This chapter opens with the appearance of a man who smells like a cough. It's the master of the inn. He's here to cure his father's heart disease. The master asks if the cure can last for three days. The man says it can only last for a few days, but he's willing to give the master 20 million crystals if he can cure the father. He wants to know what the master's secret technique is, and the master doesn't want to know. He explains that his secret technique enables a person to ascend to the highest heaven-grader within a year. This is the same secret technique that the master used to make his pupils absorb the heavenly qi when he was cultivating his own pupils technique. He calls this "tyrant-spirit formation" and says that this technique can pass down for generations. He thanks the master for his kindness, and says he'll be the benefactor of the family from now on. After all, the master has already paid him, so there's nothing he needs to say. He asks the master if he thinks the master looks familiar, and he says he does. He then asks if his wife is with him, and she says she's gone out. He says he heard yesterday that a man had cured the father of the man who was suffering from the heart disease, and that the man looked like him. He knows the man is a