Chapter 551: Chapter 179: Identity! Orphan! The Old Emperor Passes Away! (A 10,000-word mega Chapter, please subscribe)_3
The Shopkeeper carefully reviewed the ledger, "It seems, indeed, the surname is Fan, with the single name Er!"
Fan Er, there was no mistake then.
This name was indeed that of Fan Wu’s cheating charlatan master.
"Here is a silver note for five hundred taels." Fan Wu placed a silver note on the pawnshop’s counter, then looked at the elderly Shopkeeper and said, "That jade pendant should still be here, right?"
The Shopkeeper shuddered as he took the silver note, for Fan Wu had posed such a question.
The Pawnshop Owner could feel an astonishing pressure.
Even the cultivators from the Fu Clan had never given him such an immense sense of oppression.
"It’s here! Still here!" Long-lost memories began to surface in the mind of the Pawnshop Owner, and he didn’t know why at this very moment he was reminded of these things.
All he knew was that he should hurry up and fetch the jade pendant, then swiftly send this esteemed guest on his way.
"Great, great sir, please wait a moment!" The Shopkeeper scurried into a room within the pawnshop.
From inside, the sounds of rummaging could be heard, indicating his urgency.
It took about a half moment.
He came out.
He was holding a very simple box, just a plain wooden box that, due to its age, even had some mildew spots on it.
The Pawnshop Owner tried to rub off the mildew spots, but no matter what, they couldn’t be removed; the mildew had virtually fused with the wooden box.
"Great sir, here... for you!" The Pawnshop Owner hastily explained, "I just don’t know why I forgot about this box."
"No matter." Fan Wu took it over and gave it a light squeeze.
Crack—
The wooden box was crushed by his grip.
This scene left both the Pawnshop Owner and the Shop Assistant dumbfounded; they reflexively touched their heads and shivered uncontrollably.
"Hmm?"
When a pure white jade pendant fell into Fan Wu’s palm, he could feel a faint sense of coolness from it. The pendant seemed to emit some strange fluctuation, telling Fan Wu that it was definitely not any ordinary jade pendant!
There were characters on the jade pendant, and to be honest, Fan Wu didn’t recognize any of them.
But for some reason,
He could understand them!
And it was precisely because Fan Wu understood them that a somewhat odd expression appeared on his face. Then he looked toward the Pawnshop Owner, "Can you see the words engraved on this?"
The Shopkeeper boldly leaned in for a look and found that the surface of the jade pendant was smooth and unmarked, with no inscriptions at all.
He shook his head blankly, indicating he didn’t see anything.
"Tch..."
Fan Wu, holding the jade pendant, murmured, "It looks like that old Emperor wasn’t wrong; I’m truly not from the Great Zhou Dynasty!"
In Fan Wu’s eyes, the jade pendant bore small characters—Crown Prince Fan Yin of the Shangwu Dynasty, eldest son.
No name.
Only an identity.
As for which dynasty he belonged to, Fan Wu wasn’t particularly concerned, after all, no matter how special the original identity was, what did it have to do with him? From beginning to end, Daoist Priest Fan was a transmigrator and bluntly speaking, could also be considered a Heavenly Demon from another domain.
But if he could sense the scent of Free Attribute Points in this, then Daoist Priest Fan would be very interested indeed.
What did this jade pendant signify?
What did it demonstrate?
Did it imply that he was the lost child of a certain dynasty’s Crown Prince?
That’s not quite right...
If the identity were that simple, why hadn’t the City God of Yinghe Prefecture and that Judge from the Great Zhou Dynasty been able to recognize it?
It can’t be that there are different service areas between the City God and the Judge, can it? Because his identity wasn’t a subject of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it fell beyond their recognition?
The information you inquired about is not within this service area...
No authority to inquire?
Fan Wu raised an eyebrow and once again looked down at that Shopkeeper and asked him, "Have you ever heard of the Shangwu Dynasty?"
The Shopkeeper was startled, "Shang...wu Dynasty? That sounds somewhat familiar!"
He pondered for a moment and a spark of realization flashed through his mind, awakening him, "That seems to be, quite a distance from the Great Zhou Dynasty, right? If I’m not mistaken, it should be to the south of the Great Zhou Dynasty?"
The Shopkeeper shook his head blankly, "That dynasty is too far from the Great Zhou, so distant that I don’t even know if there’s any merchant from that dynasty who would come to the Great Zhou Dynasty to do business."
"I don’t have much knowledge about it, just some bits and pieces I’ve come across in some wandering books about the Shangwu Dynasty."
With that, he conveyed what he knew.
The Shangwu Dynasty lay even further south of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
At least one dynasty stood between them.
It was said to be a formidable dynasty, how formidable no one knew, but anyway, this is what some books claimed. The script of that dynasty was different from that of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but it was said that the spoken language was similar.
The accents might differ when the two dynasties spoke, but if they spoke quickly enough, they should be understandable to each other.
That was all the Pawnshop Owner knew.
Beyond that, he had no more information.
"Thank you." After expressing his thanks, Fan Wu left with the jade pendant and didn’t disturb the two people from the pawnshop any further.
