It's a bit dangerous for Cui xie to directly use his innate energy, so he asks if there's anything he can do to distract him. He's got a huge dragon hydra nearby, and he's willing to test its abilities. He says he'll do it for you. He also says he can draw out the power of the dragon scales if you want, and that's enough to keep him busy for a bit. He wonders how she's doing, and wonders if she'll be able to make it back to the city by now. He finally gets to the point: he can finally go back home, and the city he just escaped from is ahead of him. The whole city is on fire, and all the people who could have made it out have done so, so she doesn't have to go there and have fun with them. He tells her to come to his house, and she says it's okay. She's already in the spirit core realm, and her innate energy is unusually erratic, so it must be weak. He asks where the swords came from, and then he wonders why the entire city of clou hall has disappeared. Normally, he says, after he built the protection system, no one could destroy the city except for the xi clan. So why did the whole city disappear? He also wonders if he should tell us something about what's happened inside the city.