Chapter 176: Chapter 92: Terrifying Spirit, Hunting Demons

"Is there a feeling... of reciting faster?" Li Xuan continued to ask.

Wei Yao nodded and said, "Yes."

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Into the night.

After Li Xuan was done with Tian Yuan and the Little Princess, he completed his daily ritual of making wishes for himself with incense.

After making his wishes, he returned to the bed and slept while embracing the two women.

He was thinking about the matter of painting.

’The Spirit Attribute seems utterly unremarkable, but in fact, it is unexpectedly terrifying.’

’When I painted the "Little Snow Map," I was in a peaceful state of mind, so the spirit contained within the painting doesn’t harm anyone.

If I were to paint a picture filled with my hatred, would it... directly kill people then?’

If many years ago, someone had told Li Xuan, "A painting can kill," Li Xuan would absolutely have said it was nonsense.

But now, he deeply believed it.

His thoughts wandered, and suddenly he remembered many things from his past life. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Such as "One glance at a Demon God makes you foolish," "Music that kills," "Hypnotic sounds," "The enchanting sea song of the Sirens," and so on...

In Li Xuan’s embrace, the Little Princess had long fallen asleep, but Tian Yuan, who lay beside him, was still awake.

Seeing her husband in deep thought, Tian Yuan gazed at him infatuatedly, then closed her eyes, lowered her gaze, and gently placed her hand on Li Xuan’s chest, embracing him like a large pillow.

Although her body wasn’t as smooth as the Little Princess’s, it exuded an intellectual mature beauty that the Little Princess couldn’t compare to.

Li Xuan felt her small movement and held her hand.

The couple chuckled softly in the night, neither speaking again.

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The next day.

Early in the morning.

Tian Yuan rode out to take care of business. As the spokesperson of the Li family chamber of commerce, she was busy every day to the point of losing her head.

The Little Princess, wrapped in a thick white fur jacket, spread out the map, looking at which places around Xiongshan County were fun.

Rose had put on some light makeup and stayed in the western residence belonging to Tian Yuan, playing the role of Tian Yuan’s maid, seen only by Qiao’Er in everyday life. To prevent her from feeling lonely, Tian Yuan had already planned, giving her many Buddhist texts and was still collecting more. Rose, who usually yawns when reading, was now reading the Buddhist scriptures carefully due to their relevance to her life safety. However, she wasn’t trying to understand the scriptures but was searching for stories related to the Peacock Great Ming Monarch and the Headless Buddha.

After breakfast, Li Xuan went to find Wei Yao.

Today, Wei Yao was not tired as before; instead, she was energetic, her eyes shining brightly.

Upon seeing Li Xuan, she only said, "Again."

Then, the two went into a secret chamber.

Wei Yao proposed a clear testing plan: today’s test was to measure the extreme time she could resist the attraction of the "Little Snow Map."

Meanwhile, Li Xuan observed her and the scene of snow in sunshine, as he ground ink preparing to paint a "Snow and Sun Map."

While drawing the "Little Snow Map," his heart contained a bit of coldness, a sense of tranquility.

And the "Snow and Sun Map" clearly held more hope.

A clear sky always brings joy to people.

The color of sunlight is ultimately a color full of hope.

By sunset, Wei Yao was already collapsed on the ground.

Previously, she had been shaking her head, her hair disheveled, striving to resist the "Little Snow Map."

At the end of the day, she finally had a gain — the limit was half an incense stick of time.

After looking away, it would take another hour before she could look at the painting again.

Li Xuan helped the exhausted and powerless Wei Yao out of the secret training ground, just as the Little Princess returned from outside, blinking at them before running away in fear.

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In the days that followed,

Li Xuan and Wei Yao worked together to test how to enhance their talents.

Li Xuan went to different places to paint, not just within the Li family.

At dawn, the two rode away.

At dusk, they returned together.

The Little Princess was not jealous; rather, she found this lifestyle quite nice. After all, she only needed to offer her pure body to the Demon King at night...

During these repetitive days, Li Xuan painted more and more works.

All of them were landscapes.

Whether it was a deep forest with isolated bridges; majestic mountains with falling springs; dragon-serpentine pines with bamboo hiding winds and rain...

Each painting had its own characteristics and captured the beauty of the mountain scenes.

In total, alongside the "Little Snow Map" and "Snow and Sun Map," there were nine pieces.

The high Spirit Attribute made him easily become a master artist, with strokes like dragons, stones aging yet moist, waters pale yet bright, silver hooks and iron lines...

Not to mention the spirit effects contained within these paintings, just the artwork alone had high artistic value, meaning and technique, a peak that ordinary people could only look up to.

Li Xuan carefully preserved the nine paintings in a scroll tube and named it "Nine Scenes Map."

Wei Yao was the first to use the "Nine Scenes Map."

However, Li Xuan was still worried about potential problems with the "Nine Scenes Map," so he went to visit the prison in Xiongshan County.

Fortunately, he was lucky; the prison held two death row inmates.

One drowned a child by the Qing River, and the other committed matricide in the old forest, both capital crimes.

In dealing with such cases, Li Xuan was not polite at all and took them directly.

Then, he had one inmate stare at the "Nine Scenes Map" to further record the timing.

Afterward, he deliberately brewed despair and painted a despair-filled painting, making the other inmate gaze at it.

Soon, Li Xuan reached a conclusion: The limit of viewing that ordinary people could withstand was similar to that of Wei Yao, around half an incense stick of time.