[ Qiting Inn, Qinghe ]
Mask.
Seems it really is our old friend.
I don't know.
I know nothing.
I really know nothing.
Light Bearer, it truly wasn’t me.
L-Light Bearer, I was passing.
I really know nothing.
You don't know.
So I'll talk. As I talk,
you’ll figure it out.
This Childe is...?
The Untamed - Special Edition
Episode 15 DRUNK
Why did Qinghe Nie Sect build Xinglu Ridge's Stone Castle?
Its walls hold corpses. Did it eat people?
Leader Nie. If you don't explain, when it is exposed,
sects will confront you.
At that time, no-one will listen or believe you.
It-It isn't a man-eating tomb.
It's my ancestral grave.
Ancestral grave?
Your tomb has sabres, not bodies?
Light Bearer. You know
Nie Sect differs from sects
that Cultivate sword arts.
But...of course, not Wei...
That guy Cultivated talismans.
Nie Sect founder was a butcher
so we use sabres.
Past Leaders' sabres had dark killing intent.
Most Leaders qi-deviated and dropped dead.
Their irritability relates to this.
As our Leaders became even more powerful,
this problem got serious until 6th Clan Leader
thought of a way.
To build a Man-eating Castle?
Mm, kind of.
My clan built Sabre Hall to look like a common tomb.
Later, robbers broke in.
Those robbers never came out of Xinglu Ridge.
Due to no remains, rumours began
of a Man-eating Ridge.
Our clan welcomed rumours to deter people
so we spread myths of a Man-eating Castle.
Sabre Hall is ancestral.
Cultivators know not to Night-Hunt in Qinghe.
Who knew....
Who knew you'd meet unruly Jin Ling.
Exactly.
Light Bearer, and this Childe.
I said all I should and shouldn't.
Please don't make it public.
I will keep my word.
Thank you, Light Bearer.
Then...I can go now?
Lan Zhan.
What are you doing?
Cleansing the Curse Mark.
It's fine. I'll do it myself.
It's at my thigh.
Time to play 'Rest in Peace'.
Play properly.
You suffered my bad playing.
Hey! What's wrong?
It dislikes my good playing.
These few days, it wasn't as restless as this.
Something provoked it.
It is the thing on you.
Curse Mark?
Jin Ling got this Curse in the Castle.
Does the sword spirit's strong reaction mean—
Is Nie Sect Sabre Hall
where the sword spirit is leading us.
Open Qiankun Pouch?
Later.
What did the spirit lead us to?
Too risky to unseal it.
What are you two looking for?
Did I assume wrongly?
The sword spirit isn't leading us to a killer.
Sword spirit...
Led us to its owner!
No way!
You're wrong.
Nie Sect has no swords. We use sabres.
L-Light Bearer.
I'm truly not lying. You...
You didn't lie. It's our mistake.
A big mistake.
This spirit latched onto a sword, so was once a spiritual weapon.
But who says it's a "sword" spirit?
Ooh. Huh?
Leader Nie, there's another thing to bother you with.
Another thing?
It's nothing tricky.
Just troubling you
to bring out all sabres in Sabre Hall.
What?
Light Bearer, aren't you guys too much...?
Please, Leader Nie.
Open them.
Aye.
This is the last one.
It's so strange.
All these sabres
have no Tiger Seal trace.
No sabre spirits left them.
Could it be...
Bro Nie, are all your Nie Clan sabres here?
All here.
What? Not done digging up our tomb?
I am afraid so.
What do you mean?
Baxia.
You mean Red Blade Lord's sabre, Baxia, isn't here.
( Golden Koi Tower )
Big brother!
- Big bro! Big bro. - I'll kill you!
Huaisang!
- Big brother! - Don't go.
He knows no-one!
Big brother!
So you say Red Blade Lord broke his meridians
yet fled, and no corpse was seen.
Correct.
Is it similar to me?
Lan Zhan, if this sabre spirit is Baxia,
it led us here to tell us who its owner is.
Where will it lead us next?
West.
Seems this sabre spirit won't let us off.
Think it will take us to Red Blade Lord?
Reasonable.
Seems whoever left this sabre spirit at Mo Manor
wants us to find him.
So his qi-deviation was no accident.
Seeing the sabre spirit's anxiety,
I fear its Lord...
Was murdered.
But even if Red Blade Lord was murdered,
how's my Tiger Seal involved?
Is someone framing me?
Time will tell.
[ Yueyang ]
How is the Curse Mark?
Almost faded but a bit left. It's fine.
That's not the Mark troubling me.
How much is 'a bit'?
A bit...is a bit.
How to say it?
