CH 102.3

“I was taken away in a hurry at that time, and it has always been my regret that I didn’t go to the graves of my master and his wife to pay respects. I don’t know where their bodies were buried after death, and since the family of three was gone, I don’t know if there are descendants that burn some paper money every year .”

Bai Lixin’s eyes flickered. Xian Gun was no longer her casual self and although her eyes were red, she couldn’t cry because she was a ghost.

Bai Lixin sighed, and said: “Maybe you can tell me where your former master’s home is. I’ll help you go there if there have the chance.”

Xian Gu wiped her nose: “Their home was in Changping town outside the capital. With a fast horse, you can get there in a day and a night.”

“Oh, I forgot that you have cars now, it might be faster if it’s a car. My former master’s name is Liu Changfeng. So many years have passed, I wonder if anyone still knows them.”

Bai Lixin looked at Dijia and said, “Okay, we’ll try our best. If we don’t have the chance, we will still find someone to help you fulfill this wish.”

Xian Gu finally put away her disbelief look and said, “Thank you all, but you should leave. It’s almost time for Li Yuan to come back. Put me back in the same place, Li Yuan hid the rhinoceros horn incense on top of the closet, you can find it once you look.”

“By the way, there is something more.” Xian Gu seemed a bit embarrassed. “I didn’t trust you guys so I did not tell you earlier. There is a secret room in Lord Li’s study, it’s just behind the desk. Although I’ve never been there, all the things from the Taoist temple, and the dirty and abducted things obtained over the years are hidden there. You can take a look if you are interested.”

“Whether you believe it or not, I’m not the murderer even though Lord Li shouted my name. I don’t have the nerve or courage.”

Xian Gu paused for a second, a d added, “I’m too cowardly. I’m a ghost so killing will make me carry the sin of killing, and I risk having my soul dissipate. I am afraid of death, and although I am a ghost, my soul is tied to the portrait. If my portrait is burned, the long years of cultivation would be reduced to nothing.”

“So to live, I choose to be silent.”

“The world is a bitter place,” Xian Gu said bitterly. “I’m not a good ghost, but I’m living. However, even so, my heart is getting more and more empty and desolate. In fact, I haven’t been in my portrait for a long time.”

“If you really have the opportunity to find the grave of my former family, help me apologize.”

She murmured a little: “It would be nice to have the chance to go in person.”

“I have nothing more to say, goodbye, you guys go.”

Without waiting for Bai Lixin and Dijia to respond, Xian Gu went back into the portrait.

The rhinoceros horn incense was slowly burning, and curls of white smoke drifted out from the incense burner.

Neither Bai Lixin nor Dijia said a word, and there was an empty silence.

A few moments later, Bai Lixin sigh softly before walking to the closet and going on tiptoe to find the rhinoceros horn incense that Xian Gu mentioned.

After, he walked to the table, looked at the woman with downcast eyes, and rolled up the portrait.

Dijia only said: “Let’s go.”

Bai Lixin picked up the scroll and all the rhinoceros horn incense, and the two left Li Yuan’s room.

Sure enough, Dijia understood him.

There was no way he’d let Xian Gu stay here. He might as help fulfil her request.

Dijia: “I know Changping Town, it’s a 12-hour drive from here. I happen to have a document to send there, and if you have something, like a portrait for me to take there, it’s okay.”

“Hahaha,” Bai Lixin chuckled, “and ……”

“Right, and,” Dijia glanced at Bai Lixin. “I happen to have an old senior I need to pay my respects to. Since I’m going to the town, I might as well stop by his grave.”

Bai Lixin did not say anything this time, but just gave a thumbs-up to Dijia.

Well done.

The two were about to leave when they saw Li Yuan who was returning in a hurry.

Li Yuan’s eyes were anxious, and his feet seemed weak. At first glance, he looked like one who had over-indulged.

He saw Dijia and Bai Lixin from afar, and his expression changed as he ran over in a hurry. Because he was running too fast, he even tripped and fell in dog shit.

Li Yuan fell with a loud bang. Blood came from the corner of his mouth but he didn’t seem to feel the pain. He hurriedly got up from the ground and continued to rush towards them.

He rushed over while shouting: “Give back the portrait! That’s mine! Give it back!”

Good guy, he is so stimulated that he wasn’t even afraid of the Governor.

Li Yuan rushed to two and Dijia’s cold frosty eyes looked at him coldly. With one glance, the irrational Li Yuan instantly froze in place, and looked at the two people in front of him blankly.

A drop of cold sweat dripped from his forehead and Li Yuan gulped hard. He no longer had the momentum from earlier.

A trembling finger pointed to the scroll and said: “That is my… is my wife. Young master, please return the thing to me.”

“This thing is my father’s heritage, how did it become yours?” Dijia said coldly. “Isn’t this my father’s mysterious 13th concubine? You’re a servant of the Li family but you stole it from your master, how do you think I should punish you? Send you to see the official? Throw you out of here? Let you die alone?”

Li Yuan stared at the painting, and fear gradually replaced madness.

He inadvertently saw the Lord ignite the rhinoceros horn incense once, and summoned the woman in the portrait. Since then, he fell in love with the woman’s appearance.

After the death of the Lord, evil turned into courage. He didn’t know what happened at that time, but he stole the portrait for himself.

The subsequent days were the happiest days of his life.

Bai Lixin looked to the man who had lost his mind and said, “go back and take a good look in the mirror, see what now you look like.”

