What shall I play next?
Lan Zhan, tell me.
About the song you sang to me at the bottom of
Xuanwu Cave of Mount Muxi,
what on earth is its name?
Why do you suddenly ask me this?
Just tell me!
What's its name?
I seem to have figured out
how you recognized me.
Tell me. What's its name?
Who wrote it?
I did.
You wrote it?
Then what's its name?
What do you think?
Are you asking me for advice?
I think you may call it...
I'm thirsty. I'll get some water.
The Untamed
Episode 18 Soul Confusion
The wound on your belly...
The wound?
It's fine.
Was it left by the sacrificial curse?
How to remove it?
But now I know
who the last enemy of Mo Xuanyu is.
As long as he's dead,
the curse will be broken naturally.
It's Jin Guangyao?
Now, I would never believe that
Mo Xuanyu was expelled
from Jinlintai
for harassing Madam Jin.
I'm afraid
he had known Jin Guangyao's secret
and wanted to tell Qin Su,
but Jin Guangyao struck first.
Why did he do that?
But I'm pretty sure that
the secret Mo Xuanyu knew
has something to do with the person who wrote the letter.
And that person
is probably the one who led us
to look into the case of Red Blade Master's death.
It seems that
the person knows a lot of Jin Guangyao's dirty secrets
and hates him to the core.
Well,
is she Jin Guangyao's lover?
She hates him out of love.
Your sword.
Thank you.
Well, can it really seal itself on its own?
Is this
the Silence Chamber?
Yes.
You've taken me back to the Cloud Recesses.
What if your elder brother finds out?
I already have.
Sorry for the trouble.
Zewu Jun.
I asked Wangji to bring you back.
Before the truth is revealed,
Childe Wei, I'm sorry you'll have to stay here.
As long as I'm here,
they dare not come at you at the Cloud Recesses.
Zewu Jun,
where is the body of
Red Blade Master?
As to elder brother's body,
all the cultivation clans have seen it.
It's kept by Huaisang for the moment.
I've also sent someone trustable to guard it.
How did Jin Guangyao react?
Flawless.
He said
he would pursue the case to the end
and find out the truth.
Brother,
Red Blade Master's head
is in Jin Guangyao's hands.
Have you seen it with your own eyes?
He has.
You trust Childe Wei?
Yes.
What about Jin Guangyao?
He's not trustworthy.
Wangji,
how do you tell
whether a man is trustworthy or not?
You trust Childe Wei,
but I also trust Jin Guangyao.
Neither of us has seen Jin Guangyao
with elder brother's head.
We rely our judgments on the words of
someone we know and trust.
You think you know Childe Wei,
so you trust him.
Likewise,
I also think I know Jin Guangyao,
so I also trust him.
You think you're not wrong.
Why can't I think
I'm right?
Clan Leader Lan.
Red Blade Master's head is in Jin Guangyao's secret chamber.
It's absolutely true.
Not only did I see it,
but I saw something else.
I wonder whether it can serve as the proof.
Childe Wei,
you might have seen something else,
but you can't prove that
you saw it in the secret chamber at Jinlintai.
That's true.
The direct cause of Red Blade Master's death
is that he was possessed by Devil.
But Clan Leader Lan,
don't you find it too coincidental?
Would there be
any other cause behind it?
What cause do you think?
The Mind Soothing Music.
Childe Wei,
do you know that I taught Jin Guangyao
the Mind Soothing Music myself.
Then Clan Leader Lan, please listen carefully,
and see if there's anything wrong with the melody.
Is this the same melody
you taught Jin Guangyao?
Yes.
The melody is unpopular
and hard to learn.
It's really tricky.
Childe Wei, even you made a mistake just now.
I made a mistake?
One part of the melody is wrong.
Wrong?
Does it mean...
Wei Ying.
Right,
it's wrong.
But I didn't make a mistake.
Jin Guangyao did.
When we have empathy,
he did play it this way.
I guarantee that
I just repeated what he played.
Did he get it wrong?
That's impossible.
Indeed.
Lianfang Zun is extremely smart
with an excellent memory.
How could he remember the wrong melody?
He probably did it on purpose.
Come with me.
