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[The snowflakes on the seventh night bloom and wither. Like a short reunion and a permanent separation.]

[Snowy Night Timeless Love]

[Episode 5]

In the Mo Family Village in Wuling County,

what did the Moon Sect do?

The fourth year of Huijia…

Yes, the fourth year of Huijia.

Chief,

something's wrong with her.

The fourth year of Huijia…

I'm begging you.

I'm begging you.

Please don't kill him.

Don't kill him?

I'm begging you.

Who wants to kill him?

I'm begging you!

Please spare him.

Don't kill him!

Chief.

Her mood swings

may disrupt the mind-reading technique.

Let's stop for now

and find another opportunity to…

Tell me!

What did you say?

Nothing.

Give me the Seven-Leaf Fungus.

May I ask which sect you're from?

A gentleman

doesn't sneak attack.

Cut the crap!

The acupuncture is done.

Chief Jing, take a good rest.

Did I fall asleep just now?

Our chief lit soothing incense for you.

It has a calming effect.

I can't keep fighting him like this.

Eye.

You have the Moon Sect's poison in you.

Stop chasing him.

[Yuan Yi Palace, Five Sages, Miao Feng]

Otherwise, even if you could

get the Seven-Leaf Fungus,

you'd die before you could send it back to Kunlun.

You've already failed the Doctrine Leader.

I promised the Doctrine Leader

to present the Fungus to him.

Do you really think

you're the Doctrine Leader's only choice?

You've been out for a long time

but still haven't got the fungus.

The Doctrine Leader has broken through

to the eighth level of Iron Horse Glacier on his own.

You're useless now.

Go back and be punished.

I'll accept my punishment,

but before that,

I must kill that guy.

It's the Doctrine Leader's order.

Do you want to disobey it?

The poison on the dart

is the arsenopyrite unique to the Moon Sect.

Moreover, the previous chief of the Moon Sect

once had plans

to attack the Mo Family Village.

The massacre at the Mo Family Village

definitely had something to do with the Moon Sect.

You once heard the previous chief

and the priest discuss

the massacre at the Mo Family Village,

didn't you?

Yes.

Then do you know

why the Moon Sect

killed everyone in the Mo Family Village?

They…

Don't move!

Don't waste your energy.

The disciples of the Moon Sect

have taken control of the entire Apothecary Valley.

No one will come to your rescue.

Neat trick, Chief Jing.

When you treated me yesterday,

I had a vague feeling that something was wrong.

Sure enough, you do have ulterior motives.

The one who poisoned me

and lured me into the valley

must be you.

Right.

I tried

various ways

to make you take a slow-acting poison.

The symptoms were not noticeable at first,

but as time passed,

the potency of the poison increased.

I estimated the time when the poison would take effect

and then had someone

put the Fate-Reversal Token

around Lingjiu Mountain.

Then

it fell into your hands seemingly by chance.

Where's the antidote?

You eat it first.

Who on earth are you?

Why are you so concerned

about the massacre at the Mo Family Village?

I survived

that massacre.

The villagers of the Mo Family Village

were brutally slaughtered

in that massacre.

I want to know the truth

and seek justice for those villagers.

I know,

at this point,

you won't spare me.

I only wish

that before I die,

I could learn the truth about that tragedy.

Then,

I can die without regrets.

The massacre at the Mo Family Village

was not the doing of the Moon Sect.

But when I first

performed acupuncture on you, you said

the Moon Sect

had once planned

to carry out a massacre at the Mo Family Village.

The Moon Sect did plan

to attack the Mo Family Village,

but before we could act,

everyone there had already

been slaughtered.

As for who did it,

I don't know either.

How could it be?

You've gone to such great lengths

to uncover the truth.

To be honest,

I admire your determination.

But even so,

I won't let you

walk out that door.

Ziye.

Are you alright?

Don't move!

You came prepared?

You appeared weak just to deceive me!

The Apothecary Valley

is not a place that anyone can intrude upon.

I didn't expect you

to be so cunning.

Since you

don't have the answers I want,

you may leave.

You're actually willing to let me go?

I just want the truth.

I never wanted to take your life.

Also,

what you took just now

was a Gut-Rupturing Pill from my valley.

It's enough to keep you in check.

I'll regularly send you

the antidote

that can suppress this poison.

I hope you can

keep the secret about the Mo Family Village for me.

Travel safe.

What's wrong?

Chief kindly lets you leave,

yet you refuse to go?

Xuehuai.

The massacre

actually had nothing to do with the Moon Sect.

I'm at a loss now.

What should I do?

Chief.

Chief Jing says she has something important to tell you.

What brought you back?

You could've killed me today,

but you let me go instead.

I don't like being in anyone's debt.

I have to repay you.

