I think the bloodshed I've mentioned
will happen here.
Master,
you poisoned the tea,
because you wanted to kill me. Right?
But now,
the poison is inside your stomach.
What a pity.
I was eager to save you
and gave you hints for several times. But you…
…go your own way and remain impenitent.
You're unworthy of my kindness.
You even wanted to kill me with the poisonous tea.
So I can't go against the will of the gods.
You'll get the punishment you deserve.
I can't help you.
I just want to see
which of us will fall down first?
Peacock's gallbladder!
When the toxic attacks you, the first symptom is
slight heat to your chest.
Why does he know it's the peacock's gallbladder?
I don't feel hot.
Next, you'll feel dizzy.
Feel your head heavy and your feet light.
I'm standing stably here.
Turn around.
Feel dizzy?
What's going on?
Next to the dizziness,
you'll have blurred vision.
I have…
…blurred vision!
My lord, have you really got poisoned?
Do you start to feel the pain?
First, you feel a prick.
Then a dull ache.
Next, you feel extremely painful.
The pain starts from the Guanyuan point
below your abdomen. Right?
My lord, do you have abdominal pain?
That's impossible.
I put the poison
into your cup.
It's impossible it'd be in my cup.
This is the will of gods.
Our master has got poisoned.
My lord, its toxicity is strong.
Sir, I'm begging you.
Please save our master.
Sir, please save our master.
I can't trust you.
I'm sorry.
Master, I'll correct my misconduct.
Master! Master!
What mistake did you make?
I shouldn't have poisoned you.
I shouldn't have misunderstood your kindness.
I've long left those secular opinions behind me.
I don't care what you think.
I shouldn't have accumulated wealth by unfair means.
I love money too much.
Birds die in pursuit of food.
It's a common failing for ordinary men to accumulated wealth by unfair means.
It's not a big offense.
I shouldn't have
victimized or tricked others
for the sake of money.
Really? Tell me about it.
I pretended to help cure people's illness.
In fact,
I made those talismans
by burning the grass into ashes.
Please save me, master.
The pain
will be transferred to the above of your abdomen.
People call it the pubic region.
This is lower-jiao.
Above the lower jiao is your stomach.
By this time,
sparks fly before your eyes.
Let me ask you something.
Do you see a spark
in front of your eyes now?
Yes, there's a spark.
Master, please save me.
Sir, please save our master.
It's still early.
The pain will be transferred from the middle-jiao to the upper-jiao.
Then to the Tianzhu Point and the Baihui Point.
Next returning to the Mingmen Point.
The toxin flows all over your body,
opening your Conception and Governor vessels.
Then it returns to your internal organs, and is burnt into thick liquid.
By this time, you'll see seven sparks,
like the Big Dipper.
You'll die then. Goodbye.
Master, master, don't go.
I've seen two sparks.
No, three sparks.
Master, please save me.
It happens so fast.
The toxin attacks you faster than it does to other people.
Are you a malevolent man in your nature?
Yes, I'm a malevolent man.
No.
Master, save me now.
Master.
There's only one solution to save you.
No problem.
I'm willing to
do anything.
But you're inconsistent in your words.
I can't trust you.
Master, I'm begging you.
I'll correct my misconduct.
From now on,
I'll truly correct my misconduct.
I won't kill others for money
or bully others anymore.
Even I have to lose all my property,
I'm willing to do so.
Master, please save me.
Save me.
It's not hard
to save you.
Do as I say.
I will.
Look up.
Take off your shoe.
Okay.
Hold it in your hands. Don't throw it away.
Okay.
I'll hold it into my arms like treasure.
Do you see the red string?
Red string?
Yes. Yes.
It's the life-saving string my master gave to me
while I was practicing Taoism.
The toxicity will be relieved by a lick of it.
Wait.
It can only relieve the toxicity,
instead of removing all the toxin.
In ten hours,
the toxin will still attack you.
Ten…Ten hours?
Master, please save me.
Alright. Twenty-five kilometers away from here in the southeast,
there's a Taoist temple on the mountain.
I'll grant you an elixir to detoxicate you.
Remember. You must be sincere.
You must walk there.
You mustn't go by sedan chair, take a rest,
eat or drink.
You must keep the shoe on your head.
Don't let it fall to the ground. Remember?
Yes, I do.
Thanks for saving me.
Thanks, master.
-Thanks for saving me. -Thanks, master.
Amitabha.
Come on.
Liu Bowen seems to have magic power.
