Ling Qi season 3 255 - 349

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Page 1
Master Ling

- This is the Kun-ring. Once you put it on,

- it can't be taken off.

Page 2
- Your blood blends together with it.
- From now on,
 - all living matter in this world holds a contract with you.

Page 3
- You are the singer in this world,
- the one standing in between the living and dead.

Page 4
- Everything,
- From sacrifice rituals to setting the world.
- It's all the duty of the priest.

Page 5
- But.. little Xi...
- You’re still young
- Master is unsure if you really do understand
- What you will be doing from now on.

Duanmu Xi

- No, I understand.

Page 6
Master Ling
- It's not just giving your everything.
- You're going to help people you do not know, many of whom may not know
you exist
- They might not know that you helped them,
- So they might not ever thank you for your help.

Page 7
- And if you aren’t good enough, you will be blamed.
- Even so,
- Do you still insist on doing it?
Duanmu Xi

- I am not doing this to hear others thank me.

Page 8
- The feeling of being cared for is very warm and joyful.
- I just…
- I want to convey this beautiful feeling to everyone
- and let everyone be happy.

Page 9
Master Ling
- That’s right,
- Little Xi,
- You’ve also been helped by someone you’ve never met before too,
- haven’t you?

Duanmu Xi

- Yes.

Page 10
- That feeling is still so warm, even though it happened long ago.
- Just thinking about it again gives me strength.
- There are many differences between people
- but we can reach out a helping hand
- and care for each other.

Page 11
- It’s a beautiful, wonderful feeling
- so whatever it takes to let many other people experience this, I’ll do it
willingly.
- Because if this is something that will make others happy
 - it’ll make me happy as well.

Page 12
Master Ling
- Then…
- pick up this scepter.
- From today onwards, you are the 64th Yangmingsi of the Duanmu family.

Page 13
Grandmother

- Master Ling,
- this grandson of mine...does he have enough talent?

Master Ling
- This child is like a sheet of white paper.

Page 14
- I have never seen someone with such a pure and clear soul.
- If he can't be a Yangmingsi,
- I am afraid that no one else can.

Page 15
- However…
- since he is a blank sheet of paper,
- whatever you write on it, that’s what will stay on it.

Page 16
- I wish…
- I could thank the person who first planted the good thoughts in his heart.
- It is because of his kindness that this child's soul gave birth to such great
power.
Page 16
- And it will shine brilliantly
- in this world.

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Page 2
Duanmu Xi

- Help me…
- Doctor…
- Help me.

Page 3
Dr Sen
- No one can help you,
- not even I.
- Young master, you’re a priest,
- Why are you asking someone else for help?

Page 4
- Do you know why you live in such pain?
- It’s because you’re too clean.
- You should know that,

Page 5
- people who are too clean can’t survive in this world.

Page 8
Servant 1
- He’s back?! That disastrous child has come back?
Page 9
- That possessed little priest...why didn’t he just die outside?

Servant 2 (blond)
- After committing such a sin...he still dares to come back after hurting so
many people?

Servant 1
- I heard that he left the Kun-ring behind and left without a word,
great-grandma was going nuts!
- This time she personally sent people to find him.

Servant 2 (blond)
- Then what does Grandmother want to do? Still keep him as the Yangmingsi?

Servant 1
- Of course she will. Is there anyone else who can do it apart from him?

Servant 2 (blond)
- Young master Siming isn’t worth mentioning, the second madam is talented
but look at the way her father protects her.

Servant 1
- Didn’t you all see how last time he was begging Great Grandmother to
disagree with the elders?
- The second lady must be ashamed to have such a father.

Page 10
Servant 2 (blond)
- Shush! He is coming over!
Page 11
- He doesn’t even bother with us…
- And why would he? That's the most powerful priest, the most powerful spirit
user.
- When he ran away the family went into chaos, we had natural and man-made
disasters one after another.
- Why would we expect anything from him?

Servant 2 (blond)
- I heard that after he returned, he gathered everyone in the hall and said,
- That no one is now to interfere with his freedom in the future,
- And on that condition, he will agree to continue his duty on the altar.

Page 12
- A few of the elders were so mad that they tried to block him from leaving.
Who in this family does he even take seriously?

Servant 1
- Perhaps he sees us as an enemy too!

Servant 2 (blond)
- Abandoning the role without permission will give a priest the punishment
from the heavens, right?
- Taking off the Kun-ring is equal to leaving the job of being a Yangmingsi, the
amount of courage he has goes all the way to the sky!

Servant 1
- Of course! I’ve been in the family for so long and never seen a priest that got
punished by the heavens!
- What's heaven's punishment actually?
- Don’t ask, just mentioning it gives me back pain.
Page 13
- Didn’t he ask for it himself? He deserved it if you ask me.
- I say that the Duanmu family gives him plenty already, and we work tirelessly
as well.
- It’s not like we are relying on his sacrifices to have peaceful days,
- We give him food to eat and clothes to wear when he goes outside.
- He has wealth and status that many people wouldn’t get for a lifetime.
- And to think he was a homeless orphan earlier.

Page 14
Grandmother

- From today on, you resume your position as head of the household, take the
spirit binding rings with you.
- I will not interfere whether you want or not to take a spirit shadow.
- But that Kun-ring is proof you are the Yangmingsi of the Duanmu family.
- It’s like a crown for a king, can he pick whether he wants to wear it or not?
- You know how many people fought to get these magical items.

Page 15
- I think you already know how to behave after the pain from the punishment
from the heavens. You can’t disobey God’s will
- You need to know that your job isn’t a normal job. Your recklessness can
bring unimaginable misfortune to millions of people.
- That would be a huge responsibility neither you, I, or the Duanmu family can
face.
- Grandmother knows that it’s not easy for you either.

Page 16
- I am very strict with you.
 - I’ve watched you growing up.
- Are you still feeling hurt?

Page 18
- This task of purifying the landfill area is your first task after resuming your job.
- You must not fail, or else it will be very difficult for you to remain the head!

Duanmu Xi

- Ever since coming to the household 9 years ago,

- Have I ever disappointed great-grandma at a job?

Page 19
- And stop sending people out to follow me. If I want to leave, I’ll never come
back.
- And who will be able to stop me then?

Page 20
Duanmu Siyun
- You’re going all by yourself?

Duanmu Xi

- How many people will a dump yard need?

- Which young lady or young master in the family would be willing to
accompany me? (Siming, he raised his hand!)

Page 21
- A dump yard,
- doesn’t it suit me?
 - Giving me this task counts as a warning that I should remember where I
came from and not be too full of myself.
- The one who everyone cheers for on the altar is me, but the one who gets
stepped on when unneeded is also me.
- For the Duanmu family, I’m just a useful tool under their hands.

Page 22
Duanmu Siyun

- When did you start to smoke?!

- You don’t learn what’s good but take these bad habits.
- Duanmu Xi!! Doesn’t your body still have scars from the punishment that
needs to heal?
- Don’t commit mistakes this time!
- I believe you’re not someone who would make the same mistake twice!

Page 23
March 28, 2017.

Another typical day for Duanmu Xi, going out on a mission.

Day as usual in the life of the Yangmingsi.

Page 24
But by the end of the day, Duanmu Xi will realize,
this day is the most important day in his life.

It will change his own life

and someone else's life as well.
Page 25
Even the route this world moves in,
seems to have changed.

Seller
- Yang Jinghua!
- You ate the bun but didn’t pay!

257
This is chapter 1 but from Xi’s perspective!

Page 3
Duanmu Xi

- This place is a little difficult, no wonder they asked the Duanmu family.
- The place is small, but it does count as a sacrificial place.
- It seems that I need to get serious.

Page 4
Yang Jinghua

- Woah!!!
- Who are you??
- What was that just now?

Duanmu Xi

- It's so late already, I didn't even think someone would be here.

Page 5
- The sacrifice can’t be interrupted.
- The evil spirits all around this place are very dangerous.
- I’m a Yangmingsi.
- I'm a priest who purifies the evil spirits of the world, do you understand?

Yang Jinghua

- Like a Taoist priest??

Duanmu Xi

- Whatever you want.

- If there's nothing else, please leave quickly and don't interrupt my work.

Page 6
Yang Jinghua

- The heck are you showing off for? Stupid d***!

Duanmu Xi

- Is he going to be okay being by himself this late at night...

- No, I should rather ask, why is he in a place like this late at night?
- He looks a little dumb.

Page 7
- How long was he behind me? I didn’t even notice. The amount of attention
this guy can bring is so low.
- He can see evil spirits which means that he has some abilities. But he
doesn’t know what a Yangmingsi is.
- Most likely not someone in this field.
 - This used to be a mass grave, many prisoners were buried here during World
War I. Many innocent people and refugees that were slaughtered were also
buried here.

Page 8
- The trouble is, there is also an ancient tomb of a royal family. I can’t just
forcefully purify them and let them pass.
- I'll start according to the five elements, with the sacrifice and exorcism
happening at the same time.
- The evil spirits will be put to rest, the ones from the previous dynasty also.
- <chanting>

Page 13
- The car is coming. Why isn’t he moving away?
- Is he lost in his own thoughts?
- !!!

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Page 6
Duanmu Xi

- You… you are-

Duanmu Luoyue
- You have the mirror of the yellow springs?
- Interesting, then that means your name is written in the notebook at hell too.
Hehe.
-
Page 7
- Unexpectedly, the first person I meet after being released is a Yangmingsi!
- If I do some math here… hmm you’re my great great great great great grand-
- Anyhow, since it seems that you and I do have blood relations, I’ll share
something fun with you.
- Do you know who this is?

Page 8
- He is the last member of the Yang family.
- Back then, Zicheng sealed me up in his Yang family bloodline, so I wouldn’t
ever be able to escape.

Page 10
- I told him that if he does such a thing, it will bring bad luck,
- but he didn’t listen to me.
- Now look at what happened,
- all his descendants died. Don’t you agree that he caused all of this?

Page 11
Young Duanmu Xi

- Zhangxuan can you help me find someone? I remember his name was…

Duanmu Luoyue
- No one can blame me for his descendants dying out like that.

Duanmu Xi
- Yang…Jinghua.

Page 12
Duanmu Luoyue
 - Huh? Do you know this person’s name?
- Well, not like it matters. I’ve been imprisoned for thousands of years, and
now it’s time to make some noise!
- I didn’t get to finish things last time. But those have to be done sooner or
later. What do you say?

Duanmu Xi

- What if his soul didn't disappear?

Duanmu Luoyue

- Hm? What did you say?

Page 13
Duanmu Xi

- The ancestor of the Yang family sealed you using the blood and soul of
himself and all his descendants.
- If the soul of the owner is not scattered yet, you aren’t free yet right?

Duanmu Luoyue

- Right, even now I’m still tied down.

- But that’s not a problem, it’ll be seven days at most, most souls in the human
world will disappear then.
- I have been waiting for thousands of years, I don’t exactly mind another
seven days.

Page 14
Duanmu Xi

- Then…
 - I will make a bet with you!

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Page 1
Duanmu Luoyue
- Hahahahahahahaha!
- Interesting, that’s really interesting.
- I accept this bet!
- Let me see,
- How a young priest such as you ,
- Can overwrite the rules of the world!

Page 2
- But I think it won’t be long before we see the results.
- From what I know about him, he’s pretty indifferent.
- To put it nicely, he’s open-minded. To put it not so nicely, he’s heartless.
- His and your view on life is completely different.
- You and him,
- are like from two different worlds.

Page 3
- Even if you were to die tomorrow, you will do all you can to live to the last
second.
- But he is different,
- he has no one he really cares about in this world,
- nothing he needs to complete,
- and nothing he wants to get.
Page 4
- A spirit like his,
- might not even need seven days.
- Perhaps he’ll disappear before you see him concentrate hehehehehe.

Page 12
Duanmu Luoyue
- Hey hey, you cheated!
- Using your own spiritual power to heal him, what is this? Are you even
reasonable?

Duanmu Xi

- If he’s my spirit shadow, it’s not unreasonable.

Page 13
Duanmu Luoyue

- What? He’s your spirit shadow?

Duanmu Xi

- Not yet, but he will be soon.

Duanmu Luoyue

- Hehe, and how do you know he’ll agree?

- From whom did you get this confidence from?
- You...do you know him? Doesn't it look like friendship...?
- But for all this time, I haven't felt that Yang Jinghua has even one memory of
you.
- Is that…
Page 14
- Aha, so this is legendary...
- "watching from afar?"
- Have you been secretly in love with this boy, spending time together in
strange places and then...

Duanmu Xi

- Ancestor, please stop with your strange theories!

So then, on this quiet night no one knew about, their story begins.

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Yang Jinghua - page 1

- My name is Yang Jinghua; I am 23 and dead.

- I’m now employed by the Duanmu family but without salary, health insurance
or any work benefits.
- Sounds bad, doesn’t it? Seems like dead people no longer have human
rights.
- But the good thing is that housing and good food is included. The life here
isn’t bad either. As for my work,
- My main job is to be responsible for the head of the Duanmu family’s safety.
It’s basically a safe job, maybe aside from occasional pokes coming from my
side.

Page 2
- Yes, this cool and handsome person that is obviously different from all the
NPCs is Duanmu.
- Don’t think he’s a style icon or something, he’s actually a priest.
 - I mean, not that kind of priest with a magic wand you can see in video
games, the one that makes folk dances in the name of God.
- Around half a year ago, I woke up in a morgue, with this guy kneeling near
me,
- And pestering me to become a spirit shadow.
- I didn’t agree at first, so this guy threw a tantrum…

Page 3
- Well, I reluctantly agreed later on.
- It’s okay now anyway. I’m mostly spending days playing video games,
- or gossip with the ladies about the domestic affairs.
- But when I really have nothing to do, I’m taking care of the young master.

Page 4
- I’m 23 and he just turned 18, so I’m clearly his big brother.
- Being a Yangmingsi is really tough work.
- He often has problems with getting up because he sleeps like a log. Every
morning this guy will get out of his nest looking so sloppy that it seems he
just hibernated.
- And then he will be late for school. Although his IQ is extraordinary, I have a
feeling he won’t be able to graduate…

Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu, have you been getting taller recently?

Duanmu Xi

- Do you think everyone is like you - stopped growing taller at 18 years old?

(Duanmu Xi’s line of thought: Isn’t growing taller at 18 years old very normal?
=> Normal men grow until they are 25 years old
=> Jinghua lived to 23
=> And he still asked this…
=> Conclusion: Does he mean he stopped growing at 18 years old)

Yang Jinghua

- You are only 18 and already stopped growing, but I would definitely still
continue to!
- If I was still alive, Grand-daddy perhaps would be taller than you!

Page 5
Qin Shiyao
- Jinghua, come and accompany your sis!

Yang Jinghua

- This girl with big breasts and round butt is Qin Shiyao, Duanmu’s fiancé.
- She might look like the usual Ms. Perfect (rich & beautiful kind), but she’s like
a man inside.
- She is honest, upright, straightforward, and she knows what she wants.
She’s not too naive either. I like her a lot.

Page 6
- I think that ever since she knows I was the one who pulled Duanmu Xi from
the shadow of Shenlong Zhangxuan,
- she’s much closer to me,
- Almost like a BFF

Qin Shiyao
- How upsetting, I’m getting the seasonal acne again.

Yang Jinghua
 - You can try putting chrysanthemum tea on your face.

Qin Shiyao
- How come you know about this kind of thing?

Page 7
Duanmu Xi
- Go somewhere with me in a moment.

Yang Jinghua
- Okay!
- I’m leaving.

Qin Shiyao
- They just shouted that if you leave the game your whole family should die!

Yang Jinghua

- Haha, the one thing I am not scared of is other people cursing my whole
family to die.

Duanmu Xi

- You don’t want to continue playing?

Page 8
Yang Jinghua
- I can play games any time
- Where are we going?

Duanmu Xi

- Let’s finish this game together.

Yang Jinghua

- Won’t you be late for school?

Duanmu Xi

- I won’t.

Page 9
Yang Jinghua
- Duanmu Xi is playing with us today!

Qin Shiyao
- What, he wants to play with me?!

Yang Jinghua

- Come, let’s beat this game!

Qin Shiyao
- I’m gonna die I’m gonna die I need to keep calm!

Yang Jinghua

- I feel that Duanmu Xi is a lot more popular with others now,

- compared to his cold persona earlier.

Qin Shiyao

- Oh, I’m totally not good at all at playing, help me Xi!

Yang Jinghua
 - This game was just released, how do you know how to play...
- Now he acts more like a living person.

Page 10

- Sometimes, I found myself wondering about the time after he lost Shenlong
Zhangxuan up to the time he met me.
- How did he pull through this alone?
- When we first met he did not have a tinge of life in his eyes.
- It should not be solely due to the death of Shenlong Zhangxuan…

Page 11

- Seeing Shiyao's carelessness when being with him, I can feel it.
- Just like she said: the one thing that is worse than death is,
- having no loyal person to watch your back.
- Duanmu Xi was living alone after the fairy tale world shown by Shenlong
Zhangzuan ended.

Page 12
- He must have gone through some excruciating pain to become like this.
- I don’t dare to think about it, let alone bringing up this matter.
- I know that deep inside, he is still a gentle and warm-hearted boy.

Page 13

- Now he is able to laugh,

- and talk with us.
- Sometimes even a lot.
- That feels so good.
- Silently, I credit myself for this.
Page 14

- I only hope,
- that days like this could last
- for a long,
- long time.

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Page 2
Yang Jinghua

- Fuck—!
- So this is what you meant when you said don’t worry we won’t be late——

Page 4
- The wind almost blew my soul out, bro…
- After all, we’ve signed the contract, can you at least treat me a bit better?

Ni Feng
- Duanmu Xi, how come you came to school like this today?!
- A college student driving a motorcycle, other people might even think that a
gangster snuck into campus! Didn’t your family always assign a driver to
send you to school?
- And look at your appearance, when are you going to remove the dye on your
hair?

Duanmu Xi

- My hair is not dyed.

Page 5
Ni Feng
- Is that so? What about that earring?!
- Don’t tell me it grows on your earlobe.

Duanmu Xi

- I can not take it off.

Ni Feng
- Very well, I see that you are way over my league, how about you try to be a
teacher!
- Rich kids nowadays, really, they are just getting worse and worse!

Yang Jinghua

- What’s with the teacher today, did he have gunpowder for breakfast?

Page 6
- Duanmu Xi, I think that you look great, after I got used to it, I think it suits you
well.

Duanmu Xi

- During the lecture, sit next to me and behave yourself, don’t let anyone see
you.

Yang Jinghua

- I know, I know.

Duanmu Xi

- You can play with my cellphone.

Page 7
Ni Feng
- I, Ni Feng, have studied abroad at Yale University and was a top student in
the Faculty of Law.
- I’m handsome, classy and knowledgeable. I’m one of the most popular
teachers amongst young professors. Students and other teachers all treat me
with respect. (...and have a serious ego problem).

Students
- Look, it’s master Duanmu! He’s so handsome!!

Page 8
Ni Feng
- There are three kinds of students I despise though:

Students
- He looked at me, he looked at me!
- You must have something wrong with your eyes, he looked at me!
- He came on a motor today!!
- I saw, he looks even cooler and more handsome now!

Ni Feng
- The ones from rich families that think that having family money mean they are
better than the teacher.
- The ones who act like they are smarter and know more than the teacher.
- And the ones that show they look better than the teacher.
- And the one who scored all three…

Page 9
- is this bastard…
- DUANMU XI!
 - You are playing with your cellphone in class!!
- I caught you red-handed!

Duanmu Xi

- I don’t…

Ni Feng
- Do you think I’m stupid?! The game interface is still on your screen!

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Page 1
Ni Feng
- I’m telling you Duanmu Xi, you are a student! You should behave properly
while you are here!
- I don't care how rich and powerful your family is, here every student is equal!
- If you don’t want to learn anything or think that the things I teach are useless,
you don’t have to come here at all!
- Do you even know how many students want to join my class?

Page 2
Xi’s Classmates
- Yeah if you’re so smart then just don’t show up at all.
- Not like we can see you here often, you probably just come when you get
bored of playing outside.
- He’s probably here just to get a nice looking degree, like all kids from rich
families.
 - Hey, that was rude. Duanmu Xi’s grades are excellent. And besides, he got
admitted because he got the highest marks in the exams out of all
candidates.
- Aren’t you guys just jealous.
- Pffft, coming from such a wealthy family, who knows how he got accepted?

Page 3
- Besides, wasn’t it mentioned in the news recently that someone got admitted
to the university while using fake documents?
- Hey, now you are crossing the line.

Yang Jinghua

- You guys are just mad seeing people being better than you huh.
- You are so calm, Duanmu Xi. Hearing such things all the time, and you are
not even flipping a table.

Duanmu Xi

- You get used to it.

Page 4
Yang Jinghua

- Why don't you explain things to them?

- You never give any justification for yourself.
- Do you not care about what others think? Or do you wait for them to get it
themselves?
- I’m serious, people can’t read minds. If you don’t tell them what you think,
they’ll never know.
Page 5
- There are many things you could talk with other people about, you could get
them to see your point. Maybe you could even make friends.

Duanmu Xi

- I don’t have time.

- You need too much time and effort to make friends or make people
understand you.
- I don’t need friends and I don’t care whether they understand me or not.

Page 6
- Jinghua,
- my time is precious,
- and I want to spend all of it with you.

Page 7
Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu Xi, can you change this habit of saying cheesy things with a straight
face...

Page 8
Duanmu Xi

- Professor Ni, want me to help you?

Ni Feng
- No thank you, I'll call a taxi.

Duanmu Xi

- With such heavy traffic as it is now, you will have to wait a long time.
Page 9
- Not to mention, calling a car to come here would be problematic.
- Aren’t you in a hurry?

Page 10
Ni Feng
- You are not even going to ask where to go?

Duanmu Xi

- Neuroscience Hospital. I know you go there every day after work.

Yang Jinghua

- What is he even doing here…

- Look at me, I’m miserable!
- <there wasn’t even a place for him to sit>

Page 11
- Flying me like I was a kite, I really have to talk with you about it later!
- What is he doing here?

Duanmu Xi

- 6 months ago his wife had been in a car accident, she's unconscious ever
since then.
- For the last 6 months, he came here every day.

Yang Jinghua

- Oh, that’s touching. Some are gonna cry.

- But how did you know about this?
Page 12
Duanmu Xi

- Because his wife called me for help.

Yang Jinghua
- Whaaa?

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Page 1
Ni Feng
- Yeah, it’s that boy who is often absent, generally does what he wants and is
always indifferent around others.
- I thought he’s a brat with an indifferent attitude.
- He doesn't seem to care about credit points but each of his tests and papers
are excellent.
- I just don’t get him.
- But he did bring me here today, so I guess I actually owe him a favor now.

Page 2
Yang Jinghua

- You said his wife came to find you.

- How did she do that?
- It’s not... that kind of visit right?

Duanmu Xi
- Do you want to meet her?

Yang Jinghua
 - Hey, don’t mess with me. You know that with these things, I'm very...

Li Feifei
- Yangmingsi...

Page 3
Yang Jinghua

- Ahhhhhh, do not come closer!! I'm scared of ghosts! Especially female

ghosts!!

Duanmu Xi

- It’s been so long, and yet you still didn’t get used to seeing others of your
own kind?

Li Feifei
- Yang Jinghua? It’s you?

Page 4
- Li Feifei,
- you don't remember me?!
- You were sitting behind me in middle school!
- And pulling my hair so I hit you once, have you forgotten about me?

Page 5
Yang Jinghua

- Fei.. Feifei
- It's…
- you?
Page 6
Duanmu Xi

- Teacher, you should cut down on smoking.

Ni Feng
- Are you sure you should be the one to tell me that?

Duanmu Xi

- I quit smoking.

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Ni Feng
- Quit? That's good to hear. It's easy to quit smoking, I did it 78 times already.
(Note: that’s a reference to a Mark Twain saying!)

Duanmu Xi

- Someone told me that,

- smoking is bad for the body.

Ni Feng
- I'm envious.
- If you still have people that care about you, cherish them.

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Duanmu Xi

- Of course I will, teacher.

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Li Feifei
 - I didn't expect to see you here and as the Yangmingsi’ spirit shadow.
- I'm so envious!

Yang Jinghua

- Well, it’s not much, really. Just getting by.

Li Feifei
- For us spirits, Yangmingsis’ are like God.
- So following him makes you like a phoenix that has flown up!

Yang Jinghua

- The way you’re describing it...

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Li Feifei
- Hey, I heard that a spirit shadow can inherit the Yangmingsi’s powers. And no
matter if they’re a ghost or demon, they will become immortal! Is that true?

Yang Jinghua

- I've never heard of that before but having eternal life sounds like nonsense...
- We do share each other's spiritual power though.
- Actually, he didn't tell me anything like this, and I didn't ask about it, that
wouldn’t seem cool.

Li Feifei
- You’re still so cheerful, just like before.

Yang Jinghua

- You’re the one who’s cheerful here. You’ve become like this and yet you are
so calm about it.
 - What actually happened to you?

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Li Feifei

- I had a car accident.

Yang Jinghua

- What a coincidence, I also died in an accident.

- Car accidents are truly deadlier than tigers. So we should all cherish life, stay
away from drunk and high-speed driving, safety comes first!

Li Feifei

- Since we’re both ghosts, we don’t need to be so distant.

- To be honest, I’ve been like this for half a year already.
- I had a breakdown at first, but you see, what can I do now but to accept it...?

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- The doctor’s diagnosis was that I have a severe brain injury, and I’m left in a
vegetative state.
- But the doctor also told my husband that I have one percent chance to wake
up.
- So my husband... that idiot, just kept watching over me for half a year now.
- ...Idiot…
 - I tried going back to my own body somehow, but it was all in vain.

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- Actually, I don't even know anymore am I dead or still alive.
- Because of these chains holding me, I can't leave this place.

Yang Jinghua

- Feifei...

Li Feifei

- For over half a year, I spent most of my time watching other spirits coming
here and then going away.
- I’m the only one who stayed here like this.

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- Luckily, I met you today. I haven't talked to anyone for a long time, and you’re
someone I knew too.
- You don't even know how happy I am!

Yang Jinghua

- I didn’t expect to meet you like this either.

- Back in the school years...I, with you...

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Ni Feng
- I'll head back now, but I’ll come to see you tomorrow,
- Don’t give the staff trouble.

Li Feifei
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- A-Feng,
- you should take better care of yourself.

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Yang Jinghua

- How did you know that Feifei was here?

Duanmu Xi

- I knew about her from a certain source.

Yang Jinghua
- What source?
- Ah, this is something you can't tell me again right?

Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua, you already saw my mirror of yellow springs. I don't have any more
secrets.
- I don’t hide anything from you anymore. (...you do, A LOT).

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Yang Jinghua

- Okay, okay, enough of the confessions.

- Get down to business!
- If you talk like this, the whole day will pass and we won’t solve the problem.

Duanmu Xi

- Li Feifei…
- was a tutor that Zhangxuan hired for me.
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- Or rather,
- She was almost hired to be my music teacher.

Shenlong Zhangxuan
- It would be problematic for a young master to go outside for classes, so I
want to find a teacher who could come to his household.
- He is smart, learns things quickly and he really loves music. I think that
visiting him once a week would be fine.

Li Feifei
- I understand.

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Duanmu Xi

- But my Grandmother didn’t agree for an outside teacher to come here. So in

the end, she never came here.
- I never met her personally, but I found her resume in Zhangxuan's
belongings.
- Six months ago, during the sacrifice ceremony, I heard her calling for help.

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Yang Jinghua

- A sacrifice ceremony six months ago

- ...wait, it couldn’t be…?

Duanmu Xi

- Yes. After the ceremony ended, I was planning to go to her. But you know
what happened.
 - My own life was in danger at this point, so I couldn’t go and see her.
- After I recovered and went to see her, she was unfortunately already in this
state.

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Yang Jinghua

- Is there any way to help her...

Duanmu Xi

- I’ve been following professor Ni and her for the last months,
- I hoped to find a way to solve this problem.

Yang Jinghua

- And you waited until now to tell me about it?

- Was it because you knew that me and Feifei…
- erm, you know?

