This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between Cai Ming and Cai Ming's son, Cai Ming. Cai Ming tells Cai Ming that he's going to fight with two swords, and that he doesn't want Cai Ming to waste any more time worrying about his son's punishment. He wants to know what Cai Ming is going to do about his personal feud with Cai Ming, or about the official business of the sect. He asks Cai Ming if he'll fight with one sword or with two, and he says that's fine. He also says that if Cai Ming loses because of insufficient preparations, he'd have won a dishon