The old man tells the kid that he's not a ghost. He's a thousand years old tian chang, or master of the sea. The kid says that he wants to learn how to cultivate so that he can help the old man. But he can't, because he doesn't have the divine consciousness to do so. This old man just wants to feed his divine consciousness. He says that the nine-ninth meridian in the kid's body is getting faster and faster. This is because the kid is moving in the wrong direction, which means that he will die before the age of twenty. Oh, and the kid should stop joking about this. He should just focus on the task at hand, which is to find the ancient, clear heaven scroll.