This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by the famous poet and taoist, the late Ming-liang, who wrote in the 16th century. In the poem, he says that everything in the universe is the "spirit of nature," and that cultivating this spirit is like cultivating a "small amount of silent water" and a "large amount of turbulent water" . He says that cultivating the spirit of "nature" is to follow "the principles of nature" and to conform to "fate," which is the same as cultivating "the spirit of the fairy eyes" , which is to say, to follow the "principles of nature." The poem ends with the famous line, "crack puff you !" . This is a reference to the fact that the protagonist is breaking free from the "incarnating talisman" of the "taoism spirit," which he has been nourished with for thousands of years. He is now free to "get up the spirit" of his master, the spirit "of nature." He is free to follow his own desires, and to do as he pleases. The taoism "spirit" of nature is the unity of all things, and the "fusion of self and all things" is the result of cultivating this unity. The protagonist's "self righteousness" is a form of self-righteousness