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Chapter 373: Trip to Hong Kong (4000+)
Chapter 373: Trip to Hong Kong (4000+)
"By the way, Jerry, I won the grand prize in the year-end event organized by the shops on Yuzhi Street—a luxurious seven-day trip to Hong Kong!"
Just as Jerry was thinking whether he should personally take the Moon Bell back to its rightful owner or wait until the winter break was over and have Sakura bring it, Sakura suddenly remembered something and excitedly spoke up.
"A luxurious seven-day trip to Hong Kong?"
Jerry looked surprised.
He didn't remember Sakura going to Hong Kong in the anime he watched as a child. Could this be a result of the butterfly effect he caused?
"So, for the next week, Tomoyo and I won't be able to come. The grand prize includes four spots, but Dad has to go on a business trip, so I, Tomoyo, you, and Syaro have decided to go together."
Sakura's eyes were filled with happiness as she mentioned Syaro.
"Will you be going back to Hong Kong for the winter break, Xiaolong and Meiling?"
Jerry turned to look at Li Xiaolong and Li Meiling.
He remembered that the Li family, where Xiaolong and Meiling's Taoist family was based, was in Hong Kong.
Li Xiaolong closed his magic book:
"We will, and we'll be there for a longer time, returning just before school starts."
While Sakura and the others were going to Hong Kong for a vacation, they were going home, so naturally, they would stay longer.
After saying this, he looked at Sakura, cleared his throat, and said with a bit of nervousness in his voice:
"Um, Sakura, if you have free time when you get to Hong Kong, you're welcome to visit our Li family."
Through their shared experiences of attending school, searching for the Clow Cards, and studying magic together, Li Xiaolong had naturally developed some feelings for Sakura, though he himself hadn't fully realized it.
Li Meiling, on the other hand, huffed coldly and didn't say much.
"Sure, if we have time, Tomoyo and I will definitely visit!"
Sakura smiled and agreed without much thought.
A seven-day trip to Hong Kong, and spending a day visiting the Li family to see what their Taoist family was like, would be a very interesting experience for Sakura.
Seeing Sakura agree, Li Xiaolong turned to Jerry, his voice even more nervous:
"Sir, I was wondering if you would be willing to come with Sakura and the others to visit my home. My mother has some even more precious rare Taoist texts, and if you're willing to come, she said she would lend them to you."
When he started practicing the Elixir of Immortality, which enhanced his constitution and rapidly increased his magical power, he had already told his mother, the current head of the Li family, about his exchange of magical knowledge with Jerry.
To his surprise, his mother didn't blame him but instead encouraged him to study magic and, if possible, invite Jerry to visit their home.
Moreover, after learning that Li Meiling, who had no innate magical talent, could also learn and use magic and Taoist techniques with Jerry's help, his mother became even more interested in inviting Jerry to Hong Kong.
She even offered to lend him some of the family's most precious rare texts, a condition that seemed incredible to him.
According to Li family rules, only the head of the family and the elders were allowed to view those rare texts, and he himself didn't have the qualifications to do so.
So, after confirming that Sakura and the others would visit, he took the opportunity to invite Jerry, hoping to fulfill his mother's request.
Jerry's fingers tapped on the desk twice as he thought for about two seconds, then smiled and replied to the expectant Li Xiaolong:
"Thank you for the invitation, Xiaolong!"
In his original plan, he had already intended to visit Hong Kong or the mainland because the progress of his self-taught Taoist alchemy techniques was too slow, far from meeting his expectations.
He planned to find some Taoist alchemy experts to exchange knowledge and learn some basics before delving deeper into his research.
However, due to his research on the Moon Bell and the more important Clow Cards, he hadn't had the time.
Now that Li Xiaolong, or rather, the head of the Li family, had extended an invitation, it was a perfect opportunity.
Besides, he was genuinely interested in the rare Taoist texts Li Xiaolong mentioned, so he agreed.
