This chapter's epigraph is from a poem by the famous poet and dramatist . The poem is about a man who is about to be killed by a giant beast, but he manages to escape. The monster is the dragon emperor, and the poem describes him as a "tyrant" who has destroyed the entire kingdom. The poet wonders if he will be able to meet the emperor, but the emperor assures him that he will meet him soon. He tells the men that they can exchange a corpse for a yellow rank spirit stone, and they can use the corpse's skeleton as a source of energy. They can also use the skeleton's bones to exchange a complete body for one of the yellow ranks of spirit stones. The warriors will have to kill the men on the spot because the corpse poison turns them into zombies