All language subtitles for Veil of Shadows Episode 17

The only way to destroy Jiu Ying

is for each of us to devour
one of its heads,

then transform into mountain ranges

to seal it beneath us.

Chi Wen,

you carry the power of sealing.

The final burden

falls on you.

But who will seal you?

What if Jiu Ying takes over your body?

Don't worry, my brothers.

I'll drive the Guili Sword
into my dragon's spine

to pin down Jiu Ying's primordial spirit.

Then, I'll return to Shilin Sect,
find a suitable vessel,

and transfer the spirit into it
using the Dragonbirth Spell,

to seal away my true dragon form.

After that,

I'll be the one
to keep the world at peace.

I'm afraid a suitable vessel

won't be easy to find.

You're back. How was it, Chi Wen?

In that case,

there's only one last way.

We fuse our reverse scales

and create a Tenth Dragon.

He will become
a final hope for this world.

That is me.

The Tenth Dragon.

Why isn't he back yet?

He's fine.

Take them back to Shilin Sect.

Yes. Master Dragon Deity,

Wu Zhiqi

has a request.

I know.

He has mentioned it to me before.

You all go ahead.

Should I stay?

Accompany me somewhere.

Your hands are dirty.

Can you really leave it unwashed?

Last time I refused to wash my hands,

Master Dragon Deity,

you shoved my hands
into the water brutally.

This isn't an illusion.

And I'm not Man Man.

Don't test the Dragon Deity's patience.

Right.

You're no longer a dragon
on the chopping block.

What a shame.

But what if

I insist?

If so,

I'll take the ring.

It's been hundreds of years,

and you still act like a reckless child.

If you want to try,

go ahead then.

You washed my hands twice before.

I remember.

The scent on you has faded.

This handkerchief…

Why do you still keep it?

Where's Master Dragon Deity?

Don't worry, Commander Li. He is safe.

The butterfly demon has been subdued.

Dragon Deity's Power
on Wu Zhiqi has been reclaimed.

But your body…

I'm fine.

Bai Ze,

who exactly

is Yuan Wuhuo?

Master Dragon Deity,

are you still thinking
about the butterfly demon?

Who is he?

To me,

he

was once like a brother.

Was he a dragon too?

No.

He was a human.

Once the demon hunter commander
of the Shilin Sect.

He watched me grow up,

and I stayed with him
until the end of his life.

When I first met him,

he was a proud man.

A great hero.

And when I saw him off
on his final journey,

he was an old man worn down by illness.

A mortal lifespan

is the greatest shackle in this world.

Since he was a human,

how did he become a butterfly demon?

And why

does he look exactly like me?

I understand now.

Like Wangyan and I.

Although we're not related by blood,

we hold each other dear.

Even knowing she's hiding
something from me,

I still refuse to believe it.

I don't want to lose her.

You won't lose her.

Can you tell me what secret
you're keeping with her?

Tell me,

and I won't lose her.

I can help you too.

This is the Moon Summoning Pearl.

Hold it, and channel your power.

No matter where I am,

I'll come to you at once.

Wu Wangyan.

Come to me.

Be careful.

I can see.

Shouldn't you return
the Moon Summoning Pearl?

Aren't you going to ask

why I summoned you here?

If you want to tell me,

you will.

If not, there's no point asking.

If I hadn't used it to summon you,

would you have kept avoiding me?

I was just tired

and wanted peace

somewhere quiet.

What happened in the illusion…

Go ahead and ask.

I'll tell you everything you want to know.

Let's treat this

as a final farewell.

You should know, on every full moon night,

all members of the Formless Moon Sect

are forcibly summoned back
to the Formless Moon Palace

by the Power of the Moon.

Once we enter the Sacred Spring,

there are no secrets between us.

Each rebirth

reshapes the body

and restores memory and emotion.

One day,

the Oracle Stone delivered a prophecy.

We were to wipe out

a village by the Blackwater River
where flood dragons dwelled.

I objected. We argued.

Master,

if there are sinners among them,
punishing those responsible is enough.

Why must we destroy the entire clan?

The world has its balance.

