General Ke Mo, please calm down.
Is that the Imperial Preceptor who is hung over the Sinner's Pit?
Yes!
Even if I die, I will make sure the traitor dies too!
I'll hang her every time I catch her!
All these years,
was she hung over the Sinner's Pit
every time she got caught by you?
I was actually being merciful by hanging her!
After becoming a ghost,
the devil hunted down my men who turned into Wraths
and threw them into the Sinner's Pit!
She set up a powerful magical formation around the pit
to keep anyone down there
from getting out.
I heard my fellow brothers crying every day,
so I had to catch merchants who wandered into the ruined city
to feed them.
I had no other choice.
How about the half-buried face in the palace?
Did you do that too?
We have to fertilize the Shanyue Fern.
Otherwise, we won't be able to deal with the Scorpion-tailed Snakes.
It seems that even though Ke Mo is no longer a human,
he is still filled with fear towards these snakes.
If so, why didn't the Imperial Preceptor use the snakes
to fight back before she died?
Also, it is strange of her to let the snakes sting people.
She seems to be luring people into the city
for Ke Mo to feed them to his soldiers.
However, wouldn't that be helping her enemy?
There's another issue
that is puzzling me.
General Ke Mo,
on our way here,
we saw a black and white--
ADAPTED FROM HEAVEN OFFICIAL'S BLESSING, A NOVEL BY MO XIANG TONG XIU,
PUBLISHED ON JINJIANG LITERATURE CITY
What happened,
Ke Mo?
"What happened" ?
You pushed them off!
You Evil Priest!
You're the reason they ended up here!
I should hang you there
forever!
The Evil Priest?
So she is Half-Moon's Imperial Preceptor?
Hold on.
There are other people here?
All right.
"All right" ?
You must be satisfied now.
They are all dead!
Ke Mo,
what I meant was,
"That's it.
We're finally free."
Was it you who annihilated
these ghost soldiers?
It was an accident.
Bullshit!
Who are you?
I'm a Heavenly Official
and this is...
This is a friend of mine.
No Heavenly Officials have ever been here.
I thought all of you didn't care about this place.
Do you all want to get out?
Of course.
But the magical formation
is trapping us.
I've removed it.
You're free to go.
So it was you who did it.
Who were the women in black and in white we saw then?
Hey!
I'm going to leave!
Fu Yao! I'm down here!
What else is there?
This...
Do you want to come here and check it yourself?
He's indeed in the pit.
They were all killed.
Are all these
pilled bodies...
San Lang.
Aren't you taking care of the merchants?
You've been away for six hours.
So I drew a protection circle around them
and I came here.
They must have felt abandoned.
It's their choice
if they try anything stupid.
Who are they?
This is Half-Moon's Imperial Preceptor.
That is General Ke Mo.
Now they are....
Evil Priest! I'll kill you!
I'll make you pay for what you did!
You traitor!
Where is your Scorpion-tailed Snake?
Come on!
Come and sting me!
Ke Mo,
I can't control the snakes anymore.
Then why didn't they sting you?
I'm sorry.
Can your apology bring my men back?
Traitor!
If it weren't for you who colluded with the weasel and opened the gate...
But I...
We wouldn't have ended up like this!
I'll hang you
every time I catch you!
General Ke Mo, calm down!
Talk it out with words.
It's you?
General Hua?
Let him calm down.
Do you know each other?
Ban Yue?
You still remember me, General Hua.
Of course I do.
But...
How did you end up like this?
I'm terribly sorry, Lieutenant.
I...
I messed up.
General?
Lieutenant?
What's going on here?
Wait.
Are you the general mentioned on the tombstone?
Yes, that's my tombstone.
What on earth happened?
Well,
it's a long story.
Two hundred years ago,
I had to avoid being noticed for some reason.
So guided by my compass, I headed south.
However, my compass broke
and I ended up in the desert.
There was an army drafting men for military duties.
So you were drafted into the army?
Later,
I participated in several missions to expel the bandits
and got promoted to lieutenant somehow.
Some soldiers also called me "General" out of respect.
Why did they call you "General Hua"
when your surname is not Hua?
I used an alias back then.
I called myself "Hua Xie."
The outbreak of wars at the borders left many kids orphaned.
Ban Yue is one of them.
One day,
when I was cooking...
What is this shit?
It's something I cooked.
Don't take it out on the food.
Do you really think anyone would eat that shit?
-My goodness. -Yes.
Hold on, kid! Don't--
Little kid, think twice before you eat anything you pick up.
Where are your parents?
What are you doing?
Eat this.
Ever since then,
the kid often followed me quietly.
Hey!
So I got to know her a bit
after a while.
I didn't know where she was from.
She could speak Mandarin,
but she barely spoke.
She only had one friend,
a Yong'an boy.
Sometimes, I taught her singing
and wrestling.
We got along pretty well.
However,
good times don't last forever.
Later, I was involved in a riot.
Injured in the stampede,
I couldn't get up
so I had to play dead.
I can't remember
what happened next.
When I woke up,
I was back in Yong'an Kingdom.
That's how I lost contact with Ban Yue.
I thought when they mentioned "Ban Yue,"
they meant the kingdom's name.
I didn't expect
that it was you.
I'm sorry.
You were dragged into that stampede to save me.
Actually, it wasn't that bad.
How did you get dragged into a stampede?
At any rate, you are well able to protect yourself.
I vaguely recall that
the two sides started to fight regardless of my mediation.
Seeing Ban Yue got stuck in the crowd,
I tried to save her.
But it was too late to get myself out, so...
Vaguely?
How could you not remember these things?
Since my memory capacity is limited,
I'd rather remember the delicious steam buns I had yesterday
than being dragged into that stampede several hundred years ago.
I'm sorry.
Ban Yue,
I saved you by choice.
But you might need to apologize to someone else.
Let's go back to the main issue.
Why did you open the gate
and cause the massacre?
Did you have any accomplices?
What else did you plot together?
You!
Is she dumb?
From what I know,
you would never seek revenge
nor betray others.
So what on earth made you open the gate?
Are you willing to tell me?
If you don't want to talk about it,
can you at least tell me
why did you send the snakes to sting people?
She is a Wrath. Isn't that self-explanatory?
I didn't send the snakes out.
They disobeyed my order
and got out.
What?
I didn't lie, General Hua.
Isn't that what offenders say?
Weren't those passersby
stung by your snakes?
Stop the nonsense. Hold out your hands.
Our mission is accomplished.
Let's go.
Hold on, Fu Yao.
Do you really want to listen to that nonsense?
She has no reason to lie.
So you can't summon the snakes now?
I can summon them,
but they don't listen to me sometimes.
Then, summon the snakes.
Damn it!
She's indeed lying.
Did you think the snake would get him?
How stupid.
I didn't!
That snake disobeyed my order!
Who can tell if it obeyed or disobeyed you?
It wasn't even summoned by me!
Why are you still lying?
-It's not me! -Who else can it be?
Make them go away!
-Wait! -Are you going to take her side?
These snakes...
Please come to your senses now!
Let's get out of here first. We can discuss this later.
Why are you returning?
The formation has been removed.
Keep going up!
What the hell?
It was indeed you!
Subtitle translation by: Li Xue and Yin Xiaowen