Chapter 358: Chapter 358

"What an idiot!" Nangong Suxin mocked disdainfully. "The little servant's meaning is that we can't say we're from the Divine Martial Continent now—that would cause some unnecessary trouble!!"

"I know that. Do I need you to remind me?" The Young Miss replied directly.

"Fine, let's assume you know!" Xiaoyao said indifferently. "Now I have a suggestion. You should all say you were raised by a master since childhood. When asked who your master is, say you don't know. If pressed, say you can't tell. Anyway, your martial arts were taught by your master, the gold was given by your master, and you can say your master lives in Danxia Mountain."

"Where is Danxia Mountain?"

"Don't know!" Xiaoyao said three words that left the others somewhat unable to react. They thought Xiaoyao had chosen a specific place.

"Mm, just don't know. Let them imagine and search. What can't be found is the most mysterious!" Xiaoyao said with a smile.

"Oh... you're so cunning..." The Young Miss said with a laugh. Googlᴇ search NovєlFіre.net

Xiaoyao shook his head and continued: "This isn't cunning—it's strategy! Also, you're already Emperor Level martial artists now. If you have a master, then your master would at least be Saint Level, or even God Level. This will make people think there's someone behind you, and if they want to deal with you, they'll have some scruples. This is also a form of protection!"

"You're so cunning..." This time, even the Nangong sisters said the same thing. With this arrangement, Xiaoyao had invisibly created a nonexistent peerless expert to protect them.

"This is strategy!" Xiaoyao declared again.

"Alright, enough about that. When do we set out?" Nangong Suxin asked. She seemed to be able to guess Xiaoyao's answer, but still wanted to ask.

"Of course, the sooner the better. Now!" Xiaoyao said directly.

"Then that's settled. This was bound to happen eventually. How will we keep in contact in the future?" Nangong Suxin asked a key question. In this world, they still had no way to communicate—even the messenger eagles between Guxing and Xiaoyao were gone.

"The places you and my boss are going to are fixed. You can write letters or use some monster beasts. This place has many more monster beasts than our side, and there are many interesting monster beasts," Xiaoyao said.

There were quite a few more species of monster beasts here, some of which could provide conveniences for daily life. This was something the Divine Martial Continent didn't have. Moreover, the monster beasts here weren't just more numerous in species—they seemed to have other differences as well.

Xiaoyao would discover this in the future. Currently, he had only heard about it.

"I'll contact you when the time comes. I'm still considering where to go. What I need is a place with good information networks where I can preferably learn things too," Xiaoyao answered.

He had chosen places for the girls, but he couldn't decide on his own immediately because what he needed was more complex and required more selection criteria.

He wasn't in a hurry to choose a place now. Collecting information along the way was just as good—perhaps even better than staying in one place. This wouldn't be a delay and might help him find a more suitable place.

"Remember to notify us immediately when the time comes, or I'll loosen your bones for you," The Young Miss said, raising her fist. The threatening meaning was obvious.

"Got it. I'll find you immediately when the time comes. You might be afraid when I come looking for you..." Xiaoyao said without much concern, then they said their farewells and parted ways with the Young Miss's group.

To be honest, Xiaoyao was still a bit worried about the Young Miss causing trouble in this unfamiliar world. However, this worry was only slight. With the Nangong sisters watching over her, there probably wouldn't be any problems. Besides, the Young Miss herself was strong enough and wasn't stupid—there wouldn't be any major issues.

As for minor problems, Xiaoyao was too lazy to care. Letting her experience them wouldn't be a problem either.

Most importantly, the Young Miss had experienced no fewer hardships than others. What kind of major scenes hadn't she witnessed? She had been to death's door several times.

"Young Miss..." Xiaoyao called out at the last moment, but his next words seemed to get stuck, as if he was somewhat embarrassed to say them.

"What is it? Are you saying you'll miss me? I know that," The Young Miss said with a smile.

"No, I wanted to say—don't indulge too much in wine and women..." Xiaoyao said very seriously.

Just like that, Xiaoyao and Guxing separated from the Young Miss's trio in this small town, heading to different places for their respective goals, striving to once again become people who stood at the peak in this new world, able to bully men and dominate women, able to molest decent women in broad daylight...

Wait, that last part seemed to be only the Young Miss's goal!

Guxing's goal was to break through and possess strength that could help Xiaoyao. The Nangong sisters also had their own purposes, though their thoughts were incomprehensible to Xiaoyao. But he didn't think deeply about it—this was their own business.

