The chapter opens with a description of the "unfilial son" , who lives in a "haunted building" . The son, chen Bolin, pays respects his father, who has been living in the building for a hundred years. The old man who lives there is called chen Songchi, and he is the leader of the family. He tells the story of how the family was trapped in its ancestral home by the "ma yi lineage" a century ago. The lineage of Ma yi was unable to bear the chaos of the times and stopped the evil designs of the Jingzhaoyan School at that time. Worried about his son's safety, the old man tells him that the "key to the underworld" has been discovered in the mansion. He also tells the elder chen that the mansion has an "ideal" that suppresses the "fengshui array," which is a sign of good fortune.