CH 97.1

Once they left the study, Bai Lixin’s gaze fell on the brazzier in the courtyard, “you said the portrait was burned to the master, was the frame also burned?”

Li Yuan silently nodded: “Yes, since I had to burn it, I burned everything.”

Bai Lixin took a deep look at Li Yuan. He did not say anything more, but opened the door of the bedroom.

The moment he opened the door, Dijia noticed Bai Lixin’s footsteps pause slightly. He glanced at Bai Lixin and asked, “What’s wrong with you?”

Bai Lixin’s gaze fell on the female Taoist in white: “Nothing, I always feel like this painting is too realistic. For a moment, I felt like the person in the painting was staring at me.”

Dijia’s eyes shifted to the portrait and he said in a deep voice: “You really feel so?”

The portrait was made with the ancient method of ink painting, and only a few strokes outlined the lifelike picture.

Not only the white-clothed Taoist, even the foxes in the distance looked alive.

Bai Lixin nodded.

Dijia knew that Bai Lixin’s feeling would not rise for no reason.

He stared at the portrait and said, “It’s so evil, why not burn it.”

“No!” Li Yuan hurriedly waved his hand, and his was sharpened because of anxiety. “this painting is used for demon suppression, it can not be burned!”

Bai Lixin: “Demon suppression?”

Li Yuan pointed to the foxes above, “These are the demons.”

“Doaist Qing gave the Lord this painting, he said it can help the Lord to suppress the evil spirits around him, amd told the master to hang it next to the bedroom door.”

“I did not believe it at first, but then something happened. At first, there was only this white-clad Taoist in the portrait, but then, foxes began to appear. When Daoist Qing saw it, he said that the foxes were the evil spirits that originally intended to harm the Lord, and its thanks to this goddess in the painting that the foxes were suppressed.”

Bai Lixin brought his face closer and saw that there were still some ink stains on it that had not dried: “But isn’t this ink fresh?”

The female Taoist priest wore white clothes, and it was only the white clothes that were outlined. The undry place Bai Lixin referring to was the outline of the Taoist’s clothes.

Li Yuan: “Yes, Daoist Qing said that the goddess inside has a spiritual nature. She is alive and will live, so the the ink will never dry out.”

“She is alive?” Bai Lixin looked at the white clothed Taoist with curiosity. “How rare.”

The woman in the portrait just smiled compassionately, and there were no other waves.

Dijia looked to Li Yuan: “You are always in close proximity with Lord Li, where were you on the night was killed?”

“That……” Li Yuan shrunk, and he slightly raised his eyes to sneak a look at Bai Lixin. “The Lord said he wanted to be alone with Master Xin, he asked a servant to call Master Xin, and asked me not to disturb them no matter what I hear. ”

His voice gradually weakened as he talked. “The Lord has been ill ever since the madam died. He started drinking medicine and even his temperament changed greatly. He often whipped a few concubines to please himself, and I often heard screams…… so, I didn’t care much at that time.”

Dijia snorted softly.

Li Yuan’s body shrank further.

“Later, Master Xin yelled that he’s dead, and only then did I realized there was a problem and rushed over.”

“But the Lord had already died.”

“When the police came, the second concubine asked Master Xin what happened at that time, but Master Xin was like he was possessed by a demon and didn’t say anything.”

Li Yuan looked at Bai Lixin with a face full of helplessness: “Master Xin, what the hell did you see ah?”

[Ding! Congratulations player for triggering the special dialogue. Plot fragment x1 unlocked. The plot replay will now begin.]

The system prompt suddenly rang out in his mind.

Bai Lixin’s vision darkened, and there was a screen right in front of him.

Under the night sky, the images on the screen moved past so the the perspective’s owner must be on the move.

The cold wind howled, and the perspective’s owner was breathing a little sharply.

Soon, he came to a dark courtyard door.

Dark branches and bamboo leaves swayed, but the room at the end was lit up with lights.

By the light of the lamp, he could see the shadow behind the dim yellow window paper.

The shadow seemed to be bent at the waist, and the body looked busy, as if looking for something.

The perspective’s owner at the courtyard gate for a while. He gulped hard and walked to the door of the room.

He gently knocked on the door, and Bai Lixin listened to the timid voice of the owner of the sight: “Lord, may I come in?”

A normal person’s visual angle was 124 degrees, but the angle of concentrated attention is only about 25 degrees.

At this moment, the owner of the perspective was focused on the door in front of him, but Bai Lixin’s attention was placed to the window that the sight owner did not pay attention to.

The shadow on the window suddenly paused on hearing the voice, and then Bai Lixin saw it straighten up to reveal sharp claws that couldn’t belong to a human and an outline of a beast head.

In less than a second, the shadow quickly contracted and turned into a thin silhouette.

There was no response, and the perspective’s owner took a deep breath, then pushed the door with the only courage he had gathered.

The moment he opened the door, a gust of wind suddenly surged in, and the portrait by the door swayed left and right.

Something came over the perspective owner’s eyes, and he subconsciously closed them.

A second before the image turned black, Bai Lixin saw a shadow come to his side.

After a few seconds, the perspective’s owner reopened his eyes, covered his chest and entered the room.

The first thing he saw was Lord Li who had died tragically and was laying in a pool of blood.

[Ding! The plot replay is over. Congratulations to the player for unlocking the plot progress by 10%, please continue playing.]

The system’s voice rang out, and when Bai Lixin opened his eyes again, he looked up to see Dijia’s concerned eyes, “What’s wrong?”

Bai Lixin, “I remembered something. Uh, when I came to the Lord’s room, the Lord was already dead.”

He then recounted the images he had seen in detail. As Li Yuan listened, the originally pale face became even paler, and the upper and lower lips shivered uncontrollably: “It is the fox demon! The fox demon claimed his life!”