Biting Through

屨校滅趾，无咎。

Feet placed in stocks until the toes disappear. No fault.

The stocks cover the toes at Line 1, which is firm. When the line yields, lower thunder becomes earth and the figure is Hexagram 35.

噬膚滅鼻，无咎。

Biting through flesh until the nose disappears. No fault.

Biting through flesh until the nose is covered occurs at the centered yielding line; firming Line 2 changes lower thunder to lake and produces Hexagram 38.

噬腊肉，遇毒。小吝，无咎。

Biting dried meat and encountering poison. Slight difficulty. No fault.

Dried meat and poison appear at Line 3, the yielding top of inner thunder. A firm line in that place turns thunder into fire and gives the doubled-fire Hexagram 30.

噬乾胏，得金矢。利艱貞，吉。

Biting bone-in dried meat and finding a metal arrow. Constancy through difficulty is beneficial. Favorable.

Bone-in dried meat and the metal arrow belong to the firm fourth line, the base of the upper fire trigram. Making it yielding changes fire to mountain and produces Hexagram 27.

噬乾肉，得黃金。貞厲，无咎。

Biting dried meat and finding yellow gold. Constancy with awareness of danger. No fault.

The yielding ruler at Line 5 faces a difficult judgment despite finding something valuable. Steadiness and awareness of danger qualify the no-fault judgment. Changing this line to firm turns upper fire to heaven and produces Hexagram 25.

何校滅耳，凶。

A cangue carried on the shoulders hides the ears. Misfortune.

At the firm top line, the cangue covers the ears and completes the bodily sequence begun with the toes; if this line yields, upper fire becomes thunder and the figure is Hexagram 51.