Ordinary? Ordinary would be strange—fewer than ten people could recognize this ancient script, and fewer than ten could decode this cipher-like combination. For soone to decipher it alone, there wouldn't be a second person.
After Hei Xue felt powerless to complain, she asked, "What does it say?" As for how he decoded it, she didn't want to torture her brain with that—this was obviously sothing she didn't know.
"The general aning is that inside contains so secrets of the Demon Cult, and secrets that could be stored this way must be critically important matters," Xiaoyao answered while adding his own speculation.
"Knowing it was like this, weren't you interested in seeing what these secrets were?" Hei Xue found it strange. Such gossipy matters were very attractive—she also liked digging into others' secrets, though partly because she wanted to grasp so people's weaknesses to better employ counterasures.
But secrets that rose to this level, even without other reasons, pure curiosity alone would be enough to make people want to understand them. Yet Xiaoyao had this opportunity before him but didn't take it, which she found sowhat incomprehensible.
"Of course I was interested in knowing, but only under non-troubleso circumstances. At the ti, I didn't know this was related to . Just for the sake of curiosity, to expend energy and ti opening this thing—I didn't have such leisure," Xiaoyao raised his head to admire the moon again, casually answering Hei Xue's question.
At the ti, Xiaoyao had actually considered opening it, but after carefully observing that box, he understood that to open it, he either needed bloodline or would have to spend a very long ti studying these chanisms to slowly decode them.
The forr went without saying—Xiaoyao wouldn't think he could do it and wouldn't waste his blood. That left only the latter, but the ti and energy required for the latter was too much. Xiaoyao felt that for a secret, and moreover an ancient secret of at least three thousand years, this wasn't worth it, so he decisively gave up.
"That's true too. Hey, can't you look at when talking? Am I not beautiful enough?" Hei Xue was sowhat displeased again. Such a great beauty as herself was in front of him, yet he ignored her like this.
"You're very beautiful." Xiaoyao answered. This response made Hei Xue smile, but soon that smile disappeared because Xiaoyao added another sentence—
"But the moon is still better looking."
"Ugh..." Black lines appeared on Hei Xue's forehead, and she had the impulse to hit soone. "Every ti I'm with you, I feel I get angry very easily."
"What a coincidence—is it your period or not?" Xiaoyao casually threw out a line.
"Go die." Hei Xue couldn't hold back and kicked Xiaoyao's shin.
"Ah, that really hurts. Good thing you don't have much attack power, or my leg would have broken," Xiaoyao hopped on one foot, looking very injured.
Hei Xue's lack of attack power wasn't because she was soft-hearted and couldn't bear to hurt Xiaoyao—she truly didn't have much attack power in this regard. If she changed attack thods it would be fine, but it wouldn't have much effect on Xiaoyao.
"Hmph, if it breaks, fix it yourself. Isn't your dical skill very good?" Hei Xue pouted.
"So-so, just a small traveling doctor," Xiaoyao smiled in response. He could indeed be considered a traveling doctor, and the kind who didn't attend to proper business.
"It's just that this small traveling doctor of yours can make even so divine doctors feel ashad." Hei Xue continued, giving a small complint about this—she shouldn't be stingy with this, as it could increase feelings.
"That's because their skills are insufficient. There are too many people with fa but no substance," Xiaoyao shook his head, lanting this world with a compassionate appearance. Combined with him looking at the moon, his appearance was very...
"Stop acting. But you look very charming like this." Hei Xue said with a smile.
"..."
"Are you two having a romantic conversation?"
While Xiaoyao was still silent, Fan Gao walked over and spoke directly.
"..."
"Yes, he and I need to talk more romantically to increase our feelings. After we get married and have children, there won't be ti for romance," Hei Xue nodded very seriously.
"..."
"Don't talk about such absurd things. You ca over to show what's inside, right?" Xiaoyao asked directly.
Absurd? You actually said absurd.
Hei Xue really wanted to argue with Xiaoyao about this, but she didn't do so because she also wanted to know about these Demon Cult secrets. As always, she had to care more about matters related to the Demon Cult, and this was also a very gossipy topic.