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Duanmu Xi

- As far as I know, she was very popular in her school and a lot of guys were
interested in her.
- You didn’t have the courage to speak to her and she didn’t seem like she was
interested in you either. So it was one-sided crush only.
- I thought your heart would be hurt after you see she’s married now.

Yang Jinghua

- Like you didn’t hurt my heart now, several times!

 - Wait...you just said you used the power of the mirror of yellow springs to
peek on me!

Duanmu Xi

- I did it only once or twice.

- And I don’t do it anymore!

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Yang Jinghua

- So was it once or twice? Or maybe thrice?

Duanmu Xi

- I’m really not doing this anymore!

- I only did this in the beginning.
- Besides, I promised you that I won’t read your mind without your permission.

Yang Jinghua

- Just stop touching me and my thoughts from now on.

- The other way round doesn’t count!

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Yang Jinghua

- Earlier, you were hesitating while speaking to me. It was because you didn’t
want to talk about Zhangxuan right?
Duanmu Xi

- I wasn't hesitating!

Yang Jinghua

- You were trying to hide it...

Duanmu Xi

- I wasn't hiding anything!

Yang Jinghua

- Sigh...Zhangxuan was a very nice person. He really cared about you. Even
though he knew that great-grandma and the whole family were against it,
- he still looked for ways for you to be able to find your dream.
- Having such a warm and kind person by your side… it was actually a kind of
blessing. (...if only he wasn’t such a shortsighted moron. Sorry, couldn’t help
it.)

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Duanmu Xi

- Blessing you say. Actually,

- I don’t think it was my dream at all.

Yang Jinghua

- Huh?

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Duanmu Xi

- Zhangxuan kept asking me what my dream was, so I came up with that one.
 - When you were young, did your parents ask you “What do you want to be
when you grow up?”
- To be a scientist? Inventor? Astronaut? That’s what children often say.
- But how many of these so-called dreams are what the person actually wants
to pursue? Many of those “dreams” might just be the ideas imposed on you
by other people, isn’t that right.

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- In this world, how many people actually know what they want to achieve?

Yang Jinghua

- What the heck you are talking about...this problem of yours is too
complicated and too philosophical for me, my skull hurts.

Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua, did you know what you wanted?

Yang Jinghua

- Of course I did!

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- I’ve known it since young! I wanted to earn lots of money! Buying whatever I
wanted to buy! Eating whatever I wanted to eat!
- But also to lie at home with nothing I need to do and money dropping from
the sky.
- It’s pretty much what’s going on now, right.
- As the saying goes, you only realize your dreams when they come true.
- You see, mine came true, hehe.
Duanmu Xi

- But sometimes… Maybe giving people the privilege to dream isn’t a good
thing.

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Yang Jinghua
- Eh?

Duanmu Xi

- In the past, someone once told me:

Dr Sen
- Don’t let the artificially bred tiger know there are mountains outside,
- and don’t let dolphins born in the aquarium know there is a place called
“ocean”.

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Yang Jinghua

- Hm, that does make sense.

- I think that poverty severely limited my imagination.
- When I first came to your home, I just couldn’t believe in all those things you
have.
- But... Duanmu Xi, what is your real dream?
- Just don’t tell me anything like “I want to protect the people” or about
praying for them.
- I’m asking about your real dream, something from the bottom of your heart.
Something that you really wish for.

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Duanmu Xi
 - That’s something that isn’t possible anymore…

Yang Jinghua

- Shenlong Zhangxuan has mentioned before that Duanmu Xi is a person

without “self-importance”. Could it be that he’s still the same?

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- What is it? Come on, say it!

Duanmu Xi

- I... hope that

- you…

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- can get a bit smarter.

Yang Jinghua

- The f***...

Duanmu Xi

- Dreams…

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- Perhaps they are called dreams precisely because sometimes they can’t be
fulfilled.

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- In the past, I didn’t know what I wished for.
- But now, it's more than clear.
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Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu
- this isn’t our way home.

Duanmu Xi

- Feifei asked me for help. Her wedding ring was lost at the time of the
accident and no one was able to find it ever since.

Yang Jinghua

- So this is the place where she had the accident. It's so dark here though,
how can we find it?

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Duanmu Xi

- Come closer to me.

Yang Jinghua

- Why, you’re scared of darkness?

- Dignified Yangmingsi is afraid of the dark? Do you want your big brother to
lend his chest for you?

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- Waaaah!!! So many ghosts!!
- Duanmu Xi, you know I'm scared of ghosts, and you still lured so many of
them here, just what are you thinking!
Duanmu Xi

- That’s why I told you to come closer.

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Yang Jinghua

- What? You want to ask them to find the ring?

- That's not a bad idea actually,
- So we just have to wait here huh?

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- How long will they take?

Duanmu Xi

- I don't know. The intelligence of these wandering souls isn’t that...

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Yang Jinghua

- So.. how much longer do we have to wait?

Ten minutes later

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Duanmu Xi

- Can I smoke?

Yang Jinghua

- No!
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30 minutes later

Yang Jinghua

- Can I...play games on your phone for a while?

Duanmu Xi

- No.

Yang Jinghua

- Why must we hurt each other like this...

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- This is getting ridiculous!!
- Rings, rings, do you get it?!
- Like this one! You wear it on your finger! And must look pretty!
- How the heck do these scraps of metal even look like rings, do y’all have
your heads squeezed under your armpits or what!?
- Go away, just go away! Shoo!

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- This is just too troublesome!
- Now, watch me!

Duanmu Xi

- What are you going to do?

Yang Jinghua
 - I can interact with this world by using my thoughts to move objects right.
- So in other words, no matter where it is, an object must come to me if I want!
- Wedding ring, come to me!

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Duanmu Xi

- Wait-!

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- You think you’re Harry Potter!?
- You don't even know what the ring looks like! This kind of unspecified
summon might draw several other things to come!

Spirits

- Who! Who moved my treasure?

- Who stole my magic items?

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Yang Jinghua

- Cough, did I...get us into trouble again?

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Duanmu Xi

- Quick, run!
- Those mountain demons don’t like humans. Run to a bright place!
Yang Jinghua

- Bright places…
- but there’s too many of them AHHHHHH!!!!

Duanmu Xi

- You idiot, stay here!

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Yang Jinghua

- Tsk!

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- Y-you all look closely. This is the Luoyue sword, and I’m n-not scared of
using it.
- No matter what is the matter, we can sit down and talk. But if you act without
thinking,
- the consequences will be serious! Don’t you believe that I can blow up ten of
you with one hand?

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Spirits
- UWRAHHH!!! Take him down!

Yang Jinghua

- That didn’t scare them?

- Then don’t blame me for...

Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua!
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- Don't hurt them!

Spirits
- Yangmingsi…
- It's the Yangmingsi!

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Duanmu Xi

- This is all a misunderstanding. Your missing items are next to the slope, go
and see for yourselves.
- If something is damaged, you can come back to me.

Yang Jinghua

- You’re indeed respected by all…

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- Didn't you say not to hurt them?
- You explained the situation to them, so why was this one still chasing us with
a hammer?

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- Ah...so the ring was stuck to this monster’s weapon… That's why we
couldn't find it...
- So...he wasn't trying to attack me right. He was summoned by me ahahaha!
- So he got beat up by you for nothing, how pitiful hahaha.

Duanmu Xi

- Don’t even dare to laugh!!

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Meanwhile, in local jewelry shop:

- The jewelry in the shop has been stolen! Call the police!
- Wait, boss, look.
- What the? What's going on??

It is reported that on that night, the district’s police station received several calls
from jewelry store owners, claiming their shops were robbed. The store owners then
called back later, saying they found the missing jewelry. This incident was added to
the “Annual top ten mystery cases”

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Li Feifei

- You guys really found it! That's great!

- Thank you so much, Yangmingsi!

Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua found it.

Yang Jinghua

- Ahhahaha….it wasn’t anything big you know.

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Li Feifei
 - Jinghua! Thank you so much!

Yang Jinghua

- Hehe… you’re welcome! It really was no big deal.

Li Feifei
- Now…
- my last wish is finally fulfilled.

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Yang Jinghua

- Eh?
- Y-you’re leaving?

Li Feifei

- If it wasn't for A-Feng, maybe I would have left a long time ago...

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- Please give him this ring,
- and pass on my words to him.

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Doctor
- Mr Feng, please calm down, we want the best for her too!

Ni Feng
- No, I won’t!

Yang Jinghua
 - Why are they arguing?

Duanmu Xi

- Feifei's body can't stay like this any longer. Her state is only getting worse
with each day.

Yang Jinghua

- Why?

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Duanmu Xi

- Li Feifei’s body has been in a coma for half a year. Her muscles have
atrophied, and multiple organs are already failing to function, she's kept alive
only by the machines.
- Dragging this on will be dangerous for her and her child.

Yang Jinghua

- Child?!

Duanmu Xi

- Feifei is pregnant, you didn’t know?

Yang Jinghua

- How the heck I could know that!!

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Flashback
Li Feifei

- A-Feng, I have a surprise for you.

- Please come home early tonight.
- Okay, I'll wait for you there.

Flashback end

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Duanmu Xi
- The child is 7 months old now and is seriously malnourished. Feifei’s body
can’t support his growth anymore, so he cannot wait until the term.
- The best way would be to-

Ni Feng
- No! Get lost! I won’t sign it! I will not sign it!

Yang Jinghua
- In her current state, there’s no way that Feifei’s body will survive the
operation
- So it means…

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Duanmu Xi
- Yes…
- Ni Feng has to choose between the mother or the child.

Li Feifei
- But it would be hopeless to choose me,
- When the child grows bigger, he will die together with me.
 - It's inevitable.
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- It’s just that
- for him to have to make such a choice.
- It's too cruel.

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Ni Feng
- Why, why do you have this...?

Duanmu Xi

- I picked it up.

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Yang Jinghua

- I'm sorry Feifei… the current Yangmingsi…. Isn’t too good at talking to
people.
- Could you be a bit more mindful when picking a reason?

Li Feifei

- He’s not convincing at all.

Ni Feng
- Tell me honestly, where did you find this ring?!
Duanmu Xi

- If I tell you that your wife asked me to find it and give back to you, would you
believe it?

Ni Feng
- Hey, I studied Marx’s theory of materialism!!

Duanmu Xi

- So let’s agree that I picked it up.

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- Besides, how I got the ring is not important. What's important is that your
wife wants you to move on.
- It’s been so long already. She was touched by seeing your dedication to her.

Ni Feng
- Shut up! Shut up shut up shut up!

Duanmu Xi

- She hopes that you can take care of the child and continue living...

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Ni Feng
- What the heck are you even saying! What do you know about my wife?!
- To be so ignorant and speculate about the lives of others! My wife is lying
here on the bed and you’re saying such things!
- Show some respect to her!!!
Li Feifei
- No!!

Yang Jinghua
- Oh, fuck!

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- Hands off!

Ni Feng
- I talk to her every day,
- I’m sure she can hear me! She’s watching me from somewhere! I can't give
up on her...

Duanmu Xi

- She hears and watches you every day.

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Ni Feng
- You shut up! Just shut up!
- If I give up on her, what can keep her in this world!
- While she’s still here, there's still hope!

Li Feifei

- A-Feng…

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Yang Jinghua

- There's no hope,
- you retard.
- Do you see it now?

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Ni Feng
- F-Feifei...?!

Yang Jinghua

- Borrow my abilities and explain everything to him.

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- Wow, this Ni Feng guy is so annoying!
- First, he stole my girlfriend, and now he dared to hit you! I should put a
complaint on the Department of Education for using a corporeal punishment
against a student!
- If it wasn’t for Feifei, I wouldn’t even want to help him. From now on, you
should stop taking on tasks requiring direct contact with clients, alright?
- You really don’t know how to persuade others.

Duanmu Xi

- In the past, this kind of stuff was always done by members of the Duamu
family.
- I don't know...how to persuade…
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- When I saw Li Feifei, I thought about Zhangxuan.
- If it was just me, I might not be able to cut the ties that easily.
- Maybe when Siyun took the risk to trap his body, she had this thought about
keeping the loved ones this way.

Yang Jinghua

- But at that time you still pressed the button...

Duanmu Xi

- That's because I had you with me.

- If I was alone, I probably couldn't do it.

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- When Zhangxuan died, I thought that loneliness would make me stronger.
- But I was wrong. Jinghua, you’re the reason I’m strong.

Yang Jinghua

- Tsk, it’s swelling up. Won’t look nice tomorrow.

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Duanmu Xi

- ...and also the reason why I don’t need to be strong.

Yang Jinghua
 - Hey, what's wrong?

Duanmu Xi

- I’m just a little tired...

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Doctors

- We’re glad that you have finally made the decision.

- It's a difficult operation, and we can't guarantee it will be a success, but the
staff will do our best.

Ni Feng
- So even if you do the operation, the child might not survive?

Doctors

- Anything can happen on the operation table. Your wife’s current condition,
unfortunately, is very bad. Even if the operation will be successful, the child is
too small and there might be unforeseeable conditions during the follow-up
treatment too. But this is the best way, please understand.
- Your wife is a great mother, putting effort into keeping the child safe all this
time.

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Nurse
 - Mr Ni, we know and understand you love your wife. We hope that both of
them can be saved.
- The hospital has sent the best obstetrician for her operation, so please trust
the doctor.

Ni Feng
- Then...
- I’ll entrust her to you.

In life, we always face many decisions.

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Sometimes we have no way to control the outcome.

Before a choice has been made,

we will never know if the future will turn out to be how we wanted

or perhaps become worse…

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It's like standing on an isolated cliff. You don’t know whether going forward or
backwards is the right choice,

but there’s no way you can stop,

because once you’ve stopped moving,

the raging tides will drown you.

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All we can do

is to make a choice

and then accept the result of that decision.

Yang Jinghua

- How is the surgery going?

Duanmu Xi

- I can't see the situation inside.

Li Feifei

- Jinghua! Master Yangmingsi! Help! Please help my child!

Yang Jinghua

- What's wrong, Feifei?

Li Feifei

- My child…
- And those chains!
- Those chains!!!

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Duanmu Xi
 - Jinghua! Go in there with her quickly! Tell me what’s going on!

Yang Jinghua

- The child,
- isn’t the child already taken out? What’s happening?

Doctor

- The child’s condition isn’t good.

- What happened? Why is it like this?

Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua, what’s the situation inside?

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Yang Jinghua

- Chains...why are there chains around...

- Duanmu Xi!
- There are chains wrapped around the child and Feifei,
- and also...Ni Feng!!!

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Doctor

- The child is still not breathing yet?!

- Give him a cardiac massage!
Li Feifei
- Please save him! Save him Jinghua!

Yang Jinghua

- I know it now…
- The child… doesn’t want to leave his mother.

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- He knows that if he leaves,
- you will die...

Li Feifei

- Baby...
- Baby...
- Mommy is so sorry...

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Yang Jinghua

- The child…
- wants to be with his mother.

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Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua, those strings belong to Ni Feng, Li Feifei and their child. It’s the
entangled attachment of the three together.
 - You must cut them!

Yang Jinghua

- What?!

Duanmu Xi

- Remember how you cut off those spiritual strings on Qin Shiyao before?
- It's the same thing! Cut the connection between them, then the child can be
saved!

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Yang Jinghua

- What are you saying, Duanmu Xi!?!

- Those chains are because of the relationship they still have! It's proof of the
love between those three!

Duanmu Xi

- You have to cut them!

- Feifei should have passed away half a year ago, she didn’t because of all
those chains!
- It’s Ni Feng's and her child’s attachment to her that trapped Feifei and made
her unable to leave this world!
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Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu Xi...
- did you know that this would happen…
- That’s why you brought me here?
- From the beginning, you expected that I would do this, right?

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Duanmu Xi

- That’s the only way to save their child, Li Feifei is already dead
- But her child is still alive, and you can save him…

Yang Jinghua

- You are the priest who should pray for the blessings for all beings…
- Do you care more about the wellbeing of the living than the dead?!

Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua…

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Li Feifei

- Jinghua… I'm sorry, this was my wish!

- It was me who begged the priest for this!
- I can't walk alongside with the people I love anymore!
- But I hope they can live a peaceful life,
- not clinging to the past, and live in the shadow of a hopeless future!
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Yang Jinghua

- What about me… you let me do this… and let me make the decision.
- Have you ever...thought about my feelings...
- Feifei...Feifei, she...I...

Duanmu Xi

- If I didn't care about how you and her feel,

- Why would I bring you to see her?
- If you delay any longer this child will die!
- And then both mother and child will turn into vengeful spirits!
- Do you want to see such things happen?!

Yang Jinghua

- So be it!

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- I don't want Feifei to leave!
- We only just met!
- Tell me! If I cut those off, she, she'll disappear, right…?

Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua…

Yang Jinghua
 - Why didn’t you do this to me then?! Didn't you forcefully keep me in this
world?!

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- That means you have a way to keep me here!
- Why can’t you let Feifei stay too?!

Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua…

Yang Jinghua

- If spirits are forbidden to stay in this world,

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- then what am I?!

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Yang Jinghua

- What's the difference between her and me?

- How am I more special than her?
- What are your principles?!
- What are your principles as a priest?!
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- So just because of one sentence,
- “You are my spirit shadow”, everything is okay..?

Page 4
Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua, I have never felt that I’m nobler than anyone else.
- I don't even know if the decision to make you stay in the world was the
correct one. But...
- I have always tried to not offend any living being.

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- This is the greatest respect for the dead.

Li Feifei

- Jinghua...I'm sorry
- I’m sorry you have to do something so difficult.
- But please, fulfil my last wish.

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- The priest who brought you here to see me did a merciful act for both you
and me.
- Jinghua, I'll be happy if it's you who will send me off.

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- Jinghua… you’re a very kind person. I'm glad I met you.
Yang Jinghua

- F***...
- Sending me back to friendzone…*
- Am I not miserable enough?...

(*originally was ‘good person card’, often used for breakups or rejections)

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Doctor

- The child is all right! There is no danger anymore!

Yang Jinghua

- I feel like
- ...I’ve lost another connection between me and this world.

Doctor

- Congratulations, your child is strong and healthy!

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Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu Xi,
- from now on, in this world,
- I really have only you left.

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Yang Jinghua

- When she came to you… I guess she was actually ready for anything.

Duanmu Xi

- Mothers are willing to give up everything for their child.

- No matter the number of reincarnations, this relationship won't change.

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Yang Jinghua

- Sending away a spirit is such a sad thing.

- This kind of work...is really tough.

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Duanmu Xi

- You've worked hard, thank you.

Yang Jinghua

- I didn’t… The one who is working hard is...

- Duanmu Xi, how many souls have you sent away in your life?
- Your memories don’t fade...
- Do you remember every single thing those souls went through…
- How terrible would that be...
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Duanmu Xi

- I saw numerous births, illnesses and deaths.

- Separations of kins.
- But even after feeling the sort of pain where one cries himself hoarse, I’ve
never let out a single tear.
- But when things are over…
- After shedding their tears,
- What inadvertently appears on people’s faces...

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- It’s a smile, one that makes me sigh.
- The smile that shows the courage to live,
- Hope and persistence of people.
- It makes me think that what I do…
- has meaning.

Page 8
- What are you doing?

Yang Jinghua

- Comforting you.

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Duanmu Xi

- Get off, I don't need it.

- It looks so gaygay you know!
Yang Jinghua

- What are you afraid of? People can't see me anyway.

Duanmu Xi

- Ghosts can all see it! Let me go.

Yang Jinghua

- You know I'm afraid of ghosts, let me stick with you for a bit.
- Duanmu Xi, let me tell you! In this world, I’m only ever impressed by you, you
are my God!

Duanmu Xi

- Is this your attitude towards God? Just shamelessly cling onto him like this?

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TV Report: Woman in a vegetative state ever since being in an accident half year ago
has successfully given birth. In the history of medical practice, this can be seen as a
miracle.

Dr Sen

- Miracle huh...hehe.
- Young master Duanmu, that miracle is probably you, right.
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Yang Jinghua

- Ah! I know this one!

Duanmu Xi

- You know the melody?

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Yang Jinghua

- Because it was really popular!

- Wait, what's the name of it, I can't remember the name…

Duanmu Xi

- Lemnoideae.（Note - Duckweed, aquatic plant, used as an online nickname by

the singer here.）

Yang Jinghua

- Wow! So you know it too!

- This singer was famous all over the internet at that time. She was also really
mysterious,
- no one has ever seen her face or meet the actual person.
 - But her voice was truly like that of a goddess

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- Ah, of course, I’m not comparing her to you, because you are a true God.
- The song you sang was the best I've ever heard!
- But after that one song, she didn’t make anything new, at least not in recent
years. Maybe she left the business...

Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua…

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- did you really...did see my mirror of the yellow springs?

Yang Jinghua

- Ah?
- I did! Don’t worry though, I only followed you around while I was inside. I
didn’t care about anything else.

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- How’s that? I’m very dedicated to you, aren’t I?

Duanmu Xi

- Yeah.. if you didn’t see anything else.. That’s good.

- That way, you don’t have to feel any regrets.
 - You have only this nice memory.

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- Because the owner of that voice,
- she has already left this world.

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Aunt Lan

- My poor sister, I wonder if there is anyone in that family who pays respect to
you.
- Wasn’t your life bitter, ever since you got married into the Duanmu family, you
never had a peaceful day.
- When you were little, you were like a little princess for us all.
- Who would have thought the Duanmu family would treat you like this.
- It would be fine if Duanmu Yin died without leaving anything behind. But he
had to be a playboy and bring along that disaster boy, Duanmu Xi!

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- Rest assured sister, I remember it all,
- I remember how they all have hurt you.
- We have served the Duanmu family diligently because of the past
arrangements.
- But ever since that incident with our LV, we had to cut all ties with them. Now
we will take our revenge on them all.
- LV, come and bow to mom Lan. She adored you the most when she was
alive.

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 - Since your own mother died so young, she took pity upon you and treated
you like her own son. And you were far more dedicated to her than her own
son.
- You are also the only who tries to get justice for what Duanmu Xi did.

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- Look at this Xuangu nail,
- it was used to fix a sword billet during the time when Yang Ning was forging
the Luoyue sword.
- Aunt has gone through painstaking effort to obtain this, you know how we
can use it?

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Situ LV
- This Xuangu nail is of the same material that forged the Luoyue sword.
- If we nail it into Duanmu Xi's body,
- then it can
- seal his spiritual powers!

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Aunt Lan
- Smart, aren’t you.
- Thank you for reminding me,
- that if it wasn't for the time when Yang Jinghua mistakenly hurt Duanmu Xi,
- we wouldn't even know the legend is true.
Situ LV
- Duanmu Xi tried to hide the fact his powers were sealed at the time, but I did
find it out anyway.

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- The problem is… according to my observations,
- The Luoyue sword’s power is effective only in the hands of descendants from
the Yang family.
- So I presume it's the same with Xuangu nail. Aunt, where are we going to find
another descendant of the Yang family, isn’t Yang Jinghua the last out of
them?
- Or maybe...maybe I should convince Yang Jinghua to stab Duanmu with it?
But honestly speaking, they’ve been so close recently they might as well be
sleeping on the same bed.
- I’m a soul master, I've already tried my spells on Yang Jinghua before. I don't
know why but my soul manipulation spells just don't work on him.

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Aunt Lan
- Can't you turn your brain on for a bit?
- There’s no need for making such an effort, we don't need Yang Jinghua for
this.
- He is dead, meaning his ashes are in the cemetery.

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Situ LV
- Aunt, you mean-

Aunt Lan
 - Whatever you will do, your aunt will support you on it!
- Aunt would be ashamed in front of the Situ ancestors if we didn’t teach the
Duanmu family a lesson this time.
- And Duanmu Xi still has to pay for the two lives he took from us!

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Qin Shiyao
- Question!

Yang Jinghua

- I’ll answer it!

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Qin Shiyao
- Why do guys grow chins?

Yang Jinghua

- To hold a phone in the bathroom when you are putting your pants on!
- Your turn!
- Why do women grow boobs?

Qin Shiyao

- Easy!
- When you don’t have a sharp chin but still need to lift your skirt when going
to the bathroom, you can use those to hold the phone! Hahahahahahahaha!

(don’t ask me guys, I don’t get the jokes here either!)

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Duanmu Xi

- ...................

Yang Jinghua

- Ah, Duanmu! What’s the matter?

Duanmu Xi

- No, nothing. I’m glad you guys have a good time.

Qin Shiyao
- Ah...Ah...Duanmu came here...why…didn’t you...warn me….
- And I flipped my skirt just now, wasn’t my underwear…

Yang Jinghua

- Who knew that you would let yourself go so much…

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- Hm, he's been very quiet recently, barely makes a sound. He’s just
wandering around.
- How to say it…
- lately, it looks like he often just stands in someplace and daydreams.
- He doesn't look any different than usual, but like he is thinking about
something.
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Qin Shiyao
- O-Oh no….!
- Do you think...Duanmu Xi has other women outside?!!!
- Has he met any woman recently? Girls? Were they beautiful?!!

Yang Jinghua

- Don’t worry about it, he doesn’t spend time with anyone except me…

Qin Shiyao
- But what you said just now definitely sounds like… lovesickness!!!

Yang Jinghua

- Just chill and relax. Duanmu Xi is like a maiden. He doesn’t even leave the
house often, compared to what you would think looking at his looks and
wealth, lives by a super boring and monotonous life.
- To put it bluntly, a nerd cannot be a monster.

Qin Shiyao
- I’ll depend on you, Jinghua. You must help me to keep an eye on him!

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Name on the wooden tablet: Situ Lan (in case you don’t remember: Situ Lan was
Duanmu’s Yin legal wife and Siming’s mother. It’s the short haired, sneaky woman
we saw in Xi’s past.)

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Duanmu Siming

- Y-young master Lv!

Situ LV

- Duanmu Siming,
- don’t you think you’re living like a coward?
- Putting yourself down and speaking like a wimp.

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- If nobody mentioned it,

- who would even realize you are the rightful second master of the Duanmu
family?
- Seems like even paying respect to your mother needs to be done in secret.

Duanmu Siming
- Young master LV, it’s better for an outsider such as you to not talk about
Duanmu Household affairs like that.

Situ LV

- Outsider? You’re calling me an outsider?

 - Don't you fucking have our Situ family’s blood flowing inside you too?!

Page 4

- How did mother Lan give birth to a loser like you!

- If I were you, I would’ve made Duanmu Xi cry and beg for mercy long ago!
- Have you already forgotten how your mother died? And also how she-
- Can they even rest in peace seeing you like this?!

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Yang Jinghua

- Yo, isn't this the bald donkey?

- So you grew your hair back? Hahahahaha!

Situ LV

- Fuck off!

Yang Jinghua

- Awwww, come one, I haven't seen you for a few months. Do you want a
haircut from me again?

Page 6

Situ LV

- Yang Jinghua, you were lucky before, but this isn’t over!
- Better keep an eye on your dear priest,
 - I don't think he is a saint who is beloved by the Gods.
- Maybe the Shenlong family didn't manage to get him killed last time, but he
won't be so lucky this time!
- One day, I will send you to hell together with Duanmu Xi!

Page 7

Yang Jinghua

- Wow, you really talk a lot. Buzzing and buzzing like a fly.
- I’m getting sick of that already!
- Do you want to add another sentence like “I will definitely return!”?
- The villains on TV always say this!

Situ LV
- Yang Jinghua, get out of my sight as far as possible!

Yang Jinghua

- Nuh-uh, what even can you do to me?

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Servant

- Second madam, Grandmother called for you.

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Duanmu Siyun

- Yes, I'm coming.

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Name on the grave: Yang Jinghua

Page 2

Yang Jinghua

- Uh?

Duanmu Xi

- What’s wrong?

Yang Jinghua

- Nothing, I wasn’t watching where I was going.

- How come…
- I suddenly feel so anxious?

Page 4

Situ LV
- Who’s there?!

Page 5

- A grave watcher? (...Red Riding Shenlong Hood!)

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- Damn it, even the grave of that loser Yang Jinghua has someone to guard it?

Page 7

- You fucker…

Page 8

- F***! Is it your ancestor’s grave I opened up or something?!

- What does this have to do with you! Get off me!

Page 11

- Ughhhhh…
- Are you related to Yang Jinghua or something?!!

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- Bastard!

