Nanguo Arc

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Nanguo features Huandu Luolan and Pingqiu Yuechu

### Artistic Director

Lin Chengfeng (林承鋒), Zhang Xinxin (張欣欣), Zhao Xun (趙勛), Chen Weining (陈伟宁), et al. [Animation directors]

Season 5, Story Arc 6, of the donghua takes place in Nanguo and focuses on the love between Huandu Luolan and Pingqiu Yuechu, while also discussing the past relation between Venom Widow, Qingtong, and Wang Fugui.

Opening Song:「众生」 Zhong Sheng (Gary Chan)

## Season 5

### Episode 64

After a year since the Battle of Tushan, Bai Yuechu and Susu are celebrities and are followed by paparazzi. Huandu Luolan spies on them through her crystal ball and looks for a way to manipulate and kidnap Bai. After seeing Bai refuse to refund his VIP food coupons to give his dad money, she concludes that he would do anything for food. Bai meets a buxom pink-haired lady who makes him the tastiest dishes for the next few days. The lady uses sleeping darts to take out Bai's teacher and feed Bai meals and spend time with him. Susu, feeling abandoned, learns how to cook from Qingtong's yaoguai friends. Susu then presents Bai her first cooked dish: dim sum made from fresh giant crab from the Red Lake.

### Episode 65

Bai pukes for the first time in his life. Qingtong and Daoists then gang up on the pink-haired lady for attempting to steal Bai from Susu. The lady reveals herself to be Huandu Luolan the Southern Princess and uses poison needles to turn Qingtong and the Daoists into children. Susu then rushes on Tutu to get Bai. Luolan is feeding him Star Moon Matsutake ( 星月松茸 ) at his house, but Bai suspects it is poisoned. When Susu crashes in, Bai accidentally put it in his mouth and then irresistibly ate it. Luolan then chuckles, revealing that she has been feeding him poison 3 meals a day for a week. She then casts a spell that switches Bai's body with a small chicken's body. As a chicken, Bai is unable to use his special moves Pure Yang Flame and Xukong Zhilei since those are stored in his original human body, now possessed by the chicken. Bai Qiuen, Wang Fugui, Qingtong, Susu, Daoists all try to save Bai, but Luolan easily defeats them all with her poison magic. She then takes her beloved chicken Bai Yuechu back to her home in Nanguo.

### Episode 66

Luolan warns Tushan not to attack Nanguo or else she will kill Bai. Yaya and Rongrong notice that the love thermometer rose in temperature since Susu wants to get Bai back, so they decide not to interfere and let Susu and Bai's relationship develop naturally. Meanwhile, Qingtong got hit by two of Luolan's poison needles. Cuiyu Ling says Qingtong has a week to survive since the poison was made from the anti-aging bug. Only Luolan would know the cure. So the Wang clan travels to Nanguo. Susu teleports to Nanguo with chicken-man in Bai's body. Three pandas, the emperor Huandu Qingtian's Three Royal Shields (御前三盾) meet Susu to be her bodyguards so that she does not cause trouble. Suddenly, Luolan's aide Du Gongzi attacks them with poison spells (Gudu 蛊毒), but Wang Fugui and Zhuque stop Du and burn his poison.

### Episode 67

Du Gongzi summons more poison spirits and weapons to attack but Huandu Qingtian appears and stops Gongzi, putting him in prison. However Qingtian deliberately lets Gongzi escape at night so that he can lead him to Luolan, who has gone missing after kidnapping Bai. But Gongzi purposely misleads Qingtian to Warlock Mountain (巫皇山) notorious for its intense poison. Qingtian gets trapped there, but Gongzi seemingly dies. But he sends a death letter to Luolan via a poisonous butterfly (七星冥凤蝶) that kills anything it touches. Susu catches the butterfly, and the letter confesses Gongzi's love for Luolan. It is revealed that Susu is unaffected by the butterfly's poison and Luolan's poison needles because of Susu's Invincible Claws. She, Wang, and an army of goat spirits use the butterfly to track down Luolan. But Luolan's guards Venom Widow (毒娘子) and Venom Boy (毒童子) locate them. Venom Widow uses Peach Blossom Mist (召唤桃花雾) to subdue them, making each have the feeling of losing love. However, Susu waves her arms to create a path through the mist, and the playboy Wang Fugui is seemingly unharmed by the mist since he went out with so many girls in his past.