= Soul Confusion Book =
What's the origin of this "Soul Confusion Book"?
It's a secret melody collection from Japan.
Legend has it that a cultivator from the Lan clan of Gusu
drifted overseas by boat
and wandered in Japan for many years,
during which he collected wicked melodies and made this book.
For all the melodies in the book,
if spiritual power is added when playing them,
they can hurt people.
That's it.
Clan Leader Lan,
is there a melody
in the "Soul Confusion Book"
which can disturb your mind,
agitate your spirit,
get your blood pumping,
and make you furious and upset?
There should be.
He did everything
carefully and cautiously.
In front of you,
he played the complete Mind Soothing Music calmly.
Red Blade Master was not a fan of literature and art.
After hearing you play the Mind Soothing Music,
he had a general impression of
the melody.
So Jin Guangyao should not dare to
play the wicked melody for him directly.
Instead, he made some changes.
However, Red Blade Master was not an expert after all,
so he surely couldn't tell that
Jin Guangyao had replaced part of
the melody with the wicked melody to kill him.
Zewu Jun.
Childe Wei, what's up?
Now that Lan Zhan is not here,
I have something to consult you.
Childe Wei, please go ahead.
Well,
there're whip scars on Lan Zhan's body.
What happened?
Childe Wei, don't you know?
I've asked him,
but he refused to tell me.
So I have to ask you instead.
Fine,
I know him well.
Unless there's no other way,
I'm afraid Wangji won't mention that
to you his whole life.
Let me tell you instead.
On the Burial Mounds,
Wangji held his own opinion against the majority
and caused a lot of trouble.
Uncle was so furious that
he took Wangji back to the Cloud Recesses
and punished him with 300 whips
and pondering upon his faults
inside the Cold Pond Cave for three years.
= Kill all evil spirits, make the laws just and make supreme principles eternal =
During Wangji's confinement,
I visited him
and tried to persuade him,
but he told me that
he took you as his bosom friend,
so he should trust you.
He didn't have to do that.
= Emperor's Smile =
Lan Zhan.
What's up?
Thank...
It's really gross
to say it out.
I mean,
it must be a hard blow
for your elder brother this time.
Well,
after all Jin Guangyao
is his sworn brother.
If I were in his shoes...
If he finds evidence,
he won't spare him.
Of course.
However close he's with Jin Guangyao,
he's still your elder brother,
and a member of the Lan clan of Gusu.
He's a man of principle.
What's wrong?
Didn't you tell him?
Tell him what?
The flute sound
on the Qiongqi Road.
You know that?
I've asked Wen Ning.
On the Qiongqi Road,
he heard flute sounds from two places.
When that happened,
I thought I was hallucinating.
But at the Nevernight,
I heard it again.
Only one sound.
I only heard one sound.
My mind was in chaos back then.
I had no time to think it over.
What on earth went wrong?
After I was resurrected,
I dreamed about that very moment at night occasionally.
I'm increasingly convinced that
the flute sound I heard that day was not a hallucination.
And after today,
I'm even more convinced of that.
On the Qiongqi Road and at the Nevernight,
someone used the "Soul Confusion Book" behind my back
to change Chenqing's order.
Was it Jin Guangyao?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Don't you want to know the answer?
After I was resurrected,
I did want to know the answer at first.
But now,
I just want to say
"Whatever"!
I don't care!
Lan Zhan,
I really think that
knowing it or not,
is not that important to me now.
Anyway, to the whole world,
Yiling Patriarch was the one who did those terrible things.
Even if I run out now
and scream "I was wronged" for 100 times,
I'm afraid no one will believe me.
In fact, sometimes
the world only needs an excuse,
or one target
which everyone can aim at.
With me,
they can be bound by a common enemy
and be pretentious.
I've come round myself.
Without Jin Guangyao
and that flute sound,
there still might be other people
and other accidents.
You never know.
You never know!
Looking back, I felt so lonely then.
Only a few trusted me, but they were all dead.
Wen Ning.
Senior Sister.
Luckily...
In the world,
you've still got someone to trust you.
Lan Zhan,
a toast to you!
It's enough to have one bosom friend
in a lifetime.
Nothing matters.