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- Damn it! So unlucky today! I thought it would be easier.

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Aunt Lan

- Oh, my little Lv!

- How did you get yourself dirty like that?

Situ LV
- I was unlucky! Yang Jinghua's grave was guarded by someone!

Page 2

Aunt Lan
- That Yang Jinghua has no relatives though, how is there anyone to watch
over his grave?

Situ LV
- Hell if I know!
- And that person was really crazily skilled and powerful, I didn't even start my
job. I barely managed to open the ashes.

Aunt Lan
- Could it be someone with whom Jinghua was friends while he was alive?

Situ LV

- Nah, didn’t look like it. That guy was weird. I don’t even know if he’s human,
he didn’t answer me at all.

Page 3

Aunt Lan
 - He didn't? So maybe he’s one of Yang Jinghua supporters.
- He’s really thriving as a spirit shadow. Because his recent battles were
complete victories, his reputation in the spirit world has risen.
- He actually has fans among the demons, ghosts and smaller spirits!

Situ LV
- But isn’t it all because of Duanmu Xi? Let's see how powerful will Yang
Jinghua be when I get Duanmu Xi out of the way!
- I’ll surely have my revenge for that haircut-

Aunt Lan
- Okay, okay, let’s not talk about this anymore. I feel sorry for you.
- Wait…
- you said you opened his ash box?

Page 4

- Show me your hands.

- That will be enough.

Page 5

- We only needed a tiny bit...

- That’s…
- definitely enough.

Page 6

Yang Jinghua
 - Ouch!

Qin Shiyao
- Why are you so slow?
- These days you’ve been acting like a wandering soul.

Yang Jinghua

- Hehe, aren’t I actually one…?

Duanmu Xi

- What's wrong?

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Yang Jinghua

- I don't know.. I-I just feel...anxious...inside...like my heart is aching.

Duanmu Xi

- Get back inside, I have to check on you.

Qin Shiyao
- Huh? What about today's concert...Hey, I bought the tickets already!

Duanmu Xi

- Call Ouyang to go with you.

Page 8

Yang Jinghua

- Hey, I'm fine...don't be so nervous, really. Shiyao looked forward to this

concert for a long time…

Duanmu Xi

- If it was a typical concert then it would be fine, but she bought tickets for a
symphony concert. At least I won’t fall asleep during the concert, and she
won’t have to force me to stay awake.

Yang Jinghua

- Heh... you really do know her…

- But I wanted you to go out and have some fresh air...you’ve been sitting all
this time at home…

Duanmu Xi

- It might be a small thing, but I can’t afford to overlook anything now.

- Remember what happened with Xiren last time,
- I can’t let it happen again.

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Text message: Take care of the ashes.

Yang Jinghua

- Uh, what is it…? My heart is like jumping out of my chest right now…
 - Is this what is called to have “the soul to leave the body”(idiom: to be
restless)...Hah…
- But what, am I not a ghost? I shouldn’t have a heart…

Duanmu Xi

- Follow me!

Yang Jinghua

- Huh?

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Aunt Lan

- It's done.
- Now, we just need to get close to Duanmu Xi…
- Ah but if we want everything to go smoothly, we have to rely on insider help.
- Preferably, we need help from someone inside the Duanmu Household.

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- Someone who can easily approach him and have a good reason to dislike
Duanmu xi.

Situ LV

- How about...
- Duanmu Siming?
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Page 1

Yang Jinghua

- W-What’s the matter? Why are we here?

Page 2

- Duanmu Xi...What did I do to anger you so much that you want to open up
my grave, that’s ominous...

Duanmu Xi

- It’s already been opened.

- Thank goodness, the ashes are still here.

Page 3

Yang Jinghua

- Hey, your hand is hurt, just what are you doing?...

Duanmu Xi

- This way, others won't be able to open this tomb ever again.

Page 4

Yang Jinghua

- It's just a grave with only a box of ash inside, so what if someone opened it.
 - It’s not like I’m from a royal family or anything. The grave robbers must have
seen there’s nothing to take here and left,
- You don’t need to hurt your hand this way...geez...

Duanmu Xi

- You are right, ashes are useless, but I fear that people might take it on
purpose and do something...that’ll be harmful to you.

Yang Jinghua

- Sigh... But I , Yang Jinghua, don’t have money nor power.

Page 5

- I don’t have anything...what would they even get from trying to screw with
me?

Duanmu Xi

- That’s because you are my spirit shadow...

Yang Jinghua

- Oh, true...ever since I started to follow you, it seems like we haven’t had a
break from troubles.
- I had such an idle and easy live back then, the past ten years of my life
haven’t had anything worthy to mention.
- But now what happens every day could be made into a book and let the
storytellers talk about it on the streets for three days straight.
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Duanmu Xi

- Being with me…

- brought you only trouble.

Yang Jinghua

- Not really
- after all, except for you…
- I don't have anything left anymore…

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- What are you doing?!

Page 10

Duanmu Xi

- Are you feeling better now?

Yang Jinghua

- What the hell are you even doing, I’m really okay right now...Ah-ha…
- Can you not turn it into a new habit of yours!
- So many ghosts are watching us here, I’m really embarrassed, even if you
have no shame!

Duanmu Xi
 - Your grave has been opened, and your ashes were disturbed, it definitely had
an effect on you.

Yang Jinghua

- You didn’t even pick the right place!

Duanmu Xi

- All right, next time I'll pay attention to find the right place first.

Yang Jinghua

- That’s not what I meant!

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Duanmu Xi

- Let's go.

Yang Jinghua

- You are not listening to me at all. Didn’t I tell you last time to not do such
things in public...

Duanmu Xi

- When was that?

Page 12

Yang Jinghua

- Erm, last time was when...no, that was the last last time…

Duanmu Xi

- It happened a lot of times already, which exactly did you mean?

Yang Jinghua

- Ah, just don’t do it at all, okay!

- I don’t want you to get tired...

Duanmu Xi

- Well, then I hope that you won’t give me an opportunity to do it again.

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- Don’t worry, it didn’t tire me or anything.

Yang Jinghua

- Yeah, aren’t your powers amazing! Don’t think you are an unlimited energy
power bank or something!

Words beside Xi: Super strong endurance, can last forever.

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Situ LV

- Duanmu Siming!
- I kindly gave you an opportunity to take revenge for your mother and other
relatives!
- And you don't even appreciate it?

Page 4
- I feel like you are humiliating yourself in front of Duanmu Xi. You are waiting
for him to release you out of slavery or something?
- Still think that your family feels bad about what happened to Duanmu Xi?
- You make it look like he's the most pitiful one, and we all owe him something.
- Except that you don't owe him a cent! This family is only making you suffer!

Page 5
Duanmu Siming
- What do I do here is not your business!

Situ LV

- I told you Duanmu Siming! Even if you and the whole family is scared of him,
even if you will all pretend you forgot about that day, I won't ever forget about
it!
- As long as I am here, I'll make sure to drag him to hell!

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- I want to see him condemned to hell!

Duanmu Siming
 - Shut up!!

Page 7
Situ LV

- Oh, it seems you do still remember.

- Those last words.

Duanmu Siming

- Everyone in this world can be condemned!

- Everyone except my brother!

Page 8
Situ LV

- Your brother?
- You really treat him like your fucking brother, do you not!
- Why are you pretending to be such a good and nice person?
- What did you and Siyun think about him earlier?

Page 9
- Do you remember the first time he got punished by Heaven's penalty?
- Do you think he doesn't remember how you acted and hate you for it?
- Give up on your so-called brother and that dreams of his.
- Your own home is long time destroyed, Duanmu Siming!

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- Join my side Duanmu Siming
- Together,
- let's deal with Duanmu Xi.
 - Isn't that what your mother would wish for?

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Family members
- Young master, you finally came back! Please go to the hall, the master of the
Situ family is in trouble!

Page 2
Situ LV father
- Young master!
- Young master, please save my son!

Page 3
Family members
- Master Situ! Your own son dared to disobey the Duanmu family and trespass
the restricted family grounds, and you dare to come here and beg for help?
- Exactly, how dare you!

Situ LV father

- That’s my only son! I know he shouldn't have kept grudges against you.
Recently, I found out he was planning something bad again.
- So in fear of him causing more trouble for the young master, I scolded him
heavily and threatened I’ll lock him up, I had no idea he would run away from
home!
- I know this place is the burial place for all former Yangmingsis and that’s why
it’s forbidden to enter, but I fear for what my son might do there!
 - Situ LV is still young, I really don’t know what I will do if something happens
to him.

Page 4
Family members

- If he knew it's forbidden to go there and still went there anyway, he is

worthless enough to die.
- Why should we bother to help you again?

Situ LV father
- I know it's a sacred place and that as an outsider we have no right to make
one step there. That’s why I didn’t send anyone to go and find my son!
- That’s why I came here to beg for help in visiting the place where no one has
gone ever since the death of the previous priest.
- As the current Yangminsi, you are the only one who can go and enter those
holy grounds!

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- I beg of you, young master, please bring my son back! No one except you
can save him now!

Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu...

Situ LV father
- I know that Situ LV has been disrespectful to you and caused trouble for you
several times. I swear that I’ll teach him to never come near you ever again or
cause trouble!
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Duanmu Xi
- Will you keep your word?

Situ LV father
- I swear I will!

Duanmu Xi

- I want you to take him away from here.

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- Also, move away all the people that were related to that incident.
- Move as far away as possible,
- and don't ever come back.
- Can you accept it?

Page 8
Situ LV father
- If the young master saves my son, I will accept anything the young master
tells us.

Duanmu Xi

- Fine.

Duanmu Siming
- Brother!

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Duanmu Xi

- Take care of him.

 - I'm afraid that LV’s anger related to past events might actually work this time
against LV.
- Situ’s family made a lot of research on the control of the spirits, and they
know various spells.
- I cannot even predict what LV plans to do.
- Keep a close eye on him for anything that might be happening, you can’t
miss a single thing!

Page 10
Duanmu Siming
- I understand,
- young master.

Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua, please stay here and don't run around.

- Stay with Siming,
- until I come back.

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Yang Jinghua

- I'll go with you...

Duanmu Xi

- No, I'm still not sure what is going on and what is your current state.
- Also, there will be a lot of evil spirits outside. Whatever LV is planning, I'm
afraid it's something against you.
- You are safe here.

Yang Jinghua

- I still want to go...though I fear I would be a hindrance.

 - But all right, deal with it yourself.
- But if anything happens,
- call me immediately.

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Duanmu Siming

- Please do not worry, Mr Yang.

- The whole area of Duanmu Household is enchanted, so nothing can happen
to the young master.
- It’s impossible to harm a Yangmingsi on his own territory.

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- Mr Yang, are you hurting anywhere?
- Why are you so pale?

Yang Jinghua

- I'm a ghost, it’s normal for me to be pale.

Duanmu Siming
- Of course.

Page 14
Yang Jinghua

- How can I get rid of this anxious feeling?

- What's wrong with it? Why it's getting stronger.
- Was that previous kiss useless?
- What do they want from me?

Page 15
- Except you, I have nothing left.
 - Except you...no!! We were all wrong!!

Page 16
- Siming!
- They did move my ashes...but they weren’t aiming at me.
- It’s the other way round!

Page 17
- You have to find Duanmu Xi now!!!
- Duanmu Xi!!

Duanmu Siming
- Why? Mr Yang?

Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu Xi!!

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- Come back!
- Don't go there!
- It's a trap!!

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Duanmu Xi

- Situ LV!
- Situ LV!
- Where are you?
 - Get out now!

Page 4
- LV?
- Situ LV!

Page 5
- Situ LV…

Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu Xi!!!

Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua?

Yang Jinghua

- Come back! Don't go! It's a trap!!

Page 6
Duanmu Xi

- What?

Page 7
Yang Jinghua

- They didn't touch my ashes to hurt me,

- but you!

Aunt Lan
 - Just a little bit...the Yang bloodline is the key to activate the seal.
- With the ashes of Yang Jinghua and the bone nail, we can seal Duanmu Xi's
powers.

Page 8
Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua…

Aunt Lan
- Adding a bit of Situ family power, we can block his psychic powers and make
him unable to contact anyone from the outside.
- He will be just like a regular human…

Page 9
Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu Xi? Duanmu Xi!

- What happened! Please answer!

Aunt Lan
- LV,
- you can do anything you want with Duanmu Xi now…

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- Anything!

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Yang Jinghua

- Where did you bring Duanmu Xi?!

- I won't forgive you if he’s hurt!!

Family members
- What's wrong with him?

Situ LV father
- Mr Yang is wrong to suspect me! How could I know what happened to
Duanmu Xi...

Page 2
Yang Jinghua

- I searched through the household both for Duanmu Xi and for your son! They
aren't here!

Duanmu Siyun
- Tell me what did you find!

Family members
- Second lady, we searched through the entire household woods, and we
didn't find either any trace of the young master or of Situ LV.

Page 3
Yang Jinghua

- Hand him over now!!!

- You were planning to drag Duanmu Xi into something right!
 - You thought I wouldn't realize it! And it was you who messed up with my
ashes, weren’t you?! Just what kind of wicked thing you did to make me
unable to contact Duanmu Xi!

Situ LV father
- I don’t understand this either, Mr. Yang! Assuming I was plotting with my son
against the young master, would I be so stupid to come here and ask for
help?

Page 4
- Grandmother, I did discover that my son is working on something bad again
and fearing he will cause more trouble for the Duanmu family, I came here
asking for help, that’s all!

Yang Jinghua
- You just forced him into one of your games!!

Situ LV father
- I don’t know what happened and whether my son is dead or alive either!
- Besides, I think it would be better to focus on sending more people to look
for them rather than attack me, maybe they are simply lost somewhere!

Page 5
- Grandmother, please don’t worry.
- I have faith…
- that if LV is with a young master, the strongest spiritual person in the world,
they will be alright. No one can match the young master, after all.

Family members
- That place...well, we can't even enter it.
 - Yes...it wouldn’t be good to start a panic and recklessly send people to
search the mountains, right?
- Lets all calm down and wait for the news.
- Maybe the young master and Situ master will be back soon.

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Duanmu Siyun

- Master Situ, I respect you and your family for serving the Duanmu household
for many years.
- However, you have definitely crossed the line this time.

Situ LV father
- What is the second madam saying...

Page 7
Duanmu Siyun
- Don't interrupt me.
- As I was saying, it doesn't matter if you came here for a reason or
unintentionally.
- Our head is dealing currently with your son again. If he is in danger because
of your family,
- it might happen that you and your disciples will not return home.
- Please bring master Situ to a room so he could rest.

Situ LV father
- What does the second madam want to do...

Page 8
Duanmu Siyun
- Oh, nothing.
 - That’s just in case people would be saying we are not treating our relatives
well.

Page 9
Yang Jinghua

- What a useless bunch of wolves! Trash!

- When Duanmu Xi is needed, everyone goes to him for help.
- But when he needs help, then suddenly everyone washes their hands off it
all.

Page 10
- Ugh...My heart…
- What’s going on...
- It jumps so much.
- It feels like…

Page 11
- Blood...
- I smell blood. From where do I sense such a strong smell of blood...
- As a soul...I cannot bleed.

Page 12
- No...
- It's not my blood.
- It's because of the contract.
- It's…

Page 13
- Duanmu Xi!!!
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Situ LV

- Oh my, you can't bear it?

Page 2
- Take it easy,
- if you strangle yourself,
- How could we continue playing?

Page 3
- Oh right, I shouldn’t use my spiritual power to hit you, the one favored by
God, right?
- I remember about that pact. You share half of the damage that you receive
- so it’s like you are only half responsible for your crime, right?

Page 4
- But I'd like to think that beating one of you is equal to bringing down both.
- Isn't it better…

Page 5
- You are trying to run away?
- Even with your spiritual power sealed, you insist on forcing your way out? Do
you even know what kind of place it is?
- This place is surrounded with protection spells, no one from outside will get
in! So don't expect anyone to come and save you!
- By the way, what's with that position?

Page 6
- I’ll change it a bit.
 - Don’t worry, we have plenty of time.
- No one will disturb us here
- So we can slowly get along...

Page 8
Duanmu Siming
- Mr Yang!
- Mr Yang!

Yang Jinghua

- Siming
- How did you come here...

Duanmu Siming
- I was worried, so I followed you here.
- What did you say about the ashes..is it true?

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Yang Jinghua

- We have to find Duanmu Xi!! He was kidnapped by Situ LV!

- He is torturing Duanmu Xi...

Duanmu Siming
- How do you know it?

Yang Jinghua

- I'm his spirit shadow, of course I know such things!!

- I can feel it! This bastard...

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Duanmu Siming
- If what you say it's true, LV must have kidnapped Duanmu Xi.
- I fear it's a huge problem for us.

Yang Jinghua
- Why are you still standing like that? Go and call your family immediately! We
have to pressure the Situ family!
- Is the Duanmu family so powerless they can’t even save their own head?!

Duanmu Siming
- It's useless. We can’t say such a thing without having evidence. And besides,
the family is able to hide everything that is related to Duanmu Xi,
- and they won’t take the initiative to avoid any trouble.

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Yang Jinghua

- That family is a bunch of wolves!! They all said they are waiting for Duanmu Xi
to die, will they be happy then?
- Duanmu Xi is in the hands of that madman LV!
- He did everything...

Duanmu Siming
- Yang Jinghua, where are you going?

Yang Jinghua

- I will find him!

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Duanmu Siming
- Do you know where he is? If not, it's useless to search for him aimlessly!
Yang Jinghua

- I don't care! I will find him! Even if I have to search through the entire
mountains! Through the woods!
- I'll dig the ground inch by inch to dig out LV!

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- If he has hurt Duanmu Xi, I’ll make sure this will be LV’s funeral!
- Because Duanmu Xi gave me a home!

Page 14
Duanmu Siming
- Yang Jinghua...you...

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Situ LV
- How do you like this? Aren’t you kinda cold? Hm, little head?
- I got kinda tired, let's have a break.

Page 2
- Don't look at me that way.
- Duanmu Xi,
- Why do you look at me like this?
- I asked you earlier. Do you regret what you did that year? Are you sorry for
what happened?
- If you confess and admit you are guilty of what happened that year, I won't
torture you until you die!

Page 3
 - You have killed,
- how can you sit in the main hall and be admired by thousands of people?!

Page 4
- You are wrong!! You are guilty!!
- High priest? Closest to God? Ridiculous!
- I'm here to punish you.
- If you won't beg me for mercy, I'll kill you slowly.

Page 5
- After you die, I'll find your stupid spirit shadow and turn him into a demon
just to humiliate him.

Duanmu Xi

- Enough.

Situ LV
- What?

Duanmu Xi

- I said that’s enough,

- Situ LV….

Page 6
- I tolerated you for so many years.
- But you didn't grow at all.

Situ LV
- What do you mean?!

Duanmu Xi
 - You can go ahead, hit me and try to kill me…

Page 7
- But if I won't die here,
- then don’t dare to bother me ever again in the future.
- I don't
- want to
- waste my remaining time on you.

Page 8
Situ LV
- Ahaha...ahahahahaha!
- Duanmu Xi, do you hate me?
- You fucking fell right into my hands and still dare to talk back?

Page 9
Duanmu Siming
- Mr Yang, please calm down. Let's think about this for a moment.
- Where would LV be most likely to hide his young master?
- They came here not long ago, and I didn't see anyone going out. So I don't
think they could leave this mountain in such a short time.

Yang Jinghua

- What is so special about this place? Why didn't he want me to come with
him?
- There are so many different places in this family. What's so special about this
specific place? Why does no one want to say anything?

Page 10
Duanmu Siming
 - So...this is the place only a Yangminsi can enter. Precisely, this is the place
which they can visit only once in their entire life.
- Usually, once you come here, you will never come back.

Yang Jinghua

- Why?

Duanmu Siming
- Because...

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Situ LV
- Duanmu Xi, look! This is what you achieved by angering me.
- Still thinking about the future? You don’t have a future!!

Duanmu Siming
- When a Yangminsi life comes to an end…
- they will come here to offer their bodies and souls to heaven and earth, as
their final sacrifice.

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Situ LV
- Look, this is the place I have chosen for you.
- The most suitable place for you to die...

Duanmu Siming
- This is….

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Situ LV
- This is the place of your burial, Duanmu Xi…
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Situ LV
- Do you hear it? This is the howling of the dead!

Page 2
- It’s not only me that wants you to die, Duanmu Xi.
- Look, they are also waiting for you to die. So they could eat your flesh, drink
your blood, swallow your soul and bite into your heart.
- They've been waiting for so long and are so hungry
- …they just can’t wait any longer.
- They have come here to see your funeral!

Duanmu Xi

- You are so noisy...

Page 3
Situ LV
- What?

Duanmu Xi

- So noisy.
- You talk too much.
- If you want to do something, then hurry up and do it. Stop wasting my time.

Situ LV
- Duanmu Xi, you just can't wait to die, huh...

Page 4
- Then I'll send you to the afterworld─
Yang Jinghua

- It’s you who can’t wait to die!

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Duanmu Xi

- You are late...

Duanmu Siming
- Young master!

Duanmu Xi

- Help me pull out the bone nail from my waist!

Duanmu Siming

- Oh my...is this...

Situ LV
- Yang Jinghua…

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- How could you...find this place…

Yang Jinghua
- The mountain is pretty big, but that doesn’t mean some movements go
unnoticed.

Duanmu Siming
 - When we came to search, LV hid you in the grave room so no one could find
him. However, Mr.Yang said that Situ LV must have specially picked this
place.
- Also said that you wouldn't waste such an occasion, because you are a
monster.

Situ LV
- Duanmu Xi, you purposely pissed me off so I would take you out and let
them find you, didn't you?!
- You weren't afraid of me killing you here?!

Page 8
Duanmu Xi

- Well, you have been holding back your grudges against me for so many
years, so, I guessed you aren’t going to kill me that fast.

Yang Jinghua

- That’s way too dangerous to provoke the kidnappers.

- You look like a mess, how many days do you need for these to heal?
- What would have happened if I just walked too far away or didn't feel Situ’s
presence or simply went home and waited for you to come back?

Page 9
Duanmu Xi

- I was sure that you would always be near

- and wouldn't ever give up looking for me.
- You are my spirit shadow.
- Even if my spiritual powers are sealed, you can feel my presence and my
soul…
Page 10
- right?

Yang Jinghua

- You bastard!
- I was about to go crazy because of you.

Page 11
Situ LV
- Hey, don't you dare show affection in front of me!

Yang Jinghua

- Siming, go take him back to heal.

- This brat just won’t learn if he won’t get beaten!

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Duanmu Xi

- Siming! Help me get rid of those chains!

Duanmu Siming
- Please wait, young master, until we will get you to a safer place!

Duanmu Xi

- I have to join Jinghua! His situation isn't much better than mine now!
- Situ is the soul master and Jinghua is a soul, he won't win with LV!
- Siming, let me go!
Duanmu Siming
- This chain is too tight, I can't open it!

Page 2
Duanmu Xi

- Then take out the nail from my back!

- This will restore my spiritual powers!

Duanmu Siming
- But the nail position is pretty tricky...what if pulling it out now will cause
bigger injuries?
- Besides, I don’t think restoring your powers would be so easy. Since Mr
Yang's ashes were used for the nail, I'm afraid only he can remove the nail
from your body.

Duanmu Xi

- Siming…
- How do you know all of this?

Page 3
- I only know about this by listening to LV’s ramblings.
- From where do you know about those details?

Page 4
- Siming…
- you know you have violated the ban on entering the holy grounds.
- Did you have any plans...
Page 5
Duanmu Siming
- Young master…
- You never forget anything.
- So, you couldn’t forget either…
- what happened that day.

Page 6
- So I want to know the truth.
- The truth about that day.
- About...
- About my sister.
- About our sister.

Page 7
- Duanmu Siping, how…
- How did she actually die?

Page 8
Situ LV

- Yang Jinghua! Why are you fighting so desperately for someone like Duanmu
Xi?
- You think he's a good guy right? Do you even know why no one likes him at
Duanmu Household?

Page 9
Yang Jinghua

- Because they are a bunch of wolves!

Situ LV
- Oh, so you don't know anything.
 - You have only been with him for a short period of time, so you actually have
no idea that he-
- Do you know why all of the other family members avoid him? It's because
people have died by Duanmu’s Xi hand!

Page 10
- And not just one!
- You think this is the person closest to God, blessed and admired by all?
- He is a murderer, you know? Murderer!!

Yang Jinghua

- Nonsense! I should cut off your tongue for saying something like this!

Page 11
Situ LV
- I’m talking nonsense? Didn't you hear any rumors throughout your stay in the
Duanmu household?
- He was a police suspect, there are even police files on him. You can go and
check it yourself.
- But the family still needed him to do sacrifices so they had to sweep the case
under the rug, what else could they do?
- If you don't believe me, how about you take a look at it yourself!

Page 12
Yang Jinghua

- What are you doing?!

- Go away! I’m not interested!

Situ LV
- I'm a soul master and I can communicate with the undead.
 - Look at the memories from the depth of my soul, they aren’t lying.

Yang Jinghua

- Get off, get off! Who the heck is interested in your little movie!
- Don’t come here!

Page 13
Situ LV
- You don’t want to look huh!
- You don’t want to look because you are afraid to know
- Duanmu Xi is not the person who you think he is,
- The holy, beautiful and pious person…
- isn’t him!

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Page 2
Situ Lan

- Do you see the girl over there?

Page 3
- That’s my daughter.

- But because her existence is seen as a bad omen,

- I had to leave her here.
- Little LV, I’ll give you a mission:
- this girl is my whole life, but I can’t keep her with me.

Page 4
- Can you help me look after her?
Situ LV
- Yes!

(Jumps back to present day)

Page 5
- This is Duanmu Siping,
- She's a twin sister of Duanmu Siming.
- But the Duanmu household has that one shit rule where it is said that the
next Yangmingsi successor cannot be a twin.
- So Siming, as the male heir, was designated as the future priest,
- while Siping had to be moved to the Zhiren House.

Page 6
- Even though she was a proper lady,
- she was treated in that place worse than a servant.

Yang Jinghua

- How come I never heard of her?

Situ LV
- Of course not. There aren't that many people in the Duanmu Household that
know her name to begin with!
- If she had even a bit of influence in the family, would Duanmu Xi get away
scot-free so easily? Would the family cover up the whole case so tightly?

Page 7
- Before that Duanmu Xi appeared, we got along well, even though she had no
title or influence.
- Life wasn’t bad then.
- Until that day.
Page 8
(Flashback)

Situ LV
- It’s very pretty, do you like it?

Duanmu Siping
- Yes!

Duanmu Siming
- Hey, hide it now! Before Siyun will see it or…

Duanmu Siyun
- Oh! What flower is this? I have never seen such a flower before, it must be
very rare!

Situ LV
- Yes, my aunt bought this for Siping…

Page 9
Duanmu Siyun
- Give it to me, I have never seen anything like this. It will surely look nice on
me!
- Jeeeez, you are so stingy, even though you grew up in Zhiren house?
- What do you want for it?

Duanmu Siping
- No….

Page 10
Duanmu Siyun
- Give it to me now!
Duanmu Xi
- Wait.

Page 11
- The flower is a living being. If you pick it, it does become yours, but it is
already dead.

Page 12
- If you really like this flower, isn't it better to let it bloom and appreciate it from
a distance?

Duanmu Siyun
- Aren’t you nosy.
- Well, it’s not like I care for the things from Situ’s family, we have much rarer
things in the Duanmu household.

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Situ LV

- I’ve been thinking,

- that maybe if Duanmu Xi didn’t show up that day...
- Maybe,
- she’d still be by my side...

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Situ LV
- At that time, we were only 8 or 9 years old.
- We were all so carefree
Page 3
- Do you know who he is? He came so close here…

Duanmu Siping
- Brother Xi.

Page 4
- It's brother Xi!

Situ LV
- She probably thought Duanmu Xi is just yet another family member.
- But little did she know…

Situ Lan
- Don't let her come close to Duanmu Xi ever again!

Page 5
Situ LV
- The relationship between him and us…
- …was far more complicated.

Situ Lan
- He’s merely occupying the priest position as a temporary substitute.
- I’ll let him be the priest for a few years, after all...
- It will be my son Siming who will be the real master of the house!

