Heavenly Dao Formula

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"Xiao Daoist, it's here."

The old lady brought Xia Fan to her house.

Xia Fan glanced at Ru Qiu who was hiding behind Mrs. Tian by the light of the oil lamp in the house, and there was indeed a clear look of fear and weakness on his face.

"Don't enter until you are notified." He ordered, then walked into the house and bolted the door.

This house is considered to be the most common residential style in the county. The largest hall is about ten square meters. There is a door on the left and right, with the kitchen on one side and the bedroom on the other. There is also a narrow door in the kitchen, which leads directly to the toilet and the backyard.

Xia Fan spent a minute looking around the house, and opened the bedroom window after confirming that there was no one else.

Li Quiet, who had already taken his seat, crept into the house silently.

At this time, she is like a person from the Jianghu. Although she is wearing ordinary commoner clothes, she looks full of chivalrous spirit under the blessing of bamboo hat and rain cape. If she wears a long sword around her waist, she is a true martial arts swordsman It's windy.

As for the characteristics of the fox demon, it is completely concealed by clothing, and its behavior is basically the same as that of a human.

"How, does it still fit?"

"The chest is a bit tight, but it doesn't affect the movement." Li replied.

Clothes that fit your body shape perfectly... can be hard to find. Xia Fan cleared his throat, "What should we do next?"

"Wait." She went to the bed and sat down, "Only by seeing the vision with your own eyes can you make an accurate judgment."

"Don't turn off the lights?"

"No need," Li's eyes looked like he was looking at a fool, "How can you observe them if you turn them off?"

"I thought... ghosts are afraid of light." Xia Fan replied awkwardly, he is used to hurting people...

"If they are afraid of light, then they don't need alchemists to deal with evil spirits." The fox demon sneered, "Even the charms that are most affected by light will not run away when they see light, let alone other things. Besides, I don't I think what the old lady encountered was a ghost."

"Why?"

"Ghosts are the most difficult type of evil spirits to deal with. Most of them appear in the form of corpses. It's not their style to hide their heads and show their tails. And once they appear, they will probably cause a bloodbath. It is unlikely that the two people in the house will be allowed to live until now."

Xia Fan found that he had vaguely grasped the temper of the fox demon—even though she would not let go of every opportunity to laugh at humans, she would still do what she promised seriously, even if it was an explanation, she would take the trouble to start from the basics, And not in one word.

"How are these evil beings classified?"

"According to my master, it should have been passed down by word of mouth for thousands of years. The Privy Council just made a further subdivision and added four categories before demons and ghosts-the two correspond one to one, but the former is used to refer to The weaker evil spirits. Of course, folks have all kinds of strange names, and it's normal to use any name."

"That's why you said that there is no essential difference between Mei and Mo in Shaye..." Xia Fan was stunned.

"But this classification is not without loopholes," Li snorted. "First of all, it makes no sense to classify demons into evil spirits. It is purely human's selfish desire. If we really want to classify according to categories, you should also belong to it. Secondly, it There is no way to include all abnormal things, such as some spirits..."

Having said that, she suddenly stopped and looked up at the roof.

"What's wrong?"

"Shh—" She made a silent gesture, "Listen."

Xia Fan couldn't help holding his breath, and followed her gaze upwards - under the reflection of the oil lamp, only one side of the beam above his head gave off a dim reflection, and the rest was hidden in the darkness, plus the large shadow on the tiled roof , the details he can see are extremely limited.

In this silence, he heard a slight "da, da" sound.

At first, Xia Fan needed to concentrate on listening, but after hearing it, the voice gradually became clearer, as if it was far away and near at times, and sometimes it seemed to come from around him.

He realized that what Mrs. Tian said was true. This was neither a psychological effect nor an illusion. There was indeed something extra in the room!

It sometimes walks along the beams of the roof, and sometimes passes by the wardrobe, as evidenced by the small and clear footsteps.

Even after the baptism of the wild night, Xia Fan still felt the pimples on his back.

Because no matter how he looked, he couldn't find the source of the sound.

No wonder Tian's wife was tossed so hard that she couldn't sleep all night - she was able to fall asleep peacefully in the face of such a weird situation, and her psychological quality was by no means ordinary.

But if it's just invisible, he might not be able to deal with it!

Xia Fan took off the wooden sword behind his back and held it firmly in his hand.

He was waiting for the moment when this evil thing was exposed.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the oil lamp suddenly shook, and a wooden cup on the low table beside the bed was knocked down with a bang, and fell straight to the ground——

Almost at the same time, Xia Fan made a move.

After concentrating on it, the five senses strengthened by qi clearly captured every detail of the pouring of the cup. It first tilted to the left, and then was pushed outwards. If there is anything there, it must be behind the wooden cup, and the traveling route is from right to left!

Xia Fan swung his sword and slashed at the predicted position—according to the frequency of the rattling sound, it was impossible for it to escape this blow!

"Snapped!"

