ep 26 spoilers ahead

1.Our story opens up with the Azhure messenger escaping (this show has so many titles!). Yun Zi tells Brother Qi that he is a traitor (the messenger--strange that he is telling this to a traitor but he doesn't know Brother Qi is a traitor). The guys get back together and essentially plan to take things slow since Yun Li has proven to be unpredictable.

2.They are trying to figure out what Yun Zi wants--he is hoping that ghost king exchanges something with him and this something is not the heavenly book--what could be more important than that?

3.Down in the dungeon, Yun Zi recollects to Bi Yao the last time he saw her father: at the Savage Holy Palace. A lot of sects left on their own (1,000 poison sect, Hwan Sect (the sect Jing Er is in) ) Yun Zi then goes on to state that his sect needs a leader, that his people are swayed by nice gestures, not by force, that he does not want to be enemies with ghost king (where is he going with this?)

4.Bi Yao tells Yun Zi that her father did not come save her when she and her mother were kidnapped, he won't now, he will only send troops to avenge her (she is proud) but Yun Zi seems confident that he will.....does he know about Xiao Fan?

5.Because they are disciples of Qin Yun, they must be careful in how they handle this. Fortunately, Messenger Guy is willing to physically save her, they just need to make that possible for him (I still am not sure what Yun Zi wants, everyone else seems to know. I only know that it is something that Ghost King says he does not have)--Xiao Fan seems to becoming more and more gray//I wonder if this test with the four is Qin Yun's way of choosing the next round of successors because they have to make difficult choices?

6.Jing Yu thinks that there is a motive that they have not thought of. He points out that if the ghost king knows that Xiao has the heavenly book, he could hand him over (this assumes that the ghost king would do that). But Yu believes that the Ghost king wants something else, and that Yun Zi wants something else....which is...?

7.A fire is started. Yu and Xiao try to break the princess out but Yun Zi's people are ahead of them. They lock her up somewhere else. Here she meets Sitou Xiao, who claims to be the sects young leader (so the guy upstairs isn't the real leader??)

8.Sitou shares that he has been here for several years, that he is believed to be dead, and that the strange light-red liquid swirling in him is the same thing in the water by her--blood bug--it takes out fresh blood from a person and takes on unique forms. Apparently it is near impossible to escape.

9.Thus Sitou guy tells her that the room can only be opened from outside. She can make some vibrations and use the bugs to attack the talisman sealing them in and that could trick Yun Zi inside....Apparently the mute girl Yun Shu and him have a connection?

10.We learn between Sitou and Yun Shu (who can talk) that 10 years ago, when the Long Life Sec abandoned Li Xie Sect, its leader came to the mountain fortress and pretended to be a physician to treat the mountain fortress's illness. On the day that Sitou was supposed to get married (Sitou essentially is in love with Yun Shu but promises to be with her in another life--lame) a tsunami hit the mountain fortress (summoned by the long life sect). That day the master of the fortress died, Sitou went missing, and because Yun ZI looked like a hero he obtained control of the mountain.

11.Bi Yao is infected with the blood bug. Because of this, she agrees to write the letter that Yun Zi wants written. Yun Shu is forced to be a prisoner with Bi Yao and the two lovers are reunited for the first time in 7 years....

---Xiao Fan has a peculiar ability to gain the trust of people around him (he listens) and has an open mind...I wonder how he will grow in the future?

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