♫ The ones standing on the top of the thistles and thorns to look up ♫
♫ will see through vicissitudes of life ♫
♫ In this city where both good and evil are hiding from each other, ♫
♫ I will survive with you ♫
♫ That ray of light guides me to overcome sorrow by its brightness ♫
♫ Meeting you at that time means you're my destiny ♫
♫ Desires wear down the edges and corners of my heart and ♫
♫ laugh at forever-losing leniency ♫
♫ I insist on being the grain which cannot be burned down by the wildfire ♫
♫ to feed the love ♫
♫ Standing in the center of the surges, winds are my thoughts ♫
♫ Rain is the hunting ground urging the horse to fight back ♫
♫ Lift up my head to look at the non returnable times at a distance ♫
♫ The torch in front of my eyes is surging ♫
♫ The sky is getting darker and darker ♫
♫ The path is getting longer and longer ♫
♫ I know hearts cannot waver ♫
♫ Whoever dares to be a king during the chaos of the world ♫
♫ will stop evils with all his might for sure ♫
♫ Then there is hope ♫
[Princess Agents]
~ Episode 47 ~
Afterlife Camp is a mysterious assassin hiring organization.
I heard that during their Nirvana exam,
only 3 people could successfully survive it and became official assassins of the Afterlife Camp.
They are very good in using poisons. Only a few can cure them.
A few years ago, an official on our court got poisoned.
His situation was similar to Qiaoqiao.
After the poison took effect, it would make the person be in so much pain
and even become unconscious.
In the end, all her energy will wither away until she dies.
Looking at Qiaoqiao's current state, I'm afraid that she probably can't last much longer.
Where is the Afterlife Camp?
I don't know.
Who is their camp leader?
I don't know either.
What do you know then?
I suspect that a person might be related to Afterlife Camp.
He is the head of the largest gangster group in Xianyang City, Zhan Ziyu.
There is no jianghu request that he is unable to fulfill.
Okay, I'll leave Xing'er here at your place for now.
Once I finished handling this matter, I will return to fetch her.
Remember, control yourself well.
Don't do anything that will make us awkward.
Who do you think I am?
It is indeed because I know what kind of person you are, so I said such things.
You wasted so much effort to save Xing'er and then find me,
because you wanted me to cause trouble to Afterlife Camp on your behalf.
I don't care for what reasons you are doing it.
I will surely handle this matter well,
while you need only to control yourself.
Farewell.
It's really such a good scene to watch.
Mister, are the words of the Crown Prince of Liang trustworthy?
Whether they are trustworthy or not, we'll know once we verify them.
I want all information about that Zhan Ziyu.
And that Afterlife Camp, even if you have to dig down 30 feet, you must dig them out.
Yes!
This person is called Xu Liang.
This must be his alias.
He lives in Yulin, Guici County.
This person has very good martial arts.
Just to catch him, we lost 3 people.
Once these people pass the Nirvana exam,
they then can become official assassins of the Afterlife Camp.
The outstanding ones can even choose not to be limited by the Afterlife Camp and
freely choose where they want to live.
Concerning accepting missions, other than the soul-chaser decree
directly given by the camp leader,
they can choose to accept or not to accept other missions.
If they accept it, they can get rewards.
If they don't, no one will mind either.
In summary, they have more freedom.
Their contact with their superior is usually a single line of contact.
Other than assigning missions, there is no contact between them.
With other assassins, they basically don't know each other that well either.
And the more there are only very few people who are allowed to see their camp leader.
They basically live off accepting missions and getting rewards.
Yulin Guici?
That place is very remote.
Since they must live off rewards, why then must they live there?
Sir Yue Qi, you exactly asked the main point.
Most members of the Afterlife Camp have no permanent place to stay.
A lot of them will choose a bustling city
for hiding their identity more conveniently.
But a few of them will choose to live in rural and remote places.
Other than problems with their attitude,
the most important reason is that their original homes were around that area.
Then what about his family? Have you found them?
No. His family has all died.
He is the youngest son in his family.
When he was 11, he was kidnapped and sold by human traffickers and entered Afterlife Camp.
But on that year that he was able to finally get out after passing the Nirvana exam,
his family just suddenly all died due to a fire.
Was it done by people from the Afterlife Camp?
It is possible.
He also suspects it.
But these past years, he was not able to find any enough evidence.
Then, were you able to find out anything?
No.
But... I fabricated one.
Mister, please take a look.
Good enough.
Good enough to pass off a fake as genuine.
Thank you, Mister.
Tell me.
You have fooled me so many times for many years.
One moment, it was the eastern shores of the Yellow River.
