(Foreword)

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

(Text)

"It seems that we are really trapped here, but since it is the strange array set up by Mr. Ouyang Yu, we must solve it again. Let's take a closer look and see if anything else we find. I said.

We searched around the cave, but we didn't find anything special.

"Cheng Yin, why don't we go and see if there are any other exits?" Cui Li proposed.

"We didn't see any other exits when we came, and there was only one way from Shimen, so we still looked here for any mechanisms or exits." I think there's definitely something here that we haven't discovered.

"But the bandits at the outer gate haven't dispersed yet, I don't know if they will be able to unlock the stone plate and enter the cave." Cui Li asked worriedly.

"I don't think they'll be able to unravel this plate anytime soon." I said, "The most important key to unlocking this stone plate is probably not something they will think of."

"The key to the matter? By the way, I didn't have time to ask you just now, how did you unlock the mechanism on the stone plate? Cui Li asked curiously.

"Actually, this way to open the stone door is difficult to say, but it is not so difficult, but we see the simple problem as too complicated. All you need to do is press all eight buttons, and the stone door will open. "I said it very easily, but it is not so easy to simplify complex things.

"What, press all the buttons on the stone plate? But isn't it a gossip formation on the stone plate? Press all eight doors to open the stone door? What is the reasoning behind this? Cui Li still can't seem to understand the truth.

"Actually, we were wrong in the first place. To be precise, when we see the stone plate, we are wrong. "I suddenly felt guilty that if I had discovered the secret earlier, I might have been able to change the situation. Maybe in that case, Zhao Yan will also enter the cave with us at this time.

"We were wrong when we saw the stone plate? Why do I get more confused the more I listen? What did I go wrong? Cui Li continued to ask.

The torches in the cave illuminated the stone wall very brightly, Wang Ningshuang did not speak on the side, but asked the family to help Wang Lao Ye to rest against the wall, in the light of the torches, I could see her haggard cheeks, we have not had a good rest since the evening, although we can't leave the cave for a while, but at least give us plenty of time to rest. I turned my gaze back to Cui Li.

"The moment we saw the stone plate, we couldn't help but feel that the stone plate in front of us must be related to the Bagua Array." I looked at the torches on the stone wall.

"That's right. The octagonal stone plate and the text on it are very similar to the gossip we usually see. Naturally, I thought of the gossip array? Cui Li asked with a puzzled expression.

"Indeed, the shape of the stone plate is very similar to the gossip we usually see, so it is logical to think that it is the Bagua Array, but we have no other evidence to say that this is the Bagua Array except for our own subjective opinion." I looked at Cui Li and asked rhetorically.

"Why not, isn't that what you found? Why is it that after a headache, you forget what you just happened in a blink of an eye? Didn't you find that the names of the houses in the palace corresponded to the stone plates?" Cui Li looked a little anxious.

"That's right, but that means it has something to do with gossip?" I questioned.

"Of course, the stone plate is written with Ning, Fan, Tian, Guang, You, Tian, Mo, and Xuan. And aren't the houses in the palace exactly 'Ningxiu Pavilion', 'Fankai Pavilion', 'Tianshengju', 'Moduju', 'Xuanjingtai' and 'Tianjingchi'? Echoed? How can it be said that it has nothing to do with gossip? Cui Li said with righteous indignation. But often too often, it's just us complicating things.

"Yes, but in this case, there is one of the biggest problems that remains unsolved. There are two identical 'heavens' on this stone plate, and according to our inference, the 'heavens' correspond to the Shengmen of the 'Tianshengju' of the Wang's residence and the Jingmen of the 'Tianjingchi' that we pass through, the Shengmen is the upper three gates in the eight trigrams, and the Jingmen is the second gate of Ping. How can we determine which 'day' character corresponds to Shengmen, and which 'Tian' character corresponds to Jingmen?" I looked at Cui Li, obviously he didn't know how to answer this question, which is why I didn't open the stone door in the first place.

"But maybe we haven't thought of a way to untie the stone plate, maybe there's something else." Cui Li hesitated.

Cui Li was right, there might be other ways, I thought so at the time, but I found a detail on the stone plate, which dispelled my idea.

"I thought about what you said, but when I looked at the stone plate again, I noticed a detail. This made me rethink how to open the stone door. "I said it slowly.

"The details on the stone plate? I've also looked at the contents of the stone tablet, but there is nothing else but the eight words we know. Cui Li seemed to be thinking about the appearance of the stone plate again.

"Indeed, the reason why you don't think there's anything special on the stone plate is because you haven't pressed the button on the stone plate." I looked at Cui Li.

"Button? What about buttons? Could it be that there will be a voice prompt when the button is pressed? Cui Li asked half-jokingly.

"When I pressed the first word 'day', the stone gate did not have any reaction, so I immediately pressed the second word 'day', but when I pressed the second word 'day', I discovered another secret on the stone plate." I pondered as I spoke.

"Another secret? What secret? Cui Li looked a little curious.

"Just when I pressed the second word 'day', I suddenly noticed a detail, the first word 'day' I just pressed did not pop up. That is to say..."

"In other words, this stone plate is not something that can be opened at the push of a button!!" Cui Li looked at me with a sudden realization.

"That's right, that's why I changed my approach and I pressed all eight buttons one by one to see what happened. But I found that it was only when I pressed all the buttons that the stone disk changed. My tone was low.

"Could it be... At that time, the stone plate began to rotate..."Cui Li looked at me with a shocked expression.

(End of chapter)