Snow Eagle Lord Episode 25 Recap
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DongBo Xueying observed Wu Cang, noting his solitary nature and strange, silent demeanor. He was particularly ruthless during practice sessions, never holding back against fellow disciples. After witnessing Wu Cang poison Yu Feng, DongBo Xueying confronted him. Senior Zhuo Yi intervened, trading two bottles of bee venom for the antidote to save Yu Feng. Later, during a meal, DongBo Xueying kindly offered Yu Feng some cooked food to aid his healing.
This act again drew a challenge from Wu Cang, who attempted to poison DongBo Xueying. However, DongBo Xueying countered, revealing he had already secretly taken the antidote from Wu Cang during an earlier commotion, thwarting the attack. During this confrontation, DongBo Xueying noticed that Wu Cang possessed a blue crystal ball identical to the one dropped by the masked man.
He initially thought it might be common among Xinhuo Palace disciples, but Yu Feng and Zhuo Yi were completely unaware of such items. Pondering this, DongBo Xueying found Wu Cang outside his residence in the fourth row of bamboo buildings, intentionally letting venomous bugs bite him. DongBo Xueying realized Wu Cang was using repeated near-death experiences and pain to comprehend the Esoteric Demise, aiming to achieve a form of indestructibility.
That night, DongBo Xueying followed Wu Cang and saw him dig up corpse bugs from a grave, which attracted demons. DongBo Xueying stepped in and drove the demons away, unknowingly disrupting a plan by Elder He and Wu Cang to use the bugs' scent to track the demons to their lair. Furious, Elder He ordered DongBo Xueying imprisoned in the Glacier Prison, a place few disciples could survive due to its extreme cold and magic restraint.
Worried, Zhuo Yi and Yu Feng confronted Wu Cang, criticizing his indifference. Moved by their words and DongBo Xueying's earlier actions, Wu Cang personally requested that Elder He release him. In the prison, Wu Cang explained to DongBo Xueying that his family had died in a war twenty years ago, leading him to cultivate the Esoteric Demise alone. This path had left him isolated, aged him prematurely, and disfigured his appearance.
DongBo Xueying genuinely offered his friendship and voiced his opposition to Xinhuo Palace's method of using disciples as bait, arguing there must be a safer way. Touched by his sincerity, Wu Cang revealed that the blue crystal ball was a message box used exclusively by the six Elders; he had been given one temporarily for the mission.
Realizing the masked man also had one, DongBo Xueying suspected the spy was one of the six Elders and that the Demon Clan knew all their plans. He asked for Wu Cang's help to identify the traitor, and Wu Cang agreed. To draw out the Elders and observe their message boxes, DongBo Xueying staged a public fight with Wu Cang. However, Master Gong arrived instead.
Seeing DongBo Xueying use Esoteric Gust in addition to his Esoteric Water and Fire, Master Gong criticized him for dividing his focus. He argued that while DongBo Xueying had the potential to reach the Demigod realm by focusing on Water and Fire alone, adding a third Esoteric Truth was a reckless path to a dead end.
DongBo Xueying countered that the rigid paths prescribed by Xinhuo Palace might not suit everyone and condemned the practice of treating disciples like expendable sacrifices. Angered, Master Gong challenged him. To everyone's astonishment, DongBo Xueying successfully fused Esoteric Gust, Water, and Fire in his spear technique, manifesting a second-grade True Meaning he named the True Meaning of Pole Point.
Defeated, Master Gong conceded that his own understanding was limited and that exploring untried paths could lead to unprecedented power, acknowledging DongBo Xueying's potential to dominate an era. Separately, Yu Jingqiu, Pu Yangbo, and Kong Youyue bid farewell to their master, Chi Qiubai. Yu Jingqiu announced her intention to join the Dragon Mountain Mansion to find clues about her parents and help locate the Demon God Association.
Pu Yangbo decided to follow Kong Youyue, who planned to find a powerful new master to avenge her family. Chi Qiubai advised Pu Yangbo to seek out Elder He of Black White Deity Mountain. Meanwhile, Elder He, lamenting not having recruited DongBo Xueying, learned that Pu Yangbo was his close friend. Believing anyone associated with such a genius must be exceptional, he accepted Pu Yangbo without a test and offered him enhanced benefits.
At the Bai Residence, Ji Rong feigned a distressing dream about Zong Ling to convince DongBo Qingshi to return to Xueying Territory, thus preventing him from searching for the Demon God Association. As they prepared to leave, Bai Yuanzhi stopped them and pointedly warned Ji Rong not to continue down the wrong path, showing he saw through her deceit. Later, Ji Rong was seen practicing a demonic technique as an unseen voice praised her progress. Her next task was to break through the Hundred-Battle Chamber to infiltrate Xinhuo Palace.
