This chapter opens with a rumble, followed by a boom and a crack system alert. It's the third day of the three-stage daily disaster, and Lu cheng has destroyed a lower-ranking sword. He's still working on refining the secret technique, but he's starting to worry that things aren't going as smoothly as he thought they would. He doesn't know if the corpse puppet is really a tool of the Styx River sect, or if it's just a test to see if he can really master the technique. He wonders if he could be one of the members of the sect, but his senior brother points out that this time it was due to their negligence. He also wonders if the other disciples who have cultivated the blood sacrifice technique were really refining the technique, or were they just using it to divert attention away from the real problem.