We get a hint at the Envoy's history, post-YOHE - a mission "back then", which must have been over 20 years ago, since after that Wu Tian'en was Boss Huang's butler.
The timeline in between Ye Olde Haixing and current events is incomprehensible to me. Isn’t Shen Wei in his 30s and would have been a child 20 years ago?
Zhu Hong says they've gone through their data and have found "86 types of water-based Dixing powers" - wow! These can't all be SID cases, surely? What kind of records is this information drawn from?
I understood this to mean data the SID already has themselves - so past cases? A bundled pack of data they got from Dixing at some point? An out-of date copy of the Dijun Book?
Also, this phone conversation is a delight.
Right? They are clearly having fun teasing each other <3
Wu Tian'en and Wu Xiaojun: It really struck me this time how much their relationship is a parallel to Shen Wei and Ye Zun!
Great observation! I think I never noticed that.
Shen Wei totally has a Zhao Yunlan-in-danger sense, appearing just when Zhao Yunlan has activated the Sundial! But more than that, he definitely has Hallows radar.
He better have at least five trackers on the hallows with how little Zhao Yunlan can be trusted not to touch them XD
When Shen Wei turns the palace guards into smoke, what does he actually do? Kill them? Stash them somewhere? Him being able to vanish people like that isn't something we see elsewhere, that I can recall, but IIRC we see him pull people into a portal with a similar visual effect, so I wonder if it's related. Is it easier to do in Dixing, with all the ambient black energy, so he doesn't need a portal?
I interpreted this as his usual teleportation ability with a different visual effect. As much as I love the idea of a pocket dimension timeout where he puts people to think about what they did, he might just have a regular place (dungeon cell?) reserved for the purpose.
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The timeline in between Ye Olde Haixing and current events is incomprehensible to me. Isn’t Shen Wei in his 30s and would have been a child 20 years ago?
Zhu Hong says they've gone through their data and have found "86 types of water-based Dixing powers" - wow! These can't all be SID cases, surely? What kind of records is this information drawn from?
I understood this to mean data the SID already has themselves - so past cases? A bundled pack of data they got from Dixing at some point? An out-of date copy of the Dijun Book?
Also, this phone conversation is a delight.
Right? They are clearly having fun teasing each other <3
Wu Tian'en and Wu Xiaojun: It really struck me this time how much their relationship is a parallel to Shen Wei and Ye Zun!
Great observation! I think I never noticed that.
Shen Wei totally has a Zhao Yunlan-in-danger sense, appearing just when Zhao Yunlan has activated the Sundial! But more than that, he definitely has Hallows radar.
He better have at least five trackers on the hallows with how little Zhao Yunlan can be trusted not to touch them XD
When Shen Wei turns the palace guards into smoke, what does he actually do? Kill them? Stash them somewhere? Him being able to vanish people like that isn't something we see elsewhere, that I can recall, but IIRC we see him pull people into a portal with a similar visual effect, so I wonder if it's related. Is it easier to do in Dixing, with all the ambient black energy, so he doesn't need a portal?
I interpreted this as his usual teleportation ability with a different visual effect.
As much as I love the idea of a pocket dimension timeout where he puts people to think about what they did, he might just have a regular place (dungeon cell?) reserved for the purpose.