見像歸真 Seeing the Image They Turn True
果然是：果然是：
逐句解 Line by line
And truly it was:
Three characters, and the second verse tag of the scene. 果然, sure enough, indeed — the storyteller confirming his own account before quoting a poem to prove it.
Seeing the image, they turn to the true, and monks in their numbers ferry others across; making merit in the world of men, they enjoy peace and quiet.
見像歸真 is a compact piece of Buddhist doctrine: seeing the outward form and thereby returning to what is real. It is the chapter's own argument turned into a slogan — the city has just looked at three hideous faces and seen what was actually there. 度 is to ferry across, the standard image for bringing a being to the further shore of enlightenment.
From now the road of bodhi is made straight, and all of them are people who sit in Chan and bow to the Buddha.
菩提 is bodhi, awakening, straight from the Sanskrit and one of the oldest loanwords in Chinese Buddhist writing. 參禪 is to sit in Chan meditation under a teacher. The pair of lines claims that watching three men swing weapons in the air has turned the whole population of Yuhua, which is either a large claim or a joke, and the novel does not say which.
The second poem is shorter and plainer than the first, and where that one turned the display into alchemy, this one turns it into a mass conversion.
The line about seeing the image and returning to the true is the chapter's thesis in four characters. Everyone in Yuhua has spent the day judging by faces and getting it wrong, and the poem says the looking was what fixed it.