Jin Ling: "Uncle, why are you seizing this damn cutsleeve?"
(Jiang Cheng kicks Wei WuXian while keeping him constrained with Zidian) Wei WuXian: "Ow ow!"
Shop owner: "Honored guest--" Jiang Cheng: "Get out!!" (The shop owner flees out of his own store)
(Jiang Cheng throws Wei Wuxian into an empty upstairs room ) Wei WuXian: "Ouch!!!"
Jiang Cheng: "Hmph."
Jin Ling: "Uncle, he--" Jiang Cheng: "Lend me your dog."
Jin Ling: "Ah?" Jiang Cheng: "Hmm?!"
Jin Ling: "Oh..." (whistles for his dog)
(Jin Ling's dog rushes over) Wei WuXian: "! Ahhh!"
Jiang Cheng: "Hmph."
Jin Ling: "Uncle--" Jiang Cheng: "I'll take care of you later. Stay outside!"
Jin Ling: "I got it." (leaves)
Jiang Cheng: "Don't you have anything to say to me?"
Jiang Cheng: "...Wei WuXian!"
(Credits)
Mo Dao Zu Shi [Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation] - Season 1 Episode 8
Wei WuXian: "I don't know what to say to you."
Jiang Cheng: "Hmph. I thought you would flatly deny it."
Wei WuXian: "What do I have to deny?"
Jiang Cheng: "You really don't know to repent, do you?"
Wei WuXian: "You have not made any progress either."
Jiang Cheng: "Alright, then let's see which of us is the one who has not made any progress!"
(Jiang Cheng commands Jin Ling's dog over) Jiang Cheng: "Go!"
(Jin Ling's dog runs over) Wei WuXian: "Ah!! Don't come near me!"
Jiang Cheng: "Hmph. Look at your embarrassing appearance even after all these decades."
Wei WuXian: "Lan Zhan! Lan Zhan!!"
Jiang Cheng: "Fairy, come back!"
Jiang Cheng: "Who did you call?"
Wei WuXian: "Huh?"
Jiang Cheng: "I almost forgot to ask you."
Jiang Cheng: "Since when have you been so close to Lan WangJi?"
Wei WuXian: "I... I..."
Wei WuXian: "I called his name?"
Jiang Cheng: "Last time on Dafan Mountain, he went so far to protect you."
Jiang Cheng: "It really does make one curious."
Jiang Cheng: "Oh, that's not right."
Jiang Cheng: "The one Lan WangJi is protecting isn't necessarily you."
Jiang Cheng: "After all, the Gusu Lan sect would not forget the 'good deeds'' you and your loyal dog committed."
Jiang Cheng: "How could someone so celebrated for his strict righteousness ever tolerate the likes of you?"
Jiang Cheng: "Maybe he had friendly relations with the body you stole instead."
Wei WuXian: "Watch your language."
Jiang Cheng: "I've never cared for such things, don't you remember?"
Wei WuXian: "Oh, right."
Jiang Cheng: "Heh, you even have the face to tell me to watch my language?"
Jiang Cheng: "Last time on Dafan Mountain, did you watch your language towards Jin Ling?"
Wei WuXian: "I--"
Jiang Cheng: " 'I suppose you didn't have a mother to teach you.'
Jiang Cheng: "You are really good at insulting people, hitting where it hurts the most."
Jiang Cheng: "Jin Ling being criticized behind his back these days is all thanks to you."
Jiang Cheng: "You're quite the forgetful old man. You've forgotten the things you said, forgotten the promises you made..."
Jiang Cheng: "But don't you dare forget how his parents died!"
Wei WuXian: "I haven't forgotten! I only-- only..."
Jiang Cheng: "Only what? You're unable to say it?"
Jiang Cheng: "That's alright. You can return to the Lotus Pier, kneel in front of my parents' graves, and slowly say it!"
Wei WuXian: "I've always dreamed of returning to the Lotus Pier, but not the Lotus Pier of today--"
(Jin Ling bangs on the door outside) Jin Ling: "Uncle! Uncle!"
Jiang Cheng: "Didn't I tell you to stay where you were? Why did you come over here?!"
Jin Ling: (from the other side of the door) "Uncle, I have a really important matter to tell you about."
Jiang Cheng: "What important matter? You didn't speak up when I scolded you for so long, you have to tell me now?"
Jin Ling: "It's exactly because you were scolding me that I didn't speak up! Are you gonna listen or not? If you won't listen, I won't say it!"
