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.

Sandy

hexagrams?" they wondered

missing top, Wind broken at the bottom," Sophie continued,

the meaning behind these hexagrams and chuckled, "Well, that makes sense, coming from

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

at the symbols

I was a kid, 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

everywhere."

my dad used to compare me to you back then. You

era," Sophie replied. "But once I moved in with my Uncle Perry, my studies started to fall behind." Jenna

equally shocked, "Seriously? You

ancient hexagrams are split into two types: pre-heaven and post-heaven, and their differences

hexagrams, said

observed the sky's patterns and the earth's laws, which led him to draw the pre-heaven. hexagrams representing the cycle of life,

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