Chapter 281: Chapter 281

"Although the Heavenly Demon Technique isn't dark, it indeed has nothing to do with righteousness..." Xiaoyao nodded.

At this moment, everyone didn't notice that Xiaoyao seemed very familiar with the Heavenly Demon Technique. Even if they had noticed, they would have only thought he had heard of it and would never imagine he had actually encountered it.

"So he probably wasn't from the Demon Cult, he might even have been from an orthodox sect. However, when we realized this, it was already too late. They were surrounded and killed by a group of mysterious people, both dying. Later, Fang Chunxue did return, but what came back was a corpse. We never mentioned this matter to anyone, so you didn't know," the old man looked at the young woman, knowing she was puzzled about why she didn't know about this.

"Who were those mysterious people?" the young woman asked.

"They're called mysterious people, so naturally we don't know." Xiaoyao said irritably, then ignoring the young woman's angry glare, asked a question.

"Did you bring back Qi Bupo's body?"

From the old man's words, Xiaoyao detected this point, he seemed to only mention Fang Chunxue, not bringing back both their bodies. There might be something the old man didn't want to say.

"You're very perceptive, very much like Fang Chunxue..." the old man sighed. "Your guess is correct, Qi Bupo's body isn't in the Fang family. It's not that we didn't want to bring him back, but his body had already been taken away beforehand. Possibly by Qi Bupo's family or faction..."

"I want to ask another question. Did Fang Chunxue ever give this jade pendant to anyone?" Xiaoyao asked.

"No, she always wore it herself. Although she didn't return to the Fang family, she was still a Fang family member. She wouldn't give ancestral items to anyone. Except..." the old man looked at Xiaoyao, causing him to frown slightly.

"Except what?" the young woman asked.

"Except to her child... When her body was brought back, we examined it. She had given birth not long before, no more than a month. But we didn't find the child. We guessed it was taken by Qi Bupo's people." the old man looked at Xiaoyao. Although he didn't state his speculation clearly, the meaning was obvious, he was asking if Xiaoyao was that child.

"Why are you looking at me? I also want to know if I am. I'm an abandoned orphan who never knew who my parents were." Xiaoyao said, looking at the jade pendant. "This jade pendant is my only clue."

"Then you must be Fang Chunxue's child." the old man said. "Initially we only guessed someone took you, but perhaps when your parents encountered danger, they placed you somewhere safe."

"This isn't certain, only possible. Perhaps this jade pendant being on me has another reason. Fang Chunxue was away from you for ten years, how do you know she was definitely wearing this jade pendant? Perhaps due to life's hardships, she had already pawned it." Xiaoyao took the jade pendant from the old man's hands. "Regardless of whether this was your Fang family's before, it's my possession now."

The old man was silent for a while. He didn't stop Xiaoyao because he felt this was what Fang Chunxue gave to her child, he had no right to take Xiaoyao's. But now Xiaoyao's words made him think of a possibility, what if Fang Chunxue had given this jade pendant to someone under special circumstances?

In that case, should this jade pendant be retrieved? Although it was the Fang family's ancestral item, its current owner wasn't the Fang family, they had no right to demand it back.

However, this was still the Fang family's ancestral item, so the Fang family still had the right to possess it. They needed to negotiate proper terms.

But this worry was probably unnecessary. Now they felt the probability that Xiaoyao was Fang Chunxue's descendant was much higher. In that case, there would be no question of whether to retrieve this jade pendant.

"You also can't be certain this was definitely pawned by Fang Chunxue. You might just be Fang Chunxue's child," the old man said.

"I want to mention one more thing. Although I've never found information about this jade pendant, I have found a family that might be related to me. I look exactly like one of their members. She might be my..." Xiaoyao shook his head. If there wasn't that Princess Zhuyue from the Great Tang Empire, he would feel he was very likely Fang Chunxue's son. But now he could only understand the situation first, just feeling there was this possibility.

"That might be Qi Bupo's family." Everyone thought so, feeling the person Xiaoyao resembled should be one of the men in Qi Bupo's family.

"No. It has nothing to do with Qi Bupo. Also, if blood relations were determined by appearance, I should have no relation to Fang Chunxue, because the person I mentioned who looks the same is a woman. She might be my mother, and I can't possibly have two mothers." Xiaoyao said.

