bookcurios Chapter 31: Chapter 31
Chapter 31: Chapter 31
Yin Tangfeng let out an irritable "tsk", held the sword in one hand, and took out three yellow talismans from his clothes with the other, holding the paper talismans between his index finger and middle finger. Lai.
The last piece of paper talisman had just been pasted by Yin Tangfeng on her body, when the black cat that had used Tong Shangyan as a stepping stone landed steadily in front of the three of them.
It has amber eyes that glow green in the moonlight.
Tong Shangyan's heart rose to his throat in an instant, and he looked at Yin Tangfeng for help.
Yin Tangfeng glared at him, put the index finger of his right hand to his lips, and signaled him to keep silent, while he himself remained standing in the same position, motionless.
The three of them were like three statues, staring at the black cat in front of them, and they couldn't help breathing freely.
The black cat was like a lion patrolling its own territory. After turning around in a circle, it barked coquettishly, and looked in the direction of Yin Tangfeng and the others for a long time before turning around and chasing Xiu Po lightly.
Tong Shangyan heaved a sigh of relief when he could no longer see the black cat. While wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, he asked Yin Tangfeng, "Boss, this cat...doesn't care about us?"
"Because it can't see." Li Lai looked down at the paper talisman attached to his left arm, and instantly understood that Yin Tangfeng had used a trick on the three of them just now.
"Ah?" Tong Shangyan obviously couldn't figure this out.
Li Lai also had a good temper, and explained: "It's a trick."
As he said that, he walked towards Yin Tangfeng, bowing awkwardly: "Master Yin... Gaoming." Then he took off the paper talisman on his coat and held it in his hand for a closer look. Before he could look twice, the paper talisman suddenly ignited without fire.
The Southeast Asian mage was not angry either, he raised his eyebrows, let go of his hand, and let the paper talisman fall to the ground.
Yin Tangfeng smiled silently, walked to Tong Shangyan and took off the paper talisman stuck on his back, folded it with his own paper talisman and threw it to Li Lai's place, turning the three talismans into ashes together.
"Let's go." He said softly, and took the lead in walking away.
After the black cat's delay, the distance between the three of them and Xiu Po was even further, but fortunately, they had already guessed her destination, and there were no forks in the mountain road, and they could always find a place if they kept walking.
The three walked for another ten minutes, and when they saw a dilapidated building on the open space, they knew it was the abandoned earth temple they were looking for!
The temple was about 30 meters away from them. By the moonlight, one could barely see its outline. It was a brick and stone house that was not too big. The roof was half down, and there was no courtyard wall around it, but there were a few big trees standing upright. .
The three of them walked forward for a while, but they didn't dare to get too close. After a while, a few yellow light spots lit up in the temple. It seemed that Grandma Xiu had lit some candles, which happened to illuminate the area near the gate.
The gate of the temple was gone, so it was convenient for the three of them to peek inside.
Xiu Po was alone in the center of the main hall, she took out a few things from the cloth bag and put them in front of her. After fiddling with the things for a while, she made a lotus handprint with one hand, spread her palms up on her knees, closed her eyes and muttered.
Not long after, the main hall of the ruined temple was illuminated with a faint purple light, which finally made the three people outside the temple see more clearly——Xiu Po was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the purple-glowing witch array, with a clay bowl in front of her, and Around the bowl, there was a circle of straw dolls vaguely placed, and each doll had a steel needle the length of a finger nailed to it.
Seeing that something was wrong with the battle, Tong Shangyan asked Yin Tangfeng nervously, "This...is this witchcraft?"
Yin Tangfeng kept watching the situation in the temple, and when the light of the magic circle came on, he frowned tightly. After seeing the things placed in the magic circle for a while, he shook his dagger without hesitation, and strode towards Earth Temple.
Yin Tangfeng's movement was extremely fast, while he was reciting the tactic, he formed seals, the mana flowed in his body, and poured into the short sword in his hand, the point of the sword pointed directly at the center of Xiu Po's eyebrows, and he went away like a bamboo.
The dagger was like lightning that split the night, swift and shining, but when the tip of the sword entered the range of the light of the witch formation, it seemed to have encountered an invisible barrier, and no matter how much mana Yin Tangfeng injected, he couldn't move forward.
Xiu Po in the middle of the witch formation seemed to have never heard of all this, and the voice of reciting in her mouth was high and low, all of which were obscure and difficult to understand.
Yin Tangfeng did not give up easily. He temporarily withdrew his dagger, held a sword flower, and soon launched a second wave of attacks on the witch formation.
At this moment, accompanied by a sharp meow, Xiupo's black cat rushed towards Yin Tangfeng from a high place like an arrow from the string.
Yin Tangfeng had no choice but to withdraw his sword and turn around, reaching out to block the black cat that was rushing towards him.
The black cat's sharp claws left two scratches on the back of his hand. Yin Tangfeng glanced at the scratched back of his hand, and looked at the black cat standing in front of him.
The black cat licked its front paw that won the sneak attack, and barked twice again. Its slender tail stood up high, like a general guarding one side, separated between the gate of the abandoned temple and Yin Tangfeng.
"Get out of the way!" Yin Tangfeng narrowed his eyes and threatened the little guy in front of him. He knew that the black cat had spirits, so he couldn't understand what he said, but he could definitely feel his shock.
But the black cat seemed fearless, instead it barked back at Yin Tangfeng several times, as if to refute his threats.
The deterrence was ineffective, Yin Tangfeng pursed his lips, and moved his right hand holding the dagger, his eyes swelled with anger, staring at the small black animal in front of him, without hesitation, he leaned forward and drew out the sword.
