The chapter opens with the Senior Lieutenant of the Flying Eagle gang, who has just returned from a trip to the central plains. He tells the other members of the gang that they have been invited to join the command of the leader of the dazzling swords alliance, who is also named di jinfei, in the province of Donglin. The Senior Lieutenant tells the others that the leader is demanding of them, and that they are afraid that they will be killed if they do not join his command. He also tells them that the other leaders of the flying swords alliance have also come to the province to fight, but they have all been refused by their leader.