Xiao Xilou shook his head without hesitation and repeated what Xiao Xueyu had said back then,
"If our family had that secret manual, I would have given it to you long ago. How could our family have been suppressed to this extent otherwise?"
Xiao Qiushui suddenly spoke up. "Father, our family really does have it. It's by the coffin!"
Tang Fang whipped around to look at Xiao Qiushui, his eyes filled with excitement.
Sun Huishan asked nervously, "Qiushui, this isn't something you can joke about. Have you really seen it?"
"Come with me!"
Xiao Qiushui had only just thought of it. The Book of Forgetting Emotions had probably been inside the coffin all along, just as it was described in the book—only someone had wiped it clean.
So he led everyone over to the coffin, where they saw the characters that had been destroyed.
Tang Fang's expression changed drastically when he saw those marks. He asked in alarm,
"Is this really the Book of Forgetting Emotions? Qiushui, have you seen it before? Have you learned it?"
Xiao Qiushui sighed. "I haven't. I only heard Master say that my Second Brother had mastered it, so I thought of the characters carved here.
"If my Second Brother learned it here, then everything makes sense."
Xiao Xilou's expression turned grim. He asked anxiously, "If what Qiushui says is true, what should we do?"
Wang Yue reassured him, "Father-in-law, you still have me. We'll find Kaiyan, and I'll cripple his martial arts and bring him back."
Xiao Xilou immediately nodded. "All right. We'll go together!"
Xiao Yiren opened his mouth. He wanted to suggest that they could learn the Book of Forgetting Emotions themselves, but Wang Yue sounded so confident about crippling its practitioner that he could hardly believe his ears.
But everyone seemed