The next moment, it is the northern part of Yangtze River.
How many dangers have I gone through?
But I've never seen that descendant of Luo He.
A person is alive.
She has feet and can run.
I had seen her before but it doesn't mean that I can find her now.
It was you who got anxious and just randomly asked around for a cure.
You just insist on getting clues from me.
Can you blame me?
Then does it mean that it is my fault?
But don't forget.
The reason you are still alive
is because I feel that you are still of some use to me.
If... it's really like what you said earlier that you are a useless person,
why then must I still keep you alive?
So what?
Are you going to kill me?
It's not me who is going to kill you.
It's you who is looking for death.
Who is Luo He?
She is the leader of Jianghu Spies.
She is the eyesore of the Spy Network of Heavenly Eyes, the thorn in their flesh.
A power that is able to compete with the Wei empire.
You should know it very clearly.
The one who really killed Luo He back then was you,
Xia Chong.
What torture have I not endured while I was in your hands these past years?
About the men of Luo He,
do you think I will fear you?
Very good!
You are not afraid of the men of Luo He.
Then... how about Afterlife Camp?
Your Highness, I have something to report.
Your Highness, please have a look.
3 dead people: 2 men and 1 woman.
All are young ones.
This is the third time this month.
Look. These are all fish that were just caught.
I guarantee that they are very fresh.
- Take care. - He is the contact of the Afterlife Camp.
It was he who contacted me.
I am still waiting for your antidote.
Don't worry.
He disappeared. After him!
Let's go!
You few go up to search.
The rest, come with me.
Yes!
Where is that guy from earlier?
I didn't see any man.
Sorry, we want to go in and take a look.
What are you trying to do? I am just a widow here.
Get out of the way.
What are you guys trying to do?!
Be quiet!
Three conditions.
First: I can help you expel the poison.
Second: If you are willing,
I can help you look for your long-lost family.
Third:
I can let that widow be with you,
find you a place where no one knows you to start your new life,
and free yourself from the control of Afterlife Camp.
You can doubt me.
But you only have two paths to take.
Either you follow my arrangement and fight for yourself once,
or die in my hands.
I know you guys are not afraid of death.
I am also an imperial official, so I surely won't use despicable means.
But you and the widow jointly murdered her husband.
If someone finds out this incident,
I'm afraid that she will have difficult days to come.
It's nothing to do with her!
I was the one who did it.
Her husband was a bastard indeed.
I have no time to hear this.
I have finished my talk.
Think it over.
What trick are you playing this time?
I am sending you to your favorite place; Afterlife Camp.
Your companions came to visit you just now.
I don't understand what you're saying.
Don't understand?
If they didn't bump into me,
those vicious companions of yours would have kidnapped you out of Jiankang City.
I heard that you guys in Afterlife Camp
will make those captured by enemies but who still survived,
not only regret for their birth,
but also to let them
rather to go to hell than to live boldly.
How do they know that I'm here?
Wanna die? It's not that easy.
I beg Your Highness to not send me back.
Tell me who Luo He's daughter is and where I can find her.
I really don't know.
I think you only accept defeat until at the end of one's rope.
Let me tell you, my patience wears thin by you.
I'll turn you over to them now.
Though I don't know,
Your Highness can find your answer in Afterlife Camp.
I am not that gullible.
Your Highness, things have developed to such an extent. I don't want to cheat you anymore.
But I am too humble to know much.
I am really ignorant of your question.
Then what did you know?
There will be a Nirvana exam in Afterlife Camp every three years.
108 trainees will struggle to fight against each other.
The three survivors successfully pass the exam and become assassins.
Just to kill Luo He, camp leader sent out half of the assassins in the camp.
After Luo He was arrested, I was ordered to assassinate her.
But I actually gave up at the last moment.
I don't know why either. I felt the love and warmth from her eyes.
Luo He said that I looked similar to her daughter.
On her deathbed, she transferred 10% of her Cold Ice Skill power for me to protect myself.
She also wanted me to pretended to be her daughter
in case her daughter got trapped.
I actually agreed.
It looks like that I am not a qualified assassin.
You've betrayed your master.
Have you thought that you might be killed?
I know.
I am only a suicide killer of the camp leader.
I would be dead anyway.
Why not be a good person before death?
I think him wanting to kill me is to
frame Luo He's daughter.
What if I proclaim that you have killed your own mother Luo He?
Do you think people will believe it?
The camp leader and Luo He must know each other.
It seems that you are not useless at all.
Your Highness, if you want to find Luo He's daughter to
take control of the Jianghu Spies,
and attack the Great Wei by them,
then Your Highness, you need to look for the leader of Afterlife Camp.
