Chapter 176
Chapter 176
As Hua Jiunan completed the final stroke of the Six Ding and Six Jia talisman, Zhao Fei’s expression became completely peaceful.
Moments later, steady snores filled the room.
Hua Jiunan did not stop. He drew a complete ring of Evil-Warding Demon-Subduing Incantations around Zhao Fei.
When the spell was finished, a faint azure glow suffused the entire room.
Only then did Hua Jiunan relax and put away his exquisite short peachwood sword.
Eighth Master Chang watched and murmured to himself.
“The young master physician’s cultivation is growing deeper and deeper!”
“He’s already this powerful at fifteen. With the slightest effort, he’ll surely become a Celestial Master someday!”
“I need to keep performing well. I can’t let anyone steal my job as driver, vehicle, and bodyguard…”
Chen Daji gave a lecherous chuckle.
“Eighth Master, are you still planning to trade merit for a secret manual?”
“No offense, but you’re hopelessly stubborn!”
“Knowing my Big Brother, if you asked him for some Talisman-Water Art right now, he’d hand it over without a second thought!”
“If you don’t believe me, let’s bet-ow! Eighth Master, why’d you smack the back of my head with your tail again? You’ll make me stupid!”
Eighth Master Chang looked even more disdainfully at Chen Daji as the boy rubbed his head and grimaced.
“Tsk, tsk. How rare. You actually know you’re stupid!”
“Let me tell you, little bastard: this Eighth Master isn’t saving up merit for the Taiping Talisman-Water Secret Art anymore!”
“I have higher ambitions now!”
Although the blow had left Chen Daji dazed, he could not contain his curiosity.
“What ambitions? You want my Big Brother to find you a few female snakes for wives?”
“Get the hell away from me!” Eighth Master Chang cursed.
“You little bastard, you think everyone freezes in their tracks whenever they see a female like you do?!”
“Haven’t you heard the saying, ‘When one person attains the Dao, even his chickens and dogs ascend to heaven’?”
“If this Eighth Master performs well, then once the young master physician becomes a Celestial Master, I can at least earn a place as an incense-empowered righteous deity.”
“At worst, I’ll become a Caotou Deity!”
(A Caotou Deity is an attendant to an official immortal. Such deities have not received investiture from the Heavenly Court and are not included in the ordained hierarchy of Heaven and Earth.)
(For comparison, consider the twelve hundred Caotou Deities serving Erlang, the Manifest Sage and True Lord, at Guanjiangkou.)
As Eighth Master Chang and Chen Daji traded nonsense, inside the Li family villa, Li Jiao watched the tiny arrows lodged in the Dough Doll slowly force themselves back out.
The Doll’s eye also began to heal.
She knew she had encountered an expert and that her evil sorcery had been broken.
But her obsessive nature would not let her give up.
She snatched up a basin of boiling corpse oil and poured it over the Dough Doll.
Li Jiao’s entire body convulsed as if she were suffering an epileptic seizure.
“Heaven answers, Earth answers; Wutong God, reveal your divine might.”
“The Two Principles stand at the gate, revolving in blazing splendor. In darkness, shine brighter; straighten all that bends. Order my body; strike dread at dawn and dusk!”
“Zhao Fei, if you do not die now, then when will you?!”
The moment the incantation ended, dozens of streams of black qi shot from the abandoned graves outside the villa.
Amid the wails of ghosts and howls of wolves, they fought to squeeze into the Dough Doll.
Just then, an almost imperceptible ray of pale golden light appeared from nowhere.
It wrapped tightly around the Dough Doll representing Zhao Fei.
When the black qi met the golden light, it was like old snow meeting the blazing sun. Amid a sizzling sound, it vanished completely in an instant.
Only shrill, resentful screams echoed through the villa.
Then the Dough Doll exploded with a bang.
Not a drop of the boiling corpse oil went to waste. It all splashed back onto Li Jiao.
Blisters erupted across her already hideous body.
Li Jiao clawed at her hair with both hands and shrieked hysterically.
“Impossible!”
“Why are all three of them such freaks?!”
“How can that Zhao brat be protected by official authority and blessed by the will of the people?!”
The night’s endless upheavals had frightened Li Feng nearly out of his wits.
“That Zhao boy’s father is the chief local official. Ordinary people call him ‘Zhao Qingtian.'”
“Little Sister, since all three of Jinlong’s enemies are dangerous, I think we should let this go.”
“He didn’t suffer that much. At worst, we’ll transfer him to another school…”
Li Feng looked at the unconscious Li Jinlong, who had lost an eye, and could not begin to describe his feelings.
What kind of disaster was this?
Weren’t they supposed to be avenging his son?
How had the enemies emerged unharmed while his own son ended up crippled?
At this rate, Li Feng did not know whether Zhao Fei and the other two would die, but his own son certainly would!