Episode 24 (Ultimate Note)

**Episode 24 (Ultimate Note)** is the twenty-fourth episode of the television series Ultimate Note.

## Story

Running around trying to escape the soldiers, Wu Xie and the others end up in a maze of tunnels and do not know where to go. Suffering from exhaustion, Zhang Qiling gets seriously hurt and breaks down. While looking at his wound, Wu Xie recognizes similarities between his tattoo and the cave tunnels and realizes it is a map to the exit.

They follow the map to a breakable wall and Wu Xie starts digging while Wang Pangzi keeps the soldiers away. Wu Xie manages to break through and carries Zhang Qiling, with Wang Pangzi continuing his fight against the jade soldiers. Just before being killed by a jade soldier, Wu Xie returns and saves his friend. Wang Pangzi tells Wu Xie to leave him here since he is injured and cannot run away but Wu Xie refuses and takes him out. On the other side of the wall, Wu Xie starts building up the stone again to keep the jade soldiers away, before breaking down himself.

After spending the night bound to a tree after refusing to work with Hendry Cox, Hei Yanjing and Xie Yuchen are freed with the arrival of Wu Erbai. Wu Erbai threatens Hendry Cox, telling him he has no wish to cooperate and their interests are very different. He is not interested in the business of the Mystic Nine but only wants his nephew, Wu Xie, back safe and sound.

Knowing he has to escape further to call for help, Wu Xie has to carry his friends out of the cave. Only able to carry one at a time, he swears to an unconscious Wang Pangzi he will come back and bring him out alive of the cave whatever it costs. He carries out Zhang Qiling who wakes up for a short moment, only muttering he is happy for not being the death of Wu Xie. He repeats the same words, Uncle Panma used when he claimed Zhang Qiling would be Wu Xie's demise. Wu Xie returns to carry out Wang Pangzi and fires the flare gun given to him by Hendry Cox beforehand. He breaks down besides his unconscious friends.

Before being able to continue their talk, Hendry Cox and Wu Erbai get the message of the flare and Wu Erbai rescues Wu Xie and the others. After transporting Wang Pangzi and Zhang Qiling to the hospital, Wu Xie confronts Hendry Cox angrily and tells him he did not find a single clue in the water, as well as not entering the Old Pavilion itself. This visibly shocks Hendry Cox who thought Wu Xie would be able to enter.

Talking with his uncle, Wu Xie finds out about the jade soldiers being an old mechanism, Mi Luo Tuo, or black-haired snakes which reacted to heat. After discussing the past events, Wu Xie and Xie Yuchen realize the soldiers, the cave tunnels and the Hexagon Bell formation are only a defense mechanism and not the real entrance. Hei Yanjing shows them how to melt the amber of the jade soldiers.

Wu Xie confronts his uncle about further clues and it is revealed it was Wu Erbai who asked for the stilt house of Zhang Qiling to be burnt down. Xie Yuchen asks Wu Erbai if it was Wu Sanxing who asked for Hei Yanjing to protect him and Wu Erbai confirms it. He tells Xie Yuchen that he is the most important to his brother. Knowing he cannot stop his nephew, Wu Erbai strikes a deal with Wu Xie and Xie Yuchen: He will let them investigate and share his knowledge, as long as they always report to him and tell him when they are in danger. They accept the deal.

## Characters

* Wu Xie
* Wang Pangzi
* Zhang Qiling
* Hei Yanjing
* Xie Yuchen
* Hendry Cox
* Wu Erbai

## Locations

* Banai village and lake
* Old Pavilion
* Wu Sanxing's house