ADAPTED FROM BAI LU CHENG SHUANG'S LOVE IN THE CLOUDS
Ming Yi.
Do you still remember the name of this wine?
My Heart's Delight.
Then tell me.
When you gave me this jar of wine,
were you sincere,
or did you do it
to make me trust you more?
All right,
I know you were sincere.
At this moment, I am sincere.
Say my name.
Ji Bozai.
Ji Bozai--
Ji Bozai, I adore you.
Did you get the Golden Millet Dream?
What's wrong?
You couldn't bring yourself to ask for it, could you?
Before Fairy Bo Yulan passed away,
she made him swear
never to let the Golden Millet Dream appear in this world.
If he gives the elixir to me,
he'll be defying his master's dying wish.
Maybe he's willing to defy it for you.
I'm the one who wants the Golden Millet Dream.
I'm the one who wants to live.
I can't force him to choose.
If someone must bear the sin, it'll be me.
But if you do this,
he'll surely hate you.
I know.
Then let him hate me.
Whoever does wrong
must bear the consequences themselves.
This Golden Millet Dream is coming to an end after all.
Ming Yi, should we go in now?
I'll go with you.
Everything…
is over now.
Lord Ji!
I made so much Golden Millet Dream. Come on. Have a taste.
The Golden Millet Dream…
He turned the Golden Millet Dream
into the likeness of My Heart's Delight.
Ming Yi, you can't afford to…
Ming Yi.
Ming Yi!
Kill me if you must.
I have nothing to say.
But please, Immortal Ji,
spare Twenty-Seven.
Don't hurt him.
I beg you.
So,
you're just like everyone else.
You only wanted the Golden Millet Dream.
Yes.
From the very beginning,
you have been lying to me.
Yes.
All because of the Golden Millet Dream?
Yes.
Ming Yi.
You truly are heartless.
At this point, I have nothing to say for myself.
The Golden Millet Dream!
Get out.
Don't ever
show yourselves before me again.
Thank you, Immortal Ji.
Ji Bozai!
You're awake.
Finally!
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Please don't go.
We don't know how this battle with Mu Qibai will end,
but I will keep you safe.
However,
think carefully.
If I survive,
you'll be stuck with me forever.
When you gave me this jar of wine,
were you sincere,
or did you do it
to make me trust you more?
At this moment, I am sincere.
Ming Yi.
Oh, no…
Why?
Why did you use your spiritual veins to save me
when you knew it would come to this?
Heaven and earth, bear witness.
Bound by our spiritpact,
I grant you peace…
with my divine consciousness.
Twenty-Seven.
Twenty-Seven, what are you doing?
Stop.
Twenty-Seven!
What are you doing?
Twenty-Seven.
The spell is already taking effect.
It's too late to stop it now.
-Ming Yi! -Twenty-Seven!
Twenty-Seven!
I must…
Twenty-Seven.
…save your life today.
Please stop, Twenty-Seven.
Listen to me.
Don't trade your life for mine!
Please, Twenty-Seven.
Listen to me.
You'll only make me live a few more days.
It's meaningless, Twenty-Seven!
Please stop, Twenty-Seven.
Twenty-Seven.
This is pointless, Twenty-Seven.
Please, Twenty-Seven, stop.
Don't sacrifice yourself to save me. Please.
I'll only live a few more days.
It's meaningless.
Please stop, Twenty-Seven.
Twenty-Seven.
No…
Twenty-Seven.
-I'm so sorry. -Ming Yi,
do you remember
what you were like when you first won the Qingyun Tournament?
You were incredible back then,
-invincible across all Six Realms. -Stop it.
It's my fault.
I dragged you into this,
Twenty-Seven.
Ming Yi,
if only I could see you
-live a good life with my own eyes. -Twenty-Seven.
Don't go.
Ming Yi,
don't cry.
If you ever miss me,
bring me some dried fish.
But remember, I don't eat spicy ones.
Twenty-Seven, I can't live without you.
-Let me take you home. -Ming Yi,
it's all right.
I'm so sorry.
Twenty-Seven.
Let's go home.
Twenty-Seven.
Twenty-Seven,
come back!
Come back.
Twenty-Seven.
Let's go home.
Let's go back to Yaoguang Mountain.
Please, come back.
I was wrong.
I'm sorry.
I can't live without you.
I'm sorry. I was wrong.
Twenty-Seven, I'm so sorry.
Ming Yi, I won't let you die.
ZHANG TAI'S RESIDENCE
Twenty-Seven. Twenty-Seven.
Twenty-Seven.
-Twenty-Seven. -Immortal Situ,
what happened to Ming Yi?
-Ming Yi. -Twenty-Seven.
Ming Yi,
don't be afraid.
I will find a way to save you.
I was wrong.
I…
-The Messenger Bell. -I'll take you home.
Ming Yi's Messenger Bell.
Twenty-Seven.
Here.
I was wrong.
"To Master She, with respect…"
I was wrong.
Twenty-Seven, come back.
Come back.
Ming Yi.
Twenty-Seven.
His Lordship still refused to eat.
I know a way to make His Lordship forget Ming Yi!
Your Lordship, this scroll that Ming Yi gave you
was indeed altered by a Yaoguang spell,
but I don't have the skill
to restore the original text.
LORD HANFENG HAS COMMITTED TWO SERIOUS CRIMES DURING HIS REIGN
"Yaoguang Mountain, Zhushui Spiritual State, and Flowing Wave Gorge,
the entire Upper Third Realm was part of that.
