It is said that Chen Ran stayed in Panjiao Qu Si Zhai to help Qu Wu Wu organize Bai Xiaosheng's library. In just half a day, Chen Ran actually found a very important book in the collection - "Pan Jiao Qu Si Lu".

Chen Ran looked excited and quickly found Qu Wuxin and handed over the "Four Records of Panjiao Qu" he was holding in his hand.

Qu Wuyi took it and checked it carefully. After a while, Qu Wuyi finished reading the thin "Four Records of Panjiao Qu". She said to Chen Ran: "There is indeed Xue Wulei's file here, but

It’s not among the books we have sorted out. There is a very strange mark on Xue Wulei’s file in the book. If I guessed correctly, it should be in an underground agency.”

"Is there an underground mechanism here?"

Chen Ran looked at the collapsed houses and pools filled with water all around with a look of disbelief on his face.

Qu Wuyi nodded firmly and said, "Yes, but I can't open the secret vault by myself. Maybe I need your help."

"Council Leader Qu, you're welcome. As long as my subordinates can help, I can give you my orders."

Qu Wuwu had a gentle temperament and showed no airs to anyone. Chen Ran was moved and quickly clasped his fists, bowed and said respectfully.

"The cipher text of the mechanism is in the half-sunken house in front. I need to use my inner strength to open the mechanism inside. Only I can read Bai Xiaosheng's cipher text. I go in and translate the cipher text into vernacular, and raise my voice to

You, just touch the mechanisms in order."

Qu Wuyi took Chen Ran a few steps forward and pointed to a bamboo building that had half collapsed and the other half sunk to the bottom of the water.

"Okay!" Chen Ran nodded with a solemn expression.

After Chen Ran finished speaking, Qu Wuyou walked straight into the bamboo building, leaving two followers from Hanjiang City standing guard outside with Chen Ran.

"If a person is sad, he will return to the West. Let's cut down the trees first to prepare for the winter!"

Not long after, the voice of Qu Wuwu reciting secret texts came from the bamboo tower.

Chen Ran was confused as he listened to the cipher text that Qu Wuxin had translated. He felt that the translated cipher text was still obscure and confusing.

"Although the pearl is good, the lamp is not burning. Everything will be prosperous, so there is no need for wisdom and planning."

Just as Chen Ran was thinking hard about the first cipher text, the sound of the second cipher text that Qu Wuxin deciphered came from the bamboo building.

"Isn't this still cipher text? What's the difference between deciphering it and not deciphering it?"

Chen Ran thought about these two unrelated sentences and kept scratching his head, with a look of helplessness on his face.

At this moment, a Hanjiang City follower who was left outside by Qu Wuyi reminded him: "The alliance leader said that the mechanism of the secret treasury should be related to the pillars around the bamboo building. You can start from there."

When Chen Ran heard this, he narrowed his eyes and looked forward. Sure enough, he found some stone pillars that had been broken and buried deeply in the soil around the bamboo building.

Chen Ran slowly came to the stone pillars, leaned down and took a closer look. He found that four stone pillars were painted with different colors of tung paint. However, in what order should these stone pillars be touched, the cipher text has not yet been cracked.

Chen Ran is still puzzled by the meaning.

"The secret text contains the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, which correspond to the stone pillars outside. Please consider it carefully."

Qu Wuxin's quiet voice floated out from the bamboo building, giving Chen Ran some hints.

"If a person is sad, he will die. The heart corresponds to the fire in the five elements. Since ancient times, fire has been red, so it should be this one!"

Qu Wuyi's reminder gave Chen Ran a lot of inspiration. He immediately found the clue from the first cipher text. He looked down and saw the shape of a flame painted with red paint on one of the stone pillars.

Chen Ran squatted down and gently pressed his palm on the flame pattern. He immediately heard a slight sound, which must have been the correct mechanism being touched.

"Let's cut down the wood first to prepare for the winter. That should be wood!"

Successfully cracking the first cipher text greatly increased Chen Ran's confidence. At this time, he was chanting the second cipher text. He thought that the second cipher text must correspond to the wood among the five elements, so he found the stone pillar representing wood.

, without thinking, just pressed it with a palm.

After waiting for a long time, Chen Ran found that there was no movement on the stone pillars painted with green paint, and then he realized that he had touched the wrong mechanism.

"Mu actually doesn't

Right? What should it correspond to?"

Chen Ran paced anxiously back and forth beside the stone pillar, frowning, seriously thinking about the meaning contained in the second sentence of secret text.

It's no wonder that Chen Ran was trapped. Thinking that Bai Xiaosheng is the most wise man in the martial arts world. If the cipher text left behind can be cracked so easily, it would seem that Bai Xiaosheng is worthy of his reputation.

"Let's cut down the trees first to prepare for the winter."

"Let's cut down the trees first to prepare for the winter."

Chen Ran walked back and forth anxiously, with these few secret words in his head. Chen Ran put his hand on his forehead and kept muttering the words "logging" and "winter" in his mouth.

Suddenly an idea flashed in his mind. Chen Ran slapped his thigh suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he laughed and said: "Yes! Cutting wood! Can't you use an ax to cut wood? And the ax corresponds to gold among the five elements!"