I'll do what my heart tells me.
Let them slander me and defame me.
I'll do what my heart tells me.
Lan Zhan,
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
♪Warm a pot of vicissitudes to memorize the youth.♪
♪Why sorrow since moon remains the same?♪
♪Why not live at will and go for great adventures.♪
♪Echos a melody from afar.♪
♪Warm a pot of vicissitudes to memorize the youth.♪
♪Why sorrow since moon remains the same?♪
♪Why not live at will and go for great adventures.♪
♪Echos a melody from afar.♪
What does this mean?
I want to return it to you.
I've given it to you as a gift.
The jade pass token is effective
for all these years.
Now that it doesn't work,
I'd better return it to its original owner.
What can I do for you?
We still have no information of
Hanguang Jun and Yiling Patriarch.
I forbid them to search the Cloud Recesses.
Many clans hold doubts
and are against my order.
Second brother, when it's convenient,
you'd better open the gate for two hours,
and I'll take some men to go through the motions.
You don't have to
worry about Wangji.
Hanguang Jun is elegant and righteous.
The cultivation clans have seen that over the years.
By doing so, he must be tricked.
Moreover, he hasn't made any grave mistake yet.
He only has to explain himself by then.
By then?
By when?
After we clean up the Burial Mounds.
The Burial Mounds?
After the fight at Jinlintai,
strange things have happened along the way to the Burial Mounds.
The puppets have reappeared,
and they're moving towards the Burial Mounds.
What the hell are they up to?
I've no idea.
I guess Wei Wuxian must have
started some formation
or used the Stygian Tiger Amulet to summon the puppets.
I'm so flattered.
So I'm afraid that before long,
there'll be a second Burial Mounds Siege.
I've notified some other clans
to discuss this at Jinlintai.
Second brother,
will you come?
OK.
Second brother,
do you want to see elder brother.
I'm going to bury him.
Would you like to see him off?
I'll go to Jinlintai.
You should go to the Burial Mounds.
Let's split up.
Yes.
If he's really plotting something,
I won't spare his life.
Wen Ning,
haven't heard you scream for years,
you do sound much scarier.
Childe, I'm sorry.
I hope I didn't scare you.
It's pretty shocking.
What's this?
Why are you in such a mess?
What happened to your hand?
Nothing.
Blood.
It's not blood.
It's blood,
but it's not human blood.
Not human blood?
What have you fought with?
There were puppets all the way.
There were puppets all the way?
So you mean,
you've wiped them out
ahead of us.
Then when did you follow us?
Jinlintai.
Wen Ning,
haven't I told you
to find a place to hide
and leave the rest behind?
But Childe,
I...
Where can I hide?
Let's go.
Come with us.
Let's go.
Go!
The wall was torn down.
Someone did go up the mountain.
Let's go up.
For your protection.
Thank you.
Haven't used a sword for so long,
I'm not used to it.
Fine, I'll tell you.
Actually, it's because my current body
has little spiritual power.
Even if it's a first-rank sword,
I won't be able to unleash its real power.
So, Hanguang Jun,
fragile and delicate as I am,
you should protect me well.
Wait!
In my opinion,
you shouldn't have just stabbed him.
You should've killed him.
They've been gone for days.
What on earth is he up to?
What else can it be?
Just like what has happened at the Nevernight,
he wants to make us into his puppets
and use us to fight our families,
so our families won't fight back.
Make enemies kill each other.
How despicable!
How heartless!
Shut up!
You want a fight?
Fine, let's fight.
I'm really annoyed.
You uncultivated bastard!
Stop it!
Stop! Calm down!
What're you doing? Calm down!
Stop! Look at the situation.
-Clam down! -Right! Stop! Stop!
It's not the time to fight.
Let's figure out a way. Stop fighting!
Stop!
Jin Ling!
Stop! Stop!
Look here.
-Hanguang Jun! -Hanguang Jun!
What're you happy about?
They're on the same side.
Ghost General! Ghost General! Ghost General!
Ghost General!
It turns out I'm not so terrifying
as Wen Ning is.
Run! Run!
No! There're puppets outside.
Mo...
Predecessor Wei,
are you here to save us?
Childe Jin.
