CH 100.1

As the system voice fell, Bai Lixin’s front slowly spread out into a picture.

There was a neatly arranged cultivation room filled with futons.

The walls were neatly hung with paintings and statues, and there was a table against the wall that had countless flowers and fruits.

Above the desk was a painting of a man wearing a white Taoist robe. He was holding a whisk in his hand, and his eyes were compassionate, exactly like the portrait that Bai Lixin saw in the Li residence.

Only that the individual in the portrait was a man this time.

Below the painting and in the middle of the desk was a black and white photo. Next to the photo was a letter written in black letters and on a white background.

Hemp rope was hung above the photo, and a brass bell was tethered to the rope.

The perspective rotated, and Bai Lixin finally saw the person in the black and white photo.

It was a man in a Taoist robe. Because of the black and white photo, the man’s face in the photo looked morbidly pale.

He looked to be in his thirties, with a gentle appearance and thin cheeks. There was a spot between his eyebrows but because it was a black and white photo, Bai Lixin couldn’t determine whether it was red or black.

The corners of his mouth were slightly curled up in a smile, but strangely enough, the smile didn’t reach his eyes. The discordant expressions were mixed together and the man looked like he was sneering.

It was obviously a photo, but it seemed to be alive.

Bai Lixin looked at the writing next to the photo.

[In the 21st year of the Ping Dynasty, an evil spirit descended. It deceived people’s hearts, and killed constantly… I plan to exhaust my cultivation base in order to suppress the evil spirit in Fengcheng and save the world from damnation. May the ancestors help me.]

Bai Lixin had just finished reading the letter when the perspective began to rotate. This time, Bai Lixin followed the perspective and saw a row of Taoist priests. The priests were on their knees, and had a book in front of them.

The Taoist priests were sweating all over, as if they were fighting something.

All the Taoist priests sounded muffled as they muttered incantations.

When the last voice finished reading, the Taoist master in the middle stood up. He heaved a long sigh of relief and walked to the desk. He picked the black and white portrait and came to the brazier.

Bai Lixin heard the Taoist master say, “Only the last step left, as long as this evil spirit is burned, he will no longer bring harm to others.”

The black and white photo was facing Bai Lixin and just as the Taoist master was putting it in the brazier, the dark and cold pupils that should have been immobile instantly split.

Double pupils!

“It’s double pupils! It turned out to have double pupils!” A Taoist priest shouted, “Master, he has become immortal, we can no longer kill him!”

The Taoist master frowned, “Even if it can’t be killed, we can kill and see! He used evil to become immortal, this is an evil immortal! Once we let it out, the world will be devastated and wretched! You guys get out of here, I will die with it!”

The Taoist priests who were sweating panicked. They looked at the Taoist master, who roared, “If I don’t go to hell, who will? At the moment, I am the only one who is going to die, but if this evil immortal is released, how many people will die? Qinglian Temple still needs you to carry the light forward. I will really regret it for the rest of my life if you die.”

“Leave quickly!”

The Taoist priests looked at the gray haired Taoist priest with tears in their eyes.

Just as they were about to leave, the corners of the mouth in the photo grinned upward in a more curved manner, almost reaching the corners of the eyes.

The candle flames swayed in the windless room, and the shadows on the walls had fangs and claws.

The brass bell wound on the hemp rope constantly rang, and the room that was shrouded by positive aura was suddenly enveloped by an invisible chill.

An eerie laughter rang out from every corner of the room as if loudspeakers had been installed.

“You want to leave? None of you can leave.”

A Taoist priest went to open the door in disbelief, but found that the door was locked tightly and could not be opened at all.

The flames in the brazier seemed to have life as they ran out of the brazier manically, igniting every corner of the place.

Once they saw that they could not get out, the Taoist priests instead calmed down.

They quickly sat cross legged and decided to fight to their last breath.

Bai Lixin watched the disaster helplessly. In order to stop the immortal in the photo from escaping, the Taoist priests didn’t move from their positions even if there were bricks and planks coming down on their heads.

The evil immortal screamed and roared as tongues of fire swept away everything in this room.

Bai Lixin looked at the portrait on the desk. Tongues of fire slowly engulfed it until the face of the Taoist priest in the portrait was burned.

In the end, everything in the room was swallowed up in the flames.

After an unknown amount of time, when this room was burned to ashes, a little Taoist priest stumbled in from outside.

