English Subtitles by 橙橙 Orange Biscuit (Cheng Cheng)
Episode 23
I’ve been looking for you all day.
Did you go foraging for food again?
This is Dixing. Be more careful.
My bad. He caused you some trouble.
Lord Guardian plays his cards well in Dragon City.
But when in Dixing, please show more discretion.
Naturally, naturally.
Everybody.
This is our newly appointed King who is going to ascend the throne.
Wonderful!
At first glance, this newly appointed King is a fine-looking and talented young man.
Why is it you, boy?
Enough. Stop talking.
This Justiciar passes off black as white and always seeks revenge.
This time,
we are doomed.
How stubborn.
Shove them out.
Execute all three of them.
This old man can't stand the sight of blood. Just electrocute them instead.
What do you say, Your Majesty?
His Majesty has given the order. Go execute it.
Take them away.
Move it! Quick!
Behave yourselves. Hurry up!
This way everyone is satisfied.
What can compare to the harmony and stability of Dixing?
Out of the way!
Take my life in exchange for theirs!
- As long as you set them free, you can order me to do anything. - An Bai!
How audacious!
You are really willing to sacrifice everything regardless of the cost?
Including your freedom and youth?
Yes!
Your eyes are sharp
and your voice is firm.
Good.
Then I will give you a chance.
Your Majesty.
Unexpectedly,
this King, I, still have something to say.
No, no.
The candidates for succession must be of noble birth,
with the political integrity and ability.
The Justiciar's words are reasonable.
However,
I find the child's determination commendable.
He also has the qualifications of a successor.
Youth,
I hope you will obtain what you desire.
Both of you, please settle down here for now.
Aren't the lights too dim in here?
Dixing's light resources are limited.
On this occasion, all the lights have been diverted into the Palace.
If Lord Guardian has no other issues, I will take my leave first.
Go ahead.
I just regained the light,
but I have to be a blind man again.
My Master Zhao.
You just came down to Dixing, but why does it feel like you made enemies everywhere?
This guy obviously opposes you.
He opposes me?
I oppose him!
Enough. Tell me,
why did you behave in that way towards Shen Wei?
That hostility didn't seem feigned.
I'm afraid you might not believe what I say.
I recovered my memories of the past,
but only just a little bit.
Boss' character has really changed recently.
The moment his eyes recovered, he rushed down to Dixing to investigate the lead on the Merit Brush.
And Little Guo was assigned to handle the aftermath of the Aging Case.
Pitiful me, has to come to the Department of Supervision to collect evidence.
What are you doing?
Didn't the lab upstairs suffer an intrusion?
We can't go up?
Professor Ouyang has gone on a research outing today.
The lab can't be opened to outsiders, please understand.
Brother Chu!
Come here, come here.
Forget it. We still have half an area's photos to take.
Stop messing about.
Why don't you be in charge?
Help me settle the attendance fees.
Do you believe that I'll be in charge and make you go on sick leave immediately?
If you don't want to then don't.
Enough. Split up to take the photos.
So what exactly are you trying to say?
Say?
I'm saying this fellow, Shen Wei, is untrustworthy.
This stupid Dixing-ian
must still be hiding something from us.
- He knows of Kun Lun's existence! - I know.
When he returned this to me, it was already spoilt.
If someone else wanted to destroy the recording,
it would be very simple. Just delete it.
But he, is someone utterly ignorant about technology.
So he could only destroy the recorder.
He doesn't want me to take an interest in matters surrounding Kun Lun.
Then why are you so close to him?
I just want to make a gamble. I'm gambling that he has his own difficulties.
He
is too deep a person.
He likes to suffer in silence.
So I can only wait.
Wait till the weight of it is too much,
and he tells me about it himself.
You're a real slippery fellow.
There'd even come a time when you'd believe in someone so much.
But the more you're like this, the more I want to look out for you.
- What do you want to do? - What I used to do.
Shadowing.
First I'll scout him out
and see what he's up to right now.
Just tell me if you permit it.
Go then.
You have gotten thinner.
Ye Zun.
Just stop it.
Are you really set on making everyone die for your ambitions?
Anyone can urge me to stop.
Except for you.
Don't forget.
You and I are not just related in that way.
I am also your benefactor.
All lies.
Whether it's a lie, you know very well.
Who returned you to glory and made you shine.
So far, yet so near.
My awakening,
is a joke this world played on me.
It has nothing to do with you.
Only because I'm trapped here, neither living nor dying,
can you go on with this life.
Do you still not understand?
That's why you cannot kill me.
You underestimate me.
As long as I can get rid of you,
so what if I sacrifice myself?