(Jiang Cheng opens the door) Jiang Cheng: "Hurry and tell me, then hurry and get out!"
Jin Ling: "I actually did encounter something troublesome today. I think I encountered Wen Ning!"
Wei WuXian: Wen Ning? Jiang Cheng: !
Jiang Cheng: "When?! Where?!"
Jin Ling: "It was just this afternoon. There was a worn-down house about a dozen miles south of here."
Jin Ling: "I went because I heard there were strange things happening there, but who could have guessed there was a fierce corpse hiding inside."
Wei WuXian: That's a lie. Once Wen Ning hides himself, unless I purposefully summon him, he would never let himself be seen.
Jiang Cheng: "Why didn't you say so earlier?!" Wei WuXian: Jin Ling is... trying to help me by drawing away Jiang Cheng?
Wei WuXian: Jin Ling is... trying to help me by drawing away Jiang Cheng?
Jin Ling: "I wasn't sure either." Wei WuXian: Jin Ling is... trying to help me by drawing away Jiang Cheng?
Jin Ling: "I wasn't sure either."
Jin Ling: "That fierce corpse moved extremely fast, I only saw a blurry figure."
Jin Ling: "But I heard the sound of metal chains clinking, just like last time on Dafan Mountain. That's why I suspected it might have been him."
Jin Ling: "If you hadn't been incessantly scolding me, I would have told you right after I came back."
Jin Ling: "If he ran away and you can't catch him, that'll be because of your own bad temper, not me."
Jiang Cheng: "I'll deal with you once I come back. Get lost!"
Jin Ling: "Oh."
Jiang Cheng: "Well, well."
Jiang Cheng: "You really bring that obedient dog of yours everywhere, don't you?!"
Wei WuXian: "He's been dead for a long time now. I've died once too. What else do you want?"
Jiang Cheng: "What else?"
Jiang Cheng: "Even if he dies thousands and tens of thousands of times, my hatred will persist!"
Jiang Cheng: "He wasn't exterminated back then. Very well, today I will exterminate him myself!"
Jiang Cheng: "I'm going to burn him right now, and scatter his ashes in front of you!"
(Jiang Cheng activates Zidian's whip) Wei WuXian: "What are you doing?" (Jiang Cheng uses Zidian to tie him up)
Wei WuXian: "Hey, you don't have to tie me up. You're even taking the trouble to use Zidian?"
Jiang Cheng: "Hmph, stay right here!"
Jiang Cheng: "Jin Ling, you keep a close eye on the person inside."
Jiang Cheng: "Don't believe or even listen to anything he says."
Jiang Cheng: "Don't let him make any noise."
Jiang Cheng: "If he dares to whistle or play his flute, block his mouth first. If you can't do that, directly slice off his hand or cut out his tongue."
Wei WuXian: He's saying this for me to hear...
Jin Ling: "I know. Of course I can watch a single person."
Jin Ling: "Uncle, why did you shut yourself inside with that damn cutsleeve? What did he do this time?"
Jiang Cheng: "That isn't a question you should ask. Watch him properly. If I return to see he's disappeared, I'll break your legs for sure!"
Jin Ling: "I know."
Jiang Cheng: "Let's go." Jiang clan disciples: "Yes sir!"
Jin Ling: (directing the remaining disciples) "You, go over there. You, guard that side."
Jin Ling: "You guys stand at the main entrance. I'm going inside to meet him." Remaining Jiang clan disciple: "Yes sir."
Jin Ling: "Damn cutsleeve, what were you and my uncle talking about? Why didn't he let me listen?"
Wei WuXian: "We adults were speaking, why would we involve a child like you?"
Jin Ling: "Hmph, if you don't wanna say it, fine. I don't care to know."
(Jin Ling dispels Zidian's whip bindings)
Wei WuXian: "You can undo Zidian?"
Jin Ling: "No kidding! If you don't want my uncle to come back and kill you, follow me."
Jin Ling: "This way, hurry!" Wei WuXian: "Mm."
(Jin Ling's dog approaches, barking) Wei WuXian: !!
Wei WuXian: "W-w-why is it coming too? Make it go away!"
(Jin Ling whistles, his dog leaves)
Jin Ling: "What a loser. Fairy never bites people, it just looks scary."
Jin Ling: "This is a spiritual dog who has undergone strict training and only attacks evil beings. Did you really think it was just a regular dog?"
Wei WuXian: "Hold on. What did you call it?"