Page 5
Situ LV
- Auntie Lan was pretty obsessed with how to earn a place and status in the
household.
Page 6
- Since Duanmu Xi was just a kid at that time, she didn’t much bother about
him.
- She thought he could be easily thrown out of the main family, since no one
from the higher-ups was supporting him.
- And this way, the entire Duanmu household would slowly end up in the
hands of Situs.
- But then…
- Shenlong Zhangxuan came.

Page 7
- I have no idea what he did…
- but the almost invisible Duanmu Xi suddenly became famous,
- to the point he basically became unstoppable.
- Before the Situs realized something was wrong,
- Duanmu Xi had already become the new household master.

Page 8
- During the ceremony, Siping saw Duanmu Xi again.
- I thought that now she will finally realize who Duanmu Xi is.

Page 9
- After all, only the immediate descendants can inherit the position of
household master.

Duanmu Siping
- Brother Xi…
- really is my brother.

Page 10
Situ LV
 - After Duanmu Xi became the leader, he started from creating new
regulations, including closing down the Zhiren House.
- To be honest, I was overjoyed.
- The Zhiren house was just a place for keeping human sacrifices.
- Because a priest couldn’t always be at his best when the ritual was
scheduled, he usually had a number of monks coming from the Zhiren house.

Page 11
- Things like falling sick, getting injured or simply having a bad time happen.
- And when the priest couldn’t handle the consequences of the ritual by
himself, the other spiritual power wielders helped him by taking the majority
of the backlash.
- When the priest couldn’t bear the strain caused by chanting the ritual on the
altar, he needed another spirit power wielder to help him by taking the
majority of the backlash damage from the spell.
- There were even some talented monks who could fill up the position of the
main priest for a short while,
- but obviously, their power couldn’t be compared to the power of the true
Yangmingsi so...
- Usually, only orphaned children without any relatives willing to take care of
them were taken to Zhiren house.

Page 12
- When I heard Zhiren's house was being closed, I sighed with relief.
- I immediately suggested to Aunt Lan that I can take Siping home and take
care of her since Siming won’t become a priest for some years.
- I and Siping spent a peaceful few years in the Situ household.

Page 13
- Those were truly our happiest years.
 - We didn't have to worry about rituals,
- family disputes,
- Duanmu's household
- or Duanmu Xi himself
- But suddenly one day…

Page 14
- Duanmu Household informed us…
- that Shenlong Zhangxuan had died...

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Situ LV

- I just don’t get it! Just don’t get it!

- So much time has passed,
- But she still thought about him!

Duanmu Siping
- I have to go and see brother Xi!

Page 3
Situ LV
- I stayed by her side all these years!
- I made sure she has enough food, clothes to wear and a good place to live!
- I got her a special present for her birthday on New Year! So why!!
- Out of all those people, why did she have to worry about him so much!

Page 5
Duanmu Siping
- I want to return to the Duanmu household.
- I have to stay by brother Xi’s side now...

Page 6
Situ LV

- Have you gone mad!

- Why would he need you? He doesn’t even know who you are!

Duanmu Siping
- He can’t deal with all of this alone, now that Shenlong Zhangxuan is gone!

Situ LV
- Do you think he does care about you worrying?

Duanmu Siping
- Situ LV, you don't understand brother Xi at all!

Page 7
Situ LV
- What did you just call me?

Duanmu Siping
- Sorry, brother LV…
- It’s just that I have you,
- but brother Xi has no one now.

Page 8
Situ LV
- That bastard, Duanmu Xi! Just what kind of witchcraft did he use to
brainwash her like that?!
Page 9
Duanmu Siping
- Brother Xi….
- is so sad…....

Page 10
- His singing is so sad,
- because
- of Shenlong Zhangxuan…
- He will never again stand under the altar to accompany you…..

Page 11
Servant
- Young master! Please don't get distracted during the ceremony!

Page 13
Situ LV
- I would have never thought, even in my dreams, that she would offer to help
Duanmu Xi finish the ritual!!

Situ Lan
- Who allowed you to do this?!

Page 14
Duanmu Siping
- Since I am a monk, I was taught how to help the Yangmingsi during
ceremonies.

Situ Lan
- Nonsense!

Duanmu Siping
 - Mother, I remember it clearly. When I was younger, you told me I will sing
together with brother Siming when he becomes a priest.

Situ Lan
- But Siming is not yet the Yangmingsi!

Page 15
Duanmu Siping
- Why?
- Why can't I sing for brother Xi?

Situ Lan
- Why you just can’t get it. You are making me really angry...

Situ LV
- Don't be angry at her, I'll explain everything to her later.

Duanmu Siping
- Is there any difference between brother Xi and brother Siming?

Situ Lan
- Of course there is!

Situ LV

- Siping, stop it, don't make your mother angry, she already has enough
problems.

Page 16
Situ Lan
- That Duanmu Xi…
- We just can't let him stay as the head any longer!
Situ family member

- But now that Shenlong Zhangxuan is dead, there's no one left to help him. He
won't last long by himself.
- The power will soon be ours.

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Situ LV
- Why are you so happy?

Duanmu Siping
- Brother Xi gave me those.

Situ LV
- Why was she so happy getting a bunch of old notes and used books?
- Were those used goods better than what I have been giving her?
- She was often sitting alone in her room and weeping, reading Duanmu's Xi
music sheets, unbelievable!

- Oh, it’s just this...I thought you were watching Korean dramas again.

Duanmu Siping
- Brother Xi...brother Xi is so miserable.
- No one understands him. No one understands him!

Situ LV
 - How can you see anything in those twists and turns? And why do you need to
know more about him?

Duanmu Siping
- You wouldn't understand, you are tone-deaf.

Page 5
Situ LV

- Hey, look at this. I’ve been looking through the antique shop and found
something nice. I can give it to you if you like it!

Duanmu Siping
- What's even wrong with you...ewwww.

Duanmu Siping
- Go away, don't disturb me!

Situ LV
- From that time, Siping was locking herself in the room, doing something in
secret.

Page 6
- So one day…
<it’s a musical sheet written by Siping, I’ll add it later>
- Siping...you

Page 7
- ...with Duanmu Xi!!!
- I thought she got into a dangerous relationship!
- So I instinctively tried to stop her!
- Don't go see Duanmu Xi ever again!!
Duanmu Siping
- Why? Are you going to restrict my freedom from now on too?

Page 8
Situ LV
- Siping, you got confused by Duanmu Xi!!

Duanmu Siping
- What are you even talking about?

Situ LV
- What are those things you wrote?? What do you plan to do for Duanmu Xi?

Duanmu Siping
- You were in my room?!

Page 9
- Why were you touching my items!! Those are private things!!

Situ LV

- Siping, do you know what danger are you getting yourself into?!
- Didn’t you realize he is your brother? You are pretty much half-siblings!
- How can you even have that kind of feelings for him?! Are you crazy?

Page 10
Duanmu Siping
- Situ LV! You are...mad!

Situ LV
- Siping!!!
- Siping had gone completely mad! I had to stop her, I had to save her!
Page 11
Situ Lan
- How can this be…
- I have forbidden her from ever seeing him!
- But the two of them...are in that kind of relationship?!

Situ LV
- I bet Duanmu Xi used a spell to enchant Siping, he’s messing with her mind!

Situ Lan
- You could be right…
- All items that belong to a Yangmingsi could be deliberately enchanted!
- And besides, he is the son of Duanmu Yin, like father like son!

Page 12
- How could I underestimate him? He acts like a saint but who knows what he
was doing behind my back!
- But to seduce my daughter! His own sister!

Situ LV
- It's all because I didn't take good enough care of Siping…

Situ Lan
- It's not your fault, LV.
- You've been doing a very good job in the last few years.

Page 13
- I was right to leave Siping with you.
- That Duanmu Xi...must disappear!
- Otherwise, there will be no end to our troubles!
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Situ family members

- Madam, Duanmu Xi is doing an incredible job. Whether it is about his work or

sacrifices, there is simply not a single mistake. There's nothing we can do.

Situ Lan
- No mistakes? The last one was enough.

Situ family members

- What do you mean, madam?

Situ Lan
- The previous ceremony almost ended in failure. Because this is largely the
fault of the current priest, he should immediately step down.

Situ family members

- But this might be a problem...we really can’t do anything about it.

Page 3
Situ Lan
- What are you scared of? Wouldn’t it be better for us all if he died on the altar?

Situ family members

- Yes, madam, you are completely right. We’ll do as you say!

Page 4
Duanmu Xi
 - Ah!

Page 7
Situ family members

- What's going on?

- Did we fail?
- But we disrupted the flow of spiritual powers today. They should have cut off
the priest's heartbeat. He should be lying lifelessly on the altar now.

Page 9
Situ Lan
- Why!!
- What I’m doing wrong...why do my own child... and my son-in-law, why they
must be all against me!

Duanmu Siming
- Mom…

Situ Lan
- LV, out of all my children, only you listen to your mother's words!

Page 10
Situ LV
- I'm sorry, I could have stopped her.

Situ Lan
- How, by locking her up? By shutting her mouth?
- She is different from others. She wants to sing for Duanmu Xi. And she
doesn't even need a place. She will sing for him as long as she can speak!
Duanmu Siping
- You are right…
- Mother…
- Today I used my special ability as a twin.

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Situ LV
- Siping!

Duanmu Siping
- You can't stop me.
- As long as I live, I am free to do whatever I want.

Situ Lan
- Shut up! Shut up! You have lost your mind!
- Do you even know what you are talking about!!

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Duanmu Siping
- I was quiet all my life. Ever since birth, I was quiet. I was always hiding behind
other people, and I didn't even feel like I was existing.
- I promise I won’t stand in anyone’s way. I won’t call Siming my brother in
front of others. I won’t be in the way of mom’s struggle for position.

Situ Lan
- Siping!

Duanmu Siping
- I want to say a lot of things…
- I don't want to be quiet anymore,
- I want to tell everyone who I am! I want to tell everyone what I want!
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Situ Lan
- Please calm down, we’ll talk after you rest a bit.

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Duanmu Siping
- Why are you stopping me?
- You don't have the power to do that!
- What right do you have to control my life like that!

Situ Lan
- She's finished...have you heard what she just said?

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- How could she say such things? Who gave her such an idea?

Situ LV
- Who else…
- Who else could it be other than him!

Situ Lan
- But what can I do...if Duanmu Xi will be performing another ceremony, she
will again go and sing for him. What can I do?
- Tie her up and cover her mouth? Silence her forever? She won’t ever agree!

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Duanmu Siping
- Something has been happening with my throat recently.
Situ LV
- I think you have caught a cold. Here, I brought you medicine.
- Don’t run around okay, your health has been pretty weak recently.

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Duanmu Siping
- Are you worried that I would tell everyone what you are doing to the Duanmu
household and to brother Xi?

Situ LV
- I don’t care about anything else but you resting and getting better.

Situ Lan
- This medicine…

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Situ LV
- I got it from the old Situ's witch doctor. If we give it to her in small doses, it
won’t do her any harm.
- It will just make her unable to speak.
- I’m doing it for her sake, but if you feel bad about doing this, I can stop right
now.

Situ Lan
- No, no, no.
- It's...fine.
- It's just a voice.

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- She doesn’t need it for anything. When her voice will be gone, we won’t have
to worry about her singing for that brat. (...and she totally won’t be able to
help Siming by singing on the altar either, wasn’t that the plan?)
 - And if she speaks, she might say something to give us even more troubles.
- Even if she was taught how to sing, it doesn’t mean she has to do it.
- Even if she was taught to be a monk at the Zhiren house, she doesn't need to
sing.

Duanmu Siping
- My..throat...it hurts so much. I...can't say...a word.

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Situ Lan
- Please, sweetheart, drink this.
- You are my beloved daughter. How could your mom do anything harmful to
you? Mom loves you.

Yang Jinghua
- Have you totally lost your mind?!
- You injured a little girl like this?!

Situ LV
- I had to do this!! I hated it but what else could I do to stop her from helping
Duanmu Xi and dying for him?!

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- Being in neverending pain is much worse than short pain! I just wanted to
make her stop thinking about Duanmu Xi!
- And…
- well...
- Everything was carefully planned.
- But suddenly
- suddenly, that day
 - that day..she…

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Yang Jinghua
- Duanmu…
- Duanmu Xi!

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Duanmu Siming
- Everyone said you killed her.
- But I don't believe it.
- Even though you were found with the knife.

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- You are that kind of person who wouldn’t hurt a fly,
- so what were you, from where did you get the courage then?
- Could you really be able to push a knife into someone's heart?
- You claimed you are guilty, but the forensic doctor said that Siping died from
poisoning. There was also a handwritten note left by her.
- Why? What exactly was going on?

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- How did she die?
- What were you doing there?
- For so many years, Duanmu Household concealed her existence!
- But she was my sister! Can’t I know what happened?

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 - Only you know what happened that night!
- Why can't you tell me?

Duanmu Xi
- Jinghua!

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Duanmu Siming
- Once we're out of this forbidden area, you’ll act like nothing happened.
- No matter what you did
- Brother…
- I just want to know the truth!

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Duanmu Xi

- The forensic told you the truth. And I told you the truth, that I have killed her.
- What else do you want to know? Siming?

Duanmu Siming
- Really...did you really kill her?

Duanmu Xi

- Yes.
- It was me who ended the life of Duanmu Siping.

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Duanmu Siming
- No!! That's impossible! Everyone said you caused my sister to die, but I don't
believe it!
- You were always the pure and noble Yangmingsi for me!
 - Your hands are the ones that are blessing all the beings!
- How could it be? How could it be? You are stained with other people's
blood?

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Duanmu Xi

- I had hoped that I wouldn't have any flaws as the high priest.
- I had hoped my life would be without any stains.
- But I'm also only a human. I made many mistakes in my life.
- I'm not as good as Siyun. I’m not a good leader, and I’m not a good brother.

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- Siming…
- In this family, I probably owe nothing to anyone
- But I do owe you.
- They are right. It is because of me you lost your loved ones.
- If only I didn't come to this house…

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- Maybe all of you…
- would be happier than now.
- Siming…
- whether you believe it or not
- I’m not the perfect brother that is in your heart.

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- My soul,
- even if it’s the soul of the highest priest
- Is doomed to end in hell.
-
-
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- Can you release me now?
- I have to help Jinghua.

Duanmu Siming
- This is...what you forced me to do.

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Situ LV
- You have seen it now, Duanmu Xi killed someone with his own hands!
- Still don't believe it?

Yang Jinghua

- That night? No one really saw it!

- This memory is one-sided only!
- I don't think Duanmu Xi had anything against Siping!

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- But somehow it's always your family and your people who think about how to
murder Duanmu Xi!!

Situ LV

- You fucker! You are turning a blind eye when it comes to Duanmu Xi!

Yang Jinghua
 - I am blind, or is it you?
- You might not have good ears, but when I listened to her song, it sounded
familiar.

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- You never listened carefully to this song?
- It was Duckweed.

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Situ LV

- What?

Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu Xi mentioned it at one time.

- The name of the song was Duckweed.

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- It was Duanmu Siping who wrote the song!

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Situ LV

- What kind of drug did Duanmu Xi give you to eat? Were both of you
brainwashed by him?

Yang Jinghua

- If one person is willing to use

- his own life and devote his entire time to others you call brainwashing,
- then I'm willing to be the enchanted one!

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 - Having you finished sowing the discord with your dramatic speech?
- I don't know anyone else like you,
- what is your heart like?
- How can someone think of others in such a way!!

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Yang Jinghua
- Duanmu Xi?

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Situ LV

- Huh,
- you finally got down to work.

Yang Jinghua
- Duanmu Siming,
- What did you do?!

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Yang Jinghua
- Duanmu Xi!

Duanmu Siming
- What you see is not necessarily true,
- the truth is always far crueler than you could have thought...
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Duanmu Xi

- Siming…
- you don't want to...don’t be reckless!

Yang Jinghua
- Duanmu Xi!

Duanmu Siming
- I know that besides Mr Yang, no one else saw your mirror of the golden
spring.
- But I can't be kept in the dark any longer!

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- I called you older brother,
- but it's a difference of just a few days.
- I'm an adult,
- I can make my own decisions!

Duanmu Xi

- Siming!

Duanmu Siming
- Not only must I know the truth, I also have to let others know the truth of that
day!
- I won't ever again allow for injustice like this to happen!

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Situ Lan
- As twins, you are able to replicate each other's abilities.
- It's the very best ability for monks to have.
 - In the future, when Siming will become a Yangmingsi,
- you Siping will be assisting him.
- You two both complement each other. Take care of each other and your mom
will feel at ease.

Duanmu Siping
- Then, can we learn other family members' capabilities? Can I learn what
mommy's ability is?

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Situ Lan
- Yes. The closer the people are, the easier it is to learn it. And being
blood-related is a natural relationship.
- But don't try to do it yet, there's still a huge difference in capabilities between
us.
- For example, if you tried to copy your mom's ability right now you would be
overwhelmed, you are still too young.

Duanmu Siping
- Siming shouldn’t ever use this ability, or he will die, right.
- Brother Siming is so weak!

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Duanmu Siming
- This is what you forced me into doing.
- You are like this, I can't help you, but you still want to help someone else to
fight?

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- This is the weapon with which Siping was murdered, her blood is still on it.
- Your blood just mixed with mine.
 - The blood of us three became one at this moment.
- Our souls are engraved!

Duanmu Xi

- Siming…

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Duanmu Siming
- I want to borrow your Yellow Springs mirror for a moment, to learn the truth
of that day.
- There will be no lies! It will be just you,
- me and Siping - and our past.

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Duanmu Xi

- Siming!!!

In this world, there are two sins that God will never forgive.

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The first one is to destroy someone else's life...
and the second one is to destroy one's own life.
All who look down on the value of life will be spurned by God.

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Whether it was to hurt someone else or to hurt yourself.

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Servants
- What will we do now, the Duanmu family has not had twins for a hundred
years.
- I heard that the last time a pair of twins was born,
- The household went through some difficult times, so the twins are seen as a
bad omen. (...and we didn’t learn why exactly they are a bad omen until
621…)

- It's not that much important, the real problem is that one of the children is a
girl. Girls aren't first in the line for inheritance.
- But the boy has pretty weak spiritual powers...while the girl was born strong
and full of aura.

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- Ugh...the Duanmu Household is finally flourishing, and this is the
embarrassing result of our efforts.
- Lady’s husband died soon after getting married, and now she gave birth to
troublesome twins. She’s going to cause troubles for the Duanmu family.

Situ Lan
- Great Grandmother…
- I asked for Siping to be sent into Zhiren's house.

Great Grandmother
- What?

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Situ Lan
- Siming is the only male heir.
- But I know that his spiritual strength is severely limited, it would be hard for
him to become the priest.
 - But Siping is talented. If you let her study to be a monk, I think it would be
possible for both of them to perform sacrifices.

Great Grandmother
- This is reasonable.
- But the Zhiren House is a much worse place for her than our house. She
might be treated badly there. Can you think more about it?

Situ Lan
- When I entered the doors of the Duanmu Household, I became a Duanmu.

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- It's embarrassing to think that we didn't manage to raise more children for the
future of the household.
- If what I suggest can be used to make up for it, I'm ready to sacrifice feelings
a mother has for her daughter. (...so as you see, it’s not that Siping was taken
away from her. It was Situ Lan’s own idea to put Siping in the Zhiren house.)

Great Grandmother
- You are a good wife. When I have chosen you to marry Yin, I didn't make a
mistake.
- Let's do what you want. Raise Siping well,
- I fear there won't be any more males in his generation and he will have to be
the leader then.

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Situ Lan
- Liar!! Liar!! Are you kidding me? From where he came from?!
- You said there won't be any more males in this generation!!

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 - What is this?!
- Duanmu Yin, you damn slag, I hate you!! (Slag is another word for a whore.
Fitting name for Yin).

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Servants
- This child is really powerful! And he looks like a porcelain doll!
- This must be the youngest priest in the Duanmu Household!

Situ Lan
- Just look at them!! Why do you have to be so useless!

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Duanmu Siming

- Wow, amazing…

Duanmu Siyun
- Pff, what is amazing. I can do such things too!

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Duanmu Siming
- She's also a girl, but her situation is so much different…
- She's an only child, is talented and her equally talented mother was an
important person at the Yang Ming Division.
- She can get what she wants.
- While Siping, because she was born a twin and because of my own
weakness,

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- could only become one of mother's pawns in her struggle for power.
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Duanmu Siping
- Today...thank you for helping me.
Can... I give this to you?

Duanmu Xi

- Why do you want to give the flower to me?

- You really like this flower right, right? I like it too.

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- And since we both like it, we will like it wherever it is, right?
- So it doesn’t matter whether it is with me or you, right?
- Do you live in the Zhiren house?
- I think you don’t like this place, right.
- I don’t like it either.

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- The idea that Zhiren monks are made to be sacrificed for a Yangmingsi.
- I don’t like it at all.
- If there will be a chance for me in the future to close it...
- Then you and everyone inside there would be free.

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- Zhangxuan, this is my first major rule.

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Duanmu Siping
- He really, really did it…
- For other people, it could be something small, something they promise easily.
 - He remembered and made it all happen.
- But I…

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- Couldn’t even say thank you.

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(The grave says - Shenlong Zhangxuan)

Duanmu Xi

- He won't come back…

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- I know he won't come back.
- He left.
- Leaving the Duanmu Household...it's a good thing.
- You should leave and never come here ever again too.

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Duanmu Siping
- Brother Xi…
- You really want all of us to leave
- and
- with you staying behind,
- you want to...
- walk through the dark oceans all alone?
- No…

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- Shenlong Zhangxuan is no longer here.
- If I'll also leave you…
 - There will be no one left in the family who will stand by your side!
- I'm also a child of the Duanmu Household…
- I’m also a possible candidate to be a Yangmingsi in the future…
- Brother Xi…
- I won't let you...stand alone on the altar!

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Duanmu Xi

- During today's sacrifice...

- Thank you for singing for me.
- But…
- please don't do such a thing ever again.

Duanmu Siping
- Why? Brother Xi?
- Are you worried that my help will make others question your abilities?
- Please don't worry about it, brother Xi. I have special abilities as a twin. I can
sing for you anywhere! I promise no one will ever find out!

Duanmu Xi

- I said don't!

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- I'm sorry.
- I’m sure your mother won’t allow you to do it ever again.

Duanmu Siping
 - After losing Shenlong Zhangxuan, it's like brother Xi put a hard shell on his
back...
- ...like he's ready to fight at any time.

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Duanmu Xi

- Siping, I don't want anyone to offer themselves for my sake.

- As a priest, the whole reason why I’m here is to make sure no one else will
have to be sacrificed.
- But if you are offering yourself for my sake, then what’s the purpose of my
priest duties?
- Do you understand?
- Those are for you.
- As a thank-you gift.
- Siping, you have a beautiful voice. It’s the most amazing voice that I have ever
heard.
- It reminds me of a dolphin.

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- It’s possible that I will never be able to leave the Duanmu household and will
never see the real sea.
- Or visit such places.
- But you are free.
- You can go after the things you want…
- Maybe you can even go and see the sea, which I can’t.

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Duanmu Siping
- I never even knew…
- That brother Xi wrote so many songs.
- I have never heard him sing,
 - never heard anyone mention it
- No one possibly even knows about his work.
- I turned page after page in silence.

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- They were all gentle, sad, soothing.
- They were made as a way by which brother Xi tried to convey his feelings.
- Maybe he wanted to use them to show people the real side of him.
- But in the end…
- They were all hidden in a box.
- Stored in some corner filled with dust.

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- I’m exactly the same.
- We are both locked up in some way,
- Given no option to decide for yourselves.
- Even if we are broken, we still have to try hard and live carefully.

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- I can understand how brother Xi feels.
- That’s when I got an idea.
- I found the sheet with the tune that I liked the most, modified it and added
lyrics.
- I've sung it in secret and then posted the song online.

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- Would this way brother’s Xi work be known by people in the world?
- This was my first time singing for a crowd. I had fun and the response was
pretty good too.

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- Never before had I so many people enthusiastically paying attention to me!
 - Is that what brother Xi meant, to look for a new life and new goal…
- Even when being in this little room, I felt that the future is so broad and full of
freedom!

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- This song was written by my brother, isn’t he amazing? We are still working
on the lyrics for a new song, but it will be up soon! Thank you guys for your
support!
- Brother Xi wrote a lot of musical sheets…
- Slowly, I’ll sing all of them and everyone will hear them.
- But…

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- it was all over so fast.

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- This was the first time…
- I felt such powerlessness.
- Unable to get through.
- Those people are the closest ones to me, I spend day and night with them.
- So why do they have to be so far away from me…

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- There really is no hope in the house…
- I can’t understand why they are treating brother with such hate.
- Did brother Xi do anything wrong?
- He works so hard for this family, but they don’t appreciate it.

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- Just because he appeared at the wrong time, stood in the wrong place and
blocked their path…
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Duanmu Siming

- Siping! It's bad…

Duanmu Siping
- What’s wrong? Brother Siming?

Duanmu Siming

- Mother, she...they did something with the altar. I'm worried about my brother.
- But I can't stop LV...and I don’t dare to tell anyone else about it, what if they
will blame and punish our mother for it?

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Duanmu Siping
- Don't worry, nothing will happen to brother Xi.
- I won't let anything happen to him.

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- Brother Xi…
- I
- I have helped you, right…
- It's not easy to live in this household with dignity.

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- So I won't let anyone hurt you, brother Xi.
- This is the only thing I can do for you.
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Duanmu Siming
- Hey, from where did you get the medicine?

Situ LV
- That’s not your business.

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Duanmu Siping
- I have throat problems now. When I get better, we will come back and post
new songs!
- I have to find brother Xi…
- He didn't see me for such a long time…
- He must be worried about me…

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Situ LV
- This is from the old witch doctor from Situ. Don't worry, if we give her small
doses, it won't do her any harm.
- It will only gradually make her unable to speak.

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- This is for her sake. If you feel bad about it, I can stop right now…

Situ Lan
- No, no…It’s fine.
- It’s just a voice.
- She doesn’t need it for anything.
- When her voice will be gone, we won’t have to worry about her singing for
that brat.
 - She can't speak, lest she say anything in front of others that might cause us
trouble in the future.
- In the future...even if Siming will become the new head, she doesn’t have to
perform the rituals.

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- But the effects of this drug are irreparable and if you exceed the dose even
just once, it will kill her.
- There’s also no antidote for it, so please be very careful when preparing it!

Situ LV
- I know, I'm very careful.
- I like Siping so much, of course I wouldn't do anything that would hurt her.

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Comments
- We will wait for you to come back and sing for us, goddess.
- The first time she's not here and I already miss her…

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- The goddess must take care of her voice.
- Please be well, I'll wait for you to come back, our Goddess.
- I think I'll die if I won't hear your voice again, Goddess.
- I’ve listened to your song a thousand times.
- Ah, my dear goddess, I love you and your songs!
- Goddess, you should pay more attention to your throat, we will be waiting for
you!
- How can I live a day without her…
- I've listened to it eight hundred times!
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Duanmu Siping
- Mom, my throat hurts so much.
- Can I not drink it?
- Mom...mom

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Situ Lan
- Mom loves you…

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Situ LV

- Do you know what is going now in the Duanmu household?

- Duanmu Xi fell down in popularity and without Shenlong Zhangxuan’s help,
he’s almost back to being a nobody.
- We have united all other psychic users,
- So soon they will demand that Duanmu Xi step down from the position. Your
“brother Xi” is pretty much finished.

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- He deserves it, he could just do the priest work and not get into the fight for
power.
- Don’t worry, stop thinking about him.
- I’ll go to mom Lan to ask to get you out from here and let you have some fun.

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- Soon, the Situ family will be controlling the entire Duanmu Household.
 - That's my good Siping!
- Hehehehe.

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Duanmu Xi

- Siping?
- How did you get here?

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- I haven't seen you for a long time
- how are you?
- Siping?
- What’s wrong?

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- You can't talk?
- How did this happen?!

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- Siping...you…

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- You drank the poison?!
- Come!
- I'll get you to the doctor!
- Siping…
- Siping…
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- Siping…
- I'm sorry, brother didn't take good care of you. You had to experience so
much pain your brother didn't know about!
- Your brother did a very bad job.

