Chapter 235: Chapter 138: The Legend of the 7-String Ancient Scroll

Near the main gate, there were also two rooms, one on the left and one on the right.

However, one was the kitchen, and the other was the woodshed.

They couldn’t possibly let the dignified Sect Leader of Yuqing Pavilion live in the woodshed, could they?

Once Yu Yaoguang understood the situation, she smiled.

"Your master lives in the left bedroom of the main house. Isn’t the right one unoccupied? I’ll just make do in there."

Fang Lingxin immediately nodded eagerly and said with a smile,

"Right! That’s a great idea!"

Fang Shuwen shot Fang Lingxin a glance. ’This girl is getting more and more out of line.’

And so the matter was settled. The small courtyard now had an unexpected new resident.

Afterward, he spoke more with Yu Yaoguang. It turned out the Seven Eastern Sects had not yet fully pinpointed the whereabouts of Ye Wucheng and his group.

According to Yu Yaoguang, after the group arrived in Pojun City, it was as if their tracks had been deliberately erased.

Although it wouldn’t be difficult to find out who was secretly helping the group if given more time, the Seven Sects didn’t want to go to the trouble.

Besides attempting to use Shui Qianrou to provoke a conflict between the Eastern Domain and the Celestial Water Palace, the group led by Ye Wucheng had also come to Pojun City to seize the Seven-String Ancient Chapter.

Therefore, the Seven Sects would also be attending the Flower-Picking Conference. They didn’t care about the Seven-String Ancient Chapter, but they wanted to use the opportunity to wipe out Ye Wucheng and his entire group.

"But doing so will inevitably draw a lot of attention," Fang Shuwen said, rubbing his chin.

"The fact that you’ve come to Pojun City has already displeased many. If you take this a step further... I fear you’ll face considerable resistance."

Yu Yaoguang smiled at his words, her expression serene and unconcerned.

"Surely you don’t think the name ’Seven Eastern Sects’ is just an empty title?

"We don’t want the Seven-String Ancient Chapter; it’s not that we can’t have it.

"Resistance... If they dare, they are welcome to try."

Fang Shuwen nodded. ’This enchantress isn’t just about seduction,’ he thought. ’She also has the commanding presence a sect leader ought to have.’

But he still had one question in his mind.

"The legends surrounding the Seven-String Ancient Chapter are so incredible. Why have the Seven Sects shown no interest in it?"

"Because it’s useless to us."

Yu Yaoguang didn’t hide anything from Fang Shuwen, but she shot a glance at Chen Yan.

"Don’t write or record any of this carelessly.

"Lest Chen Xuanji decides to deal with you."

Chen Yan froze. ’So I was free to write down and record everything before this?’

’The Sect Leader of Yuqing Pavilion is so magnanimous!’

After admonishing Chen Yan, she turned to Fang Shuwen and said,

"The Seven-String Ancient Chapter does indeed hold a secret, it’s just not what those people think it is.

"They believe that obtaining the Seven-String Ancient Chapter will allow them to cultivate a Divine Technique... That is nothing but a pipe dream.

"They don’t know its true purpose, but I do. And what’s more, I know it already has an owner."

"An owner?"

A sudden thought struck Fang Shuwen.

"I remember Wu Lingxiao once said the Seven-String Ancient Chapter never belonged to Flying Snow City. Someone entrusted it to them for safekeeping.

"When you say it has an owner... could you be referring to the person who gave the Seven-String Ancient Chapter to Wu Hanjiang, the First City Lord of Flying Snow City, all those years ago?"

"Correct."

Yu Yaoguang nodded.

"Not many in the Jianghu know of this matter.

"To this day, besides our Seven Sects, only a handful of others are aware.

"A very long time ago, a great conflict erupted over the Seven-String Ancient Chapter.

"The ones who held the Seven-String Ancient Chapter were a mysterious clan whose origins were unknown.

"Rumors about the Seven-String Ancient Chapter only began to spread throughout the Jianghu after this clan set foot in the Eastern Domain.

"But this also gave rise to a great calamity in the martial world.

"There are few records of the beginning or the progression of this war. All I know is that in the end, most of the masters in the Eastern Domain Martial World, led by the ten most renowned experts of that era, battled this clan at Overhanging Heaven Cliff for the Seven-String Ancient Chapter.

"In the end, those ten masters never came down from the cliff again.

"Quite a few of the others survived, but they remained deeply secretive about what happened with the Seven-String Ancient Chapter.

"Later, someone learned from a survivor that the Seven-String Ancient Chapter did indeed contain a profound secret.

"But it was neither a Martial Arts Manual nor some kind of map...

"It was supposed to be a weapon—a weapon that only the members of that clan could wield.

"In the battle at Overhanging Heaven Cliff, the ten great masters, and indeed most of the experts of the Eastern Domain Martial World, all perished at the hands of this weapon.

"But the survivor couldn’t explain exactly how they died."

Chen Yan was scratching his head in frustration as he listened.

"But Sect Leader Yu... if that’s true, how could Heaven-Reaching Pavilion have no record of it?"

"And what would be the point of recording it?" Yu Yaoguang said coolly,

"To tell the world how terrible it is? To incite a new conflict?

"And in the end, have another generation die for it?"

"This..."

Chen Yan was stunned. Now he understood why Yu Yaoguang didn’t want him to record it. Perhaps his predecessors at Heaven-Reaching Pavilion had chosen not to pass down information about the Seven-String Ancient Chapter for the exact same reason.

Fang Shuwen, however, asked,

"What about the people of that clan? Why did they later hand the Seven-String Ancient Chapter over to Wu Hanjiang?"

"That is unknown."

Yu Yaoguang shook her head.

"After the battle at Overhanging Heaven Cliff, that clan vanished from the Jianghu.

"It wasn’t until many years later that people learned the Seven-String Ancient Chapter had surfaced in Flying Snow City.

"But by that time, the martial world had long forgotten about the Seven-String Ancient Chapter, remembering only bits and pieces from leftover scraps of lore.

"Yet they also feared Flying Snow City and dared not act rashly.

"And that brings us to today.

"Wu Lingxiao abandoned his position as the City Lord of Flying Snow City, and the Seven-String Ancient Chapter reappeared in the Jianghu.

"A group of people who don’t know the truth are once again stirring up conflict, deluding themselves into fighting for something that could never be theirs. In my eyes, it’s nothing but a farce."