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I read another commenter saying that he's his dad in the book but that in the book Yan Kuangtu is the founder of the Power Gang and LCZ isn't a prince, so it could be that he is (despite never being covered in the series that I remember), but it could also just be that MDL is wrong. o.o

congrats to the triplets! 🥳👏

LCZ is still poisoned, just not dead from it. (It's said earlier in the series I think that it's an ongoing poison ala Princess' Gambit where he needs to visit every month to get a cure for it or he'll suffer. The emperor has been withholding the cure (that thingy he crushes in Ep38 and keeps hiding in the box, I think) so LCZ isn't dead but the poison has reached his bones, he's not going to live long either. (No comments on it being the stupidest way ever for him to die. I mean it didn't make sense but I was just glad they improved on the fate of how him and his wife died in the book, at least they let them die together with dignity here. ;-;)

ML picked it up from the qin music he played. "Snow Across the Land" (flashback to the tune Daddy Xiao tried to teach his three kids as kids) had the Voidheart codex hidden within the notes of the music. (Luckily, XQS and XMM are both good at the qin, unlike poor Kaiyan.) The somebody he mentions was the Jiang bros, who kidnapped Crazy Yan's siblings to force him to teach them the Voidheart Codex but then didn't give the siblings back even after they learned it, I believe. It's unclear why they didn't if they felt guilty enough to write down the codex for posterity, but given how Xiao Sr met Adopted Sis, it's possible some third party may have attacked them while they were trying. (I don't remember which ep it was to check if she was with a living adult when she was adopted.)

ML can kill bro as he now also has the Voidheart Codex. Kaiyan's strategy when fighting is, by default, to level drain; his meridians tend to pop if he expends too much of the power he absorbs as he's not had a master or an infinity pill to open his meridians properly, but since the absorption makes his enemies weaker, Kaiyan generally doesn't need to expend that much energy to kill them once they've lost their martial arts. Since ML now knows the Voidheart Codex too though, he can counter with it so Kaiyan can't level drain him anymore. It's down to skill vs skill, and while Kaiyan's absorbed a lot of crazy skills, our lead also has had about 10 masters giving him crazy skills too, so they are both advantaged by golden cheat codes. (was my reading!) (Since ML died of exhaustion due to buffing himself enough to beat Bro like that though, it's a bonus power that comes at a hefty price.)

I am rewatching because I am finding it hard to move on, LSF’s face when he spotted XQS is hilarious. I wonder if he asked “do we know each other” because he was trying to work out if this was a (very good) disguise by his boss 😂

random side note: They make the cutest merchandise for this show 😂

I relate 100%

Crazy Yan would know both, since he would also have read the whole thing, but just maybe not use both 😆

Yup, like I get not wanting to die as a side character but it’s crazy entitlement to think anyone else owes it to you to care about you. Nice if they do, smart to hang around people who do, but if they don’t get over it and move on 😂 Kaiyan’s whole arc made zero sense because he used methods that made him hate himself to achieve objectives that would never be achieved using those methods for reasons that never made sense anyway. Whiny, unrelatable guy from start to end. Even LN had logic that made more sense, at least he just wanted money 😂😂

He does but 1) for the “good” version you need to expend large amounts of inner force to use it, hard when you’ve had it all sucked out by Kaiyan, and 2) the “evil” one, absorbing the abilities of others is a massive massive nope in the martial world, it is considered demonic cultivation and it’s just not done. Passing abilities yes, forcefully stealing them nope except by evil people. (is my understanding 😅😅)

I would love love love to know that too re the first part, like, howwww? Is it just that like XMM he has LN’s memories and remembers living that way, or did he actually go there??

Yes to the second one I think.

Ep38 😆

If you want his epic appearance 34 is the one you want, where he shows up to duel finally with some of the most epic fighting in the show 😆

😂😂😅😅

Eventually he dies, he’s very cool while living though!

They don't show it indeed, but it was the same place just a couple of levels down, so XQS probably just had to shout "general" and listen for a reply to get there. Given the General seemed to have powerful martial arts still (based on tossing that spear like that) it's also possible the general was saving his energy and broke free himself to meet XQS half way.

XQS definitely dies, XMM's ultimate fate is less certain though it doesn't look good that his BPM is dropping to 17 as XQS passes away, or that LN passed away in the real world at around the same time Kaiyan would have been killed by XQS in the novel/System world (allowing for the riding time). XQS's weapon was the sword, while XMM mentioned at the start that he and the sword bros were in the Qin club. So the fact that he was walking off ominously towards the light with both sword and qin to me says that their souls indeed merged, XMM really did put his own life behind his principles alongside XQS to protect the world he was in and the people around him, and XQS/QMM are both dead and starting anew in their next life/ascending. (Or maybe a bit like L&R, they were both just human fragments of one primordial spirit to begin with, and both now passed this trial.)