Everyone fell silent. If following Xiaoyao's reasoning, the possibility became much smaller, though it wasn't impossible.

"That might just be people who look similar. You also only said 'might,' meaning you can't be certain about this matter either. Did you ask that person?" The old man heard some things from Xiaoyao's words, a very perceptive old man.

"No, because she's already dead. She might not be dead but has disappeared. Either way, I can't ask. Moreover, if she died, she probably wouldn't be my mother, because when she died, I hadn't been born yet..." Xiaoyao didn't mind revealing this, there was nothing to hide.

"This situation really doesn't know what to say. We can only know by asking them directly, but there's no way to ask. The old man had a bit of a headache. This was the first time he encountered such a thing, one connection through appearance, one through objects.

Both were possible but couldn't be confirmed. They could only find new proof.

"Looks like I need to investigate. This matter also needs to be clarified," Xiaoyao said.

"Also needs to be clarified?" the young woman looked at Xiaoyao puzzledly. "From your words, you don't seem very concerned about your background."

"Regardless of my background, I'm still me. Is there a difference?" Xiaoyao asked.

"This..." the young woman wanted to say something but found she couldn't find words. Since the other party said this, what more could she say?

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"I do, but only limited to wanting to know." Xiaoyao said calmly.

"You must resent your parents for abandoning you when you were born, but this might have been unavoidable for them. Perhaps they've already ended up like Fang Chunxue, or perhaps they had other unavoidable difficulties." the old man said with some emotion.

"If they're already dead, then I only need to know. If there were unavoidable difficulties, it's the same, I only need to know. Since we haven't recognized each other for so many years, recognizing each other now would be the same." Xiaoyao said calmly.

"From another perspective, having difficulties also means they considered it carefully. Even if it was for my good, it was still abandonment. Since they abandoned me, why should I search for them. When they can find me someday, they'll naturally appear..."

Everyone was silent, deeply contemplating Xiaoyao's words. They could all understand Xiaoyao's thinking. It must be said that Xiaoyao's thinking was very free-spirited, not like ordinary people who would desperately try to uncover this secret and also uncover these difficulties.

Of course, if he could investigate it himself, that would be fine too.

Xiaoyao felt now was the time. Currently he had nothing particularly important, so he could clarify his background, whether he was Fang Chunxue's son or Princess Zhuyue's son. Perhaps he was neither.

"This is your own matter. We can't help you either. The Fang family has no special bloodline, and when Fang Chunxue gave birth to you... gave birth to the child, we also didn't know the situation or what characteristics the child had," the old man looked at Xiaoyao. "However, you can temporarily consider the Fang family your home. Right, what were you here to do just now?"

"He was here to rob graves... said he was here to pay respects to ancestor Chen Shiru. I need to check on ancestor Chen Shiru's situation," the young woman said. At this moment, although they couldn't prove why Xiaoyao came here, at least they proved some of what Xiaoyao said was true. If other things were also true, then there really were no problems and they should investigate.

"Xiaoyao, you speak. If you're really related to the earlier matter, you can say so directly. We'll forgive you, because you yourself didn't know you were related to the Fang family," the old man said very forgivingly. Even if Xiaoyao was targeting the Fang family, he wouldn't mind, since no damage had been caused at this time.

If Xiaoyao had chosen the wrong side, as long as he returned to the Fang family's side now, there would be no problem.

They thought that now that they had said this much, surely even if Xiaoyao had problems, he would confess, unless it was truly unsolvable problems.

However, this possibility should be small.

In fact, they never thought that Xiaoyao originally had no problems, being here was just a coincidence.

"I said I only came to help someone pay respects. Appearing at that robbery scene before was just a coincidence, and being taken for a grave robber by you now is also just a coincidence," Xiaoyao said.

"Coincidence? Perhaps it is coincidence. Otherwise, how could it be so coincidental that you brought this jade pendant to the Fang family," the old man smiled, feeling this matter was indeed very coincidental.

Such a coincidental matter, if it wasn't heaven's will, then there were big problems. As the Fang family's leader, he also knew that letting Xiaoyao stay in the Fang family was somewhat problematic. They needed to secretly watch Xiaoyao's behavior until proving these coincidences were just coincidences.