In fact, Jerry had a suspicion.
The Taoist texts that Li Xiaolong had brought from home were not all of the Li family's collection.
After reading all the Daoist texts, Jerry discovered that they mostly covered basic Daoist knowledge and did not include any powerful spells.
This seemed unreasonable to him.
Kulorido combined Western Magic and Eastern Daoist techniques to create the Clow Cards, which contained Magic that delved into highly advanced fields.
It was impossible for all these advanced theories to come solely from Western Magic. He believed at least half of them originated from Eastern Daoist techniques.
However, the Daoist texts Li Xiaolong sent did not include this part.
So Jerry speculated that when Li Xiaolong asked his family for Daoist texts to study, his mother did not send all of them. She only sent the texts she thought were suitable for Li Xiaolong's current level of study.
This was understandable. Li Xiaolong was indeed the most talented Daoist of his generation in the Li family, but his age was a limiting factor. Compared to true Daoist masters, he still had a significant gap to bridge.
In the eyes of the Li family's head, the level of texts she sent should be enough for Li Xiaolong to study while collecting the Clow Cards.
This indicated that the Li family must have many more advanced and powerful Daoist texts.
If Jerry could read all these texts, his Magic abilities would definitely improve, and it would greatly assist in analyzing the Clow Cards.
Despite his apparent success in analyzing each Clow Card and even creating his own Magic, he had not fully understood all the principles behind them.
For example, the "Time" card could trap an entire town in a twenty-hour loop, and Kulorido, who created the "Time" card, must have been even more skilled in time Magic.
Although Jerry successfully analyzed the "Time" card, he could only freeze time in a specific area, which was a significant difference.
In summary, while he had successfully analyzed each Clow Card, he had only just begun to understand them. To harness their full power, he needed to continue researching and exploring.
The valuable Daoist texts from the Li family had a high potential to shorten this process.
Two days later.
Jerry looked at a world map, roughly calculated the distance, and then drew a portal with his right hand.
He had never been to Hong Kong, so he couldn't directly draw a portal to Hong Kong. However, the advantage of portals was that as long as the distance was accurately calculated, they could be opened to places he had never been.
Today was the day Sakura and her friends were flying to Hong Kong for their trip. Jerry decided not to join them on the plane but to open a portal and go alone.
He thought it was better to use the time to explore Hong Kong, as the city in the 1990s had its own unique charm.
To avoid drawing attention, Jerry opened the portal high up. When he stepped through, he appeared in the sky above Hong Kong.
"Is that Victoria Harbour?"
Looking down at the iconic harbor of Hong Kong, Jerry knew he had opened the portal in the right place. He used a Disguise Charm to hide himself and slowly descended.
"In your company, the road, though long, is not tiring. We walk together, one step after another, crossing peaks, only to find another one."
The 1990s Hong Kong was bustling with tall buildings, crowds, and the song "The Long Road of Life" by Teresa Teng playing from a roadside video store.
Of course, even in the most vibrant cities, there was darkness. Before landing, Jerry saw a group of about a dozen rough-looking Triad gangsters with tattoos beating someone up in an alley.
Jerry had long noticed that, despite many differences between the Main World and the Mini World, there were still many similarities in the ordinary people's world.
For example, country names, geographical locations, celebrities, and songs.
So the Hong Kong he saw now was not much different from the Hong Kong of the 1990s in his past life, except for some minor details.
For instance, in his past life, Hong Kong did not have the Li family, Daoists, or Magic—well, maybe not, as he was just an ordinary person then and wouldn't have known if such things existed.
The agreed time to visit the Li family was the day after Sakura and her friends arrived in Hong Kong, which was tomorrow.
Therefore, he arrived in Hong Kong a day early.
The main reason for coming to Xiangjiang a day early was that he had been deeply engrossed in the study of magic recently, which had left him feeling a bit mentally fatigued. This extra day would give him a chance to relax and perhaps find some unexpected benefits.
