The moment he saw the secret door, Sun Yixie immediately understood that his father didn't want to give him any family rules, but wanted to pass on some kind of family secret to him.
With this inference, Sun Yuanwai's behavior and words just now are not surprising.
The secret passage behind the secret door was not long. After taking a few steps, the father and son arrived at an underground stone room.
Master Sun casually took out the fire folder he had prepared in advance and lit a few oil lamps on the wall. The firelight illuminated the small stone room.
Sun Yixie scanned the surrounding environment with his small eyes that seemed unable to open open, and found that there were only three things in the entire stone room except a few copper lamp stands embedded in the wall.
A weapon was inserted into an old weapons rack.
A piece of soft armor placed on a stone platform.
A sarcophagus was quite large, occupying nearly a quarter of the space of the stone chamber.
"Yixie." After a moment, Mr. Sun clasped his hands behind his back and said in a deep voice, "Do you know who is the queen of my Sun family?"
When Sun Yixie heard this, he rolled his eyes and immediately replied: "My Sun family has lived in Jiangdong for a long time. It has a prominent family background and a long history... Could it be that I am a descendant of Sun Jian and Sun Wentai from the Three Kingdoms period?"
"Hmm... Not bad." Mr. Sun nodded with satisfaction, "My father has heard about it for a long time. Although Yixie is illiterate and not knowledgeable, you are also very knowledgeable... I guess you don't have the talent to recite the Eight-Part Eight Parts, but There are still some achievements in miscellaneous studies." He paused, and then said, "You are right, my Sun family is the successor of Emperor Wu Lie of the Eastern Wu Dynasty, but it is a pity... because it has been too long, the Sun family has spread. After going through several ups and downs, our family’s genealogy dating back fifteen generations cannot be traced, so as a father, I don’t know whether our family is considered a direct descendant or a collateral descendant.”
"It's okay. Liu Bei didn't know why back then. Didn't he also take the title of imperial uncle?" Sun Yixi said, "In the future, when I go out, I will say that I am the direct descendant of Sun Ce, my little overlord, and my great-great-grandson. How can others prove that I am false?" Isn’t it possible?”
"Haha..." Mr. Sun was amused by his son, "Okay... In short, our ancestors of the Sun family can be said to be full of talented people. Among them, there are those who have become extremely popular ministers with their strategies to stabilize the country, and naturally there are also those who have conquered the world with their unparalleled martial arts. ..." He said, pointing to the three things, "And these three are the three 'secret treasures' left by the ancestors to their descendants who want to join the martial arts. I will pass them on to you today. In the future, when you travel around the world, you will have someone to rely on."
"Oh?" Sun Yixie's first reaction when he heard this was, "Then the ancestors who studied literature are so picky? Didn't they leave any treasures behind?"
Snapped--
Before he finished speaking, Mr. Sun slapped his son on the head again: "Nonsense, the 'literary' stuff is all in the Four Books and Five Classics. If you are willing to learn it, I will take you to see this?"
"Yes, yes, the child is wrong." Sun Yixie covered his head, "Father, please continue."
Mr. Sun curled his lips and walked to the weapon first: "This object is a rare treasure in the world. It is made of meteorites from outside the sky. It is seven feet and two inches long (made by Zheng, converted into the familiar unit we are about 240 centimeters). It weighs only 20 kilograms (also made by Zheng, slightly heavier than the current 20 kilograms), light, strong, sharp, and tough... The fork tip is as transparent as paper, and iron is cut like mud, and the fork body is light and flexible, and can be folded continuously."
Sun Yixie looked at the trident in front of him, and the corner of his mouth twitched twice: "Father...why did our ancestors get a precious material like meteorites, but they had to make a trident? Swords, guns, sticks and swords...anyone is better than this." Is it easy?"
"How do I know? It was man-made hundreds of years ago. Who am I to ask?" Mr. Sun's answer was reasonable. After that, he took two steps and walked to the second treasure. "Let's talk about this. The armor is said to be made of unicorn scales and woven with sky silk, invulnerable to invulnerability, water and fire, as light as satin, warm in winter and cool in summer, and can be expanded or tightened according to the wearer's body shape."
"Oh!" Sun Yixie's eyes widened when he heard this, "Then if I put it on, wouldn't I be invincible?"
Snapped--
As soon as he said this, he was hit on the head again.
"The world is dangerous. Don't think that everything will be fine if you have a treasure armor to protect you. If a real master wants to kill you, even ten treasure armors can't protect you." Master Sun reminded sternly.
"Ha...that's all I said..." Sun Yi said with a smile.
Master Sun looked at his son, sighed, then walked to the sarcophagus and signaled with his eyes: "Yixie, please remove the lid of the sarcophagus, be careful not to break the ground."
