 Pan advised the cessation of conflict, but Wang Yancheng paid no heed to his advice.When an emissary from Wang Xi (who had claimed imperial title by that point) arrived, Wang Yancheng demonstrated his army to the emissary as a show of force and was very arrogant in his words to the emissary.Pan knelt and advised more humility, and Wang Yancheng responded angrily by stating to his attendants, "Can the flesh of the "panguan" be eaten?"