Small mountain village.
The first day of the new year, lazy sunlight sweeps over the village, carrying the chilly breath of spring.
Li Fan wakes up and pats Xiao Bai in his arms; the cat, having been bathed the day before, is fragrant, and he can't help but take a deep sniff.
Then he gets up, pushes the door open, and Bai Qian and Nan Feng bring hot water for Li Fan to wash his face.
"Senior Brother, I think I had a dream last night. In the dream, there seemed to be another me, dressed in tattered clothes, flesh nearly rotting, walking out of the darkness as if to seize my soul..."
Wu Dade speaks to Jiang Li:
"Could I have encountered some evil?"
Jiang Li, hearing this, is also somewhat perplexed and says:
"...I also vaguely had a dream, but in the dream, there was an exceptionally elegant and graceful man, seemingly a celestial, but he appeared to have ill intentions, attempting to step onto my Daoist path..."