What're you doing?
Why do you all stand in front of me?
Lan Zhan.
Do you want to stab him again?
-I... -Jingyi.
Never mind.
Let's get out first.
Yes.
Go!
Lan Zhan, let's go.
Wen Ning, what's wrong?
Nothing.
Jin Ling, come here!
Uncle!
Wen Ning, don't go out now.
Jin Ling, what takes you so long?
Are you waiting to die?
Mom.
Uncle.
-Senior Brother. -Dad.
Wangji,
come here!
You're here again.
Of course we are.
Yiling Patriarch, if you hadn't made puppets
on a large scale for fear that
the world might not know you're back
and grabbed our disciples here,
we wouldn't have revisited your nest
so fast.
I actually saved the disciples of your clans.
How come you don't appreciate me
but scold me.
Everyone, be careful!
The puppets have started another round of attack.
What happened?
I'm out of spiritual power.
-Damn it! -Me, too.
We've walked into a trap.
Everyone,
come here.
Get inside the Demon-Subdue Palace.
There's a big formation on the ground of the Palace.
With some repair work,
it should be able to withstand them for a while.
We can't go inside.
If we go inside, we're like turtles in a jar which are easy to catch.
There must be more dangerous traps
waiting for us inside.
We'll die if we stay outside,
and we'll die if we go inside.
Either way, we'll die.
But we can get some time if we go inside.
Clan Leader Su,
are you so anxious to have everyone die with you?
What do you mean?
Will you go inside or not?
If you don't, I will.
Hurry up! Let's go!
Go!
Dad, let's go!
Come on! If they want to hurt us,
they would've done that long ago.
Get inside now!
Lan Zhan,
get inside!
How should we repair the formation?
Uncle.
What on earth do you want?
Nothing.
Now that we're all inside,
why not talk with each other?
We have nothing
to talk with you.
Right, there's nothing to talk about.
How come there's nothing to talk about?
I don't believe it.
Don't you want to know
why you're poisoned?
Poisoned?
I'm innocent.
I'm not that capable
to poison all of you
without being noticed.
That's true.
I think he makes a point.
I'm right?
I guess, you may not have time
to eat together before the siege.
So
you shouldn't have been poisoned.
We can't be poisoned.
I've never heard of any poison
which can make people's spiritual power disappear all of a sudden.
Otherwise, such a poison
would have made a name and sold to
cultivators at a high price, filling the world with terror and bloodshed.
That's right.
Wei,
what to do now?
I told you not to look at me.
Men won't lose spiritual power suddenly.
There must be a way or opportunity.
Will anyone think about
what on earth you have done?
Well,
did we all drink the water when we go up the mountain?
I can't remember.
I don't know.
No one drank the water when going up the mountain.
Who dared drink the water on the Burial Mounds?
Right! Right! Who dared?
Well, we all breathed in the fog on the mountain.
Right! That might be the cause.
No, it can't be.
The fog on top of the mountain is much heavier.
We've been tied up there for two days,
but we've still got our spiritual power.
That's enough!
You're actually discussing with him.
Is it fun to be manipulated
by the enemy?
He...
Go ahead.
Why do you stop?
Clan Leader! Clan Leader!
What's wrong?
Wei Wuxian, which wicked trick have you practiced?
It's not a wicked trick.
It's
the silencing charm.
Go ahead.
So weird.
Predecessor Wei, what's weird?
This Clan Leader Su
has been acting weirdly for some time.
When the puppets attacked,
he tried to persuade those who had lost their spiritual power
to die immediately
instead of seeking for survival.
Now he's trying to stop me
from making inquiries,
Also, he keeps irritating me,
for fear that you might live a little longer.
What's the point of that?
What kind of an ally is that?
It seems that the Su clan of Moling
and the Lan clan of Gusu are really on bad terms.
Of course we are.
The Su clan of Moling
is a branch separated from the Lan clan of Gusu.
It's not a simple separation.
They were expelled
after betraying the Lan clan.
It's not just that.
There's something much funnier.
This Clan Leader Su...
-Stop it. -I know I should keep my voice down.
The Clan Leader Su copies Hanguang Jun in every way,
but he doesn't like others to point that out.
