After parting ways for a year, Ling and Tongzi are back together. Ling says that he has grown taller and healthier thanks to his practice. He feels lonely without his master, but he says that cultivating is just like doing "odds and ends" and cultivating. He says that the masters look divine, but they give a distant feeling, but that they are friendly and order people around. After one year, he says, he learned to use his heart to move his qi and let his body be "one with nature." He feels the hot heat of his body hanging in there, pushing hard and letting the kind of power that he doesn't know he has gather together. He asks to eat, but his master says that it is time to go to eat. Ling tells him that she has something to give him before the meal, and that she even made him a new friend. He tells her that he is invincible today and that he will put her back in his place no matter what. He calls her chirp, and she calls him a monkey, and he calls her a "smartie." He says the magic stone is powerful, but the stone is not as fast as he used to use it to gather qi.