This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between a young man and a woman. The young man tells the woman that he brought the young master back to the camp because he feared that if he was with ying, he would be controlled by yue instead. The woman tells him that the people from the stone bull camp are fighting against each other, so it will be difficult to find yue. She also tells the young man that he should search for the spy who is with the li family, because he sounds familiar. He tells the men to go check out the spy, and when they find him, they tell him that they are all on the side of ying. He is shocked to learn that ying has given her heart to him, and he dares to use her. He asks the woman to take him to ying to clear this up, and she tells him to stop lying. She says that everyone in the camp has sworn to avenge her, and that the elders who were poisoned are resting at the council hall, where they are being held as prisoners. She tells them that hengshan is using them as hostages, and threatens them to surrender their weapons if they don't give him back the elders. He says that he can't use hengli to exchange the elders for all of the prisoners, since none of them are able to decide what to do, so they have retreated here. He also says that dabao is leading some men to look for the remaining li family members, and after that, they will have more men to exchange with him.