Biography of Meng Po (Meng Po Zhuan Zhi Yuan Qi / 孟婆传之缘起)

Yellow Spring,

the perilous inferno.

Extremely treacherous and narrow.

Within the rift,

numerous evil spirits

haunt among the rocky cliffs

strewn with petrified bodies.

Underneath,

a torrential undercurrent flows,

known as

River of Forgetfulness.

Please.

Please

come back safe and sound.

Meng Qing.

Here's the conclusion to your past life's romance.

[Adapted from "Meng Po's Tears: A Wish Across Two Lifetimes"]

After crossing the River of Forgetfulness,

forget what should be forgotten.

Am I already dead?

Who are you?

How did you know about my identity?

Help! I see a ghost!

Is anyone here?

What on earth is this place?

To be precise,

you are a ghost.

Obey the escort once you get ashore.

Otherwise, your soul will vanish in the air.

Qing Heng.

A painter.

Lived clean

and died clean.

Drink the soup.

Leave behind the weariness of your journey

before you proceed.

I'm searching for a woman.

She has a mole under her eye.

She smiles sweetly.

Her name is...

Drink the soup first.

Her name is Meng Qing.

Perhaps she might be known by other names.

Sheer nonsense!

I see people like you all the time.

Before my patience wears thin,

here's a piece of advice.

It is really you.

If you don't drink,

you will fall into the River of Forlornness

and suffer pain for a thousand years.

Drink!

Just now,

you said

you are searching for someone.

Did I?

Very well.

Follow the hell butterfly.

It will lead you to the path to reincarnation.

Don't look back.

Otherwise,

you will be trapped here for good.

Am I right, White?

The Lord of the Netherworld orders the river mouth to be opened.

This is the key to the Delusion City.

You can lose your life,

but not the key.

Today is the end of the millennium cycle.

Meng Po.

You should go down to the river and serve up the Oblivion Soup.

They chose to suffer for a thousand years

rather than the soup,

why bother to relieve them?

The Way of Heaven recycles

and serves compassion.

Speak no more.

She is heading to the Delusion City.

Wait for me.

What is this place?

Beneath the River of Forgetfulness,

it is the Delusion City.

Attention!

Names on the list

who refuse to drink the soup

are deemed to join the Realm of Ghosts

and will be executed without mercy.

Souls will be transited now.

Stranded souls in the Delusion City,

you have endured a thousand years here.

Today

is the final day.

This is your last chance.

On your knees.

Thank you for giving us the soup, Meng Po.

The Oblivion Soup is made of eight tears.

One drop of tears of birth,

two qian of tears of old age,

three portions of tears of bitterness,

four glasses of tears of resentment,

five cun of tears of lovesickness,

six pots of tears of illness,

and seven chi of tears of farewell.

The suffering of this life ends here.

Among you,

are there any who refuses to drink the soup?

I daren't.

Why is the hell butterfly here?

Someone here isn't a stranded soul.

White Impermanence.

How dare you go against the law of the Netherworld.

Hunt him down.

You won't get away with this. Stop right there!

This is your last chance.

Unless you drink,

you won't be able to join the Realm of Human Beings.

This is my tenth reincarnation.

If they catch me,

my soul will disappear in the air.

Come out, dead soul.

You have violated the law of reincarnation.

You can't run off from this.

Show yourself.

I can hear you.

Come out.

Why are you hesitating?

I have endured for a thousand years.

I won't compromise!

We won't compromise!

Has your obsession turned into delusion already?

Black Impermanence, here's what you want.

Wipe them out.

Charge!

I won't let you off,

even if I must

become a vengeful ghost.

Dead soul, show yourself.

Your number is up.

Vengeful Ghost Army?

We will turn into resentments

and linger around forever

with a blade in our hands.

Asura, the Ghost Lord,

grants us new life.

You henchmen.

Kill them!

I don't want to reincarnate anymore.

The Vengeful Ghost Army is killing the death escorts!

Meng Qing is in trouble.

Stranded souls,

you actually chose to descend into the Realm of Ghosts.

How ignorant.

You are the ignorant one, Meng Po.

I have been imprisoned here for a thousand years.

Finally, this day has arrived.

You will not leave here alive.

Ghost Lord Asura.

The Red Spider Lily Podium is in my way.

Today,

you are not going to leave the Delusion City.

This weapon is able to kill deities.

Snatch the Spiritual Stone from Meng Po,

and you can

leave the Delusion City together.

Meng Qing.

You are nonentities.

You leave first.

I have a technique to retreat.

Go.

Hurry!

They will catch up with us.

What's wrong?

Surrender the Spiritual Stone.

No!

Was it Asura

that attacked you just now?

Yes.

Why did those stranded souls

become ghost armies?

Because of delusion.

You are seriously injured.

Let me check on you.

Come.

Sit.

I will take the arrow out.

You were leaving through the Bridge of Forlornness.

Why are you still here?

I did cross the bridge,

but somehow I fell off it.

Whoever drinks the Oblivion Soup

won't look back

once they are on the Bridge of Forlornness.

Do you believe

there is love in this world

that the Oblivion Soup can't erase?

Did you drink the soup or not?

The Oblivion Soup wiped out all my memories,

except for the memories

when I was with her.

I couldn't forget her at all.

As you said,