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♪I drift across the boundless skies♪

♪Through deserts where no one goes♪

♪Seeking myself♪

♪The self I long to find♪

♪Lost in a maze of lies♪

♪I break into your sea of clouds♪

♪It traps me♪

♪It redeems me♪

♪Which hue of the sky is your love?♪

♪Or is it the burning flame♪

♪Found only in storms?♪

♪You are the mark engraved upon my heart♪

♪From then on all my memories tremble for you♪

♪What I cannot forget is that fleeting gaze♪

♪What I cannot escape is passion born in chaos♪

♪How I long to hold you again♪

♪How I long to hold you again♪

♪Our love, high among the clouds♪

♪Is sealed with that kiss♪

[Love in The Clouds]

[Adapted from Bai Lu Cheng Shuang's "Love in The Clouds"]

[Episode 20]

Your Lordship!

Your Lordship.

What is this?

What happened?

I killed him.

What?

I killed him.

Your Lordship,

even if you wish to help Ming Yi,

you must look after yourself.

I'm fine, Fuyue.

Don't worry.

I'm perfectly fine.

Come on.

Your Lordship,

you've opposed Mu Qibai time and again

for Ming Yi's sake.

I fear you've already become a thorn in his side.

Mu Qibai has more than one enemy.

The enemy of my enemy is a friend.

Since that's the case,

I'll lend this friend a hand.

The Judgment Hall reports

that you abducted Fairy Ming Yi

and even carried out a private punishment.

Is that true?

Through investigation, I discovered

that Ming Yi carried spiritual veins,

and Ji Bozai concealed and sheltered her,

so naturally, I had to get to the bottom of it.

It's true she has spiritual veins,

but the one who covered up for her wasn't Ji Bozai.

It was me.

I've long intended for her to serve at Shouhua Academy.

Absurd!

A fairy born with spiritual veins

is a jinx,

yet you want to bring her into Shouhua Academy?

Such a foolish rule

should have been broken long ago.

Soon,

as the Venerable of Shouhua Academy, I will decree

that all women within Jixing Abyss who bear spiritual veins

need not hide any longer

and may compete to be warriors.

Uncle, instead of worrying

about such a trivial matter,

perhaps you should explain

why a charred corpse

found in this case

came from Zhushui Spiritual State.

He's dead?

Who

was he?

Whoever he was,

it's not your place to question me.

Then never mind

the corpse.

But think about this, Uncle.

Why did the Judgment Hall

report this matter to me so quickly today?

Uncle,

Jixing Abyss

is no longer yours to control alone.

Uncle Qibai is growing ever more brazen,

even consorting with people from Zhushui Spiritual State.

Your Highness,

what should we do next?

Now

that the Judgment Hall no longer obeys Lord Hanfeng,

can we not accuse him directly?

Though he is no longer what he once was,

it's still not easy to bring him down.

We must awaken my father,

no matter

what it takes.

You really don't understand your master.

He'd never turn his back on Ming Yi.

You're so loud.

Last night, His Lordship

took your master's fiancée

to the hot springs to heal and keep warm.

Instead of gossiping here,

you'd better keep an eye out

before your master ends up getting cheated on.

I can't be bothered.

It's not me who'll get cheated on.

Th... thanks.

You may dislike us most of the time,

but knowing the danger, you went with me

to Dragon Carp Terrace to rescue them.

You're actually a decent person,

loyal when it counts.

If you had gone alone and been caught,

you might not have withstood the torture

and revealed secrets about Wugui Sea.

That would've brought real trouble upon His Lordship.

Besides,

when His Lordship was struck by the Netherbeast-Luring Caltrop,

Fairy Ming Yi helped us.

So by that reckoning,

I owe her one.

Then by your logic,

since you helped me beat Sun Liao,

I owe you a favor too.

- No need... - How about this?

I'll grant you three wishes.

No need.

Don't make a big deal out of it.

