Ah' Xu learns that Cheng Ling had come to know about Lao Wen. He attempts to reach Lao Wen to warn him, but instead over hears about the Chief of the Ghost Valley being cornered by the Five Lakes Alliance. Lao Wen fights off his attackers, but stirs them with the key to the armory, claiming that it was the only thing needed to open it. Cheng Ling is enraged, but Ah' Xu joins him in the field and fights the attackers off together. Ye Bai Yi arrives to keep his promise to the Five Lakes Alliance. Cheng Ling shoots Lao Wen with a needle and he falls off the edge of the mountain. Ah' Xu jumps with him, but Bai Yi yanks him up. He wakes up at Ping An Inn, mistaking the whole thing to be a dream, but spits blood in anguish after hearing the news of Lao Wen's demise. He sets out to find the truth and sees his body. Cao We Ning and Gu Xiang reach the site, but they are halted by Wei Ning's master, who accuses her of being member of Ghost Valley. Wei Ning runs away with her and they meet Ah' Xu in the forest. He calmly directs Cao to take Ah' Xiang and his disciples away to South Xinjiang with Bei Yuan. In despair at the loss of his soulmate, he drinks wine at the mountains where Lao Wen had fallen to his death, and forcefully removes the nails from his body. He takes an elixir that Wu Xi had prepared for him to control his internal force temporarily. Zhao Jing celebrates his victory over Ghost Valley and formally introduces his adopted son Zhao Xi' er as the Head of the Scorpions. Ye Bai Yi drinks along and speaks out his sorrows to a deceased person, Chang Min, who had created the Ghost Valley that had ultimately lead to a chain of terrible events. Zhao Jing is visited by Liu Qian Qiao disguised as Duan Peng Ju, who is displeased with his association with the Scorpion and cuts off all ties with him. She returns back and informs Xi' er of Zhao Jing's plans to kill him off after he had reached his ultimate goal. (Source: MyDramaList)