Heavenly Dao Formula Chapter 40: Void 魉
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"The trail is long, this is it."
The old lady took Xia Fan to her house.
Xia Fan glanced at Ruqiu who was hiding behind the old lady Tian with the light of the oil lamp in the house. There was indeed a clear look of fright and weakness on his face.
"Don't enter without telling you." He ordered, then walked into the house and bolted in the door.
This house is considered to be the most common residential style in the county. The largest is the hall, which is about ten square meters, with a door on each side, a kitchen on one side and a bedroom on the other. There is also a narrow door in the kitchen, which leads directly to the latrine and the backyard.
Xia Fan took a minute to walk around the house and opened the bedroom window after confirming that there was no one else.
, who was already in place, quietly turned into the house.
At this time, she is like a person from the rivers and lakes, although she is wearing ordinary cloth, but under the blessing of the hat and rain, she looks full of chivalry. If she wears a long sword at her waist, she is authentic. The swordsman style of the martial art has become popular.
As for the characteristics of the fox demon, they are completely concealed by clothing, and their behavior is basically the same as a human being.
"How, do you still fit?"
"The chest is a bit tight, but it doesn't affect the movement." Li replied.
Clothes that perfectly match your body shape...it will be harder to find. Xia Fan cleared his throat, "What shall we do next?"
"Wait." She walked to the bed and sat down, "Only by seeing the vision with her own eyes can we make an accurate judgment."
"No need to turn off the lights?"
"No," Li's eyes looked like a fool, "How can you observe them when it's turned off?"
"I thought... ghosts would be afraid of light." Xia Fan replied awkwardly, accustomed to harming others...
"If they are afraid of light, they don't need an alchemist to deal with evil." The fox demon let out a sneer. "Even the charms that are most affected by light will not run away from the light, let alone other things. , I don’t think the old lady met a ghost."
"Why?"
"Ghosts are the most difficult kind of evil. They mostly appear in the form of corpses. It is not their style to hide their heads and reveal their tails. Moreover, once they appear, they will probably cause a **** storm, and it is unlikely that the two in the house will be allowed to live until now. "
Xia Fan found that she had a vague understanding of the temper of the fox demon-although she did not let go of every opportunity to laugh at humans, she would still do what she promised, even if it was an explanation, she could not tire of the basics Speaking, not in a word.
"How are these evil creatures classified?"
"According to my master, it should have been passed down by word of mouth for thousands of years. The Privy Council only further subdivided it and added the four types of ghosts, demons and ghosts before the monsters—the two correspond one by one, but the former It is used to refer to weaker evil spirits. Of course, the folks call it a lot of strange things, and it is normal to use any name."
"That's why you said that there is no essential difference between the succubus and the demon in Sha Ye..." Xia Fan suddenly.
"But this classification is not without loopholes," Li snorted. "First, it is totally unreasonable to put the demon into evil. It is purely the selfish desire of human beings. If you really want to divide it into categories, you should belong to it. .Secondly, it can’t block all the anomalous things, such as some spirits..."
At this point, she suddenly stopped and looked up at the roof.
"What's wrong?"
"Hush—" She made a silent gesture, "Listen."
Xia Fan could not help holding his breath, and followed her gaze to look up-under the light of the oil lamp, only one side of the overhead beam gave off dim reflections, and the rest was hidden in the dark, plus the tiled roof For the large shadows, the details he can see are extremely limited.
In the silence, he heard a slight "da, da" sound.
At the beginning, Xia Fan needed to pay attention to it, but after hearing it, the voice gradually became clearer, as if it was a while away and a while near, and sometimes it seemed to come from her side.
He realized that what Mrs. Tian said was true. It was neither a psychological effect nor an illusion. There was indeed something in the room!
It sometimes walks along the roof beams and sometimes passes over the closet, as evidenced by the small and clear footsteps.
Even after the baptism of Dahuang Shaye, Xia Fan still felt the lumps behind him appear.
because no matter how he looks, he can't find the source of the sound.
It’s no wonder that Tian’s wife can be tossed into sleepless nights-facing such a weird situation, she can still fall asleep peacefully, and her psychological quality is by no means normal.
is just invisible, he might not be able to deal with it!
Xia Fan took off the wooden sword behind him 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 bedside table was knocked down with a "clang" and fell straight to the ground——
Almost at the same time, Xia Fan shot.
Under the concentration, the five senses strengthened by Qi clearly captured every detail of the cup pouring. It first tilted to the left, and then was pushed outwards. If there is something there, it must be behind the wooden cup, and The route of travel is from right to left!
Xia Fan swung his sword towards the pre-determined position—according to the frequency of the click, it would be impossible for it to escape this blow!
"Pop!"