The Moon Sect

didn't just establish itself in the martial world with poisons.

We've also collected a lot of

little-known intelligence.

I just remembered

that in my sect's ancient tomb,

there are records about the Mo Family Village.

There may be clues

about the massacre back then.

After I return, I'll look through the bamboo slips

and write to you.

I'm surprised

that you're so straightforward and generous.

Thank you in advance.

We're even now.

No need to thank me.

Wait.

Since you're honest with me,

I can't lie to you anymore.

I did have someone put something

in your food,

but it wasn't poison

but a tonic.

Tonic?

Then why did I feel unwell?

Just a side effect of excessive nourishment.

It was not harmful.

A healer doesn't kill.

Then what about the Gut-Rupturing Pill

you made me take?

It's also just a tonic.

Well, well.

I actually fell for your tricks twice.

If you really meant to harm me,

you could kill me

any time you want, couldn't you?

You said you're from the Mo Family Village.

That's not a lie, is it?

I wasn't born

in the Mo Family Village,

but the Mo Family Village

was my second home.

Sounds like there's quite a story there.

11 years ago,

my family suffered a misfortune.

My mother and I ended up in Jiulin

and passed through the Mo Family Village.

Don't be afraid.

Behave yourselves,

or I'll kill you right now!

Take this.

Any other valuables?

Hand them all over!

She doesn't have anything!

She doesn't have anything.

You're so protective of her.

There's definitely something good.

No, no, no!

Get up! Let go!

No!

Let me see what treasures you have.

Come here.

Come on.

Hands off!

Mother!

How dare you bite me?

You try to run away?

Behave yourself!

Let me go!

Let her go!

Let her go!

You came.

It's so cold today.

Here's the food.

It's still hot. Here.

Here.

Here, eat up.

Eat up.

Xuehuai, in the future...

After my mother died,

I became an orphan.

Sister, have some more.

It was the villagers of the Mo Family Village

who gave me a new home.

They not only took care of my daily needs

but also taught me to read and write.

I became the daughter of the Mo Family Village,

raised by all the families there.

Seven years passed.

During those seven years…

This is for you.

They treated me like their own child

and helped me forget the pain of losing my mother.

It's so beautiful.

Thank you, Xuehuai.

Look. Look at that.

Ming Jie…

Ming Jie is still in the house.

We can't leave him behind!

We can't go back!

Ye,

if we go back now,

none of us can survive!

Ming Jie!

Go!

Ming Jie!

Catch them!

Get up!

[Liao Qingran, the previous chief of the Apothecary Valley]

All the people buried here

were villagers

from back then?

The villagers' remains

were buried in the Mo Family Village.

These are

cenotaphs I built

to remember them by.

It seems that you and I are alike.

We've both suffered a lot,

unable to stay with our loved ones.

You also…

On the day I came to power

and became the chief

of the Moon Sect,

the sect elders, to prevent me from being distracted,

killed him.

Him?

Since I can remember,

I've been the saintess of the Moon Sect.

I had no family,

no friends,

not even a name of my own.

Until I met him.

By the Holy Lake,

he picked a red lotus

and softly called me

"Jing."

From then on,

I had my own name

and learned what love was.

We promised each other

to leave Lingjiu Mountain together

and go somewhere far away

to spend the rest of our lives together.

Unfortunately…

When was that?

The fourth year of Huijia.

No wonder when I gave you acupuncture

and mentioned the fourth year of Huijia,

you became so agitated.

The massacre at the Mo Family Village

also happened in the fourth year of Huijia.

You and I

suffered misfortune in the same year

and lost our loved ones.

It takes one to know one.

Chief Xue.

I like your personality

from the bottom of my heart.

Why don't we

become sworn sisters?

What do you say?

If you're willing,

you can call me Jing from now on.

Okay.

Jing.

Then it's a deal,

Ziye.

Actually,

what I did to you

wasn't honorable.

That massacre

is very important to me.

Due to my cold disease,

I can't be out of the valley for too long.

I had no choice but to do that.

I hope you don't blame me, Jing.

I don't blame you.

I even admire you a bit.

You got me this time,

but I'll keep score.

In the future,

I'll definitely beat you.

If you want to beat me,

you'll have to put in a lot of effort.

Jing, why don't you

stay in the valley for a few days for recuperation?

You didn't feel well before

because the tonic I made you take

was too strong.

Although it wasn't harmful,

a regimen can always do you good.

I'm about to go to the back mountain

to gather some nice herbs

to clear the toxic heat from your body

and regulate your disordered meridians.

It's my way of making amends.

Okay.

I also want

to learn from you

how to use poison.

Let's go.

Someone's coming.

That's…

Chief Xue!

That's Mr. Huo

who went to gather medicines for Mo.

He made it back alive.

