Chapter 47 opens with a discussion of the attempted moism coup. It is revealed that the man who attempted the attack was not a member or leader of the moism sect, but a "third party" of the taoism sect. The narrator asks the man why he is up so late. The man tells him that he is the "dragon of moism" and that he wants to tell him something. He tells the narrator that what he does is completely different from what the other murim practitioners do. He wants to follow the "right path" for him, and he will support him as much as he can