This chapter opens with a description of the market place where the zhongs sell their wares. The boss tells the protagonist that the market is a closed one for the family, and that the protagonist should leave immediately. The protagonist is shocked at the boss's knowledge of the family's strict rules, and the boss offers to buy the protagonist's dove egg for a price of two million dollars. When the protagonist touches the dove egg, he sees an image of the demon-like nine-headed ghost dove, which can control the cold, ice, and fire of the world. The dove's bloodline can only use about two percent of the beast's strength, but it is powerful enough to destroy ghosts and demons, and it can run around the "nightmare palace" without fear. After the protagonist has touched the egg, the protagonist wonders if his bloodline is related to the demon, but the boss tells him not to worry, because the nightmare palace only opens once every sixty years, and all immortals covet it.