Chapter 270: Chapter 270

It was said that Dugu Yidao didn't originally use a broken sword. His long sword had once dominated the world, and he was a famous genius swordsman on the continent. For unknown reasons, his sword broke, but when the sword broke, his sword technique realm became even higher.

If before his sword broke he was merely a famous genius, afterward he became a genius standing at the peak.

Now it seemed his sword had broken here, and his "Unbroken" sword technique might have come from his enlightenment about the little girl's emotions. Xiaoyao had studied the moves of the Unbroken sword technique but had never understood its essence. Now, he suddenly understood, it was because he had seen these small characters.

Unbroken meant not only that the sword heart was unbroken, but also that emotions were unbroken.

Xiaoyao temporarily set these thoughts aside. He had now discovered a problem, a very serious problem, this Dugu Yidao was a figure from over a thousand years ago.

Chen Xi had just said "not long ago," but "not long ago" was already over a thousand years. So how many years had he been here? Why had he never been discovered?

"Senior Chen Xi, what was that little girl's name?" Xiaoyao suddenly thought of this question and was very curious. Just how long ago was this little girl from? Perhaps she was also a relatively famous person.

"She was called Chen Shiru." Chen Xi answered. Clearly, his surname came from Chen Shiru.

"Chen Shiru? I seem to have seen this name somewhere. Let me think." Xiaoyao frowned and thought for a while, quickly finding records about Chen Shiru. Perhaps this wasn't the same person, but perhaps it was.

"Chen Shiru, the continent's greatest beauty from over three thousand years ago, who married into the Fang family, which was then and is now the world's foremost family. But it's said she never lived in the Fang family, staying elsewhere instead, and only entered the Fang family mausoleum after death. The Chen family she came from no longer exists, but it seemed to be around this area originally. Could it be her?" Xiaoyao spoke of what he knew about this Chen Shiru.

"Mm, her husband was indeed surnamed Fang. Three thousand years? Perhaps. At that time I was still just an immature Monster Clan member. I cultivated into human form here," Chen Xi said.

Xiaoyao now understood a bit more. When Chen Xi returned, he was only a relatively powerful monster beast that hadn't yet transformed. He had slowly cultivated here to achieve human form, and this human form had definitely existed for over a thousand years.

Because according to Dugu Yidao's recollections, he had been saved by someone and always wanted to repay them, but couldn't find that person.

Wait. With Dugu Yidao's abilities, how could he not remember this place? How could he not find it? Could it be that this place—

"Is there some kind of barrier here?" Xiaoyao asked.

"Illusory Mist. This is unique to fox demons. Even if he became a Martial God, he couldn't possibly break through it," Chen Xi said.

"Just now... right, Chi Chi..." Xiaoyao understood.

The reason this place had never been discovered was because there was fox demon Illusory Mist here. Xiaoyao had easily entered only because of Chi Chi. This was perhaps why Chen Xi said Chi Chi had great potential.

Illusory Mist was unique to the fox clan, but not all fox demons could use it. Even if some fox demons became God Level existences, they still couldn't use it. This was a talent, an enviable talent.

"Mm, your companion has a strange ability, it actually ate my Illusory Mist," Chen Xi nodded, looking at Chi Chi. He was wondering what exactly Chi Chi was. He had never heard of any monster beast that could eat Illusory Mist. It was truly incomprehensible.

Could it be that his knowledge was too limited, or was it nature's new favorite?

Regardless, this ability was very powerful, so Chi Chi's potential naturally became very great.

What kind of monster beast Chi Chi was, even Chen Xi couldn't say clearly. He felt Chi Chi should be a very ordinary type of small monster beast, but there seemed to be something hidden in Chi Chi's aura.

At this moment, Chen Xi suddenly remembered a legend, a Monster Clan legend that all Monster Clan members actually carried ancient Monster Clan bloodlines that could activate miraculous abilities. But Monster Clan members who could activate this bloodline had never appeared. Could one have appeared now?

Eh, wait, it had a life bond contract. Someone had actually made a life bond contract with such a small thing? Then it might be because of this...

Chen Xi hadn't noticed this initially because Chi Chi had run in to eat from the start, staying separate from Xiaoyao. Moreover, with small monster beasts like Chi Chi, few people would use them as life bond monster beasts, so he had overlooked it.

However, whichever it was, this seemed to have nothing to do with him, since he would always stay in this place. Other matters were unrelated to him.

