Revenge is best served cold novel 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.

Angelo and Sandy exchanged bewildered glances.

"What hexagrams?" they wondered aloud.

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