Chapter 280: Chapter 280

"Hmph. You're just not a good person. You also said you were a passerby, but now you don't look like one at all." the young woman snorted, ignoring Xiaoyao's rebuttal.

At this moment, everyone present, including this young woman, didn't think these mechanisms were made by Xiaoyao himself. They unanimously believed they were made by others and Xiaoyao had just acquired them through trade.

This was very normal. Generally, when people saw things others wore, they would ask where they bought them, not whether they made them themselves.

"These pills all seem to be high-grade superior pills. How do you have so many? And you still say you're just a passerby," the young woman soon discovered that the medicine bottles searched from Xiaoyao actually contained high-grade superior pills. Even she didn't casually have such things.

"Hey, hey, can't passersby be wealthy? What kind of logic is this." Xiaoyao said somewhat helplessly.

Were passersby ordinary people? This was clearly negative. Passersby included all kinds of people, even Martial Gods were just passersby in most people's eyes.

"Well, that seems true too. But this further proves your identity isn't simple. You definitely came here with some ulterior motives." the young woman nodded, talking to herself and deepening Xiaoyao's characterization.

"...Ulterior your sister." Xiaoyao couldn't help but curse.

"What did you say?." the young woman's eyes widened, with a look that seemed to say, "Dare to say that again and see if I don't kill you."

A wise man doesn't fight when outnumbered, and a good man doesn't fight with women, both applied to this situation. So Xiaoyao decided not to speak anymore to avoid the other party becoming furious and acting recklessly.

The young woman snorted, then continued searching through Xiaoyao's items.

"Eh, this, let me see what excuse you have now." the young woman seemed to have discovered something. From her tone, this thing seemed to be decisive evidence that could make Xiaoyao "confess".

This made Xiaoyao very curious. He had nothing related to the Fang family on him. Could something he had bought so coincidentally be from the Fang family?

Impossible, even if there was, it couldn't be, because this seemed related to the lost items. Could he have bought such things? Clearly impossible.

Therefore, Xiaoyao was very curious about what exactly the young woman had discovered.

"This is it. Let's see what you have to say now." the young woman excitedly held up an item and showed it to Xiaoyao, exposing it to everyone's view.

"..." Xiaoyao was stunned for a moment. He hadn't expected it to be this. After a while, he said, "Are you joking?"

At this moment, Xiaoyao hadn't noticed everyone's expressions, which seemed similar to the young woman's.

"What do you mean joking?" the young woman responded to Xiaoyao's words with a cold laugh, then said, "Who's joking with you? Do you still refuse to admit you're connected to those robbers?"

"Admit what? You're really ridiculous, taking my own things to question me about robbing others. If you want to frame me, please use other things." Xiaoyao said irritably.

"What? Your things? Do you only know how to lie? Clearly it's black but you say it's white. This thing belongs to our Fang family, you stole it."

"Bullshit." Xiaoyao couldn't help but curse again.

"What did you say." the young woman's face immediately darkened.

"I said bullshit. I've worn this thing for twenty years. If you mentioned other things, they might serve as evidence, but with this, you can only say you've got it wrong." Xiaoyao said coldly.

"How ridiculous. You say you've worn this thing for twenty years, but during these twenty years, why has it been in our Fang family's hands?" the young woman said with a cold laugh.

"I don't know what you had in your hands, but this is mine. I've worn it since childhood. My name 'Xiaoyao' comes from the characters on it." Xiaoyao looked at the young woman and said somewhat calmly. In this calm tone seemed to be an uncalm certainty, a certainty that allowed no questioning.

This thing was the jade pendant Xiaoyao had always worn, that not-very-valuable jade pendant that might be related to his background. How could it be someone else's property? So when the young woman used this to question him, he found the matter somewhat ridiculous.

"?? You say this is yours... impossible... The characters 'Xiaoyao' are also impossible, because..." the young woman was somewhat shaken by Xiaoyao's certainty, but felt this matter was impossible. She wanted to negate this certainty, and she felt this would be easy to do because as far as she knew, this thing didn't have the characters 'Xiaoyao' on it.

