The monk explains that the sword is made up of three stages. The first stage is the "man and sword unity" stage, the second is "light lifting but heavy", and the third is "neither heavy nor light" . The man and the sword unity is the highest level of the sword, but the monk says that he can't even imagine that there's a higher level than that. The monk also explains that he wants to participate in a xi-jian lake trial at the wan-jian pavilion, but he's not yet ready to go there. He's going to ask the monk for more advice. This is the palace where the monk is staying, so he can stay there for a while, but not without his orders. He says that the princess xia-ping is a "good person" who has a "stubborn attitude" towards sword art, like the monk. The lotus green sword body is the secret of the swords monument. The tip is incomplete, but if the monk can find it, he might be able to touch the answer to the ancient sword.