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[The Legends of Changing Destiny]

Episode 5

Master,

this demon actually...

Rocky,

kneel outside.

Yes, Master.

That lowly demon.

We finally got him.

Grandmaster and Master must be discussing

how to deal with him inside.

It's a pity we didn't manage to find the scriptures

from the depository in his room.

This will suffice.

Master caught him red-handed in the depository.

How can he weasel his way out of this?

Rocky!

Master,

that demon,

he dared...

Qingyun,

who are you calling a demon?

Forgive me, Master.

I misspoke.

Qingyun,

it's late.

Why are you here

instead of resting in your quarters?

Master,

that demon...Tenth Martial Brother

went inside the Sutra Depository without your permission,

and from my observations,

it's clear that it wasn't his first time doing so.

How do you think he should be dealt with, then?

This demon is unbridled and untamed,

and he even stole scriptures from the depository.

In my opinion,

he should be expelled.

One can only enter the Sutra Depository

with my permission, yes?

Yes.

But I did not specify the punishment for those

who break that rule.

Wouldn't it be unfair

to expel him?

This...

Everyone has the desire to learn.

Rocky was only pursuing knowledge.

I believe it would be wrong

to deal him such a heavy punishment.

Then...

What do you think we should do, Master?

All right.

Go back and rest.

I will reprimand him later.

Reprimand?

Only that?

Master, you're being too biased!

If he gets into trouble in the future,

he will surely implicate the entire sect!

Danger will befall the entire mountain, Master!

That rock demon is obsessed.

He is reckless and unruly.

It's one thing if he never amounts to anything,

but if he actually mastered the cultivation,

then he would turn the world

upside down!

You are doing a disservice to the people, Master!

You're not them.

How would you know what is good or bad for them?

Rocky is stubborn and mischievous,

but he is not evil by any means.

Even if he gets himself into trouble,

it's because he snuck into the depository and learned from the scriptures himself!

What would Wankong Mountain have anything to do with that?

Master...

Dismissed.

I

take my leave.

- Master. - Master.

What's wrong, Master?

What's wrong?

Master.

Martial Uncle Qingyun.

Master, what's wrong?

No need to be so upset

just because he failed to get me into trouble.

How much of a grudge does he hold against me?

Come in, my disciple.

Master.

No need for that.

You stubborn rock.

All you do is cause me trouble.

I want no repeat of this incident.

Absolutely.

I won't let myself get caught

by Senior Qingyun again.

You...

You stubborn rock.

All you do is give me problems.

If you don't want any trouble,

just give me a written letter of permission

to let me enter the Sutra Depository.

That will solve all issues.

You're clever.

But if I grant you permission,

what about the other disciples of high cultivation?

Let me tell you something.

Listen well.

The Sutra Depository is right there.

It will not go anywhere.

It is patrolled twice daily.

Once at 7:15 PM.

Once at 5:45 AM.

Make your way inside if you can.

Speak no more if you can't.

Do not bring up the written permission again.

Also,

I will have them take inventory of the scriptures every day.

You will be questioned if more than three scriptures

go missing.

(Three?)

(That means I can only borrow two at a time.)

(I can borrow more after copying and returning them.)

(What exactly is this old man)

(up to?)

Master,

I have a question.

Ask away.

You said you couldn't teach me the Path of Alteration.

But I've read the scriptures on it

over the past few days.

I don't find it particularly profound or complicated.

Why can't you teach me that path?

There are some things

I cannot change, even if I wish.

It would require great courage and chance

for you to change them.

if you wish to do so as well.

I don't get it.

I've given you the answer you wanted.

Leave now.

Yes.

Thank goodness everything turned out all right.

That really scared me.

Rocky,

ever since you started going to the depository,

I worry about you getting caught every day.

That was such a close call!

I thought you were a goner for sure!

It's better that this happened.

Now that I know what that old man is thinking,

I feel more reassured

going into the depository now.

You're going there again?

Rocky, please stop going

to the Sutra Depository.

I don't want you to get expelled!

You got lucky this time.

But next time...

Who knows what might happen next time?

The old man gave his tacit approval.

Really?

