Recaps

Wang Chong broke through during his duel with Qian Luoyi and won their exchange with the Candle-Bearing Sword Technique, though Qian Luoyi concealed his own injury and withdrew. Su Luoyan and Chu Qiuzi then offered to help Wang Chong recover, while Qian Luoyi left confident he could defeat him next time.

• Wang Chong broke through in the middle of his fight with Qian Luoyi and struck with the Candle-Bearing Sword Technique.
• Qian Luoyi retreated after their exchange, recognized Wang Chong’s sword art, and agreed to end the duel without resolving their misunderstandings about White Chrysanthemum’s death.
• Huo Qingge and her junior sister left with Qian Luoyi after he signaled them to withdraw instead of challenging Su Luoyan.
• After riding away, Qian Luoyi spat blood and told Huo Qingge and Xiao Yiguli that Wang Chong had genuinely broken through, but lacked experience and killing intent.
• Su Luoyan offered to treat Wang Chong to mutton and invited him to recuperate with her, while Chu Qiuzi proposed giving him Qingcheng’s Five Dragons Pill.

After defeating Qian Luoyi, Wang Chong discovered that his cultivation had advanced to pure yang and mastered a new level of swordsmanship. Su Luoyan recognized his cultivation method and gave him a sword, while Wang Chong wondered about his mysterious origins.

• Wang Chong learned that the charming maid who had lent him a sword was named Yuzao.
• During the journey back, Wang Chong sensed his internal power shedding yin impurities and remembered that he practiced the Innate Pure Yang Formula.
• Wang Chong secluded himself for fourteen to sixteen hours, then demonstrated that his sword strokes could ignite and destroy a dry twig.
• Su Luoyan congratulated Wang Chong and explained that the next stage of his cultivation was the Pure Yang Sword-Refining Formula.
• Wang Chong questioned how he had learned Wudang's secret cultivation art, while Su Luoyan and Chu Qiuzi each admired him and privately considered their own plans.
• Su Luoyan presented Wang Chong with a newly commissioned sword, which he accepted and opened.

Wang Chong prepared to leave for Chang'an with Yuzao as his maid and Wang Dong as his page, while Chu Qiuzi helped arrange his new companions. He left the inn with a house deed from Qin Han and a growing household, though Yuzao’s motives remained hidden from him.

• Yuzao replaced Liuxian as Wang Chong’s maid after secretly encouraging Liuxian to beg Su Luoyan to stay, and Su Luoyan approved the exchange.
• Wang Chong gave Yuzao the longsword and accepted her offer to sew him new clothes for the journey.
• Chu Qiuzi introduced Wang Chong to Wang Dong, a poor young Qingcheng lay disciple who became his page.
• Wang Chong went to say goodbye to Qin Han, who planned to recover in Pengshan County and gave him the deeds to a furnished house in Chang'an.

Wang Chong left Pengshan County with gifts and his new attendants, Wang Dong and Yuzao, then Li Qingge caught up with him to question him about the White Chrysanthemum case. She asked whether he had killed Sun Yanqi and requested that he demonstrate his swordsmanship, leaving Wang Chong facing a potentially revealing test.

• Wang Chong accepted gifts from the Chrysanthemum-Slaying Alliance and departed Pengshan County with a carriage, horses, money, and goods.
• Yuzao rode in the carriage and privately imagined the possibilities of serving Wang Chong, while Wang Chong asked Wang Dong about his Qingcheng Sect martial arts.
• Li Qingge caught up to Wang Chong on horseback and announced that she had come to investigate the White Chrysanthemum case.
• Wang Chong denied killing Sun Yanqi and admitted that he had learned some swordsmanship in Wudang.
• Li Qingge asked Wang Chong to demonstrate a few sword moves, and Yuzao offered him the sword Su Luoyan had given him.

Wang Chong joined Li Qingge’s investigation of White Chrysanthemum and learned from the case files that the rapist’s first recorded victim was Mo Yuncong. The details of that killing resembled Wang Chong’s own swordsmanship, leaving him worried that he might somehow be connected to the crimes.

