Moreover, she had never heard of this Le Xiaoyao!
Someone with such great influence - she should have heard of them more or less. Why was there never such a person in her memory?
This matter was too strange!
"Siblings - that's a good thought... Let me tell you, actually, we really are siblings..." Le Youran said very seriously, answering Shi Zhenxiang's question.
"Let's go, sister. This place is finished!" Xiaoyao said irritably. "Miss Shi, your banquet is over, so my task is also complete! If you need any help in the future, you can find me..."
"Yes, if you can find him!" Le Youran supplemented from the side. She knew that for the coming period, Xiaoyao would definitely be hiding from the Eldest Princess and would be somewhere even the Eldest Princess couldn't find, let alone this Shi family young lady.
"Let's go. I originally wanted to come here to freeload food and drink today, but because of you, now I still have to find a place for late-night snacks!"
"I know a good shop. Come, sister will take you there! Ah, better not call me sister anymore - I'm afraid your auntie will cause me trouble later."
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Just like that, Shi Zhenxiang watched Xiaoyao and Le Youran leave. Her mind was full of question marks - she couldn't understand many things. However, she would know soon enough.
"Xiang'er, come here for a moment!"
"What is it, Father?"
Shi Zhenxiang was about to gradually understand the seriousness of this matter. At the same time, she would also begin to gradually regret what she had done. At that time, she really wanted to cry and wanted to say to Xiaoyao: Why did you say you were a servant...
In the time that followed, Xiaoyao couldn't be found anywhere in the world. The Eldest Princess had turned the entire Great Tang Imperial Capital upside down but still couldn't find any trace of Xiaoyao's existence. This made many people think Xiaoyao had left long ago.
But in fact, Xiaoyao hadn't left, because he would appear by Guxing's side every few days. This amazed everyone - why could Xiaoyao remain completely traceless under such circumstances, with no one able to find his existence?
This was at the foot of the emperor - the Great Tang Empire finding one person should be as easy as turning over one's hand. If the Great Tang Empire didn't have this capability, their security would be very problematic.
Here, even a Saint Level peerless master shouldn't expect to leave no traces at all. Yet Xiaoyao could achieve complete tracelessness. Apart from occasionally appearing by Guxing's side himself, there were no other clues.
Xiaoyao's ability to achieve such complete tracelessness wasn't just about not being found. From a certain perspective, this was also a security loophole problem for the Great Tang Imperial Capital. The general responsible for this very much wanted to clarify this matter and petitioned Ning Zhiyuan, hoping to question Xiaoyao about this.
Ning Zhiyuan was also very curious. He didn't understand how Xiaoyao did it. If Xiaoyao never appeared, it would be understandable, he might be hiding in one place. But Xiaoyao often appeared by Guxing's side, and they had been watching Guxing continuously. Apart from when Xiaoyao appeared himself, at other times they still couldn't find any trace of Xiaoyao.
It was as if Xiaoyao appeared out of thin air, then disappeared into thin air again!
There was another point - no matter who was by Guxing's side, Xiaoyao wouldn't appear. Only when everyone moved some distance away from Guxing would Xiaoyao appear.
Some people had tried to use this to catch Xiaoyao, retreating to far distances and rushing forward immediately when they saw Xiaoyao appear, but none had succeeded.
Either they were inexplicably blocked by various accidents, or by the time they arrived, Xiaoyao had vanished into thin air again, without a trace!
The Eldest Princess had also kept watch herself, but Xiaoyao never appeared. He would only appear when the Eldest Princess's other personality emerged, after all, the Eldest Princess was too terrifying.
Regarding this, the Eldest Princess was so angry she stamped her feet. She knew Xiaoyao was deliberately avoiding her, knowing she was only lucid two days out of seven, he just had to avoid those two days.
Damn that little brat! When I catch him, I'll definitely make him pay!
Although everyone knew Xiaoyao would seek out Guxing, no one seemed to make things difficult for Guxing or find breakthroughs through her. First, Guxing didn't know anything. Second, Guxing wasn't easy to provoke!
The Eldest Princess knew Guxing's importance to Xiaoyao, so naturally she wouldn't make things difficult for Guxing. At the same time, she clearly knew that troubling Guxing wouldn't yield any clues. Even if Guxing knew clues, she wouldn't reveal them, let alone when she didn't know.
Where was Xiaoyao? Actually, he was far away yet close at hand. He was right beside Guxing, right here in First Academy Under Heaven, still in a place with heavy foot traffic - First Academy Under Heaven's Library Tower!
