Pung San evinced considerable gratification upon learning of the Queen's gravid state with the King's progeny, a circumstance that would furnish the General of Heaven and Earth with an additional scion upon which to subsist. Kang Chul received intelligence from Bi Bi, stipulating that the extirpation of Yoon Gap's corporeal form was imperative to effect his liberation from the spirit's dominion. Simultaneously, Yeo Ri unearthed a cranium bearing a talisman, surreptitiously secreted within the Queen's bolster, which was subsequently identified as the etiological factor underlying the Queen's disquieting nocturnal visions.