Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 1782 True North

"I stopped only because I saw you stopped chanting the spell." Hou Jizhuan said.

"How did you figure that out?" asked the Taoist priest in red.

Hou Jizhuan said, "I see you can't move your mouth."

"Just because your mouth isn't moving doesn't mean you're not reciting the spell." said the red-robed Taoist priest.

"I just said that during this ritual, everyone has to recite out loud. Reciting silently won't work." Hou Jizhu said.

Tie Wandao had already come over. He had felt that the ritual seemed to be interrupted, so he deliberately asked, "Are you performing a ritual like this?"

All the alchemists stood up.

The first Taoist priest who told Tie Wandao that Hou Jizhuan made a mistake in his ritual and caused problems inside the gray house said, "He was performing a ritual just now, but it was interrupted."

"Why interrupt?" Tie Wandao asked.

In order to prevent Hou Jizhuan from saying that the ritual was interrupted because he suddenly stopped chanting the spell, the red-robed Taoist priest immediately rushed in front of Tie Wandao and said, "Master Hou suddenly stopped chanting the spell!"

Tie Wandao looked at Hou Jizhuan and asked, "Why did you suddenly stop studying?"

Hou Jizhuan immediately pointed at the red-robed Taoist priest and said to Tie Wandao, "He was the one who stopped chanting the spell first, and he is actually blaming me for it!"

The red-robed Taoist priest said to Hou Jizhuan, "Just because I said something about you, you can't say the opposite about me!" Tie Wandao asked the other Taoist priests, "Who stopped chanting the spell first?"

The first Taoist priest who told Tie Wandao that Hou Jizhuan's mistake in performing the ritual caused the problem inside the gray house said, "I don't know either. We both had our eyes closed just now. I suddenly couldn't hear Taoist Hou chanting the spell and then I realized that the ritual was interrupted."

Hou Jizhuan said to the first Taoist priest who told Tie Wandao that Hou Jizhuan's mistake in the ritual had caused problems inside the gray house: "You said it yourself, your eyes were closed, but mine were open. I can see who stopped chanting the spell."

When the red-robed Taoist saw that the situation was not favorable to him, he quickly said to everyone, "During the ritual, Taoist Hou must face due north. I was clearly to his south, facing his back. How could he see whether I recited the spell or not?"

"I saw it when I turned around." Hou Jizhuan said.

The first Taoist priest who told Tie Wandao that Hou Jizhuan's mistake in performing the ritual caused the problem inside the gray house said to Hou Jizhuan, "You have to face due north when performing the ritual. What do you mean by turning around? Do you not want to perform the ritual anymore?"

The red-robed Taoist priest said, "That's right."

Hou Jizhuan said: "I felt something was wrong, so I turned around to see what was going on."

"Why do you feel something is wrong?" The first Taoist priest who told Tie Wandao that Hou Jizhuan's mistake in the ritual caused the problem inside the gray house said to Hou Jizhuan, "None of us feels anything is wrong." He continued to ask the other Taoist priests, "Before Taoist Hou stopped chanting the spell, did any of you feel something is wrong?"

Those alchemists said they didn't feel anything wrong.

When all the alchemists present were chanting spells together, if someone in the circle stopped chanting, only Hou Jizhuan, who was in the center of the circle, could immediately feel something was wrong, while the other alchemists could not feel anything was wrong during the process. The other alchemists in the circle also did not know that Hou Jizhuan, who was in the center of the circle, could feel something was wrong when the other alchemists stopped chanting spells.

(End of this chapter)