• Wang Chong displayed Wudang swordsmanship, convincing Li Qingge that he was not White Chrysanthemum, and agreed to help investigate the rapist.
• Li Qingge led Wang Chong to a Daoist temple she had established for girls rescued from trafficking and gave him White Chrysanthemum’s case files.
• Wang Chong found that White Chrysanthemum’s first recorded crime was killing Mo Yuncong with Wudang swordsmanship after abducting Xiangxiang.
• Wang Chong noticed that the killing technique resembled his own Candle-Bearing Sword Technique and wondered whether he could be White Chrysanthemum.
• Wang Chong reviewed the remaining cases and asked Li Qingge about three incidents in which survivors had escaped White Chrysanthemum.

Li Qingge explained the suspected origins and martial arts of White Chrysanthemum, and Wang Chong proposed that several people might be using the same criminal identity. After refusing an official post, Wang Chong agreed to investigate under the alias Ma You and returned to his companions, where he asked Yuzao about her martial arts training.

• Li Qingge described how a Shaolin laborer and a Wudang renegade founded the Green Mountain Sect and created ruthless martial arts, but said White Chrysanthemum's skills offered only a tentative link to it.
• Li Qingge explained that the Empress had killed Jade Taoist and was the only likely person to have learned the Ice Soul Finger from him.
• Wang Chong wondered whether White Chrysanthemum could be multiple people, and Li Qingge agreed that the possibility deserved consideration while maintaining that Sun Yanqi remained suspicious.
• Li Qingge offered Wang Chong an eighth-rank position in the Ministry of Justice, but Wang Chong declined because his family wanted him to pursue scholarly distinction.
• Li Qingge gave Wang Chong a crude human-skin mask and the identity of Ma You, head constable of Pine City, so he could assist the investigation in disguise.
• Wang Chong returned to Yuzao and Wang Dong, then asked Yuzao what martial arts she had learned in the Su Family.

Wang Chong assessed Yuzao and Wang Dong’s martial arts, then prepared to help Li Qingge investigate White Chrysanthemum’s latest crime. The chapter ended as Wang Chong, Li Qingge, and Yuzao rode to meet the abducted Li Miaomiao.

• Wang Chong watched Yuzao demonstrate the Thirteen Heavenly Fox Melodies of a Thousand Tricks and a Hundred Illusions, then corrected flaws in her saber technique.
• Wang Chong judged Wang Dong’s martial arts foundations solid and sent him to watch the luggage while he gave Yuzao an assignment.
• Wang Chong cultivated the Innate Pure Yang Formula and considered the risks of his chosen path to harmonizing yin and yang.
• Li Qingge arrived and told Wang Chong that White Chrysanthemum had committed another crime, so they set out with Yuzao to see the victim, Li Miaomiao.

Wang Chong visited Golden Light Temple and met Master Kong Chan, who spoke mysteriously about White Chrysanthemum and warned him about lust. After Wang Chong recited Buddhist scriptures from memory, Kong Chan reacted with startling intensity, leaving Wang Chong afraid he had exposed himself as a demon.

• Li Qingge told Wang Chong that Lu Moniang had rescued Li Miaomiao, while Lu Moniang's junior brother had driven White Chrysanthemum away after exchanging twenty-eight moves with him.
• Wang Chong accompanied Li Qingge to Yanyun Mountain, then took Yuzao into Golden Light Temple while Li Qingge went to question Li Miaomiao at Ruyi Nunnery.
• Monk Xuangang summoned Wang Chong and Yuzao to meet his master, Master Kong Chan, who greeted Wang Chong as though they had met before.
• Kong Chan said Sun Yanqi had not been White Chrysanthemum, declined to identify White Chrysanthemum, and warned Wang Chong about lust before reciting a Buddhist sutra for him.
• Wang Chong memorized Kong Chan's sutra and recited the Heart Sutra, prompting Kong Chan to form a mudra as Wang Chong feared he had revealed himself as a demon.

Monk Kong Chan forced Wang Chong to become his disciple and gave him the Dharma name Xuande, insisting that Buddhist scriptures would suppress the demonic Qi he sensed in him. Wang Chong left Golden Light Temple and met Li Qingge and Li Miaomiao, whose terror of him deepened his suspicion that his unknown identity was tied to White Chrysanthemum.

• Kong Chan threatened to subdue Wang Chong unless he became his disciple, while Xuangang sealed Yuzao's acupoints to stop her intervening.
• Wang Chong bowed to Kong Chan and accepted discipleship; Kong Chan named him Xuande and allowed him to keep his hair and remain in the secular world.
• Kong Chan taught Wang Chong a Buddhist sutra and instructed him to recite it morning and night before Xuangang escorted him from Golden Light Temple.
• Wang Chong met Li Qingge and Li Miaomiao outside Ruyi Nunnery, where Li Miaomiao reacted to him with terror despite claiming they had never met.
• Li Qingge took Li Miaomiao along with them and grew more suspicious of Wang Chong as the nun refused to explain her fear.

