Original subtitles

General Ke Mo, please calm down.

Is the person who hangs over the Sinner's Pit the Goushi* of Banyue?

*T/N: A role analogous to that of a state advisor.

Yes!

Even if I die, I will make sure that traitor dies with me!

I will hang her each and every time I catch her!

So in all these years, General Ke Mo, each time you have caught the Goushi of Banyue, you have hung her over the Sinner's Pit?

Hmph, I was letting her off easy by hanging her!

After that bitch died, she went all over the place to hunt down my men who had turned into Wrath* and then threw them into the Sinner's Pit.

*T/N: Wrath is a ghost ranking, second after Devastation, based on ghosts' savagery and power

And in the surroundings of the Pit, she also had setup a powerful spell array.

Those who had fallen into the pit could never climb out again.

I have been hearing my men cry every night at the bottom of the Pit.

So I could only catch those travelling merchants from the Central Plains, who had accidentally wandered into the ancient city, and throw them down to feed my men.

I had no other choice.

That buried face in the Royal Palace, was it buried by you?

We need to have fertiliser for the Shanyue plant.

Otherwise, that bitch's scorpion-tailed snakes are too lethal. We wouldn't be able to stop them.

It seems even though Ke Mo and his men are no longer alive,

their fear towards these scorpion-tailed snakes has not waned in the slightest.

Then why didn't the Goushi of Banyue use the scorpion-tailed snakes to retaliate

as opposed to letting herself be hanged so easily?

Her letting the scorpion-tailed snakes out of the ancient city to sting people is strange too.

As if to purposefully lure living people into the city, to let Ke Mo conveniently feed his soldiers.

Then isn't the conflict between the two sides contradictory?

There is also another puzzle which is surprising too.

General Ke Mo, when we entered the city just now,

we saw one black-robed and one white-robed persons in the street—

– Shhh.

Heaven Official's Blessing

Episode Ten

Ke Mo, what's going on?

What's going on?!

They were all pushed down by you, you demonic cultivator!

You destroyed them! I should hang you a thousand times or ten thousand times!

Demonic cultivator...?

Could she actually be the Goushi of Banyue?

Wait.

How come there are other people here?

All right.

All right?

Are you happy now? They are all dead at last!

Ke Mo, let's all end here. We are finally free.

Did you kill all these soldiers?

It was an accident!

Nonsense!

Who are you?

I am a heavenly official.

This is... This is my friend.

No heavenly official has ever been here.

I thought all of you had already abandoned us here.

Do you want to get out of here?

Of course, we want to get out of here.

But there is an array here. We can't get out.

The spell array has been removed. You can go now.

Sure enough.

Who were the people in black and white that we saw earlier?

Hey!

I'm going to leave if there's no one here.

– Fu Yao, there's someone down there!

Who else is there beside you?

Well... why don't you come down to see for yourself?

They are really down there.

Hmph.

All killed already!

These mountains of corpses... Could it all be...

San-lang...

Weren't you looking after the travelling merchants?

You didn't come back for 3 hours, so I drew a circle around them and made sure they stay within it.

I wanted to come here and see for myself.

They must have thought they got abandoned.

If a person wants to die, even eight horses could not stop it.

Who are they?

This is the Guoshi of Banyue.

The other is Banyue Kingdom's General Ke Mo.

Now they...

Demonic cultivator, go to hell!

I'll make you repay blood debt with blood!

You turn-coat traitor!

Where are your scorpion-tailed snakes?

Come on, come bite me!

Ke Mo, the snakes don't listen to me anymore.

Bullshit! Then why don't they bite you?!

Sorry...

S—Sorry...

Is your apology going to bring my men back to life?! Traitor!

If it wasn't for you colluding with these bastards to open the city gates and massacring the city back then,

how else could we have ended up like this today?!

I will hang you each time I catch you!

General, calm down. Let's talk this out.

It's you?!

Hua– General Hua.

Let him stop for a bit.

You know each other?

Ban Yue.

General Hua, you still remember me.

Of course I remember. But...

...what did you do to yourself?

