Divine Lucky Star
Chapter 371 - Chapter 371 Chapter 370 Bold

Chapter 371: Chapter 370: Bold! Chapter 371: Chapter 370: Bold! Wang Hao knew that this was nothing more than a magic trick, in other words, a piece of magic, but clearly, by this time, both the relatives inside the hall and the Great Elder sitting on the stage were stunned by Master Wang Long’s performance. The whole place erupted in applause!

Master Wang Long, more and more smug, picked up the snake from the ground and said, “This is only the first step in dispelling the Snake Evil, which is to summon it! Obviously, just summoning it is not enough! We need to resolve the Snake Evil! How do we resolve it? Just watch, I’m going to cut the snake into two, this is called ‘decapitating the snake head’! Then I’ll burn some joss paper, which is called ‘gathering the Evil Qi’! After that, I’ll join the two pieces of the snake together, and it will immediately come back to life. This is called ‘not taking life’, and only then can the Snake Evil be resolved!”

Upon hearing his incredible words, everyone was astonished, and they exclaimed, “Good heavens, can a snake be brought back to life after being cut into two pieces?!”, “A true Master, a high and mighty sage indeed!”, “This is simply miraculous, now that’s awesome!”

“Bai Yaning, can a dead snake really be revived?” Bai Yaning whispered, “This Wang Long is spouting all sorts of mystical stuff, is it real or fake?”

By now, Wang Hao had pretty much figured out what was going on and laughed, “Just enjoy the show, don’t worry about it too much right now!”

On Master Wang Long’s side, as he spoke, he took the snake and placed it on a table. With one hand holding the snake’s head and the other holding the body, he quickly cut with his knife, and with a “ka-chak”, the snake’s head fell off! Strangely, after the snake was cut into two pieces, it didn’t bleed at all!

“Take a look, everyone,” Master Wang Long held the snake’s body in one hand and its head in the other, showing it to the crowd. “The snake has been cut into two pieces, right? This is called ‘decapitating the snake head’!”

Having completed the first step, Master Wang Long then instructed his disciples to light incense in the center of the area. He took a piece of joss paper and burned it over the flame. Strangely enough, a small hole first appeared in the center of the paper, and then, to everyone’s amazement, the shape of a snake emerged! Shocked, people shouted, “Look! There’s a snake on the joss paper!”, “There really is a snake! This must be gathering the Snake Evil!”

The Great Elder and Elder Zhao of the Zhao family were both animated and couldn’t stop exclaiming, “Excellent, excellent! The Snake Evil has finally gathered, great!”

After gathering the Evil Qi, Master Wang Long shouted, “In haste as if a command, let the Snake Evil ascend!”

He then pressed the two parts of the snake together and after kneading them for a while, miraculously, when he set the snake down on the ground, it seemingly came back to life, coiling itself in a circle in the middle of the area!

“This is truly miraculous!”

“Oh my goodness, a dead snake has come back to life! The Master is indeed a Master!”

“This is just too awesome, the Snake Evil has been vanquished!”

Not only were Wang Hao’s relatives astounded, even the village head Wang Xianfu and Deputy County Magistrate Zhang were flabbergasted! While some small magic tricks were one thing, what Master Wang Long did was actually sever the snake into two and then put it back together! You had to acknowledge his skill!

“Phew…” Master Wang Long let out a long breath, then picked up the snake, wiped his sweat, and said, “At last, the Snake Evil has been resolved. Phew, not an easy feat, these two spells alone must have depleted half a year of my Kung Fu!”

This guy really was a good actor!

Wang Hao could not help but snort with laughter. Just as everyone was still in awe and clapping, Wang Hao’s laughter caused the whole crowd to turn and look at him!

Curious, the Great Elder asked, “Haoer, what are you laughing at?”

“Oh, nothing much, just thinking how well these two magic tricks were performed, really good.” Wang Hao could hardly hold back, the thought of Master Wang Long’s splendid acting had him wanting to burst with laughter!

“How dare you!” As soon as Wang Hao spoke, Master Wang Long’s two apprentices immediately objected, “My master has expended so much Kung Fu to dispel the Snake Evil, how could you, an ignorant child, dare to question it?!”

“Who is this?” Master Wang Long, seated in a place of honor, didn’t even look at Wang Hao and huffed, “An ignorant child randomly disrupting my Spell, this won’t do at all.”

“This is a friend of Zhenhao’s,” Zhao Ergou hurriedly explained, “He knows a bit about Feng Shui and geomancy, so I invited him over to oversee things.”

