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As we reach the final chapters of The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wanji get their final scenes together. A SPICY FINAL SCENE. This episode is inappropriate for young audiences. Our favorite couple finally get to embrace each other with an audience of a donkey. This episode marks the beginning of the end. JennyBelly and Stella Chuu have decided to finish the podcast after the next 2 episodes. Though this project has been the highlight of the last 3 years, our l...

Jin Guangyao tries to lead Lan Xichen towards Nie Mingjue so that they can all die together, but at the last minute saves Lan Xichen and pushes him out of the way before he’s killed. Jiang Cheng gives Wei Wuxian Chengqing, which he uses with Lan Wangji’s guqin to re-seal Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao into the coffin. Wei Wuxian suspects Nie Huaisang of planning the whole thing, even down to convincing MXY to summon Wei Wuxian back to life as revenge. Fairy returns to the temple with Jiang and ...

After Jin Guangyao is cornered and injured, Lan Xichen interrogates him to figure out the truth. He admits that he knowingly married his sister and killed his father, because he had no choice. His father was a despicable man who used him as a tool and left his mother to rot in a brothel. Jin Guangyao uses a momentary distraction to hold Jin Ling hostage, but Lan Wangji saves him by cutting off Jin Guangyao’s hand. At that moment, Nie Mingjue’s corpse and Wen Ning appear, crashing into the tem...

Su She enters the temple with an unconscious Nie Huaisang. Jiang Cheng bursts in to the rescue, but Jin Guangyao sees that Wei Wuxian is his weakness and pretends to attack him to catch Jiang Cheng off guard. Jiang Cheng is angry with himself for falling for the trick and also at Wei Wuxian for hiding the truth of the golden core. Years of built up anger, resentment, and guilt finally erupt. Wei Wuxian wants to leave it all in the past, because he can no longer pretend to be carefree and unaf...

Wei Wuxian and WenNing investigate guanyin temple, and discover that Lan Xichen is there, held hostage by Jin Guangyao and an army of jin disciples. Wei Wuxian orders WN to fetch Lan Wangji, who has been left behind at the inn. Just then, Jin Ling and his dog appear. Wei Wuxian leaves his hiding spot to save Jin Ling, and ends up captured by Jin Guangyao. Jin Ling also ends up captured. Lan Xichen is surprised that Lan Wangji is not with Wei Wuxian, and reveals that Lan Wangji has been in lov...

BACK FROM OUR 1 MONTH HIATUS Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian go to Yunping City, following a lead that they found in Jin Guangyao’s secret room. They discover a popular temple in the middle of the city, but upon further inspection, they see that Jin Guangyao has set up an array to keep something sealed inside. Deciding that they need to rest first, they book a room at an inn. Wei Wuxian orders wine, and when Lan Wangji gets drunk, they go out into the night stealing chickens and graffiting the wall...

When the cave is ambushed by fierce corpses, Wei Wuxian turns himself into living bait to save the others. After they are saved, they all decide to go to the nearby Lotus Pier until their spiritual energy returns. As they travel by boat, the juniors discover that Wen Ning has secretly tagged along, because he recognizes LSZ and wants to speak to him. JL is bitter that people are on Wen Ning’s side, since he is responsible for his father’s death. When they finally arrive at lotus pier, Jiang C...

When the cave is ambushed by fierce corpses, Wei Wuxian turns himself into living bait to save the others. After they are saved, they all decide to go to the nearby Lotus Pier until their spiritual energy returns. As they travel by boat, the juniors discover that Wen Ning has secretly tagged along, because he recognizes LSZ and wants to speak to him. JL is bitter that people are on Wen Ning’s side, since he is responsible for his father’s death. When they finally arrive at lotus pier, Jiang C...

A thousand cultivators are at the burial mounds to confront Wei Wuxian. They don't listen when he swears that he isn't responsible for the junior’s kidnappings and the fierce corpses gathered on the mountain. Suddenly, the cultivators lose all the spiritual energy, right as the horde of corpses attack. Wei Wuxian tells them that they should seek shelter in his cave, but Su She argues that it’s a trap. Nie Huaisang and the juniors convince everyone to go inside, and Lan Qiren fixes an ol...

