This chapter's epigraph is from the opening lines of Chapter 1 of the novel, "The Return of the Dragon." In this chapter, we are introduced to a new character named "Yang jian" , who has just returned from fighting a dragon in the "spirit snake" . This character is described as a man who fought against a dragon "through the eye of a spirit snake." He has a tooth on his left hand, which he believes is the result of a fight he had with the dragon. He is also described as having some old "scores" with the "dra," which is a dragon's fighting partner. The tooth on the man's left hand indicates that the man fought against the dragon through the "eye of the snake." The man also has a "scent of rragon" on his face, which is the scent of the "rragons" that the spirit snake carries. The smell of the rragons reminds the man that he is in the midst of "long yuying," the "deeper level" of a woman's mind. The scent of "swoop" reminds him that he has entered "the deeper level of the long yuying." He asks the man if he can be his guard for the moment. The man replies that he must find the "swine of dragons" on the "shallow level." He says that if he gazes long enough into "an abyss," the abyss will also gaze into him. He then says that at a shallow level, the abyss gazes into him, like an