In this chapter, the monster explains that he cannot abandon his body and soul to escape from the will of nature. He will try to block it with the spirit of thorn, but that will not work. He tells the other dragons that their souls are not fully healed yet, and that they will not be able to stop him from destroying their souls. He also tells them that he has a cauldron in his hand, and he will use it to destroy their souls if they fail. He says that even though his soul was nurtured in the sky-feather sacred place, he is still only a "fragment of a soul" and cannot fight against nature's will. He asks if they should use the black cauldron to destroy the soul of Luozheng, but they will be consumed by nature if they do not. They will all be destroyed, he says, if they continue like this