214 Unveiled Dagger (1/2)

The bold characters within the diary didn't make much sense on their own, but once he places them together, something interesting will be found. Leon flipped through the pages of the diary from beginning to end. The bold characters could be found throughout.

Leon pulled out a spare notebook and ink pen and prepared to record down the bold characters from start in sequence, however, his hand paused on the first character before he proceeded to store everything away in his Worldspace.

Entering the Whitespace, he summoned the Worldspace projection and scanned the diary before creating a copy in the archive.

Under his will, Leon used the power of the Whitespace to filter out all the unnecessary contents of the copied version of the diary and only kept the bold characters.

The bold characters were subsequently placed in a new book he formed with his will. However, he was still not done. The bold characters were compacted together and didn't make any sense as a single entity.

Leon took the time to personally peruse the filtered content at this specific point to separate the compacted characters before words began to form and the hidden message slowly revealed itself.

What would have taken him hours through the tedious handwritten method or the mentally draining simulation method of his mind, was complete in under an incense worth of time. The entire process was smooth and at ease.

The convenience and prowess of the Whitespace could be seen at this point. It was like delegating all your work to a super-smart subordinate that completely understands what you wanted with a single command.

Leon sighed. How many functions did the [Divine Book of Life] had left that he had yet to uncover? He didn't know, but the artifact spirit definitely would.

'The [Divine Book of Life] had existed since the time of antiquity unknown to the denizens of the Divine Realm. However, one thing for sure is the artifact spirit of such a peerless treasure would have definitely accumulated a lot of wisdom of the long years since the beginning of its existence.'

'Knowledge pertaining to cultivation techniques, martial skills, spirit arts, divine arts, and other professions had not been recorded in the [Divine Book of Life], but perhaps the artifact spirit had them all stored in its own memory bank…'

Leon shook his head and focused on the deciphered hidden message Arden left behind in his diary.

”Life is like a puzzle. There is always a start and an ending. In life, people will be forced to make choices. Some are positive, some are not and fatal even. Even if the endpoint could be seen, it is uncertain whether they will be able to reach it until the path ahead had been tread.”

Leon wasn't sure what Arden was trying to convey in his message but if someone told him he could kill all the divine kings by following that they say, he would think the person was crazy and a fraud that would screw him over.

Following the message that seemed to contain hidden meanings was a single character 'jade' that represents the Dragon Phoenix Jade, the starting point of the puzzle.

Below the 'jade' character were there directional words of left, right, and upward. Each direction was attached with a string of 'T' characters that could be seen flipped upside down, rotated sideways, or simply just 'T'.

It didn't take Leon hard to guess that these 'T' characters were referring to the positioning of the runic plates. Leon followed the instructions and turned the runic plates accordingly. After he was done, three runic lines connected the center plate on the front entrance of the inheritance building and the jade plate.

Ignoring the complexity of the runic lines itself, the runic plates formed a straight line to the entrance plate without any interruption of dead plates on each side of the cubic puzzle.

Leon waited afterward, but nothing special seems to happen after. However, the hidden clue didn't end with that set of instructions.

There was another set of messages afterward that stated, ”A teacher points the way, but it is ultimately dependent on the student on how they tread their path.”

Leon smiled wryly at this point. Of course, Arden wouldn't leave behind something that would solve the puzzle for him outright.

Arden was still expecting his successor to be able to solve the puzzle himself, but at least he was given a framework to work with and only needed to fill in the blanks.

By having a set of correct runic plates provided for him, the seemingly difficult puzzle became extremely easy with its infinite possibilities narrowed down to an extremely low number. This was the difference between working blindly and having something to work with.

It was like taking a multiple-choice test that you haven't learned about nor studied for. Even if you managed to guess the answer correctly, you might go back and second guess yourself and end up with the incorrect one.

Of course, these were just Leon's assumptions. Nothing was proven until he starts solving the puzzle.

Once he did though, everything became a lot smoother as he expected. Although mistakes were still made, it wasn't as bad as before.

Runic lines began lighting up one after the other and after an unknown period of time, every runic line had been lit up before he knew it.

When the last runic plate was rotated into position with a click, the pale purple light from the lit runic lines grew with increasing intensity, before it faded. No, it was more accurate to say that it congregated elsewhere, the sealed entrance at the front.

Heading over, Leon was soon absorbed when he began watching the fascinating mechanism of the inheritance building at work as the first layer of the seal entrance unraveled itself.

What was left behind in its place was a new layer. The entrance had not been opened. However, at the center of the second layer was a new runic plate.

This runic plate differentiated itself from any other runic plate he had seen. There were no runic lines on it, nor was it a dead plate for the entire plate itself was enshrouded in purple light.

Leon had a feeling that if he pushed on this plate with the palm of his hand, it would open the seal entrance before him, or at least something that would allow him inside would happen.