This Taoist Master is too Frivolous

Xu Yang looked up.

In the construction site, uncompleted buildings were unevenly distributed, and tower cranes soared into the night sky.

The moonlight tonight was quite bright.

However, the entire construction site was shrouded in an inexplicable darkness.

The orange lights from the lamps cast eerie shadows everywhere, and the areas not illuminated by the lamps seemed to be hiding something moving stealthily.

A dark cloud seemed to hover over the entire construction site!

Ordinary people with untrained eyes couldn’t see this, but with Xu Yang’s magic, everything was clear!

“This female ghost can provide me with 30 merit points at once. Although it’s not as good as a genuine red-clothed fierce ghost, it’s not too far off!”

Xu Yang became even more puzzled in his thoughts!

This kind of ghost was stronger than the fire ghost and water ghost he had encountered before.

While water and fire ghosts could only control water and fire to harm people, more powerful ghosts could affect people’s spirits, control them to self-harm, or even commit suicide. This was commonly referred to as “possession by a ghost” among the people.

“Old Xu!”

“You finally came!”

Ma Long spotted Xu Yang and immediately jogged up to him, whispering, “These workers want to see how you, a master, catch ghosts… You need to show off your skills later to set their minds at ease, or they might pack up their things and run away in the middle of the night!”

“I know what to do.”

Of course, Xu Yang understood the importance of reassuring people.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have put on his Daoist robe in the store.

Wearing a Bagua Daoist robe, red shoes, a Daoist hat, and holding a peach wood sword, Xu Yang strode confidently towards the project department, his whole body filled with magical energy, exuding an air of an expert!

Ma Long loudly announced, “Everyone, make way… Master Xu is here!”

All eyes were on him.

Xu Yang directed the crowd to bring out a table from the project department, setting up candles, incense burners, glutinous rice, and other ritual tools on it.

Someone among the gathered workers questioned, “This ‘master’ doesn’t even have a beard, and he looks so young and handsome. He doesn’t look like someone with any real skill.”

“Master, show us what you’ve got!”

Someone else started to jeer and even took out their phone to take pictures of Xu Yang.

Xu Yang smiled and flicked his finger, sending a spark from his fingertip to light the candles and incense.

The skeptical person, who apparently knew a thing or two, said, “I’ve seen this trick in movies. The Void Fire Creation is just a sleight of hand using a substance with a low ignition point like white phosphorus or something.”

“Is that so?”

Xu Yang snapped his fingers.

Whoosh!

A fist-sized ball of fire hovered in front of him.

With a wave of his hand, the fireball shot out and crashed into a pile of sand dozens of meters away, causing a loud bang and sending fire and sand flying as if there had been a violent explosion.

He laughed, “Is this a trick?”

For a moment, the onlookers gasped in astonishment, and the skeptical person flushed, unable to say a word for a while.

At the same time–

“Ding!”

“The female ghost is frightened, merit points +30.”

Another system prompt sounded in his mind.

Xu Yang’s thoughts stirred as he scanned his surroundings, not finding any trace of the female ghost, but he could be certain… that the female ghost was hiding somewhere, secretly watching them.

And she seemed to be easily frightened.

So, he pretended to be performing a ceremony, brandishing the peach wood sword according to the movements he remembered from his grandfather’s village rituals.

Xu Yang knew that when a Daoist priest performed a ritual, it was usually accompanied by the recitation of the “Purifying Altar Mantra.”

However…

He didn’t know the Purifying Altar Mantra.

Instead, there was a spell in the Divine Ascension Scripture called the “Golden Light Mantra,” one of the eight major Daoist spells!

With the peach wood sword in hand and stepping on the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, Xu Yang chanted the “Golden Light Mantra” with thunderous vigor, saying–

“Heaven and Earth’s Mysterious Ancestor, the root of all Qi!”

“Cultivate throughout countless eons, manifest my divine power!”

“Within and beyond the three realms, only the Dao is supreme!”

“My body bathes in golden light, reflecting on my form!”

“Invisible and inaudible, guard the heaven and earth… The golden light swiftly appears, protecting the Supreme Sage, swiftly following the command, evil spirits and malevolent beings, quickly reveal your form!”

A corner of a building.

Here, the Yin wind blows, and a female ghost hides in the shadows.

She is dressed in red, and from the moment Xu Yang entered the construction site gate, she saw him.

“Ghost King… Why does this Taoist have the aura of the Ghost King… It’s terrifying. Could he actually be a Ghost King, coming to take me as his wife to rule the village?”

“All!”

“Fire Manipulation Skill, entering the realm of Dao?”

“What should I do… what should I do… A skilled person has come to catch me, wuuu wuuu!”

The female ghost was scared to tears, her crying accompanied by the sound of the Yin wind.

As Xu Yang began the ceremony and recited the “Golden Light Mantra,” the female ghost saw in her eyes yet another scene… She saw that on the Taoist priest’s body seemed to radiate an endless golden light!

Streams of golden light, similar to sunlight, emitted a scorching radiance. Even at a distance of several hundred meters, it burned her body, producing blue smoke.

At that moment.

In Xu Yang’s mind, system prompts rang one after another.

This female ghost, however, broke down in tears.

“Ding!”

“The female ghost was frightened, merit points +30.”

“Ding!”

“The female ghost was frightened, merit points +30.”

“Ding…”

“Awesome!”

Xu Yang, performing the ceremony, listened to the continuous system prompts in his ear, saw the merit points in the attribute panel steadily increasing, and felt as if his entire body was floating!

This is way too awesome, right?

I didn’t do anything, just pretended to perform a ceremony, didn’t even see a ghost, and in just a short while, I’ve already earned over four hundred merit points.

“Keep performing the ceremony!”

“Keep reciting the Golden Light Mantra!”

“I will do it until dawn… Huh?”

Just then, intermittent weeping suddenly began.

Xu Yang stopped in his tracks, no longer reciting the “Golden Light Mantra,” and looked up toward the building not far away.

Many onlookers among the workers also looked in that direction.

It could be heard that the weeping was coming from that building.

Soon.

The intermittent weeping grew louder, like a little girl who had been frightened, sounding quite helpless.

“Ghost!”

“It’s the red-clothed female ghost weeping!”

Someone whispered, frightening the workers into involuntarily backing away.

Xu Yang stepped forward and reassured, “Don’t be afraid, everyone. You’ll be fine with me here… In that case, I’ll go to that building and find out what’s going on!”

As the saying goes, the more skilled one is, the bolder they are.

Xu Yang, with a peach wood sword in hand, took another “Suppress Evil and Break Malevolent Energies Talisman” left by the old master and walked to the building.

There, he saw…

In the corner of the unfinished building, a red-clothed female ghost sat on the ground, her hands wrapped around her chest, her body shivering as she wept.

“Ding!”

“The female ghost was frightened, merit points +30.”

“Ding…”

Xu Yang laughed and said, “Hey… little sister, why are you crying so sadly?”

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