Tell you what,

for the first wish, I'll go fishing with you.

Sounds like you're the one who wants to fish.

And don't you dare

steal my dried fish again.

Fine.

That counts as the second wish.

What?

Very well.

Then you'll buy the fishing rods.

I just sent a message to Master She,

asking him to study

the Soul-seizing Technique

to see if it can suppress the Heavenly Grief,

since you used your spiritual veins

but didn't suffer any aftereffects this time.

Thank you for worrying about me.

Why are you being so polite?

You...

What's wrong?

Ming Yi,

no matter how much you like him,

stay focused on what truly matters.

You have only one life.

True.

If one dies,

any amount of love won't matter.

When I finally steal the Golden Millet Dream,

he'll think I've been lying to him all along

and will hate me for it.

And everything will be over.

♪I thought no one lived as freely as I do...♪

He's always been cold and decisive.

It won't take long for him to get over me.

♪Unforgettable love turned out to be a spell...♪

It won't.

♪Never had I pondered the meaning of love♪

♪I would rather shed my armor and forget my freedom♪

♪Though stubborn, I am held fast by love♪

♪It is you who taught me to understand♪

Master.

After everything that's happened,

I find myself no longer concerned

about her past.

Her true identity

no longer matters to me.

As long as I know

she truly cares about me,

that is enough.

Whatever the future holds,

I trust her.

Your Lordship, though you've refined the netherbeast core successfully,

your body is also weakened by it.

Please take care of yourself.

Don't worry. I know my limits.

Sun Liao,

Jixing Abyss

had no chance in the first place.

If not for the miasma of the Sunken Abyss

perfect for breeding netherbeasts,

Father would never have entrusted such an important task

to Lord Hanfeng.

Now, the netherbeast army is gone,

and my elder brother

has died so strangely

in Jixing Abyss.

How am I supposed

to explain this to Father?

Your Lordship...

Please,

I beg you to keep this matter secret!

Look,

your father has so many sons.

If they all stay alive,

how could he ever value you?

Don't you think so?

In our realm, brothers and friends respect each other.

But lowlifes like you have corrupted

our relationship.

Anyway, since the netherbeasts have already been refined by Ji Bozai,

it's time for your realm to fall.

Let's start with you.

Your Lordship, spare me!

Please spare me!

In fact,

Lord Hanfeng still has a trick up his sleeve.

He's secretly kept an unformed netherbeast.

Chao Yu hasn't returned to Zhushui for so long,

so Father sent me to check on the situation.

But who would've thought?

Chao Yu actually died.

What is this awful tea?

Anyway, this is a simple matter.

I can just go back and say

that to form a netherbeast army,

my elder brother unexpectedly

exhausted his spiritual power

and decided to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Touching, isn't it?

This will make

a great story to tell!

It will also solve a big problem for you.

I appreciate your kindness, Your Lordship,

but I'm afraid I don't understand.

The netherbeasts have been refined by Ji Bozai

and disappeared from the world.

How can we come up

with a satisfying explanation to your father?

Even now,

you are still lying.

Sun Liao already confessed.

Listen carefully.

Hand over the netherbeast you've hidden.

Only then can I cover for you

in front of Father.

Your Lordship,

you listen carefully.

The beast is in my hands.

If you want my help,

you should say "please."

"Please"?

You...!

Do you even know how to use

what I have?

If you cooperate with me

and pin everything

on that mute corpse,

once my great cause is accomplished,

everything in Jixing Abyss

will be credited to you.

Then you'd better hurry.

Father doesn't have my patience.

Where's the "please"?

Please hurry.

Ming Yi, how are you feeling now?

I'm fine.

Thank you for your concern, Immortal Situ.

But I'm curious.

How did you know about it so quickly?

Even Princess Tianji and the others came.

I just regret I couldn't come sooner.

By the barrier,

they found

a body that couldn't be identified.

The Judgment Hall has examined it,

but we still can't confirm its identity yet.

