The Confucian students compete in a horse race which Ziyu wins convincingly, with the rest following well behind and Ziming arriving a very distant last. A Net Trap agent tells Shengqi their plans, to kill Ge Nie without mercy. Ziyu follows Shi Lan and finds that she is taking food to someone hiding in the woods. Xun Zi has Ziming bring the very rare Blood-Stained Jade Leaf Flower to revive Duanmu whose heart meridian was injured by a sharp blade which carried internal energy. However because of her strong resistance to medicine developed over the years Xun Zi requires the addition the Artemisia Snow Wolf Poison first to create a Yin Yang process within her body. However Xun Zi is told that Meng Tian has confiscated all medicines and taken them to the Mirage for some unknown purpose.
