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Antidote

The disciple only came with intel long known. I expected more from her.😝She has a good heart but annoys more than helps. Qingtong drinks the remaining poison and manages to finally get the antidote from Madam Yin. Instead of using the antidote she gives half of her life to her brother who is now in human form. Madam Yin has a blood grudge because she was led to believe her love’s essence was spared to reform. This turned out to be a lie, but I do not know the backstory to know who betrayed the promise to her. She laments over her loss and wants HongYe to know the same pain. She is totally clueless since he has lived with that pain and more for the last 20 years. She thinks he will mourn his son. Not compared to HuaiZhu. FuGui has figured it all out and goes to spider cave and even in a near death state can beat up all the spiders. He frees the spiders and runs off the Master who vows to return to finish the job. Jingting is pouting over his loss of cultivation but thanks to a disciple we find out some of his backstory. He is very like Jin Ren Feng.😝😝His goal is power and he will sacrifice anything for it. This explains his apathy towards his child but makes him even more unforgivable. He wants to get the sword made of dragon spine which is why he opted to turn himself over to guard the sword tomb. This will give him two of the three things he needs for true dragon power. He has a scale which is why his arm is the way it is. The disciple tries to help FuGui by destroying the antidote.😝She is jealous and like Qingtong didn’t bother to discuss things with FuGui to find out if there was any chance it was the antidote. Fortunately FuGui shows up in time to save the day. The disciple isn’t happy and threatens to tattletale to master. She hasn’t done it yet but is waiting to decide. FuGui asks her directly why she did not talk to him about her situation with spider cave master. She tells him her brother would have been killed if she told and yet she still poisoned him. 😝🙄 Qingtong believes she has saved both her brother and FuGui so she happily hands him the bottle of antidote and collapses to die. FuGui gives her the antidote and calls for RuMu. He is mocked for saving the spider when only five days left til poison kills him. FuGui has determined that now is the best time to remove poison but he needs assistance. This is where RuMu comes in to close off his meridians so the poison can be purged from his system. I am hoping they think to make more antidote using the poison. The black fox notices the soldier blade has warmed to the spider demon. She sees this as time to exploit the weakness. She and HongYe both forget how powerful love is. This episode ends on a note of hope for the future in spite of the signs indicating otherwise.

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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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