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You've finally come, my little brother.

My brother, Chi Wen.

I'm here.

You are our long-awaited kin

and the last hope we have left for the world.

What a pity.

We won't be able to watch you grow up

and transform into a dragon.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

For what?

The last Dragon Deity's Power

has dissipated.

I can't be a dragon anymore.

Besides,

I still have fragments of Jiu Ying in me.

He could manipulate me at any time.

Perhaps this is fate.

You can't turn into a dragon.

But Jiu Ying can't kill me either.

He is forever trapped in this dragon body.

Is that it?

You think I'll give up?

Chi Wen. You're so naive.

Chi Wen.

Are you alright?

I'm fine.

Where's Ji Ling?

Why didn't he come with you?

He's the Dragon Deity we picked.

I haven't seen him for a long time.

Is he alright?

Ji Ling is at the Shilin Sect.

He was originally a little fox at the foot of South Mountain,

all carefree.

But he swallowed my dragon scale by mistake

and shouldered a burden too heavy for him.

I can see now.

I can see now.

What a surprise.

The dragon scale didn't kill me

and cured my eyes instead.

It also surprised me

that it was you, little fox, who swallowed my dragon scale.

Master Chi Wen, you remember me?

Of course.

Why did you swallow my dragon scale?

I heard that it was a deadly mission

and thought it would kill me.

That's why I took it.

He's a good man.

I owe him my life.

Maybe it was destined

by heaven.

Little fox.

Do you have a name?

From now on, let's call you Ji Ling.

Ji Ling?

Ji Ling.

What a nice name.

I have a name. Master Chi Wen gave me a name.

Master Chi Wen,

does this name carry a specific meaning?

I heard that names carry meanings

in the mortal world.

Whoever swallows my dragon scale

becomes a vessel for my spirit.

Ji Ling, a spirit vessel.

Aren't you afraid?

If you hadn't saved me,

I would have died.

Why would I be scared to be your spirit vessel

to save the world?

I didn't expect

that a little fox could do such a great thing.

So Ji Ling was a vessel for your spirit.

Then why did you choose to stay here?

Out of sympathy.

Yuan Wuhuo was doomed.

But Ji Ling showed up unexpectedly.

I couldn't bear to take the life of a kind creature at will.

So we changed our plans.

You made Ji Ling the "Dragon Deity".

-Didn't you? -Yes.

No one needs to be sacrificed.

I have another way.

Just lend me your demon power.

I have plans about how to regain the Dragon Deity's Power.

Greetings, Master Dragon Deity.

I can't go on fooling around.

It's time to grow up.

Goodbye, little fox.

I'll miss you.

How come you're carrying a fragrance out of nowhere?

I bathe with only water and eat vegetarian.

There can't be a fragrance.

There is.

But this smell makes people sad,

as if they're hollowed out.

Autumn days are bleak.

The golden-scale wood is losing all its leaves.

The branches look empty.

That's why you have the delusion.

If people can live for 100

or 1,000 years, like trees,

that would be nice.

Not really.

Trees are too lonely.

For centuries,

they had to stay put in one place.

That's right.

Little fox.

You swallowed the dragon scale and obtained immortality.

But you're neither a human nor a demon,

without a single kin.

You became the loneliest outlier in the world.

Then you carry the gravest

and most hopeless mission,

trapped in this lonely courtyard.

I'm sorry.

I don't have kin,

but I have friends.

They are by my side, aren't they?

But people around you

will grow old one by one

and perish.

It's so cruel.

You'll stay with me, won't you?

My time has come, too.

But the title of Dragon Deity remains a faith

as well as a huge burden.

It's been a century.

Things must have been hard for him.

Has he changed?

He…

is somehow different now.

He's no longer that simple little fox.

His heart grew much heavier.

His eyes were shrouded,

impossible to see through.

Is that so?

That's why I came to see you.

Ji Ling was haunted by his inner demon and fell unconscious.

Inner demon?

Bai Ze said

that it's a demon transformed from your dragon scale,

called Ji Can, the Lonescale.

Sorry. I can't help Ji Ling.

No one in the world can defeat a Lonescale,

except for Ji Ling himself.

Because a Lonescale is also a dragon.

Only dragons

can kill a dragon.

That's right.

Destiny loves to play tricks.

