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

Chapter 31: Seeking Qi
After comforting his second sister, Li Yan did not return to the courtyard.

Instead, he walked straight out of the house.

He learned the art of finding qi from an old Taoist priest.

I just smelled a hint of magic from my second sister. Now, maybe I can use this hint to find the person behind the scenes.

Thinking of this, a hint of murderous intent appeared in his eyes.

This evil cultivator's attack on his second sister has already touched his bottom line.

Of course he won't let it go.

Li Yan made hand gestures and chanted a spell, and a wisp of black gas in the cloth bag was summoned out by him.

After the black gas was summoned by Li Yan, it floated above his head, and then flew directly in one direction, pointing a direction for him.

"It's actually in the city?"

Li Yan looked a little surprised.

He has only just mastered the art of searching for Qi, so the distance he can search is limited.

Now the Qi-finding technique has pointed him in the direction, which means that the person behind the scenes is not far away.

He should be hiding somewhere in the city now.

Li Yan pinched his fingers together, and it seemed as if a stream of fresh air lifted him up from under his feet, making his body feel much lighter.

Then he quickly rushed towards the direction pointed by the black gas.

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"Ahem...why are there still cultivators in this city?"

Inside the room, a few traces of blood flowed from the corner of the black-robed evil cultivator's mouth, and his face turned black.

Just now he felt that the bewitching technique he cast was interrupted by the cultivator, which caused him to suffer some backlash.

What puzzled him was that there should be only one practitioner, the old Taoist, in Hengjiang Prefecture, so how come another practitioner suddenly appeared?

Moreover, he was able to interrupt his bewitching technique, so his level must be very high, at least at the Three Souls level.

"Forget it. Since we have been discovered, there is no chance anymore. We can only leave the city first."

The evil cultivator's mission failed and he could only prepare to leave.

He changed into a coarse grey shirt, his skin was dyed a dry yellow with some unknown pigment, and his hair became dry and grey. He looked no different from an ordinary country old man.

He left the house and came into the yard.

There is a jujube tree planted in the yard. Its branches and leaves have withered and the ground is covered with fallen leaves. There is a rope tied to the tree, trapping two weak-looking goats under the tree.

Seeing the evil cultivator coming out, the goat looked at him with tears in its eyes and made bleating sounds, looking very pitiful.

But the evil cultivator was not moved at all.

He had a one-foot-long thin wooden stick in his hand, and one end of the stick was tied with a three-foot-long hemp rope, forming a short whip.

"Clap!"

He swung the whip in his hand hard and hit the two goats severely.

After being hit like this, the two goats made louder noises from their mouths, and it seemed as if they were about to shed tears.

He sneered, made a gesture with his fingers, and the cries from the two goats disappeared instantly.

Then he left the yard, holding a whip in one hand and leading two goats in the other, and walked towards the city gate.

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Li Yan followed the direction indicated by the black air and soon passed by a small courtyard.

He noticed that there seemed to be a trace of evil spirit remaining in the courtyard, but the people inside had disappeared.

"He ran pretty fast."

Li Yan glanced at the courtyard and continued to rush in the direction indicated by the black air.

Then, just as he crossed three streets and was about to reach the city gate, the black gas suddenly fell.

Li Yan's eyes flashed with intelligence.

Then he noticed a shepherd with a simple and honest look, leading two sheep in his hands, and heading towards the city gate.

The black gas stopped above the shepherd's head and then stopped moving.

In an instant.

Li Yan stared at the shepherd. The shepherd also noticed the black air above his head, and his expression suddenly changed.

His eyes met Li Yan's cold gaze and his heart trembled.

"Discovered?"

The evil cultivator disguised as a shepherd showed a hint of shock on his face.

Although Li Yan has not shown his full power yet, his huge vitality is enough to frighten him.

Not long after that, he was caught up by the practitioners.

He did not dare to take any chances and directly loosened the reins of the two sheep in his hands. He pinched his fingers and suddenly disappeared from the spot.

"The method of relocation?"

Li Yan's expression was cold and his eyes moved towards the city gate.

The evil cultivator suddenly appeared dozens of feet away, only one step away from passing through the city gate.

The people around did not notice the evil cultivator who suddenly appeared in front of them.

"Can you escape?"

Li Yan snorted coldly, and also made hand gestures. His figure also disappeared from the spot, only two or three feet away from the evil cultivator.

"Golden Needle Technique!"

Li Yan's mind moved, and all the golden needles in the storage bag were taken out, activating this magic spell that he had already practiced to perfection.

Hundreds of golden needles were like a golden silk thread, drawing a perfect arc in the air.

When the evil cultivator sensed the sharp aura behind him, he felt as if all the hair on his body stood up and a sense of crisis of death rose in his heart.

Li Yan is now going all out.

Therefore, he clearly felt Li Yan's profound Taoist attainments, and he believed that he was a high-level wizard with four perfect spirits.

In moments of crisis, he felt that he was mentally clear.

Due to the huge gap in their abilities, he didn't dare to even think of resisting and just wanted to escape as quickly as possible.

He turned around and stretched out his left and right hands, grabbing two ordinary people who were confused about the situation and throwing them directly into Li Yan's spell, trying to buy time to escape.

Then he made hand gestures, trying to activate the teleportation technique again.

"Object Control Technique!"

Faced with the evil cultivator's response, Li Yan did not panic at all and made gestures with his hands.

The perfection of the Golden Needle Technique, coupled with the newly cultivated object control technique, made his control over this magic extremely strong.

The next moment, the golden streak directly split into hundreds of golden lines, passing by the two people thrown by the evil cultivator, and then the speed suddenly increased and directly penetrated into the body of the evil cultivator.

The evil cultivator's method of relocation took effect, and his figure appeared dozens of feet away.

But he was no longer breathing, his eyes were wide open, his body fell heavily, and blood slowly flowed out of him.

Li Yan flashed to the evil cultivator's corpse, recalled the golden needle, wiped off the blood on it with the cleaning technique, and took back the storage bag.

Then he stretched out his hand, and the storage bag hanging on the corpse's waist flew up and fell into his palm.

The people at the city gate made a chaotic noise, and the two people thrown out by the evil cultivator hit other people and started quarreling.

For a moment, there was chaos at the city gate.

On Li Yan's side, some soldiers also discovered something unusual and hurriedly brought people over.

Li Yan and several other soldiers approached and said calmly, "I am Li Yan. You take this man's body back to the government office and hand it over to the prefect. Then tell him that this man must be the real culprit behind the missing persons case."

After saying that, he did not stay here any longer. His figure flashed and disappeared.

He just saw that the two sheep led by the evil cultivator were surrounded by black gas, which was very abnormal.

It was only because the evil cultivator escaped too quickly that he didn't have time to see what was going on.

Now is a good time to go and have a look.

He always felt that there was something unusual about those two sheep.

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