In the midst of the battle, Gu tells the soldiers that he needs a group of warriors to kill the Shamans. He tells them that he will set up an evil clearing formation and tells them to guard the key points. He also tells the followers of the sacred place to help guard the perimeter of the palace. He warns them that six hours later the skulls will arrive. He says that the hardest thing for them to deal with will be the cursed skulls. He explains that there are no rules of space in the ancient books, but there is a record in the books that folding space is between the eight and ninth layers of the laws of space. He asks the warriors if they can keep up with the skulls, and they say that they can, but that they have run out of energy. They ask the ninth palace master to help them, but he says that there is nowhere to run, so they should just give him their innate energy. Gu says that he has reduced all the other creatures in his inner world to innate energy but that it is still not enough, and that the defenses are about to crumble