### Episode 68

Venom Widow reveals her past: her husband was killed by the Wangquan Clan so she swore revenge. She bred many slaves including young Qingtong and used her to spy on the Wang family. This is when Qingtong met Wangquan Fugui. When Qingtong and Wangquan Fugui ran away together, Venom Widow was able to track down Fugui and attack him in a small cottage. Qingtong begged her not to kill Fugui as he was not responsible for killing her husband. But Venom Widow says it was thanks to her slave and ace Qingtong that she was able to find him.

### Episode 69

Wangquan summons his Wangquan Sword to hit Du Niangzi's hat, thereby freeing a spider, and then removing the curse on that spider. It turns out that the spider was her supposedly dead husband Du Fuzi who reveals that he got transformed into a spider in exchange for saving Du Niangzi's life from a Daoist from the Wang Clan. They then worship Wangquan as their savior. Meanwhile in present, the couple Du Niangzi and Du Fuzi reveal that it was their plan all along to recreate and relive that euphoric scene from the past so that Wang could reveal his awesome Wangquan Spirit Blade. They thank Wang once again and heal his wife Qingtong's poison, saying she will recover her adult self in three days. Suddenly, a mysterious golden spirit appears and says Wang Fugui has remembered too much too soon. The gold spirit then takes away some of Wang's memories he said he shouldn't have. The gold spirit leaves, but otherwise Wang is fine after waking up.

### Episode 70

Susu and the Three Royal Shields confront Venom Boy / Gao Daqiang, ultimately defeating him via a combination of bluff, Invincible Claws, and Bai Yuechu's body... Meanwhile chicken Bai gets anemia after Susu's fight, and Luolan pampers him with more food, saying in two days she will finally be ready to handle *some affairs*. Susu runs into more guards, but Wang Fugui suddenly appears slashing them with his Wangquan Spirit Blade. They continue their quest to find Luolan and chicken Bai. The Du couple stay behind and punish themselves for not carrying Luolan's order to stop them as they could not bring themselves to harm their savior Wang Fugui. Meanwhile, they hope that Luolan is able to find a certain *him.*

### Episode 71

The team confronts Du Laozi, who reveals that Bai is being kept in a nearby cave and that in two days Bai will no longer exist. Du Laozi then plays his ***guqin*** (古琴) to transmit a special poison and speed up time. Du Pozi appears, quickly defeating and preventing Susu and others from reaching the cave. The Du couple have used the legendary Immortal Chessboard (神仙棋) to speed up time so that the two days pass quickly.

### Episode 72

In the cave, Luolan shows chicken Bai a special bell and asks if he remembers it. He does not. She then reveals that long ago she made a Heart Oath with his former incarnation in front of the Tushan sisters at the Kuqing Tree. Susu and others (who somehow got into the cave) overhear in shock, and Susu calls Luolan a 'mistress' (小三). Turns out that Venom Grandpa was playing his guqin to cast Sonic Venom (音波毒功) that slowed down the reflexes for others that heard it. So Susu used her Invincible Claws to cover Wang's ears so that he could move at normal speed and defeat Venom Grandpa and Venom Granny. They rescue chicken Bai, and laugh at how Dongfang Yuechu dumped Luolan. But Luolan said her lover was not Dongfang Yuechu, but Pingqiu Yuechu.

### Episode 73

Luolan injects herself with needles made from anti-aging bugs combined with Shadow Fox spirit energy. She gets powered up, and her whole body turns green. She uses Sonic Venom to pierce through Wang's blade and Qingtong's silk and paralyze them. Venom Grandpa reveals that he invented the technique long ago. Based on sound waves it can carry poison through the air and enter the target's ears, crippling even immobilizing them. Meanwhile chicken Bai reveals that he was able to control his body the whole time. Back in Episode 65 when Bai puked from Susu's cooking, he also puked out the poison Luolan was feeding him. So Luolan's body switching spell did not work perfectly, and Bai was able to control and see through his right eye remotely perhaps because of its powerful Xukong Zhilei. Bai was the one who defeated Venom Boy and the one who gave Susu the idea to use her Invincible Claws to cover Wang's ears from the Sonic Venom. Bai then uses his body to roar at Luolan's Sonic Venom, easily dissipating them. She is about to use more drugs but then her father Huandu Qingtian suddenly appears and intervenes.

