Chapter 288: Chapter 288

"Hehe." Xiaoyao didn't argue about anything and just said, "I was previously consolidating basic skills, plus I needed to work and create a suitable martial arts set for my boss, so I studied these things. Now I'm used to it and can't change."

"Work? Boss?" Fang Ling was full of confusion.

"Let's not talk about this. I just noticed your martial techniques seem a bit strange, missing some things." Xiaoyao changed the subject. He didn't want to discuss Guxing with others. He'd only known Fang Ling for a few days, they weren't at that level yet.

"Mm, that's right. Some things are indeed missing. Over a thousand years ago, the Fang family experienced a great catastrophe that nearly destroyed the entire family. Fortunately, that peerless genius appeared later and restored the Fang family to its position as the first family. However, some martial arts were lost, especially those that were originally passed down orally," Fang Ling nodded.

For families like the Fang family that had existed for so long, there would definitely be great rises and falls, even possibly facing the danger of clan extinction. This could all happen, such was this world. You never knew what would occur next. Latest content publıshed on novel⟡fire.net

Fortunately, the Fang family had weathered through and continued to the present. When old martial arts were lost, new ones would appear. However, some things once lost were very difficult to recover.

"Strange, how do you know things are missing?" Fang Ling looked at Xiaoyao with some confusion, but soon she thought of something. She understood, and her gaze toward Xiaoyao became somewhat fervent.

"Didn't I say I saw them in Chen Shiru's study? Those were all from three thousand years ago," Xiaoyao replied, regardless of whether Fang Ling had thought of it.

"Right, that's it. What you saw was from three thousand years ago, and we lost these things over a thousand years ago, so yours are complete. Quick, write down everything you know." Fang Ling grabbed Xiaoyao. At this moment, Xiaoyao had no intention of avoiding her.

"Alright, prepare the Four Treasures of the Study and bookbinding materials for me. I'll write everything down. Looks like I can't leave tomorrow, it'll be several days." Xiaoyao nodded in agreement because these things originally belonged to the Fang family anyway. He had no reason to keep them private.

Of course, things that didn't belong to the Fang family he wouldn't write, because he didn't have the time. Just writing the Fang family's would take seven or eight days, and that was with him writing at full effort.

Writing books was always more troublesome than reading them. Even with divine writing speed, it still required much more time.

"Good, I'll go prepare right away." Fang Ling left without another word to arrange for what Xiaoyao needed.

After running out, Fang Ling hesitated somewhat. She didn't know where to go for a moment, who would prepare these things? She wasn't very clear about this because she had never dealt with such matters.

Just then, Fang Ling's savior appeared. An old man slowly appeared before her, this old man was none other than the Fang Family Head.

The Fang Family Head happened to be going elsewhere to handle some small matters when he saw Fang Ling running along the road. He casually asked, "Hey, Young Miss, where are you rushing off to in such a hurry?"

"Ah, Fang Hong. Perfect timing, you're the best person for this matter." Fang Ling directly called out the Fang Family Head's name. In the Fang family, only she and a few others had this privilege.

At the same time, Fang Ling was very happy now because she had found the best solution. As the Fang Family Head, all Fang family matters could be his concern, so he naturally knew how to obtain what Xiaoyao needed.

"What matter has alarmed you, elder?" Fang Hong said half-jokingly. Regarding this Young Miss before him, although she was an elder, he only treated her as a junior who needed care and was quite fond of her.

"That Xiaoyao kid wants the Four Treasures of the Study and bookbinding materials, large quantities." Fang Ling answered directly but forgot to mention why these things were needed.

Fang Hong naturally didn't understand and asked, "What does he need these for, and in large quantities too?" If it were just a little, perhaps it was for writing notes or something, but needing large quantities was strange. Did he want to publish something?

"He knows our lost martial arts and wants to write them down." Fang Ling immediately replied. She had no mind for keeping people in suspense.

"What?." After hearing Fang Ling's words, Fang Hong showed great surprise. "He knows our lost martial arts? How does he know them?"

"Did you forget? He said before that he came to pay respects to Ancestor Chen Shiru. I checked, and Ancestor Chen Shiru indeed had an old friend, her fox, which has now become Monster Clan and is still alive, guarding Ancestor Chen Shiru's original courtyard. In the study of her courtyard, there are some of our Fang family's martial arts manuals," Fang Ling said in one breath.

