Episode 16

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**Immortal and Fairy** (仙与精灵, *Xiān yǔ Jīnglíng*) is the 16th episode of *The Legend of Luo Xiaohei*.

## Description

A-Gen fights against the spirit who has taken over Qiguo's body. After defeating him, A-Gen gives a new body to the spirit, who introduces himself as a deity called Muluo. This saves Qiguo's life, and A-Gen and Xioahei return to the countryside. The deity gives A-Gen a spiritual stone.

## Plot

Qiguo is a tree fairy, so he can turn his body into wood, create wood and manipulate it at will. Using his abilities, he begins to fight against A-Gen and his ice attacks. A-Gen is surprised at how strong Qiguo is, considering he’s a tree fairy in an un-futionated form, and its sure that if his enemy had his original body, it would defeat him. A-Gen mentions that Qiguo could’ve attacked them back when he first turned them small, so they may not be enemies, and asks if he can help him with anything. However, Qiguo’s invader just want to stay in his body. He knows Qiguo’s original essence is about to die, but the invader needs the body, and doesn’t want to sacrifice himself to save a mere tree fairy. A-Gen offers to give him a Wood Spirit Core, which surprises Qiguo’s invader. It’s a great deal, but the invader is too nervous to risk the new body he’s found. His spirit had wandered for three years before he could find that body, and he’s not going to risk his life trusting a stranger. Using Hei’s telepathy, A-Gen tells Xioahei to help him if talking doesn’t work. Seeing as things aren’t going anywhere, A-Gen begins attacking again.

The two struggle for a while, until Qiguo is struck by A-Gen’s ice in his spirit space. Because of the ice A-Gen’s been spreading in the spirit space, Qiguo loses his ability to disperse his spiritual form or to heal himself. This turns him “mortal” again, and A-Gen tells him if he breaks his body, his soul is going to disappear. Qiguo attempts to run away, but A-Gen can freeze him from inside the spiritual space, and catches up with him. He hits Qiguo and traps whim in the ground using ice. A-Gen gives the invader one last time to abandon Qiguo’s body and accept the Wood Spirit Core, but the invader refuses once again. A-Gen’s stare turns blank, and he tells the invader he’ll destroy Qiguo, then. A-Gen says he doesn’t have a particular affinity to Qiguo, who is a mere “tree fairy”, and that he’d rather keep his Wood Spirit Core. A-Gen creates a big ice ball above Qiguo’s body, and tells him he’s gonna end his sad life. Since there’s nothing else A-Gen can do, Qiguo is essentially dead already. Besides, A-Gen knows the invader’s spiritual space can’t hold him, much less once he’s dead and the space loses its owner. Fenmo and Xiaohei reach them, just in time to see A-Gen dropping the ice ball and killing Qiguo.

A-Gen jumps around, and finds a plant in which the soul of the invader quickly relocated. The invader shows himself, now as a mere spiritual essence with no body. A-Gen still wants to give him the Wood Spirit Core, and asks the invader to return them to their original sizes. The invader realizes Xioahei saved Qiguo’s body, using his spatial abilities, and realizes he was tricked by them . A-Gen tells him that if he returns to Qiguo’s body, they’ll simply return to the previous scenario. Seeing the situation, the invader returns everyone to their regular sizes.

A-Gen summons and gives the invader the Wood Spirit Core. The invader is dubious at first, but accepts that A-Gen could easily defeat him without using tricks now that he’s a mere spirit. The invader enters the Spirit Core, gaining a new body. He laughs, celebrating his recovery. He likes his new body, and realizes he’s stronger than before. However, A-Gen chooses to trust him no matter what, which makes the man laugh. The invader introduces himself as a deity called Muluo, a name A-Gen recognizes.

Despite his authority, Fenmo lashes out at Muluo, telling him that being a deity doesn’t give him the right to ignore other people’s lives. Fenmo agrees, and feels ashamed. A-Gen tries a thought experiment: he asks Fenmo what she would have done if she had been in Fenmo’s place. Sure, she wouldn’t have sacrificed Qiguo’s life, but what about the life of a ladybug? This makes Fenmo think. Muluo says that he can’t compare Qiguo’s life to a ladybug’s, but Fenmo protests, saying there’s nothing wrong with ladybugs. She accepts she would have done the same thing Muluo did, and therefore has no right to judge him. She tells Muluo to wait until Qiguo wakes up, so he can choose how to judge him then. Everyone agrees with that. Then, A-Gen tells them it’s time for him and Hei to leave.

As a reward, Muluo creates a muddy stone, which he explains is his Spirit Stone. It holds his spatial power (to turn things smaller) inside. He also tells A-Gen to call if he ever needs anything. Soon after, A-Gen and Hei return to the edge of the forest and mount the spiritual dragon, saying their goodbyes to Fenmo and Muluo. Fenmo promises to go visit them once Qiguo gets better, and Muluo promises to take care of them. Muluo is moved by the fact Fenmo doesn’t hate him, and asks her if she’d want to become her apprentice, to which Fenmo says she’ll think about it.

While A-Gen and Hei travel back to their home, they talk about what happened. A-Gen tells him that he knows Muluo is a real deity, and that he doesn’t know if he was right in what he did. The deity and the fairies are like humans and birds, but that in his metaphor the deity may as well be the bird. He tells Xiaohei that the preservation of life is a hard thing, and that he appreciates his life more now.

In the post credits scene, we see Xiaobai, Bidiu, and Xiaobai’s grandpa and uncle hanging around the house, watering the plants, and waiting for the guys to return.

## Features

### Characters

* Xiaohei
* Fenmo
* A-Gen
* Spirit Dragon
* Fenmo's tree-tiger
* Qiguo
* Muluo (identity revealed for the first time)
* Xiaobai
* Xiaobai's grandpa
* Xiaobai's uncle
* Bidiu

### Items

* Wood Spirit Core (this may be the Invocation Stone given by Moss in episode 12)
* Muluo's spirit stone (debut)

### Locations

* Lingfeng Mountain
* Xiaobai's uncle's house

### Abilities

* A-Gen's water manipulation
* Muluo's spatial manipulation
* Xiaohei's spatial manipulation
* Qiguo's body's dispersion
* Qiguo's wood manipulation