pissed off.
We finally see them
after waiting for so long.
If you ignore me,
I’ll go for them alone.
No, I don’t believe you.
Aren’t you
scared of them?
Go alone if you dare.
Okay. You said that.
What if I really bring
them here,?
As you wish.
Okay.
You'll see.
Stop!
Dear, please let me out.
I’m old
and useless.
Why will I be in danger?
Let me walk around
and maybe I can help.
I’ll help as many as I can.
You mustn’t get out.
When you leave, you’ll make trouble.
Don’t you know
humans are vicious.
If they catch you,
they won’t care for your age.
They want nothing, but money now.
Our family
is extremely poor.
When can I get money?
I’m warning you.
If you’re caught,
I won’t redeem you.
If I’m caught, you don’t need to redeem me.
Keep the little money
for your survival.
Stop!
Junior Brother?
Big Brother?
Get behind me.
You know what?
Don’t come in!
Or I’ll fight it out with you.
Sister-in-law.
Aren’t you?
You really are an outstanding woman
and look still attractive.
Have I met you?
No. But I met you.
I met you once
and I could never forget you.
Really?
Restrain yourself.
Don’t fall for it. He has never met you.
He’s my big brother.
Junior Brother.
Big Brother.
I spent so much time looking for you.
Big Brother, don’t.
Don’t. What are you doing?
We… we…
You’re expelled.
I shouldn’t have called you Big Brother.
And you saluted to me.
- How can I stand it? - Junior Brother.
How silly you are!
Master expelled me in a fit of anger.
How did that count?
I, Shen Gongbao,
am Master’s eldest apprentice
and I’ll be his ghost even if I die.
Well, Big Brother, get up.
I won’t.
Listen to me.
Junior Brother.
I’m sorry.
You’ve been suffering for years,
just because of me. It’s my fault.
Big Brother.
What do you mean?
What?
Don’t you know?
Master blamed you
for recommending me
and kicked you to the secular world
to marry such a…
Good wife…
You’ve been suffering everything,
for me.
Junior Brother.
I’m sorry to you.
Wait.
Are you telling the truth?
If it’s true,
Master should have
condemned me.
Why must he wait until now?
Why don’t you believe me?
Master told me that
you were taking the punishment for me.
Junior Brother.
I’m sorry to you.
- It’s all my fault. - Big Brother.
I don’t blame you.
If it’s true,
I’m willing to take the blame.
You really don’t blame me?
No.
But I have something to ask you.
Tell me.
Why are you in Zhaoge?
Aren’t you…
Expelled…
Driven out…
Or something else…
It’s hard to explain.
Feel free to tell me.
Okay.
Junior Brother.
After you were relegated to the secular world,
Master entrusted me
with the Deification Plan.
You?
Entrust you?
How come?
But Master
asked me
to go to Xiqi
and help the Zhou fight against the Shang.
He entrusted me with the task.
Junior Brother.
This time, I come to the secular world with a great task.
I should have gone to Xiqi
for the great cause.
But…
I miss you.
I want to see you.
That’s why
I’m in Zhaoge.
Husband.
Junior Brother.
Are you alright?
I am OK.
Are you serious?
You are not lying to me?
Junior Brother.
You’re my family.
My only family in the secular world.
Why would I lie to you?
If you’re not lying,
will the heaven or Master
is lying to me?
I came to the secular world twice
and almost got killed.
Finally, I saw some hope.
What’s the meaning of all this
if I don’t work for the Deification Plan?
Isn’t it a joke?
Am I really
a useless loser?
Junior Brother.
You’re extremely lofty-minded.
Maybe no one has ever
lied to you.
You lied to yourself.
Deification.
Husband, are you alright?
Don’t scare me.
Deification.
Sister-in-law.
I’m leaving him to you.
Do take care of him.
He’s a great talent.
Don’t hide his light.
Here.
If you need something,
come to me with the name card.