Shall I strip to show you?
Lan Zhan, I ask you—
Is whoever set the sabre spirit at Mo Manor,
and whoever killed Red Blade Lord, the same?
- Two lots. - Agree.
Red Blade Lord's killer
won't want the body found.
He won't let the sabre spirit hurt Lan Sect people—
That'd get attention and be investigated.
One hid the body; one wants it found.
So they're not the same.
Mm.
Red Blade Lord's killer seems to know Nie Sect secrets.
The sabre spirit liberator knows our movements.
Both are tricky.
Secrets abound.
- Step by step. - How'd you know me?
Think for yourself.
- Lan Zhan! - It is late. Find an inn.
[ Qiting Wine House ]
Good wine. Lan Zhan, good wine.
Sirs, Chang Manor is haunted.
Don't go there. It's dangerous.
I heard all Chang Clan
was killed in one night.
Their trapped ghosts made a fuss at night.
That night, 10 years ago, you don't know
the sky was blood red.
The night resounded with knocking. So scary.
Then what?
Cultivators took a guy away.
Took who?
I don't know.
Enjoy.
Don't you know
Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan caught Xue Yang.
That Wen Sect guest?
Now he's a Jin Sect guest.
Not a guest.
16 years ago, Xue Yang appeared at Koi Tower.
Sect Leaders agreed to punish Xue Yang.
Only Jin Guangshan disagreed.
You say he killed 50 Chang clansmen. Who here saw it?
Am I unable to protect one person?
Afterward?
Afterward, Chang Clan survivor, Chang Ping,
recanted.
What?
Chang Ping declared Chang Clan massacre
wasn't linked to Xue Yang.
So, 'tiger back on the mountain'.
After Jin Guangshan died and Jin Guangyao became Leader,
Xue Yang was punished.
Xue Yang died?
I heard his foes killed him.
Who cares. He disappeared.
He's linked to Yiling Patriarch.
- Really? - Drink.
Me again?
I didn't think, after 16 years,
people still hate Yiling Patriarch.
Bad things get linked to me.
No! Xue Yang got off.
Did my Martial Uncle and Song Lan show up?
Xiao Xingchen is missing. Song Lan is roaming.
No-one saw them since.
This many years, no news?
Lan Zhan?
16 years ago,
Chang Ping had his eyes dug out and died by lingchi (slow slicing).
And the murder weapon was...
Shuanghua (Frost Flower).
( Xiao Xingchen )
What? How can it be?
So people think
the missing Xiao Xingchen killed him in revenge.
Honestly, I admired Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan.
At that time, we sought Stygian Iron.
Those two weren't in big sects or linked to Chang Clan.
Due to things unrelated to them,
they ended like that.
Really, things—
Things change.
Right, things change. 'Quaff a cup of wine'.
In 16 years,
Lan Zhan's drinking didn't change. Still can't hold it.
Lan Zhan.
Wen Ning, indeed it's you.
Hey. What, don't recognize me?
What the heck is this?
Stand still.
Hand.
Wen Ning can bare-handedly crush chains.
He won't just let chains wrap him.
These chains are used to trap him.
Whoever kept Wen Ning
won't let him think for himself.
To make him obey, they'd suppress his mind.
In that case...
Indeed.
That day I went with Sis to Koi Tower,
Leader Jin confined me.
Then, my memory blurred—
as if I was locked in a dark place.
Someone checked on me.
Until I heard your flute.
Who restrained you?
When did nails control you?
Do you remember any of this?
Wen Ning, what's this for?!
Childe. Sorry.
It's been years.
You'll still do this?
Alright.
Childe.
Look at you.
Isn't it better standing tall like this?
But...I caused it all.
If not for me, sis and you won't suffer.
Everything is due to you?
You're so great!
If truly so,
burning you 1000 times won't suffice.
How can you live till today?
I... I...
Wen Qing was right.
You're a blade, a precious blade.
Who won't want this treasure?
That year, Leader Jin announced
he'd burned you two siblings.
Now Ghost General is alive and well.
These jangling chains on you are inconvenient.
A spiritual sword can cut them off.
Well, wait here. I'll go to the inn.
If Lan Zhan is awake, forget it.
If he's asleep,
I'll borrow his sword, Bichen.
Lan Zhan.
You're awake.
I just said I'd borrow Bichen,
not steal it.
Lan Zhan, you...
Lan Zhan?
Lan Zhan, look at you, drunk outside.
Go back to bed.
Don't move.
Lan Zhan, sorry. I can't find the way back...
Lan Zhan, what are you doing?
Lan Zhan, what the heck?
Lan Zhan!