Jin Ling: "Fairy. Its name."
Wei WuXian: "You gave a dog that name?!"
Jin Ling: "What's wrong with this name? When it was small, it was called Little Fairy. After it grew up, I couldn't keep calling it that."
Wei WuXian: "No, no, no. The problem isn't whether it's little or big. Who in the world did you learn this way of naming from?!"
Wei WuXian: Heh, it definitely was from his maternal uncle.
Wei WuXian: Back in the day, Jiang Cheng also raised a few puppies. He named them things like 'Jasmine', 'Princess', 'Little Love'.
Wei WuXian: If you didn't know better, you'd think they were names of expensive courtesans!
Jin Ling: "Real men don't bother with trifles like that. Why are you stuck on this issue?"
Wei WuXian: (sigh) "Alright, let's just stop here."
Wei WuXian: Here's where we met that charlatan earlier. Lan Zhan should be waiting for me around this area.
Jin Ling: "You've offended my uncle, leaving you half alive is a must."
Jin Ling: "Now I'm letting you go, so we're even."
Wei WuXian: "You're letting me go just like this? Do you know why your uncle wanted to seize me?"
Jin Ling: "I know, he suspects you're Wei WuXian."
Wei WuXian: "What about you? Do you suspect that?"
Jin Ling: "This isn't the first time my uncle has done such a thing. Even if he's caught the wrong person, he absolutely never lets anyone go."
Jin Ling: "But since Zidian couldn't whip out your soul, I'll tentatively trust you aren't him."
Jin Ling: "Besides, Wei WuXian wasn't a cutsleeve, but you actually dared to harass..."
Jin Ling: "...Anyways, from now on, you have nothing to do with the Lanling Jin sect."
Jin Ling: "If you're gonna act sick again, don't do it to anyone from my sect. Or else I won't spare you!"
Wei WuXian: "Haha."
Jin Ling: "What are doing still standing there? Still not leaving, are you waiting for my uncle to come catch you?"
Jin Ling: "Let me tell you, don't think I'll be grateful just because you saved me. Especially don't bother hoping I'll say something cringeworthy to you!"
Wei WuXian: "Young man, in life there are two cringeworthy phrases that must be said, no matter what."
Jin Ling: "What two phrases?"
Wei WuXian: " 'Thank you'... and 'I'm sorry'."
Jin Ling: "Tch. If I don't say them, what can anyone do to me?"
Wei WuXian: "There will always come a day where you will say those words in tears."
Jin Ling: "Pah!"
Wei WuXian: "I'm sorry."
Jin Ling: "What?"
Wei WuXian: "For those words I said to you on Dafan Mountain... I'm sorry."
Jin Ling: "...It's no big deal. You weren't the first to say those things. It's true I had no mother to teach me."
Jin Ling: "But I won't be inferior to anyone because of this! In fact, I'm gonna open everyone's eyes and make you see: I'm a lot stronger than all of you!"
Jin Ling: "Alright, I'm going to head back."
Wei WuXian: "Ah! Jiang Cheng! Why are you here?!"
Jin Ling: "Ah?! Uncle!"
(Wei WuXian knocks Jin Ling unconscious and finds the Curse Mark on his leg)
Wei WuXian: The curse mark on his leg has already darkened to this extent, this really is troublesome.
Wei WuXian: What exactly did this child offend, and how am I supposed to help him clear this up?
(Flashback) Jiang YanLi: "A-Xian, come pick a courtesy name." [A-Xian = nickname for Wei WuXian Common/courtesy name = name bestowed upon adulthood, different from one's birth/given name]
Wei WuXian: "Pick a courtesy name? Whose courtesy name?"
Jiang YanLi: "For your future... nephew."
Wei WuXian: "Hmmm... the next generation of the Lanling Jin sect has the generation name of 'Ru', right?" [Generation name = in some families, each generation has a common character shared across everyone's courtesy names]
Wei WuXian: "So how about 'RuLan'? Jin RuLan?"
Wei WuXian: "Jin RuLan..."
Wei WuXian: It's not easy to clear a Curse Mark. Luckily, there is another method I can use.
(Wei WuXian uses a technique to transfer Jin Ling's Curse Mark onto his own body)
(Jin Ling starts to stir)
Jin Ling: "Did you knock me out just now?! You actually dared to hit me?! My uncle hasn't even hit me before!"
Wei WuXian: "Doesn't he frequently say he's going to break your legs?"
