This chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the novel, when a young girl named Cai Ling is introduced. She is a member of a phantom exorcism agency. She has been possessed by an albino general, who has made her fight with a swordman in order to see who can make the deepest cut in iron in ten minutes. The duel was interrupted by the general's frantic attempts to chop away at an iron block. Cai Ling's appearance reminds her of her elder sister, who was also possessed by the same general. She tells Cai Ling to go to hell, because her "glossy and shapely" surface is calling her to chop her up