Wang Chong returned to Li Qingge’s temple, then used a day of seclusion to master the first level of the Nine-Headed Dragon King Aspect, which gave him powerful control and perception over his True Qi. After accidentally wrecking his lodgings, he moved to another courtyard and prepared to impersonate Ma You, while Li Qingge caught him with Yuzao after her bath.

• Wang Chong asked Li Qingge to delay their departure for a day so he could calm himself and prepare for the possibility that he was exposed as White Chrysanthemum.
• Wang Chong studied the Fundamental Sutra for Cultivating the Divine Transformations of the Thirty-Two Aspects and awakened the Nine-Headed Dragon King Aspect through the Sutra of Mahasthamaprapta Buddha Enlightening the Sea Dragon King.
• Wang Chong’s newly awakened True Qi surged out of control as he punched apart the beams, bricks, doors, windows, and furnishings of his lodgings.
• Li Qingge told Wang Chong that the ruined house counted as a favor owed, and a young Daoist nun led him, Yuzao, and Wang Dong to another courtyard.
• Yuzao explained that Li Qingge had provided Wang Chong with black robes and a saber to help him impersonate Ma You, the head constable of Pine City.
• After Wang Dong returned to the temple and Yuzao finished bathing, Li Qingge praised Wang Chong for behaving like a gentleman and embarrassed Yuzao.

Wang Chong and Li Qingge reviewed the White Chrysanthemum case before setting out to question Lu Moniang and Su Luoyan. As the group departed, Sun Mingke displayed his improved swordsmanship, and Su Luoyan wondered whether White Chrysanthemum had really killed her younger brother.

• Li Qingge told Wang Chong that Lu Moniang and Su Luoyan had agreed to meet them with Li Miaomiao the next morning, and Wang Chong asked whether the Qingcheng women were still in Pengshan County.
• Wang Chong concealed his mastery of the Nine-Headed Dragon King Aspect and told Li Qingge that he had gained insight into the Pure Yang Formula.
• Wang Chong and Li Qingge examined his case table, and Li Qingge concluded that White Chrysanthemum’s Ice Soul Finger killings and the cases involving women might conceal other circumstances.
• After meditating, Wang Chong felt his strength increase and set off with Li Qingge and Yuzao to visit Lu Moniang and Su Luoyan.
• Sun Mingke demonstrated improved swordsmanship while Su Luoyan asked Lu Moniang whether she was certain that White Chrysanthemum had killed her younger brother.

Li Qingge concluded that the lecher called White Chrysanthemum was likely several criminals, including a Western Regions martial artist who used the Vajra Prajna Palm. Wang Chong and Sun Mingke fought briefly before clearing up their misunderstanding, and the group left Li Miaomiao’s strange reaction to Wang Chong for later investigation.

• Lu Moniang and Sun Mingke said the attacker they encountered used the Great Strength Vajra Palm but not the Ice Soul Finger, leaving his identity uncertain.
• Li Qingge arrived with Wang Chong and Yuzao and identified the attacker’s palm technique as a possible Western Regions lineage art of the Green Mountain Sect.
• Sun Mingke mistook Wang Chong’s wary stare for hostility, and the two fought until Su Luoyan’s remarks helped them realize it was a misunderstanding.
• Li Qingge explained that the attacker’s sword technique might also come from the Green Mountain Sect, and Wang Chong argued that multiple criminals could be using the name White Chrysanthemum.
• Li Qingge concluded there might be three or four White Chrysanthemums and decided to focus on closing the case, while postponing the question of why Li Miaomiao had acted strangely around Wang Chong.

At a feast, Wang Chong joined Li Qingge, Su Luoyan, and Lu Moniang in investigating White Chrysanthemum, but he grew alarmed when he learned Tie Mingzhu could identify the culprit. While searching for her that night, he and Sun Mingke instead encountered a man carrying a writhing sack—and both recognized him as White Chrysanthemum.

