Chapter 14 What is the Illusion? [New book, please collect it! ]
After reminding Li Chu, Li Xinyi began to arrange talismans in the courtyard.
At this time, the distant sky was about to darken, and the last ray of sunset was setting.
But she took out a yellow talisman written in cinnabar from her waist bag, held it between two fingers, and threw it forward. The yellow talisman flew over and stuck to a wall as if it had a spirit.
This was not the end yet. She took out a small sword carved from emerald jade, which was about the length of a finger. It was exquisitely crafted and crystal clear. It looked like it would be worth a lot even if it was sold as jewelry.
But Li Xinyi didn't feel sorry at all. He flicked his finger, a flash of green light passed by, and the small sword was nailed to the yellow talisman.
Then, she took out a new yellow talisman and repeated the process again.
Li Chu watched from the side. Although he didn't understand what she was doing, he thought it was amazing.
This is also something he envied very much.
The world of these orthodox practitioners is filled with talismans, magic weapons, elixirs, magical powers...all kinds of mysterious and dazzling things.
He had never been in contact with it.
After all, he won’t get any equipment by killing monsters himself, and the master... never cares about these trivial matters!
Li Xinyi walked slowly around the courtyard, casting a talisman every three steps and then nailing it with the jade sword. After doing this eighteen times, she finally walked around the small courtyard.
She let out a long sigh, and thin beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.
Before Li Chu could ask, she came over and said, "Do you know what this is that I have set up?"
"It's the sword-activated talisman spirit formation!" Without waiting for Li Chu to answer, she gave the answer herself.
Li Chu smiled. He understood that he didn't need to say anything, because this Miss Li would tell him everything she was curious about.
As expected, Li Xinyi continued to talk to herself, "I took these talismans out from the Chaotianque storehouse to deal with ghosts. I then pinned them down with the magical Jade Talisman Sword produced by Danding Pavilion. When the time comes, each talisman will carry a ray of my sword energy. This talisman technique is called the Sword-Activating Talisman."
"And the eighteen sword-activating talismans arranged in the positive and negative nine-square pattern form a relatively elementary sword-activating talisman spirit formation. Hehe, it will be easy to deal with a small vengeful spirit."
Li Xinyi smiled as if to say, “Now that you’ve finished showing off, praise me.”
Li Chu on the opposite side nodded and sighed in his heart, this is called professionalism.
In comparison, my own method of exorcising evil spirits was very boring.
As Li Xinyi finished setting up the spirit formation, the setting sun also completed its last leg of the journey, showing that she had a very accurate grasp of time.
A pale white crescent appeared. In fact, it had been hanging in the air for a long time, but its color was too pale to be seen.
The two lit the lights and waited quietly.
Li Xinyi suddenly asked again: "Little Taoist priest, are you afraid?"
Li Chu shook his head slightly.
“Why? This is a vengeful spirit.” Li Xinyi asked.
"Yes, isn't it a vengeful spirit?" Li Chu asked back.
The two people seemed to say similar things, but they were very different.
A trace of barely perceptible confusion flashed across Li Xinyi's face.
Li Chu's expression was always so serious that she couldn't really tell whether he was pretending or it was real.
But if someone asks you if you are afraid, it usually means that she is afraid first.
Li Xinyi's family knows their own business.
This was actually her first time exorcising an evil spirit on her own.
She used to follow her master, but she had a breakthrough not long ago. So she pulled her master's sleeve and begged for this opportunity to be on her own.
As for why she was so eager to exorcise evil spirits on her own? Because a certain Lu sage once said that you should become famous as early as possible! Following behind the teacher, no matter how strong the evil spirit is, the credit and reputation belong to the leader.
Only when you are able to take charge of something independently can all the achievements you have made be attributed to yourself.
She is actually not even 20 years old this year. If she becomes famous now, people in the martial arts world will call her a female knight or a fairy. With her charm, she will attract countless fans wherever she goes.
If she waited until she was 40 or 50 to become famous, like her master, what would people call her? Nun Tai!
Li Xinyi quickly shook her head to get rid of this terrible fantasy.
Suddenly, Li Chu's eyes focused and he looked towards a dark and unknown place outside the door.
Just as Li Xinyi was about to ask, she realized something was wrong.
There was a gloomy air in the wind! What they were waiting for had arrived.
Suddenly, childish voices floated around, as if children were laughing, like silver bells, everywhere, crisp, ethereal, yet a little weird.
"careful."
Li Xinyi only spoke once, and then the voice suddenly changed and began to sing a ballad.
"My brother killed me."
"Mother killed him."
