The next morning, the servant asks the boy if he was involved in the hunt for the phoenix on the mountain. The boy says that he was, and that the king of Nanyang ordered the family to kill Yu Ge because he was afraid that Yu Ge would fight him in the battle for the throne. Yu Ge was a phoenix, and they killed her because they thought she would be a threat to the king. The servant tells the boy not to make fun of him, for she treated him as her friend and hoped that he could stay in the mountains. He tells the servant that he did not know that she was also a phoenix and that he removed the protection of the mountain as the king told him. He asks the servant to get out of his way, but the servant tells him that he cannot, for he has many things to get from her. He says that there is another way to help her, and the servant promises to do so.