Terrifying Heavens: I'll directly worship the Black Law of Fengdu!

Chapter 330 Thunder Magic Sword Slaying Demons

The old Taoist priest waved his whisk erratically, made a hand seal with his left hand, and chanted incantations. Flickering lightning could be seen between his fingers.

Li Xuan pointed his sword towards the sky with his left hand, chanting the Fire Bell Thunder Incantation. Dark clouds gathered in the sky, and a bolt of lightning struck down. He pointed at the old Taoist priest and said, "Go!"

The old Taoist priest finished reciting the incantation and suddenly thrust out with his left hand!
A thunderous boom echoed from the ground, causing Zhang Dadan, Xu Zhenren, and Tan Baiwan, who were hiding in the house, to experience a buzzing in their eardrums and even momentary tinnitus.

Zhang Dadan, still shaken, peered through the crack in the door and exclaimed in astonishment, "My goodness, the inn's walls have all collapsed! Master, is your magic really that powerful?"

Upon hearing this, Master Xu hurriedly went over to take a look, only to feel his scalp tingle. The inn's walls looked as if they had been blown open with a bomb, and were now pitch black. What was even more terrifying was that his master, who had always appeared to be a sage, had fallen to the ground, and his left arm had disappeared.

Judge Li Xuan, however, was unharmed.

Master Xu muttered to himself, "My master's ethereal figure clearly indicates that after his death he turned to some kind of channel, such as invoking spirits. However, it seems he's met with a brick wall when he encountered Judge Li..."

Boom!

Boom!

Thunder rumbled incessantly. People lived on this street. When Master Qian and Master Xu first started clamoring for a magical duel, a small number of people hid in their homes and secretly watched the spectacle through the cracks.

But when Li Xuan truly made his move, the shaking iron chains, the churning black clouds, and the deafening thunder roared.

The onlookers quickly closed their doors; this was a "thunder god exorcising demons" spectacle and couldn't be watched casually. Offending the gods would bring bad luck...

The old Taoist priest was horrified and stared intently at Li Xuan, asking, "Just who are you?!"

Li Xuan wouldn't explain a second time. The chains in his hands transformed into a black longsword, incorporating the sword-slaying incantation from the Seventy-Two Arts into it, along with the Northern Emperor Sword Technique from the Fengdu Northern Emperor True Scripture. The sword light shimmered, like stars.

The old Taoist priest hurriedly said, "Don't be impulsive. I am a high-ranking Taoist priest from Maoshan. How about we stop here and form a good relationship?"

Li Xuan remained silent, then opened his mouth and breathed a burst of flames onto the black sword. The blade burned, turning his face bright red. He then pushed off with his feet and thrust forward!

Knowing that Li Xuan would not give up easily, the old Taoist priest's evil intentions erupted. With his only remaining hand, he frantically waved his whisk, and the silk threads shot out like steel wires, attempting to tear Li Xuan apart.

jump!
jump!
Those tough, sharp steel wires, upon being touched by the black sword, were less than cotton threads, and they all snapped apart...

The black sword cut through the air with unstoppable force, piercing the old Taoist's chest in his horrified gaze. The whisk in his hand fell to the ground, and he reached out to grab the blade, trying to pull it out, but his fingers were severed by the cold light the moment they touched it.

Li Xuan exuded a strong aura of menace.

The old Taoist priest was truly panicked. He hurriedly cried out, "Young friend, young friend, don't do this! I admit defeat, you win! If you stop now, I'm willing to give you the treasures I've accumulated over the years."

Swish!
Li Xuan's black sword slashed upwards, splitting the old Taoist's upper body open. A palm-sized old Taoist emerged from the gap, landing on the ground and then flying away like a rabbit at an astonishing speed.

This……

Nascent Soul?

He had at least read some cultivation novels, so he subconsciously mistook the little boy for a Nascent Soul cultivator. But let alone a Nascent Soul cultivator, even a Foundation Establishment cultivator could fly and escape into the earth. If this was a Nascent Soul cultivator, he would be far too weak.