At this moment, Fang Hong didn't understand many things, such as how Chen Shiru came to have a fox, what kind of existence that fox would be if it was still alive now, what Chen Shiru's courtyard was about, why it wasn't in the Fang family, and so on.

However, he wouldn't concern himself with these now because what he cared more about were the martial arts manuals in that study. If they had existed at that time, didn't that mean all the martial arts the Fang family had lost could return?

"Martial arts manuals from three thousand years ago, this is a major matter. I'll immediately have people prepare." By the time Fang Hong finished this sentence, he had already disappeared from before Fang Ling. He used his fastest speed to find people to arrange matters. As an Emperor Level peak existence, his speed was imaginable.

Soon, some guests appeared at the courtyard where Xiaoyao was temporarily staying. These people naturally came to care about Xiaoyao, oh, to care about the Fang family martial arts manuals in Xiaoyao's mind, and also to confirm this matter.

Xiaoyao told these people exactly what had happened, and they began discussing the matter...

"You say that study contains Fang family manuals. Shouldn't we go get them back? It's not good for these things to be in others' hands," one Fang family member asked Fang Hong directly in front of Xiaoyao.

"This..." Fang Hong hesitated somewhat. Reasonably speaking, this should be done, but the problem was this matter was difficult to handle, or rather impossible to handle.

"Xiaoyao, you might be a Fang family member. Tell us where that villa is located." the previous person asked Xiaoyao, his tone seeming to think Xiaoyao should naturally answer this question.

"You can find it yourselves. If you find it, I wish you good luck in having the life to return." Xiaoyao spread out paper and began writing those martial arts manuals. Although the person before him was quite detestable, this wasn't enough to make Xiaoyao change his mind.

"What do you mean by that?" the person asked.

At this moment, Xiaoyao didn't answer this person's question because he felt it meaningless. Moreover, someone else helped answer this question.

Fang Hong shouted at that person, "You fool, don't you understand? Chen Xi is a Monster Clan member who has lived for three thousand years."

"So what..." The person originally wanted to say that with so many Fang family members, why should they fear one Monster Clan member? They could eliminate him in minutes.

Fortunately, he didn't continue speaking, otherwise even he would call himself a fool. A Monster Clan member who had lived three thousand years, no matter how poor, would be a God Level existence. The Fang family couldn't eliminate him, he could eliminate the Fang family in minutes.

No force on the entire continent dared attack a God Level existence because no one had the ability to resist. Currently, the highest existences among all continental forces were Saint Level martial artists, already peerless experts.

Martial Saint level peerless experts were already continental legends. Each could match an entire sect, and major sects at that.

Take the Great Tang Empire for example, without the Eldest Princess, this peerless expert, it couldn't compare to the destroyed Heavenly Gate, or even the Fang family. But now with the Eldest Princess, except for the Demon Cult, no sect on the entire continent could oppose the Great Tang Empire.

However, because the Eldest Princess sometimes went mad, the effect was significantly reduced.

If even Martial Saints were , one could imagine what kind of existence Martial Gods were, absolute power.

"Well, we could talk with Senior Chen Xi. Perhaps he'd return the things to us," the person said in a changed, weaker tone.

Xiaoyao responded at this moment, "Chen Xi will never give you the things because he won't let anything inside change, not even a little bit, let alone books that Chen Shiru once read."

"I understand your thinking, but there's no need to consider it. Chen Xi will protect everything well and won't let anyone touch anything inside. What you want, my writing it out for you is the same," Xiaoyao continued.

"That may be so, but if you could see them, perhaps others could too."

"I was able to because of special circumstances. No more exceptions will occur. Also, do you think you can definitely protect them here?" Xiaoyao asked back.

No words in response, because they had indeed lost them. Even if they hadn't lost them, there were cases of external transmission. No family or sect in the world could forever keep their martial arts from being transmitted externally, it was a matter of time.

"Let's end the discussion about going to the villa to retrieve things. Being able to recover what we lost is already extremely fortunate, we should ask for nothing more." Fang Hong expressed his opinion, and after this, probably no one would bring up this matter again.