Hi everyone! It's Yutu again! I’m continuing reading Yuwu and wanted to share some thoughts (and confusion 😭) about the plot so far… (please no spoilers ^^)
So I’m trying to understand this whole Zhenlong Formation/forbidden technique with the weiqi pieces, and honestly… I’m still confused. From what I got, white pieces are one of the three great forbidden techniques (what the other two are - no idea).
Basically, black and white weiqi pieces can be infused with spiritual energy and used to control literally any living being - humans, animals, demons, immortals. As long as a piece is inside them, they become puppets and follow commands. BUT the catch is that you need an insanely high cultivation level to even create one piece, since it costs a huge amount of spiritual energy. Which makes me question… since when is Lu Zhanxing that powerful? Because I genuinely don’t remember that being emphasized at all.
So the way I see it, someone (probably that masked guy from earlier books) implanted a white piece into Lu Zhanxing and has been controlling him this whole time. But then I don’t understand something else - why does the Liao kingdom even need to execute him? If he’s already a puppet and possibly not even fully aware of himself anymore, wouldn’t it make more sense to just keep using him? Erase his memory, control him quietly, whatever. So why kill him at all? At this point I kind of take back everything I said about him, because if you really think about it… he never had a chance from the beginning. And honestly, I agree with the emperor here - no matter how harsh it sounds, Lu Zhanxing is probably doomed. He just knows too much.
The part that actually broke me was when Mo Xi goes to the emperor to talk about Lu Zhanxing, and it turns out that he was framed, and Gu Mang is sent to the Liao kingdom as a spy - which is basically the same as sending him to his death. I was NOT okay after that conversation at all. Like… just imagine being Gu Mang in that moment. You can’t save your friend, and you don’t even have a choice - the emperor’s command is absolute. And then later we know that something happens after his desertion, because he ends up becoming a demon general and Mo Xi was trying to talk to him back on the ship… and that made me think - what if Gu Mang was also controlled? After leaving Chunhua, he was at his most emotionally destroyed, and that would have been the perfect moment to manipulate him. Which makes the ship scene hit completely differently - was that really the Gu Mang Mo Xi knew, or was he already under the influence of that technique?
And then there’s the emperor… the thing that annoyed me the most was when he said something like “what would happen if I reformed the political system?”… Are you serious? What did you expect? That changing an entire system would lead to peace and everyone being happy? Of course there will be resistance, backlash, maybe even rebellion. But there will also be people who support you, because you’re one of the few rulers who actually acknowledged that something is wrong. Yes, reforms mean risk, sacrifice, instability, but without that, nothing changes. You’re the emperor, you have the power, and systems are supposed to evolve, not stay corrupt forever. I understand his fears of rebellion, overthrow, losing power, but then the question is: if not him, the emperor, then who? The Yiling Patriarch (Wei Wuxian) couldn’t change things in his time… but here you are, with the authority to actually do something.
What do you guys think? Btw this whole story is about chapters 116-120.