Legend of Fu Yao Episode 39 Recap, Plot

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Ominous signs appeared over the Tianquan Kingdom as the rare Black Raven, symbolizing disaster, covered the sky. The Queen, distraught, desperately sought an audience with Changsun Jiong, pleading for him to spare Changsun Wuji. However, Changsun Jiong remained unyielding, refusing to see her and insisting that Changsun Wuji must pay for his actions.

Meanwhile, in Yao City, Fu Yao had temporarily repelled the Heirong Stronghold's attack with fire, but the city faced a severe food shortage, with supplies barely lasting another day. Remembering a silk bag Changsun Wuji had given her, Fu Yao opened it in desperation, only to find the single character "escape," leaving her deeply disappointed. Elsewhere, Changsun Pingrong delivered payment to Chi Gui, demanding Yao City be taken swiftly.

Chi Gui, the Head of Heirong Stronghold, proposed to slaughter the city's inhabitants to secure victory, a cruel plan Changsun Pingrong tacitly approved, provided Chi Gui delivered Fu Yao's head as revenge for their previous encounter at the Tianquan royal palace. Fu Yao refused to abandon the city and its people, who were suffering greatly.

Heirong Stronghold then employed a sinister tactic, spreading news that they would cut off Yao City's water and food supply within three days, promising survival only to those who surrendered. The starving populace, desperate for any hope, began to open the city gates. Fu Yao attempted to stop them, but the citizens, unwilling to listen, streamed out. Heirong Stronghold's archers immediately shot them down, leaving none alive.

Amidst the carnage, Fu Yao bravely stepped forward, saving a little girl but sustaining an arrow wound to her back. Xiao Qi, a member of the Nijiao Clan skilled in digging tunnels, offered to help Fu Yao and Yalan Zhu escape Yao City. However, Fu Yao refused to leave. She told Xiao Qi that she had pledged to Changsun Wuji to protect Yao City's people and could not abandon them.

Believing the city needed reinforcements, she instructed Xiao Qi and Yalan Zhu to use the tunnel to travel separately—one east to Tianquan and the other north to Tiansha—to bring news of Yao City's plight, emphasizing that over two thousand lives, including hers, depended on them. Changsun Pingrong had discovered that Changsun Wuji was alone deep within the Geya Desert.

He had secretly diverted the Qianqi of Shangyang Palace, who were meant to reinforce Changsun Wuji, making his rival an easy target. Changsun Pingrong saw this as an opportunity to eliminate Changsun Wuji and seize the title of Crown Prince, reflecting on their numerous past conflicts. In the harsh Geya Desert, Changsun Wuji consumed his last drop of water.

Though he fought fiercely, slaying all his pursuers, he too collapsed, the dead soldiers around him turning into stone statues due to a mysterious poison. Back at the palace, the Empress, distraught, sought out Changsun Jia, expressing concern that Changsun Jiong was covertly condoning Changsun Pingrong's plot against Changsun Wuji. Despite Changsun Wuji's past disrespect toward him, Changsun Jia could not ignore the peril faced by the son of the woman he loved.

He reassured the Empress that he had already dispatched elite troops to protect Changsun Wuji, but revealed that the Crown Prince had fallen into quicksand, his fate uncertain. Recognizing Changsun Pingrong's growing ambition, Changsun Jia resolved to feign goodwill towards him to extract information, while also continuing to send troops to search for Changsun Wuji in the desert.

As Yao City plunged into despair due to the severed water and food supplies, Fu Yao publicly declared her decision to abandon the city, facing the citizens' accusations of being selfish and treacherous. She then secretly instructed Yuan Bao to find Changsun Wuji. Carrying Yao City's official seal, Fu Yao ventured alone to Heirong Stronghold, feigning surrender and offering to clear the path for their conquest of Yao City and even the Imperial City of Tianquan.

Though Chi Gui was initially suspicious, Fu Yao cleverly provoked him, pointing out how his forces had been held back by a small city for half a month and questioning how he would justify his failure to Changsun Pingrong and motivate his soldiers. Convinced by her calculated words, Chi Gui agreed to a blood oath, a ritual requiring heart blood. Fu Yao, taking her own heart blood, earned his trust.

However, just as Chi Gui prepared to take his own blood, Fu Yao launched a swift attack, defeating all the bandits in the tent and successfully killing Chi Gui, taking his head. The commotion alerted the entire Heirong Stronghold, but Changsun Wuji's hidden guards, whom he had secretly dispatched to protect Fu Yao, arrived to help her escape.

In the vast Geya Desert, Changsun Wuji awoke, forcing himself to move, his first thoughts consumed by worry for Fu Yao's safety in Yao City. Meanwhile, Fu Yao and her protective hidden guards reached Yao City's gates. She held aloft Chi Gui's severed head, declaring her surrender had been a ruse and that she had killed their commander, assuring them the enemy would retreat within three days.

She urged them to open the gates, but the soldiers and citizens, convinced she was a traitor, refused, denouncing her as one who had betrayed them to save herself. Tie Cheng, believing in Fu Yao's innocence, pleaded with the people to open the gates, even swearing on his own life, but the city's inhabitants remained unmoved. Hu Sang, using a chain made of Millennial Nether Iron by her father, further secured the gate, rendering Tie Cheng's efforts futile.

With the Heirong Stronghold's pursuers rapidly approaching and the gates firmly shut, Fu Yao's last hope shattered. As the hidden guards sacrificed their lives to protect her, Fu Yao cried out in anguish, lamenting the bitter irony that those she had sacrificed everything to protect had shut her out, while those to whom she owed nothing had given their lives for her.

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