"Oh, okay." Sun Yixie didn't think much and walked over to push the lid of the sarcophagus.
Unexpectedly... he pushed hard and found that the coffin lid weighed more than a hundred pounds at least. Using his usual measurement standards, it was "a pound" heavy.
If it were Sun Yixie before time travel, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to push it by himself. Fortunately, he is seventeen years old now, and he had practiced martial arts to some extent when he was a child. In these years, he often had to help with manual labor at the fish market. , and he fought a lot, so his current physical fitness is barely enough to push something of this weight.
"Hey, what is this?" Sun Yixie pushed the lid of the sarcophagus aside and saw the contents of the sarcophagus.
Inside, there were neatly stacked domino-like slabs of silver-white stone slabs with sharp edges and corners. Each slab was about the same size as a common tombstone. There were more than twenty slabs filling the entire sarcophagus.
"Reverse the world." Two seconds later, Mr. Sun replied with these four words.
"Huh?" Sun Yixie obviously didn't understand what this meant.
Mr. Sun then explained: "These stone tablets record the martial arts skills practiced by our Sun family's ancestors who have practiced martial arts for generations. Among them, the "Reversal of the Universe" recorded on the first stone tablet is not passed down by our Sun family. The Superior Internal Skill Heart Technique is also the basis of all these unique martial arts, so all the martial arts here are collectively referred to by its name."
"What?" Sun Yixie was excited at the time, "Dad, there is such a powerful thing, why didn't you take it out earlier?"
"Who told you not to study martial arts well when you were a child?" Master Sun said, "If you were willing to practice martial arts seriously back then, it wouldn't have taken long. As long as you could persist for a year... I might have brought you here. Who knows? You have worshiped so many masters, but none of them can persist from the first grade to the fifteenth grade. If I give these to you, wouldn’t I be hurting you?"
"Then...Dad, why are you willing to pass this on to me now?" Sun Yixie said.
"Of course I'm afraid that you will suffer a loss when you go out." Mr. Sun said, "Besides, you are such a big man. You have made the fish market prosperous over the years, which shows that you still have a sense of propriety in your conduct. This is the right time for you. .”
"Well..." Sun Yixie also knew that this was the truth. Parents always love their children. Even if the child fails to live up to his expectations, it is impossible to watch him suffer.
After a few seconds of silence, a question that had troubled Sun Yixie for many years suddenly flashed through his mind. He hurriedly asked again: "Eh? By the way, the characters in our family are arranged backwards, is it the same as this? Is it related to 'Reverse the World'?"
"That's right." Mr. Sun said, "It's the ancestral precept left by the ancestor who created the 'Reversal of the Universe'. From that generation onwards, our descendants of the Sun family have always arranged their names upside down. "
"What's the point of that?" Sun Yixie asked again.
"Probably just for fun." Mr. Sun replied casually.
"Ah?" This answer was beyond Sun Yixie's expectation.
"Didn't I say that it happened hundreds of years ago? What's the use of asking me?" What Mr. Sun said makes sense. Why are many so-called "traditions" passed down, as well as their original appearance and spread? The motives may have been biased long ago or no one knows about them; this is true for things that only last for more than a hundred years, let alone those that last for hundreds or even thousands of years?
Seeing this, Sun Yixie could only give up and asked again: "Then... why did the ancestors write their martial arts on the stone tablets? How inconvenient does this seem?"
Master Sun seemed to have known for a long time that he would ask this question, and he replied without thinking: "Bamboo pieces, sheepskin, paper... these things will rot and become moldy over time; they may be burned directly when encountering water or fire; and they will be carried by others." It's easy to go wrong..." He paused, "Our ancestors were far-sighted and chose these smelted diamond tablets to record the Sun family's secret knowledge. This way, even a thousand years later, it will still be very good. Keep it."
"Nah HODO~" Sun Yixie nodded in a serious manner, and subconsciously said a Japanese sentence from nowhere.
This was not the first time that Mr. Sun heard his son say this word. He probably knew that it meant "that's how it is", so he didn't care much. He continued: "Yi Xie, there are still more than two months until the Mid-Autumn Festival." The time, including the distance, you should set off in fifty days... Youdao is to sharpen your weapons in battle, and it will be wasted if you are not happy. In these fifty days, you should stop caring about the business of the fish market and practice your martial arts well. If you know more, ask Huang Shi Nephew for advice. I think you two are very compatible... I hope he can help you more to prevent you from being bullied outside the world."
"Ha!" Sun Yixiao laughed, "Don't worry, Dad, I have always been the only one who bullies others. How can anyone bully me? With these three treasures by my side, my child will never bring shame to the Sun family in the world. "
"If that's true... that would be for the best." Mr. Sun was still a little worried, but he could only think of the good.