If you find the leader of Afterlife Camp,
everything will be clear automatically.
There are so many traps inside Afterlife Camp.
And the camp leader is like a magical dragon, where one can see his head but not his tail (very mysterious).
If he were easy to find, why would I bother to waste time with you?
If Your Highness is unable to find our camp leader for real,
why not go to Afterlife Camp personally then?
There is a a secret record inside the camp which records all important details
of the operation done by Afterlife Camp for these past years.
Your Highness Princess, as long as you are able to get that secret record,
everything that you want to know,
you will find all answers in Afterlife Camp.
Where on earth is Afterlife Camp?
Mount Kongsang.
I promise to help you guys deal with camp leader,
but you need to fulfill your promise.
Have you thought it over?
Yes.
Let's tempt the tiger out of his cave.
I'll find an excuse to invite the camp leader over.
You secretly follow me and find a chance to take him down.
Mister, the one in front is the place where they agreed to meet.
But we haven't seen the leader of Afterlife Camp yet.
Mister,
this guy is probably the leader of Afterlife Camp.
Greetings, my Master.
Follow him.
- Yes. - Yes.
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Everybody! The first stage lasts five days.
There is a limit to the food and water supply.
You have to strive to get them on your own.
After 5 days, we will refill them.
There are a lot of treasure chests inside the caves.
After opening them, it might contain a water bottle
or food.
Meng Feng, you were the first last time.
This mantou is your reward.
Hong Yangbo,
your performance last time was also not bad.
This dagger is for you. I hope you can do better.
Everyone, the competition starts now.
Guys, you have come late.
The first batch of items have been taken.
They will think of a way on their own.
You guys from Mount Vast Branch are quite confident.
This is the most basic.
Okay. Then hand over all the weapons you brought.
After five days, we will refill your food and water supply.
And also, you all have come from afar.
On your journey, we cannot prevent for you all to feel tired from travel.
Do you need to rest first before starting?
You guys divide into groups.
Search for the secret room through different tunnels.
Immediately find the whereabouts of the secret record.
Yes!
Weird, why did they throw away the mantou?
Who are they?
Why are they holding the same kind of long sword?
A token?
Silk thread?
They are not people from Afterlife Camp.
Camp Leader!
The Secret Bureau from the Great Liang.
Who are you?
A token?
Mister.
Yes.
Two of you guys stay here at the entrance.
The rest follow me.
Yes.
Mister, over there!
He disappeared right here.
He might have hid in a secret chamber.
Be careful.
Mister, we are trapped.
You won't be able to survive without weapons here.
Why did you rescue me and give me a weapon?
Those two people are not from our Afterlife Camp.
There are spies already sneaking into our Afterlife Camp.
Stop killing each other if you want to survive.
Let's be allies.
Let's go.
I want to ally myself with you, too.
Let's go.
How can we distinguish our people and Liang's killer?
Those people who do not battle one-on-one are not our people.
Plus, they have a green mark on their right wrist.
They have a token on them.
Also, they all use long swords.
Let's go.
I am your camp leader.
Today's Nirvana exam became more interesting because there are spies among you guys.
You guys can only pass the true Nirvana exam by killing them.
Have we already been exposed?
We ran out of time.
You guys should go together.
I want the Nirvana exam this year to end in the shortest time.
- Yes. - Yes.
Wait! Do not kill everyone.
Leave one person alive to lead the way for us.
- Yes. - Yes.
We need more people.
Then let four of us act separately.
Let's go.
They are spies. Kill them.
Wait!
Let them live.
You guys can leave now.
Mister, the rest of the trainees might all go after us.
Be careful, everyone.
Don't be scattered.
Try to find the Secret Chamber as soon as possible.
- Yes. - Yes.
I remember we have met before.
Stop talking. Just do it.
If you can do me a favor, I will let you go.
I will not help you. Stop wasting your time.
You were able to leave here last time which means you have passed one Nirvana exam.
You must know where the leader of Afterlife Camp is.
Tell me.
I am here for the antidote.
Why would I help you?
If you want the antidote as well, just follow what I said.
You have two options.
Either die or lead me to the leader of Afterlife Camp.
The Secret Record is in the Secret Chamber which is all the way into Afterlife Camp.
But we kept walking in the same area.
You can tell the map that Xia Chong gave us is fake.
I'll deal with her when we are back.
Don't move!
- It turns out to be a trap. - Thank you
No problem.
It seems that you know this place pretty well.
If you can pass the great exam that is held every three years,
you can't not know this place very well.
Let's go. Be careful.
What happened?
- Your Highness. - Where are they?
