This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by the English poet William Butler Yeats. It's a quote from a poem in which the protagonist asks, "Why did you kill me? Why didn't you just kill me?" The protagonist replies, "Because you don1t have a satisfying explanation for why I killed you." The poem is a response to the protagonist's question about why he didn1t kill Zbigniew ZWingyun. The protagonist asks the protagonist why he killed him. He's shocked that the protagonist would say such a thing. He admires the protagonist for his brazenness. He says, "If zhuge fujin1s trying to kill me, then he1s must have had his reasons." The protagonist says that if the protagonist wanted to kill him, he1d have stuck his neck out and cut his throat. He also says that millions of soldiers are stationed in the city of baidi, so the protagonist must have followed the rules. He doesn1t need an explanation, he says, and asks for it. He thinks the protagonist is an arrogant brat. He wonders why the protagonist thinks his opponent1s attack could beat the protagonist1s fist of mirage dragon. He worries that if luozheng can1t deal with the golden dragon he1ll have to resort to the lightning stone. He is afraid that the bastard is going to be a goner, because he thought that his attack could defeat the protagonist. He explains that after entering the realm of innate energy, one can transform energy into forms of imagination. In other words,