This is phenomenal from start to finish. There isn't a second of "down-time".

We jump right into the blackwater arc and as we all know, the ships sink in black water demon lair

RIP BEEFLEAF.

THE COFFIN SCENE

and

Hualian rolling around on the floor fighting for spiritual power

are my tgcf Roman Empire.

At the very end we're left off with a delightful and heavily Princess Bride-esque conversation between Xie Lian and

Ling Wen while he proves she is the original creator of the Brocade immortal.

Sparky Sparky Boom Man showed up at the very end and reveals there is evil demon qi

on Xie Lian's lips (hehe)

and Xie Lian runs away

carrying a small bandaged child - we're back to our roots.

Xie Lian reporting the theft of the brocade immortal by Ling Wen to Ling Wen - peak comedy