The chapter opens with a description of the nineteenth birthday of Lin Yaoyue, the protagonist of the story. He is nineteen years old and is destined to die in the afterlife. He wakes up in the middle of the night, having had a nightmare in which he was slandered by a bastard in his previous life. He fears that the bastard's slander has come true and that he will not be killed by anyone in this world. The meditation hall madam tells the protagonist that she has seen a taoist in the night and that the evil spirits of the mansion are related to the catastrophe that occurred seven days ago. The protagonist is curious about the meaning of the words of taoists, and wonders if it is lingbao's words that are the cause of the catastrophe. He also wonders if the big sister saw the demon seven days before, and if she is the last person to see the demon. He makes a special trip from the meditation hall to the old lady's house to ask for advice from taozun.