Chapter 34: The trap and the five elements

Faced with my surprise, the master only explained lightly: “As early as the Ming Dynasty, my Taoist ancestors had already noticed the harm that these insects would bring during the battle with the Black Rock Miao tribe. Therefore, hundreds of years ago, our ancestors devised a strategy for the descendants of our Taoist sect. We had to provoke internal strife in the Black Rock Miao tribe, insert spies, divide and conquer, and obtain the information we wanted. In addition, they spared no expense to protect a few Bai Miao villages. You see, I was able to resolve this crisis in a few words today because this matter has been planned since hundreds of years ago. The Bai Miao women who married into the Black Rock tribe and the supervisors of the Black Rock tribe over the generations have all been doing this. Otherwise, why do you think we were able to catch the Black Rock people who were cheating so easily? And on what basis were we able to get some clues about the chess pieces buried outside the Black Rock, and then use these clues in conjunction with modern technological means to determine the list?

It turns out that it was a trap set by my Taoist ancestors hundreds of years ago? Today, as Master said, it is just a harvest! I am truly impressed by these Taoist ancestors. No wonder there have been Taoist masters throughout the ages who have been able to assist emperors and seize power. Such scheming and such tactics are truly superior to others. They even used time to play a big game.

Thinking of this, my heart surged with emotion, and I couldn’t help but ask, “Master, what kind of style did our Taoist ancestors have? How do you compare to them?”

I can’t blame myself for this. I’ve never known what the Taoists were planning, and they always stayed close to the emperors, especially the founding emperors. They were always low-key, and occasionally you could see a little bit of them in the historical records, but their deeds were rare, and they didn’t necessarily come to the surface afterwards. They were in control of great power, and their wealth was overwhelming. So, I really don’t know what kind of people they were.

“What kind of style? It should be the style of my master!” When my master said this, there was a strange light in his eyes. Then he said, “My ability, compared to theirs, is like a firefly compared to the moon. It’s not worth mentioning at all.”

Master, in front of them, is like a firefly? I don’t believe it. If it were a firefly, then the ten “bright moons” would have been a miserable victory when they attacked the Black Rock Miao village.

Master seemed to see what I was thinking, gave me a look, and then said, “Taoism is now considered to be in decline, and the Black Rock Miao tribe may not be in decline either. For hundreds of years, under our hidden and deliberate guidance, their witchcraft and insect-raising have declined, and everything has revolved around those few female insects. Do you think they have any skills other than those few old monsters? And the old monsters that are left now are not the old monsters from that time. The insects are not fully developed, and those old monsters will eventually die. And they don’t know the final secret of the worms at all…”

The master’s words gradually became softer and softer at the end. I thought I knew a lot about insects, but I didn’t expect there to be a final secret. I was just about to ask for clarification when I heard someone shouting “be careful” in front of me, and then I heard a lot of people and horses screaming…

I looked up and realized that the people in front of me had caused this scene because they had suddenly pulled back on their horses. They looked very embarrassed, but why had they suddenly pulled back on their horses?

Next, I saw a scene I will never forget!

Blood-veined moths, swarming blood-veined moths were flying towards us from all directions, from the sky, from the forest, from the grass, the sky was filled with blood-veined moths, they were flapping their wings, covering the sky, making it impossible to see the sky in front of us.

And when they flew, the dust they raised made it seem as if a sandstorm had hit the mountainside.

Could this be the trap mentioned in the letter? The Black Rock Miao village had already ‘ambushed’ the almost entire village of blood-thread moths on this hillside?

These bloodline moths don’t fly very fast, but with them surrounding us from all sides, there is no way for us to escape. It only takes less than five minutes for them to surround us.

In those days, even one bloodline moth made me completely unconscious and I was in a coma for several days. Now, how can we deal with so many bloodline moths?

I have a keen eye, and I saw more than a dozen figures behind the bloodline moths that covered the sky, standing on high ground and looking down at us. Needless to say, these are all the black rock Miao tribe’s gong seedlings, otherwise how could so many bloodline moths be controlled?

“Fortunately, I didn’t bring the army up here, or else the whole army would have been wiped out.” A voice of indifference sounded in my ear. I looked back and saw who it was but Guan Xige.

It’s rare that this guy has such a strong psychological quality. In the face of the overwhelming bloodline moths, he can still sigh about this. You have to know that the terrifying paralyzing properties of the bloodline moths are not to mention, it’s enough to be that way. One is scary, let alone so many of them?

“Breathe deeply and help me with my wind technique! Huijue, help Lingqing destroy the gourd seedlings.” Sitting and waiting to die is not my master’s style. He immediately shouted out orders.

After he finished speaking, he sat cross-legged on the ground, and everyone who had been blessed by him immediately sat down in accordance with certain positions, each performing their own duties. If you looked down from the sky, you could see that, except for some strange people who were not Taoists, who were protected in the middle, the remaining Taoists, the positions they sat in vaguely formed a circle that was not very regular. If you connected the lines in the middle, you would find that it looked like some kind of rune.

The ancient runes are extremely magical. People may not recognize the characters, but they feel familiar.

And in the center of the rune was my master.

This kind of rune formation is the basic knowledge of Taoist formations. Of course, I also knew it. After everyone had sat down according to their positions, I also found a corresponding position to sit down.

This formation is not a layout formation, but a kind of joint attack formation. The so-called joint attack does not necessarily mean combining forces to attack someone. Sometimes the power of many people is concentrated on one person, which is also collectively referred to as a joint attack formation.

The Taoists have had the five elements since ancient times: metal, wood, water, fire and earth. To connect the five elements is the most basic of all Taoist techniques.

Although this is a basic technique, the personal abilities required for different applications are indeed very different. The most common application is to draw a fire talisman, which can be done by a Taoist with a little skill. Such a fire talisman only seals a little personal spiritual power in it, which can move a little of the heavenly and earthly fire. For example, when burning a vampire, adding a fire talisman will make the fire even more intense, because it contains a little pure heavenly and earthly fire, which will burn the vampire more thoroughly.

But the advanced ones, who can directly create fire out of thin air and attract fire, were already unable to do so alone a hundred years ago. At least the Taoist priests walking in this world can no longer do it alone. It is impossible to guess about those high-level people who live in seclusion.

As for the more advanced, pure technique of summoning heavenly fire, it only exists in legend.

Relatively speaking, because thunder is originally the power that controls punishment in the world, it is easier for Taoist priests to use it as a kind of natural power. However, the thunder they use is very different from the real thunder.

This was the first time my master had performed the Great Five Elements technique in front of me, but he could not have done it alone. He had to rely on the power of the crowd, just as I had relied on the power of the crowd in the deserted village to summon the souls of the Zhao army with the spirit banner.

After sitting down, I held my breath and focused all my mental energy on my master, not daring to be distracted for even a moment. After my thoughts had settled, I could feel a very strange, intangible force, like flowing water, flowing towards my master.

The world seemed to have come to a standstill, with only the sound of my master’s chanting and the sound of his footsteps echoing through the air. As my master’s chanting became faster and faster, I gradually felt that I could not take it anymore. The mysterious power of my soul seemed to have been opened up, and it rushed towards my master like a flood.

If this went on, I would be drained in less than two minutes, just as I had fainted the last time I took the “stimulant” and had my soul force squeezed. But Master’s chanting soon came to an end. With the final step of the footwork, Master shouted a few times, “Wind, wind…”

It was very quiet, and the blood-thread moths had completely surrounded us, but where was the wind?