The Li Yuan in front of him had dark shadows under his eyes, his hair was messy, his back had begun to bend a little and his cheeks were sunken. After just two days without seeing him, he had turned from looking like a man in his forties, to one that was in his sixties.

Xian Gu was right, she was indeed not a good ghost.

Good or bad, these clear discriminatory words couldn’t sum up any one.

On her twisted cultivation journey, her concern for her former master was a warmth he had not seen for a long time.

After dismissing the disoriented Li Yuan, Bai Lixin and Dijia returned to Bai Lixin’s bedroom.

———————–

In the live broadcast room.

[I knew that they would take the portrait away.]

[Come all come.]

[At first, I thought Xian Gu was a bad person, then I saw her boast about her former master and thought she was good. But after seeing Li Yuan, I once again thought she was bad. Help, I’m so torn, is she a bad or good person?]

[But, isn’t she a ghost?]

[Uh…]

[I’m dying, hahaha…]

[She became a ghost so many of her thought patterns became different from those when she was human. Just like humans and beasts, they belong to two different species. But at least she didn’t kill anyone.]

[But she used to be human, which is not quite the same as the beast and human analogy. And she said that she could have chosen a different cultivation method, but she chose the easy one. That is enough for speculation, right?]

[I can’t say whether she’s good or bad, but look guys, doesn’t her appearance mean some kind of small boss that comes out midway?!

[If it was a normal male player, he would definitely get seduced ah! So this was actually a challenge of the copy! According to the normal routine, the player had to resist the temptation, counter-attack and defeat her in order to get clues from her. So, in normal circumstances, she was actually a villain.]

[Fuck, it seems true now that you say it. She met a pair of gays, and since her charms were useless, so she directly went to the point.]

[Small boss: I’m really miserable, what bad luck.]

[Oh, I understood after your analysis. She said it herself that she was not a good ghost. She only has special feelings for her former family, which is the equivalent of a villain having a soft spot. Okay, I won’t dwell on it.]

[She’s bad, but not bad enough, got it.]

[Okay, okay, keep watching the Livestream.]

———————

Bai Lixin put aside Xian Gu’s painting a d took out the rhinoceros horn incense.

He did not rush into the painting world, but first communicated with the system in his mind.

[Escape system, I am going into the painting world, will it be the same copy world, or I will be judged dead after entering?]

This was a single-player copy, once he is ruled dead, the copy will be closed.

He understood the entry conditions of multiplayer copies, but was a single-player copy the same as multiplayer copies?

Would players be entering later?

How long would it take for players to enter?

Escape system: [Please rest assured. The function of the rhinoceros horn incense is similar to a system connection aid. As long as the rhinoceros horn incense is still lit, the system can rely on it to keep the connection to the game lobby.]

[However, once the rhinoceros horn incense is extinguished and the signal is interrupted, the system will rule the player dead because it cannot detect the player. Since this copy is a single-player copy, once the player dies, the copy will be immediately cut off from the system and you will not be able to return to the game lobby.]

[In addition, the time interval between the opening of the single copy is very long, even longer than the [The Third Symphony of the Undead] that you just experienced.]

[Players generally draw multiplayer copies, and those who can draw single-player copies have no luck.]

Bai Lixin: [???]

Please don’t connote me.

Escape system: [Based on your luck value, how many times do you think this copy will be opened again?]

[I also don’t want to say it to you, ah, I am afraid you will turn this into a farming copy and this copy will be finished.]

Bai Lixin: [……]

You also know the farming system?

Escape system: [So please make sure that the rhinoceros horn incense is lit, and that the “door” is open. If the “door” is closed, the signal will also be cut off unilaterally.]

[ short, go for it, Master host. You can do it! You can do it!]

Bai Lixin: [Huh?]

Master host?

After communicating with the escape system, Bai Lixin looked at Dijia: “Your soldiers ……”

Before he could finish his sentence, Dijia raised his palm and rhythmically clapped three long and two short beats.

Within a few seconds, Bai Lixin heard a row of light rhythmic footsteps outside.

Six soldiers came through the door and stood there pensively.

Dijia looked at Bai Lixin: “With us here, the rhinoceros horn incense will never go out. With me, you don’t have to worry about anything.”

Bai Lixin: “……”

Help, I’m blushing.

This damn boyfriend power is powerful, this is not better than saying love words!

This piece of rhinoceros horn incense was not much, it should be something Li Yuan scavenged from Lord Li’s room.

Dijia instructed his soldiers seriously, and Bai Lixin looked around the room for an incense burner. He ignited the rhinoceros horn incense and placed it in the incense burner.

Soon, the taste slightly thick scent of the rhinoceros horn fragrance drifted in every corner of the room, and the white smoke also began to fill the room at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Bai Lixin and Dijia came to the portrait and stared at it.

The soldiers looked at each other in confusion.

–What is the Lord Governor doing?

–You want to paint, so you stare at it?

–The Qing Dynasty has been dead for more than ten years! How can you believe such strange superstitions?

–Forget it, since it is the Lord Governor’s orders, we will die if we don’t follow through. Let us just wait for him to return to normal.

Just then, Bai Lixin said: “Let’s go, this strip of light must be the door.”

Door?

The soldiers looked at each other, What door?

When they looked up, they saw a stair-shaped band of light coming out of the previously normal portrait.

Before they could react, there was a flash of white light, and the two people became white.

……

A few moments later, Bai Lixin opened his eyes and looked around.

Good guy.

What should be before him, and what should not be before him, was all here

Dijia, Xian Gu and the six soldiers.

Nice job.

This damn boyfriend power.

Dijia: “……”