Heading eastward, Xiaoyao led Guxing unhurriedly toward the Huangpu Family!

The Huangpu Family was located in a country in the central part of this continent. However, the place where Xiaoyao and the others had appeared was in the western region, so naturally they had to head east.

The White Deer Academy that the Young Miss's trio was going to was in the northwest direction, so they definitely wouldn't be traveling the same route. It was said that White Deer Academy was called "White Deer" because it was located on snowy mountains—an extremely cold region.

Such an environment was actually more suitable for cultivation. The harsher the environment, the more it could stimulate a person's potential. Of course, it could also defeat a person's will—it depended on whether that person could remain steadfast.

Returning to the Huangpu Family—its location was better than White Deer Academy's, but not by much!

The Huangpu Family was located in a sparsely populated river basin region with strange mountains, unusual rocks, waterfalls, canyons, and so on. The terrain was extremely complex. Even knowing where the Huangpu Family was located, reaching them wasn't easy.

The river basin where the Huangpu Family was situated was unimaginably vast—covering almost ninety percent of the country it was in. It was an undeveloped region, with forests covering the vast majority of the entire river basin.

The Huangpu Family wasn't located in the deepest parts either, because the deepest areas had many fierce beasts. Although the Huangpu Family might have the ability to resist them, the price they'd pay would be almost genocidal—no one would do such a thing.

Fierce beasts naturally referred to monster beasts. On this continent, not only were monster beasts numerous, but high-level monster beasts were also abundant and very powerful. This should also be due to the more abundant heaven and earth elemental energy here.

Although the strength of most high-level monster beasts hadn't reached Emperor Level, their numbers were overwhelming. Even super powers wouldn't dare to easily provoke these deep forest monster beasts.

And there was a high probability of encountering Monster Clan members, which would be even more tragic!

On this day, Xiaoyao and Guxing arrived at a border town of the Ancient Moon Kingdom. This Ancient Moon Kingdom was the country where the Huangpu Family was located—the nation that owned that river basin.

The Ancient Moon Kingdom wasn't considered a very strong kingdom on this continent. Although its area was even larger than some strong countries, the problem was that the Ancient Moon Kingdom could only utilize a little over ten percent of its area.

Although the Ancient Moon Kingdom wasn't very strong, no country would invade it because the Ancient Moon Kingdom had the Huangpu Family. Out of respect for the monk if not the Buddha, everyone would give the Huangpu Family some face.

At the same time, the Ancient Moon Kingdom wasn't very valuable, so no one would set their sights on it.

However, the border town where Xiaoyao was located was very lively. Xiaoyao quickly understood why—it was also a coincidence.

Right now happened to be when the Huangpu Family was recruiting disciples, and also when the older batch of disciples was graduating. New and old were alternating—new ones coming and old ones leaving—naturally leading to more people coming and going.

"Innkeeper, are there any guest rooms available?"

"None left. You should try finding lodging with local families—there might still be a chance."

When there were many people, this was the trouble. Xiaoyao couldn't find an inn to stay at, and the innkeeper directly suggested he seek lodging with ordinary families. This indicated that the inns in this place were basically full, and others were the same.

"Innkeeper, I believe you still have other rooms here. We can make do," Xiaoyao showed a friendly, warm smile.

"I did have some rooms empty, but after an important person came, they booked all those rooms, saying they didn't want to be disturbed! I can't afford to offend such people, and neither can you. Let's forget about it," the innkeeper shook his head.

"We don't want to cause trouble. We just need a place to stay—it doesn't have to be a guest room. A storage room would be fine!" Xiaoyao continued to maintain his smile.

Xiaoyao believed that even if they went to civilian homes for lodging now, the good places had already been taken, and what remained wouldn't be as good as the storage room here.

"There is a storage room, but wouldn't that be too much of an imposition on you?" the innkeeper said somewhat embarrassedly.

"It's fine. It's better than sleeping on the streets. We'll pay the room fee," Xiaoyao said with a smile.

"No need. We can't really charge for that... Just a small service fee would be enough..." The innkeeper was too embarrassed to charge room fees but couldn't let Xiaoyao stay for free either. Running a business, as long as it was fair, no one would complain.

"That's appropriate," Xiaoyao nodded, then took out some copper coins—of course, these were ones he had previously exchanged silver for, belonging to this region.

Some copper coins were enough. This was a remote place after all, and not a high-end inn.

"You can eat dinner in the main hall—there's free food and food that costs money," the innkeeper said after collecting the money, then had a servant lead Xiaoyao and the other to the storage room and had someone tidy it up a bit.