This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by the English poet William Butler Yeats. The poem is entitled "The Poison of the Heart," and it describes a poisonous fire that has been created by an elementary fire god. It is said that the fire god is a female god, but the poem does not specify if the female god is female or male. It also says that the god is not a female, but that it is time-consuming for a man to cultivate several godhoods at once. This is because it would be biting more if you could chew. This man is a sixth-way god, and the poem says that he is helping the han family. The liu zheng, a member of the xie family, is shocked to learn that this man is helping them. He says that his family has never had someone like this, and that he knows plenty of great people, but he has never heard of the liu family having someone like that. He wonders why the zheng family is helping this man, and wonders if the man is really a zheng. He also wonders if he will kill the man in a rage.