The guards ask the elders to come in, and the elder tells them that the kingdom of Xi Lan will soon cease to exist. The elder tells the guards that he has heard that the prince of the kingdom has returned to his royal capital, and that he is fully recovered from his poisoning. He tells the elder that he knows the elder is furious, but that everything he has said is true. He says that since the prince's poison has been cured, the elder will also soon be cured too. He adds that the elder has lost all of his work again, as his branch of the martial spirit has not made any progress in the last several years. He exclaims that his little lover is searching for him, and he grabs all of the trash that he can find. The master tells him that the martial realm is also a stage on the path to the higher martial spirit. He explains that the qi of a martial practitioner is derived from the muscles of the body, while a master's qi comes from the tendons, veins, and heart. The martial spirit is the realm of cultivating the organs of the heart, liver, and spleen. He also explains that a martial master has already refined his liver and heart and condensed five vortexes. He asks the elder why he is hurrying, and his brother xin-er