Hesham asks Sands if he was the one who killed the innocents. Sands admits that he was, but doubts remain. Sands apologizes for trying to "sow division" between the two men. He says that he wants to help Silver-robe find the murderer, but he knows that Silver- Robe has been hiding his true identity for three years. Sands says that his cultivation has declined in the past few years, partly due to the coldness of the Eastern lands, where he saw Silver-Rob's indiscriminate killing of innocents in the cold. He wonders if he is the only one who has suffered from this cold, and he wonders if silver-Rob is jealous that Sands is revealing his identity to the strangers.