Gao Wu Da Qin: You don't want your secret to be known, do you?

Chapter 29 A Search That Never Ends

Qin Feng walked very slowly on his way home, thinking that since the diary entry had been successfully submitted, it meant his wish had been granted, and he should soon encounter a wonderful adventure.

Strangely, from the moment I left the martial arts school until I got home, it was eerily quiet. I didn't see a single person, not even a ghost.

In the empty house, Qin Feng lay on the sofa and checked his diary several times. The diary submission record clearly stated that it had been successfully submitted.

Then why hasn't Ou Yezi's "Divine Forging Manual" appeared yet?

Or did it appear, but I just didn't see it?

Qin Feng was furious at the diary's cryptic way of fulfilling his vows. Was it working or not?

Just then, Qin Feng's phone rang; it was his mother calling.

Qin Feng answered the phone, "Mom, what's up?"

Mom said, "I forgot something important! Last Wednesday I put your dad's ornamental fish on the balcony to get some fresh air. I was in a rush when I left last time and didn't have time to move them back to the bedroom. Hurry up and move them back to the bedroom! Don't let them freeze to death!"

Qin Feng pressed his left hand to his face, looked up at the sky and sighed, "Heavens! It's been snowing for two weeks now, how can those fish still be alive?"

"Mom! It's not like every living being is as resilient as your son!"

"Look at me, you've been letting me roam free for almost a month, and I'm still alive and kicking."

"Those fish are definitely not as good as mine; they're surely dead!"

My mom said impatiently, "Stop giving me that nonsense! I'm really busy at the shop right now, go check on things! Also, your dad and I are staying at the shop for the next few days, we're not going back. There's food in the fridge, you can heat it up and eat it yourself, or you can order takeout if you don't want to heat it up, that's all!"

My mom hung up the phone while she was talking.

Qin Feng pushed open the door to his parents' bedroom with a speechless expression.

To be honest, this was the first time Qin Feng had come to this bedroom since he transmigrated. The bedroom faced north and was directly on the ground, making it very bright and spacious.

Pulling back the curtains on the bedroom balcony reveals the vegetable garden outside the yard.

Qin Feng's family lived in a two-story house with a yard. The first floor was for living, and the second floor was used as a storage room.

At this moment, there was no sunlight in the bedroom balcony, and the ice and snow had almost completely covered the windows. As for Dad's aquarium of ornamental fish, it was already frozen solid!

Qin Feng pried open the ice layer, took out a red carp from inside, and gently tossed it. The frozen red carp landed directly on the floor with a "plop"!

"It's a miracle that my mom has raised me to this age without dying!"

Qin Feng sighed and planned to move the fish tank out, but as he was leaving, he noticed something was wrong.

Qin Feng stopped and listened attentively.

"Sizzle—"

"Refutation—"

The sound was like the cracking of the internal structure of the wood.

Qin Feng scanned his surroundings and quickly noticed the source of the cracking sound.

I just casually tossed a hard red carp into the floor and it left a hole. The hole in the wooden floor started to crack in all directions!

Just as Qin Feng was at a loss, a section of the floorboards at the foot of the bed collapsed, revealing a deep staircase beneath.

Qin Feng looked at the deep, descending steps, layer upon layer, as if it were a hidden treasure cave.

At this moment, Qin Feng suddenly understood!

You search high and low without finding it, only to have it come to you effortlessly!

No wonder I didn't encounter any strange people or things, or any extraordinary adventures, on my way back!

It turns out, the amazing adventure happened right in my own home!

Is this diary just a joke I'm making out with?

Why didn't you just tell me it was at my house?

You even charged me 100 points of ink!

Qin Feng was filled with regret. If only he had used his brain a little more, visited his parents' bedroom more often, and helped them with chores, he would have discovered the existence of Ou Yezi's [Forging God's Manual] hidden in his house long ago! Why did he have to waste a hundred points of ink and overdraw his diary to make a wish?

Qin Feng picked up a flashlight and walked down the collapsed floorboards.

Qin Feng is now very curious: do his parents know about this treasure?

It would be illogical to say that he didn't know, after all, his parents have lived here for so long, and his father, Qin Wuyang, is a semi-professional assassin expert, there's no reason why he wouldn't know!

If they knew, why didn't they tell me? Were they afraid of bringing trouble upon me?

Qin Feng went down the steps.

Surprisingly, what lay beneath their house wasn't soil, but a rare, solid layer of bluestone. Below the stone layer were neatly carved and polished steps with fine anti-slip textures, and they were very clean.

This clearly shows that this place is frequently cleaned, and it could even be said that it is frequently used.

Then Qin Feng's curiosity was answered: his parents knew about this underground secret room! And it seemed that they often came down to play!

We continued down for about twenty meters, and that was the end.

What came into Qin Feng's view was a huge underground cave, about the size of a basketball court, but no more than two meters high.

At the very front of the grotto is a long offering table with two memorial tablets on it.

Qin Feng was stunned for a moment. Ancestral hall? My family's ancestral hall can be set up here?

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Qin Feng stepped forward and observed carefully.

The memorial tablet on the left reads: "The memorial tablet of Princess Xiong Xinlan of Chu, respectfully presented by her daughter Ziqing."

The memorial tablet on the right reads: "The memorial tablet of Qin Xiong, the great general of the Yan Kingdom, respectfully presented by his son Qin Wuyang."

Qin Feng carefully examined the two memorial tablets, and his historical knowledge began to surge within him.