If anyone points that out,
he'll turn hostile immediately.
Jingyi!
How come there's such a man in the world?
What a Lan clan of Gusu! With elegance and righteousness as your doctrines,
your clan is filled with famed cultivators
and ranks first among the clans.
But it turns out this is
how you teach your disciples!
Su Minshan,
even if you're no longer a member of the Lan clan of Gusu now,
you should mind your words.
Our Clan Leader has left the Lan clan of Gusu long ago.
Who are you? How can you talk to him like that?
Your clan leader gains his current position
because he was once trained in Gusu.
There're so many disciples of the Lan clan of Gusu.
Can you all start your own clan?
You're too arrogant!
Arrogant?
Who's really arrogant?
I wonder who made so many mistakes
without noticing when playing
the Demon-dispel Melody.
It's neither the fog nor the food.
You all forget that
you've all done the same thing
after reaching the mountain top.
What's that?
Killing puppets.
Come on.
If anything went wrong after killing the puppets,
we would've noticed.
It did have something to do with killing puppets,
but puppets were not the problem.
The people who killed the puppets were.
Predecessor Lan,
may I ask you a question?
Whatever it is,
you may ask him.
No need to ask me.
Then I'll ask him instead.
Lan Zhan,
though the Su clan of Moling
was separated from the Lan clan of Gusu,
their unique skills
are derived from those of yours,
right?
Yes.
One of the secret skills of the Lan clan of Gusu is Barrier-breaking Music,
which can drive out evil spirits and repel demons.
Among all the instruments, the seven-string Qin
is the most abstruse, so most of your disciples choose to play Qin.
Likewise, in the Su clan of Moling,
most of their disciples also choose to play Qin,
right?
Yes.
As to the clan leader of the Su clan of Moling,
though he left your clan after learning your skills
to start up his own clan,
his skills
are far from perfection,
so his disciples also make a lot of mistakes when playing,
right?
Yes.
That is to say,
when killing puppets on the Burial Mounds,
even if part of the battle melody
they played was wrong,
your disciples wouldn't be surprised.
They would only think that they had poor skills
or they remembered the wrong melody
instead of keeping an eye on them to figure out
whether they made a mistake by accident or on purpose.
Is that right,
Clan Leader Su?
What're you doing?
Don't forget that
you've got no spiritual power now.
What's the point of threatening me?
You've been attacking me by innuendos.
What on earth do you imply?
Am I being so implicit
that you actually think I've been attacking you by innuendos?
Fine.
Let me make it clearer.
Everyone, you lost your spiritual power
for killing the puppets.
When killing the puppets,
this Clan Leader Su
went up the mountain with you
and pretended to play the melody to repel the demons,
but actually he secretly
replaced part of the battle melody
with something else
which can deprive you of your spiritual power temporarily.
When you were fighting a bloody battle,
he pretended to fight with you,
but he was actually attacking you secretly.
Nonsense!
There must be many cultivators of the Lan clan of Gusu who practice Qin here.
When you went up the mountain just now,
was the battle melody played by the Su clan of Moling wrong?
Yes.
Clan Leader Su,
you know that many disciples of the Lan clan of Gusu
look down upon you and your clan,
so you used their contempt.
Even if you played wrong,
among all the clans present,
only the Lan clan of Gusu could tell.
But they wouldn't
pay attention to you.
Even if they noticed that you played wrong,
they might think
your skills were poor.
There's a secret melody collection called "Soul Confusion Book",
which records how to kill others secretly
by changing the temperament.
If you don't believe me,
you can ask Predecessor Lan Qiren
whether there's such a book in the forbidden chamber of Library Pavilion
at the Cloud Recesses.
Even if there is such a melody,
I was unable to enter the forbidden chamber of Library Pavilion
back when I was learning skills in the Lan clan of Gusu.
Who said you should enter the chamber yourself?
You can know it as long as your master could enter the chamber freely.
I guess he also taught you
the method to change the melody, right?
By saying that,
you mean...
What a good plan!
You caught disciples of different clans everywhere
and sent them all to the Burial Mounds.
Let them fight me first, so you can sit idle and rake in a profit.
