Chapter 27 - Engage in a Magical Duel to Exorcise Evil

Li Hao harbored an intense hatred for these two individuals. If it hadn't been for them, he wouldn't have ended up in his current predicament. Li Hao was a person so self-centered that he never blamed himself but always held others accountable. Li Hao spent several more years recuperating in the Taoist temple. He gathered up the gold, silver, and jewels that the old Taoist had previously plundered, packed them up, and went down the mountain to seek revenge. He sold two gold ingots on the black market, exchanged them for some Renminbi, and then bought a train ticket to return home. Upon returning to his hometown, no one recognized him. His parents passed away not long after he fled, and his two elder sisters had married and moved far away. Li Hao's actions had brought so much shame to the family that his parents had been so enraged that they died of a broken heart. The two elder sisters didn't want to listen to the gossip anymore, so they simply married into distant places to avoid the trouble. When Li Hao passed by his own house, he didn't even go in. He just saw that the house was abandoned and in such a dilapidated state that it was uninhabitable. After making some inquiries, he learned that Li Mei had married Zhu Chenggang. He heard that Zhu Chenggang had saved the beauty in distress and finally won her heart. They had even given birth to a son and a daughter. Hearing this, Li Hao's hatred burned even more fiercely. Li Hao rented a room in the town and settled down, planning to gradually deal with this family. When he heard that Li Mei's daughter-in-law was pregnant and would give birth soon, he came up with an idea: to turn her and the unborn baby into the Mother and Child Twin Fiends. He intended to use the Mother and Child Twin Fiends to wipe out Li Mei's entire family, and at the same time, they could become his powerful allies. So he waited for another two months before taking action, as the fetus had already reached full term. Xiao Jiu went to Li Mei's house to check on her daughter-in-law. It seemed that his mother had arrived just in time and cast a spell to protect the fetus. Otherwise, in another two days, even if Li Mei's daughter-in-law could be saved, the fetus would be useless. Because it had been so severely damaged by the magic, it would be born an idiot. Xiao Jiu didn't waste any time on idle talk. He directly asked his elder brother to take out cinnabar, a brush, and talisman paper. With a bold stroke, he wrote a Five Thunder Evil Exorcising Talisman. He asked Li Mei to bring a bowl of boiled water, burned the talisman in it, and gave the mixture to the pregnant woman to drink. When Xiao Jiu first arrived, Li Mei stared at him in disbelief. Wasn't this just a young child who had barely been weaned? He said to his younger aunt, "I'm so worried right now, and you brought a child here to play a joke on me." His younger aunt, Zeng Wenna, had witnessed Xiao Jiu's abilities with her own eyes. If it weren't for Xiao Jiu's intention to avenge his mother, he wouldn't have come even if they had begged him. His elder sister had said that all the money in the family was earned by Xiao Jiu, and the Crown car parked at the door was also a gift from another boss. Xiao Jiu's current level of cultivation might even be more powerful than his elder sister's master, who was a nun. He was a genius in practicing magic. Anyway, from the way his elder sister talked, Xiao Jiu was extremely capable. Zeng Wenna thought to herself that she had really had good judgment in the past when she wanted to adopt Xiao Jiu as her son. But her husband had disagreed, saying that raising a young child was difficult and expensive, and it would be more cost-effective to adopt an older one. Otherwise, Xiao Jiu would have been her son. The younger aunt said to Li Mei, "This is my elder sister's son. He's very powerful. If I hadn't begged him and if he didn't want to help avenge my mother, you couldn't have hired him no matter how much money you offered. Do you know that a Hong Kong boss gave him a Crown car just for asking him to name his son and daughter?" "Think about it. How much money would you have to pay to hire him? You're treating my kindness like dirt. If you don't believe me, I'll take him and leave right now." Li Mei quickly grabbed her younger aunt's hand and said, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to doubt you." After their daughter-in-law drank the talisman water, black smoke rose from her body. After the black smoke emerged, it formed into一个个骷髅头 (one by one, skulls). Xiao Jiu had been prepared. He made a magic seal and said, "Exorcise evil." The skulls seemed to have encountered something terrifying. They let out a惨叫, and half of the black smoke dissipated. The remaining black smoke directly fled. Li Mei's family was stunned. They clearly saw that evil thing and even heard its惨叫声. Xiao Jiu had deliberately let it run away. Otherwise, with a single strike of thunder, he could have eliminated it completely. Xiao Jiu was deliberately luring the enemy. If he had eliminated it all at once, the mastermind behind the scenes would surely have fled. So he only eliminated half of it and let it go back to report, in order to draw out the person behind the scenes. He wanted the other side to think that the person who had come this time was nothing special. When Li Mei's family saw the thing run away, they asked Xiao Jiu, "Little mage, will that evil thing come back?" Xiao Jiu waved his little hand and said, "It's okay. I deliberately let it go." "If that thing dares to come tonight, it will be its doom." Xiao Jiu drew several more talismans. He pasted one on Li Mei's daughter-in-law and distributed one to each person in the family. He said, "Stick these on your foreheads tonight. Just stand there and