Original subtitles

Adapted from the novel Zhu Xian written by Xiao Ding

The sword has fallen

the wild grasslands are dark as night

The moon idles away

The specks of obsession become great wisdom

The path is predestined

The disquiet perturbs the meridians again

How can a powerless law break the Five Aggregates and Ten Directions?

The world burns

Malevolent energy rises fanning the raging flames

One is mindful

Burn my body to ashes to extinguish this disaster

How can I choose what I cannot obtain?

Draw your sword, prepare to ask immortals

how to cultivate a heart without delusions

Why give me grief, anger me and create resentment?

Sigh at the longstanding opposition between both sides

this complicated prejudice that is hard to resolve

I am not afraid to shake the Heavens, I am willing to

Flying on the sword high in the sky

coming and going, roaring my will

I only hope that among those who worry or laugh at me, some have pity

I'll bend myself to break though this endless darkness

traverse every kind of predestined fate

Wait for me to return

like a young man again

ZHU XIAN Immortal Executioner

Episode 25

The Sect Leader has decided to commit himself

to this irreversible course of action

It is a double-edged sword

It is hard to tell if this will be a blessing or a disaster

I have only heard of the

Immortal Executioner Sword Array

It is a hundred times more

impressive seeing it in person

Impossible

Dao Xuan...

Dao Xuan's cultivation has actually

reached the Supreme Clarity realm?!

The righteous and evil have never

coexisted since the ancient times

Demons,

accept your execution!

Clan Leader

Let us escape the evil sword's edge for now

and think of another strategy

This is the best solution

Jing Yu

Senior Brother

Just now, after I left...

what...

what are our casualties?

Among the 25 Elders,

14 of them were sacrificed

and five are heavily injured

Where are Junior Brothers Tian Yun and Zheng Liang?

They were severely injured beyond the point of saving

They have already departed this world

Sect Leader

we will certainly seek revenge for this huge debt of blood

But your current well-being is most important

You must not be overly upset

I, Dao Xuan,

have let the Azure Cloud Sect down

I have let generations of our founders down

The Azure Cloud Sect is our home

Don't tell me it'll end up like

Grass Temple Village back then

Xiao Fan

Are we only able to look on helplessly?

Jing Yu

Master, be careful

May the lord Buddha preserve us

Today many lives were robbed

and the common people faced great danger

It is grievous

and painful

Grandmaster

That Shangguan Ce from the Burning Incense Valley

was an imposter from the demon sect

He attacked me by surprise

My life is not in danger

If I had summoned the

Immortal Executioner Sword sooner

we would not be in this current situation

The crime is mine

The crime is mine

May the lord Buddha preserve us

Junior Brother Tian

call your disciple, Zhang Xiao Fan, over here

Seventh disciple

Xiao Fan

Seventh disciple

Zhang Xiao Fan

let me ask you

Ever since you joined our sect

has the Azure Cloud Sect ever treated you unfairly?

Did your master ever treat you unfairly?

Did your fellow brothers ever treat you unfairly?

Sect Leader

Master and Madam have treated me like their own son

and there isn't any rift between us brothers

Since there were no issues

why can't you tell us your secret?

I...

You secretly learned the

Heavenly Sound Temple's secret technique

and now you are evasive about it

Your conscience isn't clear!

Junior Brother

Despite standing before the heroic, departed souls

who sacrificed themselves for the Azure Cloud Sect

will you still not tell us?!

If you still don't tell us

don't blame me for being rude!

Grandmaster Pu Kong!

Your Azure Cloud Sect wasn't the only one affected today

our Heavenly Sound Temple also has casualties

If I don't clarify this matter

how can I face my fellow sect members who died?

Ghost!

Ghost...

Where did this lunatic come from?

Ghost...

The ghost who killed people

I recognize him

I recognize him

Second Uncle Wang

do you remember something?

It was him!

The ghost was a bald one

A bald one

Ghost

Ghost

What did you say?

I'm not some ghost

and I don't know him

Was it you?

Why did he say that it was you?!

I don't know what you're talking about

You Azure Cloud people,

are you deliberately trying to slander me

to absolve Zhang Xiao Fan of all guilt?!

Evil deeds yield evil consequences

The sin is mine

I have been constantly praying to the Buddha

for repentance in the Heavenly Sound Temple

I did not know that the survivors

of the massacre of Grass Temple Village

are still tortured by this pain

For the sake of the Heavenly Sound Temple's reputation,

I have unwillingly kept this secret for many years

Not only have I committed the evil of driving one insane

I have also let Benefactor Xiao Fan suffer an injustice

I am

guilty

The murderer who slaughtered all the

villagers of Grass Temple Village back then

was indeed from Heavenly Sound Temple

What?

Since we all swore before the Wisdom King and Holy Mother

that we would massacre the Azure Cloud

how can we run away in the face of danger

and fail at the final step?

For all matters in the world

blessings and disasters are interdependent

There is no need to be so dejected

That's right

The strength of the four sects is still present

We will always have a chance

to fight the Azure Cloud Sect again

Cang Song

What explanation do you have to give?

I did say that Dao Xuan will not use

the Immortal Executioner sword

You-

Did you purposely deceive us?

If you do not explain yourself today

I will offer your blood to the Wisdom King and Holy Mother!

In the Azure Cloud ancient records,

when the Immortal Executioner Sword Array is activated

the entire Azure Cloud mountain range

will be surrounded by sword Qi

At the peak of its power, it will form

a giant sword Qi that spans across the sky

No one can stop it

The Immortal Executioner Sword Array just now

was not even at 30% of its power

I heard that to activate the Immortal Executioner Sword

one needs to have reached the Absolute Realm

of the Absolute Profound Clarity Path

That is correct

The Immortal Executioner sword

is a divine weapon of the Ninth Heaven

If one's cultivation is inadequate

yet activates it by force,

it will backfire,

drive one insane

and one will be controlled by inner demons

Then...

