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

hexagrams?" they

a missing top, Wind broken at the bottom," Sophie continued, drawing the final four

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

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

gazed at the symbols

the classics, but I got the basics, especially the tricky

everywhere."

to compare me to you back then. You really

my grandfather's era," Sophie replied. "But once I moved in with my Uncle Perry, my

shocked, "Seriously? You can

are split into two types: pre-heaven and

hexagrams,

Fuxi, align with heaven, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountain, 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 of life,