In this chapter, the narrator explains that the painting's owner left the painting behind because he wanted someone to find the secret in it so that he would be able to retrieve it. He explains that if the painting had been sold by a high-ranking member of the divine order, the owner would have kept the painting by himself, but instead, he chose to put his intention into the painting, hoping that someone would discover the secret so that the owner could retrieve the painting. The narrator realizes that if he were to try to cleanse the owner's intention, the expert martial ancestor would recognize the painting as a counterfeit, and he would have to ask Gu Bei to take the painting to the outside world so that other realm experts could take it away from him. He also realizes that it would take a long time for the expert to recognize the real painting, as he would not know where it was. The only solution to the hidden intention problem is to use the inscription pattern to decipher the lock, but the expert would have a hard time doing so.