Chapter 193: Return!

After wandering around the Ancient Tomb alone for a while, Jiang Chen felt a bit bored.

He didn't know how Xiaolongnu and Li Mochou could endure staying in the Ancient Tomb without going out; it was practically like being in prison.

This was much more boring than Li Li Hanyi staying on Cangshan all day.

No wonder in the original plot,

Li Mochou couldn't endure the plain life in the Ancient Tomb and fled the Ancient Tomb Sect.

If it were anyone else, few would be able to endure such a life.

A moment later,

Xiaolongnu walked in from outside, carrying some clean, dry grass.

She then squatted down at the spot Jiang Chen had chosen earlier and began to spread it out.

Jiang Chen stood to the side, admiring Xiaolongnu's movements.

It had to be said,

even when doing chores, every movement of Xiaolongnu appeared incredibly elegant and refined.

Xiaolongnu's movements paused, and she stole a glance at Jiang Chen from the corner of her eye. When she discovered that Jiang Chen was indeed looking at her with a smile, she quickly lowered her head again.

However,

Xiaolongnu was not angry because of this.

Because she discovered that Jiang Chen's gaze was clearly different from the lecherous looks some Daoist priests at the foot of the mountain gave her.

"Apart from cultivation, do you have anything else to play with?"

Jiang Chen asked with a smile while taking out a few glazed lamps from his system space and lighting them: "Looking at your Senior Sister, she must have been wanting to sneak out to play for a long time."

Xiaolongnu heard this and nodded gently.

Then she slowly said: "Senior Sister is different from me. She spent some time in the outside world when she was young, so it's normal for her to want to go out and play when she's bored."

At this point,

she suddenly sighed gently: "I only hope that after going out this time, Senior Sister will be able to settle down and cultivate."

"You don't intend to cultivate the Nine Yin True Scripture?"

Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow and said with a smile: "If you both change your internal energy manuals to the Nine Yin True Scripture, there won't be so many restrictions."

"Besides, if you both intend to never leave the Ancient Tomb for the rest of your lives, then in a hundred years, wouldn't your Ancient Tomb Sect be extinct? After all, if you never go out, wouldn't you not even be able to take in disciples?"

Hearing Jiang Chen's words,

Xiaolongnu was slightly stunned.

She had indeed never thought about this matter.

Seeing Xiaolongnu's expression, Jiang Chen smiled lightly.

The reason he said this was naturally to make Xiaolongnu and Li Mochou stay in Snow Moon City for a few more days.

After all, the two had extraordinary identities,

especially Xiaolongnu, who, as the heroine of *The Return of the Condor Heroes*, spanned several martial arts worlds.

If she were to challenge the pavilion,

although her strength was not as strong as the Dao Sword Immortal or the Confucian Sword Immortal, the rewards she could provide based on her identity might not necessarily be weaker than theirs.

As for Li Mochou,

Jiang Chen estimated she wouldn't be much worse.

After all, even Brother Ouyang Ke provided sixty years of cultivation, right?

"Whether or not to cultivate the Nine Yin True Scripture, let's wait until Master finishes her seclusion."

Xiaolongnu said with a smile: "If Master agrees, Senior Sister and I will naturally cultivate the Nine Yin True Scripture."

Jiang Chen heard this and shook his head helplessly.

He also knew why Xiaolongnu respected Lin Lin Chaoying's maid so much.

After all, without her, Xiaolongnu might not have lived until now.

In her early childhood,

Xiaolongnu was abandoned in front of the Wang Chongyang Palace; it was Lin Lin Chaoying's maid who carried Xiaolongnu to the Ancient Tomb Sect to raise her and taught her martial arts.

It was precisely because of this

that the relationship between Lin Lin Chaoying's maid and Xiaolongnu was no longer a simple master-disciple relationship.

Just then,

Jiang Chen saw the ancient zither placed in the corner and his heart stirred.

He remembered that Xiaolongnu was not only proficient in zither music but could also use musical rhythm to command jade bees.