• Wang Chong entertained Su Luoyan, Li Qingge, Lu Moniang, and Sun Mingke at a feast, while Yuzao reunited with Jiangzhuer and the other maids.
• Li Qingge asked Su Luoyan and Lu Moniang to help investigate the case, and they agreed; Wang Chong joked that he was already involved.
• Lu Moniang and Li Qingge named several victims who could identify White Chrysanthemum, including Tie Mingzhu, and Wang Chong resolved to find Tie Mingzhu in secret.
• Wang Chong went out at night to search for the victims' lodgings, but Sun Mingke joined him and they patrolled Pengshan County together.
• Wang Chong and Sun Mingke spotted a man carrying a writhing sack; Wang Chong recognized him, and Sun Mingke realized he was the White Chrysanthemum he had stabbed.

Wang Chong and Sun Mingke rescued Nan Xinlan from Zhou Shaliang, disguising themselves as members of the Chrysanthemum-Slaying Alliance to avoid revealing their identities. After Sun Mingke killed Zhou, they returned toward Pengshan County with Nan Xinlan, while the pursuit continued behind them.

• Wang Chong and Sun Mingke covered their faces, adopted the names Pink Chrysanthemum and Black Chrysanthemum, and confronted Zhou Shaliang outside Pengshan County.
• Wang Chong and Sun Mingke fought Zhou, rescued the woman he had abducted, and fled as Qin Han and Fang Jingru raised the alarm.
• Wang Chong brought the captured Zhou to a cave, where Zhou admitted his plans for Nan Xinlan and offered Wang money to keep quiet.
• Sun Mingke realized Wang had drawn out Zhou’s confession and killed Zhou with a single sword thrust.
• Wang Chong and Sun Mingke set out to return Nan Xinlan to Pengshan County, with Sun Mingke carrying her.

Wang Chong concealed his involvement in Nan Xinlan’s ordeal while the Chrysanthemum-Slaying Alliance blamed White Chrysanthemum for Zhou Shaliang’s death. He introduced Sun Mingke to the alliance and avoided visiting Nan Xinlan, while Tie Mingzhu realized White Chrysanthemum knew their location.

• Wang Chong and Sun Mingke found the women’s residence crowded with alliance members, so Wang Chong advised Nan Xinlan to blame White Chrysanthemum and left with Sun Mingke.
• Wang Chong and Sun Mingke changed into clean clothes to hide evidence of their outing, and Yuzao burned Wang Chong’s discarded garments.
• The alliance reported that White Chrysanthemum had abducted Nan Xinlan and killed Zhou Shaliang, prompting Wang Chong to joke that there must be seven or eight White Chrysanthemums.
• Wang Chong introduced Sun Mingke to the alliance, and Qin Han made him its sixty-third brother despite Fang Jingru’s reminder that Zhou Shaliang was dead.
• Wang Chong declined to visit Nan Xinlan and asked Li Qingge to let him practice swordsmanship with Sun Mingke in the rear courtyard.
• Tie Mingzhu warned that White Chrysanthemum already knew where they were staying.

Wang Chong and Sun Mingke trained together before joining the Chrysanthemum-Slaying Alliance to hunt another White Chrysanthemum. Wang Chong arranged for Qin Han and the others to join the pursuit, while Sun Mingke learned that Wang Chong had sold the previous White Chrysanthemum’s capture for five thousand strings of cash and a house in Chang’an.

• Wang Chong and Sun Mingke sparred with swords and bare hands, each recognizing the other’s growing skill.
• Wang Chong told Sun Mingke that the alliance had located another White Chrysanthemum, who wielded the Vajra Prajna Palm, and challenged him to see who could kill the man.
• Wang Chong and Sun Mingke visited Qin Han, who had been discouraged from pursuing the credit after killing Sun Yanqi.
• Wang Chong persuaded Qin Han to guide them to the target without competing against the alliance’s members, and the group set out together.
• Sun Mingke asked how much Wang Chong had received for the previous White Chrysanthemum, and Wang Chong said he had received five thousand strings of cash and a house in Chang’an.
• Wang Chong indicated that Lu Zongfeng’s family connection to Lu Moniang had helped him secure the deal.

Wang Chong and his companions tracked White Chrysanthemum to a hill where he was surrounded, then joined the fight. Wang Chong pinned down the Western Regions giant, allowing Lu Zongfeng to kill him and claim the credit.

