Chapter 23 Mist
Su Yu looked at Qin Shimiao and sighed secretly in his heart.

How could a fifth-rank demon painter be someone who is simply obsessed with love?
Perhaps, the person who helped Qin Shimiao lose his virginity had nothing to do with the Demon-Slaying Division or the Dasheng Court, so Qin Shimiao believed it without a doubt.

Perhaps, the person who delivered the message to Sun Chushan simply learned about it by accident.

To find out his identity, we must start from the soul painting!
"Master..."

Su Yu thought for a moment and asked:

"Since you haven't seen Brother's body, how do you know he's dead?"

Qin Shimiao sighed:
"That day, when he was out painting souls for someone, he accidentally got two soul paintings and told me that he wanted to absorb soul power in the Demon Slayer Division. I told him to be careful and left the Demon Slayer Division."

"But when I returned to the execution room of the Demon Slaying Division the next day, he was nowhere to be found. I only found a jade pendant that he always carried with him."

"The jade pendant was his most precious possession and it never left his side. When I saw the jade pendant, I knew something must have happened, but we couldn't find his body."

"At that time, the Great God of Life Shen Qingcheng had already left the Demon Slaying Division. In order to prevent people from getting upset, I kept this matter secret..."

After listening to Qin Shimiao's words, Su Yu completely understood.

Qin Shimiao's strength was greatly damaged after his back was broken. He happened to find that his disciple might have encountered an accident, but he had no other helpers in the Demon Slayer Division at this time, so he accepted Su Yu as his disciple.

Although one of the reasons was that he urgently needed to find help, the benefits to Su Yu were also real.

Not only did he help him light the soul lamp on the first day of his apprenticeship, he also found the life-saving object for him and helped him get sixteen soul paintings.

Since they are master and disciple, they have entrusted each other with their lives, and their fates are tied together.

Therefore, Su Yu decided to help his master.

"If possible, I would like to go and see the place where the soul painting is placed."

Qin Shimiao frowned slightly:
"You want to find clues from it?"

Su Yu nodded:

"The one who goes to the Medicine Department must be after the elixirs, and the one who comes to the Demon Slayer Department must be after the soul paintings, otherwise I don't know what his purpose is."

"After all, you are not the Great God of Destiny, and Shen Qingcheng is still young and strong. He will not give the position of the Great God of Destiny to you for the time being, so his purpose of alienating you and Sun Chushan is probably for the soul painting!"

In addition to wanting to find out the reason for this incident for Qin Shimiao, Su Yu also wanted to take a look at the most confidential place in the Demon Slaying Bureau.

Qin Shimiao was silent for a while, then nodded slowly:
"That's fine, but you must not touch those soul paintings without permission, otherwise even I, your master, will not be able to protect you!"

Su Yu nodded in agreement, then bent down and pulled the knife coin from Sun Chushan's body.

Qin Shimiao glanced at Su Yu:
"Where did you get this peach wood sword and knife coin?"

"I got the peach wood sword by chance, and I bought the Five Emperors' coins from the market!"

Su Yu did not hesitate and showed the Five Emperors' Coins in his palm to Qin Shimiao.

If you want to dispel other people's doubts, you must act very calmly.

Sure enough, Qin Shimiao glanced at the Five Emperors' Coins in Su Yu's palm and just nodded:

"These Five Emperors' coins contain the energy of the five elements and are very rare. I didn't expect you to be able to collect them. Just keep them well!"

After saying that, he turned around and took Su Yu and walked towards the depths of the Demon Slaying Division.

Su Yu followed immediately, and the white fox also followed silently behind the two of them.

The place where the Demon Slayer Department collected soul paintings was a two-story building. This building was the most heavily guarded place in the entire Demon Slayer Department. In addition to Qin Shimiao being in charge of the key to the building door, several demon slayers who stayed in the Demon Slayer Department would take turns guarding it.

Qin Shimiao and Su Yu had just arrived in front of the Soul Storage Tower when a sturdy figure flashed in the darkness. It was the Demon Slayer Qu Fengshan.

Qu Fengshan glanced at Qin Shimiao, a cold smile appeared on his face:

"There have been no new soul paintings in the Demon Slayer Division these days, but Mr. Qin has been coming quite frequently."

Qin Shimiao frowned slightly when he heard this:
"I haven't been here for several days. How did you get this to happen, Mr. Qu?"

The smile on Qu Fengshan's face disappeared immediately, and he looked at Qin Shimiao coldly:
"Mr. Qin brought your disciple to the Soul Storage Tower a few days ago. Did you forget about it?"

Hearing his words, Qin Shimiao's face suddenly turned stern.

He then walked quickly to the front door, but saw that the copper lock on the door was still intact, so he turned around and looked at Qu Fengshan:

"I came here with my disciple a few days ago? Have you ever seen us go out together?"

Qu Fengshan said coldly:

"After the Great Sima left, you were in charge of the Soul Storage Tower. We, the demon slayers, were only able to protect you. After you went in, I went outside. Did you go out with your apprentice? Do you still need to ask me?"

Qin Shimiao stopped talking, immediately took out the key to open the door, and then walked in with Su Yu.

Qu Fengshan glanced at Qin Shimiao coldly outside the door, snorted, and walked aside.

Although both demon painters and demon slayers are of high quality in the Demon Slaying Bureau, and the number of demon slayers is greater than that of demon painters, the status of demon painters in the Demon Slaying Bureau is higher than that of demon slayers, and demon slayers such as Qu Fengshan are usually dissatisfied with the high and low positions of demon painters.

The reason is that most of the monster painters are orphans who paint corpses, and the success rate is extremely low. Many orphans die before they can become monster painters.

Demon slayers are basically all from good families with a certain foundation in cultivation. Only those who have mastered the skills of practicing magic and are able to slay demons can enter the Demon Slayer Division.

Therefore, the demon slayer will have a natural contempt for the demon painter.

However, due to the unique training system of the demon painters, they can train faster than the demon slayers. In addition, they have been training in the Demon Slayer Division since childhood, so their power in the Demon Slayer Division is also stronger.

What's more, painting souls onto paper and obtaining soul paintings to assist in cultivation relies heavily on the abilities of the demon painter, which also leads to the demon painter having a higher status in the company.

Therefore, most of the Great Destiny Masters in history were demon painters, while the demon slayers in the department were more like thugs and executioners.

It is no wonder that Qu Fengshan was so cold to Su Yu at first, and now he was indifferent to Qin Shimiao's words.

After all, Qin Shimiao is not the Great God of Destiny, and Qu Fengshan was only ordered to guard the Soul Storage Tower. If Qin Shimiao brought his apprentice into the Soul Storage Tower and something happened, it would have little to do with Qu Fengshan.

If anything goes wrong, Qu Fengshan can just blame it on Qin Shimiao!

Qin Shimiao's face looked very ugly at this time. He rushed in immediately after opening the door.

His apprentice had died a day ago, and he had not entered the Soul Storage Tower!

But Qu Fengshan didn't know this, so he let people pretending to be Qin Shimiao and his apprentice enter the Soul Storage Tower, and then turned around and went somewhere else to take a break.

When he came back, the Soul Storage Tower had been locked, so he thought that Master Qin Shimiao and his apprentice had left.

But the person who entered the Soul Storage Tower was actually a fake!

Who is the person who tried to impersonate Qin Shimiao?
Where did they get the key to Qin Shimiao's Soul Storage Tower?

What exactly did they want to do by pretending to be Qin Shimiao and his apprentice and entering the Soul Storage Tower together?
(End of this chapter)