In this chapter, we learn that Ming Ling has not yet gotten married, but he has already gotten engaged to Xieyin. Ming Ling is so conservative about love and marriage that he doesn't think it's proper for a man to get married. He's not the representative of the human race, Ming Ling says, and he shouldn't be judging people based on their race. Ming Ming says that they're not a couple, but a couple that has been together thousands of years. He says that he'll let them die together, since he can't get rid of them. He tells Ming Ling that the formation he's sown is absorbing his vital energy, and that Ming Ming is planning to kill all of the people in the city by using the same formation. He also says that the phantom poison butterfly has caused countless people to die, and Ming Ling can only sacrifice his life to open the four realms again. The rumble of the heavenly thunder is the final step in Ming Ling's sacrifice.