Jin Ling: "He was just saying that! You damn cutsleeve, what on Earth are you trying to do?! I--"
Wei WuXian: "Ah? HanGuang-Jun!" Jin Ling: "He was just saying that! You damn cutsleeve, what on Earth are you trying to do?! I--"
Jin Ling: "Hmph, you're still trying to trick me?"
Jin Ling: !! "It really is HanGuang-Jun!"
Jin Ling: (yelling while running off) "I-I-I'm leaving! You damn cutsleeve! You disgusting maniac!"
(Wei WuXian can't help but laugh) Jin Ling: (yelling while running off) "I'll remember that, this isn't over!"
Wei WuXian: "HanGuang-Jun, I made you wait for so long~"
Wei WuXian: "What's wrong? Your expression doesn't look good... were you not able to catch the person?"
Wei WuXian: "Don't don't don't! HanGuang-Jun! Why are you kneeling in front of me? I'm gonna lose years off my life!"
Lan WangJi: "Nothing more than one knee."
Wei WuXian: "Even one knee is too much!"
Lan WangJi: "The Curse Mark on your leg... where did it come from?"
Wei WuXian: "It just... kind of randomly... I don't know how... it just came on its own."
Lan WangJi: "You could not clear away the curse on Jin Ling's body, so you simply transferred it onto your own body."
Wei WuXian: "Uh, that's about right... i-it's not like there was any other solution."
Wei WuXian: "Anyway, I have lots of experience dealing with these types of things."
(Lan WangJi exhales)
Lan WangJi: "...I only left for a few hours."
Wei WuXian: "A few hours is a long time, anything can happen. Come come, straighten up."
Wei WuXian: "It's just an ordinary Curse Mark. If the evil spirit that planted it comes to find me, just kill it and everything will be fine."
Wei WuXian: "HanGuang-Jun, you've gotta help me. If you don't help me, I--"
Lan WangJi: "Wei Ying." Wei WuXian: "HanGuang-Jun, you'll need to help me. If you don't help me, I--"
[Listen to the melody of the background music ;-) 忘羡一曲远, 曲终人不散]
Wei WuXian: "...You know."
Lan WangJi: "Mm."
Wei WuXian: "When did you know?"
Lan WangJi: "Very early."
(Wei WuXian stammers at the realization) [inner Wei WuXian is probably all: Whoops, sorry about all that sexual harassment, this is awkward...]
Lan WangJi: "You encountered Jiang WanYin."
Wei WuXian: "You know that too?"
Lan WangJi: "Your body has the injuries from being bound by Zidian."
Wei WuXian: "Ah? Ah, it's no problem, just minor injuries."
Wei WuXian: "As long as he and I are alive on this world, we would always meet, sooner or later."
Wei WuXian: "Ah, that's right. HanGuang-Jun, you still haven't told me--did you catch that person? Where is he?"
Lan WangJi: "Successfully caught. He is in the inn."
Wei WuXian: "That's good. Let's first resolve the stone castle issue."
(Wei WuXian's leg collapses under him) Wei WuXian: "Ow! Oww, ouch..."
Lan WangJi: "Don't walk." [This can also be translated as "Don't go." ;'-) ]
Wei WuXian: "If I can't walk, will you carry me?"
(Lan WangJi actually moves to do so) Wei WuXian: "Hold on, hold on, I was just saying nonsense off the top of my head."
Wei WuXian: "I was just numb from Jiang Cheng shocking me twice with Zidian, that's all. It's not like my legs broke."
Wei WuXian: "A full-grown man needing to be carried piggyback... Heh, that'd look bad."
Lan WangJi: "Would it look bad?"
Wei WuXian: "Would it look good?"
Lan WangJi: "But you have carried me on your back before."
Wei WuXian: "Did such a thing happen? W-why don't I remember?"
Lan WangJi: "You never remember such things."
Wei WuXian: "Heh, everyone says I have a bad memory. Fine, if it's bad it's bad. Anyways, no~ piggyback~"
Lan WangJi: "Are you sure?"
Wei WuXian: "I'm sure."
(Lan WangJi picks him up into his arms) Wei WuXian: !!
Wei WuXian: "Lan Zhan!!"
Lan WangJi: "You said not to carry you on my back."
Wei WuXian: "I still didn't say I wanted to be carried in your arms like this!"
Wei WuXian: "Fine, you want to compete to see who's more brazen?"
Lan WangJi: "Do not flail around."
Wei WuXian: I never would have thought that Lan Zhan is quite a vindictive person.
