Snow Eagle Lord Episode 39 Recap
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DongBo Xueying and Yu Jingqiu survive their fall into the Floating Island, where they meet the Master of Red Stone Mountain. He grants Yu Jingqiu the Snow Phantom Spell, a healing art that can repair her heart pulse, which was damaged when her divine bloodline was removed. Meanwhile, Ao Lan and Chi Qiubai also breach the Red Stone Mountain barrier. Ao Lan explains to Chi Qiubai that DongBo Xueying, poisoned by the Witch God Sword, is fated to die.
Ao Lan wants him eliminated quickly because, as an inheritor of the Ancient Bloodline, Xueying is a threat to the Demon Clan, much like Moyang Yu who once destroyed the Great Demon God's physical body. With Xueying's blood already used to create a Soul Condensing Pill, he is no longer of any use to them.
Inside the Red Stone Illusion, Ao Lan discovers the perfectly preserved bodies of the Lord and Lady of the Moxue Empire, seeing them as the ideal new vessel for the Great Demon God. Chi Qiubai urges caution, but they are interrupted by the arrival of DongBo Xueying and Yu Jingqiu. Jingqiu is shocked to see her parents' bodies and devastated to find her master, Chi Qiubai, allied with the demons.
Xueying stops her from rashly moving the bodies, suspecting their preservation is linked to where they lie. Ao Lan orders Chi Qiubai to delay the pair while he escapes with the bodies. In the ensuing fight, Chi Qiubai easily defeats and injures Xueying, telling him that to inherit the will of Dragon Mountain, he must learn to be reborn from death. After they leave, Xueying succumbs to his poison and collapses.
The Master of Red Stone Mountain appears but states that the poison is too advanced for even him to cure, and Xueying's survival depends on his own will. Xueying awakens in a parallel world within the Red Stone barrier, a perfect reality where he is back in Snow Stone Fort with his family, including his parents and brother, and is happily married to Yu Jingqiu.
The Master explains to the others that this world is a real space where practitioners can live out their deepest desires, and most who enter choose to stay. Believing Xueying will return, Jingqiu decides to wait for him. She also informs Pu Yangbo and Kong Youyue of Chi Qiubai's betrayal. While waiting, the three cultivate the secret arts from Red Stone Mountain, with Jingqiu successfully mastering the True Meaning of Ice Breaking.
Elsewhere, Situ Hong suffers from the backlash of a demonic pill. Zhuo Yi finds him and offers aid, revealing that they met years ago when she witnessed his hidden act of mercy toward a beastman. She urges him to turn back from his dark path, but he refuses. Driven by bitterness over DongBo Xueying's perceived favoritism, Situ Hong is determined to defeat the "hero" even if it means becoming a villain.
Ao Lan appears and, breaking his promise to give Situ Hong a high-level demonic technique, assigns him to guard a sacrificial ritual. Despite Zhuo Yi's pleas to flee with her, Situ Hong, feeling he has lost too much to turn back now, follows Ao Lan. At the Demon God Well, Ao Lan performs the ritual. He extracts the Demon God's remnant soul from Mo Yangchen's body and uses the Moxue Lord and Lady's bodies to forge a new physical form.
The Demon God then possesses Chi Qiubai. Weakened by the lingering Will of Dragon Mountain within Chi Qiubai, the Demon God attempts to absorb Situ Hong's power. At this critical moment, Situ Hong and a returning Zhuo Yi fight back. They are ultimately no match for the Demon God; Situ Hong sacrifices himself, and just before she dies, Zhuo Yi sends out an emergency signal.
Ao Lan summons General Nuo Nuo An, who has created a puppet army by giving demonic medicine to civilians. Their master plan is to collect enough Dou Qi to erect a massive Six-pointed Star Fortress over the entire Dragon Mountain Empire, connecting it to the abyss and granting them infinite power. Wu Cang and Yu Feng receive Zhuo Yi's urgent distress signal and, despite their limited forces, decide they must investigate the danger at Tiger City.
When Jingqiu receives word of the crisis, she sends Pu Yangbo and Kong Youyue to help while she remains, steadfast in her faith that Xueying will return. In the parallel world, torn between the idyllic life and his duty, Xueying finally chooses reality. Realizing the Xia Clan is in peril, he resolves to return to his friends and his responsibilities, but the illusionary figures of his loved ones attempt to stop him from leaving.
