The Invincible Pill's Battle of Wits

After Song Yuanwai was resurrected, he always felt that the atmosphere at home was strange.

He remembered that the family atmosphere was quite harmonious before he died, so why did he feel a subtle hostility between the children less than half an hour after he died?

The youngest daughter, in particular, knelt on the ground, covering her face and weeping bitterly. Was she crying because she was dead? She's quite filial.

Unfortunately, no matter what, he couldn't let her marry that guy surnamed Zhou, after all, they were siblings.

Master Song temporarily put aside his family problems; the most important thing right now was to resolve the matter of the painting.

His appearance was very unsightly; his face and clothes were covered in blood, which was caused by his body malfunctioning and vomiting blood after his soul was taken away.

"Thank you so much, Daoist priest, for saving my life!"

"You're too kind, Master Song. May I ask what's the story behind the painting?"

Master Song sighed deeply, sat down in his chair, and began to recount the past.

"Twenty years ago, I failed in business and wanted to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff. Unexpectedly, I was stopped by tree branches in mid-air and survived. There was a stone platform extending directly below me. I jumped onto the platform and found that there was a cave deep inside."

"Something was calling to me from deep within the cave. I wasn't afraid of death at the time, so I followed the sound and found that it was a painting speaking to me. The painting said it could help me do business and become very rich, so I took it out of the cave."

"With the help of the painting, I found it much easier to do business. Several successful investments made me a leading businessman in the county, and I also got married and had children, leading to a happy and harmonious family life."

As Master Song finished speaking, Lu Yang and the other two silently turned to look at the Song siblings and the steward.

"Would you like to continue?"

"For the past few months, the scroll has been saying every night that it wants to give me its life. Out of fear, I tried to drown it and burn it, but nothing worked. Even if I threw it into the suburbs, it would still come back home the next day!"

At this point, Master Song's eyes were filled with panic. These past few days, he had been disturbed by the painting and was in a daze. In the last two weeks, he had been frequently awakened by fright.

Lu Yang stroked his chin; this was quite novel.

"Come on, take us to see the painting."

Master Song led the three through a maze of twists and turns, and in a small house, he triggered a mechanism that opened an underground passage, revealing a pitch-black space below.

The dark room contained many gold and silver jewels, which would be very precious to ordinary people, but to Lu Yang, even the tassels on the hilt of his sword were more valuable than these.

One of the boxes was the most conspicuous. It was made of iron and wrapped in layers of talismans. Master Song tore off the talismans, opened the iron box, and revealed the scroll inside.

"It robbed me of my soul."

Thinking back to what had just happened, Master Song was still shaken. If Lu Yang hadn't taken out the Resurrection Pill, he would most likely have met with certain death.

"Just as I thought."

The closer you get to the painting, the more you can feel its somber atmosphere.

Lu Yang opened the scroll, which contained a traditional Chinese ink landscape painting depicting a washerwoman washing clothes by the river.

Suddenly, the scroll distorted, and the washerwoman seemed to come to life, slowly turning her head to look at the people outside the painting.

"Another cultivator?"

Water seeped from the scroll, and the water rose up, solidifying in the air into the image of a washerwoman.

"So it was you who dragged his soul back?"

The washerwoman stared at Lu Yang with an unfriendly expression, her beautiful face contorted in a grimace.

"Cultivator, don't meddle in other people's business."

The washerwoman sensed a strong threat from Lu Yang and his two companions. These three were unlike any other cultivators she had encountered before. It would be best to persuade them to leave without resorting to violence.

The washerwoman pointed at Master Song and said coldly, "Twenty years ago, he promised me that if I helped him become a local tycoon, he would give me his soul. Twenty years have passed, his family is happy, his business is successful, and he is the richest man in the area. It's time for him to fulfill his promise!"

"Is that so?"

Lu Yang turned to look at Master Song. He wasn't actually surprised. Master Song must have been hiding something in his previous statement; otherwise, why would someone help him with business with a painting?

There's always something to ask for.

The water ghost I encountered in Hanshui City was trying to buy salt and then helped someone commit insurance fraud – it's all the same principle.

Master Song nodded in shame.

"You saw that, didn't you?" the washerwoman sneered, looking at Master Song with disdain.

"The promise we made back then was entirely consensual and without any pretense. Now that I'm demanding that it be kept, what's wrong with that?"

Lu Yang slowly shook his head, looking at the washerwoman with a pitying gaze. "Have you read the criminal law of the Great Xia Dynasty?"

"The Criminal Law of the Great Xia Dynasty?"

Lu Yang smiled slightly, activated his Invincible Pill, and said, "The Great Xia Criminal Law stipulates that a victim's promise that another person may infringe upon their specific legal interests, such as the disposal of property, causing minor injury, causing serious injury, etc., is invalid, but a promise that results in death is invalid."

"Of course, not all promises that result in death are invalid. Promises made without coercion, such as those made in life-or-death duels, are valid in a few cases, and your actions do not fall into those few cases."

"If you were more studious and had studied the legal history of the Great Xia Dynasty, you would know that there were many demonic Law Treasure in history that used the fulfillment of wishes as bait to lure others into exchanging their lives in order to refine their souls."

"The Minister of Justice at the time discovered this situation and added this clause to the Great Xia Law, precisely to prevent you Law Treasure from doing such things."

Lu Yang sighed, looking at the washerwoman with the eyes of someone who was ignorant of the law. "It seems that the legal education is still inadequate."

Ever since learning that his master was frequently imprisoned, Lu Yang has devoted all his free time to studying law, striving not to follow in his master's footsteps.

It seems that studying the law was indeed useful.

When ordinary people study the law, although they learn a lot, they often don't know which law to choose when applying it, and usually find themselves in a dilemma.

But Lu Yang is different. He has the Invincible Pill. When he uses the Invincible Pill in battle, it can help him select the most suitable laws from his mind in the shortest amount of time.

It is important to note that the Invincible Pill cannot select laws that Lu Yang has not learned, since the victory conditions given by the Invincible Pill are based on Lu Yang's understanding.

The Immortal Fairy, watching from her spiritual space, marveled at the sight. As the creator of the Invincible Pill, she had never imagined it could be used in such a way.

Tao Yaoye secretly sent a telepathic message to Lanting: "Junior Sister Lan, are you aware of this rule?"

Lanting shook her head blankly. "No, our sect doesn't teach this."

Both of them saw confusion in each other's eyes, feeling that there was an invisible chasm between them and Senior Brother Lu.

"You have taken away the soul of Master Song, which is a criminal offense and constitutes attempted murder. Come with us."

The washerwoman sneered, unfazed by Lu Yang: "Don't think you're the only one who's studied criminal law. Let me tell you the truth, I'm Law Treasure, not subject to criminal law at all!"

Lu Yang glanced at the washerwoman and said, "Oh, really? That's even better. Since it's an unclaimed magic Law Treasure, it doesn't matter if I break it."

Lanting's expression was strange; the more he listened to this conversation, the more familiar it seemed.

"Arrogant! You really think I'm afraid of you three little cultivators!"

The second update will be at 11 PM.