This chapter opens with a flashback to the Ming dynasty, where the young man in blue shirt is known as "the divine mathematician." Rumor has it that he has a way of communicating with the gods, and that when the soothsayer first came to Ming's land, all the nobles of the kingdom turned him away, but they said they would only come once a month. The young man tells the story of the divine mathematician, who was only ten years old when he came to the kingdom to help the then-chancellor, who is now the most powerful man in the kingdom