He rushed into the ruins like a madman and, one by one, carried out the hot and charred corpses.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t enter the place covered by the collapsed beams and supports…

[Ding! The plot replay is over. Please continue the game, player.]

With that, Bai Lixin was pulled back to reality.

What caught his eye was Dijia’s characteristic pair of deep, dark eyes.

Dijia patted Bai Lixin’s cheeks that were red and said, “What’s wrong? Do you have a crying disease?”

Bai Lixin immediately broke out in curses.

You’re the one who has a crying disease. Your whole family has a crying disease!

“Where is the little Taoist priest? I have something to ask him.”

The Taoist master holding the photo in the plot replay looked exactly like the creepy Taoist master they saw earlier. So it seemed that what they saw was his ghost.

He said he would tell them about Taoist Qing at the end of the task. They had even helped get out the buried corpses, but the ghost didn’t appear.

“That little Taoist priest is burying the corpses.” Dijia pointed to Taoist Qing’s bedroom. “Let’s go there.”

Bai Lixin, “Okay, let’s go.”

This copy was getting more and more eerie.

The drama of a wealthy family, murder, monsters, fox demons, and now there are even evil immortals.

Was this *Mortals Cultivation: Journey to Immortality?

As they walked to the room, Bai Lixin opened the task bar.

The task was marked as complete, and the reward for this task was to obtain the origins of Taoist Qing.

How come that Taoist master did not show up after the task was completed?

There were three days and three nights left, and the clues he had obtained from the beginning were all jumbled into a huge amount of information.

He still had to sift through this information and make a judgment before he could finally string it together.

Dijia opened the door to Taoist Qing’s room, and the layout was immediately presented before their eyes.

The layout of the room was simple. There was only a simple wooden bed, a very dated table, and four long benches.

There were a few pairs of replacement slippers and cloth shoes worn by the Taoist priests placed at the door, a whisk, and a white washed Taoist uniform hung on the wall.

On the wall of the room was a partition. Bai Lixin and Dijia searched the first part of the room but found nothing suspicious, so they went on to push the door of the partition open.

Inside was a production room.

The previous room was clean and tidy, while this inner room was the opposite. It was messy and chaotic.

In the center of the production room was a huge desk. The desk was cluttered with many books and talismans, as well as bells, other magic tools, and bottles and jars of medicine.

The floor was also piled with things. There were medicine herbs, cloth strips, hemp rope, and a small alchemy furnace in the corner.

Bai Lixin walked to the desk, picked up the book, and looked at it.

[The Taoist Manual for Demon Suppression.]

He read the pages, and each page explained in detail how a talisman is drawn and used.

For some talismans, drawing with the blood of a black dog gave the best effect, while others would need vermilion, and some would need human blood.

Bai Lixin had also studied Taoism in one of the worlds he transmigrated to, but it didn’t have as many rules as here.

He took the book and compared it to the talisman that Taoist Qing had finished, and quickly found the talisman that the latter wanted to draw.

It was a spirit-attraction incantation.

According to the description in this book, this talisman could attract spirits and even allow one to control them.

Bai Lixin remembered the monster that suddenly appeared in the rain yesterday and the mysterious person who appeared later.

There was also a nailed coffin on the mountain.

In addition, the portrait of the white-clothed Taoist with the same look as the portrait enshrined here was still in the Li residence. It seemed that they had to go back to the Li residence to find out what happened.

Just as they were searching the room seriously, they heard the sound of urgent footsteps outside.

They looked at each other, and the little Taoist priest ran in anxiously.

The little Taoist priest’s eyes were still red, and the hairpin was stuck in his hair. He held the door frame and gasped, “I finally found you guys. I see that this officer is wearing a military uniform. Are you here to investigate the death of Master Qing?”

Bai Lixin, “Where are the corpses we brought out?”

The little Taoist priest, “I have already buried them in the ground.”

Bai Lixin, “So quick.”

The little Taoist priest’s eyes reddened again, “I originally dug out the bones of some masters who were near the door, but I couldn’t reach the other four masters. Fortunately, there were you guys. The room has now collapsed and I wouldn’t know what I would have done if it weren’t for your help.”

“I just went down the mountain. How did they get burned up?” The little Taoist priest began to whimper, “I am an orphan. My master was my only family! wuu wuu! Now I am the only one left in the whole Qinglian Temple. wuu wuu.”

Bai Lixin, “So what are your plans for the future?”