Chapter 23: The Past of the Head of the Shang Family (Alliance Leader of Starry Sky Inevitable)

"How did you see that he was a Painted Skin Ghost?" Tao Yaoye asked the question that Steward Zhang didn't know the answer to until he died.

Lu Yang cleaned up the aftermath of the battle, using a broom to sweep the ashes of the Painted Skin Ghost into a small pile, and Tao Yaoye also consciously took out a dustpan to catch it.

"Very simple, continue to recall what the parrot said. 'Who are you, where is Steward Zhang?'."

"After we met Shang Yuan, she deliberately drove us away, letting us stay away from the Shang family."

"This shows that the current Steward Zhang is no longer the person Miss Shang knows, and is extremely dangerous."

"There are three possibilities for Steward Zhang's identity replacement."

"First, Steward Zhang was seized. But how could the old monster who seized the house stay in the Shang family for so long? If it were me, the first thing I would do after seizing the house is to leave Taiping Township and find a place with good feng shui to continue cultivation. And Steward Zhang's talent is not very good. Seizing the head of the Shang family is better than seizing him." Lu Yang put himself in his shoes and thought from another perspective.

"Second, someone disguised as Steward Zhang. But this is not right either. The Shang family doesn't have anything valuable. What are you doing pretending to be a steward? Could it be that he has a hobby of serving people? Even if the Shang family has valuable things, just grab them directly? With his late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation, no one would care if he crawled in Taiping Township."

"The third possibility is the Painted Skin Ghost. The Painted Skin Ghost likes to collect human skin, disguise as a human, follow the habit of disguise, and live with humans."

The Painted Skin Ghost was a human before death and a ghost after death. It is a kind of ghost cultivator. Most ghost cultivators have some psychological barriers.

For example, the Painted Skin Ghost is most taboo about being exposed. They will try their best to make themselves believe that they are human, will say the same things as humans, do the same things, and when they are tired, they will change into another skin, start a new identity, and so on.

Lu Yang's words were well-founded, making Tao Yaoye look sideways, full of admiration, completely unable to see the shadow of the Senior Brother Lu who was trembling on the flying boat.

She also mastered the knowledge Lu Yang mastered, but she didn't think as much as Lu Yang for a while. This is the gap in thinking sensitivity.

"Keep the ashes well, this is the proof that we completed the mission." Lu Yang took out a white porcelain jar two palms high and put all the ashes of the Painted Skin Ghost in it.

The Painted Skin Ghost is an extension of the mission and is part of the mission. Killing the Painted Skin Ghost is definitely more rewarding than finding the parrot.

There was a sound of running outside the house, and the sound of running stopped at the door, as if several people woke up from a dream, came to the east wing to check the situation, and didn't dare to enter the room.

It is not difficult to guess the identity of the person outside the door. Lu Yang laughed loudly: "Head of the Shang family, come in, the Painted Skin Ghost has been killed by me, it is very safe here."

With a bang, the wooden door was pushed open by the head of the Shang family. Behind him stood his wife and daughter, maids and servants, twelve people in total, all showing the look of surviving a disaster.

"Thank you two immortal elders for taking action, killing the Painted Skin Ghost, and saving the lives of the twelve members of my Shang family!" The head of the Shang family knelt down with a thud, and the people behind him also knelt down together.

The Painted Skin Ghost is moody. When he gets tired of the steward identity, it is highly likely that he will kill their Shang family members!

"What are you talking about, head of the Shang family? Eliminating demons and defending the right path is what we disciples of the Seeking Dao Sect should do." Lu Yang had never seen such a big battle, was startled, and hurriedly helped them up one by one.

"Please forgive the two immortal elders. The Painted Skin Ghost is elusive and has no fixed whereabouts. I don't know where he came from."

"Since this Painted Skin Ghost pretended to be Steward Zhang, he didn't allow us to leave the Shang family. If anyone visited, he didn't allow us to talk about his affairs. If he found out, it would be a dead end!"

Speaking of this, Shang Yuan on the side also had a look of shame. She was a gentle young lady, and all the cold behavior in the boudoir was pretended to keep Lu Yang and the other away from danger.

Only heard the head of the Shang family continue to say: "It's a pity that I lived in seclusion in the countryside, and all my cultivation wealth has been exchanged for gold and silver jewelry, which is useless to the two of you, and I cannot repay the two. I don't know what the two need. Even if Shang sells his family property, he must complete it." The head of the Shang family was not polite, he really wanted to repay the life-saving grace.

In the eyes of the disciples of the Seeking Dao Sect, his money is almost the same as scrap copper and iron, worthless.

Lu Yang really has needs.

"I heard that you encountered a great terror of life and death while tomb raiding, so you decided to wash your hands in a golden basin and quit the immortal cultivation world. I don't know what happened at that time?"

Tao Yaoye looked at the head of the Shang family with great interest. Tomb raiding, life and death crisis, great terror, washing hands in a golden basin, these words sound like a story, maybe there is a great opportunity. She likes to explore the unknown in mysterious places the most.

Lu Yang is not as interested in exploring the unknown as Tao Yaoye, but he likes to hear strange stories.

The head of the Shang family's eyes twitched. To be honest, he was unwilling to recall that terrible past from the bottom of his heart, but the life-saving benefactor asked, and he could not answer.

He dispersed the crowd, especially dispersed Shang Yuan who tried to stay secretly, leaving only Lu Yang and Tao Yaoye.

"Don't tell others about this today."

Lu Yang and Tao Yaoye nodded.

After the head of the Shang family got a positive reply, he began to talk about the past twenty years ago.

"Thirty years ago, I, Shang Zhongtian, was also a little famous in the tomb raiding world during the Qi Refining period. Not to mention notorious, it reached the point where people hated it." The head of the Shang family put his hands on his hips, recalling the golden years.

Lu Yang and Tao Yaoye didn't quite understand why the head of the Shang family, Shang Zhongtian, was so proud of this.

They didn't know that peers are enemies, and tomb raiders are also competitors. Shang Zhongtian can have such a good reputation, naturally indicating that his technology is superb.

"I have always been cautious in tomb raiding. I never touch those big tombs and ancient tombs. Big tombs have ghosts, and ancient tombs have immortals. We all know this sentence in this line."

The ghosts mentioned here are not small ghosts like the Painted Skin Ghost in the Foundation Establishment stage, but powerful existences that dominate among ghosts.

"Qi Refining cultivators are poor, and valuable things are given to their descendants. Where are the burial objects? I don't touch the tombs of Qi Refining cultivators, there is no oil and water."

"Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators have a little family property. After they die, they will habitually divide most of their family property to their descendants and leave a small part for burial. Just this small part is enough for me to make a lot of money."

"Unfortunately, walking by the river often, how can you not wet your shoes? That time I was digging a Golden Core tomb. When I dug to the end, I found that this was a tomb within a tomb. The Golden Core tomb was a burial object, and the main tomb was a Nascent Soul!"

"According to the rules of our line, you can't dig tombs that exceed your cultivation too much, but at that time I was overwhelmed by joy. At that time, I felt that I was at the peak of Qi Refining. If I really ran, my speed would be comparable to the Foundation Establishment stage, and tomb raiding is not fighting, so I can be considered a Foundation Establishment stage, and digging a Nascent Soul tomb that fell from the sky is not dangerous."

"So I burned incense to the ancestor, asked the ancestor to bless me, and started to dig the Nascent Soul tomb." ===== CHAPTER 24 =====