ep 18 spoilers

1.We open to Xiao Fan, Jing Yue, and Ba Yao discussing the latest string of events. She is educating them on poison and dispelling some of their ignorance about the group of people known as the 'evil sect'. It seems 170 years ago a disciple went to the marsh of death and returned with a book on poisons and a sword (they then began to rise in power). The sword is called severing yearning, and if cut by it, the poison stays in you for ever. This man is called the poison god. He has a 1000 poison pill with three subordinates:blood sucking old man, bai du zi, and his lead disciple Mr. Poison Qing Wu Yan

(Ohhh....so these people are the ones they've been fighting....)

2.They conclude that Jang Li (the city guard?) is Mr. Poison as he has been trying to get Ping'er out of the city.

3.They try to infiltrate where the embroidery girls are (of course they are caught)(there is a fight)

4.Clearly flirting with Xiao Huan...who was scared by him...leads to Xue Qi showing up. She becomes very confrontational, beats him up pretty bad....Ba Yao has to heal him....

5.The man from many, many episodes ago who wore the mask, it turns out, is a friend of the ghost king

6.They finally work out that the ultimate goal of the poison king is the entire reason that they are there--1000 bat cave--

7.(save me from self-righteous people...)so they take Xiao Huan to test something out. Xue Qi is incensed that they are doing as the ghost sect suggested and intervenes (her jealous fits are no longer cute) Luckily, everyone learns that they have in fact all been poisoned from a long time ago, so it actually works out

8.so now their goal is to control this poison bug left behind by the poison god (recall he left in defeat, abandoning his subordinates and people) the city guard calls them out in front of everyone, blaming both their arrival and the ghost sect for the epidemic. but shu shu points out that this illness was here before they arrived. still, the evil sect people make a show of leaving, maybe to save face? I don't know

9.The episode ends with the city guard holding grandpa hostage, telling them that if they leave the city, everything will be fine...

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