Of course.

I can borrow scriptures at a time.

Two.

Time to study the scriptures.

Where are my books?

Who took them?

Rocky,

Senior Xujin barged in here angrily

just now.

I was worried they would chase you out,

So...

All right, all right. Don't cry.

It's fine.

Master didn't punish me.

Don't be upset.

We can steal the scriptures

and copy them again.

I was worried they would chase you out,

so I hid your books

when I saw them barge in.

So you hid my books.

Listen.

If something like this happens again,

just leave it be.

If they ask,

say you don't know anything.

I can't do that! What about you?

If they find those scriptures,

you'll be doubly guilty.

What about me?

What am I to do?

I am the unbeatable rock.

Unbeatable?

You're bluffing again!

Bluffing?

When I master cultivation,

I'll make it known on the mountain

that I am invincible.

If anyone dares to upset

or bully you,

I'll be the first to step up

and avenge you.

And if you're the culprit?

If I'm the culprit...

Then we'll note it down

and talk about it next time.

Is that all right?

Qingyun will not get over

what happened yesterday for a while.

He will need to take a break for some time.

Lingyun.

Tell your third martial brother, Dantong,

to come back.

Master.

You know

Senior Dantong and Senior Qingyun

are close to each other,

and he can be unreasonable.

If he comes back now,

he'll definitely stand up for Senior Qingyun.

This matter will never end.

Master,

when that happens, Rocky will...

He'll be in for some suffering.

Master, you...

Master,

I'll go and get Senior Dantong to come back

right now!

I'm off, Master.

What comes around will come around.

I hope all is not too late.

Luoqiong.

Chigu.

Jingchi.

I lost that demon

after he fled to the Xiliu Continent.

Only these three suspicious locations remain.

Wankong Mountain.

Grandmaster Jiekong.

Your Majesty.

The Dark Demon King, Saurian Demon King, Roc-Demon King,

Rabbit Demon King, Marmoset Demon King, and Macaque Demon King

have come together and gathered the demons in the Mortal Realm

to lay plague on the people.

I ask permission to eliminate the six demon kings

and restore peace to the Mortal Realm.

Beichen,

I will entrust that task

to you.

Flying Dragon.

Yes.

Prepare the edict

for the Tianhe Army to eliminate the six demon kings.

Yes, Your Majesty.

Thank you, Your Majesty.

Oh, right.

Your bud has grown

on the Moon Tree.

I will discuss it with the Venerable One

and cast a spell to remove it.

You need not

worry about it.

Your Majesty.

It is heaven's will that the flower blooms or wilts.

Let fate take its course.

You don't want it removed?

I am a real man.

Leave the bud be.

So be it.

That will save me the trouble too.

However,

if you break the Heavenly Laws over this,

I will not be biased.

You will be punished accordingly.

Think it through.

I have made up my mind.

Are you all right?

What's going on?

Run!

Your hand!

That tinted cloud still carries the heat of the sun.

It burns as strongly as the Samadhi.

Don't rush over recklessly again.

Don't worry.

I'm fine.

Isn't that the dashing and handsome

Marshal Beichen?

He saved your life.

Are you going to marry him?

Oh, no!

I caused all of this mess in the Garment Division!

Immortal Taiyin will be furious

with me!

Freshly harvested tinted clouds

are dangerous before they are made into clothes.

It's your first time working here.

Mistakes are inevitable.

Don't worry. I'll put in a good word for you

before Immortal Taiyin.

Thank you, Hanwei.

I promise I'll be careful

from now on.

All right. Let's carry on.

Your mission

is in the edict.

Take care of all the things at hand

immediately,

and focus

on eliminating the six demon kings.

Yes.

Marshal, Fairy Nichang asks to see you.

Well?

He still won't see me.

Is he still busy?

If he is,

I can wait...

You should return, Fairy Nichang.

He said he would not see you

no matter

how long you waited.

Indeed.

The marshal is busy with work.

I understand.

He got hurt saving me

at the Tinted Cloud Division.

This is an elixir I prepared for him.

It will help with his injuries.

Please give this to him for me.

You are considerate.

I'll try again.