He defeated that Immortal Wang.
Yes.
Alright. Ask him to show me the magical skill some other day.
At least, I can ask him to make the empress' feet smaller.
Where's he now?
It is said that he's on the mountain located in the southeast of Jinhua?
Why is he on the mountain? To practice Taoism?
I have no idea so far.
Have you investigated Immortal Wang's background clearly?
It is said that
he used to be a hooligan and rascal.
He claims that he can cure diseases and do the fortune-telling.
He's a
a local celebrity.
The administrator and vice-prefect of Jinhua
and officials of the nearby districts
often associate with him.
Whenever there's a festival,
the officials will go to visit him.
I hate those officials who
associate closely with unruly people.
The administrator of Jinhua is in prison now.
He must have done some dirty things.
Get to the bottom of this.
Yes.
Sir, I don't understand.
Since you had asked Big Leopard
to replace the bottle,
which means there wasn't any
poison inside the bottle,
why did Immortal Wang still feel the pain?
Because he knew about his own guilt.
So don't do bad things.
If you know about your own guilt,
you can stand the hints given by others.
Right. But that was risky!
You went there alone.
We felt nervous and worried for you.
Don't worry.
My father once experienced more risky occasions than this one.
What's more,
Big Leopard and I were hiding there.
If anything should go wrong,
I'd rush into the house at once.
Sir, why were you so sure
they'd use poison
instead of other methods?
I…
I could foresee it.
What?
And I can foresee that
Immortal Wang is walking
on the trickiest path
he can go by all his life.
Oh!
Come on!
My lord!
The weather is hot. Get some cool air.
Do you want me to die?
The shoe!
Oh!
Twenty-five kilometers in total.
You must get the blisters on your feet.
I have to be sincere.
It's not a big deal to get a blister.
How about taking the sedan chair?
No!
What?
Why do they still follow me?
I asked them not to follow me.
I'm worried that you might…
What are you worried about?
That I might die?
I tell you.
If I should die, you'd have to be buried with me.
Okay. I'll ask them to go back.
Go away.
A bunch of annoying followers.
Do you think I'm a dung beetle? Go back!
Yes. Go back.
Go.
Go.
Put down the sedan chair.
Are we not going?
Yes, we're going.
But you…
It's a waste not to take the sedan chair.
Seeing Mr. Zhang off today as he's going to the capital to take the exam.
I feel so sad and upset.
Alright. Alright. Let's go.
Come on. Work harder.
Work harder.
Alright. Put it here. Put it here.
Sir, what should we do now?
Burn incense. The more, the better.
Okay. Come on. Come with me.
Go.
Okay.
Do it fast.
Stop.
Get down here.
My lord. My lord.
Get divorced and then get married again? I'll divorce you first.
My lord. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
The shoe! The shoe's going to fall down.
Be quick.
Tie it up.
It's precious.
Come on.
M lord. Look. Look there.
It still attracts many worshippers.
I arrive finally.
The master said he'd wait for me there.
Hurry up.
Be careful.
They look sincere.
Yes, so we can't
let them down.
Right?
Right.
Come on. Go.
That's funny.
Oh!
I told you.
Ask them to not to follow me and to go back.
My lord, be careful with the shoe on your head.
I can't let the master see this.
He might think I'm not sincere.
And…
And…
Have you brought the title deeds for houses and land?
They're all here.
My lord,
how about asking them to follow us inside,
and putting the things here first?
We can't let others see them.
Okay, okay. okay.
Hey!
Put these things here first.
You follow us inside.
Eh?
Ma'am,
Is the White Cloud Temple just ahead?
The one over there with smoke of incense.
Thanks, Ma'am.
My God.
Master, I'm coming.
We're not there yet?
My lord. Look, we'll arrive at once.
My good days are coming.
Be quick. Be quick.
Be quick.
Come on.
Don't follow me.
No body inside.
Well, where's he?
Is there a backyard here?
Go. Let's take a look.
Don't follow me.
Don't follow us. Go away.
Go.
Sir, is this the White Cloud Temple?
Yes.
Is there an
old Taoist priest
living here?
No. The temple has been here for many years.
I've never heard of any Taoist priest.
Did that old Taoist priest lie to us?
Really?
Is it true that
no one practice Taoism here?
Why do I lie to you?
We come here to burn incense whenever there's a festival.
I've never seen any Taoist priest here.
Then could you tell me
if there's only one White Cloud Temple here?
You're funny.
People living around here all come here to burn incense.
