The Empress of the Yu Dynasty tries to strangle her husband, but he is too weak to resist. He tells her that he was the one who asked her to help him, but that she tried to make him a scapegoat. The Empress tells him that she promised that she would take him away from the city after he was done handling the Emperor's body. She says that she knows that she will be killed on her way back to the city, and that the assassins from the Zhan Dynasty have come to kill her. She tells him to kill the assassins, and he does so. She is half-naked, and the family inspector enters. The reason he came here today, he says, is to find more about the Shen-kai Clan and the Sacred Spirit.