That's enough!

No more arguing!

How are we supposed to cultivate on hungry stomachs?

We can't cook without ingredients!

We need Master's written permission.

to purchase ingredients.

I'm afraid

no food will be served for the time being.

Stop arguing!

Stop! Listen to me!

Which scripture are we studying today?

The Void and Peace Scripture.

Nonsense! It has to be the Arcane Scripture!

Void and Peace Scripture!

Arcane Scripture!

It used to be the Void and Peace Scripture!

Arcane Scripture!

You're being unreasonable!

How am unreasonable?

You even hit me!

Master, the monastery is a mess

without anyone to uphold order!

Master, please uphold order!

Master, please preside over the situation!

Master!

Master!

Master, please preside over the situation!

- Master! - Master!

That stupid rock.

Master has isolated himself

because of that stupid rock.

A demon will always be a demon.

He knelt outside for an entire year,

refusing to leave.

As soon as he got in, Master caught him stealing

from the Sutra Depository red-handed.

Yet, Grandmaster let him go.

Grandmaster is foolish.

That's right.

Grandmaster shouldn't have accepted him

in the first place.

That's right.

He is foul and crude.

We should've just let him kneel until he perished.

Yes, that's right.

That's how it ought to be.

Grandmaster might not do anything about him,

but Third Martial Uncle definitely will.

He'll get what's coming to him

when Third Martial Uncle comes back.

Yes, he'll get what's coming to him.

He'll be punished.

- Let's beat him up! - Right!

I've reached the peak of the Channeling Phase.

I've finally attained mastery

of the Channeling Phase,

the first stage of the Path of Alteration.

Putting aside the Great Spell of Nine Alterations

and prioritizing spiritual attainment

was the right choice.

(I've done it, Que'er.)

(I've mastered it.)

(I will be able to avenge you soon.)

(I'll be able to get you back soon.)

I'll step up my training

to reach

the second stage, Condensation Phase, as soon as possible.

(He mastered)

(the Channeling Phase in less than a month.)

(The only person who can match his speed of spiritual energy absorption)

(is my brother.)

(To think you would be able to absorb spiritual energy)

(at such a rapid rate.)

(Let's see)

(how much you can handle)

(and how much you are capable of.)

Rocky.

Where's your canary?

You're the one I met

at sea,

aren't you?

It has been over a decade.

I just realized it was you.

I didn't expect to run into you here.

Perhaps this is fate.

Thank you for saving Que'er and me back then.

Que'er?

Is that the canary's name?

She was hurt quite badly.

How is she now?

She died?

So that's why you're forcing yourself

to break through the Condensation Phase?

You've hit the bottleneck.

If you continue like this, you'll only hit a dead end.

If you force yourself to cultivate,

you'll only bring yourself great pain,

and you won't improve in the slightest.

Every training you do will be futile.

Since you know so much,

do you have a solution for this, then?

Of course, I do.

But I'm not going to tell you

for free.

Unless...

Unless what?

Unless you promise me one thing.

I can teach you

my brother's way of breaking through that phase.

But you need to accept my request.

What request?

You can't do it yet.

I'll let you know

when you can.

What's the point of this?

What's the point of making a deal

with someone of the Channeling Phase?

Of course, there is.

You haven't been to Wankong Mountain for long.

Yet, you've already turned this place upside down.

Everyone on this mountain believes

that Grandmaster Jiekong must've gone senile

for accepting someone like you as his disciple.

But I disagree.

I believe

the great

Primordial Deity of the West,

Grandmaster Jiekong,

would simply accept a disciple for no reason.

Besides, I've seen how fast

you absorb spiritual energy.

I believe this promise

will be worth it.

What if I don't make good

on my promise?

You won't.

You will do it

for the canary's sake.

Don't worry.

This commitment won't make you

go against your heart.

All right. I accept.

Our deal begins tomorrow.

I came straight to your

after I returned.

Look at you.

Shutting yourself away because of something like this?

Letting a new junior bully you?

You're an embarrassment!

Senior Dantong,

Master's actions

are clearly in the wrong!

If he permits this,

there will be no order in the sect!

Wrong?