Even if Dao Xuan is still alive right now

he is close to death

Clan Leader

Bi Yao is missing

What?

When we were at Clear Jade Hall

Bi Yao said she was going to look for you

I never saw her after we went up the mountain

Could she still be on Azure Cloud Mountain?

Yao'er is of my own flesh and blood

I will never abandon her

I am going to Azure Cloud Mountain now

Clan Leader

you must not

Everyone

we have all received the grace of

the Wisdom King and Holy Mother

we are fellow comrades

Back then, the Azure Cloud Sect attacked our Holy Temple

dishonored our holy figures

and destroyed our sect

It is like hatred from seeing dishonor done to our parents

Now

the Azure Cloud Sect is at its weakest in 1000 years

If we do not use this moment

to remove this thorn in our side

when will we do so?

But now

Dao Xuan has recklessly used the Immortal Executioner

and he is dying

If we return to continue the attack

they will be caught unprepared

We can destroy the Azure Cloud in one effort

Then

our holy sect alone shall be revered in this glorious world

We shall dominate the world!

Annihilate the Azure Cloud!

May the lord Buddha preserve us

You reap

what you sow

Everything is a consequence of one's actions

Perfected One Dao Xuan

do you still remember that

before the massacre of Grass Temple Village

my junior brother, Pu Zhi, once came to

Azure Cloud Mountain to seek an audience with you?

I remember that day

Grandmaster Pu Zhi made an arrangement to see me

He unexpectedly proposed a combined

cultivation of Buddhism and Daoism

Ever since the Azure Cloud Sect was established,

we practice our own cultivation system

and never impart it to outsiders

Even though I am the Sect Leader

I could not make the decision on my own

Thus I could only refuse him tactfully

Junior Brother Pu Zhi proposed a combined

cultivation of Buddhism and Daoism

to solve the riddle of immortality

and decipher the supreme law of the world

Perfected One Dao Xuan, my apologies

But my junior brother did not know that

this would be

the beginning of all disasters

That day,

he felt that someone was following him

after leaving the mountain

You guys

I'll show you!

You've already fallen

still not admitting defeat?

Jing Yu is really amazing

No matter how many precautions he took

he could not evade the black-clad person's schemes

Junior Brother risked his life in this battle

to prevent the Blood Devouring Pearl from being taken

It looks like

the black-clad person cannot be any other

than Cang Song

It does not matter whether

it was Cang Song or not

Ultimately

Junior Brother's great ambition of a combined

cultivation of Buddhism and Daoism was refused

but he unexpectedly met the two children,

Zhang Xiao Fan and Lin Jing Yu

He saw that both of them had

set their sights on the Azure Cloud Sect

They would have a huge chance

of entering the sect in the future

For this reason

he indulged in a wild fantasy and

boldly imparted the Great Brahmanic Wisdom to Zhang Xiao Fan

In this way

his wish could be considered as fulfilled

Perhaps he was too obsessed and

also, with the effect of the

Blood Devouring Pearl's demonic energy,

this inflated his selfishness

and actually suppressed his mercy and compassion

This child has a limited aptitude

If he cannot enter the Azure Cloud Sect in the future

then my efforts will be in vain yet again

No

Zhang Xiao Fan must enter the Azure Cloud Sect

What should I do?

I only have three days to live

What else can I do?

Yes

there is a way

I have to force the Azure Cloud Sect to accept him

Force them to...

No, no, no

I cannot do that

Yes I can

Why can't I?

All living beings are suffering

I am sending them into rebirth

I am sacrificing a few people for the world

They would certainly be willing

Yes!

Combined cultivation of Buddhism and Daoism

For the sake of peace in the world,

sacrifices are unavoidable!

Kill!

Ghost!

Ghost!

Junior Brother Pu Zhi returned to the

Heavenly Sound Temple on his last breath

and told us the truth

hoping that the Heavenly Sound Temple

can make reparations

to Benefactors Xiao Fan and Jing Yu one day

for the sin he committed

So that was what happened

So that was what happened

That we should have this fate

I wonder whether we will meet again in our next life

Child

kneel down and bow three times to me

and call me Master

Die!

The cold moonlight is dim

The decade-long search turned up empty

The slanted rain falls at speed

disheveling the gray hairs again

Midnight on a cold night

the winds and snow are severe

Where comes the sound of misery?

The heavy heart is audible

The cloud of dreams is empty

A rare, lonely soul

picks up a cold lamp

with dreams never realized

The young man with willful energy

relies on Heaven miles away to grasp the sword

Cut through a line of treasures

with the edge of the blade beaming

Words can't express the constant feeling of regret

Back then, I searched for this common dream that's

difficult to return to now

Affection can't be forgotten

life and death are indefinite

The trials and hardships are endless

No words for this anxiety

No sleep on this lonely pillow

No satisfying this sorrow

The affairs of the world

are difficult to regulate

The moon's absence tonight

is difficult to fill

Know that the road is very long

it's hard for astray, old dreams to come back

So many secret grudges

who can console me?

The pain of separation is depressing

Only your reflection is in a mess

heartbroken again

The young man with willful energy

relies on Heaven miles away to grasp the sword

Cut through a line of treasures

with the edge of the blade beaming

Words can't express the constant feeling of regret

Back then, I searched for this common dream that's

difficult to return to now

Affection can't be forgotten

life and death are indefinite

The azure clouds remain as before

Where is the young man heading to?

Where is the young man heading to?