This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by the poet Mingkong. Mingkong asks the poet if he is fated to be a villain because he is the life source of the saint spirit ancestors. The poet replies that he despises the life essence accumulated by the saint ancestors. He says that the immortal spirit will soon be born, and that he will need to obtain higher levels of souls before he can kill the chi ling. He hopes that the spirit will not pay much attention to him before he kills him