This chapter opens with a description of the "Magnetic Stone," which is described as "hard to excavate, and pretty useless" because it is made of "the five elements" . This stone is hard to find, and no one understands it. The only advantage of this stone is that it is very hard. The next day, the two men find themselves in the "slow arrow zone" because the arrows are coming from both the left and right. The two men are grateful to each other for their help. The arrows from the left are even harder to find because they come from the "right" side of the bow. The men are so grateful that they decide to follow the arrows and push them through the "feathered emperors secret realm" as fast as they can.