The Oracle Stone is never wrong.

Their time is up.

No one can defy fate.

It was cruel to exterminate
an entire clan.

We all had doubts

and hesitated.

We didn't act immediately.

But when we woke again,

my memory

had reset to the last time
I entered the Sacred Spring.

It happened to everyone.

We had been reborn.

Master,

thank you for granting us new life.

Xie Lingxi killed you.

But he didn't know

the Power of the Moon

grants us eternal life.

The Fox Queen never mentioned
that mission again.

As if it had never happened.

Even the memory
of our argument and the mission

was never stored
in the Primordial Sacred Spring.

No one remembered.

I went back alone to the Blackwater River.

No one survived.

But traces of my power were everywhere.

That was

when I realized I had committed slaughter.

But I didn't know
they were the flood dragons.

Only after entering the Star Stone

did my memories slowly return.

That was when

I understood

that the Fox Queen's consciousness
had never awakened.

The one controlling us
through the Oracle Stone

- was actually…
- It was Jiu Ying.

Yes.

Jiu Ying used the Oracle Stone

to control the Formless Moon Sect.

I was under his control too.

I had no choice.

Even now, you're still lying to me.

You said you lost
your memories after rebirth.

Then how do you remember all this?

If Jiu Ying erased your memories,

he wouldn't leave any clues
for you to discover.

Your brother helped me.

My brother?

Your brother, the Ninth Dragon, Chi Wen.

Master Chi Wen left you a message.

The Oracle Stone can't be trusted.

If you have doubts,

seal part of your memories
inside this artifact.

Retrieve them later,
and they'll remind you of the truth.

Among all the sisters
in the Formless Moon Sect,

I'm the only one
who still remembers the massacre.

Perhaps because I doubted and resisted,

Jiu Ying chose me as his vessel.

After that,

I didn't dare let him sense
anything unusual.

Before entering the Sacred Spring,

I would always seal away
any memories or emotions

that might expose me.

Any memories or emotions
that might expose you?

Does that include me?

I suppose

that answer

doesn't matter to you anymore.

So you never intended
to carry out the dragon-slaying plan.

Saying you'd slay the dragon with me

was a lie.

You and Chi Wen planned all this together.

Right?

That's right.

He told me to stay close to you

and find a way to get
the prayer bead bracelet.

You and Chi Wen

share the same dragon lineage,
yet you're strangers to each other.

Fate has been cruel.

So you stayed by my side

for the prayer bead bracelet.

I thought…

I thought…

The Twelve thoughts
weren't found in the illusion.

You couldn't succeed.

But I gained something there too.

Something I never expected.

And just as quickly,

I lost it.

Hasn't the boy returned yet?

He went for training with his master.

He'll be back tomorrow.

Here.

Try the water. Is it too hot? Here.

Is it too hot?

You shouldn't stay cooped up all day.

Your legs are getting weak.

I'll take you out for a walk.

Go do your work.

Don't worry about me.

In this illusion,

you're the only one who's real.

Everything else is fake.

- So what's the point of dealing with them?
- I'm not real either.

Or do you really think

I'm your wife?

Time can be erased.

Memories too.

Would you do that?

Would you forget

the truth you've just learned

and return to the peaceful life
we once had?

That peaceful life over those past decades

belongs to my parents.

Not to you.

And not to us.

You can't let go of the hatred,

and I can't wash the blood from my hands.

So,

let me go.

Let yourself go too.

Let him go. And let us be free, alright?

Is Wu Shiguang

really the Tenth Dragon?

And Master Dragon Deity…

Everything happens as it should.
The ending is written in the star.

We know that, don't we?

I should get going.

It's the full moon tonight.

I have to return.

Going home should be a good thing.

Why do you look sad?

Once I return to the Formless Moon Sect
and enter the Primordial Sacred Spring,

everything you and Wangyan planned
will be exposed to the Fox Queen.

If you don't share your memory…

will you tell her?

I don't know.

I don't want to betray
the Formless Moon Sect.

But I understand

why Wangyan wanted to leave.

When you've been bound for too long,

you start wanting to break free.

