Chapter 84
— Lu Xun Burns All Consecutive Camps; Zhuge Liang Plans The Eight-Array Maze.
The old man of the precipice — Zhuge Liang's father-in-law, keeper of the maze he cannot fully learn. Told never to guide a Wu leader out, he cannot bear to watch a man die in the stones, and walks Lu Xun from the Gate of Death to the Gate of Life with quiet dignity.