What loud, arrogant talk.
Now I am still confined here. I can't get out.
And you can't come in.
Get rid of me?
Be my guest!
Even if it's like this,
I will do everything in my power to confine you here.
Just like the 10,000 years before.
The moment the curtains part,
the show's not over till the music ends.
With just you alone,
can you prevent this?
Stand down.
Who's there?
You have the ability to harm people,
so why do you hide yourself?
You knew I was following you?
Are you okay?
I'm fine.
Tell me the truth.
What are you hiding from us?
Forgive me. There are some things I cannot say right now.
But I can guarantee you,
I will never do anything that is harmful to Zhao Yunlan.
I believe,
in protecting his heart,
we are the same.
Just based on these few words of yours? I'm not so easily fooled.
But based on your performance just now, I suppose it's believable.
Here, pinky promise.
Pinky... promise?
Make a pinky promise as a guarantee.
If you dare lie to me, I will not forgive you.
I went to take a look in the archives.
I never thought that all the pages on the Merit Brush were ripped out from the books.
Seems like there's already a mole in the Palace,
one step ahead of us.
Dixing is now in a troubled time.
Once the King's ascension ceremony is over,
this matter must be thoroughly investigated.
But anyway,
it was the old King who chose his successor.
Why does he not come out to greet us?
That's right.
I've come to the Palace a few times,
but I've never seen the King show his face.
Seems like he's never even left his nest.
Lord Guardian does not know.
All of the Kings have always been busy with government affairs.
Living in seclusion.
Because of this, some Dixing-ians have a delusion,
saying that the King is my puppet.
It's quite funny.
Justiciar, why do you creep about like a ghost?
That's what I am...
It's nearly time.
I will now invite the old King to come out.
No wait, what about An Bai?
Who?
This An Bai, as the King's successor,
has the impudence to be missing from the ceremony.
This is disgraceful.
I say,
is it Palace tradition to scare people from behind?
A vital area.
Killed with one thrust.
The old man must have been dead for some time.
This stab wound is too common.
There's no way to find out.
Today is the grand succession ceremony,
but the newly appointed King, An Bai, never made an appearance.
I think he is the most suspicious.
That isn't right.
He's about to become the new King.
Why should he kill him?
After An Bai was appointed as the King's successor,
I heard him have many disputes with the old King.
It's very likely, that in a dispute with the old King,
he accidentally killed him during a disagreement and ran away to escape punishment.
Issue the order.
An Bai is a wanted criminal suspect in Dixing.
Bring him to me, dead or alive.
What do you think?
It doesn't seem faked.
The old man's face is contorted with anger.
Unacceptable.
Even if An Bai is guilty, his two companions are innocent.
If we capture and torture a confession out of those two,
we are taking things too personally.
Sir Envoy.
When you became a hero 10,000 years ago, were you this soft as well?
What are you doing?
I didn't do that on purpose.
Since we have our own viewpoints, then let us split up.
Why is that fellow's foot so hard?
An Bai.
I say, how did you go from being the new King into murderer?
Exactly.
I don't know either.
What new King? I've no wish to become one.
Do you know what's the fate of becoming King?
What fate?
Child, come up here.
No need. Rise.
In the beginning,
if I was as rebellious as you,
then I would not be like this today.
I don't understand.
I haven't spoken to anyone in a very long time.
Perhaps, no one wants to listen to what I say.
King Grandpa!
Grandpa?
It has only been a few years
since I took the throne.
His face was haggard and emaciated.
The moment I take the throne,
this would be my fate after a few years!
So serious?
Of course. I don't want it.
Someone's here.
What is it?
These people are the prime suspects in the murder of the old King.
- Let's go! Come with us! - I didn't kill him! I didn't kill him!
You didn't kill him?
Before this happened, you were the only one other than the deacon who exited the Palace. Was he the one who did it?
- Let's go! Come with me! - Let me go! Let me go!
Let me go!
- Go! - Don't go!
Let him go!
Let me go!
Look, someone has collapsed.
- What happened? - What happened?
What happened?
- What happened? - He looks dead!
Dead?
Take this opportunity to escape.
With my cooperation, you still have a chance.
Wait.
I've remembered.
That day when I left the Palace,
there was a figure who flashed past the screen.
A cornered beast becomes desperate.
- Prepare to execute them! - Wait.
There are still some questionable points in this case. Adjourn the trial.
Bring them back to the Palace.
You said you still remember his features.
Then draw his appearance now.
I will look at it in a moment.
Sir Envoy has ordered me to bring you to another interrogation room.
Very good.