(I do oscillate between thinking this, and thinking the System punted QMM outta the game when he completed the main quest of save the world/be named martial arts leader/redeem LSF though, so the doctors saved him and he woke up, but the two weapons are as XMM still had a lasting impact on XQS, just like XQS did on XMM, and neither of them will forget each other even though XQS is technically now gone.)

Confusion is fair, given XMM destroyed the System and therefore lost the ability to ask it questions, so nothing was spelled out at all 🤣🤣🤣 But at the same time, fair and in keeping with XMM/XQS's character, in that he was never worried too much about why he was in this world or where he was going when he died, mainly only worried about the wellbeing of those around him and living with dignity and keeping his principles himself while alive, no matter where he was or what put him there.

He is insanely charismatic.. He's got such fluidity and an aura that is so cool. It's my first time seeing him but I was also like 'oh no' when we lost him ;-;

Sammme, iQIYI at 8PM pronto, and they never translated any in the English subs till Ep39. Maybe they added them later, or I just was blind and missed them? I don't remember them though, I mostly remember thinking 'what the heck are they circling' and only knowing it's names from other commentors who could read Chinese XD

Lollll poor Kaiyan. He really is annoying. There's literally no redeeming qualities to him, every motivation he has is incomprehensibly awful. Li Nan is marginally more comprehensible, in that if you know you're in a game then yes there will be a temptation to just kill the NPCs to profit, but Kaiyan doesn't have that excuse, he's literally part of this world and whining no one loves him enough despite him literally killing them. *pelts him.*

HAHAHA yeah, tiny hidden under the Alliance Arms Inn on the map is a Ring of Wizardry, which if you scrape up the 100 gp you need to identify (or waste 1 x spell slot on 'identify') can be sold for ~9500 GP, whichhhh if you play a sorcerer gives you the gold you need to buy up some 'stone to flesh' scrolls. You then gotta get the 24-hour dominate cloak from that guy Algernon, ideally via pickpocket with a thief, your familiar if solo mage/sorcerer class. Armed with all 3, you go to the area east of the temple district, desperately hoping for no "overland encounters" till you meet the ghoul who will temporarily be your buddy. Send him in first (or pick a familiar immune to petrification), let the 7000 XP basilisks attack him, and then dominate one of them with the cloak. Make your new bud attack the second basilisk attacking the ghoul, and armed with your stone-to-flesh scrolls you can gain a tonnnn of levels by turning your basilisk to stone and then un-turning it again, as you get 7000 XP per greater basilisk. (If you wanna do a solo run on Legend of Bhaal difficulty in game 1 where even the rats are invincible, this is how a brave sorcerer can do it.)

Yeahhh, Feng Lang died permanently via a needle to the forehead curtesy of LSF, RIP poor NPC. Sancai was a second OC, except he was more 3 characters in the original novel who MC merged into 1 because he thought three was too many. (*applauds his decision*)

I got a feeling-- though I could be wrong-- that the puzzle was based on knowing the lyrics of a modern song. The message was the lyrics, and the missing words when combined together meant "The Hero Token is in this place", but you'd only be able to solve it if you were from modern times and knew the song lyrics. (eg. "Let it **, Let it go, can't ** it back anymore, turn away and slam the ** would be solvable for us as "Go hold door" but not for anyone who didn't know the song. Could have totally misunderstood that though!!)

My understanding is that the Emperor was wanting peace with the Northern Wastelanders and being misled by Water King that peace was totally possible and that the only reason LCZ and General didn’t want it was because LCZ was working with General to stage a coup (that conversation at the table of surely only someone eying my throne would want the war to go on.) Once he realises he’s been deceived and the enemy really has attacked, he wants to beat them as he never wanted to lose the land he has left, only stop the war. Thus he’s actually a bit sorry to have misjudged LCZ all this time, but now he’ll never have the chance to say so. My understanding of how the poisoning worked is that the cure to an ongoing poison is meant to be what LCZ is drinking but the Emperor is withholding it, thus he probably wanted to actually give it to LCZ but again too late, LCZ is dead. He has regrets but too late to fix it now.

Up till then he has (aside from the parents who he didn’t cross out even though he had killed them), but yeah at the start it’s Crazy Yan and Sis, and at 34 mins the two names he crosses out at the top right are LCZ and his wife, and then a name that wasn’t subbed, then XQS, and then we cut to them with the rescue of the general 😅😂

Lollllll the translator on iQIYI picked that up, the one with the big cross out is XQS 😂

The one before that that he hesitates while looking conflicted over is Sis. LCZ and his wife are crossed out shortly before the ambush I believe, and Crazy Yan is crossed out before his sister (iirc) but Ep39 is the only ep they translate any names 😂

(I empathise bc throughout every other ep I was thinking this exact thing, what is he circling 😂)

!!Spoilers!!

Zhu the great king, behind the mask, works for the emperor as an official, so the emperor is genuinely pleased with zhu the great king's underlings since zhu the great king flatters them in his meetings with the emperor.