He was faster than before, mana was flowing continuously in his body, and even the air around him seemed to float around him, but in the blink of an eye, the blade of the dagger was close to the black cat's eyes.
The nimble black cat shrieked and narrowly dodged the weapon that was aimed at its neck. The unsharp weapon contained a thunderous aura, which finally made it tremble.
It retreated quickly, relying on its superior jumping ability, it hid on the girder in the house, and while staring at Yin Tangfeng, it didn't dare to challenge him easily.
But Yin Tangfeng smiled sarcastically, completely ignoring the black cat, and walked towards Xiu Po inside the room again.
Between fear and the owner, the loyal pet finally chose to guard the owner in the house, howling again and rushing towards the enemy.
Yin Tangfeng had been prepared for a long time, before the black cat was about to touch him, he made a seal with one hand to mobilize mana, and the dagger accurately hit the black cat's abdomen, sending a small black ball into the distant forest.
With no obstacles, Yin Tangfeng strode towards the gate of the ruined temple with only the door frame in hand, holding the dagger.
The accident happened at this very moment. Originally, the witch circle surrounded Xiu Po, but as her weird spells suddenly spread, the circle of light quickly approached the gate of the ruined temple.
Yin Tangfeng, who was about to cross the threshold with one foot, felt the pressure from the Wuzhen, but it was too late to retreat.
In the blink of an eye, he crossed his hands in front of his body to block the wave of attack, and retreated repeatedly under the coercion of the witch formation. He was the last one to turn over, knelt on the ground with his sword on the ground, and vomited a mouthful of blood .
"Boss!" Tong Shangyan was terrified when he saw it not far away, and he didn't bother to hide. He was about to rush over, but was stopped by Li Lai, "Boss Yin can't break the witch formation, you go over there." Make trouble?"
Tong Shangyan gasped in anxiety, turned his head to look at Yin Tangfeng, then turned back to stare at Li Lai: "I, I can't do it, then, then you are a mage, go and help my boss!"
But Li Lai shook his head with a smile: "The old lady wants to die, if she wants to stop her, she will die. This matter of taking human life is not within the scope of my business."
"Shut up if you don't help me!" Tong Shangyan looked gentle and harmless, but he also had a temper when he was in a hurry. With a flick of his arms, he broke free from Li Lai's restraint, and ran towards Yin Tangfeng.
At this time, Yin Tangfeng had already sat cross-legged on the ground to finish adjusting his breath, and Xiu Po's magic circle expanded to the door and did not continue to extend.
Tong Shangyan knelt down beside Yin Tangfeng, and asked with concern: "Boss, how are you? Is your injury serious?"
Yin Tangfeng shook his head slightly, wiped off the blood stains on the corners of his lips, fixed his eyes on Xiu Po, moved closer to Tong Shangyan, and whispered: "Delaying time, Sister Lan is here, she will be there soon."
Hearing that there was still an arrangement, Tong Shangyan felt a little more at ease, and immediately asked: "Boss, boss, I will help you, what can I do?"
Yin Tangfeng's gaze turned to him, and suddenly, with a flash of inspiration, he took out a blank yellow talisman from his clothes, bit his finger, and while drawing the talisman, told Tong Shang: "I use the talisman, you ring the bell."
"Oh... oh oh." Although he was not clear about Yin Tangfeng's plan, Tong Shangyan still agreed without hesitation.
Yin Tangfeng finished drawing the blood talisman very quickly. He put the talisman between the index finger and middle finger of his left hand and put it on his chest. After chanting a spell, he stretched out his long arm and threw the yellow talisman at Xiu Po.
Soon, the blood talisman, just like the short sword just now, seemed to touch an invisible barrier at the outermost edge of the witch formation, hanging in the air and sticking to the invisible barrier, unable to move forward any more.
"Ring the bell!" Yin Tangfeng's voice sounded at this moment, the sword formula in his left hand was not put away, his lips moved quickly, and he silently recited the incantation.
Tong Shangyan, who had already held the Diling in his hand, heard the word "ring the bell", and instinctively shook his arm. The Diling's voice was mixed with Xiu Po's unpleasant murmur, turning into a strange tune.
Tong Shangyan shook it a few times, but there was no reaction from Xiu Po. When he was wondering whether the Di Ling was not working, his heart beat suddenly, and then he felt as if a huge pressure was coming towards him.
He took a deep breath, wanting to fight against the pressure, imitating Yin Tangfeng, from kneeling to sitting cross-legged, and the frequency of shaking the imperial bell in his hand also slowed down, one by one, heavier but more rhythmic.
The huge pressure did not weaken because of this, squeezing Tong Shangyan from all directions made him feel as if he had returned to the subway car in the morning rush hour.
However, he didn't know whether it was the blessing of the soul, or the posture of sitting cross-legged reminded him of the time when he was practicing breathing in Yunjin Temple. Tong Shangyan, whose mind was blank, kept ringing the bell in his hand, silently remembering what Zhao Youruo taught him The breathing formula.
He didn't recite it fast, and even stumbled a little, but after the first recitation of the Tuna Jue, Tong Shangyan felt that the force squeezing him gradually eased, and even gave birth to a feeling of ecstasy , he seemed to be in the midst of towering mountains, the wind passed through his body from the mountains, blowing away his weight, and even his breathing became smooth.
At this time, Yin Tangfeng who was sitting next to him suddenly shouted, "Break the formation!"
The blood talisman stuck to the edge of the witch formation exploded and sparks ignited. Xiu Po in the center of the formation vomited a mouthful of blood, and finally lifted her drooping eyelids. The red eyes were no longer dull and dull, but glared at them angrily: " You guys! Why stop me!"