Wei WuXian: All those times I teased him in the past... now he's paying each one back!
Wei WuXian: This is really too much of an improvement. Not only has his cultivation improved, his brazenness has improved too!
Wei WuXian: "Lan Zhan, did you already recognize me at Dafan Mountain?"
Lan WangJi: "Mm."
Wei WuXian: "How did you recognize me?"
Lan WangJi: "You want to know?"
Wei WuXian: "Mm."
Lan WangJi: "You told me yourself."
Wei WuXian: "Myself? Because of Jin Ling? Because I summoned Wen Ning? ...None of these, right?"
Lan WangJi: "...Think for yourself."
Wei WuXian: "I only asked you because I can't think of it."
Lan WangJi: "We have arrived at the inn."
Wei WuXian: "Alright. We're here. You should let me down now."
Wei WuXian: "You don't have an extra hand to open the door..."
(Lan WangJi straight-up kicks open the door) Wei WuXian: "You don't have an extra hand to open the door..."
Wei WuXian: "Uh..." Nie HuaiSang: !!
Nie HuaiSang: "HanGuang-Jun, I don't know, I don't know, I... I really don't know!"
Wei WuXian: The person outside the stone castle was indeed Nie HuaiSang! Nie HuaiSang: "HanGuang-Jun, I don't know, I don't know, I... I really don't know!"
Nie HuaiSang: "HanGuang-Jun, I don't know, I don't know, I... I really don't know!"
Lan WangJi: "Sit properly."
Nie HuaiSang: "You... you two..."
Wei WuXian: "Sect Leader Nie. So the person bitten by the dog outside the stone castle was you."
Nie HuaiSang: "I-i-it wasn't me!"
Lan WangJi: (takes out the piece of cloth that Fairy had been holding) "Here is the fabric bitten off by the spiritual dog."
Wei WuXian: "Sect Leader Nie... Then why is your sleeve exactly missing this piece?"
Nie HuaiSang: "I..."
Nie HuaiSang: "I just happened to be passing by. I really don't know anything."
Wei WuXian: "If you don't know, then I'll say it. As you listen to me, maybe you'll realize you know something after all."
Nie HuaiSang: "What do... what do you want to say?"
Wei WuXian: "The Xinglu Ridge region has three lines of defenses set up."
Wei WuXian: "The first is the rumor of the 'Man-Eating Castle', to make ordinary people stay away from Xinglu Ridge."
Wei WuXian: "The second is the low-level walking corpses on Xinglu Ridge, that lack any power to harm people."
Wei WuXian: "The third is the maze array near the stone castle."
Nie HuaiSang: "What... what defenses are these? I've never heard of them."
Wei WuXian: "This place is the Qinghe Nie sect's territory. Aside from the Nie clan, no one else is capable of easily setting up these three obstacles in Qinghe."
Wei WuXian: "Moreover, you just happened to appear near the stone castle and leave behind evidence."
Nie HuaiSang: "I... I was just... I..."
Wei WuXian: "So... what exactly is the Qinghe Nie sect's goal in constructing a 'Man-Eating Castle' in Xinglu Ridge?"
Wei WuXian: "Where did the corpses within the walls come from? Did the castle eat them?"
Wei WuXian: "Sect Leader Nie... if you don't give us a proper explanation today, I'm afraid that the secret will be exposed and all the sects will be crusading to interrogate you."
Wei WuXian: "When that time comes, even if you want to explain... I'm afraid no one will believe you."
Nie HuaiSang: "...It isn't a Man-Eating Castle at all. It's... it's just my sect's ancestral tomb!"
Lan WangJi: "Ancestral tomb?"
Wei WuXian: "Whose ancestral tomb doesn't put corpses in their coffins, but instead puts sabers?"
Nie HuaiSang: "HanGuang-Jun, before I say anything, can you swear a vow?"
Nie HuaiSang: "Seeing that our two clans are long-time friends, and our older brothers were both sworn brothers..."
Nie HuaiSang: "No matter what I say next, you--and the one you carried in--must not tell anyone!"
Lan WangJi: "Okay."
Wei WuXian: "You said it's not a Man-Eating Castle. Then it has never eaten any humans?"
Nie HuaiSang: "...It has eaten humans."
Wei WuXian: "Wow."
Lan WangJ: "The details, please."
Nie HuaiSang: "You all know, the founder of the Nie sect was a butcher, so we cultivate using sabers."