Occasionally walking through the bustling streets like an ordinary person, enjoying the scenery and trying some street food, was a nice change of pace!
"Huh, someone is actually casting a spell on the street!"
While strolling and enjoying the scenery, Jerry suddenly sensed a wave of magical power not far ahead, causing him to let out a light exclamation.
Following the source of the magical power, he quickly found the person casting the spell.
At the entrance of a fitness club on the street, a crowd of curious onlookers had gathered.
In the middle of the crowd, a young man in his twenties stood there, holding a wooden board covered in incense ash, looking somewhat at a loss. In front of him stood a middle-aged man in his forties.
The magical power that Jerry had sensed was coming from this middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man held a glass cup in his left hand and took out a piece of paper filled with incantations with his right hand. He gently shook it, used his magic to ignite it, and quickly placed it inside the glass cup.
Next, he took a red string and quickly wrapped it around the young man's index finger, placed a drop of blood on it, and then placed it in the flame inside the glass cup.
After a moment, the middle-aged man picked up the glass cup and said loudly:
"Tracking ambush, as commanded by law!"
As the incantation echoed, the flame in the cup immediately went out, transforming into a ball of white smoke that seemed to have a mind of its own, swirling inside the glass cup.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man quickly inverted the cup over the young man's mouth, and the white smoke quickly entered the young man's body through his mouth.
As the white smoke entered his body, the young man closed his eyes and knelt on the ground, still holding the wooden board.
The middle-aged man, who seemed to have anticipated this, bowed his head and prayed to the sky, then lit two of the three incense sticks and inserted them into the incense burner in front of the wooden board. He placed the last incense stick in the young man's mouth.
The young man, with his eyes closed, quickly opened his mouth and bit down on the incense stick, drawing a map on the ash-covered wooden board.
Before long, a route map appeared on the ash.
"Interesting, this seems to be a spell for finding people."
Standing among the onlookers, Jerry watched the middle-aged man's series of actions and quickly realized that he was performing a spell to find someone.
On the first day in Xiangjiang, encountering a Daoist performing a spell piqued Jerry's interest.
Seeing the middle-aged man give some instructions to another young man who had been hiding in the crowd and then quickly get into a nearby open-top car, Jerry smiled and walked over.
"May I ask which sect you belong to, Fellow Daoist? The tracking spell you just performed was quite impressive!"
"I am Lin Feng of the Maoshan Sect. Who might you be?"
The middle-aged man, hearing someone speak to him, thought he had encountered a fellow practitioner. However, when he turned his head, he was momentarily stunned.
Standing next to his car was a foreigner with brown hair and blue eyes.
Out of politeness, he still responded.
Seeing the surprised look in the man's eyes, Jerry immediately realized that his appearance might have been a bit abrupt.
"I am Jerry Carmen, a Mage."
"Carmen, that's a rather unusual name", the middle-aged man muttered to himself, then politely asked, "Fellow Daoist Carmen, is there something you need?"
"Nothing much, I just saw Fellow Daoist Lin casting a spell on the street and felt inspired to come over and make a friend!"
Jerry smiled.
"Fellow Daoist Carmen, I'm afraid I don't have the time today. I'm tracking an evil cultivator who uses dark magic for evil deeds. Perhaps another day, I can treat you to a drink."
Seeing the two young men arguing and running over, Lin Feng gave Jerry a nod and told the young men to start the car, following the route map he had drawn with his spell to track down the evil cultivator's subordinate.
Jerry, seeing the somewhat dismissive response, did not press further. Instead, he invisibly took flight and followed the quickly departing open-top car.
"An evil cultivator? I wonder what kind of dark magic they use!"
Since he had nothing else to do today and was interested in both Lin Feng, the Maoshan Daoist, and the so-called evil cultivator, he decided to follow them and see what would happen.
...
(End of Chapter)
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