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♔ Follow My Instagram @skysoultan ♔ Episode 44
It’s OK.
Didn’t you say that?
We’re gonna be fine.
We will
pull it through.
Trust me.
Xiaotong, I’m sorry.
It’s all my fault.
I made you in trouble.
Don’t say that.
Is the Qiu Xiaotong you know
someone afraid of death?
Well, I seem to be like that.
I’m afraid of death,
so
we have to get out alive.
I’m sorry.
It’s all because of me.
Or we wouldn’t have been trapped here.
Xaiotong, I’ll help you out.
Hou Zhengze! What are you doing?
Did you get hurt?
I’m already a demon,
but I still can’t protect you.
It’s okay.
We will
be all right.
Trust me.
All of this will be over.
Tell me.
When it’s all over,
what will you plan to do?
Will this really be over?
It will.
I want to go back to Ye City.
I can make tofu.
We can open a tofu store.
Tofu?
OK. Then I’ll help you grind it.
And I’ll buy a donkey.
Then you won’t need to do that.
Then I will be in charge of the money.
OK.
All roads lead to the same place.
An Tingfeng,
where are we now?
This is
Witchcraft Altar of Mount Spirit.
I’m afraid we can’t leave here.
Finally the five gods are gathered
together after two thousand years.
Today,
we finally have the fight
we've been waiting for thousands of years.
Tell me,
where is Square Matrix?
God Fire,
why do you do such a rebellious thing?
Do you know that this
will make Nine-head
come back to the world?
Peng, you persuaded the wrong person.
God Fire is the last one of us
to regret.
God Metal,
you know that the Ten Sorcerers of Mount Spirit
would never compromise.
I don't want to embarrass you.
They won’t either,
as long as you give us the Square Matrix.
What if we don’t?
To seal Nine-head,
we have to get its power first.
We are the Ten Sorcerers of Mount Spirit.
The ten of us
will die for protecting Square Matrix.
They want to perish together!
Hongshuo?
Hou Zhengze!
Don’t come closer!
Hou Zhengze…
I remember it now.
I am the Square Matrix.
I was a rotten wood before.
I didn’t even have god essence.
But General,
you had been protecting me
for thousands of years
so that I got god essence and spirit.
Goumang, you have made great progress
after coming back from Qionghai.
As the God Wood,
it’s his duty
to control the wood in the world.
It’s nothing special.
It’s not a normal rotten wood.
It’s the Xun wood left by the God of Heaven
at the time of chaos.
But its spirit
has already gone.
But it’s still wood.
As long as it’s wood,
God Wood will have a way.
It’s no big deal.
Looks like
Xuanming, you are not convinced?
I don’t dare to.
But, Goumang,
you just came back from Qionghai,
you have to show some real skill.
See?
He is still not convinced.
Xuanming,
how about you give a spirit
to a wood?
That’s true.
Water generates everything.
God Water, I believe you can do
whatever I can.
As the God Water,
of course I can make
the wood alive.
OK.
Then that’s a deal.
This wood looks good.
It’s already dead thoroughly.
If I can really keep this
rotten wood alive,
what will you pay me?
I can teach you my Fire skill.
That’s nice.
What about you?
If you can really awake a wood,
what else can I, the God Wood,
give you
except my admiration?
It hasn’t started yet,
but you already sound jealous.
Do it first.
After the battle of
Demon Hunt,
Ten Sorcerers came to clean up the altar
and found me.
You left,
but I stayed.
They were afraid that
the power of Nine-head will be scattering.
They didn’t dare to deal with it.
So they keep protecting the Mount Spirit
and locking me up
in the adytum of Guanxin Pagoda
and I became the Square Matrix.
You
woke up?
You…
Who is talking?
You can go
find your master, God Water now.
Really?
But
I’m locked by the charm.
How can I get out?
Your power has grown strong.
You can separate your soul from your body.
As long as you leave
your wood body here,
the Ten Sorcerers won’t find that.
Then…
Who are you?
I got the power of you, General,
and the power of Nine-head.
And I absorbed the power of Mount Spirit
when I was locked here.
So my god spirit has grown a lot.
As time goes by,
I became Hou Zhengze,
who is both god and demon,
half human and half wood.
You said you own
the power of Nine-head?
Yes.
I’m the same as Princess Jinyang,
Witch Corpse
and Demon of Metal.
We both got the power of Nine-head.
Why stop me?
He is the Square Matrix!
He is Hou Zhengze!
He is my friend!
He is a demon.
Will you still stop me?
If you want to kill him,
kill me first.
Don’t go.
Let Baili Hongshuo
handle this alone.
Don’t you
want to get the power of Square Matrix?
Kill your friend
only to get power?
I’m sorry I can’t agree.
How could you be against me
for a demon?
Do you still
regard me as your brother?
You have always
been my most respected person.
I always
wanted to be like you
since childhood.
