¹Gong-sin returned home and for days pondered the revelation, “Go south.” However, he could make nothing of it.

²It was autumn, the time of harvesting rice and sowing barley, so one day Gong-sin had the farmhands till the field and sow barley seeds while he spread manure.³As Gong-sin took a short rest and strolled along a path beside a mulberry field, he was suddenly seized with thoughts about the mystical experiences he had had at the Shrine of General Guan Yu, until he eventually became euphoric.

⁴At that moment, a robust man with the physique of a general suddenly appeared from nowhere and approached. “Are you Mun Gong-sin?”

Startled, Gong-sin replied, “Yes.”

⁵“They say there is a most benevolent teacher at Nongbau Village in Sunchang County,” the stranger announced abruptly, then swiftly strode off toward Chilbosan Mountain without allowing Gong-sin even a moment to question him.

⁶Exhilarated by this news of a teacher, Gong-sin immediately abandoned his farm implements in the field, returned to his house to change his clothes, and struck out for Nongbau Village.