In the middle of the battle, wang lie realizes that he has already killed all of the men in the sacred realm. He tells qiu that he cannot continue fighting because he cannot use the power of the core beast that qiu gave him. . He says that he was a general op night soul, and that he will always protect the divine night souls. He is overcome with grief at the loss of his ability to kill medusa. He begs qiu to take the stone and run away as fast as he can. He fears that if he does not, the stone will fall to the hands of someone else. He feels that he is too weak to touch the stone, and he fears that his weakness will lead to the fall of the stone. He does not want to let the stone fall to anyone else, so he will not touch it. He has reached mortal stage nine.