The chapter opens with a soliloquy about the unity of the two branches of the Taoist religion, yin and yang. The two branches have joined together to fight against evil, and they pledge their lives to do so. They are joined by the winged serpent and the spirit beast, which they have stolen from the Indians. They have infiltrated the territory of the yin yang sect and are trying to steal the national treasure. The sect's leader, the taoist Xu Lingzi, gives the scepter to the two Indians and tells them to hand over the beast and the serpent to him immediately. He tells them that they are also members of the shushan, penglai, and kunlun sects, and that they do not care about their followers' origins. He says that after he beheads the beast, he will give it to him. He then tells the three Indians that they have three seconds to kill him or face consequences. The leader says that he is going to torture them to their hearts content before he kills them. The three Indians, he says, should not have cast their eyes on his son. They should have treated him like a saint. The taoists then pull out a sack full of stuff. The sack is full of torn leather, a second brother's toy, a martial sister's wand, and so on. The men are so poor that they wonder if they have amassed all this stuff after all these years of judging. The cauldron seems to have some special meaning.