Thank you.
Take care of him.
See you.
Husband, what’s wrong with you?
How miserable my junior brother is!
How miserable!
Grand Priest, isn’t that Jiang Ziya?
Do you mean
he’s the rebel?
Didn’t you hear
He said he would help the Zhou
to fight against the Shang
and complete his great cause?
Wasn’t that indubitable evidence?
Yes. Yes.
What a bastard!
How dared he talk madness!
How treacherous he is!
Grand Priest, I really admire you
when you punish your junior brother.
But you look so sad.
You were brothers
from the same sect.
Why don’t we give him a way out?
No way.
He must die.
Why?
Because he saw
the most vulnerable side of mine.
I won’t want anyone to see it.
Bring him away.
What are you doing?
Why?
Why are you taking him away?
Stop!
Jiang Ziya is the rebel with a capital crime.
Crime?
What did he steal of rob?
If he didn’t steal or rob anything,
why can you say he committed a crime?
Why?
He talked madness and had treacherous marks.
Why do you think?
He’s a madman.
If he doesn’t talk madness,
how is he a madman?
Go ask around.
Everybody knows he’s mad.
No one takes his words seriously.
No one takes his words seriously?
Madman?
Great madman?
But why did I hear
Jiang Ziya was a living immortal
famous in town?
No, no.
If he’s an immortal,
how can you catch him?
Lord, I’m begging you.
Let go of him! Let go of him.
How dare you cheat me with a false name card?
This is Grand Priest Shen Gongbao.
He’s my husband’s senior brother.
Do you read?
The last character
is obviously wrong.
I…
What money is this?
Why is it so smelly?
Cat shit?
What a senior brother you have!
You’re both losers!
How dare you curse me!
I’ll take you to the burning torture platform.
Bastard!
You hurt my husband.
And you want to hurt me, too?
Hurt you?
Who cares for you?
As long as I take you,
I can execute Jiang Ziya.
What do you mean?
Take me
and you can execute my husband?
Why can you say so?
Why?
Let me tell you.
You’re the reincarnation of Jinx.
They put you
beside Jiang Ziya
to steel him.
But I think you come to get him killed.
Nonsense!
It’s getting late.
Don’t you waste your time!
Take her away.
You!
Go!
You bastard!
- Go. - Let go of me.
Let go of me.
Jiang Ziya, it’s all your fault.
All your fault.
You ruined
my life.
You keep practicing and dreaming about being an immortal.
Your Master and senior brother are liars.
The money Shen Gongbao gave you
was fake.
His name card is fake, too.
Liar!
Shen Gongbao is a liar?
Yes! He’s a big liar!
Awesome! Really awesome!
Shen Gongbao is a liar.
That means
my master isn’t a liar.
When he’s a liar,
I don’t need to trust him.
Awesome!
Shen Gongbao is a liar.
Awesome!
What the fuck!
We’re dying.
Why do you think it’s awesome?
I think
you should go to hell
and ask for a judgement
and seek justice.
As long as Master didn’t lie to me,
I would fear nothing.
Even if I die,
I must bring the truth back.
But I’m scared.
I’m not an immortal. And I don’t want to die.
Are you still scared?
Much better.
Husband.
As long as I’m with you,
I’ll resign myself to fate.
The old man who is wheeling the trolley.
Are you Marquis Ji?
How are you doing?
Do you remember me?
Oh, the man tied on the pillar.
Are you the man who sold the flour?
Why are you here?
I come here for the debt.
You owe me the money for flour.
Do you remember?
You forgot.
But I didn’t.
If you didn’t,
why didn’t you come to me?
When we’re here,
how can I pay you?
I told you.
You would come to me one day.
You owe me some flour.
I’ll give you a state back.
Fire.
Wait.
What did you say?
Marquis Ji.
So many people
have been burned on the pillar.
But you haven’t made a sound yet.
Are you going to
go against the order
for such an unknown old man?