The strong impact made him almost unable to hold the hilt, and the wooden sword fell on the table almost without obstacles, and its recoil shook Xia Fan's palms. Except for leaving a dent on the low table, nothing was gained in this shot.
The sound of da and da continued, and it sounded as if they were laughing at him.
"Hahahaha..." Someone was laughing this time.
Li smiled for a long while holding his belly, until the smile turned into an uncomfortable look-it was obvious that the laughter had involved the wound.
"Little Daoist, you, how are you?" A suspicious question came from outside the house.
"It's okay...I'm catching ghosts!" Xia Fan shook his numb hand, and stared at Li angrily, "Is it so funny once I missed it?"
Li nodded solemnly, "It's really interesting to see how you concentrate on cutting the air."
"Air? It clearly knocked over the cup--" Halfway through, Xia Fan frowned, "Wait, do you know the specific location of that thing?"
"Yes, nor is it."
"What does that mean?"
"It means that as long as you don’t see it, you will never know where it is."
I don’t know if I don’t see it. The problem is that I don’t even know the location. Where do I start when I see it? Xia Fan looked puzzled.
"The trick is to find a way to see the other person," Li raised his mouth, "I already know what we are looking for."
"Well, what is it?"
"Weird, or...a sprite." The fox demon replied, "This is also the most branched category of evil spirits. As the so-called weirdness, there are all kinds of strange things. If I am not mistaken, it should be a ghost. The zodiac sign is the same as mine."
Xia Fan immediately took this knowledge into his heart, even if he could not understand its meaning for the time being, "It takes magic to see what you are talking about...Is it imaginary?"
"I don't know. Some alchemy may be possible, but the master hasn't taught me." Li paused, "But before there was no alchemist, people also figured out a way to see the ghost."
"What kind of method?"
"You will know right away-but before that, I need a large stack of window paper. The more the better."
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It is not easy to gather a lot of window paper at 9 or 10 in the evening. It took a lot of work for Mrs. Xia Fan and Tian to borrow or buy five or six rolls of oil paper from the neighbor.
Li quickly connected them end to end and glued them into three "paper tapes". These paper tapes were affixed to both ends of the wall horizontally, dividing the room into several areas. After that, she lit more than ten candles, which were also all the reserves of the old lady Tian's house, and placed them in every corner of the house.
"That's it..." After finishing these preparations, Li clapped his hands.
"Are you sure?" Xia Fan asked suspiciously, "I feel like there are just a few more banners made of window paper hanging in the room."
"For the vision, the more complex it is, the more effective it is." The fox demon took off the hat, and sat cross-legged in front of the paper, "The ghost is a concrete manifestation of Qi. The reason you can't see it is because you pay too much attention to it. Eyes."
"But didn't you say that turning off the lights is more unfavorable for observation?"
"Indeed, because darkness will not only make you give up using your eyes, but will increase your focus on vision, and the effect will naturally be worse."
Xia Fan thought for a while, and found that the other party also made sense, "Then what is the purpose of these papers?"
" What you see 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 something that is usually difficult to be directly observed. Things, the so-called virtual reality, is the truth~IndoMTL.com~ The problem is that this deceives only one's own brain... Could it also affect the foreign objects? Just when he was about to believe, a dark shadow suddenly appeared. Leap on paper.
And besides him and the fox demon, there should be nothing else in this room!
Through the oiled paper, Xia Fan can see the shadow of the bed frame reflected by the dim candlelight and light, while the walls, windows and other things a little further apart completely disappear behind the paper, as if it is an infinite expanse Space. At the top of the outline of the bed frame, the black shadow twisted his body and moved forward slowly-everything was like a rough shadow puppet show, and the shadow was its stage.
"I saw it." Xia Fan said softly.
"It’s not really seen yet. Before being perceived, the ghosts can appear in any possible position, and even the world they are in is different from ours. The moment it knocks over the cup, the body does not It’s not necessarily near the cup. In my master’s words, we can’t understand the movement of the phantom because we are bound by the rules of heaven and earth."
Bound by rules? Xia Fan couldn't help but read it silently in her heart, "Can the sprite go beyond the rules?"
"The closer you are to chaos, the more difficult it is to use common sense. Isn’t that the manifestation of visions?" Li Tanshou said, "And as long as this phantom is perceived by people, it will be restrained by heaven and earth again and become An entity that can be touched. It’s time to see what it really looks like."
"How to do it?"
"Just walk over."
Xia Fan nodded, walked around the oil paper banner slowly, and looked at Tian’s wife’s bed frame——
I saw an extra cat on it, a tabby cat that was so ordinary that it could no longer be ordinary. It probably noticed something. It turned its head and opened its mouth to Xia Fan, and gave a soft cry.
"Meow—Woo."