The Weird Way of Immortality: My Taoism Progress in One Day a Year

Chapter 6 Magic
Three days flew by.

With the joint efforts of the Hengjiang Prefecture government and several major families, the news of the prefecture god sacrifice spread quickly.

This day.

On the street, carriages decorated with luxurious ornaments were moving slowly, with several teams of guards leading the way and leading the convoy towards the city gate.

Every street and alley in the city is hung with red lanterns and decorated with colorful lights.

The people crowded together on both sides of the street, with excited looks on their faces, scrambling to grab the copper coins dropped by the wealthy families to clear the way, and they were beaming with joy after grabbing them.

The noise was constant.

Li Yan sat alone in a carriage, holding open a curtain with his left hand, looking at the lively crowd outside with a dazed look on his face.

This was the first time he left the Li family residence.

He looked at the people of this world and felt as if he were in another world.

Until this moment, he seemed to have truly come into contact with this world, rather than just a vague scene in his memory.

Li Yan's eyes revealed a complicated look. He sighed softly, withdrew his hand that was holding open the curtain, and sat back down.

……

In a dark room, a man held a candle and lit a dozen candles on the surrounding shelves.

The candlelight was bright, lighting up the entire room.

On the table at the innermost part of the room, there is a one-foot-tall statue of a god.

But this statue is a bit weird.

Its entire body was dyed bright red with some unknown dye, it had a ferocious expression, fangs exposed in its mouth, and four arms each holding a magical weapon.

There was a sandalwood incense burner like this one placed under the statue. The man lit three incense sticks and inserted them into it.

Under the sandalwood burner was a palm-sized straw man wrapped in red paper with a line of small words written on it.

An unknown gust of cold wind blew up, causing the two red candles on both sides of the statue to sway slightly.

At the same time, the three incense sticks in the sandalwood burner began to burn rapidly.

The aroma produced by the burning slowly drifts into the mouth and nose of the statue.

"You were able to escape last time thanks to the blessing of your clan. But this time, you won't be so lucky."

A gloomy look appeared on the man's face and his eyes were cold.

Five years ago, he cast a death curse on Li Yan.

However, he did not expect that the Li family's luck was so strong that they actually protected Li Yan and even caused a backlash against him, directly reducing his cultivation by ten years.

Although Li Yan eventually became stupid and no longer posed a threat to inherit the Li family.

But when he thought about it now, he still felt very regretful.

If he had not rashly cast the spell that year, which cost him ten years of cultivation, he would probably have already lit up his third soul and become a top-level wizard.

Instead of being just an average mage like now.

"After today, no one will be able to hinder my plans."

The man chanted a spell, and the vital energy in his body circulated rapidly. The straw man wrapped in red paper under the sandalwood burner suddenly caught fire at this moment.

The flames wrapped around the straw man and burned fiercely. The firelight shone on the strange statue, which danced gently.

Faintly, the statue's eyes seemed to move.

……

On the official road outside the city, a young girl in a plain long skirt suddenly stopped.

She turned her head and looked at the convoy of carriages coming towards her, her eyes full of surprise.

Behind the carriage convoy, a black gas invisible to mortals flew out from the city and fell directly into the carriage behind.

"There are evil cultivators who are causing chaos in front of me and casting evil spells on mortals?"

Anger flashed across the girl's pretty face. She came from a famous immortal sect and hated those evil practitioners who believed in evil gods and practiced evil magic.

Then a clear air emerged under his feet, and his figure was like a ghost. In an instant, he crossed nearly a hundred feet and blocked the carriage.

The guard in front immediately drew out his long sword nervously.

The leader of the guards was also startled, but he had traveled a lot and had a lot of experience, so he recognized that the girl was using the methods of a cultivator.

So he quickly asked the guards to put away their swords, and asked solemnly and politely, "I wonder what the mage wants to do by stopping my Li family's convoy?"

The girl spoke in a clear voice, "I just saw someone using evil magic to attack the people in your carriage. Hurry up and call them down. If they are not treated in time, their lives may be in danger." The leader of the guards' face changed, and he immediately realized the seriousness of the matter. He hurriedly notified Li's father in the carriage.

He also ordered his subordinates to notify other family members in the Li Mansion.

Zhao Xueyan also heard the news and was shocked, but she felt a little resentful towards the girl in her heart.

She knew that it was that man who did it, but she didn't expect to be discovered by the girl in front of her.

All the members of the Li family heard the news, and they got off the carriages one after another, coming to the front of the girl in panic.

"How come there isn't one? Who else hasn't come down yet?"

The girl frowned, looked around, and asked questions around her.

She found no signs of witchcraft among these people.

"Third Young Master, the Third Young Master hasn't come down yet."

A little maid came out, her face pale and she spoke weakly.

"What? How could it be Yan'er!"

Father Li looked shocked, and Zhao Xueyan beside him also pretended to be surprised.

Li Ze showed an inappropriate smile on his face, and the other members of the Li family also had different expressions on their faces.

"This Third Young Master is really plagued by misfortunes. He just recovered from his dementia and now he is being harmed by evil magic again."

"Who says it's not true? If it were you, I would say someone must have deliberately wanted to harm the Third Young Master."

"Don't dare to say anything..."

Everyone was talking about it.

Just as the guard was about to pull open the curtain of Li Yan's carriage and take Li Yan out of the carriage.

A pale hand stretched out from behind the curtain and pushed it aside, frightening the guards so much that they retreated in fear.

"No need to keep looking, I was indeed under a spell."

Li Yan walked down from the carriage slowly with a stern expression and came up to the girl.

His right hand was spread out, with a ball of black air swirling in his palm.

Li Yan squeezed hard, and the black energy dissipated in his palm.

"Ah..."

Faintly, everyone present seemed to hear an extremely miserable scream.

This cry made everyone present feel a chill in their hearts.

Everyone looked at the strange scene before them.

Everyone looked at Li Yan in shock.

"Yan'er!?"

"Third Young Master!?"

Father Li looked at the scene in shock. He felt that he could not understand his son.

Zhao Xueyan couldn't hold it anymore. A feeling of uneasiness began to spread in her heart and a look of panic appeared on her face.

The girl looked at Li Yan with surprise in her eyes.

……

Li Yan's expression was still cold.

He was sitting peacefully in the carriage just now, when the yellow talisman paper given to him by his brother-in-law a few days ago suddenly caught fire.

The yellow talisman paper burned for only a few breaths before turning into ashes.

Immediately afterwards, a black gas surged into his body.

By this time he had heard what people outside were saying and realized that he had been bewitched.

So he quickly called out all eleven vital energies in the first soul to resist the black energy running rampant in his body.

Fortunately, although this black energy looked evil, it was restrained by the life energy he cultivated.

Li Yan only spent some effort to force the black energy into his palm.

Finally, it was completely wiped out with life energy.

(End of this chapter)