The second auction is over, and the new owner of the dark hilt sword is pleased to see that he has won the coveted piece of claymore. He explains that the sword is an ancient weapon that can devour everything and that he bought it with only 1.1 million souls. He tells us that the wang-jian sect prohibits anyone to provoke or fight in private, and if anyone violates this prohibition before the trial begins, the outsiders will be disqualified. The old man tells Luo-yun to stay away from the xi-jian lake trial, because chang-ming-yang will surely kill him. He says that the disciples of the two families have prepared their manifest jades, which will allow them to track each other even if they are tens of thousands of miles apart