You did not disappoint me.
I am fortunate to accomplish the mission.
What is it?
You never thought that this was my true face?
Rather than be under a King who's in his death throes,
I might as well follow someone who is greater.
If you had contented to be the culprit, I could have given you a way out.
Let you escape your punishment.
Why couldn't we get along?
You just had to blab.
Then don't blame me.
Why is it you?
Deacon.
So it is you.
The one who attacked us over here last time.
Was also you.
Blame your power for giving you away too early.
Why is this fellow's foot so hard?
It seems drawing a snake out of its hole
together with your power to pull off a hoax, means a guaranteed success.
The Justiciar considers you his right-hand man.
You doing this,
would make him very sad.
What right-hand man?
In his eyes, we are only chess pieces!
Even the King...
His power is to turn his whole body into steel.
As both attack and defense.
Why are you not killing me?
Because you are also a pitiful person who was manipulated.
Tell me. Why did you kill the old King?
It's all that old man's fault.
He saw what he shouldn't have!
Your Majesty. You summoned me?
There's no end to bitterness. It's not too late to repent.
As long as you hand over what you stole from the archives,
I can grant you clemency
and absolve you of guilt.
Don't blame me for being cruel.
Who asked you to interfere?
You failed your mission.
Then atone for your failure through death!
I obey.
How foolish.
Let's destroy the Pillar now.
Impossible.
When the Pillar is being confined, it cannot be destroyed.
For him and for us, it is a permanent shield.
[Merit Brush]
I found it.
[Merit Brush]
Just for the sake of this one page.
Blood rained again.
I am old. Old.
This era is becoming more incomprehensible to me.
We have an urgent task at hand.
We have to clean up and reorganise Dixing,
as quickly as possible.
Stabilise the administration of Dixing.
The old King he...
left in such a manner.
A King who controlled Dixing for so many years died in one short day.
It is a real pity.
Lord Guardian.
You don't understand my difficulty.
To safeguard the operation of Dixing,
the Palace must think and work with one heart and one mind.
Considering the situation at hand,
we must let An Bai ascend the throne as soon as possible.
Have you had enough?
First you framed me, then you wanted to kill me.
Now after one big round, you're still forcing me to become King!
Do I not even have the right to refuse?
Child.
Of course you can refuse.
But don't forget,
your friends' murder charges
have not been written off.
Life is not always perfect.
If you want to save those most important to you,
you must make a sacrifice.
As the King, you must make sacrifices.
The King's successors
are all chosen from those quick of mind
and strong of will.
To conform to the Royal Crown
and become a tireless and heartless administrative tool.
This is the sacrifice of the King.
If it wasn't so,
there would be no way to bear the heavy burdens of Dixing's governmental affairs.
When I saw your determination to save your friends
and your spirit of self-sacrifice,
I felt that you might become a good King.
There's no harm in thinking this through.
Do you need to make this sacrifice?
For the whole Dixing.
For the friends you protect.
It is time to start work.
An Bai!
An Bai?
Justiciar, what is this?
He can't hear me.
Now that the new King has been crowned,
this farce has come to an end.
Haven't you people gotten what you wanted?
Shouldn't you go back to deal with your important matters?
I'm asking you what's the matter with him.
The moment he puts on the Crown
he will keep on working till his last breath.
This is Dixing's rule.
All of this is to ensure Dixing's more efficient operation.
No way. How can this work?
Lord Guardian.
This has been established through thousands of years of social practice on Dixing.
It cannot be changed.
This one is not as good as the last one.
Looking at him,
I'm afraid he might only last four or five years.
Some appreciate me, some criticise me.
Sharing the merit and questioning the sins.
Similar sounds echo each other,
like attracts like.
Exploiting a situation to one’s benefit,
by pushing the boat with the current.
Choosing to soar or remaining in the deep,
there is nothing to blame by advancing or retreating.
Translate that for me, Professor.
What it means is
the Merit Brush's effects
are determined by energy.
It can erase the traces of dark energy used by Dixing-ians.
And even increase their power.
Just like Feng Qubing from before.
He suddenly obtained the dark energy to heal people.
And when he used dark energy,
I could not feel it at all.
Turns out,
this is because the Merit Brush is at work.
Therefore,
we cannot rely on the response of dark energy
to trace the owner of the Merit Brush.
Just a wave of the Merit Brush
is enough to enchant a small fry into the final big boss.
Seems like we are in serious trouble.
That damn Dixing.
I have no wish to stay there anymore.
Even though our trip wasn't for naught,
but I never thought
that the reality is much worse than the rumours.
That's right.