Everyone's the same.

You can change your face,
reshape your body,

but the heart is the hardest thing
to disguise.

When you long for something

but can't go after it,

that's the saddest thing of all.

Just like when you killed that child.

You knew it had to be done,

but seeing your hands covered in blood

still hurts,

doesn't it?

Why are you crying?

You knew.

You knew everything.

You knew I hate getting my hands dirty.

You knew I liked everlasting flowers.

You even knew I'm Hui.

But those things,

only Ji Ling knew.

Next time we meet,

I'll make you a flower

that will never wither.
Would you like that?

My love for Di Zhu

is like that beautiful everlasting flower.

It will never fade.

Because my moon phase

is Hui.

When you can't see the moon at night,
that moon phase

is Hui.

The sky is pitch black.

There's no moon.

There is.

It's called Hui.

Did you devour Ji Ling

and inherit his memory?

Or

are you Ji Ling?

If it's the former,

what would you do?

I'd hate you.

I'd hate myself too.

Then,

if it's the latter?

Then I…

Perhaps before long,

you'll end up like me.

Don't become like me.

It's not worth it.

It's been so long
since I last saw his face.

Lately, I keep thinking
about when he was a kid.

The first time he called me "Mother".

So tiny.

His voice melted my heart.

And someone

was getting flustered with jealousy.

Do you remember?

He had a high fever
in the middle of the night.

I said he'd be fine,

but you insisted on taking him out

to find a physician.

You even gathered
every physician in the village.

Someone was even jealous of himself.

Even knowing it was an illusion,

after so long,

I still got drawn into it.

You don't want to stay here.

For me,

I get to see my late brother every day.

But you're different.

You're trapped

in an illusory life
that has nothing to do with you.

You've worn it for years.

I was thinking…

- Are you all right?
- Before my eyesight gets worse,

I'd make you a new one.

It's fine.

I like this one.

This bracelet means forever.

If it breaks, it's a bad omen.

It should be kept safe,

not worn every day as I do.

So,

you knew it all along.

Instead of putting it away,

I'd rather wear it.

Every time I see it,

I can't help but wonder.

Have you started to like this place?

We've both changed.

And yet,

it feels like this is who
we were meant to be.

That's why I hoped it would break.

Because no matter how much we like it,

this life doesn't belong to us.

Like something stolen,

even if you love it,

it never sits right in your heart.

Then why make me a new one?

Over and over again.

Isn't that tiring?

When you crouch too long in the dark,

you start to crave warmth.

And once you crave it,
you do foolish things.

There are many people

who are full of contradictions.

Maybe that's why even the smartest

can do the most foolish things.

Love

can make someone put down their blade.

Make the proud bow their head.

Make the sharpest mind
to do the most foolish things.

And you?

Staying here with me
and doing all these foolish things,

aren't you tired?

Me?

Maybe I'm just selfish.

I'd rather we suffer together

than be left alone.

You're the fool.

All of this

will end someday.

Yes.

Once we learn the truth,

we'll leave.

When that time comes,

could you

make me another bracelet?

One that's stronger.

One I can wear for a lifetime.

Sure.

Stop it.

What are you doing?

What about you?

What are you doing here?

Will severing your own tail really help?

Xiaowei was always on the run,
hunted by the Never-Ending Curse.

And you'll lose all your senses.

Going blind again doesn't scare me.

I'm used to it.

All these years,

you've been by my side.

I've grown used to that too.

Let me face this with you.

I have to face it alone.

Tonight is the full moon.

Everyone from the Formless Moon Sect,

including Jiu Ying,

will find out the secret
between Chi Wen and me.

Other than severing my tail,

I have no choice.

All I can do is admit defeat.

Wangyan,

this was all Jiu Ying's scheme.

Don't be afraid.

Don't hide.

I'm here.

I'll always stay with you.

All right?

It's too late.

Too late.

- Tonight…
- I know.

I know everything.

Tonight is the full moon.

I can't stop them from summoning you back.

But believe me.

I will come find you.

Wait for me.

I'll bring you back, no matter what.