High above, where no one could see, the original Commentary on the Book of Changes radiated a gentle light.
Poetry needed rhyme: characters with identical or similar finals were used at the ends of certain lines to make their sounds more beautiful and harmonious.
Even Licentiates and Academy Students could force four poems into the same rhyme, but making four battle poems share a rhyme was far more difficult. And now, these were not merely four battle poems, but four linked poems. Apart from the first, the other three were all transmissible. This was a first for the human race, perfect in every respect, and thus it awakened same-rhyme treasure light for the first time.
The many scholars rejoiced. The human race's treasure lights shared one characteristic: creating them was the hardest part, but once they had been created, scholars could awaken them more easily, provided they were not subject to strict standards like poem-ancestor radiance or poem-soul treasure light.
Linked-poetry treasure light was one example. The human race had produced linked poems many times, but Tao Yuanming was the first to create linked-poetry treasure light. Afterward, other humans composed linked poems, some of which were not even as good as those written before Tao Yuanming, yet they could still awaken linked-poetry treasure light.
The same was true of same-rhyme treasure light. Not only was it a momentous pioneering achievement, it also held immense practical value for future generations.
However, to awaken same-rhyme treasure light, one had to revere its creator, Fang Yun, as a teacher or elder. Anyone who felt indifference or even hostility toward him would never be able to condense it.
After seeing the same-rhyme treasure light, all the scholars also realized that it was no coincidence these four poems could form a linked sequence. Every one