After leaving the assembly, Linghu Chong and Ren Yingying see Lin Pingzhi brutally slaying members of the Qingcheng Sect to avenge his family, and overhear a conversation between him and his wife, Yue Lingshan. Lin Pingzhi reveals that both he and Yue Buqun have mastered the Bixie Swordplay, which is considered "unorthodox" because they need to castrate themselves to fulfil the prerequisite for learning it. Linghu Chong also learns that Yue Buqun, his respectable former master, is actually a hypocrite who plotted an elaborate scheme against Lin Pingzhi to seize the swordplay manual in the hope of dominating the "jianghu". Yue Buqun's wife and daughter die because of their respective husbands.