Sword and Beloved Episode 6

Why?

This episode deals with the repercussions of coup attempt and a prophecy. HongYe surprises FuGui by standing up for him with the elders. FuGui surprises HongYe by asking why? HongYe is not used to being questioned. He has missed his opportunity to understand what they achieved at the convention. He still thinks with the sword and misses the heartfire needed to wield the heaven earth strike. He is haunted still by his dreams and does not see that his imprisonment of FuGui may be the exact thing that makes everything come to pass in the prophecy. He is as tunnel visioned on HuaiZhu’s request as the elders in alliance are shortsighted in killing off demons for no cause. This genocide is why the hate stays so firm on both sides. RuMu is friends with a dragon demon. It is not said why she feels she has wronged him. FuGui wishes him well and sends him on his way to find her. Thankfully the cousins have kept their bond intact in spite of their father’s hindering ways and binding parenting. FuGui deals with Jingting and I hope it is permanent cultivation destruction. This was a just punishment and he served it coldly with no regret or remorse as Jingting did his son. He could cry crocodile tears plenty for show but he has steadfastly been pretty disinterested in the welfare of his son unless he is useful to his cause of taking down HongYe. Here the fathers are very similar. They never see them as sons but as tools to be used. When FuGui realized his father’s judgment was not out of concern for him but to quiet the alliance members while he permanently imprisoned his son, he was greatly saddened by his father’s lack of faith in him to not be the cause of what was foretold. The kinship they almost had in that perfect moment has already been trampled by HongYe’s lack of faith. This is what his father stole from him when he suppressed the best part of his son to ready him for the alliance. HongYe did not see he was made lesser as a result and faulted himself rather than his father’s interference in changing his core of belief. The black fox can cackle away at his attempts to delay but even she sees what HongYe refuses to acknowledge. The spider cave master has learned Qingtong is human and has given her a time limit to give something to FuGui. I am not sure what it will do, but she gives it to him to save her weak ‘brother’ and the fealty she swore to FuGui is tossed aside. He has sacrificed far more but she doesn’t have the heart to have her sibling die. So along with FuGui to HongYe, I now have to look at Qingtong and ask why? She gave him no opportunity to help her out of the blackmail mess she was in. After all she has seen him do she joins HongYe in lacking faith in him. As she leaves the disciple is questioning the spider superior and will hopefully undo or at least make known something has been done to FuGui.

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