Flowing Light Flying Moon Talisman

At noon, Chen Xiao took Mengmeng to Heavenly Abode, the largest restaurant in Moon-Gazing City, and feasted to his heart's content.

Naturally, since Heavenly Abode was property of the Nangong Clan, Chen Xiao carried on in his usual fashion and ordered every one of the restaurant's most expensive dishes. After eating his fill, he patted his backside and walked right out.

Mengmeng, who had thought Chen Xiao had turned over a new leaf, was sorely disappointed.

In truth, before the Nangong Family launched its final assault on the Chen Clan two years later, the two families still appeared to be extremely close on the surface. There were no openly torn faces or conflicts between them.

Before this, although Chen Xiao had been an incorrigible dandy, he still knew what was good for him and had never caused trouble on the Nangong Family's turf. As for what had happened half a month ago, Chen Xiao now understood that Nangong Wenyue had dug a pit and waited for him to jump in.

Since the Nangong Family had long been plotting against the Chen Clan, why should Chen Xiao be polite with them? After stuffing himself at Heavenly Abode, he patted his backside and left. Though the restaurant manager held no low position in the Nangong Family, he did not have the nerve to confront Chen Xiao head-on. At the very least, his strength was far inferior to Mengmeng's.

"Mengmeng, that was satisfying, wasn't it?"

Chen Xiao looked at Mengmeng and said with a grin.

"Young Master..." Hearing Chen Xiao's words, Mengmeng could not help licking her lips. When Chen Xiao had eaten just now, he had done the unprecedented and allowed her to sit down and eat with him. But Mengmeng was ultimately only a servant. How could she dare dine at the same table as her master?

Yet Chen Xiao had directly put on the airs of a young master and ordered Mengmeng to eat with him. In truth, with her Golden Core Realm cultivation, Mengmeng had already reached the stage where she could abstain from food. Eating was merely a form of enjoyment to her.

Recalling the delicacies at Heavenly Abode, Mengmeng could not help licking her lips again.

The next moment, she realized she had lost her composure. Though her face was veiled, she still could not help blushing faintly.

"Hehe, I know what you want to say."

As Chen Xiao walked, he said, "The Nangong Family has not been scheming against the Chen Clan for merely a day or two. I'm only taking a small advantage of them now. It's nothing much."

"Ah..."

Hearing Chen Xiao's words, Mengmeng could not help crying out softly.

What Chen Xiao had said could be called utterly rebellious. In Moon-Gazing City, the Chen Clan and the Nangong Family were family friends, and throughout the generations, there had been many marriage ties between them.

Even Chen Xiao's Third Aunt was the biological younger sister of Nangong Shenhe, the Nangong Family's patriarch. If Chen Xiao's words spread, they would likely have a severe impact on the relationship between the two families.

"Don't look at me like that. I'm not spouting nonsense."

If there was anyone Chen Xiao trusted most now, apart from his parents, it was Mengmeng. In his previous life, Mengmeng had not hesitated to self-destruct her Golden Core in order to protect him.

After being reborn, Chen Xiao could not simply fight on alone. He had to unite everyone around him who could be united. After all... one person's strength was ultimately limited.

Chen Xiao's first goal now was to cultivate the Nine Heavens Thunder Virtue Universal Transformation Art to the Orange Cloud Realm within two years, seize control of the tribulation that sent living beings ascending to the heavens, and help his grandfather survive the heavenly tribulation. His second goal was to sabotage as many of the Nangong Family's arrangements against the Chen Clan as possible and weaken the Nangong Family's power.

After all, the Nangong Family was deeply rooted in Moon-Gazing City, and their plot to seize the Chen Clan had not begun merely a day or two ago. Even if Chen Xiao's grandfather, Chen Fengyang, successfully crossed the tribulation, it would only delay the time when they made their move.

"Mengmeng, in order to heal my injuries this time, Father did not hesitate to damage his own cultivation to refine the Chen Clan's inherited Three-Star Pill! Right now, aside from Grandfather, Father is the Chen Clan's strongest expert."

Chen Xiao and Mengmeng were now conversing through divine sense transmission.

