"Sister Shiqin, my master has been in the inner courtyard for three consecutive days. Do you know what he’s doing there?"
After their al, Su Xing’er took the handkerchief handed to her by the maid and gently wiped her mouth. Suddenly rembering that her master, Xia Hong, hadn’t returned to the side courtyard for three days, she couldn’t help but curiously ask Cai Shiqin.
"Senior Xia has been in the Book Collection Tower these past three days!
Uncle Yu Chuo invited him to the inner courtyard to guide the younger generation in martial arts. After teaching for two days, he said that the Cai Family’s martial arts weren’t up to standard, which quite upset several of the uncles.
Then Senior Xia imdiately demonstrated six martial arts, and said that as long as he could take a look in the Book Collection Tower, he would give these six martial arts to the county mansion for free. The uncles imdiately agreed..."
Cai Shiqin paused after speaking, seemingly recalling sothing, and with a look of amazent continued, "Xing’er, Senior Xia’s martial arts skills are incredibly strong. When Yu Chuo asked him to give guidance, I was present. Regardless of who it was or what martial arts technique they were performing, just by watching once, he could spot all the weaknesses. After his guidance, those techniques imdiately transford, increasing in power by thirty to forty percent."
"Of course!"
In front of Cai Shiqin, Su Xing’er rarely revealed her true self. Hearing her praise Xia Hong, she couldn’t help but beam with pride and continued, "Master always said that when it cos to martial arts talent, there’s no one in the Four Vassals stronger than him!"
Isn’t that a bit of boastful talk?
Cai Shiqin thought to herself upon hearing this, but recalling the reactions of the dozen or so family patriarchs when Xia Hong gave his guidance, she nodded slightly, her eyes showing genuine agreent.
......
"Achoo..."
In the inner courtyard of the county mansion, on the third floor of the Book Collection Tower.
While pretending to casually browse through a book, Xia Hong suddenly sneezed inexplicably. He quickly closed the book in his hand, shook his head with a strange expression, and sighed lightly in his heart.
"I’ve been away for more than a year, the two little ones at ho must be missing by now!"
Five Luminaries Realm Cold Beast Atlas
Xia Hong glanced at the cover of the book in his hand, and a trace of excitent flickered deep in his pupils. He then nonchalantly placed the book back on the shelf, continuing to survey the bookshelf in front of him, occasionally pulling out a book to flip through.
"Million Forging Level Weapon Essentials, useless..."
"Five thods of Cold Resistance Battle Body Qualification Enhancent, hmm, sowhat useful, though it’s missing two compared to those in Great Qin, it’s not too bad!"
"Compilation of Four Vassals’ Rice and Grain Varieties, rice, gold wheat, frozen millet... these kinds are all common in Great Qin, nothing surprising!"
......
Xia Hong flipped through the books one by one, frequently shaking his head and muttering a few words, his tone and expression filled with disdain for the content.
Suddenly, he stopped in front of a bookshelf.
Xianyang Level Breakthrough Essentials, Tribulation Body Realm Breakthrough Essentials
Looking at the two books on the shelf, a flash of excitent crossed Xia Hong’s pupils. Suppressing his inner excitent, he first picked up a relatively unimportant book beside them and flipped through it for a while, before finally focusing on the two books.
"Different regions might have different breakthrough thods, let’s see what’s here!"
He first reached for the Xianyang Level book, quickly flipping through it, and imdiately shook his head, placing it back on the shelf. He then grabbed the other book.
Similarly, he quickly read through it and put it back, the entire process devoid of any lingering glance, shaking his head before moving on to look for other categories of books.
"Five Luminaries Realm Emperor-level Cold Beast, Tribulation Body Realm, so that’s how it is, now it all makes sense!"
Stopping again in front of a bookshelf, Xia Hong picked up a book to read, but if soone were watching from below, they’d notice his pupils were full of excitent, his mind clearly not on the book.
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