Chapter 255 (2/2)
Lin Youfa let out a huff of frustration”Come on, Li ZhenrenWhat's your secret?”
”There are no secrets,” Li Yundong growled”Now shut up and get to work” He pointed at the block
Lin Youfa raised both hands in a gesture of surrender before he bent down to start pushi+ng the block
Not that the block illing to be pushed
”Gah! What the hell?!” Lin Youfa shouted”It wouldn't even budge!”
Lin Youfa had tried pushi+ng the block in different directions and fro it at one pointAd to look like they would havehell
”Just sh of Lin Youfa's ineffectual pushes
Lin Youfa raised his fists and slammed them onto the block's top surfaceWhen that didn't work, Lin Youfa leaped into the air and stoNot even a single crack
”The fck?!” Lin Youfa exclai lance”I don't suppose you know a more powerful God”
Lin Youfa shot hi look
I'll take that as a no
Li Yundong looked up at the skyIt was starting to get dark, so they had better hurry upHe had better hurry up, since it would be evensundown
Li Yundong sighed and began pacing around the stone block, exalesThere had to be so itAfter all, it was the sa and looked towards Lin Youfa, as in thedropped into a crouch and studied the bottoe of the stone block
Maybe the block had so pushed aside a bunch of weeds and studied the surface of the block
Nothing
He
HuhSo leaned down to take a closer look
There were sye of the blockSanskrit symbols, to be exact
Not just any Sanskrit symbolsThese symbols fornized them because he'd seen the same verse on the Fan of Seven Treasures
OkaySo there was a Dialy abandoned stone blockWhat now? What did that even mean?
Perhaps verses had to be chanted for the door to open?
Li Yundong's hand froze
He'd just found s on the left of the Sanskrit sy yanked out a handful of weeds which were obstructing his view of the engravingsThe new engravings weren't Sanskrit symbols; they were Chinese characters:
The door opens to the rightful heir
Li Yundong frowned
The rightful heir? The rightful heir to what? The Jindan? Was it referring to him as the Jindan's Heir?
As he pulled outreceived yet another surprise: the cryptic line of Chinese characters were enclosed in a circle; it would appear that they were at the center of soraved on the circle were seven dots, which were evenly spaced along the circumference
Each of the seven dots was labelled
Li Yundong traced his fingers along the circle and examined each label carefully
SraddhaSilaHriDharmaDanaApatrapyaand Prajna?
Fro of Sanskrit, Li Yundong knew that: sraddha means faith; silafroze
”Faith, virtue, wisdoraving again
And there were seven dotsSeven
Li Yundong rose to his feet, suddenly feeling thankful for all the ti all those texts on Buddhism
Faith, virtue, and wisdomEach of them constitutes the Seven Treasures of the noble Ones
The seven treasures
Li Yundong chuckledNow he knehat that cryptic line htful heir
The rightful heir to the Fan of Seven Treasures, not the JindanIn other words, only the true owner of the Fan of Seven Treasures could open the door
”What's so funny, Li Zhenren?” Lin Youfa said breathlessly
Li Yundong looked towards the oldto recover from his use of Shenda
”I kno to open this thing”
Lin Youfa's eyes greide”How?”
”I will open it,” Li Yundong said sternly”But you can't be here” No way in hell he was going to let this sneaky old man know about the Fan of Seven Treasures
Lin Youfa released a sound of protest”What the heck is that supposed to mean?”
”I don't want you anywhere near this area when I try to open the door” Li Yundong stared at the man”Head back to the start of the side trail and wait for rowled”You're just gonna enter the vault without enius? I still need you inside the vault to shohere the secret passage is, re fired back
”Why do I have to leave?” Lin Youfa challenged”Why can't I just wait here?”
Coz' I don't trust you, you despicable olddecided to take the soft approach”Look manIf you want to enter the vault, then do as I say” He gave Lin Youfa a hard stare”Right now, you're wasting both of our ti, his eyes filled with distrust
Li Yundong sighed”Just go and don't argue with meI'll let you knohen the door's openYou have o in and loot whatever the hell you want”
Lin Youfa's eyes narrowed”What if you enter first and then take all the good stuff away before I can get the snapped: his patience, rowled”You come back after ten”
This da to have to knock the old man out and then wake him after the door was open
”Fine,” Lin Youfa said gruffly”Andwaited until Lin Youfa was no longer in sight before he returned his attention to the stone block
Ho could he use the Fan of Seven Treasures to open this thing?
Maybe the fan had to be inserted soer the mechanism? But the stone block's surface was srooves, slots, or compartment for him to place the Fan of Seven Treasures
Maybe the ically?
Li Yundong lowered his backpack and pulled out the Fan of Seven TreasuresWithout ado, he accessed the telepathic connection he shared with the fan
Hey buddyThink you can activate the door forfor it to react
Moments later, it did
The fan snapped open on its own, and a particular verse on the fan's body started glowing brightlyUnsurprisingly, the glowing verse corresponded to the verse engraved on the stone block
So to the stone block: a portion of its srooves and indentations
Li Yundong leaped onto the stone block to get a better look of those groovesHe noted first the contour of the grooves, which resembled the shape of the Fan of Seven Treasures when fully openThe inner region of the outline contained sed in a neat structureWhen Li Yundong counted the nurooves, he found that there were forty-nine of therooves
The Fan of Seven Treasures had seven leaves in total, and there were seven blades on each leaf
Forty-nine blades in total
One groove for each blade
Co ordered the Fan of Seven Treasures telepathically
The fan floated towards hi stared at the fan, then back at those grooves
Open…
SNAP!
Lie down on the block
The fan flipped itself over until its body was parallel to the stone block's surface, then slowly lowered itself onto the block
It was a perfect fit
A loud click sounded as soon as the Fan of Seven Treasures started to glowThe next thing he knew, the stone block was shi+fting under his feet as it slid to the side to reveal a rectangular hole
VoilaOpen sesame