The next time he sees the beast skull, it's in the secret scroll chamber. He's a little bummed that the demon worshipper is unconscious, but he's also a bit bummed that sister xie doesn't know anything about it. He coughs up a mouthful of the fruit from the Wen Shu tree. It's got a sweet taste, and it can cure a lot of different kinds of poison, including poison from snakes and scorpions. He swallows it all down, and then he asks how he was in the battle with the tree demon. He says he fought so many times, but his body is weak right now, and the old god won't eat anything from him anyway, so he can't waste the medicine. He asks if he called out the name of a lady in the past few days, and she's definitely not a lady, but a lady. He thinks she sounds like a woman's name, and he wonders if he should tell the emperor about it, because if he does, he'll be laughed at again by the emperor. Then he hears that there's someone waiting for him in the temple. It turns out to be the emperor, his uncle, and his father's old friend, the legendary prince.