Starting with Taoist priests from Maoshan to cultivate immortality

Inside the woman's bedroom.

The portly Master Li led seven or eight servants armed with sticks, their faces solemn, their eyes sincere and clear:

"Master Daoist, may I ask you a question?"

Jiang Yu straightened his disheveled blue Taoist robe, covering his half-exposed shoulders, and bowed respectfully.

"Please speak, layperson!"

Master Li's eyelids twitched, and his voice was filled with anger:

"Why are you riding on my wife?"

Jiang Yu not only didn't come down, but instead pressed down hard, and said seriously:

"This humble Taoist priest is exorcising demons, do you believe me?"

Beneath her, the wealthy man's plump body twisted and struggled, crying pitifully:

"My lord! I only wish to take advantage of this opportunity to 'protect the house' and ask this Taoist priest to draw a few talismans to ward off evil and disaster."

"Who would have thought that this so-called evil Taoist priest, at such a young age, would be such a lecherous devil, attempting to commit indecent acts against me?"

"You must stand up for me!"

The master's wife wept bitterly, her face streaked with tears, moving everyone present.

Only Jiang Yu, perched on top of her, quietly watched her perform.

The mistress of the wealthy family covered her face with a silk handkerchief and stole a glance at Jiang Yu:

"How could I, a mere woman, smear someone else's reputation with my own purity?"

Jiang Yu thought:

"That's because you weren't born in a 'good' era!"

The wealthy man's wife pointed four fingers to the sky and swore an oath through gritted teeth:

"If what I am saying is a lie, I will never be able to have a son in my life."

These words were like a sharp knife piercing Li Yuanwai's heart. He was over forty years old and had no children.

"My wife is virtuous and kind; how could she be insulted like this for no reason!"

You liar!

"We've offered incense at your Qingfeng Temple year after year, yet we haven't even seen a single sign of pregnancy!" The more Master Li thought about it, the angrier he became, trembling all over.

"Men, give them a good beating!"

Immediately, seven or eight sticks came crashing down on him.

"Go find whoever collected the incense offerings, why are you bothering me!" Jiang Yu stood up to dodge, a cinnabar talisman appearing in his hand:

"May the Three Mao True Lords protect me!"

As spiritual energy was injected, an oval-shaped light shield with a radius of about one foot formed around Jiang Yu's body.

Click!

When the sticks struck it, they all snapped in two.

The servants screamed in fright:

"Oh no! The sorcerer has used his magic!"

Jiang Yu shook his head helplessly:

"How ignorant! You don't even know what the Vajra Talisman is."

Jiang Yu appeared relaxed, but inwardly he felt a pang of regret.

With his current level of cultivation, it would take him a whole day to draw a low-grade Vajra Talisman.

We'll have to charge double the exorcism fee later!

No, three times!

Jiang Yu glanced at the long scar on the master's wife's chest, his face solemn:

"You audacious fiend, you can fool others, but you can't fool me!"

"Do you really think I, a Taoist priest of the Maoshan School, am just for show?"

As he spoke, a low-grade [Revealing Talisman] appeared in his right hand:

"Sanmao Zhenjun, shatter your illusions and restore your true nature!"

"Shoot!"

The talisman burst into flames with a 'boom,' transforming into a streak of azure light that shot into the opponent's body.

"what!"

A wisp of white smoke rose from the wealthy man's head, his body writhed, and he let out a piercing scream.

"Madam..." Master Li looked anxious.

Gradually, the mistress's skin dripped like burning wax, piercing through the bedding and stirring up wisps of white mist.

Finally, a hideous demon with a greenish-blue face and sharp teeth was revealed to everyone.

Jiang Yu smiled slightly:

"Turns out it was just a painted-skin ghost."

This ghost is formed from resentment and is good at wearing human skin. It loves to disguise itself as a beautiful woman to accompany people, absorb their yang energy, and devour their hearts and livers.

The painted-skin demon's true form was exposed, and its pair of crimson eyes almost bulged out of their sockets:

"You dare ruin my precious skin? I'll slaughter you all!"

With a powerful kick, her sharp, ghostly claws aimed straight for the vital points of everyone present.

In an instant, a servant was pierced through the heart.

The splattered slime splashed onto the other servants, instantly corroding their flesh to the bone and emitting a foul stench.

"A ghost! Help!"

The surviving servants were terrified and fled in panic, scrambling to escape.

"Are you guys just there to create a lively atmosphere? All you do is yell!"

Jiang Yu rolled his eyes, grabbed the trembling Li Yuanwai by the hand, and teased him:

"Mr. Li, is this your virtuous and kind wife?"

Gently push him forward:

"Why don't you two have some sweet time together?"

Master Li was so terrified that he spoke in a trembling voice:

"Master, I was blind before... please kill this evil spirit!"

Jiang Yu's lips curled slightly. He glanced casually at the broken stick on the ground and drawled:

"That's for sure. Since our founder established the Maoshan Sect, we have always taken it upon ourselves to subdue demons and save the world."