• A Qinghe Gang messenger reported that White Chrysanthemum had killed a constable and injured two others, and Qin Han offered to make the gang return the Flying Tiger Escort Agency's stolen goods.
• The Qinghe Gang sent Wang Chong and his companions gifts after Wang Chong described his dealings with the Flying Tiger Escort Agency.
• Wang Chong's party learned that White Chrysanthemum was trapped on a hill and hurried there, where more than a hundred constables and several Chrysanthemum-Slaying Alliance members had gathered.
• Wang Chong climbed the hill and fought the giant, who called himself Tie Mole, while Sun Mingke, Lu Zongfeng, and the others followed.
• Wang Chong trapped Tie Mole in a contest of internal power, and Lu Zongfeng stabbed him through the heart; Wang Chong then used the Pure Yang Formula to prevent a final counterattack.

Wang Chong and the Chrysanthemum-Slaying Alliance found a letter ordering the grassland tribes to capture the Empress's son, who was traveling near Tongzhou. After Qin Han took the letter away to report it secretly, Wang Chong learned that the Empress's son’s safety was complicated by the power of her birth Lineage.

• Wang Chong urged Sun Mingke to search the dead Western Regions man and found an Eagle Letter bearing the seals of the Eighteen Tribes of the Grasslands.
• Qin Han read the letter, learned that Khan He Xuan had called on the tribes to capture the Empress's son, and decided to report the matter directly to the imperial court.
• Wang Chong reflected on his fight with the giant and realized that his internal power and martial techniques had let him withstand the man's strength.
• After returning to Pengshan County, Wang Chong told Su Luoyan, Lu Moniang, and Li Qingge what had happened, and Qin Han disappeared with the letter.
• Li Qingge warned that the matter would cause enormous trouble, and Su Luoyan explained that the realm's power rested with the Empress's birth Lineage rather than her husband's family.

Wang Chong and his companions discussed the danger surrounding the Empress's hidden son before Lu Zongfeng brought them a handwritten Vajra Prajna Palm manual recovered from Tie Mole. Wang Chong and Sun Mingke memorized the manual, while Lu Zongfeng left pleased with the chance to strengthen their friendship.

• Li Qingge hurried off to report the possible appearance of the Empress's hidden son, while Wang Chong privately wondered about his own origins.
• Su Luoyan identified Tie Mole as a senior disciple of the Green Mountain Sect and warned Wang Chong and Sun Mingke against provoking the sect.
• Lu Zongfeng visited Wang Chong and Sun Mingke, showing them Tie Mole's leg wraps, which held a Vajra Prajna Palm manual and a message to his son Zhu'er.
• Lu Zongfeng let Wang Chong and Sun Mingke copy the manual in exchange for keeping it secret, hoping to build a closer connection with them.
• Wang Chong offered the manual to Sun Mingke, who had already memorized it, and tested his memory by reciting lines for him to continue.

Wang Chong experimented with combining the Vajra Prajna Palm and the Nine-Headed Dragon King Aspect, producing fierce, fire-generating palm strikes unlike the original Buddhist art. Near dawn, he encountered Nan Xinlan and Tie Mingzhu and began considering how to deal with Tie Mingzhu.

• Wang Chong tested the Vajra Prajna Palm in a mountain forest, where his strikes shattered trees and ignited one from within.
• Wang Chong discovered that full-strength strikes produced a single powerful blow, while slower strikes unleashed nine scorching layers of palm force.
• Wang Chong spent the night practicing until he could use the altered palm technique with ease, leaving twenty-eight trees broken.
• Wang Chong met Nan Xinlan and Tie Mingzhu on horseback as he prepared to return to Pengshan County.
• Nan Xinlan thanked Wang Chong for helping her previously, while Tie Mingzhu pretended not to recognize him.
• Wang Chong suspected Tie Mingzhu might expose him and considered killing her and blaming the White Chrysanthemum.

Nan Xinlan decided to conceal her identity and become Wang Chong’s sword-bearing maid after he discouraged her from giving up on life. Meanwhile, Monk Kong Chan secretly sent Monk Xuangang to accompany Wang Chong and taught him the Withered Meditation Method, leaving Wang Chong unaware that Nan Xinlan planned to join him.

• Nan Xinlan told Wang Chong and Tie Mingzhu that she had wanted to become a nun because she felt she could no longer live with her ruined reputation, and Wang Chong urged her to see her suffering as a passing setback.
• Wang Chong left the women, doubled back in secret, and followed them from a distance.
• Monk Kong Chan praised Wang Chong’s concern for Nan Xinlan and ordered Monk Xuangang to follow and serve him without revealing their connection.
• Monk Kong Chan promised to teach Monk Xuangang the Withered Meditation Method, and Xuangang quickly crossed its first threshold by extinguishing his distracting thoughts.
• Nan Xinlan told Tie Mingzhu that she planned to hide her name and become Wang Chong’s sword-bearing maid, shocking Tie Mingzhu as Wang Chong listened nearby.

