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Adapted from the novel "Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation" by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
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Reincarnation and rebirth shroud love and hate in mist
We were once acquainted and our azure swords crossed
From the depths of the clouds flows a melody of zither and flute
The physical realm is transient, like the drunken dream of a lone soul
Overlooking both good and evil, I witness the chaos of life
Side by side, we fight against the world
Not once did I betray my principles
Leading a carefree life, I have transcended virtues and vices
Yet I cannot erase the scars within my heart
In this life, we shall not be caught in strife
Steering clear of worldly affairs,
we walk different paths while keeping justice in our hearts
I had been chivalrous and righteous, yet my deeds were all in vain
Good and evil are black and white
But the border between love and hate remains blurred
Knowing you is like a dream
Cloud's Longing Arc Episode 2 Love and Hate
Many places within a radius of 150 miles are emitting resentful energy.
For a simple soul summoning to have such a large effect...
Second Brother, what kind of demonic creature
is the severed arm that Wangji brought back?
I have rarely seen an entity this ferocious.
Still, with Wangji and Uncle there, this should be manageable.
I hear that Wangji has already sent out over 200 disciples.
Other clans have dispatched many people as well.
I believe the widespread unrest will be resolved quickly.
Huaicang Hill
So this is the haunted hill?
This amount of resentful energy is nothing!
I heard that the resentful energy detected by the Watch Towers
can affect everything within a radius of two miles.
But this place...
It feels too peaceful.
Such an abnormal situation must be the work of evil fiends.
There's something fishy going on here.
Where are all the monsters? Come out and meet your end!
Clan Leader Yao?
Didn't you take your disciples up the hill a while ago?
Why are you still here?
Clan Leader Yao! What are you doing?!
*T/N: Suihua is the name of the sword, meaning "the passage of time".
Suihua*?
Jin Ling!
Are you insane? Stop chasing me!
You! Why are you here?
Why are you here?
I received the missive and came to purge evil spirits, obviously.
So you recovered your sanity?
And you found yourself somebody to depend on.
Clan Leader Yao.
Hanguang-Jun?
I... This... This is...
Stop looking.
You went mad, stabbed anyone on sight, and even tried to kill me!
How... How could that be?
He didn't go mad.
The resentful energy in here is overwhelming.
He took in too much and started to hallucinate.
Mo... Mo Xuanyu?
So you copied the Yiling Patriarch and dabbled in the demonic arts!
The blood of Lanling Jin Clan runs in your veins,
yet you dare sully your clan's reputation?
Funny you should say that.
Was the Yiling Patriarch powerful? Why would I want to copy him?
Besides, even if I did dabble in the demonic arts,
what's that got to do with you?
You!
Hanguang-Jun, this man is talking nonsense.
Why do you associate with him?
I know, you are not yet aware of his past!
Before, he was—
This man is a distinguished guest of the Gusu Lan Clan.
I had invited him to exorcise evil spirits.
Do you object?
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Cornetto?
Since Hanguang-Jun is taking care of it, I'll have a bite first.
Wonderful and crispy!
Hey, are you dumb?
Thank you for your aid, Hanguang-Jun! Have a Cornetto.
Everything cute is mine.
What about me?
Cornetto chocolate ice-cream: our crispy new arrival!
What is the situation at Huaicang Hill?
There was no leakage of resentful energy,
so we couldn't know what caused the abnormality.
Many cultivators have entered the hill to hunt down fiends.
Let them.
Huaicang Hill is not somewhere one can come and leave as they please.
Keep investigating.
You must uncover the source of the abnormal resentful energy
to eliminate potential risks.
Understood.
He is not badly injured; he fainted because of the hallucinatory miasma.
He will wake up after an hour.
Thank you, Hanguang-Jun!
What kind of evil being is hiding in here?
Its resentful energy is so strong!
You said the miasma can cause hallucinations, yet why am I not affected?
Because of your oh-so exceptional cultivation base, of course!
Really?
Well, I didn't need you to tell me that.
You actually believed me?
What's so funny?
You're wearing the Clarity Bell of Yunmeng Jiang Clan, aren't you?
That's right,
the Clarity Bell can calm one's mind and dispel hallucinations.
What do you want?
Dress your wounds.
You need to treat them immediately. Come on!
Stay away from me, you lunatic!
Don't you dare put your crappy medicine on me!
Jin Ling! Wait!
What now?
The blood has darkened.
It was shed a while ago.
That's the disciples stationed at the Watch Tower?
Most likely.
Any clues?
By the look of his wounds, he was assaulted by a ferocious ghost.
But if you ask me, that shouldn't have been possible on this hill.
This is...?
Just a Measuring Snake* from the Southern Lands.
*T/N: A mythical snake that likes to measure its length against a human. It will kill any human shorter than itself.
We have lots of these in our hunting ground!
Brat, what are you getting into now?
Rise.
Close.
The only thing scary about a monster of this calibre is how it looks.
You made it sound as if there would be a ferocious ghost.
Turns out, it's not a big deal at all.
It wasn't this snake. The wound doesn't match.
The bite that killed that cultivator was inflicted by a set of teeth,
yet this snake only has two fangs.
The evil miasma in here is strange.
It is possible that this snake had mutated.
Mutated? Good point.
In the past, during a hunt on Mt. Baifeng,
there were sightings of a giant mutated Measuring Snake.
I just heard about it, that's all!
Oh, I remember it too.
