After the holy monk dropped his vest

The Fang family is considered a prestigious family in Cyanwood City, but it has never been able to become one of the top aristocratic families in Cyanwood City.It's just because the Fang family has been born with immortal fate for dozens of generations. Although there are a lot of officials in the dynasty in the family, they can't get connected with the cultivation sect, and they are still a little weak after all.

If it weren't for Fang Wenze, the patriarch of the Fang family, with his superb pen and ink paintings, he might have fallen into decline long ago.It is said that even in Duobao Pavilion, his paintings are in short supply.What's more, when many cultivators go to Duobao Pavilion to purchase, they will also bring a pair or two of Fang Wenze's paintings with them.

That's why the Fang family was able to establish a relationship with Duobao Pavilion, and was able to get ten land-level spirit stones, which was almost impossible for ordinary families to get.

The immortal master who came here for these ten earth-level spirit stones is now sitting in the main hall of the Fang family, and is regarded as a guest of honor.

Sitting in the main seat is Fang Wenze's wife Li Shi.When Mrs. Li was in her boudoir, she was a well-known beauty in the entire Qingmu City. Although she looks sad now, she is still graceful and graceful, which makes people forget the vulgarity.

But no matter who it is, the moment they step into the main hall, their eyes will be attracted by the boy in gray sitting on the side.

The servant girl came forward to serve tea, the maids of these rich families always behave properly.But even this big maid, who usually acted prudently, unconsciously lingered on the immortal master for a moment when she stepped back.

Mrs. Li is also secretly looking at Master Lu Jiu, although she also knows that these cultivators cannot judge the age of each other by their appearance, and many people who seem to be in their prime may have spent hundreds or thousands of years in this world.

But isn't this fairy teacher too young? Judging from his appearance, he is no different from an ordinary boy of fifteen or sixteen years old.It is not that Li Shi has never seen the world. Most of the immortal masters at this age are talented disciples carefully cultivated in large sects.

Looking at his clothes, he doesn't look like those genius disciples in those large cultivation sects, although they are not wearing extremely luxurious brocade clothes and jade robes.But it won't be as... shabby as this fairy teacher.

It's not to blame Li Shi for thinking too much, because these ten land-level spirit stones are already her last bargaining chip.

For a mundane family like the Fang family who had no connections in the cultivation sect, it was not easy to get the Lingshi.What's more, in the past few months, the head of the Fang family almost squandered all the spiritual stones stored in the mansion, and never took out paintings to sell in Duobao Pavilion after that.

These ten land-level spirit stones are the dowry brought by Mrs. Li from her natal family.

According to the rules of Duobao Pavilion, even if the immortal teacher fails to solve the commission smoothly, the deposit paid to Duobao Pavilion will not be refunded.

For Li Shi's gaze, Lu Heng'an was unafraid. He directly took out the impression of Duobao Pavilion, put it on the tea table, and pushed in Li Shi's direction.

Mrs. Li was about to pick it up and have a look.

But seeing a servant girl walking quickly into the main hall, feeling a little blessed, she leaned in and whispered a few words in Li Shi's ear.

The servant girl's voice was indeed extremely low, and ordinary people would not be able to hear the content clearly, but to Lu Heng, it was no different.Every word she said was clearly heard in Lu Heng's ears.

"Ma'am, a Buddhist master came outside and said that he is from Fanyin Temple, who can solve the predicament in the mansion."

When Mrs. Li heard that the master was from Fanyin Temple, her heart that had been settled after seeing Yin Xin, hesitated a bit.

The Fanyin Temple is one of the top sects with the deepest foundations on the Qianyuan Continent, especially its reputation in subduing demons is even more impressive.

As long as there are disciples of Fanyin Temple to make a move, no matter what kind of evil demon Xiu is.Rumor has it that in the Demon Locking Tower in the Fanyin Temple, many great demons with the ability to split the sky and the earth are suppressed.

Coupled with the immature look of Master Lu Jiuxian in front of him, Li Shi was a little uneasy, but now that the eminent monk from Fanyin Temple has come again, it seems very clear what to choose.

