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Chapter 550 Open Sesame

Inside the iron gate, soft light illuminated the spacious cave as if it were daytime. Looking up, one could see countless luminous pearls embedded in the ceiling, like stars in the night sky.

But inside the cave, what is most surprising is not these priceless luminous pearls, but a silver-gray wall that fills your entire field of vision.

This cave was clearly dug out later.

Puning walked up to the silver-gray wall, reached out and touched the smooth wall that had stood for countless years, and looked at Li Dachui and said, "This place was originally all rock, but we wanted to see what this thing was, so we spent countless efforts to carve out this cave, but in the end everyone gave up."

Li Dachui thought to himself, with your current rudimentary tools, it's naturally impossible to carve out that behemoth from the rock.

The main deep-space exploration ship, Hope, is a behemoth that is over a thousand meters long. Although the medical rescue ship is only a component of it, it is also nearly a hundred meters long. With your limited manpower, even if you dig with chisels and shovels, you won't be able to dig it out in a hundred years.

Li Dachui walked straight to the direction directly opposite the iron gate, turned around and looked at the three people from Puning, and laughed, "You have this nameplate in your hands, haven't you thought about its purpose?"

“What use could a sign have to open this door?” Puning asked in surprise. “We all think that this sign is probably to prove someone’s identity, just like our religion has something similar.”

Li Dachui smiled, gently stroking the silver-gray wall with his palm, and said, "You've studied this for so many years, and you still haven't noticed this tiny bump?"

Puning leaned closer, looked at the small bump, and shook his head. "Is there anything unusual about this?"

Li Dachui picked up the nameplate in his hand, turned it over, and pointed to a not-so-obvious indentation in the very center of the nameplate: "See that?"

Puning was stunned: "These two are a set?"

"I guess so! But after so many years, whether it's still good or still usable, nobody knows. Let's just try our luck. If we're lucky, it might still work."

With a snap, Li Dachui pressed the nameplate in his hand onto the protrusion.

All eyes fell on the nameplate.

Even Li Dachui's eyes were filled with anticipation.

The change happened right before everyone's eyes.

The silver-white nameplate lit up, and then the entire plate shrank inward. Amidst the exclamations of Puning and Chen Ting, the nameplate shrank until it was flush with the entire silver-gray wall before stopping.

Then, a square, silver-gray wall about a foot in size lit up, displaying a pattern identical to the one in the center of the nameplate. Below the pattern appeared dozens of buttons, each with a different number and symbol.

Li Dachui breathed a long sigh of relief. Thank goodness, even after hundreds of years, the medical ship's energy hadn't run out yet. At least, the door and its control system were still intact.

"I hope you didn't change the password back then!" Li Dachui prayed silently, closed his eyes, and tried hard to recall those things from back then, his fingers tapping on the numbers and symbols one by one.

Jiang Qian, Puning, and Chen Ting all leaned closer in shock.

What was happening before their eyes was clearly beyond their comprehension.

Each press added a corresponding number to the small square below the pattern. When all the squares were filled, a very faint, almost inaudible clicking sound was heard. Then the nameplate popped out, and immediately afterward, the wall that they had spent countless hours trying to create without making a single crack split open from the middle, and a door silently shrank to one side.

It was opened.

The lights in the passageway turned on one by one. Li Dachui strode into the passage, but after a few steps, he realized that Jiang Qian and the others hadn't followed. So he turned back, smiled at them, and said, "What's wrong? Weren't you guys trying to figure out how to get in? Now that we can come in, why are you hesitating?"

"What is this thing?" Jiang Qian asked, standing outside the door.

She would naturally remain extremely vigilant about the unknown, even if it was something left behind by her own ancestor. The problem was that her disciples and grand-disciples knew nothing about what her ancestor had left behind, but an outsider seemed to know all the intricacies of it.

This made her extremely cautious.

“This is something brought by your ancestor Qingfeng!” Li Dachui said. “Simply put, it’s a spaceship.”

"Can the ship fly?" asked Puning, the chief engineer.

“Of course!” Li Dachui and Kempin nodded.

"Where did Patriarch Qingfeng come from?" Jiang Qian's voice trembled slightly. "Was she a deity?"

“She’s not a goddess!” Li Dachui shook his head and said, “But she did come from somewhere else, or rather, she came from another timeline.”

"A paradise on earth?" the old scholar Chen Ting asked softly.

It has to be said that people who read a lot of books can always find suitable reasons to explain everything they cannot understand. This is good, as it saves Li Dachui a lot of trouble and prevents him from having to come up with another story.

The truth of what he experienced is so real that probably no one would believe it if he told it.

You can understand it this way!

"How do you know all this?" Jiang Qian asked the most important question. She would never take this step into the unknown without figuring it out.

That's definitely not a good answer.

She said that she and Qingfeng actually knew each other and had even worked together, but problems arose later and they went their separate ways.
Li Dachui thought about it. Although the statement was true, it was too far-fetched. The people in front of him were all pragmatists and would not believe it at all. They would only think that he was lying.

Actually, I also find my current situation incredibly mysterious.

Clearly, Qingfeng arrived at this place with the medical ship, while he himself became a mysterious fragment of consciousness, or in modern terms, a soul, drifting in space for hundreds of years before finally finding a host by sheer luck.

Over the years, he could occasionally recall bits and pieces of his past memories, which had been tormenting him until today, when he saw this plaque. Only then did he fully recover and gain a clear understanding of his past and present life.

"Qiankun Yiqi!" Li Dachui decided to find a reason that they could all accept and could not refute: "As long as you master Qiankun Yiqi, you will know all this. Your ancestors embedded this information into the skill of Qiankun Yiqi. In fact, the predecessors of the Divine Sect did not make sense in demanding that the claim of succeeding as the sect leader after mastering Qiankun Yiqi. Or perhaps, this was a deliberate arrangement by your ancestors."

"I see!" Jiang Qian breathed a sigh of relief, and Chen Ting and Puning visibly relaxed as well.

"Come on, let me show you around your ancestor's former residence!" Li Dachui smiled, turned around, and strode inside.

Jiang Qian looked at Puning, who nodded slightly.

He remembered clearly the numbers and symbols that Li Dachui had just clicked.

(End of this chapter)