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Taming mysterious creature and fishing for clues

Wu gets a quick look at their camp where many a digging and unit 401 guys still in limbo status. There is a squadron with Hatoyama to keep everybody in line. The creature is very like the one in Love on the Turquoise Land. Those evolved from an amalgam of meteorite material reforming animal and human DNA into another species. This one downed a heifer in less than three seconds. He is tossed into an adjacent cage and offered freedom if successful. Otherwise he won’t be coming out. The scene moves to Zhang and Third master near the waterway entrance. While walking, the third master drops a big surprise. He had briefly been a disciple of the Otherworld patriarch. He helped build walls around the tower and learned about the underground waterway. He left soon after joining because if their leader did not foresee the need for retainer walls, he had not anticipated whatever had happened in the tower. He was more desperate for possible cures after being made lame, but not stupid. They find a small entrance but the water has a swift current and there is a stone dam that will be a catch all for anything going through. Zhang is given a magnetic device to see if the Japanese left behind anything metal. He is given a block of instruction for best way to ‘fish’🧐He finds a medal proving the Japanese used this route so third master promises to have his crew find out where it goes. The scene shifts to Baihua benevolence center. Here Huo meets with eunuch. She’s asks about his dealings with the Japanese and still gives him the item. 😝🙄She has the debts cleared from her clan but is ensnared more by the Japanese connection. The black sand material in the small vial must be what aids Hatoyama in making creatures or other types of humans. The eunuch sees this as his ace against Zhang QiShan. Qi is getting too close to the truth so a hit is ordered on him. Ding QianSui or Samuel Ding (his American name) plans to take out the mystic nine ine by one. If Huo tries to warn or intervene, her Japanese ties will be revealed. The only way to ensure her clan’s survival is to join his plan with Hatoyama. This old geezer is creepy and repugnant. He is shrewd, sly and has no bottom line if he is safe. He speaks like a ventriloquist with a creepy smile on his face. He reinvented himself from palace eunuch to American citizen. This has given him a unique status and he has taken every advantage that came his way. He is trusted by none, yet has a foot in each consulate, laundering money for the Americans and supplying Hatoyama’s projects via Hua clan. He is hiding in Baihua benevolence center and keeping a very low profile. Rooting him out will be very difficult because all other sides will run interference for him. The only good thing is Zhang is better aware of what he is up against. He wants master nine to assist in weeding out Eunich. What his exploration co led with Wu taught him is that even tho uneducated, Wu was loyal resilient and had a pure heart. A diamond in the rough worthy of mystic nine status. Zhang wants to save him and needs to avoid diplomatic backlash while doing it. Xie’s plan involves infecting the eunuch with real smallpox and having him transferred to the Puji hospital. This is crucial as this hospital is run by their authorities and can keep him under mystic nine’s control. After capture the eunuch was ready to talk rather than have a crushed skull. Hatoyama’s superior made first contact because his spies had been eliminated and he needed a topside link in China. QianSui used their funds to buy Taihe house and used it to smuggle provisions to Hatoyama’s men trapped in the tower. He confirms the tower was not the main objective but an undisclosed location in Xiangxi. He tells them Unit 401 fed pills that make them compliant. This actor gets gold star for being the creepiest.⭐️🫣😱 Unlike the others he believes it is magic and uses the small vial to exit. A hand comes out of his chest and there is a pinky ring on the hand and that vial Huo found in its palm. The scene then moves to Qi trying to get included in a traveling caravan. He wants to visit a Daoist temple in Xishan which happens to be included on the merchant’s route. They hope to find treasure in vats supposedly moved from the past by otherworld patriarch. Taihe house sent a killer squad that quickly killed off the merchant and his men. Wi was toyed with and forced to throw coins to determine how he would die. They mocked his response if not dying and asked what really said. The master is compassionate. Zhang QiShan shows up in aviator glasses and starts kicking ass. His second said to let him work off steam and handle himself. 😁 The three head snap and knife play at end got him extra cool points. He jokes with Qi as they exit but it’s not clear if Qi found anything or not. Nice to see the good guys score some points and looking forward to next episode.

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Mostly still fun but a couple of things are just stupid

When Psycho 5th Prince's man reports that Shen Xi He fell in the river, the fact that the guy adds the astrological details is just silly and stupid. Then, the fact that Psycho 5th jumps to the conclusion that this means his wife has magically been reborn is just beyond silly and stupid. It truly makes nonsense whatsoever. Oh well. We get it, because it's part of the plot. But it was just ... silly. And no more silly than, of course, another main-character-falls-off-a-cliff event that we know they will survive. This show definitely has to be taken with tongue firmly in cheek! Little things like the piece of red cloth that only the color-blind CP noticed - not all the other search parties! And then, all these events just happen to take place near the special secret path that ONLY the former Gu Qing Zhi would know ... so silly! Oh well.

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