However, Master Lu Jiuxian did come with the seal letter from Duobao Pavilion. If he repents, Duobao Pavilion may refuse to accept the Fang family's entrustment in the future.Duobao Pavilion is the only connection between the Fang family and the cultivation world, and it must not be destroyed because of this incident.

Seeing Li's tangled expression, Lu Heng immediately guessed what she was thinking, and heard that the master outside came from Fanyin Temple.

He was suddenly blessed with a sense of soul, and always felt that he should know this person himself.Thinking of this, Lu Heng pinched Fa Jue with his left hand, and then felt a slight heat from the cinnabar between his brows.

Sure enough, it was an old friend who came.

"Mrs. Fang, if you are really hesitant, it's okay to invite the master outside the door in." Lu Heng said directly.

It was only then that Li Shi realized that for these immortal masters, the whispers of the maid just now were probably heard clearly by the other party.

She got up in a hurry and saluted with a little apology: "Master Lu, it's because I'm too abrupt. Since the Fang family entrusted Duobao Pavilion, they won't do such things that go back on their promises. I'll let the servant girl go back the master..."

"It's okay, the person outside the door is my friend. I haven't seen him for a long time, so I can just catch up with each other."

Only then did Mrs. Li turn her worry into joy: "It's so good. If we can solve the predicament in the mansion and agree to pay Immortal Master Lu, it will definitely not be short."

"It's easy to say." Lu Heng nodded with a smile.

"Go and invite the master outside the door to come in." With Lu Heng's approval, Mrs. Fang turned her head and told the maid beside her.

Shi Kong followed the maid who led the way, all the way to the main hall of Fang's mansion.He was about to step into the gate, and before he could clearly see the appearance of the master's house, he was attracted by the young man in the seat.

The young man's brows and eyes were full of carefree expression, the cinnabar between his brows made him look more refined, his lips were red and his teeth were white.

Lu Heng stood up and said loudly: "Benefactor, long time no see. When we parted at the beginning, you said that we would meet each other by fate. From this point of view, you and I are destined."

Shi Kong paused, and called out a name: "Xiao Jiu."

The maid who was leading the way took a peek at the white-clothed monk beside him, and felt that when the handsome monk called out the name of the gray-clothed boy, he seemed to be a little more popular.

You know, she just walked all the way, but she didn't even dare to breathe. She always felt that even if she took an extra breath, it would pollute this handsome Buddhist cultivator who was like a cloud.

"That's right." Lu Heng raised his eyebrows and smiled.

Both of them are guests at the moment, so it's not good to be too noisy.After saying hello, Lu Heng gave up the home court to Li Shi.

After welcoming the distinguished guests to their seats and serving tea, Mrs. Li was finally able to get to the point, explaining the ins and outs of the commission.

In the few years since Mrs. Li married into Fang's family, she and Fang Wenze have been on par with Fang Wenze, and the husband and wife have a deep affection.In Li's eyes, her husband is a dedicated person. Since she started her career, she has never mentioned the matter of taking concubines, and she is not like many literati who like to drink flower wine.

Mrs. Li looked down at the teacup in her hand: "On weekdays, my husband loves to paint portraits of me the most. Except for those paintings to be given to Duobao Pavilion, he always only paints me."

Although what Li Shi said seemed to be about the leisure and elegance between husband and wife, Lu Heng guessed that Li Shi's mention of this matter must be related to this matter.

"Half a year ago, my husband was introduced by someone, and he went to a trade fair that was said to be only for immortal masters. After buying back some immortal treasures, he became a little strange. He locked himself in the Songtao courtyard all day long, and never Make a portrait of me."

"Patriarch Fang, but since you came back from the trade fair, something has changed?" Lu Heng asked.

Mrs. Li frowned and recalled for a moment: "That's not the case. After my husband came back, it was the same as usual for more than a month. He still took portraits of me from time to time, but the number of times became less and less, until he locked himself in Songtao Courtyard In the middle, I don’t see outsiders and I don’t paint anymore.”

"Do you know what treasures he bought back?" Shi Kong asked.

Mrs. Li just shook her head: "My husband regards those things as very important. Once I bought them, I locked them in the secret library of the study. I didn't even take a look at them. But I know that there is a scroll in it, and the monster must be that scroll. .”

