Back at the mountain, bai jinguran and rou wai continue on their way to the country. . He goes to the "cultivation practitioners' market" , which is a place for practitioners of the "cursed path" to sell their herbs to demonic practitioners looking for healing powers. He finds out that there are a lot of practitioners in the country, and that they are all looking for "strong medicine" . Since he's from the "Qing sword sect," . he can't stand by and watch. He decides to go to a tavern in the city and ask a waiter to book him a room on the top floor of the palace. He'll be able to see the palace from the highest floor, and he'll know that there's no suspicious activity going on. He also decides to check out the royal palace first, since he thinks that . the "demons" have tricked the royal family out of all of their money. He wonders why . she gave him less than what he claimed, and she begs him to let her go. She tells him that she heard that her husband's family took all of the money he earned, and now they can only live in a dilapidated house. She's so pitiful that she begs to be let go of her daughter. She also tells her that many children have disappeared from the area recently, and they were captured