Surely there's no another White Cloud Temple.
What?
Is it a hoax here in the White Cloud Temple?
Don't talk nonsense.
Important deities are worshipped here.
Our prayer is efficacious here.
You'll be punished if you talk nonsense.
Yes.
Xiaowu.
Xiaowu.
Xiaowu. My brother can walk again.
Brother, you can walk again?
I can walk again.
Really?
Yes.
It's the power of gods.
My brother, who has been paralyzed for five years,
can walk again now.
Brother.
Xiaowu. Come on, Xiaowu.
Brother, you can walk again!
Yes.
Great!
Thank god for your kindness.
I'll burn incense to you every month.
God, thank you. Thank you.
Brother, let's go.
Go.
From now on, I can walk again.
That's great, brother.
Great!
It's the power of gods.
Great!
My lord, look.
This is the place we're looking for.
It's here.
That is the deity.
God, please save me.
I'm begging you.
Have you brought my shoe?
My lord, look. The shoe.
Look!
Come on.
God, please save me.
I'm begging you.
I'm begging you.
God, I was so blind.
I failed to recognize you.
Please forgive me.
Please forgive me.
Do you know why I asked you to come here?
You asked me to come
because you said you'd give me an elixir
to save my life.
No.
God. God.
You won't save me?
Reckless man.
I tried to save you for several times,
but you wanted to hurt me for several times.
I suggested you not to victimize others,
but you totally ignored my words.
Just now,
you looked sincere when you prayed to me.
In fact,
you've brought chairs, sedan chairs, and many servants with you,
swaggering through the streets.
You know you've got poisoned and will die soon.
Otherwise, you would have returned to your old habits,
tricking others,
and killing for money.
It's useless to keep you alive.
You're a scourge
of the human's world.
God,
that's not true about me.
I walked here
step by step.
If you don't believe it, ask him.
Ask them.
They insist on following me.
Just say it.
I don't know what to say.
Talk about the sedan chair.
Right.
There were some men carrying the sedan chair.
How dare you!
Yes, there was a sedan chair,
but I didn't get into it.
Just say it.
I'm begging you, grandpa.
I call you grandpa. Alright?
Say it, grandpa.
Yes.
Grandpa got into the sedan chair,
not the grandson.
That's right.
Who's the grandpa?
Who's the grandson?
He's the grandpa.
I'm the grandson.
How dare you!
Are you willing to swear to God
that everything you said is true?
If I should tell lies,
I'll be struck by lightning.
God, look at my mouth.
Look at my mouth.
I haven't drunk any water for half a day.
Look at my mouth. Look.
My lips are cracked.
He opens his fierce-looking mouth,
and shows his tusks.
How dare you!
Your mouth looks dirty. How dare you open it!
Look down and admit your own mistake.
Yes, yes. I'm sorry.
Please have mercy.
Wang,
listen to me.
Do as I say.
You must do it.
Yes.
Ask your men to strike the gong,
and gather the people here.
Tell them about all of your
evildoing in the past.
You mustn't conceal any part of it.
Justice has long arms.
I can see all your tricks.
I know how many louses
and how much hair you have.
You can conceal nothing from me.
Meanwhile, you have to tell them clearly
how you'll do good deeds in the future,
and reflect on your misconduct.
If you say it well, I'll grant you the elixir to save your life.
If not, I won't help you.
Okay. Go.
I'll strike the gong.
I'll strike the gong.
Hey!
Attention, please!
Listen to Immortal Wang talk about his evildoing.
Listen to Immortal Wang talk about his evildoing.
Watch Immortal Wang expose himself.
Attention, please!
Watch Immortal Wang expose himself.
Attention, please!
Listen to Immortal Wang talk about his evildoing.
Listen to Immortal Wang talk about his scandals.
I'm Mr. Wang. I come from Yingzhou.
I'm the fourth child in my family.
I've been a bad guy since I was little. I used to steal things a lot.
People called me Black Claw No.4.
Isn't he the famous
Immortal Wang from Jinhua?
Right. That's him.
What's wrong with him?
He must have done some bad things,
and been sent here by God.
It's the power of God.
He deserves the punishment.
My family was poor.
Later, I came to Jinhua,
and opened a small store here.
doing foot massage and cupping therapy.
He massaged others' feet?
Did he claim that
he practiced Taoism and finished it on Mount Emei?
Right.
So he isn't an immortal.
Fraud. Big fraud.
In fact, I've made my fortune
from those officials.
