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[Fangs of Fortune]

[Episode 5]

Sister,

why do you want to kill me?

Sister,

you misunderstood me.

Brother,

you're unforgivable.

Don't blame me.

You actually have the guts to come.

If I didn't come,

they would be in danger.

You colluded with Ran Yi.

That's what put them in danger.

Colluded?

Mr. Zhuo, your words are so harsh.

Ran Yi and I just collaborated

to get what we need.

When you came to the Demon Hunting Bureau,

you also said you wanted to collaborate with us.

Which part of what you said

is true?

Mr. Zhuo, every word I said to you

is true.

I only lie to little girls.

Nonsense.

You...

I can tell you the details.

But if we don't save them now,

it'll be too late.

Then... how can we deal with Ran Yi?

Actually, there's another way, which is the easiest.

Make the dreamers

die in their dreams.

So easy?

They can just commit suicide.

Committing suicide is indeed easy,

but not everyone

has the guts to commit suicide.

Will you commit suicide now?

Why would I commit suicide?

I'm not in a dream created by Ran Yi.

Are you sure?

How can you be sure?

Looks like you've started to understand.

If there's something

that can penetrate the dreams created by Ran Yi,

maybe...

As far as I know,

nothing can do that.

The Cloud Light Sword

can kill demons and evil spirits.

It won't be tainted by evil spirits

and can break all the illusions in the world.

Why can't Wen Xiao hear the sound of the sword?

Forget it.

I'll go look for her in the dream.

Don't be afraid.

Demons and evil spirits

are just illusions.

Everything is not real.

You just need to wake up.

What should I do to wake up?

To wake up...

That was...

A dream created by Ran Yi.

You didn't fall into a dream?

I don't know why either.

Ms. Pei.

What's going on?

This is the backfire from Ran Yi's dream control magic.

Dreamers

having a stronger obsession with the illusions in their dreams

would suffer

greater physical damage.

How come I haven't been affected?

My obsession...

It's indeed very strange.

Even Ms. Pei, who has practiced martial arts for years,

failed to withstand it.

You've always been physically weak,

but you're fine this time.

Zhao Yuanzhou,

now we should have a good talk.

The one you should talk to is not me,

but Ran Yi.

He really is here.

Don't waste time.

Let's go find him.

Ms. Pei!

What's wrong?

I'll take you to Ran Yi.

But Ms. Pei, stop acting tough.

Just stay here.

Save us some trouble.

I can't just let them

go with you.

Who knows

if you'll lure them into another trap?

When I had nightmares,

my father would always write different Chinese characters

in my palm.

He said as long as I held onto it tightly,

it would dispel the bad dreams.

Don't worry.

I have a way to deal with the great demon.

Everything will be fine.

You always had nightmares in the past?

Jiu asked me

to take this bottle of medicine with me.

Take it.

It should help with your internal injury.

Thank you.

Well, well, well.

You're helping each other.

You guys share a deep bond.

You're doing this in front of me, huh?

You think I'll lose to you?

Protect.

This barrier can protect her.

It's much more practical than

your Chinese character

and your medicine.

You...

Let's go.

The Cloud Light Sword.

It's been over ten years.

I didn't expect to see it again.

Over ten years?

You know my brother?

More than ten years ago,

I came to the mortal world.

I met a man holding the Cloud Light Sword.

He saved me.

It turns out he is your brother.

But the Cloud Light Sword he was holding

was not as powerful as the one in your hand.

He told me

he had a beloved younger brother

haunted by nightmares every night.

He asked me if I could help him.

I gave him a scale of mine,

telling him to grind it into powder and mix it with water to take.

After that,

his younger brother

was no longer troubled by nightmares

and was no longer afraid anymore.

Brother,

I dare not fall asleep.

If I fall asleep,

I would dream of myself turning into a demon.

No one would play with me.

It's okay.

Dreams reflect the opposite of reality.

I'm here.

Don't be afraid.

♫Footsteps echo, one by one♫

♫Sorrows scattered, lost to the wind♫

♫Not forgetting, nor dwelling on♫

♫The way back home♫

♫With strong will♫

♫I slowly carve out♫

♫Growth♫

♫Turning back♫

♫I find you still in that familiar place♫

♫Waiting there♫

I see.

So, Zhuo,

that's why you haven't dreamed

all these years.

You had a good brother.

Unfortunately...

I killed him.

My brother didn't want me to dream.

But Zhao Yuanzhou,

you killed them.

You have imprisoned me

in a nightmare for so many years.

When you kill me one day,

you can wake up from the nightmare.

But you know it's not today

or now.

Then tell me,

why did you help Ran Yi?

Interesting.

You humans call it a virtue

when you help one another.

But for us demons,

helping each other requires a reason.

You always inflict harm on demons,

but you can always come up with excuses.

Zhao Yuanzhou,

I told you this long ago.

Humans and demons

can never get along well.

Really?

Then why do you

insist on being with Miss Qi?

I told you Wen Xiao and Mr. Zhuo are smart.

You can't hide it from them.

Where's Miss Qi?

My daughter was so frightened

that she caught a cold.

It's not convenient for her to meet you.