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- Siping…

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- Siping, are you in pain?
- You brought the knife with you because you can't endure the pain anymore
right?
- Siping...you know people who commit suicide go to hell…

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- But you never did a single bad thing.
- You shouldn't go to such a place.
- I’m sorry for failing to take good care of you
- This is the last thing brother can do for you.

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Duanmu Siping
- Brother Xi...
- is
- even in the end,
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- still so very kind and gentle.
- I'm sorry brother Xi for making you feel this way and leaving you with bad
memories.

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- I wanted to see you one last time because you were the only one who
understood me.
- We are so similar, brother Xi.
- I'm sorry...I'm finally free,

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- while you have to keep suffering in this world.
- If there is an afterlife, I hope you will be able to live for yourself.

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- Let this be
- my last wish
- given to a Yangmingsi.

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- It's so nice to be able to talk.
- How long have I been unable to make a sound…
- Brother Xi, this time, I…
- I can finally be like you said earlier.

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- I can become as free as a dolphin.

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Duanmu Xi

- Siming!

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Duanmu Siming
- So that's how it was…
- That’s what happened!

Duanmu Xi

- Siming! Siming, get a grip!

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Situ LV
- No, that’s impossible, that’s impossible!
- Why would Siping commit suicide…
- That’s impossible!
- I have barely left her that day...and the knife was left by accident.

Duanmu Siming
- Siping’s suicide letter revealed that Situ family planned to overthrow the
Duanmu family.
- So then…

Duanmu Xi
- Siming!

Duanmu Siming
- No wonder…
- You didn’t want to tell me anything.
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- My own mother...killed Siping!
- It was she who ruined our family.
- That’s why she went insane.
- Now I understand why you were so tight-lipped about all of this.
- This…

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- Was all our own fault.

Duanmu Xi
- Siming!

Situ LV
- No, no!
- I was trying to help her!
- We were all trying to help her!

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- She fell in love with the wrong person! She should never fall in love with
Duanmu Xi, she should have never helped him! I just wanted to pull her out of
it!
- Weren’t they brother and sister?! How could they be together?

Yang Jinghua
- Shut up.
- I really don’t want to hear any more insults coming from your dirty mouth.

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- Things are clear now, why do you want to keep deceiving yourself?
- Didn't you poison her?
 - And it was all because of your crazy fantasies that something is between her
and Duanmu Xi!
- You claimed you were protecting her but you were dragging her into the filthy
world one step at a time.
- Still think other people should go to hell?

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- You thought you loved her so much, while you didn't even have the courage
to really protect her!
- LV, I pity you now.
- You are trash!

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Situ LV

- Didn't expect that one, Duanmu's Xi spirit shadow calls me a waste?

- Didn't you get things wrong?
- I didn't kill Duanmu Xi because he would be far too happy to die.
- But if it was someone else in his place...

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Duanmu Xi
- Jinghua, get out of the way!
- I can’t hold it!

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 - Jinghua!!!

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- Yang Jinghua!

Situ LV
- Surprise attacks sometimes do give an upper hand, don't they?

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- Were you so close to having forgotten that he is a dead person?

- Really, how could a spirit win with a soul master?
- Now say it! Is it your fault?
- It was you who killed her!

Page 7

- It was clearly you! It doesn't have anything to do with me!

- It's all your fault, I didn’t even touch her! It's all your fault!

Page 8

- Duanmu!
- She didn't die because of me, she died because of you!
- What did you feel when you plunged that knife into her heart?
- Have you ever regretted it?

Page 9

- Why was she ever involved?

- Why did you approach her?
- Why did you give her that junk?
- Were you simply leaving to others what you couldn’t get yourself?
 - Are you that arrogant?

Page 10

- You are just a coward who cannot do or control anything!

- On what basis did you try to change her?
- We couldn't get her out of the cage, why even give her hope!

Page 11

- Siming…

Page 12

- Still alive huh.

Duanmu Siming
- I wasn’t overwhelmed because you sealed his powers.
- Situ LV, stop it.
- You are just venting all your anger on my brother and that won't help.

Page 13

- You know it yourself.

- None of us is innocent when it comes to her.
- I'm not either,
- I'm also one of the people who killed Siping…

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Page 1 Duanmu Siming
- I have lived my life in a way that can be summed in one sentence
 - I did not dare.
- You came to me and asked me to help you, I didn't agree.
- When my brother entered the Forbidden Forest, I hesitated.
- I know, that was probably your plan.

Page 2
- I just couldn't decide on anything.
- I was always looking at my own feet,
- Since I didn't have the courage to do anything.
- When my sister was bullied, I didn't have to courage to stand up and defend
her
- I was afraid to disobey our mother.

Page 3
- I was afraid to speak up my mind when Siping was reprimanded.
- I didn't allow her to call me brother in front of others.
- I knew about the plan of overturning the Duanmu household by bringing
down Shenlong Zhangxuan but didn’t do anything, I just sat and watched
irreversible things happen.
- I heard that my mom plans to do something bad with the altar but I only went
to tell Siping about it.

Page 4
- I was so weak that my sister was ready to sacrifice herself for me.
- She got injured physically after that.
- Situ LV!
- Hurry up, Siping, she…
- I know every unfair thing that happened in this family, I saw them all with my
own eyes. But that's it.

Page 5
 - No matter what happened, the first thing I thought about was to get help
from someone.
- I couldn't stand the unfairness of the world but I never did anything to
change it.
- I was always hoping someone else can stand up for justice.
- So I especially love my brother...

Page 6
- because he is like the light,
- he'll go all the way to turn the wrongs back to the right patch!
- But…
- when he himself was caught in trouble

Page 7
- I was like an eggplant hit by a sudden frost, trembling and shivering in the
back.
- I felt that there was something definitely wrong with the medicine but I did
not tell Siping to not drink it.
- Maybe she was actually calling me for help earlier, but I have ignored her.

Page 8
- In the end,
- she was disappointed that I let her down.
- That we all let her down.

Page 9
- We were all responsible for her death
- but only my brother agreed to take on the blame.

Page 10
- What are you doing?!
Page 11
- No!

Page 12 - Situ LV
- You are right.
- Siming.
- We are all responsible for her death and we are all guilty.
- That’s why today we will give her our life!

Page 13
- I already killed Duanmu Xi and I'm sending you on the way to your sister too.
- After that, I’ll join you too.
- We will be all together in the afterlife!

Duanmu Siming
- Yang Jinghua!
- Please save my brother!

Situ LV
- Asking for help again?
- Duanmu Siming, you really are good for nothing!

Page 14
- How much hope your mother placed in you? All for nothing!
- I watched you guys all thinking that the Duanmu family is so amazing but
they are only playing around.
- This damn place! Just how many important things have you taken away from
us?!
- Duanmu Siming, look at your brother drowning!
- And you can't do anything!
Page 15
- Incompetence is incompetence! You can't help anyone!
- You couldn't save Siping in the past!
- You couldn't save your own mother!
- You can't save Duanmu Xi today!
- And you can't even save yourself!

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Page 1

Dr Sen

- Don't let the dolphins who grew up in the aquarium learn there's a place
called the sea.
- Young master, do you know where were you wrong?
- Because you feel pain?
- Because you want to keep on living?
- Learn the lesson from this suffocating feeling.

Page 3

- This is proof you are still alive

Xi’s mother
- Your father was right, I should have never given birth to you!

Duanmu Siyun
 - Until you give every last drop of your blood for the Duanmu family, you are
not even allowed to die!

Ouyang Yang
- You arrogant prick! Do all priests get some kind of sick pleasure from
self-sacrifice?!

Situ LV
- She couldn't be freed out of the cage! So why give her hope!

Page 10

Yang Jinghua

- Tell me honestly.
- When the Situ master begged you for help in the lobby, did you already know
that there would be a trap waiting for you to fall into?
- You wanted the matter to finally be settled, so when LV tortured you like that,
you didn't fight back, all because you wanted him to vent his anger out on
you?
- Except for the first attack which I did feel thanks to our soul contract, there
were no more spiritual attacks.

Page 11

- Because you deliberately provoked him into taking out his anger only on you.
- You thought that if he doesn’t use spiritual power on you, then I won’t be
hurt, right?
- Duanmu Xi, do you know,
- some of the things you do... are really making me angry! (and us too!)

Page 12
 - You are the Yangmingsi priest,
- and yet, you don't value your own life.
- So then is giving my own blood for you,

Page 14

- worth nothing to you?

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Page 1

Yang Jinghua

- Words have been said, vows exchanged...

- And yet you do things like this, what's the point?!

Page 2

Duanmu Xi

- No, I...
- I'm sorry.

Page 3

- It's because...
- Those from Yang Ming Division...can't die.

Yang Jinghua

- What?

Duanmu Xi
 - That's true.

Page 4

- It is said that a Yangminsi life is connected to God.

- I can’t die if God won’t decide I should die.
- I just can't die.
- No matter how severe injuries will I have, I'll recover quickly, not even a scar
will stay.
- Ever since I’ve been doing Yangmingsi tasks, I have never even been sick.

Page 5

- The soul of someone who committed suicide has to go to hell but…

- there is no soul left after Yangmingsi dies.
- So I won't even go to hell in the future.
- It doesn't matter!

Page 7

Yang Jinghua

- If suicide is a crime, Siping had to take responsibility for it, hadn't she?
- Don't take all the blame on yourself.
- You just wanted to protect her, right.
- That knife saved her soul but sent you into hell.

Page 8

- And you wanted to protect Siming.

- You took over the blame so to help him live without remorse.
- You even tried to protect the image of his mother.
- Duanmu Xi...you are so kind.
Page 9

- If you are such a person and yet you will go to hell

- then I'll go there with you!

Page 11

Situ LV
- Did you two finally finish?

- It's time to settle things!

- It’s time...to end everything for good!

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Page 2
Situ LV

- Duanmu Xi, I think I know why you like doing the Yangmingsi tasks so much.
- Because you can't wait for your soul to disappear after death, just because
you are scared!
- You are scared your soul would go to the lowest circle of hell after you die!
Because you are beyond redemption!

Yang Jinghua

- You are the one who is beyond redemption!!

Page 3
- He is trying to save everyone, even if that will send him to hell.
- Scums like you are the ones who force him to do irresponsible things!

Page 4
Duanmu Xi

- Where's Siming?

Situ LV

- Don't worry about him, I've sent him on the way to see his mother and sister!
- How about I'll send you there too!

Yang Jinghua

- LV!! You are insane!

Page 5
Situ LV

- Hahaha! Maybe I am but it's nothing compared to yours!

- Yang Jinghua, you are a demonic monster!

Yang Jinghua

- What did you say…

Page 6
Situ LV

- Yang Jinghua, I am a soul master, I can see what you will become.
- It won't take a long time for you to become something terrible.
- So if I die today, how about I'll take you with me!

Page 7
- I get it now that killing Duanmu Xi won't make him suffer.
- But if I take you away,
- he'll rather die than continue living,
 - so let's go, Yang Jinghua!

Page 9
House servants
- Eh? What is going on?
- What's happening?
- That spiritual power
- is…

Page 11
Situ LV

- Haha...hahaha.

Page 12
- Duanmu...you are finished
- You...to injure someone... with a spiritual power…
- They are watching…
- So..your death will be worse than mine!

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Page 3
Grandmother...
- Duanmu Xi!!
- Why did you cause such troubles to family again…
- You keep messing up again and again, do you want to drive me mad?!

Yang Jinghua

- Why are you attacking him! It was LV! It was LV's fault!!
Page 4
Duanmu Xi

- How is Siming?

Duanmu Siyun
- He was rescued in time, that's a relief, just that his eyes…

Situ LV’s father

- See, your family is back safe and sound! But my LV...he is...

Situ servant
- Still in intensive care, there's a fear for his life.

Situ LV’s father

- I really regret that I asked for your help at that time. I hoped that the family
head could save him!
- And this is the result!

Yang Jinghua

- That's what LV asked for!

Page 5
Grandmother
- You hurt someone just for a shadow?! How could LV cause you trouble
again? You are the most powerful person in the world or not?!

Duanmu Xi

- I thought LV murdered Siming and I panicked.

Grandmother
 - How can a great Yangmingsi not understand his emotions?

Situ LV father
- With the relationship between Siming and my LV? They grew up together, like
they were brothers, how could LV ever hurt him? It must have been a
misunderstanding!

Page 6
Yang Jinghua

- Haha, you clearly don't know enough about your own son's virtues, do you.
- If Duanmu Xi wasn’t controlling himself as always, he wouldn’t just stand
here and listen to you guys yapping.

Grandmother
- Yang Jinghua, shut up!
- A mere soul! How can you be the one to talk!

Yang Jinghua

- How? So you just let him frame Duanmu Xi?

- Duanmu Xi was imprisoned and abused for a whole night and I didn't see any
of you coming to help him!
- And now all of you suddenly come to blame Duanmu Xi for hurting someone?
- What the hell is this?

Grandmother
- This is the curse that is hanging over the Duanmu Household!!

Page 8
Yang Jinghua

- Curse?
 - What curse?

Grandmother
- Xi...
- take off your clothes.

Page 10
House Servants
- This is the end of the Duanmu family!
- The highest priest has sinned!
- God has condemned him for his crime!!

Page 11
- He's going to die…
- we all are going to die!!

Grandmother
- Go to the blind master, now!

Page 12
Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu…

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Page 1
Master Ling
- The three main commandments of the Yang Ming Division: his decisions are
irreversible, he can not leave his job, he can not hurt others with spiritual
powers…
 - Young Xi, I thought you already knew it.

Page 2
Duanmu Xi
- Master, even if I didn’t have my ability to remember everything, I would
always remember those commandments.

Master Ling
- You have already been punished once,
- you know that feeling
- how could you commit a sin again?

Page 3
Grandmother
- Master Ling, what can we do now?

Master Ling
- Once the punishment is given, only if the priest himself sincerely regret his
actions,
- and vow to never repeat his mistakes, God can lessen the punishment.

Grandmother
- Xi...
- Do you admit your mistake?

Page 4
Duanmu Xi

- I don't know.
- If such a thing happened again,
- I would still make the same choice.
Grandmother
- What? You…

Page 5
Master Ling
- Young Xi, are you still respecting and loving God?

Duanmu Xi

- I do respect and love God.

- But I can't stand and do nothing when others hurt people important to me.

Grandmother
- Important to you?
- You mean your spirit shadow?

Page 6
- It's just another spirit! Plenty of other souls would dedicate themselves to you
as well!
- There are so many spirits that could become your shadow! When one will
disappear, just get a new one! It's not that important!

Duanmu Xi

- I won't change my mind!

- Yang Jinghua's soul can’t disappear!

Page 7
- Yang Jinghua's soul,
- ...his soul is unique and irreplaceable. (...Xi, I think the conversation would be
a lot easier if you simply said Jinghua’s soul is connected to Luoyue. And
getting rid of Jinghua could directly lead to the end of the world. But he won’t
tell this to anyone until halfway season 4).
Page 8
Master Ling
- Young Xi, I feel your devotion,
- but don't forget you are a Yangmingsi.
- What is important to you should be this whole world, without exceptions!
- How can you show favoritism towards one being?

Page 9
Duanmu Xi

- Is this favoritism...
- I know.
- I understand why I couldn't control my emotions then.
- Even if Siming weren't there, I would do the same thing.

Page 10
- That's because…
- I won't allow anyone to hurt Yang Jinghua!

Page 11
- Protecting Yang Jinghua…
- And protecting the world…
- is the same thing!
- Because…

Page 12
- Jinghua is the world.

Page 13
Yang Jinghua

- Achoo!
- When will the talk finally end and I be allowed to go inside...?
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Page 1
Qin Shiyao
- Is Xi still inside?
- They talked the entire day, Xi surely didn't have time to eat something.
- Though I don't know if these will be to his liking…
- How long will they stay there? He is still injured!

Page 2
Qi er
- Eating?
- Because of the curse hanging over the whole Duanmu Household, no one
from the family ate anything today.

Qin Shiyao
- Qi er…

Qi er
- Master is still inside. It looks like he wants to help with the situation, but I'm
afraid the odds are against us.
- You as the outsiders don't know anything, but I did witness the curse effects
last time it happened.

Page 3
Yang Jinghua

- What is the heavenly penalty?

- What will it do with Duanmu Xi?
Qi er
- There are three main commandments of the Yang Mingsi division.
- Any priest who will violate it will be punished by heavens.
- See, there is a curse sign visible in the sky.

Page 4
- Not only a priest who violates the law will be cursed, but the whole Duanmu
Household will suffer the wrath of Gods.
- If the priest won't regret his deed and sincerely admit to making a mistake,
the heavens will cause him to feel pain day and night.
- I've heard the feeling is like burning and falling into the ice cave at the same
time.
- And it will gradually increase over time.

Page 5
- The curse sign will always be visible above the Duanmu Household so that
the family would suffer the wrath of both spiritual beings and villagers.
- All because Duanmu Household had a bad priest that rebelled against Gods!

Duanmu Siyun
- It is not your job to judge if he is a bad priest.

Page 6
- In the future, you will inherit Master Ling’s duties.
- But do you look like a mentor that will help educate the next generation of
Yangmingsi for the Duanmu family?

Qi er
- Hmph.
- If Miss didn't come begging to see the master then, he would not be like this.
Duanmu Siyun
- This was in the past, what is the point of talking about it? (Qi’er is talking
about the Zhangxuan incident)

Page 7
Qi er
- Master!

Duanmu Siyun
- Master, Great Grandmother.
- How is the situation?

Grandmother
- Let him stay the night inside and think the situation over.
- Tomorrow, elders from all groups will come to discuss the countermeasures.

Page 8
Duanmu Siyun
- But how…
- he really…

Qi er
- It looks like he is...
- stubborn?

Master Ling
- Qi er!

Yang Jinghua
- Uhm…
Page 9
- master…

(Master is thinking about how Xi told him last week that Jinghua is the world)

Yang Jinghua

- Why does he look at me like that?

Page 11
Master Ling
- Qi er, let's go.

Page 12
- Duanmu Xi...what do you want to do?

311 (made by DuanmuJinghua)

Page 1
Shiyao: Let me in!
Shiyao: He hasn't eaten anything yet! And with how badly injured he is, how is he
supposed to hold out until next morning?
Random dude: You can't come in, Miss Qin, Grandmother said that no one is
permitted to go in and see him--
Shiyao: It's all your fault! If you'd let me go with Xi that day, then this wouldn't even
be an issue!
Siyun: What's the point of you following him?
Shiyao: At least I could have helped Xi!
Siyun: Siming followed him and nearly lost his life. You're just a lady*, how could
you have helped?
Siyun: Miss Qin, you haven't entered the family yet, so don't be trying to get into
Duanmu family affairs already.
Siyun: Besides, if something happened to you, it wouldn't be good for us to have to
report that to the Qin family.

Page 2
*sharp pain*
Jinghua: Duanmu--!

Page 3
Shiyao: Hey! He went in! Xi! Duanmu Xi! What happened to you?!
Random dude: Eh? Ah? This-- This.....
Shiyao: Hurry up and get the door open, you hear me?!!!
Siyun: Give me the key.
Random dude: Huh? Se-second lady…

Page 4
Random dude: Second lady?!
Siyun: I'm the one who opened the door.
Siyun: All you did was give me the key. If anyone asks, that's what happened, got
it?
Random dude: Ye-yes....second lady.
Siyun (thought): The soul image has already gone in, so it won't matter if a few more
people enter too......
Shiyao: Xi!

Page 5
Jinghua: Duanmu Xi! Wake up!
Siyun: Give him some water.

Page 6
Jinghua: Duanmu......
Siyun: This is only the beginning, Duanmu Xi. As it goes on, the divine punishment
will only worsen. If you don't repent, it'll only become harder to bear--
Xi: I know, you don't need to tell me,
Xi: It's not like I haven't felt it before.
Siyun: You......!
Shiyao: Xi, eat something.

Page 7
Xi: I'm not hungry.
Siyun: Duanmu Xi, are you planning on just enduring it?
Xi: What's to be afraid of?
Xi: It'll only be a few more months...
Xi: before it's all over.

Page 8
Siyun: Qin Shiyao! Let's go!
Shiyao: No! I want to stay with my Xi!
Siyun: Why do you care so much?
Shiyao: Hey, wait......

Page 9
Shiyao: Let me go, what are you doing?!
Siyun: Can you still not tell what he means?
Siyun: It'll only be a few more months...
Siyun: He's definitely not going to repent.
Siyun: He's decided to take divine punishment to the grave.

Page 10
Jinghua: Do you remember when I first met Qin Shiyao?
Jinghua: On that day, you said to me--
Xi(flashback): A Yangming master is forbidden from using spiritual power against a
living person.
Xi(flashback): If it was permitted, then what use is a soul image?
Jinghua: Now that I think about it
Jinghua: if I hadn’t taken the position that day,

Page 11
Jinghua: would you have risked divine punishment to save her?
Jinghua: Since the meaning of a soul image's existence is to do the things you can't
do,
Jinghua: then why did you use spiritual power against someone for me......

Page 12
Xi: But I have to say...
Xi: On the first day you became my soul image, you saved me.
Xi: Jinghua, ever since I met you, you've saved me time after time.
Xi: I owe you.

Page 13
Jinghua: .....?
Xi: We've connected our pact, so if Situ had harmed you then, it would have harmed
me too,
Xi: so saving you meant saving myself.
Xi: So don't worry about it.
Xi: Although Grandmother wants me to kneel in punishment, it's not like anyone can
see me here.
Xi: I'm going to sleep for a bit, else I might not have enough energy to deal with the
elders tomorrow.....

Page 14
Xi: Keep an eye on the door for me. If someone comes, wake me up in advance.
Jinghua: Heh

Page 15
Jinghua: Why......
Jinghua: does he have such a fulfilled expression....
Jinghua: if he's about to be in a world of trouble...
Jinghua: It's like he's finally accomplished something important.....
Jinghua: Duanmu Xi, you idiot......

Page 16
Jinghua: With the way you are,
Jinghua: you make me want to punch you,
Jinghua: but I can't bear landing a single hit on you.

312 (made by DuanmuJinghua)

Page 1
Elder: Duanmu Xi, we're asking you one last time, will you repent?
Xi: Since I don't believe I'm wrong, is there any point in lying to the gods?
Xi: You want me to apologize, but there's no fooling the gods,
Xi: and no fooling myself.
Elder: Black sheep! Unfilial! Did you not consider your Duanmu family at all?!
Elder: You may be the only person to receive divine punishment, but the entire
family lost face!

Page 2
Elder: One priest, one year, two divine punishments!
Elder: Duanmu Xi! Your parents died young, and we've been holding back from
punishing you for so long!
Elder: But now, you've really crossed the line and disappointed everyone!
Elder: Get the [house rules]!*
Elder: Today, I'm going to teach you a lesson for your parents!

Page 3
Shiyao: Wait! Don't hit him!
Elder: Qin girl, we're dealing with our own family, you don't have the right to involve
yourself with ours!
Shiyao: I wasn't going to, I was trying to reason with you!
Shiyao: Wasn't Situ Lv at the root of this problem? Xi was just trying to defend
himself, what's so wrong about that?

Page 4
Siyun: You're wrong, Miss Qin.
Siyun: The issue at hand isn't what happened that day,
Siyun: because everyone's already figuring out the power dynamic between Situ
and young master.
Siyun: Our problem now is,
Siyun: who's going to take responsibility for the divine punishment hanging over the
Duanmu family's heads?
Siyun: Isn't that right.

Page 5
Siyun: Situ harmed a member of the Duanmu family, and I won't just let him get
away with it. He got what he deserved, and he's going to have his own punishment.
Siyun: But Duanmu Xi used spiritual energy to severely harm someone, and I think it
goes without saying that he's not faultless here either!
Siyun: If the person with the most spiritual energy in the world,
Siyun: can't control himself,
Siyun; and lashes out at will,
Siyun: who can imagine what the world will become?

Page 6
Shiyao: So what you're saying is that since Xi is the most powerful, he just has to
shut up and take it all?
Shiyao: That he can only endure it when others bully him?
Siyun： Miss Qin, you're not yet a member of the Duanmu family,
Siyun: so of course you can still take the side of your loved one.
Siyun: But for us, Duanmu Xi is the head of the family and our priest,
Siyun: we don't value him any less than what an outsider fiancée does!
Siyun: Don't think we're just heartless.

Page 7
Siyun: The purpose of the rules is to protect the weaker ones.
Siyun: Law enforcement officers cannot use violence to enforce the law, and
members of the military cannot intrude on the people.
Siyun: Even in a busy street, pedestrians have right-of-way. It's always like this.
Siyun: If the powerful one is left unrestricted,
Siyun: then how can the rights and interests of the weaker ones be safeguarded?

Page 8
Shiyao: I understand what you mean......but......
Shiyao: to protect the weaker ones.....then who,
Shiyao: who will protect him......

Page 10
Siyun: Well then. There's no need for everyone to stand around here arguing.
Siyun: No matter how you look at it, even if you beat him bloody, the divine
punishment won't become any lighter.
Siyun: What we need to for now is to get the curse of deterioration off of his body as
quickly as possible，
Siyun: because only when the curse mark is gone can the divine punishment be
over.
Elder：But this brat doesn't truly believe he's done something wrong!
Siyun: Then we'll lock him up alone first, let him calm down and think it through.
Hopefully he'll eventually come around.
Page 11
Grandmother: Jingling mountain, Jingsi spring...take Xi-er there, let him think on his
sins and repent for them.
Grandmother: Only when the curse mark is gone can he return from the
mountain....alright?
Grandmother: This is not a punishment; Jingsi spring is an outstanding place, and
can improve the body.
Grandmother: Perhaps it can even change the young master's obstinate
attitude.......
Elder: Duanmu Xi, do you have anything to say regarding this decision of your
punishment?
Elder: Do you admit your wrongdoing?

Page 12
Xi: I was the one who used spiritual power to harm a person,
Xi: The transgression, I admit to.
Xi: The punishment, I accept.
Xi: But I have one request:

Page 13
Xi: Yang Jinghua...
Xi: is my soul image......
Xi: When he fought against Situ Lv, he was simply fulfilling his duty to protect me,
Xi: so the blame should all fall on me.

Page 14
Xi: During the time when I'm away repenting for my sins,
Xi: let nobody
Xi: take their anger out on him.
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Page 1
Qin Shiyao
- Didn't you feel that Yang Jinghua acted a bit weird today?
- He didn't say a word the entire day.

Duanmu Siyun
- Yes, I thought he would show his temper to all previous generations of the
elders.

Qin Shiyao
- What is he thinking…

Page 2
Duanmu Siyun
- Maybe he already realized that it's not that easy to be a spirit shadow.
- Heaven's punishment is the punishment from Gods for the Yangmingsi.
- And even if the Yangmingsi has a spirit shadow, he cannot share the
punishment with him.

Page 3
- True or false,
- Right and wrong…
- In this world, is there even a thing that can be judged as completely good or
evil?

Page 4
Yang Jinghua
 - Duanmu Xi!

Servant
- Keep going ahead, we're almost there.

Page 5
Yang Jinghua

- What…

Page 6
- There's nothing here!! How do you imagine it?!

Servant
- Here are food and water, we will come back here in a week.

Yang Jinghua

- You…

Page 7
- Duanmu Xi!
- Duanmu Xi, how are you feeling?
- No wonder you are always so forgiving.
- I always wondered how you can be so strong but let other people bully you
and don't even fight back.

Page 8
Duanmu Xi

- This is the cost of my rebellion…

Yang Jinghua
 - If I had known, I wouldn’t let you suffer.
- At that time,
- you didn’t want to shoot at him anyway!

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Duanmu Xi

- Why...
- Why didn't I shoot earlier?
- What I was waiting for…

Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu...

Duanmu Xi

- What I was waiting for…

Yang Jinghua

- What are you saying?

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Duanmu Xi

- I should have done this a long time ago…

- Why didn't I do it earlier…

Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu Xi?
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- Duanmu Xi, wake up!

Duanmu Xi

- If I did this earlier...if I decided...you wouldn't…

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Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu Xi!!

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Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu…
- Are you alright…

Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua…
- It's so cold…
- Jinghua…

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Yang Jinghua

- I'm here. I'll warm you up.

