Prince Tata

### Title

Crown prince of his country and heir to the 'Han Hai Yi Dian'/ 'Apocrypha of the Vast Sea'

## Debuts

### Manhua Appearance

Chapter 492 (mentioned)Chapter 494

**Prince Tata** is the crown prince of a small country and the heir to the Apocrypha of the Vast Sea (瀚海异典 or Hàn Hǎi Yì Diǎn), for which his country is known for. The Han Hai Yi Dian is a spell that gives the ability to its possessor to predict the trajectory of the stars and see the future. Once the possessor is gone, the spell selects the most suitable successor from among the blood-related members of the royal family, making the possessor an assassination target by jealous family members that hope to be chosen as the next bearer of the spell.

   After it became known to the world that Yang Jinghua had turned into a demon in Dr. Sen’s base and that he carried the seal of Duanmu Luoyue, the legendary demonic ancestor of the Duanmu family, prince Tata blackmailed his king father into letting him visit the Duanmu household, by threatening him with suicide attempts. He then sent an announcement letter to the Duanmu family, explaining that he would be visiting the household to learn about the sacrificial culture and traditions and requesting for Duanmu Xi to accompany him. When he arrived at the airport, dressed up as a girl for safety purposes, and was received by the Duanmu family, including Duanmu Xi, Yang Jinghua and Duanmu Siming, he intentionally fell on Duanmu Xi, to mess with the wound that was caused by Yang Jinghua while he was in demonic state. After that, he asked to visit a sacrificial altar on the mountain of the household, compromising Duanmu Xi’s health again. Later, he went back to his room and invited Yang Jinghua to come there alone, while still pretending to be a flirtatious girl, eventually revealing his true identity to him. Since Yang Jinghua had forgotten all the past bad incidents, after coming back from his demonic state, and remembering them could cause him to snap again, Duanmu Xi invited the prince the next day to the restricted moon temple, where he could inquire him alone about his plans and motives. After intentionally provoking Duanmu Xi, prince Tata revealed that what he wanted was to protect Yang Jinghua, Duanmu Xi, however, concluded that he could not do it. Later, prince Tata asked to visit the night market, along with Duanmu Xi and Yang Jinghua, but while they were there, the prince was kidnapped by unknown forces. Duanmu Xi managed to locate and save him shortly afterwards. While he was in the hospital, prince Tata asked to take Yang Jinghua with him, since he had seen that he would follow him in the future, and in exchange he would tell Duanmu Xi his future, but he refused. When they returned to the household, prince Tata asked Yang Jinghua to show him the Luoyue sword, with which he cut his finger, triggering Yang Jinghua’s memory of him stabbing Duanmu Xi with the sword. Before Duanmu Xi could confront him, however, prince Tata was taken hostage by one of his servants, who was also behind the kidnapping, as he was tasked with assassinating him so the Han Hai Yi Dian would change owners. Since prince Tata knew his own future and that he wouldn’t have died there, he jumped from the tower he was taken at and he was indeed saved by Duanmu Xi, who jumped with him. What prince Tata hadn’t foreseen though, was that Yang Jinghua would also come to their rescue. He then realized that he could not see Yang Jinghua’s future. Despite the incident and Duanmu Xi’s warnings, prince Tata tried again that night to awaken Yang Jinghua’s memories by sending words in his dreams which triggered a nightmare that almost transformed him into a demon. Duanmu Xi immediately confronted prince Tata, who revealed that with this technique he could only trigger the nightmare, not fabricate it, so it must have been a terrible past event, and that it was not the first time Jinghua had lost his memory or transformed into a demon. As Duanmu Xi figured out that he meant the destruction of Jinghua’s hometown, he threatened him using his spiritual power not to mention anything to him, especially about what had happened that day in his hometown, and arranged for the prince to leave the next morning, despite prince Tata warning him that his departure would trigger the next big event.

As prince Tata had foreseen, someone had placed a bomb inside the plane, which exploded while he was still flying in China’s territory. This set in motion the plan that had been devised by various international enemies, who feared Yang Jinghua’s demonic form and wanted to force Duanmu Xi to surrender him. So, they disturbed the veins of the earth, which led to various natural disasters that required Duanmu Xi to perform sacrifices, that would eventually lead to his death. To counter-attack this, the Duanmu family planned to use the Heaven and Earth Formation to restore the earth’s veins, which needed a huge number of people, the majority of whom would be substituted by ghosts, as Yang Jinghua suggested. During Jinghua’s trip to collect the ghosts, he was approached by prince Tata, who had managed to survive the explosion by jumping off the plane beforehand. He tried to stop Yang Jinghua from collecting ghosts, as he could not see his future and didn’t know how this would end for him, but Jinghua didn’t listen to him. After the Duanmu family and Yang Jinghua managed to gather the people and the ghosts they needed and were ready to start the ritual, prince Tata got inside the household and found Duanmu Xi. He told him that what he had seen was that the 63rd Yangming Master had never failed a sacrificial ritual, but he didn’t think he had won that time. Before Xi went to the altar, prince Tata put some gold eyeshadow on his eyelids, a pre-ceremony custom in his country called ‘’the God’s blessing’’, and told him that, despite coming to the household for his selfish reasons, he really wanted to help him as he was the greatest priest in history that would be remembered for a thousand years, even though his work and sacrifice was not recognised during his time. The ritual and formation were successfully completed, but Duanmu Xi’s demonic wound had reopened during that, causing him to lose consciousness afterwards. Seeing the wound and the state of Duanmu Xi, Yang Jinghua remembered that he was the one who had caused it in his demonic state and amidst his despair he disappeared with Duanmu Xi.

Yang Jinghua went to his hometown, where he had lost everything, hoping to get some answers, as he had no memory of what exactly had happened but speculated that it was related to him. Prince Tata found him there and offered to help him, even though Yang Jinghua attacked him at first. Shortly after he woke up, Duanmu Xi followed Yang Jinghua into the Mirror of Yellow Springs of the Shenmu tree, that had suddenly appeared there, in order to find out what had happened during the destruction of the town. They saw that it was Yang Jinghua’s parents who had tried to perform a ritual that would break the contract and remove him from the line of inheritance for Duanmu Luoyue’s seal and also figured out that this was the reason prince Tata was so interested in him and his memories, as he was looking for a way to get rid of the Han Hai Yi Dian too. As a result of his parents' actions, however, Yang Jinghua turned into a demon that caused the destruction of everything and everyone there.

After Yang Jinghua and Duanmu Xi finally got out and Duanmu Xi destroyed the spiritual consciousness of the Shenmu tree, before falling into a coma, prince Tata approached Yang Jinghua and convinced him that if he left with him, then Duanmu Xi’s future could be changed. So, the two of them disappeared before the Duanmu family arrived, in the hope of Yang Jinghua altering Xi's fate and prince Tata finding a way to get rid of the Han Hai Yi Dian.