Who are you guys?

Why did you save me?

Why didn't you let me die?

It's easy to die,

but it can't solve any problem.

It will only hurt the feelings of those who care about you.

In the boundless azure sea,

there is no path.

Yet in the mortal world,

in the vastness of the starry river,

I hold your hand,

traveling around the world together.

The only person caring about me also died.

Why should I live?

Ran Yi Fish?

Is the person you mentioned

Ran Yi?

You know him?

He's not dead.

We can take you to him.

You actually put her in a sack?

This is not Miss Qi.

This is Master Qi.

We just caught him

and didn't have time to interrogate him.

He's still in the dream created by Ran Yi.

He deserves it.

He can never wake up.

Master Qi is guilty,

but he should be convicted by the Demon Hunting Bureau.

You demons can't abuse your power out of personal grudges.

What?

When he asked the demon hunter

to perform the cruel

corpse-dissolving and demon-subduing technique on me,

wasn't he abusing his power?

Why didn't you mention that?

Why is the incense burner so smelly?

This is...

the smell of the Demon Slaying Spell.

The corpse-dissolving and demon-subduing technique.

Crush a dragon's rib bones into powder,

soak it in lime water,

and dry it into incense.

After it's burnt,

it can kill aquatic animals.

I promised Miss Qi

to take her to the Wilderness

to see the Tree of Heaven

and the shores of the sea.

In the boundless azure sea,

there is no path.

Yet

in the mortal world...

♫A light flickers♫

In the vastness of the starry river,

I hold your hand,

♫Far in the distance♫

traveling around

♫Scars♫

♫Nourished gently by rain♫

the world together.

[In the boundless azure sea, there is no path. Yet in the mortal world, in the vastness of the starry river, I hold your hand, traveling around the world together.]

♫The window opened by the wind♫

♫Softly sways♫

♫But time slips away♫

♫Hastily♫

♫You wear candlelight like a robe, awaiting dawn♫

♫While I cradle heartache, year after year, on and on♫

♫In dreams, my hometown♫

♫Lies under frost♫

♫All sounds♫

♫Are lost♫

♫The wind brushes against rivers and hills♫

♫Wild blooms refuse to fall♫

♫They've seen every hue the world has borne♫

♫Which blossom is meant for me?♫

♫As songs are sung, how many truly understand?♫

♫The varied regrets we sing repeatedly♫

♫Have echoed for years♫

♫Hoping fate will amend♫

♫Remember me, a humble♫

♫Blossom♫

I'll take you away.

Where to?

I'll take you to the Wilderness,

although it's a desolate place.

No place

is more desolate than this world.

Master,

bad news!

Miss Qi ran away with the doctor!

This way.

I'm a demon hunter!

Demon!

Show your true form!

My Lady!

I'll marry that man.

I'll marry that man!

Father!

Father!

Let him go!

I'll marry that man!

No!

To prevent me from going back to Miss Qi,

he kept the corpse-dissolving and demon-subduing incense burnt in the mansion.

I couldn't save her.

So you ran away, seriously injured

and with little time left to live.

In order to restore your demon power,

you could only absorb malicious energy by killing people.

Also,

you deliberately preyed on brides

and created panic,

making people dare not get married.

You did everything in an attempt to stop Miss Qi from getting married.

I could stop anyone,

but I couldn't stop

her despicable father.

It's God's will that he

ended up like this.

I don't know how

to undo the dream control magic.

And it can't be undone.

It's very easy to undo it.

Cut a piece

of your flesh

and make him eat it.

Don't bother.

I'll wake him up.

Give my life back to me.

It's so cold down here.

Come and accompany me.

Leave me alone.

You should go to that demon.

You helped my daughter elope with him.

You deserved to die!

You do deserve to die!

Wake up.

Don't... Don't kill me!

Don't... Don't come near me!

Neither do you!

Don't... Don't come near me. All of you.

I didn't kill you.

Don't come near me!

Don't come near me!

He's gone crazy.

Go away!

It has nothing to do with me.

I didn't kill you.

I didn't...

Quiet.

It was really him who killed them and buried the bodies.

When my Cloud Light Sword

was glimmering in Qi's Mansion,

I felt something was wrong with that place.

It was once a well.

He moved a tree there

to cover the well's mouth.

But beneath the tree

lies a hollow, deep well.

The roots couldn't get any nutrients.

As a result,

the tree withered.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Five.

All the five bodies in the well

have been pulled out of it.

The people in the well

were the servants

who wanted to help me elope with Miss Qi.

To him, killing them

was like killing a few ants.

They must have died with great resentment.

The greater resentment they died with,

the more malicious energy there should be in the courtyard.

But

my Cloud Light Sword

only sensed a faint trace of it.

This has aroused my suspicion.

Someone

absorbed the malicious energy.

Are you suspecting me?

I'm not suspecting you.

I'm sure it was you.

Before you went to the Demon Hunting Bureau

to tell us you would help us catch Ran Yi,

you had already been to Qi's Mansion

and found out Ran Yi committed the crime.

A servant of Qi's Mansion

said that a few days ago,

he saw a ghost

on the tree in the courtyard.

