Ludwig breaks his back in the fall and is carried by the couple to a farmhouse.
Out of despair, Monkey God swore before dying that he will never forgive Caiyue.
Rankin was the minister for the First Congregational Church in Washington, D.
The dying Ludwig, moved by the plight of the lovers, directs his soldiers away from the farmhouse as Alan and Elsa hurry, hand in hand, across the frontier toward freedom and love in neutral Holland.