"Then let's look for some other clues. Judging from the look of Brother Hao, he must have been reading books in this bookstore for a long time. Is there anything you can gain?"
The reason why he asked this was because he felt that Haolei should have found some useful clues, otherwise he would not have closed the book just now, otherwise it would be quite troublesome to read it again.
He was able to find this bookstore because he pretended to be a mortal and asked passers-by. At first, he planned to investigate the local history of Qingfeng Town. Although Ling Yunzi had given him some information before, that information was only It was limited to after the cultivators began to vigorously develop Qingfeng Town. As for the history before that, not only was there no specific information within the sect, but even if you asked the locals, you would not know anything about it. After all, it was a long time ago.
So in the end he found this Shanghe Bookstore. It is said that this bookstore is also a century-old store. There are quite a lot of ancient books in the store. It seems that there are even books from before the cultivators developed Qingfeng Town, and Ye Qingcheng needs , exactly these. Although there might be someone in the original Shushan office who had the information he needed, but now that everyone has disappeared, Ye Qingcheng naturally has no way of asking.
"Haha, you asked the right person, Brother Ye, and the timing is perfect. It happened to be half a cup of tea before you entered the store. I just found a very important clue. You see." With that, he took He took out the "Encyclopedia of Jiangnan Monster Legends" that he was reading just now, turned to a page, and handed it to Ye Qingcheng.
This made Ye Qingcheng a little stunned. What he didn't expect was that the other person took out this book. The reason why he came to Shanghe Bookstore was because there were many ancient books here that could provide him with a lot of information. At the moment, they What Shushan lacks the most is the information it has on Qingfeng Town. If they want to solve a series of incidents, they can only start from ancient books.
He took the book and read it, and couldn't help but be stunned again, and murmured: "The fairy in the painting?"
Yes, the illustration that appeared at the beginning of that page was the same painting he had seen in the room where he noticed the smell of blood in the Shushan office in Qingfeng Town. It was the same stunning woman.
The only difference is that there are detailed records in this book.
He looked carefully and found out that this story can be traced back to the time when the Demon Tribulation Dao invaded. A fox demon (the so-called fox demon refers to a type that changed from a fox to a demon race through practice, and was born with a demon race). The Spirit Fox clan is very different) fell in love with a demon monk, and were later killed by the human race together, but unexpectedly they left a girl behind before they died.
Although it is logical that such demons should not be left alive, the human monk who was responsible for killing those two people at that time moved with compassion, and even realized that although the girl had spiritual roots, she was still a human race. Not only did she not have demons, Since he had no characteristics of the clan, let alone the characteristics of the demon clan, he did not kill the little girl, but left her to fend for herself.
When this girl grew up, she had a look that would captivate a whole country, so she was spotted by a very powerful cultivator in Qingfeng Town at that time, who even took possession of her body. Who could have imagined that this girl disappeared on the second day, and when she reappeared, it was already hundreds of years later. When she reappeared, she was already at the level of the pseudo-emperor, and she had cultivated a terrifying body. With his blood magic power, he easily sacrificed the cultivator to blood.
And that cultivator was a member of the Federation, so the Heavenly Emperor-level old monster in the Federation came forward and sealed him. The reason why he didn't kill him was because the human monk had once He had promised not to kill this girl, but now he had a high status among the cultivators in the human world, so even the people in the federation had to give him respect, but he just sealed the girl.
It was nothing at first, but I don’t know since when, stories about this girl began to spread. Those mortals didn’t understand the twists and turns in the world of cultivation. They just felt that the girl was so pitiful that she didn’t even know how to deal with it. Since ancient times, famous artists have drawn pictures of girls from that time and used them to sell them. Some people at that time just thought the scroll looked good, so they hung it in their homes. Who knew that this painting had some efficacious effects? Anyone who hung this painting would have more or less good luck, or avoid some bad luck. Because of this, some people began to believe in this girl and named her the Fairy in the Painting.
It was not until later that the Federation came forward to declare that belief in this woman was a cult and conducted a centralized cleanup of the paintings in the town. Therefore, in Qingfeng Town, there are basically no paintings of the fairy in the paintings.
After reading it, Ye Qingcheng slowly closed the book and took a deep breath.
The content recorded in this book is really shocking. In addition to the shock that the story itself brought to Ye Qingcheng, there was also a shock that only he and Haolei could detect.
He could tell from Haolei's eyes that the room where the other party discovered the smell of blood should also have a painting of this fairy, otherwise he wouldn't be able to let himself read this page.
After reading the story of the fairy in the painting, many of the clues they have discovered so far can actually be connected. There are still traces of people living in the office that they thought was no longer occupied. Although they have left in a hurry, Now they can be sure that these people believe in the fairy in the painting. In addition, the reason why there are traces of the smell of blood is because these people have practiced blood magical powers, but this kind of magical powers is not common, even in the current world of cultivation, it is quite rare. .
Thinking again, there are spies in the offices of both of their sects in Liyang City, and they both have extremely weak demonic aura. All these clues point to the immortal in the painting who has been sealed for a long time.
Mei Ji, this is her name, but people nowadays only remember the fairy in the painting, but not Mei Ji.
"This, this is too much of a coincidence. Could it be that Mei Ji has broken the seal and returned to the world?"
"This can't be said for sure. As a disciple of Shushan, Brother Ye should have heard a lot of rumors. In the world of cultivation in our human world, there are more than tens of thousands of monsters and demons sealed in history. Although most of them The seals are very stable, but occasionally someone will break the seal. Maybe it's because the container that sealed them was destroyed, maybe because someone maliciously released them, maybe they became stronger and broke out, all of this , no one can say for sure.”
