In this chapter, the narrator curses the soul of his beloved, Cai-Liang, who has been killed by the god of water. He curses Cai lihe for killing him, and he curses Bai-Lihe for being a merman, a kind of servant. He says that he will curse his soul for the rest of his life, and that his body will be cut off from the control of the demon God. The narrator says that the ancestors were able to transcend death and live on the island, but that they still need to continue the mission of their ancestors. They must find a successor to carry on their mission, he says, and they must go to a "bigger world" to do so. He asks Cai-lihe to wake him up, and the two men go outside to see what is going on. They find that the house has come from the night pearl, which they exchanged for 70 years.