Reality is harsh—the top of the Bōhao sect is too strong for the seekers to destroy them on the spot. A new force is needed, new knowledge, new techniques. But where to get them? The sectarians have blocked all access to the Firstborn Soul and opened a hunt for the home of Bao. The situation has become so tense that Zandra and Vileya now again have to do the impossible—because seekers know no other way!