Chapter 863: The Secret of King Qins Mirror of Souls (1/2)

Chapter 863: The Secret of King Qin’s Mirror of Souls

“Linear algebra?” Zhao Ruizhi frowned He didn’t even have tiht, What kind of secret manual is this? Why haven’t I heard of it before?

Forget about hih the entire Qin Royal Faebra? Why don’t I knohat this is?

Only Bi Linglong see She recalled that according to Zu An’s inforhtmoon Academy’s matheh the Royal Academy, even those revered teachers had been left in awe of his knowledge This ‘linear algebra’ was probably one of the special skills he had

Zu An confirmed the stele inscriptions with Zhao Ruizhi one more time, and then he muttered to himself, “‘Dark clouds’ should be matched with ‘Heavenly Gate’; this describes our situation e first arrived on this island…”

But the latter parts involved ancient astrology, so Zu An didn’t understand it too well Still, for better or for worse, he had a well-read granny with hih idea of the steles’ secrets

The ‘Heavenly Gate’ was located in the corner of the twenty-eight constellations; the ‘great sun’ was naturally the sun itself The ‘Golden Palace’ historically referred to the palace courtyard where heaven and earth resided, while the Purple Forbidden Enclosure of the ancient celestial bodies was a residence within heaven and earth

Ancient astrology divided the heavens into three enclosures and twenty-eight constellations Those twenty-eight constellations were arranged in groups of seven, and those groups were divided into north, south, east, and west through the Azure Dragon, Verer, and Black Tortoise

The ‘Southern Star’ ittarius star; the Southern Stararound the Alioth should have been quite the rare phenoy, and that hat had left the emperor in despair earlier But these slabs corresponded to the heavens, and he just had to match theical phenomena

The ‘Imperial Canopy’ referred to the Purple Forbidden Enclosure’s Imperial Canopy star; ‘purple’ referred to the Eant music’ in ancient times referred to Xia music, and the Xia people were descendants of Xuanyuan That ’ referred to the Heavenly Market Enclosure’s Zheng star

With Mi Li’s help, Zu An quickly cracked the secrets of the inscriptions He just had to match them up to their proper positions

This type of pillar rotating puzzle wouldn’t be too difficult to brute force if it were a simple one, but a mechanis pointless But even though the ancient puzzle was quite profound, it wasn’t too difficult for soe education It was ave each pillar a nu to the first pillar’s rotation For example, if the second pillar didn’t spin, it would be 0 If the third spun once, it would be 1 If the fourth spun twice, it would be 2, and so on He could then remember it as d1=[1,0,1,2…]t

Then, if he turned the first pillar x1 times, the pillar would become x1d1 If he spun the second pillar x2 times, the pillar would become x2d2 From there, the final pillar would be x1d1d2+x3d3+…=b b would be a constant; since they had the exact final positions from the stele inscriptions, he could deduce the final state of the pillars and how many times each pillar had to be rotated

The sequence would then produce a hoeneous linear equation, and x1, x2, x3… could all be solved These would tell hi him the final state the stele inscriptions presented

Zhao Ruizhi was completely lost as he watched Zu An write out syround He couldn’t help but give the others a few glances He saw that whether it was Bi Linglong, He Li, or anyone else, they all appeared stupefied,him feel a lot better

A while later, He Li couldn’t help but sneak a look at the ehtly as he watched Zu An draw those weird sy sense to him He immediately felt admiration His majesty is his s!