Blood River Episode 13

Shadow sect maneuvers

After the failed negotiation Muyu sends a message to Changhe. Changhe invites healer to go to Tianqi City with him to find Muyu. Uncle Zhe is still watching, passing intel and testing Muyu. I find myself annoyed that he tests Muyu at a brothel and has his weapon. This proved inconvenient when the three from Soul Raptors hall shows up to imprison him for shadow sect leader. They are convinced Changhe is the easier mark because of his avarice and ambition. Uncle Zhe is fending off honeypot while Muyu takes on the three in the street. Here we see he has inherited the finger sword from his father which came in handy. Miracle physician wanted to give him grief about location but had to shut up when her father was the culprit.😝she does give him medicine for his injured finger before he is taken away by water rep to shadow prison. Here, he seems to be testing the waters with Muyu to decide if he’s going to help or not. Changhe is greeted by Crow who still thinks he has the upper hand. Episode ends with Changhe questioning him about the status of his head if he moves. Here I do not know if this is an improvised plan to appear weak at first or a misstep by Uncle. If misstep, he picked a fine time to stop watching and to start meddling.😝🙄Changhe is the most interesting as he is the wildcard they can’t predict. The eunuch and prince think they will use shadow sect as Blood River whetstone. Where the shadow sect doesn’t really care about Blood River if they get rid of the prince, the prince and eunuch have definite plans to keep them as a formidable blade. The only good thing of the confrontation is earth rep was killed so one less to deal with. The story still moves at a nice pace. I enjoy the machinations so more dialogue and less battle still worked for me. They are building up to a much bigger fight because the one thing Changhe will want is the Yellow Rivers’ pawn shop token the shadow sect has and Muyu wants Wanjuan Tower’s intel destroyed to gain freedom for Blood River.

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