Zhuye Arc

## 竹业篇

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Wangquan Baye (left) and Dongfang Huaizhu (right), the two main protagonists for the season

### Air date

2019年3月1日 (start)
2019年5月17日 (end)

## Crew

### Acting Director

Chen Weining (陈伟宁), Liang Zhenzhe (梁真哲), Ren Liao (任料), et al.

### Artistic Director

Chen Xingshuang (陈兴双) et al.

Zhuye Arc (竹业篇), focuses on the love between Dongfang Huaizhu (东方淮竹) and Wangquan Baye (王权霸业) that happened around 570 years ago.

## Episode 90

In Nanguo, as Third Master of Aolai threw his Eternity Cudgel in the direction of Lady Heihu, it triggered a huge explosion that Tushan intelligence detected on their spy screens. Yaya curses San Shaoye that cursed monkey (臭猴子) saying he caused a lot of trouble with that explosion. Meanwhile, a mysterious lady in red robes asks to have the Wang Family recount the events long ago...

**570 years ago**

In Jin Renfeng's room, he finishes learning the Blood Transfusion technique from one of the 3-eyed Cuiyu Leech spirits. He then grins, saying that soon the Dongfang blood and divine Pure Yang Flame will be his.

Meanwhile, Dongfang Qinlan, Dongfang Huaizhu, and an assistant enter a village to defeat some yaoguai. There they meet three Daoists Shi Tang (石堂), Chi Huo (赤霍), and Ximen Chuisha. They insult the Dongfang family name, so young Qinlan challenges Chi Huo to a duel. She is about to scorch Chihuo with her Chunzhi Yangyan, but her elder sister Huaizhu tells her to calm down. The Daoists learn their lesson not to insult the Dongfang Clan.

Meanwhile, at night the two Dongfang ladies are served food by a man who said his benefactor was a masked man with a sword. Suddenly, the village is attacked by poisonous spiders. The three Daoists and the Dongfang ladies team up to defeat them.

## Episode 91

Turns out that Du Fuzi was behind the poison attack. He overwhelms the Daoists and captures Qinlan, while Huaizhu escapes. Huaizhu wakes up meeting the mysterious masked man with the sword (Wangquan Baye). Together they fly to Nanguo to find where Qinlan is imprisoned. This is where Du Fuzi was hiring slaves to build the star-wish tower (望星楼) for his lover Du Niangzi. The masked man is able to cut through the huge cloud of poison with his sword surrounding the construction site and prison, impressing Huaizhu.

## Episode 92

Wangquan Baye and Dongfang Huaizhu infiltrate the camp, defeat the yaoguai, and free Dongfang Qinlan and the other imprisoned Daoists (including the Daoist trio Chi Huo, Shi Tang, Ximen Chuisha). Baye is impressed by Huaizhu's Pure Yang Flame. Baye then confronts the yaoguai king Du Fuzi, saying he is shocked by his devotion to his wife Du Niangzi. Baye spares him from death, but still punishes Du Fuzi for enslaving and imprisoning others by turning him into a spider and trapping him in Du Niangzi's cap.

As the Daoists escape, young Luolan, her panda adviser (Madame Gai 盖老太君), and Huandu Qingtian confront Baye and Qinlan for allegdly bullying the poison spirits of Nanguo (Du Niangzi, Du Fuzi). Qingtian unleashes his Venom Body which overwhelms Huaizhu's Pure Yang Flame. Baye uses her flame to light up his sword and pierce through the Venom Body, but this shatters Baye's sword.

## Episode 93

Wangquan Baye uses teleportation seals to summon his three other brothers to help dispel Huandu Qingtian's poison. They first help Qinlan, Huaizhu, and the Daoist trio escape by redirecting the flow of Qi (气 spirit energy) to briefly negate Qingtian's Venom Body. Baye then summons a huge golden Daoist sword to try to pierce through the poison miasma. When Qingtian stops this, Baye tries a new tactic of absorbing the poison power of Qingtian into his sword, thereby able to cut a hole through his seemingly impenetrable miasma and escape.

