The servant outside stumbled back in a panic, shouting incoherently, "Mad, mad—they’re on a mad killing spree!"0

Tang Song stood at the entrance of the hall, gripping a weapon with a righteous expression. "Go hide in the painting! If those bandits dare break in, I'll deal with them using Mount Shu Sect's techniques!"0

"Father, if you're scared, you don’t need to pretend you’re not," Tang Yu'an said. "Your legs are trembling."0

Tang Song, once a humble painter, had learned some divine techniques from a teacher from the Mount Shu Sect and advanced to the second realm of cultivation. As that teacher was from the Mount Shu Sect, Tang Song had always felt a strong connection to the sect and had generously donated to it over the years.0

The last time his son, Tang Yu'an, was pulled into the famous painting Ladies of the Eastern Suburbs by one of those female ghosts, it was Chu Liang and Jiang Yuebai from the Mount Shu Sect who resolved the matter.0

After the incident, the painting remained in their home. With his modest cultivation, Tang Song could open the portal into the painting occasionally. The hidden realm within the painting had a slower...2