In the early hours of the morning, Li Chenghe, wrapped in a coat, yawned and pushed open the door of the villa halfway up the mountain. When he raised his eyes, he saw that the main hall was brightly lit and there were people already there.

Gu Zhisang, who had changed into pajamas, stood in front of the antique shelf with his back to the door, his hair hanging down. He looked up at the word "quiet" which seemed to be whispering something.

Hearing the noise behind her, she turned her head. Her deep, beautiful eyes were set against her snow-white skin, and her gaze was cold and indifferent.

In the dead of night, Li Chenghe was startled by being looked at and became completely awake.

He laughed dryly and touched his nose, "Gao Zhi is my friend, I am here to accompany him in the ritual."

After the live broadcast ended last night, related entries and high-energy clips of the second half of the game became hot searches, with 80% of the popularity contributed by Gu Zhisang.

Regarding the two Yin formations in the Gao family's old house, many Taoists and enthusiasts conducted intense discussions and found that, in theory, this reversal formation is feasible and the "Suzaku Evil" does exist.

Some netizens even figured out Gao Zhi's identity based on clues.

But the protagonist Gu Zhisang who stirred up this storm still did not show up. She was having a one-on-one conversation with Song Tang in a separate live broadcast room at the time, helping him change his luck and avoid disaster.

Li Chenghe didn't know what the two of them talked about specifically, but more than half an hour later, when Song Tang left the live broadcast room and sent him a private message to thank him, he was hesitant and vague, which made him even more curious.

The reason why Li Chenghe hosted this program is because he himself is a big fan of metaphysics. When he knew that someone was going to use magic to break the formation, he was so curious that he wanted to witness it with his own eyes.

But breaking the formation was Gao Zhi's personal commission and had nothing to do with the program crew, so he shamelessly asked Gao Zhi to let him watch.

Just thinking of his impatient and disgusted attitude when Gu Zhisang first came, he felt a little embarrassed.

Gu Zhisang said, "Oh," and said, "I asked him to go down the mountain to buy something."

Fortunately, Gao Zhi was eager to break the formation, so he didn't let the two of them feel awkward for long. A few minutes later, he arrived breathlessly carrying a large pile of things.

He was carrying a large black plastic bag and holding the claws of a live chicken in his other hand. His suit and hair were a little messy.

The frightened chicken was screaming and flapping its wings, making a lot of noise.

"Master Gu, I shouldn't be late, right?"

"No, the time is perfect."

Thousands of years ago, the Xia Kingdom divided a day into twelve hours, and the Chou hour corresponded to 1:00 to 3:00 in the morning. Now it was still five minutes to 1:00.

Gao Zhi breathed a sigh of relief. Due to physical and mental exhaustion and the huge blow he suffered, his eyeballs were filled with red bloodshot.

"Master, please check if the things I bought are correct."

Li Chenghe, who was standing by, watched Gu Zhisang take out the things in the black bag one by one. There was a stack of yellow talismans, a jet-black brush, five or six thin transparent jade plates, a box of cinnabar... The most eye-catching thing, of course, was the big clucking rooster.

Seeing that the time had reached one in the morning, Gao Zhi suddenly looked at Gu Zhisang, "Master!"

Gu Zhisang waved his hand, "Don't be so excited, it's not the right time yet, sit down and wait."

As if she knew the doubts in the two people's hearts, she explained in a calm tone:

"A formation like this is filled with strong Yin energy. I wonder how many evil spirits have been nurtured in this house. Some of those things are lonely ghosts in the mountains, and some are Yin objects born naturally. They are all attached to the points of the formation - that is, around your father's soul, devouring it. After so many years, they have long been clinging to your father's soul like leeches, making your father's soul weak. Breaking the formation rashly will only stimulate these evil spirits, and it will be easy for your father's already weak and damaged soul to be directly shattered."

Gao Zhi's expression changed again, "What should we do then?!"

"I chose to break the formation at Chou hour because of these considerations. This is the time of the day when the Yang is at its peak, and it is a good time to restrain the Yin energy and purify and eliminate the gloom. Breaking the formation at this time can directly drive away the evil spirits hidden in the formation." Gu Zhisang said, "I will draw a few soul-suppressing talismans in advance to ensure that your father's soul is hidden in them and will not be hit by the Yang energy."