What is "wrong"?

I don't understand

what goes on in that mind of yours.

Does right or wrong matter all that much?

There is only one basis in this world.

The strong rules over the weak.

As long as you are strong enough,

everything you say or do is right!

I've sent my people to keep an eye on him.

I'll see what makes this rock worthy

of being my junior.

Kill them.

- Have mercy, higher deity! - Spare us, higher deity!

The bottleneck of the Path of Alteration is having too strong of an obsession.

Kill them,

and you can dissolve that obsession

and ease your suffering.

But...

But what?

They're just two demons.

No one will care if they die.

Just demons?

Yes.

I am a demon too.

Do I deserve to die?

Do demons deserve to die just because they're demons?

Yang Lan,

I thought

you were different.

But it turns out you're all the same.

I refuse to work with the likes of you.

What's your problem?

You wanted to achieve a breakthrough.

I found a solution for you.

What does this have anything to do with you being a demon?

Isn't it enough that you become strong yourself?

Fengling,

take the two of them

down the mountain and sort them out.

Do you know how far I traveled

to catch these two demons?

Wankong Mountain is surrounded by spiritual energy,

and Jiekong built his monastery here.

This place is filled with arrays and spells inside and out.

These two demons wouldn't be able to make it inside.

Stop. These two demons...

No matter what, I'm not killing them.

If this is your solution,

then I think we can call off the deal.

Take them away.

Are you going to walk yourself into the trap?

None of your business!

Dantong has returned.

He is waiting at the Sutra Depository for you.

Are you going there.

even if it means you might die?

I reject your offer.

What else can I do

besides heading to the Sutra Depository

to find a solution?

You...

Who?

Jingyi, a disciple of Dantong,

greets Martial Uncle.

Are you here to catch me?

Master does not intend to catch you.

He merely instructed me

to beat you up.

Please do not resist, Martial Uncle.

Channeling Phase?

It appears that I was misinformed.

But that makes no difference.

I

Are you all right?

I'm fine.

Are you all right?

Rocky.

Fengling,

this has nothing to do with you.

Move aside.

I refuse!

I won't let you hurt him!

Move.

Dantong sent them.

They won't regard you as highly as the disciples in the monastery.

Hang in there, Rocky.

I'll get Grandmaster.

Don't!

Stop trying to be the hero at a time like this!

Don't get that old man...

Fengling,

if you won't move,

don't blame us if you get hurt.

Martial Uncle!

Master.

Fengling.

I won't be able to answer

to Eldest Martial Brother if I let you get hurt.

I...

Martial Uncle!

You can't hurt him!

He's your junior!

Martial Uncle, please! I beg you!

Noisy.

Please, Martial Uncle! I...

What are you standing around for?

Do what you should.

(Mother!)

Mother!

Lan!

Mother!

Yan!

Mother.

Yan!

(You can't defeat them!)

(It's all my fault!)

(I failed you both...)

Yan! Yan...

Stop! Yan!

Yan!

Come on.

Come at me alone if you dare.

Scared?

You... Just admit

you lost,

and we'll...

Just come at me if you dare.

Why waste your breath?

Come on.

Defeat me.

Why did you get up?

You fool.

Let me go! Yan! Mother!

It's your lucky day, Rocky.

The Sutra Depository is on fire.

It's on fire!

You got lucky this time.

- Come on! - Let's go!

Rocky! Rocky...

Are you all right, Rocky?

Rocky!

Wake up, Rocky!

Get up! Rocky!

Rocky!

Rocky...

Yang Lan.

You burned the Sutra Depository.

Do you understand your crimes?

I burned the Sutra Depository.

I'll admit it.

But for the mighty Dantong

of the Ascendance Phase

to take it out on his junior

the first thing he returns to the monastery?

Bullying your martial brother,

do you dare to admit to that?

Is this how Lingyun teaches his disciple.

Is this how Lingyun teaches his disciple

to talk to her elders?

You should ask him that.

I'll ask you this.

Were you acting under orders

of another or acting with someone else

to burn the Sutra Depository?

If you give up your accomplice,

I'll consider going easy on you.

It's just a depository.

