Chapter 229: The Hidden Sword Pavilion

With so many people here,

who knows who is who?

His appearance is nothing more than that of a four or five-year-old child.

Most would likely assume he is someone's child.

And Zhu Gaoxu bet that these people certainly couldn't all know each other, and they wouldn't ask much about whose child he was.

And the facts were indeed as he had expected.

Let alone these martial artists, even most of the disciples of Cangjian Villa only glanced at Zhu Gaoxu once before withdrawing their gaze.

Just like that, Zhu Gaoxu wandered among these martial artists, casually eavesdropping on their conversations.

Anyway, in the eyes of these people, Zhu Gaoxu was just playing some game or lying on the ground catching bugs.

No one would pay him any mind.

After strolling around, Zhu Gaoxu had a rough idea of the identities and backgrounds of these people in his heart.

It was just that he wasn't very clear about their strength.

Shaking his head, he figured he should have a chance to witness it, and then Zhu Gaoxu stopped wandering and turned to leave.

It wasn't easy to get in, so he planned not to go out for a short while.

And now he had to find a place for himself to stay.

He couldn't just keep wandering outside, could he?

Wouldn't it be too obvious once night fell?

By then, everyone else would have gone back to sleep, and he would be the only one staying outside.

If someone asked whose child he was, would he really say:

"My father is the Prince of Yan, Zhu Di?"

That sentence works well in Jingcheng, but it would certainly be useless here.

Here, it would be a death warrant.

What is someone from the imperial court doing at my Cangjian Villa?

Therefore, the most important thing now is to find a place to stay.

Thinking this, Zhu Gaoxu walked toward the direction of the guest rooms.

Cangjian Villa has a large estate, and although there are many martial arts heroes here to help,

one could always find one or two empty rooms.

And Zhu Gaoxu could fish in troubled waters and just move in.

Even if he were discovered, it wouldn't matter; at worst, he could just put on an act.

He could just say his parents had gone out, or that this room had been assigned to him long ago; then those Cangjian Villa disciples would only think they had remembered wrong and wouldn't take it seriously.

Just as Zhu Gaoxu expected, he soon found a guest room in a corner.

The room was small and in a corner; he figured that unless the other guest rooms were full, no one would come to this one.

Thinking this, Zhu Gaoxu happily moved in.

Late at night, Zhu Gaoxu was practicing the Lightness Skill that Bai Xinghuo had taught him.

Suddenly, Zhu Gaoxu's ears twitched, and a faint, almost imperceptible sound from outside reached his ears.

With a thought, Zhu Gaoxu slowly opened the door and then looked left and right.

Seeing that no one was paying attention, he quickly walked out of the room and slowly closed the door.

Zhu Gaoxu leaped onto the roof.

Taking advantage of his small stature, Zhu Gaoxu curled up into a ball; under the cover of the night, he would be invisible if one wasn't paying attention.

Then, he slowly poked his head out and looked around.

Zhu Gaoxu's eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had discovered something.

Then he slowly stood up and carefully followed in that direction.

Before long, about five minutes later, Zhu Gaoxu finally stopped.

But in just this short while, he was already panting.

This was no easy task.

The other party was clearly very cautious, and if he wanted to stay hidden, he had to be even more cautious than them.

He had to be on guard against the other party at all times.

He could neither lose them nor get too close.

Such trouble was much more tiring than simply running for five minutes.

But overall, the effort was not in vain.

Looking at the other party's appearance, they clearly hadn't discovered him.

He saw a black shadow look left and right before taking a leap and jumping down.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu immediately arrived at the spot where the other party had just been.

After looking left and right, he also jumped down.

When Zhu Gaoxu returned to the ground, he was immediately stunned.

Looking at the surrounding architecture, this was definitely the core area of Cangjian Villa.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't know where the other party had gone.

It could be said that he had lost them.

But since he had already come, Zhu Gaoxu certainly couldn't just leave like this.

He stepped forward and walked on.

Zhu Gaoxu looked around as he walked.

Until he arrived in front of a building.

A tower, about ten-plus meters tall.

A plaque hung at the entrance.

Cangjian Pavilion!

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu saw this building, he had an intuition.

Or rather, several intuitions.

He felt that there must be something inside.

The person from just a moment ago was likely inside as well.

And that person must know something.

That person might also be looking for the thing inside.

The recent trouble at Cangjian Villa was likely also because of the thing inside.

Thinking this, Zhu Gaoxu became even more interested in the thing inside.

Cangjian Pavilion?

Interesting!

He carefully pushed open the door of the pavilion.

It was very easy to push it open just a crack.

Zhu Gaoxu turned his body sideways and managed to squeeze in.

Afterwards, he closed the door again.

Only after finishing all this did he begin to look around.

The first floor mostly contained bookshelves.

There was no light, so Zhu Gaoxu could only make out the general shape by the moonlight.

Zhu Gaoxu had no interest whatsoever in these books.

Never mind that it was pitch black now; even if it were brightly lit, he wouldn't bother to look at them.

Old Song had even arranged a whole pile of books for him, and he didn't read them either.