SL is at the fifth rank bottle neck and about to be promoted when LAQ arrives. SL is worried his disruption will prevent her from advancing, when BY and Lan Xuan arrive. As they ask LAQ if he can risk offending their respective families, SL falls and spits out blood and begins advancing. LAQ is panicked – if SL is successful, she’ll be harder to kill and will soon surpass LYY. While BY and LX are determined to protect her. LAQ believes NL will return to LYY if SL dies, while BY and LX retort that is SL dies, the Li family will be exterminated.