I burned it because I wanted to.

I have no accomplice.

However,

I have a cause.

Cause?

It's you, Dantong.

Insolent! Yang Lan,

there is clear evidence of you burning the Sutra Depository.

You set fire to the mountain and burned the scriptures.

According to the rules of the monastery,

you will be sentenced to the Seven-Sword Severance.

The punishment will be delivered in three days.

Master,

she can't endure

the Seven-Sword Severance

even if she is of the Ascendance Phase,

much less the Crystallization Phase!

Master, please talk to Senior Dantong

and get him

to reduce the punishment.

Every home and institution has its rules.

She made her choice.

She must bear the consequences.

Yang Lan is Yang Yan's sister!

If Yang Yan finds out

that his sister was punished in Wankong Mountain,

he'll come after us!

Justice should be tempered with mercy.

Master,

please get Senior Dantong to reconsider.

Master, you are my master,

and I am Yang Lan's master.

How can I, her master,

stand idly by

and watch my disciple be dealt such a severe punishment.

without doing anything?

I have never asked anything

of you.

Please, just this once,

help me!

Help me save my disciple, Yang Lan, Master!

It is a fact that she burned the Sutra Depository.

It is an unforgivable crime.

If I helped her,

it would be unfair to the other disciples.

Master!

Senior Dantong.

Wait for me, Senior Dantong!

Senior.

What took you so long to get back?

It has been a hard time for you.

Senior.

Senior.

Spare Yang Lan just this once.

If you are upset,

hit me instead!

I'll let you hit me until you're satisfied.

I won't fight back.

Fight back?

As if you can win against me.

You spend all your time around those demons and spirits.

This is the first thing you say to me after all this while.

Have you

no heart?

Listen.

This matter is not up for discussion.

Oh, I just forgot to pay my respects to you.

Don't.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Get out.

I don't think I can hold my fist back otherwise.

No, no, no.

It's not good to be angry. It's bad for your health.

Senior,

let Yang Lan go just this once.

I know

you are fair

and righteous.

But sometimes,

one needs

to be a little more magnanimous.

I seem to recall you

calling me eccentric,

ill-tempered,

and unreasonable.

No, no.

I've never said such a thing.

I must've said those things when I was drunk.

I was merely spouting nonsense.

Don't take it to heart.

But please consider this.

My Lingyun Pavilion

has only had

demons and spirits up until now.

Now, I finally have

a proper disciple.

Please be considerate, Senior.

How about this?

I'll restore the Sutra Depository.

I'll repair the books.

I'll restore double the amount.

Senior,

then... at least reduce the amount.

Don't actually give her seven.

Give me a reason.

Yang Yan.

Yang Lan is Yang Yan's younger sister.

Reduce one

for Yang Yan's sake.

And

she was a former disciple of Saint Wuding.

Out of goodwill

and consideration for the 12 Golden Deities,

reduce another.

Oh, right. She's also...

Lingyun.

I hate how you're so cheeky and frivolous

with everyone.

Especially your nonsensical logic.

Don't try to fool me.

That won't work on me.

Fine!

There must be something to get you to back off.

Name it.

That's right.

I do have a condition.

I'll exempt her from her punishment

if she admits that the rock is involved

in burning the Sutra Depository.

No.

No?

Yang Lan,

do you know

what the Seven-Sword Severance entails?

You will suffer seven swords,

all the muscles and veins in your body will be broken,

and you'll even lose 300 years of cultivation!

300 years!

Once your veins and mussels are broken,

your cultivation will be stagnant.

If your cultivation isn't strong enough,

you'll be ruined for life!

Yang Lan, I know you don't want

to accuse Tenth Martial Brother.

But Senior Dantong

has named his condition.

This is the only way to get you out of this.

One should take responsibility for one's actions.

I decided to burn the Sutra Depository

on my own.

No one else has anything to do with it.

You want me to accuse someone else

for my own sake?

I can't do that.

Why won't he wake up?

Rocky! Rocky!

Rocky, you're finally awake!

Fengling,

who burned the Sutra Depository to save me?

Yang Lan.

Yang Lan?

How could it be her?