Mang Shusheng's Ink Painting Practice

Chapter 251: So Many Obstacles

Outside the red leaf forest, the town is called a small town, but in fact it is larger than some cities in the mortal world.

There were a lot of people coming and going, and the faces of the people on the road almost did not show the sadness that ordinary people have.

This is not "peaceful government and harmonious people". In fact, the way of governance of the human race in this heaven has always been "rule by doing nothing".

It is simply because natural resources are too abundant that the people have no worries about their livelihood.

This is also where Qingfeng and Gufan met the flower demon.

Zhao Yifu took a quick look at the town and felt that it was peaceful and there was no chaos. The people lived in harmony, and it was not as panic-stricken as he had imagined.

Logically speaking, if there was a demon wreaking havoc, the people in this town shouldn't be so peaceful.

Following the description of the environment given by Yi Yang Jian Jun, Zhao Yi Fu quickly found the door of a house.

It was here that Qingfeng met the flower demon.

He did not rashly use his spiritual power to investigate, but looked around, and with a drop of his sleeves, a black cat ran out.

It’s Yiyi who’s in charge of this kind of thing.

Yiyi was dressed in black and disappeared into the corner.

In addition, he is light and agile, so as long as he hides his breath, it is difficult for others to detect him.

So what if someone finds out?

What bad intentions could such a cute cat have?

Yiyi jumped onto the wall and looked around, then climbed out again after a while.

"Meow~"

Zhao Yifu understood.

He said, "Is there only one old woman? And what about that flower demon?"

"Yeah, after something like this happens, you should hide away."

This made Zhao Yifu feel a little tricky. He didn't have any very good tracking skills, so it seemed that he would need to practice them well in the future.

But just as he was thinking this, he saw a young lady with a graceful figure, simple clothes but beautiful face and eyes walking towards him outside the door carrying a bamboo basket on her back.

is her!

Zhao Yifu recognized him immediately; this was the person he was looking for.

When the woman saw Zhao Yifu, she stood there in shock, her whole body trembling and her eyes quickly turning red... It was such a pitiful sight.

Zhao Yifu walked forward and asked softly, "Flower demon?"

The woman nodded, then said softly, "My humble concubine Ruirui greets the Immortal."

Zhao Yifu asked, "Do you know Qingfeng?"

Her expression froze, and then she nodded painfully, "I know, Taoist Qingfeng treats me very well, but I really don't have..."

Zhao Yifu said calmly, "Let's not talk about that. Do you know about Gu Fan's death?"

The flower demon nodded again, and was about to say something...

Zhao Yifu then said, "That's good to know. Where is his body?"

"After all, we are from the same school, so we should show our friendship to each other."

The flower demon looked embarrassed and said, "Goddess, can you allow me to prepare this meal for my mother-in-law? She is very old and can't handle it alone. She will go hungry."

Zhao Yifu hesitated for a moment, then said coldly, "You won't be hungry after a good night's sleep."

As he spoke, he pointed his hand towards the room and started an illusion hypnosis, hypnotizing the old woman in the room to lie down.

The flower demon felt distressed when he saw this, but he looked at Zhao Yifu in fear and didn't dare to say anything. He could only lead the way obediently.

They walked into the red leaf forest, and gradually miasma appeared...

Zhao Yifu followed behind and coldly reminded, "The death of a Sword Immortal Alliance disciple here is no small matter. I, the Sword Immortal Alliance's One Yang Sword Master, am ready to personally come out and resolve this matter."

"Don't think about delaying. The longer you delay, the worse it will be for you."

Fear appeared on the flower demon's face again, and she stammered, trying to explain something.

Zhao Yifu said: "Now, let's take the next step."

The flower demon was stunned for a moment, then led the way.

She finally felt something was wrong, but her mind was blank and she couldn't figure it out at all.

Zhao Yifu followed behind, sensing the atmosphere along the way, and finally praised, "We're finally on the right path. This is indeed where the Qingfeng Sword Disciple passed by."

It was not him who felt the breath, but Yi Yi who smelled the scent in his arms.

Then he soon came to a place that looked quite messy.

His expression immediately changed and he said sternly, "Are you covering up the traces of fighting here?!"