### Episode 74

Huandu Qingtian explains that Luolan researched for years how to revive Pingqiu without Tushan, even cooperating with Black fox spirits. After realizing how much his daughter went through, Qingtian suddenly says that he will not let anybody stop his daughter's plans to reunite with Yuechu. Qingtian is able to counter Bai Yuechu's Xukong Zhilei, Pure Yang Flame, and Tunshi Qingli since Bai Qiuen sold his son's weaknesses to Huandu Qingtian for 100k yuan. Finally the two days are up from the Immortal Chessboard, and on a full moon, Luolan recites an incantation using Love Gu (情蛊) to raise Pingqiu Yuechu from the dead.

### Episode 75

The body of Pingqiu Yuechu is brought from the sea to the cave. Using the full moon, more Gudu magic, and Black fox spirits, the souls of past reincarnations of Bai Yuechu are brought out of his body. The ghost of Pingqiu Yuechu meets Luolan. Then Luolan recounts the first time she met Pingqiu centuries ago, kissing him at the top of a mountain while practicing her Venom Body with her Five Guards (including a cucked Du Gongzi) watching.

### Episode 76

Luolan decides to teach Yuechu some manners and increase his spirit power so that her as she does not want news to leak out that her first kiss was a hoodlum, nevermind a human. Meanwhile, a mysterious hooded man sends spies, the Five Elements (五行天煞 Wuxing Tiansha), to infiltrate the palace and gather intel. However, Huandu Qingtian easily destroys three of the Tiansha, but the hooded man realizes Qingtian has gotten weaker, and Yuechu is only a mortal.

### Episode 77

Emperor Qingtian realizes that Yuechu has no spirit power but uses him anyway to transfer some spirit energy. This makes Yuechu unconscious. Suddenly, Du Laozi's son, Xiao Wangye, appears and alerts Qingtian that others have been attacked. However, it is a trap, and the hooded man from earlier Kumu Yaoxian appears (枯木药仙) and stuns Qingtian with a freezing poison. Wangye (red hair) then changes appearance to have blue hair and red eyes and reveals he was planning to take the throne all along. Qingtian is allowed to teleport Yuechu back to Tushan in exchange for telling Wangye a secret: his most powerful poison spell Infinite Halo Art (千转宝轮功) needs to be transferred to another body every 1000 years using the Four Loop Jade (四块环玉璧), which is why Qingtian's magic has gotten unsteady these past few days. However, Qingtian had already transferred the Infinite Halo to Yuechu when transferring some energy earlier, so Yuechu got away with the powerful spell and is safe in Tushan.

### Episode 78

Angered, Xiao Wangye attacks Qingtian, who escapes via a Daoist portal he planted earlier in the ground. Qingtian knew some were plotting a coup against him, so he was prepared. Wangye and Kumu Yaoxian then plot to trick Luolan into revealing the location of the Four Loop Jade so they can get the ultimate Infinite Halo Art. Kumu stages an attack on Nanguo, but Pingqiu Yuechu suddenly appears using his newly mastered Venom Body to intimidate Kumu into fleeing. Pingqiu is celebrated as a hero, but Luolan is still puzzled how he still has no spirit power and able to cast Venom Body without years of training. Meanwhile, Wangye and Kumu plan how to extract Infinite Halo Art from Pingqiu.

### Episode 79

Pingqiu and Luolan leave the city to escape Xiao Wangye and search for the Four Loops so that Luolan can extract the Infinite Halo Art from Yuechu. Meanwhile Xiao has to treat himself to cure the corrosive effects of having a Black Fox inside him. Luolan gets tired of eating wild fruits and game, so Xiao and Kumu Yaoxian use a large city buffet to lure a very hungry Luolan into their trap. Luolan and Pingqiu are then confronted by Kumu and a red-dress blonde lady serving Xiao who negated Pingqiu's Venom Body with a magic needle infused with Tiancanfu Dugu.

