Chapter 3: Shrinking the Earth
Mr. Wang kept burning incense and worshipping at home. Although he had done this many times, he was always nervous every time, fearing that he would encounter an accident.
Suddenly, he heard a panic outside the yard.
"The monster is coming!"
"Run! The monster is eating people!"
"Help! Master, help me!"
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Mr. Wang was so frightened that he was trembling with fear. In fact, when he heard the thunder before, he had a bad premonition.
The sky is starry tonight, and it is obviously a sunny night, but there was a sudden thunder just now, perhaps it was caused by one of the three wizards.
This is meeting a master!
“Bang, bang, bang!”
There was a sudden knock on the door. Mr. Wang was startled and was about to crawl under the table when he heard the voices of his wife and son.
"Husband, open the door!"
"Grandpa, save me, I'm scared, wuwuwu..."
Mr. Wang's heart trembled, and he gritted his teeth to open the door for his wife and children. But just as he walked behind the door, he saw through the light a huge figure appear outside the door, flapping its wings , like a demon crawling out of hell.
The knocking on the door by my wife and children became more urgent.
Rich man Wang crawled under the table, hugged his legs and started crying, but he covered his mouth tightly and dared not make a sound.
The wife and children screamed twice, and soon fell silent.
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When Li Daoxuan rushed to the rich man Wang's house, it was already a tragic scene, with corpses everywhere that had been drained of blood.
The monster wanted to recover from his injuries in this way!
In Xiaosha Village, the family with the most slaves and concubines is undoubtedly the rich man Wang's family, so the bat monster comes here to kill people and suck their blood.
What’s sad is that the reason why Mr. Wang has so many wealth and servants is thanks to the help of the bat demon.
But fortunately, the bat demon has not left yet!
At this moment, there was only one living person left in the yard, and that was the rich man Wang. Perhaps out of gratitude for the friendship he had with the rich man, the bat demon chose to kill him last.
Mr. Wang was being sucked blood by the bat monster. Feeling the blood flowing rapidly, a trace of despair flashed in his eyes.
However, when he saw Li Daoxuan, a glimmer of hope suddenly appeared in his dim eyes.
"Save me... Taoist priest...save me!"
He begged desperately to Li Daoxuan, but he never expected that the little Taoist priest whom he thought was the most incompetent was the real master.
But Li Daoxuan just looked at him coldly, then threw two Five Thunder Talismans at the bat demon.
The bat demon that was sucking blood seemed to have lost its sensitivity to its surroundings and did not notice that there were two more Five Thunder Talismans behind it.
It is a monster after all, and it always forgets itself when eating.
"help me……"
Seeing Li Daoxuan's actions, Mr. Wang thought that the other party was going to rescue him, and he begged him again and again.
But Li Daoxuan did not rush to attract the lightning, but watched the rich man Wang being sucked into a dried corpse bit by bit.
When he took down the demon-slaying list in the village, he did a lot of investigation and found out that the rich man Wang had posted the list for three years. At least a dozen wizards had taken down the list, and the content was almost the same each time.
They all said that they were threatened by demons and were asked to offer their children as sacrifices. They had no choice but to seek out a wizard to exorcise the demons at a high price. However, in order to lure the demon out, the wizard had to hide in a coffin first.
Although the argument is reasonable, it has serious problems if you think about it carefully.
Will the monster let go of a person who has tried many times to find a wizard to exorcise monsters but failed?
Obviously not, unless he and the monster are in the same group.
Moreover, Li Daoxuan used a pound of candied fruit to find out from Muramasa's little granddaughter that three years ago, the rich man Wang was a poor man in the village, but later somehow he got a lot of valuable antiques and became rich all of a sudden.
Although he knew that there was something wrong with Mr. Wang, Li Daoxuan still came. However, he made sufficient preparations before coming. He spent most of his money buying cinnabar and yellow paper, and spent nearly a month drawing twenty Six Ding and Six Jia amulets and ten Five Thunder amulets.
It turned out that his caution was very necessary.
Mr. Wang’s breath was getting weaker and weaker. He finally stared at Li Daoxuan with hatred in his eyes.
Until his death, he did not dare to blame the monster, but instead hated Li Daoxuan for not saving him.
"Misfortunes sent by heaven can be forgiven, but misfortunes brought upon oneself cannot be forgiven."
Li Daoxuan smiled coldly in his heart, even if you turn into a fierce ghost, it is just giving me a little reward.
At this time, the bat demon whose blood had been sucked dry finally regained consciousness. When it saw Li Daoxuan, fear appeared in its eyes, and it spread its wings and was about to continue to escape.
But it was too late.
Li Daoxuan had already formed the Thunder Seal and recited the incantation silently.
The two five-thunder talismans on the bat monster's back burned to ashes at the same time, and then there were two loud bangs, and two thunders struck down at the same time, landing on the bat monster.
The ground was dusty and charred.
Li Daoxuan sat on the ground weakly, his magic power had been exhausted. The Five Thunder Talisman consumed a lot of magic power. With his current level of Taoism, it was good enough that he could hold on until now.
While breathing heavily, Li Daoxuan observed the situation of the bat demon.
The bat demon was charred black all over and still smoking. There was even the smell of barbecue in the air.
It fell to the ground, motionless, as if it had died from the thunder.
Thunder magic is extremely powerful and masculine. It can kill demons and monsters, shock ghosts and eliminate evil spirits. It is always effective. Although this bat demon is very powerful, it has experienced a total of four heavenly thunders and is now shattered to pieces. Nearly a hundred years of practice have been destroyed.
But Li Daoxuan still did not go forward rashly.
Because there was no movement from the Demon-Subduing Book, it meant that the bat demon was not dead yet. He felt deeply moved that the demon was indeed cunning and knew how to fake its death.
Li Daoxuan was not in a hurry either. He silently adjusted his breathing, trying to recover his magic power, while secretly reflecting on this battle.
Still not good enough!
He should have used all twenty Six Ding and Six Jia amulets in the coffin at once. If the bat demon had been a little more ruthless and continued to attack with demon pills, he would be the one lying on the ground now.
If the talisman is gone, you can draw it again, but you only have one life!
After summarizing the gains and losses of this battle, Li Daoxuan continued to regulate his breathing, and his magic power slowly recovered. The bat demon looked as if it was really dead, and there was no movement for a full moment.
Li Daoxuan glanced at it and continued to regulate his breathing.
After waiting for about a moment , the bat demon, which looked like a charred corpse, suddenly let out an unwilling roar, roared towards the sky, and then fell completely silent.
At the same time, the Demon-Slaying Book in Li Daoxuan's mind shone brightly, and lines of words appeared.
"In May of the early years of the Zhenguan era, I killed a hundred-year-old bat demon in Xiaosha Village, Hongzhou, Tang Dynasty, and received a reward - the magic spell [Shrinking the Earth]!"
"The Shrinking Earth Divine Movement is a simplified version of the fragment of the divine power of shrinking the earth into an inch by the Taoist masters. One step is a hundred steps, and the earth shrinks by itself. Mountains become flat, water dries up, trees break, fires are extinguished, and land shrinks."
“Although I cannot shrink the vast horizon to an inch under my feet, I can still climb mountains and leap ridges as if walking on flat ground, and roam freely in the mountains and seas, and move freely as the spirit wishes. When I have achieved great success in cultivation , I can travel thousands of miles a day and disappear without a sound, like an immortal figure disappearing without a trace!”
"The specific cultivation method is as follows..."
