After running for half a day, Hailong was over 100 miles from the holy Land of Brahmism. His spirit was still "a little burnt out" . He tells us that his sister seems kind to him, and that she's afraid that old Wench zhi would punish him, so she lets him leave first. He's going to try to control his flow of power to the ring, so that if she finds out that he's been using the ring to store stuff, she'll be mad. The ring is full of fresh fish, and he can't help but think about killing them. He asks the fish if they're against killing, and the fish says that they are. Then he tells the fish that if they don't answer his questions, he'll kill one of their five limbs. If he doesn't, he says, he won't leave his corpse intact. He says that if the fish answers his questions and he doesn t, then he will cut off one of his limbs before he dies.