Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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However, the more unexpected the target, the more likely he was to be targeted, and not everyone was as well-informed as the Taoist Association’s review team whose values had been shattered.
When Wei Xi was returning from Liandu Temple, he felt as if something was staring at him outside the car. He turned around and looked around, but there was only a sea of cars and he saw nothing.
He sent a few ghost employees who hadn’t left yet to check, but they couldn’t figure it out. One of the more perceptive ghosts only told him, “I think I smelled a bit of my kind’s scent, but I don’t know where.”
Wei Xi frowned upon hearing this and wanted to get out of the car to check, but his arm was grabbed by his second disciple, who made a hand gesture towards the car window, and the feeling of being spied on instantly disappeared.
The second apprentice said indifferently, “They’re just clowns, don’t bother with them. It’s too late, go back and rest.”
Seeing that he didn’t take the other person seriously, Wei Xi also stopped caring and sat close to his disciple, guessing on the way: “I wonder who is the one who bewitched Kuang Zhiming.”
The apprentice’s hand slid down his arm, wrapped around his palm in the darkness, and with his eyes lowered, he hummed softly, his tone unclear: “Don’t worry about who it is, as long as nothing happens to you.”
Tuan Tuanyi, sitting in the back, was a little worried: “What if they also try to take our master’s soul?”
“Oh,” the junior brother sneered, “then let them give it a try.”
….
Outside the car, on the other side of the elevated highway, a tall, thin man who was staring intently out the window was suddenly thrown back into his seat by the impact. After struggling to get up, everything went black, and he coughed up blood.
His companions in the car were startled and asked him in a panic, “What happened?!”
The tall and thin man frowned, covered his eyes and said in pain, “He was too vigilant. I don’t know what powerful magic weapon he used, but he actually cut off my clairvoyance in one go!”
“But it shouldn’t be enough to make you vomit blood…” a chubby boy muttered. “Senior brother, you failed to hook Kuang Zhiming’s soul just now, and you failed to peek this time either. Do you think your skills are too bad?”
“Bullsh*t!” the tall, thin man roared. “My skills were passed down from my master, how dare you question them!”
The chubby boy felt a little wronged after being yelled at: “…Master, isn’t Master also bedridden and unable to get up because of the backlash from being forced to take a place? Maybe everyone in our sect is just incompetent…”
The tall, thin man, who clearly had a strong sense of collective honor, was so enraged he was speechless and tremblingly yelled, “Shut up! Shut up! You know sh*t!”
The chubby boy didn’t dare to say anything more. Then the pockmarked man next to him asked, “Senior brother, which sect are you targeting? How come they’re so powerful?”
The tall, thin man calmed his anger, frowned in thought, and recalled, “When they left Liandu Temple, someone seemed to mention something called Taicang Sect.”
A companion in the car was stunned when he heard this: “I don’t think I’ve heard of it! Could it be just a small, unknown Taoist temple?”
“Impossible!” The tall, thin man finally regained some strength, propped himself up, and analyzed with a gloomy expression, “The capital is full of hidden talents. Those whose names we haven’t heard of aren’t necessarily small in scale. On the contrary, it may be that their methods are so powerful that they seem more like a reclusive Taoist temple. At least Zhiming only occasionally makes public appearances, which is why we were able to obtain his birth date and time to use for soul-summoning. This Master Wei of the Taicang Sect is probably even more…”
Before the words were even finished, the chubby boy was already looking over with a bewildered expression, holding up his phone.
“Brother, are you talking about the Taicang Sect? They don’t seem to be very secluded.”
The tall, thin man, interrupted from his analysis, hadn’t even had time to get angry before his eyes fell on the phone the chubby boy was holding up to his face—
Taicang Sect v: [Pictures] [Pictures] [Pictures] The sect’s Weibo followers have exceeded 300,000! Retweet this blessing spell and you will receive extraordinary good luck. On New Year’s Eve, a lucky draw will be held to give away a disciple the Pure Heart Mantra hand-painted by Sect Master Wei Xi!
The tall and thin man: “……………………”
The fat boy took back his phone and swiped through it while muttering to himself, “Ah… This is amazing! The leader of their sect was actually an actor before. He’s so handsome, he’s a star. He even has Baidu Encyclopedia. Wow.”
The tall and thin man: “………………”
The little fat boy said: “Baidu Encyclopedia is so detailed, it even has height and birthday. Brother, are these the eight characters we are looking for?”
The tall and thin man: “……………………”
The chubby boy said, “Their sect’s first Weibo post was over a month ago, around the time they were established. So, senior brother, we’re still too weak, right?”
The tall, thin man gritted his teeth and snatched the phone from his mouth: “…Shut up now, immediately!”
….
While Tuan Tuanyi was editing photos of their sect’s team-building activity for the day to post on Weibo, he suddenly remembered something: “Master, it seems that your birth date was included in the Baidu Baike entry that your fans edited for you before. Should I delete it?”
Upon hearing this, Wei Xi peeked over and saw that it was indeed the little unlucky guy’s birthday hanging there. He waved his hand and said, “Don’t worry about it.”
“Really?” Tuan Tuanyi asked, seemingly understanding. “I saw that Taoist Master Kuang and the others were talking so seriously today. I thought that birth dates and eight characters couldn’t be disclosed casually. So there’s no such saying?”
Wei Xi yawned, drowsily hugging the bag of potato chips, and replied vaguely, “It depends on the situation.”
….
It was already late, but some people were still awake. The house was filled with the smoke of incense, and countless paper money and gold ingots were burning in the brazier. Amid the flying paper scraps and ashes in the room, a sudden sound of breaking the silence was heard.
The chubby boy and the pockmarked-faced man squatted tremblingly by the brazier, while the tall, thin man smashed his phone and jumped around furiously in the dark room: “This birth chart belongs to a dead person!! It belongs to a dead person!!”
His body hadn’t fully recovered, yet anger unleashed boundless potential; the pain in his chest and eyes couldn’t stop him from jumping around. He couldn’t accept that this was the result of a whole night of diligent, tiring, and exhausting work. His eyes were bloodshot with rage as he cursed, “Liar!! Bast**d!!! No wonder he dared to put his birth chart on Baidu Baike!!! It’s fake!!!! I’ve wasted all my time!!!!”
The pockmarked man with dark circles under his eyes squatted beside the brazier, busy burning paper money for the underworld messenger. Hearing his senior brother’s nearly explosive roar, he couldn’t help but mutter, “I’ve heard entertainment gossip reporters say that female celebrities falsify their ages as they get older. I didn’t expect male celebrities to do the same. That Taoist Priest Wei looks quite young in the photos, and he still has to falsify this. The entertainment industry must be too difficult.”
The little fat boy squatted beside him, his head nodding, too sleepy to even open his eyelids. He then asked drowsily, “…Who knows? Didn’t he fail to hook the last one too? Maybe it’s because Senior Brother is too weak that he couldn’t hook the soul.”
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