[成龙历险记|西玉|全英]天行不息 11 Journey in China(10)

The five headed to the north and came to Chu land, where Hsi Wu was born thousands of years ago.
“Jade, didn’t you wanna know something when I was a human? It was on this land that I first practiced magic.”
“Wow! Cool! Crooked Jingjiang River, Dongting Lake, Yellow Crane Tower, Chibi…”
“There was not Yellow Crane Tower or Chibi at my time. Dongting Lake was also nothing because there had been a much bigger lake, Yunmengze Lake.”

“Oh! I’ve heard of that. Steamed Yunmengze! Isn’t it poetic?”
“Poetries only exist in outsider’s eyes. Practicing magic is hard. I must read countless ancient books written in Oracle, Bronze inscriptions or bamboo rolls. Even the content in one modern book could be too heavy for me to carry. So there’s no such thing as wisdom born with, there is only hard work over day and night.