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First thing first, you walk around the couple hundred steps isolating the slab to the Eastern obelisk. Facing toward the distant sea, the "Spring" character is deeply engraved. You head South - and each step seems heavier than the previous one.
Ping Jun : "<span class="mu-s">What... Is it?</span>
LienWen YanEr : - <span class="mu-g">The weight of the Empress' mandate. Preventing us to travel too far. Grit your teeth, you can withstand so much. </span>"
Indeed, the pressure is harsh, but overcomable. And the South obelisk bear the Summer mark. Pressure recede as you go north-west toward the similarly marked pillar, and end the circle with the northenmost Winter pillar.
LienWen YanEr : "<span class="mu-g">What now?</span>
Quiet Word : - Ping Jun, try to move it around? Push it, twist it?
Ping Jun : ... <span class="mu-s">Doesn't work.</span>"
You move back to the Spring Pillar; dig around it but nothing seems buried.
LienWen YanEr : "<span class="mu-g">What are you doing?</span>
Quiet Word : - Follow the poem and act on the four pillars?
[...]
LienWen YanEr : - <span class="mu-g">That was a waste of time.</span>
Quiet Word : - I'm all ear about your idea.
Ping Jun : - <span class="mu-s">Nah. She's mad because the hug was not long enough.</span>
LienWen YanEr : - <span class="mu-g">You're courting death.</span>"
Ping Jun : - <span class="mu-s">Only truth cut that deep.</span>
LienWen YanEr : - <span class="mu-g">Really, must I teach you that Lotus can hurt as much as the Phoenix' fire?</span>"
While Ping Jun apologize to defuse the fight, you try what LienWen just suggested : maybe your Bounded Phoenix' fire can activate the mysterious Pillar?
... Failure.
LienWen YanEr : "<span class="mu-g">So, regular Fire Qi doesn't work; neither does Phoenix Qi?</span>
Quiet Word : - Regular Fire Qi? I might be retarded...
Ping Jun : - <span class="mu-s">Why are you stopping?</span>
Quiet Word : - This is the one you want to go in? Sure?
LienWen YanEr : - <span class="mu-g">I feel either of those would be small fry gains...</span>
Quiet Word : - The slab! We need to pull together Fire, Wind, Earth and Water...
Ping Jun : - <span class="mu-s">Hard pass. Can't do any of the above.</span>
LienWen YanEr : - <span class="mu-g">Brillant display from the so call "Versatile" cultivator. Of course, I can deal with Water and Wind myself.</span>
Quiet Word : - Alright. Let's pull Qi together..."
