Several hundred years had passed, and the Demonic Sound Sect still hadn't found anyone to solve these problems. One could imagine how difficult these questions were.

"I refuse," Xiaoyao uttered three words. What a joke—why would he do such a troublesome thing? He had no friendship with the Demonic Sound Sect. Even if it were Hei Xue's own matter, he'd have to consider the circumstances. He could do things that were convenient.

"Don't refuse so quickly. This has benefits for you too. The other party said that whoever solves their difficult problems will not only get the manual returned, but also be allowed to browse all their manuals. They're a major sect with plenty of good things that would interest you," Hei Xue said. Since she brought up this matter, she definitely had some confidence. She understood Xiaoyao's personality—ordinary money and benefits couldn't move him at all. Using emotional appeals, she knew she was far from enough. So there had to be something that could interest Xiaoyao, and this right to browse manuals was what would interest him.

Xiaoyao turned his head to look at Hei Xue and said: "Be more specific. What sect is this?"

His interest was indeed piqued, but currently it was just interest. If the value obtained wasn't high, he didn't want to do this troublesome thing.

"Carefree Sect," Hei Xue said.

"What?" Xiaoyao was stunned. It couldn't be such a coincidence.

"How about it? Isn't it strange? It's the same as your name. I was also surprised when I heard it," Hei Xue said with a smile. She thought Xiaoyao was stunned because of this—she didn't know that Xiaoyao already knew about the Carefree Sect and planned to enter it.

Xiaoyao was still wondering about something—

"Why would you get involved with the Carefree Sect?"

"Do you think the other party should also belong to the Demon Sect and be within the Demon Domain?" Hei Xue understood Xiaoyao's confusion. This was indeed strange—the Demon Sect generally operated within the Demon Domain and rarely went to places outside it.

Whenever Demon Sect people went outside the Demon Domain in large numbers, major events would happen in the world.

"Yes," Xiaoyao nodded. Although the Carefree Sect was an unorthodox sect, it didn't seem to have any relationship with the Demon Sect. However, they weren't afraid of communicating with the Demon Sect—naturally with individuals they recognized, not everyone.

It was because of this that there was the past between the Carefree Sect and Demonic Sound Sect several hundred years ago. The Demonic Sound Sect member back then had a style more like the unorthodox sects and had offended a powerful figure from the Carefree Sect in some matters related to music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, leading to the current situation.

"Although Demon Sect people rarely go outside, it's not like there are none. The Demonic Sound Sect's techniques also don't look like Demon Sect ones—they're more like unorthodox sect techniques. Moreover, some people like to go outside the Demon Domain to look around," Hei Xue said.

"Heavenly Demon Sound—speaking of this, it seems to be a type of charm technique too," Xiaoyao suddenly thought of someone. Her charm techniques were all-pervasive. Fortunately, she hadn't used her full strength on him, otherwise he might not have been able to resist.

"Yes, the Demonic Sound Sect also dabbles in charm techniques, but we mainly cultivate demonic sound. Combined with our sect's special bloodline, the effect is stronger than any charm technique. However, one must cultivate it to the highest realm," Hei Xue said. Anything that wasn't cultivated well was useless.

"Anyway, it's all the same. What kind of difficult problems have stumped you? Tell me about it," Xiaoyao asked. He was interested now, but being interested also depended on whether these problems could be solved.

"Actually, they have quite a few problems. They randomly select several for us to solve. If we get one wrong, we have to start over, and we can only try once per year," Hei Xue said.

"..." Xiaoyao hadn't expected it to be like this. He had thought it was several fixed difficult problems, but unexpectedly it was selecting several from many difficult problems. If the quantity was large, then not solving it for several hundred years was quite normal.

This also showed that the Demonic Sound Sect seemed to have offended people quite deeply back then. If it wasn't deep, would others make things so difficult?

As for why the Demonic Sound Sect didn't directly snatch it, that was naturally because their strength was insufficient. The Carefree Sect was a behemoth. Although the Carefree Sect internally wasn't very united and was always scattered, if someone entered Carefree Sect territory by force without permission, they would definitely be driven out.

To put it simply, the Carefree Sect was even larger than the biggest faction of the Demon Sect—definitely not something the Demonic Sound Sect could compare to. Even Xiao Yizhu's Supreme Demon Palace had to step aside.

"I'll give you past problems. Some have been solved, some haven't. Based on past situations, they sometimes use problems that have been used before, but there will definitely be new ones. Once we were very lucky—several problems had been used before and we had solved them all, but we couldn't solve the last one..." Hei Xue showed a trace of regret. Even though this happened long ago, when mentioning it now, quite a few people in the Demonic Sound Sect still felt regret.

