The Purple Fox Demon casts a spell on Sifeng, Minyan and Ruo Yu to pretend that their loved ones are beside. Xuanji frantically searches the place for the others, and comes across an underground spring, where Ting Nu is temporarily living. He tells Xuanji that the demon is Zi Hu and she means no harm. Just as Xuanji is about to harm her original fox form, Zi Hu appears and jokingly says that she killed the others. In a rage, Xuanji unleashes her blue eyed powers but is stopped by Sifeng before she could harm Zi Hu. They learn that Zi Hu did not kill any of the men, but only sucked a tiny bit of power from each of them and did not harm them. She wants to cultivate her magic further to save Wu Zhiqi, her lover from a thousand years ago, who is currently imprisoned by the chain o the four seas. They also find out from Zi Hu that Tianxu Sect has regained a lot of their power and is secretly working to try and become the most powerful sect. Linglong and Xiao Yinhua enter the mountain and discover that a piece of the Bahuang Mirror of 10,000 Tribulations is hidden behind the drawing of Zi Hu, but decide to retrieve it after finding the others. Zi Hu brings them to where all the men are kept and frees them. The Xuanyuan Elder tells them that he was tricked into taking a pill that will make his powers increase but will also kill him if he doesn't continue to take it. He then dies.