Wait! Come back!
Why did he run off?
Your Highness.
He was probably scared off by your cross-dressing style.
What is it?
He has the Human Face Disease.
How could it be?
Are you sure?
Most patients with the disease would burn the affected part with fire.
His face still has the burn scar.
Shouldn't it have died out along with the fall of the Xianle Kingdom?
Besides, the disease is highly contagious.
So far, we didn't get any reports about the disease around Mount Yujun.
I know what I saw.
Maybe he has already recovered...
but just left with the scar.
Do you mean he might have lived for hundreds of years?
It's possible.
There are many things that we're unsure of.
We should inform Ling Wen.
We need to mobilize more men to track down the boy as soon as possible.
ADAPTED FROM HEAVEN OFFICIAL'S BLESSING, A NOVEL BY MO XIANG TONG XIU,
PUBLISHED ON JINJIANG LITERATURE CITY
I see.
The Human Face Disease is indeed a severe issue.
Don't worry, Your Highness.
We'll do everything we can to track the boy down.
Is there anything else that's troubling you?
Do you think this case of Human Face Disease could mean...
Calm down.
Let's not overthink until the investigations are done.
I have something else to tell you about Mount Yujun.
Let's use the Spiritual Communication Array.
The officials are discussing it there.
Shouldn't he behave himself?
-I drank it naturally. -He has more experience than you.
-People have luck... -That's abandoning...
-You are too kind. -You live freely.
-Indeed. -Even if I'm kind...
I'm done with this.
Xuan Ji won't tell us the location of Green Ghost
and keeps asking to see Pei Ming.
-Can anyone take her away? -Exactly.
General Nan Yang, there's no space in other palaces.
Your palace has been repaired.
Let her stay for a few more days until we find a mountain to imprison--
Could you guys speed it up? Is my palace a madhouse?
General Pei Junior, do you have a spare room?
General Xuan Ji has always been stubborn and violent.
Only General Nan Yang can handle her.
Ming Guang Palace got into trouble this time.
Xuan Ji is already a handful.
But now, the Green Ghost, Qi Rong, is also involved.
The Green Ghost, Qi Rong, is a nuisance.
The Green Ghost, Qi Rong?
What's the matter with the Hanging Corpses Woods in Mount Yujun?
Was the Green Ghost, Qi Rong, also there?
You're late as usual,
Your Highness.
I'm sorry, I was delayed by work.
The Green Ghost was not at Mount Yujun,
but the Hanging Corpses Woods was Xuan Ji's offering to him.
Hanging Corpses Woods again.
Qi Rong's taste is nasty as always.
Even his fellow ghosts despise his taste.
Damn it! I don't care about it. Is General Pei back?
Make the crazy lady tell us where Green Ghost is and send her away!
-Darn it. -This kind of thing...
General Pei's romantic affair has caused chaos.
Xuan Ji was completely infatuated with General Pei.
-Just let him see her. -He should restrain himself.
Exactly. Don't cause chaos and harass everyone.
That would be useless. She would only go even madder.
Xuan Ji is Green Ghost's subordinate?
Yes.
Xuan Ji has been dead for hundreds of years.
Although she held a grudge, she wasn't a nuisance.
It was when she began to work for the Green Ghost
-that she became a real nuisance. -That makes sense.
Xuan Ji herself didn't have much power.
If it wasn't for Qi Rong, she wouldn't have caused trouble.
Though General Pei is not here, we still have General Pei Junior.
Wait. We'll track Qi Rong down,
but Ming Guang Palace should take some responsibilities.
-Exactly! -Silence!
The affair of Mount Yujun was solved
with the help of Xie Lian
and those who work for
General Xuan Zhen, General Nan Yang, and General Ming Guang.
I appreciate your help.
As the one in charge of this task,
do you have anything to add, Your Highness?
I heard a fetus spirit singing
when I was in the sedan chair.
However, the two Deputy Gods couldn't hear it.
I guess its powers are quite remarkable.
-Do you know about this? -A fetus spirit?
We don't know anything about it.
Since Your Highness is the only one who heard it,
could it be a hallucination?
The whole issue is suspicious. Ming Guang Palace ought to explain--
I don't care about the fetus spirit! Take Xuan Ji away first!
