The next day, Xu Fengnian invited Zhou Yan to go fishing in his own lake, right next to the Listening Tide Pavilion. Xu Fengnian was already being set up by his father, though he himself was oblivious.
Xu Fengnian was still preoccupied with figuring out who wanted to kill him, having pondered it for a long time.
"Xu Fengnian, in such high spirits?" Zhou Yan arrived by the lake and saw the maids beside Xu Fengnian. Qingniao was cool and indifferent, with a frigid demeanor, while Hongshu was beautiful and cheerful.
Nangong Puye was also there, her gaze fixed on the Listening Tide Pavilion. She longed to enter but did not dare, knowing there were many masters present.
"Let me introduce you, this is my brother, Xu Longxiang," Xu Fengnian said.
"Born with divine strength, very good. When will you let me enter the Listening Tide Pavilion?" Nangong Puye's focus was solely on martial arts; she had no interest in anything else.
"You can go in, but only for an hour. I said I'd let you in, I didn't say you could live there," Xu Fengnian began to act shamelessly.
"State your conditions," Nangong Puye asked.
"Someone in the Northern Liang army wants to kill me. Who do you think it is?" Xu Fengnian asked.
"After Shi Zhixia's death, who besides the young prince could control the military power?" Nangong Puye replied.
Xu Fengnian immediately guessed it must be one of his father's six adopted sons. Only Zhou Yan knew that this was all a scheme set up by Xu Xiao.
Shortly after, a white eagle flew in. Xu Fengnian took the note from it and said, "Chu Lushan wants to see me. He is one of the six adopted sons."
Then, Chu Lushan arrived. He looked at Xu Fengnian with concern and said, "A courtesan has arrived at the Purple Gold Tower, she is peerless in both talent and beauty, and is especially skilled in sword dance. Her grace and appearance are truly unmatched in Lingzhou."
In front of outsiders, Xu Fengnian was a rake. This act had to be performed well, so of course, he had to go.
As they were leaving, Xu Fengnian looked at Zhou Yan and Nangong Puye and asked, "Can we go to the brothel?"
"It doesn't matter," Zhou Yan also wanted to see what it was like.
"Whatever," Nangong Puye also replied.
"The fruits at the Purple Gold Tower last time weren't very good. Let's bring our own," Xu Fengnian said.
"I'll do it," Chu Lushan quickly offered to bring the fruit.
Xu Fengnian shook his head and looked at Jiang Ni.
"I'm not going to the brothel," Jiang Ni quickly said.
In the end, she still changed into men's clothes, grudgingly carrying the fruit and following Xu Fengnian. They walked all the way there, and by the time they reached the Purple Gold Tower, she had eaten the fruit, thinking this would prevent her from entering the brothel.
But unfortunately, Xu Fengnian still forcibly dragged her in.
Inside, they met Yu Youwei, who was exquisitely beautiful and charming. However, this Yu Youwei was there to assassinate Xu Fengnian. She was from Chu, and had been arranged by others. In the end, she was merely a pawn, brought in to make Xu Fengnian fall into the trap.
Unfortunately, she failed to assassinate him. However, Xu Fengnian did not kill her. Instead, he let Yu Youwei meet Jiang Ni, revealed that Jiang Ni was a princess of Western Chu, and finally brought Yu Youwei back to the Northern Liang Royal Mansion.
Next, Xu Fengnian wanted to find out who had sent out his portrait and began to make some moves.
"Who do you think among Xu Xiao's six adopted sons is the one who wants to kill Xu Fengnian?" Nangong Puye asked.
"Are you so sure it has to be one of the six?" Zhou Yan countered.
"I'm not sure, only the six of them have the greatest suspicion. And I think Chen Zhibao, one of Xu Xiao's six adopted sons, has the greatest suspicion. He is known as the Pillar of Northern Liang, the God of War of Northern Liang, and there are rumors that he is the only one who can succeed Northern Liang," Nangong Puye said.
"Heh, you might be mistaken about this," Zhou Yan smiled, not revealing the specific reason, leaving Nangong Puye very confused, unable to understand what Zhou Yan knew.
Afterward, Chen Zhibao arrived, bringing with him the head of the person who had leaked Xu Fengnian's portrait. But unfortunately, the mastermind was not him. Chen Zhibao also revealed all the things Xu Fengnian had done, and the matter was dropped.
Later, Nangong Puye successfully entered the Listening Tide Pavilion to begin learning martial arts. Zhou Yan also followed, which was naturally with Xu Fengnian's permission.
Thus, both Zhou Yan and Nangong Puye studied various martial arts manuals within the Listening Tide Pavilion, ignoring Xu Fengnian's affairs outside. There were still a series of plans targeting Xu Fengnian, but Zhou Yan was not interested. After all, Xu Fengnian was the protagonist; he wouldn't die.
Zhou Yan had an extraordinary memory. With just one glance, he memorized the entire content of these martial arts manuals. Moreover, these manuals were beneficial to him, strengthening his "Yin-Yang Creation Art." Even though his cultivation method was already of a high grade, it was still effective.
Coupled with learning other martial skills, it could also make his existing martial skills more powerful and even allow him to combine these martial skills into brand new ones. For Zhou Yan, since he was here, it was not a bad thing to learn something.
"You memorized it with just one glance, are you able to recall things without forgetting?" Nangong Puye was extremely shocked.
"This is nothing. I can scan them too." Zhou Yan then unleashed his powerful spiritual energy, making all the books in the Listening Tide Pavilion float in the air, and then used his immense spiritual power to imprint all the content of these books into his mind.
This was naturally due to Zhou Yan's powerful spiritual energy. After all, tens of thousands of people in the entire territory had retrained classes, and even if each person contributed a little free attribute point to him, when distributed evenly among spiritual energy, it would be an astronomical sum.
Of course, because he had previously undergone the Refining Soul Fire in the Law Enforcement Hall of the Ziwei Academy, ten free attribute points could only increase his current attribute value by one.
But this one attribute point was equivalent to the combined power of ten attribute points. It only looked like a small amount, but it did not reduce the enhancement to Zhou Yan's strength.
Even so, his spiritual energy attribute points were close to ten thousand.
With such powerful spiritual energy, it was naturally easy to read these books.
A few minutes later, Zhou Yan's mind had accumulated a large number of cultivation methods and martial arts manuals, bringing him considerable gains. As long as he entered the scroll in his mind at night and fused them all, his cultivation methods and martial skills would be greatly improved.
Seeing Zhou Yan's almost supernatural ability, Nangong Puye was truly astonished. Then, seeing Zhou Yan stop and return the books to their original positions, she asked, "Have you finished reading them all?"
"Of course. Do you want to try them out?" Zhou Yan said confidently.
So, Nangong Puye casually took out a book and began to ask Zhou Yan questions. Zhou Yan answered them one by one and even recited the content from memory.