Lan Zhan, you...
Take it.
Why give me a chicken?
Now what? They're owned.
You know this is stealing?
Fat or not?
Huh?
Fat, nicely fat.
You're amazing.
For you, all for you.
Poor Lan Zhan, gentry born.
So rule bound, his mind spins.
Drunk, he's crazier than me.
Hey!
Lan Zhan, now what?
[ Lan Wangji was here ]
Lan Wangji was here!
Lan Zhan, stop fooling?
Go sleep.
Be good.
Let's go. Go!
Go. Hurry.
Lan Zhan, wait for me.
Don't move.
Lan Zhan, all done. Let's go quickly.
[ Lan Wangji was here ]
[ Wei Wuxian was here ]
[ Qiting Inn ]
Lan Zhan, you put out the light?
He knows Lan Zhan's moves.
Is he from Lan Sect?
Thanks.
Portal Talisman.
Lan Zhan!
Lan Zhan, he left.
Lan Zhan, alright. He's gone.
I say, this is tiring.
I won't let you drink again.
Thirsty.
Water.
Okay. I'll pour it for you.
Here, okay.
What the heck?
I want you to drink it.
Enough.
Look at you.
Lan Zhan, better not recall things when you sober up.
You'd be shamefaced.
Lan Zhan.
How many is this?
Two.
So, now is question time.
Mm.
Did you drink your Cloud Recesses' Emperor's Smile?
No.
Did you break any rules?
Yes.
You like rabbits?
I like.
Lan Zhan, you finally admit it.
Why do you help me?
I have a regret.
What regret?
At Nevernight, I was not by your side.
So, these years, you looked for me.
Lan Zhan, remember.
It had nothing to do with you.
I defected. I practised demonism.
It was all my choice.
Understand?
Lan Zhan, what are you doing?
Lan Zhan, hear what I said?
It is 9 PM. Rest.
Lan Zhan, you're awake.
Last night, I...
You—did nothing.
You said a few things.
Said what?
It actually was nothing.
You just said things like...
for example, "I like..."
"I like rabbits"!
What's wrong with that?
Who dislikes cute rabbits?
I like them.
I like eating them.
What did I do?
Nothing.
You really did nothing.
I was being silly.
Lan Zhan, I'm serious now.
Go on.
Recall yesterday's Ghost-Face?
Mm.
His Cultivation is high—
good enough to use a Portal Talisman.
And he bespelled his face and sword.
A facial spell stops him being identified
but a spell on his sword?
An unknown Cultivator won't bespell his sword.
No need, unless his sword has Cultivation fame.
Once his sword is recognised,
it would expose him, so he disguised it.
And in your duel, he knew your moves.
Lan Zhan, think carefully.
Do you know him?
Moreover,
is he from Lan Sect?
No.
Trust me.
You won't lie.
If you say no, it's no.
This matter got more complicated.
But this guy is linked to Red Blade Lord's death
or he won't try to snatch your Evil-Sealing Pouch.
We must leave quickly.
He's ahead of us.
But, where do we go?
Shudong (region).
[ Yi City / Coffin Town ]
Bad fengshui!
Barren peaks, turbid waters.
( Coffin Town - funerary goods )
It's a paper head.
Looks like a Brawler.
Concentrate. Caution.
Who is it?
Jin Ling? Sizhui?
Why's it you?
I'll ask you that.
Childe Mo, you're here. So is Light Bearer here?
He's here. That's Bichen, right?
Right, he's here, he's here.
But why are you here?
Don't say you arranged to Night-Hunt together?
Why's this place so weird? No-one's around.
It's day with eerie fog. No stores are open.
Irrelevant.
Say why you're here.
Long story.
We gathered to avoid getting lost in the fog.
We suddenly heard a sound, not rapid; knock-knocking.
In the fog, a short shadow walked by.
It fled. The sound followed us since.
We took this road directly into town.
We can't exit.
You sword-flew to look?
I tried. It felt a long way up
yet wasn't that high.
Shadows flitted in the air.
Unknown things worried me so I came down.
Is the fog poisonous?
No poison. After this long here, we're alive.
- Tiger Seal? - How?
Seems I was right. Someone recreated Tiger Seal.
But half, not as powerful.
What's wrong with you?
Powder spurting in the fog tasted bittersweet and rancid.
Let's leave here.
We can't see.
Where do we go?
Want my Qiankun Pouch? Pity your bad eyes.
It's a Spirit-Sealing Pouch.
Lan Zhan! Ghost-Face is here!
Lan Zhan! You're hurt!
Impossible.
True.
Head that way.
How are those who inhaled powder?