### Episode 80

Pingqiu's Venom Body was negated by the Tiancanfu Dugu needle, but Luolan uses her Venom Body and Sonic Venom to escape from the blonde woman and Kumu Yaoxian. Under the stars, Pingqiu asks why Luolan saved him. Luolan meanwhile wonders why Pingqiu was willing to leave the safety of Tushan to save her. Pingqiu then reveals that Tushan forced him to marry a girl he did not want to, which is why he left. Next day, Pingqiu and Luolan look for the last of the Four Loop Jade from Lao Chen, master of the Three Royal Shields. However, they are ambushed by Kumu Yaoxian and Xiao Wangye, and the fourth jade was broken, so Lao Chen uses his poisonous bamboo shoots to help Pingqiu and Luolan escape through a cave, where they meet a cryptic man who speaks in syllables of three (Huangquan).

### Episode 81

Huangquan (黄泉族) says he can only help one person escape with his Dixing Fu. Luolan asks Huangquan to take Pingqiu since he has the Infinite Halo. Luolan stays behind to help Lao Chen fight Xiao Wangye but is quickly overpowered by his Tiancanfu Dugu. Luolan destroyed the Four Loop Jade so that Wangye would not get it and then releases a powerful poison beacon. Meanwhile, Pingqiu asks Huang to take him back to Luolan and shows him a golden hair. Pingqiu arrives to save Luolan from Wangye, using his Xukong Zhilei to destroy the Heihu inside Wangye. Luolan then recounts when she was young, her mother married Huandu Qingtian because he was brave, saving her from Warlock Mountain. She tells young Luolan to marry someone brave as well.

### Episode 82

Pingqiu proceeds to annihilate Xiao Wangye's army with Xukong Zhilei. However, Kumu Yaoxian sneaks up behind and blinds Pingqiu's eyes with poison, nullifying his Tear Void. Luolan asks why Pingqiu came back to save her, and he says he just wanted a chance to be together. Suddenly, it starts snowing, something that never happened before in the South. It is Yaya to the rescue, and she begins freezing Wangye's minions and telling Wangye to scram.

### Episode 83

Pingqiu promises to marry Susu so long as Yaya saves Luolan. Pingqiu then recounts how he grew up, found by Tushan, forced by Yaya to train his spirit powers, and then forced to marry Susu and turn into Dongfang Yuechu. He felt that he was being forced to be someone he was not, so he escaped Tushan and found Luolan, the first person to love him for who he really is: Pingqiu. Thus he wants Luolan to survive, to take care of her father and quell the Nanguo rebellion, and as proof that Pingqiu existed. Yaya then takes out her matchmaking Tianshu to marry Pingqiu to Susu, but then Pingqiu's name is magically wiped off, and Yaya is enraged after spending years to groom Pingqiu herself. She is about to kill Pingqiu, but Rongrong stops her and tells her to let it go as Pingqiu can no longer turn into Dongfang as it is not the will of the Kuqing Tree. With that, Pingqiu is freed from the Heart Oath.

### Episode 84

Rongrong says she will help quash Xiao Wangye's rebellion if Pingqiu tells her how he escaped Tushan and what fabao (magic weapon) he used. Pingqiu said a golden man helped him escape--teaching him the transformation technique, giving him a golden hair--and that is when he got his fabao the Tear Void. Satisfied, Rongrong wipes out the memories of everyone on the battlefield (including Pingqiu and Luolan), and Yaya kills the Black Fox in Wangye's body. That night, Huandu Qingtian's Venom Body fully recovered and he rushed to the battlefield to finish off the rebellion. Then on, because their memories were wiped out, people thought it was Qingtian alone who stopped the insurrection, and nobody remembered that the Tushan fox spirits helped Pingqiu and Luolan.

Back in present, Luolan is about to finish resurrecting Pingqiu, but Susu suddenly interjects, biting the last page of her Chunai Tianpian, remembering her kiss with Bai, and transforming into a mysterious grown up lady.

