This chapter's epigraph comes from a line in the play's first scene, in which a monkey is injured by a stone thrown at him from the sky. The monkey's injury is so severe that he cannot move his body, and he is afraid that he will die if he does not immediately remove the stone. He begs the master to help him. The master tells him that he has already given the monkey the last three drops of a holy herb, and that other holy herbs are also at the master's house. He tells the master that they cannot enter the house unless the master himself comes out of his seclusion, because the peak is only accessible by way of a tunnel. They must use the holy herb that they have already given him, the purple mushroom, to get into the house, but the master warns them that they must remember that they are already inside the mountain, and there is no land or end to the mountain. He says that the place is empty, because they do not see the land or the end. He adds that they need to remember that the medicine ingredient in his medicine armor is in the fifth grade purple mushroom. He goes to get the mushroom, and when he sees that the monkey has opened his eyes, he exclaims, "you little thing ! you scared me!"