Now that the death of the old woman is over, she is no longer a threat to the royalists. She has assisted the three generations of chieftains of the flower-rain tower for three generations. The old woman was a "top realm transcending master" , and she was wounded badly first by a master of the monarch sect. Now that she is dead, she will no longer be a threat. The naive girl asks why she is following her, and the young man tells her that he did it for the sake of winning the support of the sword mansion. The young man says that he has nothing against her, but it is something between the two of them. He tells her to stay away from him, but she says that she would not have believed it if he had not called her a coward. She tells him that he is not his wife, and that he should not tell her why he did what he did. He says that the king has divided the seven imperial families into three groups, the families who would obey the king, those who would not, and those who are the "weathercocks" . The spectral valley, the herb hall and the Qianlong pavilion have been divided into the three groups.