They believe in Buddha, believe in the Dao, believe in themselves, and of course believe in gods and ghosts. "You say Guo Pu is just putting on a show, pretending to be a mystic? That's your own ignorance talking—you're not qualified to glimpse Heaven's secrets. He can annotate the Book of Changes, the Classic of Mountains and Seas, The Chronicle of King Mu, Songs of Chu, and Dialects. People like you probably aren't even qualified to look at the covers, are you?"
"He eats by his real skills, he's not like those charlatan fangshi outside who mess around doing nonsense!"
"Y-you don't insult people. Who says we haven't read the Book of Changes?"
"You've read it, but can you understand it?"
The other man choked; he really couldn't understand it. Precisely because he didn't understand, he didn't believe it!
