The elder of the Yunming martial house comes to greet the city lord and his wife. The elder tells them that they have to ask the representative of the martial house, the patriarch, to help them with their humiliation. The patriarch tells the elder that they should leave for the selection earlier, and the elder agrees. He tells the patriarch that they need to buy the best spirit herbs from the spirit cores, and that the patriarch should leave it to the elder. He also says that the elder should have left the herb to the patriarch himself, because there is no need for the patriarch to personally come and pick it up. He then gives the elder a small gift, a mind stabilizing jade, and a lower treasure, a reinforced soft armor, which can block a spirit-gathering cultivator's moves. He explains that a few years before, the elder got injured by evil yang qi when he was about to enter the realm of the earth spirit. The root of the injury was not known, and no cure was found. The hundred yang pill the patriarch gave the elder was believed to cure the injury.