Although Xiao Luo and Xue Yuan's days in Xiangcheng were not bad, there was no progress in the investigation of the matter they were most concerned about now.

Although Xue Yun was anxious about this, he also knew that this situation was not unexpected.

Once in Xiangcheng, Chenzhou, I had some understanding of Yuan Che and even Shangguan's family, who had lived here for many years, and left Chenzhou at the time of the incident more than a hundred years ago and escaped, even if such a family just happened to leave at that time and was lucky to escape the cleaning of Yuan Che and the Feng family, afterwards, especially when Yuan Che became famous throughout the Kyushu Continent by announcing the Qingyun Secret, he should have understood. In this way, it is even more impossible for these people to reveal what they have been in Xiangcheng when they know that they will be killed.

In other words, those who accidentally showed their tracks, and maybe even some who tried to fight unevenly, must have ...... It's gone.

In this case, how difficult is it to find the people and clues of the past?

In particular, most of these people are likely to stay in other cities or even other states after leaving Xiangcheng out of prudence, and will not return. But for Xiao Luo and Xue Yuan, who now have very few clues, it is better to come to Xiangcheng to try their luck and find out if the rumors have eased down because of the past hundred years, and they have moved back with the love of their homeland.

But......

A few days passed, and no progress was made.

Whenever I go out to try to investigate, once I mention the Yuan Che Zhenjun who is famous in Xiangcheng, I hear praise in my ears, and I see gratitude and admiration, and from time to time I can see people's offerings and stone statues erected for Yuan Che...... For Xue Yuan, who had doubts in his heart and even had some doubts in his heart, it was really painful.

Xue Yun sometimes thinks that if she is still the pampered lady who has not experienced any ups and downs, maybe she ...... She couldn't help but say what she knew, or she couldn't hold back her anger and wanted to tear down the tallest and largest stone statue of Yuan Che Zhenjun erected in the center of Xiangcheng. Even now, if there were no occasional obstructions and persuasions from Xiao Luo's side, she couldn't help but do something secretly.

If what Lu Yan said is true, then the existence of the Shangguan family is true, and there is indeed a problem with the origin of the Qingyun Jue.

Those who know the "true face" of Yuan Che will always have people who are indignant and disdainful, right?

I can't help it, I want to do something, even if I know that I can't change anything, even if I know that I can't put it on the bright side......

I can't help it, I want to do something......

Can't help it......

"That's right!"

Xue Yuan's eyes lit up when he suddenly thought of something, and he slapped the stone table top, and the dishes and chopsticks that were put down violently in front of him collided with a crisp sound.

Xiao Luo, who had been paying attention to Xue Yuan, who was getting more and more distracted and didn't know what to think about while eating dinner, was not frightened by her sudden move, and seeing Xue Yuan's eyes suddenly lit up against the recent decadence, he put down his dishes and chopsticks and looked at her: "What did you think?"

"Xiao Luo, you say...... Will there be anyone, like me?"

"Huh?"

"I mean, if there are other people in Xiangcheng who know about Qingyun Jue and the Shangguan family, will they be like me, and they can't stand the atmosphere that the whole city is revering that Yuan Che Zhenjun......? Maybe someone can't hold their breath and secretly do something?"

Xiao Luo understood, raised his eyebrows with a slight smile on his face, and said, "Do you want to ...... Rely on this to find someone?"

Xue Yun pursed his lips and thought for a moment before continuing: "I also had an idea suddenly...... If our conjecture about the Qingyun Jue is not wrong, then the Qingyun Jue was not made by Yuan Che at all, but he stole it. Even an outsider like me, who had nothing to do with it back then, felt uneasy when he saw it, let alone the people who were more or less affected or even threatened because Yuan Che wanted to cover up the truth? If someone really returned to Xiangcheng after a hundred years, would they really be able to face the statue of Yuan Che in the city calmly?"

Xiao Luo's fingers tapped twice on the stone table table, and he had some plans in his heart, but he didn't rush to exit at this time, but still looked at Xue Yun with a slight smile: "Well, it's true, then you want to ...... How to find it?"

Seeing that his idea of a flash of inspiration was affirmed by Xiao Luo, Xue Yun was also relieved, his eyes rolled, and he became a little more confident: "Nothing else, I guess if there is such a person in Xiangcheng, I don't think I may be willing to see Yuan Che's statue and worship often, but on the contrary, there are so many such things in Xiangcheng, especially in the city...... So I thought, can we look for more places where there are fewer statues like this?"

