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Chapter 17 You sell umbrellas?

Upon hearing this, the old Taoist priest quickly realized what was happening and laughed heartily.

"So it's you. You're so timid. If you've got the guts, come out here." The old Taoist priest figured that their reluctance to show themselves meant they weren't powerful enough to confront him directly.

The merchant simply raised his hand and set up a small table, complete with his own teapot.

The sound of water was clear and distinct. The old Taoist priest followed the sound and struck the wall, but stumbled and bumped into it.

The merchant simply moved to another spot and continued to lie down and drink tea.

"Hand over the ashes while I still have the patience, otherwise the tortures of the eighteen levels of hell will require a whetstone." Shang Xingjian took a sip of tea; new tea is just so delicious.

"You stole my tea?" Cheng Mai shouted angrily as he looked at the tea box that Cheng Mai had taken back.

"It's just sharing, don't make it sound so nasty," Shang Xingjian refused to admit that he had just taken it without permission.

"You, you still have time to drink tea?" The old Taoist priest was provoked and shouted angrily.

Shang Xingjian gently twirled the cup in his hand. "If you don't hand over your ashes within the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, then I'll have no choice but to hand you over as a whetstone."

"You cowards! I'll teach you a lesson you two!" the old Taoist priest yelled, biting his finger until it bled. Before he could even draw any runes on the talisman, Shang Xingjian slapped him across the face.

The next second, the old Taoist priest's robe was stripped off by the merchant.

"You've dirtied this Taoist robe," Shang Xingjian said with disgust.

Seeing the old Taoist's soft skin, he tied a ribbon directly to Cheng Mai's eyes, saying, "Don't look, or you'll go blind."

As soon as Shang Xingjian finished speaking, he got up from the recliner and teleported to the old Taoist's side. "I don't have time to waste with you, three..."

Shang Xingjian grabbed his neck and lifted him off the ground, using his breath to choke him, "Two..."

The old Taoist priest struggled desperately, feeling that he was about to die.

"one……"

"I...I'll talk." The old Taoist priest was on the verge of death and had seen his own miserable state in the eighteenth level of hell several times. He was drenched in sweat, and there was even a smell of urine coming from beneath him.

The merchant looked at Cheng Mai with disgust, and when he left the person behind, he even remembered to glance back at him before clearing away the odor from the air.

“In her, in her mind.” The old Taoist priest trembled as he pointed to Cheng Ying on the altar.

"What did you say?"

Cheng Mai was shocked. This person had opened Cheng Ying's skull?
Cheng Mai ran to the edge of the altar and looked at Cheng Ying. Shang Xingjian removed the invisibility talisman from her body.

The old Taoist priest was shocked when he saw Cheng Mai appear. "How, how, how is this possible?"

He clearly restarted the formation. Even if the formation hadn't succeeded, Cheng Mai should have been unconscious.

Why does she look no different from ordinary people?
The merchant removed the talisman from Cheng Ying's body, and the altar was quickly stained red with blood. Cheng Ying's body twitched a few times, and then she remained still.

"break!"

Shang Xingjian didn't even use any talismans; he simply broke the old Taoist's altar and took the ashes from under Cheng Ying's skull, where the array's core was located.

After retrieving the ashes, Shang Xingjian handed them to Cheng Mai, then looked back at the old Taoist priest prostrate on the ground.

"With your level of skill, you couldn't even create a Soul-Fixing Array, let alone an Emotion-Shifting Array. Who taught you that?" Shang Xingjian looked down at the old Taoist priest on the ground.

The old Taoist priest was terrified, feeling the invisible pressure, and as he knelt, he suddenly burst into a strange laugh.

"Hey Hey Hey……"

Cheng Mai wiped the urn clean with his clothes, then looked at the old Taoist priest because of the strange laughter. "I was orphaned at a young age and suffered a lot of bullying. They beat and humiliated me until I met my master. He taught me skills, and then, I killed all those people and hung them in the woods outside. Do you know how much pain and fear they felt before they died?"

“I hung them there so that even in death they could torment each other.”

"In this way, the resentment will fight and cover each other, so even a highly skilled Taoist priest will not be able to find this place."

"He gave me a new life, but later he didn't want me anymore because I wasn't smart enough, because I could only learn those vicious and despicable spells."

As the old Taoist priest spoke, he slowly stood up and laughed and shouted loudly in the courtyard.

“I want to tell my master that I can help him, I can do many things for him, and I can also become smarter.”

As the old Taoist priest spoke, he suddenly stared at Cheng Mai with wide eyes.

"Until, until twenty years ago, I learned from my master's notebook that when the ancient wise god sacrificed himself, a trace of his consciousness remained in the mortal world. You see, even God is helping me."

"I originally wanted to kill the child and take his mind, but I also knew that the mind needs to be tamed, and taming the mind will shorten one's lifespan. Just then, that idiot Liu Bo appeared."

"They conspired to kill Cheng Yueran, but they were afraid that Cheng Yueran would become a vengeful ghost and come back to take revenge on them, so they had no choice but to ask me to suppress Cheng Yueran's soul."

"Look, Heaven has not forsaken me; if Heaven has not forsaken me, I will surely be of great use."

"Did your master come back to find you?" Shang Xingjian asked.

The old Taoist priest, who had been laughing heartily, suddenly fell silent. His neck stiffened, and he seemed to pause for a moment as he looked at the source of the sound.

"As long as I become smarter, as long as I raise the spirits in the mountains, he will come back to me, he will definitely come back to me."

Unable to hide his disdain, Shang Xingjian turned to Cheng Mai and said, "Let's go."

It turned out to be nothing at all.

"But here..."

"I called the police, and they'll be here soon."

"Please don't call the police to arrest my master, please don't call the police to arrest my master." The young Taoist boy suddenly rushed to Cheng Mai's side, hugged her legs and kowtowed.

Cheng Mai was held by the legs and couldn't move. "Your master killed someone."

"I beg you, my master is a good person, I beg you."

The young Taoist boy looked no more than five or six years old. He wore a loose Taoist robe and was skin and bones due to long-term malnutrition.

Shang Xingjian looked down at the young Taoist boy, "He didn't save you; he just wanted to take your life."

"I know, but Master gives me food and a bed to sleep in. When I'm with Master, no one hits me, scolds me, or steals my things. Please, please let my Master go." The young Taoist boy kowtowed repeatedly, and blood quickly appeared on his forehead.

Cheng Mai squatted down to stop the young Taoist from kowtowing. "I have also been beaten, scolded, and bullied. All of this is thanks to your master. Even after my mother died, she could not have peace because of him. He has been kind to you, so why should I let him go?"

The young Taoist priest, tears streaming down his face, stared intently at Cheng Mai.

"I'm giving you two choices. First, keep him in your heart and never bring him up again, then stand up and come with me. Second, remember what I look like, be sent to an orphanage by the police, grow up well, and then come back to take revenge on me."

The young Taoist boy didn't move; he just stared straight at Cheng Mai.

Cheng Mai didn't give him much time, but got up and walked outside.

"You sell umbrellas? You seem to enjoy holding umbrellas for people so much." Jian Jian, who was leaning against the door, made a sarcastic remark as the man came out.

(End of this chapter)