San Lang?
I'm fine.
San Lang, wait!
-Don't move! -Don't be afraid.
No!
Don't worry. Excuse me for a moment.
San Lang!
ADAPTED FROM HEAVEN OFFICIAL'S BLESSING, A NOVEL BY MO XIANG TONG XIU,
PUBLISHED ON JINJIANG LITERATURE CITY
I have something to ask you,
so you can't go down!
You shall go with me then!
That wench again!
Ruoye!
Oh no!
San Lang?
Is that you, San Lang?
Are you all right?
Are you hurt?
I'm fine.
All right.
Thank you.
Please put me down.
No.
Why?
It's dirty.
My brothers,
what happened to you?
Who murdered you?
Who?
He's not breathing and his heart isn't beating?
I want my brothers back!
I want you dead!
Watch out, San Lang!
Just ignore him.
San Lang, you should put me down now.
Don't worry. Just relax.
You can't just keep carrying me.
Why not? Hold on tight.
You killed my brothers!
That's unforgivable!
San Lang.
You killed
all of them?
Yes.
San Lang,
when you see a pit like this again, think twice before you jump.
I couldn't even stop you.
I didn't know what to do.
Don't you have anything else to ask?
What else do you want me to ask?
For example, whether I'm a human or not.
I don't think
I need to know that.
Why?
Because getting along well is what matters most in friendship,
not your identity.
If I like you, I would like you even if you are a beggar.
But if I hate you, I would hate you even if you are a king.
It's simple.
So
I don't have to ask.
That's a very good point.
Watch out, San Lang!
Ruoye!
Shit.
It's two against one.
That's not fair!
You can't win even if it's one-on-one.
You are all henchmen of that wench.
You must die!
Don't kill him yet, San Lang.
We need to ask him
how to get out of here.
San Lang,
shouldn't you put me down now?
Wait.
Thank you very much.
I wonder if the others are all right.
Will they be thrown into the pit by the ghost in black too?
Watch out.
Didn't I tell you?
The floor is dirty.
If you work for that wench,
all the ghosts of our kingdom will haunt you to death.
General Ke Mo.
Who are you
talking about?
Who else could it be
other than the Evil Priest?
Half-Moon's Imperial Preceptor?
Aren't you working for her?
I, Ke Mo,
will never pledge my allegiance to her again!
She must pay for what she did!
But General...
You killed my brothers.
I won't answer your questions!
Come! Let's continue our fight!
I killed them all. He's not involved.
You can answer his questions before fighting me.
You henchmen of that wench
are all the same!
Don't get me wrong, General Ke Mo.
We're here to dispose of the Imperial Preceptor.
How can we be her henchmen?
If you don't work for her,
why did you kill my men then?
You threw us down here. Shouldn't we protect ourselves?
Bullshit!
You jumped off yourselves!
All right.
Since we are all stuck here,
let's have a truce.
Why do you resent
the Imperial Preceptor?
General Ke Mo?
For the sake of your men, you'd better answer the questions.
They're already dead.
Don't you dare threaten me with that!
But their bodies are still here.
What do you want?
It all depends on you.
The people of Half-Moon believe that
the state of the body at death dictates the state in the next life.
Do you want them to be reborn healthily?
Or...
You...
It's all right.
Don't touch their bodies.
They were all gallant soldiers,
miserably stuck
in the pit for years.
Now that they're finally set free,
I can't let anyone insult them anymore.
Are you really here to kill Ban Yue?
Take my word for it.
Foreigners like us don't know anything about the Imperial Preceptor.
Since you've worked with her,
please tell us more about her.
She hated the Half-Moon Kingdom.
What? Isn't she a citizen of the kingdom?
Yes
and no.
This Evil Priest
has mixed blood.
Her mother is a woman from Half-Moon
and her father is a damn Yong'an man.
Sick of the harsh life in the border,
he abandoned his wife and daughter and went back to Yong'an.
The poor wife
died of depression,
leaving her six-year-old daughter alone
in this world.
This biracial child
is the Evil Priest.
Our culture regards stoutness as beauty,
so the biracial child was often bullied for being scrawny.
As a result,
she became more and more eccentric.
Later, a riot broke out at the border.
Many people died
and the biracial child also disappeared.
However, when she came back,
she was equipped with the evil sorcery from Yong'an.
She even acquired a position in the Royal Palace.
Your Majesty,
she's an evil priest!
She can't be trusted!
"An evil priest" ?
Why do you say so?
The Scorpion-tailed Snakes she controls are so wicked.
If she uses them against us,
we won't even be able to get the antidotes!
-That's true. -That's true.
-She's evil. -Evil priest.
Exactly!
Not to mention that she is half-Yong'an.
She's a mongrel!
She's a devil
sent by the Scorpion-tailed Snake to curse our kingdom!
Priest,
do you have anything to say?
Your Majesty, she didn't deny it! Let's hang her!
-Yes, hang her! -Hang her!
Silence!
What do you think,
Ke Mo?
Out of pity,
I begged mercy for her.
Follow me now.
Well done, my brothers!
We have finally wiped out these desert bandits!
You'll get your fair share
after we report back to the king!
-Good! -Great!
-What is happening? -What's this?
General!
Something terrible happened!
What's the matter?
General!
There's a storm coming!
Without any structural support,
the sandy cave will collapse soon!
-What? -How can this be?
This is bad.
Come! Follow me!
-Come on! -Go!
-Hurry up! -Go!
Hurry up!
In that dire situation,
the chance of survival was very slim.
I had no choice,
but to get the living ones out first.
Let's go.
Take our brothers' bodies home.
All of them.
-Yes, sir! -Yes, sir!
General, look! Look over there!
-General? -It's the general!
Wake up! We are saved!
-General! -She saved us!
-General came to save us! -She burrowed a shelter
for the injured soldiers.
After that, she dug out the dead bodies.
She did all that single-handedly.
I finally believed
that she wouldn't be a threat to the kingdom.
So I vouched for her
and dismissed the dissenting voices.
She was reliable
and highly skilled,
but she wasn't arrogant.
I kept recommending her
until she became the Imperial Preceptor.
-Long live the Imperial Preceptor! -Long live the Imperial Preceptor!
Where is the Imperial Preceptor?
General,
she disappeared as soon as the battle began!
Why...
Why did she do that?
General!
General, the Imperial Preceptor opened the city gate!
What did you say?
Why?
Why did she do that
when I trusted her so much?
The Evil Priest is a traitor.
She deserves to be hanged over the Sinner's Pit!
General Ke Mo, please calm down.
Subtitle translation by: Li Xue and Yin Xiaowen