Lord Hanfeng kept a list of names
to control them."
Your Lordship,
she's from Yaoguang Mountain.
At the end of the day, she's on their side.
Before Fairy Bo died, she made you promise
never to let the Golden Millet Dream appear in the world.
It seems she foresaw
how far human greed would go
for the medicine.
It can't be helped.
Be it Mu Qibai
or those from Yaoguang Mountain who took part,
none of them was the true culprit.
The Emperor of Zhushui was the first to strike at the Bo clan,
and he's been secretly controlling Mu Qibai ever since.
I must not let the tragedy
that befell my master and the innocent
happen again.
Your Lordship, if you intend to go after the Emperor of Zhushui,
I'll be right by your side.
But…
your health matters most.
Please, have something to eat first.
A CLOUD OF PEAR BLOSSOMS AND A FORLORN DREAM
Master She, that's what happened.
I've told you everything about my past with Ming Yi.
You can trust me.
Silly child,
how could you use your spiritual veins like that?
Master She, I heard you once fought as a warrior
and later became a physician.
You must understand Ming Yi's condition better than anyone.
Ming Yi once suspected
that Zhushui Spiritual State's Soul-seizing Technique
might suppress the Heavenly Grief.
I searched the old texts and found
that it wasn't the technique alone that restrained the aftereffects.
When those of Zhushui Spiritual State
used the technique,
they channeled their spiritual power directly into her spiritual veins.
That was what suppressed Heavenly Grief's aftereffects.
But only people
from Zhushui Spiritual State know this method.
Very well.
I'll storm the Zhushui Palace,
catch a few men there, and force them to cast the spell to save her.
So, all it takes is to inject spiritual power
into her spiritual veins using Zhushui's secret art?
Yes.
A CLOUD OF PEAR BLOSSOMS AND A FORLORN DREAM
Who are you, really?
Tell me. Who are you?
-Master. -Ming Yi.
Ming Yi.
-Ming Yi. -Master.
How do you feel?
Immortal Situ would never harm me. Don't hurt him.
Do you know he is from Zhushui Spiritual State?
You didn't tell me the truth?
No.
But if you'd cared about me a little more,
you would've remembered
which realm's robe I wore
the day we first met.
You never asked me,
so I supposed
my background
didn't matter to you.
Ming Yi,
you really don't remember.
Otherwise, you would've known
that I wore a robe common across the Six Realms that day.
I guessed right.
Why did you come
to Jixing Abyss?
The Golden Millet Dream.
The Golden Millet Dream?
In Zhushui Spiritual State, might makes right.
Without spiritual veins,
I could only live
like a servant there.
So, I escaped to seek the Golden Millet Dream.
That is all.
But Ming Yi,
after we met again,
I gave up any thought
of taking the Golden Millet Dream for myself.
I'll go to Ji Bozai now
and bring the Golden Millet Dream to you.
Don't go!
You must not go. Don't go.
-Ming Yi. -Ming Yi.
-Ming Yi! -Ming Yi.
Don't go to him.
Even now, you're still acting in his interest?
The Golden Millet Dream is the only cure for you.
If he refuses to give it,
I will kill him and take it!
Ji Bozai doesn't have the Golden Millet Dream.
He spread false news
to lure those who covet it.
He never had the antidote.
He doesn't have it?
Then what should we do?
What else can I do?
How can I save you?
-Your Highness. -Why are you here?
I came to report on the recovery
of those injured in the battle with the netherbeasts.
Everyone within the Jixing Palace has recovered.
The prescriptions
sent to Huansha Market for the common folk have also taken effect.
The warriors at Shouhua Academy
are nearly all healed
and can resume training tomorrow.
Is there anything else?
No, Your Highness.
I'll take my leave.
Yan Xiao.
You're always like this.
You feared my father would be in danger,
so you chose to lie to me.
You feared my uncle would harm me,
so you allied with Ji Bozai while keeping me in the dark.
You always do what you think is best for me,
but you've never once asked me
if that's what I truly want.
I just…
I just wanted to protect you.
Protect me?
Your Highness.
Your Highness, why are you crying?
Did someone hurt you?
Tell me. I'll go teach them a lesson.
Jixing Abyss lost at the Qingyun Tournament again.
Once again, we get no Blessed Rain.
Look,
my Blessing Flowers are withering.
Back when the Empress was alive,
she planted these with the Emperor.
I promise I'll heal them for you.
Xiao!
The Blessing Flowers have bloomed!
How did you do it?
Without the Blessed Rain's nourishment,
how could they bloom?
The ways of healing are universal.
Curing plants isn't much different from curing people.
But isn't it difficult
to make them bloom without the Blessed Rain?
No,
not at all.
This isn't protection.
It's just you doing what you think is right.
Just like this.
Blessing Flowers wither
after the Prayer Night
and bloom again the following year.
But this pot, the one my mother left me,
has bloomed all year round.
I once thought
you'd found some special herb or artifact to sustain it.
Only today did I find out
you'd been feeding it with your own blood.
Your Highness, you're back.
It's the only thing the Empress left you.
I didn't want you to feel sad watching the flowers wither.
But if this is the price,
do you really think I'd still want that?
I'm sorry.
I never once asked you.
All these years…
I've only thought about what I believed was right.
I'm such a coward.
Tianji,
I'm sorry.
I've owed you
an apology for a long time.
Does it hurt?
No,
not at all.
From now on,
no matter what happens,
don't hide anything from me again.
I've grown up now.
Let's face everything together.
All right, Xiao?
All right. Xiao?