Nie HuaiSang: "Our cultivation path relies on slaughter and highly values carnage. Almost every clan leader died a violent death from a Qi deviation explosion."
Wei WuXian: Indeed. Nie HuaiSang's older brother Nie MingJue, the former sect leader who once was one of the 'Three Honored' sworn brothers alongside Lan XiChen and Jin GuangYao...
Wei WuXian: lost control and went mad, and died an explosive violent death in public.
Nie HuaiSang: "The sabers of our past sect leaders were all heavy with killing intent and furious aura."
Nie HuaiSang: "But after their master dies, they have no one to control them and will turn into a fierce weapon."
Wei WuXian: "This is getting close to the demonic path!"
Nie HuaiSang: "I-i-it's different! Demonic cultivation demands the use of human lives. Our sect's sabers wants evil spirits and beasts."
Nie HuaiSang: "They kill those things for their entire lives. If there are no evil beings given to them to destroy, they will start haunting on their own and disturb the sect."
Nie HuaiSang: "The sixth sect leader later came up with a method. He said if these saber spirits wished to battle evil beings, then we should give them evil beings to battle forever."
Nie HuaiSang: "So a saber tomb was built, and corpses that were about to transform were buried together with the saber spirits, like burial goods."
Nie HuaiSang: "The saber spirits would suppress the corpses' transformations, and at the same time, the corpses would calm the saber spirits' desire and fury."
Nie HuaiSang: "The current situation would be preserved, with the two sides keeping each other in check."
Wei WuXian: "Then why was the stone castle built afterwards?"
Wei WuXian: "Why were the corpses buried inside the walls?"
Wei WuXian: "In addition, you said it has eaten people?"
Nie HuaiSang: "Th-these few questions are actually the same question. I guess you could say it's eaten people."
Nie HuaiSang: "B-but it wasn't on purpose!
Nie HuaiSang: "The saber tomb built by our sixth sect leader was constructed to look like an ordinary tomb."
Nie HuaiSang: "But fifty years ago, that tomb was dug up by some grave robbers."
Grave robber: "It's blasted open, hurry and get inside! Follow closely, be careful."
Other grave robber: "Wow, it really is a huge tomb! We're gonna be rich!"
Grave robber: "Eh, what clan built this tomb after all? The burial goods are all sabers."
Other grave robber: !! "B-b-behind you..."
Grave robber: "What?"
(the grave robbers are attacked by the transformed walking corpses)
Grave robber: "The corpses rose from death!!" (the grave robbers are attacked by the transformed walking corpses)
(the grave robbers are attacked by the transformed walking corpses)
Grave robber: "Do we still have any Blasting Talismans?"
Other grave robber: "Here!"
(the grave robber ignites the Blasting Talisman, which explodes and destroys the walking corpses)
Other grave robber: "Where did all these fierce corpses come from?!"
Grave robber: "We're lucky we brought the Blasting Talisman."
Grave robber: "This place is too strange. Let's leave."
Other grave robbers: "Let's go let's go." "Let's go out first." "Go out first."
Grave robber: ! "Everyone, look... this... the opening repaired itself!"
Other grave robber: "The Blasting Talismans were all used up."
Grave robber: "Then how... how are we going to get out?"
Other grave robber: "What's that sound?!"
Grave robber: "Sabers! The sabers are about to come out!"
(the enraged sabers slaughter the grave robbers)
Wei WuXian: "So what you're saying is... the corpses placed inside the saber tomb... must be equal in number to the saber spirits to achieve balance?"
Wei WuXian: "After some fierce corpses were blown to bits by the grave robbers, the balance was broken."
Wei WuXian: "Then the saber tomb automatically closed itself off, and trapped the grave robbers alive within the tomb."
Wei WuXian: "So they could fill for the vacancy they had caused."
Nie HuaiSang: "Th-that's exactly right. The saber tomb was destroyed."
Nie HuaiSang: "Later, the sect leader at the time chose another spot on Xinglu Ridge and built a saber hall instead of a saber tomb."
Nie HuaiSang: "To protect against grave robbers coming again, he hid the corpses inside the walls as a disguise."
Wei WuXian: "This saber hall is the 'Man-Eating Castle' of the rumors?"
Nie HuaiSang: "Mm. When the grave robbers entered Xinglu Ridge, they pretended to be hunters."
Nie HuaiSang: "Because they never returned and left no remains behind, some people spread rumors they had been eaten by monsters within the ridge."
Nie HuaiSang: "Later, after the stone castle was built, another passerby inadvertently saw it."
