I am a swordsman in a strange city

Chapter 63 The Female Taoist

As the starlight fell upon the statue, the heads placed on it instantly turned to dust, leaving not even bones behind, but scattered into sand-like matter that flowed down.

Pei Ju, on the other hand, heard what sounded like a tiger's mournful howl coming from the darkness outside.

"Yu'er, go."

No sooner had the old Taoist priest finished speaking than the female Taoist priest rushed into the darkness.

Pei Ju also noticed his grandfather's weakness. He quickly stepped forward and supported him. He found that his grandfather's body was very light, even frighteningly light.

"Help me sit down," the old Taoist priest said.

Pei Ju helped the old Taoist priest sit down next to his grandfather.

"Grandpa, how are you?" Pei Ju asked anxiously.

"It's nothing, everything is going according to plan," Grandpa said. "Today's killing of the evil tiger is something we've been preparing for for many years, but unfortunately there were still some variables. We ran into those people who manipulate mirrors."

"Grandpa, do you know that Mr. Jing?" Pei Ju asked.

"I don't know him, but I've heard of him." Grandpa took a breath and said, "Listen to me first. When we get out, someone will ask you how Director Huang died. Just tell the truth. Say whatever you know. It's okay."

He clearly knew that the death of the director of the Cleansing Bureau here was a major event that would shake the entire Rakshasa Sea City.

Outside the temple, two people stood in the shadows at a distance, watching the person who suddenly appeared in the sky float down into the temple.

Then they saw stars appear in the sky, and then they heard the chanting of incantations to draw starlight. Then the temple was filled with starlight.

"Dean, who is this person?" He Hong felt a little stiff and cold.

Such abilities are like those of immortals in myths and legends.

"I don't know, I've never seen him before, I've never heard of such a person," Mr. Jing said as if to himself.

"Should we still go in?" Deacon He Hong asked.

However, the dean did not answer immediately this time, and the deacon understood that the dean was probably surprised.

However, he knew that the dean's mirror box was incredibly powerful, but opening it didn't seem to be so easy.

Just then, they saw someone suddenly break through the darkness.

This was a simply dressed female Taoist priest. The moment she appeared, Mr. Mirror immediately shone his mirror at her. The female Taoist priest instantly turned into clouds and dissipated. Suddenly, one of the trees beside him emerged from behind them.

She held a whip in her hand and lashed it at Mr. Mirror.

If Pei Ju were here, he would recognize that this whip was the one his grandfather used to beat the evil spirits.

At this moment, as she swung her whip, Mr. Jing and Deacon He Hong were actually terrified. They felt that if they were hit by the whip, their souls would be shattered.

Before the whip even fell, Mr. Mirror's body split into four, flashing in four directions, each holding a mirror box.

The four people were about to open the mirror box almost at the same time, but the female Taoist turned around, leaned against the big tree, and disappeared into the trunk as easily as if she were diving into water.

The mirror box in Mr. Mirror's hands was ultimately not opened because he found that it could not reflect the target.

Just as he was searching for the female Taoist priest, he suddenly heard a spell: "Big Dipper, vanquish evil!"

When they heard the sound, they looked in the direction of the sound and saw a female Taoist priest standing atop a large tree. She was rapidly drawing in the air in front of her with her sword-pointing finger, as if drawing a talisman. Starlight gathered in the air before her.
As she quickly finished drawing, she pointed in Mr. Mirror's direction.

They then saw the starlight transform into a streak of arrow light and fall down.

Before the arrow formed from the starlight could take shape, Mr. Mirror had already drawn a circle, and the moment that circle was formed, it became a large mirror.

He uses this round mirror by combining two spells.

One is called the art of mirror painting, and the other is the art of mirror reflection.

The Mirror Reflection spell allows a mirror to reflect another person's spells, while the Mirror Painting spell allows one to have a mirror at any time and place, making them two very compatible spells.

The starlight arrows shot down.

However, when the arrow of light formed by the Big Dipper struck the mirror, his expression changed instantly.

Because the starlight actually passed through the mirror, the mirror was unable to reflect the starlight back.

With a flick of his wrist, the mirror flipped, and he vanished from his spot, leaving only a mirror, which was covered in starlight before cracking.

During the brief moment of their battle, the steward He Hong took out his own mirror and looked it at the female Taoist.

He had obtained this mirror with great difficulty. There was a powerful vengeful spirit in the mirror, and the mirror was even more powerful when used to perform the Soul-Capturing Mirror Technique. However, it was precisely because of the vengeful spirit that it was a little slower to use. But as long as he could cast this spell...

He believed that very few people could withstand it.

However, when he secretly shone the mirror at the female Taoist, her figure slowly appeared in the mirror, but the female Taoist in the mirror was radiant with golden light.

This reminded him of the Taoist protective mantra—the Golden Light Mantra.

"Who is this person? How can he have so many Taoist abilities?"

Just as the thought crossed his mind, he discovered that Mr. Mirror had already used the Mirror Substitution Technique to avert the injury and escaped by traveling through mirrors.

Without a second thought, he flipped a mirror in his hand, reflected himself in it, and then disappeared into the mirror.

The female Taoist priest looked at this scene and then looked around. Her eyes seemed to be flashing with spiritual light, as if she was searching for the two people. However, she did not seem to find them. Her figure disappeared in the treetops and reappeared outside the temple.

"Master, two people have escaped." The female Taoist priest entered the temple and came before the old Taoist priest.

“It’s alright if you escaped. Go and dig up that altar, find what you need, and then take it with you.”

"Yes, Master." The female Taoist priest came to the altar of the deity statue, reached out and stroked the altar, as if sensing something. After a while, she suddenly peered into the stone platform beneath the statue.

Her hand seemed to have been embedded in the mud, and when it reappeared, it held something else.

“Master, it’s a tiger tally.” The female Taoist priest looked at the object in her hand and quickly recognized it.

“Alright, let’s go out. This place needs to be cleared out,” the old Taoist priest said.

"Yes," the female Taoist replied.

"Director Huang, shouldn't we take him out too?" Pei Ju quickly said.

(End of this chapter)