Back then, because of that giant snake,
Jin Zixun from Lanling Jin Clan had a great quarrel with the Yiling Patriarch.
If it were not for Jiang Yanli defending Wei Wuxian,
these two would have traded blows.
A-Xian is my younger brother.
If anyone humiliates him, I shall not make light of it.
What a shame!
He still bit the hand that fed him.
Jiang Yanli did everything she could for the Yiling Patriarch,
and see what happened to her!
Jin Ling!
You had no mum to teach you manners!
Jiang Yanli did everything she could for the Yiling Patriarch.
What a shame!
He still bit the hand that fed him.
What happened?!
These are...
I see.
What do you mean?
A Zombie Trap Array was set up on this hill.
Zombie Trap Array?
Exactly.
The Zombie Trap Array can ensnare feral zombies and seal resentful energy.
That's why, when we were at the foothill,
the resentful energy had risen sharply within a few steps.
Within the Array, resentful energy grows and accumulates,
which ends up dulling the five senses and inducing hallucinations.
Whether humans, beasts, or demons, all of us can easily get trapped in it.
Hence the rumour that one can enter the hill but never leave.
Then these corpses are...
They are the villagers who went missing 11 years ago.
They... they're just corpses. Nothing to fear!
But if the resentful energy in the hill had already been sealed,
why was the Watch Tower still able to detect its abnormal fluctuations?
It is only possible
if there was an evil spirit strong enough to break through the Array.
What was that sound?
Didn't you say that feral zombies would be paralysed here?
Why is this head still flying around?
Because it has too much vicious energy. Even the strongest array isn't infallible.
They say that Huaicang Hill is easy to enter, but hard to leave.
But do you think it could trap Hanguang-Jun?
Here is the murderer.
The teeth mark fits.
This must be the one that bit and killed the disciples stationed at the Watch Tower.
The ghost hand led us all the way here,
and there just happens to be a head. What a coincidence!
Too bad this head has much less vicious energy than the hand.
Nonetheless, we cannot rule out that they belonged to the same person.
Easy problem. There's no Soul Expel Seal on the head.
I'll leave the rest to you, Hanguang-Jun.
Lanling Jin Clan's robes?
He is...?
Wei Wuxian!
You're but the son of a lowly servant!
You... you're much too arrogant!
I'll make you pay for Wen Ning's death!
Ul... Ulcerating Curse!
Wei Wuxian! I'm warning you!
Lift your heinous curse at once! Or else —
Ulcerating Curse.
He was...
Jin Zixun.
My uncle?
I did not expect to find him here.
What do you mean?
13 years ago, I tried to find his corpse, yet his coffin was empty.
Why did you do that?
To verify something.
What is it?
Wait!
What on earth is the Ulcerating Curse?
It's an extremely powerful curse.
One cannot feel its effects
until their body, except for the head, becomes riddled with deep ulcers.
In the end, they die from perforated organs.
What a cruel curse!
Sure it is. No spell comes close to its level of cruelty.
Only the ruthless Yiling Patriarch was capable of such atrocity.
Sorry to interrupt! Do you have any proof?
Everyone knew that Jin Zixun had offended Wei Wuxian
and was retaliated against.
What more proof do you need?
You can't be sure of that.
Jin Zixun was full of hubris and offended quite a lot of people.
Wei Wuxian committed countless crimes during his lifetime.
Even after his death, his followers refused to back down.
They went mad and dug up graves everywhere to avenge him.
Not even Jin Zixun's grave was spared.
None of these evil heretics has ever been a good person!
At this point, talk is useless.
We better look around to find his corpse and let it speak for itself.
What do you mean?
The cursed corpse does not decay following death, so the ulcers will remain,
unless the curser sacrifices the whole of their cultivation base to undo the curse or dies.
Hanguang-Jun, what you wanted to verify was...
Whether the ulcers on Jin Zixun's corpse had disappeared or not.
What's there to check?
Wei Wuxian had cast the curse and he's dead already.
Naturally, the ulcers on my uncle's corpse would've disappeared.
Yet your uncle's corpse was lost.
Perhaps
that grave-robbing frenzy was not caused by demonic cultivators,
but by those who want to conceal the fact that
the curse on Jin Zixun's corpse remained after the death of Yiling Patriarch.
What? You also think that Wei Wuxian wasn't the murderer?
Hanguang-Jun, I heard that you didn't get along with the Yiling Patriarch.
So why are you being partial towards him?
I am not partial to him.
However, it would be unjust to accuse him without proof.
Although Wei Ying was a demonic cultivator, his deeds were honourable.
He was not someone who would hurt others by unscrupulous means.
Ghost General!
Jin Ling!
What are they doing here?
Who are you?
Why were you tailing us?
A sacrificial warrior...
Jin Ling, don't be rash! You can't beat him!
Memories come back to me in the chilling winds
Engulfed by mist, I dispel the clouds only to perceive a fog
I peer into the distance through the cold drizzle
Dusk has fallen, I cannot see the way home
I awake from the dream of my bloody past when I met my demise
Yet I do not blame my fortune
In the boundless haze, good and evil walk separate paths
I raise my wine cup as I weave a poem
My untamed heart will not be forsaken
The strong gale blows against the tide
Chaos rages around me, burying the past in the dust
I repeat to myself, "Keep justice in your heart"
The dauntless spirit of youth remains
The lingering melody of a flute relates my story