The next day, Ning goes back to the temple with an underwater bomb, intending to blow up the well and release water for the village. Ning and Xiaoqian flee and hide in a tree, where he offers her candy. Yan Chixia arrives and starts slaying the other demons. Xiaoqian shows up and attempts to seduce Ning, but he rejects her. The women are actually demons in disguise and they suck the life out of the men to feed Laolao with 'life energy'. While Ning investigates the well, the other men notice some beautiful women in the temple and follow them further in. A strange wind blows and they all run up the hill to a temple called Lanruo Temple, where they find a well. They stop for a break in a glade, and Ning goes inside a hollow tree and offers candy to a tiny, pale fox he sees there. Glad to be free, Ning goes up the hill, accompanied by a guide and five convicts, the only men the villagers are willing to send away with him. He is surrounded by the villagers, who initially accused him of stealing water because they are experiencing a drought, but later mistake him for an official sent by the government to help them find a new water source. Many years later, a tax collector named Ning Caichen passes by a village near Black Hill and stops to drink from a well. The last one, Xia Xuefenglei, embeds his arm into Laolao and tells Yan to chop it off, thereby banishing Laolao from the mortal world. Yan arrives late for a battle against the Tree Demon, Laolao, and sees that several of his fellow demon hunters have already fallen. Yan stabs her with his magic dagger, which does not kill Xiaoqian, but causes her to lose her memory of their relationship. After some time, she begs him to kill her because humans and demons are not supposed to be together. Xiaoqian also falls in love with Yan, and while he feeds her candy, she says she will fall in love with anyone who fed her candy. After capturing an attractive female demon, Nie Xiaoqian, Yan falls in love with her and realises that his master sent him there to make him learn how to control his emotions. Yan Chixia's master sent him to Black Hill to train in the arts of demon hunting.

3 Connection to A Chinese Ghost Story (1987).

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