Feud Episode 20 Recap
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Bai Jiusi was recovering from his injuries at home when Lin Tao brought him peaches from her family’s peach tree. Concerned for her safety, Bai Jiusi told Lin Tao not to wander outside recklessly. However, Lin Tao believed that Bai Jiusi was an immortal, and that staying by his side was the safest option. She refused to listen to her mother and insisted on being with Bai Jiusi, even speaking on her mother’s behalf in front of him.
That night, Li Qingyue was in her room making a hat for Lin Tao when Bai Jiusi came to speak with her. He wanted to talk about his experiences in the human world over the past few years. Bai Jiusi shared his own insights—sometimes feeling that gods were heartless for ignoring human suffering, but in truth, it was also a form of self-preservation.
Humans only lived a few decades, and if gods empathized with them too much, they would be in endless sorrow. Everyone had their own path. He also began to understand and feel for Li Qingyue. Once, she had been an immortal, untouched by worldly matters, but now she could perform all kinds of domestic crafts. He couldn’t imagine what kind of pain she had endured during those ten years with her powers sealed.
He opened his heart to her, asking if there was a place where she still held resentment toward him. Moved by Bai Jiusi’s sincerity, Li Qingyue softened again and decided to be honest with him. But removing the evil spirits from the city was still the priority. The two agreed that after purging the evil and saving the people, they would have a heartfelt conversation. Longyuan brought people to Jingyun Sect to demand Bai Jiusi’s release.
Li Mo returned to heal Bai Jiusi’s physical body and, upon hearing that Longyuan had gone to Jingyun Sect, rushed to intervene. He feared that if a conflict broke out between the two parties, Bai Jiusi and Li Qingyue might never reconcile. A cultivator named Xiaoyaozi brought people to Bai Jiusi and Li Qingyue’s home, insisting on checking whether Bai Jiusi was an evil spirit.
To protect Bai Jiusi, Li Qingyue used her powers to immobilize everyone and then fled with Bai Jiusi and the dog Dahuang. Fan Ling Er, still worried for her father’s safety, followed clues to search for him. But she fell into a trap and was captured. She never expected to fall for her father’s trick in the end. Jingyun Sect’s disciples, who had once followed Li Qingyue, had already gone out to search for her whereabouts.
Only Meng Chu and a few others remained, but they were no match for Longyuan. Still, Meng Chu stood his ground with composure. However, due to his weaker cultivation, he couldn’t hold out for long. At that critical moment, Li Mo appeared to persuade Longyuan. Li Qingyue thought Bai Jiusi was still recovering, so she planned to take advantage of that time to eradicate the evil spirits.
But Bai Jiusi had already figured out her intentions and was watching her closely. The moment Li Qingyue left, Bai Jiusi noticed. She took up her sword and found the evil spirit. Unable to suppress it due to its strength, she prepared to use a mutual destruction technique. Fortunately, Bai Jiusi arrived in time to stop her from doing something foolish. But it was already too late. Even using his powers, Bai Jiusi couldn’t save Li Qingyue.
She was now in a mortal body and couldn’t withstand it. Back then, her soul had wandered the human world and just happened to find and possess this body. Li Qingyue admitted that she was willing to die with the evil spirit to eliminate it for Bai Jiusi’s sake. She had planned to destroy the evil and send Bai Jiusi away as her final act, but she failed. Bai Jiusi used his protective spirit pearl to shield Li Qingyue’s soul.
She didn’t want him to, knowing that in his current soul state, losing the spirit pearl could lead to complete dissipation. But Bai Jiusi insisted and embedded the pearl into Li Qingyue’s body. She then fell unconscious. With Bai Jiusi and Li Qingyue no longer around to stop them, the evil spirits ran rampant. Bai Jiusi reappeared and lured the evil spirit into a formation, where he killed it. However, the formation did not disappear. At that moment, Xiaoyaozi appeared.
The monkey spirit returned and told Zhang Suan that he had found the Peach Blossom Spring. Severely injured, Bai Jiusi was captured by Xiaoyaozi, who falsely accused him of being an evil spirit. When the townspeople heard this, they shouted that Bai Jiusi should be killed. Lin Tao didn’t believe Bai Jiusi was an evil spirit and rushed onto the platform, just as Xiaoyaozi summoned lightning to strike Bai Jiusi—hitting Lin Tao instead. Everyone thought it was Bai Jiusi who struck her, and vented their hatred toward him. Bai Jiusi realized that this was all a trap set by Li Qingyue.