### Episode 85

Tushan Honghong appears, and Luolan recalls that she was the one who let her make a Heart Oath with Pingqiu. But Honghong says she is not the same spirit as before. This time she uses her Invincible Claws to slap Luolan, but is unable to penetrate the Love Gu (情蛊) barrier surrounding Bai and Pingqiu. She tries to use her Jueyuan Zhizhua to stop the Love Gu, but Huandu Qingtian then summons the most powerful poison in Nanguo (毒倾天下) to attack Honghong. She is then stuck, using one hand to block Qingtian and another hand to stop the Love Gu resurrection spell.

Meanwhile, outside the Shadow Fox Empress tries to enter the cave and harvest Pingqiu's Tear Void. But Lady Heihu is stopped by what appears to be Du Tongzi. However, it turns out it was the golden man, the Third Master of Aolai, in disguise. He scares away Lady Heihu by throwing his cudgel of eternity at her, creating a huge atomic explosion.

Back inside, at the last moment, Bai Qiuen barges in to stop Honghong. As he takes Honghong out of the way, Qingtian's poison spell is about to crash into Luolan's Love Gu beam.

### Episode 86

Qingtian crashes into his daughter Luolan. Bai Qiuen then explains that because Qingtian paid him 100k he could not let Honghong stop Qingtian. Honghong then pushes Qiuen into the Love Gu beam, and he escapes with his chicken son Bai Yuechu. He was able to steal a cure for the anti-aging and soul-switching poisons from Luolan's body. He then helps put Bai Yuechu's soul back in his own body and the chicken's soul back in the chicken. With Honghong's wish fulfilled, she turns back into Susu.

Suddenly, the Shadow Fox possessing Luolan steals Bai Yuechu's soul and returns to the Love Gu beam, and Luolan completes the resurrection spell, bringing back Pingqiu Yuechu. Bai Yuechu, seemingly dead, suddenly wakes up, which Huandu Qingtian says is impossible since the Repossess Resurrection (借尸还魂) requires the sacrifice of one life. However, Qingtian realizes at list minute that Luolan sacrificed her own life to bring back Pingqiu. Qingtian desperately tries to break the barrier, saying Luolan should have used her father's life. But Luolan says this is why he did not want her father to know: that her true wish was to prove to the world that Pingqiu Yuechu was a true individual independent from Dongfang Yuechu--by bringing him back to life and having him coexist with Bai Yuechu.

### Episode 87

Dongfang Yuechu's soul and the Third Master of Aolai have a conversation. Dongfang thanks San Shaoye for 1) helping him realize that the Shadow Foxes were the true enemies; 2) saving Susu from the Tear Void in Season 2; and 3) for helping make Bai Yuechu a special reincarnation that contained the copies of Dongfang's other incarnations. However, San Shaoye warns that each new reincarnation tears off a piece of Dongfang's soul, and after a few more reincarnations Dongfang will disappear completely.

Dongfang then explains that he encouraged Luolan to make a Heart Oath because he pitied her and Pingqiu, wishing that they could reunite. In a flashback, Luolan is seen taking Pingqiu's dying body to Tushan to make a Heart Oath. Initially rejected, she returns after Dongfang's spirit points out that Pingqiu's name was erased from the Chunai Tianpian, meaning that the Kuqing Tree may consider Pingqiu to be an independent soul. Determined, Luolan returns to the Kuqing Tree to make her oath, and Tushan Yaya, the new Queen of Tushan, is in a pickle on whether to stop Luolan or abide by the will of the Kuqing Tree and rules of Tushan.

### Episode 88

As Yaya decides what to do, she thinks to herself what would Honghong do. San Shaoye then uses his golden hair to bring back Honghong. She then iterates that it is the rule of Tushan to let true love be. Yaya then discovers that Shaoye interfered and curses Shaoye, that monkey. She then leaves the scene to go after him. Rongrong then allows Luolan to make her pledge. Luolan sits under the Kuqing Tree praying for days, weeks, as the pledge will not work unless Pingqiu also says that he is willing. The unconscious Pingqiu has a dream about marrying Luolan, and finally he says: 'I am willing' (我愿意).