## Episode 94

Huaizhu, Baye, and the others escape. Luolan then cries, but the panda Madame Gai (盖老太君 Gai Lao Taijun) comforts her. Huandu Qingtian comments on Dongfang and Wangquan's strength and then mentions that Tushan wants to lead a new Spirit Union (妖盟).

Meanwhile, Huaizhu and Baye lay down in the grass, holding hands and looking up at the sky. Qinlan asks all the other Daoists to scram so that the couple Zhuye (Huai**Zhu** + Ba**Ye**) can act lovey-dovey. But before they can, Jin Renfeng appears from the sky, mistaking Baye for preying on Huaizhu. However, Qinlan explains to him that Baye helped save them, and Jin understands. Still, towering over Baye, Jin whispers and warns him not to get too close to the Dongfang Clan. Jin, Huaizhu, Qinlan return to meet the head Dongfang Jiazhu. Meanwhile, Baye holds on to the sword scabbard that Huaizhu gave to him. On it are engraved the words

☀ 淮水竹亭 七月初七 (Huai river Zhu pavilion, 7th month 7th day) where 竹 Zhu means bamboo, and 初月初七 refers to Qixi

In a bonus scene, it is revealed that Jin Renfeng secretly sent that assistant to accompany Huaizhu and Qinlan to look out for them. When the assistant was hit by Qingtian's poison, Jin was able to sense it via a tracking spell (千里定位咒) he implanted on the assistant earlier. Jin's girlfriend discovers this, Jin chokes her to death, saying she knew more than she should. After 'taking care' of her, Jin flies to the scene where Huaizhu and Baye were resting.

## Episode 95

Jin Renfeng brings the (dead) Cuiyu Xiaotan to some mysterious forest spirit dealers. Meanwhile, he sent a spy to locate Huaizhu. He discovers her in a traditional Chinese boat having some romantic time with Baye.

Huaizhu tells Baye that she is not skilled in the four arts (琴棋书画 music weiqi calligraphy painting), but that her only skill is fighting. She then says that she has a gift to give to Baye. Eavesdropping Jin gets mad.

After the date, Baye returns to his group the Masked Daoists, who report some valuable intel: the masked Daoists have traveled to Warlock Mountain, Nanguo, Xixiyu (after Fan Yunfei disappeared), Beishan--and all found 'it' in these locations. Baye nods in approval and adjourns the meeting. After the meeting, Baye's sister Wangquan Zui gossips with Qingmu Yuan on Baye's new girlfriend.

## Episode 96

The Masked Daoists led by Baye travel to the border but meet Tianmen Laoren (天门老人) who erects a towering Sky Gate (天门 Tianmen) to block the Daoists. Baye asks for passage, saying that his group found walls and abysses all around the border from Beishan to Xixiyu to Nanguo and that he wants to see what lies beyond these barriers. Tianmen refuses to let them pass, so the Masked Daoists crush Tianmen and his crew. Baye slices a hole in the Tianmen wall, and he and his team pass through.

Meanwhile, the head of the Dongfang Clan (Huaizhu and Qinlan's father) gets sick. Jin Renfeng disintegrates the medic-servant Qiu Ping (秋萍) and then asks his servant Xiao Lu (小陆) to deliver a special tonic pill mixed with honey and water as 'medicine' to the Dongfang chief. Jin is plotting something and says to himself that once the chief passes away, he will be in total control of the Dongfang family.

## Episode 97

After the Masked Daoists went beyond the border, all of them except Baye were killed. This shocks him to the core.

