The next morning, lingyun calls on zheng to meet him, but zheng refuses to come out of his hiding place. zheng tells him that the sect master doesn't care about him because he's sleeping on the road, and zheng says that's his fault for sleeping there. He offers zheng three weapons to choose from: a healing sword, a brute sword, and a blood-drink sword, which zheng calls "the second prize." zheng explains that if zheng chooses the blood- drink sword, he'll be able to bypass the "road of trial takers" and enter the "enlightened realm." . .