The next morning, Cai Ming asks the doctor to treat the wound on the foot of the dagger. The doctor tells him that there are no doctors in the town, and that he should find a doctor and treat it. Cai Ming tells the doctor that he has fed the ghost of taotao and entrusted it to Cai Yunshao, who is the national chaplain. He tells Cai Ming that the chaplain is a dangerous man, who forms "political cliques" and "subverts political opponents." Cai Ming is worried that if the state house is totally controlled by the chaplain, he will not know what to do with Damao. He searches the town looking for the two girls with the white hair and green dress, but they have not been found. He is sorry that he did not complete the mission. The chaplain must have had great influence over Cai Ming, he says, because someone must have hidden him.