Duanzhong has died in battle, and his master piaofeng has not gone to assemble the other masters. Elder Gu has been murdered, and Gu Qing has lost her life. As a result, the eight holy bodies can never gather again. The narrator says that he will keep the spirit cores, but that he is still not sure how to make them. The next day, he goes to the pill hall to buy some magic pills. He finds that there are many kinds of pills, but none of them are of high quality. He asks if anyone can teach him to make the pills, and he is surprised to find that there is no one there to teach him. He goes back to meet his master.