The chapter opens in the central city of Lanzhou, which is surrounded by a "no-fly zone" . The city is protected from the outside by a strong "force" , but the city is also surrounded by an "aggressive formation" that will only rumble for a few minutes before it is too late. Yueru, a soul cultivator, is worried about the formation, but he is convinced that it exists on all the "affiliated islands" and that it can cross the "sea of demons" with it. They go to the governor's mansion and ask him to lend them the "transmission portal" so that they can go to "the outer island" where they will find the mine