CH 108.1

“Let me make a bold guess, the hallucinogen hidden in the charcoal, was it put there by Feng Gu?”

The man’s face had been completely pulled down, and he had long since lost his arrogance. A terrifying cold aura burst out from his body, and a heavy shadow appeared in his shrewd fox eyes.

The fox cubs in his arms started shivering because of the man’s abrupt change in aura, and Bai Lixin could even feel his wrist faintly aching.

Black fur began to emerge from the edges of the man’s otherwise handsome face. The fur spread out towards the middle, and his face began to slowly morph into one of a beast.

Bai Lixin looked at the fox cubs in the man’s arms and said, “Calm down, don’t scare the little ones. You don’t have to kill anyone either.”

As if in response to Bai Lixin, the fox cubs began to whimper one after another.

The helpless yelps pulled back some of the man’s sanity. He took a deep breath as the pupils in his eyes slowly returned to normal, and the fur on his face quickly faded away.

He stroked the fox cubs’ fur, and even lowered his head down to affectionately rub his cheek against the little creatures.

“But I surmise that hallucinogens were not the real cause of their deaths.”

As the two men confronted each other, the shadows overhead continued to advance at their own pace.

“Feng Gu has been in the Li family for so many years. She had a thousand chances to strike but didn’t. I think she just wanted to find out what caused the fire. ”

As if to verify Bai Lixin’s words, the shadow of the door moved as if it was being opened, and a dark shadow walked in.

That shadow walked past the maids caught in the illusion and went to Madam Li’s bed and stopped.

And in reality, Madam Li’s eyes opened.

She crawled back in fear, her back against the wall.

Her eyes stared at the bedside as if there stood someone who frightened her to the core.

At the same time, the shadow above her head did the same.

Madam Li’s eyes were already dazed from inhaling the hallucinogen.

Then he heard Madam Li mumbling.

“It is you. You are the lady?”

“Yes, it was you who saved us, but we did you harm.”

“Li Lang is greedy and is a little bad, but he doesn’t have the guts to kill. That fire was an accident. It was just an accident.”

“We tried to put out the fire. Yes, I tried to wake everyone up, but they were all asleep. I poured bucket over bucket of water to try to put out the fire, but it was useless.”

“I’ve been going to the temple every year to burn incense and worship you. I should have died long ago to atone for my sins, but I was afraid. I was afraid that when I die, Li Lang would go mad. I’m not a good person, but at least if I’m around, Li Lang would be more restrained and not go too far in hurting others.”

“Now that you’ve come, have you come to kill me?”

Madam Li looked towards the bedside in a daze, “Live well? You are telling me to live well?”

Not knowing what she heard the other person say, she became emotional and tears came to her eyes.

“Live to atone for my sins?”

“This year is so cold, I will go to the street tomorrow to make donations.”

“Yes, yes.”

“I will spend the rest of my life atoning for my sins.”

As she spoke, the dazed woman lay back on her bed, muttering under her breath.

“Yes, yes.”

“I must be going to hell when I die, right?”

“I have never forgotten your kindness after all these years, and I feel ashamed every time I think of Mr. Liu.”

“I go out to make donations every year, but I know that I can’t cleanse myself of my sins by doing those things.”

The person by the bed stayed for a while longer before they finally went to the brazier, seemingly intending to carry it out.

Just then, the door to the shadowed room flew open, and a shadow with a beast-shaped head flew in.

The man whispered, “That’s me.”

” Liu Changfeng and his family liked to do good deeds, and he was known as a good person. Even if her family disappeared overnight, Liu Changfeng’s daughter didn’t lose herself, even when wrapped in hate. ”

“She created the hallucinogen to get the story. She entered the Li family and had been secretly observing Madam Li and Lord Li.”

“She watched Madam Li’s self-condemnation and good deeds, and according to Feng Gu, Madam Li has done many good deeds over the years and saved the lives of many poor people.”

“If she killed Madam Li, her parents in heaven would not be happy, and those who could have survived this winter with her donations may also die because of it.”

“So she intended to spare her.”

“She could spare her,” the man growled, “but I couldn’t let go!”

“That hunter deserved to die, and so did this woman!”

“If it wasn’t for her help, my children wouldn’t have appeared and my wife wouldn’t have died!”

“That’s why I killed everyone in this room, except for Feng Gu.”

As the man spoke, the pupils in his eyes changed once again. His pupils overlapped, and two pupils appeared in each eye.

