After the injuries she sustains from fighting Zhilan, Nicky is told to lay low for a couple of weeks, but she insists on helping Henry dismantle a scam martial arts school that enslaves its students. Meanwhile, Zhilan visits her childhood home in Guizhou to find a scroll that contains secrets about the other sacred weapons.
Tropes featured in this episode:
- Accidental Murder: Pei-Ling accidentally killed her father when he tried to grab the sacred sword from her.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Nicky is angry at her mother for trying to control her life without consent.
- Con Man: Master Drake cons his students into participating in his weekly matches to raise money in the dark web.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Mei-Li has been trying to steer Nicky away from her destined path as a warrior because she is afraid she would end up like her aunt Mei-Xue, who abandoned the family and was never seen again.
- Rebuilt Pedestal: Nicky is at first upset about the secrets Pei-Ling hid from her, but eventually comes to the conclusion that whatever dirty laundry she kept, it didn't make her a bad teacher.
- Secret Legacy: It is revealed that Liang Daiyu, the first woman warrior, is Nicky's maternal ancestor. This means she is the rightful owner of the sacred sword that her shifu's family have been protecting.
- Single Line of Descent: There is only one woman per generation destined to wield Liang Daiyu's sword. Nicky is one of them, and her long-lost aunt Mei-Xue is one as well.
- You Can't Fight Fate: Mei-Li laments that everything she did to stop Nicky from fulfilling her destiny to become the sword's wielder only brought her closer to it.
