Episode Summary
In Episode 7, Yi Wan San confesses he destroyed the "Xingshi" relic after a vision, leading him and Luo Ren to the sealed-off Wuzhu Village. Simultaneously, Mu Dai is hired as a bodyguard for Yan Hongsha to search for a missing relative in the same village. As they explore, Yi Wan San reveals his tragic past: the villagers let his parents die, so he took revenge by burning the village's sacred, pearl-bearing clams. The episode ends on a cliffhanger as Mu Dai and Yan Hongsha are dragged underground by a mysterious force from the now-dry lakebed.
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"The Seven Relics of Ill Omen" Episode 7 Recap & Spoilers: The Ghosts of Wuzhu Village
This Episode , the scattered threads of our story begin to converge on a single, haunted location, as long-buried secrets claw their way to the surface. Wuzhu Village, a place abandoned to its ghosts, becomes the focal point for two separate journeys, each driven by a desperate search—one for answers, the other for a lost relative. But as our characters soon discover, some places are left desolate for a reason.
The episode kicks off with a major confession. Pressured by Luo Ren, Yi Wan San finally admits to experiencing a prophetic vision, a premonition so terrifying he kept it secret. In this vision, he saw the "Xingshi" relic being destroyed, and he now reveals the identity of the culprit: it was his own hand that smashed the statue. This revelation is tied to the mysterious "Immortal's Guidance," a clue that points them directly toward the infamous Wuzhu Village. With a clear destination for the first time, the two immediately set off.
Meanwhile, Mu Dai finds herself entangled with a new and powerful client. Led to the opulent estate of the Yan family, she is immediately tested by the fiery Yan Hongsha, who tries to assert dominance by shoving her head into a decorative water basin. The attempt backfires spectacularly, with Mu Dai effortlessly turning the tables and subduing her would-be employer. The patriarch, Old Master Yan, steps in to de-escalate, offering Mu Dai a high-paying job as Yan Hongsha's bodyguard. The mission? A trip to Wuzhu Village. The Yan family, who have built their fortune on a unique ability to "discern the aura of treasures," are searching for Old Master Yan's son, who vanished in the area years ago.
As both parties head for the same destination, the village's sinister reputation precedes it. Luo Ren and Yi Wan San find their path blocked; the main tunnel leading to Wuzhu Village, which Yi Wan San swears is the correct route, has been sealed by a massive, deliberate rockslide. Nearby campers tell them the village is now a ghost town, and for good reason. They recount the legend of the "Old Clams Basking in the Moon," a night during the Mid-Autumn Festival years ago when the lake shore was miraculously covered in priceless pearl-bearing clams. The natural wonder was destroyed when a single child set the entire colony ablaze. Ever since, the lake has been barren, and tales of hauntings have kept everyone away.
The sense of dread deepens for Mu Dai and Yan Hongsha. While on the road, Yan Hongsha is startled awake by a call from her "Second Uncle." She answers to dead silence, and the line goes dead when she tries to call back, leaving her deeply unsettled. At that very moment, a mysterious figure named Zhang Guanghua is seen standing by the Wuzhu Village lake, tossing an unknown object into its waters.
Upon finally entering the derelict village, Yi Wan San is overwhelmed by the ghosts of his own past. Standing before his dilapidated childhood home, he unburdens himself to Luo Ren, revealing the full, horrific truth of why he fled. His father was killed in a violent dispute with a neighboring village over water territory. His mother, shattered by grief, suffered a mental breakdown and took a small boat out onto the lake during a storm to find her husband's body. The villagers, watching from the shore, refused to help, and she was lost to the waves.
The true betrayal, however, was yet to come. Hiding in the ancestral hall, a young Yi Wan San overheard the clan leader and other villagers discussing his father's death. They admitted to watching him drown, deliberately letting him die so they could seize control of the profitable clamming waters. Consumed by a bottomless rage, Yi Wan San took his revenge. He doused the entire clam colony in diesel and burned it to the ground. Then, he climbed the roof of the ancestral hall, smashed the "Xingshi" statue—their local deity—and vanished, leaving his home and its dark secrets behind.
Back in the present, their investigation of the ancestral hall yields a chilling discovery: the hall is unnervingly clean, and a message written in what appears to be wet blood stains the wall. A sudden noise from outside draws them out. They see something burning in the darkness and a figure fleeing the scene. They give chase, but the trail ends at the lake, which they are shocked to find is now completely dry. As Yi Wan San collapses in grief, his phone rings. It's Mu Dai, screaming for help.
The episode culminates in a frantic, terrifying climax. Mu Dai and Yan Hongsha, having been abandoned by their driver in the desolate landscape, find themselves in mortal peril. Yan Hongsha sinks into a patch of what appears to be quicksand, and Mu Dai barely manages to pull her free. But just as they catch their breath, a monstrous, unseen force erupts from the dry lakebed beneath them, dragging both women down into the abyss. Luo Ren arrives in his car just in time to witness the churning sand swallow the last trace of them, ending the episode on a heart-stopping cliffhanger.
