¹One winter morning of that year, Sangjenim was about to depart Daeheung-ri Village to journey to Choe Chang-jo’s house in Saeul Village in Taein County.²Gong-u prepared rain shoes for the journey in the belief that the road would become muddy once the sun rose.

³Seeing this, Sangjenim remarked, “You are going to wear rain shoes?” With this, he faced eastward toward the sun rising above the hills and gestured with his hand three times as if pushing down the sun.⁴The sun rose no further. Only when Sangjenim and Gong-u later paused to rest at an inn in Salpojeongi Village did the sun suddenly rise.

⁵“This inn is at least twenty or thirty ri from Daeheung-ri Village,” Gong-u said. “Why did the sun not move during the entire time we were on the road?”

⁶Sangjenim answered, “Even the sun and moon halt their courses at my command.”

⁷When they arrived at Chang-jo’s house, Sangjenim buried a written decree for lightning. Instantly, a storm of furious thunder and lightning shook heaven and earth. Sangjenim then ended the storm just as abruptly.

The next day, Sangjenim returned to the medicine room in Guritgol Village.

⁸When Sangjenim arrived at the medicine room, Shin Won-il asked him, “Is it true that Venerable Monk Jin-muk confined the Seven Stars, concealing them from sight for seven days?”

⁹“I will now test this myself,” replied Sangjenim, and he then confined the Seven Stars for three months.¹⁰He later declared, “Though many people in the world study the stars in the heavens, not one of them reported the disappearance of the Seven Stars.”