Yang energy? Li Chenghe looked at the dark forest outside and asked hesitantly:

"Isn't it said that it's not good to go out at night when the yin energy is strong, and that noon is when the yang energy is at its strongest?"

Gu Zhisang nodded and said, "That's right. Yang energy increases with the sun, but it's not the same thing as the 'extreme yang energy' I mentioned. The so-called 'extreme yang and extreme yin' refers to the extreme point in a day when yin and yang are reversed and morning and night shifts are exchanged. 'The sky breaks, and purple air comes from the east'. This purple air is the first ray of light that descends when the sun rises, which is the 'extreme yang energy'."

Midnight is the time of the day when yin energy is the heaviest. The old people often say: After midnight, hundreds of ghosts roam the night.

But when the sun begins to rise, the first ray of sunlight will dilute the yin energy, allowing the yin to begin to turn into yang. This node is the 'supreme yang' point.

Similarly, at noon the sun is at its hottest and most yang, and when it begins to set it turns from yang to yin, until the last bit of sunlight completely falls into the sea horizon, which is the 'ultimate yin' point.

After the explanation, Li Chenghe suddenly realized, "That is to say, the opportunity to break the formation must wait for the first ray of sunlight to appear, but we are in a villa in the mountains, and the light will be blocked by the shade of the trees, right?"

Gu Zhisang: "That's why I asked Mr. Gao to prepare the rooster."

Roosters are livestock with strong yang energy and are also psychic. It can be said that apart from cats, they are the animals with the most sensitive perception of yin and yang.

"The hour of Chou is also called 'chicken crow' or 'wild chicken'. The rooster heralds the dawn and the first ray of 'extreme yang' energy. People in the past woke up at the crowing of the rooster because they knew it was time for the day to dawn." Looking at the rooster whose feathers were still ruffling, Gu Zhisang curled the corner of his lip and said, "You can also understand that the key to breaking the formation and saving your father's soul lies in this rooster. You have to keep an eye on it."

Gao Zhi lowered his head and saw the big rooster with its feathers standing on end, and it had also defecated at his feet.

Even so, his eyes sparkled, and he took out the plastic rope given by the chicken seller with a serious face, "I will definitely calm it down."

From now on, he regards this big rooster as half his father!

Gu Zhisang: "Okay, I need to prepare the talismans that will be used to break the formation later. If you have nothing else to do, just wait and don't disturb me."

After saying that, she took all those things to the empty table.

The materials used to make these talismans were what she asked Gao Zhi to buy when he went down the mountain. Judging from the quality of the materials, he must have spent a lot of money on them.

Little did he know that just one package of materials cost more than 300,000 yuan, and Gao Zhi had to borrow money from Li Chenghe to afford it. The shop owner was so happy to have such a big customer.

Gu Zhisang first used warm water to heat the brush, dipped it in the ink mixed with pure gold powder, and wrote on the yellow talisman paper;

However, she wrote several, but they were all scrapped halfway.

Finally, after wasting five sheets of yellow talisman paper, the brush in her hand was like a dragon swimming on the paper, and she used black ink with gold to draw out the elegant and complex runes in one go. After lifting the tip of the brush, the whole talisman surface was filled with golden light.

This is a top-quality lucky charm.

After finishing the painting, Gu Zhisang put her back hand on her back without hesitation. She took out a small mirror to look at herself and found that the bad luck between her brows was suppressed by 80% of the talisman. Her slightly frowned brows finally relaxed.

I'm afraid she is the only master from ancient times to the present who can draw a lucky charm for herself.

After suppressing the bad luck, Gu Zhisang's true level of talisman drawing skills was revealed. She wrote faster and faster each time and never wasted a single talisman.

After finishing drawing the eighteen yellow talismans, she turned her wrist and picked up a few jade talismans as thin as cicada wings. These jade talismans of ordinary quality cost thirty thousand each.

Although it is not the best, it is several times more powerful than the yellow talisman. Besides, Gu Zhisang's talismans have never relied on their materials.

She put cinnabar on her fingertips and concentrated on carving the three jade talismans on the jade talisman paper, completing them all at once.

More than an hour has passed without me noticing.

