Only I Have the Law: A Fantasy Daily Life

Chapter 154 The sky over Chengdu has darkened.

While carrying the wooden box in one hand, he walked down the road.

Chen Baiyu took out his phone with his right hand, opened WeChat, and couldn't help but chat with Li Jinsong via text message.

[Lili Planting White Elms]: Mr. Li, I received the items. Thank you so much! The packaging was very secure; it took me ages to unpack them.

As he spoke, he first sent a thank-you emoji, which was a panda with its hands clasped in a gesture of respect.

He then sent a message to express his gratitude.

[Lili Planting White Elms]: Thank you, thank you. I'll send you some local specialties that my mom sent from Jiangsu when I have time.

【Lili Planting White Elms】: But this pile of your certificates is really impressive.

As he spoke, he quickly snapped a close-up photo of the stack of certificates and documents bearing various red stamps in the wooden crate and clicked send.

[Evening White Elms]: Document.jpg
Chen Baiyu sent a thank you message to the other side.

He really liked the bows and arrows that Li Jinsong had given him and was eager to find a place to play with them right away.

Although this kind of thing is basically just a toy to him, how many men can resist such a big toy?
This is a love for weapons that is ingrained in one's bones.

It's the fighting instinct in men's genes.

However, he couldn't help but complain.

This pile of documents really looks impressive.

Considering the time it took to prepare these bows and arrows, Li Jinsong probably only spent a little over half a day preparing a bunch of documents without Chen Baiyu himself even being present.

The amount of energy it exerted is evident.

[Loyal to the Arrow, Extreme to the Arrow]: It's a minor issue; I just made a few casual phone calls.

Li Jinsong responded quickly.

They did not take credit or elaborate on this aspect.

However, there was a hint of confidence in his tone.

However, Li Jinsong was able to complete such comprehensive, even "extraordinary," procedures for these theoretically required devices in such a short time, without Chen Baiyu's presence at all! The connections and influence required behind this were far more than just a few phone calls.

The efficiency is astonishingly high.

See this.

Chen Baiyu replied subconsciously.

[Planting white elms]: 666, they're not even going to perform anymore.

[Planting white elms]: The sky over Chengdu has darkened!
Faced with Chen Baiyu's irrepressible teasing, Li Jinsong didn't act like an old man and replied in a joking tone.

[Loyal to the arrow, extreme to the arrow]: What a joke, the sky has never brightened! [Smirking emoji]
[Loyal to the Arrow, Ultimate in the Arrow]: Just kidding, I always follow the rules, follow the rules! [Clenched fist emoji][Dog emoji for protection]
Seeing this, Chen Baiyu smiled and exchanged a few more pleasantries.

He then sent messages to Zhang Yuanzhi and Zhao Lei to express his gratitude, and politely declined their invitations to go out again, which they both tacitly agreed to.

After chatting for a while longer.

He put down his phone, put it away, and carried the wooden crate back towards his home.

However, when I passed by a familiar building...

A peculiar smell suddenly entered my nasal cavity!

The smell was strong and complex.

This was quite different from the scents of flowers, herbs, and woods that Chen Baiyu usually smelled.

He relied on the heightened senses he had gained after being enhanced by the system.

It can achieve an exaggerated sense of smell, like those in some detective dramas, and can clearly distinguish several elements contained within something, just like a police dog.

This is not an exaggeration.

First, there's an intense, almost overwhelming scent, similar to sandalwood but sweeter, with the aroma of some kind of essential oil mixture.

Secondly, it was mixed with a very distinct dry, burnt smell, like the smell of someone burning paper money during the Qingming Festival.

These flavors were forcibly mixed together.

It's just like……

The smell of incense burning and praying in temples and Taoist monasteries?

Chen Baiyu recalled from her own memories.

We worked hard to find out what smell this scent would be most similar to.

at the same time.

A series of rhythmic metallic clanging sounds began to clearly reach my ears.

"Clang... clang... clang..."

The sound is very rhythmic.

The timbre and audio sound sharp and short.

