Chapter 270: Mirage Spring Festival Gala: The Remnant Soul of Yaqi

This year's Spring Festival Gala stage will not be in Li Xiang's backyard, but in the open space near the scenic area.

The backyard was originally as big as a football field, but later more than half of it was allocated to build a scenic area. After renovation and construction, and the transplanting of many flowers and the arrangement of Taihu stones, the original backyard is no longer suitable as a venue for holding large-scale events.

Therefore, the open squares in front of the shops in the scenic area become the first choice.

Yao Yao originally made a suggestion, saying that it could be held indoors, in that is, in the second phase of the shelter, which has an "activity plaza" about twelve meters high (about four stories high), twenty meters wide, and fifty meters long. It has a dome structure and the space is quite spacious, so it can be held.

But Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui felt that it was better to be outdoors. Firstly, the view was wide, and secondly, on the day of the village evening, there would definitely be a lot of people coming to watch, and those shops would be open at the same time and could earn some income.

In addition, the second phase of the shelter has not been renovated and is still unfinished. The toilets, water supply and drainage systems, etc. inside have not been put into use.

The news about the village evening party has been released, the auditions for the program have already begun, and investment promotion (renting advertising space, sponsorship, etc.) is also in progress simultaneously.

Not to mention some businessmen from the province and the county, they all came to invest, and the county cultural and tourism bureau heard about it and actually invested a little money. The county TV station will also come over to broadcast the live broadcast.

Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui suddenly felt a huge amount of pressure and became more and more demanding on every detail.

A temporary stage was built on the open space of the scenic spot, and auditions were being held. Seven or eight villages in the surrounding area had already sent representatives to sign up.

Because there will be an appearance fee after being selected. According to last year's standards, a leading actor will receive at least 2,000 yuan. Some with particularly outstanding performances, such as Yao Yao and Zhao Xueqing last year, each received 5,000 yuan.

For rural people, this is a very considerable income.

The villagers are also very attentive and some of them are very creative. For example, there is a blacksmith family in Hejiatai who has three generations, including six grandfathers and grandchildren. They use anvils as drums, fire tongs as hammers, and some other blacksmithing tools to play the powerful rock music "Iron Bone Harvest Song".

The father and son of a bamboo craftsman in Zhangjiawan used traditional bamboo weaving techniques to make a giant "zodiac dragon lantern" with an embedded LED light strip, and performed "Descendants of the Dragon" with music provided by the village's suona team. The suona has a strong penetrating power, and the music is passionate and reaches the sky.

While sightseeing, some tourists also gathered around to watch the excitement and raised their mobile phones to take pictures.

I have to say, the festive atmosphere of the New Year is here as soon as this activity starts.

Jiang Caier followed Li Xiang over and took a look. Suddenly an idea came to her mind, so she moved closer to Li Xiang and whispered a few words.

Li Xiang slapped his thigh and said, "This is a good idea."

It turned out that Jiang Caier intended to use the "mirage" property of the purple mirage armor to create a more realistic illusion on the day of the party.

The CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage is extremely gorgeous. It is said that it uses many cutting-edge technologies such as naked-eye 3D, LED AI spatial rendering vision, spatial computing, virtual reality (VR) and real-time rendering (UE special effects). Together with the cost of renovating facilities such as lighting and stage settings, the production cost is as high as 200 to 300 million yuan.

Ordinary companies simply cannot afford it. Even if Li Xiang is willing to spend so much money, given his level as a village head, he will probably still suffer a huge loss. The key is that with such a short time, where can he find so many talents and technologies?

Even if we find it, it will be too late to prepare the program.

However, Jiang Caier thought about it and realized that she didn't need 200 or 300 million yuan, nor did she need so many people and equipment. She could do it by herself at zero cost. The effect would be absolutely amazing, even better than the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.

However, in order to conceal her tracks, Jiang Caier needed a fleet of hundreds of drones. She could then say that it was all special effects or projections created by drones. It didn't matter whether others believed it or not, as long as she had a reason, it was better to explain it than saying that nothing had happened.

Li Xiang naturally supported it. If he had money in his pocket, he would buy it instead of renting it.

Anyway, Jiang Caier would be able to use these drones in the future. Not to mention hundreds of them, even if there were tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, Jiang Caier could still make a lot of use of them by herself.

Li Xiang cannot help Jiang Caier much with her cultivation for the time being. He can only hope that through dual cultivation in the future, they can complement each other's spirits and bodies, harmonize yin and yang, and learn from each other's strengths to make up for each other's weaknesses. Perhaps this will help her.

Li Xiang did what he said and immediately found the manufacturer and took Jiang Caier with him to inspect the site and place an order.

Drone technology is still strong in China, so he chose it domestically, which can also be regarded as a contribution to GDP. He bought 600 drones at once, and there was no problem with the procedures. Now he has some official status.