Wen Qing and Wen Ning offer to turn themselves in and take responsibility for the deaths at qiongqi path. Wei Wuxian protests, but Wen Qing uses a needle to immobilize his body for the next three days. When Wei Wuxian can move again he goes to the jin sect to find their bodies, but instead he finds out that Wen Ning went berserk and killed 30 lan disciples before being put down and burned. As a result, the major clans plan to meet at nightless city for a pledge ceremony, where they vow to kil...

Lan Wangji leaves the burial mounds, and realizes that this is goodbye. When Wei Wuxian returns to the wens, he is surprised that they threw together a small banquet celebration for him. He thinks that the path into darkness isn't that dark after all. A few days later, Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli secretly visit him on Jiang Yanli’s wedding day so that she can show him her bridal robes, since Wei Wuxian is not invited to the wedding. She also asks him to name her future unborn child. Much late...

Jiang Cheng visits Wei Wuxian in the burial mounds and urges Wei Wuxian to abandon the Wens to save himself. Wei Wuxian refuses and offers to cut ties with the Jiang sect publicly so that Jiang Cheng will no longer get grief from the other sects. After many months pass, Wei Wuxian takes Wen Yuan into town for some errands, when they run into Lan Wangji. Wen Yuan is enamored by Lan Wangji who buys him toys and food. During their dinner, Wei Wuxian is alerted of trouble in the burial mounds and...

During a banquet, WWX enters uninvited and demands to speak to Jin Zixun about the location of Wen Ning, and insults JGS by comparing the Jin clan to the Wen Clan. After being threatened by Chenqing, Jin Zixun reveals that Wen Ning is in a labor camp on Qiongqi path, but by the time WWX and WQ arrive, it is too late and Wen Ning is dead. WWX summons him back as a corpse and orders him to take revenge on the overseers who killed him. He also frees the other Wen cultivators and takes them to th...

The Jin clan is angry that WWX used demonic cultivation during the night hunt competition. But JYL defends him, pointing out that her brother didn't break any rules. Two months later, LWJ visits Yunmeng, and WWX invites him for a drink. However, they end up arguing when LWJ sees WWX associating with ghosts. WWX goes back home to complain to JC, and JYL indulges his childishness. WWX remembers the day he first came to Lotus Pier, when JC was forced to get rid of all his dogs due to WWX’s phobi...

Wei Wuxian frees all the juniors from the cave, but when they leave they are confronted by a mob of angry cultivators. They corner Wei Wuxian and demand justice for his evil deeds. Flashing back to the past, all the cultivators have gathered together for a Siege Hunt competition. When Jin Zixuan shows off his archery skills, Wei Wuxian one-ups him by doing his archery blindfolded. He even enters the competition blindfolded, until a stranger takes advantage and steals his first kiss. While loo...

Wen Ning hides Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng in Yiling. Wen Qing discovers them and tells them that they have to leave, or else she and Wen Ning will get punished. When Jiang Cheng wakes up, he reveals that Wen Zhuliu has destroyed his golden core, and he becomes hysterical and suicidal. Wen Qing is forced to use a silver needle to keep him unconscious. Three days later, Wei Wuxian leaves with Jiang Cheng and wakes him up, promising to take him to Baoshan Sanren to heal his golden core. Jiang Ch...

In the past, Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji are reunited with Wei Wuxian. However, Lan Wangji is horrified that Wei Wuxian is using unorthodox methods and asks him to return to gusu with him. But Wei Wuxian assumes that Lan Wangji is trying to arrest him and refuses. Jiang Cheng also adds that Lan Wangji has no business meddling in their family affairs. Lan Wangji has no choice but to back down and leave. Back in the present, Wei Wuxian finds himself in Gusu for healing. Lan Xichen says that he t...

Jin Guangyao visits Lan Xichen and tells him that Wei Wuxian has been digging up graves to build an undead army. Lan Xichen knows that Wei Wuxian is not responsible, but decides to go back to the Jin Clan with Jin Guangyao to determine his innocence. Meanwhile, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji head to the burial mounds to investigate the situation. Along the way, Wei Wuxian endlessly teases Lan Wangji, and even daydreams about a future where they live together on a farm. Eventually, they run i...