Xiao Luo chuckled and nodded: "Yes, there is also what you just said...... It's not impossible to do something secretly. If there is really such a family moving back to Xiangcheng, it doesn't matter if the older ones are older, they will not show anything unusual after swallowing a lot, and if they are younger, they will always be a little vigorous, and although they can't crusade against anything openly and honestly, it is not strange to do something secretly to vent their depression, or vent their dissatisfaction and depression. Moreover, in Xiangcheng, the Spiritual Root Cultivators were very grateful to that Yuan Che True Monarch, and most of the other monks who did not need the Pure Essence were also full of admiration, they probably couldn't have imagined that someone would have malicious dissatisfaction with Yuan Che, and they would not pay much attention to these things on weekdays. If we put more effort into these aspects, if we are lucky, we may be able to really get something. ”

"Hmm!" Xue Yun nodded and breathed a sigh of relief, but the next moment he frowned slightly again: "...... Xiao Luo?"

"Huh?"

"You say...... Before, we only thought that it might be a little risky to return to Xiangcheng, but now, Xiangcheng is in such a situation, for those who know, staying in this place where there are traces of Yuan Che almost everywhere, their hearts will not be happy, so they ...... Will you come back to Xiangcheng?"

Xiao Luo saw Xue Yuan's worried look, and couldn't help but reach over and rub the top of her hair, and after rubbing her hair to a glare from Xue Yuan, he raised his eyebrows and said unhurriedly: "There will always be people who can't leave their homeland, right? Xiangcheng is a city, after all, it is not only Yuan Che, not Yuan Che's vassal. I have stayed here, so many years, there are always nostalgic and unforgettable things to stay, and there are always favorable conditions for the future, which may not be worthy of the dissatisfaction and disgust of Yuan Che. ”

After Xue Yun heard this, he nodded lightly: "Hmm...... You have a point. ”

"What's more, we don't have any other direction now, right?" Xiao Luo smiled: "Take a step and look at one step, and check what you have." ”

Xue Yun was stunned for a moment: "...... What you're saying is that I'm thinking about something useless again. ”

Xiao Luo squinted, raised his hand and tapped her forehead with his knuckles.

"Oops!"

"You're thinking useless now. ”

“......”

"It's not a mistake to think about it and plan a little more when you encounter something, but there is no need to waste time and effort on some things, and you should put your eyes in the direction you can go and put it in front. ”

“...... Hmmm!"

Seeing Xue Yuan's expression retracted, he wrinkled his brows slightly and nodded seriously, knowing that she had heard it and remembered it in her heart, Xiao Luo also hooked the corners of her lips.

In the short three years since Xue Yu's death, Xue Yu has become much more thoughtful from the pampered little girl back then, but her heart has not been tainted, she is still honest and pure, and she is not stubborn and will not easily drill the horns, she can listen to the opinions and ideas of others, and is willing to improve herself modestly.

"By the way, Xiao Luo?"

"Huh?" Xiao Luo looked at Xue Yuan with a smile: "What did you think of again?"

Xue Yun looked at Xiao Luo and pursed his lips: "The method I just said is ...... Are you, in fact, already thinking of it?"

Xiao Luo was stunned for a moment and laughed: "Yu'er, you overestimate me, and I can't think of everything and know everything." ”

“...... Oh. ”

"So you see. Xiao Luo picked up the chopsticks that had been put down earlier, picked up some dishes and put them into Xue Yuan's bowl: "No matter how capable a person is, he can't take everything into account and plan everything." How can there be an omnipotent perfect man in this world?"

Xue Yun was silent for a moment, raised his head to look at Xiao Luo's eyes, and nodded solemnly: "Well, I understand." ”

In the end, she was too naïve. If you really want to succeed, you need companions.

"Okay!" Xiao Luo recalled Xue Yuan's thoughts, and took two more chopsticks over: "Eat first, and then we'll sum it up after eating, where to go tomorrow." ”

“...... Oh good. ”

......

After having a direction and a target, Xiao Luo and Xue Yuan's investigation scope narrowed down a lot. After abandoning the previous method of listening to more news in the prosperous areas of the city, and narrowing down the scope of the investigation to the southern city, they found a clue.

A young boy who has just stepped into the threshold of cultivation.

In the southern part of Xiangcheng, there is a place where there are many ordinary houses and few spare places, and there is no stone statue of Yuan Che erected on the street like other places, and most of the people living in this vicinity are ordinary cultivators, and there are even many ordinary people who have no spiritual roots and cannot practice, and they are not very wealthy, so few people spontaneously set up statues for Yuan Che to worship.

On the fifth day that Xiao Luo and Xue Yuan paid attention to the realm of Nancheng, when Xue Yuan and Xiao Luo were buying ingredients in Nancheng together and secretly inquiring about the news, they met a group of teenagers who had only started practicing for a long time, and only a few teenagers who had not yet entered the Qi refining period in earnest. Listening to their voices, without exception, they all have spiritual root complex problems.

One of them was squeezed out by several other young boys with a stiff face, but he refused to bow his head and admit his mistake with a stiff neck, which attracted their attention.

Because, the reason why the other teenagers excluded him was that he refused to follow the other people to the city anyway to see and thank the stone statue of Yuan Che Zhenjun.