In the hall, Bai Qingyan asks his father why he hasn't killed the devil yet. The father says that he has come to clean up the place where the devils have been living. He says that if an immortal were to become a devil, he would lose his immortal identity. The two men discuss whether or not they should eat and sleep, and the father tells his son that he came to complete his coming-of-age ceremony. He asks his son how many humans there are besides him, since eating humans isn't the only way for a devil to enter the human realm