But I was wrong.
My brother who grew up
with me,
my brother I know has long died
in the execution ground of Ye City.
Now you are
eager for quick success without any conscience.
I taught your swordsmanship.
I gave you
Soul Leaving Sword in person.
After the death of my father,
it was me who took the responsibility of our home
so that you could
keep being the do-nothing.
Be concentrated.
Here.
Three, two, one.
Release!
The arrow must be on the string.
Pull back with strength.
Backward. Harder.
See carefully.
Don’t laugh.
Again.
Yes,
you took the responsibility.
And you taught me how to behave
and how to use sword.
You also
gave me Soul Leaving Sword.
Without you,
I wouldn’t have grown up like this.
Hongshuo!
This one
is to thank you for your upbringing.
This one
is to thank you for your teaching.
Hongshuo!
What did you write?
This is the turtle I wrote.
This is the tortoise egg I wrote.
You brat.
I should give you a lesson.
Soul Leaving Sword.
Take it back.
When I settle my friend down,
I will give my life back to you.
But now
I won’t let you
hurt my friends.
If you really
know your duty,
then don’t make unnecessary obstruction.
I know you care about the world.
But do you have to
be so heartless to your friends?
Sometimes there is no
boundary between right and wrong.
If you keep fighting,
it will only consume your strength
and there will be no result.
You’d better save your strength
to fight
against our enemy.
How about you have a rest first?
Xuanming,
I know you value your friends.
Let’s wait and see
how the situation will change,
OK?
Hongshuo.
Hou Zhengze.
Stay away from me!
Ruo, are you OK?
Why did you create me?
I was just
a rotten wood before.
Why did you give me life?
Can’t you just let me be a dead wood?
Now
I can feel
the pleasure of being a human being,
but it will be taken away soon.
Why?
Hou Zhengze,
I won’t let anyone hurt you.
We will go back together.
Are you going to sit by?
Me?
Why do you look
not interested in this now?
An Tingfeng,
are you guiding us all the way
to kill demons
and collect power
just to wait?
Zhu Rong,
people have feelings.
We should give them time
for the separation.
Our waiting
can help them.
If you want to give up,
then tell me now.
No need to rush.
There will
be someone who can help us.
Who is that?
Hou Zhengze, what’s wrong?
Stay away from me!
Leave!
What are you talking about?
Hou Zhengze,
what’s wrong?
Leave here now!
Leave!
No!
That is…
Square Matrix.
Finally it shows its real shape.
Will they
be willing to kill him?
Go now!
I won’t!
Hou Zhengze.
Hou Zhengze, what are you doing?
The power of Square Matrix
is really strong.
Looks like
we can
get a free-riding.
Hou Zhengze, what are you doing?
Are you insane?
Let go of Xiaotong!
Come back, OK?
I know
you can hear me.
Can you hear me?
Ruo.
Ruo?
Ruo, what’s wrong?
Ruo?
Go have a rest there.
Come on.
Ruo, what’s wrong?
My head…
Ruo.
Ruo. What’s wrong?
Hou Zhengze, do you remember?
You told me that
you want to be
a man of your own.
Don’t you remember it?
Hou Zhengze!
Wake up! Hou Zhengze!
Hou Zhengze!
Now, kill me!
Right now!
Ruo!
Hou Zhengze…
We will go back together.
Hou Zhengze. Hou Zhengze.
Hou Zhengze.
Hou Zhengze!
I’m good
at nothing.
But I will follow you to the death.
You let me go east,
I'll never go west.
You let me go west,
I’ll never go east.
Alright, alright.
I see.
I…
I’m sorry.
Don’t say that.
You have to kill Nine-head
with my power.
General, I’m a demon.
I don’t want to die.
And I don’t want to be killed by you.
You, too.
You’re my friend.
General.
Have some fish.
Here.
Indeed! It’s so funny!
Being and void.
Nine stars befall.
The heaven and earth reborn.
Being and void.
Nine stars befall.
You think you can lock me up
with only the five of you?
Rushou! Concentrate!
Once we fail,
all the pains will be in vain.
I see.
The Five Gods don’t die,
the Nine-head won’t revive.
Don’t worry about me!
Don’t be distracted!
Earth!
Hang in there!
Being and void.
Nine stars befall.
The heaven and earth reborn.
I have no regrets that I can have
friends like you.
We will
get peace for the world after this battle.
But I don’t want to leave you.
Rushou! Concentrate!
Never throw away all your efforts!
I…
Rushou!
I… I don’t want to die!
Being and void.
Nine stars befall.
The heaven and earth reborn.
Being and void.
Nine stars befall.
The heaven and earth reborn.
You didn’t die?
No.
I survived.
I have been wandering for a thousand years
with this remnant soul.
The five of us still could not
defeat Nine-head at that time.
Earth had no choice
but to make herself
the host and
locked Nine-head in her body.