Please invite His Majesty here.
Uh…
Invite His Majesty here right away.
Yes, My Lord.
What?
Ji Chang invited me?
He asked me to see him,
instead of coming to me.
Who does he think he is!
He must be losing his head.
Yeah.
Why does he think he can invite you?
How can he succeed?
Don’t he fear to get hurt.
How stupid Ji Chang is!
Give my order.
Lash him forty times
and wake him up!
Please show some mercy, Your Majesty. He’s too old.
How can he survive
the lash for forty times?
He will die.
Can’t I lash him?
He’s a guilty minister.
If I kill him, so what?
Your Majesty.
Ji Chang is old,
but not yielding.
When he’s alive, he’ll always be trouble.
I meant to kill him.
But I have scruples for old ministers.
Otherwise, why would he still be alive?
He’s no longer what he was.
Since he came to Zhaoge,
he has been living in a state of ignorance
and killing time.
He lost all his dignify in the royal court.
This is a good timing to kill him.
You’re right.
Ji Chang is insignificant now.
Why must I still keep him alive?
Take my order.
Ji Chang went against me and must be burned.
Your Majesty.
It’s in the early morning.
What made you so angry?
It’s all Ji Chang’s fault.
We woke you up, my dear?
Ji Chang?
Wasn’t he dead long ago?
Exactly.
When he arrived in Zhaoge,
he was dead.
Your Majesty. Look.
Grand Priest
can’t even understand
my joke.
How stupid he is!
My dear.
You’re naughty again.
I think
he wants to kill Ji Chang
more than you do.
Your Majesty.
I heard
Ji Chang went against you.
What did he do?
He asked me to see him.
Is that going against you?
Then I should have been killed millions of times, huh?
How can he compare to you?
Besides,
he asked me to the burning torture platform.
Invite… he invited you.
Your Majesty.
You don’t want to go?
Sure, I can’t go there.
But I want to go.
I feel bored in the palace.
This is a chance
that I can take a walk there.
Do you really want to go?
That is an execution place
where people are killed.
Dear, aren’t you scared?
I want to go.
Fine, I promise
to take you there.
Grand Priest.
Come with us.
Yes, Your Majesty.
My dear.
If it wasn’t for you,
I would have killed him long ago.
Husband, wake up.
Look! His Majesty is coming!
Look! Look!
I saw him.
Consort Su is here, too.
That’s Consort Su?
How beautiful and thin she is!
She’s much thinner than me.
Shen Gongbao is here, too.
Where is he?
Why didn’t I see him?
He’s hiding himself.
Hiding himself?
Then how did you see him?
I didn’t see him.
I divined.
You divined?
I forgot.
You’re an immortal and you can divine.
Since you can divine,
why didn’t you see
we would be tied here?
Do you know
why Shen Gongbao is hiding?
He’s a liar.
He must feel ashamed to see us?
No.
Then why?
He’s scared.
He’s scared of me.
He’s jealous of me.
Look what a situation you’re in!
Why will he be jealous of you?
My dear, look at them.
Where’s Shen Gongbao?
Shen Gongbao!
Here.
Are you too scared to look at them?
He’s more scared than a woman.
Greetings, Your Majesty.
Ji Chang.
Why did you ask me here?
Your Majesty.
Peach trees in my orchard
finally blossomed and yielded fruits.
The first peaches just grew mature.
I hurried
to pick them over night.
Today, I bring them for you.
What did you say?
I had so many people
come here,
just to try
your peaches?
I’m wholehearted to present you my treasure.
Please enjoy the peaches.
Ji Chang.
How dare you!
How dare you tease me?
I don’t dare.
Since I migrated to Zhaoge,
I’ve been growing fruits
because of my incompetence in other things.
I fertilized them and watered them round the clock.
I never got lazy,
hoping that
one day Your Majesty could try
the fruits from Xiqi.
Stop finding excuses.
