Chapter 104
— A Falling Star: The Prime Minister Ascends To Heaven; A Wooden Statue: The Commander-In-Chief Is Terrified.
Carries the chapter's omen. Marching General and a reader of the Book of Changes, asked by Wei Yan to expound a dream of two horns growing from his head, he gives an auspicious answer to his face — 'Dragon and Jilin both have horns on the head. It augurs transformation into an ascending creature' — and the true one to Fei Yi the moment he is outside: the character for horn is a knife above and use below, 'so means that there is a knife upon his head. It is a terrible omen.' He lied, he says, because he did not wish to annoy him.