Li Chenghe dozed off on the sofa, Gao Zhi had a plastic rope tied around his wrist, the other end tied around the rooster's neck, and he was afraid to sleep with his red eyes wide open;

After his comfort and self-calming, the big rooster no longer crowed incessantly, but lay down beside the sofa.

When a bit of white finally mixed into the dark blue sky, the rooster lying at Gao Zhi's feet tightened its neck, and its loud crow echoed throughout the whole hall of the villa.

Gu Zhisang, who had been prepared, opened his eyes wide and waved the eighteen yellow talismans in his hand forward.

A strange scene happened. The light talisman papers were not blown to the ground, but hovered in the air in a row, emitting golden light.

This was the scene that Li Chenghe saw when he opened his eyes after waking up from a dream.

Before he could be shocked, the temperature in the villa suddenly dropped, and the biting cold directly penetrated his and Gao Zhi's clothes, making them shiver violently;

The sensitive rooster was frightened by the evil spirits around it and started cackling.

Gu Zhisang said sternly: "You two, step back!"

After saying this, she formed a complicated seal with her hands and chanted the Vajrasattva Dharmakaya Mantra. Eighteen yellow talismans were rustled by the cold wind and flew spontaneously around the character 'Jing'.

This is the most profound "Nine-Character Mantra" in Taoist fighting techniques: all fighters will march forward in formation, and the word "fighting" among them is a killing move.

Under the power of the talisman and the "fighting" character, the evil spirit hidden in the Yin formation had to show up.

In the gusts of cold wind, Gao Zhi and Li Chenghe, who were shivering in the distance, seemed to see some gray shadows rushing towards Gu Zhisang.

But the girl was as slender as a willow, and as strong as a bell, she was not affected at all.

She held three jade talismans painted with cinnabar between her fingertips. Although the yellow talismans were quite powerful, they were still difficult to break the chain of dangerous formations. These jade talismans were used to destroy the formation points.

Gu Zhisang threw out three jade talismans at the same time, and they emitted red rays of light and suppressed the central point of the array.

A sharp and painful scream came from the word "Jing". Even the other two people in the room heard it clearly and showed fear on their faces.

As a faint purple light came in from the window, Huiwu suddenly disappeared in the room. The temperature in the room, which had been so cold that it made people shiver, suddenly warmed up, and the air flow and sounds returned to calm.

Gao Zhi and the other man, their hearts pounding, waited for a long time before slowly walking back to the main hall, still feeling terrified, "Master Gu, what was that just now...?"

"The evil demon has been killed by me." Gu Zhisang looked a little tired.

The Great Evil Formation consumed a lot of spiritual energy, and she drew more than twenty talismans. Her dilapidated body, which had not yet recovered, could no longer hold on.

Gao Zhi's tone was filled with suppressed trembling and anticipation, "Master, what about my father?"

Gu Zhisang pointed to his side and said, "It's here now, but you can't see it."

She pasted the Heavenly Eye Talisman which she had drawn in advance on Gao Zhi's body.

As soon as the talisman was applied, Gao Zhi saw a man with an almost transparent body on her right. The moment he saw the man's face, the 40-year-old man burst into tears.

This time he knelt heavily on the ground, kowtowed three times in that direction, and choked up, "Dad!"

This transparent man is his father who set himself on fire more than 20 years ago: Gao Lin!

Gao Lin, who had been suppressed and tortured for many years, had become extremely weak in spirit, as if he was about to disappear from the world. But when he saw the man kneeling on the ground, his eyes became somewhat clearer.

I don't know what it was thinking of, but the expression on its face suddenly became ferocious, "Gao...Shuo...!"

Hearing his father's broken voice, Gao Zhi kowtowed again, his fists shaking with anger, because the name Gao Shuo meant his good uncle!

At this moment, Gu Zhisang, feeling the change in the surrounding aura, became startled.

She kicked Gao Zhi three meters away, quickly formed seals with one hand, and went straight for Gao Lin.

The transparent soul had a ferocious expression and was full of hatred. A gray mist rolled out of its soul, making its soul more and more solid. These were all Gao Lin's resentment.

It was killed and suppressed in its own home, watching its relatives die tragically one by one, and was tortured by the formation day and night. After it was released and regained consciousness, the extremely strong resentment directly distorted it.

This is going to transform into a fierce ghost!