They can barely stand.
Show me your tongues.
Those puppets were poisoned.
Congrats, you're poisoned.
Why congrats?
You can boast later.
Childe Mo, will they be okay?
They're fine for now.
But once poison spreads
around body and heart,
they can't be saved.
What will we do?
What to do?
- Want to cure it? - Okay...
Good. Then listen.
From now on, everyone heeds me.
- Each one must behave. - Okay!
Good. Stand tall.
Unpoisoned carry poisoned.
Carry them with head and heart facing out.
Let's go.
- Senior Mo, where to? - Knock on doors.
You want us to enter a house?
Outside is perilous.
What if things inside attack us.
Right. Hard to say if it's riskier outside or inside.
But if it's like this outside,
inside can't be bad.
Let's go. Don't delay detoxifying poison.
Let's go.
Hey, anyone there?
Excuse me, anyone home?
Elder.
Are you the shop owner?
Yes.
Owner, it's our first visit. We're lost in fog.
Walking tired us.
Can we rest in your shop?
My shop
is not for resting.
But no-one is in shops around us.
You can't let us rest?
She'll really let us in?
Rot! I stuck my foot here.
She can't close the door.
If she refused, I'd kick the door in.
Owner, why no light?
- It's on the table. Light it yourself. - Okay.
( Flame Talisman )
These are made by you?
Excellent craft.
Granny, no light to thread a needle?
Allow me.
Granny, may I use your kitchen?
Kitchen is out back.
Help yourself.
Thank you.
Better not go in.
No danger, but oddness.
In someone's home, we must behave ourselves.
I need someone's help. Any volunteers?
Senior Mo, I'll help.
Let's go.
- Making congee? - Mm.
How's congee good? So bland.
It's not for you.
What?
I worked hard and get none?
Senior Mo, can congee cure poison?
Sizhui is clever.
But the cure isn't congee. It's glutinous rice, a folk remedy.
No wonder you wanted a house
with people and a kitchen
with glutinous rice, right?
Correct.
Come, move.
- Is it poison? - Poison? It's glutinous rice cure.
What glutinous rice cure?
I've never had such spicy rice!
Hm? Did I put in too many chilis?
This taste...is kind of scary deja vue.
Medicine is a bit toxic. You'll sweat.
and recover faster.
Hey, seriously?
What do you see outside?
Shh, don't talk. I'm watching it.
So amazing!
Amazing.
Move.
What is it?
Well? Isn't it pretty?
Yeah, so-so.
Barely worth a look.
S-Senior Mo, outside—
Don't say it, or it's no surprise.
Everyone, see for yourself.
No, no.
Trickstering at this time?
- Where's your head. - You just joined in.
Don't ape your uncle's tone.
Hey, Miss, you followed us.
What's the matter?
No wonder she can't speak. Blind and mute, so pitiful.
Is it Ghost-Face?
I think not. Ghost-Face and this guy move differently.
- Senior, he's poisoned. - Save him! - How?
Corpse-Poison is everywhere.
'Batting long eyelashes.
Red lips in teasing smile.
Mind not good or evil.
With smeared eyes, I summon thee.'
Summoning of Painted Eyes!
Bring the living inside.
Except him, destroy all!
Stay back. Beware!
Skin contact will poison you.
Who are you?
Sizhui, get a bowl of congee. Go!
Friend or foe is unknown.
Why save him? If he's bad, we let him in.
He may be good. Puppets swamped him.
Can't be bad. Besides, we help the dying.
Fine, you're good guys. If anyone dies, don't blame me.
Senior Mo.
Shuanghua sword!
Is he...
Xiao Xingchen.
- Oh no, many puppets. - How many?
I don't know. They fill the street. Maybe 100.
This door won't hold them long.
Senior Mo, Painted Eyes again?
Dotting each eye drains blood. Use mine?
- Use mine. - Use mine.
You Cultivated long?
Any blank talismans?
Written ones are fine.
[ Summoning of Painted Eyes ]
Disperse!
~Listen to the doleful flute~
~in cloud deep night~
~Right or wrong is in the past~
~On waking, how to take it as a dream~
~How to gauge worldly praise and blame~
~Blood sizzles on cold blade~
~On peaks or rivers, hear the qin~
~The story isn't over, like buds under moonlit frost~
~Stir a cup of life's joy & sorrow to toast the lad~
~Why's the bright moon sad~
~Why not face hardships carefree~
~Sharing a melody however far~
~Stir a cup of life's joy & sorrow to toast the lad~
~Moon is bright, why be sad~
~Why not face storms unrestrained~
~Playing a melody together afar~