A Moment but Forever Episode 3

The long ordeal of the fox priest

Epiode 3: The long ordeal of the fox priest.Yuan Zhong, deceived and manipulated by the elders who, taking advantage of their naivety and trust in them, convinced him to put the restrictive collar around his neck with their own hands (to “supposedly” overcome the 5 deadly sins, pass the ordeal of the world and achieve immortality). When he put on the restrictive gold collar, his power began to be sucked away. “Farewell, high priest.” Everyone, dressed in their blue robes, kneels before the high priest who enters the cave, the dungeon where he will be imprisoned. He is so handsome in the white robe and the gold necklace, he looks somberly at everyone and enters the cave of his ordeal. The heavy gates close. He looks up at a crack in the ceiling of the cave and the ray of light covers him. Tan Yin hears the hypnotized man (for 40 years he was sealed). She asks why they treat this high priest and hero of theirs, and the man explains: because of fear, because they killed his family and friends and told him it was the ghosts of war. (but it was them, the priests themselves, because they questioned them for locking Yuan Zhong in the cave. So, they continued to confine Yuan Zhong. Tan Yin was even more outraged. Now it was the sword-in-the-stone moment from the King Arthur books. (Yuan Zhong was the only one who managed to use the divine hand that was kept in the rock. Everyone who tried fell dead. Because of this, the relatives wanted to see their children, and so they were massacred by the fox clan. (because they wanted all the other young people back, and also their son Yuan Zhong.) Tan Yin squirts blood because she cannot maintain the power of hypnotism for long (in the mortal world). The man wakes up and she suddenly disappears, without him seeing her. (in the past, back in the cave, Yuan Zhong faces his five selves (conflicting with him, accusing him and instigating him), it is himself against himself. His five selves (five deadly sins), which he needs to overcome. And then, Yuan Zhong, waking up, was a nightmare in which he remembered what happened in that cave, for 40 years. In front of the blue tree that shines Tan Yin waits worriedly, outside the door of Yuan Zhong's palace. He opens the door and comes out with his long hair loose and his impeccable white robe. He asks why she is there and she is in his thoughts (he says: all living beings suffer and we must have compassion), and then he hugs him. But he does not understand why she is so tender. Here, when she hugs him it is not yet love, it is just the deep feeling of compassion she feels for him. She wants to comfort him. She hugs him. Remember that she is a 1000 year old goddess who has a deep feeling in her heart. And he is a person with a still naive heart, despite being a priest. Tan Yin transports herself to the celestial dimension and talks to her friend. The friend asks her if she feels something more for Yuan Zhong, she says it is just compassion (but her expression is suspicious that there is something more that is being born.). Her friend warns her that Yuan Zhong is not more important than the divine realm and not more important than the god Taihe, who needs her on this quest to find the divine left hand. Yuan Zhong asks Tan Yin to come with him to the mountain, but on the way he feels ill and sits down on a rock to rest. Tan Yin seriously insists to Yuan Zhong that he needs to get rid of this restrictive collar, he is like a god and illness should not touch him, and this collar is causing all this. She mentions that people think he is a monster imagining that he would do cruel things, but he just laughs and says that he should not care what people say. And that seeking enlightenment has always been his lesson to them. (But Yuan Zhong was very surprised that a woman would care so much about them, since they had always only looked at the young general Tang Hua. “You admire me,” Yuan Zhong said to Tan Yin. He said, you always knew who I was, since that day at the maid selection, you already knew about me. Yuan Zhong entered the palace to tire himself reading books, as part of his penance (he says it is to overcome ignorance, which is also a capital sin).General Tang Hua in the next scene seems suspicious and talks to his aide. Tang Hua laughs mockingly that the council of elders might have the strength to overcome the ghosts of war. Tan Yin witnesses Yuan Zhong leaving the palace, in his white robe, the aide carrying a wheelchair. She is worried, but they do not explain why he has a wheelchair. Tan Yin unmasks her colleague Lui Yiao, who wanted to kill Yuan Zhong. Tan Yin pours corrosive poison on the floor in front of her. Lui Yiao says that the fox clan deserves this, as they are all cruel. They have power and deserve this evil. Tan Yin questions, is someone evil just because they have power? Zidhai finds LuiYiao, questions her, and soon realizes that something is wrong. Yuan Zhong arrives weak, sitting in a wheelchair. He is unconscious. Yuan Zhong has been placed in a hot tub to recover. Tan Yin arrives, touches his cold forehead and is frightened. He begins to lean over and she supports him. The assistant and the elderly woman arrive, who are very worried, take care of Yuan Zhong and use her medicinal power to treat Yuan Zhong. Tan Yin asks the assistant what this spiritual refinement is that Yuan Zhong is always taken to undergo at the hands of the elders. But the assistant does not explain, he says it is a secret technique of the fox clan. The elderly woman asks with a worried face, looks at him lying on the bed, if Yuan Zhong really thinks it is useful to go through all this. He reaffirms that he does, and reminds him about the 5 deadly sins, which he needs to overcome. And that spiritual cultivation is necessary. Tan Yin enters the room and asks Yuan Zhong if he wants to eat. He gives her a recipe for a meal, but she does not know how to make it. He says another, she doesn't know how to make it. She says she's going to make some porridge. (I think the foods Yuan Zhong mentioned have something to do with his family members). Suddenly, Tan Yin turns around and asks if he's never imagined that maybe everyone is deceiving him about this cultivation of immortality. He looks at her in surprise and says that doubt is a form of obsession, which is also a sin. Zidhai went to talk to Tan Yin and asks for help about the bracelet she has on her wrist, which restricts her. Zidhai says that it's not the first time the mortal clan has sent assassins to the foot of the mountain. Zidhai tells Tan Yin that Tan Yin's name is not registered in the artisans' document. Which is suspicious. But Tan Yin is always one step ahead and gives him a fitting answer. Tan Yin again follows Yuan Zhong, in his white clothes, with the helper carrying the wheelchair, to the cave of spiritual refining. She asks him not to go, as he is too weak. Back in the cave, we find out what really happens. Yuan Zhong sits on a chair, where he is twice drained (his spiritual strength is removed from his neck and collected in a vessel. On the other side, another bucket collects his blood. Zidhai, hidden behind the rocks, finds that the nutritious seed she is holding in her hands, a seed that shines, is actually... Yuan Zhong looks at the heavy wooden door, the place where he entered and was confined for 40 years, the trauma shines in his eyes. Someone tells Elder DingXi to stop the draining, or he can't take it anymore. Elder answers.

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