(This is just a quick version for now as I haven't the time to reedit it yet.... and there are several mistakes here as I try to memorize the story and am not actually half watching and half recapping like what the others normally do, and there so I hope I am forgiven for it. I will however edit it the best I can if and when I get the time . Currently I am busy with work, family and other blog events and postings as well....)
Anping Yang finally agrees to release Lanma Shandi after
telling Xiayun Xian his conditions, Anping Yang wants them to help find out and
kill King Ezhu. Prince Shenadaw and Yeshaluo finds out another secret about
King Ezhu, and that he has been using drugs on his women, the reason they all
go mad.
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| Yeshaluo being held prisoner in King Ezhu's mansion |
They find the drugs in his room after managing to break in there. The
physician who helped them when they arrive told them they needed to talk things
over with the 5 ethnic leaders. The physician brought Prince Shenadaw to meet
the 5 ethnic leader in the forest, lighting up sandalwood to make them appear.
When they appeared, they told Prince Shenadaw about having a spy inside Kind
Ezhu’s mansion, and that the spy will help them.
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| Prince Shenadaw masquerading as a crook to infiltrate King Ezhu's mansion |
Prince Shenadaw went to King Ezhu’s mansion supposedly to act
as one of the people they were expecting. . He was almost exposed when told
that one of the man who knew this person he was coming back from the hunt. This
man however pretended to know him. The truth came to light when the hunter who
did not expose Prince Shenadaw for a fraud revealed himself as the 5 ethnic
leader’s spy.
However, a few days after that, the hunter was killed, he was on
the streets when he was shot with an arrow. This put Prince Shenadaw and
friends in a turmoil. When the 5 ethnic leaders was told, they revealed that
they had another person inside King Ezhu’s mansion. To meet the person, they
have to burn the sandalwood incense as usual in King Ezhu’s mansion.
| The physician/ King Ezhu |
The physician then pretended to infiltrate King Ezhu’s
mansion to pass the message to Yeshaluo. He went in to the room and told the
guards he needed to see her as she was not very well. The guards allowed him in
and he goes in . He sees Yeshaluo and notices the other occupant in the room,
the mad woman. While he was there, he told the guards to go get something and
started burning the sandalwood incense but nobody turned up.
The mad woman who was in the room with Yeshaluo suddenly
became lucid and told Yeshaluo that she knew the secret of King Ezhu but that
she was only willing to talk to Prince Shenadaw. Prince Shenadaw wanted to go
and meet her but his companions did not allow it as they were worried if she
was King Ezhu and Xiayun Xian went in his stead to find the mad woman dead. She
had been murdered and pinned to the wall with lots of arrows.
The hunt for King Ezhu continued and it keep irking them
when the innkeeper keep spying on them, and Xiayun Xian chased him. The
innkeeper’s martial arts was good and he manage to escape after being chased
all over the village into the forest. Yeshaluo and Prince Shenadaw then find
out the secret the mad woman or rather the spy/assassin of the 5 ethnic leaders
hide. She hid yet another tag belonging to the Tang Dynasty inside her blankets
which she held close as her invisible child. Ling Er recognize the tag as the other
group Tang guards then the one she was in.
Anping Yang then released Lanma Shandi and came to see them
to meet them bringing someone with him. That someone was the innkeeper.
Everyone was surprise to learn that the innkeeper was not actually King Ezhu as
they were so sure he was one of their main suspects. Instead, the innkeeper was
actually one of Anping Yang’s spy
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| Sujue with his female bodyguards |
That left one of the last suspects…The person who has been
helping them all this while, or at least pretended to help them. The physician.
Prince Shenadaw pointed out all his suspicions and the physician just kept
quiet but said that Shenadaw had a point. All these while he has been acting as
a go between for everyone to learn about the spies in his mansion and
eradicating them one by one. Prince Shenadaw pointed out who he found out and
knew . The physician then escaped with his first in command grabbing Ling Er as
a hostage.
Captain Aman somehow appeared during this fracas and tried to kill
Prince Shenadaw and failed again instead getting caught by Prince Shenadaw and
his group. Xiayun Xian is getting closer after learning about Ling Er and how
everything about her makes her likely to be his lost daughter. Xiayun Xian chases
them and manage to retrieve Ling Er. The physician/ King Ezhu and his deputy
fled into the forest.
Unexpectedly, King
Ezhu’s deputy kills him, when King Ezhu babbles on about how he needed to get
away and why he needed his research and all, which was to fight and kill their
old master, Tang Wei in Chang’an and moves to find his real master, Tang Wei.
Unfortunately for him, Tang Wei, the red assassin did not want him around
either and killed King Ezhu’s deputy. Xiayun Xian just found the bodies of the two!
Ling Er horrified to discover Tang Wei, the deputy commanding the Chang'an came
to Ruili to kill his men.