If I could

trust him more and read his mind earlier,

perhaps he wouldn't

be controlled by his inner demon.

He dressed up as the Dragon Deity.

Since ancient times, fancy attire has always been a shackle.

My intuition tells me that Wu Shiguang is not a bad guy.

That low-rank weasel demon only stole a gown.

But he captured him for a reward.

How is he not bad?

He was trying to save that weasel demon.

That weasel lacked cultivation.

With his current level of power,

he could only wear plain clothes.

Silk and satin would be too much for him.

He would die.

I had no idea.

Well then, your clothes are so gorgeous.

Can you handle it?

He wore the clothes of the Dragon Deity

and had to put up with endless loneliness.

I feel much better these days.

I want to visit my hometown.

My parents' tomb hasn't been swept for quite a while.

Aging and seriously wounded beasts

always go alone to the hidden caves in the forest

at the end of their lives.

They don't want their kin to witness their death.

That's their last pride.

Stop looking for me.

I don't want you to see my ruined look.

Think of it as a final goodbye.

I didn't achieve anything

I've ever wanted to achieve

throughout my life.

I gained nothing.

I failed as an older brother.

Little fox.

I have to go now.

You shouldered

so much burden for me in this life.

I owe you way too much.

I can't atone for my sins now.

Child.

You are kind and pure.

But if there is an afterlife,

I hope you can be selfish.

It's getting cold. Let me grab you a gown.

Master Chi Wen.

My time has come.

May I be so shameless

as to ask you for one thing,

please?

I'm listening.

For so many years,

I've been by your side.

I only see my wife and child

on New Year's Eve.

I take pride in my devotion

to the Shilin Sect.

However,

I feel guilty to my family.

My child wrote to say

that his mother

doesn't have many days left.

You want me

to save your wife?

No.

Master Chi Wen.

I just want you…

I just want you

to grant me another day of health

so that I have the strength

to get out of bed,

walk out of the Shilin Sect,

and see her once again at home.

Can you fulfill my wish?

Master Chi Wen.

I…

I can't help you.

I'm sorry.

I overstepped.

Master Chi Wen.

The Dragon Deity's Power

should be preserved for those who need it more.

I'll take one step ahead

and wait for her in the other world.

Master Dragon Deity.

I'm so proud

to be able to serve by your side.

I'm sorry.

Yuan Wuhuo

died.

Ye Daoxuan died, too.

They both

left me.

I don't have the Dragon Deity's Power.

I'm an imposter.

I can't fulfill anyone's wishes.

Nor can I

keep anyone around.

No one can keep me company forever.

Maybe

this will set me free.

Don't be sad.

Don't cry.

I will always be with you.

Don't be sad.

Don't cry.

I will always be with you.

Don't be sad. Don't cry.

I will always be with you.

Don't be sad. Don't cry.

I will always be with you.

-Wu. -Don't be sad.

Don't cry.

-Is that you? -I will always be with you.

Wu.

Don't be sad. Don't cry.

I will always be with you.

Who are you?

I'm Lonescale,

the loneliness residing in you,

your inner demon.

I am you.

Lu Wuyi severed her spiritual tail

and fainted from the pain.

Her spiritual tail corresponds to the eyes.

What?

Why did she sever her tail?

She followed your soul

back in time.

To see everything,

she had to attach herself to someone

or something.

Back then,

I only had Yuan Wuhuo

and Ye Daoxuan around.

Who was she?

Don't you already know the answer?

Don't be sad.

Don't cry.

I will always be with you.

Don't be sad.

Don't cry.

I will always be with you.

Don't be sad.

Don't cry.

I will always be with you.

Don't be sad.

Don't cry.

I will always be with you.

Don't be sad.

Don't cry.

I will always be with you.

My little fox.

It was her.

It's always been her.

Let's reciprocate.

Call me Wu from now on.

Wu.

The cry of a fox. Wu.

It has the same name.

It turns out that my Wu

has always been my Wu.

Master Daoxuan.

Since you won't save him,

you shall die too.

It's so inconvenient to be a human.

I can't even leave marks.

Thank you.

Here.

Have some too.

I left oil on your hands.

It's fine. I'll wash you later.

You are a little fox.

You can't be furless.

A bald fox will be mocked.

I'll be hairless.

Getting bald.

I am a little fox without a name.

