Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 2529 (Two Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty Nine) Someone

Tie Wandao said to Li Pingrun as if nothing had happened: "Do you think this thunderstorm will cause all my newly lit candles to go out?"

Li Pingrun was very curious as to why he asked this question, and said, "Patriarch, I have limited experience, and I have never seen such a situation."

"What if all the candles here are extinguished after a thunder?" Tie Wandao asked.

Li Pingrun said, "All the candles went out? If that's the case, it shouldn't have anything to do with the thunder. Someone could have done something to make all the candles go out."

"Performing a ritual?" Tie Wandao suddenly thought: Could it be that someone was performing a ritual that day? But there was no one performing a ritual where I was at the time, and even if there was one, it was somewhere else. How could a ritual performed so far away cause all the candles to go out?

Tie Wandao then asked Li Pingrun: "If you perform a ritual not too far from this room, can you also extinguish all the candles in this room?"

Li Pingrun said, "Yes."

"Is this because your skills are very high?" Tie Wandao said.

"It has something to do with the level of the technique, but many other alchemists can do it too." Li Pingrun said.

Tie Wandao asked: "Don't I have to use your kind of magic?"

"You can use many kinds of magic." Li Pingrun said.

Tie Wandao thought: But, in the situation that day, it is impossible that someone was performing a ritual on the candles in the place where I was! What's the point of performing a ritual on the candles in my place and causing them to go out? No one else showed up later that day. If someone wanted to steal, it would be useful to find a Taoist priest to extinguish the candles, but in fact, nothing happened later that day. Could it be that someone was performing a ritual somewhere else, but it was not for the candles in the place where I was at that time, but it affected the candles and caused them to go out?

Tie Wandao asked Li Pingrun: "If a Taoist priest performs a ritual to extinguish all the candles in a certain place, what is his purpose?" Li Pingrun said: "In fact, I have never seen a Taoist priest actively perform a ritual to extinguish all the candles in a certain place."

Tie Wandao asked, "Then how did you come up with the idea so quickly just now that 'someone can do something to make all the candles go out'? Did you come up with it all on your own?"

Li Pingrun said, "Patriarch, someone can indeed cause all the candles to go out by performing a ritual, and it is not necessarily a ritual performed on the candles."

Tie Wandao thought for a moment and said, "You mean, someone was doing something else and it affected the candles in another place, causing all the candles in that place to go out?"

"That's right." Li Pingrun said.

"What kind of magic caused this situation?" Tie Wandao asked.

"Many spells can do that." Li Pingrun said, "Some spells can even make a candle that has been extinguished in another place light up again!"

Tie Wandao said: "This can also be considered as performing a ritual from a distance, right?"

"Yes." Li Pingrun replied.

"You just said, 'It is more difficult to perform a ritual for a place far away, and it requires more energy, and it is easy to make mistakes in the process.' I'd like to know, if a person did not intend to perform a ritual for the candles somewhere else, but caused all the candles there to go out, then the person performing the ritual would have expended a lot of energy when the candles in that place went out, right?" Tie Wandao asked.

"That's generally the case," Li Pingrun said, "but the person who performed the ritual spent all that energy to achieve other goals, so it wouldn't be a big deal."

(End of this chapter)