"If I'm really sure there is no mystery on it, how could I give you the drawing for so long and let you help me see it?" I continued.

"I think there may be a big mystery in this, so I asked you to take a look at me. If you don't see it, you won't see it. I won't laugh at you. Why are you anxious about it?"

"Why can't I be anxious?" the old Taoist priest asked again.

"If there is no secret at all, wouldn't I waste so many days in vain?"

"Not necessarily." I replied.

"Actually, I just think there is a very likely secret that needs to be dug out by us, so I asked you to help you see it, but we haven't dug out it yet."

"What's the origin of your painting? How do you make sure there is a mystery on it?" The old Taoist priest probably felt dissatisfied, right? He asked at me.

The old Taoist priest really doesn't want to deal with a painting that he has dealt with for several days, and there is no secret in it. Wouldn't that really mean that he has wasted several days of energy?

"Nothing comes from it." I waved my hand and replied, then opened the Nine Heavens Phoenix Picture I had put away, observed it carefully, and ignored the old Taoist priest.

The old Taoist priest didn't say anything, I only felt the old Taoist priest's gaze at this time, and quickly turned his head to look at the old Taoist priest, which really scared me.

At this time, the old Taoist priest looked at me with bad intentions, as if he was about to teach me a lesson at any time.

"What are you doing? Are you going to kill me to silence me?" I quickly took two steps back and looked at the old Taoist priest in front of me with a vigilant look on my face and asked.

"I really want to deal with you, a bad boy, why? I don't take me seriously at all in my own territory, right?" The old Taoist priest said angrily.

Is this old Taoist priest really anxious about me?

"Okay OK." I waved my hand helplessly.

"This painting really has no big background. It was not written by any famous artist. The creator is my mother."

"Then what's so strange about this?" the old Taoist priest curled his lips.

"Is it necessary to make such a fuss? Because of this, do you think there is a mystery in this painting?"

"You are really right." I nodded, agreeing with the views expressed by the old Taoist priest.

"It's really because my mother left this Nine Heavens Phoenix Picture, so I'm really interested in it and think it has a mystery."

"Isn't this reasonable?" The old Taoist priest glanced at me again. Obviously, in the old Taoist priest's eyes, the reason I said was too far-fetched.

"For me, I have a reason to dig deep into everything my mother left behind." I continued to look at the Phoenix Picture in my hand and spoke.

"I have studied almost all the other things left by my mother. I have only taken this painting from someone else for a while, so I'll let you take a look for it first."

"I really can't tell anything." The old Taoist priest also set his eyes on the painting in my hand.

"And just because of a painting, do you think there is mystery on this painting? I said, "You guy is not nervous, right?"

The old Taoist priest looked at me with doubts. I guess the old Taoist priest almost reached out and put his hand on my pulse blog to check if I had obsessive-compulsive disorder in my mental state.

"Don't look at me with this kind of eyes." I quickly waved.

"My mother does like to draw, but she basically paints landscape paintings. I have been with my mother since I was a child, so how can I not understand my mother's style? But this Nine Heavens Phoenix Picture is completely out of my understanding of my mother's level, because this is another style. If it weren't for my mother's signature, I wouldn't think that this painting would be made by my mother."

"It's because of this?" the old Taoist priest thought for a while and continued to ask me.

"Yes." I nodded and replied.

"Why do I feel... it's still a bit far-fetched?" The old Taoist priest continued to turn his head and glance at me.

"You think it's far-fetched, but I don't think it's." I shook my head and said.

"I have always been very concerned about any information about my mother. Just this is enough to make me have a big question mark on this painting. Unfortunately, I still can't understand what the deep meaning is."

"Then you leave it to me, I won't see anything." The old Taoist priest stroked his beard and said slowly.

"I don't know much about Lingtang, and I can't see anything from it."

"Don't I want you to help me see? I thought your eyesight was stronger than mine, but I didn't expect it to be like this." I curled my lips and continued to speak.

Seeing that I was still sarcastic tone, the old Taoist priest was angry again, but the old Taoist priest didn't argue with me.

"Forget it, let's take a look in the future. Maybe it's just an ordinary painting." I shrugged and closed the painting again.

Although I said this, I still felt that this painting was a bit strange.

I can't understand my mother's level very well. In my impression, my mother has never painted any other types than landscape paintings. Now, a painting that is so different from my mother's painting style suddenly appears in front of me, which makes me unable to do without thinking too much.

Could it be that my mother was just improvising to create such a nine-day phoenix picture?

I didn't think much about it, and took the scroll in my hand to my mother's bedroom and put it in. When I walked out, the old Taoist priest was already in the living room and was still looking around. The old Taoist priest was not polite at all.

"By the way." The old Taoist priest seemed to have thought of something.

"Where is that girl named Zhao? Why are you the only two of you at home?"

"What are you looking for her?" I looked at the old Taoist priest in front of me with a vigilant look on my face and asked.

"What do you mean? Of course, it was to fulfill the promise and hold a ritual for Miss Zhao." The old Taoist priest replied.

Only then did I realize that there was such an agreement between me and the old Taoist priest.

"Didn't you say it will take half a month?" I thought about it, and then continued to ask the old Taoist priest.

"Do you think it's still far away from the half month we agreed on before?" The old Taoist priest looked at me.

"That's true." I nodded.

"Isn't there a few days left? Don't worry."

"Then where did she go?" the old Taoist priest continued to ask.

"I'm back home, maybe I'll be back for a while. You can wait here for a while, right? Otherwise, I'll take you out for a walk? I guess you haven't seen the outside world much, right?"
Chapter completed!