Was there a wound on the wrist of that body?

I didn't see the person's face,

but I saw a cut

on his wrist.

Yes, there was indeed.

Right?

But I heard

the body was burned into a charred skeleton by magic.

Immortal Situ,

how could you tell there was a wound on his wrist?

Perhaps...

Ming Yi,

if I didn't kill him,

he would've killed you.

She cares about me after all.

[Notice: The Soul-hiding Nail law for women has been abolished in Jixing Abyss]

From now on, women with spiritual veins in Jixing Abyss

don't need to have Soul-hiding Nails anymore!

That's great!

Does this mean there will be female warriors?

The Princess did a great thing!

Madam, I'll take this one.

All right.

Thank you.

Zhang Tai,

you were gravely injured.

Are you really okay now?

Don't worry.

Princess Tianji treated my wounds.

You also had your young friend, Twenty-Seven,

send me medicine,

and I took it.

I've never felt better.

Don't worry about me.

Madam, I'll take this too.

Sure.

It was all my fault.

Thank you.

If something serious had happened to you,

I really...

Don't say that.

By the way,

did you notice

anything different about me today?

You've applied red blush

and painted your eyebrows dark green.

No, it's not that.

Look, I can use spiritual veins now!

After I got injured,

Princess Tianji's people treated me,

and they discovered my Soul-hiding Nail.

They asked if I wanted it removed,

and of course, I said yes.

So now,

I also have spiritual veins!

Although I can't break through to a higher stage,

my cultivation has still improved a lot.

In the future, making hairpins

will be much easier for me.

It must've hurt a lot to remove the nail, right?

At least now

you can do what you love.

All right, you've seen me.

Now hurry back.

Immortal Ji has been waiting for you for so long.

What's going on between you two?

Oh, please don't ask.

I don't want to lie to you, but I can't tell you either.

I...

Actually, I've known for a long time

that you have many secrets.

I don't want to ask about them,

but I can tell

Immortal Ji really likes you

and treats you well.

Of course, that doesn't matter.

What matters is how you feel.

You like him too, don't you?

Yes.

Despite everything, I've fallen for him.

But it won't last.

But Ming Yi,

you know what?

In this world,

moments of happiness are rare.

You may part ways in the future,

but you still feel overjoyed

to see him now, don't you?

Madam,

please wrap this up for me.

Sure.

It seems you're unwilling to do it.

No worries.

I won't force you.

After all, even if you don't do it,

I have other ways to get it done.

But once it's done,

I will still tell everyone

that you did it.

You must be joking, Lord Hanfeng.

I am but a humble physician

with little skill.

If you spread such a story,

no one will believe it.

How could that be?

That's exactly what makes it believable.

You, a humble physician

with little skill, chose to serve me for your own good.

Then one day,

you made your move against the Emperor

to pledge your loyalty.

Doesn't that sound reasonable?

Since you'll end up the culprit anyway,

why not just do it

and take full credit for it?

Immortal Yan, the Princess wants to see you.

Immortal Yan, please go over there.

Your Highness.

Your Highness, why have you called for me today?

I'm feeling unwell,

so I want you to check on me.

You look fine.

How could you be unwell?

I had a nightmare.

I dreamt that you killed my father,

and it left me unsettled.

Your pulse is rapid and tense.

I don't think the nightmare caused it.

It's more like you are...

nervous.

Why would I be nervous?

I think you are the one who's nervous.

Did Your Highness summon me just to tease me?

You may leave now.

Father!

Your Highness, give it back to me.

What do you mean?

I don't understand.

You can play dumb now,

but I will report to Lord Hanfeng

and sabotage

whatever you plan to do.

Then go ahead and tell my uncle.

I will say

that you gave it to me willingly.

Take a guess.

With you leaving

my Jade Rabbit Hall at midnight

and me

looking so disheveled,

who will he believe?

Your Highness,

do you know what you're doing?

Do you think I'm too afraid to act?

