In this chapter, we find out that the sixth token belonged to the former pope, and that the previous pope's daughter was the daughter of a man named Ming yang, who was killed by bandits in the desert during Ming's search for his great-grandmother. Ming tells us that he was beaten by a group of bandits while trying to stop them, and ten of his men are dead. Ming asks if the man who saved him was the pope himself, and Ming says that the man was the current pope. Ming explains that he stayed in the manichaism sect at the time because he wanted to repay Ming for his kindness.