The flower demon was silent as a cicada, trembling and stammering, "My humble concubine... My humble concubine is afraid..."

Zhao Yifu didn't respond. After looking around, he still sensed the residual sword energy. He then stopped and said, "This must be where Qingfeng killed someone. Where's the body?"

The flower demon shook her head repeatedly and said, "No... I don't know..."

Zhao Yi Fu's eyes fixed, and without saying a word, he threw the golden dragon hoop towards the flower demon's head.

The flower demon was frightened to death, but before she could react the golden hoop fell on her head.

Then she touched the golden hoop on her head blankly, as if she didn't know what to do.

Zhao Yifu was speechless for a moment. This flower demon’s brain really was empty, right?

He said, "A corpse wouldn't disappear for no reason. The most troublesome thing is that you destroyed all traces of the murder scene..."

"idiot."

Then he stretched out his hand and pointed, and the golden dragon hoop flew up and returned to his hand.

Suddenly he shouted fiercely: "Get out!"

A murderous and ferocious aura suddenly burst out from his body, frightening the flower demon so much that its face turned pale, and then it crawled away.

Zhao Yifu then took out the page of spiritual paper his master had given him and pointed at it, and words appeared on it: "Focus on investigating Gu Fan, he's a big problem."

Then he unfolded the God Summoning Diagram and complained to Patriarch Fuyou: "Patriarch, please tell Patriarch Li that the Panlong Golden Hoop he gave me has a weakness... It is ineffective against brainless people!"

After a while, there was no news from the master, but a person with the image of a lame old beggar appeared first on the summoning picture... It was Master Li.

He said angrily, "I gave you a treasure and you still despised it. If you despise it, come back to me!"

Zhao Yifu chuckled and said, "No need to change it. This one is still quite useful."

Master Li is always laughing and joking and can get along well with the younger generations, so Zhao Yifu likes him very much.

Grandmaster Li then laughed and said, "That's not 'brainless', but rather a mind that is pure to the extreme. Only those with a pure mind and no distracting thoughts will not be affected by the Coiled Dragon Golden Hoop."

"Why, did you meet such a person?"

Zhao Yifu nodded and said, "Yes, a flower demon."

At this moment, Master Li's expression suddenly became cautious.

He said, "It's really not that simple. There might be a bigger plan here. You...be careful."

Zhao Yifu was surprised. Why was Master Li so cautious when he heard about the flower demon?

After hesitating for a moment, he decided to keep his composure and patted his sleeves...

The next moment, the snow-white Achou rolled out from inside.

Achou looked up at Zhao Yifu, his eyes still full of arrogance.

Zhao Yifu pretended not to notice its temper and pointed into the distance, saying, "Go and see if that flower demon has gotten far away."

"Make sure it runs far away. Don't let anyone catch it again with that stupid look on its face."

Achou rolled his eyes at him unhappily, as if to complain: What a pushover!

Zhao Yifu smiled. How could he be so concerned about a mere flower demon? He could just let her go.

But since this is related to his master's sect, and Master Li is so cautious, then he must make more preparations.

Achou walked into the woods with a proud cat-like gait and disappeared.

"what!"

Suddenly, a silly and innocent cry came from the woods over there.

Then the Aurora Fairy said angrily to the Royal Sister: "You are still here. Not only did you not run away, but you also want to come back and take a look?"

"Hurry up, hurry up, don't stay there and get in the way!"

After that, there was a rustling sound and they ran away.

Zhao Yifu felt relieved after hearing this noise.

I thought to myself that this empty-headed flower demon was not that simple. It was seeking its own death, and I had no idea how it could grow and transform safely.

And at this moment, the spiritual paper given by the master finally responded.

A series of words appeared on it, all introducing Gu Fan's situation.

Gu Fan had only joined the Sword Immortal Alliance seven years ago. During those seven years, he had always behaved himself, never had any problems, and never teamed up with anyone.

This was a rare time when I teamed up with others, but I died during the mission.

There is also the evaluation of Gu Fan's cultivation...

Zhao Yi Fu took a look and found that he was basically at the stage of great success of Yin Shen. Yin Shen had not yet begun to turn into Yang Shen. Among the cultivators in the Sword Immortal Alliance, he could only be considered at an average level overall.

