Chapter 298: A Tide Of Soul Artifac (1/2)

Cheng Yu searched for a very long time but still couldn’t detect any hidden mechanism. Was his speculation incorrect?

Theoretically speaking, there were so many rare cultivation techniques here. Thus, the treasury should be hidden somewhere here.

“Senior brother, we have picked what we want. We have all copied down whatever we need. All the original copies are right here.” Just when Cheng Yu was contemplating, Tian Xing walked over and spoke.

“Alright. Then I shall keep them away. In the future, if there’s any more cultivation technique you wish to learn, you can come to look for me! However, I must still remind you. Don’t bite off more than what you can chew. Learning too many cultivation techniques has no advantage. The principal behind reading them was to study them!” Cheng Yu explained.

Although earth-rank cultivation technique was rare, it could still be found as one wishes. If a cultivator wishes to learn one, they can always go over to any number of auction houses to buy it. Of course, whether you could afford it was another issue. To Cheng Yu, even if he came across heaven-rank cultivation technique, he would only pick those he wished to learn. Otherwise, he would need to spend a lot of time studying it, making it a waste of time.

“En. We will be prudent in our choices.” Tian Xue nodded.

Followingly, the trio searched the room attentively.

“Senior brother, I think the treasury isn’t hidden in this room. Although what you previously said is very reasonable, I have also heard of another saying. ‘More dangerous a place was, the safer it is.’ I feel that the Palace Master had exploited this saying and hid the treasury at a place everyone could see.” Tian Xing was discouraged after discovering nothing.

“Impossible!” Cheng Yu shook his head.

“Why is it not possible? I feel that this is very likely. Normally, everyone would think that the treasury is hidden at some secret place. Hence, he purposely placed it at such an obvious location.” Tian Xing felt that his speculation was correct.

“Firstly, where the treasury was located at wasn’t important. Even if the guards knew of it but do they dare to sneak in and steal the treasures in it? The reason why it was hidden away was not to protect the treasury but the treasures within it. Secondly, the palace master would certainly enter in and out of the Treasury frequently. Thus, this reasoning would never work if it was placed at an obvious location.” Cheng Yu analyzed.

If it was himself, he would definitely not do the very opposite. His wealth will all be placed somewhere hidden. This way, it would be convenient for him to enter in and out of the chamber as well as to hide a lot of stuff. By then, so what if people knew there were treasures in it, they wouldn’t be able to enter as well.

Not to mention placing it at somewhere filled with people, even if it was placed somewhere close to his loved one would make it very inconvenient. Therefore, it was better to placed at somewhere private.

“But this private room is only so big. If there’s a hidden mechanism hidden somewhere, we would have found it long ago.” Tian Xing was convinced but there wasn’t any peculiarity in this room. If there was, they would have spotted it long ago.

Looking at the shattered porcelain, Cheng Yu was also at a loss of what to do. Could there be another private room? However, they had already scanned through all the rooms here.

Cheng Yu sat down on the chair and stared at the painting on the wall. The painting show two elder playing chess. One of them was about to place his chess piece down while the others seemed to be in deep contemplation.

Cheng Yu turned around and stared at the other drawing on the other side. A lady wearing a greenish palace dress was sitting on top of a mountain playing zither. Behind her, a stream of water rushing down, turning it into a waterfall. Truly majestic.

In the 3rd drawing, a young man was standing near the window with a book on hand. His eyes were filled with vitality.

On the 4th drawing was a middle age man. He stood in the center of the landscape as he painted.

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What does it mean? Playing chess, zither, reading books, painting? Cheng Yu was puzzled. Why would the palace master hang up these 4 drawings?

“Huh? Chess?” Cheng Yu hand was placed on the table. Just nice, he touched onto a chess piece above it.

“Senior brother! What time is it? You still have the mood to play chess?” When Tian Xing saw Cheng Yu was sitting down on the table while holding a chess piece on hand, he voiced out his anxiousness.

“Playing chess, zither, reading book and painting?” Cheng Yu looked at the four drawings and realized it was the four arts that shown how well educated a person was. It seemed as if he had understood the meaning behind those drawings.

“Senior brother! What’re you talking about?” Cheng Yu muttering was too soft, Hence, Tian Xing couldn’t hear it.

Cheng Yu looked at the four drawings. Followingly, he went to one of it as he felt that there was something amiss in the drawing.

“Could the mechanism be hidden in this drawing?” Just when Cheng Yu felt that there was something amiss in the drawing, Tian Xue walked over to Cheng Yu.

“I feel that there’s a profound meaning behind these drawings as if it represented something. Take a look at these four drawings. It represented the four major arts. And the way it was placed also how the four arts was ordered; zither, go, calligraphy, painting. Don’t you feel that it’s very weird?” Cheng Yu replied.

“What’s weird? Perhaps, the palace master likes the four major arts. Thus, he hung it up intentionally! This was also one of the ways to show what he likes!” Tian Xing spoke disapprovingly.

“No. I believe it wasn’t this simple!” Cheng Yu shook his head.

“Then could it be that the position of these four drawings is off?” Tian Xing pointed at those drawings and spoke.

“Hmmm……” Cheng Yu had also just realized the problem. But what relation did it have to the mechanism? Could the mechanism be hidden under this table?

Cheng Yu walked over to the table and took a look. There was nothing fishy here.

“Let me try shifting these four tables!” Tian Xing walked to one of the tables.

Pow! “Are you stupid? Did you not see these tables are fixed down and can’t be move? If there is a mechanism hidden in them, wouldn’t it be destroyed by you! If you want to shift, you should shift the drawing!” Cheng Yu slapped onto Tian Xing forehead.