"Devil's Cave! This must be the Demon's Cave!"
Tang Ya was so scared that he clenched the corners of Luo Can's clothes with his little hands. Looking at Ju Zi in front of him, tears were already welling up in his eyes.
Luo Can patted her shoulder lightly and said helplessly to Ju Zi: "Okay Ju Zi, she is still a child, don't scare her. You go ahead and I'll take her to arrange a place to stay."
Ju Zi also sighed, why should she compete with a six-year-old girl? She leaned over and rubbed Tang Ya's black hair, and softened her tone. "Sister, I was teasing you just now. I just want to remind you not to talk about the Tang Sect and Hidden Weapon all day long. We don't like to hear this."
Tang Ya blinked his big wet eyes, the fear in his heart dissipated a little, and whispered, "I, I understand."
Ju Zi nodded and returned his attention to Mysterious Heaven Skill on the table. Luo Can also took Tang Ya out of the room and took her to a small, unused Wooden House. He quickly laid out a bedding for her and prepared daily necessities for her.
"This will be your room from now on." Luo Can packed up the room and smiled at Tang Ya, who was still looking confused. "If you need anything in the future, just tell me, or you can ask Lingling or Yanyan."
Tang Ya looked at this simple but warm little Wooden House, then looked up at Luo Can who looked gentle to him, and asked in a low voice, "Brother Luo Can, why do sister Qian Renxue and sister Ju Zi hate me so much?"
Luo Can squatted down and rubbed her little head. "They don't hate you, they hate Tang Sect, and the Ancestor Tang San you mentioned."
Tang Ya instinctively wanted to refute. "But Ancestor Tang San..."
"Xiao Ya, don't rush to refute it yet." Luo Can interrupted her with a gentle but serious tone, "The stories you heard are heroic legends written by others; but what Xue'er and Ju Zi experienced personally are completely different things. Do you think the stories you heard are more real, or the past you experienced personally?"
As soon as these words came out, Tang Ya's little face turned red instantly. In her knowledge, Ancestor Tang San had always been a hero who stood upright, but Luo Can's words made her feel a little shaken for the first time.
Luo Can rubbed her hair again and said with a smile, "You don't have to figure it out now. Live here first and get along well with everyone. You will find that they are not bad at all. When the time is right, I will take you to see your Ancestor Tang San with your own eyes. Then you can draw conclusions, okay?"
"Well, I understand." Tang Ya sniffed and nodded vigorously.
"So good." Luo Can smiled and held her little hand, "Let's take you to have breakfast, and then let Lingling and Yanyan take you to get familiar with the valley. Although they are a few years older than you, they are both very good sisters. You will definitely become good friends."
Days flew by and several days passed.
After several days of observation, Luo Can discovered that Tang Ya has a very lovable personality, is sweet-tongued and sensible, and can play well with Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan. But only when Soul Tool is mentioned, she will show strong rejection and disgust, and she will either hide away silently or lower her head and say nothing.
Qian Renxue and Ju Zi also treat her as equals, but naturally they cannot be as close as they are to Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan.
Early that morning, Luo Can had just finished his routine Fishing. He first went to Stone Chamber to see his two apprentices, but found that there were only Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan in the room, and no sign of Tang Ya.
"Eh? Xiao Ya is not with you today?" Luo Can asked.
Ye Lingling shook his head. "No, Xiao Ya often hides in his room alone in the morning and doesn't come out."
"Yeah, yeah, we asked her to come out to play, but she still hesitated. We asked her what she was doing in the house, but she didn't say anything." Dugu Yan added.
Luo Can touched his chin and had a vague guess in his heart.
Is this little girl Mysterious Heaven Skill who is hiding in the house secretly practicing Tang Sect?
He suddenly had an idea in his mind - if this little girl knew that the Tang Sect secret book in her hand had been deleted, and Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record had already been screened out by Tang San, would it be able to shake the perfect hero image in her heart?
Thinking of this, he turned around and walked towards Tang Ya's little Wooden House, raised his hand and knocked on the door.
After a while, Tang Ya's panicked voice came from the room. "Who, who?"
"It's me, Luo Can."
After another half minute, the door was opened a crack. Tang Ya poked his little head, with the panic still on his face, and smiled awkwardly, "Brother Luo Can, do you have anything to do with me?"
Luo Can stretched out his hand and flicked her forehead, and said with a smile, "You are hiding in the house and practicing secretly, are you afraid that we will secretly learn your Tang Sect secrets?"
Tang Ya immediately covered his forehead, blushed, and whispered softly, "Dad said, Tang Sect's secret book cannot be shown to outsiders casually."
"Xiao Ya, Ju Zi sister also has a copy of Mysterious Heaven Skill, do you want to take a look?" Luo Can smiled mysteriously.
Tang Ya's eyes suddenly widened. He was stunned for a long time before he asked in disbelief, "Really, is it really there? Can I see it?"
"Of course." Luo Can held her little hand, "Let's go, I'll take you there."
He took Tang Ya to Ju Zi's room and explained his purpose. Ju Zi readily agreed and placed the complete version of Mysterious Heaven Skill on the table.
Seeing this, Tang Ya quickly took out a booklet from his pocket. It was Mysterious Heaven Skill from the Tang Sect, but it was a full half thinner than the one on the table.
"There really is an exact same book..." Tang Ya looked at the secret book on the table with a look of disbelief.
"This Fate Defying Valley, even you can catch it from ten thousand years later, so what's a Mysterious Heaven Skill?" Ju Zi said with a smile, "Not only Mysterious Heaven Skill, but also Purple Demon Eye is here." She then put Purple Demon Eye on the table.
Tang Ya looked at Luo Can, then at Ju Zi, carefully pointed at Mysterious Heaven Skill on the table, and asked in a low voice, "Um... can I read this?"
Luo Can and Ju Zi looked at each other and said in unison, "Of course."
Tang Ya quickly picked up the full version of Mysterious Heaven Skill and couldn't wait to flip through it. But as she looked at it, the expression on her face changed. From curiosity at the beginning, it slowly turned into surprise, and finally into panic.
How could this happen?
Eight Extraordinary Meridians's cultivation method is not included in the Tang Sect's Mysterious Heaven Skill; the complete Great Circulation operation route is not included either; and the methods for opening specific acupuncture points are not even mentioned. Many things that she found obscure and difficult to understand when practicing are clearly written in this book.
"That's not right, why is it different here? Tang Sect's secret book doesn't have these, and these are missing here!" Tang Ya's fingers were trembling as he crossed the pages of the book, almost crying.
Seeing her like this, Luo Can and Ju Zi looked at each other and smiled, both showing expressions of "Sure enough".
"It seems that after Tang San became a god, he changed Mysterious Heaven Skill a lot and deleted so many core contents." Luo Can said with a pretentious sigh.
"Why did he do this?" Ju Zi also showed a "confused" expression on his face.
"Who knows?" Luo Can shrugged and said in a light tone, "Maybe he is afraid that the complete Mysterious Heaven Skill will leak out and someone will steal his Tang Sect limelight? Maybe he is afraid that someone will rely on him in the future. With the complete Mysterious Heaven Skill also becoming a god, threatening his status? After all, Tang Sect only needs to develop Hidden Weapon well, and God King Tang has a lot to think about."
These words fell into Tang Ya's ears, like a seed, quietly taking root in her heart.
Ancestor Tang San, why are you doing this?