The chapter opens with a description of Heishan County, which is "deadly quiet" . It is only the mansion of the Mo clan that is bustling with activity. The narrator explains that the "hell reapers" are "hell-reformers" who can kill people with drops of their blood. They can even kill people one-thousand miles away with the drop of the victim's blood. Even the "deterrent things inter- wim" looks like the "mo clan" gives up their "reputation already ." The narrator asks why he feels a "chill" on his "where are you going?" . He says that if he were a mo, he would hide the hostage somewhere where he could not call for help. He explains that "the blood devils" are made of "dead qi and blood" , and that they can only "suck" living beings' blood. As the cultivators began to see them as devil-monsters, they started to "wipe them out . . almost making them extinct ." They took away the "spiritual force" of the three "eyes" of blood devil