[[[CP|W:552|H:418|A:L|U:http://file1.qidian.com/chapters/20158/7/3541608635745684800785000509817.jpg]]] The nine small circles represent the most basic world composition, the nine houses. There are twenty-seven lines connecting the nine palaces in the innermost central circle, representing the law of compounding. Together with the five elements, light, darkness, life, and destruction, the composite system forms the thirty-six celestial phenomena. This is the idea of a monistic convergent world!