Wang Chong reunited with Tie Mingzhu, then learned that Monk Kong Chan had assigned the formidable Monk Xuangang to accompany him. He returned to Pengshan County with Xuangang and Tie Mingzhu, where Yuzao reported that another woman wanted to join them.

• Nan Xinlan sealed Tie Mingzhu's acupoints and fled before Tie Mingzhu could stop her.
• Wang Chong confronted Tie Mingzhu, but Monk Kong Chan and Monk Xuangang arrived before he could question her further.
• Kong Chan praised Wang Chong, assigned Xuangang to accompany him, and departed for Shaolin.
• Wang Chong tried to give Xuangang back his original name, but Xuangang insisted on remaining a monk.
• Wang Chong brought Xuangang and Tie Mingzhu to his lodgings in Pengshan County, where Yuzao said another woman wanted to join him.
• Wang Chong mischievously introduced Tie Mingzhu and Xuangang to Yuzao as his Fourteenth and Fifteenth Ladies.

Tie Mingzhu and Nan Xinlan sought refuge as Wang Chong’s maids, while Monk Xuangang struggled with the personality effects of Withered Meditation. Wang Chong traded him the Vajra Prajna Palm for the meditation method, then told Yuzao who the two newcomers were and asked her to teach them to act like maids.

• Tie Mingzhu reunited with Nan Xinlan and wept after arriving at Wang Chong’s quarters as a maid.
• Wang Chong brought Monk Xuangang to visit Su Luoyan, where Xuangang explained that Kong Chan had taught him Withered Meditation.
• Monk Xuangang told Wang Chong that the meditation method had left him strangely calm and asked for help understanding it.
• Wang Chong offered the Vajra Prajna Palm in exchange for Withered Meditation, and Monk Xuangang eagerly accepted before going to practice.
• Yuzao realized the two new maids were pampered young ladies, and Wang Chong identified Tie Mingzhu and Nan Xinlan and told Yuzao to teach them their duties.

Wang Chong was appointed chief of the Ministry of Justice's Tongzhou Bureau and tasked with investigating the White Chrysanthemum case after Li Qingge exposed corruption among local officials. The appointment left Wang Chong responsible for the remaining cases, while Li Qingge departed to protect the Prince of Yan.

• Wang Chong copied the Withered Meditation Method and the Vajra Prajna Palm's inner cultivation method into martial manuals for his descendants, then entrusted the books to Yuzao.
• Li Qingge reported that he had solved nine White Chrysanthemum incidents and left fourteen unresolved before being summoned to protect the Prince of Yan.
• Li Qingge told Wang Chong that the Prince of Yan had appointed him a sixth-rank bureau chief and chief constable, placing him in charge of the White Chrysanthemum case.
• Wang Chong learned that his predecessor and the former chief constable had been imprisoned for jointly committing four of the crimes, whose victims included the courtesan Xiangxiang.
• Li Qingge explained that Ma You's complaints about extortion had revealed evidence against the two officials, helping him break open the case.

Wang Chong learned that the Prince of Yan faced a grassland plot and watched his companions leave to join the prince or avoid his faction. At the garden estate, Tie Mingzhu explained that she had mistaken Wang Chong for White Chrysanthemum because she thought anyone who used a fan was a lecher.

• Li Qingge told Wang Chong that twelve grassland chieftains had signed a plot to abduct the Prince of Yan, prompting the prince to summon the Chrysanthemum-Slaying Alliance for protection.
• Su Luoyan and Lu Moniang left the garden estate because they feared the Prince of Yan would summon and molest them.
• Li Qingge brought Wang Dong to the estate, and alliance members later departed to join the prince while some warned Wang Chong to keep his distance from him.
• Wang Chong stayed behind rather than visit the Prince of Yan, then went looking for Monk Xuangang and found him in seclusion.
• Wang Chong found Tie Mingzhu practicing swordplay and asked her about their earlier encounter.
• Tie Mingzhu admitted that she had attacked Wang Chong because she mistook him for White Chrysanthemum, believing that anyone who used a fan must be a lecher.