I own the whole country.
I’ve tried all fruits.
Why do you care for your mere peaches?
Besides, are fruits treasures?
Don’t you feel ashamed?
But I’ve got nothing else,
except my true heart and wish.
They represent my loyalty.
I didn’t expect so many peaches!
Ji Chang.
Do you really
grow such fruits
by yourself?
Yes.
Since the Shang was founded,
my family has been favored by kings.
I’m too weak to do something useful.
When I’m favored,
I can repay little.
I really feel sorry for my ancestors.
I have nothing, but the fruits.
I want to give them to you
as a humble gift.
I’ll feel relieved
if you like them.
Well.
You mean good.
Bring them up.
What’s wrong?
Did he
forget us?
Lord Ji.
Master Ji!
Be quiet!
Your Majesty.
Don’t eat Ji Chang’s fruits.
Why?
He fertilized
his fruits
with ashes of the dead.
Won’t you be like eating a dead man?
Don’t eat them.
Great.
I love the peaches.
Your Majesty.
If you don’t want them,
give them to me.
You like them?
Yeah.
This is a lavish gift.
It’s coincidental and wonderful.
See?
I’m a vegetarian and fruits are my favorite.
This is coincidental.
Ji Chang came with nothing,
and finally had a harvest of fruits.
Getting fruits of nothing at all.
That is wonderful.
Your Grace, you have a great eloquence
and explains so well.
But…
like I said,
Ji Chang grew the fruits
with ashes of the dead.
Won’t you be…
Anyway,
I don’t dare to eat.
That’ll be fantastic.
Much better.
Great peach!
It’s sweet and crisp.
Grand Priest.
Don’t you want a try?
Thank you, Your Grace.
I don’t have the luck to enjoy it.
I’m glad you like it.
I’ll accept the gift for you.
Ji Chang.
I accept your peaches
so that your efforts won’t be wasted.
I hope I can present you
with fruits every year.
Ji Chang.
You’re already in your eighties.
How long
do you think you can live?
Your Majesty.
You decide my fate.
When you want me to live, I don’t dare to die.
How arrogant!
If I want to you
to live until you’re two hundred years old,
and grow peaches for me
in the rest of your life,
do you agree?
Can you do that?
That’s just what I want.
I will try my best.
Ji Chang.
You made a contribution by presenting the fruits. I should award you.
Tell me. What do you want?
Husband. Here is our chance.
We’ll be saved. We’ll be saved.
Restrain yourself.
Don’t get too excited early.
Wait and see.
Your Majesty.
I want to go home.
I’ve been yearning to go home.
Please show mercy on me
and allow me to go back to Xiqi
and get reunited with my families.
Husband.
Look what he said.
What was he talking about?
How did you
know him?
You care for him.
But what about him?
He only cares for himself.
But you still think of him.
And want to help him to fight against…
Shut up.
Are you expected a quicker death?
You bastard!
How stupid you are!
He doesn’t even remember us.
If I knew…
Look at him!
He’s deaf
and blind.
Look at his white hairs.
Just like garlic.
He’s in his eighties.
What can he do?
You’re wrong again.
He isn’t deaf or blind.
Besides,
he knows more than we do.
He can see through people more easily than we do.
Ji Chang
really is a rare talent.
I’m right about you!
Why are you still praising him?
He’s playing a game,
where he will definitely lose.
He’s the only one in the world
who can win the hopeless game.
Great, Ji Chang.
How dare you
make such a request!
You want to exchange freedom with only a few peaches?
Aren’t you daydreaming?
You really are seeking your doom.
I should kill you.
Your Majesty, you asked me
and then I told you what I wanted.
How dared I hide the truth from you?
Be cautious, Your Majesty.
Ji Chang is brave and ambitious.
Your Majesty.
He told the truth, but you still blamed him.
If he wanted something else,
would you believe me?
I’m afraid you would have been angrier.
Dear, you’re right.