Duanmu Xi
 - Warm…

Page 5
Yang Jinghua

- Wait...I'm a ghost
- I'm cold…
- If he stays with me…

Page 6
- ...it will still be cold.
- What can I do…

Page 7
- How can I even... give Duanmu Xi a bit of warmth.

Text in the white square: On that day, in this cold cave…

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Yang Jinghua

- I can't do it.

Text in the white square: Yang Jinghua felt hate for the first time. Hate he has to be
a dead person.

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Situ LV
- What? After doing a crime worthy of heavenly punishment, he just got sent to
the mountains?!
- They want to hide him so no one will see, or what?!
Situ LV’s aunt
- Duanmu Household just wants to leave the matter to solve itself, guess it's
easier for them.

Situ LV

- Easier? That’s nothing!

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Nurse
- Master Lv, you are seriously hurt, please don't move!

Situ LV

- Let me go, you bastards!

- I'm going to find them and settle things for good!

Nurse
- Master LV, you are heartless!

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Nurse
- Master LV!
- LV!
- LV!
- Call the doctor, now!

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Duanmu Xi
 - I scared you yesterday, right…

Page 2
- In the beginning, it will be like this…
- Fortunately, I'm able to adapt quickly.

Yang Jinghua

- How can you even adapt to such things?

- Is the sheltered young master used to eating things like these?
- Your family members are so capable, they can turn their back on someone as
soon as they say they’re going to.
- I think I told you earlier how I thought you didn't treat your family members
well.
- Now I want to kick myself for it.

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Duanmu Xi

- I also did a lot of things I can't undo.

Yang Jinghua

- You can't be a human being, you prefer to stay silent and not explain
anything while doing the right things, who could even understand you?

Duanmu Xi

- Why should I care about them understanding me?

- As long as you understand me, it's enough.

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Yang Jinghua
 - Back to being awkward, doesn't your back hurt?
- There's no normal person at the Duanmu household, it seems…
- Granny is the same. I always thought she's a nice old woman, but now I think
she was just treating me as a guest… She’s the most shrewd member of the
Duanmu family.

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Duanmu Xi

- Grandma has outlived several of the previous Yangmingsis.

- No one knows more about this household than her.
- She did what she had to, the elders too, everyone just did what they were
supposed to, including me.

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- The profession of Yangmingsi is seen as great and noble though requiring a
lot of dedication, but there are many people in the world who also have a
dangerous job.
- Doctors, policemen, soldiers, those who work in the heights or those who
work with chemicals are at risk of losing their lives every day too.
- Actually, everyone who works hard is burning out his life helping the world
function in peace.

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- And yet many of them don't even get the status and treatment of Yangmingsi.
- I'm just doing the things I have to do, there's nothing special about it.
- You said my family doesn't treat me well, but I’m not staying because of
them.

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Yang Jinghua
 - You are right, but I'm still angry.
- I still don’t get why they have to rely on you alone? There’s so many people in
the Duanmu family, can’t they get someone else to go onto the altar?

Duanmu Xi

- They can't.

Yang Jinghua

- Why?

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Duanmu Xi
- Because I'm the best one here.

Text panels - Great at his job

Perfect job record for 9 years, without a single mistake!

Yang Jinghua

- What are you even priding yourself on?

- To have title and wealth at the exchange of your life, who would have wanted
it?
- Do you still expect them to give you a lifetime achievement award or
something?
- Something is wrong with your brain.

Duanmu Xi

- Who said that’s a bad thing.

- Don't worry, this situation is a temporary one.
 - It won't take long until they come here and ask me to come home.

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Servants
- Master, please follow us down immediately.

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Yang Jinghua
- Why so fast…

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Aunt Lan
- Oh heavens...oh my LV, why do you have to leave me like that!
- Your poor father turned from brown to white hair!
- He is grieving at home, couldn't come here.

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- Duanmu Xi, you bring only death. How many more people's lives will you
take away?!
- LV was the only child of the ninth generation of the Situ family! We won't
forgive you for this!

Duanmu Xi
- Situ LV...is dead?

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Crowd
 - Murderer!
- If a priest commits a crime, he should be as guilty as the common people
are!

Situ’s LV aunt
- Will the Duanmu Household cover for him yet again?
- Was Siping not enough for you?! And my sister…
- Now also our little LV…

Page 2
- Your hands are bloody, Duanmu Xi! How can you even show your face to the
world?!
- What right do you even have to stand on the altar? To be the head of the
household?!

Duanmu Siyun
- A murderer, you say…
- And no mention of how many evil deeds Situ LV himself did?
- If the second master, Duanmu Siming, wasn’t so lucky
- I’m afraid there would be another coffin besides this one!

Page 3
- Now that it came to this, you have only yourselves to blame.

Situ’s LV aunt
- Of course, I know that the influence of the Duanmu household is vast!
- It's not at all that difficult to cover up a few killed people.
- But do you think that covered in blood Yangmingsi can still pray for the
people?

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 - Who will believe that you can serve the Gods in the future?
- And who will respect Duanmu Household, supposedly the first house when it
comes to spiritual power!

Duanmu Siyun
- How is the whole Yangming division related to this matter?
- Duanmu Xi didn't shoot LV to kill him, but to stop him from committing
murder!

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- Whether you want to admit it or not,
- surely a lot of things will come out, as long as we will investigate the matter in
detail.
- What is clear is that Situ LV's plan was to kidnap and imprison our head.
- Then he attempted to kill Duanmu Siming, who came to help.

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- Duanmu Siming is still in the hospital, we are waiting for him to wake up.
- We will ask him about what had really happened.
- If Duanmu Xi was judged by the secular law,
- his actions would be deemed as self-defense and defense of another person.

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- But since he broke one of the Yangmingsi commandments, the Gods have
already punished him.
- If you want to discuss Situ LV’s death,
- we can go through a regular procedure, meaning the trial and judgement.
- The law is fair,
- And Duanmu Xi can defend himself there.

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 - But I will not allow you to use a funeral to make a show and attack us!
Situ LV aunt
- Second miss is smart and eloquent, but I have something to say too…

Page 9
- This book is signed by several clans of psychics!
- They accuse the 63rd head of the Duanmu family, Duanmu Xi of severe
misconduct!
- Grandmother, elders, take a look at this!
- A total of 198 people signed the letter! They demand removing Duanmu Xi
from the position of the family head and to punish him severely.

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Crowd
- Remove the current head?
- But who could act as the temporary family head then?
- Yeah, who?
- Duanmu Household has been doing so well in recent years
- Such sudden changes will cause chaos again.
- But if we are going to need both a new family head and a Yangmingsi...then
only the second lady can do it?

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Duanmu Xi

- If I was truly wrong, why would there be a need for 198 people to tell me
that?
- Only one would be enough.
- Jinghua, do you think I'm wrong?

Yang Jinghua
 - Yes, you are wrong.
- Definitely wrong.

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- You shouldn't be bothering with other people's lives and death!
- Including mine!

Duanmu Xi

- Okay.
- Stay still.

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- And no matter what happens,
- Can you not draw out your sword?

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Duanmu Xi

- I'm indeed responsible for hurting someone with my powers.

- That's why God punished me and the entire Duanmu family severely.
- I have never intended to hurt Situ LV.
- This should be the end of the discussion, I won’t argue with anyone about
this matter as long as others aren’t involved.
- I'm personally willing to listen to any requests and take any punishment.

Page 2
- As for these 198 people…
- They are not needed!
 - This is a matter between me and the Situ family, there's no need for
onlookers to be involved!

Page 3
- I know very well you want to use this matter to drag the Duanmu family
down.
- You used that trick in the past already, are you hoping to take down Duanmu
Household this time?
- How did Situ LV die?
- When I got him out of the forest, I checked his injuries myself and they
weren’t fatal.
- To show I take this matter seriously, I already asked the hospital for
verification of LV’s medical records, I didn’t get the results yet.

Page 4
- I will not let you take over the Duanmu household.
- And I won’t resign from my post as housemaster. If you are unconvinced, we
can discuss it.

Situ LV Aunt
- Duanmu Xi! You are doing things as you please!
- We know that your life is much more valuable than our own and that the
Duanmu family needs you to perform rituals...
- But you can not escape from your sins!

Page 5
- I want you to kneel in front of everyone present!
- To prove to the world that the Duanmu family is just!
- Show that you are worthy of being next to your ancestors, who have served
the Gods for generations!
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Duanmu Xi

- I accept.

Crowd
- What...what is going on?
- She’s blaming the family head and then asking the Great Grandmother to
deal the punishment, is this to have the family face the issue?
- But the family law says to deal twenty lashes while the head is still under
heaven's punishment. What if he will be killed?
- Don't be ridiculous!

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Duanmu Xi

- Great Grandmother…
- you got involved.

Grandmother
- Little Xi…
- What do you want me to do?

Duanmu Xi

- Great Grandmother, if you didn't cover up the situation with Siping…

- ...maybe things wouldn’t be that bad today.

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Flashback
Grandmother
- Are the results confirmed?

Servant
- The poisoned person suffers greatly, and there is indeed no antidote for it.
- However, the one who stabbed her was without a doubt our young master.

Grandmother
- Didn't the doctor say the real cause of the death was poisoning?
- She would have died even without the stab wound.
- And since she left a letter, the case is declared as suicide. There’s nothing
more to discuss here.
- The judicial department will take a look at this case,
- keep our head out of this.

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- Duanmu Household cannot exist with a Yangmingsi.
- Their lives do not belong to them anymore.

Duanmu Xi
- Why didn't they arrest me?

Grandmother
- To pass through this hurdle in your heart, you will continue singing on the
altar.
- Treat this as your compensation both to her and the world

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Situ Lan
- Suicide...what?!
- Why?! He obviously killed her!
 - He admitted this in front of the police!! Why did they let him go?!
Duanmu Xi
- I'm sorry…

Situ Lan
- You bastard!! Funeral star! Give me my daughter back!!
- I will not forget about this!! You are all covering a murderer! I won't let you get
away with this!

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Duanmu Siyun
- Duanmu Xi, you know now.
- As a Yangmingsi, your life does not belong to you anymore.
- Whether you kill someone or that someone gives up their life for you.
- No matter what you do, you will stay in the Duanmu household.
- And don't even think of giving your own life as atonement because…

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- until you offer every last drop of your blood to Duanmu family
- you are not even allowed to die!

Flashback ends

Duanmu Xi

- Today, it's time to close the matter.

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- Grandma, there are things we just can't escape from.
- This is the hurdle you herself didn't pass yet.
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Situ LV aunt
- No, wait.
- We weren't talking about Duanmu family law…

Page 2
- I meant…
- Situ's family law!

Crowd
- What! This whip will tear his flesh, he might not even survive it…
- If you do it, what's the difference between what you did and what the head
did?
- Situ family, don't be extreme!

Page 3
Situ LV aunt
- And what's so wrong with using our family law as a punishment for the death
of our relatives?

Crowd
- This is our family matter, can't you use the law of our family?

Situ LV aunt
 - Oh but Great Grandmother is weak and frail, I'm afraid her hands are not so
strong, and she won't be able to properly discipline.
- I can lend her a hand in this.

Grandmother
- I can discipline my grandson myself, I don't need your help!

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Situ LV aunt
- Great Grandmother needs to put in more effort…
- Otherwise, it will be Situ's job to bring up a powerful next generation.

Page 8
Qin Shiyao
- Stop!
- Don't hit him anymore!

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Grandmother
- Is this enough?

Page 11
Crowd
- What are you doing?!

Situ LV aunt
- Great Grandmother seemed to be tired already, I just wanted to help her.

Crowd
- Your Situ family went too far now!
Page 12
- An earthquake?
- What is going on?

Page 14
Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua…
- Please…
- Don't...

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Yang Jinghua

- Whoever of you will now dare to try and move forward…

- will have to go through…

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- Me, Yang Jinghua, first!!

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Situ LV aunt

- What are you doing?

- You are a mere shadow spirit!
- How can you rebel?!

Page 2
Crowd
 - Hey...what is this?
- Isn't it Situ LV?

Page 3
- Then who is in the coffin?
- Is it a real photo?
- It's a live broadcast!

Page 4
Situ LV

- I wish I could see for myself how the idiots in Duanmu Household reacted to
our plan!

Situ LV father

- Your aunt said she's sure that this time she'll put the Duanmu Household
upside down!
- Don't worry about anything, just take good care of yourself. Here, have
another orange.

Situ LV

- You sure we won't be found out? Won't they check for any swindles?

Situ LV father

- Don't worry, this plan is seamless.

- We have arranged everything with the hospital.
 - Besides, you were indeed in a critical condition that day, fortunately, you
were treated in time.
- As long as we all play our parts well, who will think it’s all a ruse?
- Even if they open up the coffin, they will find only ashes inside. The yellow
spring mirror will be of no use!

Page 5
- We have to use this opportunity to remove Duanmu Xi out of his position.
- The house will then be in crisis and that will force the second madam to
become the head. But as a woman, how long can she last?
- If Grandmother will want to protect the second madam, then she’ll have to
make Duanmu Siming the head, but he’s mixed blood.
- It will be hard to tell who is actually leading the family!
- And even if Duanmu Xi somehow saw through us, your aunt will find a reason
how to get him punished. We are not spending this time in vain.
- That’s what is called to start strong! They are forced to be in the defensive,
- And since you are “dead”, can they even mention that you hurt their family
members?
- It’s like they say, a crying child gets the milk.
- Duanmu family is showing itself as the noble and saintly guardians of the
humanity
- So let’s show ourselves as the weak and bullied ones, that will give an
impression we are right.

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Crowd

- You guys…
- What is the meaning of this?!
Situ LV aunt

- We have quietly arranged to send them to a secluded place,

- How was it discovered so quickly?!
- And this idiot doesn't stop talking, he doesn't even know he is being
recorded!!

Duanmu Siyun

- Oh, so in order to insult our family, you were even willing to ruin the life of
your own young master, guess everyone got their eyes open now!

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Situ LV aunt

- Oh, it's just a little misunderstanding please don't bother yourself with it,
hahaha.
- It's just a little mess.
- What are you doing? We are leaving immediately!
- Don't just stay like this! You are all dismissed!

Duanmu Siyun

- Not so fast!

Page 8
- Where do you think you are going?
- Do you think you can come and go however you want?

Yang Jinghua

- All of you, stay where you are.

Page 9
- You have hurt someone
- And now you want to escape?
- Do you think that grandpa here doesn’t have anything to say?

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Situ LV aunt

- What do you want from us...

Yang Jinghua

- In a broad daylight, so many of you guys…

- attempted to murder someone in public.
- And now what?
- Duanmu Xi did tell me to not draw out my sword,

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- But that doesn’t mean I can’t beat you guys up!

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Situ family servants

- Ouch!
- Sir, forgive us!
- We were mistaken!
- Please spare us! We won't ever dare to do something like this again!
Page 3
Duanmu Siyun

- That’s enough, Yang Jinghua, I don’t want to have casualties here.

- Send Duanmu Xi to the doctor, now.

Page 5
Yang Jinghua

- Oh, just one more thing…

Page 6
- Go back to LV and tell him to get his fill of food and drink.
- And tell him that since he seems to enjoy playing dead so much…
- I don't mind helping him to get his dream come true in the future!
- And if anyone from the Situ family crosses path with me in the future…

Page 7
- ...they will suffer the same fate as this whip.

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Grandmother

- This matter is finally finished.

- I can’t believe that someone as old had to be protected by a child.

Page 9
 - If he didn’t take initiative to finish this matter once and for all, I’m afraid I
would actually agree to the Situ’s proposal and would have to break my word
to Liam.

Duanmu Siyun’s father

- Siyun is an arrogant child, she embarrassed you in public, didn’t she.

Grandmother

- Liam’s last request was to protect her daughter from ever becoming a priest.
- Ugh, I'm getting old.
- I just don't know…
- how long can I carry on.

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Duanmu Siyun’s father

- Please don’t worry too much, we still have our head even if he doesn’t
interact much with us.
- He pays attention to the overall situation and helps us keep faces.
- If Situ’s ruse wasn’t revealed so quickly, we could be in much bigger trouble.

Grandmother

- This child doesn't speak often, but he is like a mirror.

- Do you think he didn't realize that Situ LV’s death was a lie?
- It is said that an ordinary person that thinks three steps ahead is wise. He is
different.
- Master Ling once said…
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Master Ling

- Because he suffered a great loss,

- he spends his life like he is playing chess.
- Before he makes a decision, he will carefully take all future consequences
into consideration.

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- But in this designed future,
- there is no such thing as himself.

Grandmother

- Yes, he took responsibility today, he saved Siming and stabilized the situation
of the Duanmu household. Also helped the household to get through the
stagnation.

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- I guess he was thinking about Siming's feelings and wanted to give the Situ
family a way to retreat today.
- But they didn’t appreciate it, ended up hurting themselves, and now they
have to take the consequences.
- Originally it was just a dispute between youngsters, but Situs made such a
scene today...
- What will happen in the future...
- I just hope we won't have to worry about them any longer.

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Dr Sen

- You are finally awake.

Page 15
- If the young master didn't wake up, the second madam might think my
medical skills aren't good enough.
- It will take a while for your vision to adapt. Please use those glasses for now.

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- During the time you were asleep, your mother's Situ family has been turned
upside down, young master Siming.

Duanmu Siming
- Dr Sen!!

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Family members

- The Situ's definitely crossed the line this time!

- Yes, we can't go easy on them this time!
- Whether it is hurting the second master of the temple or our family head,
- where will our household end if we can be pushed around like that?

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Duanmu Siyun
 - The face is something we earn ourselves.
- For all those years, you know full well who has earned the praise for the
Duanmu household from others.
- Now look back and see what you guys have done, since that accident.
- Do you all understand?

Family members

- Second miss couldn’t say it better.

- Second Miss, your performance in front of the Situ family was really inspiring
for us all!

Page 3
- Yes, our second miss is truly an important pillar in Duanmu's family!
- It's not that we think Duanmu Xi is less qualified.
- He is working very hard during the sacrifices, but there are a number of
important family matters as well.
- And in these last few years, it's you, second miss, who is in control of it.
- We all think you would be much more suitable to be the head of this family,
second miss.
- That’s right, our second miss is truly the backbone of this family!
- You are like a female hero! As capable as a man!

Page 4
Duanmu Siyun

- Don't praise me for doing something just because I'm a woman, what is the
purpose of grading based on my gender?
- Worse than a man would do? Better than a man would do?
- I could do it because I have the ability to do it!
 - It shouldn't matter to anyone whether I am female or male! (...she really took
Zhangxuan’s words to heart huh).

Page 5
Family members

- That's our second miss!

- I love you even more now, second miss!
- Not to mention, she’s beautiful too!
- While we are on the topic of Situ’s, we can’t figure out from where exactly the
video was broadcasted.
- If not for the broadcast, we would all fall for Situ’s cry.

Page 6
- Aren’t they shameless, this time we really should make their misdeeds widely
known so they wouldn’t dare to raise their heads ever again.
- But for this, we would need to infiltrate the Situ family and get information on
them…
- It would be best to damage them from the inside.

Duanmu Siyun

- Don’t worry about it, seems like someone already thought about helping us
with it.

Page 7
Officials that were secretly doing business with the Situ family now to be dismissed.

All assets under the name of the Situ family are frozen, they are currently under
investigation!
Situ master under the guise of being a soul teacher scams people!

Situ family involved in trafficking and selling counterfeit goods!

Family members

- To think that the Situ family were secretly managing several businesses…
- It's eye-opening! I wonder who snitched on them?
- Do you think the old man of the family was in it?

Page 8
Duanmu Siyun

- How ironic,
- those stories from the inside,
- are sure to knock the family down.
- Now that everyone will share their stories about the Situs misdeeds,
- I'm afraid that a centuries-old Situ family will gradually start to lose
importance and disappear in the future.

Family members

- Who even dug out those things, this obviously took more than a year or two
to prepare, so why didn't they post it earlier?

Duanmu Siyun

- By silently gathering information

- and then using it, you can control the family when you need it.
- What I mean…
Page 8
- Doesn’t this sound strangely familiar to all of you?

Page 10
- It’s you right…
- I was actually looking forward to it…
- But I’m not prepared…
- Ugh, this guy just can’t let people relax!!

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Square box text: Situ family is ruined…

Situ family member

- Why?! What's going on?!

Square box text: Many people don't even have time to notice their failure - and then
everything ends.

Situ LV aunt

- How were those things even found out!

Page 2
Duanmu Siyun
 - How does it feel to look at the end of your mother's family?

Duanmu Siming
- Compared to what might happen to us in the future, this is nothing.

Page 3
Duanmu Siyun

- Someone grew up, guess after going through all those things your heart has
finally hardened.

Duanmu Siming
- No, not hardened…
- It's just all those things I couldn’t accept earlier...
- Now I’m finally able to.

Duanmu Siyun

- Speaking of it, it seems like Duanmu Xi saw through our plans.

- The Situ family used the funeral to attack him, but he didn't even react,
almost like he didn’t even care.

Page 4
- But when I got involved...
- he suddenly stood up to draw the attention of others,
- and even took the initiative to discuss his punishment, all to end the matter.

Page 5
 - I don't know if this was intentional or not…
- but I do feel like a lot of things he did in the last few years, was to make our
road smoother.

Duanmu Siming
- I was confused about my brother earlier
- But now I’m sure of it…
- He’s actually pretty easy to see through.

Page 6
- All of his earlier actions
- were to make it easier for us in the future.
- He simply wants to buy more time for us.
- The reason why I was so confused was that I couldn’t believe anyone in this
world could be so good.

Page 7
- Rather than him, I’m now more concerned about his spirit shadow.
- You said he could be the wild card of our family.
- You were right about this, Siyun.
- This person…
- Yang Jinghua…

Page 8
- I don’t know how to feel about him.
- I feel like everything is alright as long as he keeps my brother safe.
- But he’s searching for something...
- I got really afraid of him that day.
 - I’m feeling kinda strange.

Page 10
- I wonder if it is possible that I copied some of Brother’s thoughts after going
through his yellow spring mirror.
- My brother...seems to be involved in some huge plan.
- But the whole story is hidden so deeply, I suspect not even his shadow
knows about it.

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- I'm thinking that…
- He and Yang Jinghua...

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Yang Jinghua

- All right.

Page 14
- No one will use me or anything belonging to me to hurt Duanmu Xi ever
again.
- I have nothing anymore, as Yang Jinghua.
- And I don't need anything.

Page 15
Duanmu Siming
- Both of them,
- Regardless of the consequences.
 - Like...
- moths to flame
- are going somewhere where the ending is unpredictable.

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Even if our future is doomed to end in nothingness…

We will still move forward without hesitation,

Until the fire in us will die out.

Because that is the fate for both of us.

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Yang Jinghua

- Honestly,
- Just how often do you need to change your clothes?

Page 3

- A backless sweater would be easier to use!

Duanmu Xi

- I'll rather die.

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Yang Jinghua

- Siming has came!

Duanmu Siming
- Um, this is where I lived earlier, did you get used to it? If not, I can talk with
the family again…

Yang Jinghua

- Don't worry, it's good, it's way better than that cave.
- It’s great that you and Siyun managed to convince those stubborn elders to
let Duanmu Xi heal from his injuries here, so don’t worry about a thing.

Page 5

Duanmu Xi

- Your eye…

Duanmu Siming
- Oh, I’m okay, it doesn’t really bother me.
- My eyesight was pretty bad already, so there’s barely any difference.
- As for the current situation...we all agreed to help you end the curse as
quickly as possible.
- Tomorrow, you will cleanse yourself in the Jingsi waterfall.

Duanmu Xi

- Ok.
Page 6

Duanmu Siming
- Then...I'll go now.
- Please have a good rest.

Yang Jinghua

- Wait a moment.

Page 7

- Siming,
- can I ask you something?
- Duanmu Xi is barely conscious in the last few days, so it’s hard for me to ask
him about some things.
- There's one thing I want to know…
- What happened the first time he was punished?

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- And how did it disappear?

Duanmu Siming
- My brother…
- left home for some time.

Page 9

Yang Jinghua
 - I know, Master Ling mentioned it once.
- So was he punished just because he refused to be a Yangmingsi priest?

Duanmu Siming
- Leaving the post of the priest and removing the Kun-ring is a violation of the
second commandment of Yang Ming Division.

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- But he came back later,

- and said he won’t leave the post again, so the curse was lifted.
- But then the situation wasn't as tricky as it is now.

Yang Jinghua

- You figured it out so fast?

Duanmu Siming
- My brother might look gentle and obedient, but in fact, he's incredibly
stubborn.
- If he believes in something, not even death will change it.
- Through all these years, I could only watch him anxiously.

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Yang Jinghua

- I understand how you feel! <understanding eyes>

- Siming, you really want to help him right? So go for it!
- No matter what happened between you…
 - As long as both of you are still here, what cannot be fixed?
- Don’t be like me,

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- When all of your loved ones will be gone, you will regret not doing anything.
- If you can spend time with him during weekdays,

Page 13

- Or call him in a while,

- I think he’ll be very happy.
- I’ll tell you a secret.
- You know how he’s hopeless with electronic devices.

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- So in his phone book,

- There’s only one contact.

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Duanmu Xi
- Jinghua...where are you going…

Yang Jinghua

- Ah, I’m bored.

Page 2

- You weren't lying when you said it would be good to send me to that stinky
fox as an apprentice.
- But ever since he bit you at that time, he’s probably embarrassed and hiding
from us. I was looking for him a couple of times, but he never showed up.
- Guess I have to study by myself?
- So I asked Siming about borrowing some ancient books from your house to
take a look at those,
- Maybe I’ll find some way to help you with getting rid of the curse as quickly
as possible.

Page 3

Duanmu Xi

- Can you understand those?

Yang Jinghua

- What the fuck do you mean by that?

- I did go through the years of compulsory education!
- Don’t treat me like I'm illiterate, okay?!

Duanmu Xi

- I know all the books from our home library by heart, so you don’t need to
force yourself.
- But if you want me to feel better…
- How about you tell me something funny?
Yang Jinghua

- Eh, do you want me to? You are not afraid of laughing, with your back split
like a watermelon?

Page 4

Duanmu Xi

- I used to think that I do not deserve to be happy.

- But now…
- When I'm with you, I think...
- I can smile and laugh too.
- Jinghua, I want to be happy.

Page 5

- The previous time I was punished by the Gods, even though it wasn't as
serious as now,
- I feel like the pain has been several times greater compared to what I feel
now.
- Jinghua, with you being here with me,
- I’m so much happier.

Yang Jinghua

- So how about…

Page 6

- I'll sing you a song?

Duanmu Xi

- I don't want to die yet, you know.

- You sing so badly, no one would give you any money.
- While you study, read the books aloud for me.
- If you don't understand something, I can explain it to you.

Yang Jinghua

- Okay!

Page 9

- Actually, I already realized…

- In the last few days, he was looking for me and speaking more than usual.
- He would ask me to joke like this while he is taking a nap.
- It's all to distract him from the pain.
- When he's seen on the weekdays, it looks like he's asleep.
- But he's not sleeping at all.

Page 10

- He faints because of the pain…

- and then wakes up because of the pain again.
- He said that his body will adapt to this,
- and while he does not tell lies…
- Just to what degree can he adapt…

Page 11

- I will find a way to lift the curse!

 - It’s not as easy as fighting with someone.
- Maybe I'm just about to do something I'm not good at…
- But even if I'm not good at it…

Page 12

- I have to try.
- Heavenly punishment...
- Heavenly punishment...just what exactly are you?
- Everything has a cause and effect, everything.
- If I can find a loophole in this...
- I'll tear the sky down!

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Shenlong Xiren

- Satisfied now?

Shenlong Zhangxuan

- It was so much easier for them to frame the young master rather than take
responsibility.

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Shenlong Xiren
 - The Situ family is now ruined, why do you still think about it?

Shenlong Zhangxuan

- If you were willing to give me permission to use the information earlier, the
young master wouldn't have to get such a beating.

Shenlong Xiren

- Of course I couldn’t! How could this kind of permission be given so easily?

- You really should understand my point of view and change your attitude.
- I am your elder brother, after all!