Meanwhile, back in the palace, Jin Renfeng asks Xiao Lu to deliver another two tonic pills to Dongfang Jiazhu (东方家住). After the chief takes these pills he is unable to move. Jin then uses the Blood Transfusion technique he learned from the Leech Spirit and ex-girlfriend Cuiyu Xiaotan to extract the blood of Dongfang Jiazhu, switching it with his own, killing the old sick chief in the process. Jin then gains the blood of the Dongfang Clan, his hair turns white, and he is able to summon the powerful Chunzhi Yangyan. Jin then plans on to marry Huaizhu and Qinlan to fully take over the Dongfang estate.

One of Huaizhu's servants Yu Ping (玉萍) secretly saw Renfeng perform the transfusion and reports to Huaizhu and Qinlan, showing Xiao Lu's teleportation seals as proof. Huaizhu detects Jin's magic on the seal and realizes that he has been using Xiao Lu to follow her. Huaizhu asks Yu Ping to secretly take Qinlan away from the household and says that she will hold off Jin for as long as she can. A few days later, Jin suspects Huaizhu is hiding Qinlan. Jin launches a coup to attack the Dongfang estate, overpowering Huaizhu with his newfound fire abilities.

At her moment of despair, Huaizhu wishes that she could see Baye's true appearance underneath his mask. Then, she suddenly senses the Qi emanating from Baye's sword drawing near.

## Episode 98

Song: **「人间白首」**

A weakened Wangquan Baye--without his mask and with a light beard--fights his way through the Daoists of the Flame Villa, but is unable to defeat Jin Renfeng. Suddenly, the Wangquan Blade shoots down from the sky into the ground. The Four Divine Guards (四大护法神剑) Wind, Rain, Thunder, Lightning (风雨雷电) appear. Moreover, Wangquan's clansmen appear.

A pudgy old man from the Wangquan Clan named Butler Fei (费管家) walks into the estate. Fei explains that Baye is here not to fight Jin, but to take Huaizhu as his concubine (妾). Both Huaizhu and Jin are shocked. But Fei blackmails Jin, saying that if Jin consents to the marriage, the Wangquan Clan will formally recognize Jin as the new head of the Dongfang Clan--while quietly ignoring how Jin took the throne and fire power from the former Dongfang Jiazhu.

Jin relents, and Huaizhu assents to the marriage. However, Huaizhu wonders what had happened to Baye. She says that although in Baye she saw the most powerful swordsman in the world wielding the most powerful sword in the world, he had lost his sword heart (剑心).

As she is dressing for the wedding, Fei apologizes saying marrying as a concubine was the quickest way that Wangquan could save Huaizhu. If Huaizhu married as a formal wife, the official wedding process would have been a lot longer. Fei says that even as a concubine, she will be treated as the same status as wife. Huaizhu understands, and the Wangquan Clan have their wedding ceremony in the sky.

Meanwhile, Dongfang Qinlan and Yu Ping are walking through the forest, seeing Huaizhu's wedding ceremony above.

In the end, Huaizhu laments that she had merely become what Jin Renfeng uses to associate with the Wangquan Clan: his cousin (表妹).

## Episode 99

Huaizhu laments that while Baye in person is here, his heart was not. But neither was Huaizhu's.

Sometime, Huaizhu and Baye dress up as ninjas to assassinate Jin in the forest. But once they cut him, his divine fire blood spurts out causing a huge forest fire that Baye and Huaizhu have to escape.

Back at the Wangquan estate, Huaizhu tends to Baye's wounds, and one of Baye's hairs turns silver.

Meanwhile, Butler Fei reports that to Huaizhu that they found her sister Qinlan and are guarding her secretly.

Huaizhu then ponders to herself on how the disappearance of the younger Daoists (death of the Masked Daoists) was related to Baye not wearing his mask anymore. She realizes that the strength of the Wangquan Clan diminishes each year and that they could not afford to oppose Jin, as much as she wanted revenge.

