The monkey exclaims that he has reached the "transcendence realm" and that the bar has sucked the desert into it. Linyue and the monkey discuss how they will get out of the bar, but the gate to the "cosmication realm" has been destroyed, so they'll have to blast the ground beneath them. The monkey says that he'd be dead if the cauldron hadn't blocked the attack. Lingyu says that the cauldron is the "divine mind" left behind by the emperors, and that's why it's able to block the attack