Chapter 1874 - 685: Leisure Pavilion (Part 3)

Jiang Lan looked around:

"We’re here already?"

"What else?"

Su Mo glanced back at him.

"...Your Highness is quite familiar with the way."

Jiang Lan followed behind Su Mo and casually said.

"Earlier, I explored the path and handled some other matters.

This place deep in the clouds is truly extraordinary. Amid the mist, pairs of eyes gaze in all directions.

Even for me, a slight misstep could lead to discovery."

Su Mo spoke quietly: "However, within this Leisure Pavilion, there are no guards. Perhaps because it is Dongmen Yong’s private residence."

"Oh?"

Jiang Lan glanced at Su Mo:

"Your Highness, you’ve been busy all night. What is the purpose? Why not ask me to help?"

"Have you help mess things up?"

Su Mo looked at Jiang Lan with a faint smirk.

Jiang Lan laughed dryly:

"How would I mess things up?

I’m a skilled at Imperial Dao, although in this place deep in the clouds, it may not mean much.

But still, how could I possibly mess things up, right?"

"Alright, your time to contribute has come. Let’s go."

Into the corridor, onward inside.

What they first encountered was an Array.

Su Mo had carefully tread the path and experimented a bit earlier.

This Array was extremely dangerous.

Besides the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, Qimen Dunjia, it also included Illusion Techniques.

Su Mo experienced the cycle of spring, summer, autumn, and winter within a few breaths.

Fortunately, he flew out of the formation.

Now, dragging Jiang Lan along, he didn’t plan to continue venturing through the Array. He pulled him and directly flew over.

For most people, no matter how skilled in Qinggong, they need a stepping stone to assist in exerting strength.

Even a leaf, even a floating piece of duckweed.

Only Su Mo’s Wind God Step can change direction in mid-air, borrowing force from the void.

So, wanting to bypass this Array wasn’t difficult.

Landing, they were already before the thatched house within the Leisure Pavilion.

Ascending the steps, the door was tightly locked.

Su Mo intended to break the lock, thinking after tomorrow’s events, probably no one would care about the changes here.

But before taking action, Jiang Lan quickly said:

"Let me, let me."

He casually took out a steel needle from his sleeve, picked up the lock, inserted it into the keyhole, twisted twice casually, and heard a click, already unlocked.

Su Mo glanced at him, nodding slightly:

"I have a disciple named Xu Lu.

I’ll introduce you two later."

"Sure."

Jiang Lan nodded repeatedly.

Feeling Su Mo was much friendlier to him.

Willing to introduce his disciple to him.

Inside the room, the furnishings were simple.

Besides a bed, table, chairs, and chessboard, the most striking was a row of bookshelves.

Su Mo was not in a hurry to the back courtyard grave to dig up graves.

Instead, he browsed the books on the shelves one by one.

These books covered everything.

From astronomy to geography, including the I Ching Eight Diagrams, constellations changes, etc...

Su Mo casually picked up a book, glanced at it, the contents were profound, sometimes with annotations on one side.

Switching to another book, picking it up, annotations appeared again, all in the same handwriting, likely done by Dongmen Yong.

This person was truly well-read.

Su Mo saw the annotations also had insights from his reading, showing they were extraordinary.

But apart from this, there was nothing strange to be found.

Su Mo couldn’t help but frown slightly at this.

Came all the way to the place deep in the clouds, found Dongmen Yong’s private residence, if not to explore properly, wouldn’t it be a wasted trip?

Bringing Jiang Lan was also to have him take risks.

Now in the room, unexpectedly found nothing, somewhat disappointing.

Just about to leave, suddenly exclaimed ’ah’.

Glanced at the small candle holder on the side of the bookshelf, his mind moved, reaching out gently to touch.

Shook left and right, didn’t move a bit, pulled up and down, heard a click.

The sound came from behind the bookshelf.

Su Mo searched and found the clue.

Then he pushed aside several books, sure enough, there was a small square on the wall.

Inside was a box.

After a glance, he said to Jiang Lan, who was idle on one side:

"Help me bring this out."

"..."

Jiang Lan sighed:

"Is there a Detoxification Pill?"

"Here you go."

Su Mo casually took out one, tossed it to Jiang Lan.

Jiang Lan was not hesitant, directly stuffed it into his mouth.

Then he came to the front, said again to Su Mo:

"If something goes wrong, save my life."

"Absolutely."

Su Mo readily agreed.

But Jiang Lan didn’t believe a word.

This person is terribly cunning, speaks well but turns around and betrays you.

Took extreme caution, reached out to pick up the box.

No trouble encountered, easily retrieved the box.

The two faced each other, both a bit surprised, no mechanism hidden in the secret compartment.

Placed the box on the table, saw bizarre characters on it, two in total.

But these two characters, neither Su Mo nor Jiang Lan recognized.

Different from today’s typography.

Even during Nanhai Martial God’s time, typographical differences existed, but one could still understand them while reading and guessing, could recognize the majority.

"These characters..."

Jiang Lan stroked his chin and said:

"I seem to have seen it somewhere..."

"Oh?"

Su Mo gave Jiang Lan a glance:

"Can’t Vice Hall Master Jiang offers some hints?"

"This, not easy."

Jiang Lan patted his brain:

"Too much knowledge, learned too broadly, sometimes can’t recall.

"But this should come from a very small ethnic group.

If we could meet a person from this group, easily identifiable.

Otherwise..."

Su Mo nodded: "Do you know which ethnic group this language belongs to?"

"I don’t know, but isn’t Tianji Sect in Your Highness’s hands?

"Let them investigate later. These people, all-knowing.

"A mere two characters should not be difficult to trace."

"Reasonable, since that’s the case, open the box."

"..."

Jiang Lan was speechless:

"Your Highness, why not employ a method to open it remotely? What if upon opening, one hundred and eight Bone piercing Nails shoot out, what then?"

"Don’t you have the shovel in your hand?"

"But...it’s too fast, what if the shovel can’t block it?"

"Who told you to block it, you have the shovel, if killed by the box’s mechanism, I’ll dig a pit nearby, let you accompany Dongmen Yong eternally, wouldn’t it be splendid?"

"..."

Is this human speech?