After reading all this information and still finding nothing, Zhao Yifu pondered for a moment before writing: "Master, please help me find a secret method for tracking and tracing the whereabouts of this person. I need it urgently."

Liang Zhongzhi's unpleasant complaint immediately appeared on the spiritual paper: [Stinky boy, if you need it urgently, can I find it for you?]

[Wait. 】

A smile appeared on Zhao Yifu's face, he knew that his master could do it.

Sure enough, Liang Zhongzhi replied after a while: [It's definitely not possible to give you something too complicated. I've thought of a direction, you can try it yourself.]

[You learned the "Universe's True Numbers" in the mortal realm. In the heavenly realm, there are simply more factors to consider, but the principles remain the same.]

Zhao Yifu's eyes lit up instantly after hearing this. He had not thought of "The True Numbers of the Universe" before because he subconsciously thought that the "basic values" in the mortal world should be different in the heaven.

Now listening to Master, the underlying logic of the two is actually the same?

He immediately started counting on his fingers.

Indeed, when he started to measure, he found many things wrong here.

There were traces of murder that the flower demon Ruirui had intentionally destroyed, but he soon discovered something was amiss...

Because judging from the traces at the scene, it was clearly created by two different people!

The traces on one side felt clumsy and stopped after just a few tries.

The image of the silly flower fairy clumsily dragging the corpse and trying to bury it instantly appeared in Zhao Yifu's mind.

But after only dragging it a short distance, it seemed to be frightened by something and ran away again.

He paused at this point, and then made another calculation based on the changes in the unnatural signs around him.

He had found the spot where the body had lain, but it had vanished.

There was no sign of anyone approaching, as if the body had disappeared out of thin air.

This surprised Zhao Yifu.

He made some assumptions in his mind and first ruled out the possibility of earth escape, because based on his understanding of earth escape, it would inevitably leave some obvious traces of earth-based spiritual power.

Even if someone wipes it out later, the circulation of earth spiritual power will still cause abnormal disturbances on the surrounding ground, and these can all be calculated.

So, leave directly from the sky?

Zhao Yifu looked up, then at the destroyed battle scene around him. Everything here had been roughly cleaned up, but there was no sign of any actual movement of any person or object.

After walking around, the entire trace of destruction was a circle.

A scene immediately appeared in Zhao Yifu's mind.

A man looked down from above and took Gu Fan's body. Then he covered it with his spiritual power and stirred it roughly, destroying all traces around it.

He started calculating on the spot.

After his master pointed out that "The True Numbers of the Universe" could still be useful, he felt that this thing had great potential for development.

But just a moment later, someone flew over his head.

Judging from the characteristics of the escaping light, it was Lord Yiyang Sword who led the crowd.

Zhao Yifu was still calculating on the spot.

Until Yi Yang Sword Lord led his men to the ground.

"Why is this person here?"

Qingya suddenly asked nervously.

Yi Yang Sword Master explained, "I sent Fu Yinzi ahead to gather information."

Qingya immediately asked, "Fu Yinzi, have you found anything?"

This person obviously didn't understand Zhao Yifu's origins... He only knew that Zhao Yifu was a disciple of Liang Zhongzhi, but he didn't expect that Zhao Yifu was also a guest in Chunyang Palace.

However, Zhao Yifu didn't take him seriously. He continued to calculate and said, "Senior Yiyang, I found that someone took away Gu Fan's body and destroyed the first scene."

Just as Yi Yang Sword Master was about to say something, Qing Ya spoke up first, "What about the flower demon? It must have been the flower demon that destroyed the corpse and covered up all traces!"

Zhao Yifu said: "The murderer is not a flower demon."

Qingya said, "Qingfeng clearly said that the flower demon did it. Are you questioning him, or us brothers?"

Zhao Yifu laughed and said, "No, I just think you're too impatient. Cultivators of my generation should guard against arrogance and impatience, especially sword cultivators, who are inherently radical. They should focus more on cultivating their minds."

Elder Qingya was furious. He said, "I don't need you to teach me how to do things!"

As he spoke, he drew his sword with a clang, then stabbed forward...

Zhao Yifu was a little surprised. In fact, not only him, but everyone present was surprised.