"Daddy killed Mom."
"I killed Daddy."
…
The ballad floats quietly in the wind, yet it is so clear that it seems to have its own echo, ringing over and over again.
"My brother killed me."
"Mother killed him."
"Daddy killed Mom."
"I killed Daddy."
…
As the song entered her ears, the light and shadow in front of Li Xinyi's eyes suddenly changed. Her body suddenly shrank and she became a little girl of three or four years old.
Still in this room, the surrounding scenes changed and suddenly became alive.
She saw her mother, a young woman with a hunched back.
Mother was pressing her head and asking her to call her daddy.
But she remembered that she had a father.
But Dad was put into a black box and buried in the ground.
My mother couldn't survive with me, so she had to find me a new father.
The new dad also has a brother who always has a sly smile on his face.
She thought the new daddy would be like the old one.
Protect yourself and protect your mother.
But the reality scared her.
When he was drunk, he would beat my mother very hard.
My brother will also learn from him.
Hit himself hard like he hit his mother.
Her mother taught her to be patient, so she did so obediently.
This went on for a long time, and they always had scars on their bodies.
Until one day, her brother suddenly stopped beating her.
He wanted to take off her clothes.
My mother finally couldn't bear it anymore and rushed over to beat my brother.
Of course, when my father came back in the evening, he also beat my mother severely.
Later one day, her brother apologized to her.
He also took her to the market and bought her a piece of red silk.
Other little girls all have red hairbands, and she has always envied them.
Now she has it too and she is very happy.
She decided to forgive her brother.
Her brother took her to the hillside and tied her hair.
So she sat down on the hillside obediently.
Then her brother pushed her down.
She rolled down the hill and was in pain.
Then everything went dark.
For some reason, she suddenly became such a nonexistent existence.
She saw her mother looking for her all over the village like a madman.
She heard her mother calling her name.
She agreed, but her mother couldn't hear her.
Mother finally found out.
She went out with her brother and never came back.
Mother didn't say anything.
She silently poured a packet of rat poison into the soup.
My brother was poisoned to death.
Dad was very angry because that was his own son.
So he beat his mother hard.
My mother was beaten to death by him.
She is very angry.
She is still very young and she doesn't understand.
Why is the world like this?
I had been behaving well. Why was I pushed down the mountain?
Why would such a good mother be beaten to death?
So she showed up and killed Daddy easily.
Only then did she realize that she was very powerful now.
It turns out that she doesn't have to endure it.
…
"ah!"
Li Xinyi suddenly woke up from the hallucination and found that it was Li Chu who pushed her shoulder.
Li Chu said: "I'm sorry, I saw something was wrong with you, so I pushed you."
“It’s okay.” Li Xinyi shook her head, as if she had just woken up from a dream. She was still panting heavily and muttered, “I… I just…”
Li Chu said: "Just now you closed your eyes tightly, your face flushed, your whole body trembled, and you kept calling me daddy."
"..." Li Xinyi's face flushed three times redder.
But she quickly raised her head and looked straight at Li Chu: "Why didn't you fall for her illusion?"
Li Xinyi knew that vengeful spirits could use their resentment to influence others and cause them to have hallucinations, so she was careful.
But I didn't expect that although this vengeful spirit had just died, it was quite powerful. She hid her magic in the ballad, making it hard to guard against.
But...why did Li Chu act like nothing happened when he was hit? He even woke himself up very calmly.
Why should he do that?
Li Xinyi's eyes were full of doubt.
Li Chu was stunned for a second under her gaze, and then slowly asked, "Illusion...what illusion?"
After saying this, he began to become alert, raised his eyes, turned his head, and looked around cautiously.
Very stable.
Li Xinyi looked at him belatedly realizing something, and black question marks began to appear above her head.
One, two, three, four...
In fact, based on her understanding of illusion, she also guessed two possibilities.
The first possibility is...
An attack like illusion is like water flooding a golden mountain.
The spiritual consciousness of both sides is water on one side and mountain on the other.
If your flood is big enough to cover my mountain, then I will naturally immerse myself in it and let you do whatever you want.
Sometimes, even though you don’t have enough water, it is enough to flood the mountainside. At this time, it depends on whether I have left any flaws.
If I'm not careful, I might be hit on the top of the mountain by the big wave you create, and I'd be hit as well.
but……
If your splash is too small for me, it's like a child peeing at the foot of the mountain.
So it’s normal that I can’t feel it.
But could Li Chu be that mountain? After thinking about it, Li Xinyi still felt that the second possibility was more reliable.
That is... Li Chu is deaf.
(End of this chapter)
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