The chapter opens with a knock at the door of the Luo family training hall. It's a knock from the real lord, who's just returned from his "seclusion" . He's going to teach the young lord a lesson. The real lord is coming back from his seclusion today, and he's got a message for the real Luo zheng. He wants to know why he went into seclusion. The elixirs of Heaven and Earth were left by the family's ancestors, he says, and they were meant to improve the body's refinement. He doesn't know why the elixirs were left, but he does know that his parents are exceptionally gifted and that his sister is also exceptionally gifted. He also knows that his brother is useless, because he has no idea how to change anything. He asks why there's only one pill in the world today. The steward says that he'd be scared if it were someone else, but that's because it's his fault that he can't do anything to change it. He tells the steward that there are many characters in the book that don't make sense to him. He says that the golden parchment on his body is crazily imprinted with the word "refinement" , which means that he has been "contaminated" with his soul. He wonders why there are so many characters on the parchment, and wonders why the writings on it are still there. The refinement technique is the "top one refinement technique" through all history . It rinses the body