Meanwhile, Prince Shenadaw is surprised to find Yeshaluo and
himself getting closer and developing feelings. He confronts Yeshaluo and says
that she pretends to be greedy and mean but in fact she hides a tender heart.
Yeshaluo denies it but starts blushing and giggling out of the blue to herself.
Sujue confronts Prince Shenadaw on this but the prince denies it. When Sujue
pretends and says he is going to seduce Yeshaluo, Prince Shenadaw glares at
him.
Now that King Ezhu is dead, the people of Ruili have peace
once again. The 5 ethnic leaders thanked Prince Shenadaw and his companions and Anping Yang is at peace,
just holding Captain Aman hostage. However, General Karana decides to come personally
to Ruili to kill the prince on his own
He left, after leaving a couple of his men in the palace to
keep an eye on the king of Pyu, but he did not expect once he left, the King of
Pyu went all out to arrest and get back his military power. He then continues
to pray for his son, hoping Prince Shenadaw will reach his destination safely
and successfully broker a peace between the lands with the musical tribute .
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| General Karana |
In Nanzhao Captain Aman finds the musical instruments and
proceeds to destroy them. With the musical instruments all destroyed, Prince
Shenadaw and his troupe are at a quandary as they can not go without their
musical instruments to Chang'an to offer music anymore.
Karana appears in Ruili, and somehow manages to free Captain
Aman while killing all of Anping Yang’s men in a bloodbath. Anping Yang vows
vengeance and manages to kidnap Sujue .
Nanzhao’s king Yimouxun comes to their rescue and arrests
General Karana and Captain Aman with his team of very able imperial guards.
Anping Yang sends a demand for General Karana to go to an
island there to meet him or he, Anping Yang will kill Sujue. Wanting to rescue
the person he considers a brother to him, Prince Shenadaw and Yeshaluo sneak
into King Yimouxun’s prison to get the General.
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| Anping Yang |
Anping Yang impatiently waits
for General Karana to appear. He chose a small island where he could see people
coming and going. Xiayun Xian tries to rescue Sujue but fails as Anping Yang
sees him and refuses to let Sujue go, demanding for General Karana.
Prince Shenadaw , General Karana and Captain Aman reaches
the bank of the lake and General Karana goes ahead to rescue his son while
Captain Aman stays on shore with Prince Shenadaw. Captain Aman pulls out his
sword, but after a little while lets Prince Shenadaw go, promising to get him
another time.
General Karana arrives at the island. Anping Yang makes him cut
his own wrists to make him bleed while not going close to the General but
holding Sujue in place. The General said he had back up and Anping Yang looked
around in disbelief when he was attacked… by Sujue’s female bodyguards.
Nanzhao and Pyu had a long standing good relationship and
King Yimouxun wholeheartedly gave his support and protection to Prince Shenadaw
in order for peace between the two countries, one of his gifts to Prince
Shenadaw was a new set of instruments to replace the ones Captain Aman destroyed
ensure that his trip and mission will be successful. However, there are two musical
instruments which are irreplaceable.
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| King Yimouxin |
King Yimouxun then told Prince Shenadaw that he had to go to
the Baoxiang temple to find Qing Lian , a musician there who played the gourd
pipes and who had some musical scores with him. Then he told the prince that there
was a mystical drum, from a long time ago and that someone in the prince group
can only help him get the drum.
Yeshaluo in meantime was learning
to dance from Lanma Shandi. King Yimouxun pays a visit to Lanma Shandi too and
tells her he knows her secret, and her thirst for vengeance and the purpose of the trip
General Karana and his men arrived at the Baoxiang Temple. To
Captain Aman’s confusion and surprise Qing Lian seems to know General Karana
and vice versa, General Karana told his men to dressed in normal clothes and
lay an ambush in case Prince Shenadaw turns up.
Xiayun Xian offers to go and scout and check out the temple.
He goes there , sneaks in and was stunned to realise that Qing Lian knew his
presence , and warned him against bloodshed while pretending to admonish
General Karana’s men who were around and unaware of Xiayun Xian’s presence. He
goes back to report.
Prince Shenadaw wants to go to the temple but Sujue says he
will go to the temple in his stead, knowing his father will be there. Sujue
said that his father will not harm him Sujue. Prince Shenadaw was better off
trying to find the mystical holy drum.
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| What is Lanma Shandi's secret??? |
Lanma Shandi torn between vengeance and the need for peace
and to help others decided to help Prince Shenadaw.
She directly request Prince Shenadaw to follow her, and said
she knew the mystical holy drums whereabouts, but on condition that can not ask
her anything but just follow her. Prince Shenadaw believes Lanma Shandi, and tells her to lead
the way.
They leave together, and Yeshaluo feels insecure and restless. She
gets even more worked up when Lanma Shandi demands for Prince Shenadaw royal
identification tag which he had once said was to be given to his wife.
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