watch. Don't move around." Li Mei's son asked Xiao Jiu how his wife was. Xiao Jiu said, "It's okay. She'll wake up tomorrow. If it weren't for my mother casting a spell to protect your wife and the fetus the other day, they would have been doomed." "If you want to thank someone, thank my mother. Otherwise, even if your wife was saved, the fetus would have been born an idiot." The whole family was very grateful to Xiao Jiu and quickly slaughtered a chicken and cooked dishes to entertain him. After dinner, Xiao Jiu said to them, "I'll come back at nine o'clock tonight. You can set up a table, place an incense burner, three cups of wine, three cups of tea, three kinds of fruits, and a plate of glutinous rice." After saying that, Xiao Jiu ignored them and directly went back to his younger aunt's house with his elder brother. The family hurried to prepare the things. At a little after eight o'clock in the evening, Xiao Jiu was woken up by his elder brother, Liu Heping. He washed his face and then went to Li Mei's house. Seeing that everything was ready, Xiao Jiu picked up the talisman brush and started writing talismans. Xiao Jiu knew that the other side was practicing the Soul Summoning Flag technique. It seemed that the other side had killed dozens of people. Such an evil person couldn't be allowed to live. He decided to use the same method against the enemy. Xiao Jiu drew the Vajra Dissolving Talisman of the Emei Sect. This kind of talisman was used to dissolve the resentment of the imprisoned ghosts. Only by dissolving the resentment could these people enter the Underworld and be reincarnated. Xiao Jiu thought these people were really pitiful. They couldn't even find peace after death. They were turned into a Soul Summoning Flag and imprisoned in it, unable to be reincarnated for all eternity. He also drew a Breaking Talisman, which was specifically used to break the restrictions that imprisoned the ghosts. After the preparations were done, Xiao Jiu lit three incense sticks, bowed three times, and then inserted them into the incense burner. He asked his elder brother to move a chair and sat there waiting. When the ghosts in the Soul Summoning Flag escaped back, Li Hao knew that someone was meddling again. The ghosts had lost half of their yin qi. It seemed that a more powerful person had been invited. Li Hao planned to cast a spell at night to find out who was so bold as to oppose him and make these people suffer a miserable death. At night, Li Hao set up a magic altar in his room. In the middle of the altar, he inserted a small flag. Li Hao chanted incantations, and black mist emerged from the small flag. He took out a handful of dark things from a jar and scattered them into the black mist. The black mist, as if it had taken a powerful tonic, immediately formed into a skull. The skull was twice as big as before, and this large skull was composed of more than a dozen small skulls. Li Hao took out a knife, let some blood flow from his hand into a bowl, and then burned a talisman in the bowl. Li Hao picked up the bowl and splashed the blood onto the skull. Immediately, the black mist reacted and turned red. Li Hao took the flag, waved it over a basin of water on the ground, dripped a drop of blood into it, and then pointed at the skull. The red skull flashed and disappeared. The skull came above Li Mei's house. Xiao Jiu opened his eyes and looked at the skull above his head. Seeing that it had turned red, he knew that the other side had used the Blood Sacrifice technique. Sacrificing blood to the yin spirits made them more than ten times more powerful. But Xiao Jiu was naturally their nemesis. He directly chanted incantations and used the Five Thunder Imprisonment technique to nail the red skull in the sky. Then he grabbed dozens of talismans, set them on fire, and threw them into the sky. These talismans, as if they had a spirit of their own, floated onto the red skull. There were crackling sounds on the red skull, and it also emitted golden light. The red skull disintegrated and turned back into human figures, which even bowed to Xiao Jiu. Xiao Jiu burned another解禁符 (Restriction Removal Talisman) and threw it towards these human figures, saying, "You can go back now. Avenge your grievances and grudges, and then you can go to the Underworld and be reincarnated." Xiao Jiu called his elder brother and said to him, "Don't let anyone disturb me while I'm sitting on this chair. Wait until I stand up by myself." Last night, he sat on the chair, closed his eyes, and his Yang Spirit left his body. He followed those ghosts directly to Li Hao's place. Li Hao could see everything clearly through the basin of water. He was using the Water Moon Mirror Image magic technique. Using his own blood as a medium, he could see the scene clearly. But Xiao Jiu used the Breaking Vajra Talisman to completely destroy his Water Moon Mirror Image. Li Hao knew that he had encountered a powerful being, but he never expected it to be a child. He immediately went back to his room to pack his things and tried to flee. But the speed of Xiao Jiu's Yang Spirit and the ghosts was too fast. They returned to the original place in just a few seconds. The ghosts rushed into the small flag on the altar. The small flag spontaneously caught fire, and the restrictions on the ghosts were also lifted. They all pounced on Li Hao in the room. But Li Hao took out a pitch-black sword from his bag. He said to dozens of ghosts, "You're far from being able to avenge yourselves." The ghosts didn't dare to approach when they saw this sword. Xiao Jiu couldn't stand it and thought, "What's so great about it?" He directly unleashed a Five Thunderbolt Strike, which blew the sword to pieces. This top-level magic weapon, made from human bones and having drunk the blood of countless people, was gone just like that.