“A twenty-five-year-old understands Feng Shui?” Master Wang Long didn’t even give Wang Hao a proper look, disdainfully saying, “More like a Feng Shui scam artist! Elder Zhao, no offense, but you shouldn’t drag just anyone out here to embarrass us.”

The relatives were also getting anxious–after all, this was a respected master! Someone you couldn’t afford to offend!

Wang Mingjing whispered softly, “Little Haoer, this is a master who has attained the Dao; didn’t you see how he even managed to join a severed snake back to life? Be sure not to offend him!”

Wang Tianshi nodded, adding, “Exactly, exactly, Little Haoer, just stop talking!”

Zhao Zhenhao and Wen Bin were also giving Wang Hao meaningful looks, while Bai Yaning was nervously clutching Wang Hao’s hand tightly, her fingers turning white from the force!

A master capable of reviving a dead snake was truly not someone to provoke!

At this moment, everyone present was worried for Wang Hao, but he suddenly let out a sly laugh, saying, “Master Wang Long, right? You know, normally you do your charlatan act, I run my company, and we don’t interfere with each other. I wouldn’t need to spoil your scheme, right? But then you start calling me an ‘ignorant child’ this and ‘ignorant child’ that. That alone would be fine. But to charge ten million for just these two tricks–that I cannot ignore. After all, Elder Zhao is my friend’s great-grandfather and has old ties with my own great-grandfather; I simply can’t stand by and watch you scam his money, can I?”

“But…” The Great Elder, Zhao Ergou, had previously instructed Wang Hao to help him keep things under control, so when he heard Wang Hao speak like this, he knew something was up. After all, the miraculous feats of Wang Hao were often discussed by Zhao Zhenhao, and now Elder Zhao felt a hint of hesitation and harbored a few doubts towards Master Wang Long, asking, “Little Haoer, you mean to say the master’s spells are just tricks?”

It looked like the two were about to have a showdown right there on the spot! The crowd fell silent, everyone waiting to see how Wang Hao would respond!

“You know, chemistry is such an interesting subject,” Wang Hao said with a grin, picking up a burnt piece of yellow paper and speaking to the surrounding crowd, “We saw this paper meet the flame and then magically a snake appeared. In fact, the ‘master’ had drawn on the paper with a chemical beforehand, usually potassium nitrate, because it is a component of gunpowder and a strong oxidizing agent on the chemical side; it’s also an incendiary agent. It dissolves easily in water, so the ‘master’ likely used a potassium nitrate solution to draw the snake on the paper, then let it dry. Once dry, the potassium nitrate particles stick to the paper, and when such paper meets fire, the part with the potassium nitrate burns extremely easily.”

“Whoa!” Upon hearing Wang Hao’s explanation, the entire crowd was stunned!

There were quite a few university students among the crowd, especially Wang Tian, with his master’s degree, who immediately slapped his forehead, exclaiming, “Yes, yes, yes, that’s right! My chemistry teacher explained that to me when I was studying!”

Hearing Wang Hao puncture the mystery of the burnt paper with just a few words, Master Wang Long was completely dumbfounded!

And obviously, once Brother Hao started exposing lies, it wasn’t going to be that simple!

“As for this ‘Jade Basin Gathering Snakes’ thing…” Wang Hao beckoned to the two apprentices with a cheeky smile, “Lend me that jade basin, will you? I’d like to perform it for everyone too, how about that?”

Wang Hao knew how to perform the Jade Basin Gathering Snakes trick as well?

By now, people had realized that Master Wang Long really had no magical spells and was at most a charlatan performing tricks.

Zhao Ergou craned his neck, saying, “Quick, quick, quick, Little Haoer, you perform it for me as well, let’s see!”

“Afraid not,” Wang Hao said, looking at the two apprentices retreating, with a smile, “Without his basin rigged with mechanisms, I can’t produce the same effect!”

“You… you’re slandering me!” The color drained from Master Wang Long’s face as he exclaimed, “Mine is a spell, not a magic trick!”

“Everybody now! Even at this point, you’re still making excuses!” What was Wang Hao’s constitution now? With his Kung Fu, he was capable of performing sequences of Yong Chun moves. He charged forward and snatched the jade basin, then with a loud crash, he threw it to the ground! Out of curiosity, the crowd looked over and indeed, after the basin broke in half, a mechanism was revealed at the bottom, a perfect size for hiding a snake!

“Heh, you might fool others, but you can’t fool my piercing vision!” Wang Hao burst into hearty laughter, saying, “When you tapped that basin, you specifically hit the mechanism. I watched as the mechanism at the bottom moved! And yet you continue to play this charade!”

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