Chapter 276: Chapter 276

, what should have taken one month took him nearly three months. Along the way, he encountered many people wanting to hitchhike, Mao Mao could carry three to five people without any problem.

For hitchhikers, if they were going the same direction, Xiaoyao would give them a ride. Of course, some among them had ill intentions toward Xiaoyao, and these were all thrown into the wilderness to fend for themselves.

Throughout this journey, Xiaoyao was quite eye-catching, or rather Mao Mao was quite eye-catching. Such a large creature naturally drew many gazes. Moreover, Cloud-Carrying Beasts were relatively rare monster beast mounts, making people stop and stare even more.

Fortunately, these weren't major troubles, and Xiaoyao still arrived smoothly at the Fang family's outskirts, coming to the outside of the Fang family's most famous city wall.

The Fang family city wall was one of the Fang family's great defensive facilities. Unlike ordinary city walls, this wall was twice as high and very imposing, even experts might not necessarily be able to climb up this wall.

This wall stretched continuously for over a thousand li, surrounding the entire range of the Fang family's influence. This was ten to twenty times longer than the imperial capital walls of empires like the Great Tang.

This wall wasn't built by hiring craftsmen and laborers, but was constructed bit by bit by the Fang family members themselves, using the wall's construction as cultivation practice. Whether moving city bricks or making them required considerable strength and skill, which was excellent training for martial artists.

Over these thousands of years, the wall had grown from the original small section into the current complete wall. However, such a long wall required considerable repairs each year, so the same cultivation tradition continued.

Within this wall, it wasn't all buildings either. The Fang family didn't have that many people. If one could look inside from the wall and see everything within, they would see that inside the walls were farmlands, pastures, forests, rivers, mountain peaks...

Of course, there were also some villages and towns, with a clearly massive castle in the center, that was the Fang family's headquarters, Fang Family Fortress.

The Fang family wall had only four main gates. Generally, only the eastern gate was open, while the other three gates only opened when necessary and weren't regular entry points. These three gates hadn't been opened for hundreds of years.

Of course, there were still guards. Not only at the main gates, but watchtowers along the wall at regular intervals each had guards. Usually one watchtower had only one person, with special circumstances determining otherwise.

However, Xiaoyao didn't come to the eastern main gate but stayed in a small city not far away. This was where the Fang family made external contacts, where many people waited before wanting to enter the Fang family, and where the Fang family made purchases and conducted trade.

There were also quite a few Fang family members coming and going here. Xiaoyao planned to see if there was an opportunity to sneak in. Of course, if he couldn't find one, it didn't matter, he could directly infiltrate the Fang family. With his abilities, he believed he had a chance of not being discovered. He just needed to offer incense to Chen Shiru.

After one day, Xiaoyao made his decision, direct infiltration.

In his words, he had already waited one day and still hadn't found an opportunity, so there was no need to wait any longer. It was time to begin the infiltration operation.

Of course, during this day he had also roughly understood the layout within the Fang family and at least found the route to the Fang family cemetery. If he didn't even know the route, wouldn't this trip be wasted?

A dark and windy night was very suitable for infiltration. Xiaoyao leisurely slept until midnight before putting on night clothes and setting out...

At this moment, he didn't know what would happen once he infiltrated. What should have been a simple in-and-out matter would have unexpected complications due to unexpected circumstances.

Early morning, Fang family cemetery.

At this time, in such a place, no matter what, there would be no one. Even if there were, it would only be under special circumstances, and such special circumstances should occur perhaps once in decades.

Moreover, if such circumstances occurred twice simultaneously, it would be almost impossible.

When Xiaoyao infiltrated here silently, he relaxed his vigilance and went directly to find Chen Shiru's grave. This was relatively easy because although the Fang family cemetery was large, it was very well organized, with each generation having fixed areas.

Now Xiaoyao easily found Chen Shiru's generation. The problem was he couldn't find Chen Shiru's grave location for a while. Although the Fang family cemetery was organized and one could check name lists, Chen Shiru was from three thousand years ago, too distant from now. The records didn't know where they were kept. Even if Xiaoyao could check the records, he couldn't find them immediately, better to search directly here.

This area, he believed, wouldn't have anyone coming, even during the day. After all, these were figures from three thousand years ago. Therefore, Xiaoyao relaxed.