This boy finally became a good older brother
and a good leader.
But in the end...
Come.
Come!
I am here.
I've called for so long,
but only two children came.
Who are you?
My powers were trapped before.
It was difficult for me to even speak.
Fortunately, now the time is near for the tiger to be set free.
Are you willing to rule Haixing and seek the light with me?
Didn't we stay in Dixing voluntarily because resources on the surface were insufficient?
Then why do we have to rule Haixing? This person is strange.
- Let's go. - Go, go.
Voluntarily?
How many lies
were committed in thy name?
Your companion, who is as your own flesh and blood
sacrificed himself voluntarily.
Do you not want to save him?
Do you not want to break free of Dixing
and return to the light with him?
Then submit yourself to me
and spread the faith.
What should we do?
First, learn this saying:
If you desire the Light,
then first revere the Night.
If you desire the Light,
then first revere the Night.
If you desire the Light,
then first revere the Night.
Though your eyes are fine,
but your body
still needs to recuperate.
Especially after a trip to Dixing.
Just in case,
I will attend to you for one last night.
Okay.
Whatever you say.
Then lie down on the bed.
I'll take a look at what food is available.
You...
continue.
How anticlimactic that a Hallow has fallen into the hands of a coward like you.
If it weren't for the Merit Brush's blessing,
would you alone
be able to murder in and out of the Department of Supervision?
I have no interest in that anyway.
Once I have my revenge,
you go plot your schemes, and I'll go sing my songs.
We'll be even.
I really don't understand.
Why does Boss say that you are our new hope?
Get up. Come with me.
The Merit Brush?
Have you found the next target?
I woke up because I was hungry.
Don't you think of lying to me.
What did you do in order to heal my eyes?
You used the Longevity Dial.
You shared your life force with mine.
You used your power to neutralise my erosion.
Didn't you?
I...
The energy structure in my body
has suffered a severe blow.
I need to
exchange all of the energy in my body.
It must hurt a lot.
Fortunately...
Fortunately, I'm used to getting injured.
- I do not deserve what you are doing for me. - You're worth it.
Then what do you want me to do?
Be indebted to you?
To bow to you?
You are not immortal!
Why should I so casually owe you a life?
This life
is what I'm returning to you.
You should rest soon.
Hello, Deputy?
Is this really okay?
Giving me a day off when we're against a formidable enemy?
Stop droning on.
Visiting your parents' graves is a sacred thing.
If I had parents...
Enough, enough.
Do what you have to do. I'll give you a day.
Dad.
Mom.
I'm here to see you again.
I know that humans do not have souls.
But I still want to talk to you.
Because only when I am talking to you
I am not nervous.
But if you could hear me,
I'd probably be nervous as well.
Chief said that my being like this is hopeless.
If I can't connect with the living,
I can't connect with the dead either.
It's true that I am the most useless one.
But someone like me
is now doing some meaningful things.
Say,
do you think that this is enough?
Grandma Li, I'm here to see you too.
I brought you my Grandma's favourite yogurt.
The berries are especially big, it's especially tasty.
Li Qian's therapy has been quite successful.
You don't have to worry.
Then Grandma Li, I'll go back first.
I'll come see you again.
Do you want to avenge your wife?
You and your wife have had a lifetime of hardship.
She died before even living a happy life.
And your child who never got to see the world.
Are you just going to let your enemies go,
dragging out their ignoble existence?
I can help you find
all of your enemies.
And then use your Merit Brush to take revenge.
Don't let your wife and child die in vain.
I say, Wei Lan,
stop feeling so guilty.
Being a doctor has always been a noble yet sorrowful occupation.
It's difficult to avoid meeting and sending people off.
I was just thinking,
if only I had observed him for just one more hour,
this wouldn't have happened.
You can observe him for an hour.
But can you observe him for ever?
I also feel uncomfortable about Mr Tan's passing.
But look,
now there are so many people in our hospital waiting for us to turn sorrow into strength.
Isn't that so?
Stop feeling guilty.
Go on. Go back to work.
What happened to me?
Doctor Jin?
Doctor Jin!
The last needle is for me.
Doctor Jin!
What are you doing?
Let it go!
Doctor Jin, let it go!
There are no leads on the identity of the Merit Brush's owner.
As I said,
the material of the Brush owner's written challenge that I analysed
didn't turn anything up.
He dared to send a threatening letter,
so he won't let himself be found so easily.
Be prepared to wage a prolonged battle.
Chief Zhao. The Department of Supervision called.
There's a situation at Dragon City Hospital.
This boy.
Doesn't know how to tidy up.
You go first.
Don't be like this.