Cheng-gong is impressed by Su-Shan's righteousness and to help her, he gives a false report to Shih-ying on the loss of the gold. Though Shih-ying excuses Cheng-gong, he makes use of this to threaten Tzu-lung to continue working with him.

Su-shan's fighter, LI GUI, secretly steals some gold but is discovered and stopped by GREAT PALM. In a rage, Li Gui reports the robbery to SHIH -CHUNG in order to gain reward.

Shih-chung threatens to reveal the truth of the robbery and forces Cheng-gong to yield part of the money. Cheng-gong is puzzled and tries to delay the matter. Su-shan learns about it and beats Shih-chung to teach him a lesson. Tzu-lung comes to the scene, discovers that he once had had dispute with Su-shan's father, thus pardons her for her attack but demands her to leave Nanking forever.

Shih-ying learns that the Manchus are buying cannons from a Japanese Tien Chuan family……