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.

thousand. It's not even that far in." Lin Mu said as he got to

Ziran, Lady Kang, and Min Ju

at recalling them right away. At the very least, it would take them some time

not have an interest in something peculiar like poems, they wouldn't necessarily

like the poems Lin

~shua~

this, Lin Mu had finished solving the second

part

set out like a lonesome wisp

to make sure that it sounded

be it." He muttered before getting

Lin Mu work with confidence, Ziran had a question in his

those poems did you learn,

Mu looked back. "It wouldn't make sense to just learn a few. I

know if that was

~shua~

across the miles,

to travel like roaming

read the third stanza of the poem, finding it to be rather

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." He

only read it a short time ago?" Ziran found

there were a lot of books 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

~shua~

to wane as the sun

be

Min Ju asked,

its complete." He said

watched as Lin Mu finished

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