But how can I release him?
He’s asking for something
I can never give him.
If you can’t,
then don’t.
Why are you getting angry?
You’re right.
Why didn’t I realize
such a simple reason?
It’s so clever of you, Dear.
But Your Majesty…
Shut up!
You always upset me.
Ji Chang.
You made such a big request.
I can’t give it to you.
Why don’t you ask for something else?
Your Majesty.
I’ve been busy cleaning the platform.
But I’m too old and weak.
May I ask
for one day off?
I’m dying.
I’m not dying!
You only want this?
Can this be an award?
Yeah.
He’s been working hard for years,
and only wants one day off.
If others know it,
they may think you’re too mean, Your Majesty.
Think about something else.
But I can’t think of one.
How about this?
Let’s put it another way.
Please grand amnesty to crimes on the burning torture
one day.
Good idea.
It helps to fulfil Ji Chang’s merciful deed,
and also shows your generosity, Your Majesty.
Isn’t that the same?
Fine. I approve of it.
Your Majesty.
Don’t do that.
Those tied to the burning torture pillar
are accused of capital crimes.
They’re of the same party with Ji Chang.
They’re merely
old and poor people.
Grand Priest.
What’s wrong with you?
Why do you always have alarmist talks?
Are you desiring to stir up trouble?
No, Your Majesty.
Your Majesty,
if you don’t take my advice,
you will regret someday.
I don’t believe it.
Will the sky fall
when the burning torture pillar is out of service for only one day?
Your Majesty.
If you don’t kill him,
he’ll be great trouble.
He will hurt your throne.
Him?
He can’t even kill a bug!
Shen Gongbao.
Do you think
my throne is made of paper?
How absurd you are!
Nonsense!
Your Majesty, let me explain.
Shen Gongbao.
His Majesty just made you the Grand Priest
and now you’re self-satisfied?
Don’t forget.
His Majesty only believes
what he sees.
Somebody. Kick him out.
Wait. Your Majesty.
Jiang Ziya is tied
to the burning torture pillar.
Your Majesty.
He really seems to be the immortal
the queen invited.
Good eye, Your Grace.
I’m Jiang Ziya.
Oh, it’s really you.
Tell me.
Where did you take Yang Jian?
And who freed you
from the prison?
Your Majesty.
He’s cultivating the immortality.
How can a secular prison
lock him up?
Don’t you think so?
Your Majesty.
Don’t listen to Consort who talks…
Defend Jiang Ziya.
How dare you!
How dare condemn my dear consort?
Sorry, that was a slip of my tongue.
Leave it alone
if Jiang Ziya is an immortal.
We must make him
turn in Yang Jian.
Yang Jian had long schemed
to kill you.
His Majesty is awe-inspiring over the country.
Why will he care for
a boorish guy who has only animal strength?
Besides,
I don’t know where Yang Jian is.
But he isn’t in Zhaoge.
When His Majesty
condescendingly agreed to
duel with Yang Jian,
he didn’t think anything
of him.
Grand Priest.
Aren’t you
underestimating His Majesty?
Dear, you made some sense.
If I try to pick a quarrel
with such a stupid boy,
that’ll be beneath my dignity.
He’s a mere ant.
As long as he stops making trouble,
I’ll let him run his own course.
You’re right, Your Majesty.
Jiang Ziya.
His Majesty is showing mercy on you.
If he dares to come to Zhaoge again,
I will kill him myself!
Rest assured, Your Grace.
As long as His Majesty reigns,
Yang Jian will never
show up in Zhaoge.
Jiang Ziya.
Leave it alone
how you escaped from the prison.
But aren’t you dead?
Fei Zhong told me
you were dead.
There was even a funeral for you.
He said your wife
was crying crazily.
Damn! How dared Fei Zhong lie to me!
Your Majesty.
He didn’t lie to you.
I was dead.
But came back to life again.
Don’t you remember?