Even if you just insulted me and sent people to beat me with sticks, I won't hold a grudge!

"The Taoist priest is indeed magnanimous..." Before Master Li could finish speaking, he realized he was still moving forward, so he quickly braced his feet against the ground.

"Hey, don't push me forward!"

Master Li was shrewd and immediately understood, and said loudly:

"I'll pay double the exorcism fee!"

Jiang Yu still had a smile on his face, and his strength in his hands did not lessen.

"Does it have to be three times the price?" Master Li's voice cracked, his fat face jiggling, his eyes filled with heartache.

"This is worse than killing me! How much money do I earn in a whole year?"

Jiang Yu said slowly and deliberately:

"The reason you have been unable to have children for so many years is because this ghost has drained your vital energy."

"Otherwise, the kids would be old enough to run errands by now."

"What!" Upon hearing this, Master Li's eyebrows shot up.

"I'll give you five times the exorcism fee, so don't let her go!"

"Master Li, you're too kind!" Jiang Yu said with a beaming smile, pulling over a stool and pressing down on his shoulder.

"Come, please sit down!"

Even after he sat down on the stool, Master Li was still somewhat dazed:

"Has it changed that much?"

Instead of attacking Jiang Yu directly, the painted-skin ghost took out a tiger skin stained with corpse oil from under her skirt and draped it over the body of the dead servant.

The servant's body made a series of "popping" sounds as his muscles rapidly expanded, transforming him into a burly man two meters tall in the blink of an eye.

"Skin manipulation technique!"

Jiang Yu narrowed his eyes slightly.

There are very few painted-skin demons who can master this skill.

The painted-skin demon grinned maliciously, saying:

"You are just a weak Taoist priest at the first level of Qi Refining, and your body is frail. You are no match for my 'Tiger Puppet' at all."

"I'm going to break your arms and legs, and then slowly torture you for three days and three nights."

Then, she pointed at Master Li, gritting her teeth:

"Li Shoucai, we were husband and wife, and you want to kill me just because I absorbed your yang energy for a few years!"

Today I will massacre the Li family village, leaving no one alive!

Master Li's legs went weak, and he almost fell off the stool.

Comparing Jiang Yu's physique to that of the tiger puppet, this Taoist priest would probably be flattened with a single slap.

Just then, the low-grade Vajra Talisman, which had a time limit of only one minute, shattered and dissipated.

"Taoist priest, perhaps we should run away first!" Master Li turned around, wanting his servants to persuade him.

"Don't you think so?"

As a result, they had long since vanished without a trace.

"These heartless lackeys... they didn't even take me with them!" Master Li feigned anger, got up, and walked towards the door.

Jiang Yu pressed him back down:

"It's alright, Master Li, please have a seat!"

Jiang Yu shrugged, and his Taoist robe fell off, revealing his fair skin.

Master Li dug his toes into the ground, and as if possessed, said:

"Master, you're even fairer than my wife!"

Jiang Yu swayed slightly, and the aura he had just gathered almost dissipated.

He regained his footing, suddenly exerted force throughout his body, his muscles bulging like gnarled tree roots, and with a light punch, the surrounding air crackled.

Jiang Yu spread his fists to the left and right, and slowly said:

"Besides devoting myself to Taoist cultivation, I also have some knowledge of martial arts."

Master Li's eyes widened, and upon comparison, the Taoist priest was no less impressive than the tiger puppet.

"Mountain-Suppressing Fist!"

Jiang Yu strode forward, his fist erupting like a mountain rock, striking straight at the target's core.

"Bang—Crack!"

Wherever the fist struck, the tiger puppet's chest, which had swelled to its limit, was instantly ripped open, and foul-smelling corpse oil and shattered bone fragments flew everywhere.

In just one round, Jiang Yu destroyed the Tiger Puppet that the Painted Skin Demon was so proud of.

The painted-skin demon trembled, his eyes filled with disbelief:

"This can't be! It must be a hallucination!"

Is it reasonable for a Taoist priest to have physical strength comparable to that of a body cultivator?

"Palm Thunder!"

Taking advantage of the moment when he was distracted, Jiang Yu seized the opportunity, and a thread-like arc of electricity lit up his palm as he struck the head of the Painted Skin Ghost.

This is the signature skill of the Maoshan Taoist priests.

With his current magical power, he can only cast it twice at most.

"what!"

The painted-skin demon gripped its head tightly, letting out a piercing shriek:

"You filthy Taoist priest, my elder brother will avenge me!"

boom!

The electric arc exploded, and the painted-skin ghost's body turned into a puddle of mud and disintegrated.

……

hum!

In Jiang Yu's eyes, three golden copper coins connected end to end quietly appeared.

A line of small, ink-wash-like characters lit up on the left coin:

"Dangerous Mission: Exorcising Demons and Slaying Evil"

The task of slaying the Skin-Painting Demon of Li Family Village is now complete.

Rewards settlement, from *Shangqing Zhengqi Jue, Volume 1*.

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