"Who are you? Which fellow Daoist of my Daoist sect is your master? Why should I help you?" Xiao Hua asked blandly.
"This student is not a disciple of the Daoist sect." Young Master Zhu took a deep breath and said, "This student is a descendant of the Zhu family of Wuyuan County, Xuzhou, named Zhu Xiang. My father's name is Zhu Cheng. My Zhu family descends from the great Confucian Zhu Xi. Because rumors spread outside that our ancestor Zhu Xi had accidentally obtained the True Explanation of the Heavenly Book, we were persecuted by Confucian cultivator families. Now my Zhu family has fallen into decline and can no longer be called an influential family, yet the ruler of Tongzhu Kingdom still cannot let go of our Zhu family's True Explanation of the Heavenly Book. My father and the disciples of my Zhu family were seized by them and taken into Qianyu Mountain. Their lives and deaths are still unknown!"
"The True Explanation of the Heavenly Book?" A thoughtful look appeared on Xiao Hua's face as he pressed, "What is that?"
"This student does not know!" Zhu Xiang answered without hesitation. "This student has never heard my father mention it! I suspect my Zhu family never obtained any True Explanation of the Heavenly Book at all. This must all be fabricated by our ancestor's enemies!"
"So that's how it is..." Xiao Hua nodded slightly. He understood that this so-called True Explanation of the Heavenly Book was likely truly just a rumor. If a true explanation existed in this world, how could Xin Xin, who came from a Confucian cultivator family, possibly not know? How could the true essence of Five Qi Ascending to the Origin have been lost?
Yet to Xiao Hua, it did not matter whether the True