Ge Nie was stabbed from the back by Heiqilin(Black Kylin) disguising as Tianming. Though he's wounded he insists on fighting Wei Zhuang. Ge Nie and Wei Zhuang are the two students of Guigu(Ghost Valley), the Directionist School, the most mysterious school, the winner between whose two heirs has the abilities to direct the fate of every kingdom under heaven. Twelve years ago, they were put into a test in which each of them was required to somehow stop two tigers running in opposite directions and save the two men tied up at the two ends of a hallway. Wei Zhuang killed the two tigers and saved one man while the other died. Yet Ge Nie managed to save neither because he tried to save both. Master Guigu told him that he would lose again if he failed to get over his kindness and become decisive.
背景回到机关城中央大厅内，易容成天明的黑麒麟从背后偷袭盖聂，黑麒麟露出了真面目，盖聂要杀黑麒麟，被卫庄拦下，黑麒麟退下，盖聂和卫庄再次展开了激烈的决斗。盖聂回忆起年少时与卫庄同在鬼谷门下的往事，师父鬼谷子给二人安排了一场从玄虎口中救人的考验，这场考验也是对两人修业的考量。卫庄迅速完成了考验报告师父，而盖聂却迟迟未归…