Just that little bit—just that little bit—but they still didn't succeed in the end. Such things were most easily remembered and deeply regretted.

"Alright, organize the problems and give them to me. Also, when are you planning to go to the Carefree Sect? I need to return to the Luo family once. Do you want to go too..." Xiaoyao asked. Although Hei Xue belonged to the Demonic Sound Sect, after all, she had contributed so much to the Demon Cult, she could be considered half a Luo family member.

"That's fine. There's no rush to go there anyway. The previous group hasn't returned yet—they're probably still thinking about the problems," Hei Xue nodded. The group she mentioned were people sent to the Carefree Sect to solve problems before this.

Every year the Demonic Sound Sect would send people to try, and the Carefree Sect gave very generous time—incredibly generous. As long as it was completed before the next update of problems, it was fine.

That is to say, the time limit for completing these problems was one year!!

You could say that although the Carefree Sect figure deliberately made things difficult for the Demonic Sound Sect, he wasn't too harsh—the conditions given were still very generous.

Otherwise it wouldn't be once a year with a year's time to answer. They could basically solve problems continuously for several hundred years, but even so, the Demonic Sound Sect still hadn't succeeded. This showed how rich this problem bank was, and how powerful it was. Needless to say how strong the person who created this problem bank was.

"That works. After things here are finished, we'll go to the Luo family," Xiaoyao nodded.

"Good!" Hei Xue nodded. She was fine with it. Demonic Sound Sect matters could be arranged at this time. She wasn't part of the ruling faction now, so there really wasn't much she needed to do.

"Didn't you say you'd stay here for a year? There are still over two months left," Qi Yanran asked strangely.

"I only said I wouldn't let the Luo family know within a year, not that I'd stay in the Demon Domain for a year. Setting out for the Luo family now takes about a month, or two months if we go slowly. It's fine as long as they discover us on the road," Xiaoyao waved his hand. If there were still things in the Demon Domain that interested him, he would stay here, then notify Guxing and the others when the time limit arrived.

But the current situation didn't require it. He had already understood the Demon Domain well enough. The rest wasn't something he could understand in one or two months, and he didn't have the idea of definitely understanding it. It was more important to return to the Luo family early—at least so people wouldn't worry.

Weren't people worrying now?

Xiaoyao felt that Guxing and the others wouldn't believe he was dead before seeing his corpse. Although they were worried, the problem wasn't very big.

Xiaoyao didn't care much about other people's worries.

"I see. That works too. We'll set out early then," Qi Yanran said with a smile.

"We'll talk about it then..." Xiaoyao looked at Qi Yanran and said with a smile. The smile seemed to contain other meanings, which left Qi Yanran somewhat confused, though she didn't pay much attention to it.

Later, Qi Yanran understood what Xiaoyao's smile meant. At that time, Xiaoyao had already thought that she couldn't leave the Demon Domain with him. What he meant by "we'll talk about it then" was: we'll see about your situation then.

"Why can't I go?!"

Qi Yanran roared. This was already several days later. In between, the Demoness Selection had also ended, and Qi Yanran had won with overwhelming advantage, becoming this session's Daughter of the Heavenly Demon.

However, although being the Daughter of the Heavenly Demon was very prestigious, it also required paying a corresponding price. What she was roaring about now was closely related to her identity.

"Because you're the Daughter of the Heavenly Demon. If you appear outside now, you'll definitely be surrounded and attacked. This is undoubtedly true," Xiaoyao said. Although he had some methods to conceal Qi Yanran's identity, the risk was still too great—there was no need to take this risk.

"Besides, even if you want to go, would others let you go? With your current identity, you have many things to do. Unless you know clone techniques, you should obediently stay in the Demon Domain."

After becoming the Daughter of the Heavenly Demon, there would be a series of activities. Although these activities were just procedural, they couldn't proceed without Qi Yanran. If Xiaoyao waited for these activities to end, it would be several months later, and he had no intention of waiting.

"If I had known being the Daughter of the Heavenly Demon was so troublesome, I shouldn't have participated..." Qi Yanran said somewhat unhappily. She also knew that currently, she couldn't leave the Demon Domain and could only reluctantly accept the facts.

This statement sounded very grating to others, because the Daughter of the Heavenly Demon was an honor that many people competed for. Now that you've obtained it, saying this was naked showing off.

"Sister Yanran, don't worry. I'll write you letters," Xiaoyao said solemnly.

"Hmph, how often are you planning to write?" Qi Yanran immediately saw through Xiaoyao's thoughts. Writing letters wasn't a lie, but writing whenever he remembered also counted as writing letters.

What left Qi Yanran speechless was that Xiaoyao's answer was beyond her expectations. She had thought of shameless, but hadn't expected it to be this shameless.

(End of Chapter)