In this chapter, we learn that the two men have been secretly collaborating with one another for a long time, and that the king of Mongolia has been spying on them. The two men realize that they are in danger of being captured by the king's spies, and they decide that they need to escape from the dragon temple in order to do so. They decide to go to the city of Zhengzhou, in Henan province, where they will be able to escape.