Please, Young Master, Slay the Demon!
Chapter 424 - 1 - Blessing You [Request for monthly ticket!] _1

Chapter 424: Chapter 1 - Blessing You [Request for monthly ticket!] _1

When Chu Liang found Lin Bei and Shang Ziliang, they were having a drink together.

In a pavilion on Yunyao Peak, the two sat side by side, each with a flask of wine in hand. There were some peanuts and dried fruit on the table for nibbles, and they sighed to each other, taking a swig from their flasks from time to time.

"Why are you here drinking in a funk?" asked Chu Liang as he descended.

He had made a round of Shu Mountain looking for the two of them. He had sent out letters but there was no response. So here they were.

"Ah!" Lin Bei sighed deeply.

"To ask what love in this world is..." Shang Ziliang looked up at the sky, lamenting.

"Excessive sentiment breeds only regret since ancient times..." Lin Bei slumped onto his shoulder.

"What is going on?" Chu Liang asked with an exasperated look.

"I invited Junior Sister Ziqing for an outing, she said she only sees me as a brother and asked me not to disturb her in the future." Shang Ziliang sighed.

If he hadn’t brought it up, Chu Liang would have completely forgotten their initial enmity due to Shang Ziliang’s lustful intentions towards Xu Ziqing... Of course, the antagonism was entirely one-sided.

Unexpectedly, his lust hasn’t died yet.

In fact, Shang Ziliang had given up at one point in between. But, after hanging around with Chu Liang recently, he gradually turned over a new leaf. Both his assets and cultivation grew rapidly. Feeling that he had reinvented himself completely, he tried to approach Xu Ziqing again.

However, he met with unequivocal rejection.

Chu Liang was no good at consoling. After some thought, he could only muster, "Look on the bright side, by her brother’s standards, that could be seen as a compliment..."

Shang Ziliang looked like he was on the verge of tears.

Chu Liang then turned to Lin Bei, "What are you joining in for?"

Lin Bei also wore a sad expression, "I went to Nanyin Square to look for Little Sister Suqiu. She said I’m a good man..."

Chu Liang was puzzled for a while before realizing who this Suqiu was.

During the Shu Mountain Peak Conference, a young girl by the name of He Suqiu came to pay her respects. She played the Song of the Waves during the grand melee, inadvertently making it more intense... had she not been there, it wouldn’t have been so severe.

Back then, Lin Bei took the liberty to act familiar with her due to his position in the Foreign Affairs Hall. It was unexpected that they had still kept in touch.

But trying to pursue a girl from Nanyin Square... was rather far-fetched.

She is about to become famous all over the world.

After a pause, Chu Liang consoled, "Well, that’s still a sort of affirmation."

"Ah!" Lin Bei and Shang Ziliang took two more swigs from their flasks, wearing mournful expressions.

After a lot of patience and consoling from Chu Liang, the duo finally shook off their sadness. Shang Ziliang raised his eyes and asked, "Big Brother, do you have something urgent, that’s why you came looking for us?"

"Yes, something’s come up," Chu Liang replied, "I need to go out again. But there’s a lot to do with the construction of Red Cotton Peak these days. I need someone to keep an eye on it. I trust you guys the most... so you must sober up."

Besides these two, his gang also included Henchman A and Henchman B. But Henchman A had been out doing a mission and hadn’t been on Shu Mountain.

As for Henchman B...

No matter where he is, he always finds a way to the dining area, which makes him rather unreliable.

"What are you going to do?" Lin Bei asked curiously.

"Oh." Chu Liang said nonchalantly, "Senior Sister Jiang has asked me to do a task with her."

"Senior Sister Jiang asked you?"

"Just the two of you?"

"This..."

Although the rumors were running wild, they, being close to Chu Liang, knew that the two haven’t really established anything serious yet. Hearing that Senior Sister Jiang has asked Chu Liang to do a task with her alone, they were both stunned.

Shang Ziliang and Lin Bei’s cheeks visibly tightened, one could imagine the pressure their molars must have borne in that moment.

"That’s great, blessings to you..." They gritted their teeth tearfully.

Failure is undoubtedly painful, but a close friend’s success is even more heartbreaking.

Before long, the two found themselves once again sobbing in each other’s arms.

"Brother Ziliang, I feel like crying!"

"Brother Lin, me too!"