But
because of my selfishness
and cowardice,
we failed to seal Nine-head.
When I woke up,
the four of you had already gone.
I regret, I feel guilty,
I want to make up
for my mistakes all the time.
I hope I can
fight together
with you again one day.
I have been guarding you
for the first 1000 years,
watching you change,
grow up, grow old and die of illness,
expecting you
to recognize me one day.
Gradually
I began to get tired,
began to have some doubts,
and thought about
some problems I never thought about.
I have lived in this world for many years,
and I figured out a truth.
It turns out that living on in degradation
is the most meaningless thing.
I watch sunrise and sunset every day,
day after day,
never-ending.
How I wish
you were still by my side,
living as before.
I look at your indifference.
I do want to awaken your memory
and fulfill
the covenant of Five Gods once again.
Now
the time has finally come.
The reason of Earth’s headache
is that
the seal of Nine-head
will soon be loose and dissipated.
Nine-head will be unsealed
and destroy the world again.
The only way to stop Nine-head
from destroying the world again
is to join hands.
So
I approached the four of you in secret,
trying to wake up
your memory.
So I designed all of this
carefully.
The first thing I have to do
is to help each of you
to unlock your spiritual power.
It is difficult to implement this layout,
because you
are all determined.
If I want you
to follow my plan,
I can’t force you
but to guide you.
Ruo, do you feel better?
Yi Jiumo?
Lang people believe in god and demons,
but you only believe in yourself.
So we need to make a good plan.
You started from Li City?
From the time when Youwu found you.
God Wood,
I have always been by your side.
Why are you staring at me?
I just
did a little favor.
The two of you
had already seen me once.
Baili Haohe?
If I didn’t do this,
how would you trust
what I said?
Your brothers are loyal to the Emperor,
and dare not have a rebellious motive.
I just made
a puppet to become Baili Haohe,
the Emperor of Yo,
to put
a little pressure on you.
It's all a conspiracy.
You have been cheating us!
Zhu Rong, you are righteous and valiant.
If I didn’t do that,
how would you listen to me?
Only by constantly suppressing, reducing,
insulting
and breaking everything you once believed in,
will you willingly
go on the road I designed.
Are you
going to aim at me
with sword now?
Think about it.
Which of the power you gained
along the way is not due to me?
Greetings, Lord Nine-head.
Ruo?
Am I
also in your plan?
I did all this
for you, My Lord.
Is it you who sealed up
Baili Hongyi’s memory
of her childhood?
I’m ashamed to show off my poor ability.
Ruo,
we are almost there.
Wait for me.
My Lord,
this time
God Wood and God Earth are in Lang,
while God Water and God Fire are in Yo.
To gather the five of them,
I arranged
for Baili Hongyi
to go to Yo,
so that the four of them
have to be in a tangle.
You know humans a lot.
I have found your core.
Congratulations.
You have not lived in vain for two thousand years.
You are Nine-head?
Where is my Ruo?
When we sealed her up,
Earth locked Nine-head into her body.
If the Five Gods are woken,
then it will awaken Nine-head as well.
Li Ruo is Nine-head.
That’s why
I want to awaken you.
The Ten Sorcerers used Sixiang Matrix
to seal Nine-head in Ye City.
It’s been two thousand years.
The matrix
is losing its efficacy gradually.
So Nine-head’s power began to stir.
Once her spirit revives,
the world
will become
a disaster ruled by demon.
But I didn’t expect that
the Five Gods
are so disappointing now.
You lost in desire
and are entangled in relationships.
You should
make your own choice now.
What do you plan to do?
Hongshuo.
I want to take Hou Zhengze back home.
I don't know
how long the peaceful days
are going to last.
But even a few days are good enough,
Give him to me.
Will you go with them?
Take care.
I will go home with him
and live a normal life.
Good! Great!
Great! Great!
Hot steamed bun.
Amazing!
Nonsense!
It’s Yo’s country.
I don’t care who you are.
I won’t let you go easily.
I will give order to kill your
right away!
Aunt!
Why are you afraid?
What are you afraid of?
Will she eat you?
I have
been through everything.
If I’m afraid of you,
I don’t deserve to be the Empress Dowager!
Please!
Please spare my life!
Tell me what you want.
I can give you
anything you want.
Please!
Please let me go!
Please!
You… Who are you?
You are really stupid.
After the Five Gods sealed you,
the Ten Sorcerers hid the core
in the world
and protected it with Sixiang Matrix.
I have checked it.
The core is in Ye City now.
Sixiang Matrix is the four gates
in east, west, south and north of Ye City.
A few days later,
when the blood moon comes,
it's the best time
for you to recover your spirit.
I see.
Ling Jun.
You still own my power.
When will you give it back to me?
After the sacrifice,
I will be at your disposal.
Why are you doing this?
Only to help you finish your great ambition.
What do you want?
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