In this chapter, Cai Xie demonstrates his mastery of the art of plants and trees by crushing winter bamboo, dragon fruit, and ink roots. He also shows off his knowledge of medicinal herbs by mastering 30,000 of them. After all, he says, he's never met a person who could memorize all 30,000 of these herbs. He's even more amazed when he realizes that he has to compete against him in the skills competition in order to even have a chance at beating him. Cai tells us that a month earlier, in the clan's mini-competition, he finally crushed du-lingfei, which caused a stir. Now, every time he goes out, outer disciples greet him with smiles, and he also takes du-li-fei's medicine pill after refining it three times. His training has succeeded in breaking through the fifth and sixth levels of qi condensation and in mastering the second level of purple qi mastering.