Sorry Colonel... I... I messed up.

General? Colonel? What's going on here?

Wait, that general's tombstone in that cave, could it be...?

It's my tombstone.

Just what is going on here?

This... it's a long story...

200 years ago, I had to avoid attention for certain reasons, so I followed the compass to the South.

Unexpectedly, the compass broke.

So I ended up in the desert,

and just happened to encounter troops conscripting people into the army.

So you got conscripted into the army?

Later, I accompanied the army and drove out the bandits for a few times.

And didn't know how I got promoted to a Colonel.

Some would call me General out of courtesy.

What about "General Hua"? Your surname is not Hua.

I made up a random name on the spot... called "Hua Xie".

There were constant skirmishes at the border back then which resulted in a lot of orphans.

Ban Yue was one of them.

One day, I was cooking.

What is this crap?!

I was just making something to eat. Don't take it out on the food.

With what eyes do you see that this crap can be eaten?!

Wait, little kid, don't!

Little kid, you should think twice before you eat anything that you randomly pick up.

Where are your parents?

What are you doing?

Why don't you eat this?

Ever since then, this kid was always secretly following me around.

After a while, I started to notice her.

I didn't know where she was from.

She knew how to speak Mandarin, but rarely spoke.

Except for a young man from Yong An, she didn't have any other friends.

When I had some free time, I would teach her how to sing.

We got along pretty well.

But... the good times didn't last long.

Later, there was an insurgency.

I was caught in it, during which I got trampled and couldn't get up.

So I could only play dead.

I don't remember what exactly happened afterwards.

When I woke up, I was already back in the Yong An Kingdom and had got separated from Ban Yue.

I thought Banyue Guoshi's "Banyue" was referring to the name of the kingdom.

I didn't know it was you.

I'm sorry.

General Hua got trampled flat because you were trying to save me.

I didn't get trampled flat! I really didn't!

How did you get trampled on in a stampede?

Even if you were that useless, you should still be able to avoid it.

Well, I think this was because two sides had started fighting. They wouldn't listen to me.

I saw that Ban Yue got dragged in and so I wanted to take her away.

Who would have known we wouldn't be in time to flee, so...

You think? How could you not remember these things clearly?

Everyone's memory capacity has a limit.

Instead of remembering the time one got trampled on a few hundred years ago,

why not remember a tasty meat bun that one ate yesterday?

I'm sorry.

Ban Yue, saving you was my choice.

Perhaps your "sorry" should be directed to someone else.

Let's get back to the main topic at hand.

Speak up. why did you open the city gate and led the military into the city for a slaughter?

Did you have accomplices? What else did you plot together?

You!

Perhaps she is a mute?

My impression is that you are not the kind person who would seek revenge or betray others.

What really happened back then that caused you to open the city gate?

Are you willing to tell us?

Hmph.

Well, if you can't tell us for some reasons...

then do you mind at least telling me why would you release the snakes to bite people?

She has already become a Wrath. Why else?

I did not release the snakes.

They are not obeying my orders and went out by themselves.

What?

General Hua, I am not lying.

Everyone who gets caught would say this.

Weren't those who crossed the borders all bitten by your snakes?

No more nonsense. Give me your hands.

We got what we came here for. Let's go.

Fu Yao, wait a second.

You are still going to listen to her nonsense?

She has no reason to lie.

So, are you not able to summon scorpion-tailed snakes now?

I can summon them, but sometimes they will listen to me and sometimes they won't.

Why don't you summon the snakes and show us.

This isn't right!

She is indeed lying to you.

You think the snake can bite him? How stupid.

I didn't! That snake didn't listen to me just then.

Who knows if it really didn't listen to you or it did listen...

It was not summoned by me!

Still claiming it wasn't you?!

It's not me!

If not you, then who did? Tell them to back off!

Wait.

Are you also going to say this wasn't her doing?

These snakes...

You need to come to your senses now!

Let's go up first. Let's get out of here and discuss this later.

Why did you come back? The spell array has been removed. Let's go up quickly!

What is this?

It really is you after all!