Meanwhile, the Dowager Empress imprisons the biological fathers of Jules and Julie, a native of China and a blonde-haired, bearded British man, petrifying them into solid gold stone with the aid of her court magician Ho Cheng. Upon hearing that the Twins have survived, a pirate, Kung Lee, is sent to kill the twins. Although he successfully takes over the ship conveying the newborn twins to Europe, he cannot bring himself to end such innocence and goes to the Empress, with the pretense that he had killed the newborn twin siblings with his sword, and sunk the vessel with everyone on board.