Back at the palace, the three brothers discuss the fact that they have sworn never to bow to an immortal before. They realize that they cannot even compete with the emperor, who is more powerful than any other immortal. They decide to ask the emperor to be their teacher, but the emperor will not open his consciousness and kill them. The three brothers decide to stop following each other and go to class. Brother Lu tells them that he has just returned from his winter vacation, and he has a feeling that he will soon be able to induce qi into his body. He says that it will take him at least 20 years to do so, but that he is confident that he can do so this year. Brother hao tells them about the new textbooks that are being prepared for this semester, which contain 480 billion herbs. In ten years, everyone will have to learn all of these herbs by heart