The strong impact made him almost fail to hold the hilt of the sword, and the wooden sword fell on the table almost without any obstacles, and the recoil caused Xia Fan's palm to go numb. Apart from leaving a dent in the low table, there was no gain in this shot.

The sound of da, da is still going on, it sounds like he is laughing at him.

"Hahahaha..." Someone actually laughed this time.

Li held his stomach and laughed for a long time, until the smile turned into a look of discomfort and then stopped - obviously this burst of laughter has involved the wound.

"Xiao Daoist, are you, are you okay?" A doubtful inquiry came from outside the house.

"It's okay... I'm catching ghosts!" Xia Fan shook his numb hand and glared at Li angrily, "Is it so funny to miss once?"

Li nodded solemnly, "It's really interesting to see how you concentrate on chopping the air."

"Air? It obviously knocked over the cup—" Xia Fan frowned suddenly in the middle of speaking, "Wait, do you know the exact location of that thing?"

"Yes and no."

"what does that mean?"

"It means that as long as you don't see it, you'll never know where it is."

If you don't see it...you don't know. The problem is that you don't even know the location. How can you talk about seeing it? Xia Fan looked puzzled.

"The trick is to find a way to see each other," Li Yang raised the corner of his mouth, "I already know what we are looking for."

"Well, what is it?"

"Strange, or... a phoenix." The fox demon replied, "This is also the most branched category of evil spirits. As the saying goes, there are all kinds of strange things. If I guessed correctly, it should be a virtual phoenix, which belongs to Kan. It's the same genus as me."

Xia Fan immediately remembered this knowledge in his heart, even if he couldn't understand its meaning temporarily, "Do you need to use magic to see the... phantom you mentioned?"

"I don't know. Some alchemy techniques might work, but my master didn't teach me." Li paused, "But before there were alchemists, people also figured out a way to see ghosts."

"What method?"

"You'll know right away - just before that, I'm going to need a big stack of window paper, as much as possible."

...

It was not easy to get together a large pile of window paper at nine or ten o'clock in the evening. It took Xia Fan and Mrs. Tian a lot of effort to borrow or buy five or six rolls of oil paper from neighbors.

Li quickly connected them end to end and glued them into three "paper tapes". These paper strips were pasted horizontally on both ends of the wall, dividing the room into several areas. Afterwards, she lit more than ten candles—this is all the reserves of Mrs. Tian's house, and distributed them in various corners of the house.

"That's it..." After completing these preparations, Li clapped his hands and said.

"Are you sure?" Xia Fan doubted, "It feels like there are just a few extra banners made of window paper hanging in the room."

"As far as the vision is concerned, the more complicated the more effective." The fox demon took off his hat and sat cross-legged in front of the paper. "The phantom is the concrete form of Qi. The reason why you can't see it is because you pay too much attention to your eyes."

"But didn't you say earlier that it's more difficult to observe when the lights are off?"

"Indeed, not only will the darkness not make you give up using your eyes, but it will increase your focus on vision, and the effect will naturally be worse."

Xia Fan thought for a while, and found that what the other party said made sense, "Then what is the purpose of these papers?"

"Things seen through the window paper will be more blurred, which will weaken the scene in your eyes in disguise. This will force you to realize that your eyes are no longer reliable, but you can perceive some things that are difficult to be directly observed at ordinary times. The so-called This is the reason why the emptiness is the truth.”

The problem is that the only one who cheats in this way is his own brain... Could it also affect external things? Just when he was doubtful, a black shadow suddenly jumped on the paper.

And apart from him and the fox demon, there should be nothing else in this room!

Through the oiled paper, Xia Fan can see the dim candlelight and the shadow of the bed frame reflected by the light, while the walls, windows and other things that are a little further away completely disappear behind the paper, as if it is an infinite and vast space. Just at the top of the outline of the bed frame, the black shadow twisted its body and moved forward slowly—everything is like a rough shadow play, and the shadow is its stage.

"I saw it." Xia Fan said softly.

"I haven't really seen it yet. Before the phantom is perceived, it can appear in any possible position, and even the world they are in is different from ours. The moment it knocked over the cup, the body is not necessarily in the Near the cup, in my master's words, we can't understand the movement of the illusory because we are bound by the rules of heaven and earth."

Bound by the rules? Xia Fan couldn't help repeating in his heart, "Can you go beyond the rules?"

"The closer it is to chaos, the harder it is to judge it with common sense. Isn't that the case with visions?" Li Tan said with his hands, "And as long as this phantom is perceived by people, it will be bound again by the heavens and the earth, and become a creature that can be seen." A contacted entity. Time to see it for what it really is."

"How to do it?"

"Just walk over there."

Xia Fan nodded, slowly walked around the oiled paper banner, and looked at Tian's wife's bed frame——

I saw that there was an extra cat on it, a raccoon cat that was so ordinary that it couldn't be more ordinary. It probably sensed something. It turned around and opened its mouth to Xia Fan, and let out a soft cry.

"Meow - woo."