Chapter 8: Advancement of Taoism
Just when the atmosphere was becoming tense, a hand reached out and took the drink in front of Li Daoxuan.
"Haha, this young Taoist priest can't drink, so let me drink for him."
The speaker was a generous man in his thirties with thick hair and beard. He drank Li Daoxuan's wine in one gulp, showing a hint of intoxication, and said, "Good wine!"
Li Daoxuan looked at the little bug wriggling in his teeth and couldn't help but secretly praise him, saying that this guy is really brave.
In fact , Li Daoxuan noticed this person when he first entered here . Unlike those villagers with stiff faces, he had a ruddy complexion and looked more like a living person.
The middle-aged man who brought Li Daoxuan in saw that the wine was drunk, so he said nothing more and turned away.
At this time, the generous man came over, patted Li Daoxuan on the shoulder, and said in a very familiar way: "Little Taoist priest, you are scared."
He said enthusiastically: "My name is Wang Chunsheng, and I am a herbalist. I went into the mountains to collect herbs last night and got lost. I don't know how I came to this village."
"At first, I also thought this village was very strange. Later, I learned that the daughter of the wealthy Mr. Chen was getting married. However, Mr. Chen's daughter had been sickly since childhood. A Taoist priest told her that she should keep a low profile when getting married to avoid attracting demons. That's why Mr. Chen chose the late night wedding date and didn't let the villagers know."
Li Daoxuan cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Brother Wang, for helping me out just now."
Wang Chunsheng waved his hand and said, "It's just a small matter. Besides, the wine here is very good. I also want to thank you for letting me drink an extra glass of good wine."
Li Daoxuan knew that he had been bewitched. It was obviously the dirty wine, but it made him intoxicated.
"But these villagers are really strange."
Wang Chunsheng lowered his voice and glanced at the three villagers sitting at the table. Their skin was as pale as wax figures and their eyes were dull, as if they had not woken up yet.
"I talked to them, but they ignored me and didn't move. It was really scary."
Li Daoxuan sighed in his heart, if they paid attention to you, you would probably be close to death.
These villagers should be just ordinary ghosts, muddle-headed and without intelligence. On the contrary, the middle-aged man just now and the old lady in shroud made Li Daoxuan feel a sense of danger.
After an unknown amount of time, Wang Chunsheng seemed to be a little hungry. He shouted, "Hasn't the bride arrived yet? When will the feast begin?"
As soon as he finished speaking, all the villagers suddenly turned their heads and looked at him in unison. Their cold gazes made people's hair stand on end.
"Little Taoist Priest... why are they... looking at me?"
Li Daoxuan motioned for him to be quiet and pointed outside the door.
"They're not looking at you, they're looking outside the door. The bride and groom should be arriving soon."
Just as he finished speaking, a slender woman in a phoenix coronet and bridal robe walked onto the red carpet. Her neck under the red veil was as white as jade, and her long skirt was as red as blood.
The moment the bride appeared, Li Daoxuan felt a huge sense of crisis in his heart. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that under the red veil, there were a pair of cold eyes staring at him.
"Little Taoist priest, although I can't see her face, judging from her figure, Mr. Chen's daughter is definitely a great beauty!"
Wang Chunsheng sighed, his eyes scanning the bride's slender and graceful body again and again, finally stopping on her pair of green jade hands. Her ten fingers were slender and elegant, like thin bamboo shoots just grown after a spring rain.
Li Daoxuan immediately noticed that the bride's gaze had shifted from himself to Wang Chunsheng. He breathed a sigh of relief and exclaimed again, "Brother Wang, you are really brave!"
Wang Chunsheng was completely unaware that he was in extreme danger and was still sighing.
"Little Taoist priest, I don't know which man is so lucky to marry the eldest daughter of the Chen family. It's really enviable!"
He soon found out the answer.
A figure walked in, wearing a groom's suit and tied with a bright red silk ribbon. The other end of the silk ribbon was connected to the bride.
But what was surprising was that the groom was extremely ugly. Not only did he have a pigeon chest and a hunchback, and his face was covered with pockmarks, but he also had a dull look in his eyes, drooled as he walked, and looked very mentally abnormal.
The person that the eldest daughter of the Chen family is going to marry is... such a dirty and ugly man?
No one stepped forward to stop this strange scene. All the villagers, including the bride's father, the middle-aged man who had just led Li Daoxuan in, were watching quietly.
"Bow to heaven and earth!"
The servant shouted, and then several people forced the bride to kneel down and forced her to kowtow with the groom.
"Bow to your parents!"
The bride struggled even harder.
"Husband and wife bow to each other!"
The bride was forced to hold her head down by the servants and kowtow to the groom. As she struggled, a corner of her red veil was lifted, revealing her snow-white, translucent chin.
Li Daoxuan frowned, feeling very strange. Although the bride was struggling, she didn't make any sound from beginning to end.
At this time, a figure rushed up. It was Wang Chunsheng.
He said sternly, "What are you doing? Let her go, or I'll report her to the police!"
When the words "report to the police" were heard, the atmosphere in the field suddenly changed.
Those villagers who originally had dull eyes suddenly "came alive". Their eyes turned blood red, revealing a strong resentment, and wisps of black air emerged from them.
The villagers rushed towards Wang Chunsheng, and even the servants ignored the bride. Their eyes were bloodshot, their bodies were covered in black air, their nails turned black, and they grabbed towards Wang Chunsheng.
The most horrifying thing was that the skin on their faces quickly became crawling with maggots and became rotten and smelly.
Wang Chunsheng was obviously frightened and stood there stiffly.
But at this moment, a clear voice rang out.
"Five thunders, five thunders, quickly meet Huang Ning, the mist changes, the roar is as fast as lightning, it comes as soon as it hears the call, quickly send out the Yang sound, hurry up as the law orders!"
Boom!
The blue lightning instantly pierced through the roof and struck down.
There are two ways to use the Five Thunder Talisman. One is to stick the talisman on the body of a monster or ghost, which can accurately draw thunder. Unless the opponent's speed is faster than the thunder, he will not be able to avoid it.
Another way to use it is to directly attract lightning, and the caster will control the direction of the lightning's landing, but it can only be an approximate direction, which is prone to errors and is not accurate enough.
However, at this moment, the ghosts appeared and it was a dark mass. Even if Li Daoxuan closed his eyes, he would not fail.
Sizzle!
Lightning exploded, dazzling and eye-catching. The extremely strong and masculine power of heaven and earth raged among the ghosts, like the wrath of the sky.
In an instant, several servants let out a scream and then disappeared.
Scared to death!
At the same time, the "Book of Exorcising Demons" in Li Daoxuan's mind vibrated, opened automatically, and new words appeared.
"In May of the early years of the Zhenguan era, I killed three earthbound spirits in Lijia Village, Hongzhou, Tang Dynasty, and received a reward - three months of Taoism!"
Pure magical power gathered in Li Daoxuan's body, which was equivalent to the result of his three months of hard practice, and instantly improved his originally meager Taoist skills.
Li Daoxuan's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he felt his magic power was full and his mind was clear. As his Taoism level improved, he felt that his magic of shrinking the earth was also getting faster.
In an instant, these ghosts with terrifying faces became much cuter in Li Daoxuan's eyes.
