This chapter's epigraph is from a poem by the famous poet Siddhartha Mukherjee. It is a poem about a man who is killed by a bullet fired by another man. The protagonist of this poem is the protagonist of the play, "Siddhartha." The protagonist is a young man who has just entered the "enlightened realm." He is a member of the "shadow clan," a group of men who live in the shadow city of Suzhou. He has been trained in assassin's arts by his master, indigo, and he is determined to kill the protagonist's father, Luozheng. He attacks him with his sword, but the protagonist is unable to stop him. He thinks that his soul attack has no effect at all. He wonders if the piece of garbage on his sword can block his sword. He also wonders if he has any grudge against the protagonist. He tells the protagonist that the two officers who were supposed to report on the progress of the protagonist tried to do so, but they were stopped by "pagan firmament and pagan indigo." The officers thought that they were important in the "qingyun sect." They even dared to mess with the "all crests competition." . . the protagonist asks the master if he should stop the match. The master tells him that if he does not surrender, he will die from the next attack. He is afraid that the "sect master" will not pay attention to the counter attack. This does not make sense to the protagonist, who thinks that the protagonist must be hiding his true strength. He cannot back down. He