Meanwhile Baye trains with his sword to become stronger so that he can avenge his fallen clansmen and change this perilous situation. But the more he trains, the more white hair he grows. Huaizhu says that even talent has its limits and says that there is one last thing she can do for Baye. At night, she enters Baye's bed, and the two make love.

She then asks the Daoist elders to help transfer all her spirit power to her son so that he can be born with the talent of the two powerful Daoist clans Wangquan and Dongfang--and become a Daoist Weapon (道门兵人).

Meanwhile, since Jin lost blood, he suddenly aged fast, becoming an old man (a side effect of the Blood Transfusion as the body is unable to mass produce the new blood in Jin). If he loses more blood he could possibly die. So he practices the Leech Cultivation Art (水蛭云功法) he learned from his ex Cuiyu Xiaotan to try extend his life. However, he did not realize that the art requires two people to make successful. Jin then searches for other life-extending spells, ultimately all in vain.

However, one day, the Yiqidao League baits him with life-prolonging pills in exchange for helping them attack Tushan. The events of Hongyue Arc then unfold, and the rest is history.

## Episode 100

Song: **「人间白首」**

Baye has changed and began accompanying Huaizhu more after she got pregnant. Baye suggests naming the child Wangquan Fugui, but Huaizhu shocked by the name says only if it is a boy, but not a girl. Huaizhu gives birth to Wangquan Fugui. She dies because she used all her remaining spirit power. Before when she ambushed Jin, he burned her, causing her to lose much of her spirit power. Baye cries in despair, asking why she did not tell him earlier.

Sometime earlier Baye appears with his mask back on, and Huaizhu begins crying. Huaizhu asks Baye: if Fugui ever wants to leave, please let him do so, and never forget to find his sword heart.

Huaizhu is buried, and later Baye is seen training with his son Fugui. The other Daoists slowly build up their strength after their battle in Nanguo (in the first few episodes of the season). Soon Baye revived the Wangquan Clan from its former weak state, and now it was stronger than ever.

Meanwhile, young Dongfang Yuechu is with his mother Dongfang Qinlan, who teaches him the Pure Yang Flame. She also tells Yuechu to live a happy life, but to always remember their two great enemies: Jin Renfeng for usurping the Dongfang Clan and Wangquan for using up Huaizhu's spirit power. Then Yuechu's dad finished cooking, and Qinlan and Yuechu race to see who can get there first.

Thus begins the story of the next generation.

## Episode 101

After the events of Wangquan Arc, Dongfang Yuechu asked to borrow the Wangquan Blade to slay some Heihu. Baye allows him.

Then Wangquan Fugui returns to the estate with proof of a slain a heihu pinned to a wooden post by the Wangquan blade. Baye then laughs with join, now that he finally had proof of the existence of the beings who slayed the Masked Daoists earlier, the 'it' that they referred to. He begins writing the 'Records Beyond the Border', detailing his stories on what lies at the frontier of the known world.

From that day, Baye proclaimed that Wangquan would split into the Wang Clan and Quan Clan, with Wang living in the interior and Quan living at the border. Baye explained that since he gave the Wangquan blade away to his son Fugui, there was no need for Wangquan to exist anymore. Baye proclaimed the Wangquan head sister shimei (师妹) to be leader of the Quan Clan.

Back in present, Wang Fugui Yeye and others examine the crater left by San Shaoye's Eternity Cudgel. A mysterious woman wearing a straw hat confirms that San Shaoye exists just as Quanwai does and that the only one who saw him was the Dongfang Mengzhu (东方盟主 Leader of Dongfang) or Dongfang Yuechu from long ago.

The mystery lady asks Yeye what he wants to do. Yeye, with his mask, then says he wants 'to lift the mask of the world.'

## Other

The following are promotional videos that appear at the end of some episodes.

* Zhuye Easter Egg (本集彩蛋)
* Zhuye Tour Video (出游篇)

## Notes

1. ↑ Episode 90, Season 6
2. ↑ 'It' could refer to Quanwai the frontier, or Heihu