This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe, entitled "Poems and Stones." In this poem, Poe describes a snake as a variant of the dragon family. The snake is said to possess some dragon-like powers, so it should be able to use the summoning powers of the sutra of the Dragon to absorb the power of the corpse. This is a good opportunity for the snake to use its summoning powers to absorb dragon power. The epigraph also mentions that the flower that the snake is using to summon the dragon is also a flower that can absorb the dragon's power. When the snake kills the flower, the epigraph says, the flower is now mine, and the snake should leave it and scram branch. The duke of wu manor is all, "You can't just let me take the rewards." He's the one who killed the snake, and he doesn't want to just let the snake take his rewards. He wants to