Wait until we find a suitable mountain.
As for the fetus spirit, I'll look into it.
Is there anything else?
There's one more.
I came across a youngster who could control silver butterflies. Who is he?
Your Highness. What did you say?
-He said he met Hua Cheng. -What are all these?
His name is Hua Cheng? It suits him well.
Have you not heard of the Four Great Calamities?
It's not His Highness's fault.
He was in the Mortal Realm for hundreds of years.
He wouldn't know.
What are the Four Great Calamities?
They're the four Ghost Kings.
The Night Touring Green Lantern, the Green Ghost, is one of them.
But he's the weakest
and hasn't attained the Devastation rank.
Also, he has the worst taste. He likes disgusting stuff.
A troublemaker too.
Next is Black Ghost, the Black Water Submerging Boats.
He seldom shows up.
The Heaven Realm doesn't know much about him
except for the fact that he is a water ghost.
Next is the White-Clothed Calamity.
He has another name.
Bai Wuxiang.
XIANLE
Calamities follow Bai Wuxiang. The first kingdom he destroyed was...
Is your throat all right, Ling Wen?
Your Highness,
Bai Wuxiang has been dead for hundreds of years.
I know.
Don't worry about me.
Even if Bai Wuxiang still lives, we don't have time to deal with him now.
The silver butterflies you saw are also called "Deathly Spirit Butterflies."
Their master is the major headache of Heaven Realm,
Hua Cheng, also known as the Crimson Rain Sought Flower.
Hua Cheng must be an alias. His appearance is also just a masquerade.
Does it matter?
After he challenged 33 Gods in a row,
no one would ever forget that face.
He challenged 33 Gods in a row?
It was the year when Hua Cheng rose to fame.
He asked to duel with 35 Gods.
If he lost, he would leave his bone ashes to the Heaven Realm.
However, if any of the Gods lost, they would be reduced to humans again.
Hence, 33 idiots accepted the challenge.
Martial Gods lost the duel, while Civil Gods lost the brawl.
The whole group was wiped out.
When Hua Cheng asked them to fulfill their promise,
they thought that Hua Cheng was just an arrogant ghost
and wouldn't dare to go against the Heaven Realm.
So all of them ignored him.
Then, Hua Cheng burned their temples and palaces in the Mortal Realm.
Since temples and worshipers are the sources of a god's spiritual powers,
the loss led to the downfall of the 33 Gods.
Not just that, these idiots, out of vanity,
had the duel in their fervent worshipers' dreams.
Once they lost, the worshipers began to worship Hua Cheng.
The Heaven Realm was humiliated.
-He's a maniac. -He's a sly fox.
Martial Gods were miserably beaten up by Hua Cheng's creepy scimitar
and became traumatized after that.
Civil Gods were no better.
I'm pretty sure some of them spit blood as Hua Cheng ruthlessly
hurled all the insults at them.
And don't forget the rampant silver butterflies!
Yes, they are still the worst nightmares of some of the Gods.
Somehow, I find the silver butterflies adorable.
So Hua Cheng challenged 35 Gods,
but only 33 accepted the challenge.
Who are the other two?
By the way, Xuan Zhen and Nan Yang,
how do you know all the details?
-They know everything, don't they? -Ask them!
Your Highness, are you sure that it was Hua Cheng that you met?
What did he look like?
He was in a red robe and black boots, with an umbrella.
What did he do to you?
He crushed Xuan Ji's magical formation
and showed me the way.
That's all?
Yes.
-What? -That's very odd of him.
-Did he set any traps? -What on earth did he want?
I have no idea.
Since two of the Four Great Calamities have shown up,
they might be colluding together.
If we are misled and dispute among ourselves,
they're the ones benefiting from it.
Yes.
Hua Cheng is suspicious.
We shouldn't make wild guesses.
I think the top priority now is to find out what's going on
instead of who is to blame.
Ming Guang Palace will help with the investigation.
What do you think, Lady Ling Wen?
That sounds good. This is beyond the agenda of our convention.
I need to inform His Majesty.
Let's call it a day.
Thank you, Lady Ling Wen and Your Highness.
Goodbye.
-Goodbye. -I'm leaving.
-Goodbye. -Goodbye.