They are all dead.
It's us who've underestimated the enemy.
What should we do now?
Find those living people to lead us to the camp leader's secret chamber.
How far will it be?
It's almost there.
Passing that entry door will be the secret chamber.
Thank you.
So you do know how to smile?
Take me to your leader's secret chamber.
I don't know where it is.
- Stop talking nonsense. - Okay. Okay.
I will take you guys!
It's here.
Tell me where the antidote is.
It's over.
He poisoned himself. He is dead.
Then? How about the antidote?
It's here.
There will be a solution anyway.
Your leader had been killed by me.
Stop struggling. I will help you detox.
This great exam is over.
Tell everyone to stop and gather at the center of the secret chamber.
- Yes. - Yes.
Yes.
What's your name?
I'm Meng Feng.
You should not overdo things.
Don't force yourself.
You guys are human beings, not beasts.
It's not right.
Do you mean—
He isn't the real one.
This jar is the antidotes of Immortalized Pills.
What's wrong, Mister?
Only that jar is, nothing else.
But we have found the antidote for Xing'er.
Also those trainees outside.
But they are assassins.
Assassins are human as well,
only poorer people.
No one wants to kill others when they were born.
Smilax glabra, radix glycyrrhizae,
and houttuynia cordata.
Those three elements are basic herbs.
How could it expel the position of Immortalized Pills?
There is another herb's smell.
Mister! He is poisoned! It is serious
Try this for him.
I got it.
The last herb in this antidote is this Huci Flower from the Indian subcontinent.
Huci Flower?
Huci Flower is highly toxic.
A tiny amount could kill a person.
You're right.
It's because of smilax glabra.
Smilax glabra?
If the amount of smilax glabra is more than Huci Flower, it won't kill people then.
Yue Qi, ask someone to make this antidote now.
Yes.
Those things inside of this box are the antidotes of the Immortalized Pill in your bodies.
After you take them, you may leave.
What? You don't dare to take it?
Greeting to the new camp leader.
Stand up.
Remember, I am not your new camp leader.
I'm not now.
I won't be in the future either.
Then why did you help us?
I helped you guys not to ask you guys to follow me.
I warn you guys, I've killed your camp leader.
It is easy if I want to kill you guys.
So if any of you guys use the skills you've learned here
to kill people, abuse the law, and do evil,
I will let you guys taste the pain that is 100 times worse than Immortalized Pill.
Don't forget my words.
You are dismissed.
We don't want to be a killing tool if there isn't anyone to force us.
Thank you, Mister, for saving our lives.
Thank Mister for saving our lives.
Leave now.
Leave here and you will be free.
Why are you guys still here?
We don't know where to go.
We all have no families.
We have been in this camp since a very young age, to learn how to kill.
We know nothing rather than killing people.
We don't know how to make a living after going outside.
What do you guys want?
Can we follow you?
Follow me?
We can kill others for you.
I have no one to be killed.
No.
Someone hired us to kill your woman which means you surely have enemies then.
If you have enemies, you surely have someone you need to kill.
- Someone wants to kill my love? - Yes.
Let me tell you that it won't be any better to follow me compared to staying in Afterlife Camp.
We all have made our decision.
Are you unable to bear to leave?
Then why don't you hurry and thank Mister?
Thank you, Mister.
You guys go outside first.
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Princess.
"The Flame of the Heart" by G.E.M.
♫ The wild wind blows the moonlight into confusion ♫
♫ My life is like being expelled ♫
♫ The flame is hidden in my heart ♫
♫ Who will laugh at my rough interior ♫
♫ My wings are destroyed by fate ♫
♫ I fall into the bottomless abyss ♫
♫ Memories are sealed ♫
♫ The wind and snowfall are unbridled ♫
♫ Even if I am trampled, I won't look up to you ♫
♫ What doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger ♫
♫ This breathing is heat ♫
♫ This heartbeat is light ♫
♫ Bit by bit, it brews the power for all my life ♫
♫ The boiling in my eyes lights up the hope ♫
♫ No matter how many wounds I have ♫
♫ I'm willing to burn the flame in my heart to shine through everywhere ♫
♫ To melt the coldness of the secular world ♫
♫ If only the bright moon knows my thoughts ♫
♫ If there is a long path and eternal darkness, so what? ♫
♫ I want the boundless flame of the heart to be boiling again ♫
♫ To burn into a light ray of the horizon ♫
♫ I'm reborn after a fire bath ♫
♫ Fragrance fills heaven and earth ♫
♫ The red spider lily blooms again ♫
♫ To burn into a light ray of the horizon ♫
♫ The red spider lily blooms again ♫