Mengmeng herself was an exceptionally intelligent woman. It was only the birthmark on her face that had made her somewhat self-conscious. With Chen Xiao's slight hint, she understood.

Recalling the conflict from half a month ago, no matter how she looked at it, Chen Xiao had been the innocent party dragged into it. No matter how much of a dandy he was, he still had self-awareness. Put another way, he had once been the sort who bullied the weak and feared the strong, knowing whom he could provoke and whom he could not.

Nangong Wenxing was the Nangong Family's most favored little princess. Would he really go tease her when he had nothing better to do? Chen Xiao's brain had not been flooded.

As for that incident, Chen Xiao had originally planned to turn around and leave when he encountered Nangong Wenxing. Yet he had not expected her to mock him first, even insulting him. Chen Xiao failed to restrain his temper and was about to fight her, only for Nangong Wenyue to arrive at precisely that moment and knock Chen Xiao down with a few punches and kicks.

After recovering from his injuries in his previous life, Chen Xiao had tried to explain the matter to his father, but had received a beating instead. After all, Chen Xiao bore the title of Moon-Gazing City's number one scourge. Teasing women was as commonplace to him as eating and drinking.

As for Chen Xiao now, he had not mentioned the matter at all.

Mengmeng had also been present at the time, and she had naturally seen every last detail. It was just that, driven by a somewhat unusual little emotion, when she saw the young master who had always bullied her get beaten, she had actually felt a tiny bit of delight. Ahem...

But now that Chen Xiao had brought up the matter again, Mengmeng keenly sensed that something was wrong.

"My grandfather's heavenly tribulation is coming soon. Even if he passes it safely, the period of weakness afterward will be unavoidable. Yet at precisely this time, my father damaged his cultivation to save me... Hehe, on the surface, it looks like I, this great dandy, am a useless disappointment. But what about in truth?"

Chen Xiao's gaze gradually turned cold.

The Nangong Family had calculated things well. In outsiders' eyes, the tragedy of the family's destruction would all have been caused by this dandy, himself. As for why the other side struck so heavily—hadn't their little sister been teased? How could they possibly show mercy?

Mengmeng's expression shifted repeatedly.

"Could it be that all along, Young Master, you were..." A thought suddenly arose in Mengmeng's heart. Could Young Master's title as Moon-Gazing City's greatest dandy have been nothing but a facade?

Chen Xiao naturally knew what Mengmeng was thinking, and he could not help smiling bitterly. His past waywardness had all been real, and even now, Chen Xiao deeply missed that feeling of a youth who knew not the taste of sorrow.

If not for everything that was about to happen, then even if he had been reborn once, Chen Xiao would still have peacefully gone on being a dandy young master.

"Hehe..."

Chen Xiao smiled but said nothing.

"We're here."

Suddenly, Chen Xiao's eyes lit up.

In a corner of this street, a simply dressed, hunched old man sat on a bluestone slab. Before him lay a tattered piece of yellow cloth, upon which several extremely old implements were scattered in disarray.

The Flowing Light Flying Moon Talisman lay safely atop that piece of cloth.

Looking at the jade talisman, dull and lusterless beneath the sunlight, Chen Xiao felt even his heart tremble slightly.

This was a talisman left behind by the peerless Golden Immortal, the Talisman Treasure Immortal, and it was also a key to unlocking the Talisman Treasure Immortal's treasure hoard!

In the Immortal World, Golden Immortals were beings who could turn their palms to summon clouds and flip their hands to bring rain. In a place like Moon-Gazing City, a Golden Immortal could not even be bothered to spare it a glance; with a casual wave, they could wipe out seven or eight hundred such places without the slightest effort.

Within Chen Xiao's body, the Nine Heavens Thunder Virtue Universal Transformation Art slowly circulated, calming his emotions.

Although the Nine Heavens Thunder Virtue Universal Transformation Art would bring Chen Xiao benefits far surpassing those of the Flowing Light Flying Moon Talisman, it required a long period of accumulation. The treasure within the Flowing Light Flying Moon Talisman, however, was now within arm's reach.