I just miss my father too much.

What's wrong with that?

I will return it to you.

No one will know what happened.

Just help me this once.

Just once.

Please, Xiao?

Why?

Why are you doing this?

I trusted you!

You know full well

that Uncle Qibai caused

my father's unconsciousness.

He only assigned you to monitor my father's condition

so you could

keep him unconscious!

I know

most of Jixing Abyss now follows

Uncle Qibai's orders

because he can offer them a path to power

and keep them safe.

But that's their choice.

I don't care about what they choose.

But you can't do this to me.

Why are you doing this?

You can't do this to me!

Fine. I'll only ask one thing of you.

Sooner or later, Uncle Qibai

will take my father's life.

When that day comes,

please help me keep my father alive.

Will you do it for me?

I'm begging you, Xiao.

Your Highness,

you've overestimated me.

Yes, Lord Hanfeng made me His Majesty's physician,

but if he wants His Majesty dead,

what right do I have

to oppose his will?

I never thought

you'd be

so despicable and shameless,

only following the wind to gain favor.

You're truly pathetic.

I don't know anything.

I never came here.

[Granny's Eatery]

It's ready. It smells great.

Here, Wheat,

take it to the table over there.

Sir, here's your scallion pancake.

Please enjoy.

He's all you can see, huh?

Madam.

You've grown taller.

Go on. Go back to work.

Since you refined the netherbeast core,

Mu Qibai has been lying low.

I suspect he's up to something.

Be patient.

He's in the shadows,

but we're not necessarily in the light.

I've had Buxiu keep an eye on Mu Qibai.

We'll find out what he's up to sooner or later.

You said you brought me here to discuss matters,

but I feel like it's just an excuse.

Really?

In fact,

that night,

I was under the influence of the Soul-seizing Technique.

That's why I said things I shouldn't have.

Shouldn't we talk about serious matters?

Otherwise, it'll seem like I'm really after something else.

Father, you're awake.

Why have you lost weight?

In my dreams,

I kept catching you stealing candy.

That's not true.

Lord Ji, you suffered greatly

refining the netherbeast core.

The netherbeasts must have undermined your will, right?

They had been trying to tempt me

into accepting their power.

The netherbeasts are indeed tempting.

Whether it's Mu Qibai or the other realms,

none would willingly give up that power.

Without a strong will,

one would surely be corrupted by the netherbeast core.

Luckily, it was you.

Luckily, it was me?

Do you trust me that much?

Immortal Ji, His Majesty summons you.

Greetings, Your Majesty.

You don't seem surprised

to have been summoned so suddenly.

Of course not.

I've been waiting for this day.

Tianji somehow cured

the illness that afflicted me.

Her Highness must have sensed the danger

and feared Your Majesty might be harmed.

Harmed?

Are you talking about Lord Hanfeng?

While Your Majesty lay unconscious,

Lord Hanfeng's intentions

became clear to all.

Your Majesty, you must've heard I refined the netherbeast core

and sensed Lord Hanfeng's moves.

Do you now see

how urgent it is

to root out these hidden dangers?

I beg you to be resolute.

Bai is my only brother.

Of course I know what he wants.

He's impatient

and often plots against me.

He even sent a physician to keep watch over me.

I know very well what he's been up to.

But when I remember

how naive and innocent

this younger brother of mine once was,

I can't bring myself to be harsh.

But never...

never did I expect...

Never did you expect him to be so driven by greed,

colluding with Zhushui Spiritual State,

breeding netherbeasts,

and endangering the Six Realms.

You have done much for Jixing Abyss,

and I'm deeply grateful.

But the netherbeast army was a direct threat

to the Six Realms.

Yet you handled it alone and did not report it.

Think of the consequences.

Half of Jixing Abyss follows Lord Hanfeng.

Immortal Ji was only trying

to prevent news from leaking.

Besides,

it was

precisely because you once let Uncle Qibai grow strong

that we are in this crisis now.