Nie HuaiSang: "After he left the ridge, he told everyone there was a strange white castle on Xinglu Ridge and the man-eating monsters must dwell there."
Wei WuXian: "So this is the origin of those rumors."
Nie HuaiSang: "Our sect thought it'd be beneficial to spread the rumors. That way no one would dare get close to that region."
Nie HuaiSang: "After embellishing the story, the legend of the 'Man-Eating Castle' was created."
Nie HuaiSang: "But it really can eat humans!"
Wei WuXian: "That's true, it almost ate the Lanling Jin young master Jin Ling."
Nie HuaiSang: "That young master Jin used some unknown method to blast open a hole in the wall."
Nie HuaiSang: "Such a thick wall and he still blasted it open! He must have been carrying lots of magical weapons... wait wait that's not the point."
Nie HuaiSang: "I was saying, the wall he blasted open just happened to have a skeleton buried inside."
Nie HuaiSang: "Not long after he entered, he was sucked into the stone castle wall to replace the corpse he blew up."
Wei WuXian: "Since this place is so important, why not send people to strictly guard it?"
Nie HuaiSang: "If it was strictly guarded, wouldn't that just attract more attention?"
Nie HuaiSang: "I regularly come to Xinglu Ridge to check it over."
Nie HuaiSang: "When I went today, that dog bit me..." ;___;
Nie HuaiSang: "The saber hall is basically our ancestral tomb. I really..."
Nie HuaiSang: "HanGuang-Jun, as well as this person... I've said everything, you mustn't tell anyone about this!"
Lan WangJi: "Mm."
Nie HuaiSang: "Since I've given a proper explanation, I can go back, right?"
Nie HuaiSang: (sigh) "You guys don't know how tough being sect leader is. Having to worry over all the issues of the sect... my head is going to explode."
Wei WuXian: "Alright, alright, you can go back."
Lan WangJi: "Farewell."
Nie HuaiSang: "I'll take my leave."
Wei WuXian: "No wonder Nie HuaiSang prefers to be the laughingstock of all the clans and sects."
Wei WuXian: "He doesn't focus on his cultivation and is especially hesitant to sharpen his saber's blade."
Wei WuXian: "After all, if he succeeds in cultivation, his temperament would grow more irritable. In the end, like his brother and ancestors, he would finally die an explosive death."
Wei WuXian: "Even after his death, his saber would still haunt the living and never find peace."
Wei WuXian: "Heh, being a total failure would be preferable."
(Lan WangJi kneels down to check Wei WuXian's leg again) Wei WuXian: "H-hey!"
Wei WuXian: "Wait wait. Lan Zhan, what are you doing?"
Lan WangJi: "First remove the curse."
Wei WuXian: "Don't always use that half-kneeling position before me! I really am going to lose years off my life. H-h-here, I'll do it myself."
Wei WuXian: "The Curse Mark has already reached my thighs."
(Lan WangJi looks away)
Wei WuXian: "Uh... Lan Zhan?"
(the teacups and teapot on the desk shatter) Wei WuXian: !
Wei WuXian: "The ghost hand is causing trouble again. Lan Zhan, let's hurry and duet 'Rest'!"
Wei WuXian: "Eh? Where's my flute? Lan Zhan, give me my flute!"
Lan WangJi: "Mm. ...Play it properly."
Wei WuXian: "Hahaha, okay okay."
Wei WuXian: Heh, it must have been difficult for him to endure my horrible playing for so long.
(Lan WangJi's guqin and Wei WuXian's flute play 'Rest' together to subdue the ghost hand, this time actually in tune)
Wei WuXian: "These few days, the ghost hand has been trapped in the Qiankun Pouch and carried with us. It has never been as irritable as it is today."
Wei WuXian: "Is it possible... it got used to my horrible flute playing? It's not happy when I play it properly?"
Lan WangJi: "Something on your body provoked it."
Wei WuXian: "My... my body? The only extra thing on my body today is the Curse Mark transferred from Jin Ling's body."
Lan WangJi: "Precisely that."
Wei WuXian: "The Curse Mark on Jin Ling's body... was left by the stone castle on Xinglu Ridge."
Wei WuXian: "The ghost hand reacted intensely to that Curse Mark."
Wei WuXian: "That means... another part of its body is likely within the wall of the Nie sect's saber hall!"
Lan WangJi: "Tomorrow, we will visit the saber hall again."
Wei WuXian: "Alright."