Although it took considerable time, Xiaoyao still found Chen Shiru's grave smoothly and began taking out items to pay respects. There were quite a few items and complete offerings.

This was helping someone completely. Since he came to offer incense, he should bring some offerings, plus some paper money and gold ingots...

Xiaoyao was truly very relaxed. Not only did he not guard against others coming, he actually started burning paper money here. In the darkness, this was very conspicuous. Even if this area was shielded, it might still be exposed.

He seemed not to care at all whether he'd be discovered because he felt that even if someone found him, it would take time for others to get here, enough time for him to leave.

"Senior, I'm offering incense on Chen Xi's behalf. If you ask why he doesn't come himself, it's actually because of you. You waited a lifetime, so he's guarding there for a lifetime. If you haven't reincarnated yet, please visit him in his dreams..." Xiaoyao said while burning paper money.

"This is what he asked me to bury here..." Xiaoyao took out the collar and began prying open the stone. The cemetery ground was all covered with blue stone. To bury something, he naturally had to dig through the blue stone.

Just then, something that should have been almost impossible happened, people appeared, and quite a few of them. Before these people came, there was a prelude—

Suddenly everything around Xiaoyao became bright, giving him the illusion of whether the sun had gotten up to relieve himself. However, such a thing seemed impossible.

The only explanation was that someone here was creating this brightness, and this method couldn't be produced by ordinary people or ordinary forces, because this method was very expensive.

This was a lighting tool, a type of lamp that floated in the air and could illuminate a large area. This type was generally used for grand ceremonial occasions and also for situations like now, to capture people under cover of night.

Mm, capture. Xiaoyao already understood this point. He was surrounded in the middle. Although there weren't many people, only three, these three all seemed to be Emperor Level.

Not only that, there seemed to be quite a few more people approaching here. This formation seemed a bit excessive. Although three Emperor Level experts weren't much for the Fang family, for them to appear together, there must be major events. So what was this about?

Xiaoyao felt that making such a big commotion definitely wouldn't be to capture a small fry like himself, because it was completely unnecessary.

Therefore, Xiaoyao was puzzled, what exactly was this performance about?

"Kid, you really have the guts of a bear and the courage of a leopard to actually dare come here to rob graves."

The three Emperor Level martial artists stood not far from Xiaoyao, positioned in three directions to surround him. These three didn't step forward to capture Xiaoyao but just said one sentence.

They didn't capture Xiaoyao because they felt that with their status, attacking such a small fry would be too unseemly. Better to wait for others to come, they just needed to ensure he didn't escape.

"Rob graves?" Xiaoyao was somewhat surprised by this accusation and quickly understood. Such a big commotion was because they had received news that someone was coming to rob graves, and he was just unlucky enough to be caught in the act. Moreover, he had just been prying open the blue stone.

Such behavior, on such a night, could indeed easily be mistaken for grave robbing. If these people had received advance notice that someone was grave robbing, then he naturally became the grave robber.

"Well, don't misunderstand, I'm not a grave robber." Xiaoyao immediately explained.

"You needn't make excuses. Someone will capture you for questioning shortly." the Emperor Level martial artist said very arrogantly. They didn't want to hear Xiaoyao's explanation. Their appearance was merely to catch Xiaoyao. What Xiaoyao was actually here to do, they wouldn't care and didn't want to care. Updates are released by novèlfire.net

Xiaoyao said nothing more and continued digging the ground.

The three Emperor Level martial artists fell silent. Although they didn't want to care about Xiaoyao's business, Xiaoyao was now continuing to dig in front of them, making them feel he was really not taking them seriously.

However, what could they say? If they actively spoke to him now, wouldn't that weaken their imposing manner? But if they didn't speak, should they just watch him continue digging?

This left the three Emperor Level martial artists speechless, unable to decide for a moment, caught in a dilemma. However, they soon felt this matter didn't need to be troublesome because people would arrive soon, they wouldn't need to do the questioning.

"Stop. What are you doing? You've fallen into our hands and still dare to dig." the person who came to handle the situation shouted at Xiaoyao.

"Don't worry, I'll repair this place properly, like new." Xiaoyao didn't stop but continued digging deeper. It was better to dig a bit deeper.