"Do you know what breed this little glutton is? The more I look, the less I understand," Xiaoyao grabbed Chi Chi despite its resistance.

"It should be a very ordinary type, just with some mutation. This mutation might come from you." Chen Xi said, burying another possibility in his heart because no clan member had ever achieved this, and there was no need to tell this human, Xiaoyao.

"From me?" Xiaoyao was somewhat puzzled.

"That's right, from you. I think you've been raising it since childhood and signed the life bond contract when it was just born, right?" Chen Xi said.

"That's right. At that time this little glutton had just been born and looked so ugly without fur..." Xiaoyao nodded.

"Chi Chi..." Chi Chi called out unhappily. What do you mean ugly? I'm very cute.

"This is fact. If I shaved off your fur now, you'd be ugly too." Xiaoyao said. Follow current novᴇls on N0veI.Fiɾe.net

"Chi Chi..." Chi Chi immediately startled, then jumped away. It felt Xiaoyao was someone who could do anything.

"Hehe, speaking seriously, people all think signing contracts with us Monster Clan is a losing proposition, having to provide us with heaven and earth elemental energy for cultivation. They all want to directly sign contracts with high-level Monster Clan members and don't want to nurture them."

Chen Xi smiled and continued, "This thinking is understandable, but because of this, no one has ever discovered that if you have a life bond monster beast from childhood, that monster beast might undergo wonderful evolution and possess different abilities. Although these abilities might not directly help improve strength, sometimes they're very practical in certain aspects."

"However, the appearance of such abilities also requires certain conditions and luck. So you can't blame some people for wanting something for nothing by catching high-level monster beasts. Because even raising them from childhood doesn't guarantee developing abilities, and these abilities might not be useful to oneself. Perhaps knowing this is why people don't want to sign life bond contracts with ordinary monster beasts."

"So that's how it is. I thought I had picked up some incredible little thing, but it turns out to be so ordinary." Xiaoyao said while looking at Chi Chi. Although his words said this, there wasn't the slightest hint of dislike.

Chi Chi's mouth drooped as it called out pitifully...

"So what if it's just an ordinary monster beast? For you, it's unique. Moreover, it's not ordinary now." Chen Xi wanted to touch Chi Chi, but Chi Chi immediately scurried away. Even if he was Monster Clan, it wouldn't let him touch it because he was a stranger.

Chi Chi generally wouldn't let anyone touch it, except when it wanted to beg for food and drink by pretending to be cute. But usually the targets were women. Xiaoyao always said it was a little lecher who only knew how to mix with women.

Chen Xi smiled and naturally withdrew his hand without any embarrassed expression.

"Yes, it's unique." Xiaoyao nodded. Perhaps everyone had ordinary people and things around them. For others they might be very ordinary, but for oneself they were unique. Even if there were better ones, they still couldn't be replaced.

It's just that people often don't know how to cherish things until they lose them and realize they can never get them back.

"You're a good human. I have something I'd like you to help with. You can refuse," Chen Xi said while looking at the stone again.

"What is it? I need to see if I can do it first before saying anything," Xiaoyao replied. Although agreeing to Chen Xi might bring great benefits, Xiaoyao didn't want to deceive him. What he could do, he would naturally do, but what he couldn't do, he was powerless to help with.

"It's very simple. Go to the Fang family and help me offer incense at Chen Shiru's grave." Chen Xi said.

"..." Xiaoyao fell silent. Although this matter was indeed simple, the problem was that Chen Shiru's grave was in the Fang family mausoleum, which was Fang family territory that outsiders could hardly enter.

The Fang family was a very special clan. Unlike the Mo and Nangong families that existed within countries, they were more like a sect, independent and outside. Their territory was private land that no one could govern and couldn't be entered casually. So for Xiaoyao to accomplish this, he would need to infiltrate the Fang family.

If it were an ordinary family, it would be simple enough. Even for families like the Fang family that were independent outside, there were quite a few of these sect-style families.

Actually, comparing by strength, they were about the same as sects. The Fang family was the largest among them, with strength even exceeding any of the ten great sects. Moreover, in terms of defense, these families were much tighter because all their people were family members with no outsiders.

Although they were large and prosperous, infiltrating them was quite difficult, much harder than Heavenly Gate. Heavenly Gate could allow an outsider to enter, but families wouldn't. Every person entering would have their identity verified before being allowed in.