Now, a scout rode into the command tent to report: “Your Highness, there is a Daoist asking Your Highness to come out and speak with him.” Yin Jiao thought to himself, “Could it be my master has come?” He went straight out of the camp, and it was indeed Guangchengzi. Yin Jiao bowed slightly in the saddle and said, “Master, your disciple is in armour and dares not kneel to you.” Seeing Yin Jiao dressed in a king’s robes, Guangchengzi roared, “You beast! Have you forgotten what you said on the mountain? Why have you changed your mind today?” Yin Jiao poured out his grievance in tears: “Master, hear what your disciple has to say. I took your command and went down the mountain, and took on Wen Liang and Ma Shan as well. On the way I met Shen Gongbao, who told me to support King Zhou and attack the Zhou. Would your disciple ever be willing to go against his master’s word? I know my father is cruel and without benevolence, and does as he pleases without the Way. He has indeed offended all under Heaven, and I dare not go against the will of Heaven. But what crime had my little brother committed, that they should turn him to flying ash with the Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate3? What grudge did he have against you, to die so horribly? Is this what a man with a benevolent heart would do? Is this a lord who practises benevolence through virtue? It pierces my heart and stabs my bones to speak of it! And now, Master, you want me to serve my enemy — what kind of heart is that?” When he had finished, Yin Jiao burst into loud weeping. Guangchengzi said, “Yin Jiao, you don’t know that Shen Gongbao has a quarrel with Ziya. What he told you was a lie; you must not put too much faith in it. Your brother brought this on himself; it was truly Heaven’s reckoning.” Yin Jiao said, “What Shen Gongbao says may well not be believed; and my brother’s death was Heaven’s reckoning — so I suppose my brother walked into the Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate of his own accord, looking for this cruel and terrible death? Master, what you say is laughable! Now the elder brother lives and the younger is dead — it is truly pitiful. Please go back, Master. When your disciple has killed Jiang Shang to avenge his brother, then we can talk about the eastern campaign.” Guangchengzi said, “Do you remember the oath you swore4?” Yin Jiao said, “Your disciple knows. Even if I suffer that doom, I will die content. I will never be willing to go on living alone!” Guangchengzi flew into a rage, gave a shout and came at him with his sword. Yin Jiao parried with his halberd. “Master, for no reason at all you turn on your disciple for Jiang Shang’s sake — that is truly partial. If for a moment one of us should forget himself, it would be an ugly sight.” Guangchengzi slashed at him again. Yin Jiao said, “Master, why go to such lengths for another man, with no regard for your own natural feeling? Then what you call ‘the way of Heaven and the way of man’ is all a pretence!” Guangchengzi said, “This is Heaven’s reckoning. You will not see your error, and you defy your master’s words — you will surely come to a violent death!” And he hacked at him again. Yin Jiao, his face flushed red with desperation, said, “Since you treat me without feeling, cling to your own view and destroy your own flesh and blood, your disciple can’t help himself any longer!” And he struck back with his halberd. Master and disciple had not fought four or five rounds when Yin Jiao sent up the Sky-Overturning Seal5. Guangchengzi panicked and fled back to Xiqi by the art of the earth-leaping golden light, to the chancellor’s residence. Truly: