Xiao Pang calmly pulled his hand out of Master Pang's hand, and then said lightly: "Actually, I can't cure diseases, and you are not sick. The reason why you feel uncomfortable is because you are entangled with Yin Qi. What I just did was just to use my spiritual energy to dispel your Yin Qi and nourish your vitality a little bit!"
"Ah, that's how it is!" Master Pang suddenly realized, "I guess I must have been haunted by an evil spirit. Thanks to the immortal for saving me, otherwise I would definitely not be alive!"
"It looks like you are haunted by a ghost, and it's obvious that the ghost is trying to kill you!" Xiaopang suddenly asked, "By the way, as the current Grand Master, how could you get involved with a ghost for no reason?"
"This..." The old face of the current Grand Master Pang was stunned, and then he smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know either. How did this ghost get into my house? My house was fine before, how come it suddenly became haunted?"
"You don't know either?" Xiao Pang frowned and asked, "Then where did you feel unwell for the first time? How did you know your house was haunted?"
"It's the study. I was reading in the study at night a few days ago, and I ran into a ghost. Then I fell ill!" Master Pang said hurriedly.
"Study? Okay, take me to see it!" Xiaopang said directly.
"Master, please come this way!" Master Pang said hurriedly. He then personally led Xiao Pang to his study. His sons and sons-in-law followed behind.
Soon, the group arrived at a simple bamboo building. Master Pang pointed to the bamboo building and said to Xiao Pang, "This is my study, and it's haunted!" He seemed to be extremely afraid of this place and obviously didn't plan to go there in person.
After hearing this, Xiaopang smiled and said, "Is there a ghost in there? Then I'd like to go in and take a look?" As he said that, Xiaopang pushed open the door and walked straight into the main hall.
The main hall is very large, about 50 to 60 meters square, with neatly arranged bookcases on both sides, various ancient books are piled up in an orderly manner, and the walls are covered with ancient paintings, which makes it look elegant.
Xiao Pang focused his magic power on his eyes, scanned the surroundings, and finally locked his eyes on a famous painting called "Moon Full over Spring River". Then he said calmly: "Come out, do you still want me to do it?"
As soon as Xiaopang finished speaking, a puff of black smoke floated out from the ancient painting and finally condensed into a faint shadow in front of Xiaopang. It was a guy who looked like a middle-aged wealthy businessman in his 40s.
This person is now a ghost, so he can naturally feel the powerful spiritual fluctuations on Xiao Pang's body. He knows that this is an amazing master who can completely destroy him in a blink of an eye, so he dare not neglect it. He kneels on the ground and begs bitterly: "Immortal, Immortal, I know you are the master hired by Master Pang to capture me. I dare not ask for your mercy, but only ask you to give me a chance to suffer this great injustice! In my next life, I will repay you even if I have to work like a cow or a horse!"
"Ha!" Xiao Pang was amused when he heard this. He couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly, "You kid tortured a current Grand Master to death, and you still have the nerve to say that you were wronged?"
"Master, I didn't mean to make things difficult for him. It was actually because of him that my family was destroyed. All 28 people in my family, from my 80-year-old mother to my unweaned baby, were killed by him. As a parent, I was filled with resentment, so I turned into a fierce ghost and came to seek revenge on him!"
"Huh?" Xiao Pang was stunned when he heard this. Although he had never seen a ghost, there were related records in the classics of the sect, so he knew a little bit. In fact, he had long seen that this was an evil ghost with resentment all over his body. If he had not suffered a great injustice in his life, he would never have become a fierce ghost as a mortal, unless he got the help of a ghost cultivator. But looking at his appearance, it was clearly formed naturally, which meant that he must have suffered an incomparable injustice to be like this.
However, Xiaopang really couldn't understand why the current Grand Master would persecute a small figure like him, so he said, "Tell me, what's going on?"
"My Lord, it's a long story. In fact, the root of everything lies in my family's heirloom, 'The Moon Over the Spring River'!" The ghost then knelt on the ground and began to cry to Xiaopang about his grievances.
It turned out that this man was named Zhang Derong, a grain merchant in Blue Moon City. His ancestors had run the business for three generations, and by his generation, his family was quite wealthy. His five brothers all married and had children, and their relationships were harmonious. The family lived a completely happy life.
But unfortunately, the heavens do not fulfill one's wishes. It is true that when one is at home, disasters may come from the heavens. Zhang Derong's father bought a famous painting several decades ago. It was the pinnacle of a great master of painting in the previous dynasty. The price was not the most important thing. The key point was that this painting was so famous that many literati and poets had tried hard to get it but could not.
After the Zhang family got this painting, they kept it secret for fear of causing trouble. But unexpectedly, the then Grand Tutor Pang got the news that the Zhang family had this famous painting from somewhere and sent his butler to ask for it.
Master Pang was born into a family of literati. In his opinion, such a famous painting could only be collected by literati. It would be a waste if it fell into the hands of a businessman. But Master Pang never expected that Zhang Derong was also reluctant to part with the painting. He also thought that the matter was extremely secret and decades had passed. It was probably just rumors, and the master was not sure that he had it in his hands. So he lied to the master's housekeeper that there was no such thing and that his family did not have the painting.
As a result, Master Pang was upset. It turned out that the reason why he sent people to ask for the painting was because he had received certain information from the descendants of the family that sold the Zhang family's painting. He really knew the movement of the painting and asked for it after he was sure. But now he was deceived by the Zhang family with lies, and Master Pang couldn't stand it.
He was a high-ranking official, the Grand Tutor of the court, and was fooled by a businessman. How could he feel? So the Grand Tutor was furious and handed the matter over to his son and son-in-law.
The younger generations of Grand Tutor Pang were trying to curry favor with the old Grand Tutor. Now that they had this opportunity, how could they not do their best? As a result, with the cooperation of a group of officials in the court, the Zhang family was framed with a lot of crimes and sentenced to death. Zhang Derong's five brothers, his mother, wife and children, a total of 28 people, were beheaded in Caishi Street. And "Moon over the Spring River" also ended up in the Grand Tutor's Mansion after the house was confiscated.
After Zhang Derong's death, he was filled with resentment and eventually turned into a ghost and attached himself to this famous painting. He tormented Master Pang in the study until Xiaopang arrived.
After hearing all the stories, Xiaopang's face turned pale. His childhood experiences made him a weak person for a long time and he was bullied by those strong people. All these experiences made him hate the strong bullying the weak. So after listening to Zhang Derong's words, Xiaopang immediately felt the same way and felt pity in his heart. He then said viciously: "What a great prime minister of the current dynasty, is there really no law and justice?"
"The law of the king? What he said is the law of the king! As for justice, where is justice?" Zhang Derong immediately burst into tears.