Back in present, San Shaoye warns that if Luolan goes through with resurrecting Pingqiu, then Dongfang may not have another chance at being reincarnated again. Dongfang then recites a Song dynasty poem, saying that is ok, so long as it is for true love.

However, suddenly the Six Tailed Shadow Fox (六尾黑魔 Liuwei Heimo) possesses Luolan and reveals that all of this was according to the Shadow Fox's plan to obtain the Tear Void. Liuwei was the one who taught Luolan the Love Gu Repossess Resurrection technique. Once Luolan transfers her life to Pingqiu, the Six Tail Heiyao will also possess Pingqiu and thus his Tear Void. The other heihu was merely a decoy to lure the Shadow Foxes to Luolan.

Huandu Qingtian is unable to break past the Love Gu beam to stop Liuwei Heimo. Neither is Bai as he is depleted of his spirit power. However, in exchange for 100k more yuan from Qingtian, Bai Qiuen is able to break through the Love Gu and use the Bai Clan Exorcist Cudgel (白氏镇妖棍) on Liuwei.

### Episode 89

Bai Qiuen successfully defeats Liuwei Heimo and traps it in his Nong Spring Bottle. Luolan and Pingqiu are then reunited, but suddenly Pingqiu's soul leaves his body. It is revealed that Luolan lost one of her Violet Gold Love Bells, the fabao she used to make the Heart Oath with Pingqiu. However, Bai Yuechu takes it from his dad Bai Qiuen, revealing that Qiuen kept it from his son since birth to make a hefty profit.

Bai Yuechu then explains asks whether there is actually true love between Luolan and Pingqiu. Ever since Yaya failed to force Pingqiu to love Susu, Tushan matchmakers swore never to force yaoguai and humans to love each other, but rather guide and help out. In the end it is up to the individuals to decide whether they truly love each other. However, Bai says that now Pingqiu is a separate soul and will be reincarnated in a separate body, thereby giving Luolan another chance in the future to reunite with Pingqiu. The soul of Pingqiu says thanks and leaves his body. Luolan then puts Pingqiu back in his coffin, mourning. But in the end, she thanks Bai for helping out and offers to turn herself over to the Spirit Union for the trouble she caused for Tushan earlier.

Still, some mysteries remained unsolved, such as the mystery of 'Predestined Love' (缘分) as well as why all the copies of Dongfang's reincarnations--including Pingqiu--were placed in Bai's body.

The episode ends with Bai Qiuen talking to the Third Master of Aolai. Qiuen preempts San Shaoye from intervening and resurrecting Pingqiu, saying that ultimately Pingqiu's reincarnation and Luolan need to find true love themselves. He also comments that humans and yaoguai need to find a better way to resurrect dead bodies than the Repossess Resurrection. San Shaoye then leaves, saying goodbye to his predecessor, Bai Qiuen.

## Explanation of last few episodes

When Tushan Susu receives the blood of the Dongfang Family from Bai Yuechu, she becomes Tushan Honghong, as she does when she kisses Bai when he had a bloody lip (Season 1). She is also able to transform back into Honghong when she recalls her past memories (like after being hit by Bai's Tear Void or being manipulated by Zuoshi's nightmare spell). However, as revealed in Season 6, when Susu bites her lip and uses her Chunai Tianpian she is also able to morph into Honghong until she fulfills her wish.

Unlike Susu, Honghong remembers everything from her past. However, Susu is Honghong and Honghong is Susu. They are the same person, and Susu is not the reincarnation of Honghong.

As Dongfang Yuechu stated to Bai Yuechu in Episode 38, Bai Yuechu is Dongfang Yuechu but also not Dongfang Yuechu. Like Pingqiu Yuechu, he is another person that just happens to have the soul of Dongfang Yuechu. With Luolan's Love Gu, Bai was able to remove Pingqiu's soul from Bai's body, thereby giving the chance for Pingqiu to reincarnate as a separate independent being. This gives Luolan a chance to reunite with Pingqiu.

As for why Bai had the souls of all past incarnations of Dongfang Yuechu, including Pingqiu's soul, that is a mystery left unresolved.