Tale Of The Mural (Liaozhai Painting Wall / Liao Zhai: Hua Bi / 聊斋画壁)

On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month,

there is a folk custom of burning incense and paper money to pay homage to the dead.

The living need to avoid,

so as not to collide with

and attract evil spirits.

The Fifteenth Ghost Festival

is when people pray for the divine fire

of the phoenix to drive away evil spirits.

Folks.

It's 7 pm now.

Please go home. -That's enough.

Let's go.

It's 7 pm now.

Please go home.

Phoenix God

will bless your family.

Thank you.

Folks.

It's 7 pm now.

Please go home.

We're closed.

Come back tomorrow.

Paint

me.

Okay, wait a moment.

It's done.

Sir,

take a look.

Boss.

What's wrong with you?

Keep your voice down.

I met a ghost.

A ghost?

I was so scared.

It's okay.

I already got rid of it.

You are so paranoid.

It's so hot.

You didn't get dizzy from the heat, did you?

I'll get you some watermelon.

Have something cool.

Don't cry.

Don't cry.

Don't cry.

Don't cry.

Don't cry.

Don't cry.

What's wrong today?

The baby keeps crying.

Is it that delicious?

Let me try it too.

Honey.

Honey.

Honey.

My cry attracted a travelling Taoist Priest.

He got me out of danger.

Who are you?

Audacious Sparrow Demon.

How dare you let the evil spirits harm the mortal world?

You'll be punished by Heaven.

Today,

I'll make you disappear.

You are mere mortals.

How dare you compete with me?

Do you want to die?

Lingbao's order

will bind ghosts, suppress evil spirits,

and eliminate hundreds of ghosts.

Obey orders presto.

Forbidden.

Those who stop me will die.

Set up the formation.

I hereby request that

the burning fire at the peak of Kunlun

can attract the Phoenix God with the edict.

An auspicious sign descends from heaven to kill demons.

The divine army will be on my command.

Phoenix, come.

The auspicious scene is here.

Disperse!

Phoenix.

Sparrow Demon.

You brought disaster and turmoil to the world.

People won't tolerate you.

Then I'll absorb your Phoenix power

and become a god.

From now on,

people and demons

who disobey me will die.

You're just a sparrow.

So what if you're a phoenix?

You want to kill me?

Not that easy.

Oh no!

The Sparrow Demon has escaped into the land of demons.

It is bound to cause demons

to make trouble in the world.

Now,

I can only seal the entrance with my body.

I hope there won't be any demons in the world.

The priest saw that my parents had died,

so he took me away and raised me

until I grew up.

Liaozhai Painting Wall

26 years later

Since I can remember,

I often dreamed of a woman.

My hands would also be on fire.

It burned a lot of things.

No.

What is this?

The beauty I painted is very pretty and has a beautiful smile.

I captured both her spirit and her form.

Xiaolian.

Look, which one of us paints beauty better?

Do you know how to do it? -Can you do it?

Look.

I painted this one.

Beauty is in the bone, not in the skin.

Your painting is glossy on the surface,

without any charm.

I almost forgot.

He is the best painter in the south of the Yangtze River.

We asked for it.

But the best painter in the south of the Yangtze River

can't paint people.

Let's go. -Let's go.

It's not that I can't paint people.

I have no one to paint.

I only paint for the person I like.

Is

this the girl in your dream again?

You're having a relapse again.

I told you to paint a beauty but you refused.

I even suspect that you like painting men.

Love at first sight once in a lifetime.

With every stroke, a portrait will be drawn.

I'll only

paint beauty portraits

for one person in my life.

Come on.

When you're done,

it might not be as good as

that beautiful mural.

What mural?

The beauty map on the stone wall of Lanruo Temple

at the foot of the mountain in the east of the city.

It's painted like real people.

I asked people from the Academy of Painting to go to see it with me.

Do you want to come?

There is nothing to consider.

I'll come to you tonight.

Today is the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month.

Are you scared?

I'm not.

Painting Wall Fantasy World

My lord.

Today,

men in the mortal world are coming.

After mortals and fairies consummated,

the Yin and Yang energies will form a soul print

for you to eat.

Very good.

Dongfang.

Do you know

why I like you the most?

Because

you never let me down.

Your trainings

made me who I am today.

That Phoenix

thought she could seal me here forever.

But unexpectedly,

the human she protected

is the key to helping me get out of the mural.

Tonight,

when I successfully

cultivate the power of the phoenix,

I will be able to

break out of this mural.

But...

Are you worried about something?

When I absorb souls

is the time I'm the weakest.

You are the person I trust the most.

You must protect me

behind me.

Yes, Your Majesty.

You scared me.

Legend has it that 26 years ago,

this was a painting of a hundred birds flying to the phoenix.

But one day,

the birds on it

turned into beauties.

An erotic painting!

All worldly laws born of fate are like dreams,

like shadows in bubbles,

like dew and lightning.

We should look at everything in the world like this.

In my opinion,