The doctor tells the three that they will probably be the last time they see each other. He tells them that he has a way of extracting the poison from their bodies. He also says that he can help them gather the three essences, but that it will be too hard for them to gather them all at once. The doctor says that they should all promise never to harm each other, and that he will do his best to make sure that they do not. He then says that there is still something that he would like to accomplish. He says that the rising cloud empire and the alliance troop encampment are scram, and he wants to know what they are planning to do with the jia-ma empire. He asks if it is the servant girl or the divine poison lady who bit him earlier, and she says that no one who invades his country should be killed, no matter where they have come from. He adds that he is not human, if he doesn't avenge the humiliating defeat he has suffered at the hands of the mu-lan empire. It is a pity that they won't live to see reinforcements, he says, because they are already waiting for him in the underworld