It was approaching lunchtime.
Lin Yu and Shen Buyao finally reached their destination.
In front of a large mansion located in the mountains!
They arrived nearly half an hour later than the time estimated by the navigation.
It wasn't that the road was difficult to travel on.
It was because Lin Yu was worried about driving smoothly, so he drove extremely cautiously.
Even so.
After the "Autobacs" on the Akina Mountain,
there were two more strange little driving incidents that almost hindered this journey.
Driving this car was really tiring!
Lin Yu didn't dare to let his mind wander for a moment and drove all the way to the door of Shen Buyao's hometown with full concentration.
Along the way,
he also saw quite a few tourist homestays and shopping spots.
It was true that the mansion was in the mountains, but it wasn't completely isolated from the world.
It's just that there were no other households around her home. It was like "occupying a mountain peak" alone.
Lin Yu looked at the old mansion with high walls from the outside.
It seemed that this big house and the large yard should have been renovated in recent years.
Shen Buyao waved a bunch of keys at Lin Yu.
With an expectant look on her face, she smiled and said,
"Come on, Lin Yu!"
"Let me show you the place where I lived when I was a child. There are a lot of fun things inside!"
"Hehe, there's also a special... treasure - hunting activity this time!"
Shen Buyao was really looking forward to the "treasure - hunting activity" she mentioned.
Little did she know,
Lin Yu's "treasures" were already in his camera bag and backpack!
...
In a Chinese restaurant near the Ghost Market Street.
In a unique private room,
several dishes that Shen Jiuyi liked had been served on the table one by one.
Old Liang himself was holding a teapot and sipping tea, not showing any intention of picking up chopsticks to eat.
Shen Jiuyi, who hadn't had breakfast, was already starving by noon.
Without bothering to be polite and maintain her image, she quickly started eating.
At the same time,
Shen Jiuyi didn't forget to ask about what they had talked about in the car:
"Old Liang, tell me."
"What kind of obstacles did you set up for them?"
Old Liang poured the tea with a soft sound and then took on the tone of a profound and mysterious wise man:
"Miss Jiuyi, do you know why the Shen family's old mansion in the mountains has not been targeted by thieves for so many years?"
Shen Jiuyi nodded and said,
"I've heard my mother mention this. It's because the terrain where we are located is high, and the surrounding area is even steeper."
Old Liang nodded and analyzed,
"Miss Jiuyi is right. There is also a very important point..."
"The walls of the Shen family's old mansion are high!"
Shen Jiuyi paused with her chopsticks and waited for Old Liang to continue.
"There is no suitable point to borrow strength around. If you want to enter the mansion from the outside, there is only one way, which is to go through the door!"
"If the door can't be opened, not to mention getting in to steal, you won't even know what it looks like inside."
"Eventually, you'll have to return empty - handed!"
Shen Jiuyi grasped the key point in Old Liang's words and asked following his train of thought:
"So you tampered with the door lock?"
Old Liang turned the teacup in his hand and said in a deep voice,
"Miss Jiuyi, you must know the 'Kongming Lock', right?"
Shen Jiuyi: "!!!"
"You replaced the door lock with a Bagua Lock?"
Of course, Shen Jiuyi knew about this thing.
She used to play with it a lot when she was a child.
The Kongming Lock, also known as the Bagua Lock or the Luban Lock,
is a lock with a mortise - and - tenon structure.
Nowadays, it is basically used as an educational toy, and no one really uses it to lock the door.
Unless...
"To be precise, it should be the 'Twenty - four - column Lock' among the Kongming Locks."
"If you make a wrong move when disassembling it, you need to put it back together and start disassembling from the beginning again."
"And for each column you disassemble, it's easy to take it off, but difficult to put it back on."
"I spent a long time carefully carving this lock."
"I know Shopkeeper Yao..."
"She promised her friend to take him to the old mansion to play.
If she can't get in, she won't give up."
Shen Jiuyi: "..."
Old Liang was really perverse!
He actually spent time researching such things.
It sounded like an obstacle, but Shen Jiuyi always felt that something was wrong.
It was true that Old Liang knew Buyao.
But he didn't know Lin Yu.
Lin Yu didn't seem like the kind of person who would be easily stopped!
...
Meanwhile,
in front of the old mansion in the mountains.
"Come on... Eighty! Eighty! Eighty!"
"Thud!"
"Thud!"
"Bang..."
Lin Yu was holding a wrench for car repair and only struck three times.
The wooden Kongming Lock was smashed into a pile of large wooden strips.
Lin Yu was very cautious when he made his move.
He only smashed the lock's structure and pulled the wooden strips off without damaging the door at all.
"Yaoyao, has your family's old butler got senile dementia?"
"What kind of normal person uses a wooden lock to lock the door?"
"It was so easy to smash!"
Shen Buyao put away the phone she was about to dial and picked up a wooden strip to try to break it.
Although it was wood, its texture was very hard.
Why did it seem so easy for Lin Yu to smash it just now?
Shen Buyao grumbled crossly:
"Who knows which wire in Old Liang's head is misconnected!
Instead of using a normal chain lock, he's always tinkering with some useless things.
Does he want to keep me outside? Huh?"
Lin Yu never thought that this was an obstacle aimed at him.
Instead, he subconsciously felt that
it was like the old butler was targeting the antique - loving older sister.
Anyway, he had asked for Shen Buyao's opinion before smashing the lock.
With the permission of the owner, he made his move.
It couldn't be counted as breaking into a private house, could it?
Led by Shen Buyao, Lin Yu followed her into the mansion.
However,
just as they entered the door,
a black shadow fell from the sky and rushed straight towards Lin Yu and Shen Buyao.
"Lin Yu, be careful!"
Shen Buyao shouted nervously.
...
In the private room of the Chinese restaurant on the Ghost Market Street.
Shen Jiuyi shook her head and said calmly,
"Old Liang, you still don't understand that man.
If it's him,
maybe he has a way to open the Twenty - four - column Lock.
Just this obstacle may not work at all."
Old Liang took a sip of tea and said confidently,
"Miss Jiuyi, do you want to hear about my backup plan?"
Shen Jiuyi didn't answer.
Indeed,
based on Shen Jiuyi's understanding of Old Liang,
once his perverse interest kicked in,
it wouldn't be as simple as just leaving a lock.
There must be a backup plan!
Old Liang continued,
"If he can successfully enter the door, it means that young gentleman has some skills.
I think he should be a young man with a sharp mind, calm and wise.
When outsmarting doesn't work, breaking through by force becomes particularly important.
When I went out, I accidentally unlocked the chain of the 'Flying Dragon'..."
Shen Jiuyi: "!!!"
"Old Liang, are you crazy? The Flying Dragon will attack people!"
"What if it hurts the guests... It'll be a problem with our way of hosting guests!"
Old Liang: "..."
Miss Jiuyi was someone he had watched grow up.
No matter what emergency happened, she had never shown a panicked look.
But today, she was so anxious because of a man?
Something was not right...
(Here's an extra chapter. I hope you all can support me with your love. Let's go again tomorrow!)
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
