I'm a Taoist priest in North America, and the deity is actually myself.

Chapter 7: Settlement, Sword Slaying Evil Spirits!

Daily Settlement:

Five hours of practicing the *Huangting Daojing* (Yellow Court Daoist Scripture) led to a preliminary glimpse into the method of visualization—a moment of sudden enlightenment is equivalent to a hundred days of arduous practice.

[Settlement Reward: Upon entering cultivation, one month's cultivation points will be added.]

In reality, at this point, the evil spirits, aside from frightening people, have absolutely no way to harm them.

If one's cultivation level is insufficient, one must possess someone with insufficient yang energy to harm someone with abundant yang energy.

Moreover, facing a group of mortal law enforcement officers while injured makes it even more difficult.

He thought the police would arrest the guy, but he was found out.

Next, all we can do is scare these people away.

Sure enough, once he was able to detach from Aunt Wang's body, he revealed his true form, scaring the police officers into scrambling out of the room.

But what he didn't know was that while he was scaring the police, Li Xuan was undergoing an amazing transformation.

As the settlement began, Li Xuan felt a sudden heat in his dantian, as if something had been punctured.

A warm current burst forth from his lower abdomen, flowing along his meridians to his limbs and bones. Li Xuan trembled and froze on the spot.

Wherever that hot current passed, it felt like countless ants were crawling in the cracks of my bones, causing an itchy and numb sensation, yet I couldn't move.

It took a long time for the energy to subside.

He exhaled a long breath and opened his eyes.

The lamp is still the same lamp, and the table is still the same table.

But things are different now.

He couldn't quite put his finger on what was different, but he felt that everything in this dilapidated Taoist temple was clearer than before.

Even the sound of a cockroach crawling through the cracks in the brickwork in the corner reached my ears clearly.

"So this is... a cultivator?"

Li Xuan looked down at his hands, clenched his fist, and then relaxed it.

The arm that was twisted by the police earlier has fully recovered and is completely unaffected.

He felt as if he possessed supreme magical power, capable of suppressing demons and monsters with a mere wave of his hand.

"Sheriff, why are we running? Father Li is still inside!"

Many police officers fled in panic through the stairwell, when suddenly, Ryan Kent realized what was happening.

Sheriff Walker paused, paused for a moment, and then nodded, saying, "Yes! That makes sense. We can't just leave the people to the monsters!"

"So we..." Officer Ryan suggested.

"So we need to send an experienced officer up to help Father Lee subdue the ghost!" Sergeant Walker immediately interrupted.

His gaze then swept over the group of people, and those he saw all lowered their heads.

Finally, he fixed his gaze on Ryan's face and said solemnly, "Officer Ryan! You are a brave officer! You wouldn't bear to abandon these people, and you will protect their safety, right?"

Upon hearing this, the police officers immediately nodded in agreement.

"Yes, Ryan! You're the bravest warrior in our police department!"

"Raine, I knew you could do it!"

Everyone chimed in with their own opinions, all trying to persuade Renn to go up willingly.

Jack, barely suppressing a laugh, said, "Oh, bro, you know, I'm really envious that you got to go up there!"

"Then you'll come with me?" Ryan asked jokingly.

"Oh~" Jack turned pale with fright and waved his hands repeatedly.

Seeing this, Sheriff Walker waved his hand and said, "Jack! You go with Ryan. We can't leave only one officer on the scene!"

"Jack! Let's go! We must trust Father Lee!" Ryan smiled and strode upstairs.

"Oh, shit!"

Jack watched his retreating figure, then turned to look at his colleagues who were eagerly watching him, muttered a curse under his breath, and reluctantly followed.

It's all my fault for being so talkative. No matter what happens later, I'll just go up there, yell, and run!

in the room.

"Next, it's your turn..."

After the group left, the evil spirit turned around and tried to scare Li Xuan.

A sinister and terrifying face suddenly split open from the middle, revealing maggots crawling around inside the brain.

"No way, who are you trying to scare? Don't you know I studied medicine before?!"

Li Xuan calmly picked up the peach wood sword from the ground.

Evil spirits that have left their physical bodies are no longer susceptible to physical harm.

He chanted the incantation, mobilizing the magical power within his body and gathering it in his fingers.

He put two fingers together and ran them across the peach wood sword.

The sword suddenly trembled, and wisps of red light seeped from the wood grain, instantly covering the entire blade.

This ordinary peach wood sword seemed to have been set ablaze.

"Impressive! No wonder he's a mysterious wizard from an ancient Eastern country!"

Officer Ryan, who had just run to the door, happened to witness this scene and was filled with admiration.

When the evil spirit saw Li Xuan performing his magic, it was so frightened that it screamed and ran quickly to the altar that Aunt Wang had been worshipping for a long time.

The evil spirit, clinging to the altar, tried to fly away.

Li Xuan had anticipated this, and with a leap, he cleaved the altar with his sword.

"ah!!!"

A scream came from the altar, which then exploded, and the evil spirit was utterly destroyed.

"Ah!!! There's a ghost!!!"

Just then, Jack, who had arrived at the door, happened to hear the evil spirit's scream. Terrified, he yelled and ran away without looking back.

Upon hearing the shouts coming from above, the police officers waiting at the bottom of the stairwell all took off running down the stairs.

A dozen or so police officers quickly retreated to the area below the building.

"I'm awesome!"

Upon witnessing the power of this sword strike, Li Xuan couldn't help but burst into laughter.

From now on, he is a genuine Taoist priest.

What? You don't even understand the rules and regulations of Taoism?

My rules are the rules!

Raine waited until the peach wood sword returned to its original state before daring to approach Li Xuan.

He gave a thumbs-up with an expression of admiration and said, "Father Li, you are amazing! Can I learn from you?"

"Hehehehe!"

As he spoke, he even struck a classic Bruce Lee pose.

"Officer Raine, we have rules that the Dao cannot be easily passed on, and one must be a virgin to cultivate it," Li Xuan casually made up an excuse.

"Oh, that's such a pity. The great Officer Ryan was no longer a virgin when he was in high school."

"I'm sorry," Renn said with a regretful expression.

"Has the ambulance arrived yet?"

Li Xuan looked at Aunt Wang, who was lying unconscious on the ground, and asked with a frown.

Aunt Wang can't die. If she dies, who will he ask for his knife?

"Oh, we've arrived, but they're being stopped. I'll call them up now!"

Then, Ryan quickly spoke into the walkie-talkie.

"Oh, and Zhang Xiao too!"

Only after relaxing did Li Xuan remember that Zhang Xiao was still in the room.

He didn't wake up even with such a loud noise; he must have been harmed by that evil spirit.

He hurriedly ran inside and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Zhang Xiao's complexion gradually returning to normal.

"What's wrong?"

Just then, Officer Ryan finished speaking and came over, and saw a little child.

"Oh! Shit, how does he sleep!"

He said it with some disbelief.