Back in the cave, Ling says he's exhausted. He's been waiting for binglan to come back to the sect. He wants to go, but he can't just hide himself forever. He needs help, he says, and he needs the help of other taoists like himself. His name is limenggan, and his father gave him field rations when he first arrived at the sect a year ago. He told him to take the rations to the road and eat on it. When he returned home, his father didn't love him at all. He doesn't even love his son. Ling asks where the scar on Menggan's face came from, and Menggan tells him to change his appearance a bit, because that's the only way he can fool children. He also tells Ling to go to a foreign country to find her, because she looks like a "miraculous heroin" .