Lu Heng saw that Li's expression was determined, but she was a mortal woman, so it was impossible for her to see the evil spirit in the painting, so he asked, "Why did you say that?"

"At the beginning, I could still go into the Songtao Courtyard, and I saw him muttering to himself with his eyes fascinated by the painting every day. I thought he just got his favorite painting and was a little obsessed, until that day..." Mrs. Li He looked sideways at the maid beside him.

Seeing Mrs. Fang's gesture, the servant girl saluted, and then said: "That night, Mrs. Fang said she was hungry, so I went to the kitchen to get some snacks. Then on the way back, in the gazebo, I saw the master and a woman describing close."

Speaking of this, the servant girl showed a trace of fear on her face: "That woman is definitely not human, I'm sure!"

"Why?"

"At that time, there was wind, and when the wind blew over the hem of her clothes, I saw that the woman's feet hadn't landed on the ground, they were hanging in the air!"

"That night was the night of the full moon?" Lu Heng asked again.

The servant girl thought for a while, then nodded: "That's right, the moonlight was very bright at that time, so I could see the scene in the gazebo clearly."

After finishing speaking, she stepped back behind Mrs. Li.

Mrs. Li continued: "After Xiaotao told me about this, I felt that something was wrong, and I tried to find a way to invite some immortal masters from the nearby small sects to come and see them. They said that there is no evil spirit in the mansion, so I can rest assured. But Husband's situation is getting worse and worse. Recently, the Songtao Courtyard has been completely closed, and no one is allowed to enter except the servants who deliver meals. In desperation, I went to Your Excellency Duobao to entrust."

Before Lu Heng could ask for more details, he saw a servant rushing into the main hall in a panic.

"Ma'am, it's not good, master, he..."

When Mrs. Li heard this, the displeased expression that was interrupted immediately became flustered: "What's the matter, master?"

"I just delivered the meal to Songtao Courtyard, and found that the master didn't come out to pick up the meal delivered in the morning. I was a little worried, so I knocked on the door and called for a few words, but there was no movement inside."

"Say it quickly!" Li Shi shouted sharply with a nervous expression on his face.

The domestic servant ran all the way, a little out of breath, he paused for a moment, took a breath before continuing: "I was a little worried, so I peeked through the crack of the door, but saw the master fell on the ground. Then I So I broke through the door and went in, and found that the master was unconscious."

Hearing that Fang Wenze just fainted, Mrs. Li calmed down a little, and ordered the servants to go to the city to invite the doctor over, and then said: "Master Lu, Master, can you come with my concubine to have a look?"

This matter was not normal, and Lu Heng and the two of them would not refuse, so they followed Mrs. Li to Songtao Academy.

Fang Wenze had been found to have his servants in the bedroom, and a servant girl was watching over the bed.

Fang Wenze on the bed, with a pale complexion and weak breathing, looked like he was about to die soon.

When Li Shi saw this situation, her face turned as pale as the person on the bed, and her voice trembled: "Master Immortal, what's wrong?"

Lu Heng took a step forward, put his finger on Wenze's pulse gate above, and a divine sense penetrated into his body.After probing, he immediately discovered the reason for this person's unconsciousness.

"The soul is out of the body." Lu Heng frowned slightly, "Three souls and seven souls, there is only one soul left in his body, and he also has the appearance of being out of the body..."

Lu Heng didn't finish speaking.

But Li Shi is smart and can fully understand the meaning of his words. Hearing this, she clutched her chest and her figure was shaking.

"Don't worry." Lu Heng quickly comforted him, and then looked at Shi Kong, "In this case, you should be better than me."

Shi Kong nodded slightly and walked forward.

He pinched a spell, and saw a golden light bloom at his fingertips, and then a phantom of a lotus flower appeared.He kept gesturing, and directly pressed the phantom of the lotus between Fang Wenze's eyebrows.

As the phantom of the lotus flower disappeared, Fang Wenze's pale face turned ruddy, and his breathing became more stable.

"The poor monk has sealed the benefactor Fang's undivided soul in his body. As long as this soul is still there, his body will not die."

Seeing that her husband didn't look like the living dead just now, Li Shi let go of his hand on his chest, and his pale face also improved: "Master Lao is here. It's just how to make him wake up."

