Misunderstanding grows deeper between Zhong Minyan and Linglong and she runs away into the wilderness and sees a little girl crying in the forest. She asks the girl what is wrong, and the girl tells her that her father went into the mountain to pick herbs and she twisted her foot and couldn’t go back home. Linglong decides to take the girl home, only to fall into the demons' trap. The little girl reverts back into her original appearance, as an older girl, and starts to bring Linglong to her lairs. Minyan, who is looking for Linglong, sees her and the demon and they start fighting. Later, the rest of them go into the forest to look for Minyan and Linglong. Lu Yanran and Ruo Yu go separate ways but Xuanji and Sifeng stick together as the rope binds them closely. Ruo Yu and Yanran are soon also decieved by the demon and are taken to the lair. Sifeng then falls unconcious from a spell and Xuanji feeds him a pill from his pocket, mistakening it for a poison antidote pill. Sifeng wakes up to find that Xuanji had fed him the truth speaking pill. Xuanji uses this opportunity to find out that Sifeng still sees her as a great friend and cares for her very much. Just as Sifeng us about to say the truth about his lover's curse mask, though he uses his internal energy to prevent himself from saying the truth. Sifeng and Xuanji save the others and try to kill the demon girl, but Liu brother steps in, explaining that the demon is his daughter Yu'er and that she was being controlled. They all follow Yu'er and find the Xuanyuan elder using blood fruits to found some kind of concoction. They try to kill the elder but he is taken away by a purple clothed woman who suddenly appears.