Chapter 3408 — Found It!
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On second thought, it was understandable—the Gu family had no reason to preserve another family's tablets. Still, Wei Zhao and Yu Dake could not help feeling dispirited.
"Let's search elsewhere. Don't lose heart." Both were cultivators, and this level of physical exertion posed no problem at all. So they left the storehouse together and began searching the residence.
From the sun rising in the early morning to its setting and the stars filling the sky, the two scoured nearly the entire residence without finding the tablets discarded anywhere.
If their earlier assumption was right, the Yu family tablets had likely been thrown away. After all, the residence had changed hands and names—who would want another family's tablets sitting around? What dreadful luck that would bring.
"Ah!" Yu Dake sighed. "I wonder where the Gu family has gone. Now there's not even anyone left to ask..."
"If they threw them away, asking wouldn't help. If they didn't, we'll find them eventually." Wei Zhao patted Yu Dake's shoulder and comforted him. "Let's search the ancestral hall again! Maybe they're tucked away in some corner."
"All right." Yu Dake thought Wei Zhao had a point, so he stood up and headed to the ancestral hall with him. Earlier, they had been misled by first impressions and had not searched the hall carefully, so now they returned.
The ancestral hall had electric lights too. Though the residence was antique in style, it had long since caught up with modern civilization. The two began searching the hall, but after a long while, they found nothing.
After all, the hall was not large, and there was not much inside. Whatever was there could be seen at a glance.
Yu Dake sighed and sat down on the ground, helpless and dejected.
"Dake, let me ask you something. You said the ancestors' life journals were written on the backs of the tablets?" Wei Zhao suddenly thought of a very important question. The tablets were only so big—how long could a person's life journal be? Could it all fit on there? At most a few lines, surely, a brief summary?
"No..." Yu Dake began, then suddenly shot to his feet and slapped his thigh. "That's it! The life journals are kept in wooden slots right beneath the tablets!"
With that, Yu Dake hurried to a tablet, reached out, and knocked it to the ground. Then he pried at the base a few times, and the wood beneath the tablet opened like a mechanism!
With the small lid removed, a compartment was revealed—and inside it lay a booklet exactly.
On the booklet's cover were three large characters: Yu Dengtian.
Yu Dengtian—clearly a member of the Yu family. This revealed something crucial: the Gu family had never discovered the hidden mechanism beneath the tablets, the compartment that held the life journals. They had only discarded the tablets themselves, never noticing the journals hidden in the compartments below.
At the sight, Yu Dake was both shocked and overjoyed!