I’m the apprentice
of the Primeval Lord of Heaven in Kunlun Mountain.
How would I die so easily?
Immortal?
I’ll turn you into ashes
with the burning torture pillar
and see if you can come back to life again.
Your Majesty.
A king tells no jokes.
You just promised Ji Chang to
grand amnesty for one day.
Even if you want to burn Jiang Ziya,
you should do it some other day.
You’re right, Dear.
Every word of mine carries weight.
I can’t change my promise.
Your Majesty.
You can’t keep Jiang Ziya alive.
You must kill him.
I think you’re making trouble.
You both are apprentices
of the Primeval Lord of Heaven.
Did you have personal grudge with him
and want to kill him by using His Majesty?
But Your Majesty.
Jiang Ziya did say something
treacherous!
Fei Zhong and You Hun
heard him.
They play a double game
when they speak to different people.
Don’t I know?
I don’t dare to lie to you, Your Majesty.
You don’t dare?
Didn’t you say
Jiang Ziya had little power
and only did humble work?
Didn’t you say
he could only deceive people?
Why could he come back to life
after he died?
The Primeval Lord of Heaven helped him!
Grand Priest.
Do you want His Majesty
to fight with the Primeval Lord of Heaven?
His Majesty isn’t scared.
But if an immortal demonstrates his power,
innocent people will get hurt.
How can His Majesty bear to do it?
Your Majesty, listen to me.
Somebody!
Here. Here.
Take Grand Priest away
and never let him go back to the palace again.
Let’s get back.
What’s the bad taste?
Ashes of the dead.
I’ll kill you!
Are you going to kill me?
The ashes are medicine to get you over a shock.
I’m not dead?
Husband, am I dreaming?
I’m not dead.
You were dead.
But the King of Hell didn’t dare to accept you
since you were so fierce.
You.
Tell me.
Who saved us? Who?
Who else could it be?
Ji Chang?
Why didn’t I remember
he saved us?
I don’t understand. I don’t.
You don’t need to understand.
He didn’t say anything about us
or saving us.
But he did
save us.
He’s our lifesaver.
Lifesaver?
I don’t remember the lifesaver.
But I can remember the bastard!
Your fucking senior brother.
He framed us up.
I didn’t expect him to be
so merciless and ungrateful, either.
It seems he didn’t get the mission.
But really wanted to kill me.
What should we do?
He’s now promoted
as the Grand Priest.
Aren’t we
the meat on his chopping board?
We’re lucky enough to escape today.
But will he let go of us in the future?
I told you
we couldn’t stay in Zhaoge.
But you didn’t trust me.
If you had listened to me,
we wouldn’t have suffered this.
What does the complaint help?
It’s all your fault.
You get me implicated.
Tell me. What should we do in the future?
I don’t know.
Don’t know?
You can divine, can’t you?
I can divine the fate.
But I can’t divine the will of people.
Shen Gongbao isn’t a fate.
He defied the laws of nature. So he was an accident.
Out of the prediction.
Now we can’t escape.
Will we await our doom?
He stopped me with an accident.
I must take him by surprise, too.
I’m thinking. Don’t beat me.
Since there’s no turning back,
why don’t I
move ahead in order to hide the intention to retreat?
Let me have a look at the apple!
Is it sweet?
- Enough. Enough. - So red.
You’re always eating! Let’s go.
Come on.
Look over there.
Look over there. So delicious.
Let me try yours.
Why are they gone?
Why do they come and go
like shadows?
How fast they ran!
You…
Which of you attacked me sneakily?
Guess.
If you guess correctly,
I’ll give the dough figurine to you.
Who the hell is he?
He smiles so purely.
Is he…
Is he flirting with me?
Cute boy!
You look so handsome.
It must be you!
You’re right.
What do you want?
If you come, I’ll do you a mischief.
Stay away from me.
Or I’ll do you a mischief.
I’m telling you.
What do you want?