Those administrators
and prefects gave me the money.
So you're like a servant of those officials.
He's like a lowly servant.
Yes, I'm a lowly servant.
In fact,
I do the fortune-telling for them.
To put it mildly,
some officials
have some secrets in their minds.
They've done something bad
and are scared of being punished by God. They feel guilty.
So they ask me to do the fortune-telling.
Pray to God and find things out by divination.
Well, they like hearing good things.
For example, get promoted at once,
and replace their wife with a younger woman at once.
It's true all the rich men want to take a concubine.
Right.
Right.
Especially the vice-prefect of Yingzhou.
He's almost sixty.
He has a wife and a concubine.
But he insists on having a love affair stealthily
with a prostitute who was thirty years younger than him.
How dare you!
God, please forgive me. Please forgive me.
God is there.
God makes its presence.
How dare you, Wang!
I asked you
to talk about your own crimes,
but you tried to confuse people
by these love affairs.
What's your purpose? Do you want to die?
No.
No.
Please have mercy.
Please give me a chance one more time.
I'll tell all the truth.
I want you to tell the people clearly
how you pretended to treat people' illness and cheated them out of money.
And how you forced others to pull down their houses and occupied their land.
Tell the truth.
I'll say it. I'll say it.
I'll tell them.
I'll confess it. I'll tell all the truth.
I'll tell all the truth.
In fact,
I claim that
I can treat people's illness. That's not true.
The talismans and holy water I sell
are useless.
I make those talismans
by adding a seal on yellow paper.
For the holy water,
I make it
by burning the grass into ashes.
Fraud. No wonder.
My uncle died because of him.
Many people lost all their property because of him.
You big fraud!
Immortal Wang. Big fraud!
Bastard! Big fraud!
Yes, I'm a villain.
I'm a villain.
Fraud! Bastard!
How did you force all the people living in a street of Jinhua
to move out of there,
and occupy their houses and land?
You hurt many people.
Yes.
I was
a little greedy.
The bigger the place was, the more eager I was to get it.
I always thought about scheming against this person
and that person,
trying to get benefits from them.
So you pulled down
that old cloth shop which had been run for many years,
and make an old man lose his home?
That old man
died because of the anger aroused by you.
You did it so cold-bloodedly.
Wang, look!
Bastard! Murderer!
Murderer!
Give my father back to me!
Bastard!
I'll kill you!
Give my father back to me!
Bastard!
Be up.
Look. Look.
These are the title deeds of our houses.
Take them. Take them.
Go to hell.
I don't want your title deeds.
I just want you to return all the thing you've taken away,
and hand out the money you've got from the people by cheating.
You fraud! Bastard!
Hit him.
Stand in a line.
Thanks.
Come here one by one and get your things back.
No hurry.
He's accumulated
so much wealth by unfair means.
It's not a big deal for him to lose the money. He deserves it.
But
that old Taoist priest's background is questionable.
Some say that
he's a deity from the White Cloud Temple of the Southern Mountain.
Some say that
he's an old Taoist priest travelling everywhere,
and has become an immortal after finishing the practice.
Those are ridiculous rumors.
What's wrong with you?
Are you worried that
Immortal Wang will donate the things
you put in his house?
No, no.
I just think that
there's something wrong with it.
It's strange that
I didn't know about the White Cloud Temple.
There're many places you've never heard of before.
Sir, you have no idea.
I've been interested
visiting ancient buildings.
I pay a visit to Jinhua constantly,
but how come I've never heard of White Cloud Temple?
That's not strange.
It's the same with the government.
They make a statue of a deity today,
and another one tomorrow,
trying to create a tourist attraction
to make some money.
Right?
Well,
on the birthday of Fu Hsi last year,
thirty locations claimed to be Fu Hsi's birthplace
appeared abruptly
in Yingtian's suburbs.
I've heard
Immortal Wang is a coward.
In the White Cloud Temple,
he confessed all the bad things
he had done.
So what?
I have
nothing to do with it.
Immortal Wang?
I hate this man.
I hate him very much.
Alright. If there's nothing else to discuss, you can leave.
I have to go out to supervise the work later.
Sir, I'm worried that…
Immortal Wang
isn't my biggest concern.
Instead…
Why did you swallow back the words
on the tip of your tongue?
Just tell me about it directly.
Sir, I'm suspicious of Liu Bowen.
Why do think it has something to do with Liu Bowen?
You're being over suspicious.
We have to be wary of him.
