Is anyone else annoyed and confused why the emperor is apologizing? It's literally her fault anything happened, they have always know the Q sect is stronger then him so how was he supposed to be aggressive?!?!
And she was the one who told him to refuse to give up the soul gem and then he gets...
I'm so glad it was finally explained why they were so desperate to follow the routes. It was all so forced that sometimes it annoyed me, but now I feel it was all justified as all the other routes ARE actually pretty bad.