Then Li Xiang, Jiang Caier, Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, Lei Xiaohui and others held a meeting to renegotiate the plan and details of the village evening party. They determined in advance which areas needed special effects and what effects were needed.

Adjustments and improvements can be made later, but the first draft must always be produced.

Before Jiang Caier returned to school, Li Xiang gave Jiang Caier the twenty-fourth-order extraordinary item "Sukhothai Buddha Tear Necklace" he got from Thailand, giving her an extra means of protection.

This "Sukhothai Buddha Tear Necklace" is very beautiful. It is made of jade, gold, silver, and pigeon blood ruby. It is classical and graceful, yet gorgeous and exotic. It can be worn around the neck as a necklace. It has two extraordinary attributes: "Buddha's Light Shining Everywhere" and "Tear Blood Curse".

"The attribute of Buddha's Light Shining Everywhere is good, I like it very much, but the Curse of Weeping Blood is a bit evil, I..." Jiang Caier frowned, and was hesitant to speak.

Li Xiang was embarrassed: "Don't like it? Although it's a little bit evil and poisonous, it's powerful. It's a holy item."

Jiang Caier giggled and said, "I like it better!"

Li Xiang fainted.

Jiang Caier pinched him and joked, "I always wanted to practice the Miao village's witchcraft, but later I found that I couldn't do it. This enhanced version of the black magic is great. If you dare to do something else outside, I will turn you into a stone man!"

Li Xiang: "What did I do wrong?"

"Humph, of course there are more than three or four. I think there are seven or eight. Seven or eight."

"Oh, no." Li Xiang denied it flatly, but he quickly and seriously calculated in his heart, there are only five in total, where did seven or eight come from?

"Look how scared you are. You have so many treasures on you, and I don't think this necklace can do anything to you." Jiang Caier rolled her eyes and left with the robot dog.

She went back to pack her things.

That afternoon, Li Xiang used the earth escape technique to send Jiang Caier to school.

Ever since he had supernatural powers, he had grown to dislike driving. It was slow and boring.

…

Japan, Mount Fuji, hot spring town.

At midnight, the private bathhouse "Yukio no Yado" was brightly lit, and the twelve bronze wind chimes on the eaves made rapid and crisp sounds in the heavy snow.

The weather in Sichuan Province is clear, but there is still heavy snow in the area around Mount Fuji.

Chiba Yukio was wearing a black-dyed kimono and kneeling behind the sandalwood counter, her green fingertips tapping the calculator to check today's accounts.

Three young waitresses were using cypress ladles to scoop up sake for the last wave of guests, while two kitchen helpers were cutting matsutake mushrooms into thin slices as thin as cicada wings in the back kitchen.

Before, "Yukio's Inn" had no employees, and Chiba Yukio was managing it alone. But after having the Shikigami "Aoandon" to keep the place in check, and without the evil old man to hinder and mess things up, the business was booming. Then he hired five employees, including three young girls and two middle-aged women.

But there are many troubles in front of a widow, especially for a beautiful woman like Chiba Xuexu. However, with the protection of Qingfangzhu and the support of Li Xiang, the master at any time, Chiba Xuexu is not afraid.

Suddenly, drunken noises came from the direction of the hot spring pool. Chiba Xuexi couldn't help but frown and look up. The sleeves of her kimono slipped down, revealing half of her frosty white wrist.

"Madam, give me two more pots of Shishidai!" The drunk man tore open the collar of his yukata and suddenly grabbed the ankle of the waitress who was passing by with his greasy hand.

The waitress screamed and tried to struggle, but the other person's hand was as firm as an iron clamp.

On the beam, the Aoandon Shikigami appeared and opened her one eye. This beautiful nun had a frosty face and the giant wooden fish in her palm flew out silently and hung three inches above the drunkard's head.

As Chiba Yukio tapped the counter with her fingertips, the wooden fish came crashing down, and the drunk's laughter came to an abrupt end - the whole person was pressed to the bottom of the hot spring pool, and a few strands of blood floated among the bubbles that gurgled up.

"Our store is closed." Chiba Yukio smoothed his sleeves and stood up. Aoandon turned into a three-meter-tall shadow that covered the courtyard.

The five troublemakers scrambled out of the door, leaving behind twisted, wet footprints on the snow.

Two sturdy kitchen helpers came over, swiftly fished out the unconscious drunk, and threw him out the door, running over his purple fingers with their clogs: "This is the seventh one. Why don't these idiots learn their lesson?"

Rumor has it that this hot spring house is blessed by gods, but there are only "weak women" here, and those hooligans don't believe it and can't help but have evil intentions.

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Chiba Xuexi sighed softly and went to comfort her two daughters.

Inside the bedroom, the night light cast a warm yellow hue on the paper door. Chiba Xuexi sang a nursery rhyme softly. After coaxing her two daughters to sleep, she knelt on the brocade futon and stroked the eyebrows and eyes of the people in the portraits with her fingertips.

