The Thrush: The Golden Demon Statue

[Reading Huang Ying after Gu Long] [The Legend of Shen Shengyi: The Mockingbird and the Golden Demon Statue] The Mockingbird: Pearl of the Yihong Brothel, Jia Ruyi, daughter of Jia Renyi, and Hu Jiao, a lone female escort, all die one after another at the hands of the Mockingbird. After each murder, the killer always does the same thing: paints eyebrows. The victim’s original black eyebrows are shaved off and replaced with two white ones just like the killer’s. After the Mockingbird murders Zhang Jinfeng, daughter of Luoyang’s richest man, Zhang Huhou, Shen Shengyi happens to arrive at the scene... The Golden Demon Statue: The statue is a lost treasure of the Nangong family, said to conceal the family’s martial arts secrets. Shou Nanshan bought it from a fisherman on Lake Tai for fifty taels of gold. The fisherman had spent his whole life fishing the lake and had caught the statue by chance. He had no idea that it was made entirely of gold and weighed five hundred taels. Shou Nanshan plans to sell it for twenty thousand taels of gold, drawing warriors from across the martial world into a struggle for possession. Shou Nanshan once saved the life of the swift swordsman Ruan Yi, and Shen Shengyi was Ruan Yi’s friend in his youth...