The Lord of Void and Real-Chapter 299 - 295 There is Demon Qi

Chapter 299: Chapter 295: There is Demon Qi Chapter 299 -295: There is Demon Qi Nie Caizhu was also full of doubts. They indeed had left the city by carriage last night, but for some unknown reason, they found themselves back in the Shen Mansion early this morning. Both were fast asleep, one in the bed, the other slumped over the table.

“Could it be that young master discovered us and used some magic to bring us back?” Little Spring suddenly had a thought and covered her mouth, a little scared.

“Impossible, the letter I left for him was not opened. He doesn’t know that we are leaving. Besides, judging from his reaction just now, it couldn’t have been him,” Nie Caizhu shook her head and said.

“What exactly is going on then?” Little Spring said, clinging to her head in vexation.

Nie Caizhu was just as confused and remained silent.

“Let’s do this. Later, you can go to the city again and see if our carriage is still there. If not, buy a new one, and we will try to leave the city again this evening,” she said suddenly after a pause.

“Alright,” responded Little Spring after hesitating for a while.

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Several days passed in a flash.

Nie Caizhu and Little Spring had tried to leave Chunhua county town for three times, by night. However, when they woke the next day, they always found themselves inexplicably returned to the Shen family.

Being tormented by this for several times, they had already spent a lot of money. Even Nie Caizhu couldn’t help suspecting that Shen Luo was playing tricks on them secretly.

But she had tried probing him in the open and in secret, and still found nothing. For now, they could only let it be.

One night, Shen Luo, as usual, was drawing talismans in his room, being busy till late.

“Success… I’ve finally succeeded…”

A scream of astonishment came from him. After several months, he successfully drew a “Mountain Crossing Talisman”.

Shen Luo twiddled the talisman paper and carefully examined it. The runes on the paper were smooth and harmonically connected, bold and well developed, and the talisman was complete.

He examined it from top to bottom and felt overjoyed.

This “Mountain Crossing Talisman” was the first talisman he had successfully drawn outside of Dreamland. Although it wasn’t a high-grade talisman, for Shen Luo, it still held a unique significance.

As Shen Luo kept looking at the talisman paper, he suddenly felt something was not quite right.

The talisman had been successfully completed for almost a quarter of an hour, but the red light that shone from the paper was not fading. Instead, it was slipping brightly and dimly.

“Could it be… Demon Qi!” Shen Luo’s eyes fixed, with the Mountain Crossing Talisman in his hand, he rushed out of his room.

Standing in the courtyard, Shen Luo held the talisman paper in hand, probed briefly around him, and found that when it was directed towards the front yard, the flickering red light on it would become even more frantic.

“There is indeed Demon Qi, and it’s right here in my Shen Mansion!” Shen Luo was furious and immediately ran towards the front yard with the talisman paper.

As he moved further, the light on the talisman became brighter.

Midway, when he was passing by Nie Caizhu’s courtyard, the light on the talisman paper suddenly stopped flickering and brightened further.

Shen Luo was startled and dashed into the courtyard.

But just as he entered, he saw Nie Caizhu standing before a courtyard wall, back turned to him, her shoulders swaying as if she was drunk.

Shen Luo moved the talisman paper forward, the light on it suddenly brightened, and he felt a surge of hot feeling from it.

The source of the Demon Qi was precisely Nie Caizhu!

“How could this be?” With that, Shen Luo immediately felt as if struck by lightning.

Although he and Nie Caizhu cannot be said to be inseparable, they always managed to see each other every day. Even just chattering could make his day more lively. He noticed that Nie Caizhu never practiced any cultivation, her body never showed any fluctuations of mana, and there was no sign of any demonic aura.

“Could there be an issue with the talisman?” Shen Luo suddenly hoped that it was his talisman drawing that had gone wrong.

Just as he wanted to call out to Nie Caizhu, she suddenly leapt up and crossed the courtyard wall directly, disappearing in the moonlight. Her movements were definitely not those of an ordinary person.

Shen Luo watched this scene with wide eyes, stunned and unable to react.

At this point, it was impossible for him to lie to himself, there was definitely something wrong with Nie Caizhu!

But at the moment, Shen Luo had no time to contemplate, he leapt up chasing after her.

Shen Luo followed Nie Caizhu, the Mountain Crossing Talisman in his hand always shining, and as he got closer, the light on the talisman paper grew brighter.

He simply put the talisman back into his sleeve, held his breath, focused his attention, and fully followed Nie Caizhu.

Soon, they both left the Shen Mansion and arrived at the county town’s gate, one after another.

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At night, the gate to the county town was already closed, with soldiers stationed at the entrance, naturally no one was allowed to go in or out.

When Nie Caizhu approached the vicinity of the city gate, she suddenly turned around, walked tens of feet along the base of the city wall, avoided the sight of the soldiers, then suddenly grabbed the bricks on the wall with her hands, pushed herself up with her feet, and began climbing the city wall in a bizarre position like that of a spider.

Her movements were swift and silent, Shen Luo watched from a distance in utter astonishment, feeling bitter.

In no time at all, Nie Caizhu had swiftly climbed over the city wall with her strange posture and headed towards the area outside the city.

Shen Luo quickly jumped over the wall to pursue her and saw that after Nie Caizhu landed, she resumed her previous human-like posture and stumbled forward just like before.

He was increasingly puzzled, accelerated the flow of mana inside his body, his footsteps as swift as the wind. His body streaked through the grove beside the road creating afterimages until he quickly appeared before Nie Caizhu.

Shen Luo gracefully leapt onto an old tree and hid behind the branches to secretly observe Nie Caizhu who was slowly coming.

With distance getting closer, Nie Caizhu’s face became clearer and clearer in the moonlight. Shen Luo watched her, his eyebrows furrowing tighter.

He was shocked to discover that Nie Caizhu’s eyes were tightly closed, her expression was serene, it was as if she was sound asleep.

“Sleepwalking… It looks like someone might be controlling her secretly.” Shen Luo whispered in his mind, somehow feeling relieved.

As long as Nie Caizhu herself wasn’t a demon, then there was still hope.

At the time he was considering this, Nie Caizhu had already passed under the tree and continued following the road heading outside the city.

Shen Luo squinted down the course of the road, his eyebrows furrowed again. That place was none other than where the Yuanzhu Temple was situated.

He didn’t immediately wake Nie Caizhu up. Instead, he followed closely behind her.

As they were approaching Yuanzhu Temple, a large patch of cloud drifted from somewhere and blocked the moonlight, casting the entire earth into a shadow.

From afar, Shen Luo saw the Yuanzhu Temple under the shadow, pitch black and devoid of any of its usual solemn appearance. Under the shadow of the night, the eaves and ridges on the pagoda and the patterns decorating them seemed rather grim.

When Nie Caizhu arrived at the temple, she started to climb the wall again in the same peculiar manner as before and crossed into the temple.

Shen Luo quickly followed her in and saw her already passing through the front courtyard, heading towards Guanyin Hall.

“Why here again?”

Shen Luo faintly remembered, the first time he came looking for Nie Caizhu, it was near here where he found her.