Chapter 110
Chapter 110
“It’s just a consciousness formed from gathered Spiritual Energy,” Xia Sheng explained succinctly. She waited in place for a few minutes, and once she was sure the Paper Figurine had reached the evil cultivator’s side, she took out a Talisman, preparing to teleport directly to the Paper Figurine.
Master Quede saw what she intended and said, “Little Fellow Daoist, let me go with you. This evil cultivator is quite powerful. If you face him alone, I’m afraid it may be difficult.”
“No need. You specialize in feng shui and physiognomy. You haven’t studied mystical arts and Daoist Magic very deeply. You wouldn’t be of much help there.”
Master Quede: “…”
Although the Little Fellow Daoist was right, that really stung.
Xia Sheng activated the Teleportation Talisman. Still uneasy, Master Quede grabbed her hand anyway, and the two vanished from where they stood.
In less than a second, they appeared inside an old apartment over a hundred li away.
The apartment looked quite old. The surrounding walls were darkened with age.
The walls were plastered with all kinds of strange, eerie Talismans. The table and floor were covered in messy papers, and in the center of the room stood a bizarre idol. The entire place was dark and sinister.
Seated on the prayer cushion before the idol was a black-robed old man.
Sensing the arrival of Xia Sheng and Daoist Quede, the Old Daoist froze for a moment. He looked up at them and frowned. “Who are you? How did you get in here?”
Xia Sheng coldly demanded, “Was the Yin-gathering Formation at the Song Family Grand Hotel your doing?”
The moment he heard she had come over that matter, the Old Daoist instantly grew wary.
He had always been cautious in his dealings, and he had set up a Formation around the apartment. If anyone approached, he should have detected it at once.
For this young girl to appear silently inside his apartment, she clearly had some skill.
Although he had obtained the evil god idol from his Master and learned how to steal other people’s fortune and luck to prolong his own life, he himself didn’t know any offensive Daoist Magic.
If this old man and young girl before him really came into conflict with him, he would probably have a hard time protecting himself.
Not wanting to clash with them, the Old Daoist immediately started playing dumb. “What are you talking about? I don’t know anything. I’m just an ordinary fortune-teller.”
Xia Sheng couldn’t be bothered wasting words on him. She directly hit him with a Truth-Telling Talisman.
As soon as the Talisman took effect, the Old Daoist lost control and began speaking the truth. “I did do it. Those rich people all deserve to die! Why do they get to stay in such an expensive luxury hotel while I can only curl up in this rundown apartment and barely cling to life!?
“I wanted to drain their wealth and fortune, turn my luck around, and make myself a man of great riches and honor!”
After saying that, the Old Daoist’s eyes widened in shock. He hurriedly clapped a hand over his mouth and shouted, “Sorceress, what did you do to me!?”
Xia Sheng ignored his question and merely continued staring at him with icy eyes. “Then do you know that because you stole those people’s fortune, some people who were already plagued by bad luck were killed in car accidents?”
That was something Xia Sheng had just heard from Song Huaiming back at the hotel.
Earlier, one family had checked into the Song Family Grand Hotel. They had originally planned to go worship at the Temple of Heaven the next day and eat lots and lots of delicious food in the Capital City.
But the next morning, right after renting a car and setting out, they got into a traffic accident on the road. The family of three all died.
At first, Song Huaiming hadn’t known there was a problem with his hotel. He had only felt sorry for the family and thought they had simply been terribly unlucky.
After learning that their deaths had been entirely caused by the hotel, Song Huaiming blamed himself and felt guilty for a long time. That was also one of the reasons why he had been willing to spend so much money to invite Master Quede to inspect the feng shui.
The Old Daoist could tell she was angry over the deaths of that family of three. Not wanting to provoke her, he was just about to lie, but the moment he opened his mouth, he couldn’t stop the truth from spilling out.
“That family of three died because they were unlucky. What does that have to do with me? If they died, they deserved it!
“But their deaths turned out to be a good thing. They let me discover that this Fortune-Sealing Soul-Devouring Formation can not only steal other people’s wealth luck and fate, but also transfer the remaining lifespan of anyone who dies inside the Formation onto me.
“Countless people spend their whole lives searching for a way to attain immortality. Now that I have this ability, won’t all those rich people who want to live long have to kneel and call me daddy? That family of three helped me uncover such a huge secret, so at least their deaths were good for something!”
Halfway through speaking, the Old Daoist began covering his own mouth with his hands. Yet no matter how hard he tried, the words kept forcing their way out as if beyond his control.
By the time he finished, one look at the little girl’s increasingly dark and icy expression made him tremble all over in fear.
She looked pure and harmless, but somehow, he felt this little girl was far more terrifying than that white-haired old man standing behind her.
“I was originally planning to leave you an intact corpse,” Xia Sheng said. A layer of frost seemed to cover her delicate face, as cold and piercing as the dead of winter. “But now, it seems that won’t be necessary.”
As soon as she finished speaking, she directly activated a Heavenly Thunder Talisman, summoning a bolt of heavenly thunder that crashed down viciously toward the Old Daoist.
The Old Daoist didn’t expect this little girl to be capable of calling down heavenly thunder. His eyes filled with shock.
Sensing the danger, he no longer had the luxury of being stunned. He hurriedly crushed the Protective Talisman his master had given him earlier, getting ready to make a run for it.
But in the end, he was a second too slow. The instant before he successfully escaped, one of his legs was struck by the heavenly thunder and severed on the spot.
The Old Daoist let out a shrill, miserable scream, but he still managed to escape with the help of that Talisman, vanishing from where he stood.
On the empty ground, only a bloodied severed leg remained.
Master Quede was still in a dazed state, completely unprepared for the fact that Xia Sheng had already made her move and driven the Old Daoist away.
Coming back to his senses, he asked, “Little Fellow Daoist, has that Old Daoist already been dealt with by you?”
Xia Sheng shook her head. “No. I was still a step too slow and let him get away.”
But even if the Old Daoist had escaped this time, she would definitely catch him sooner or later.
Daoist Quede frowned. “Can your Paper Figurine from earlier still track him down?”
Xia Sheng closed her eyes and sensed for a moment before saying, “The Old Daoist seems to have guessed how I found him. He’s already concealed his aura, so my Paper Figurine can no longer track him.
“Let’s go back to the Song Family Grand Hotel first. I need to break that Fortune-Sealing Soul-Devouring Formation.”
She had refrained from breaking the Formation earlier because she hadn’t wanted to alert the enemy.
Now that the main one had run off, it was time for her to go back and deal with the problem at its source.
Master Quede was unwilling to let that evil cultivator escape just like that, but since even Xia Sheng said there was no way for now, and he had no means of finding the man himself, he could only teleport back to the hotel with her.
The moment the two of them returned to the area near the palm trees, they saw that a group of people in police uniforms had appeared at some point.
Xia Sheng swept her gaze over them and noticed that their uniforms were slightly different from those of ordinary police officers.
She glanced at the insignia on their uniforms and frowned.
These people were from the Special Management Bureau.