Parallel World Episode 20 Recap
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After a night of long-distance travel, everyone settled at the Red Flower Tree Inn within the Blackstone City's vicinity. With some free time, Fei Tang casually fed fruits to the Siamese Twins. Ye Liuxi thought it might be interesting to keep this exotic creature. If they found it boring, she suggested letting it transform into a performance for Chang Dong. They waited in the inn for a full two days, finally meeting Li Jin'ao, who informed them about the existence of Water Eyes in Welcome Village.
Water Eyes were like "remote cameras," aquatic creatures shaped like water, existing in male and female pairs. Even if separated by thousands of miles, they could communicate seamlessly. What the female Water Eye observed, the male counterpart would instantly receive, leaving no room for omission.
The next morning after breakfast, everyone set out, driving towards Blackstone City. Outside the city gate, several cars were parked, each bearing a banner with a flying bird flag. One car drove up to them, and an old man stepped out, leaning on a black iron cane, calling Ye Liuxi's name very familiarly.
In the ensuing conversation, they learned that the old man was named Zhao Guanshou, the leader of Blackstone City and one of the top figures in the Yulin Guard. The city gates of Blackstone City closed at sunset and opened at sunrise, making no exceptions for anyone. The cars entered through a side gate. The streets were spacious but devoid of people, with no shops along the street, only towering black walls. Zhao Guanshou led them to the museum.
At Ye Liuxi's request, Zhao Guanshou allowed Chang Dong and the others to follow, but Li Jin'ao was stopped outside. Inside the museum, they first encountered a map over two meters tall, detailing the topography of various cities within the region. Zhao Guanshou explained and answered Chang Dong's questions, narrating the origins of Sima Dao and the Shadow Puppeteer.
Next, they saw a large and square portrait stone with six seal characters written on its side, saying "Liuxi Bones, Eastward Soul." It could be read forwards or backward, but it was closely related to Ye Liuxi in any case. Zhao Guanshou then took them to a massive bronze relief mural, stating that it depicted the chaos caused by the Beast Head. Rumor had it that when the Nandou Star reached a still point in the sky at noon, there would be major unrest in the Guannei region. At that time, the Shadow Puppet secret technique would malfunction, and the entire Shadow Puppet camel caravan would be paralyzed. Only the person born on the next day of Nandou Star's appearance would appear simultaneously with the Beast Head Yellow Sheep, freely entering and leaving the Yumen Pass.
Over a thousand years ago, an anomaly occurred when a farmer gave birth to a male infant named Li Wangdong. As he grew up, Li Wangdong established the Beast Head organization within the Yumen Pass, attempting to overthrow Blackstone City's rule and seeking external help to save the people inside. He financially supported the Li clan lords outside the pass with gold, borrowing an army of one hundred thousand.
Unfortunately, Li Wangdong's plan to lure the enemy out of the pass was betrayed by the clan lords, and he was nearly killed outside the pass. Seeing the Beast Head organization falling apart, Li Wangdong knew the situation was dire. At the moment when the Nandou Star set, he took his own life with a drawn sword. The Li family's sorcerer revived the Shadow Puppeteer and reestablished the Shadow Puppet camel caravan, facilitating trade between Blackstone City and the outside world, restoring order within the pass.
The Li family received information that after the Nandou Star appeared, a female infant was born in a village north of the flowing sands of Yardan. Since her birth, no Shadow Puppeteer inside the pass could stand up. Neither Li Wangdong nor Ye Liuxi could be killed by the people inside the pass; only those outside the pass could do it. Therefore, Zhao Guanshou did not want another Beast Head chaos and was grateful to find Ye Liuxi in time. He brought her back to Blackstone City, enrolled her in the Yulin Guard, and allowed her to freely transport goods through the Yumen Pass.
However, not long after, the chaos of Scorpion Eye occurred, led by Jiang Zhan. In Zhao Guanshou's eyes, the momentum of the Scorpion Eye organization seemed like another Beast Head. Soon, Huyang City fell and became the nest of Scorpion Eye. The Li family's sorcerer predicted three times: the first predicted the Nandou Star breaking the Yumen Pass, the second predicted the calamity "West of the Yumen Pass," and the third also indicated going west of the Yumen Pass. It was both a calamity and an opportunity, meaning Ye Liuxi was both a bearer of catastrophe and a solver of problems.
Afterward, Ye Liuxi was ordered to infiltrate Scorpion Eye undercover, but her cover was exposed, and Jiang Zhan ordered her to be hanged outside Huyang City as a warning. Although Blackstone City had spies in Huyang City, rescuing someone from prison was not an easy task. Zhao Guanshou sought out the leader of the sorcerers, Long Shen, discussing a rescue plan.
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