My mom usually calls me Long Ziqing, but Ziqing is her real name!

Qin Wuyang is my father's name!

Then wouldn't Xiong Xinlan on these two memorial tablets be her maternal grandmother?

Is Qin Xiong, the great general of the Yan state, his own grandfather?

The surname Xiong is the royal surname of the State of Chu, and her maternal grandmother, Xiong Xinlan, was a princess. Her identity then comes to light: she is the Chu princess who stole Ou Yezi's "Forging Divine Manual," married into the Qin state, and later fell into misfortune in Longcheng!

But my own mother calls her "mother." Could it be that my maternal grandmother was pregnant with a daughter before marriage?

What the hell!

This joke has gone way too far!

If this is true, then who is the maternal grandfather?

My maternal grandmother belonged to a truly powerful and privileged class, and she was surrounded by genuine royalty and nobility!

It seems that only the lineage of King Zhou of Shang from the previous dynasty remains in that social class with the surname Zi! For example, Zi Shou was King Zhou of Shang!

But wasn't the lineage of King Zhou of the previous dynasty utterly destroyed by the Ji family of the Zhou royal family?

Could it be that someone from King Zhou's lineage survived? And even got together with his maternal grandmother? And then had a mother?

As a result, later King Chu insisted on a marriage alliance, forcing Grandma to agree. In a fit of anger, Grandma stole Ou Yezi's "Forging Divine Manual" in the hopes of causing a mutual destruction with King Chu.

My goodness, what a huge bombshell this is!

Princess Chu was pregnant before marriage, but the King of Chu insisted on a marriage alliance. So the princess stole a precious treasure, and the King of Chu chased her to Qin. The King of Qin did not want to be cuckolded, but he also wanted the treasure. Helpless, he had no choice but to go to war with Chu. A fierce battle was fought at Longcheng, and neither side gained an advantage.

Meanwhile, the grandmother took the opportunity to escape, gave birth to the mother, and died soon after, depressed.

And Grandpa, that heartless prince from the previous dynasty, never appeared until his death.

Later, the old man, a fallen nobleman from the Yan Kingdom, came here, and the son of a down-on-his-luck general and the little princess in distress fell in love.

And then, I was born.

As for the Chu Kingdom's most precious treasure that Grandma stole in the end, Ou Yezi's "Illustrated Manual of Casting Gods" seems to have been completely forgotten.

At this moment, all Qin Feng could think was that elders were indeed elders; the stories they experienced were beyond the imagination of a mere mortal like himself.

Looking around, Qin Feng picked up an incense stick and lit it on the memorial tablet.

As Qin Feng kowtowed, he noticed several lines of writing under the offering table.

Upon closer inspection, it was clearly a poem.

"A flower in Luoshui City, the girl and I are originally from the same family."

"The dragon-horse carries out the Taiji diagram, and the water overflows the five elements to form the eight trigrams."

Qin Feng looked at the poem. The first two lines seemed like a love poem, while the last two lines contained a hidden meaning.

Could it be that this is related to Yin and Yang and the Eight Trigrams?

If you want to find the secret, it must be related to the items from when your mother-in-law was still alive.

The entire grotto seemed to have been cleaned up by the old man and woman, except for a perpetual lamp in a dusty corner!

At this moment, Qin Feng noticed the ever-burning lamp. This lamp seemed to have never gone out, and the wick of the lamp would flicker from time to time, the flickering sometimes lasting for a short time and sometimes for a long time.

Qin Feng instantly realized that this was a dot-array code, just like Morse code, when he had used 20% of his brain's development power!

Qin Feng stared at the flame of the eternal lamp in front of him, recording the intervals between the flickering flames: one minute, five minutes, ten minutes, one hour, three hours, five hours... thirty-nine hours!

A prompt appeared in my mind from the diary.

"Ding! Under the effect of [Advanced Focus], the current password is being deciphered. Because the password uses traditional Eastern encryption methods such as constellations, the I Ching, the Chinese zodiac, the lunar calendar, and the imperial calendar, the deduction process is extremely difficult. The password is: Li 3, Dui 4, Gen 6..."

Qin Feng's eyes gleamed with increasing interest. The Innate Eight Trigrams Code! Imaginative! Skilled!

Time ticked by, and finally, as the diary turned to a new page, the message read, "Deciphered successfully!"

Qin Feng's eyes lit up, he muttered to himself, and took a step.

"The directions of the Eight Trigrams in the Earlier Heaven are: Qian to the South, Dui to the Southeast, Li to the East, Zhen to the Northeast, Xun to the Southwest, Kan to the West, Gen to the Northwest, and Kun to the North."

"Therefore, 'three' means taking three steps east!"

"Dui Si means taking four steps southeast!"

"Gen Liu means taking six steps northwest!"

"..."

"This is the final step! But it's just a wall!"

Qin Feng was about to take the final step, but in front of him was a wall, a thick wall!

Qin Feng looked at the wall, thinking that the worst that could happen was a bloody head!

I'm going to take you on!

Qin Feng plunged in headfirst. The next moment, Qin Feng did not feel the excruciating pain of his head hitting the rock, nor did he feel any blood flowing like a waterfall.

Qin Feng was momentarily confused, then suddenly found himself standing on an unfamiliar Bagua stone platform. The platform was covered in dust, and the railings were decorated with dragons and phoenixes. It was only a few square meters in size, but it was full of awe-inspiring power!

In the very center of the Bagua stone platform, there was a black jade thumb ring!

(End of this chapter)