Who is it?

Who's there?

Ghost!

That ghost had a pair of red eyes.

I think it was you,

right?

Zhao Yuanzhou.

At that time,

you absorbed the malicious energy in the well

and discovered everything.

Then you started to carry out your plan.

Zhu Yan,

I won't go back to the Wilderness with you.

The Baize Token has been lost.

Why are you being nosy here?

Who said I'm here to take you back to the Wilderness?

I'm here to help you.

You offered

to help him put the Water Ghost's wedding letter

in Qi's Mansion.

You don't need to deny it.

On the wedding letter,

there was familiar demonic energy,

which is annoying.

Mr. Zhuo, I didn't expect you to be so familiar

with my demonic energy.

Indeed, I placed the wedding letter.

[Wedding Letter]

Unexpectedly,

Master Qi disregarded familial bonds.

But I'm curious.

Why didn't you take Miss Qi to him directly?

Why did you make such a long detour?

I was too ashamed to see her.

I killed so many people.

I'm guilty.

But she is kind-hearted.

She must care a lot

about what I did.

I just hope

she won't be forced

to marry someone she doesn't like.

I hope she can live the life she wants.

I'll take her here

so that you can elope together.

Isn't it good?

I'm a sinful man.

I don't know how to face all the promises I made.

I just hope she

can consider it a dream.

The road is muddy in the dream.

She'll see light after she wakes up.

The world is desolate.

Take care.

You are so affectionate.

You've become more and more like a human.

What about you?

You won't help me for no reason.

What do you want?

Why exactly

did you help him?

I told you long ago.

I did it for the Baize Token.

The Baize Token?

Some dreams

can remind you of the past that has been forgotten.

Zhao Yuanzhou asked me

to create a dream like that for you.

Is everything I saw in my dream

real?

Yes.

So you wanted Ran Yi

to help me remember

the whereabouts of the Baize Token through the dream?

That was not a dream.

It was your memory.

But why was the memory missing from my mind?

What did you see in the dream?

I saw

Master did give the Baize Token to me.

There was indeed a Baize Mark on my forehead.

Then how come

you don't have Baize Divine Power at all?

Maybe there's still something she hasn't remembered.

Zhao Yuanzhou,

I've fulfilled

my promise to you.

What about your promise to me?

Master Qi has been punished.

What about her freedom?

Conjure.

After tomorrow,

everyone will think

Miss Qi has been killed by the Water Ghost.

She's free.

She can go anywhere she wants.

According to the book,

the East Sea in the Wilderness

has azure water and white sand.

I really want to see it myself.

Thank you.

Since you've pled guilty,

you should surrender

and go back to the Demon Hunting Bureau with me.

Someone is here.

Didn't we hide her in the Archives?

How did she come here?

I didn't expect that

you still came here.

Where's Ran Yi?

Zhuo, you...

It can make sure she won't run around.

Let's go.

I know everything.

Whether you're a human or a demon,

no matter what you do,

we'll live and die together,

till death do us part.

Let's leave together

and go back to the Wilderness.

Okay.

You tried so hard to escape.

Why do you want to go back?

People say

animals spend their entire lives

seeking a roof to shelter them in order to eat and sleep well.

But only humans

yearn to return to their hometowns.

I read a lot of books and wrote

many Chinese characters with her before.

But I still didn't understand what homesickness is.

If it's sorrow,

why do so many people pursue it?

Now I understand.

I don't want to be an animal.

I want to be a human.

What about those people you hurt?

They wanted to be humans too.

They also wanted to return to their hometowns.

You committed heinous crimes,

yet you still want to leave unscathed?

Your brother saved me back then.

But today, you want to arrest me.

I've protected you from nightmares for many years.

I did you a favor.

Can't you just let us go?

The one my brother

saved back then was surely a kind demon,

not you who killed innocent people.

I will arrest you.

The only thing I can do

is to plead

for your life.

Yes.

I killed innocent people.

But I created the most beautiful dreams for them.

Their lives

were full of pain and restraints.

I gave them the happiness they longed for.

Longed for.

Words invented by humans

are perfectly apt sometimes.

What is elusive in reality

can be found in dreams.

Life is

like Zhuangzi and his butterfly dream.

In the dreams,

all their wishes came true.

They lived their happy lives in the way

they wanted the most.

Isn't that good?

Whether it's a dream or reality,

it's not for you to decide on their behalf.

I don't want to be a demon.

I want to be a human.

Who should decide it?

You?

Baize Goddess.

Mayflies can see the sun and the moon,

but she can only stay in her room,

bound by the whims of fate.

Who gave her a choice?

Nature is not benevolent.

It treats all things as sacrificial straw dogs.

Just because nature is not benevolent,

justice prevails

beneath the weight of fate.

How will the Demon Hunting Bureau punish me?

Although Master Qi hurt you first,

you killed dozens of people after all.

You are unforgivable.

You'll be imprisoned for at least 1,000 years.

1,000 years?

You humans are so arrogant.

For demons,

it's bearable.

But for humans,

life is just a few short decades.

In other words,

I can't see you again

even in the next life.

I refuse to accept that.

It's not up to you.