The portrait of Li Xiang that she painted by herself was framed in a cypress frame. The man in the painting had handsome features, sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes, and Chiba Xuexi couldn't help but be obsessed with it.

"Mom is looking at stepfather again." Sitting on the tatami, under the quilt, Chaolu quietly opened her eyes and took a look, then whispered to her sister Yugiri.

"It's getting late, go to bed." Chiba Xuexi turned around and said in a low voice with a stern face.

The two daughters then pretended to sleep again and made even breathing sounds.

However, they were young after all, and they fell asleep while pretending.

Chiba Xuexi went over to cover them with the quilt, then went to the corridor outside to practice the breathing method taught by Li Xiang, supplemented by specific physical skills.

She has a charming figure and seductive posture. The beautiful nun Qingfangzhu is looming beside her, protecting her.

Wisps of sandalwood smoke rose from the celadon incense burner. In the mist, pale golden spiritual veins emerged below Chiba Xuexu's collarbone.

She practiced the breathing method taught by Li Xiang and made rapid progress. Li Xiang gave her a whole new life.

As for the two daughters, spiritual power also grew in their bodies, and they were not far from condensing the first spiritual power vortex. The daughters' cultivation was slower, mainly because they were still young, only five years old.

Aobozu nearby suddenly gave a warning, and a picture appeared in front of Chiba Xuesuo's eyes: a group of mysterious men in black were performing a blood sacrifice deep underground, with dozens of girls' bodies lying on the altar, and blood flowing in a specific trajectory.

The men in black had the Mitsui Group logo embroidered on their bodies.

"These people are the remnants of the Mitsui Group." Chiba Yukio quickly understood.

Aoandon: "They are using blood sacrifice to activate the 'earth snake bones' formed by the resentment of the Yamata no Orochi sleeping deep under Mount Fuji. The remaining soul of the Yamata no Orochi will come for revenge."

Chiba Xuexi was horrified: "The Mitsui Group was wiped out by the master, so the remaining soul of the Yamata no Orochi will not only destroy the three of us, mother and daughter, but will also seek revenge on the master."

As a Japanese, she is deeply afraid of the Yamata-no-Orochi. It is not a creature she can deal with.

Regardless of the time being, Chiba Xuexi quickly retrieved his cell phone and called Li Xiang on the spot.

Li Xiang was sleeping when he heard his cell phone ringing. He picked it up and saw it was an international call from Chiba Xuexi. He couldn't help but wonder what he wanted so late at night.

The call was connected, and Chiba Xuexi's anxious voice came from the other end: "Master, there is something wrong at the bottom of Mount Fuji..."

Tell the reason immediately.

Li Xiang couldn't help but sneer: "A centipede is still alive even after death? It seems that we didn't clean it up thoroughly last time."

This is like a tumor surgery. You thought that all the cancer cells were cleared away, but there are still some left, which may "revive" or "metastasize and recur."

Then a second surgery would be required.

“Don’t panic, we’ll be there in an hour. If anything unexpected happens, just hold on.” Li Xiang was covered with the Giant Whale Holy Armor and changed his clothes in one second. Then he came to the terrace, moved his body, and flew towards the east with a slight sonic boom.

In the backyard, Little Fox and Erhuang poked their heads out of the dog shed and looked around, but there was no sign of Li Xiang.

Li Xiang still felt that he was too slow.

His home is about 3,000 kilometers away from Mount Fuji, and at a cruising speed of Mach 2.8, it would take about an hour.

Even if he ran at a top speed of Mach 5.5, the top speed could only last for seven or eight minutes before he had to stop and rest for a while, which would take more than 40 minutes.

"It seems that I still need to increase my speed again." Li Xiang always has a fear of insufficient firepower (speed), but he doesn't have enough achievement points now.

About half an hour later, the blood sacrifice ceremony was completed.

Ten minutes later, the ground in the private bathhouse "Yueo's Inn" began to shake slightly.

The blue robe of the Blue Monk fluttered, and golden scripture and charms appeared on his beautiful neck: "Something is moving underground... The remaining soul and snake bones of the Yamata no Orochi are about to arrive!"

Chiba Chaolu and Chiba Yugiri were awakened. The frightened twin Magatama hugged the pink rabbit doll and crawled to their mother.

"Don't be afraid, mom will protect you. We'll be safe when your adoptive father gets here." Chiba Xuexiu hugged her daughter to comfort her. At the same time, the graceful and beautiful nun "Qingfangzhu" had already flown outside.

The one eye of this shikigami was wide open with a faint blue light shining from its pupil, while the other eye was covered by a black lace eye mask. The wooden fish in its palm turned into a green light barrier that enveloped the entire private bathhouse.

The two kitchen helpers and three waitresses were so frightened that they trembled in fear and hid in the room, not daring to come out.

(End of this chapter)