(Foreword)

Cold ice can't break the water, and dead wood can meet spring again.

(Text)

This is the strange array set up by Mr. Ouyang Yu, which is incomprehensible, originally thought that he was already on the edge of the labyrinth, but who knew that we were still in the most central position, we had not been there all along, just standing still. We are always waiting for the image to appear, waiting for the real self to appear in front of us. But we were all wrong! Only the answers that you keep looking for are the real answers.

"Cui Li, we have never doubted whether there really is a 'stone box'!!" I said, staring at the debris on the ground.

"Cheng Yin, what the hell are you talking about?" The stone box was not in front of us, and it was also broken by the qinqi, calligraphy and painting. Isn't that what you told us? How can you say that there is no stone box? Cui Li seems to be completely confused.

"Where did we hear the legend of the 'Stone Box'?" I asked.

"Isn't that what Elder Wang told us personally? How did you forget? Cui Li asked rhetorically.

That's right, when we were in the palace at that time, Wang Lao did tell us about the legend of this 'stone box', and Mo Qifeng also said it later.

Legend has it that the ancestors of the palace and the head of the sword faction were playing in the mountains, and suddenly met an old man, the old man handed a treasure box to the ancestors of the palace, and put four blades in the hands of the head of the sword faction, and ordered the two of them to swear to guard this treasure box for generations until someone who is destined to find it.

But no one has ever questioned this legend. The legend sounds logical, as if everyone had seen it with their own eyes. But is the truth really what the world has rumored?

"What if the old man who met the two people who were playing in the mountains didn't give them a 'stone box'?" Obviously, my assumption sounds so incredible.

"How is this possible? If there is no legendary 'stone box', then what is the 'stone box' that is broken in front of us now? This "stone box" can't appear out of thin air, right?" Cui Li asked.

"Yes, Cheng Yin, do you have any reason to say that there was no 'stone box' at that time?" Lin Yun was also full of questions.

"It's very simple, don't you think the mechanism on this 'stone box' is too simple? Moreover, the same mechanism design was also applied to the 'Xuantian Stone Gate' of the palace. I think this 'stone box' must have been made by the ancestors of the royal palace. And this 'stone box' was empty from beginning to end. He did not put in it what the old man had entrusted him. "I looked at Cui Li and Lin Yun.

"That could also be because the ancestor of the palace opened the 'stone box', so he understood the mechanism in it and used it on the 'Xuantian Stone Gate'." Lin Yun asked.

"If the ancestor of the palace opened the 'stone box', it means that he is the person who is destined as the old man said, and taking away the treasures in the 'stone box' is, why bother to build a courtyard to protect this 'stone box' for generations." I'm not done yet.

"That way, they can hide their eyes." Lin Yun continued to argue.

"But if it weren't for the news of the 'stone box' that they themselves had, the world wouldn't have known. So what is the need to hide from others? I continued.

"You have some truth in saying that, but why would they do it?" Lin Yun didn't understand the reasoning.

"It's just to wait for the real destined person. The ancestors of the royal palace and the head of the Sword Tilting Sect agreed that they would be entrusted by the old man to protect the entrusted things for generations. But if it is guarded from generation to generation, the destined person may not be able to find it, but if it is known all over the city, then the palace will definitely be the target of everyone, and when people from all walks of life gather, it is inevitable that there will be a storm. The palace and the Tilting Sword Sect are weak, how can they resist all walks of life in the world? I paused.

"So they made the 'stone box'?" Cui Li seemed to understand a little.

"That's right, make a 'stone box', and then flow the legend of the 'stone box' to the people. In this way, it is just a legend, and the people of the world may not gather together, and many people will even treat it as an after-dinner conversation and laugh. But if it is really the fate that the old man said, he will definitely come to the palace. This is neither clear nor implied, killing two birds with one stone. I said.

"Amazing, this trick is really clever !!" Lin Yun exclaimed.

"The cleverness of this trick is not only this, but more importantly, the world's heroes gather, there is no shortage of martial arts, in case someone breaks into the palace to get the 'stone box', or the small person takes the 'stone box', so it will soon bear the old man's trust, so the two at that time agreed not to put the things entrusted by the old man in the 'stone box', so that it is foolproof." I continued.

"So even if the qinqi, calligraphy and painting shattered the 'stone box', there was nothing inside? How can the people who are destined to find the real treasure that the old man said," Lin Yun asked.

"That's right, this is the real key, since they made the 'stone box', they will definitely hide the information of the things entrusted by the old man in the 'stone box', but we haven't found it yet!!" It was then that I suddenly realized that the shattered 'stone box' on the ground was the key.

"What!! Didn't you say it earlier, I kicked off a piece hard, where can I find it?" Cui Li said embarrassedly.

Cui Li!! How can you kick it out? Lin Yun also looked very anxious. What if you kick off a crucial piece? ”

"Won't it?" Cui Li searched on the ground.

We've managed to find all the pieces we can find, and now it's time to find out. I looked closely at the fragments of the 'stone box'. Suddenly, the handwriting on the 'stone box' made me ponder.

"How's it going, Cheng Yin, have you found anything? How do I look at each piece, it's almost the same, and the one that won't have a clue happened to be kicked off by me, right? Cui Li was a little embarrassed.

"Cui Li, be quiet for a while, I need to think." Cui Li's words always interrupted my musings.

"Okay, okay, I don't say it, I don't say it." Cui Li closed his mouth.

Time passes, and I have to find the clue on the 'stone box' quickly, so that we can hope to capture Yiling Pass and get out of here with everyone.

When I think of this, my sense of responsibility comes to my heart, and every commitment is a challenge, but I must not give up, I can only do my best. I stared at the shattered 'stone box' in front of me.

(End of chapter)