"How did you know I wanted to show you this? Forget it, that's not important. Here, take a look at this. Actually, it's not very useful—just learned a bit about the Demon Cult's origins," Fan Gao handed what was in the box to Xiaoyao. It was a notebook—accurately speaking, a genealogy plus family records.
Why would it be a genealogy rather than the Demon Cult's? This was actually the beginning of the Demon Cult.
From these family records, it recorded how the original Moyun Cult appeared, but it was also rather vague.
It recorded that this family ca from a certain place, left that place for certain reasons, then established the Moyun Cult on this continent—what was now the Demon Cult.
From the literal aning, this family didn't seem to be from this continent.
The original intention of establishing the Moyun Cult was to develop power to establish a foothold on this continent, but unexpectedly, this continent's level was sowhat weak compared to theirs. Their power developed rapidly, with a feeling of becoming kings and overlords.
Xiaoyao already knew what happened afterward—the Moyun Cult gradually beca the Demon Cult, and three thousand years ago, due to an incident, it beca what it was now.
This incident from three thousand years ago was also ntioned here. It seed that those with high bloodline in the Demon Cult all returned to that place. From the beginning, this family had prepared to return, and people had returned in between, but generally couldn't co back. Three thousand years ago, there seed to be a great opportunity—anyone with certain bloodline could return.
As for what accident happened to those remaining, this wasn't known by those left behind. Moreover, people with Demon Cult bloodline beca fewer and fewer, and finally the Demon Cult lost its orthodoxy and began to fragnt.
What specifically happened in between wasn't recorded here, which was certain because those events hadn't yet occurred at that ti.
These matters were also buried in history, and investigating them clearly was now impossible unless there were similar records that survived to the present, but there seed to be none.
However, this wasn't very important to Xiaoyao. What he knew now was already quite enough—he knew the most important parts.
As for what that place was, this didn't say either, only that it was a place requiring strength. If one hadn't reached Emperor Level, they shouldn't think about going there.
There was another condition—if one couldn't reach Emperor Level but possessed bloodline that could open this box, they could also go.
But regardless of which, they needed soone to guide the way. The current situation was that this guide seed to have not appeared for three thousand years. Perhaps the people here had already been forgotten.
Now, even if Xiaoyao wanted to go to that place, it was impossible because there were no clues here. Whether the guide could appear in one's lifeti was also an unknown number, so going to that place required other thods.
Xiaoyao felt that perhaps he already possessed this thod.
From so clues, this place seed to match the Martial Arts Holy Land very well, just as Xiaoyao had boldly speculated before—the Demon Cult might have co from the Martial Arts Holy Land.
If the Demon Cult ca from the Martial Arts Holy Land, then the Martial Arts Holy Land wouldn't be as simple as imagined. Originally thinking the Martial Arts Holy Land might be one force, it now seed there were various different forces.
Why did Xiaoyao think this way? This was actually very simple—if it were only one force, how could a family leave the Martial Arts Holy Land? This proved that even if they weren't driven out, they were forced out.
Also, from between the lines, the person recording these events still regarded the Martial Arts Holy Land as a dragon's pool and tiger's den—without strong abilities, don't enter. This also proved the Martial Arts Holy Land wasn't a peaceful place and might have considerable struggles.
Of course, this was based on the premise that the place ntioned above was the Martial Arts Holy Land. If not, then all of this wouldn't hold.
There were also so phenona indicating this place shouldn't be the Martial Arts Holy Land, because if that place was the Martial Arts Holy Land, then why didn't people from the Martial Arts Holy Land co out? If they ca out, they could also beco kings and overlords just like the Demon Cult. Why had no other people ever co out?
Xiaoyao didn't think too much about this because he knew what he had to do—the only choice, which was to return to Qingyun City, find that old man, and go to the place leading to the Martial Arts Holy Land to find a way to open the passage.
Of course, he couldn't tell the people before him about this, including Hei Xue. He didn't want Demon Cult people to know this secret, or he'd be constantly watched by these people, which wasn't what he liked.
It wasn't that he wanted to monopolize this secret, just that he felt if these people were there, they might spoil things. Better to open it himself first, then see if he needed to tell Hei Xue and use her remaining conditions to trade.
When needed, Xiaoyao would never pretend to be generous—he would definitely haggle to ensure he didn't lose out.
(End of Chapter)
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