"From the lotus, one obtains the lotus root; from the lotus, one obtains the lotus root..." Su Yang kept repeating this sentence, trying to use his few remaining Chinese words to come up with the next line. He wanted the sentence structure to be neat and the meaning to be parallel. It has to be said that Gu Wushuang's use of classical Chinese as a last resort was very clever. At least apart from transmigrators, no one in this world could solve it. Of course, even transmigrators might not be able to solve it.

"What you get is what you get; there's a cause-and-effect relationship. After the lotus withers, lotus roots will grow. It seems that not only can we look at the relationship, but the examples must also conform to this relationship. Hmm... it's indeed quite difficult." Su Yang thought for a while, and the only thing that came to mind was the phrase "unintentionally planting willows will result in a shady tree." So he tried to read it aloud: "Planting willows will result in a shady tree?"

After waiting for a while, nothing happened. Su Yang smiled self-deprecatingly: "Yeah, it looks completely messy. I can't just say anything."

After thinking for a while, Su Yang tried to answer a few more questions, but none of them were correct. Su Yang was a little helpless. He leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and tried to clear his mind. He sighed that if he had a mobile phone with him, he could just search for it and find the answer.

As time passed and night quietly fell, Lin Anlan noticed that Su Yang was still in the study and showed no sign of making dinner. Thinking that it might be too cold to take a shower at night, she went to take a shower first. However, when she came out of the shower, she still couldn't find Su Yang and couldn't help but come over to check on him.

As the study door opened, Lin Anlan immediately saw Su Yang scratching his head. She walked over to him, patted him on the shoulder, and asked, "What are you thinking about?" Su Yang looked up and smelled a fragrance. He asked, "Nothing. Have you taken a shower?"

"Yes, before it gets cold at night, how does it smell? Does it smell good?" Lin Anlan teased.

"Smells...smells good?" Su Yang seemed to remember something and fell silent for a moment. Seeing that Su Yang stopped speaking halfway through, Lin Anlan was a little puzzled: "What's wrong with it smelling good?"

Su Yang recalled the moment he opened the Bagua lock and smelled a fragrance similar to osmanthus. Could this be some kind of hint left by Gu Wushuang? He gestured to Lin Anlan not to disturb him and tried hard to recall poems about osmanthus. However, after racking his brains, he could only think of the line "Branches grow endless moonlight, flowers bloom naturally in autumn." Could it be the second half of the line? It seemed to have some causal relationship, so he tried reciting, "Flowers bloom naturally in autumn."

But there was still no response. This time, Su Yang was a little discouraged. This wasn't it, that wasn't it, what was the right answer?

Hearing Su Yang recite the sentence, Lin Anlan said with some surprise, "I didn't realize you were such a talented person. 'Flowers bloom in autumn,' what kind of flowers are you referring to?"

"Oh, osmanthus," Su Yang replied somewhat absentmindedly.

"Osmanthus? Oh, that's really true, a very apt description."

"You know about osmanthus?" Su Yang asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Of course I know! I love the fragrance of osmanthus. When osmanthus is in full bloom, it's autumn. Winter is plum blossom, spring is apricot blossom, and summer is lotus." Lin Anlan rattled off the seasonal flowers of each season.

Su Yang was surprised; he didn't know that such flowers existed in this world. At this moment, Lin Anlan said, "It's a pity that these flowers can't bloom at the same time. If there are apricot blossoms, there will be no plum blossoms."

“Of course, even the moon has its phases, so there can’t be plum blossoms when there are apricot blossoms.” After Su Yang finished speaking, he looked at the words “lotus root is obtained from lotus” written on the paper, and then recalled Lin Anlan’s words. Lotus and osmanthus were already mentioned. Could Gu Wushuang’s answer to this couplet be related to the remaining two flowers?

"Apricot blossoms, plum blossoms, apricots, plums." Su Yang kept muttering, "Apricots, plums, happiness, bad luck? What's the causal relationship between these two? Does happiness mean you won't be unlucky?"

"What causal relationship is there between happiness and bad luck? Aren't they opposites? Who would feel happy and still wish for bad luck?" Lin Anlan said, somewhat puzzled.

“You’re right, happiness naturally eliminates the need for bad luck…” Su Yang said halfway through his sentence, then suddenly stood up, grabbed Lin Anlan’s shoulder, and said excitedly, “I know! You’re truly my lucky star!” This sudden scene left Lin Anlan completely taken aback, wondering what she had done to make Su Yang so excited.

Su Yang sat down again, picked up the note left by Gu Wushuang, and said, "One can obtain lotus roots from lotus, and need no plums if one has apricots."

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire study was illuminated by light, and the fragrance of osmanthus filled the room. The strong elemental reaction made Lin Anlan feel as if she was facing a formidable enemy. Although the fragrance was invisible, the strong elemental reaction could be perceived by elementalists. In Lin Anlan's perception, the fragrance initially filled the entire room, then slowly contracted and gathered, eventually encircling Su Yang's wrist and forming a ring.

Su Yang also noticed this, but when he looked at his wrist, there was nothing there. The two looked at each other, not knowing what was going on, and stared intently at their wrists.

Before long, a transparent bracelet, visible to the naked eye, slowly appeared on Su Yang's wrist. Su Yang reached out and touched it, confirming that it was indeed a physical object. At this moment, Die'er's displeased voice rang out: "Tch, another demon." Then Die'er transformed into human form, pointed at Su Yang's wrist, and said: "You're quite lucky. Your first master has been dead for so long, yet you haven't perished and have even recognized two transmigrators as your masters."

"Butterfly, what's going on?" Su Yang and Lin Anlan were both completely bewildered, not knowing who Butterfly was talking to. Just then, a silvery laugh suddenly rang out:

"Hehehe, I am eternal, is Sister Butterfly jealous?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a woman suddenly appeared floating in mid-air in the room, startling Su Yang. Upon closer inspection, the woman was dressed in a magnificent and elegant light yellow robe, with a succulent osmanthus flower as a hairpin in her hair. Her eyebrows and eyes exuded a fresh and delicate charm, yet also carried a touch of playfulness, as if she were truly like the osmanthus flower, "fragrant but not showy, beautiful but not coquettish."

After the woman finished speaking, she ignored the butterfly standing to the side, landed on the ground, walked straight to Su Yang, circled him a few times, and said out of the blue, "Dim yellow in color, gentle in nature, distant in affection, only fragrance remains."

Su Yang found the words very familiar; they were clearly lines from the poem "Partridge Sky - Osmanthus" by the great poet Li Qingzhao. He wondered why the woman had said these lines to him so readily. He subconsciously replied, "Why need it be light green or deep red? It is naturally the first among flowers."

Seeing that Su Yang had answered, the woman clapped her hands and bowed, saying, "Please don't be offended, sir. Jiu Li is very grateful." She continued, "If you cannot break the seal left by Master Gu, Jiu Li may never see the light of day again. The trial has just been completed, and we are now of one mind and body."

Su Yang then realized that the reward left by Gu Wushuang was this elemental bracelet. Judging from its characteristics, it should be of the Qi element. The woman who called herself Jiuli was most likely the manifestation of this Qi elemental bracelet. Combining the trial that Jiuli had just mentioned, it seemed to be an X-level bracelet. Old Master Gu Wushuang had really given him a great gift.

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