Martial Arts Escort System: I Got A Maxed Level Divine Technique From The Beginning-Chapter 347 - 183 Secret Message Box_3

"This journey, I came precisely by the orders of our Sect Leader.

"Yang Yizhi planned to fake his death to escape and plot a major event, so the Sect Leader asked me to assist him, and to take the opportunity to come to Luoxia City and retrieve an item from Ziyang Escort Agency.

"Here, take a look at this and you’ll understand."

He took a letter from his sleeve without any hesitation and handed it directly to Su Mo.

Su Mo reached out to take it, opened it and glanced at it: "New paper, new ink, did your father write this to you recently?"

"How could that be!"

Duan Song gave Su Mo a glance: "The letter is quite old, and it wasn’t written to me... but to the Sect Leader of our Ziyang Sect.

"The Sect Leader could not give me that letter from many years ago, so he rewrote one according to what he remembered. The method to open the door is all listed in it."

That really made sense.

Su Mo took another look at the stone chamber, then lowered his head to look at the letter.

[To my revered master:

The item has been placed in the secret chamber. With Tianyang still alive, it can be kept safe.

However, unexpected misfortunes may occur anytime, and if Tianyang dies, leaving the item here would not be a long-term solution.

My young son is too weak, I anticipate he may not carry such a burden, so if anything changes, I must ask the disciples within the sect to go to Ziyang Escort Agency and retrieve this item.

Hoping for master’s mercy...

The method to open the door is as follows:...

Undutiful disciple Su Tianyang kowtows]

Su Mo read the letter twice. Aside from the method to open the door, these few lines seemed to contain endless unspeakable words.

Yet upon closer inspection, it seemed dull and ordinary.

He shook his head slightly, looked back at that box, and reached out to bring it closer.

Seeing this, Duan Song suddenly retreated several steps, watching from a distance. Only when he saw that no hidden weapons or arrows were shot at him did he breathe a sigh of relief.

Su Mo ignored him.

Now he understood Duan Song a bit.

Growing up together with Su Tianyang, Su Tianyang had tricked him numerous times both openly and secretly.

To describe Duan Song in one phrase, it would be ’a bird startled by the mere twang of a bowstring’.

Thus, regardless of his wisdom, when it came to matters involving Su Tianyang, he always struggled to make accurate judgments.

In fact, if one thought about it, when Su Tianyang wrote this letter back then, he probably guessed that eventually, it would be Duan Song who would come to Ziyang Escort Agency to retrieve this item...

So he added some clever tricks in the method to open it.

But there was no intention of harm, somewhat intending to play a joke on his friend who grew up with him.

Going into the secret chamber and retrieving the item, if he had set up further schemes, that would imply harboring malicious intentions.

Su Mo held the box in his hand, inspected it briefly, then casually opened it.

Inside was an item.

Square on all corners, it seemed to be made of many tiny fragments assembled together.

Each small fragment bore text, but at first glance, the phrases were difficult to make coherent.

Su Mo took the item out, looked it over and over for a while, gently shook his head, and glanced at Duan Song:

"Senior, do you recognize this item?"

"This..."

Duan Song, bearing the face of Yang Yizhi, came closer, casually took it, fiddled with it, and suddenly paused:

"This is actually a Secret Message Box."

"Secret Message Box?"

Su Mo was unfamiliar with this, momentarily curious:

"What is a Secret Message Box?"

"This..."

Duan Song slightly smiled: "Do you know of the land of Xizhou?"

"The four corners of the world, of course, I’ve heard of it. But specifically... I have limited knowledge."

"That’s not surprising."

Duan Song nodded: "The Southwest is indeed the gateway of our Donghuang, but Xizhou is ultimately too far. In the past, a senior from our Ziyang Sect traveled all over the world, went to Xizhou, and had some experiences, which are recorded in the classics of the Ziyang Sect.

"It is said that in the land of Xizhou, there are skilled craftsmen.

"Their martial arts often integrate such craft.

"With mechanical puppets and other little objects made, manipulated by silk threads, they can reach anywhere, changing unpredictably.

"This actually resembles a bit like the human skin tricks and Shadow Magic of Eternal Night Valley, both manipulate external objects through methods.

"But the methods of Eternal Night Valley are ruthless and tricky, not of the Righteous Path.

"However, the methods from Xizhou are quite interesting...

"And among them, it is said that the most ingenious craftsmen once made three Secret Message Boxes.

"This item is neither gold nor jade nor iron nor stone, immune to blades and fire. If forced open, the mechanism inside will activate, and the Fire God Oil hidden within the layers of the Secret Message Box will turn everything inside to ashes.

"Even gold and iron will melt into molten metal.

"Therefore, it is considered top-notch secret storage in the world."

"...So, it’s essentially a puzzle box?"

Su Mo’s mouth twitched.

"Puzzle box? Indeed, that fits."

Duan Song nodded: "Look at the text on it, chaotic and disordered, but each type has its own arrangement. There are different combinations on each of the six faces.

"There are a total of six hundred characters, all of which need to be arranged in a specific order.

"One wrong step, and you have to start over."

"..."

Su Mo’s mouth twitched again, finding this tiny Secret Message Box a bit too much:

"Can anyone actually open this?"

"That’s why it’s formidable because it’s difficult to open."

Duan Song smiled: "It’s said that the first Secret Message Box was abandoned unused because its creator forgot how to open it.

"After the subsequent two Secret Message Boxes were achieved, the method to open them was listed on paper.

"But even the content on the paper is also disorderly and chaotic, ordinary people even if seeing it wouldn’t know its use...

"Unless you have a Secret Message Box and then have a set of methods to open it, otherwise, this item is just like staring in a stalemate, unable to do anything with each other."

"..."

Listening to this, Su Mo suddenly remembered something.

He fumbled in his sleeve for a moment, took out a carefully folded slip of paper, and unfolded it, full of tiny characters.

No matter reading from left to right or top to bottom, the text was hard to make sense of.

Su Mo compared the two, and indeed found an interesting point.

Both the Secret Message Box and the text on this slip of paper were written in lines of thirteen characters.

(I guess you all have forgotten about this thing)