"As long as we retrieve the living soul from the body and stuff it back into the body, it will naturally get better." Lu Heng replied, "Next, I will trouble Mrs. Fang to wait for us to take a look at the different picture scroll."

Mrs. Li nodded, and ordered the servant girl to take care of Fang Wenze who was in a coma in the room, and then led Lu Heng and the two to the study of Songtao Courtyard.

Fang Wenze's study room is quite elegantly furnished.As soon as Mrs. Li entered the study, she was stunned.

After a while, she said sadly: "The walls of this study room used to be filled with my portraits. I didn't expect that after my husband was fascinated by monsters, I couldn't even accommodate these portraits."

Lu Heng, a technical nerd, is not very good at dealing with women. Seeing Li's face full of sadness, he can only change the subject: "Where is the scroll?"

"Come with me."

Mrs. Li walked to the bookshelf and skillfully turned the porcelain vase on the bookshelf.The bookshelf slowly moved away, revealing the secret door hidden behind.

On the secret door, there is a strong big lock, blocking the way of everyone.

"This..." Li Shi was surprised, "I don't know when this secret vault was locked."

She looked carefully again, showing embarrassment: "This is a nine-turn ring lock. There is no key. The lock can only be opened by following the steps written in the locker's mind, but my husband is still in a coma."

Lu Heng took a step forward: "Madam Fang, it's urgent, I hope you don't take offense."

Before Li could understand what he meant, a cold light flashed in the hands of the gray-clothed boy, and the nine-turn ring lock hanging on the secret storehouse was split in half.

Li Shi felt that she really shouldn't speculate about these fairy masters with mortal thinking, so she made up her mind and stepped back to open the door of the secret vault.

There are not many things in the secret vault, and the most conspicuous thing is probably the painting hanging on the wall.

When Mrs. Li saw the picture scroll, her expression changed: "No, this painting is not right. I had glimpsed the content of this painting at the beginning. Although I was reprimanded by my husband, I couldn't see it clearly, but I did see it vaguely. There are people in this painting. like."

But now, the painting hanging on the wall only has a fairyland-like scenery.

Li looked at the scroll, and thought of her husband lying on the bed without knowing his life or death. The more she thought about it, the more angry she became, and she rushed forward, wanting to tear up the demon painting.

"Mrs. Fang, calm down. The whereabouts of Patriarch Fang's living soul is unknown, and it is not impossible to be sucked into this painting. If you destroy the scroll, he may never come back after losing the medium." Lu Heng snapped his eyes quickly. hold her.

"Benefactor, you may injure innocent people when you subdue the demon, so please empty the Songtao Courtyard." Shi Kong said.

"I was reckless. Lu Xianshi, Master Shikong, I will order the Songtao Academy to be sealed off. For the rest of the matter, you can do whatever you want, as long as you can rescue your husband."

After all, Mrs. Li was from everyone, so she quickly regained her senses, and after saluting, she left Songtao Courtyard with others.

Lu Heng and Shi Kong had time to observe the mysterious scroll carefully.

Lu Heng took off the scroll and put it on the desk in the secret room, then turned his head and asked, "Senpai, do you think there is any difference in this painting?"

"Call me to Shi Kong." Shi Kong said in a low voice, and then walked up to look at the scroll, "There is indeed no evil spirit in this painting."

Lu Heng's focus is not on whether the picture scroll has a demonic aura, he is a standard technical geek, and the private warehouse of the demon king is vast. In addition to practicing on the Internet every day, he is studying miscellaneous arts.

Together with Danqing, he can be regarded as somewhat understanding.Therefore, he could tell at a glance that the painting was very new and did not look like an ancient painting.

Thinking of this, Lu Heng drew a rune in the air, and after the rune was formed, he plunged into the scroll.On the scroll, a phantom appeared.

The phantom is exactly the same as the picture scroll on the table. On the top of the phantom, there are words representing the year and month.

This is the technique of backtracking, which can be used to infer the formation time of things.

The text on the top of the phantom danced rapidly, until the content on the scroll disappeared and turned back into a blank sheet of paper before stopping.

Lu Heng glanced at the text on the top, and frowned slightly: "Half a year ago, how could it be? How could it be possible for a painting with such a short time to turn into a demon?"