Chen Baiyu didn't find the voice as unfamiliar as she did with the smell.

Because it is highly recognizable.

Chen Baiyu immediately recognized that it was the sound of a copper bell being shaken.

now.

Each shake was accompanied by the crisp sound of the bell tongue striking the copper wall, which sounded particularly abrupt in the quiet morning.

Accompanied by the sound of bells.

There also seemed to be a low, indistinct, and rhythmic voice mixed in, as if someone were reciting some kind of obscure incantation. Besides that...

The low murmurs of the surrounding crowd as they watched the spectacle continued unabated.

Chen Baiyu subconsciously paused slightly.

He frowned almost imperceptibly and looked in the direction of the smell and sound.

In the center of the open space not far away, a simple altar was set up!

That's right, it's the kind of altar that Taoist priests often use when performing rituals, as seen on TV.

It was made up of several square tables, covered with a bright yellow tablecloth, and filled with all sorts of dazzling objects.

There are several statues of different shapes on the altar.

Judging from the material, it appears to be made of porcelain, indicating that the ceremony was not of a high standard.

There was a bronze incense burner with burning incense and candles, on which several thick red candles and incense sticks were burning and rising thick blue smoke.

There were several plates of plastic fruit and pastries offered as sacrifices.

In addition, there were also a large number of paper money cut from yellow paper.

Some of them were piled on the jar, while others were being thrown into a large enamel basin next to it and burned.

The flickering firelight illuminated the faces of those around them, its glow shifting and changing.

Standing directly in front of the altar was a Taoist priest dressed in a dark blue robe and wearing a Taoist hat.

The Taoist priest was about forty or fifty years old.

His face was slightly yellow, and he had two thin, long mustaches.

His expression was solemn, his eyes half-open and half-closed.

He muttered incantations, making low, indistinct sounds.

He held a copper coin sword in his left hand and a bright yellow copper bell in his right, which he shook rhythmically and vigorously with the slight swaying of his body and the movements of his steps.

Around the altar.

A sparse crowd of about a dozen residents had gathered to watch the commotion. Most of them were elderly people and middle-aged women with children.

They were pointing and whispering.

Chen Baiyu was stunned for a moment when he saw this scene.

Or rather, in this day and age, anyone who sees this scene would be stunned for a moment.

Why would a Taoist priest be performing rituals in a residential area?
Chen Baiyu paused for a moment, curious.

He noticed that this building was where Guo Feiyang died.

That's where the thug who was scared to death by him lived.

Could it be that……

While thinking.

With his keen hearing, he quickly gleaned what was going on from the conversation between the old woman at the front of the crowd and those around her.

Just as he guessed.

Guo Feiyang's death made his elderly landlord somewhat uneasy, so he spent money to hire a Taoist priest to perform a ritual to exorcise the evil spirits.

Figure this out.

Chen Baiyu couldn't help but take a closer look at the Taoist ritual scene, which she rarely saw.

It doesn't look special.

Taoist practices are not common nowadays, and most young people consider them feudal superstitions.

But speaking of it.

If supernatural powers exist in reality, Taoist priests are probably one of the groups most likely to possess them.
They have a long tradition and advocate seclusion and spiritual practice.

If there truly are extraordinary powers in this world, they cannot be separated from this group.

However, in his observation...

During the Taoist priest's ritual, he did not notice anything unusual.

Even when they got closer and observed with their divine sense, they couldn't detect any abnormal energy flow.

Theoretically speaking.

If his divine sense can observe the flow of magical power, then he should also be able to observe other extraordinary powers.

He has now used his divine sense but has gained nothing.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for this Taoist priest to possess extraordinary powers.

While thinking.

Having lost interest, he was about to turn and leave.

Suddenly, I heard the system's voice in my ear.

【drop! 】

[An attempt to imitate ritual magic has been detected. As a returnee of all magic, you have gleaned a sliver of the true essence of ritual magic from your clumsy imitation!]

[A series of quests has been triggered!]

(End of this chapter)