Nie sect disciples in the middle of reconstructing the castle: "This side this side!" "I need help over here!" "Be careful!"
Nie sect disciples: "Careful careful!" "One, two, three!"
Nie HuaiSang: "Move faster, today this wall must be fixed! The corpse was already filled in properly, right?"
Nie sect disciple: "Ah, Sect Leader, rest assured."
Wei WuXian: "Sect Leader Nie."
Nie HuaiSang: "Eh? HanGuang-Jun? And this person?"
Wei WuXian: "Sect Leader Nie, are you bricking up the wall?"
Nie HuaiSang: "Ah, yes yes yes."
Wei WuXian: "Uh, sorry about this... We'll likely have to inconvenience you to brick it up again in a little bit."
Nie HuaiSang: "Sure sure sure. ....Ah?!!"
Nie HuaiSang: "Wait wait!" (Lan WangJi unsheathes Bichen and carves open the freshly repaired wall)
(Lan WangJi unsheathes Bichen and carves open the freshly repaired wall)
Nie HuaiSang: "What exactly is going on?? This is our sect's ancestral tomb!"
Wei WuXian: "Long story short, we are currently looking for a male corpse that is missing an arm."
Wei WuXian: "This thing is fiercely evil, and we suspect it was buried in this wall of your ancestral tomb."
Nie HuaiSang: "It's not here! It's definitely not here!"
Nie HuaiSang: "All of the corpses used in our sect's saber hall are complete, with all limbs attached. There definitely isn't any armless male corpse."
Nie HuaiSang:"If you don't believe me, I'll have my men tear down the bricks, bring all the corpses out for you to examine, and prove my innocence."
Nie HuaiSang: "Uh, you all tear down this wall." Nie sect disciples: "Yes, Sect Leader."
(Nie sect disciples in the background: "This side." "Let's go.")
Wei WuXian: "I say, Sect Leader Nie, I'm quite curious. Where did you find so many corpses to suppress the saber spirits?"
Nie HuaiSang: "Ah, please don't misunderstand! They weren't killed by our sect's people."
Nie HuaiSang: "They were painstakingly gathered from searching in various places. Quite a few of them were bought at very high prices too."
Nie sect disciple: "Sect Leader, it's done."
Wei WuXian: "These corpses are really quite diverse. But they are indeed all completely intact."
Nie HuaiSang: "Uh... just tearing down this wall is enough, right? Do any more need to be torn down too? That's enough, right?"
Lan WangJi: "This is fine."
Wei WuXian: "The Curse Mark on Jin Ling's body was extremely dark in color. That thing should have been buried very close to him, definitely not past the range of this wall."
Nie HuaiSang: "You see? Just like I said, there simply aren't any corpses of ours that are missing arms."
Wei WuXian: "That's strange... Could it be that this hand doesn't belong to a man? ...No, that'd be impossible. I can tell at a glance whether a hand is a man's or woman's."
Wei WuXian: "Is it possible the owner of this ghost hand had three arms?!"
Lan WangJi: "Legs."
Wei WuXian: ! "That's right! The Curse Mark was only limited to the leg area."
Wei WuXian: "Take off the pants, take off the pants!"
Nie HuaiSang: !! "Why are you saying such a shameful thing in front of HanGuang-Jun?!"
Wei Wuxian: "How was that shameful? All of us are men. Help me out, take the pants off all the corpses. Not the female corpses, just the male ones."
Nie HuaiSang: !!! (Nie sect disciples: !! "This...")
Nie HuaiSang: "Good god, you're actually capable of doing such an ignoble thing?!" (Nie sect disciples: "Do we really have to take them off?" "This isn't good...")
Wei WuXian: "Hey, if you guys aren't going to take them off, I'll do it myself."
Lan WangJi: "Wait."
Nie HuaiSang: "HanGuang-Jun! HanGuang-Jun can't bear to watch any more of this!"
Lan WangJi: "I will do it."
Nie HuaiSang: "What?!!" Wei WuXian: "You'll do it?"
Lan WangJi: "Do not move. I will do it."
(Lan WangJi unsheathes Bichen and uses it to cut all the corpses' pants open with one motion)
Wei WuXian: "Wow...." Nie HuaiSang: "Ah?"
Nie HuaiSang: "Truly worthy of HanGuang-Jun..."
Lan WangJi: "Found it."
Nie HuaiSang: "Ah?"
Wei WuXian: "Look! This male corpse's legs were sewn on by someone!"
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