But my little fox must have a name.

Foxes cry like Wu…

So I'll call you

Wu.

Wu.

Wu.

Yelp.

Yelp.

Yelp for me.

Yelp.

So naughty.

I'll spank you.

Yelp. Come on.

It hurts.

It hurts.

I can't go on fooling around.

It's time to grow up.

Goodbye.

I'll miss you.

Don't be sad.

Don't cry.

I will always be with you.

Don't be sad. Don't cry.

I will always be with you.

I will always be with you.

Wu.

Is that you?

Don't be sad. Don't cry.

I will always be with you.

Don't be sad.

Don't cry.

I will always be with you.

Don't be sad. Don't cry.

I will always be with you.

I will always be with you.

Don't be sad. Don't cry.

The past can't be changed.

Trapped in this doll,

she had to sever her spiritual tail

and unleash all her power to make a faint sound

through that doll to stop you from committing suicide.

She is not only my moon,

but she has also always been my little fox.

After that,

you had a little talking fox keeping you company

and you were no longer lonely.

You gave up the idea of suicide and gathered the courage

to become the Dragon Deity step by step.

But the fox doll

never spoke again.

You told people about it,

but nobody believed it.

How can a rag doll comfort you?

Don't tell me it can talk.

It really talks.

After that,

you created Ji Ling with the spell of Severed Silk.

You gave him the little fox

and sent him out to wander the world.

Then he met Lu Wuyi.

The universe is vast and exquisite.

Even I find it hard

to perceive everything.

It turns out

the beginning of the story

has already been altered by Wu.

Lu Wuyi once asked me

why I would help her go back in time.

I said I wasn't helping her.

The person I wanted to help

was you.

Your ending was never to die by your own hand,

nor to sacrifice yourself to that drought.

The end of your life

has always been

to be devoured by me.

We must go back in time to keep you from loneliness

so that I never come to life.

That is the only way to change your fate.

Why would you sacrifice yourself

to save me?

Because you are a kind person.

But for a hundred years,

no one in this world has truly loved you

or been willing to die for you.

Is there anyone who loves you enough to die for you?

Is there?

Now there is.

She loves you enough

to die for you.

So, I should disappear.

But the ending is written.

This is too cruel for you.

She only exists

because of Jiu Ying.

Once Jiu Ying dies, she will also perish.

But the meaning of your existence

is to annihilate Jiu Ying.

The last Dragon Deity's Power in this world

has been destroyed.

I don't have

to reach the end.

I used to be a dragon scale.

Therefore,

I carry the last Dragon Deity's Power in this world.

You can use it to kill Jiu Ying

or to save Lu Wuyi.

This final decision

is up to you.

Jiu Ying sent her to you

to make you fall in love with her

so that you would struggle

between love and duty.

This is what it means to be the fated one.

Between you and her,

one must live,

and one shall perish.

Commander Li.

It's so late. Why are you here?

I want to see Master Dragon Deity.

Master Dragon Deity is in the Scale Cave.

Go ahead, please.

I won't let you hurt Master Dragon Deity.

You are just like your grandfather, Ye Daoxuan.

You'd protect him at the cost of your lives.

Why did you come here?

To kill him.

The fourth Dragon Deity's Power has been destroyed.

Wu Shiguang can never transform into a dragon.

And Ji Ling will remain a false deity,

suffering loneliness forever.

What a cruel fate.

I must set him free.

Triple-flower paints the day. All things live and perish.

Before me, all becomes clear.

Break!

You're actually using the demon power preserved for the inner core.

Do you have a death wish?

My life is yours.

But he

must remain alive.

Bai Ze.

Do you think you can beat me with your petty tricks?

Ye Changsheng. Well done.

What did you do?

Take my Purple Lightning Chain.

If you see Yuan Wuhuo, find a way to merge this with his blade.

Young men of the Shilin Sect

use faith as shields and courage as spears

to protect the Dragon Deity and the world

until the last minute.

Ye Daoxuan.

Ye Mingshan.

Ye Changsheng.

The devotion to the Shilin Sect lives on.

Thus, light and hope will never leave this world.

Yuan Wuhuo.

Your sins

end with me today.

Little fox.

I have to go.

I hope you don't

feel lonely again.

The fifth gem.

Ji Can, the Lonescale.