However, she saw something she had just thought impossible. On the jade pendant in her hand, there were indeed the two characters 'Xiaoyao', plus some blurred writing and several relatively clear characters, all different from what she had thought.

"How could this be? How could these characters be on here? Did you alter it? No, that's impossible either. Even if altered, it couldn't be ..." the young woman speculated about possibilities but quickly denied them all herself.

"Young Miss, let me see what you're holding." the old man said. Now everyone understood one thing, this matter might be beyond everyone's imagination. What they thought might not be the case.

"This is indeed not the piece we lost." After observing for a while, the old man quickly made a judgment and looked at Xiaoyao with very complex eyes.

"How is this possible. The shape, the color, they're exactly the same," the young woman shook her head, feeling this matter was still somewhat unbelievable.

"Indeed exactly the same, because this piece and that piece were made from the same jade and carved by the same person." the old man said.

"What do you mean?" the young woman asked. She didn't understand, and Xiaoyao also didn't understand, because he had never known information about this jade pendant until now when someone seemed to know.

"Release him, no need to search anymore." the old man first told the searchers, then continued with the previous topic.

"This jade pendant and that jade pendant are the same, they're Fang family items, personally carved by the Fang family founder and given to the founder's two sons. However, the founder wasn't very skilled at carving, so they're a bit rough..."

Only now did Xiaoyao learn that what he wore had such history, he had thought it was just an ordinary thing.

Wait, if this was the Fang family founder's item, could his background be related to the Fang family? While thinking this, Xiaoyao reorganized his things, returning those items to their original positions, once again showing people something miraculous.

Quite a few people were still wondering how he carried so many things.

Of course, this was just a passing thought. Most important was the current matter, Xiaoyao's jade pendant.

"This jade pendant left our Fang family thirty years ago..." the old man began recounting the past, his eyes distant as if reminiscing.

"What happened? Was it stolen?" hearing this, the young woman interjected.

"Left, not necessarily stolen. How are you so stupid? If it was stolen, I'd directly say it was stolen." This wasn't said by the old man or any Fang family member, they wouldn't dare speak to this young woman this way. The only one present who dared was Xiaoyao.

"You..." the young woman got angry, but before she could explode, the old man spoke again.

"Right, just left, not stolen. At that time, this jade pendant belonged to Fang Chunxue. After she left the Fang family to train thirty years ago, she never returned to the Fang family," the old man said.

"Fang Chunxue?. I seem to have heard this name. It's said she was a martial arts genius, but disappeared for unknown reasons. Right, why didn't she return to the Fang family? Did something happen?" the young woman asked very curiously. Follow current novels on novel⁂fire.net

"Something did happen. While training outside, she met a man. Don't know what they experienced, but Fang Chunxue fell deeply in love with that man and refused to return to the Fang family because of him," the old man said with some complexity.

"Why not return to the Fang family? That doesn't make sense. Falling in love with someone doesn't require this. Many people fall in love during training, just bring them back." the young woman asked strangely.

Xiaoyao could guess the answer and directly voiced his thoughts, "It must be because someone in the Fang family opposed it, so they didn't come back."

"Exactly. That man's identity was very problematic, so we didn't agree to this matter. Thus Fang Chunxue declared that only when the Fang family acknowledged that man would she return to her natal family, otherwise she'd never return." the old man continued.

"Who was that man?" This time it wasn't the young woman asking but Xiaoyao. He was the person here most wanting to know who this man was, because it might be related to his background.

"We only know he was called Qi Bupo and suspected he was from the Demon Cult," the old man answered. "Because the martial arts he used seemed very compatible with the Heavenly Demon Technique."

"Impossible. The Heavenly Demon Technique has been lost for thousands of years. The Demon Cult split into fragments precisely because they lacked the Heavenly Demon Technique. If someone could use it, they would have unified the Demon Cult long ago." Xiaoyao shook his head. The Heavenly Demon Technique had only recently emerged, thirty years ago, absolutely no one could have known it.

If it were some very special person with very secret transmission, this explanation wouldn't work either. With the Demon Cult's capabilities, this would have been discovered long ago, especially since even Fang family people knew about it thirty years ago, the Demon Cult would definitely have known too.