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Is Chief Xue back?

Is Chief Xue back?

Did you send her back?

Is Chief Xue hurt?

Where is Chief Xue?

Is your chief injured?

Where is she?

Xiao Cheng!

Say something!

Mr. Huo.

Ziye...

has passed.

-Mr. Seven! -Mr. Seven!

Mr. Huo!

You're awake.

She committed suicide

with the golden needle.

How could this happen?

Do you know that Soul Devouring Powder,

the king of all poisons,

is incurable?

The only cure

is to trade a life for another.

In order to save her brother,

she absorbed

the poison in Eye.

Soul Devouring Powder is immensely cruel.

It not only corrodes the body

bit by bit

and completely disfigure you,

but it'll also eat away at your mind.

Ziye must've wanted to leave

before she loses all discernment.

You know

she didn't have many friends.

She didn't want to forget us.

She promised me

we'd drink together.

The last time she was passing out,

she still talked about returning to Apothecary Valley.

I guess it's because

she wanted to see you one last time.

But with the poison acting up

on top of her cold disease...

She must've endured it to the breaking point.

That's why she...

On my way back,

I asked myself countless times...

What if I had met her

a little sooner?

When I met her,

if she were still alive,

would I save her again

like before?

I'm very grateful to the heavens

for sparing me

from making such a cruel decision.

Because I couldn't do it.

But Ziye did it.

She chose to sacrifice her life

to save others.

As her master,

I'm more timid than her.

As a doctor,

she's much more selfless than me.

Did she go

in peace?

Yes.

And with dignity.

It was what she'd have wanted.

I...

I just...

I missed it by one day.

Just one day!

Why?

Why?

Why couldn't you wait for me?

Ziye had been waiting for you

to drink together.

When she left the valley,

she specifically told me

that if you come one day,

I've to tell you

the wine has been buried under the plum tree.

This letter...

Ziye missed it.

If...

If Chief were still alive,

they should be

getting together under the plum tree,

catching up and joking around.

Maybe they've already

reunited.

Her soul would've sensed it.

She should know

Mr. Seven is back.

Greetings, Chief.

You've changed.

You've really changed.

You look to be in good spirits.

You haven't changed at all.

Me?

I'm old.

When the Seven Swords besieged Yuan Yi Palace,

I wanted to join,

but I was too weak to.

I didn’t expect such a weak

and sickly

woman like Chief Xue

to successfully

break into the tiger's den alone

to kill Chang Wujue.

You know everything?

Come.

Sit down.

Chonghua's infiltration

of Yuan Yi Palace as a spy

was top secret.

No one else knew

except me.

If I hadn't made

the undercover decision,

Both of you would

still be high-spirited brothers

standing united against the same enemy.

Things came to this because of me.

It's all my fault.

There's no right or wrong.

But in a blink of an eye,

you couldn't have expected

this outcome.

What about you?

Do you blame me

for not telling you

the truth back then?

Chief.

It's all in the past.

I've let it go.

Whether you'd

told me the truth or not,

without Sixth Brother around,

I'd still take good care of

his wife and child.

It's good that you've let it go.

With Chang Wujue dead

and the Five Sages destroyed,

Yuan Yi Palace has suffered a huge blow.

It won't be easy for them

to make a comeback.

The Central Plains

will be in peace for

at least a few good years.

It's time for an old man like me

to give way to the more capable.

I summoned you back

because of this.

Your expression

is exactly

the same as that eight years ago.

Chief.

Thank you

for your years of recognition

and cultivation.

In the past eight years,

I've gained some insights about

the martial world

and about responsibility.

Like you said,

a sickly woman

like Chief Xue

breaking into the tiger's den alone

to confront Chang Wujue

was such a brave and righteous act.

As a brawny man,

safeguarding world peace

and preventing tragedies

like the Mo Family Village massacre

is the meaning of my life from now on.

So,

rather than becoming chief,

I'd prefer to be in the martial world

to punish evil and promote good.

I'll never regret it.

In the future,

if Sword Sect's new chief

needs my help,

I'll give my all to help.

Fine.

Since you've made up your mind,

I won't force you

to be chief.

But remember,

no matter where you go in the future,

as long as

you do what you want,

I'll be happy for you.

I won't let you down.

Be careful.

Careful, sir.

Thank you.

Careful.

Xiao Jing!

Xiao Jing!

Coming!

Here.

Coming.

Give this medicine to Mr. Wang.

Hurry up.

Okay.

Since the new chief revoked

the Fate-Reversal Tokens,

our valley's gotten much busier.

Indeed.

It's more lively too.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Careful, it's hot.

Okay.

Is this my medicine?

Yes.

Xiao Cheng.

Astragalus.

Here.

Follow this prescription.

Thank you, Chief.

She buried

this wine under the plum tree.

Drink with me.

I never asked you...

why you studied medicine.

Because Ziye saved you too?

I was poisoned by the Ice Silkworm.

I experienced

a fate worse than death.

I don't want

anyone else to go through that.

Besides,

I was once a patient.

Chief Xue cured me

and revitalized me.

So I stayed in the valley

to do my best

to repay her kindness.

She'll be so glad

to know this.

I owe it to the medical book

she left behind.

It contains the treatment methods

for all kinds of illnesses, major and minor.

Many of them

are rare prescriptions.

Every time I encounter a tricky illness,

I'd get inspired

just flipping through it.

This book

is her lifelong work.

She wrote a book

to save more people.

Yes.

She did it.

Have you ever hated me?

Actually her biggest wish

was to save her brother

from the devil's cave.

Eye.

Sister Ye.

I’m here to see you.

Can I have a drink too?

Actually,

I could tell that she liked you very much.

It's all my fault.

Because she wanted to save me,

you couldn't be with her.

She'd have saved you either way.

A pot of new wine with green film

and a warm red-clay stove.

When it's about to snow in the evening,

can we

have a drink?

Tonight...

the song's complete,

and the people's dispersed.

Ziye.

Sister Ye.

Chief Xue.

Sister Ye.

I'm renouncing the world from now on.

I wonder if it will

wash away my sins.

I hope it's not too late.

Over the past decades,

I've been drinking with you every year.

Now I can drink

as well as you.

Come on.

As usual.

Three!

Five!

Six!

You lost!

I'll drink for you.

Come on.

Again.

Three!

Eight!

Six!

I'll drink. I'll drink.

In the past,

I could never beat you.

Now,

you can't beat me.