Revenge is Best Served… After Reborn

Chapter 1342

"Yeah, what's all this talk about divisions and separations? Sounds like a bunch of mystical mumbo jumbo to me."

Jenna was just as lost as everyone else when Sophie started her cryptic explanation.

Seeing their puzzled faces, Sophie picked up a stone from a nearby bush and started sketching eight symbols on the ground.

As she drew, she explained, "Three solid lines, three broken lines."

On the ground appeared two opposing symbols: one with three unbroken lines and the other with three broken lines.

"These solid lines represent the active force, and the broken lines represent the passive force," Sophie elaborated.

She continued, "A hollow center surrounded by activity, and a full center surrounded by passivity."

Sophie then added two more symbols: one with a passive line in the middle bordered by active lines, and another with an active line in the middle bordered by passive lines. "Whoa, isn't this from the I Ching hexagrams?" Adler remarked, clearly impressed.

and Sandy

they wondered

looking up, Mountain covering the bowl, Lake with a missing top, Wind broken at the bottom," Sophie continued, drawing

and chuckled, "Well, that makes sense, coming from the Russell

known as one of the four great families, rich in poetry and strategic minds, and

at the symbols

I had to learn everything music, chess, painting, literature wouldn't say I mastered the classics, but I got the basics, especially the tricky I Ching. vaguely remember my dad often talking about it. He even had a special room with

everywhere."

dad used to compare me to you back then. You

moved in with my Uncle Perry, my studies started to

was equally shocked, "Seriously? You can get

back on track, these ancient hexagrams are split into two types: pre-heaven and post-heaven, and their differences are pretty significant," Sophie

hexagrams, said

and lake. The story goes that Fuxi observed the sky's patterns and the earth's laws, which led him to draw the pre-heaven. hexagrams representing the cycle