Chapter 81
— Eager For Vengeance, Zhang Fei Is Assassinated; Athirst Of Retribution, The First Ruler Goes To War.
The three-hundred-year-old seer of the Blue Mountains, whose serving-boy greets the imperial messenger by name — writes 'soldiers, horses, weapons' over and over and tears every sheet, then draws a tall man supine with another digging his grave, and over all the one word 'white.' The Emperor burns it as the scribble of a madman.