Once all the tiles were in the right position, the symbols all made sense.

A few lines of poem could now be understood from it.

'Green hills skirt the northern border,

White waters gird the eastern town;'

Lady Kang read the words, finding them unfamiliar.

~Rumble~

But just as she had finished reading them, the stone wall suddenly sank down into the floor.

~SHUA~

And after that happened, a circle glowed around the spot where the wall once stood.

"One down, four more to go." Lin Mu said as he gazed at the rest of the walls.

Ziran and the others who saw this couldn't help but be impressed.

"Daoist Mu Lin, you dabble in poetry too?" Ziran asked.

"Not particularly, but I have read a few." Lin Mu answered. "One of the methods of encrypting formations is to use poems as ciphers. As such, it becomes important to know them too." He stated.

"I see… Still, for you to know this; I don't think this is a common poem." Ziran replied. "At least I've never read it."

"Neither have I." Lady Kang chimed in.

"It is common, though." Lin Mu said with a slightly confused expression. "It's part of the one million, one hundred and eleven thousand, one hundred and eleven poems of the Poetry King." He stated.

"The… what?" Ziran was at a loss.

number eighteen thousand. It's not even that far in."

isn't far?' Ziran, Lady Kang, and Min Ju all found it to be

it would take them some time to think and figure it out. Then there was also the fact that, they still needed to read and learn the specific bits of information to know

in something peculiar like poems,

poems Lin

~shua~

this, Lin Mu had finished

we part

you set out like

it, just to make sure that it sounded

be it." He muttered before getting to work

Ziran

those poems did you learn, Daoist Mu

to just learn a few. I just learned the entire book." He

know if

~shua~

across the miles, farther

travel

third stanza of the poem, finding

of them." Lin Mu answered. "We're lucky that I found the book not long before coming here. I was at the Serene Glass Valley and got it there."

time ago?"

I needed to finish." Lin Mu replied as he worked on the fourth wall. "I had to skim through it quickly, so I missed out on some of the footnotes." He said before finishing

~shua~

friendship, unwilling to wane as the sun

be here

farewell?" Min Ju asked, having read

nodded. "You'll see once its complete." He said as he worked

Mu finished arranging

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