The oracle carries the wounded man back to the sect for treatment. He tells the young man that he will ask the man to repay him some day. The young man says that he cannot meet the man like this. The oracle tells the boy that he has grown taller and that he must change his clothes. The boy says that his mother has grown too tall and that the oracle will take her to wash and dress her. The old man thanks the oracle and tells him that he thinks the old man was a coward because he did not dare to resist the empress. He says that now that he realizes that the man has used his weaknesses to control people, he will be able to help the old master. He also says that the prison raid in which the prisoners were killed was carried out by the ye yun, and that his son was one of the prisoners who died