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"": "For a moment, countless thoughts raced through his mind.
In the Primordial Sixteen Trigrams, Yin-Yang Energies were classified as the most fundamental forms of everything in existence.
The transformations, movement, and stillness of Yin-Yang Energies caused things to form, develop, and change.
Hexagram signs were composed of yin and yang lines. With yin and yang at their core, they distilled the endlessly changing world into sixteen basic material forms, defining the sixteen hexagrams: heaven, earth, mountain, zhen, xun, dui, kan, fire, brightness, scenery, gathering, dispersal, substance, emptiness, spirit, and death. These then evolved into the hexagram signs of the black shell sixty-four celestial calculations, and a further four line changes yielded two hundred and fifty-six hexagrams.
In other words, anything could be explained through these two hundred and fifty-six hexagrams, and anything could also occur because of them.
If zhen was stacked upon zhen, and lightning fell upon wood, would that produce thunderstruck wood?
No. If the wood was weaker than the lightning, it would be destroyed. If it was stronger, it would absorb and dissolve the lightning!
Only the latter was thunderstruck wood!
Only under those circumstances would thunderstruck wood possess such powerful properties for warding off evil and neutralizing malignant energies!
His thoughts soon settled completely.
The three of them had passed through the area of wooden houses ahead of them. A dense forest lay farther on.
They could faintly hear fighting, shouting, and curses. Firelight was also visible to the west from the corners of their eyes.
Clearly, the warrior monks had made their move, but they were not crushing the opposition outright. That was why things had turned out this way.
"They're fighting on someone else's home ground, after all. It won't be easy. But they're warrior monks, the strongest fighters