So I want to
go to Jinhua personally
to look into it.
Thanks for writing the inscription so well.
My wife and I were in tears after seeing it.
My father-in-law
will feel satisfied after seeing his inscription
written so well.
How's your brother-in-law?
Thanks to your help
by sending for a famous doctor from the capital,
after taking the medicine for five times,
he sleeps peacefully at night.
My wife has also bought lots of tonics for him.
He's got fatter recently,
and looks better.
The money given to him
can be used to support his life.
If possible,
re-open the cloth shop
in the future.
That's also what I think.
If I can do that,
My father-in-law
can rest in peace.
Sir,
there're people coming to
the White Cloud Temple to burn incense all day long.
It has many worshippers.
A new-comer should go to the temple.
A new-comer?
Liu Yi.
Did you get any news
sent by Big Leopard from Jinhua?
Big Leopard is monitoring them every day.
Nothing special so far.
Sir, it's time to take a rest.
The deity of the White Clous Temple has said
I must chant the incantation
for forty-nine times every day
so that I can remove
one percent of the toxin in my body.
For what you did,
I know
all of it
very clearly.
You assisted Immortal Wang in bullying the people,
and help him conceal the truth.
He promised
he would give all his property away to the people.
But you…
…hide the money and treasure secretly,
and even wanted to transfer them out stealthily.
You cheated me. How should I punish you?
God, please forgive me. Please forgive me.
I…I…
did help Immortal Wang
do lots of bad things.
My sin is great.
But if you think I help him hide the money and treasure,
that's not true.
Immortal Wang
loves money very much. He hid his money
in many secret places.
I know some of them,
not all of them.
This time, he gave away much of his property.
In fact, he left some of it for himself.
I tried to guess where he hid the money,
and found the very place.
I intended to take away the money
for my hard work
and left there.
I see.
You did
bad things with Immortal Wang for many years
and has got a smooth tongue,
but you haven't lost all your conscience.
You released a man from the box.
You kind of did a good thing.
How insightful you are!
Yes.
That man's tongue was cut.
What a poor man!
Immortal Wang
wanted me
to kill him.
But I thought
that was a human's life.
To tell you the truth,
I tried to persuade Immortal Wang for many times
not to hurt you.
I know.
My purpose is to punish the bad guys,
but I can't hurt the innocent.
You have to tell me all of your crimes truthfully.
Then go back to Immortal Wang's home.
I'll give you a chance to atone for your crimes.
Yes.
God, have mercy. God, have mercy.
God.
Look up. Too scared to recognize me?
Oh, Lord Hu!
You almost scared me to death.
Well, Immortal Wang,
don't you claim that you can foresee the future
and communicate with gods?
What's wrong?
You get so scared because of an old Taoist priest?
Save me, please!
Just look at you.
You look so scared.
Be careful with your personal image.
Why do you come to visit me?
Let's find a room and talk there in details.
This way, please.
Ridiculous.
If you had really got poisoned
by peacock's gallbladder,
you couldn't have survived till now.
You would have become a decomposed corpse.
Chant the incantation forty-nine times a day
for forty-nine days?
You've…
…be cheated by that fraud.
Impossible. Impossible.
Sir, you know what?
I put the peacock's gallbladder
into the teapot by myself.
I saw him drink it.
But he was fine after drinking it.
Instead, I had a pain in my belly.
If he isn't an immortal,
who's he?
Besides, there was blood on the door,
and he knew about the box.
What box?
The box
which is used to store the money normally.
Did you finish handling the thing inside the box?
Yes, I did.
You must bury it in a secret place.
Yes, I've buried it.
Are you lying to me?
No.
I have no reason to lie to you.
He was a dumb man.
It's meaningless for me to keep him here.
Right.
I've heard you confessed your crimes positively.
Even mentioning some people's names.
No. Absolutely not.
In fact, I only gave away my money.
I have no reason to rat on others.
You didn't do so?
No, I didn't.
If I had done this, I'll be struck by lightning.
Right.
You're really good at deceiving the deities.
Where's the poison?
Poison.
Smell it.
No.
You had the guts to poison others,
but you had no gut to smell it yourself.
It won't kill you.
What can you smell?
Your peacock's gallbladder
cannot even poison a sparrow.
You were fooled.
Impossible. Impossible.
He's the immortal of the White Cloud Temple.
He's the immortal of the White Cloud Temple!
Why are you shouting?
We'll figure it out
whether he's an immortal or not
after we go to the mountain again.
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