"Even if no one asked, I would still think about it every day," Li Xizhou said. "Even without Guo You, I was actually almost certain. Still, Guo You did give me a surprise."
"What?"
"He said he could recite Seeking the Crossing on the Luo River from memory."
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"From memory? That book didn't look thin."
"But he said he could. It's the 'Five Classics' he grew up reading," Li Xizhou said. "Qu Xin also thought it was good. Writing out a book like that from memory without interruption is actually a reconstruction of understanding. And we don't need him to reproduce every word exactly. As long as we have something to work from, we can see more clearly what the Spirit Realm really is."
"That's true... but how long will he need to write it?"
"Tonight, and he should be finished tomorrow," Li Xizhou said. "When someone of the Profound Gate concentrates on a task, it always goes faster than one imagines."
"Was that what you were discussing with Guo You just now, Your Highness?"
"Yes. Yesterday I read the files the Immortal Platform sent over, and I thought then that Guo Pu must have a reason for his fixation on the Goddess of the Luo River. Surely he wasn't simply enthralled by Chen Si's rhapsody... I knew how to connect the Guo family to the Spirit Realm, and I knew what to ask," Li Xizhou said. "Now we can use this to analyze Yu Sicheng's movements."
Pei Ye nodded slowly. In truth, for a moment he could not work out what rhapsody "Deep Thought" was supposed to be.
But the rhapsodies he had never read were as vast as a sea of mist, so he did not particularly mind.
"What about