This was a place open to all academy students, even the top floors were equally open. Regarding this, the academy only said: high-level martial arts and cultivation methods can be referenced, but if you want to cultivate them, don't force it. If you suffer qi deviation, the academy bears no responsibility.
First Academy Under Heaven did this based on a philosophy of choice. They didn't want to restrict students' possibilities for obtaining martial knowledge. If necessary people couldn't get what they wanted because of such restrictions, this wasn't what they wanted to see.
As for those who overestimated themselves and forcibly cultivated what they couldn't handle, First Academy Under Heaven didn't care. People without such self-control and judgment couldn't possibly become independent masters anyway.
Who would care about such people? Who would be willing to block some geniuses' progress for this group of people?
This was a society where the strong were revered. They wouldn't care about someone's life or death, especially those who overestimated themselves!
Because of this, Xiaoyao could freely read books here without arousing anyone's suspicion. Of course, he also needed to use some methods to disguise his identity, or he would have been discovered long ago.
Xiaoyao's method was actually very simple - he used disguises daily, appearing as different people in this heavily trafficked place. The people he impersonated were all First Academy Under Heaven students - not famous ones, those with few friends who rarely appeared in this Library Tower.
Because he impersonated many people, even if these people didn't normally appear in the Library Tower, it wouldn't attract too much attention, because "they" only appeared here occasionally anyway.
Of course, after a long time, Xiaoyao would encounter some unexpected situations - coincidentally meeting "acquaintances" who came over to greet him.
Fortunately, Xiaoyao didn't just use disguises - he also investigated these people's identities and some details. He could easily handle their friends and even fool their relatives without being easily detected.
Expressions, movements, voice - he could perfectly imitate everything!
Because of this, there were cases of one person mysteriously appearing in two places simultaneously. Of course, this didn't attract attention because the chances of discovery were too small, and Xiaoyao wasn't unlucky enough to be discovered.
If he were discovered, he would just use another method. Although more troublesome, it could still be done!
Thus, several months passed, and the storm Xiaoyao caused grew smaller and smaller because some people had given up. Although the Eldest Princess hadn't given up, she no longer had people search for him. She understood that Xiaoyao would only appear when he was willing to appear himself.
Therefore, she also stopped appearing by Guxing's side and only had people pay attention to when Xiaoyao would formally appear.
There was another matter - the mystery of Princess Zhuyue's life or death. Ning Zhiyuan had people secretly investigate this, but what the results were, no one knew. Perhaps he didn't want people to know, or perhaps he hadn't figured it out yet. In any case, the current result was that Princess Zhuyue's life or death remained a mystery, and along with it, Xiaoyao's background temporarily became a mystery too.
Whether Xiaoyao was Princess Zhuyue's child - no one knew this now!
"Xiao Ming!"
Where was Xiao Ming?
Xiaoyao was somewhat puzzled at this moment, then quickly remembered he was Xiao Ming today. Today he was disguised as Xiao Ming, and today was originally his last day coming to this Library Tower, because there were no more books here that were useful to him.
"Xiao Ming's" friend had coincidentally encountered Xiaoyao, the fake Xiao Ming, so he greeted Xiao Ming.
"So it's you, Long Weili. How did you end up here?" Xiaoyao asked, using Xiao Ming's tone and voice. The other party was his classmate Long Weili, who had relatively high martial prowess but a relatively simple mind. He usually bullied people like Xiao Ming who had lower martial prowess.
Long Weili rarely appeared in the Library Tower - almost never - because he had difficulty understanding these things. He could generally only learn through action, and he wasn't bad at that aspect. Otherwise, he couldn't have entered First Academy Under Heaven.
Although Long Weili liked bullying people, he wouldn't humiliate them. So people like Xiao Ming didn't hate him too much - they just hated that their own martial prowess wasn't enough and could only work harder at cultivation.
Therefore, it was normal for Xiao Ming to greet Long Weili and ask why he had come here.
"The teacher gave us a difficult problem. I can't solve it, so I came here to see if there are solutions in the books."
"What problem?" Xiaoyao asked casually.
"What's the use of telling you? You don't know either! But you can help me look. The teacher wants me to break through three thousand barriers within a month without using any cultivation methods - only pure martial arts. Without using cultivation methods, I only have about a thousand jin of strength at most. Even using strength-enhancing martial arts, the limit I can reach is fifteen hundred jin! Within a month, I can't possibly increase so much strength, so I can only see if there are martial arts that can achieve this effect!" Long Weili said with some frustration.
(End of Chapter)