Li Xuan patted the gourd at his waist, made a hand seal, and shouted, "Where are you going!" The purple-red gourd was extremely convenient for absorbing invisible beings. The miniature old Taoist was running wildly on the ground but found himself retreating. Then, he was lifted into the air and sucked into the gourd.

The gourd was making a gurgling sound.

He picked it up and shook it a few times, and then he faintly heard the old Taoist priest pleading, "Let me go, let me go..."

The door to the Changsheng Inn opened, and Zhang Dadan helped Xu Zhenren carefully walk out. Tan Baiwan followed behind, looking around and asking, "Judge Li, has this evil Taoist been arrested?"

The words "demonic Taoist" made Master Xu, who was standing to the side, feel somewhat uncomfortable. When he was cultivating under his master, the old man taught him in every way how to conduct himself in the world, that only accumulating virtue and doing good deeds was the foundation of cultivation, but now he was being called a demonic Taoist.

Master Xu could not refute it, nor could he.

Because Master's behavior at this moment is indeed very demonic.

Li Xuan nodded and said, "That's how it is for now. Once this matter is settled, it will be a satisfactory explanation to Fellow Daoist Lin Jiu."

Xu Zhenren looked somewhat distraught as he gazed at Qian Kai's charred corpse and said, "Although it is just a mutilated body, I still wish to find a place to bury my senior brother. I wonder if Judge Li would allow it?"

That night, my senior brother was gone, and so was my master.

He was an orphan to begin with, and at that moment he felt the world was incredibly bleak, and all he wanted to do was leave this place...

Li Xuan nodded.

Zhang Dadan hurriedly went over and hoisted Qian Kai's body onto his shoulder, not daring to get too close to Li Xuan. Zhang Dadan leaned against Master Xu and whispered, "He agreed, Master, let's go... Don't worry, you saved my life, I will definitely do good deeds to repay you..."

His honest and simple appearance brought a sense of comfort to Master Xu.

The two, master and apprentice, carried a corpse slowly out of the town until their figures were swallowed by the night...

Tan Baiwan asked, "Should we stay in town or go back to Baiyun Residence?"

Li Xuan said, "Whether the Tan family in Tanjia Town oppresses the people, I will visit the people during the day to inquire. If it is true and the evidence is conclusive, I will remove this malignant tumor before leaving."

Tan Baiwan said, "But the Tan family has developed for a hundred years, and there are thousands of direct descendants alone, not to mention collateral descendants. I, Tan Zongshu, am just a tool to make money on the surface."

Li Xuan laughed and said, "Cause and effect are cyclical. Everyone is afraid of death. Let's see tomorrow..."

The next day, Tanjia Town became lively again. It turned out that the wall of Changsheng Inn, the property of Master Tan, had collapsed, and the bodies of Master Tan and Jinlian lay in the courtyard, their deaths tragic. The onlookers discussed among themselves, using their imaginations to speculate on the cause of death.

An old man said, "Jinlian was Zhang Dadan's wife. It seems that she and Master Tan were having an affair and were discovered by the heavens, so a bolt of lightning struck her down and killed her! Look at how black this wall is; it was obviously caused by lightning. It couldn't have been burned by human hands with torches."

A young man nearby said, "That's not right, sir. Didn't Zhang Dadan's wife, Jinlian, die two days ago? Officer Lin arrested Zhang Dadan on the spot, and the bloody handprint and motive all matched. But I heard that Zhang Dadan escaped from the yamen jail these past two days... Jinlian was already dead, how could she die a second time?"

A coroner examined the wound for a while and said, "Master Tan's right hand tendons were severed, but that's not a fatal injury. He was killed by a single punch. Jinlian is the same; her nasal bridge is sunken, and her entire face has caved in. It would take a fist the size of a sandbag to do that..."

(End of this chapter)