Divine Level Witch Doctor

”Zhao Yuan, you can perform magic tricks?” The vice principal’s face lit up with pleasant surprise.

Zhao Yuan answered humbly, ”A little. I’m not an expert, but it should be enough to get by.”

The vice principal was overjoyed and urged him, ”That’s wonderful! Hurry up and get on stage.”

Zhao Yuan said, ”No rush. I need to prepare some props first. Give me two minutes!”

Zhang Chao quickly said, ”I have props here. What are you going to do? A handkerchief trick? Or a card trick?”

”I can’t use any of your things. How about this: find me a red cloth, one big enough to cover a person.” After giving his instructions, Zhao Yuan dashed out of the auditorium.

There was no one outside the auditorium at this moment. Zhao Yuan directly activated a Shrinking Earth Talisman. In the blink of an eye, he was on the lawn in front of the auditorium, standing before the statue of a famous physician.

”Senior Li Shizhen, my apologies for the imposition, but please help me with a magic trick!” Zhao Yuan muttered under his breath as he placed his hand on the Li Shizhen statue and activated his Storage Ring Space.

In the blink of an eye, the life-sized Li Shizhen’s Bronze Statue was sucked into the Storage Ring Space.

Then, Zhao Yuan sprinted back to the backstage rest area of the auditorium.

Seeing him return, Zhang Chao said quickly, ”The red cloth is ready. Do you need anything else?”

Zhao Yuan took the red cloth and said, ”This is all I need.”

”Zhao Yuan, thank you! Good luck!” Zhang Chao pumped his fists, cheering loudly.

Zhao Yuan gave him a thumbs-up and said confidently, ”Don’t worry, Zhang Chao. I’ll make sure this performance is a success. I guarantee those people from other schools who look down on us will be left speechless!”

At that moment, the two hosts on stage received a message from backstage. They returned to the stage and said, ”We are terribly sorry. A student backstage suddenly fell ill, and everyone was helping with treatment, which delayed the performance. Now, please give a round of applause for our school’s hero, Zhao Yuan, as he comes to the stage to perform a magic trick!”

The auditorium immediately erupted in thunderous applause and cheers, countless times louder than for any previous act.

The students brought by the musicians and dancers were bewildered.

”What’s going on?”

”That guy, what’s-his-name, Zhao Yuan, is actually this popular?”

”Could he be the fraud who tricked Teacher Zhang and Elder Huang?”

Amidst their murmuring, Zhao Yuan walked onto the stage.

He had never performed a magic trick before and had no idea what to do. After getting on stage, he cut right to the chase, unfurling the red cloth. He mimicked the motions of magicians he’d seen in shows, displaying both sides of the cloth.

Seeing his actions on stage, Han Ping sneered repeatedly. ”This guy is the definition of an amateur. He doesn’t have a single bit of showmanship. How dare he get on stage to perform magic? I don’t know whether to call him fearlessly ignorant or just shameless!”

The group of people around him also began to comment:

”No interaction with the audience. A failure!”

”He hasn’t hyped up the crowd at all. A failure!”

”Stiff movements, wooden expression. The ultimate failure!”

In the front row, Huang Shijia and Zhang Liping both let out a sound of surprise when they saw Zhao Yuan take the stage.

The musicians and dancers sitting next to them immediately noticed their strange expressions and asked curiously, ”What’s wrong? Is this kid the performer for that world-shattering act you were talking about?”

Huang Shijia subconsciously nodded, then added, ”No, that’s not right. Wasn’t he supposed to perform a qin and dance routine with Lin Xue? Why is he on stage performing a magic trick?”

A well-known musician frowned and said, ”Elder Huang, are you sure this is the person performing the world-shattering act? Looking at him, he seems completely amateurish… Holy shit! Wha… what’s happening?!”

At that moment, it wasn’t just him. The other musicians and dancers around him were also staring, dumbfounded, as if they’d seen a ghost!

If even these worldly, experienced artists lost their composure like this, the teachers and students in the auditorium were in an even worse state.

For a moment, all sorts of gasps and screams rose and fell. Many people were even rubbing their eyes, wondering if what they had just seen was real or not.

In the back row, the person next to Han Ping had just glanced down at his phone and missed what happened on stage. Hearing the tsunami of screams around him, cries of ”HOLY SHIT!” and ”OH MY GOD!”, he quickly looked up at the stage.

That one look left him completely stunned. He blurted out, ”Holy shit, when did a bronze statue appear on stage?” He was instantly filled with regret. ’Why was I looking at my phone?!’

He hurriedly asked Han Ping what had happened.

Han Ping also had a dumbfounded expression. He swallowed hard before answering, ”Just now… that kid threw the red cloth in his hand into the air. When the cloth fell, the bronze statue just… appeared.”

”It appeared just like that? He just used a red cloth to cover it? No other props?” The man’s jaw dropped. He quickly asked again, ”Han, you know a lot about magic. Tell us, how did he make this bronze statue appear? Is there a trapdoor in the stage? Or is there something wrong with the statue?”

”It must be the statue!” Han Ping said, forcing a calm analysis. ”That bronze statue has to be a fake. It just looks like a bronze statue. In reality, it must be some kind of self-inflating prop…”

The group all nodded in unison, agreeing with Han Ping’s ”debunking.”

But just then, Zhao Yuan invited several people onto the stage to inspect the statue’s authenticity.

He didn’t invite people from West Hua Medical University, but rather musicians and dancers like Huang Shijia and Zhang Liping.

After they got on stage, they circled the statue, touching it and knocking on it. They even tried to lift it together, but they failed.

Finally, Huang Shijia took the microphone and announced, ”This is a genuine, solid bronze statue!”

Of course, no one doubted Huang Shijia’s words. Besides, many other well-known musicians and dancers had inspected it with him! Even if Huang Shijia might ”cheat” to help Zhao Yuan, the others wouldn’t!

Han Ping was stunned, his expression incredibly awkward.

’I just finished debunking it and you immediately prove me wrong. Do you have to be like this?’

”It’s actually a real bronze statue!”

”Did you see how several musicians and dancers couldn’t even lift it together? It must be incredibly heavy!”

”How on earth did Zhao Yuan do it? What method did he use to make this bronze statue appear?”

Whether in the audience or watching the livestream online, everyone was shocked and buzzing with discussion.

Incredible!

Unbelievable!

This was what everyone was thinking at that moment.

But something even more shocking and unbelievable was yet to come…