Shenlong Zhangxuan

- When I had to kneel down in front of you, you didn't think about brotherhood.

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Shenlong Xiren

- Why are you so angry at me, Duanmu Xi knew the laws of the Yangming
Division and the consequences for breaking those. He broke them, so he got
punished by God.
- What could I do?

Shenlong Zhangxuan

- I could when he entered that place! If you didn't stop me then!

- Nothing would have happened then…
Page 8

Shenlong Xiren

- Stop! You can't go any further!

- Those are the sacred grounds of the Duanmu family!
- You are only an observer, you have no right to enter!

Page 9

Shenlong Zhangxuan

- Why are they sacred?

- What's there?
- What's the problem? Is there something I shouldn't see?

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Shenlong Xiren

- This is the last place Yang Mingsi visits during their life.
- When your priest life comes to an end, you will know why this place is
sacred.

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Yang Jinghua

- Be careful with your back, return as soon as possible.

Page 2

Qin Shiyao

- You aren’t following him this time?

Yang Jinghua

- I'm afraid that if I followed, I would go smash the hills.

Qin Shiyao

- Yang Jinghua...he really changed a lot, didn't he.

Duanmu Siyun

- He really acts differently than before…

Page 3

Duanmu Siming

- If you feel you can't do it, don't force yourself.

- We have no guarantee the ritual will work…

Page 5

- I'll go there with you.

Page 8

- Why to such a person…

- ...God doesn’t show any mercy?
Page 10

- Brother!

Page 11

- Brother, are you okay?

- Wake up!

Duanmu Xi

- Siming…
- You once asked…
- is there really a God in this world…

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- If there is one…
- then why…

- I have never seen it once?

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Duanmu Siming

- Quick, bring hot water, we have to warm young master up!

Yang Jinghua
 - So your ritual didn’t work?

Duanmu Siming

- We did everything we could...

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Yang Jinghua

- It doesn't look like it helped with lessening the curse.

Duanmu Siming

- We have to think of something else…

- Please look after him, according to the rules we can't stay here for too long,
we have to leave.

Page 3

Yang Jinghua

- Slowly…

Duanmu Xi

- Ouch!

Page 5

Yang Jinghua
 - Oh!
- Sorry, sorry, your back must really hurt now, right?
- The wound mustn't get wet, whoever even got the idea of getting you into
the water must be an idiot.

Page 7

- Is it okay for you to lie down like that?

- Can you sleep like this?
- I'm holding you, tell me if you are uncomfortable.

Page 10

- Huh…
- Duanmu Xi…your body temperature…
- it’s not normal.

Page 11

- Damn it! You have a fever!

- Of course, who wouldn't get cold after laying in the spring water?

Duanmu Xi

- No, no, it's not…

- A Yangminsi...never gets ill.

Yang Jinghua
 - Seems like you can't tell apart the symptoms of the punishment and the
common cold, right?
- This situation is not right.
- Wait, I'll go to get someone here!

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Family members
- You must be joking, how can our head get ill?

- He has never been sick ever since he became a priest, how can he even get
sick with a spiritual body type?

Yang Jinghua

- I don't have time to explain this to you…

Duanmu Siming
- Brother is sick?
- Wait, I'll go with you to check on him!

Page 2

- He really has a fever.

Qin Shiyao

- How did this happen?

Page 3

Duanmu Siming
- The spiritual body type has a very strong immune system.
- It can reject all foreign substances that might be a threat to the body.
- However, the immunity can be weakened when under severe stress.
- It's only natural for a weak body to be invaded by foreign germs.

Qin Shiyao

- You are right, he had one thing tossed onto him after another.
- He finally couldn't hold it anymore…

Page 4

Duanmu Siyun

- I told you to not go with the ritual, what was the point of it?

Duanmu Siming

- The elders are all anxious, the whole family is upset, something had to be
done.

Qin Shiyao

- Xi is so pitiful...

Yang Jinghua

- Stop arguing!
- It's better to think about how we can help him.
Page 5

- Where is the man closest to God…

- With glory and achievements
- the one being held so high.
- Even I have thought you are invincible.

Page 6

- But in reality,
- you are...
- an ordinary human.

Page 7

Duanmu Siming
- What should we do now?
- He hasn't ever been sick, so we don't even know which medicine he can use.
- Shouldn't we call for doctor Sen?

Duanmu Siyun

- No!
- Wouldn't that be like sending a sheep to the tiger?
- Duanmu Xi can’t defend himself right now,
- and this old creep won't leave him alive!

Page 8

Duanmu Siming
- So what should we do? Just wait for him to get better?
Duanmu Siyun

- Something for the common cold and a fever…with minimal side effects.

Yang Jinghua

- Are you guys kidding me?

Duanmu Siming

- It's the first time he is given those, we should give him a smaller dose for
safety.

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- Please take good care of my brother.

Yang Jinghua

- It's okay, it’s okay, go and don’t worry about it.

- It’s not that serious.

Duanmu Xi

- This is..being ill.

- It's uncomfortable...
- When I was young…

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 - Because my powers were too strong, my body couldn't keep up with it and I
often had a fever.
- But it wasn't that uncomfortable as now.

Yang Jinghua

- Nonsense. After Situ's LV attack, you didn't have a good rest. Add to this the
curse, the stick beating and the whip.
- Isn’t that a normal illness?
- Actually, I think it's a miracle you are still holding on.

Duanmu Xi

- I remember that...mom took me often to the hospital...to get me cured.

- Then…

Page 11

- when I came to Duanmu, they gave me the Kun-ring to help me suppress my

powers...it worked.

Yang Jinghua

- I haven't served anyone when I was alive.

- Duanmu Xi, you better remember me being this nice.

Page 12

Duanmu Xi

- Mom…
Page 13

Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu Xi, go on like this

- and your cool image will be completely ruined.

Page 14

Duanmu Xi

- Don't leave me…

- Little brother…

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Duanmu Xi
- Little brother
- ...so comfortable.

Yang Jinghua

- Who is that?

Duanmu Xi

- Ah, you are so cool…

- and comfortable…
Page 2

- I have been looking for so long for you…

- Please don't leave me now…Little brother…

Page 3

Yang Jinghua

- Look at you, you are so sick, it seems your brain got burned.
- The next time I'll be taking care of you, and you mistake me for someone
else,
- you won't get a free ice pillow!

Page 5

Fight 1! Go!

- Ugh, why is this so hard...

Duanmu Xi

- I have to wonder, how can you even use a touchscreen if you are a ghost?

Yang Jinghua

- Waah!

Page 6

- Your back is better now?

 - Guess you really are better now.
- Your endurance is really to be envied.
- Since you woke up, take your medicine.
- Say aaaaaahh…
- Hey, stop pretending!

Page 7

- So old and yet scared to take medicine?

- It's for children, so it's sweet, isn’t it?
- Duanmu…
- You are not an obedient boy right now...
- I’ll kiss you if you don’t open your mouth.

Duanmu Xi

- Okay, I took it.

Page 8

Yang Jinghua

- You won’t be cured other way.

- If you don't like taking medicine so much, drink some ginger tea, and I’ll
make you scallion noodles, you have to sweat it all!
- I remember it was always like this in the countryside.
- What’s wrong?

Page 9

- Duanmu…
 - Duanmu!!!

Page 10

Qin Shiyao

- What is going on?

- Is it because of that medicine?

Duanmu Siming
- No, medicine isn't the problem.
- It’s…

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- the curse…
- it got stronger!!

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Qin Shiyao

- How can this be?

Duanmu Siyun

- Duanmu Xi, what are you even thinking about?

Duanmu Siming
- I think I know why the curse got stronger.
- Because Mr Yang took such good care of my brother in the last days, my
brother feels grateful and is convinced he was right to save Mr Yang.
- And I don't even think he was wrong in doing this…

Page 2

Yang Jinghua

- So I was actually wrong?!

- Damn it...what the hell is going on?

Page 3

Duanmu Siming
- My brother is a thoughtful and sensitive person.
- He treats others kindly, even if they don't treat him the same way.
- If you treat him with kindness, like Mr Yang, he'll do anything to protect you.
- Didn’t he give a part of his own life to you?

Yang Jinghua

- I don’t want to be repaid!

Page 4

- Duanmu!!
- Duanmu Xi!
- Is there anything I can do so you would stop thinking about me?
 - Can you stop caring so much about me?

Page 5

- It would be fine if you started hating me, even for a little while.

Such negative thoughts passed through Yang Jinghua’s heart.

At this moment, he was ready to say “Please admit you were wrong, that you made
a mistake”.

Page 6

“Just how long can you endure the endless pressure and torture?”

And picking “Yield” is often the easier path…

So...

Qin Shiyao

- Siyun...the curse...can...
- Will he die?

Page 7

Duanmu Siming
- Brother, he…
- He really believes in God.
- No one is more religious than he is.
Page 8

- At the Jingsi spring

- He was calling to God.
- But…
- God never responded.

Page 9

Yang Jinghua

- Yangmingsi,
- Can you pray for yourself while you are on the altar?
- When you pray for others, it is called sacrifice…
- But when you pray for yourself, it is called selfishness…
- How...
- Is it fair?

Page 10

Yang Jinghua has never felt as angry as today.

He feels like he needs to use all of his strength to restrain his anxiety.

Page 11

If the God who rules the heavens decided to stand up in front of him now, no matter
what kind of a God he is…

...he would end up being cut up into pieces.

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Situ LV Aunt

- Little LV! The Situ family is finished…

- It's the Duanmu family that made us suffer so much!
- But we still have our last trump card…
- We will die, but only with them!

Page 3

Situ LV

- Mother…
- In order to block the spell you casted, the Duanmu household sealed you
here.
- We have begged the Duanmu household to let us take you back into the
memorial hall. You should be resting in peace right now.
- But now…
- the Situ family is destroyed,
- and your resting place is abandoned.

Page 4

- Nothing left...
- I wanted to take revenge for you…
- and failed.
- But actually, wouldn’t you like it more…
- To take revenge yourself?
Page 5

- I know you always wanted to do this…

- The whole family is gone.
- We don't have anything left to worry about.
- What do you think about it, let’s just go and do it.

Page 6

- You and me…

- We don't have anything to lose anymore.

Page 7

Duanmu Xi

- Uhhh!

Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu Xi?

Page 8

- What's going on? What is that noise?

Duanmu Xi

- Uhh!

Yang Jinghua
 - Duanmu Xi! What's happening??

Page 11

Family members

- What…
- What is going on?
- The barrier!!! The barrier is broken!!
- Numerous evil spirits are coming here!!
- What?! How?! What happened?!

Page 13

- Quick! We have to stop them!

- We can't let them enter the Duanmu Household!
- It's impossible…
- Why?!
- Because their leader
- Is…

Page 14

- Situ's madam!

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Page 3

Grandmother
 - Is it confirmed its Situ's doing?
- How can she be one of…

Family members

- Is the Situ family trying to kill us all?

- The entire mountain is defenceless now!
- With such a sudden intrusion, we were caught off guard!

Page 4

Elder

- The Situ are a family of soul masters, and they know our defense system very
well.
- If we act recklessly, we can cause countless casualties.

Grandmother

- You want to die here?

- I won't allow it!

Family member

- Ahhhh, help! Someone help me!

Page 5

- Ughhh!
- Young master…
Duanmu Xi

- Quickly, go find Grandmother and the elders. Tell everyone that they must
put a protection spell around the house, now!

Page 6

- What are you waiting for?

Family member

- Oh, yes!

Yang Jinghua

- What is going on here? How can we defeat them?

Duanmu Xi

- Looking at the numbers, this is not an ordinary attack.

- I'm guessing this is the final spell of the Situ family. I don’t even know how
many spirits have been awakened.

Yang Jinghua

- How is your body?

Page 7

Duanmu Xi

- If it's her…
 - Then I think...no...it won't be that simple.
- The Situ must have a bigger plan how to kill me and the whole family if they
can afford to go all out like this.
- I'm sure there's something even bigger waiting for us.

Page 9

Situ LV

- How interesting...
- Let me see, how can I use you...

Family members

- Run!
- Run!

Page 10

Kid

- Mom, mom!

Page 12

Duanmu Xi

- Run back to your house!

- What are you waiting for? Hurry up.

Page 13
Yang Jinghua

- Your legs got so weak you can't move or what?

Page 14

Yang Jinghua

- So, what do you want to do now?

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Page 1

Duanmu Xi

- Everyone retreat into their home! Watch out for women and children! Don't
come out until I tell you!
- Hurry up! What are you waiting for? Are you waiting to be carried inside or
what?

Page 2

Yang Jinghua

- This area is now clear, what do you plan to do next?

- Will we just keep beating all them up? But wouldn’t that take ages?

Page 3

Duanmu Xi
 - It would be best if they are all gathered for a one purification spell at once,
otherwise…
- I can't hold them off for too long if we keep fighting like this.

Yang Jinghua

- How can we do that?

Duanmu Xi

- Those spirits are driven by desires.

- When a sacrifice is made, all spirits from the world gather over,
- because they are attracted to the spiritual energy of the priest.

Page 4

- But it can’t be here. It has to be a high, open place, where all five elements
are present, and eight diagrams converge...
- You have to take me there.

Yang Jinghua

- You are going to sing a sacrifice?

Page 5

Duanmu Xi

- No...
- If there is a strong enough spiritual power to attract the spirits and gather
them, the sacrifice won't be needed.
 - As long as most of them or even all of them are attracted to that place…
- I can purify all of them at once. Siyun and the rest of Duanmu family can then
easily deal with the rest.

Yang Jinghua

- As long as there is a strong spiritual power to act as a bait then, it will work,
huh?

Page 6

- I'll go and find it!

Duanmu Xi

- How?

Yang Jinghua

- I'll find a place, attract them there, and then destroy them.

Duanmu Xi

- You can't go…

Yang Jinghua

- Why?

Duanmu Xi

- You don’t have enough spiritual power…

Page 9

- What, what are you doing…

Page 10

Yang Jinghua

- Am I strong enough now?

Duanmu Siming
- Young master!

Duanmu Siyun

- Duanmu Xi!

Yang Jinghua

- Guys, take care of your young master while I'm going to the mountains.
- And give him shoes to wear.

Page 11

Duanmu Xi

- You better not give me more things to do!

Yang Jinghua

- Just wait for the good news!

Kid

- Mom, what were our head and uncle shadow spirit doing?

Mother

- I don't know, I couldn't see it clearly. Don't ask so many questions.

- Now eat your melon.

Kid

- Okay...

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Family members

- Young master…
- You worked so hard…

Page 2

Duanmu Xi

- It's okay outside for now but don't come out yet…
- Listen to second lady orders from now on.

Duanmu Siyun

- Bring people to check the damages done to the barrier and fix it immediately!
- Count the casualties and check does anyone need medical attention!
 - And someone also check on Great Grandmother, is she okay.

Family members

- Yes, second lady!

Page 3

Qin Shiyao

- Drink this, your voice sounds hoarse.

- You are all sweaty, I'll get you clean clothes!

Page 4

Duanmu Siming

- Go and bring hot water.

Page 6

- How…

Duanmu Xi

- It's her…
- She's coming.

Page 7

Yang Jinghua
 - Can it be here?
- Okay, all I need to do now is to release the spiritual power that I've just got
from Duanmu Xi.

Page 8

Situ LV

- What are you doing?

Yang Jinghua

- LV…
- Shouldn't I be asking you the same question?

Page 9

- Why is it you haunting again!

- Oh, are you by any chance ready to finally die by my sword?

Situ LV

- Where is Duanmu Xi? Why didn't he come? He's such a pious person!

Page 10

- He just sent you? Shouldn't he himself be singing a sacrifice in such a

situation?!

Yang Jinghua
 - I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you!

Situ LV

- He let his own spirit shadow to act as bait? Guess that's because it wouldn't
be a loss.

Yang Jinghua

- Go to hell!

Page 11

Situ LV

- I'm not stupid, I know it would be too dangerous to fight directly against you
now, when you are so fired up.

Page 12

Yang Jinghua

- What…
- He swallowed my spiritual power?!

Situ LV

- Yang Jinghua, Duanmu Xi really shouldn't allow you to come here this time.
- Your luck is terrible.

Page 13
 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid you are going to die here.
- Did you say goodbye to him before you came here?
- Because this might be your last battle!

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Page 1

Duanmu Xi

- Siming…
- I was thinking that if one day...
- If I will have to die by someone’s hand
- I hope it will be yours.

Page 2

- But I can't die yet…

- I still have things to do.
- But I can't escape her curse.
- And I don't want to escape anymore.
- This can only be finished for good if she became known at last…

Duanmu Siming
- I know that!

Page 4

- I know…
Page 5

- You don't need to say it.

Page 6

Yang Jinghua

- This thing not only absorbed my spiritual powers…

- My soul feels strange too.
- Situ LV! What is that thing behind you?
- Can't you go out of that shell? Get out and let's talk!

Situ LV

- The heck?
- Like I wouldn't know what kind of ghost you have in the Duanmu Household!

Page 7

- I happened to find it a few days ago while you were playing around with the
priest.
- I took the opportunity to bring it here so it could play with you too.
- I'm looking forward to seeing what will happen.
- Look, it seems to be very eager to get you.

Page 8

- Are you worried that Duanmu Xi won't have the time to hide? Let me tell
you…
- I have prepared a huge gift for him!
- Speaking of it, I wonder, did she have already found him?
 - No matter where he hides, she will find him without problems!
- Because…

Page 9

- Duanmu's Xi body is marked by her!

Page 10

Situ Lan

- Duanmu Yin, you asshole!

- Look, I used my own life force on this curse and survived countless days and
nights like this! All for this day!
- To become a monster and destroy all of you!

Page 11

- Duanmu Xi!
- Your father is in debt to me!
- And you owe me for Siping's life!
- Let's settle it all today!

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Situ Lan
- Little Siping, little Siping!! No, no, it's impossible!
- It can't be suicide!! Why would she commit suicide?!
- You are all lying! You must be lying!
Grandmother

- Situ Lan, your daughter’s suicide letter is clear.

- The Situ family is leading a treacherous psychic organization that wants to
usurp the power of the Duanmu household in the spiritual media and take
over the family!

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- You also repeatedly attempted to murder the current head.

- Your own daughter couldn't stand it and revealed it all.
- And you dare to come here and shout accusations at me?
- I was always thinking highly of you as a member of this family.
- Guess giving you so many privileges was like shooting myself in the foot.
- I really regret it now that I didn't listen to Yin and insisted he has to marry
you.

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- If I welcomed Duanmu Xi's birth mother into this house,

- maybe the situation in the household would be far different now!

Situ Lan
- Haha...what are you saying...
- That woman...would be better than me?
- So... you are saying you made a mistake picking me.

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- Do you think I wanted it?!

 - Did I come here and said I want to marry him?
- You man-eating old bones!
- What you are doing here is just a way to get fame and fortune!
- You see the children of the Duanmu household merely as tools for sacrifices!
- Look at this, how many of your descendants are left? How long do you think
Duanmu's family can keep on going proud?

Grandmother

- Drag her away.

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Situ Lan
- There is no one left in the Duanmu family! No one! There is only one beautiful
but empty shell!
- You will be finished sooner or later, if not by me than by another family!

Guards

- Don't scream, no one cares anyway.

- It’s all over for you.

Situ Lan
- Yes...it's all over for me.

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- Siping is dead, Siming alone can’t go on the altar and sing

 - So in the future, even if Duanmu Xi steps down, there's no way for Siming to
be the main priest.
- I am finished...In this house...I am no one.
- No…
- I have nothing left.

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Duanmu Xi

- So this was the reason why you attacked after Siping's funeral?

Page 8

Duanmu Xi

- Aunt Lan, please calm down.

- Siming is watching you.

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Duanmu Siming
- Mom...what are you doing.

Guards

- This crazy woman attacked our young master! Catch her!

- Stop her! Don't let her escape!

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Situ Lan
 - Who made you have a face exactly like Duanmu Yin!!
- The older you got, the more you looked like him!!
- It's like I was having a never ending nightmare every day! Like I was a cancer
in my heart!
- Why do you look like him! Why not my own child?!

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- Why are you the talented one! Why not my own child?!
- I was his legal wife!
- I thought he loved me!
- I got pregnant with his child!
- Everything was a lie! I was deceived! Cheated!
- Was I just needed as a fertility tool for this family?!

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- Those children deserved their status and rights as legal heirs!

- But it was no use! Waste! Rubbish!
- I'm a human! My children were humans!
- They were due to be born in October, just like me!
- I was so looking forward to give birth to them
- Why, why did it end like this.

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Duanmu Xi

- To become something like this,

- you sold your soul to the devil...
Duanmu Siming
- Brother, please!
- Save my mother!

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Situ Lan
- Duanmu Xi!! Curse you!
- Duanmu Yin, Duanmu family, all of you should die!

Family members

- Hold her down!

- It's bad, lady went insane!

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Duanmu Siming
- Brother, please help!
- Only your spiritual powers can suppress such a powerful curse! Only you can
save her! Otherwise, she will be swallowed up!

Duanmu Xi

- No…
- She offered her own soul as a payment for the curse. The only way to stop
her would be to directly attack her.
Page 2

- But...I am a Yang Ming Si.

- I can't use my powers on living beings, or I'll be cursed myself.
- Your mother surely knew about it and used this spell, hoping I won’t fight her.
- She did it to both embarrass and punish me and the whole family.
- However, there is a way to help her.

Duanmu Siming
- What way?

Duanmu Xi

- Siming, you can save your mother right now. Only you.

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- If you copy my spiritual powers,

- you will be able to save her this way.

Duanmu Siming
- Me, I can't…
- Brother, your spiritual powers are too strong for me...

Duanmu Xi

- I'll tell you how to use them,

- Just do as I say.
Page 4

- Yes, just like that! Hold on, Siming!

Family members

- It works!

Duanmu Siming
- Uh…

Duanmu Xi

- Siming!

Duanmu Siming
- No, I can’t…

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Duanmu Xi

- Siming, hold on! Just a bit more!

- Don't give up! Focus!

Duanmu Siming
- It hurts…
- I can't, I'm sorry.
- I'm sorry, mom.
Page 7

Situ Lan
- My son was useless!
- There was no hope in my life at all, this household has ruined me and my life!
- So if I'm going to die,
- You are going first, Duanmu Xi!
- Do you remember the last thing I said to you?

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Family members

- What's going on! Where did she run too!

- This woman went insane! She bit the guards and ran to the tower!

Duanmu Siming
- Mother!! What are you doing?!

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Situ Lan
- Duanmu Xi, are you looking at me now?
- Look at me now! Listen!
- Duanmu Yin, you bastard.
- Did you like this child...
- Did you give your love to him?

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 - You gave all your feelings to this child and his mother right?
- After he was born, he was hidden away from me and from the Duanmu family
right...
- Why weren't you so considerate towards me and my children...they were your
flesh and blood as well!
- Since you hurt me and them so much…

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- Then I want…
- Duanmu Xi!
- I want you…
- to be damned!

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Duanmu Siming

- Mom!!!

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Family members

- Young master!!
- Quick! Pull her away!
- Young master!
- Get her away from him!
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Situ LV

- You should know.

- Aunt Lan is one of the people who will never let Duanmu Xi stay alive.
- The two most important people in my life, just left me like this.

Page 6

- And you say I can’t hate him?

- Why can't I hate him?

Yang Jinghua

- So that's how it was.

- That’s why I met Situ LV and his father in the Duanmu household.
- And because of how Situ Lan died, everyone was silent about it.

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- But I didn't know...

- Duanmu Xi experienced such things.
- That woman...
- One moment she was alive and then fell to death right in front of him.
- What impact it must have on him..
- He was given such a powerful curse…

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 - So when he saw that thing coming to him, he was terrified.
- Was he...
- awakened by such a nightmare every night…

Page 9

- In the middle of the night,

- hiding under the expressionless face,
- there was a destroyed heart.
- I can't help
- but to think that after such experiences…

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- forcing him to laugh now seems cruel.

- Duanmu Xi,
- I want to be back by your side as soon as possible.
- I don't like it now…
- I want you to stay within my reach.

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- I can't even hug you

- Or comfort you now!
- Duanmu Xi…
- Why didn't I meet you earlier?
- Why didn't I know about you sooner?

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 - If I had met you earlier…
- I would never stop protecting you.
- I would never allow anyone to bully you, to touch you
- I would separate you from all the garbage!

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- I want your soul to stay pure and crystal clear forever, never tainted by this
dirty world!

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Situ LV

- Yang Jinghua, are you that stupid?

- You are trying so hard but you just waste your powers.
- You still didn't get that the more you attack it, the stronger it gets?
- It's particularly sensitive to the power of the Yang Mingsi that is inside you.
- And you provoke it even more!

Page 2

- Look, it’s now much more powerful than it was before.

- And it started to devour all the weak spirits that came here, attracted to your
power!
- I wonder what will happen if you continue and exhaust all your spiritual
power?
Yang Jinghua

- Monster!

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Situ LV

- You have the nerve to call someone that way? And you yourself are what?
- You are fighting hard here, but what about your priest - can't do anything?
- Oh right, he's probably in Situ Lan’s shackles already?
- If you get scattered here, he won't get better, pity.
- That's no good, I'm seriously worried about you now.

Yang Jinghua

- Don't worry about me.

Page 4

- I won't let myself disappear here!

- Ever since coming here, I can't seem to reach Duanmu through telepathy.
- But since my body doesn’t feel anything strange, he should be safe.
- There are so many people in the Duanmu household waiting, I'll look bad if I'll
return with nothing.
- Earlier, I knelt and swore in front of him.

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Flashback to chapter ???

- Duanmu Xi
 - I promise…
- From now on I will never,
- never let my soul scatter again.

Flashback to chapter ???

Duanmu Xi

- Your soul was damaged?!

- Idiot!
- Why didn’t you run away?!

Flashback ends

Yang Jinghua

- I know what is the thing you are most worried about...

- so I won't let this happen ever again!

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- I will protect myself!

- I won’t make you worry ever again!

Page 7

- So you must stay safe too!

- Wait for my return, Duanmu!

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Situ Lan
 - I knew I can't take you down while being alive, so I took this gamble to curse
you.
- Even though Duanmu Household sealed my soul, the curse mark was already
on you.
- Once I got out, the curse activated, so even if you are the most powerful
person in the world…
- you are no match for me.

Page 9

- Duanmu, this is what you owe me! Pay it back right now!

Duanmu Siming
- Haha…
- Hahahaha…
- You are right.
- I owe you this…
- Mom.

Page 10

Situ Lan
- How...why.

Duanmu Siming
- Probably because the family owes so much to my brother...and so…
- I should...repay him…

Situ Lan
 - Si..Siming?!

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Duanmu Xi

- I fell asleep...for how long?

Qin Shiyao

- Just for a few minutes.

- You are exhausted, please rest more. Don't worry, it’s pretty quiet outside, so
everything should be okay for now.
- Let me help you put the shoes on.

Duanmu Xi

- Where is Siming?

Qin Shiyao

- He went out after putting in the incense.

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Duanmu Xi

- I get it…

Duanmu Siming
- Sleeping incense….
- I know what I should do...brother.

Qin Shiyao
 - Xi?

Duanmu Xi

- Have you seen the second master?

Family members

- No…
- I haven't seen him.

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- Second young master went through the main door and went outside.

Qin Shiyao

- Xi! Where are you going?

- It's cold outside, take a coat at least!

Duanmu Xi

- Siming, what have you done!!

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Duanmu Siming
- I copied Brother's ability...using his breath...because you are wrong.
- I am your son...but you can't recognize it.
- Other people see me as Siming. But you see me as Duanmu Xi.
- Your mind and your eyes are blinded by hate.
Page 15

- But what you truly hate isn't Duanmu Xi, right, mother…
- What you hate is the thing in your heart that takes away everything you have.
- It isn't even a specific person.
- It’s the demon that is inside you.

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Situ Lan

- Why...Siming, why!
- I am your mother, why would you do this to me. You are the same as your
sister, both against me.
- Why...What did I do wrong...tell me…

Page 2

Duanmu Siming

- Mom…
- I have been thinking about this situation for a very long time.
- Who was wrong here...
- I was just like you, pushing all mistakes and blame onto my brother.

Page 3

- But…
 - Do you know what happens after you vent out all resentment?
- Nothing.
- Nothing happens.

