Episode 23 (Ultimate Note)

**Episode 23 (Ultimate Note)** is the twenty-third episode of the television series Ultimate Note.

## Story

Worried for Wu Xie's safety in the water, Xie Yuchen confronts Hendry Cox' team, to no avail. After talking to Hendry Cox, Hei Yanjing makes a deal with him to keep Xie Yuchen out of the water. After discussing and some acting from Xie Yuchen, Hei Yanjing finally gives up after Xie Yuchen convinces him he will get compensation from the Wu family if he saves Wu Xie. They decide on a plan to steal the diving equipment.

Still being attacked by the strange creature, Wu Xie starts realising the similarities to Golmud Sanatorium. Zhang Qiling manages to kill the Chen Wenjin lookalike and they wonder how she came to be there.

Continuing down into the same cellar as the one in Golmud Sanatorium, Wu Xie is faced with another witch monster with his face but is protected by his friends. When entering the study where Wu Xie originally found Chen Wenjin's diary, they find the same diary again. In the midst of confusion, they are suddenly joined by Hei Yanjing and Xie Yuchen. They leave the study together and decide to open the same coffin, Wu Xie prayed to in the beginning of the series. After opening, Wang Pangzi asks Wu Xie to guess what is inside and Wu Xie, having a bad feeling about the whole situation, guesses the Bronze Fox Masks from the Seven Star Palace. It turns out to be the masks and not knowing of the dangers Hei Yanjing and Xie Yuchen wear them. They start fighting the others and upon removing the masks again, Hei Yanjing and Xie Yuchen turn into smoke. Realizing something is wrong, Wu Xie goes back step by step in his mind and detects it all as an illusion. He wakes up, being trapped in a Hexagon Bell formation similar to the other locations he has been to.

He finally hears the others at the lakeside again and they immediately remind him, he is running out of oxygen. When diving out of the Pavilion, the siphoning channel opens up and he gets a clue from an underwater creature carrying a flashlight with an SOS message. He decides to take the risk and follow the siphoning channel.

Up on land, Hei Yanjing ends up pretending to be caught, so they can find out which one of the tents has the diving equipment they need, but he gets caught by Hendry Cox, who also catches Xie Yuchen. Hendry Cox reveals to them, he does not believe Wu Xie to be dead but to be stuck somewhere they cannot register him. Before elaborating further, Hendry Cox explains another one of Hei Yanjing's bosses (besides his dealings with Hendry Cox and Xie Yuchen) is going to arrive soon.

Wu Xie wakes up with his two friends, with Wang Pangzi just about to use the "fairy tale method" to wake him up, since nothing else worked. After confirming this not to be an illusion, Wu Xie is delighted to see his friends again. Soon he realizes they are stuck in the cave and his friends do not know how to escape.

After some time they realize a crack in the jade walls and are soon attacked by jade soldiers similar to the ones in the Heavenly Queen Mother's palace. Realizing them to be made of an amber-like material, they fight against them. After some time and exhaustion kicking in, Wu Xie concludes they react to the heat from their torches and bodies and get stronger over time since their bodies heat up during fighting. Zhang Qiling finds a black snake in one of them and kills it, showing how the snakes are the ones behind the moving soldiers.

## Characters

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

## Locations

* Banai village and lake
* Old Pavilion