In the original plot,

Xiaolongnu began serving as the Ancient Tomb Sect leader at eighteen,

and at that time, Li Mochou, who had long since betrayed the sect, was worried about Xiaolongnu's revenge, so she spread rumors everywhere in the martial world that Xiaolongnu was holding a martial arts competition to find a husband on Mount Mount Zhongnan, attracting martial artists from all walks of life to flock to the mountain.

It was precisely at this time

that Xiaolongnu used her zither music to command the jade bees to scare off the crowd of martial artists.

"Does Young Master also understand musical rhythm?"

Seeing Jiang Chen's gaze, Xiaolongnu asked curiously.

"I know a little."

Jiang Chen smiled slightly: "May I use it?"

"Young Master, please."

Xiaolongnu also smiled gently and looked at Jiang Chen with some anticipation.

Seeing this,

Jiang Chen did not hesitate and took the zither over.

During this time,

he had also taught Qu Qu Feiyan quite a few songs.

But he had never played the song "Return."

Now that he was in the Ancient Tomb and Xiaolongnu was right beside him, Jiang Chen couldn't help but think of this song.

Thinking of this,

Jiang Chen began to play it right there in the Ancient Tomb.

As the slow, melancholic melody rang out in the Ancient Tomb,

Xiaolongnu was slightly startled, then looked at Jiang Chen with surprise.

Just now, hearing Jiang Chen say he knew a little, she thought he really only knew a little.

However, looking at it now,

Jiang Chen's zither skills were not the least bit weaker than her own.

Not long after,

Li Mochou, drawn by the music, also walked over.

Li Mochou walked gently to Xiaolongnu's side and whispered: "What's wrong with him? Why did he suddenly start playing such a sad song?"

Hearing Li Mochou's words, Xiaolongnu was speechless.

After a long while,

she slowly said: "I don't know, I guess he's just bored..."

After all, no matter how you looked at it, he didn't seem like a sentimental person.

And although Jiang Chen was playing the zither,

he clearly noticed Li Mochou's arrival.

Hearing their whispered conversation, he couldn't help but feel speechless.

Immediately after,

he changed the style of the music to "Martial World Laughter."

Xiaolongnu and Li Mochou were stunned, then, thinking of Jiang Chen's unfathomable strength, they knew that what they had said must have been heard by him.

However,

listening to this heroic zither music,

a strange brilliance flashed in both their eyes.

Especially Li Mochou,

who wished she could immediately pack her bags and step into the rolling red dust of the world.

This Ancient Tomb,

she really couldn't stay in it any longer.

A moment later,

as the music faded, Xiaolongnu couldn't wait to come to Jiang Chen's side.

Having lived in the Ancient Tomb for so many years, there were few things that interested her, and musical rhythm was one of them.

Xiaolongnu looked at Jiang Chen with pleasant surprise:

"May I ask what these two songs you played are called?"

"Return and Martial World Laughter."

Jiang Chen replied with a smile, and without waiting for Xiaolongnu to speak, he took the initiative to signal her to sit beside him, then played these two songs for her twice in their entirety.

"How is it? Do you want to try?"

Looking at Xiaolongnu's clear eyes, Jiang Chen knew she must have already learned it.

"Okay."

Xiaolongnu nodded gently.

Seeing this, Jiang Chen gave up his seat to her.

Soon,

the melodious and graceful zither music rang out in the Ancient Tomb once again.

After listening for only a moment,

Jiang Chen knew that Xiaolongnu's talent for musical rhythm was not at all inferior to Qu Qu Feiyan's.

"Young Master, is this a song from your Northern Li Dynasty?"

Xiaolongnu looked at Jiang Chen, for the first time developing an interest in the Northern Li Dynasty, or rather, developing an interest in all other dynasties.

Although she had always been in the Ancient Tomb,

Xiaolongnu knew that the two songs Jiang Chen had just played probably did not belong to the Great Song Dynasty.

"I suppose so."

Jiang Chen smiled lightly and did not explain.

Once she arrived in Snow Moon City, she would naturally know.

Immediately after,

Xiaolongnu played these two songs a few more times, and after becoming completely familiar with them, she stopped, still feeling unsatisfied.