I'm going to leave now.
Goodbye.
I still have to deal with Xuan Ji.
-See you. -Nan Yang.
Xuan Zhen too.
Thank you for sending me the Deputy Gods.
I appreciate it.
I think Your Highness should really take good care
of yourself first.
Do you think you could pay off your merit debt
with the offerings from worshipers of Mount Yujun?
What do you think, General Nan Yang?
Come and help me.
Yes, miss.
They must be checked carefully.
Ling Wen, I need to talk to you.
About the 8.88 million merits I owed...
Your Highness, perfect timing. I have something to tell you too.
Congratulations.
The Mount Yujun worshipers gave their offerings.
With all merits you received,
your debt...
has been cleared.
Really? All cleared?
But the merits from Mount Yujun shouldn't be enough.
Anyway, the debt has been paid off.
You don't have to know the details.
Thank you.
By the way,
what's happening here?
After our meeting the other day,
I reported the affair about Hua Cheng to the Emperor.
We're conducting an investigation now.
When Your Highness was in the Mortal Realm,
you caused trouble for the Heaven Realm.
You've been through a lot.
Anyway, do you have any plans for the future, Your Highness?
That's exactly why I'm here.
Although I've ascended to the Heaven Realm three times,
I don't have any shrines or worshipers
which brought His Majesty and you a lot of trouble.
So I did some serious thinking
and decided to be self-dependent.
Since I have nothing better to do,
I might as well go to the Mortal Realm and build a shrine dedicated to myself.
I'll see you around!
Wait!
Really? The deserted house near the entrance is occupied?
It is now a Taoist shrine!
Who is managing it? Let's have a look!
Welcome.
Master.
Which god is your shrine dedicated to?
The Crown Prince of Xianle.
Who is that?
He was a crown prince.
-What can he do? -He can protect his worshipers.
Could this Crown Prince bless us with wealth?
Perhaps not. I'm sorry.
How about career and promotion?
He can't either.
Your god is worthless then. No wonder you're so poor.
Men shouldn't enter the wrong trade, women shouldn't marry the wrong man,
and Taoists shouldn't worship the wrong god.
You should convert to worshipping the Water Master.
His attribute of bringing wealth would attract incense offerings!
Lady Ling Wen is all right too.
She might bless us to be a principal graduate!
Well...
Or you could worship...
Who?
General "Dick."
Please work hard!
If only he were Lady Ling Wen.
-General "Dick" is honorable too. -Yes!
There's still time.
There will be worshipers and offerings one day.
I do need to spend money on remodeling.
Then...
Gossips about gods.
Anecdotes of ghosts. I've obtained good things!
It should be enough to remodel the shrine.
I paid money to build my shrine, yet I earned money by collecting scraps.
Collecting scraps is way better than ascension!
What? I'm mentioned in this too?
"The Crown Prince of Xianle has ascended three times.
A Martial God, Plague God, and Scrap-collecting God."
All right. At least, I'm a god.
A Martial God and a Scrap-collecting God are similar.
All gods are equal, so are all living beings.
Is that so?
People like to talk about equality.
If it's achieved,
will there still be gods?
That made sense too.
Water Master Wudu is in charge of water and wealth.
How could a Water Master also be in charge of wealth?
Since tradesmen often ship goods by water,
they would pray for safety at the Water Master Temple.
Gradually, Water Master was also in charge of wealth.
This Water Master must be powerful.
Yes, he's a Water Tyrant.
"Water Tyrant" ?
He would capsize ships that didn't make him offerings.
Hence, the name "Water Tyrant."
I see.
You know quite a lot for someone your age.
I have too much time to kill.
You know a lot about the Gods.
What about ghosts?
Which ghost?
The Crimson Rain Sought Flower, Hua Cheng.
Wait a minute, Your Highness.
I don't want to jinx it,
but when you travel in the Mortal Realm,
you might come across Hua Cheng again.
So please remember this.
Hua Cheng rose from Mount Tonglu,
where thousands of ghosts kill each other.
Any Ghost King who survived the trial
is sly, brutal, and fickle.
Maybe he was kind to you,
but you should never let your guard down.
Just try to avoid him.
Subtitle translation by: Li Xue and Yin Xiaowen