Science solves cases? No, I am an immortal cultivator!

This witch has a weak spiritual power in her dantian!

Beichuan Taki called her: "Miss Miko, may I ask you for advice?"

The witch smiled and said, "Of course, this gentleman is a tourist here to attend the Dugong Festival!"

Beichuan Taki asked: "Well, yes, I heard there is a longevity lady on the island?"

"Ah, that's my great-grandmother."

"Some people say she's 200 years old?"

"How could that be? My great-grandmother is only 129 years old now. She just lived a little longer than the average person."

Beichuan Taki was embarrassed. 129 years old was not just a little bit old. As a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage, his lifespan was only over a hundred years!

The witch in front of me has spiritual powers, and her great-grandmother must have the same power. It is reasonable for her to live to this age.

"Did your great-grandmother really eat mermaid flesh?"

The witch was stunned for a moment, then covered her mouth to hide her laughter and said, "There's no such thing as a mermaid in this world! Those are just made up stories!"

"What about the dugong arrow?"

The witch explained, "That cursed arrow used to be used to cast a spell to exorcise evil spirits, but the people on the island changed the name to the dugong arrow to associate it with the character."

Kitagawa Taki seemed a little disappointed: "Is that so? Then the miko-san doesn't have any magical powers?"

The witch waved her hands and smiled, "No, no, those are just legends."

I didn’t expect that you, a witch with thin eyebrows and big eyes, are also a materialist!

Kitagawa Taki didn't try to hide it and directly said, "I think Miss Miko has magical powers!"

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Kitagawa Taki, and I'm also a practitioner."

The witch laughed dryly, her tone somewhat unnatural: "Mr. Beichuan, you must have misunderstood? How can there be such a thing as magic power in this day and age?"

Seeing that she still refused to admit it, Beichuan Taki looked at the surrounding situation, showed off his skills, condensed a water arrow, and shot it at her hand.

The witch's eyes widened immediately. She did have magical powers, but she didn't know spells like Kitagawa Taki.

"Okay, Mr. Kitagawa, please follow me!"

As she said this, the shrine maiden brought Kitagawa Taki to the shrine.

Then she briefly told her story.

It turned out that the shrine maiden's name was Shimabukuro Kimie, and her family had been shrine maidens at the American shrine for generations. She practiced the family breathing method, but her magic power was only used to pray on the dugong's arrow.

After listening to Shimabukuro Kimie's story, Kitagawa Taki asked, "So, Miss Shimabukuro, have you ever met other practitioners?"

Shimabukuro Junhui shook her head and said, "Apart from Mr. Kitagawa and my family, I have never seen anyone else who can use magic power."

Beichuan Taki continued to ask: "I understand. Then may I ask where your great-grandmother is now?"

Shimabukuro Junhui hesitated for a moment and said, "Actually... my great-grandmother has long passed away, and the current Longevity Lady is me pretending to be her."

The other party was also a cultivator, and Shimabukuro Kimie felt that she would not be able to hide the truth from Kitagawa Taki, so she had to tell him the truth.

Beichuan Taki was a little surprised and apologized: "I'm sorry."

Shimabukuro Junhui shook her head: "It doesn't matter."

"Excuse me, why are you pretending to be your great-grandmother?"

"To protect and preserve the customs of Mermaid Island, which is also my mother's last wish. My mother once played the role of the longevity lady. In an accidental fire two years ago..."

Kitagawa Taki apologized again. He didn't expect that Shimabukuro Kimie was under such heavy pressure at such a young age.

Shimabukuro wiped the tears from her eyes and a cheerful smile appeared on her face again: "Let's not talk about this anymore. What kind of magic was that just now, Mr. Kitagawa? I've never seen it before!"

"This! This is called Water Arrow. It looks simple, but it's actually an offensive spell!"

Kitagawa Taki released a water arrow, which flew out of the room and hit the branches outside, breaking them directly.

Shimabukuro Kimie exclaimed: "That's amazing!"

Shimabukuro Kunie had spiritual power, but she had no practice of martial arts, and naturally she had no practice of Taoism.

"Mr. Kitagawa, can you teach me?"

At this moment, Shimabukuro Kimie was like a little girl who was excited to see prey.

Then she realized that she shouldn't make such an excessive request, because such a spell must be a family secret like hers, and would not be easily known to outsiders.

I quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, Mr. Beichuan, I was just too curious, I didn't mean that."

"fine."

The "Yuanchu Xian Jue" passed down in the Kitagawa Taki family can be practiced by both men and women as long as they have the qualifications to practice it, but he will only pass it on to his own women and children, and it is naturally impossible for outsiders to practice it.

"Ms. Shimabukuro, do you know what's going on in China?"

Beichuan Taki had never seen other cultivators in his previous life. When he came to the world of Detective Conan, he finally met a cultivator. He once again became curious about other possible cultivators.

"I once heard my great-grandmother say that there were many cultivators there, but a long time ago, all of them disappeared."

After hearing what Shimabukuro Kimie said, Kitagawa Taki couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

If there were more cultivators, there would be more dangers, but also opportunities.

Afterwards, Kitagawa Taki asked some questions about Onmyoji and exorcists.

Shimabukuro Kimie tells you everything she knows.

The two chatted for a long time, and Kitagawa Taki also left his contact information to Shimabukuro Kimie, asking her to contact him if there was anything she couldn't handle.

Although this trip to Mermaid Island proved that immortality was just a legend, Kitagawa Taki still gained a lot.

……

night.

The Dugong Festival has officially begun!

Kitagawa Taki was squeezed in the crowd, and he saw Miyano Shiho and the other two who had disappeared for half a day.

He had already learned the truth about mermaids and immortality from Shimabukuro Kimie, and Miyano Shiho and the others' trip was destined to be in vain.

Amid the sound of drums, the much-anticipated Longevity Lady finally appeared.

She was short, with heavy makeup on her face, and also wore a shrine maiden's costume.

The drums stopped beating, and the longevity woman raised a torch and burned the winning number on the shoji screen. Then she turned and went into the room and disappeared.

Kitagawa Taki observed carefully and found that Shimabukuro Kimie's disguise skills were quite good, but they were much worse than Vermouth's.

Ordinary people who are not familiar with disguise may find it difficult to detect, and their attention can easily be diverted to the burning of words on the shoji.

But with Kitagawa Taki's eyesight and hearing, he still found a few flaws: the human skin mask was not realistic enough, and the walking posture and footsteps were unnatural.

After seeing the winning number, there was an exclamation from the crowd.

"Oh my god! Seriously! I won!"

Kitagawa Taki looked back and saw a young woman wearing glasses.

At this time, two clergymen began to put out the fire on the shoji, and Shimabukuro Kimie also walked out of the room.

"We will officially present the Dugong Arrow at Mermaid Falls in an hour. Please prepare to assemble!"

Mermaid Falls.

There was also some decoration here. The flames of the two braziers were very dazzling in the dark night, and the sound of burning firewood and the sound of the waterfall were intertwined.

Shimabukuro June said in a clear voice: "Now, please invite the three lucky guests who drew the number cards to come forward!"

Two women and a man walked to the front of the group.

Shimabukuro Kimie solemnly took the dugong arrow from the clergyman, recited a spell, and handed it to the three people respectively.

The woman with glasses seemed particularly excited and quickly put it into her bag.

Kitagawa Taki looked carefully and found that there was indeed a weak spiritual power in the dugong arrow, so it could be used to exorcise evil spirits.

The spell that Shimabukuro Kimie just cast was just a cover, as she had already cast the Dugong Arrow before.

After the dugong arrows were awarded, a blessing ceremony was held, which completed the entire dugong celebration.

The crowd dispersed, and Kitagawa Taki noticed that Vodka had left Gin and Miyano Shiho, and was approaching the woman with glasses.

Vodka's strong body just gave the woman with glasses a slight bump, and she fell to the ground.

The woman with glasses yelled, "How are you walking? Wearing sunglasses at this hour of night, don't you have eyes?"

"Hmm? Do you have the guts to say it again?"

Vodka looked extremely unhappy after being scolded by the woman.

The woman with glasses was frightened by the ferocious Vodka, she lost her voice and left quickly.

And Vodka also completed his mission - stealing the dugong's arrow.

Kitagawa Taki saw it all clearly from behind, but he didn't expect Vodka to have such a trick up his sleeve. He got the Dugong Arrow without the woman in glasses realizing it.

……

After the celebration, Kitagawa Taki went to the shrine to find Shimabukuro Kimie and say goodbye.

After resting for a night on the island, we drove back to Beika Town the next day.