"Wah——"

"..." Chu Liang realized that he couldn’t rely on these two. He started to look for other relatives in his mind.

If he couldn’t get any help from the external part of Silver Sword Peak, what about the inner part? His master and Little Yi had to be ruled out first. There needed to be a careful plan for that.

Could he ask the Golden Fur Beast for help?

...

Jiangnan, Wu’an City.

The cities in the Eastern Region were mostly prosperous, and Wu’an City was no exception. The streets were bustling with horses and carriages and a surge of people.

Chu Liang and Jiang Yuebai were walking side by side, and as a pair of attractive young men and women, they naturally attracted many gazes.

However, compared to their last visit to Shaonan Town, the two seemed a bit restrained. This was probably their first time going out alone together. They now realized how useful the two quiet accessories hanging behind them were, at least they prevented the atmosphere from becoming too awkward.

Jiang Yuebai seemed to have a lot on her mind along the way, and Chu Liang didn’t take the initiative to lighten the mood. They arrived at their destination in a semi-silent state.

There was a painter named Tang Song in Wu’an City. He wasn’t famous, but his family was quite wealthy. He had also cultivated for some time in his youth, but he couldn’t make any progress beyond the second realm. His mentor was a disciple who had left Shu Mountain Sect, so he had always been friendly towards the sect.

Now facing domestic trouble, he had contacted Shu Mountain Sect right away.

"Ah, so the two of you are the prodigies, Jiang Yuebai and Chu Liang?" Tang Song personally led his family to greet them. He was around forty years old but looked younger than his age. With his refined appearance and scholar-like demeanor, he was very enthusiastic, "To think that my humble home has drawn both the Shu Mountain Sect’s chief disciple and the prestigious Warrior Chu who killed the Tao Wu, it is indeed an honor and quite intimidating."

Upon hearing this, Chu Liang just smiled.

Since the chief disciple was here, he didn’t have to speak first.

But to be honest, he was a bit surprised.

Typically, the occurrences of evil spirits in large cities shouldn’t be too severe. It was usually the disciples in the Divine Consciousness Realm who came to check. Having a Golden Core Realm cultivator come was considered a significant deployment. That Jiang Yuebai suddenly invited him to come to Wu’an City for a mission was quite unexpected to Chu Liang.

He wondered what she was planning.

"Landlord Tang has always cared for Shu Mountain for many years. Our sect takes this incident at your home very seriously," Jiang Yuebai answered appropriately.

Wealthy families like this that have close ties with the Shu Mountain frequently donate money.

Of course, this was not the criterion for the intervention of the Immortal Sect. Even if a family was poor, as long as there were evil spirits causing trouble, they would definitely receive help from the Shu Mountain.

"I am half a disciple of the Shu Mountain Sect, it’s only right that I care for the Sect." Tang Song replied repeatedly.

Once they reached the main hall, he began to recount the bizarre incident that had occurred in his home.

In simple terms, his son had disappeared.

"My son, Tang Yu’an, has always been a good-natured person. He wouldn’t have made any enemies. The door to the room where I store my paintings was left wide open at the time of his disappearance, and there was even an oil lamp that had fallen on the ground. Furthermore, things have been strange since then..."

He instructed one of his servants to bring in a box that was locked carefully, with several talismans attached to it. It seems that in the presence of Jiang Yuebai and Chu Liang, he would dare to open this box.

Click.

He unlocked it, took out a painting scroll, and slowly unrolled it.

It was an ink painting of ladies on a day out, with exquisite brushwork and vivid characters. There was a faint sense of spirituality flowing through the scroll, indicating that the painter must have been a cultivator, and one of quite high cultivation level at that.

"This is a painting from the previous dynasty known as ’Eastern Suburbs Lady Drawing’ that I acquired not long ago, but..." His eyes flickered and pointed to one part of the painting, "Originally, there was no such character in the painting. After my son went missing, this character appeared..."

Where he pointed was under a weeping willow by the riverbank. A thin young man was painted there, who looked somewhat similar to Tang Song.

The strange thing was that everyone in the painting was dressed in clothes from the previous dynasty, except for him, who wore modern clothes. Considering they were separated by centuries, the difference was quite significant. While everyone else was leisurely enjoying the scenery in small groups, only he was depicted looking out of the painting in shock. And the detailed brushwork indicated that his expression was one of intense fear!

Then Tang Song declared, "This is my son, Tang Yu’an!"