Just like the picture he had seen in the scene replay at that time.

Bai Lixin asked, “Then why didn’t you kill Lord Li immediately?”

The whites of the man’s eyes had turned completely black, and in the completely black eyes were two golden pupils laying side by side.

The strange and eerie eyes looked at Bai Lixin, and the man laughed lightly, “I wanted to kill him, but God did not give me the chance. Lord Li was always followed by that Qing guy. He gave him many weapons against me, and I had no way to overcome that.”

“But later, I did.”

The man smiled wryly, “To deal with humans, you have to use human methods.”

“You and Feng Gu joined forces?” Bai Lixin frowned slightly. “Perhaps over the next three years, Feng Gu saw so many people die because of Lord Li, and finally decided to do something to get rid of the evil.”

The man chuckled, “You’re right. Feng Gu and I joined forces three years later .”

“She fed Lord Li a drug to make him hallucinate, and it was my hand that killed him.”

“I tore his skin off, and ate his liver and lungs. It felt great!”

“Haha, that Qing was not a good man either. He actually tried to capture me in order to cultivate me into becoming a good person so that he could raise his cultivation.” The corners of the man’s mouth rose, “But he underestimated me. I killed him and was trapped in the photo, but then I escaped to another portrait at the critical moment.”

“I hid in the portrait and then came here.”

“That damned half-immortal also wanted to kill me, but he simply failed.”

“They are all a bunch of hypocrites, including Feng Gu! She forgave the villain who killed her family. Don’t you think she’s hypocritical?”

“The half-immortal in that portrait is the same; he kept advising me to become good.”

“Don’t persuade others to be good unless you have experienced their suffering! When my wife and children were killed, when my family was destroyed, how come no one went to their rescue? Now that I want to avenge my wife and children, he comes out to persuade me?!”

“Who does he think he is? He even tried to seal me in a painting?!”

“I saw my children when I was killing Li, but I couldn’t save them at that time. After entering the painting, I kept jumping around and eventually entered the one that imprisoned my children. But I was still too late, the fire had burned the place to rubble by the time I got there.”

“Do you know how much despair I was in? I rushed to jump in at the last moment when the painting was burning.” The man paused, a rare gentle smile on his face, “I didn’t think these guys would still be alive.”

“You saved my children, so I won’t kill you this time.”

“See my eyes?” The man pointed to his pupils, “I am now an Evil Immortal, and as soon as I find my wife, I will bring her and my children back to life.”

“Then our whole family can be together again.”

Bai Lixin listened to the man’s words quietly.

He thought that this black and white fox was the fox from three years ago, but through the current conversation, he turned out to be the black and white fox from three years later.

The same as them.

He too was a being outside the painting and had simply entered it by mistake and re-watched the scene of the crime back then.

So the black-and-white fox’s first words, “You are different,” did not imply that he was from outside the painting, but rather that he had a feeling he was not from this world.

The black and white fox’s few words were a huge amount of information.

Firstly, it was clear that Feng Gu was Liu Changfeng’s daughter.

Secondly, Feng Gu aimed to make Madam Li save someone to redeem herself, while the black and white fox only wanted to kill in revenge. He not only killed Madam Li, who had a grudge against him, but also killed the innocent maids.

It was this killing that caused the cooperation between Feng Gu and the black and white fox to end, and they never contacted each other until three years later, when they wanted to finish off Lord Li and decided to ally again.

Third, it was this same fox who killed the Taoist Qing.

There was also another character in this, the Half Immortal. If he was not mistaken, it should be the man in white who hangs in the portrait at Qinglian Temple.

He was also the “cultivation fanatic” that Xian Gu had spoken of.

He had now heard about this person from two people, but had never seen him.

Bai Lixin’s eyes dimmed slightly. Was it the half immortal that let them see the scene replay in the first painting?

They had not seen the mysterious half-immortal until the painting had finished burning. If they could enter Xian Gu’s painting through the door, why couldn’t the half-immortal?

Was it possible that the half-immortal let them see what happened three years ago in this painting as well?

If it was him, what kind of message was he trying to send by letting them see so much?

Fourth, the double pupils he saw in the scene replay at that time were for the black and white fox in front of him. Just like he guessed, this fox must have jumped from the photo and into the painting, and then jumped through the different worlds connected to the half-immortal’s painting.

Fifth, this was his task.

He had found Lord Li’s murderer and the reason why he was killed.