Under these circumstances, it was only natural

that Immortal Ji found Jixing Palace hard to trust.

I swore as a child

to do everything I could

to stop Uncle Qibai from harming you again.

Now, no one knows

what he will do next.

So,

no matter how reluctant you feel,

I ask you

to put Jixing Abyss first

and seize Uncle Qibai at once.

Immortal Ji, I'd also like to ask you

to trust us once more

and join us in protecting Jixing Abyss.

Jixing Palace is indeed hard to trust,

but

not all who hold power

are slaves to it.

For the sake of the Six Realms,

I'm willing to unite as many as I can.

But Mu Qibai has Zhushui Spiritual State behind him.

Alone,

we can

hardly rival them.

Please, Your Majesty, think about the people of Jixing Abyss

and order Mu Qibai's arrest.

Please, Father, arrest him at once.

Yuanfeng, you haven't fully recovered.

You should be resting.

If there's anything you need,

just have someone send word for you.

I've been hearing many disturbing rumors lately.

Most of them are about you.

Now that my condition has improved,

I'd like to hear the truth from you directly.

What rumors?

I'm being subtle

because you are my blood brother.

But if you still won't confess to forming a netherbeast army,

I will have no choice but to take action.

Who made up these rumors?

They're pure fabrications, nonsense!

Yuanfeng,

are you going to believe outsiders

over your own brother?

Qibai,

when did you become like this?

Like what?

You've been fragile since childhood.

You used to be gentle and considerate.

When we trained together back then,

you were so kind.

You'd rather get hurt yourself

than harm others.

"Rather"?

"I'd rather"?

I couldn't, Yuanfeng!

If I'd been a bit stronger,

I wouldn't have always been defeated.

If my elder brother had been

a bit more decisive,

we wouldn't have been constantly hindered

by those old fools,

unable to clean up the rot!

If you had been

a bit more resolute,

Jixing Abyss wouldn't have kept ending up among the Lower Three Realms!

And even now,

you, my incompetent brother,

are still reminiscing

about my so-called kindness, gentleness, and mercy.

You don't deserve to sit in this chair at all!

Yuanfeng,

Jixing Abyss won't fall because of the netherbeast army.

It will fall because of people like you.

Chao Yu is dead.

The news of the nameless charred corpse at Dragon Carp Terrace

has already spread far and wide.

The Emperor of Zhushui will surely investigate thoroughly.

Your Lordship, be careful.

Don't let them find out.

Don't worry.

I won't.

To outsiders,

Mu Qibai is the one who last saw Chao Yu.

He is

the perfect scapegoat.

Besides, with the netherbeasts refined by Ji Bozai,

Mu Qibai no longer has value to them.

They won't let him off.

Today, the Emperor of Jixing detained Mu Qibai.

Today?

Yes.

It hasn't been officially announced.

It seems that Ji Bozai

has gained the upper hand in this game after all.

How could it have gone so smoothly?

♪When the drifting clouds♪

♪Flow toward me♪

♪They drench my very soul♪

♪Until it turns weak♪

♪I deceive myself into thinking that to love once♪

♪Is enough♪

♪Even if no true vow has ever been given♪

♪From the stars, how long must my tears travel to reach your heart?♪

♪The tenderness you give me is but love's poisonous wine♪

♪I drink down all of my sorrow♪

♪To trade for your freedom♪

♪Once I've tasted love, I long to be lost in its wine♪

♪After long struggles in the abyss, I ask the heavens♪

♪Even if my armor shatters for you, what does it matter?♪

♪Fate is never wrong♪

♪Even the sun must one day fall♪

♪Against the world's absurdity, I fight with all my might♪

♪From the stars, how long must my tears travel to reach your heart?♪

♪The tenderness you give me is but love's poisonous wine♪

♪I drink down all of my sorrow♪

♪To trade for your freedom♪

♪Once I've tasted love, I long to be lost in its wine♪