Page 4

- I did not feel relieved.

- Actually, I felt embarrassed.
- Because I realized,
- I'm attacking someone who is as much of a victim as I was, forced into
situations out of his control.

Page 5

- Mom, I used to listen to our relatives talk about you when you were young.
- And I thought that before you got married,
- You were an ignorant little girl who was longing for a bright future.
- You were like Miss Qin now.
- What exactly happened,
- to turn you into that person you are today?

Page 6

- As children of the Duanmu Household, we don't even have a right to decide

about our fates.
- Siping was like this, me too.
- Even someone as dazzlingly good as my brother,
- was reduced to a mere sacrifice tool to serve on the altar.
- Even Shenlong Zhangxuan, who appeared later,
Page 7

- and who was wiser than any of us, with skills and strength.
- I often imagined that if he and Duanmu Xi joined forces to rule the family
together, there would be a bright future for everyone in the Duanmu family.
- But in the end…

Page 8

- If there was a person that created this tragedy,

- Then it was your manipulations and behind scenes' actions that led to their
tragedy. You too had incredible talent…
- but ended up being like this.

Situ Lan

- It was my Great Grandmother!

- Yes, that old woman! She's the one manipulating everything and controlling
everyone behind our backs!
- Think about the last few years, no matter what we did Duanmu Household is
still firmly in her hands. We were just like clowns for her!

Page 9

- She might be old, but Great Grandmother is very powerful.

- She spent almost a century in the Duanmu household.
- She might be seeing things more clearly than any of us.
- But at some point, she also was an ignorant little girl who was scared of
everything that happened around her.
Page 10

- What do you think...

Duanmu Siming

- I…
- always felt…
- That all of this was a mistake.

Page 11

- There is someone responsible for this.

- But it isn't you, me, my brother
- or any other person.

Situ Lan

- Siming…

Page 12

Duanmu Siming

- Miss Siyun was the first person to wake me up.

- She is looking farther than anyone else.
- So I decided to stand by her side.
- She said it will be difficult to reach the future she wishes for.

Page 13

- But we all want to end this chain of tragedies.

 - We won't let another person suffer like Siping or my brother…
- and repeat the same mistakes generation after generation.

Situ Lan

- So you want...

Page 14

Duanmu Siming

- Yes.
- If Duanmu family is like a dynasty,
- then we will overthrow it.
- And if a Yangmingsi is like an era,

Page 15

- then we will end it for good!

- And in order to achieve this goal,

Page 16

- I won't hesitate even to betray the Gods!

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Duanmu Xi

- Siming!
Duanmu Siyun

- That’s Situ Lan!

Page 2

Duanmu Xi

- Siming!!! Let him go!

Qin Shiyao

- Xi, wait!

Duanmu Siyun

- Don't come closer!

- Her spell is still on you.

Page 3

- What is this sound?

Villagers:

- Ugh!
- What is happening?!
- My spiritual powers are...

Page 4
Duanmu Siyun

- Everyone's spiritual power is taken away?!

Duanmu Xi

- Siyun!!

Duanmu Siyun

- What is happening at the altar up there?

Situ LV

- Hahahaha!
- This is what you asked for!

Page 5

- You provoked it so much, it has grown beyond any control!

- So what if you won now?
- Now no matter is it the soul of the deceased or power of living beings, all will
be eaten!
- Including you!

Eldritch abomination

- More...More...
- I’m hungry...Give me more...

Page 6
Duanmu Siming

- Mom!!

Qin Shiyao

- Xi, are you okay…

Page 7

Situ Lan

- Even if my soul was to be scattered here today, I, Situ Lan,

- will never become food for that monster!

Qin Shiyao

- What...
- What is it?

Situ Lan

- Duanmu Xi, I guess you aren't entirely responsible for that day.

Page 8

Duanmu Xi

- I didn't do my best to try and save you.

- It was because of my selfishness.
- I suspected you are responsible for Siping’s death,
- And that it was you who pushed Zhangxuan onto a road with a dead end.
 - Saving you that day would mean me and the whole family would be punished
by Gods, and I didn't want that.

Situ Lan

- So it turns out that dignified Yangmingsi also has his own selfish intentions.

Duanmu Xi

- Yes, that’s why I suffered from your curse. Perhaps it was to show me I failed
to do what's right.

Page 9

Situ Lan

- But now you have broken the taboo for someone, right?
- Is this from your selfishness? Or righteousness?

Duanmu Xi

- Both.

Duanmu Siming

- Brother, I beg you. Please help my mother, please help escape from this.
- Not only she cursed someone, but she also committed suicide, her soul
keeps on suffering.
- If you don't help her to pass on, her soul might be irreversibly destroyed...
Page 10

Situ Lan

- I am not a living being anymore,

- so you have nothing to worry about, please do your duties as the
Yangmingsi.

Qin Shiyao

- Xi, are you going to purify her? But your powers are…

Duanmu Xi

- That's not a problem.

Situ Lan

- Siming, you told me what you want to do, I'll be waiting to see it.
- My children were never useless!

Page 11

Duanmu Xi

- Aunt Lan, this is how I sent Siping away earlier.

- Now, I'm sending you away.
- I hope you can meet each other soon, on the other side.

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Situ Lan
 - Duanmu Xi, there's something you didn't know. When they brought you to
the house for the first time…
- I didn't yet know who you are.
- I thought, “This child is light as porcelain and as big as my children, he’s
quite cute”.
- I was still living a happy life at that time.
- But…

House servant

- Madam, this is the eldest son of the previous family head.

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Situ Lan

- The person I hate is also the person I loved the most.

- He didn’t treat me badly when he was alive.
- But he passed away while the children were still in my womb.
- How many people have advised me to not have those ominous twins.
- But I used all my strength to insist on giving birth to both of them.
- I knew that raising both of them in the Duanmu Household would be difficult.
- But they were the only thing left of him in this world!
- And after a few years, all I got was…
- A knife straight to the heart.

Page 14

- If you never loved me, if you just lied to me, why didn’t let me know.
- You made me give up hope!
- But a number of things already have happened,
 - I couldn’t ask him questions or beg for confirmation
- So with that hate inside of me, I died.

Page 15

- Duanmu Xi…
- Sometimes I think,
- that if you weren’t a child of the Duanmu family or Yin’s own child.
- Or if I was just another lady in the household, not the wife of Duanmu Yin...
- If we were never related to each other, like if you were a child of a neighbor
- and we met each other, maybe I would even like you.

Page 16

- If there is an afterlife, I hope I can have a second chance at being a good

mother.

Most of the time, it’s not that we insist on hating someone

or something

It’s just that

If we didn’t do that

Then maybe we would lose all reason

To even continue living.

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Situ Lv

- Fool! I just wanted to test the priest's limits. But you made the monster truly
angry now!
- Let's see how long you can hold out!

Yang Jinghua

- My spiritual power is almost exhausted…

Page 2

- Duanmu...see, I can do a lot of things.

- So don't even try to scold me.
- I was really doing my best.

Page 3

Duanmu Xi

- Sorry, I'm a bit late.

Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu…

Page 4

Duanmu Xi

- Situ LV! Stop right now.

- Aunt Lan has passed away.
Situ LV

- Duanmu Xi, how!!

- How you are always getting out of things alive!! It’s like nothing can kill you!!
- Why do you have to be so lucky every time?!

Page 5

Yang Jinghua

- He is calling you as the lucky one?

- He's the truly lucky one for getting away with it all every time!

Duanmu Xi

- Situ LV, if I didn't purify her earlier, she would have been eaten by the thing
you released.
- She didn’t want to end as a food source for that monster.

Situ LV

- Shut up Duanmu Xi! You think you are the only victim here? Or maybe you
think you are the most miserable person here?
- You at least have a spirit shadow that follows you everywhere!
- I have nothing left!
- My whole Situ family is gone!

Page 6
 - You have a whole huge family standing behind you, with brothers, sisters,
cousins and aunts.
- You are really the chosen one, best among all, one in millions!
- But who here deserves the most to complain? Who has the most reasons to
be angry? Who deserves to get revenge? Who lost everything?
- Me! I am the one who now lost everything!

Page 7

Yang Jinghua

- What an incredible performance!

- But why won't you look at why are you here!
- You shot yourself in the foot! And you never admit to it because he who is
wrong will never admit it.

Situ LV

- Oh, but I am the most misfortune one. I too wanted to have a happy life. But
I'm not happy, and I won't ever be.
- And I can’t stand seeing you all being proud like this.
- So I'll finish you all!!

Page 8

Duanmu Xi

- LV, I was tolerating you because I thought you really did have enough
misfortune in your life.
- I did believe that you can still change your ways...
Situ Lv

- Fuck you! Don’t act like you are a son of God!

- The thing that disgusts me the most is how stupidly kind are you!
- If you want to make me happy, why don't you die! I’ll be fine then! Hahahaha!

Yang Jinghua

- You fucker…

Page 9

Duanmu Xi

- Jinghua, there's something I need to do, but I can’t risk getting cursed again.
- LV will definitely try to stop me. Can you make sure he won't interfere with me
or my actions?

Situ Lv

- You damn assholes!

- M********kers!!

Yang Jinghua

- Of course! That's no problem! Even if I'll have to break him into pieces!

Page 10

- But…
- My spiritual powers are…
Duanmu Xi

- That's not a problem.

- Just give me a few seconds.

Page 15

Villagers

- What is going on?

- What is happening on the mountain?

Duanmu Siyun

- That spiritual power…

Situ LV

- Hey, that's really disgusting! No matter what occasion it is! You two just…

Page 17

Yang Jinghua

- My priest has something important to do now.

- Outsiders like you should keep their distance!

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Eldritch abomination

- Ohhh, so strong and powerful.

- Such pure spiritual power!
- I want it, give it to me!

Page 4

Duanmu Xi

- You want my power?

- Then come and take it.

Page 5

Eldritch abomination

- Ohh!
- Fantastic! What an amazing power!
- I want it! I want all of it!

Page 6

Duanmu Xi

- All right.
- Come!
- You can take it.

Yang Jinghua

- Damn it!
Page 7

- It’s huge!

Eldritch abomination

- More! More!
- More! More!
- I want…

Duanmu Xi

- Ok.
- Let me come closer.

Page 8

- Take all you want!

Page 9

Villagers

- This...
- This is our young master...
- It’s him, isn't it...

Duanmu Siyun

- He took off the Kun-ring.

Duanmu Siming

- When he was younger, he couldn't control such great powers so after coming
to Duanmu Household, his powers were sealed with the earrings.

Page 10

- What we saw earlier was merely a few percent of his actual power.
- This is the real strength of Duanmu Xi!
- The amount of spiritual power he has…

Page 11

- ...is unlimited.

Page 12

- He who is called the person closest to God,

- has the power as if God himself
- came to the world.

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House staff

- What is that?!
- The whole mountain is surrounded!
- And the spiritual power of everyone is…
 - Grandmother!

Grandmother

- Just what...is going on.

Page 3

Red Riding Shenlong Hood

- This is…
- Brother, you told me...
- is this the secret of the priests you were talking about…
- All spiritual power is being sucked away…
- Not a single being around is spared.

Page 4

- Such a sinister thing…

- Why is it near Duanmu Household?!

House staff

- Great Grandmother! Are you all right!

- If it continues like this, then everyone's spiritual powers will be absorbed!
- The thing is just getting bigger and bigger, if it expands more the world will
be finished!
- What is the young master doing, why is it letting him grow instead of finishing
it?
Grandmother

- Little Xi...are you planning to…

Page 5

Eldritch abomination

- Ahhh, it's enough.

- I had enough to eat.

Duanmu Xi

- Enough already?
- But I can't stop now...
- Once I start this kind of thing…
- How can I just stop?

Page 6

Eldritch abomination

- No, it's enough! Enough!

Duanmu Xi

- But I…
- Have barely started.

Eldritch abomination

- Stop! Stop!
 - Do not come closer! Don't come here! Stay away!

Page 7

Duanmu Xi

- You have made yourself so big,

- so that everyone would stay away?
- I know what you are.
- That’s...
- ...so ridiculous.

Page 8

- I thought,
- that you would be the end of me.
- But I didn't expect the situation to turn out like this.
- It seems that some things can’t be escaped from.

Page 9

- So in this case…
- your existence
- is not needed.

Eldritch abomination

- Stop it!!!!

Page 10
Duanmu Xi

- You want power, but do you even know what you need to bear in order to
sustain such power…
- If you can't take it…
- then why would you come here
- and say you want more?

Page 12

- The power of this thing,

- was powered by infinite greed
- and endless desire.

Page 13

- How often people don’t realize this.

- Owning things they can’t bear is a burden.
- That infinite desire,
- Is always leading to their doom

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Yang Jinghua

- After all that happened, Duanmu Household was fixing the damages for
several days.
- When the dust had settled and everyone recovered,
 - people realized that the mark of Heaven’s punishment that was hanging over
the household suddenly disappeared, and no one even noticed when!
- It’s said that because Duanmu Xi did not give up even when the situation got
out of control and gave his best to protect his family and other people, he
earned God’s understanding and forgiveness.

Page 2

- But I think I know what happened, actually…

- More importantly, since the curse on Duanmu Xi was gone,
- Xi’s resilience was back to normal as well, and all of his injuries bigger and
smaller healed quickly.
- Everything started to go in the right direction at last, except for…

Page 3

- The lost Kun-ring.

- Although everyone searched the battle place thoroughly, it was pretty much a
mess.
- Looking for one small earring there was like looking for a needle in the
haystack.
- Grandma and the elders obviously wanted to punish Duanmu Xi for taking off
and losing the earring but…

Page 4

- Without his powers being suppressed by the Kun-ring,

- he is like a living nuclear power field now.
- All people who see him automatically move out of his way now.
Page 5

- After seeing the incredible power of the Duanmu's Xi and his true strength,
no one dares to say a word against him.

Elders

- So...there's no need to make Dunmu Xi quit the position of the head of the
family.
- The Kun-ring is actually just a piece of symbolic jewelry, there's no need to
discuss this matter anymore.
- But it was an ancestral relic!
- Well, he’s no longer that kind of person who we can punish right...

Page 6

Duanmu Siming

- Brother.

Duanmu Xi

- Don't move.
- You were truly lucky this time, don't do this kind of reckless move in the
future.

Page 7

- Since there’s no one left at Situ’s household, I ordered to move Situ Lan’s
remains to Duanmu's ancestral hall.
- Together with Siping's.
 - Your mother might not be exactly happy with this arrangement, but at least
you won't have to sneak out anymore to pay respects to them.

Page 8

Duanmu Siming

- You don't even hate her…

Duanmu Xi

- Do you hate me?

Duanmu Siming

- Why would I hate you?

Duanmu Xi

- Then why should I hate her?

Page 9
Duanmu Siming

- I only hate the fact that I couldn't do anything.

- I feel like I have never thought that something or someone is unforgivable.
- Maybe this is my weakness.
- Mother, LV…

Page 10
 - I truly hope
- that even they
- can still have a chance.
- If so...I hope I'll be able to find a way to save everyone.

Page 11

Duanmu Xi

- You aren't weak Siming.

- Even if you don't have abilities you could boast about,
- You are also a proud child of the Duanmu family.

Page 12

- Your heart is worthy of a Yang Ming Division.

Page 13

Duanmu Siming

- Thank you…

Page 14

- Thank you, brother.

Bonus Chapter
Page 2

Huayu
 - Master! Master Yinzhe!
- I know that I shouldn’t be disturbing your retreat but the Duanmu Family
happened a lot recently and you should know about it.

Yinzhe

- Come in.

Huayu

- Yes, master!

Page 3

- Master Yinzhe, are you recovering well?

Yinzhe

- Once you give away your thousand-years cultivation base, how can
recovering be easy?
- I can't even leave the mountains right now, but I hope to recover after some
more time, maybe a month? You worry too much.

Huayu

- I'll stay with you! If you can't leave, I won't leave either!

Page 4

Yinzhe
 - What happened outside?

Huayu

- Master, you see…

Yinzhe

- What a hassle, for such a big family as Situ to disappear.

- And that huge spiritual being at the burial mounds...
- It was raised in ancient times to absorb the spirit essence of the dead Yang
Mingsi.
- I would expect Duanmu Xi to burst up in flames from such power.
- This kid...

Page 5

- He’s truly worthy of being called the strongest spiritual power in history
- No wonder that all the ghosts of the world are eyeing him.
- I really can’t wait to see more of him!

Huayu

- I think the master also deserves credit for the destruction of the burial mound
spirit!

Page 6

- If it wasn't because of your powers, how could Xi’s mortal body withstand
such a powerful explosion of spiritual power?
Yinzhe

- Be quiet! How could I still be the lord of the mountains if someone overheard
this?!

Huayu

- I'm sorry master! I won't mention it again!

Yinzhe

- Duanmu Xi is a desperate person.

- And even crazier than his father.

Page 7

- I've seen many humans who aren’t afraid of death

- but he can see through life and death,
- So maybe that’s not much for him...

Huayu

- Who are you talking about?

- Xi or Duanmu Yin?

Yinzhe

- Heh, Duanmu Yin?

- He was actually the one who was the most afraid to die of all that I have met.
- Such a coward!
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Xi's mum (Shenlong Lihua)

- I know you are not afraid of dying, you are afraid of dying as a Yangmingsi.

No idea who says this line

- Yinzhe, I know you have hatred inside you.

- If you hate,
- just come to me.

Page 9

Huayu

- Yinzhe master
- Yinzhe master!
- It is of course a good thing that that thing in the burial mound has been killed
by Xi.
- But what will happen in the future?

Yinzhe

- Of course it’s a good thing!

- There's one thing less we have to share with!
- Seems like right now, apart from maybe Yang Jinghua, I’ll have no opponents
to my seat.

Page 10

Huayu
 - Speaking about Yang Jinghua, he was looking for you recently. He said that
there is something he wants to ask you about the history of Yangmingsi.
- I sent him away.

Yinzhe

- Keep sending him away.

- Teaching the disciples starved the master,
- I have to hold back anyway.
- Human beings are so cunning.
- How could I let Duanmu Xi beat me so easily?

Huayu

- Master is so wise! So wise!

Yinzhe

- Either way, Yang Jinghua…

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- is probably the last person I would want to beat.

346
Page 1

Yang Jinghua
 - Police officers, please keep the madman locked up and definitely don't let
him summon anything!

Situ LV

- Idiot, you don’t even know you were played and schemed by others.
- I'll be waiting for the day you will turn against him.

Page 2

Qin Shiyao

- Forget about him, this kind of person has only negative energy inside
- Listening to one more word will reduce your vitality three times.
- Let’s go find Xi and play games together!

Siyun

- LV, you are still not convinced.

- That the end of your family is the result of your own actions.
- From the day when you gave the first bowl of the poison to Siping, you were
destined to end like this.

Page 3

- You aren't the only misfortune person in the world.

- Many people lost their loved ones,
- but not everyone will do the things you did.
- When people have lost their loved ones, they can either believe they lost
everything or try to love again.

Page 4
 - It's only because they lost something that they can cherish and protect those
who they have left.
- Situ, you know why I'm telling you this.
- That's because…

Page 5

- You could be another Duanmu,

- another Yang Jinghua,
- or another Siming.
- But you have chosen a completely different road from them, and this is the
result!

Page 6

- I'll make sure you will be marked in the history of Duanmu's family as our
biggest shame,
- so people who will be under my rule won't try to do something as stupid.

Page 7

Police officer

- We are going.

Situ LV

- Wait!
- Wait!
Police Officer

- Be quiet! Behave yourself!

Page 8

House servants

- Grandmother, the young master ordered to bring back the remains of the
great lady.
- But is it appropriate…
- Yeah, many people in the family didn't get the recognition they deserve.
- And he ordered them to put her in an honorary place in the hall.
- Along with miss Siping…

Page 9

- Since both committed suicides, they shouldn’t be in the hall.

- Besides, miss Siping was raised in secret, no one was even allowed to
mention her name. Now she's suddenly in broad daylight, at the ancestral
hall.
- I heard she was rejected by God.
- How can such a weak child be put together with her accomplished
ancestors?

Grandmother

- Enough, since when do you dare to speak about others like that?
- You say she's weak because she decided she can’t do anything more and
committed suicide?
- How do you know she didn't fight hard?
Page 10

- Giving up on life also requires courage!

- Sometimes it's not just a way of retreat.
- How do you know what weapon she used to fight?

House Servants

- Grandmother, please forgive us.

- We didn't want to make you angry.

Page 11

Grandmother

- None of Duanmu's children has an easy life, they all fight their hardest in their
own way.
- Even if they were killed or disappeared.
- I won't allow any of you to talk badly about them!

Bonus chapter 2 (drink commercial)

Page 1

Duanmu Xi

- Yang Jinghua, where are you dragging me today?

- Don't you know that as a Yangmingsi, I have to pay attention to work-rest
balance?
Page 2

- I had a sacrifice ceremony yesterday, I want to return to bed.

Yang Jinghua

- I took you out shopping so you wouldn't laze at home the whole day
- Lu Xun once said: Rest is to go further.

Duanmu Xi

- I'm pretty sure Lu Xun said those weren't his words.

Yang Jinghua

- Oh, did he?

Duanmu Xi

- Admit it, you just want to have some fun.

Page 3

Yang Jinghua

- I kinda feel thirsty. Wait here, I'll go and buy us something to drink.
- Oh, isn't that Qin Shiyao? Why are you here?

Yinxi

- Hello!
Yang Jinghua

- Um, hello!

Qin Shiyao

- I came to ask Yinxi for advice on proper tea making.

Page 4

Attention, all customers! An earthquake with a magnitude of 60 is occurring in the

city, and the transverse waves of the earthquake will reach the city within 15
seconds. Please evacuate immediately!!

Shoppers

- Hurry up, you have to leave

- That way!

Page 5

Duanmu Xi

- It's too late for evacuation

- I can only…

Page 6

- The earthquake calmed down…

- Uhh…
 - No good. My body hasn't yet recovered from yesterday's sacrifice.

Page 7

Yang Jinghua

- Duanmu Xi!!

Qin Shiyao

- What's wrong?!

Yang Jinghua

- He forcibly calmed down the earth veins and overused his powers, now he
got very weak...

Page 8

Qin Shiyao

- What can we do?!

Yang Jinghua

- We must replenish his vitality as soon as possible, otherwise, I don't even

know what the consequences might be…
- But it will be hard to find a place full of spiritual power around here...

Qin Shiyao

- Is there any other way to restore his vitality?

- In such a situation, you would typically… (YES! But that’s probably not
something they could do in a commercial…)
Page 9

Yang Jinghua

- Isn’t your friend Yinxi good at making tea using the aura of the sun and moon
essence accumulated by the tea tree?

Qin Shiyao

- Huh?
- You’re right, the tea made here should help Duanmu Xi quickly restore his
powers!
- And this will be great for advertising this place!

Yang Jinghua

- Quick, go and find him!

Qin Shiyao

- Yixin, please help Duanmu Xi!

Yinxi

- Sure!

Page 10

- That's no problem for me!

- Just give him this Master Kong green tea!
Yang Jinghua

- Woah, the aura inside the green tea really helped us!

Page 11

Yinxi

- The earthquake subsided and no one was injured

- That's amazing, amazing!

Duanmu Xi

- I just bought 10,000 bottles to take away, they will be useful.

- As a thank you for Yinxi, Yang Jinghua, stay and work here for some time.

Yang Jinghua

- What?!

348 (...technically there’s no number though)

Page 2

Duanmu household, 2008.

Page 3

Maid
 - You will be living here from now on.

Duanmu Xi

- Mom...where is my mom.

Page 4

Grandmother

- Starting from today, you are the young master of the Duanmu household.
- You won't be using your mother's surname anymore,
- but will be now rightfully using the surname Duanmu.
- While it’s not possible to add your name to the family tree,
- because all names have to follow a specific pattern,
- you will be officially recognized as the young master of the family.

Page 5

- From now on, you must be well-behaved and carefully follow all family rules.
- You can no longer act like a wild child without any knowledge, you will
remember to act so as not to humiliate the reputation of the Duanmu family,
right?

Duanmu Xi

- I want to see mom…

Grandmother

- Follow me.
Page 6

- Do you see this small sapling?

- Grandma arranged it to be planted here.
- If you want, you can take care of it and water it.
- Whenever you will be missing your mother, come here.

Page 7

- In ten years, it will become a majestic tree with beautiful flowers.

Duanmu Xi

- What is the name?

Grandmother

- Pear (Lihua).

Page 9

Duanmu Xi

- In a blink of an eye,
- Ten years have already passed.
- Mom.

Page 11

Duanmu Siming

- This is the special study room made for the head. Brother was often sitting
here and studying.
- But…
 - after Zhangxuan passed away, he rarely ever came here.
- Everything you want to check is surely here.
- And here are all the notes brother made when studying, you can use them
freely.

Page 12

Yang Jinghua

- I saw this place in Duanmu's Yellow Springs mirror but at that time,
- I didn't even think I would visit it to read books.
- I really hate to read study books.
- Fortunately, we have computers today!

349
Page 1

Duanmu Xi

- You are serious huh.

Yang Jinghua

- Did you think brother is playing around or what.

- I didn't work that hard at the college entrance exams…

Duanmu Xi

- Wasn't the curse already lifted?

- Why would you work so hard if you are not really good at?
Page 2

Yang Jinghua

- Serious question huh.

- There’s something I want to find out.

Duanmu Xi

- What?

Yang Jinghua

- For example, what exactly is a sacrifice?

- What are the trigger mechanisms and the main principles of the singing
ceremony?

Duanmu Xi

- If you are asking such a thoughtful question…

- It means you really got serious.

Page 3

Yang Jinghua

- Didn’t you say you are bad at teaching others...

Duanmu Xi:

- Let's start with the origin of everything.

Page 4

- “A sacrifice” is actually an energy replacement ritual.

- The priest doesn't get his powers out of thin air.
- I was born in this world, I am a part of this world.
- Basically, I'm made of the same things as everything else in the world.

Page 5

- When a sacrifice is prepared, a suitable place must be chosen.

- It's usually the place from where the maximum amount of energy can be
radiated.
- Any substance that releases energy is decreasing their mass,
- And an act of sacrifice is equating it.

Page 6

Yang Jinghua

- Wait, I wasn't that good at physics when in junior high school.

Duanmu Xi

- Simply said, it's an equivalent exchange.

Yang Jinghua

- Something like the law of conservation?

Duanmu Xi

- Well, you could use Einstein's equation for it too, it works in the same way.
Page 7

Yang Jinghua

- The same way my ass!

- I didn’t learn that much physics in school!
- Mass energy equations...it sounds like you are some kind of nuclear weapon.

Duanmu Xi

- Basically, we are giving as much pure energy with as little mass replacement
as possible. That's the fundamental rule of the sacrifice.
- From that perspective, it is all like that.
- But recently...
- I'm not sure it would be good to describe it this way.

Page 8

- It’s not that easy to control it,

- I have to be very careful around everyone now.

Yang Jinghua

- Now I'm wondering, aren't you a hydrogen bomb? Or an exploding star? Or

maybe even a cosmic black hole?
- No wonder people gave you the Kun-ring to block your powers
- It seems it was a necessity.
- <slightly backing away>

Page 9

Duanmu Xi
 - Let's start with some simple introductory books first, they shouldn't be too
difficult, we’ll do the harder ones later.
- Some are quite interesting.

Yang Jinghua

- This is my punishment for not studying well in the last 20 years...

Page 10

Duanmu Xi

- Those words are catchy, so it should be easy to remember.

Yang Jinghua

- Catchy my ass!
- And there are English and Japanese translations too!

Page 11

Duanmu Xi

- Okay, I have something to do now, take it slowly.

- I'll be outside, someone called for me.
- Yang Jinghua...
- Your serious look is really charming.

Yang Jinghua

- Eh, what, what, what.

Page 12

- This is…

Page 13

- Me?!
- Why…in Duanmu's Xi old notes…
- There would be my photo?
- An old photo too.

Page 14

Situ LV

- Idiot, you don’t even know you were played and schemed by others.

Yang Jinghua

- Wait…
- Duanmu Xi hasn't come here ever since Zhangxuan's death.
- So who and when put the photo here?