This chapter opens with a discussion between the patriarch and the vice-principal. The patriarch says that it may not be a good idea for the two of them to marry off in a year, since the former will be married to the capital and the latter will be off to the countryside. He says that the sisterly love between the two sisters will ensure that they will be able to agree to everything the patriarch asks. He also says that he has managed to gauge his cultivation level under the guidance of Vice-principal Xu. He tells the patriarch that he should be at the fifth level of heaven, but that his actual strength is already at the sixth level. The darkmoon family has been breathing down their necks, and the patriarch says he cannot tell when they will declare war on him again. Once he returns, his family will punish him because of him, but he can do nothing about it. He asks the patriarch if he can ask her help with something, but the patriarch tells him that he will not interfere with worldly matters. He adds that it is possible for him to reach the seventh or even the eighth layer of heaven in just a few days. He explains that he needs a girl who will be willing to practice "paired cultivation" with him. "In this world," he says, "yin and yang" must be balanced. "The way of paired-cultivation" is the way for heaven and earth to