How can it be?

It's just a verbal exchange, why draw the sword?
And what Zhao Yifu said was actually not wrong. Everyone felt that Qingya's reaction was a little too excited.

Zhao Yifu frowned.

He suddenly thought of something.

That is, is the evil energy brought by Qingfeng only aimed at Yiyang Sword Master?

Thinking of this, he suddenly made a move, flicking his finger at the incoming sword tip with a seemingly light flick...

"Ding!"

The next moment, Qingya's body shook violently, and the momentum that he had accumulated was dispersed in an instant.

His body suddenly became extremely soft, and he stumbled back two steps as if he was about to fall to the ground.

This is a crushing defeat in terms of power.

It seems that even in the heaven, Zhao Yifu's physical advantage still exists... no, it's even greater, because he is really living a good life in the Heavenly Prison, which has pushed his physical strength to an incredible level.

Everyone was caught off guard by this. After all, both sides were considered to be on the same side, and when they suddenly started fighting, no one knew who to help.

Zhao Yifu's movements were even faster. He reached into his sleeve and threw the golden coiled dragon hoop over again.

Originally, Yi Yang Sword Master wanted to stop it, but when he saw how Zhao Yi Fu responded, he stopped for a moment.

The same suspicion flowed through Yiyang Sword Master's heart, and at the same time, it also gave him a chilling feeling...

The golden coiled dragon hoop fell towards Qingya's head and was about to cover his head.

Elder Qingya quickly turned over and straightened his body, looking as if he still wanted to resist.

Seeing this, Zhao Yifu was unwilling to let him go.

He has not yet mastered the Panlong Golden Hoop, but he is very good at the Taixu Forbidden Book.

He threw the Taixu Forbidden Book over again.

And this Taixu Forbidden Book was like an automatic guide, aiming at the forehead of Elder Qingya.

Seeing this, Elder Qingya quickly drew his sword and slashed across, trying to pry open the Taixu Forbidden Book...

As a result, as soon as his sword touched the book, he felt a chaotic thought rushing into his head like a hot knife through butter, filling his mind with chaotic and crazy resentment.

Oh, to be specific, it was a voice with a crazy and resentful feeling that kept reciting the Analects in his mind... It was reciting it over and over again with all kinds of twisted logic, which had a huge impact on his consciousness.

Only then did the golden coiled dragon hoop fall on his head...

"what!"

Elder Qingya clutched his head, a look of pain on his face. A puff of green smoke emanated from the area of ​​his skull where the golden hoop was encircling it, and bursts of black air rose from the hoop...

Everyone is very familiar with this scene. Isn't this the scene when Qingfeng was controlled by the devil before?
Zhao Yi Fu touched his nose. He was not sure whether Elder Qingya originally had evil thoughts or whether he had used the Taixu Forbidden Book to drive out evil thoughts from him... But it didn't matter. The result was pretty good anyway.

His thoughts were exceptionally clear.

He humbly said to Yi Yang Jian Jun, "Senior Yi Yang, I have been reckless. Please forgive me."

Of course, Yi Yang Jian Jun could not tell the truth about the Tai Xu Forbidden Book. He just thought that Elder Qingya had indeed fallen into the devil's barrier. Everyone around him thought so too.

After all, this person has a very bad temper, and everyone has a preconceived notion about him.

Zhao Yifu successfully got away with it, then asked worriedly, "But what should we do with Elder Qingya?"

Yi Yang Sword Master said with a sullen face, "Leave it alone for now. Fortunately, I have your golden hoop to keep him safe. I'll get him the elixir later."

He was already in a bad mood, and these two brothers really made him annoyed.

If there were some things that couldn't be said openly right now, he would have wanted to fire both brothers.

He changed the subject and said, "The most urgent matter now is to find the Gu Fan sword disciple alive or dead."

Someone nearby asked in surprise, "Sword Master, didn't Qingfeng say after he woke up that Gu Fan was killed by that flower demon?"

Yiyang Sword Master waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "Let Fu Yinzi first tell us the results of his investigation here."

Zhao Yifu nodded, then raised his head and looked towards the sky and said, "Someone is here. He used a very powerful divine sense to capture Gu Fan who was lying there."

(End of this chapter)