Wanbao Lady

Chapter 268 Strange Black Shadow

"Lingshan, what happened?"

Hearing the voice, Qin Lingshan immediately turned around and bowed respectfully, "Master."

She said in a tangled voice: "Master, when I went with Sister Xia Li to return the gifts sent by the various sects last night, I discovered something strange...but I'm not so sure..."

Hearing this, Chongfan immediately became interested.

"Oh? What's the strange thing? You can tell me."

Seeing the encouraging look in her master's eyes, Qin Lingshan said slowly, "My disciple...last night, I seemed to see a strange shadow. It just whizzed by and entered Yueban Taoist's courtyard and disappeared!"

"A strange shadow?"

Qin Lingshan nodded, but then shook her head, looking confused. "It seems like there is, but it also seems like there isn't... I just happened to catch a glimpse of it out of the corner of my eye, but I'm not sure if it's a human figure... Maybe I saw it wrongly?"

Hearing this, Chongfan's expression suddenly froze.

She still trusted the spiritual eyes of her disciple. No matter whether it was ghosts or gods, or cultivators who used the method of illusion and concealment, as long as their strength was not much greater than hers, they would be exposed.

If she said she saw it, then there is a 99% chance that it really happened.

"Please tell me in detail."

"Yes."

After Qin Lingshan's narration, Chongfan gradually understood the whole thing.

At 10:00 yesterday, she ordered the gifts sent by all major forces to be returned. Xia Li was afraid that it would be bad if she sent them too late, so she asked Ba Yan and Qin Lingshan, who had always been good friends, to act together.

Since Qianhua Sect arranged all participants in the cultivator conference to stay on a mountain specially used to receive outside guests, each force lived in a different place. Some lived on the top of the mountain, some lived on the mountainside, and some lived at the foot of the mountain. The accommodation spots were basically arranged in the order of the original seats, and the name of the force was deliberately written on a sign at the door of each accommodation spot, so the location was relatively easy to find.

Not to mention that Ba Yan was a man who could not sit still. When Xia Li was being asked questions by the crowd, he had already created many clones to find out clearly which force lived where.

After the two men and the demon divided the return area, they immediately took action.

Since Bayan could use the art of clones and was most familiar with this place, he took the initiative to accept the mission of returning the accommodation at the foot of the mountain.

The remaining area was divided equally between Xia Li and Qin Lingshan.

When Qin Lingshan was sent to the accommodation area on the eastern mountainside, she discovered that there were five forces living in this area, and four of them had sent gifts to their master!

She immediately returned the money to each family in order.

After returning the gift from Taoist Wu Le, he turned around and suddenly noticed from the corner of his eye that a dark shadow flashed by under the wall of a house where a powerful force lived in the distance, as if it passed through the wall and slipped in all of a sudden!

She immediately bid farewell to Taoist Wu Le, flew up, and looked at the doorplate of that power. She saw four big characters written on it:

Taoist priest half moon.

I think he should be a casual cultivator like Wu Liao Dao Ren.

More importantly, this Yueban Taoist is also one of the gift givers!

She immediately rummaged through her storage bag, took out the gift from Taoist Yueban, and then knocked on the door.

A boy of about fourteen or fifteen leaned out and asked cautiously, "Excuse me, who are you..."

Qin Lingshan immediately stated the purpose of her visit.

"Please wait a moment, I will go and inform my master." said the boy.

As he spoke, the boy closed the door, blocking Qin Lingshan's sight as she glanced inside seemingly inadvertently.

Not long after, a fat Taoist priest in a green cloth shirt came out.

As soon as he saw Qin Lingshan, he greeted her with a smile. Although he was a little nervous to learn that the great and powerful Empress Yudushhan refused to accept the gift, thinking that she didn't like his gift, when he learned that the Empress had ordered all the gifts to be returned, he immediately showed admiration.

"You really have high moral standards!"

he said.

I originally wanted to invite Qin Lingshan to come in and sit down, but Qin Lingshan hadn't completed the task at hand, so it was naturally not appropriate for her to come in as a guest, so I could only refuse.

Before leaving, Qin Lingshan said meaningfully: "Just now I seem to have seen something enter your yard. It seems to be a black cat. How about you check it carefully?"

Hearing this, Taoist Yueban's face immediately became serious. He carefully used his spiritual sense to scan the courtyard where he lived several times, but found nothing.

"I just checked, there are no black cats in the yard, did you see it wrong?"

"Really? But I just saw a dark shadow come into your place. How about you look carefully again?"

Taoist Yueban pondered for a moment, and seeing that the other party's expression did not seem fake and he was a disciple of Yudu Mountain, he immediately used his spiritual sense to scan inside and out, but still found nothing unusual.

"Nothing. It's getting dark. Did you see wrong?"

Hearing this, Qin Lingshan carefully recalled what she had just seen.

She didn't see the thing directly, but just caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of her eye, in just a blink of an eye, the time could not be shorter.

When I came to my senses again, was there anything unusual?

In addition, it was dark and far away, and there were clusters of trees around that cast shadows in the weak moonlight...

Could it be that I accidentally saw it wrong?

Qin Lingshan herself also had doubts.

At this moment, the boy who opened the door said impatiently, "Where is the black cat? You must have seen it wrong! My master has searched twice and couldn't find it. Could it be that it disappeared inexplicably?"

"Child, don't be rude!"

Hearing Taoist Yueban's low shout, the boy could only shut up in disappointment.

"I am still young, so I hope you will forgive me if I have offended you."

Taoist Yueban just bowed and said embarrassedly.

Seeing this, Qin Lingshan didn't know what to say and could only bow and say goodbye.

Firstly, she still had some gifts that had not been returned and could not waste any more time.

Secondly, she couldn't say something like "Let me in and take a look", as that would be too rude.

I had no choice but to leave.

However, the more I thought about it afterwards, the more I felt something was wrong and I became increasingly conflicted.

So he came to Chongfan's door early in the morning and told him everything.

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After hearing this, Chongfan thought about it for a while, looked at Qin Lingshan and said, "Relax and recall what happened last night in your mind."

Qin Lingshan nodded and then closed her eyes.

Not long after, she felt a slight chill between her eyebrows, as if something was being extracted, and she immediately opened her eyes.

However, he saw a series of memory scenes being extracted by his master like a scroll and projected in the air.

This is exactly what happened between the time she returned the gift from Taoist Wu Liao and the time she left Taoist Yue Ban last night!

There were some details in it that she didn't even think of when she actively recalled it. They must have been reflected in her subconscious mind and are now being "played" out in full.

Chongfan looked through the memory scene carefully, and there was indeed a black shadow, but as Qin Lingshan said, he just happened to see it out of the corner of his eye, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye!

She magnified that memory and then slowed it down, until she was finally sure after watching it several times that it was indeed a fleeting figure!

Just like that, it flashed through the wall of the house like a ghost and went straight into Yueban Taoist's courtyard!