Chief Xue.

Long time no see.

Miss Feng Lyu.

Has it been long?

It doesn't feel long to me.

Chief Xue is as humorous as ever.

You, however, have become

more annoying than before.

Don't talk as if

we're very close.

I saved your life once,

and you saved mine once.

If that hadn't made us close,

there were no close friends

in this world.

Don't cozy up to me!

You're nothing more than

a relative of my patient.

Not special at all.

Without the Fate-Reversal Token and 100,000 coins for treatment,

even if

the chief of the Sword Sect came,

I still wouldn't treat you.

I'm just slightly injured.

I'll recover in several days.

I just brought back

the Seven-Leaf Fungus.

After having a few drinks, I'll leave.

Where's the Seven-Leaf Fungus?

I've already had Snow Harrier

send it back to the valley.

What's wrong?

The chief of the Moon Sect is in the valley.

Chief Jing.

You're up so early.

Is your chief up?

I'm leaving.

Chief Jing, you haven't fully recovered yet.

Why are you leaving in such a hurry?

I've been away from the sect for some time.

Besides,

I need to hurry back

to look into something for Ziye.

Oh, right.

I've left a female disciple behind.

After Ziye writes down the prescription,

just give it to her.

Chief has gone out

to collect herbs with Feng Lyu.

It'll probably take more than two hours

for them to come back.

Then I won't wait for her.

Pass my message to her.

I'll get going.

Okay.

Let me walk you out.

The Seven-Leaf Fungus?

It's the treasure of the Moon Sect.

Why is it here in the Apothecary Valley?

Tell me.

What's going on?

Where's that stupid bird from?

Chief Jing!

Chief.

That stupid bird is yours?

It's fine now, Snow Harrier.

I shot your dart down just to save my bird.

Please forgive me, Chief.

The Dark Soul Sword?

You're Seven from the Sword Sect?

You're so observant.

Did you steal

the Seven-Leaf Fungus from my sect?

Yes, I did.

Please calm down, Jing.

Are you defending him, Ziye?

I'm not defending him.

It's just that the Seven-Leaf Fungus

is the active ingredient

in one of my prescriptions.

I'm the one who asked him

to get it for me.

So you're in cahoots all along.

You lured me into the valley,

became sworn sisters with me,

told me about your life story,

and kept me here

just for the Seven-Leaf Fungus?

Is this all a deliberate deception?

I do see you as my sister,

and I meant every word I said.

There's no deception at all.

I swear to God.

Since you said it like that,

I'll believe you.

You made Huo Zhanbai

steal the Seven-Leaf Fungus

before we became friends.

But as the chief of the Moon Sect,

I must give my disciples

an explanation.

What kind of explanation do you want, Jing?

These two cups of poisoned wine before me

have different levels of toxicity.

One is strong, the other is mild.

One of them

has my sect's Red Scorpion Poison in it.

It's made from the venom of seven-year-old

toads and scorpions.

Within 30 minutes after taking it,

the taker will have a high fever and delirium.

Their meridians will expand

and burst, causing death.

As for the other poison,

it's only an ordinary insect poison

that will cause pain throughout the body,

but it isn't fatal.

I want you two

to each choose a cup of wine and drink it.

As long as you drink,

I'll wipe the slate clean

and never hold you accountable again.

However, one of you

will definitely

drink the wine with the fatal poison.

By then,

you can only blame your bad luck.

Don't blame me for being cruel.

Chief Jing, your word is your bond.

Will you keep that promise?

Of course.

You're not afraid of death at all, are you?

No matter what poison I take today,

I believe that you, Chief Xue,

can cure me.

Shut up!

Do you think it's that easy to find a cure

for the Moon Sect's poison?

Pick.

Huo Zhanbai, what are you doing?

As luck would have it,

I'm dying for a drink today.

Let me finish

these two cups of wine.

Huo Zhanbai,

don't play hero!

Who are you to take the fall for me?

Who are you to make decisions for me?

Chief Xue.

The Seven-Leaf Fungus

is the medicine I need.

And it was I who sneaked into

the Moon Sect to steal it.

From beginning to end,

this matter has nothing to do with you.

So I should drink both cups

of the poisoned wine.

But, later,

I have to count on you for detoxification.

My life

is in your hands today.

You have so much faith in me.

What if I can't detox you?

Chief Jing.

I wonder if I can keep

the Seven-Leaf Fungus now.

You have some guts.

From now on,

no one in the Moon Sect

will hold this

against you two again.

Yes, Chief.

Thank you, Chief.

If you die from the poisons,

it's because you acted rashly

and drank those two cups of poisoned wine.

You're in over your head.

If I died

because of fine wine,

wouldn't that be a death without regrets?

Huo Zhanbai!

Mr. Huo.

