after missing out in many episodes, dao ba jie sen reappears at the xia family's household and reveals that he is key man, a man with the power to close the space-time portal. in order to protect him from evil, the family is forced to let him live in their house under the orders of jiu wu. when xia tian goes to the gold dimension to read a manga series that foretells their future, he finds out that dao ba jie sen will be sacrificed to lock the portal. everyone then tries to protect him in every way they can, but in the end, he is still captured and used to lock the portal and becomes a head statue in the process.