Chen Ran danced with joy at the thought. Before, he had been burdened by the literal word "wood" and fell into a fixed mindset, thinking that the second mechanism must be related to wood. Now that he thought about it carefully, it suddenly became clear and he exclaimed that the answer to the mystery turned out to be

Hidden on this logging tool!

Taking three steps and two steps at a time, he came to a stone pillar. Chen Ran looked closely and saw a small ax painted with gold paint on the stone pillar. Seeing the ax pattern, Chen Ran further confirmed his suspicion and directly

Pressed it.

"Crack!"

Another subtle sound came, and Chen Ran couldn't help but feel happy, finally cracking the second mechanism!

"Leader Qu, I have opened two mechanisms! What is the second cipher text?"

Chen Ran couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart and shouted loudly into the bamboo building.

"Although the pearl is good, the lamp is still unburned. All things are beginning to bloom, so there is no need for wisdom and planning. Move quickly, my internal strength is almost not enough!"

Qu Wuxin finished the second sentence of the secret message in Zhulou Neiqu at a very fast speed. From her voice, Chen Ran could clearly hear the anxiety.

Chen Ran then remembered that this mechanism relied on Qu Wuxin's internal strength to maintain it. He did not dare to waste any more time and quickly thought about how to crack the third mechanism.

"Although the pearl is good, the lamp is not burning."

Chen Ran muttered the first half of the second cipher text, but Chen Ran didn't care about the second half of the cipher text at all, because he knew that as long as the third stone pillar was cracked, the last stone pillar would be broken.

"The moon in the sea has tears, and the sun in Lantian is warm and jade produces smoke!"

Somehow, when Chen Ran read the word "Pearl", these two verses could not help but appear in Chen Ran's mind. His eyes suddenly lit up, and he had figured out the secret text in his mind.

"The pearl is the essence of the clam! And the clam lives in the sea, so this sentence corresponds to water among the five elements!"

Chen Ran quickly ran towards a stone pillar painted with black paint, because it was mentioned in "Tianya Wei Lu" that in ancient times, the Black Water Black Snake was in charge of all water in the world, so people used black to represent the color of water.

Finding the black stone pillar, Chen Ran reached out and pressed it decisively, and he heard the impact sound caused by the operation of the mechanism. So far, three of the four stone pillars had been broken, leaving only one stone pillar painted with green paint in the southeast. Chen Ran also

Without thinking about the meaning of the green pattern on the stone pillar, he directly covered it with his palm and pressed it gently.

"Huh? That's not right?"

Chen Ran pressed the third stone pillar with full confidence. He thought his deduction was perfect, but he didn't expect it to be wrong!

"What went wrong?"

Chen Ran looked anxiously at the last two stone pillars. One black and one green on these two stone pillars, representing the five elements of water and wood respectively.

"Could it be said that we should cut down the trees first to prepare for the winter? This sentence corresponds to two types of five elements?"

Chen Ran followed his guess and came to the stone pillar painted with green tung paint, and pressed it gently with his palm.

"Crack!"

The sound of the mechanism sounded, verifying the correctness of Chen Ran's conjecture. In the end, there was only one black stone pillar left, corresponding to the sentence "Pearl".

"Crack!"

As the last stone pillar was pressed down, all the traps left by Bai Xiaosheng were finally cracked by Chen Ran.

"Ahem."

Qu Wuyi walked out of the bamboo building with the help of the entourage outside. Chen Ran turned around and saw that her face was as pale as paper.

, a quick glance showed that the internal energy was exhausted, and it was difficult to even stand at this moment, and he had to rely on the support of his entourage to survive.

"Leader Qu, how are you?"

Chen Ran walked quickly to Qu Wuyi and asked with concern.

"Your little mind is not too stupid. If you delay for a moment, I will faint inside due to exhaustion of internal energy."

Qu Wuyi forced out a smile at Chen Ran, his lips were pale and without a trace of blood.

"Bai Xiaosheng is worthy of being the wisest man in the martial arts world. The cipher text left behind contains secrets. I was misled twice, so it took me a while. But I have deciphered all the cipher text. What should I do next?"

Chen Ran scratched his head in embarrassment.

"not yet."

Qu Wuyi shook his head, leaned on the female attendant, and said slowly: "The secret message left by Bai Xiaosheng is not that simple. This last sentence should also imply something."

"Although the pearl is good, the lamp is not burning. Everything will be prosperous, so why do you need wisdom and planning?"

Chen Ran slowly read out the last sentence of the secret text, looked at Qu Wuyi and said: "I already know the first half, it means that the pearl is the essence of the giant clam in the sea, which coincides with the water in the five elements, but I don't know the second half.

Understand what it means."

Qu Wuyi shook his head again and said to Chen Ran: "You have only solved the first layer of the mystery. Bai Xiaosheng knows the truth and falsehood in his work. According to my understanding of him, since he mentioned Pearl II in the secret text,

There should be a luminous pearl hidden nearby, you might as well search around."

After Qu Wuyi finished speaking, he ignored Chen Ran, but sat cross-legged and began to exercise to restore his internal strength.
To be continued...