This chapter opens with a flashback to the night of the madness. The narrator explains that the sound spirit, which he calls "baihu," came out of the darkness on its own, without summoning anyone. The sound spirit can be appeased only by mind-concentrating flower, but now that he is awake, he wants to find a way to soothe his heart. He has found some seeds of "mind calming flower" in his bag, and he plans to use them to make the flowers bloom.