Ziming wants Master Ban to teach him about mechanisms in preference to the other more artistic skills, and also mentions that Zifang said that he is being watched and must be careful about where he goes. Zifang tells Yan Lu about his meeting with Li Si and the subject of Hanfei. From the description of his death Zifang suspects he died from the Fearsome Curse of the Six Souls, the Yin and Yang forbidden technique. Zifang surmises that his death was in reality because of his possible knowledge of the Seven Stars of the Azure Dragon. He had heard that it had something to do with all seven kingdoms: Qi, Chu, Yan, Zhao, Wei, Han and Qin and that the answer may lie within the floating Mirage City. Under the watchful gaze of the Deity of Clouds, the Moon Goddess asks Qianlong (Yue-er) to open the small copper box as she believes she is the key to the secret of the Azure Dragon. When confronted by the massive amount of literature to read on mechanisms, Ziming doubts that he will ever learn it all, but Master Ban gives him the Exalting Unity Mohist Cube (like aRubik's Cube) and says if he can solve it, he will understand Mohist mechanisms.
