The chapter opens with a flashback to a time five years before the events of the novel. The flashback shows that the blood of the corpse sage has already reached the location of its target, and that the sage's old disease has returned. When the flashback is interrupted by the sound of a crow's-eye flying overhead, the ghost of the dead sage appears. The ghost is transformed into an augmented undead, and the two men are shocked to find that he is the same man they saw five years ago. The two men wonder what is wrong with the ghost, and when they find out that it is the heirs of a school in the town of Sanzhen, they are horrified.