This chapter opens with a description of the ambush of the monk by the emperor's attendants. The monk explains that he has come to the palace to collect a valuable pouch containing a purple-grade tripod furnace. The pouch contains a piece of iron that the emperor has offered to the people of the daxi kingdom for sale. He tells the empress that he is loyal to the emperor and that he will punish the monk for his actions. He also says that the minister of the ministry of rites should be punished for his role in the ambush. He then tells the monk that he was once a right-hand man of the emperor. When the emperor asked him to serve a prince at a banquet, the prince accidentally spilled wine on the king. The king publicly flogged the king and drove him out of the kingdom. After that, the king asked the monk to serve him as his right hand man, and the monk served the king all the time.