The chapter opens with a flashback to a time long ago, when the narrator was a young boy. He had a younger brother, and the younger brother had been killed by a man dressed in black. The younger brother's name was "chen moyun" and he was a senior alchemist at the academy of qinglun. The elder chen had warned the narrator not to go to the academy because the senior chen was experimenting on him. The older chen is soaking in the boiling herb liquid. The herb liquid is healing the wounds on his body, and he thinks it will help him to heal his mind. He thinks the herb liquid will also aid him in reading the bronze book of god and demon.