Using his wounds as an excuse,
he didn't come so as to avoid suspicion.
But you can collaborate with him from within,
and have hundreds of men killed in my place.
By then, even if I say I'm not responsible for their death,
no one will believe me.
Also, you're not afraid of running into me.
After all, I have a notorious reputation.
Combining the old hatred with the new one,
everyone will be furious.
I'm afraid no one will listen to me explain.
Ridiculous!
As the Captain leading hundreds of clans,
Lianfang Zun doesn't have to seek power or hegemony.
By sending so many people here to die,
what can he get?
You can slander me,
but how dare you slander His Excellency?
You said I slandered you.
Then do you dare to play the battle melody
you used to drive away the puppets just now
in front of everyone?
Right, play it again!
Right! Play it again! Play it again!
Play it! Play it!
Play it again!
Come on! Play it again!
You won't play it, right?
Well, that's OK.
Why not have a look
and see what this is?
Do you really think
we went to Jinlintai in vain?
We've found the two pages
torn out of the "Soul Confusion Book"
hidden by Jin Guangyao
in the secret chamber right behind the copper mirror at the Fangfei Hall.
As long as we hand them over to
Predecessor Lan Qiren to see
whether the melody you played was on it,
the truth will be reveled immediately.
It's a trick! Be careful!
Did I see it wrong?
You've actually got spiritual power.
Congratulations!
However,
if you're not plotting something,
why did you hide the fact that
you've still got spiritual power?
Damn it! He wants to destroy the formation!
He's the Ghostface Man?
He's got the Stygian Tiger Amulet.
It's useless.
Stop drawing.
Childe, I can't stop them.
What should we do? What should we do?
What to do now?
Ghost General, I'll help you!
Wait!
Uncle.
If you dare lose the Purple Lightening,
I won't spare you.
Jin Ling,
you bastard!
Come back!
Do you hear me?
You should go back.
I won't.
No! No! No!
What to do now?
Dad, what should we do?
What's he gonna do?
When they attacked again later,
I'll lead them into the Blood Pond.
Hanguang Jun will kill them.
I will be the target.
Don't get caught up in the fight later.
Just run out.
They won't attack you.
Then draw the banner on me, too.
Don't mess things up.
One target is enough.
I only need Hanguang Jun to help me kill them.
No one else should add to the trouble.
Listen to him.
Wen Ning, hurry up and take them away.
We're finally out.
Right! Right!
20 percent of my spiritual power is back.
I've only got 10 percent back. The recovery process is too slow.
Everyone,
in my opinion,
now that our spiritual power is not fully recovered,
we'd better find somewhere safe to rest.
We shall go back home
after getting back 80 percent of our spiritual power or more
so as to avoid new problems
or accidents.
OK! OK!
Why not go to the Lotus Cove first.
It's the nearest.
OK! OK!
Clan Leader Yao,
we just leave?
If we
stay here,
what if those puppets go down the mountain to attack us?
They're not back yet.
They won't make it.
Right!
Nonsense!
-Sizhui! -What is he doing?
Do you want to die?
-Come back! -Where are you going?
Predecessor Wei.
Sizhui, it's you.
Predecessor Wei. Predecessor Wei.
Are you OK?
Sizhui,
we're fine.
Don't be afraid.
I'm not afraid.
I'm just...
I don't know why.
I'm just...
Well,
has he become a fool?
Predecessor Wei!
Predecessor Wei, wake up!
Predecessor Wei! Predecessor Wei!
Yuan.
Yuan?
Hearing the flute, feeling blue.
Cloud is deep yet night is young.
Right or wrong passes in flee.
Wake up, only to find an empty dream.
How to weigh the tears and laughs, mundane flashes are nothing.
As hot as the blood, as cold as the blades.
Somewhere in high hill or lake afar, the Qin was heard again long.
The flute continues, silk flowers submerged with moonlight cream.
Warm a pot of vicissitudes to memorize the youth.
Why sorrow since moon remains the same?
Why not live at will and go for great adventures.
Echos a melody from afar.
Warm a pot of vicissitudes to memorize the youth.
Why sorrow since moon remains the same?
Why not live at will and go for great adventures.
Echos a melody from afar.