I'm fine.

I just wanted to teach him a lesson.

The poisons weren't fatal.

I just said that to scare you guys.

Even if he took both of the poisons,

it wouldn't make him suffer like this.

There's a poison that has been in his body for a long time,

but he's managed to suppress it by sealing his acupoints.

Is it…

Is it arsenopyrite from the ancient tomb?

Arsenopyrite is made from

the venom of ten-year-old toads.

It's fatal.

The victims will suffer paralysis

or even immediate death.

It's indeed arsenopyrite.

Hurry.

Bring him to the medicine hut now!

The poison has entered his organs.

Within 30 minutes,

his meridians will expand

and burst, leading to death.

Feng Lyu.

Prick the acupoints of Chengjiang,

Huagai,

and Tanzhong

to release blood.

Hold him down!

Chief.

The poison marks on his body

seem to be getting worse.

It's too late.

Shuang Hong.

But Chief…

Do it.

Yes.

Help him up.

Yes.

You're lucky to be alive.

Ziye.

Is he out of danger now?

Your medical skills are truly miraculous.

Arsenopyrite

is a poison from the Moon Sect,

but when mixed with the other two poisons,

even I couldn't do anything about it.

Yet you managed to save him.

I need to tell you

how I saved him.

Those poisons

created toxic heat in his body.

In order to detoxify it,

I had no choice but to use...

Ziye, say no more.

It was reckless of me

to force him to drink the poisoned wine.

Or you wouldn't have exhausted yourself

saving him.

Now that he's fine,

nothing else matters.

Are you not angry, Jing?

Seven is quite a man.

I respect him.

He drank both cups of poisoned wine

without blinking.

After seeing how chivalrous he was,

even if I wanted to be angry,

I couldn't bring myself to be.

But…

I've thought it through.

If he dared to pay with his life,

I'd let him keep that Fungus.

After I fully recover

and go back,

I can plant another one

in the Holy Lake.

It just means

waiting for a few decades.

Ziye, there's something you don't know.

We see

the Seven-Leaf Fungus as a sacred thing,

partly because

it grows in the Holy Lake

and has rare medicinal properties.

It's also because

the poisonous miasma surrounding it

is extremely dangerous.

No one has been able to get through it since our sect was founded.

That has always been

the Moon Sect's pride.

I just didn't expect that

Seven

not only had exceptional martial arts skills

but also had little regard for his own life.

Mr. Huo drank two cups of poisoned wine

and finally

managed to keep the Seven-Leaf Fungus.

Granny, do you know

that the prescription

I gave to Huo Zhanbai before

may be completely ineffective?

It was just a stopgap,

but he's actually

risking his life to collect those medicines.

Only after I got the Seven-Leaf Fungus

did I know

that it couldn't help

with Mo's illness.

It'll even worsen his condition.

Should I honestly tell Mr. Huo

that the prescription won't work?

I told you

that prescription

didn't just save one person.

When Mr. Huo

was on the brink of death,

it was that prescription

that saved his life.

The fake prescription you gave him

saved his life.

So, Granny, you mean…

That prescription

is Mr. Huo's hope.

[Herbal Prescriptions]

Mr. Huo has traveled far and wide

and even risked his life

to find a cure for Mo.

In other people' eyes,

such persistence and waiting

may be a kind of torture.

But for him,

it's the hope that Mo may survive.

Holding onto this hope

and going all out for it…

Maybe

this is his belief.

What are you looking at?

I'm examining him closely

from his eyebrows to his chin.

Mr. Seven is so handsome.

I can't see any flaws.

No wonder Chief

treats him differently.

Chief is not like you.

That's not the reason.

Then what's the reason?

You placed this piece here

not to take

but as a feint.

The goal is to make me move my pieces out of

the formation you've set up,

allowing your pieces to connect.

Emissary Miao Feng.

Did you mean to kill me?

I didn't know it was you, Emissary Miao Shui.

Really?

Why do I feel

that you were so brutal

exactly because you knew it was me?

Emissary Miao Shui, you must be kidding.

No matter how much I hate you,

as long as you're still useful to the Doctrine Leader,

I'll let you live.

Emissary Miao Feng,

what you said

has broken my heart.

I thought you were meeting

your lover in the remote mountain,

but it turns out you're just playing chess.

How boring.

Don't touch it.

How rare.

Emissary Miao Feng,

you actually have something you care about now.

You should leave.

Alright.

I'll leave.

I'm here just to tell you

that you've been away from the palace for a long time.

If you don't return

to the Doctrine Leader soon,

the Ice Silkworm Poison in you will flare up.

When that happens,

the Doctrine Leader will be worried.

Instead of falling for my trap,

you actually took advantage of it.

Brilliant.

Then I'll just play along

and see how you will react.